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LONDON.- Bonhams employee Victoria Livesy (L) poses with artist Shephard Fairey s artwork Duality of Humanity at Bonhams auction house in London September 16, 2011. The artwork is expected to realize up to £20,000 when is comes to auction as part of the Urban Art auction at Bonhams. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
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| Exhibition of new work by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco at Marian Goodman Gallery | Minneapolis Institute of Arts to transfer 5th century B.C. Greek volute krater to Italy | Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art totals $2.3 million at Sotheby's New York | ||
 Gabriel Orozco, Snow Flakes Lac Du Bourbon Ete 2010. Gouache, acrylic and pastel on paper, 72-3/8 x 38 in. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Gabriel Orozco which will be on view through October 15th. This is Orozco’s first solo exhibition to follow his recently completed retrospective tour that began in December 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and traveled to the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and ended at the Tate Modern, London, in May of this year. Two new bodies of work are introduced in this exhibition. In chronological order, the first, titled Corplegados, is a series of large format drawings realized over the course of the last four years as a private, intimate activity amidst busy preparation for his retrospective. The Corplegados, or literally ‘folded-bodies’, are all purposefully life-size. Orozco folded the paper four times in halves to become portable documents which accompanied him on ... More |
 Athenian Red-figure Volute Krater. Attributed to the Methyse Painter, 460-450 B.C. Slip-glazed earthenware, 23 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. (59.69 x 34.93 cm). MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) has agreed to transfer a 5th century B.C. Greek volute krater acquired by the MIA in 1983 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for delivery to Italy. The MIA became concerned with the provenance of the object and contacted the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities of the Italian Republic (Ministry). Both the Ministry and ICE HSI provided information about the krater to the Museum. Working collaboratively with the Ministry and ICE HSI and after evaluating the information provided by the Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale, as well as its own research, the Museum determined that the krater should be transferred to Italy. After analysis by an archaeology professor at La Sapienza University in Rome, it was determined that the ... More |
 Ravi Varma, Untitled (Himalayan Beauty). Est. $100/150,000. Sold for $266,500. Photo: Sotheby's. NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby's week of Asian Art sales concluded this morning with Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art which brought $2,262,000 (est. $2.6/3.8 million).* This brings the combined total for the weeks three sales to $31,447,375. The auction was led by the cover lot Eglise by SH Raza. The painting comes from an important period in the artist's work and met expectations when it sold for $362,500 (est. $300/500,000). This was one of a number of strong prices for modern paintings with works by Jehangir Sabavala, Jagdish Swaminathan, and M.F. Husain all selling well. A further highlight was Untitled (Himalayan Beauty) by Raja Ravi Varma which had passed though the family collection of the artist's German printing technician. The magnificent painting sold well above the estimate for $266,500 (est. $100/150,000). Priyanka Mathew, Head of the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sale commented: "We are pleas ... More |
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| Hand-drawn St. John's Bible completed, on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts | Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports | Exhibition at Haus der Kunst reflects the versatility of Italian architect Carlo Mollino's oeuvre | ||
 Donald Jackson Writing the final Amen. By: Jeff Baenen, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP).- It was a task of biblical proportions — drawing every letter and illustration in a Bible painstakingly by hand. Now, 13 years after its inception, the brightly colored and massive St. John's Bible is complete, and pages from the finished work are about to go on display. The Benedictine monks at St. John's Abbey and St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., commissioned the Bible in 1998 to celebrate the beginning of a new millennium. The first words were written on Ash Wednesday 2000, and the seventh and final volume — "Letters and Revelation" — was completed earlier this year, with the final word — "Amen" — written on May 9, 2011. "It has far surpassed what any of us ever imagined in our most optimum moments," Abbot John Klassen said in an interview at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where the final pages of the St. John's Bible go on display Friday. Klassen, who leads an abbey of about 145 monks located 70 miles northwest of ... More |
 Catherine Opie: Josh (2007). Chromogenic print, 30 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm). Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. MIDDLETOWN, CT.- Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, a traveling exhibition of works by contemporary artists that probes the stereotype of the American male athlete organized by Independent Curators International is on view in Wesleyan University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, located at 283 Washington Terrace on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown, through Sunday, October 23, 2011. There will also be a screening of two films by Matthew Barney, one of the featured artists in the Mixed Signals exhibit, on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 7:30pm in the Powell Family Cinema, located in the Center for Film Studies, 301 Washington Terrace on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown. Admission to the film screening is free. See below for more information. The artistic theme of Mixed Signals has become increasingly prevalent during the past several years, building upon several decades of discourse about identity ... More |
 Carlo Mollino, Chair for Mollino's studio at the Faculty of Architecture, 1959. MUNCHEN.- The exhibition's selection of works reflects the versatility of Carlo Mollino's oeuvre: on view are his drawings and architectural plans, furniture and furnishings, Mollino's race car "Bisiluro", his photomontages, Polaroids of female nudes, his essays on architecture, photography and downhill skiing, as well as other archival material. A photographical essay by Armin Linke created for the exhibition provides an overview of Mollino's constructions and their state of preservation. Mollino's buildings were long handled with negligence. It is significant that in 1960 the Turin city council voted to demolish the Societ‡ Ippica Torinese, which had only been completed in 1940. Although Carlo Mollino has gained increasing attention in recent years, he is still not fully recognized as an architect. In contrast, his furniture has long been on great demand by collectors: in 2005 one of his tables was sold at auction for 3.8 million dollars. Contemporary artists, such as Kar ... More |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art appoints Hiromi Kinoshita associate curator of Chinese Art | Nine monumental photoworks by American artist John Chamberlain at Steven Kasher Gallery | Nassau County Museum of Art presents an early first edition of Goya's Los Caprichos | ||
