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In this 1946 image taken by photographer Joseph Jasgur and released by Julien's Auctions, a photo of Norma Jean Dougherty, who eventually changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, is shown. A bankruptcy judge in Florida ruled earlier this week that photos taken of Monroe will be sold at auction to settle the debts of the photographer. Jasgur's photos, negatives and image copyrights will be sold in December by Julien's Auctions. AP Photo/Julien's Auctions, Joseph Jasgur.
By: Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- A bankruptcy judge in Florida ruled earlier this week that photos taken in 1946 of Norma Jeane Dougherty — who went on to become the iconic Monroe — will be sold at auction to settle the debts of the photographer. Joseph Jasgur's photos, negatives and image copyrights will be sold in December by Julien's Auctions. The collection also includes several model-release forms Dougherty signed for Jasgur in Hollywood. Darren Julien, chief of Julien's Auctions, said the photos have not been widely distributed and the collection has been locked up in court battles for more than two decades. He said the sale is significant because "it's very rare to see something where you can buy a copyrighted image of (Monroe), especially of her first ... More |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Turkish Republic reach agreement for transfer of top half of Weary Herakles | | The Morgan Library & Museum holds major exhibition this fall celebrating the birth of Charles Dickens | | Richard Serra: Two new sculptures, Junction and Cycle, on view at the Gagosian Gallery | 
Weary Herakles ("Herakles Farnese" type), Roman, Imperial Period, mid‑ to late 2nd century A.D. Marble, probably from Paros or Aphrodisias. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Leon Levy and Shelby White and Museum purchase with funds donated by the Jerome Levy Foundation. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MA.- Last evening, an agreement between the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey was signed, transferring ownership of the top half of the 2nd-century AD Roman Imperial marble sculpture Weary Herakles to the Turkish government. Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA, and Murat Suslu, Director General for Cultural Heritage and Museums, signed the Memorandum of Understanding at the Museum. The agreement acknowledged that the MFA acquired the object in good faith and without knowledge of any ownership or title issues. It also provided for the transfer of the object, which took place after the signing. Weary Herakles is a Roman ... More | | 
Jeremiah Gurney (1812-1895), Charles Dickens, 1867. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. MA 7793. Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2011. Photo: Graham S. Haber.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was Britain's first true literary superstar. In his time, he attracted international adulation on an unprecedented scale, and many of his books became instant classics. Today, his popularity continues unabated, and his work remains not only widely read but widely adapted to stage and screen. The Morgan Library & Museum's Dickens collection is the largest in the United States and is one of the two greatest in the world, along with the holdings of Britain's Victoria and Albert Museum. Charles Dickens at 200 celebrates the bicentennial of the great writer's birth in 1812 with manuscripts of his novels and stories, letters, books, photographs, original illustrations, and caricatures. Sweeping in scope, the exhibition captures the art and life of a man whose literary and cultural legacy ranks among the giants of literature. "It is difficult to imagine a novelist of greater im ... More | | 
Richard Serra, Junction (2011). Weatherproof steel, 13’ 1 1/2“ x 75’ ½” x 75’ ½’ x 49’ 9 15/16” (4 x 22.87 x 15.19 m). Photo: Lorenz Kienzle. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery © Richard Serra, 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010), two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has pushed the unique sculptural syntax that he developed over the last fifteen years to arrive at entirely new forms in two of his most complex and challenging works to date. Born in 1938, Richard Serra is one of the most significant artists of his generation. His groundbreaking bodies of work in both sculpture and drawing have been celebrated with major retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art (“Richard Serra Sculpture Forty Years,” 2007 and “Richard Serra/Sculpture,” 1986) and the current “Richard Serra Drawings: A Retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will travel this year to SFMOMA and the Menil Collection in Houston. He has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban and landscape settings spanning the globe, from Iceland to New Ze ... More |
| Works by world's preeminent contemporary artists sold at Christie's New York to benefit Artists for Haiti | | "Wizard of Oz" ruby slippers up for sale at California auction house Profiles in History | | Focused survey of installation art by Sanford Biggers at the Brooklyn Museum | 
Luc Tuymans, Deal - No Deal, 2011. Oil on canvas, 89 5/8 x 53 3/8 in. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- With a sale total of $ 13,662,000, Christie’s, Ben Stiller and David Zwirner are delighted with the outstanding results of the Artists for Haiti charity sale. The auction included 27 works by 26 of today’s most prominent artists, many of which were created specifically for this cause. Four world auction records were obtained and 2 works of art were sold for over one million dollars, Marlene Dumas at $2,000,000 and Luc Tuymans at $1,150,000, with many lots realizing well over their pre-sale estimates. 100% of the proceeds of the sale are going to support nonprofit groups already performing extraordinary work on the ground in Haiti, with a focus on children's education and health care. “We are so grateful to all of the artists who dedicated their time and talent to help raise an extraordinary amount of money that will be utilized as effi ... More | | 
Ruby slippers worn by Dorothy in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. Photo: Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution.
