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Exhibition at Paris museum tells the stories of two men, Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs
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Fashion creations are displayed at the Louis Vuitton-Marc Jacobs exhibit in the Art Decoratifs Museum in Paris. AP Photo/Francois Mori.
By: Thomas Adamson, Associated Press
PARIS (AP).- "Fashions fade, style is eternal," Yves Saint Laurent once said. An immutable fashion list must include the Ls Vuitton bag, on display demurely but proudly in Paris' Decorative Arts Museum like the historical artifact it should be. The bag pattern was first patented in 1877 but it can still be seen — almost unchanged — on the Parisian boulevards more than 130 years later. This is thanks to house founder Louis Vuitton, and since 1997, creative director Marc Jacobs. Both their stories are woven together in a colorful exhibit that spans over a century of fashion history. The exhibit takes the visitor from the founder's humble beginnings as a case-packer to the fantastical runway shows that transformed the house into one of the world's biggest names, with a revenue last year of euro2.5 billion. Though both men are from different centuries, the exhibition asks whether they have more in common than meets the eye. There's a small clue in the first room: portrait ... More |
| J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles returns three ancient marble fragments to Greece |
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Study published by three authors says birdlike dinos wore basic black with glossy touch |
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Sotheby's sale of Contemporary art exceeds its pre-sale high estimate achieving $12 million in New York |
An inscribed ancient Greek marble slab returned to Greece by the J. Paul Getty Museum. AP Photo/Greek Culture Ministry.
ATHENS (AP).- Three ancient marble fragments from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have been repatriated to Greece following a deal last year. A culture ministry statement says two of the 2,400-year-old pieces are parts of the same broken gravestone decorated with relief sculptures, and will be joined onto a third section in a Greek museum. The Getty also returned an inscribed slab related to a religious festival. The 5th century B.C. fragments arrived in Athens Friday. Greece is discussing lending an ancient Greek inscription to the Getty in return. In recent years, the Getty has repatriated to Athens another four significant ancient works, including a gold wreath allegedly illegally excavated in northern Greece. Most of the Greek antiquities displayed in museums worldwide are of uncertain provenance. ... More |
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A Microraptor, based on a fossil from 130 million years ago found in China. AP Photo/Mick Ellison, American Museum of Natural History, Science /AAAS.
By: Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- Even dinosaurs can look sharp in basic black, and downright iridescent. An unusual crowlike dinosaur — which really doesn't look like a dinosaur at all — had glossy black feathers that were probably used to call attention to itself and find a mate, scientists say in Thursday's journal Science. Think nightlife at New York clubs, but 130 million years ago and in rural China, said study co-author Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He calls the look an "Anna Wintour special" after the Vogue editor. It's the oldest example of the shimmering look on animals, said study co-author Julia Clarke at the University of Texas. And in other animals, especially birds, that shine is often how males attract females to mate. "It's like shimmery clothes and garments you would wear out to big social gatherings," said Matthew Shawkey, another co-author from the ... More |
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21. Signed, titled and dated ©1978 on the reverse. Gelatin silver print. Executed in 1978, this work is number 1 from an edition of 10, 8 by 10 in. (20.3 by 25.4 cm.). Est. $150/200,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today’s auction of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s New York exceeded its pre-sale high estimate of $11.6 million in achieving a strong total of $12,040,750, which marks the highest result for a mid-season sale of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s since spring 2008. The auction was 79.7% sold by lot, and was led by the Untitled Film Still #21 by Cindy Sherman that set a new record for an original-size film still by the artist when it sold for $746,500 – nearly four times its $200,000 high estimate. The work is numbered one of an addition of ten, and was acquired from the artist by the family of the present consignor. “We are thrilled with the results of today’s sale, which exceeded our expectations and brought a number of strong prices throughout the day,” commented Jennifer Roth, Head of Sotheby’s ... More |
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| New exhibition at Art Gallery of Alberta focuses on women artists of a pioneering generation |
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Ancient Jewish coin brings record $1.1+ million at Heritage Auctions sale in New York |
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Large group portraits of the Dutch Golden Age Celebrate civic pride at the National Gallery of Art, Washington |
