| | Like Painted Silk: Large-scale exhibition of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's work opens in Chemnitz
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An employee of the Kunstsammlungen carries a portrait picture of French impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir past two oil paintings by the artist in Chemnitz. An extensive exhibition of Renoir works will be on display from 18 September onwards, presenting 90 paintings and drawings. EPA/HENDRIK SCHMIDT.
CHEMNITZ.- The Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is presenting the large-scale exhibition PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR. Like Painted Silk from 18 September 2011 to 8 January 2012. The exhibition aims to cast an altogether new light on the great Impressionist painter. In addition to masterpieces from private collections and from European museums such as the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the National Museum of Stockholm and the Belvedere in Vienna, the show will also include the rich stock of prints by Renoir from the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken. This unique exhibition of more than 90 paintings and prints will be shown exclusively in Chemnitz, indeed it is the first solo exhibition of Renoir’s works on the territory of the new federal German states. ... More |
| Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement at the Royal Academy of Arts | | Ellsworth Kelly shines in new Boston Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary Art wing | | Unknown portrait discovered under Goya's masterpiece in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum | 
Darcy Bussell, former principal dancer at the Royal Ballet poses in front of "Dancer with Bouquets" by Edgar Degas at the Royal Academy of Arts. REUTERS/Paul Hackett.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents a landmark exhibition focusing on Edgar Degas's preoccupation with movement as an artist of the dance. Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement traces the development of the artist's ballet imagery throughout his career, from the documentary mode of the early 1870s to the sensuous expressiveness of his final years. The exhibition is the first to present Degas's progressive engagement with the figure in movement in the context of parallel advances in photography and early film; indeed, the artist was keenly aware of these technological developments and often directly involved with them. The exhibition comprises around 85 paintings, sculptures, pastels, drawings, prints and photographs by Degas, as well as photographs by his contemporaries and examples of early film. It brings together selected material from public institutions and ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly, Curve XXXVII, 1984.
By: Ros Krasny
BOSTON, MA (REUTERS).- Boston's Museum of Fine Arts opens a large new contemporary art wing this weekend in what curators say reflects a more forward-looking tilt to the city's arts scene. Anchoring the launch is the temporary exhibit, "Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture," surveying four decades of works by the famous American minimalist painter and sculptor. The Linde Family Wing of Contemporary Art, which includes more than 21,000 square feet of gallery space, is housed in the MFA's 1981 I.M. Pei expansion. More than 200 pieces from the permanent collection are on show, arranged in seven galleries that range from paintings to decorative arts to video and new media. "Contemporary collectors in Boston have been fired up for a long time, and they've been waiting for this," said Al Miner, an assistant curator at the MFA. Economic jitters notwithstanding, interest in buying contemporary art is "through the roof," Miner said. Kelly, who ... More | | 
Portrait of Don Ramón Satué, Francisco de Goya. 1823. Oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum.
AMSTERDAM.- An innovative method for examining paintings has revealed a hitherto unknown painting beneath Goya’s Portrait of Don Ramón Satué, one of his most celebrated masterpieces and the only painting by this famous Spanish artist in The Netherlands. The hidden portrait, which is almost certainly also by Goya himself, was brought to light using Scanning Macro X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry a new technique developed by the University of Antwerp and the Delft University of Technology. From the scans it can clearly be seen that Goya (1746-1828) painted his portrait of the casually-posed Spanish judge, Ramón Satué, over a much more formal portrait of a man wearing uniform. The decorations embellishing the uniform are those of the highest ranks of a chivalric order instituted by Joseph Bonaparte when his brother, the emperor Napoleon, created him King of Spain. The hidden portrait must thus date from between 1809 and 1813. Goya’s portrait of Satué is signed and d ... More |
| Exhibition of work by Agnes Martin from the 1980s on view at the Pace Gallery | | Brooklyn Museum to Present Keith Haring: 1978-1982 on view in April 2012 | | The British Museum is the first UK arts organisation to publish its collection semantically | 
Agnes Martin, Untitled #1, 1989. Acrylic and graphite on linen, 72 x 72" (182.9 cm x 182.9 cm) © 2011 Agnes Martin / Artist's Right Society, New York. Photo by: G. R. Christmas / Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Agnes Martin from the 1980s. The ‘80s: Grey Paintings includes a group of six canvases that were part of an important exhibition at Pace’s Soho gallery in 1990 that represented a radical departure from Martin’s previous work. Pace’s exhibition ushers in an important year for Martin: 2012 marks the centennial anniversary of her birth; Yale University Press, in conjunction with the Dia Art Foundation, and Phaidon will release new publications about the artist; and The Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico will present an exhibition of her work. The ‘80s: Grey Paintings is on view at 534 West 25th Street from September 16 through October 29, 2011. It is the twenty-sixth solo exhibition of Martin’s work at Pace, which has represented the artist ... More | | 
Artist Keith Haring sits in his Broome Street apartment in New York, in 1983. AP Photo.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Keith Haring: 1978–1982, the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known of American twentieth-century artists, will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 13 through August 5, 2012. Tracing the development of the artist’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, posters, subway drawings, and documentary photographs. “We are delighted to have this exceptional opportunity to present this groundbreaking exhibition of these dynamic works created by one of the most iconic and innovative artists of the late twentieth century as his formidable talents emerged,” comments Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman. “The works of art and the accompanying documentary material place in new ... More | | 
The Rosetta Stone. EPA/TRUSTEES OF THE BRITAIN MUSEUM.
