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Queen Sonja of Norway, third from left, French Minister of Culture, Frederic Mitterand, second from left, and curator of French national museums Alain Seban pose in front of a painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch called "The Sun", at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris. AP Photo/Thibault Camus.
PARIS.- Edvard Munch was entirely “modern”: such is the argument of this exhibition of almost 140 of his works. Including some 60 paintings, 30 works on paper and 50 vintage photographs, as well as a number of films and one of the artist’s very rare sculptures, “Edvard Munch, l’œil moderne” throws new light on the work of this celebrated Norwegian painter (1863-1944) by showing how his interest in all the forms of representation of his time nourished his inspiration and profoundly shaped his art. His experience of photography and film, his reading of the illustrated press and his work in the theatre all fed into his work, endowing it with the utter modernity that this exhibition seeks to reveal. Contrary to the received opinion that sees in Munch a nineteenth-century artist, tormented and reclusive, the exhibition shows that he was aware of the aesthetic debates of his time, engaged in a constant dialogue ... More |
| Warhol, Katz, Henry paintings among $2.8 Million Irish bad bank auction at Christie's | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acquires Gustave Caillebotte's "Man At His Bath" | | Sotheby's New York announces sale of Nicolai Fechin paintings from National Cowboy Museum | 
Paul Henry (1876-1958), In Connemara (detail). Estimate: £70,000 to £100,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
DUBLIN (REUTERS).- Ireland's state-run "bad bank" will auction works of art by the likes of Andy Warhol and Alex Katz after it put global auction house Christies in charge of a 14-painting collection valued at up $2.8 million on Monday. Created to purge Irish banks of their risky real estate loans, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is selling helicopters and private jets as well as skyscrapers and five-star hotels to try and claw back the 31 billion euros ($42.7 billion) it has shelled out for the loans. NAMA's chief executive said in July that the agency was getting tough on the lavish lifestyles of some of its debtors, many of whom became household names before a property crash brought Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" economy to an abrupt end. Christie's said the collection -- which includes Warhol's "Dollar Sign" painting that it values at between $400,000 and $600,000 -- belonged to one NAMA ... More | | 
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894), Man at His Bath, 1884. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. Photo: Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has acquired the painting Man at His Bath (1884), regarded as one of the greatest works by artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894). This important canvas represents the first Impressionist nude to enter the Museum's collection of paintings. The almost life-size work, which has been on loan at the MFA since April, is on display in the Esther and Sidney Rabb Gallery for Impressionism through September 25. It will also be among more than 160 works in the upcoming exhibition, Degas and the Nude, on view at the MFA from October 9 through February 5, 2012. "Gustave Caillebotte's works are among the most striking ever created by an Impressionist painter. They're bold, unexpected, often with an ‘in-your-face’ quality that resonates with both the public and connoisseurs,” said Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA. “Man at His Bath is Caillebot ... More | | 
Nicolai Fechin, Peasant Girl. Est. $200/300,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Russian Art on 1 November 2011 will feature three paintings by Russian-American artist Nicolai Fechin, offered on behalf of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The group will be led by Bearing Away the Bride, the most significant and monumental canvas by the artist ever to appear at auction (est. $3/5 million*). Founded in 1955, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is America’s premier institution of Western history, art and culture. Proceeds from the sale of the three canvases will help fund future acquisitions of Western materials. “The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has been the proud home for Bearing Away the Bride and the two smaller works being offered in this auction for several decades,” commented Chuck Schroeder, President of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. “They are ... More |
| DANDAN: Solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tabaimo on view at James Cohan Gallery | | Exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery | | Christo and Jeanne-Claude 40 Years, 12 Exhibitions opens at Annely Juda Fine Art | 
Tabaimo, BLOW (video still), 2009. Video Installation, 3 ‘, 42” (loop). Edition of 3. ©the artist. Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery presents DANDAN, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tabaimo, running through October 29th, 2011. This is the third solo exhibition at the gallery by the 35-year old Tabaimo, recognized as one of Japan’s leading artists and well-known for her hand-drawn animations whose coloration bring to mind traditional ukiyo-e prints. Currently, Tabaimo is representing Japan at the 54th Biennale di Venezia with the work teleco-soup, an immersive multi-media environment that transforms the Japanese Pavilion into the interior of a well, where the reflected world is inverted and boundaries between water and sky, self and world, real and imagined are fluid. Taking on roles as both social critic and a voice of those born in the mid 1970’s, Tabaimo strives to investigate the inter-generational divide. As globalization pervades an island nation ... More | | 
Jenny Saville, Red Stare Head I, 2006-2011. © Jenny Saville. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Mike Bruce.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville, her first in New York since “Migrants” in 2003. Fascinated by the endless aesthetic and formal possibilities that the materiality of the human body offers, Saville remits a highly sensuous and tactile impression of surface and mass in her monumental oil paintings. In the compelling Stare paintings she renders the contours and features of the face and the nuances of skin texture and color in strokes both bold and meticulous. Enlarging the facial features of her human subjects to a vast scale and rendering them in layer upon layer of paint, she imbues in them with a sense of mass and weight that is almost sculptural and at times wholly abstract. Intense pinks, reds, and blues erupt through pale skin tones, disclosing the internal workings of the painting like the flesh and blood of a living organism. Saville port ... More | | 
Over the River, Project for Arkansas River, State of Colorado 2010. Pencil, wax crayon, charcoal, pastel, enamel paint, fabric sample, hand-drawn topographic map, technical data and tape. Two parts: 244 x 106.6 cm and 244 x 38 cm. ©Christo, courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art.