Margaret Shelton, Rosebud Creek at Rosedale, 1949. Oil on masonite, 45.2 x 60.8 cm. Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton. Acc. No. 1983.042.001. Photo © Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
EDMONTON, AB.- The Art Gallery of Alberta presents Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975, March 10 – June 3, 2012. Focusing on the work of ten women artists, all born by the end of 1918, the exhibition Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975 shines new light on the establishment of modernism in the province. Working largely in Edmonton and Calgary, the work of these artists reveals the important role that women played in the development of modernism, particularly early forms of abstraction, in Alberta. Of the ten-member “Calgary Group,” whose 53 oil paintings were featured in an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1948, four of the artists were women, including: Marion Nicoll, Janet Mitchell and Dorothy Willis. Of that group, only Marion Nicoll is still well recognized today for her commitment ... More |
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Prototype year one shekel, one of two known specimens was stimated to sell for $950,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- The first silver shekel struck in Jerusalem by Jewish forces rebelling against Roman oppression in the first century CE, one of only two specimens known, brought a world record price of $1,105,375 at Heritage Auctions on March 8 as part of the auction of The Shoshana Collection of Ancient Coins of Judea. The coin sold to an anonymous overseas collector. The collection, consisting of more than 2,200 coins in total, is expected to realize more than $10 million over multiple auctions this year, the first of which began Thursday. “This Year 1 silver shekel, struck shortly after the Jewish War began in May of 66 CE, is an incredible piece of history,” said Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of Heritage Auctions. “This is literally one of the very first coins the Jewish rebels struck after the ousted the Romans from Jerusalem, sending shockwaves through the empire. That history, as evidenced by the ... More |
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Govert Flinck, Dutch (1615 – 1660), The Governors of the Kloveniersdoelen, 1642. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on loan from the City of Amsterdam.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The civic pride of the Dutch Golden Age will be celebrated in a special installation of two large-scale group portraits, on loan from Amsterdam to the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view March 10, 2012, through March 11, 2017, in the Seventh Street Lobby of the West Building, Civic Pride: Dutch Group Portraits from Amsterdam will provide an extraordinary opportunity for visitors to enjoy a type of Dutch painting rarely seen outside the Netherlands. In these imposing works, two of Amsterdam's most important portraitists from the mid-17th century, Govert Flinck (1615–1660) and Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613–1670), have immortalized the civic pride of the men who governed the Kloveniersdoelen, the building where one of Amsterdam's three militia companies held its meetings. ... More |
| Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery premieres visionary works by Japanese master painter |
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Exhibition showcases work by major Mexican and international photographers from the 1920s to today |
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Christie's presents an exceptional sale of fine Chinese ceramics and works of art at Asian Art Week |
The Bath. Five Hundred Arhats: Scroll 9. By Kano Kazunobu (1816‐63), Japan, Edo Period, ca. 1854‐63. Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk. Photo: Collection: Zōjōji, Tokyo, Japan.
WASHINGTON, DC.- In early 1854, just as American Commodore Matthew Perry's ships steamed into Edo Bay to persuade Japan to open its ports to the world, the esteemed painter Kano Kazunobu (1816–63) received a commission from a highly respected Buddhist temple located in the heart of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo. His mission was to create 100 paintings on a wildly popular theme of the day—the lives and deeds of the Buddha's 500 disciples, known in Japan as rakan. For the first time in the U.S., Kazunobu's graphic and flamboyantly imagined depictions of the daily lives and wondrous deeds of the Buddha's legendary disciples are on view in "Masters of Mercy: Buddha's Amazing Disciples" at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, March 10 through July 8. At the time of the commission, Kazunobu was a mature and important painter working in one of the richest artistic environments of any era in Japan, among several generations of artists ... More |
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Parabola optica (Optical Parable), 1931; gelatin silver print; 9 3/4 in. x 7 1/4 in. (24.77 cm x 18.42 cm); Collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser; © Colette Urbajtel / Asociación Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From March 10 through July 8, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will present the exhibition Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. Exploring the distinctively rich and diverse tradition of photography in Mexico from the 1920s to the present, the exhibition showcases works by important Mexican photographers as well as major American and European artists who found Mexico to be a place of great artistic inspiration. Organized by SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Photography Jessica S. McDonald, the selection of more than 150 works draws from SFMOMA's world-class photography holdings and highlights recent major gifts and loans from collectors Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. The presentation reflects the ... More |
