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Exhibiton curator Claudia Daeubler-Hauschke (L) presents to journalists the painting entitled '1st May' (1851) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter at the exhibition 'Prince Albert. A picture of a man' at the Veste Coburg, Germany. Prince Albert (1819 - 1861) is seen as one of the most important men of the 19th century. The husband of the English Queen Victoria died at the age of 42. The exhibition takes place on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his death. EPA/DAVID EBENER.
COBURG.- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861), Prince Consort of the British Queen Victoria, was one of the most outstanding men of the nineteenth century. More than any other figure, Prince Albert symbolises the Anglo-German cultural exchange and a policy which strived for peace. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his death, a museum exhibition is dedicated to him for the first time in Germany. The exhibition traces the prince’s work and influence through works of art and provides a living portrait of the prince. The title of the exhibition makes allusion to the prince’s renowned handsome looks, as well as to the portraits of the Prince Consort and the royal family which Albert and Victoria deliberately and consciously used in their successful efforts to win back popular respect for the British royalty. The exhibition centres on a number of outstanding loans from the Royal Collection, generously lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, which, tog ... More |
| Sotheby's to hold Fine Chinese paintings sale and exhibition of Zhang Daqian paintings | | From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine's Gray Column at the J. Paul Getty Museum | | Sotheby's Switzerland appoints Marc Michel-Amadry as new Managing Director | 
Painted by Xu Beihong in 1935, Buffaloes (est. HK$10-20 million) represents the pragmatism and austerity of people in China at that time. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s will present its Largest Fine Chinese Paintings Sale on 4 October, presenting over 360 lots expected to fetch in excess of HK200 million / US$25.6 million*. Several thematic sections will be featured, including Treasures from Afar – Two Overseas Paintings Collections, Calligraphy Works by Dignitaries During the Republic of China, Works of Jincheng and Beijing Artists During the Early 20th Century, alongside exceptional works by masters such as Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi, Wu Guanzhong, Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong. C.K. Cheung, Head of Sotheby's Fine Chinese Paintings Department, said: “This autumn, we are pleased to bring together masterpieces by leading artists from private collections around the world that formed the largest auction of this category at Sotheby’s. Highlights include two valuable collections from both sides of the Atlantic, which boast superb artistic values and serv ... More | | 
De Wain Valentine, Gray Column, 1975 - 1976. Polyester resin. Object: H: 355.6 x W: 222.3 x D: 24.1 cm EX.2011.7.1. Lent by De Wain Valentine, Courtesy Ace Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- One of the most influential sculptors active in Los Angeles in the 1960’s and 1970’s, De Wain Valentine is perhaps best known for his striking, semitransparent, and delicately colored large-scale polyester resin sculptures of simple geometric forms that interact intensely with the surrounding light. Not as well known, however, are the challenges Valentine faced in finding a material that would allow him to realize his artistic vision. Now, as part of the Los Angeles-wide Pacific Standard Time initiative, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) presents From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine’s Gray Column, an exhibition focused on the materials and fabrication processes developed by Valentine that made the creation of his large-scale works possible. The exhibition centers around the 1975-6 sculpture Gray Column, which, at twelve feet high, ... More | | 
Michel-Amadry joins Sotheby's from his position as President and Creative Director of Ebel and Concord, two key brands at Movado Group Inc. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced the appointment of Marc Michel-Amadry as Managing Director of Sotheby’s Switzerland. Mr Michel-Amadry will divide his time between Sotheby’s Zurich and Geneva and will strengthen Sotheby’s existing team in Switzerland with his international experience in the luxury sector and strong record of general management across Switzerland. The re-establishment of a pan-Swiss management structure reflects the growing importance of Sotheby’s business in Switzerland and will enhance the company’s ability to provide service to our clients, both buyers and sellers. Speaking of the appointment Patrick van Maris, Managing Director of Sotheby’s Europe and the Middle East, said: “I am delighted to announce the appointment of Marc Michel-Amadry as Managing Director of Sotheby’s Switzerland. Marc brings to Sotheby’s outstanding managerial skills as well as a t ... More |
| First Lady Michelle Obama honors winners of National Design Awards at White House | | Sotheby's New York Classical Chinese Paintings auction more than doubles pre-sale expectations | | Small United States cities struggle to pay for 9/11 memorials that have blossomed across the country | 
