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Russian journalists stand in front of an artwork by Russian artist Vladimir Clavidjo-Telepnev during a media preview of the 15th edition of Art Moscow International Art Fair in Moscow, Russia, 20 September 2011. The Fair runs from 21 to 25 September 2011 in the Central House of Artists, Moscow. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV.
MOSCOW.- From September 21 through 25, the International Art Fair ART MOSCOW which is the principal annual event on the Russian art market focusing on contemporary actual art will be held at the Central House of Artists. ART MOSCOW is renewed annually, not only presenting to the public new works, names and galleries, but also introducing vital changes, which deeply affect the development of the project. This year the number of experts in the Expert Council enlarged by entering foreign professionals from Great Britain (Rachael Barrett) and Germany (Anne Maier). The structure of exposition area was also altered. Following the international experience, ART MOSCOW offered the system of equal exposition area. Galleries are offered to stand out for the quality of their expositions but not for their size. During the 2011 ART MOSCOW representations appeared in international activities at key sites of the ... More |
| Exhibition of portraits by Andy Warhol of the late Elizabeth Taylor at Gagosian Gallery | | Works by Roy Lichtenstein from his celebrated Entablatures series at Paula Cooper Gallery | | Museo de Arte de Ponce announces exhibition of masterpieces from the Prado Museum | 
Andy Warhol, Blue Liz as Cleopatra, 1962. Acrylic, silkscreen ink, and pencil on linen, 82 1/2 x 65 inches (209.6 x 165.1 cm)© 2011 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ ARS, NY/Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Robert McKeever. Daros Collection, Switzerland.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of portraits by Andy Warhol of the late Elizabeth Taylor. Frequently hailed as the greatest movie star of all time, Taylor was a friend of Warhol’s in the 1970s and 1980s. The personification of charisma whose highly public life charged with drama, tragedy, and romance, this iconic muse was a perfect vehicle for Warhol’s vivid silkscreen portraiture derived from press clippings, publicity shots, and film stills. From her early years as a child star with MGM, Taylor became one of the world's most famous actresses, recognized first for her acting ability, her glamorous lifestyle, her beauty, her husbands, her jewels, and her violet eyes -- and later as a courageous and tireless social activist. Warhol made over fifty portraits of her in all her incarnations-- from the ethereally beau- ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Entablature, 1974 (detail). Magna, sand, Magna medium, aluminum powder on canvas, 60 x 100 in. (152.4 x 254 cm).© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Roy Lichtenstein from his celebrated Entablatures series. The paintings, realized between 1971 and 1976, will be on view through October 22, 2011. Having already risen to prominence in the early 60’s with his Pop art subjects, Lichtenstein began a series of Mirrors paintings in 1969. By 1970, while continuing on the Mirrors series, he started work on the subject of entablatures. The entablature is an architectural element resembling a band or molding lying horizontally above the columns of a building. Originating in the architecture of ancient Greece, the motif was also abundantly represented in America in the early twentieth-century Beaux-Arts and Greco-Roman revival style used for public buildings such as museums and libraries. Lichtenstein’s Entablatures comprised of a first ... More | | 
Francisco de Goya, Fernando VII, ante un campamento, ca. 1815. El Museo Nacional del Prado.