LOS ANGELES, CA (REUTERS).- A pair of the iconic ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" is going up for auction with an estimated price of $2 - $3 million. California auction house Profiles in History said the slippers -- one of four known surviving pairs made for the 1939 movie -- are believed to have been worn by Judy Garland's Dorothy when she clicks her heels to return home to Kansas near the end of the film. The slippers will be auctioned on December 16 in Los Angeles as part of a Hollywood memorabilia sale. Profiles in History owner Joe Maddalena said he was expecting bids from around the world. "This is the most important film prop in the world. There is nothing more famous," said Maddalena. "They are one of the greatest pieces of pop culture in existence." One of the pairs of slippers used in the "Wizard of Oz" is on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, one is in ... More | | 
Sanford Biggers (America, b. 1970), Seen, 2009. Video still. Digital C-print. 30 x 40 in. Ed. 3 + AP. Courtesy the Artist and Michael Klein Arts, New York, NY.
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- An Introspective challenges and reinterprets symbols and legacies that inform contemporary America in a focused selection of nine installations and additional artworks created by the New York-based artist. On view September 23, 2011, through January 8, 2012, this will be Biggers' first museum presentation in New York, and it will mark the Brooklyn debut of Blossom (2007), a large-scale multimedia installation. Sanford Biggers employs a variety of media, and his work incorporates references to a range of artistic and cultural traditions. The focal point of the Brooklyn Museum exhibition, Blossom (2007), is composed of a large tree that grows through, and uproots, a grand piano. At various intervals, the keys move as the piano plays the artist's arrangement of "Strange Fruit," a song first recorded in 1939 by the blues ... More |
| Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the collection on view at the Menil Collection | | Sotheby's London to offer important newly discovered and unseen early photographs by Linnaeus | | Arco Gallerywalk, new idea from Arco Art Fair to boost visits to art galleries in Madrid | 
Bill Traylor, Figures, Animals, Guns (Exciting Events), ca. 1939–1942. Crayon on cardboard, 12-1/4 x 9-1/8 inches. The Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: Paul Hester.
HOUSTON, TX.- Mining the Menil Collection's archives of works on paper, Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection showcases rarely exhibited drawings by artists who largely had no contact with the mainstream art world. This "outsider art," as the work came to be known, enchanted and inspired the Surrealists, who believed artists with no formal training,or those who drew in altered mental states, could more successfully access the subconscious, achieving greater clarity and authenticity of expression. The drawings highlighted in Seeing Stars (more than 50 in all) defy traditional and academic methods of representation and mark-making. Instead, experiments with chance, automatism and psychoanalysis - along with constructions of imaginary landscapes, creatures and machines - characterize the work. In 1949, Jean ... More | | 
Views of Burma, 1855. Est.£200,000-300,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced that it will offer for sale a remarkable group of more than 220 newly-discovered photographs by Linnaeus Tripe depicting India and Burma in the mid-1850s, including 42 images of which no other prints are recorded, and five previously unknown photographs. Tripe was one of the greatest photographers working in India in the 19th Century and this is the largest single collection of his photographs ever to have been offered for sale. Tripe’s Views of Mysore of 1854 (estimated at £100,000-200,000) and his Views of Burma of 1855 (estimated at £200,000-300,000*) are highlights of Sotheby’s Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History Sale on 15th November 2011. These extraordinary photographs were presented by Tripe to the Governor-General of India, the 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, and have come by descent to the present owner. They have not been seen by scholars for 150 years and are being of ... More | | 
A man looks at an artwork by Venezuelan artist Jesus Soto during the 30th International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO in Madrid. EPA/EMILIO NARANJO.
