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Doghouse designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright rebuilt for documentary film
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In this photo provided by Michael Miner, Jim Berger poses next to a dog house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in Glendale, Calif. AP Photo/Alisse Gratehouse.
By: Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The Fallingwater home in southwestern Pennsylvania. But a child's doghouse Frank Lloyd Wright designed hundreds of landmark buildings and homes during a prolific career that spanned more than seven decades. But in what is widely considered a first and only for the famed architect, Wright indulged a young boy's humble request for a dog house in 1956 and sent him designs for the structure. "I was probably his youngest client and poorest client," Jim Berger, now 68, said during a recent phone interview. Berger rebuilt the doghouse last year with his brother, using the original plans. It was featured in a documentary film and will be displayed during screenings starting this month. Wright designed Berger's family's home in the Marin County town of San Anselmo, prompting the then-12 years old Berger to ask his dad if Wright would design a home for his black Labrador, Eddie. Berger's dad said he didn't know, so Be ... More |
| "The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark" opens at the Kimbell Art Museum |
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Sotheby's to present one of the world's most significant privately owned photograph collections |
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Martin Lawrence Gallery hosts and exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of Warhol's death |
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Seated Nude, 1884, oil on canvas. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
FORT WORTH, TX.- On March 11, 2012, The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark opened at the Kimbell Art Museum, the only U.S. venue for this first-‐ever international touring exhibition of French Impressionist masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The Clark’s superb collection of French Impressionist paintings, which features a remarkable group of works by Pierre-‐Auguste Renoir, is renowned throughout the world. The Clark exhibition is touring for a period of three years (2011–14) and appears at major venues in Italy, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and China. “We are honored to showcase this extraordinary collection,” commented Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “Because many of the Impressionists painted outdoors, their works will sing out especially vibrantly ... More |
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Herbert Bayer, The Lonely Metropolitan. Gelatin-silver print photomontage with gouache and airbrush. Est. $250/350,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This winter, Sotheby’s will celebrate the legendary Buhl Collection of photographs in a single-owner sale in New York. The collection explores the theme of the human hand, encompassing works from the art form’s early 19th century pioneers to the masters of 20th century photography and beyond. It was assembled over the course of 20 years by the visionary philanthropist and collector Henry M. Buhl. The collection was the subject of the critically-acclaimed exhibition Speaking With Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2004, and has since been featured in many of the world’s most renowned institutions from Moscow to Macau. Overall, the auction will comprise approximately 400 lots and is estimated to bring $8/12 million, with a significant portion of the proceeds benefiting The Buhl Foundation. Prior to the exhibition and auction in New York, hig ... More |
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Andy Warhol had the cunning ability not only to make things cool but also to appropriate it through his subjects.
NEW YORK, NY.- Attempting to justify why something is cool belies the word itself. Some things just are: The Rolling Stones, the Corvette Stingray, James Dean, Gibson guitars, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Cash. Martin Lawrence Gallery presents all of the above in a unique survey of the Pop Art movement, with over 40 works by Andy Warhol (14 of those unique), a large-scale iconic collage by Roy Lichtenstein, original Keith Haring sumi ink drawings and a momentous canvas collaboration by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Warhol, measuring over 14 feet wide. Juxtaposed with this rare, museum quality collection are the tangible embodiments of cool – an extraordinary selection of classic American electric guitars, Johnny Cash's infamous black fringed funeral coat from the Hurt music video, a 1975 candy apple red Corvette, a leather motorcycle jacket hand-painted by Keith Haring, and the famous 1971 custom painted Dodge Challenger P ... More |
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| RM Auctions offers a world-class grid of historic racing cars at forthcoming Monaco sale |
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Three Boys from Pasadena: A Tribute to Helmut Newton at Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery |
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Reinisch Contemporary in Graz opens with new works by Austrian artist Hubert Schmalix |
1948 Ferrari 166 Inter Spyder Corsa. Photo Credit: Tom Wood ©2012 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
LONDON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, announced a selection of stunning new consignments for its Monaco auction at the Grimaldi Forum, scheduled 11th – 12th May during the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique weekend. Befitting a sale in such a world-renowned motorsport location, RM has secured a truly outstanding collection of some of the world’s most significant racing cars. The 2012 event has been extended to two sale days (11th – 12th May), and will also feature a wonderful roster of blue-chip, non-competition collector cars and the famous Saltarelli Ducati Collection. “Monaco holds a very special place in the history of motorsport so it's therefore fitting that RM is accumulating a fabulous collection of some of the world's finest historic racing machinery for this year's sale,” says Max Girardo, Managing Director, RM Europe. & ... More |
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'Atelier Sylvie Gaudin', Paris 1991 ©Mark Arbeit, Courtesy Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery, Cologne.