PONCE.- Museo de Arte de Ponce and Banco Santander announced the exhibit El Greco to Goya: Masterpieces from the Prado Museum, a selection of 25 paintings from the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. This prominent exhibit, which includes works by renowned artists such as Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez, and Francisco de Zurbarán, will be open to the public at Museo de Arte de Ponce from March 25 to July 9, 2012. The Prado’s director for conservation and research, Dr. Gabriele Finaldi, visited Puerto Rico for the announcement, joining María Luisa Ferré Rangel, president of Museo de Arte de Ponce Board of Trustees, Dr. Agustín Arteaga, the museum’s director and chief operating officer, and Javier Hidalgo Blazquez, chief executive officer and president of Banco Santander de Puerto Rico. Finaldi, born in London in 1965, is considered one of the world’s leading experts in Spanish and Italian ... More |
| Christie's announces fashion and accessories sale from the Elizabeth Taylor Collection | | Cherry and Martin restages landmark 1970 exhibition "Photography into Sculpture" | | National Portrait Gallery announces Lucian Freud portraits exhibition in February 2012 | 
A Valentino Red Velvet and Satin Ball Gown with Scarlet and Beaded Satin Evening Bag. The dress labeled ‘Valentino Couture’. Estimate: $3,000-5,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie's announces fashion and accessories highlights from the four-day series of landmark sales devoted to the iconic Collection of Elizabeth Taylor, the celebrated film star, fashion icon, and humanitarian. Collected over five decades, Elizabeth Taylor's fashion wardrobe features scores of museum-quality ensembles fashioned by Chanel, Christian Dior, Gianfranco Ferré, Givenchy, Halston, Tiziani, Valentino, Versace, and Yves Saint Laurent, among others. As Hollywood's leading lady for decades, Elizabeth Taylor often worked directly with designers to create the stunning looks that the cameras immortalized – from the ethereal silver Chanel ballgown and cape she wore to the Royal Film performance of The Taming of the Shrew in London in 1967, to the stunning ivory silk Valentino Couture gown she wore to the 64th Annual Academy Awards in 1992. Nearly 400 items comprise this broad collection ... More | | 
Robert Heinecken, Fractured Figure Sections, 1967. Photographs, wood, 8.25 x 3 x 3 inches. Photo: Courtesy Cherry and Martin.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Cherry and Martin has restaged curator Peter Bunnellʼs landmark 1970 exhibition, Photography into Sculpture, at the gallery as a part of the Getty Museum citywide initiative, Pacific Standard Time. The exhibition continues through October 22, 2011. Photography into Sculpture stands as one of Peter Bunnellʼs great contributions to the history of photography. Described in the original wall text as “the first comprehensive survey of photographically formed images used in a sculptural or fully dimensional manner,” Photography into Sculpture brought together a cross-section of artists from across the United States and Canada. The show encapsulated the radical gestures of late 1960's photographic practice, both inside and outside the photo world. Los Angeles-based artists such as Robert Heinecken, Richard Jackson and Jerry McMillan were brought by Bunnell into a context with such remark ... More | | 
Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985. Private Collection, Ireland © Lucian Freud. Image: Courtesy Lucian Freud Archive.
LONDON.- The last work of the late Lucian Freud will go on show for the first time at the most ambitious exhibition of the artist’s work for ten years, opening at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in February 2012. The inclusion of Portrait of the Hound 2011, the unfinished nude painting of Freud’s assistant David Dawson with his dog Eli, will enable exhibition visitors for the first time to see the artist’s most important portraits from the earliest in the 1940s to the one he was painting shortly before his death on 20 July 2011. With over 100 paintings and works on paper loaned from museums and private collections throughout the world, Lucian Freud Portraits is the result of many years’ planning by the Gallery in close partnership with the late Lucian Freud. The exhibition will be the first to focus on his portraiture and is a countdown event for the London 2012 Festival – the culmination of the ... More |
| Medieval works of art from the Marquet de Vasselot Collection to be sold at Christie's in Paris | | China Institute Gallery presents Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985 | | Sotheby's to sell an important private collection of works by Alexander Benois this November | 
The sale is composed of a series of exceptional ivories, enamels, gilt-bronze, an illuminated Gothic manuscript and pressed leather cutlery cases.
PARIS.- Christie’s Paris announced its forthcoming sale composed of 24 lots from the Marquet de Vasselot collection. Not only due to their quality but also their provenance, these exceptional works of art can be considered medieval treasures intimately tied to the history of art. They will be offered on the 16th of November in Paris for a global estimate of € 2.000.000 – 3.000.000. The medieval works of art in the Collection of Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot (1871-1946) were in large part inherited from his father-in-law Victor Prosper Martin Le Roy (1842-1918) who put together a magnificent grouping at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th centuries in France. The sale includes exceptional pieces, acquired from the most eminent collections of art of the 19th century among them Frédéric Spitzer, Michel Boy and Eugène Piot. The magnificent works of art assembled by Martin le Roy was studied ... More | | 
Qiu Deshu, 3-5 Times Shouting, 1980 (detail), Ink on paper, 51 x 106 in (framed), Collection of Michael Micketti.