LONDON.- Annely Juda Fine Art presents a major exhibition of the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, celebrating the friendship and longstanding relationship between the artists and the gallery, which has spanned over forty years. This important exhibition at the longest-standing gallery worldwide to work with Christo and Jeanne- Claude is a unique opportunity to see the work of Christo, from the earliest pieces of Wrapped Cans, Storefronts and Packages from the late 50s and 60s to the collages, drawings and models connected with both realised and not-realised projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Of particular note in the exhibition are works connected to The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi: Project for the United Arab Emirates ... More |
| Swann Galleries' announces autumn auction of African-American fine art in October | | UK museums to benefit as Art Fund announces details of schemes worth 1 million to boost collections | | Hard-luck comic strip character Ziggy creator Tom Wilson Sr. dies at age 80 in Cincinnati | 
Hughie Lee-Smith, Desert Forms, oil on masonite, 1957 (detail). Estimate: $50,000 to $75,000.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Swann Galleries’ autumn auction of African-American Fine Art on October 6 features many exciting discoveries—significant works by important artists that were previously unrecorded or never exhibited. The earliest piece in the sale is one of these recent findings, an Untitled (Landscape) oil on canvas painting by Robert S. Duncanson. This large example of the 19th-century painter’s mid-career landscapes employs many of the romantic motifs Duncanson is known for, with figures relaxing in an idyllic, park-like landscape and classical buildings in the background (presale estimate: $60,000 to $90,000). Also from the 19th century are two landscapes by Edward M. Bannister, one depicting a Bridge and Cows, oil on canvas board, 1874, the other a Rhode Island Landscape, oil on canvas, 1893 ($8,000 to $12,000 each). A fascinating piece that represents an important collaboration is The Hubert Log Cab ... More | | 
Grayson Perry announcing the Art Fund’s increased commitment to museum funding.
LONDON.- As part of its commitment to boost funding to museums and galleries by over 50% by 2014, the Art Fund announces that six museums and galleries (including one partnership) have secured a share of £600,000 funding from RENEW – the scheme that will enable museums and galleries to build new collections of fine, decorative or applied art. £500,000 from the funding pot has been allocated so far with a further £100,000 still to be announced. The initiative is funded thanks to a grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation as part of its 50th birthday celebrations. RENEW aims to build future centres of excellence by supporting fresh areas of collecting. 41 galleries applied for a share of the funding and the following five projects across six museums and galleries have been successful in their bids to build new collections: *Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology awarded £100,000 towards building a collection of ... More | | 
Artist Tom Wilson Jr. draws a Ziggy cartoon. AP Photo/Al Behrman.