COLOGNE.- After their debut at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin in 2009 and further performances in New York and Paris, now an exclusive selection of works by the ‚Three Boys from Pasadena‘ will be on display at Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery in Cologne. The Three Boys from Pasadena‘ are Mark Arbeit, George Holz and Just Loomis. Besides their mutual profession and a passion for photography, these men share a common past. From the early 1980s all three were assistants to famous photographer Helmut Newton who tragically died in 2004. They look back on a long and intensive period of mentorship and friendship with Newton and his wife June, who initiated and curated the joint exhibition and tribute to her husband. It all began in the darkroom of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where Mark Arbeit and George Holz met for the first time. Just Loomis also studied at the Art Center at the ... More |
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Helmut Reinisch in front of a painting by Hubert Schmalix, taken at the Reinisch Contemporary opening on February 6, 2012. Photo: Anzeigen und Marketing Kleine Zeitung GmbH & Co KG / Marija Kanizaj.
GRAZ.- Winter Journey, an exhibition of new paintings by renowned Austrian artist Hubert Schmalix, marks the return of art collector and dealer Helmut Reinisch to the historical centre of Graz. More than 200 m2 in a prime location are (once again) converted into a setting for selected art projects. Günther Holler-Schuster, Universalmuseum Joanneum, said about Winter Journey: The new paintings by ever-travelling Hubert Schmalix are, as in the past, determined by ostensible contradictions. Tight rows of geometrically aligned houses present themselves in bright colours – bleached from the sun or lightly covered in snow. With Schmalix, emptiness is never oppressive. The formed spaces are painterly dreams. Reality is kept at bay. The pictorial, on the other hand, is closer, creating a new substantiveness. The vegetative becomes ornamental. ... More |
| Meem Gallery displays the recent work of Mohammed Melehi with Ahmed Cherkaoui & Jilali Gharbaoui |
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Florida Museum of Photographic Arts opens grand new home with "Andy Warhol & Friends" exhibition |
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Fine Japanese works art auction at Bonhams highlights New York Asia Week |
Mohammed Melehi, Zig Zag,1984. Lacquer on wood, 150 x 150 cm, Triptych.
DUBAI.- Art Morocco, held at Meem Gallery this spring, presents the rare opportunity to view the work of Moroccan modern masters Mohammed Melehi, Ahmed Cherkaoui and Jilali Gharbaoui. Pioneers of modern abstract painting in Morocco, their work demonstrates how, following the country’s independence in 1956, artists created an aesthetic dialogue between their cultural heritage and the impact of colonialism on North African artistic culture. Having studied abroad during the late 1950s (in Europe and the US), the three artists’ work formally adheres to modern Western artistic techniques but simultaneously references traditional Moroccan arts and crafts, signs and symbols. In 1959, Melehi and Gharbaoui exhibited their work at the Première Biennale des Jeunes in Paris, introducing the international art world to contemporary Moroccan art. The artists, along with Cherkaoui, also participated in the second installment ... More |
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Self-Portrait (Fright Wig), 1986 C 2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
TAMPA, FL.- For the inaugural exhibition in its grand new home in the Cube at Rivergate Plaza, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts welcomes Andy Warhol & Friends to Tampa Bay. This landmark exhibition comes from the Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and runs March 10 through May 27, 2012. Included in Andy Warhol & Friends are vividly hued screen prints as well as photographs and photo booth strips from 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. They feature portraits of such celebrities as John Wayne, Liza Minnelli, Sting, Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Grace Jones and Dennis Hopper. Also included are Warhol's famous self-portraits. Warhol (American, 1928-1987) came to fame with the rise of the Pop Art movement in the 1960s and the explosion of print media and popular culture. An acute social observer, Warhol saw that the image of a famous person was more important than the actual ... More |