MADRID.- ARCOmadrid is collaborating again this year with the DecorAcción festival, this time with ARCO GALLERYWalk. With this new initiative ARCOmadrid offers a series of free guided visits to galleries in the Barrio de las Letras district of Madrid. So, from 29 September to 1 October, anyone interested can take part in these walks which will introduce them to the spaces, programmes and the exhibitions with which the galleries get the new season off to a start. The visits will be led by Sara García Fernández and Lola Iglesias Lago, two young art experts appointed by ARCOmadrid, who will take groups of a maximum of ten people on an hour long walk of the different spaces. These walks will be a perfect occasion to meet and socialise while visiting galleries, seeing interesting exhibitions and chatting with gallerists. Drinks will be provided during ARCO GalleryWalk by Bombay, an ARCOmadrid collaborating ... More |
| Large scale steel sculptures by Jonathan Prince at The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue | | First solo show in Mexico by Darío Villalba at Luis Adelantado Gallery in Mexico City | | Longtime Michener Director/CEO Bruce Katsiff announces plan to step down | 
Torn Steel exploits the interruption of pure geometric form. Photo: Courtesy Cynthia Reeves.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue is presenting Jonathan Prince: Torn Steel, the first public installation of the artist's large scale steel sculptures in New York, on view at the atrium of 590 Madison Avenue from September 15 - November 18, 2011. Jonathan Prince follows a long line of distinguished artists—Murakami, Calder, Chamberlain, Oldenburg and Judd – to take advantage of the unique surround afforded by the 590 Madison Avenue Atrium in New York. Its vast scale is a perfect site for Prince’s large format works, a series that has been in development over two years at the artist’s studio in western Massachusetts. TORN STEEL exploits the interruption of pure geometric form. The skin of the steel sculpture is ruptured, allowing Prince to introduce a wholly different surface, imbuing the work with a dynamic quality of evolving, of genesis. His intelligent use of the steel is key to the visual success of these works: the rusted steel ... More | | 
A man observes a work of Spanish artist Dario Villalba during an exhibition inaugurated at gallery Luis Adelantado in Mexico City, Mexico, 22 September 2011. EPA/Sashenka Gutierrez.
MEXICO CITY.- Luis Adelantado Gallery presents the first solo show in Mexico, by the national prize of art, Darío Villalba(1939, San Sebastián, Spain). An artist that has been a part of the gallery almost from the beginning, Villalba is an inescapable reference to the understanding of art, after the Informalism generation of the fifties up until now. His work criticizes the artistic media in which he unfolds, making it clear that it is not the style, but the artist which defines his work. Always up to date, and in constant dialogue with the young artists, the work of Darío Villalba explores the border between photography and painting. He also explores the borders of the object, installation and sculpture. In 1970, at the XXXV Biennial of Venice, he presented his "encapsulados" that brought him international fame and artistic ... More | | 
Michener Art Museum Director/CEO Bruce Katsiff announced that he will retire in 2012.
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- In museums today, there are directors and there are artists. Rarely is one person both. Bruce Katsiff, fine art photographer and Director/CEO of the James A. Michener Art Museum for more than two decades, is that rare individual. Beginning in 2012, Katsiff will be spending more time in his Bucks County studio than talking with architects about the surface of steel columns for a new event pavilion, or with investors about funding. He'll spend more time making his own art than talking with curators about interpretations of religious art, or meeting with marketing executives about how to get the word out about an Italian touring exhibition of Old Master paintings and tapestries that will be making a stop in the former Bucks County Jail. "I admire and respect how Bruce has been able to continue his own creative drive and productivity while his creative administrative intuition has reshaped the life of the a ... More |
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 De Hallen Haarlem presents an international group exhibition centering on an artwork by Louise Bourgeois HAARLEM.- This autumn, De Hallen Haarlem presents the international group exhibition He disappeared into complete silence: rereading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois. At the heart of this show lies a small but pivotal artwork He disappeared into complete silence (1947), by the French artist Louise Bourgeois. This booklet, containing nine etchings and nine parables, triggered Laurie Cluitmans and Arnisa Zeqo to conceive an exhibition, a publication and a series of nine events around it. For their proposal these two young art historians were awarded De Hallen Haarlem biennial ‘young curators’ grant’. He disappeared into complete silence: rereading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois will be on show in the museum from 23 September to 4 December 2011. This exhibition project grew out of the love that the two curators, Laurie Cluitmans and Arnisa Zeqo, found they shared for the work He disappeared into complete ... More "What would you name a new worm?" asks UK museum LONDON (REUTERS).