LONDON.- The British Museum has now released a Semantic Web version of the database complementing the Collection Online search facility. The Museum is the first UK arts organisation to instigate a Semantic Web version of its collection data. The new service brings the British Museum into the ‘linked data’ world and will allow software developers to produce their own applications that can directly manipulate and reuse the data. It will also allow researchers and scholars a way to search and find data more precisely and facilitate automatic updates. This Semantic version has been enhanced by applying the CIDOC-CRM (Conceptual Reference Model) ontology. By converting data to this ISO accredited semantic framework the potential to harmonise and build data relationships with other organisations is greatly enhanced. In addition, the service comes with a more open data licence encouraging wider reuse. Dominic Oldman, ... More |
| Kunsthaus Zurich presents a selection of acquisitions of 'Young Art' from its collection | | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents an exhibition of European drawings | | Researchers from the University of Alberta report feathers in amber reveal dinosaur diversity | 
Tobias Madison, Yes I Can! (with Vittorio Brodmann) / RB, 2009 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 151,5 x 201,5 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, Gruppe Junge Kunst © Tobias Madison.
ZURICH.- From 16 September to 27 November, the Kunsthaus Zürich is showing an exhibition of works from its collection entitled ‘Young Art,’ featuring a selection of acquisitions by the ‘Gruppe Junge Kunst’ (Young Art Group). Divided into three chapters, the show presents some of the most recent additions: works by Latifa Echakhch, Haris Epaminonda, Keren Cytter, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Mark Manders and Lucy Skaer. The Group began acquiring art in 1970. The Gruppe Junge Kunst is part of the Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde (VZK), the Kunsthaus’ patron association. Since 1970, with an annual budget of CHF 70,000 from VZK membership fees, it has been buying contemporary art which it presents to the Kunsthaus on long-term loan. The result is an impressive collection of sculptures, videos, installations, paintings, photographs and drawings that are now being shown in an exhibition. ‘Young ... More | | 
Hubert Robert, Massacre of the Innocents, 1796. Chalk, brown, and red, on paper, 8 1/4 in. x 7 1/4 in. (20.96 cm x 18.42 cm) Crocker Art Museum, E. B. Crocker Collection. 1871.410
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College will present an exhibition of the finest early collection of European drawings in the United States this fall from September 16 through December 11, 2011. On Friday, September 16, at 6pm in Taylor Hall (room 203), William Breazeale, Curator of the Crocker Art Museum, will deliver a lecture entitled “Fragonard on the Frontier: The Crocker Collection of Old Master Drawings.” This will be followed by an opening reception at the Art Center. Previously the exhibition was seen at both the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA) and the Portland (OR) Art Museum, however this is its only East Coast presentation. A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum will include 57 rarely seen works by artists such as Albrecht Durer, Fra Bartolommeo, Anthonie van Dyck, Francois Boucher, and Jean-Auguste-Cominque Ingres. The exhibition will ... More | | 
Ooverview of 16 clumped feather barbs in Canadian Late Cretaceous amber specimen TMP. AP Photo/Science.