By: Thomas J. Sheeran, Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP).- Tom Wilson Sr., the creator of the hard-luck comic strip character Ziggy, has died, his family said Monday. He was 80. Tom Wilson Jr., who took over the comic in 1987, said his father died Friday of pneumonia at a Cincinnati hospital. The elder Wilson had moved from Cleveland to a Cincinnati nursing home about eight years ago to be near his family, his son said. Wilson was an artist at American Greetings card company in Cleveland for more than 35 years and first published Ziggy in a 1969 cartoon collection, "When You're Not Around." Ziggy was launched in 15 newspapers in 1971 and now appears in more than 500 daily and Sunday newspapers. It also has appeared in books, calendars and greeting cards. Tom Wilson Jr. said the name Ziggy derived from his father's school experience of being the last alphabetically. When a new classmate ... More |
| DeCordova presents Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art on view this fall | | First solo exhibition with Los Angeles painter Pamela Jorden opens at Romer Young Gallery | | Installation Design by Zaha Hadid creates dynamic setting for exhibition of her recent product designs | 
Kate Gilmore, Standing Here, 2010. Video, 10 min 48 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
LINCOLN, MA.- Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art is on view at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum from September 18-December 31, 2011. This exhibition features thirteen artists and collaboratives who merge performative strategies and architectural subject matter to explore the active, unfixed nature of our built environment and the psychology of space. The group featured in Temporary Structures approaches architecture in the broadest possible terms of shelter, defined spaces, and cultural symbolism, in addition to its specific histories. Video, sculpture, installation, and performance will converge to address the architectural "body" and "stage" by featured artists Vito Acconci, Ant Farm, Mary Ellen Carroll, Kate Gilmore, Liz Glynn, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mary Mattingly, Sarah Oppenheimer, robbinschilds, Alex Schweder La, Ward Shelley/Douglas Paulson, Mika Tajima, and Erwin Wurm. In ... More | | 
Pamela Jorden, Quarry, 2011. Acrylic and bleach on fabric, 33" x 33". Photo: Courtesy Romer Young Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Romer Young Gallery presents its first solo exhibition with Los Angeles painter Pamela Jorden. Jorden is part of a new generation of painters whose work is at the forefront of an ongoing and unfolding conversation around the possibilities and potential of ‘abstraction.’ “The structure of light is geometrical compared to the structure of matter which is ‘organic.’ (Organic = Free-form) Both matter and space have ‘density.’ Light opens peep-hole tracks in the ‘density’ of space, because of the structure of light and allows us to ‘see.’” (1) Pamela Jorden’s exhibition Looking Through Trees presents a new series of paintings, each one an invitation for a phenomenological experience of a painterly space defined by color, mark, composition and light. Jorden emphasizes that the world we experience is not solely figurative and our senses ... More | | 
Crevasse Vases, 2005. Zaha Hadid (Iraqi, b. 1950). Stainless steel. 16 9/16 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. Silver. “Crevasse” design Zaha Hadid, Flower vase in 18/10 stainless steel. Production Alessi Spa, Italy.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Zaha Hadid, one of the most innovative architects of the twenty-first century and the first woman to receive the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, has advanced the language of contemporary architecture and design, exploring complex fluid geometries and using cutting-edge digital design and fabrication technologies. For Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (September 17, 2011 to March 25, 2012), Hadid created an all-encompassing environment to display examples of the furniture, objects, and footwear she has designed in recent years as well as the prototype for her Z-Car I (2005). This exhibition is the first in this country to feature Hadid’s product designs in a setting of her own creation. On November 19, Zaha Hadid will be honored with the Design Excellence ... More |
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 Exhibition in Houston re-creates a day in the life of fashionable 18th-century Parisians HOUSTON, TX.- Beginning September 18, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Life & Luxury: The Art of Living in Eighteenth-Century Paris, which re-imagines, through art and material culture, the lifestyle of elite 18th-century Parisians. The exhibition follows the conventional activities in the cycle of a Parisian day—dressing, writing, collecting, eating, and evening entertainment—offering a glimpse of these forgotten activities. Bringing together some 160 objects, roughly half of them loans from 26 museums and private collections around the world, the exhibition includes a wide range of paintings, sculpture, applied arts, drawings, metalwork, furniture, architectural fittings, lighting and hearth fixtures, scientific and musical instruments, clocks and watches, textiles and dress, books, and maps. “The MFAH is pleased to host this unique exhibition,” said Gwendolyn H. Goffe, MFAH interim director. “ ... More Exhibition at the Smithsonian Documents Impact of the Railroads on the Native Southwest NEW YORK, NY.