 Hiromi Kinoshita is currently Assistant Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photo: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, today announced the appointment of Hiromi Kinoshita as Associate Curator of Chinese Art in the Department of East Asian Art. Currently Assistant Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Dr. Kinoshita will join the staff on April 1, 2012. She will be responsible for the care and utilization of the Museum’s extensive holdings of Chinese art. “Hiromi Kinoshita brings great promise to the stewardship of a significant part of our collection at an important moment in the history of this institution,” said Rub. “This position has recently been endowed by an anonymous donor whose gift was matched by a grant from the Chairman Emeritus of our Board of Trustees, Gerry Lenfest, and his wife, Marguerite. We are grateful to these individuals for their generosity and for the ... More |
 John Chamberlain, HIGHHEELEDBODYBLAST, 2011 (detail). Archival pigment prints on canvas panels, 90 x 90 inches. Photo: Courtesy: Steven Kasher Gallery. NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery exhibits a new body of work by the great American artist John Chamberlain. John Chamberlain: Pictures presents nine monumental photoworks, comprised of multiple eight-foot-high stretched canvas panels, each panel hosting a highly-processed and colorized panoramic photograph by the artist. Created in 2010-11, Pictures is Chamberlain’s most candid, autobiographical, and intimate body of work to date. Departing from his sculptures in medium and imagery, these new works on canvas continue the artist’s use of color and composition that infuse his art with extreme energy and power. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication: John Chamberlain: Pictures (SteidlKasher, Gottingen, 2011), text by Carlo McCormick. In this new body of work, created in 2010-11, we see a clash of complex perspectives, strange textural effects, and a high-keyed palette that ranges from Pop to sun-drenche ... More |
 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, painter (Caprichos No. 1: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, pintor), 1796-97. Etching, aquatint and drypoint, 1st Edition 1799. Plate dimensions 215 x 151 mm. The Exhibition FRANCISCO GOYA: LOS CAPRICHOS was organized by Landau Traveling. Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA in association with Denenberg Fine Art, West Hollywood, CA. ROSLYN HARBOR, N.Y.- This exhibition features an early first edition of Los Caprichos, a set of 80 etchings by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes that was published in 1799. It is regarded as one of the most influential series of graphic images in the history of Western art. Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, in association with Denenberg Fine Art, West Hollywood, CA. “Capricho” can be translated as a whim, a fantasy or an expression of imagination. In Goya’s use of the term, the meaning deepens, binding an ironical layer of humor over one of the most profound indictments of human vice ever set on paper. Enigmatic and controversial, Los ... More |
| Israelis, Palestinians smile for the camera in project by French street artist known only as JR | FBI arrests Florida man accused of stealing paintings from a Los Angeles art gallery | Exhibition of rarely seen paintings by Eva Hesse presented at the Brooklyn Museum | ||
 Israeli artists place large portraits on the side of a bridge near the city of Netanya, Israel. AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill. By: Tara Todras-Whitehill, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP).- Large black-and-white portraits have been appearing on bridges, billboards and broken-down buses all over Israel and the West Bank as part of an international project that allows people to turn pictures of themselves into works of art or political statements. The portraits of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians are part of a project created by a prize-winning French street artist known only as JR. The project, Inside Out, gets people worldwide to make a statement by having their photo taken and then printed on posters that they can then hang in a place they find significant. Inside Out started in Tunisia in March and has also been to North Dakota in the U.S., Scotland and South Africa. For two weeks, the project had two photo booths in the West Bank Palestinian cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah and a roaming photo truck that drove around Israel, taking a total of more than 7,000 portraits. It ... More |
 Matthew Taylor, 43, of Vero Beach, Florida is shown in this mug shot released by the United States Attorneys office to Reuters. REUTERS/U.S. Attorneys Office. By: Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES, CA (REUTERS).- A former art dealer was arrested in Florida on Thursday on accusations he sold a Los Angeles collector forged paintings he claimed were by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko and others, federal prosecutors said. Matthew Taylor, 43, of Vero Beach, Florida, was also accused of stealing paintings from a Los Angeles art gallery. Taylor was charged in a federal grand jury indictment last week with wire fraud, money laundering, interstate transportation of stolen property and possession of stolen property. He faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted on all counts. The wealthy Los Angeles art collector Taylor is accused of targeting bought more than 100 forged paintings from him for over $2 million between 2002 and 2007, the indictment said. The collector has not been identified. "We just don't see that many cases along these lines," said Thom Mrozek, a Los Angeles-based spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. ... More |
 Eva Hesse (American, born Germany, 1936–1970). No title, 1960. Oil on masonite. 15 3/4 x 12 inches (40 x 30.48 cm). The Estate of Eva Hesse, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Eva Hesse Spectres 1960, an exhibition of rarely seen paintings by the artist Eva Hesse (1936–1970), are presented in the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art beginning September 16, 2011. Created when Hesse was just 24 years old, this group of nineteen semi-representational oil paintings, while standing in contrast to the works for which she is well known, nonetheless constitutes a vital link to her later Minimalist sculptural assemblages. Although several recent museum exhibitions of Hesse’s work have featured a few of these paintings from 1960, none have considered them as a group, all together. There are two distinct groups within the Spectres series. In the first, the paintings are intimate in scale and the loosely rendered figures are gaunt, standing or dancing in groups of two or three yet disconnected from one another. The second group, in traditional ea ... More |
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