First lady Michelle Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011 during the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards luncheon. AP Photo/Susan Walsh.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- For 16-year-old Princess Lawrence, it was dizzying to be one of 15 high school students invited to the White House as Michelle Obama honored the winners of the National Design Awards. In a few heady hours Tuesday, Lawrence got to meet the director behind Kanye West's music videos, fashion designer Gilles Mendel and other top innovators in the worlds of architecture, graphics and computing. Those hours spent rubbing elbows with the first lady and leading U.S. designers had Lawrence giddy amid the White House whirl, asking herself repeatedly: "Is this real?" For a day, Lawrence and fellow teens tasted Washington's fast-paced networking as artists, film directors and designers converged for an East Room luncheon. There, Lawrence was in the midst of the VIPs, introducing ... More | | 
Dong Qichang, Running Script Transcription Of An Epitaph, Written For Minister Chen Xinyi. Ink on paper, album of eight leaves. Est. $200/300,000. Sold for $782,500. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- This morning’s auction at Sotheby’s New York of Classical Chinese Paintings, the company’s first dedicated sale in this field for more than a decade, realized the superb total of $6,467,000 (est. $2.6/3.7 million). The auction, which saw more than 87% of the sold lots achieve sums in excess of their pre-sale estimates, established a strong sell-through rate of 88% by lot. The sale was led by Running Script Transcription of an Epitaph, written for Minister Chen Xinyi by Dong Qichang (1555-1636) who is known as the most influential artist of his time. The painting sold for $782,500 (est. $200/300,000). Discussing the results, Iris Miao, Head of the Classical Chinese Paintings sale at Sotheby’s New York, said: “We are delighted with the performance of this morning's sale which represented the first dedicated auction of Classical Chinese Paintings at Sotheby's in New York for over ... More | | 
A section of steel from the World Trade Center is shown on display at the Patriot Memorial, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 in Wellington, Fla. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee.
By: Meghan Barr, Associated Press
PEMBROKE PINES, FL. (AP).- The memorial started with a steel beam salvaged from the World Trade Center — a small piece of the terrorist attacks that the city of Pembroke Pines, Florida was determined to honor in its own way. Nobody from the Fort Lauderdale suburb died on September 11, 2001. But plans for its memorial grew ever more elaborate, at one point projected to cost more than $1 million. "It was a glass-enclosed, air-conditioned house," recalled the city's mayor, Frank Ortis. "With a reflection pool and water running down, hurricane-resistant glass. Obviously we couldn't do that." Hundreds of small memorials to Sept. 11 have blossomed across the country in the 10 years since the attacks. But in many towns, as in Pembroke Pines, what began as a simple tribute to the dead turned into an expensive headache as the cost of building such memorials bal- ... More |
| El Museo's Bienal extends to The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and Lehman College Art Gallery | | Detroit Institute of Arts presents gift of a lifetime: The James Pearson Duffy Collection | | Chinese porcelain stars at Kaminski Auctions' August Fine Asian Art and Antiques sale | 
Julio Granados, Pandemonium (detail) is on view at Lehman College Art Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- El Museo del Barrio opened two satellite exhibitions this month. Hosting El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 are The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and Lehman College Art Gallery, featuring new artists not yet seen in the exhibition at El Museo. Artist talks at each venue will complement the experience. This expansive biennial consists of the most innovative, cutting-edge art created by Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists currently working in the greater New York area; this year's edition has spread all over NYC, showcasing a record 75 emerging artists in seven different venues. Opened on September 13, 2011, The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) features artists from Northern Manhattan and elsewhere in NYC. This exhibition concentrates on local graffiti writers and their newer "canvases," with a focus on artists of various generations and their contemporary contributions to street aes ... More | | 
Driver, Philip Guston, 1975, oil on canvas. Bequest of James Pearson Duffy. Detroit Institute of Arts.
DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) recently received a generous bequest and rich art collection from James Pearson Duffy, one of Detroit’s most unorthodox collectors. Gift of a Lifetime: The James Pearson Duffy Collection, on view Sept. 14, 2011–March 18, 2012, showcases this varied collection of drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs. The exhibition is organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts and is free with museum admission. For 40 years, Duffy was one of the great characters of the Detroit art scene, with a free-thinking approach to looking at and acquiring art. He was often guided by his intuition, and the collection that resulted represents a variety of interests—from contemporary photography to mixed-media work by Detroit’s Cass Corridor artists, to historical Chinese ceramics. “Jim Duffy meant a great deal to the Detroit art scene in general and to the DIA in part ... More | | 
This Chinese 19th C. Enameled Snuff Bottle sold for 64,000.
