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Exhibition celebrates one of the most important galleries in Germany: Der Sturm
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Visitors looking at the artwork 'Tiere' (Animals) by Germany artist Heinrich Campendonk during a press preview of the exhibition 'Der Sturm - Zentrum der Avantgarde' (lit. The Storm - Center of the Avant-garde) at the Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal, Germany. The exhibition opens to the public from 13 March until 10 June. EPA/HORST OSSINGER.
WUPPERTAL.- With the opening of the gallery “Der Sturm” in 1912, Herwarth Walden marked a new chapter in the fascinating history of modern art. Until 1928 the gallery remained an important center for the avant-garde movements and one of the most important galleries in Germany which became a spiritual home for all the most prominent contemporary groups of artists such as the “Blaue Reiter”, the futurists, kubists and the new constuctivists. However, “Der Sturm” was not only a place for the display of most recent contemporary art but also a place for the teaching of art and experimental performances. The gallery organized readings and modern music evenings and since 1910 already Herwarth Walden published the famous magazine “Der Sturm” which had become the central forum of discussion for all the ideas and tendencies within modern art, music and poetry. ... More |
| Major international exhibition of rare Persian illuminated manuscripts opens at the State Library of Victoria |
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The Getty Research Institute acquires eighty-two prints by German artist Max Liebermann |
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The Marathon winner's cup from the first modern Olympics leads Christie's Olympic auction |
Bahram Gur hunts in the company of Azada, from Firdausi, Shahnama, c. 1430. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
MELBOURNE.- A major international exhibition of rare Persian illuminated manuscripts which will open at the State Library of Victoria on March 9, 2012. Premier Ted Baillieu said the Love and Devotion: from Persia and Beyond exhibition will bring exclusively to Melbourne more than 60 illustrated Persian manuscripts – some eight centuries old – from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. 'Love and Devotion will be a free exhibition and the largest collection of Persian manuscripts ever seen in Australia,' Mr Baillieu said. 'It will allow visitors to get up close to intricate priceless works from the Persian, Ottoman and Mughal empires that date back to the 13th to 18th centuries – a very rich and important period in the history of the book. 'Focused around classic Persian tales of love, these beautiful examples of manuscripts and miniature painting, illumination and calligraphy rarely ... More |
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Max Liebermann (1847-1935), Portrait of Richard Strauss, 1919. Etching. The Getty Research Institute.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced today the acquisition of 82 prints by German artist Max Liebermann (1847-1935). The collection of prints spans a large part of the artist’s career and highlights the celebrated painter’s skill as a printmaker. The prints are a promised gift of an anonymous donor in memory of Siegbert and Toni Marzynski, the original collectors. “This set of pristine, well-documented prints by one of the most prolific and popular figures in modern German art is incredibly important for researchers and a beautiful addition to the Getty Research Institute’s special collections,” said Thomas W. Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute (GRI). The collection of prints spans more than three decades of Liebermann’s career, from 1887 to 1922. Early works in the collection include idyllic country landscapes such as Grazing Goats, 1887, as well as i ... More |
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A Christie's employee holds the Breal´s Silver Cup. AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti.
