| | First major Tony Cragg exhibition in 20 years opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas
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Artist Tony Cragg stands by one of his pieces of art titled "Companions" at the Nasher Sculpture Center, in Dallas. An exhibit of works by the British sculptor Cragg opened in Dallas, his first U.S. museum exhibition in nearly 20 years. The exhibit features about 30 works, most from the last 10 years. AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez.
DALLAS, TX.- This fall, the Nasher Sculpture Center presents Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, the first U.S. museum exhibition in nearly 20 years of the work of the award-winning, internationally-acclaimed artist. The exhibition will be on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center from September 10, 2011 to January 8, 2012. Featuring approximately 30 large- and moderately-scaled sculptures dating from 1993 to the present, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see and better understand the artist's work since his last U.S. museum exhibition in the United States in 1990-92. “Tony Cragg is one of the leading sculptors of our time,” said Nasher Sculpture Center director, Jeremy Strick. “Through his work in a variety of media and surprising range of forms, he has consistently broadened and deepened our understanding of sculpture and its possibilities.” ... More |
| Sotheby's Beyond Limits 2011: New works by Hirst, Quinn and Kusama at Chatsworth selling exhibition | | The Morgan Library & Museum presents seventeen master drawings by Ingres | | Edward Kienholz, Five Car Stud 1969-1972, revisited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art | 
Marc Quinn, Burning Desire, 2011, bronze. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London will unveil the line-up for Beyond Limits, its annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture, to be staged within the historic grounds of the ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth from 16th September to 30th October 2011. This magnificent location provides a unique opportunity for the presentation and sale of monumental sculpture. The juxtaposition of works by artists as diverse as René Magritte and Takashi Murakami makes this year’s show an exciting destination exhibition for collectors and visitors alike. In addition to works by Lynn Chadwick, Barry Flanagan and William Turnbull, Beyond Limits will showcase a dramatic new work by Damien Hirst and a series of sculptures created specifically for exhibition at Chatsworth by a range of contemporary artists. Alexander Platon, Sotheby’s Senior Director and Head of Private Sales, Europe, said: “Visitors to Beyond Limit ... More | | 
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1760-1832), 1815. Graphite. Inscribed at lower right, M. de Ingres / a Madlle Lescot. Bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus. Photo: Graham Haber, 2011
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) is among an elite group of nineteenth-century French masters whose style is almost instantly recognizable. Arguably the greatest portraitist of his time, Ingres was a brilliant draftsman, and his drawings have long been prized along with his paintings. The Morgan Library & Museum presents sixteen superb drawings and three letters by Ingres from its collection, together with one exceptional loan, in a focused exhibition in the Clare Eddy Thaw Gallery. Running through November 27 the show spans Ingres’s career and provides visitors with an intimate look at a draftsman who is indisputably one of the greatest in French history. Ingres’s Neoclassicism has often been framed in opposition to the Roman- ... More | | 
Edward Kienholz, Five Car Stud 1969-1972, Revisited. Installation view (detail). Photo: Tom Vinetz. ©Kienholz. Collection of Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan. Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA and The Pace Gallery, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Five Car Stud (1969–72) graphically depicts the hatred and violence expressed by many Americans toward racial minorities and interracial partnerships. With this work Edward Kienholz tapped into the long history of white-on-black lynching in the United States. Set during a period of white anxiety about black power and riots in numerous inner cities, Five Car Stud reminds us today of the violence that undergirds all racial hierarchies. It is undoubtedly Kienholz’s most important work addressing civil rights. In this horrifying, though invented, environment, four automobiles and a pickup truck are arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a gruesome scene. Four white men are in the process of pinning down and stripping ... More |
| Major exhibition poses tough questions and reasserts Fluxus attitude | | Major Southern Commissions of the 1930s-1940s at D. Wigmore Fine Art in New York | | Color in Flux: Exhibition on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Weserburg | 
Nam June Paik, Zen for TV, 1963/78, altered television set. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of the artist in honor of George Maciunas; GM.978.211
NEW YORK, NY.- On view through December 3, 2011, at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life features over 100 works dating primarily from the 1960s and ’70s by artists such as George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, and La Monte Young. Curated by art historian Jacquelynn Baas and organized by Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, the exhibition draws heavily on the Hood’s George Maciunas Memorial Collection, and includes art objects, documents, videos, event scores, and Fluxkits. Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life is accompanied by a second installation, Fluxus at NYU: Before and Beyond, in the Grey’s Lower LevelGallery. Fluxus—which began in the 1960s as an international network of artists ... More | | 
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965), Loading for Town, 1942 (detail), 27 x 36 inches, oil on canvas.