- What name would you give to a species of Antarctic, sea-dwelling worm that spends its time 2,000 metres below the water's surface, wriggling in the rotting carcasses of whales? The British public will get to name five newly discovered species of this deep-sea worm, the Natural History Museum in London said on Friday, as it opens its doors to explain that taxonomy -- the practice of naming new species -- is not taxing, but fun. "Our goal is to show that taxonomy, the scientific discipline of naming new species, is interesting, fun and crucial to the advancement of science," zoologist at the National History Museum, Adrian Glover, said. The unnamed worms are known as annelids, a group that also includes the familiar garden earthworm, as well as more unusual critters such as the giant hydrothermal vent tubeworm. Deep sea annelids are an incredibly diverse group and scientists believe they perform ... More Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby: Ascent on view at Haunch of Venison in London LONDON.- Acclaimed London based designers Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby presents an ambitious new project for their debut exhibition at Haunch of Venison, London. Barber and Osgerby are two of the most innovative designers working in Britain today. Recently chosen to design the Olympic Torch for the London 2012 Games, they engage in many forms of design, from industrial design to architecture. Entitled Ascent, the exhibition presents 7 new pieces by Barber and Osgerby for this, their first collaboration with Haunch of Venison. The work is inspired by the structures and engineered forms of moving craft; Forms that have, what Barber and Osgerby refer to as, ‘hidden design’. Interest in these fields originated in their respective childhoods. Osgerby grew up close to a Royal Airforce base in Oxfordshire and spent many hours watching the airplanes flying there. Barber developed a fascination with ... More The Rencontres D'Arles: Photography festival 2011 breaks attendance record ARLES.- The 42nd edition of the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival breaks attendance records. 84,000 people visited the exhibitions in Arles from 4th July to 18th September 2011, a 15% increase (11,000 more visitors) on 2010. 10 editions after the new formula, nearly 10 times more visitors go to Arles to visit the Rencontres d’Arles (there were 9,000 visitors in 2001). Crowds of visitors gathered over three different periods: 13,000 professionals attended the opening week, a great flow of visitors remained throughout the summer with a record week over the 15th August bank holiday (8,500 visitors) and over 8,200 students, 630 teachers and 270 classes during Back to School in Images in September. This 42nd edition confirms the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival’s place as a unique hub for professional exchange as well as an educational platform for a very wide audience, interested ... MoreThe Whitney announces team for second volume devoted to Warhol's filmsNEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art has brought together a team of esteemed film scholars to commence work on the second volume of the catalogue raisonné of Andy Warhol’s films, covering the period 1963 to 1968. John G. Hanhardt, consulting senior curator for film and media arts at the Smithsonian, is serving as general editor on the book, which is being written by Bill Horrigan, Curator at Large at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and Bruce Jenkins, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and former Stanley Cavell Curator at the Harvard Film Archive. The volume will be co-published and distributed worldwide by Yale University Press. The Whitney is planning a major retrospective of the work of Andy Warhol, curated by Donna De Salvo, the museum’s chief curator and a noted expert on the artist, to take place in our new downtown building in 2016. The first volume, Andy Warhol Screen Tests: Th ... More Looters plunder $8.5M from Ivory Coast museumBy: Laura Burke, Associated Press
ABIDJAN (AP).- Looters stormed Ivory Coast's national museum during the country's bloody political crisis earlier this year, plundering nearly $8.5 million worth of art including the institution's entire gold collection. Five months later, the museum's gates still open and close at the posted hours, but empty display cases gather dust. A lone set of elephant tusks sits in the dark in the museum's main exposition room. And staff member Oumar Gbane now spends his days making a handwritten inventory of what was stolen since his computer was among the items taken. "No tourists can come here. There is nothing to see," he laments. The pillage was the first in the museum's 70-year history. Doran Ross, former director of the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, says the Abidjan museum used to be "one of the best maintained in Africa." Student groups and tourists once filled the museum's halls to view the corpse-like Senoufo statues depicting armless ghosts o ... More Poland receives 2 stolen paintings seized in New YorkBy: Ray Sanchez
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A pair of 19th century paintings by Polish Impressionist Julian Falat, looted by the Nazis nearly seven decades ago, were returned to Polish authorities on Thursday in a ceremony in New York. President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland accepted the paintings -- "The Hunt" and "Off to the Hunt" -- at Poland's consulate in Manhattan. U.S. officials seized the works of art last year from two New York auction houses. "The two world wars that we experienced and numerous uprisings ... left Poland's national heritage really impoverished," said Bogdan Zdrojewski, Poland's culture minister. "That is why every object that returns to our country has huge value that is both spiritual and emotional." In August 1944, German S.S. commander Benne Von Arent confiscated the most valuable items from Poland's National Museum, including the two paintings returned on Thursday. Many of the looted pieces remain missing. U.S. officials seized the Falat paintings after ... More |
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