| | Masterpieces by the giants of the Antwerp School on view at the Hermitage Amsterdam
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A visitor looks at a painting, entitled De gedwongen ledigheid van Mars (The Enforced Idleness of Mars), 1649-1651, by artist David Rijckaert III during the preview of an exhibition, entitled Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens. Flemish Paintings from the Hermitage, at the Hermitage Amsterdam, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15 September 2011. The exhibition, that opens to the public from 17 September 2011 until 16 March 2012, presents a selection from the Flemish art collection of the St. Petersburg Hermitage. EPA/ILVY NJIOKIKTJIEN.
AMSTERDAM.- From 17 September 2011 to 16 March 2012, the Hermitage Amsterdam will present a stunning selection from the Flemish art collection of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. With 75 paintings and about 20 drawings, this definitive survey will include numerous masterpieces by the three giants of the Antwerp School – Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens – accompanied by the work of well-known contemporaries. Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) will be a special focus of the exhibition, represented by 17 paintings and many drawings. Rubens was the most accomplished and influential Flemish painter of the seventeenth century. At the same time, he was known as a charming aristocrat, diplomat, and collector, and his workshop was a smoothly operating business. He was a legend in his day, a homo universalis. Both Rubens’s religious and his secular works illustrate his unequalled talent. One of his ... More |
| Israeli lifeguard Avi Afia rescues sunken treasure from the Mediterranean sea near Tel Aviv | | Unseen works alongside rare, vintage dye-transfer prints by Ernst Haas at Atlas Gallery | | Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive unveils plans for new facility designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro | 
An ancient anchor is displayed in Caesarea, Israel. AP Photo/Ariel Schalit.
By: Daniel Estrin, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP).- Israeli lifeguards plunged into the Mediterranean sea this month on an unusual rescue mission: to pull out an ancient ship's anchor. Lifeguard Avi Afia first spotted the tip of the anchor on a daily swim five years ago. It was peeking out from the sandy ocean floor about 150 feet (60 meters) from the coast. It wasn't until this month that the sands shifted to reveal the treasure in its entirety: a nearly 7-foot (2.1 meter), 650-pound (300 kilogram) iron anchor, probably a spare in the belly of a Byzantine ship that crashed and sank in a storm about 1,700 years ago, said archaeologist Jacob Sharvit of Israel's Antiquities Authority. "It's a feast for the eyes," said Afia, whose colleagues walked out to the spot, in water about six ... More | | 
California, USA, 1977 © Ernst Haas Estate.
LONDON.- Atlas Gallery presents an exhibition of the celebrated, late Austrian photographer Ernst Haas (1921 – 1986), to coincide with the long awaited Steidl publication ‘Color Correction’. The exhibition includes many unseen works alongside rare, vintage dye-transfer prints from the 1950s and ‘60s. Theses photographs reveal a side of Haas’ work that was almost entirely hidden from view during his lifetime. In the introduction to the book, William Ewing who searched through over 200,000 of Haas’ pictures held in the Getty Archive in London, describes these works as ‘...far more edgy, loose, enigmatic, and ambiguous than his celebrated work. Most of these pictures he never even printed, let alone published, probably assuming that they were too difficult to be understood. These images are of great sophistication, and rival (and sometimes surpass) the best of his colleagues’. The beau ... More | | 
View of BAM/PFA Entry from Center Street. Photo: Courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive held a community open house to present the schematic design for its new facility to the public. The project, designed by the renowned New York City-based firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), will unite a repurposed former UC Berkeley printing plant at 2120 Oxford Street with a new structure. Located in Berkeley’s arts district, the new building will be bounded by Center, Oxford, and Addison Streets, and will count as its neighbors the Berkeley Repertory Theater; Aurora Theater; Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, devoted to traditional music; and the Bancroft Library’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. The new BAM/PFA is targeted for completion in late 2015. The architect-of-record for the new ... More |
| Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen announces new findings on Van Meegeren's forgeries | | New site-specific installation by David Byrne "Tight Spot" exhibited by The Pace Gallery | | Bortolami Gallery presents Richard Aldrich's second solo show with the gallery | 
Han van Meegeren (1889-1947), Supper at Emmaus, 1937 (detail), Canvas, 118 x 130,5 cm, Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