NEW YORK, NY.- D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. presents Major Southern Commission of the 1930s-1940s, on view through October 28th, 2011. Over 40 oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings show the range of commission work in the 1930s-1940s, including corporate projects, illustrations for famous literature, and studies for post office murals. The exhibition includes many works on paper from George Biddle’s 1930 visit to Charleston. Biddle (1885-1973) used these works as the basis for his illustrations for the original libretto for George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, published alongside the opera’s New York premiere in 1935. The opera will have a revival on Broadway in the 2011-2012 season. David Fredenthal’s (1914-1958) four watercolors about Georgia sharecroppers created for the 1940 deluxe edition of Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road are another highlight. Fredenthal spent two months guided by the author’ ... More | | 
Argentinean artist Nicolas Uriburu, dressed in green, pours green color into the river Weser in Bremen. AP Photo/dapd, David Hecker.
BREMEN.- The exhibition on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Weserburg explores how artists since Jackson Pollock have dealt with free-flowing paint. Works by the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Painting will be compared with works by younger artists. Highlighting the exhibition will be new works developed in situ by Katharina Grosse, K.H. Hödicke, Peter Zimmermann, Nicolás Uriburu, Rainer Splitt, and others. In the late 1940s, the American painter Jackson Pollock ventured a simple and at the same time seminal experiment: he laid a canvas on the floor of his studio and began applying paint to it from above. Bent forward and making movements that incorporated his entire body, he poured and dripped acrylic and ordinary paint across the painting surface. This technique, which came to be known as Action Painting, subse- ... More |
| Prehistoric clay disks found at Noatak National Preserve in Northwestern Alaska | | LACMA announces inaugural Art + Film Gala honoring Clint Eastwood and John Baldessari | | Shakespeare: Staging the World exhibition announced at the British Museum | 
Research archaeologist Scott Shirar holds one of the clay disks found during the excavation at Feniak Lake. REUTERS/Scott Shirar/Alaska Museum of the North.
By: Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE (REUTERS).- Four decorated clay disks have been discovered at a prehistoric site in Alaska, apparently the first artifacts of their type discovered in the state, the University of Alaska Museum of the North said. The disks were found during a summer expedition in Noatak National Preserve, at a site where archeologists have for decades been studying lakefront pit dwellings that date back 1,000 years, officials at the Fairbanks museum said. The disks are etched, and two of them have holes in the center. They were discovered when a team from the museum and the National Park Service traveled to the site in northwestern Alaska to make records of previously discovered prehistoric petroglyphs on boulders. Such prehistoric rock art is extremely rare in interior and northern Alaska, though common in the southwestern part of the United States and other regions, museum and Park Service officials said. The accidental discovery of the disks may lead to more such finds, said Scott S ... More | | 
File photo of artist John Baldessari posing for photographs in front of one of his artworks. EPA/TONI GARRIGA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced the inaugural Art + Film Gala honoring actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood and artist John Baldessari at LACMA on Saturday, November 5, 2011. Co-chaired by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and LACMA Trustee Eva Chow, the evening will celebrate the art of the moving image and will bring together luminaries from both communities. Proceeds from the gala will be used to support LACMA’s initiative to make film more central to the museum’s curatorial programming, while also funding LACMA’s broader mission. This will include the newly reinvigorated film program led by Film Independent’s Elvis Mitchell, as well as exhibitions, acquisitions, and educational programming, in addition to screenings that explore the intersection of art and film. The 2011 Art + Film Gala has been made possible with the generous support of Gucci. “Los Angeles is the hub of the fil ... More | | 
File photo of a detail of the recently discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, presented by the Shakespeare Birthplace trust. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis.
