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A visitor looks at the artwork 'The Nizza in Frankfurt on the Main' (1921) by German painter Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) at the Kunstmuseum, the art museum, in Basel, Switzerland, 02 September 2011. The exhibition 'Max Beckmann. The Landscapes' runs from 04 September 2011 until 22 January 2012. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
BASEL.- Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York) is one of the titans of modernism, even though he saw himself as the last Old Master. He never joined any of the avantgardist groups of the twentieth century, but the experiences of Impressionism, Expressionism, New Objectivity, and abstract art left their traces in his oeuvre. Beckmann was long perceived as a typically German artist, and only in the past few years has his importance been fully appreciated on the international stage, with retrospectives in Paris, London, and New York. Against the modernist tendency to dissolve the traditional genres, Beckmann remained a lifelong defender of classical genres: the depiction of the human figure—in the form of portraits, mythological tableaus, and acts—the still life, and the landscape. Famous as a painter of the human condition, he also renewed the genre of landscape painting with outstanding and haunting works that are virtually without equal in twentieth-century a ... More |
| Christie's New York presents the fall sale of impressionist & modern art in September | | Sotheby's London biannual sale of old master, modern and contemporary prints announced | | Sotheby's Hong Kong to hold modern and contemporary southeast Asian paintings autumn sale | 
Bernard Buffet, Bouquet, 1994. Oil on masonite, 21 ½ x 14 7/8 in. Painted in 1994. Estimate: $30,000-40,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie‘s is pleased to present the season-opening sale of Impressionist and Modern art, which will take place on September 20. Comprised of nearly 200 lots, Impressionist Modern will offer works by renowned masters such as Salvador Dalí, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Gauguin. A selection of works on paper by Tamara de Lempicka are featured, many of which come directly from the family of the artist. Christie‘s is also honored to present property from the estate of Charles E. Curry, which represents twelve Modern works in the sale. Impressionist Modern is expected to realize in excess of $1.5 million. “The September 20th sale will surely be a strong start to the Fall season of Impressionist and Modern art sales. In keeping with recent market trends, a wonderful selection of Surrealist pieces will be offered. ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Le Repas frugal. Estimate: £50,000-70,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On Tuesday, 27 September, 2011 Sotheby’s London will present its biannual auction of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints. The sale will present an exciting opportunity to acquire important and rare-to-market works in a variety of categories by a range of artists. Works by Dürer, including two of the most important engravings he made, and some outstanding Rembrandts will highlight the Old Masters section. Desirable Modern and Contemporary works by Miró, Degas, Picasso and Warhol, among others, which will also be featured, demonstrate the lasting and innovative use of print by artists for over 500 years. The auction contains 181 lots and is estimated to reach between £1,500,000 – 2,300,000. Petra Kwan of Sotheby’s London Prints Department said “Dürer is represented in the sale by two of his ‘master engravings’ from the years 1513-1514, his most fruitful period for the medium, during ... More | | 
Hendra Gunawan, Tuak Manis (Sweet Wine) detail. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- September 2011 Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Autumn Sale 2011 on 3 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, bringing forward a total of over 170 lots estimated in excess of HK$33 million / US$4.2 million*. A substantial collection of rare and important Southeast Asian modern masterpieces will be on offer, among which a selection of over 40 exceptional Vietnamese works of art is expected to be highly sought-after. On the contemporary front, the sale will feature exciting and innovative creations by both established and emerging talents who have gained international reputations in recent years. MOK Kim Chuan, Sotheby’s Head of Southeast Asian Paintings, said, “We have seen impressive signs of growth and maturity in this category over the years, as proven by our record sale in Spring which affirmed Sotheby’s leading position i ... More |
| New Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at Denver Art Museum to trace artist's evolution | | Fine Chinese ceramics and works of art for Sale in two sessions at Sotheby's this September | | Charlotte's Mint Museum launches major Romare Bearden retrospective on centennial of his birth | 
Vincent van Gogh, Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Robert Treat Paine, 2nd, 35.1982. Photograph copyright © 2011 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