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of work by pioneering artists in China from the 1970s and 1980s, on view at China Institute Gallery through December 11, 2011, provides important clues to the development of contemporary Chinese art as we know it today. Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985 offers a unique opportunity in the U.S. to witness the artwork created in China during the critical decade leading up to the Communist Party’s 1985 decision to allow modern artistic practices. The exhibition focuses on paintings and sculpture from three unofficial groups of artists, the No Names, the Stars, and the Grass Society, which pushed beyond Maoism in the early post-Cultural Revolution era. Each group pursued creatively diverse paths to artistic freedoms under the harsh political strictures and against the accepted aesthetic norms of the time. The work they produced opened the door for the avant ... More | | 
Alexander Benois, View of Piazza San Marco from the Torre Dell’Orologio. Estimate: £3,000-5,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announces that the forthcoming Russian Art Sale Series this November will be highlighted by an Important Private Collection of Works by Alexander Benois. The 130 lot sale features exquisite works on paper spanning the artist’s lifetime and artistic oeuvre. Fifty-two highlights from the collection will be on view at Sotheby’s Paris from the 19th to 22nd September. The auction will take place on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 and is expected to bring between £830,000-1,200,000. The collection, comprising ballet, opera set and costume designs, watercolour views of Russia, France and Italy, book illustrations, sketchbooks, and portraits of the artist’s family represents the largest collection of works by Benois to be offered for sale in recent history. Commenting on the sale, Sabina Tringalas, Deputy Director and Specialist in the Russian Art Department, said: “We are thrilled to ... More |
| Circus poster exhibition sensationally brings to life America's first colossal entertainment industry | | World Monuments Fund announces two major grants for sites in Tanzania and Cambodia | | Nelson-Atkins Museum Major Lender in Pan-Asian Buddhist Art Exhibition at Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts | 
Edward Henry Potthast, The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Equestrienne and Clown, The Strobridge Lithographing Company, 1908. Color lithograph poster, one sheet, 38 13/16 x 28 13/16 in.
SARASOTA, FL.- Before television, radio, film and the Internet, the circus was America’s colossal entertainment industry. Circus owners enticed massive crowds with brilliantly colored, boldly bombastic posters that advertised never seen before attractions, performers and animals from all corners of the globe, including Jumbo the Elephant and Gargantua The Great, as well as new innovations such as the automobile and electrical lights. The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company, 1878-1939 showcases the cultural influence of the circus on America in a special exhibition at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., that runs through January 29, 2012. The works exhibited span from the time of P.T. Barnum’s greatest show on earth to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ... More | | 
Kilwa Gereza main entrance.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced that it has received two major grants from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation for projects at Phnom Bakheng in Cambodia and Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania. Phnom Bakheng, built between the late-ninth and early tenth centuries as a state temple for a city later absorbed into Angkor, is one of the oldest temples in the Angkor Archaeological Park. The award of $450,000 will complete a conservation project begun in 2009 with a prior $1 million Ambassadors Fund grant. The temple is one of the most popular at Angkor, especially at sunset, for the view it affords of Angkor Wat. Heavy foot traffic from tourists has created serious conservation issues at the site, which are being addressed with the Ambassadors Fund support as well as an additional $150,000 committed by WMF through its Robert W. Wilson Challenge to Conserve Our Heritage. In addition to conserving the temple, ... More | | 
Torso of a Buddha, 5th century c.e. Mathura, Uttar Pradesh Gupta period (320–551 c.e.) Sandstone Height: 45-1/4 inches (115 cm) Purchase: Nelson Trust, 45-15.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Five works of art from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s internationally acclaimed Asian collection have been loaned to The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis for Reflections of the Buddha, a superb selection of some of the greatest Buddhist sculptures and hanging scrolls held in the United States. The Nelson-Atkins’ contributions range from some of the earliest depictions of Buddhist art to a Tibetan thangka, painted in color on cloth, from the 18th century. Reflections of the Buddha offers visitors a unique encounter with Buddhist visual and spiritual traditions, experienced in harmony with the contemplative atmosphere of the Foundation. “The Nelson-Atkins Museum is an extraordinary treasure; its Asian collections are among the very best anywhere in the Western world,” said Robert Mowry ... More |