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Pair of 6-panel screens of Mt. Fuji and Musashino grasses, early 17th century. Pre-sale est. $50,000-70,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will be participating in Asia Week 2012, which brings together a variety of art outlets to celebrate Asian art from China, India, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. Bonhams will highlight this week with three previews and auctions located at its New York headquarters at 580 Madison. Bonhams will offer a choice selection of Japanese art on March 20, with highlights featuring a private collection of superb lacquer from a California collector, along with Meiji ceramics by Yabu Meizan and other studio ceramic artists. A fine group of cloisonné enamels will also be offered, including works by Namikawa Yasuyuki and Hayashi Kodenji. Bonhams will also show a second selection of prints and oil paintings conceived by the iconic printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950), following the strong results generated in the Bonhams Japanese sale last autumn. This single-owner ... More |
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| "With a French Accent: American Lithography before 1860" opens at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College |
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Museum-quality exhibition from the private collections of Khaled and Hisham Samawi at Ayyam Art Center |
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"Underground: Russian Photography 1970s-1980s" on view at Nailya Alexander Gallery |
Leopold Grozelier, after a daguerreotype by Loyal Moss Ives, The Sailor's Farewell, 1856. TInted lithograph. American Antiquarian Society.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College opens With a French Accent: American Lithography before 1860, an exhibition exploring the French roots of American lithography, on Wednesday, March 14. Featuring some fifty French and American prints from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, the exhibition will be on view through June 3, 2012 in the Morelle Lasky Levine '56 Works on Paper Gallery. The exhibition is free and open to the public. In the early days after its invention in 1798, one of the main appeals of lithography (a printing technique based on the repulsion between grease and water), was that is was ideal for artistic renderings. Not only was it a medium that was relatively easy for artists to use, but also the range of tones and facility of line allowed for the close copying of ... More |
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Oleg Dou (1983 -), 'Ronald from the series Toy Story', 180 X 180 cm. Photo - Plasticization. Edition 4 of 6 2008.
DUBAI.- From March 12 until April 26, the Ayyam Art Center will showcase the second edition of ‘The Samawi Collection II’, a museum-quality exhibition featuring over sixty works of art from the private collections of Khaled and Hisham Samawi. For its inaugural exhibition in 2011, "Selections from the Samawi Collection" displayed fifty carefully selected paintings from Arab artists traversing the region and spanning generations providing an opportunity for visitors to view the history and evolution of contemporary Arab art. ‘The Samawi Collection II’ aims to provide a more comprehensive look into the realms of contemporary photography and conceptual art by expanding the scope to include emerging and established artists from the immediate region as well as France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Korea, and the United States. Photographic works by Lara Attalah, Newsha Tavakolian, Rania Matar, Rich ... More |
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Alexey Titarenko, "Save Electricity," 1986, photomontage. Photo: Courtesy Nailya Alexander Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- “Underground: Russian Photography 1970s-1980s” is on view through March 24, 2012 at Nailya Alexander Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, Suite 704. Gallery hours are 11am‐6pm, Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment. During the Khrushchev’s cultural thaw, nonconformist art and literary movements, involving such figures and activities as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Josef Brodsky and samizdat, had a great impact on the evolution of Russian photography in the 1970s, and laid the foundation for a new generation of photographers during glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s. Photographers in the exhibition challenged the government‐prescribed optimistic style of socialist realism by photographing forbidden topics, and like other unofficial artists, they risked personal safety in pursuit for individual expression and freedom. In the 1970s, Boris Mikhailov, a pioneer of Russian conceptual ... More |
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 Cross arts 2012: The Barbican at 30 - creating the arts centre of the future
LONDON.- A utopian vision for the arts when it opened its doors to the public in March 1982, the iconic Barbican Centre remains at the forefront of the arts as it celebrates its 30th anniversary . With a world-class arts and learning programme spanning and often combining theatre, art, architecture, design, film, music, opera and dance, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms for its diverse audiences. To mark this milestone, the Barbican today looks to major future developments, and announces programme highlights from its 2012-13 season. Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director, said: “This is a defining moment for the Barbican Centre. Thirty years ago the City of London opened the Barbican as a model of the arts in a residential estate, and since then it has become a beacon locally, nationally and internationally for the adventurous arts. Now as our major ... More A collaborative exhibition between IMMA's Programme and Art Alongside opens at Wexford Arts Centre