ROTTERDAM.- New facts have emerged about the greatest forgery of the twentieth century: the ‘Vermeers’ of master forger Han van Meegeren. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen owns possibly the most famous forgery in the Netherlands: The Supper at Emmaus. The latest in the series of publications, Boijmans Studies, deals with the history of this sensational forgery and reveals how Van Meegeren was able to mislead the entire art world. Until now it was believed that Han van Meegeren (1889-1947) used pigments that were common in the seventeenth century. But recent analysis of the forged painting shows that Van Meegeren’s paint also contained pigments that were not introduced until the nineteenth century. It has also emerged that there were indeed concerns about the authenticity of the ‘Vermeers’ at the time. The diary of Willy Auping (then curator at the Kröller-Müller ... More | | 
David Byrne, Tight Spot, artist's rendering, 2011© David Byrne. Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Pace Gallery presents a new site-specific installation by David Byrne on view for two weeks under the High Line at 508 West 25th Street, inaugurating a space recently acquired by the gallery. Tight Spot, a 48-by-20-foot inflatable terrestrial globe will be on view from September 16 through October 1, 2011. The globe, based on the type used in primary schools, is enlarged and wedged within the confines of the space, becoming deliberately distorted in the process. Byrne imagined the pastel map we associate with childhood: “a wholly unrealistic world, a world of somewhat arbitrary political units, not a planet of clouds, deep blue oceans, beige deserts and swaths of green jungle.” However, like the world around us, Byrne’s globe is subject to both the elements and human presence. A low-frequency vibration w ... More | | 
Richard Aldrich, Mandolin, 2010-2011. Oil, wax and electrical component on linen, 84 x 58 inches, 213.4 x 147.3 cm. Photo: Courtesy Bortolami Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Bortolami presents Richard Aldrich's second solo show at the gallery. 1. In the studio they were made individually, with their own logic and circumstances, but here as they are presented they become more of a symbolic gesture. This manner of presenting an importance or objective, but in the same swoop tearing it apart in a way that questions the motivation of that initial importance (deterritorialization), which becomes almost a red herring in its surface-ness. I always think of the paintings as a prop in the sense of their own interior specificity in relation to an outward meaning or function, which, to me, is one of incongruence. The defined logic of the painting's individuality bears little resemblance nor has much effect on the way in which the painting functions in the larger whole. I liked this because the painting becomes wholly specific ... More |
| Ludwig Museum exhibition expands the scope of earlier shows on Photorealism | | Guernsey's Auction House presents unprecedented Rock & Roll auction of remarkable items | | Shortlist announced for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 | 
Robert Cottingham, Carl’s, 1975. Oil on canvas, 198 x 198 cm. Photo © MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Leihgabe der Österreichischen Ludwig Stiftung.
BUDAPEST.- Photorealism came into its own at the end of the 1960s, arising from the challenge posed by photographic depiction to realist painting, and is mostly associated with well-known American and Western European artists and their works. The Budapest Ludwig Museum exhibition expands the scope of earlier shows in Vienna (MUMOK, 2010) and Aachen (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, 2011), both of which included materials from the Ludwig's collection. Our exhibition offers new approaches to similar Central- and Eastern European tendencies by virtue of a complex interpretation of Cold War realism. True-to-life photographic representation and analytical depiction also found followers on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain, although not in the same ... More | | 
Beatles Train, John on dining wagon.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On September 24th and 25th, Guernsey’s Auction House will be conducting an unprecedented auction of remarkable items relating to the history of Rock & Roll. The event will be held at 82 Mercer Street in the heart of trendy Soho in Manhattan, while absentee bidders can participate on liveauctioneers.com. Included in the treasures to be sold are hundreds of original Beatles photographs (negatives and copyrights to many) from the archive of Astrid Kirchherr, known as the one person who shaped the Beatles image. Also on the block are 600 autographs from arguably the most famous music shop in America, Manny’s. From Elvis Presley’s very first guitar, John Lennon’s last automobile (a Mercedes station wagon), Michael Jackson’s moon-walking self portrait, to a Beatles record collection that many view as the world’s best, Guernsey’s has something for every music enthusiast. Booked a ... More | | 
Harriet and Gentleman Jack, 2010 by Jooney Woodward. ©Jooney Woodward.