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 Exhibition about the fragility and awe-inspiring nature of our oceans at the Pelham Art Center PELHAM, NY.- Pelham Art Center starts the fall season with The Ocean Reglitterized, an exhibition about the fragility and awe-inspiring nature of our oceans, through October 29, 2011. The exhibition features an extensive look at life in the ocean through photography by Edward Burtynsky and Edward Dorson, a site-specific sculpture by Jae Hi Ahn, an ocean sound installation specifically created for this exhibition by Liz Phillips and an outdoor sculpture installation by Chris Smith in the Art Center’s courtyard. The Ocean Reglitterized gives viewers the opportunity to re-see and re-experience the wondrous and fragile nature of the ocean through image and sound. Edward Dorson, underwater photographer and a staunch activist for the oceans, presents a series of images that brings rarely seen ocean life up close and personal. His photographs are meant to provoke an understanding of the ocean as a fragile environment th ... More Polish Jewish museum to open in April 2013 WARSAW (AP).- An ambitious museum devoted to the 1,000-year history of Poland's Jews will open on the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, officials said Monday. Some 500,000 visitors are expected each year to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews to view multimedia exhibits on the life and culture of Jews in Poland, their fate in the Holocaust and the present day, as Jewish culture is being gradually revived. "The Jews were a part of the Polish landscape, now they are gone," said historian Marian Turski. "We want to fill in this vacuum." "This (museum) is about people who were here, who created their works here, who contributed to the progress of the civilization," said Turski, who is head of the Jewish Historical Institute, which is cooperating on the project. The building is an austere concrete-and-glass structure, divided by a jagged chasm that symbolizes Moses' Biblical parting of the Red Sea that allowed ... More Exhibit explores American Folk Art of quilts NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Looking at an American folk quilt is like being engulfed in a starburst of swirling shapes and vibrant colors. "Unfolding Stories: Culture and Tradition in American Quilts," an exhibition at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, features some of the best works of the rich tradition of quilting . Jacqueline Atkins, the curator of the exhibition that runs from September 24 until December 1, and the author of several books on the subject, describes quilt making as "the true, great American folk art." Many of the patterned quilts seem to anticipate Pop Art's fascination with geometric shapes, lines and repetition -- in some cases over half a century earlier. Log Cabin, variation; Barn Raising, 1880-1890, by Anna Lay Park is an array of multicolored concentric cubes in a combination of different fabrics. "They are really mind-boggling -- eye dazzlers comes to mind," Atkins said in an interview. ... More Mussolini's duds sell for $5.5K at Texas auction ROCHESTER (AP).- A suitcase and clothing purported to have belonged to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress and obtained by a World War II veteran from western New York have been sold at an auction for more than $5,000. The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester reports (http://bit.ly/qx8NTc ) Mussolini's uniform and Claretta Petacci's dress sold for $5,500 during Sunday's auction in Dallas. The auctioneer had estimated the items would fetch $10,000 to $15,000. The items were put up for auction by the widow of Paul Moriconi, a Rochester-area doctor who acquired the suitcase in the last days of the war, when he was serving in northern Italy. Italian partisans gave the suitcase to his commanding officer after Mussolini and Petacci were captured and executed while trying to flee to Switzerland in April 1945. Paul Moriconi died last year. ... More Contemporary art from the Estate of Dr. Edmund P. Pillsbury, Oct. 26, at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- More than 250 works of Contemporary Art from the Estate of the late Dr. Edmund P. Pillsbury anchor Heritage Auctions' Oct. 26 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature(r) Auction, taking place at Heritage's Design District Art Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. "Ted was a great connoisseur of Modern and Contemporary, which might surprise some people, given his world-renowned expertise in Italian Renaissance Art," said Frank Hettig, Director, Modern & Contemporary Art. "He had an eye for talent, across eras and millennia, which very few people could claim to match; this collection shows just how good he was." The collection includes works from major artists including Robert Motherwell, Bernard Frize, Al Souza, and Carlos Vega as well as emerging contemporary artists such as Fabian Marcaccio and Roe Ethridge. "It's an exceptional collection," said Hettig, "and an equally great auction." The catalog will ... More InterAsia Auctions, the market leader in Asian philately, to hold stamps sale HONG KONG.- InterAsia Auctions' upcoming sale will take place on September 23-26. As you will notice, the sale will now take place over 4 days - September 23-26-because of the sheer volume of lots, again at the Park Lane Hotel in Hong Kong. The over 3,500 lots are their largest offering ever and represent the most significant, as well as the most diverse and comprehensive auction they have had the privilege of offering. The auction is organised a little differently from the past, with the People's Republic of China occupying the first day and a half of the sale. Its 1,300 lots, by far the largest offering ever of this immensely popular subject, are noteworthy both in terms of the great rarities, as well as the abundance and depth of popular sets and miniature sheets. The pristine marginal block of four of the 1968 unissued "Great Victory of the Cultural Revolution" 8f. and the 1953 Military "Blue Navy" $800 in both ... More |
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