By: Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- In science fiction, amber preserved the DNA that allowed rebirth of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. In real life, amber preserved feathers that provide a new image of what dinosaurs looked like. "Now, instead of scaly animals portrayed as usually drab creatures, we have solid evidence for a fluffy colored past," reports Mark A. Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Examples of ancient feathers ranging from the simple to the complex are now being studied. They were preserved in amber found in western Canada, researchers led by Ryan C. McKellar of the University of Alberta report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Amber, hardened tree resin, preserved a mixture of feathers from 70 million years ago. Other feathers contained in amber dating to 90 million years ago are less diverse. Specimens include simple filament structures similar to the earliest feathers of non-flying dinosaurs — a form unknown in modern birds — and more ... More |
| New exhibition by British artist Graham Nickson at the Knoedler & Company Gallery | | Dutch Royal House criticized for 'racist' painting on Queen Beatrix's iconic gold-trimmed carriage | | Fine American paintings, drawings and sculpture at Christie's New York this September | 
Graham Nickson, Roman Grey Cloud, Yellow Sunset: First Series, 1972. Oil on linen with hand-painted frame, 16 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches. Photo: Courtesy Knoedler & Company Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972–2011—Paths of the Sun brings together three distinct but related bodies of work. The first, a group of early oils composed with frames hand painted by the artist, most created in the environs of Rome, was begun shortly after Nickson’s arrival there as a recipient of the 1972 Rome Prize. It was in Italy that sunrises and sunsets first became major themes in his work, and the small format landand skyscapes he painted, some of which are grouped as diptychs and triptychs, also were the basis of the predella paintings that are components of several of the artist’s monumental canvases of the period, including Umbra Urbana (1972–80) and Concordia (1972–78), both in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a 2006 interview, Nickson stated: It’s the image. Basically that’s the thing that keeps us going. And I think this is true of a lot of the people I admire, whether it’s ... More | | 
Critics urged the Dutch royal family to get rid of a painting they say is an offensive reminder of wrongs from the Netherlands' colonial past. AP Photo/Fred Ernst.
By: Toby Sterling, Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP).- Critics urged the Dutch royal family Friday to get rid of a painting they say is an offensive reminder of wrongs from the Netherlands' colonial past, but the Royal House defended the 19th-century work as an important part of the country's history. "Homage of the Colonies" decorates one side of Queen Beatrix's iconic gold-trimmed carriage, and depicts half-naked, brown-skinned women and men in servile poses bearing gifts to an enthroned white woman. Thousands of fans will line the streets of The Hague next week to watch the popular queen travel in the horse-drawn carriage, one of the most famous symbols of the Netherlands' royal House of Orange, to address parliament in her annual speech. Jeffry Pondaag of the Dutch Debts of Honor Committee co-authored ... More | | 
Milton Avery, Porch View. Estimate: $60,000-80,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- On September 27, Christie’s will offer its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $120,000. Highlights include exceptional works by Norman Rockwell, George Inness, John Marin and Samuel Johnson Woolf, as well as a rare group of bronze sculptures from the Labor series by Max Kalish, consigned directly by the artist’s family. All genres of American art are represented, including Hudson River School, Impressionism, Ashcan, Modernism, Naïve, Illustration and Western Art. The total sale of a little over 200 lots is expected to achieve in excess of $3.1 million. Among the lead highlights of the sale is New York Stock Exchange, 1924 (estimate: $70,000-100,000) by John Marin (1870-1953). Created in the boom before the Crash of 1929, the work evokes a dynamic tension with strong, dark ... More |
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 Puzzles of the Brain: An artist's journey through amnesia on view at the Walters Art Museum BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters is partnering with the Cognitive Science Department of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Science at The Johns Hopkins University to present a focus show of approximately 36 works exploring the impact of severe brain damage on the life and creativity of an artist. The show will tell the story of Lonni Sue Johnson, a successful artist, who suffered severe amnesia resulting from an attack of encephalitis in late 2007. The illness caused substantial brain damage, resulting in the complete loss of artistic productivity. Through intensive art therapy led by her mother Margaret Kennard Johnson (also an accomplished artist), Johnson began to produce a portfolio of “recovery art.” Her art provides unique insight into the devastating effects of amnesia, as well as the complementary roles played by language and memory in her artistic expression. Johnson’s case gives researchers a rare ... More For its third edition, Greece's second largest city welcomes the Thessaloniki Biennale THESSALONIKI.