DENVER, CO.- Becoming Van Gogh, an in-depth exploration of Vincent van Gogh’s unconventional path to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable artists, will be presented at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) from October 21, 2012 through January 20, 2013. The exhibition examines critical steps in the largely self-taught artist’s evolution through more than 70 paintings and drawings by Van Gogh, along with works by artists to whom he responded. Organized by the DAM and curated by Timothy J. Standring, Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the DAM, and Louis van Tilborgh, Senior Researcher of Paintings at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, Becoming Van Gogh brings together loans from more than 60 public and private collections throughout Europe and North America to tell the story of a number of key formative periods throughout the ... More | | 
A Rare And Important Large Archaic Ritual Bronze Food Vessel (Hu). Late Shang / Early Western Zhou Dynasty, 12” Long, 10” Wide, 16.5” Height. Est. $2.5/3 million.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On 14 September 2011 Sotheby’s in New York will present Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in two sessions at 10am and 2pm. The sale is exceptionally diverse with important archaic bronzes, furniture, porcelain, jade, sculpture and other works of art, the majority of which are drawn from private collections in the US, Europe and Asia. The wideranging sale balances pieces that suit academic and scholarly taste, to those that are decorative and functional. Property from the sale, which is expected to bring $19.3/27.6 million,* will be on view beginning 9 September. The highlight of the auction is A Rare and Impressive Archaic Ritual Bronze Vessel (Hu), Late Shang / Early Western Zhou Dynasty (est. $2.5/3 million). The piece was formerly in the collection of Sadajiro Kawai and is one of the few known vessels of this type and size. The elegant S-curves are offset by the powerful articulation of th ... More | | 
Carolina Morning, 1974. Mixed media collage on board, 30 x 22 inches. In Memory of Elaine Lebenbom and Dr. Miriam Mansour. Photo: Courtesy Franklin Riehlman Fine Art © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
CHARLOTTE, N.C.- This fall The Mint Museum will present Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections, a major retrospective of one of America’s most preeminent African American artists and foremost collagists. Opening on the centennial of the artist’s birth in Charlotte, the city in which he was born, the exhibition is the first of its kind to examine in depth how the South served as a source of inspiration throughout Bearden’s career. Encompassing approximately 100 works of art drawn from The Mint Museum’s extensive holdings as well as from national public and private collections, the exhibition will be on view at the Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts from 2 September 2011 through 8 January 2012 and then travels to the Tampa Museum of Art (28 January through 6 May 2012) and Newark Museum (23 May through 19 ... More |
| Happy Ending: major solo exhibition by American artist Greg Miller at Scream London | | New York's 9/11 light tribute still dazzles; despite its popularity, the tribute's future is uncertain | | World record for much loved Scottish artist Robert Gemmell Hutchison at Bonhams sale | 
Greg Miller, 'Bazooka', 2011. Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel Courtesy Scream. Copyright the artist.
LONDON.- Scream presents a major solo exhibition of new large-scale works by American artist Greg Miller. Although Miller has been exhibiting regularly and to critical acclaim in the USA since 1975, Happy Ending is surprisingly his first solo exhibition in the UK. Miller uses collage and paint to create large-scale works, which explore the urban streetscape within a broader historical context. His monumental paintings and eye-catching installations serve to capture for prosperity the most intangible aspects of American culture. His pop art-inspired painting Phantom Lady was a highlight of the Bonhams Urban Art Sale in January 2011, and he has donated work to the Macmillan de’Longhi Art Auction at Bonhams on 27th September. Miller will also exhibit on the Scream stand at the Moniker Art Fair this October. American art critic Peter Frank commented in an essay on Miller’s new series Happy Ending ... More | | 
The Tribute in Light shines over the Manhattan skyline. AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price.
By: David B. Caruso, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- The first time they flipped the switch on the ethereal spectacle known as the Tribute in Light, ground zero was still a disaster zone. Six months had passed since the World Trade Center fell. New Yorkers still felt sick and dazed, and they had grown weary of funerals. When the time came, there was little pomp. The opera singer Jessye Norman sang "America the Beautiful." A few politicians made some brief remarks. "And then the lights came on," recalled Michael Ahern, the theatrical producer who, for a decade now, has been orchestrating the tribute. "I thought it was absolutely beautiful," he said. "And it seemed to mean a lot to people. People who were there — the construction workers, the recovery workers — told me they were immediately moved by it." Few who saw it disagreed. Of all the ... More | | 
‘Sea Gulls and Sapphire Seas’ was painted in 1909 and represents the artist at the height of his powers. Photo: Bonhams.
