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"Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1950-1980" exhibition opens in Berlin
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A man walks in front of the giant painting 'Berlin Red' (1969-1970 ) by artist Sam Francis during a press preview of the exhibition 'Pazific Standart Time' in Berlin Wednesday, March 14, 2012. The exhibition that offers viewers a primer on three decades of Los Angeles' diverse art scene and stems from a decade of research is going on show in Berlin from March 15. until June 10, 2012. AP Photo/Markus Schreiber.
By: Geir Moulson, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP).- A primer on three decades of post-World War II art from Los Angeles, including iconic images from Ed Ruscha and David Hockney, abstract works by Sam Francis and conceptual pieces from the 1960s and 1970s, is going on show in Berlin. The show, "Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1950-1980," is one result of a mammoth project organized by the Getty Research Institute and the Getty Foundation. It stems from a decade of research into southern California's diverse art scene. "There'll be many names of people, artists you have come to know and associate with Los Angeles, whether it's Ed Ruscha or Larry Bell or John Baldessari," one of the curators, Rani Singh, said as the show was presented Wednesday. "But there's also many, many other names and unknown names and people you might not have heard of," she said. "That idea of bringing all of these artists together was at the core of the research we've been doing." ... More |
| Two new installations now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York |
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After seven years of trial and testimony from dozens of experts, Israeli court clears 2 of faking Jesus-era box |
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Hammer Galleries celebrates its third year exhibiting at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht |
Cadavre Exquis with Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, and Man Ray, Nude, 1926-27. Composite drawing of ink, pencil, and colored pencil on paper. 14 1/8 x 9″. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2012 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration brings together around 90 works from MoMA's collection that explore the various operations to which artists have submitted the human figure since the turn of the last century. In a series of cross-chronological groupings, works from a range of moments and movements are brought together, highlighting shared strategies for disrupting the body's order. MoMA's five exquisite corpse drawings are on view, along with works by artists from Joan Miró and André Masson to Louise Bourgeois and Robert Gober to Mark Manders and Nicola Tyson. Art's academic tradition regards the human figure as a symbol of perfection and a primary system of organization, yet these works prove that artists have just as persistently been driven to disfiguration. Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and ... More |
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Israeli antiquities collector Oded Golan sits in court in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner.
By: Daniella Cheslow, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP).- Is the purported burial box of Jesus' brother James fake or authentic? Seven years of trial, testimony from dozens of experts and a 475-page verdict Wednesday failed to come up with an answer. A Jerusalem judge, citing reasonable doubt, acquitted Israeli collector Oded Golan, who was charged with forging the inscription on the box once hailed as the first physical link to Christ. Golan said the ruling put an end to what he portrayed as a 10-year smear campaign against him. Hershel Shanks, editor of the Washington-based Biblical Archaeology, said he was delighted, insisting the burial box, or ossuary, is authentic and a "prized artifact to the world of Christianity." The Israel Antiquities Authority, which believes Golan's most high-profile items are forged, said the case shows the limits of science in proving forgeries, but it also prompted museums and universities around the world to be more suspicious of finds of uncertain origin. In his ruling, Judge Aharon F ... More |
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Pablo Picasso, Le Peintre, 1967. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 7/8 inches (100 x 81 cm). © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
MAASTRICHT.- Hammer Galleries presents a selection of works from their Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond exhibition at TEFAF Maastricht this year. Following the success of their critically acclaimed Renoir exhibition at TEFAF 2011, Hammer’s current booth features over twenty exceptional paintings by Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Kees van Dongen, as well as significant sculptures by Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró, Henri Matisse and Henry Moore. Hammer is located at stand 449 in TEFAF Modern, which occupies a quarter of the fair and brings together around forty-five top international dealers to present a selection of 20th and 21st century art. Including important works from the “années folles” or “crazy years” of 1920’s Paris through the decades following the Second World War, Paris and Beyond traces the development of these artists from their initial avant-garde beginnings thro ... More |
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| National Galleries launches search for works by Scottish Colourist S. J. Peploe |