BEVERLY, MA.- Chinese porcelain starred at Kaminski Auctions’ August Fine Asian Art and Antiques sale, with a circa 1925, 20” x 9 ½” high vase painted in the traditional style of artist Wang Shigu of finely painted mountains selling for $152,100 as the top lot in the three day sale. The audience was filled with familiar faces of Asian collectors and dealers who brought great drama and excitement to the sale. In addition, telephone and Internet bidding from China was fast and furious over all three days. One of the many attractions on offer was an excellent collection of snuff bottles from a private collector in Florida. In particular, an imperial 18th-19th century enameled ovoid form snuff bottle with a vignette of mother and child on each side, surrounded by a gold floral design, brought $74,880. Bidding on the floor was also brisk for a rare 19th century gu zeng, one of the oldest Chinese music ... More |
| Witte de With in Rotterdam announces Istanbul native Defne Ayas as new Director | | Hot Los Angeles painter of the moment Alex Schaefer's bank on fire work heats up art world | | Stephanie Wiles named new Director of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum | 
Istanbul native Defne Ayas most recently served as a curator of Performa, the visual art performance biennial of New York City. Photo: Else Kramer.
ROTTERDAM.- The board of Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, announces the appointment of Defne Ayas as its new director, effective from 1st January 2012. Defne Ayas will succeed Nicolaus Schafhausen, who has been director since early 2006. At the end of this year, he will leave his post, having led the institute very successfully for six years, the maximum number of years a director can stay at Witte de With according to the institution’s policy. Istanbul native Defne Ayas heads to Rotterdam from New York, where she has served as a curator of Performa – the visual art performance biennial of New York City – since 2004, and from Shanghai, where she has acted as a co-founding director of Arthub Asia – a contemporary art initiative devoted to art creation and exchange across Asia– since 2007. Ayas was also a faculty member of contemporary art and new media at the New York University in S ... More | | 
Artist Alex Schaefer stands in front of a Chase bank branch that was the inspiration for his oil painting depicting the structure on fire along Van Nuys Blvd. AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Genaro Molina.
By: John Rogers, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, CA. (AP).- Alex Schaefer is the hot Los Angeles artist of the moment, thanks to a couple of oil-on-canvas works showing banks burning down. Although his work has been displayed at several galleries over the years, Schaefer was mostly an obscure figure in the art world whose pieces rarely fetched more than $1,000. That was until he painted a picture of a nondescript bank on a run-of-the-mill San Fernando Valley street. With flames leaping through the bank's roof, the work began to take on a look similar to Ed Ruscha's acclaimed 1966 "Burning Gas Station." Schaefer says several passers-by stopped to give him a thumb's up. Some, however, called police after their suspicions were aroused. Offers for the painting began pouring in after the Los Angeles ... More | | 
Wiles has been the John G.W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin since July 2004.
ITHACA, N.Y.- Stephanie Wiles of Oberlin College has been named the next director of Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Provost Kent Fuchs has announced. Wiles has been the John G.W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin since July 2004. A specialist in Old Master drawings and prints and British and American art, she has organized numerous exhibitions, been responsible for acquisitions of works by artists ranging from Rembrandt van Rijn to Sol LeWitt and led many grant-funded projects. While overseeing a recent 20-month building renovation and art storage expansion at the Allen, she co-organized exhibitions of some of that museum’s finest works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. She also co-authored the Allen’s first highlights catalog. “I deeply admire Cornell’s excellent liberal arts ... More |
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 Good Humor at the Met: Caricature and satire explored in Infinite Jest NEW YORK, N.Y.- Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art September 13, 2011, through March 4, 2012, explores humorous imagery from the Italian Renaissance to the present. Consisting mostly of works from the Metropolitan Museum's rich collection in its Department of Drawings and Prints, the exhibition includes sheets by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Enrique Chagoya alongside works by artists more often associated with visual humor, such as James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, Honoré Daumier, Al Hirschfeld, and David Levine. Many of these engaging caricatures and satires have never been exhibited and are little known except to specialists. The exhibition's title, Infinite Jest, derives from Hamlet. Shakespeare's play is quoted in a Civil War print from the 1864 presidential campaign ... More United Kingdom campaign seeks to save Roald Dahl writing hut LONDON (AP).