- The rapid changes forced on the Native American peoples of the American southwest are documented in “Time Exposures: Picturing a History of Isleta Pueblo in the 19th Century.” With more than 80 images and objects that detail life on the Isleta Pueblo Reservation after the arrival of the railroads in 1881, the exhibition opened this past Saturday, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, and continues through Sunday, June 10, 2012. In 1881, the railroad companies forcibly took land in the center of Isleta Pueblo in the Rio Grande Valley and the rail lines built there brought scores of tourists. Prominent non-Native artists and photographers, such as Edward Curtis and Ben Wittick, traveled there to capture everyday Pueblo life. Organized by the people of Isleta Pueblo, “Time Exposures” portrays their lives before the ... More University of Richmond Museums presents Achachis y Bordados: Storytelling Embroideries from Peru RICHMOND, VA.- On view in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums, and the International Gallery, Carole Weinstein International Center, through December 9, 2011, is the exhibition Achachis y Bordados: Storytelling Embroideries from Chijnaya, Peru. The exhibition features a selection of traditional embroideries, called “achachis” made by the artisans of Chijnaya, Peru, that tell stories of their culture and daily life. The large narrative panoramic tapestries, embroidered in bright colored wool on hand-woven wool cloth, depict village life with the figures placed in three“pachas,” or spheres of the universe. The lyric landscapes show the realm of the gods, the wild, and the human world woven into each tapestry. The smaller tapestries highlight different activities and festivities, from everyday scenes to festival dancing. Included in the exhibition are photograph ... More Lori Eklund promoted to Deputy Director at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art FORT WORTH, TX.- Amon Carter Museum of American Art Director Andrew Walker announced today that Lori Eklund has been promoted to Deputy Director. In this expanded role, she will oversee the museum’s Education, Exhibition Design, Facilities, Information Technology, Installation and Prep, Publications, Public Information, Registration, Retail, and Security Departments. “Over the course of the last decade, Lori has expertly supported the Amon Carter’s mission to collect, preserve and exhibit the finest examples of American art,” says Walker. “Under her leadership, the museum has expanded its innovative educational initiatives, exhibitions and publications devoted to the study of American art.” Eklund began her tenure in 2001 as Director of Education. She was promoted to Director of Outreach in 2004 and has served as Chief Operations Officer since 2007. Prior to joining the Amon Carter, Eklund w ... More Bonhams expands Chinese and Japanese art departments in Europe, Asia and Australia LONDON.- Following the record-breaking £17 million auction of Chinese art, and the unprecedented auctions of Japanese art, held at New Bond Street in May, director of Asian Art Colin Sheaf has rapidly enhanced the Group’s specialist Chinese and Japanese specialist staff in Europe mainly but also in China and Australia. In New Bond Street, the established team of three Chinese art specialists has been joined by two Chinese-national recruits whose principal languages include Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese, English and French. “Increasing the New Bond Street specialist team to five full-time staff gives us Chinese art and language expertise unsurpassed among European auctioneers and dealers”, commented Colin Sheaf. The new recruits include Gigi Yu and Helen Ho, educated in Hong Kong and London. In Edinburgh, for the first time ever in a Scottish auction house, Bonhams has appointed a full-time ... More Endangered 1972 New York City public mural could be restored NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- The mural on the side of the building is no longer so vibrant. Its oranges, rust-reds and heavenly blues have dimmed and splotches of dead gray stucco show through where images have been rubbed out, as if someone took an enormous eraser to the wall. Finished in 1972 by renowned artist Arnold Belkin, the mural was created at a Manhattan playground in his trademark Mexican-influenced style but has been deteriorating slowly over the decades. There has been little impetus to preserve it until now. Residents are clamoring to have what may be the artist's only outdoor U.S. work restored. At their request, Heritage Preservation, a Washington D.C.-based national organization devoted to preserving the country's cultural artifacts, organized a team last week, to assess whether the 50- by 60-foot work, titled "Against Domestic Colonialism," can be repaired. The prognosis for the mural was ... MoreStolen 17th century paintings returned to BoliviaLA PAZ (AP).- Two 17th century colonial paintings stolen for a Roman Catholic church in Bolivia more than 13 years ago have been recovered and returned to the South American country. A statement from the London-based Art Loss Register says the works are titled "Saint Rose of Viterbo" and "Saint Augustin." Executive director Christopher Marinello says the recovery was made after a U.S. art dealer reported receiving the paintings on consignment from a collector. He asked the Art Loss Register to search its international database of stolen artworks for the items. The paintings were stolen on Christmas Eve 1997 from the Church of San Andres de Machaca. That's an Aymara Indian community southwest of La Paz. They will be exhibited in La Paz on Oct. 3. ... More |
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