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A worker poses for a photograph next to John Martin's recently restored "The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum", in Tate Britain in central London. Tate Britain opened a major new exhibition of Martin's work titled "Apocalypse". REUTERS/Andrew Winning.
LONDON.- A vast painting of volcanic catastrophe by the British artist John Martin (1789–1854) is exhibited for the first time in almost a century. When the Thames flooded in 1928, The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum 1821 was widely considered to have been destroyed. After a painstaking restoration, it was unveiled to the public on 21 September 2011 as part of Tate Britain’s major exhibition, John Martin: Apocalypse. John Martin (1789–1854) was a key figure in the nineteenth-century art world, renowned for his dramatic scenes of apocalyptic destruction and biblical catastrophe. One of John Martin’s most ambitious works, this large oil painting depicts the devastating eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD with survivors fleeing the destruction of the Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum. Measuring over eight feet across, it was the centrepiece of Martin’s 1822 solo exhibition at the Egyptian Hall in Picc ... More |
| The Rijksmuseum presents Johan Maurits & Frans Post: Two Dutchmen in Brazil | | Sotheby's contemporary art evening auction to be highlighted by four masterworks by Clyfford Still | | Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition by Red Grooms on the theme of New York | 
Frans Post, Landscape by the river Senhor de Engenho, Brazil, 1670-1680. Acquired with support from the independent art fund Vereniging Rembrandt.
AMSTERDAM.- Johan Maurits, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, also known as ‘The Brazilian’, served as governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil from 1637 to 1644. He founded the town of Mauritsstad, commissioned the construction of a splendid palace and led the colony as an enlightened official. Artist Frans Post travelled along with the governor’s entourage, documenting not only military conquests, but also the exotic flora and fauna. His drawings served as the basis for the scientific book by Casper Barlaeus, commissioned by Johan Maurits, which to this day remains one of the most significant books about Brazil. The Rijksmuseum will exhibit 18 paintings and prints by Post and several of his contemporaries, complemented by a unique presentation of parchment manuscripts from Johan Maurits’ palace in Brazil. The exhibition is part of the Brasil Festival, which will be held in ... More | | 
Clyfford Still, (PH-1033), signed and dated Clyfford 11-29-76. Oil on canvas, 93½ x 83 in. 237.5 x 210.8 cm. Est. $10/15 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s announces that four masterworks by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still (1904-1980) will headline Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. The four paintings come from the Estate of Patricia Still and are being sold by the City and County of Denver. They are expected to realize a combined total in excess of $50 million, and are being sold to further support the endowment of the new Clyfford Still Museum, which is scheduled to open to the public in Denver on November 18, 2011. The paintings will be shown in Hong Kong and London at the beginning of October prior to the New York pre-sale exhibition. “The appearance of these paintings on the open market represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors of iconic and Abstract Expressionist art,” said Tobias Meyer, Worldwide Director of Contemporary Art at Sothe ... More | | 
Red Grooms, Count Tribecula, 2011. Tempera and acrylic on board, 60 x 40 in. 152.4 x 101.6 cm. Photo: Courtesy Marlborough Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition by Red Grooms on the theme of New York. The exhibition comprises sculptures, installation pieces, and paintings spanning the years 1976 to 2011. The show opened September 21 and will continue through October 22, 2011. Since his first exhibition at Marlborough in 1976, titled Ruckus Manhattan, Grooms has staked his claim as one of America’s most original, inventive, and popular artists. New York is Grooms’ home base and this exhibition will include several key pieces about New York, such as works from Ruckus Manhattan, The Bus (1995), and Arbus at the Met (2007) along with new works never before exhibited. Cities have long been a source of inspiration for Grooms. His work is well-known for its witty commentaries on modern life and his affectionate yet satirical portrayals of urban culture. The exhibition features Porno Bookstore, Girls Girls Girls, a ... More |
| Exhibition of artwork by Brigitte Kowanz, Shirley Shor, and Ingo Günther at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery | | Sotheby's to sell the BAT Artventure Collection formerly known as the Peter Stuyvesant Collection Part III | | South African artist William Kentridge exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest | 
Installation view of Live Theory at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents Live Theory, an exhibition of artwork by Brigitte Kowanz, Shirley Shor, and Ingo Günther. Through a variety of media technologies, both new and old, each of these artists describe and interpret our rapidly changing social, political, and economic landscapes. This group of internationally diverse artists are in the midst of reshaping our understanding of how to create and disseminate information. The modes developed for mapping information, the roles of language across media networks, and the pictorial authority of photography, are all changing at rapid speeds. An array of media interfaces from the Google map that gives us immediate access to any place on earth to the social media that support regional activism all are becoming new tools and the means for artists to reshape our conventional modes of creative expression. Ingo Günther’s installation of illuminated globes ... More | | 
Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1974, mohair wool tapestry, 190 by 150 cm. Commissioned in 1974 in an edition of 50 by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, produced in collaboration with Royal Lesotho Tapestry Weavers. Estimate €2.000-3.000. Photo: Sotheby's.