By Stuart Condie, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- A silver cup awarded to the Greek runner who won the first Olympic marathon in 1896 will be sold at a London auction three months before the Summer Games. Spyros Louis was presented with the cup, a silver medal, an antique vase, an olive branch and a diploma by Greece's King George I for his Athens victory in the 25-mile race — slightly shorter than the modern marathon. Auction house Christie's says the engraved 6-inch cup had been in Louis' family for 116 years but will be sold by his grandson April 18. Louis' grandson, also called Spyros, said Thursday he would give proceeds estimated at $190,000 to $250,000 to his children. "Our family has been very proud to have the honor of looking after this important historical sporting trophy for the last 116 years," Spyros Louis said. "And my ... More |
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| First in-depth presentation of Eugène Atget's work by Museum of Modern Art in over 25 years |
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Exhibition of important sculptures and drawings by Fred Sandback opens at David Zwirner |
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Thirteen recent paintings by world-renowned artist Odd Nerdrum on view at Forum Gallery |
Eugène Atget. Romanichels, groupe, 1912. Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print. 8 3/8 x 6 11/16″ (21.2 x 17 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abbott-Levy Collection. Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes‖ presents six fresh and highly focused cross sections of the career of master photographer Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927), drawn exclusively from The Museum of Modern Art’s unparalleled holdings of his work. The exhibition, on view at MoMA from February 6 through April 9, 2012, gets its name from the sign outside Atget’s studio door, which declared his modest ambition to create documents for other artists to use as source material in their own work. Whether exploring Paris’s fifth arrondissement across several decades, or the decayed grandeur of parks at Sceaux in a remarkable creative outburst at the twilight of his career, Atget’s lens captured the essence of his chosen subject with increasing complexity and sensitivity. Also featured are Atget’s photographs made in the Luxembourg ... More |
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Untitled (Sculptural Study, Mikado), 1997/2011, as installed in Fred Sandback, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, 2011. Photo by Cathy Carver © 2012 Fred Sandback Archive; courtesy of David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of work by Fred Sandback (1943-2003). On view in the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space, the exhibition will feature a selection of important sculptures and drawings spanning the years 1969 to 2000, representing each decade of the artist’s singular and influential career. Though he used metal wire and elastic cord early in his career, Sandback soon dispensed with those materials to employ acrylic yarn to create works that address their physical surroundings. By stretching lengths of yarn horizontally, vertically, or diagonally at different scales and in varied configurations, the artist developed a unique body of work that elaborated on the phenomenological experience of space and volume with unwavering consistency and ingenuity. On view will be several smaller-scale, ... More |
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Odd Nerdrum, Black Fur, oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches. Photo: Courtesy Forum Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of 13 recent paintings by world-renowned artist Odd Nerdrum is on view at Forum Gallery from March 8 through May 5, 2012. The iconoclastic Norwegian painter is well known for compelling portraits, stark landscapes, and apocalyptic narratives that depict unearthly scenes. Influenced by Rembrandt and Caravaggio, Nerdrum is admired internationally for his unequalled skill and technique, as well as his extraordinary subject matter, which transports the viewer to another time and place. In his new body of work made in the last four years, Nerdrum continues his exploration of the universal human condition revealing danger, misery, struggle, fear, helplessness, and yet, at times, optimism, as his figures all possess a fierce integrity in the face of adversity. In You See We Are Blind, three women are seated in a primeval world, holding sticks to help guide them, perhaps as they await an unlikely res ... More |
| Qianlong Emperor's seal from Beijing's Forbidden City heads Bonhams Fine Chinese Art sale |
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Paintings by Kehinde Wiley exhibited for the first time in New York at the Jewish Museum |
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Menil names Sheryl Kolasinski as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer |
The rare double-gourd shaped seal, measuring 8.7cm long, has been authenticated by the leading Chinese academic in this field, Guo Fuxiang, of the Palace Museum, Beijing. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An important Imperial spinach green jade double-gourd ‘San Xi Tang’ seal, of the revered Qianlong period (1736-1795), estimated to sell for over £1m, is one of the outstanding items in Bonhams Fine Chinese Art sale on 17th May, in London. The rare double-gourd shaped seal, measuring 8.7cm long, has been authenticated by the leading Chinese academic in this field, Guo Fuxiang, of the Palace Museum, Beijing. San Xi Tang, (the Hall of the Three Rarities), is situated in the Forbidden City in the western side of the Yangxin Dian (Hall of Mental Cultivation). The Qianlong Emperor kept three prized rare scrolls in the building: Wang Xizhi’s Kuaixue Shiqing Tie (timely clearing after snowfall), Wang Xianzhi’s Zhongqiu (Mid-Autumn festival), and Wang Xun’s Bai Yuan Tie (letter to Boyuan), amongst other important antiquities. The actual size of the San Xi Tang hall in which the seal was kept is ... More |