EDINBURGH.- One of the finest paintings by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, possibly the best loved of Scottish artists, set a new world record for the artist at Bonhams Annual Scottish Sale in Edinburgh on Wednesday 31 August when it was sold for £120,000. ‘Sea Gulls and Sapphire Seas’ was painted in 1909 and represents the artist at the height of his powers. In a dazzling display of impressionistic technique, Hutchison places a characteristic foreground of children in the sand dunes against the sparkling sea and whirling gulls. Many of his most popular paintings feature children playing beside the sea and he often used his daughters and their friends as models in coastal locations in Berwickshire, East Lothian and Carnoustie. A prolific painter all his life, Gemmell Hutchison exhibited tirelessly and successfully but never allied himself to a particular school of Scottish painting ... More |
| Raphael Dallaporta, winner of Foam's Paul Huf Award 2011, opens exhibition in Amsterdam | | Installation of nineteenth-century modern objects and furniture on view at Brooklyn Museum | | Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, New York's World Trade Center rises from ground zero | 
Raphael Dallaporta, Antipersonel, Submition BLU-3B USA, 2004. © Raphael Dallaporta.
AMSTERDAM.- French photographer Raphaël Dallaporta (b. 1980) received the Foam Paul Huf Award earlier this year from an international jury. The prize is organised by Foam and is awarded annually to up and coming international photographers below the age of 35. A major aspect of the award is an exhibition. Observation appears at Foam from 2 September to 26 October. Characteristic of the show's four series is the clinical, perceptive style of photography. Dallaporta's photos possess an inner tension that stems from the beauty of the object and the serious tone of the subject. The photographer works intensively with specialists in fields relating to his series. Jury chair François Hébel (director of Les Rencontres d'Arles international photography festival) comments on Dallaporta's work that 'He combines involvement with a highly analytical approach to social perversities. His uncompromising, conceptual and extremely creative appro ... More | | 
Jug, Circa 1830. Place made: Staffordshire England, Earthenware. Gift of Al Lewis. Brooklyn Museum Collection.
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Featuring more than forty items from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of American and European decorative arts, 19th-Century Modern will focus on the emergence of Modernism, an aesthetic based in part on the machine as a source of artistic inspiration. The installation will include objects from the early nineteenth century to the twentieth century to demonstrate the theme. Although this new machine aesthetic began in the early nineteenth century, it wasn’t until the last quarter of the century that the trend towards Modernist design accelerated. In addition to differences in the appearance of objects, there were important modifications in how objects were produced and marketed. The works in the installation illustrate the development of the modern industrial world and the emergence of a taste for abstraction. Designers and consumers began to appreciate simple decoration based either on ... More | | 
One World Trade Center rises above the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty in New York. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan.
By: Karen Matthews, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero. The site called a "hole in the ground" for years has cranes in the air, trains running underground and hundreds of trees planted around giant, man-made waterfalls to remember the dead of Sept. 11. And the surrounding neighborhood — no longer just a financial district — is bursting with young families, new schools, a Whole Foods and a Barnes & Noble. Tourists squint and point their cellphones at 1 World Trade Center, once known as the Freedom Tower. "I'm kind of proud because I was here two weeks after 9/11 and this was a dust pit," said Larry Brancato, 59, of Wallingford, Conn, walking by ground zero. "It just shows that Ameri- ... More |
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 BJ Price 'High in the Depths' art exhibition at Amsterdam's Whitney Gallery NEW YORK, N.Y.- Emerging Australian artist and underwater explorer BJ Price's World Premiere 'High in the Depths' Exhibition will be held at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea New York from Sep 2 – Sep 27 2011. BJ’s striking abstract paintings have been directly inspired from a myriad of experiences whilst diving and exploring the Great Barrier Reef. Relating to and recreating with its inhabitants his unique connection with the Reef manifests itself through 'Anthropomorphic Abstract' interpretation, realised in vivid colour and distinctive form; a reflective dialogue of intimacy. The human characteristics BJ assigns to the Reef and it’s creatures [he says] have been there forever, ”it’s just that no-one sees beyond the obvious. Most people see the beauty and complexity of the ecosystem. What I see adds another entirely different dimension to this natural wonder”. BJ’s & ... More "Off Site" exhibition by a group of artist at Rod Barton LONDON.