AMSTERDAM.- Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer for sale on Tuesday 4 October 2011 the third and final selection of works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT). The thread of the sale: Pop art, Op art, Photography, Conceptual Art, Zero and 20th Century British Art by a varied group of international contemporary artists such as Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Patrick Caulfield, Tony Cragg, Bruce Nauman, Jim Dine, Jean Dewasne, Victor Vasarely, Julio Le Parc, Joël Stein, Bill Henson, Marijke van Warmerdam, Jan Dibbets, Antony Donaldson, William Scott, Francis Bacon, Patrick Heron and Adolf Luther. The latter’s Kinetisches Hohlspiegel ... More | | 
Visitors looks at the video installation titled 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' by contemporary South African artist William Kentridge. EPA/PETER KOLLANYI
BUDAPEST.- The exhibition that opened at the Museum of Fine Arts on 20th September includes a portrait film about Kentridge as well as one of his most recent projects titled “I am not me, the horse is not mine”. Occasioned by the discussion at the museum on 4th October, a significant body of the artist’s film projects will be screened in the form of a special, one-off installation, among them his Soho and Felix series about post-apartheid South Africa, as well as two animation films: Shadow Procession and Ubu and the Truth Commission, the latter being an adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s drama Ubu the King. On the same day a selection of experimental, fine art quality films by György Kovásznai (1934-1983) can also be seen. The installation “I am not me, the horse is not mine” is actually adapted from Gogol’s ... More |
| Chiara Parisi appointed new Director of the cultural programs at the Monnaie de Paris | | British artist Tris Vonna-Michell exhibits new work at Metro Pictures in New York | | Exhibition of photographs in the spirit of alchemy at Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 
Chiara Parisi leaves after seven years directing the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière.
PARIS.- After seven years directing the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, Chiara Parisi will resign her commission. During those years, Chiara Parisi worked on the development and commitment of this exceptional location: a free and eclectic tool for creation in the heart of France, on the Millevaches plateau. For seven years, from 2004 to 2011, 69 artists came on the island of Vassivière at her invitation to conceive and produce 22 exhibitions, mainly monographic, inside Aldo Rossi’s building but also in the neighbouring forest, lake and meadows… Her program included many new projects such as those of Claude Lévêque, Huang Yong Ping, Cyprien Gaillard, Oscar Tuazon, Rosa Barba, Thomas Houseago and also Hubert Duprat, Marisa Merz, Tino Sehgal… Many of these artists made their first solo show in France in this Framework. Putting the Art centre at ... More | | 
Tris Vonna-Michell, installation view at Metro Pictures, New York, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Presenting a range of installation-narratives for his first exhibition at Metro Pictures, Tris Vonna-Michell exhibits a new sound edit combining hahn/huhn (2003-ongoing) and Leipzig Calendar Works (2005-ongoing), which recalls the peaceful 1989 demonstration of East German citizens at the Ministry for State Security, or Stasi, district headquarters in Leipzig. Merging this with descriptions of a feverish initiative to destroy incriminating documents before citizens stormed the agency’s Berlin headquarters, Vonna-Michell’s chronicle becomes a patchwork account of the months leading up to German reunification. Here, signals and pulses, repetition and overlay are edited in the recording to correspond to the slide sequences he displays on anachronistic projectors. As Vonna-Michell seems to earnestly meander through his monologue he alludes to the crafted structure of the very story he is telling, and ... More | | 
Erwin Kneihsl, very, 2011. Installation view, Galerie Guido W. Baudach (Wedding), Berlin. Photo: Roman März. Courtesy Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin.