- The 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is lead by the State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA) working collaboratively with the rest of the "Thessaloniki – 5 Museums Movement" (5M): Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Teloglion Foundation of Art AUTh. The Biennale comprises a main and a parallel programme and focuses on the Mediterranean region under the title "OLD INTERSECTIONS - MAKE IT NEW" with exhibitions, a workshop for young artists, a performance festival featuring ORLAN, conferences and a symposium. *ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI, The Jews in Thessaloniki. Indelible marks in space 18 September 2011- 30 September 2012. Curators: Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki; Evangelia Stefani, Head of the Exhibitions ... More Paul Ha Selected as Director of the MIT List Center for the Visual Arts CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Paul Ha, director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, has been selected as the new director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) List Visual Arts Center. Ha is expected to begin his new position Dec. 1. “We are delighted that Paul will lead the List,” said Philip S. Khoury, MIT associate provost and Ford International Professor of History, who oversees the List Visual Arts Center. “In Paul, the List is gaining a well-respected and proven arts leader who has earned the admiration of his staff, the communities in which he has lived and worked, as well as the international arts community. We are excited that he is joining MIT and look forward to collaborating on ways to further solidify the List’s standing among students, faculty, staff, alumni, visitors and contemporary visual arts institutions in the Boston area, which are playing an increasingly prominent role, n ... More Walter De Maria's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. opens at the Menil Collection HOUSTON, TX.- Organized by the artist and Menil director Josef Helfenstein, Walter De Maria: Trilogies is the artist’s first major museum exhibition in the United States. The exhibition includes three series of related works: one painting series and two sculpture series, each comprised of three parts. "We are extremely proud to present Walter De Maria’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States," said Menil Director Josef Helfenstein. "This boundary-breaking artist has played a crucial role in the development of the art of our time. His work already holds an important place in the Menil’s permanent collection, and for the first time, visitors can see and experience the full scale and great depth of his provocative ideas." The Statement Series, which occupies the museum foyer, consists of three large horizontal, monochrome paintings: Red Painting, Yellow Painting, and Blue Painting. These large works (14&# ... More Philly home for Barnes collection to open May 19 PHILADELPHIA (AP).- The Barnes Foundation will open a new downtown home for its multibillion-dollar art collection on May 19, officials announced Thursday, even as a judge continued to weigh whether the masterpieces should be moved at all from their current suburban home to Philadelphia. Barnes officials insisted the hotly contested relocation of hundreds of paintings by artists including Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso will happen this spring despite a lawsuit challenging the $200 million venture. "I can say proudly, boldly and forcefully we should be opening here on May the 19th, 2012," foundation President Derek Gillman said at a news conference. The art collected by eccentric pharmaceutical magnate Albert Barnes includes 800 impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces that he displayed for decades in a limestone gallery in Lower Merion. He meticulously grouped the paintings with antique ironwork, furnit ... More White Gold: the true cost of cotton exhibited at the International Slavery Museum LIVERPOOL.- A new exhibition at the International Slavery Museum draws attention to forced labour and human rights abuses in the cotton industry. "White Gold: the true cost of cotton", runs from 16 September 2011 to 2 September 2012. The exhibition, run in partnership with the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), tells how Uzbekistan, one of the largest cotton exporters in the world, forcibly conscripts hundreds of thousands of its citizens, including young children, to work in its billion dollar cotton industry. The Uzbek government is the main beneficiary of this forced labour, demanding high production quotas and retaining rigid control over the exports. It includes eight photographs of cotton workers in Uzbekistan, explores how the cotton supply chain works and how we as consumers ar ... More Portland Museum of Art's Winslow Homer Studio Opens in September 2012 PORTLAND, ME.- In September 2012, the Portland Museum of Art will open the Winslow Homer Studio to the public. One of the most significant locations in the history of American art, the Studio, located at Prouts Neck, Maine, is where the great American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) lived and painted many of his masterpieces from 1883 until his death. A National Historic Landmark, the renovated Winslow Homer Studio will celebrate the artist’s life, encourage scholarship on Homer, and educate audiences to appreciate the artistic heritage of Winslow Homer and Maine. Tours of the Studio will begin from the Museum on Monday, September 24, 2012, and tickets will go on sale next summer on the Museum’s website. “The opening of the Winslow Homer Studio will be a pivotal moment in American art history. For the first time, visitors will be able to experience the Studio as it was during Homer’s time and discov ... More |
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