LONDON.- For the first time ever, five photographers have been shortlisted for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, the major international photography award. Firmly established as the leading showcase for new talent in portrait photography, the prize is sponsored by international law firm Taylor Wessing. The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 will showcase the work of some of the most talented emerging young photographers, alongside that of established professionals, photography students and gifted amateurs. Selected anonymously from an open competition, the diversity of styles reflects the international mix of entrants as well as the range of approaches to the portrait genre, encompassing editorial, advertising and fine art images. The judges have selected 60 portraits for the exhibition from over 6,000 ... More |
| Keno Auctions offers rare silver from Estate of master silversmith Hans Christensen | | Seattle Art Museum announces Jenny Heishman as 2011 Betty Bowen award winner | | After 80+ years in same family, Taos school artwork appraised for $200K-$400K; to be auctioned | 
Candelabrum in sterling silver with walnut base, made in 1970. Estimate: $4,000–$8,000.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Keno Auctions announces the collection of rare silver from the Estate of Elisabeth Christensen, wife of the Master Silversmith Hans Christensen, will be included in its upcoming sale of Important Paintings, Furniture, Decorative Arts and Jewelry, which takes place on Saturday, September 24, 2011, at the Marriott Hotel (243 Tresser Boulevard) in Stamford, Connecticut, at 10:00 a.m. “Keno Auctions is honored to offer this collection of exciting and rare silver from the Estate of Elisabeth Christensen,” said Leigh Keno. “Museums and collectors have known of Hans Christensen’s personal collection for decades in the hope that they might procure one or two representative pieces.” According to Keno, many of the pieces in the sale were lent by Mr. and Mrs. Christensen most accomplished silversmiths and an innovative designer who uniquely shaped the craft movement in America. Born ... More | | 
Jenny Heishman, Summer in the Park. Canvas, aluminum, paint, 52" x 116" x 55".
SEATTLE, WA.- The Betty Bowen Committee announced that Jenny Heishman is the winner of the 2011 Betty Bowen Award. The award comes with an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000. In addition a selection of Heishman’s work will be on view at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) beginning October 20, 2011. The Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant and administered through SAM, has selected local artists to win cash prizes for 33 years. SuttonBeresCuller (SBC) was awarded the Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award in the amount of $2,500 and Lisa Liedgren was selected to receive the PONCHO Special Recognition award, also in the amount of $2,500. Five finalists, including Michael Endo and Marc Roder, chosen from a pool of 529 applicants from Washington, Oregon and Idaho, competed for the $20,000 in awards. Heishman, SBC and Liedgren will receive their awards and discuss their work at a public ceremony on Thursday, Octo ... More | | 
Victor Higgins (Taos school, 1884-1949), oil on canvas, circa 1929, 27 x 30 in., scene of woman in front of adobe building, held in same family for 80+ years. Est. $200,000-$400,000. Mapes Auctioneers image.