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents its sixth solo exhibition by Erwin Kneihsl. Kneihsl practices photography in spirit of alchemy. His focus of attention is not directed towards materials and their external forms, but the ‘transmutation’ of the subject of the photograph into an image in the mind’s eye. This corresponds to both the motifs and the methods of Kneihsl’s photography: the decision to exclusively use mechanical cameras, the classical black and white film, and the insistence on personally producing his gelatine silver prints from the negative material. And while the motifs are usually presented in series, it is always his own perceptions that lead him to the particular images. To a certain extent Kneihsl’s photographs are reflections of personal thoughts and emotions, these bound up with an interest in the historical, biographical, and psychological connotations of the motifs repr ... More |
| Picasso and Braque: first exhibition to unite works from pivotal years at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art | | Major collection of antique telephones will keep collectors "engaged" at Morphy Auctions | | Russian art gets younger, less politicized as fourth Moscow Biennale opens | 
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of a Woman, 1910, oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912, the first exhibition to unite many of the paintings and nearly all of the prints created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during these two exhilarating years of their artistic dialogue, went on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) on September 17. The international loan exhibition, featuring 16 paintings and 20 etchings and drypoints, is organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Kimbell Art Museum, with its debut in Fort Worth, TX May 29 – August 21, 2011. “This will be the first presentation ever held on the West Coast devoted to this seminal and fascinating phase of modern art, and it will forever change our understanding of the experimental link between these great masters,” states Larry Feinberg, SBMA Director. During the years 1910 through 1912, Picasso and Braque invented a new style that took the ba ... More | | 
Circa-1878 Watts & Co. coffin-shape telephone offered with a copy of the first telephone directory, est. $10,000-$20,000. Morphy Auctions image.
DENVER, PA.- A large percentage of the world’s population has never even seen a dial-face telephone, but that certainly wasn’t the case with the late Bill Daniels. The massive collection of antique and vintage phones that filled his home comprised a chronological archive of Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 invention and contained models ranging from primitive turn of the 20th century curiosities to ultra-cool mid-century designs. A premier assemblage, the Daniels collection has been consigned to Morphy Auctions, where it will be apportioned into three subsequent General Antiques auctions, the first of which will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15, 2011. The phones will open the second session. “Many of Bill Daniels’ phones were displayed at museums or shows, but he was always a buyer, hardly ever a seller,” said Morphy Auctions CEO Dan Morphy. “Bill worked for AT&T’s ... More | | 
File photo of a visitor standing in front of an artwork by Russian artists duo Vyacheslav Mizin and Alexander Shaburov, aka Blue Noses Group. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV.
By: Nastassia Astrasheuskaya
MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Up-and-coming artists competing for Russia's top contemporary art prize kicked off a marathon of exhibits in the Russian capital, which hosts the fourth Moscow Biennale. A studio strewn with musty books, pages rustling in an artificial breeze; a multicolored play-dough cube squeezed into a cage; and a sphere made out of hundreds of plastic bags were among the 40 art works contesting the prestigious Kadinsky prize. Named after abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1904), the award hands out cash-prizes of up to $55,100 to modern artists featured at Moscow's Central House of Artists. "This exhibit cuts across Russia's contemporary art and art forms of today," said Shalva Breus, who founded the award in 2007. Breus hailed an ... More |
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 Florian Maier-Aichen's defiant new works at Baronian_Francey in Brussels BRUSSELS.- For his third exhibition at Baronian_Francey, Maier-Aichen continues his practice of picking apart and expanding notions of photographic representation. Many works in the show rely on a fully hybrid model of image production. Utilizing practices of photography, painting and drawing in equal measures has allowed the artist to explore the myth of image-making in pursuit of a new form of the ideal photographic document. Their poetic nature and monumental status represent layers of media and processes, rendered in both the field and studio. Above all, the artist's practice of image making is a subversive one, fully cognizant that only in the commingling of genres can an original view emerge. The images can originate from sources as varied as documentary or textbook photos to escapist landscape paintings. From there, the artist's visual vocabulary and broad technical repertoire take over. Florian Maier-Aichen's d ... More Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' fine jewelry and timepieces auction realizes over $3 million CHICAGO, IL.