LONDON.- During the summer of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games the British Museum will present a major exhibition on the world and works of William Shakespeare, supported by BP. Shakespeare: staging the world will be part of the World Shakespeare Festival in the London 2012 Festival. The exhibition will provide a unique insight into the emerging role of London as a world city interpreted through the innovative perspective of Shakespeare’s plays, and will be brought to life through objects, digital media and performance. The British Museum has collaborated with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the creative approach to the design of the exhibition, accentuating the connections between the objects, Shakespeare’s text and performance. The arrival of the Games to London in 2012 provides the opportunity to reflect on how the world came to London four centuries ago, and how Londoners perceived the world w ... More |
| Gods, heroes & myths still speak of their ancient power at Bonhams sale of antiquities in London | | First major solo exhibition of Brian McCutcheon's work opens at the Indianapolis Museum of Art | | Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus chronicles wars in Berlin show | 
Greek and Roman sculptures in stone, marble and bronze are important as they often tell us a story about Gods, Heroes, Events, Mythical Creatures and culture in general. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Sculpture was one of the most powerful presences in the cities of both Greek and Roman cultures, it was found in parks and squares, in temples and cemeteries and within many of the homes of the affluent too. The next Bonhams sale of Antiquities on October 5th, has a strong offering of Greek and Roman sculpture that reflects the strong presence this art form played in these two cultures. Greek and Roman sculptures in stone, marble and bronze are important as they often tell us a story about Gods, Heroes, Events, Mythical Creatures and culture in general. Top item in the sale is Lot 96, a Greek marble bust of a goddess of the Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd Century B.C, possibly Aphrodite but more likely to be Artemis. She is depicted with her head inclined to the left, her oval face with sensitively carved features has her deep-set lidded eyes with the original inlaid marble eyes remaining. The sculpture is estimated to ... More | | 
Splashdown, 2011. Fiberglass, resin, cast urethane plastic, automotive paint, anodized aluminum, aluminum wire, expandable braided sleeving, dimensions variable. Commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Courtesy of the Artist, with support from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents the first major solo museum exhibition of the work of Brian McCutcheon. Comprised entirely of new works commissioned by the IMA, Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World will be on display in the McCormack Forefront Galleries from September 9, 2011, to March 11, 2012. An Indianapolis-based conceptual artist, McCutcheon uses video, photography, and sculpture to explore the relationships between play and masculinity. After realizing that his son is currently the same age that he was during the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, McCutcheon chose to investigate the duality of father and son relationships through imagery and footage related to space exploration. “I’m pleased to provide our community the opportunity to view ... More | | 
Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus stands next to photographs. Photo/Markus Schreiber.