WEXFORD.- IMMA-ginary Space, an exhibition developed through the continued successful partnership between Art Alongside and the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s National Programme, opens to the public at Wexford Arts Centre on Tuesday 13 March 2012. Art Alongside is an initiative of Wexford County Council Arts Department and is co-funded by the Arts Council and participating primary schools, in partnership with the Wexford Arts Centre and IMMA’s National Programme. Art Alongside is a visual arts programme carried out in an education setting which brings together artists and children in local Co Wexford primary schools to work ‘alongside’ each other based on a chosen theme. Its primary purpose is to allow a framework where artists can work authentically as artists while contributing to the local community. In IMMA-ginary Space a selection of the children’s ... More Cultural identity is an inspiration for sculpture and additional international and American works
RICHMOND, VA.- A single large sculpture by Diana Al-Hadid that interweaves landscape, architecture, and the human figure occupies a room in the 21st Century gallery until September 2. The sculpture is accompanied by new, heavily worked graphite drawings that add another dimension to Al-Hadid’s creative process. Al-Hadid makes complex works that seem in a state of flux, suggesting both incompletion and decay. The wide array of sources that underlie her large-scale forms include Biblical and mythological narratives, Arab oral traditions, Gothic architecture, Western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy. Born in Syria and raised in the United States, Al-Hadid received her MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She currently lives and works in New York. Complementing the exhibition ... More Tinney Contemporary offers intriguing mix of abstract, representational art
By: MiChelle Jones
NASHIVILLE, TENN.- In Tinney Contemporary’s current show, Peri Schwartz’s colorful abstract paintings are interspersed with her large graphite drawings. The subject of most of these pictures is the artist’s own studio, a 10th-floor corner office in a 1930s building in New Rochelle, N.Y. The effect of seeing alternating views of the space, in color and black and white as well as abstract and representational, is stunning. The Architect Within will remain on view through March 24. “It’s just there and it’s available at all times,” Schwartz says of why she began focusing exclusively on her studio. “Also, it’s something I can change and move around and rearrange as opposed to a landscape, a cityscape or even a portrait. It’s something I can manipulate as much ... More The video art and photography of Neil Goldberg on view at the Museum of the City of New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Contemporary video art and photography by noted artist Neil Goldberg (b. 1963) exploring the unexpected resonance of everyday moments in New York City is on view at the Museum of the City of New York through May 28, 2012. Stories the City Tells Itself: The Video Art and Photography of Neil Goldberg presents eight video artworks and three photographic projects that direct the viewer’s attention to moments that are usually experienced only fleetingly. Susan Henshaw Jones, the Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum commented: “Neil Goldberg’s work captures the seemingly trivial moments all New Yorkers experience – from the swirl of your hair in the artificial wind of the subway platform, to the terrible disappointment of just missing a train – and transforms them into universal expressions of what it means to live in this exciting, and ... More Galerie Richard presents Favelas, Spanish artist Dionisio González's first series
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Richard announces the New York debut of Spanish artist Dionisio González. Embodying the roles of utopian/dystopian architect and documentary photographer, González constructs spatially and socially complex worlds that challenge the histories of photography and architecture. In this exhibition, Galerie Richard presents Favelas, González’s first series from 2004 - 2007, which brought him international recognition and acclaim. Favelas (the Brazilian word for shantytowns) became a seminal body of work for González in which he began his renowned process of constructing and deconstructing photographic space. This body of work marks a critical moment in the artist’s career, exhibited for the first time in New York. At first glance, the photographs appear to be seductive depictions of urban locations, however, closer inspection reveals an elegantly ... More |
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