- An audience eager for antique jewels helped make the September Fine Jewelry and Timepieces auction a resounding success, realizing over $3 million. Fine jade jewelry, in particular, was in high demand from an international group of collectors. A pair of platinum, sapphire, diamond and carved jade pendant earrings sold for $10,980, quadrupling the pre-sale high estimate, while a fine “glassy” jade bead strand sold for $12,200. According to jewelry specialist Alexander Eblen, “Demand from the Asian market for fine quality was evident in the strong prices realized for jade jewelry.” Important diamonds were the high point of the sale, indicative of the current market’s desire for fine quality and large size. A vintage Van Cleef & Arpels platinum ring containing an excellent 7.00 carat emerald cut diamond and two triangular brilliant cut side diamonds outperformed its pre-sale estimate bringing $244,000. ... More Sotheby's sale of the philatelic collection of Lord Steinberg brings a total of $4.2 million LONDON.- Sotheby’s four-day auction of The Philatelic Collection of Lord Steinberg concluded today, bringing a total of £2,648,652 ($4,219,236). Today’s one-day auction comprised Great Britain Mint Multiples and realised £1,134,924 ($1,782,744). Commenting on the collection and the results achieved, Richard Ashton, Sotheby’s Worldwide Philatelic Consultant, said: “The sale of Lord Steinberg’s collection of Great Britain mint multiples followed the trend of the sale held earlier this month. Buyers are becoming increasingly condition-conscious and are targeting rare stamps in the finest condition. These are fetching ever higher prices as evidenced by lot 377, a set of the 1913 Seahorse Issues, which sold for £33,600, more than three times above the low estimate.” The extremely fresh condition of the top lot (11), an 1840 1d. black Plate 7, made it a highly desirable addition to any ... More Rare blue diamond by Bulgari sells for 1.9 million pounds in Bonhams Fine Jewellery sale LONDON.- One of the world’s rarest stones, a blue diamond, has sold for £1,889,250 at the Bonhams Fine Jewellery Sale in New Bond Street. Originally estimated to sell for £600,000 – 800,000, the stunning diamond and blue diamond crossover ring made by Bulgari circa 1960 received an unprecedented amount of interest from national and international clients. The ring came from a private European collector and had never been seen at auction, resulting in a prolonged bidding session, with multiple bidders battling for the top lot. The ring finally sold to a bidder on the phone. Typical of Bulgari’s elegant simplicity, the ring offered by Bonhams was set obliquely with a pear-shaped diamond, weighing 3.93 carats, D colour, VS2 clarity, and a pear-shaped fancy vivid, natural blue diamond (the highest grading for a coloured diamond), weighing 3.72 and SI2 clarity. This meant the blue diamond sold for £492,000 per carat. The ... More Swedish artist target of murder plot STOCKHOLM (AP).- Swedish prosecutors suspect three men arrested in an anti-terror sting this month of plotting to kill an artist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a dog, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Citing classified material from the investigation, newspaper Metro said the target of the plot in the west coast city of Goteborg was Lars Vilks, who lives under police protection due to death threats over his drawing of Muhammad in 2007. Authorities have remained tightlipped about the case and prosecutor Agnetha Hilding Qvarnstrom declined to comment on the report. Vilks told The Associated Press he had not been given any details about the plot and didn't know whether he was the target. But he said Swedish authorities had advised him to cancel a planned visit Friday to a book fair in Goteborg because of it. An art gallery celebrating the inauguration of an exhibition was evacuated in connection with ... More Bonhams Fall salon jewelry and watches sale a starry success SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams auction of Salon Jewelry and Watches on September 19 in San Francisco brought more than $1.17 million, with star-studded lots from both Austrian-born actress Hedy Lamarr and the Estate of songwriter, composer, conductor and playwright Meredith Willson and his wife Rosemary. Proceeds from the Estate will benefit the Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charitable Foundation. Property from the Collection of Hedy Lamarr sold marvelously, with a diamond, turquoise, ruby and cultured pearl pendant-brooch, sold for $11,875 (est. $3,000-5,000), headlining during the sale. Also from the Collection was a diamond and orange stone flower brooch, sold for $5,000 (est. $1,200-1,800); and a reverse painted rock crystal and diamond clip-brooch, sold for $2,750 (est. $800-1,200). Property from the Estate of Meredith Willson and his wife Rosemary also brought great results, with such items ... More Frieze Art Fair 2011 announces works to be installed at Sculpture Park LONDON.- Frieze Art Fair announced the works to be installed in its Sculpture Park. The Sculpture Park offers a rare opportunity to see a significant group of international work that is addressed on a public scale. Presented in the wonderful setting of the English Gardens of Regent’s Park, the Sculpture Park is located a short walk to the east of the entrance to the fair. The Sculpture Park is free to the public. This year’s Sculpture Park presents work by some of the most acclaimed international sculptors. These include new works by Thomas Houseago and Claudia Fontes, as well as pieces by Tom Friedman and Kiki Smith. Will Ryman, will show Icon (2011) the first public exhibition of one of his ‘Rose’ sculptures since they were shown on Park Avenue in New York. Johan Creten’s piece Le Banc des Amoureux (2011), is a bronze bench on which viewers can sit. For his work Ajar (2011), Gavin Turk has crea ... More |
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