- Rod Barton presents Off Site - a group exhibition with Gabriele Beveridge, Steve Bishop & Richard Sides, Michiel Ceulers, Joseph Long, Oliver Osborne, Eddie Peake, (with Jess Flood–Paddock, Celia Hempton & Fabian Peake), Oliver Rafferty & Rachel Rose. Addressing the effects of displacement, Off Site brings together nine artists who engage with methods of transference and re-combination. Working across painting, sculpture and installation, traditional modes of display are cited yet ultimately contested. Channels of information are refracted, altered by super-imposition and layering. Interweaving alternative narratives from iterations that otherwise remain implicit; jarring encounters of dissonant entities are personalized and cherished. Popular culture and personal histories interject as compendiums of mundane objects and images are compiled, revealing latent, unexpected associations. Suspending the i ... More David Buckingham: Hung Like Elvis at Kit Schulte Contemporary Art BERLIN.- Kit Schulte Contemporary Art starts the new season with the second solo exhibition Hung Like Elvis by American artist David Buckingham, celebrating the 2 year anniversary of the gallery in Berlin. Buckingham’s sculptures are made of found metal seem deceptively simple, yet are brilliantly executed in technique and full of humor. Many of his artworks involve wordplay, challenging the viewer at first to decipher and recognize movie quotes or pop-culture phrases, charging the moment of recognition with active engagement, significance and amusement. For Hung Like Elvis, he created works reflecting elements of postwar American culture and a divided Germany, weaving in icons with subtle humor, irony and sarkasm. For my Berlin show, I’ve decided to make a Luger, which is emblematic of Germany and has been made there for more than a century. As a kid I grew up watching Hogan’s Heroes, a TV ... MoreMixed decisions on Hungarian looted art lawsuits By: Desmond Butler, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The heirs of a Jewish art collector can proceed with a lawsuit against Hungary seeking the return of art seized during the Holocaust that is worth more than $100 million, a federal judge ruled. But, as Hungary requested, other heirs of Baron Mor Lipot Herzog with older lawsuits over the art, cannot proceed, the U.S. District Court judge in Washington decided Thursday. In the lawsuit that will go forward, David de Csepel, Herzog's great grandson, and two other heirs sued Hungary and several state-owned museums seeking the return of works that included paintings by Renaissance artist El Greco and Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran. The dismissed suit was brought by De Csepel's aunt, Martha Nierenberg and other heirs. Herzog died in 1934. His collection, which at its zenith may have grown to as many as 2,500 objects and numerous paintings from the Old Masters, including 10 by El Greco, was inherited by his three children af ... More 2 Greeks charged regarding stolen Rubens workATHENS (AP).- Court officials say two Greeks who were arrested during an operation that recovered a stolen 17th-century Pieter Paul Rubens painting have been charged with money laundering. The two, identified only as a man aged 64 and a woman aged 40, were remanded Friday pending their appearance before a magistrate. The officials said they were not considered suspects with the theft itself. Greece's Culture Ministry said "The Hunt for the Caledonian Wild Boar" Rubens painting was stolen in 2001 from an unidentified Belgian museum. The ministry said it would provide further details about the case in the coming days. A Rubens work with that title was stolen in 2001 from the Fine Arts Museum in Ghent, Belgium, by three masked robbers. The two Greeks now in custody were arrested in Athens on Thursday. ... More Battleship Missouri marks end of WWII anniversary By: Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press
PEARL HARBOR (AP).- About 20 World War II veterans gathered aboard the battleship Missouri in Pearl Harbor to mark the 66th year since the end of World War II. The USS Missouri was anchored in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945 when it hosted Japanese leaders who signed surrender documents formally ending the war. The now decommissioned vessel is currently a museum called the Battleship Missouri Memorial. On Friday, some 300 people ? including the veterans and active duty sailors, Marines, airmen and soldiers ? observed the anniversary of the end of the war with a ceremony on the vessel's teak deck. The battleship has been moored in Pearl Harbor for the past decade. It overlooks the spot where the USS Arizona sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ... More |
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