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A Rare Molded and Gilt-Decorated Turquoise-Ground Vase, Hu Qianlong molded and gilded seal mark and of the period (1736-1795). Estimate: $300,000-500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 22 and 23, Christie's New York will present Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, which comprises over 650 works across a myriad categories and tastes, including jades, bronzes, sculpture, paintings and furniture. Highlighting the sale is a very rare and important massive gilt-bronze figure of Vairocana from the Ming dynasty (estimate: $2-3 million), which is exceptional for its enormous size, superb casting and fine attention to detail. With estimates ranging from $4,000 to $2 million, the sale is expected to realize in the region of $23 million. This impressive ritual wine vessel belongs to a small group of late Shang zun, which features two lower registers of taotie masks and animal designs in low relief. The rounded middle section is cast in relief on each side with a large mysterious taotie mask with large staring oblong eyes, set above two pairs of confronted birds with ... More |
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| OK Harris in New York presents Serial Killer Project, a solo exhibition by artist Ted Larsen |
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International art historian to assist in programming contemporary galleries and Transformer Station |
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Haunch of Venison presents the UK premiere of Katie Paterson's project 100 Billion Suns |
Ted Larsen, Serial.Killer.#2. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his second exhibition with OK Harris, Ted Larsen has created a project of specifically made objects that deal with serial form and repetition. The nearly identical objects were created as an experiment to discover how extremely similar works can appear to be completely different and the effect on how we perceive these visual differences. The work is deployed around the exhibition space with a precise, highly organized, nonhierarchical system to highlight both sameness and distinctions. There is great historical precedence for serial objects and this kind of arrangement of them. Additionally, Larsen created these materially unorthodox works to question the relevance of that canonical approach to High Art Practice. Ted Larsen (b. 1964, USA) is a nationally exhibiting artist and Pollock-Krasner Foundation recipient with a BA from Northern Arizona University. His work has been widely exhibited in museums in th ... More |
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Thüring will work closely with Paola Morsiani, in positioning the museum as a leader in contemporary art.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Reto Thüring, a prominent editor for European contemporary art publications, an accomplished exhibition organizer and a scholar of historical Venetian portraiture, has been appointed Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art for the Cleveland Museum of Art following an international search. Thüring will work closely with Curator of Contemporary Art, Paola Morsiani, in positioning the museum as a leader in contemporary art amongst other comprehensive museums. “We are excited that Reto is joining the museum at such a dynamic moment for our contemporary program, especially with new spaces like the museum's west side Transformer Station opening next year,” states C. Griffith Mann, Cleveland Museum of Art deputy director and chief curator. “Reto's academic background in Renaissance art and his practical experience working with living artists are ideally ... More |
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Katie Paterson, 100 Billion Suns (Riva degli Schiavoni), 2012 (detail). Digital Lambda Print. Photo ©Katie Paterson, 2011.
LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London presents a solo exhibition of Scottish artist Katie Paterson and the UK premiere of her project 100 Billion Suns. Katie Paterson strives to communicate unimaginably large or distant occurrences in nature or the universe, transforming them through the medium of everyday objects or materials and reducing them to a human scale. Her projects make use of sophisticated technologies, from satellites to telescopes, and specialist expertise of a range of scientists to stage intimate, poetic and philosophical engagements with nature,ecology, geology and cosmology. This exhibition - launching Haunch of Venison’s new gallery space in Fitzrovia -presents a selection of recent projects including Ancient Darkness TV, 2009, The Dying Star Letters, 2010 and 100 Billion Suns, 2011. This exhibition is the first UK presentation ... More |
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 Bonhams to sell shotgun of Indian Prince of the Punjab, a godson of Queen Victoria