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Kehinde Wiley, Leviathan Zodiac (The World Stage: Israel ), 2011, oil and gold enamel on canvas. Private Collection. © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum will present Kehinde Wiley/The World Stage: Israel, from March 9 through July 29, 2012. A new acquisition by the contemporary American artist Kehinde Wiley (born 1977, Los Angeles) served as impetus for the exhibition. The painting, Alios Itzhak (2011), is a nine-foot tall portrait of a young Jewish Ethiopian-Israeli man surrounded by an intricate decorative background inspired by a traditional Jewish papercut in the Museum's collection. This work was acquired in honor of The Jewish Museum's recently retired director Joan Rosenbaum. The exhibition features 14 large-scale paintings from Kehinde Wiley's new World Stage: Israel series. The vibrant portraits of Israeli youths from diverse ethnic and religious affiliations are each embedded in a unique background influenced by Jewish ritual art. Also included are 10 works of Jewish ceremonial papercuts and large textiles chosen by the artist fr ... More |
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Ms. Kolasinski arrives from a more than sixteen year tenure at the Smithsonian in Washington. Photo: Marty Katz
HOUSTON, TX.- Concluding a national search, Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, has named Sheryl Kolasinski as the museum’s Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer. In this position – a new one at the Menil – Ms. Kolasinski will work closely with Mr. Helfenstein on strategic planning as well as the gradual implementation of the museum’s master site plan. Serving as chief administrate officer for the Menil, she will also oversee accounting and finance, properties and real estate (the main museum building anchors a 40-acre campus), the Menil Bookstore, security, information technology, legal matters, and facilities operation and maintenance. Ms. Kolasinski assumes her new role in May. “I am thrilled that Sheryl will be joining our leadership team,”said Mr. Helfenstein. “She is coming on board at an exciting time here at the Menil, with our ambitious plans for the future of t ... More |
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| Karlsruhe art fair opens with 222 exhibitors showing around 30,000 works by 1,500 artists |
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Detroit Institute of Arts receives loan of Hughie Lee-Smith painting that hung in high school for years |
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New exhibition at Nationalmuseum explores how artists have depicted various emotions over the centuries |
The artwork 'The Army of Luck - The Global Pursuit of Happiness' by artist Boris Petrovski is pictured at the 9th art Karlsruhe art fair. EPA/ULIDECK.
KARLSRUHE.- “We’re ready to go”, said Britta Wirtz, spokeswoman for the management of Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH, pleased that “all the planning for the ninth art KARLSRUHE is now done and we can look forward to the 222 exhibitors and roughly 45,000 visitors.” Under the motto of “See and collect”, works of classic modern and contemporary art will be on display in four exhibition halls from 8 to 11 March. Curator Ewald Karl Schrade has once again created a spacious layout of gallery stands, special exhibitions, sculpture zones, and rest areas inviting enthusiasts to savour art in a relaxed and leisurely atmosphere. “Priority has been given to the feel-good factor for collectors," said the art fair’s founding father. In the impressive halls and on some 35,000 m² of total exhibition area, there is more than just ample opportunity to acquire outstanding works from two centuries. art KARLSRUHE also serves as an information exchang ... More |
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The painting, which shows a couple on a rocky shore with a calm sea beyond them, is on loan from Warren’s Fitzgerald Public Schools.
DETROIT, MI.- Two Figures and Landscape, a 1954 painting from renowned artist Hughie Lee-Smith (1915–1999), recently joined six other works by Lee-Smith in the Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) “New Art for a New Self-Awareness” gallery in its suite of African American art galleries. The painting, which shows a couple on a rocky shore with a calm sea beyond them, is on loan from Warren’s Fitzgerald Public Schools, and its route to the DIA is an unusual one. The painting was purchased by the 1954 graduating class at Fitzgerald High School in Warren and, as was customary, given to the school district as a gift from the class. It had been hanging in a break room at the school for decades, unrecognized as a work by a famous artist. When a former student came across an article about Lee-Smith, it jogged his memory of the painting. He contacted Fitzgerald Public Schools Superintendent Barbara van Sweden to let he ... More |