- The family of Roald Dahl is trying to raise the funds to preserve a hut in which the late writer wrote tales of big friendly giants, fantastic foxes and magical chocolate factories. The family hopes to raise 500,000 pounds ($790,000) to stop the 50-year-old brick and polystyrene shed — preserved as it was when Dahl died in 1990 — from falling apart. Relatives plan to move the interior of the structure from the backyard of Dahl's former house in the village of Great Missenden, northwest of London, to the nearby Roald Dahl Museum. Dahl called the shed, where he worked daily, "my little nest." Its contents include his chair, writing board and notepads, along with an eclectic array of objects including the writer's own hip bone. Visitors can currently see its exterior in the garden of the house, where Dahl's widow Felicity still lives, but the interior is off-limits. Dahl's granddaughter, model and ... More Gary Lawrence is awarded the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011 LONDON.- Jerwood Visual Arts and Drawing Projects UK are delighted to announce that Gary Lawrence has been awarded the First Prize of £6,000 for his drawing Homage to Anonymous in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011. His work, along with that of the 60 short-listed artists will be shown at JVA at Jerwood Space, London from 14 September – 30 October 2011. Gary Lawrence lives and works in Essex. His work, Homage to Anonymous, a large scale drawing made in ballpoint pen on the back of discarded posters, is ‘a tribute to all the anonymous artists through history who made work but are unrecognised’. He explains: ‘Homage to Anonymous began in 2010 as a simple view of Pothea (the main town on the Greek island of Kalymnos) where I went on holiday. While working on it, I began thinking of other artist’s views of towns, especially El Greco’s View and Plan of Toledo (1608-14). While checking my El Grec ... More Nashville museum on African American music planned NASHVILLE, TN. (AP).- A new museum in the works for Nashville will aim to expand the public's idea of what makes the town Music City. The National Museum of African American Music may sound counterintuitive for a city most closely associated with country music, a genre dominated by white performers. But supporters of the new project say the city played an important role in fostering African American music, which in turn influenced the roots of country and many other American genres. "With the focus on music and the more than 40 genres of music that African Americans contributed to in a meaningful way, it really becomes a museum of American music and allows us to tell the story of American music," said board chairman Henry Hicks, who also is president of the sightseeing tour bus company Gray Line Tennessee. Nashville is an integral part of that story, he said, from the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who toured ... More Magnificent private collection of Judith Leiber handbags and accessories on the auction block in December LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams announces the December 12, 2011 auction of The Robert Maier Collection of Judith Leiber® handbags and accessories. The magnificent offering boasts more than 250 examples in the shapes of dogs, cats, bears, sea life, floral, vegetables, eggs and fairy tale-inspired items. Highlights include the highly sought after 3-dimensional and traditional handbags, as well as a strong selection of pill boxes, lipstick cases, compacts, notebooks, business card cases and candy holders, with many of the items to be offered without reserve. More than an auction, this is a love story. The ever-doting husband, Bob Maier shares a tale of going above and beyond for the love of his life, his wife. “It started innocently enough,” he began, “as many stories do, with the single purchase of a single item, produced by someone I had never heard of at the time: Judith Leiber®. My wife was completely taken with Le ... MoreMetropolitan Museum's McQueen, Caro, Serra, and "Rooms with a View" Exhibitions Stimulate $908 millionNEW YORK, N.Y.- The Metropolitan Museum's concurrent presentation of four acclaimed and widely attended exhibitions in the summer 2011 season—Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Anthony Caro on the Roof; Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective; and Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century—generated $908 million in spending by regional, national, and international tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released today. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study found that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum totaled some $90.8 million. (Results of visitor survey are below.) Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, on view from May 4 through August 7, 2011, drew 661,509 visitors. Attendance for Anthony Caro on the Roof was 306,542 from April 26 through August 26, 2011, when this survey was completed (the exhibit ... More Judge throws out lawsuit over Custer museum raidsBy: Matthew Brown, Associated Press
BILLINGS, MT. (AP).- A federal judge threw out a lawsuit claiming federal agents illegally raided Montana's Custer Battlefield Museum during an investigation into the alleged sale of fraudulent battlefield artifacts and eagle feathers. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Cebull dismissed as frivolous claims by museum director Christopher Kortlander that the raids were illegal and the agents had violated his constitutional rights. Two dozen federal agents who participated in the raids in 2005 and 2008 were mentioned in the lawsuit. The investigation closed in 2009 with no charges filed. Eagle feathers and parts seized in one of the raids by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have not been returned to Kortlander, who has another case pending to get them back. The U.S. attorney's office, which defended the agents, declined to comment on Cebull's ruling bec ... More |
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