LONDON.- Bonhams next Sporting Gun sale on 4th April at Knightsbridge includes a weapon with a remarkable history – it was made for a young Indian Prince whose father lost his kingdom in the Punjab and who spent his life shooting and gambling. An unusual 12-bore hammer gun by J. Purdey & Sons, made for Prince Duleep Singh, is estimated to sell for £2,000 to £3,000 at Bonhams. The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed as one of a pair of guns for Prince Duleep Singh. This gun would appear to have been purchased for the Prince when he was fifteen years old, and as such may well have been one of Prince Victor's earliest guns. The family estate of Elveden, in Norfolk, having played host to many shooting parties and some of the best shots of the day, was sold to the 1st Earl of Iveagh in 1894 after the death of Prince Victor's father. It remains ... More David Parker's Myth & Landscape on view at acte2galerie in Paris
PARIS.- When Odysseus instructed his crew to lash him to the mast of their ship, he was preparing himself to hear the sirens song, 'the song of the universe'. Their sweet singing, claims of omniscience and power to calm the waters infallibly lured sailors off course to their destruction. Odysseus plugged his crews' ears with beeswax, so that he alone could savour the seductive laments of the sirens and experience a mystical encounter with the sublime. Dreams and the sea are the closest we come to other worlds, and the solitary sea-stacks featured in these photographs, or sirens as they appear to me, stand as guardians on the threshold of both worlds. For me the sirens song is a call to contemplation, not action, and these images chart my own fascinated encounters with an enchanted world of forgotten archetypes. My pictures are intended to siren-like, allure viewers into a ... More Patrick Graham: Thirty Years "The Silence becomes the Painting" on view at Meridian Gallery Arts Center
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In a rare opportunity to view the works of Ireland’s most influential contemporary artist, Meridian Gallery Arts Center is displaying over 35 works by the artist Patrick Graham, including paintings, collages, and drawings. This exhibition contains four of his monumental iconic diptychs. Two of these pieces, "Wreath" and "Somewhere Jerusalem," evoke the sense of ceremony, ritual, and a longing for space and homeland. Organized by Meridian Gallery Arts Center, the exhibition will tour under the gallery’s auspices to; Katzen Museum of Art at American University (June 9, 2012-August 12, 2012) and the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art at Saint Louis University (September 23, 2012-December 16 2012). The exhibition will include a full-color catalog. Graham’s work has also been the subject of exhibitions and symposiums internationally, including ... More In the space of the beholder: Exhibition of Contemporary sculpture on view at Pinakothek der Moderne
MUNICH.- A greater appreciation of contemporary sculpture can be gained from 25 selected works by 20 international artists, exhibited in nine rooms in the Pinakothek der Moderne. The spectrum of works ranges from wall reliefs and assemblages to light and film installations. Works on paper and photographs also clearly show the sculptural intent. At the same time the exhibits reflect a focal point in the collection that has evolved during the now ten-year history of the Pinakothek der Moderne. The concept of sculpture has fundamentally widened over the past 100 years. The matter-of-course exposure to found objects, the use of unusual materials and individual work methods have redefined this medium. Nevertheless, many artists still call themselves ‘sculptors’, and every three-dimensional work of art is still referred to as a ‘sculpture’, even if it has nothing to do with the traditional ... More Raqs Media Collective's "Reverse Engineering" launches Nature Morte's new gallery space in Berlin
BERLIN.- Nature Morte announces the inauguration of their new gallery space on Rosa Luxemburg Platz with a solo exhibition by the Raqs Media Collective. For their first solo show at Nature Morte Berlin, Raqs Media Collective is showing their ongoing project „The Euphoria Machine“. Comprised of two demonstration tables, various drawings, prints and monitors, the large installation takes the form of a laboratory, which works as a diagram for a conceptual engine of the desire that fuels capitalism. The artists put forward the hypothesis that it’s the human desire for joy, beauty, satisfaction and love, which fuels economic growth and perpetuates our continuously growing culture of consumption. The point of departure for this project is the existence of the machine and to examine the evidence of it around us, in plans, projections, advertisements, policy statements, ... More Menil Byzantine frescoes en route to Cyprus
HOUSTON, TX.- Over the past two days, the largest intact Byzantine frescoes in the Western Hemisphere were removed from their home in Houston, Texas. The extraordinary story of the two relics began more than 20 years ago, when they were rescued from the black market by Menil Collection founder Dominique de Menil after being looted from a Chapel in the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus and dismantled into 38 pieces with a chainsaw. Following a groundbreaking agreement between the Menil and the Archbishopric of Cyprus, the frescoes were restored and have spent the last 15 years in the Byzantine Fresco Chapel. The concluding leg of their journey began earlier this week, when the frescoes were removed from the Chapel and prepped for the journey to their homeland. In 1983, Dominique de Menil, founder of the Menil Collection, was presented with an ... More |
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