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Unknown artist, Laughing Jester. Oil on wood. Photo: Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- This spring’s big exhibition, Passions, explores how artists have depicted various emotions over the centuries, from the Renaissance to the present day. The artists represented include such names as Dürer, Munch, Rembrandt, Tony Oursler, Rineke Dijkstra and Bill Viola. Emotions affect us all, and the need to understand, communicate and make sense of emotions is therefore strong. But it can be hard to interpret our own emotions and those of others, and emotions have been seen very differently through the ages. Emotions have been depicted in Western art since antiquity. Passions – Five Centuries of Art and the Emotions thus concentrates on how artists have interpreted and portrayed emotions such as joy, sorrow, suffering and melancholy through facial expressions, gestures and body language from the time of the Renaissance to the present day. The exhibition also draws several interesting parallels between the ways that art, science, theatre and music deal wit ... More |
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 Zak Kitnick: Three Men and a Maybe opens at D'Amelio Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Gallery presents a new project by New York artist Zak Kitnick. In this work, Kitnick employs unfinished steel shelving components, nuts, bolts and welded steel—materials typically associated with the industrial realm of manufacturing. Increasingly, however, they have been absorbed into the home as industrial design is celebrated as a style. A single architectural work juts from the wall, subdividing and partitioning the gallery as the structure presents its two sides, those of surface and support. Nine raw steel enclosure panels evoke an upright Carl Andre floor sculpture; complete with industrial markings, they show the wear and tear of their own production. Opposite, the open shelving suggests the concealed equipment of the closet or the cornucopia of the well-stocked modern pantry, without even a bag of flour—or a pair of slacks— on its overqualified ... More Antony Micallef's "A Little Piece of Me" opens at The Outsiders, London
LONDON.- Eminent London artist Antony Micallef graces The Outsiders London gallery this spring with a special exhibition of his acclaimed ‘Head’ portraits, opening 9 March 2012. Following the runaway success of 2011’s sold-out show Happy Deep Inside My Heart at Lazarides Rathbone Gallery, A Little Piece of Me features ten new examples of Antony’s ongoing Head series. Each are titled A Little Piece of Me numbered one to ten. Whilst the heads almost all resemble Antony himself, it’s not his intention to create self-portraits. Instead, they serve to capture a certain sentiment – or vehemence. “These Heads are simply about looking,” says Antony. “It’s me, alone, with just a mirror. But the intention isn’t to make a self-portrait. Instead, it’s to capture an emotion. I look at my own head as simply a method to help find these faces from within the paper, to purge the ... More June Kelly Gallery celebrates its 25th anniversary with a group exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- The June Kelly Gallery will celebrate its 25th anniversary in March with a group exhibition of outstanding contemporary art by gallery artists, including several who have been with the gallery since its earliest days. The exhibition will open at the gallery at 166 Mercer Street on March 9 and continue through April 7. “These have been 25 exhilarating and challenging years,” said gallery owner June Kelly. “They have brought me great pleasure, and I am especially pleased that so many of my artists have been with me from the early years.” Among them are painters Stan Brodsky, Carmen Cicero, Francis Hynes, James Little, Philemona Williamson and Nolan Zirin, as well as sculptor Elizabeth Catlett. Kelly said she was also sad to note that several of the important artists she represented had died, including sculptor Jane Schneider and painters ... More First institutional solo exhibition of work by Mariechen Danz opens in Bremen
BREMEN.- “How to know?” sings German-Irish artist Mariechen Danz (born 1980 in Dublin, currently living in Berlin) in one of her performances. This question turns out to be central to her entire artistic practice. Knowledge in all its myriad facets – its production, history, appearance in different cultures and sciences, communication, objectivity, use as an instrument of power – form the core of her work. Danz’ work extends across the disciplines of drawing, installation, photography, performance and music. In cooperation with the Kunstverein Göttingen, the GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen presents the first institutional solo-exhibition of work by Mariechen Danz to unite her various fields of practice. Staged across two sites, the collaboration between these two institutions will reflect the artist’s processual approach to art-making, as Danz builds ... More Mardi Gras Museum's glitz, glamor auctioned off
By: Mary Foster, Associated Press
KENNER, LA (AP).- They came in T-shirts and jeans to bid on crowns, scepters and capes of Mardi Gras kings and queens, or the jewels and coins tossed to their eager subjects. The glitzy pageantry and history of New Orleans' Carnival was sold to the highest bidder Thursday. The baubles might have been faux, but several hundred collectors eagerly bid on exhibits from the city's once-thriving Mardi Gras Museum. Designed as a celebration of Mardi Gras when it opened in the suburb of Kenner in 1992, it closed after a souring economy cut into tourism and the city, like many communities around the country, was forced to tighten its budget and cut back on what it funded. From towering costumes covered with plumes and faux jewels, to an 1891 ... More |
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