By: Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP).- An Afghan boy on a swing ride with a toy submachine gun in his hand. A black-clad Iraqi mother giving a bottle to her baby daughter outside Abu Ghraib prison as she waits for the release of detainees. A U.S. Marine mourning the loss of 31 comrades in Iraq. The powerful images are among some 40 black-and-white photographs by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus from conflict zones around the world presented to journalists Friday at the Berlin gallery C/O Berlin. The exhibition "At War," co-sponsored by The Associated Press and the Deutsche Boerse Group, runs in the German capital from Saturday through Dec. 10 before moving in early 2012 to the Deutsche Boerse headquarters in Eschborn, near Frankfurt. Niedringhaus, 45, took the pictures during tours in Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Gaza and the West Bank during a 20-year stretch covering war ... More |
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 Winning bid for huge diamond seized in Ohio: $2.8 Million CLEVELAND (AP).- A huge yellow diamond known as the "Golden Eye" and seized in an Ohio money laundering investigation has been auctioned off for $2.8 million. The winning bidder wasn't immediately disclosed. The U.S. Marshals Service says the winning bid must be checked out. The 43.51-carat diamond belonged to a northeastern Ohio businessman who was convicted of money laundering and conspiracy. Prosecutors say he tried to sell the rock and an estate once owned by boxer Mike Tyson to an undercover FBI agent for $19.5 million and a boat. The diamond was forfeited to the government. The online bidding began Tuesday and there were just four bids until Thursday. Most of the 16 bids came in the final minutes Thursday and during a 15-minute overtime period. ... More "The Fifth Column" a group exhibition featuring works by seven international artist WIEN.- The Secession begins a new season with “The Fifth Column,” a group exhibition featuring work by seven international artists from three generations. They include: Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, who presented the new safety curtain at the Vienna State Opera in the fall of 2011; Spanish artist Dora Garcia whose pavilion “The Inadequate” at this year’s Venice Biennial divided critical opinion; and Peter Downsbrough, an American conceptual artist of the first generation, whose work has only recently begun to receive the attention its deserves. With the deliberately enigmatic title “The Fifth Column”, the show’s curator, Barcelona-based Swiss Moritz Küng, alludes to the complete renovation of the Secession in 1986, and more specifically to the four central columns of the Hauptraum designed by architect Adolf Krischanitz. Originally, they were clad in chrome steel and brass, but ... More Previously unseen drawings and sketches by Nigel Hall at the Royal Academy of Arts LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts Artists’ Laboratory 03 features previously unseen drawings and sketches by Nigel Hall RA. Hall is best known for his pure geometric abstract sculptures and drawings, which show a preoccupation with space and volume. This exhibition will contain over one hundred works and will reveal a less familiar side of his work and practice. The display showcases a selection of landscape sketches, inspired by his global travels including works drawn in Australia, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the USA. Gallery 1, the Large Weston Room, will feature his Swiss landscapes: inspired by Hall’s annual visits to the Engadine in Switzerland and made over a period of two decades. The mountains, local architecture and landscape provide a platform to explore the understanding of space and distance. Other works on display include sculptural drawings, preparatory sculpture sketches, new gouache and ... More New York State Museum opens "New York Remembers" exhibition ALBANY, N.Y.- The New York State Museum commemorate the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center (WTC) attack with a new multi-faceted exhibition and new additions to Museum galleries that present the many ways this monumental event has been documented and depicted a decade later. The Museum is one of 30 sites statewide that are opening “New York Remembers” exhibitions to recognize the anniversary. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the exhibitions as part of a statewide effort to “remember the day the world changed for all of us”. The State Museum and the governor’s office organized the exhibitions, which feature timelines depicting the events of September 11, 2001 and historical artifacts from the collections of the Museum and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Support for the development of the WTC timelines was provided by RBC Wealth Management and RBC Capital Markets. The ... MoreRemembering 9/11 on view at International Center of PhotographyNEW YORK, N.Y.- In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the International Center of Photography (ICP) is collaborating with the National September 11 Memorial Museum (9/11 Memorial Museum) on an exhibition of photography and video that addresses the issues of memory and recovery from disaster and explores how New Yorkers and volunteers from across the U.S. responded to this inconceivable tragedy. Remembering 9/11 will be on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) from September 9, 2011 to January 8, 2012. “On the occasion of this important anniversary of the events of 9/11, ICP is pleased to partner with the 9/11 Memorial Museum on an exhibition that honors those who were lost and celebrates the sacrifices of many to recover from those violent acts,” said Willis E. Hartshorn, ICP Ehrenkranz Director. “Photography is, in this ... More |
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