BINGHAMTON, N.Y.- An exciting fine-art discovery – a fresh-to-the-market late-1920s oil-on-canvas painting by Taos Art Colony luminary Victor Higgins (1884-1949) – will headline Mapes Auctioneers’ Sept. 30 auction. An old family piece, the 27- by 30-inch artwork depicts a Native American woman in front of an adobe building with a vine-covered column in the foreground. It was purchased directly from the artist approximately 80 years ago and passed through descent to the consignor, who is the original owner’s great-nephew. The painting has never before appeared at auction or been offered for sale. “The Higgins came from a retired gentleman who lives less than a mile from our gallery,” said David Mapes, owner of Mapes Auctioneers. “He walked into my office one day and said he and his wife were moving ... More |
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 Frick Art Reference Library photo archive records now accessible online NEW YORK, N.Y.- Scholars in multiple disciplines around the world have long heralded the Photoarchive of the Frick Art Reference Library as uniquely valuable to research that relates to object-oriented study of works of art. Without this repository of an estimated 1.2 million images of works created by more than 40,000 artists, curators, art dealers, and authors of monographic catalogues would be hard pressed to find visual documentation of unpublished artand the preparatory studies, versions, copies, or forgeries that relate to those and even to more famous works. In recent years, the Frick’s Photoarchive has also played a key role in helping researchers compile provenance information about art looted during World War II. Lynn Nicholas, the highly respected author of The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (New York, 1994), recently noted that “to d ... More Exceptional masterpiece by Boris Kustodiev for sale at MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions LONDON.- MacDougall’s announces that its forthcoming Russian Art Auctions will be headlined by Merchant’s Wife, an exceptional masterpiece by Boris Kustodiev. The painting is estimated at £1,200,000‐1,800,000, and will be among the top lots of London’s fall 2011 Russian week. Merchants’ wives, or Kupchikhas as they are known in Russian, are among the artist’s most recognisable subjects. In these works, Kustodiev was looking for a distinctly Russian style using a wealth of rich and vibrant colours. He found inspiration in the merchant classes of provincial towns, vestiges of tradition at a time when Russia was going through dramatic changes. Kustodiev’s Kupchikhas are represented in many important public collections of Russian art. The present variation on the artist’s favourite theme is one of very few major works that still remain in private hands. The painting was shown at ... More Significant support secures Sickert for Wales CARDIFF.- National Museum Wales has acquired one of Walter Richard Sickert’s (1860-1942) paintings, entitled The Rialto Bridge and the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, c.1902-04, thanks to a significant funding grant from the Art Fund and a contribution from the Derek Williams Trust. The purchase was made possible through the support of the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for works of art, who awarded £35,000, as well as the Derek Williams Trust and generosity on the part of the vendors. This oil on canvas will beautifully complement and enhance other Venetian works by artists in the Museum collection such as Antonio Canaletto, Monet, Whistler, Eugène Boudin, Frank Brangwyn and the recently acquired works, View of the Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore on the Grand Canal, Venice by Francesco Guardi and Venice, Evening by Howard Hodgkin. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales possesses two ... More Smithsonian Institution Archives launches a new website WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian Institution Archives announces the launch of its new website, http://siarchives.si.edu, with new features and improved access to collections. First launched in 1995, the website has been redesigned to maximize public access to the Archives’ rich collections that document the history of the Smithsonian and its role in the arts, science and culture of the United States. The Smithsonian Archives is the record keeper of the Smithsonian—collecting, preserving and making available the official records of the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers and the National Zoo. Visitors to the new website will have access to a number of new features: *A new Collections Search feature that provides online access to all Archives’ records cataloged to date with the ability to download media for free personal and educational use, as well as to make reference requests directly from the A ... More Smithsonian announces Archives of American Art medal recipients WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art will salute the distinguished career of artist Cindy Sherman and the leadership of Ann L. Gund, Jo Carole Lauder, Wendy W. Luers, Carol Price and Eden Rafshoon of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies Tuesday, Oct. 25. These honorees will receive the Archives of American Art Medal at the organization’s annual benefit at 583 Park Avenue in New York City. On the same evening, the Archives’ Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History will be presented to Dore Ashton. Each year, the Archives of American Art Medal honors leaders in the field of American art. Past award recipients include John Baldessari, Eli Broad, Chuck Close, Paula Cooper, André Emmerich, Agnes Gund, Ellsworth Kelly and Joel Shapiro. The Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence ... MoreU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement repatriates pre-Columbian bowl to BelizeWASHINGTON, D.C.- Belize's history is rich. Nearly 75 attendees gathered at the Embassy of Belize this past weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the country's independence from England. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added to the celebration by returning a piece of history – a pre-Columbian feasting bowl, common to northern Belize – to the Belizean government. The z-angle pre-Columbian feasting bowl was created by Mayan Indians. It is nearly 1800 years old, dating back to 200 to 600 AD and was likely looted from a grave. "Artifacts like this represent the people of Belize and the region's ancient cultural history," said Carlos Maza, deputy assistant director for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations' (HSI) Office of International Affairs. "The bowl is precisely the type of treasure that ICE's Cultural Property Art and Antiquities Program was established to identify, investigate and return to its ... More |
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