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Elizabeth Taylor's gold Cleopatra cape, rarest Beatles U.S. single in existence anchor Heritage Auctions sale |
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Sotheby's sale of the Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla exceeds expectations to realise $7,173,834 |
Samuel John Peploe, Veules-les-Roses, c. 1910 - 1911. Oil on board, 35.60 x 27.00 cm. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
EDINBURGH.- The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art launched an appeal for owners of paintings by the celebrated Scottish Colourist S. J. Peploe to come forward. Following the success of its current exhibition devoted to the work of Peploe’s friend F. C. B. Cadell, the Gallery will be holding a major retrospective of Peploe’s work, opening on 3 November 2012. The exhibition curators are interested in uncovering rarely seen works by one of the most important Scottish artists of the twentieth-century. During his lifetime, Peploe exhibited regularly in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The children and grand-children of his friends and patrons may well still own these works and the Gallery hopes to re-discover some long-since hidden masterpieces. Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) was the eldest of the four artists popularly known as ‘The Scottish ... More |
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The Elizabeth Taylor Ceremonial Cape from "Cleopatra." 20th Century Fox, 1963. Estimate: $20,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- The gold cape that Elizabeth Taylor wore as Cleopatra in two pivotal scenes in the 1963 film of the same name is expected to bring $20,000 as the top entertainment lot in Heritage Auctions’ March 30 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature® auction. The top lot on the music side is expected to be the rarest of all U.S. 45 Beatles singles, a mint condition stock pressing of 1962’s “My Bonnie”/“The Saints,” with the Fab Four as the back-up band, estimated at $30,000+. “These are just a few of the highlights and legendary names we have lined up in this auction,” said Margaret Barrett, Director of Entertainment & Music auctions at Heritage. “We have rare and desirable memorabilia relating to a host of the key figures in late 20th century Pop Culture. Collectors of all levels will find something to be excited about.” The Elizabeth Taylor Ceremonial Cape from Cleopatra (20 ... More |
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Harlequin Alarmed, Meissen, c.1738-40, sold for £121,250 est. £25,000 - 35,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This afternoon the Single Owner sale of property from The Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla: Important Porcelain, Venetian Fine and Decorative Arts from their Residence in Geneva realised £4,575,733 / $7,173,834 / €5,503,686 well above the pre-sale estimate of £2.5 – 3.8 million. The auction was 89 % sold by lot and 96 % sold by value. The top lot was A Capriccio of Classical Roman Ruins by Sebastiano and Marco Ricci, which sold for £349,250 - almost twice its pre-sale high estimate of £120,000-180,000. Descendants of the founder of the most important pasta producer in the world, Giovanni Barilla and in particular, his wife Gabriella, created one of the greatest collections of ceramics and porcelain in Europe. In an auction which attracted buyers from across the globe, tense bidding between collectors resulted in some spectacular prices for the Barillas’ exceptional early Meissen figures. A figure of Harlequin Alarmed, modelled ... More |
| IVAM reviews the work of Roberta González on the major retrospective dedicated to the artist |
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Exhibition examines the impact of the most popular camera of the 20th century |
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German Expressionism: Tel Aviv Museum exhibits prints and drawings from its collection |
Roberta González was born in Paris in 1909, the only daughter of the sculptor Julio González.
VALENCIA.- The IVAM, which takes an essential part of the legacy of Julio Gonzalez, reviews the work of Roberta González on the major survey exhibition that has been dedicated to the artist. The exhibition 'Roberta and Julio Gonzalez', which brings together 108 works, ranging from the first drawings of Roberta reflected in the teachings fathers, until the last frame in which shines her plastic autonomy. Roberta González was born in Paris in 1909, the only daughter of the sculptor Julio González, and she was brought up in a family atmosphere favourable for complete devotion to art, a setting of creative self-sufficiency in which artists such as Picasso, Torres-García and Brancusi were constantly present. She studied at the Académie Colarossi and her early works show the strict influence of her father, with the insistence on observation of reality that marked the development of his own style throughout his life. In 1937, in her fat ... More |
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Mexico City, 1962 (detail). Joel Meyerowitz, American, born 1938. Chromogenic print, Sheet: 20 1/2 x 25 1/8 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the Contemporary Photography Exhibition Fund, 1977. ©Joel Meyerowitz.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Through most of the twentieth century, the handheld 35mm roll-film camera—named for the size of the small film it used—was a ubiquitous and indispensible photographic tool. The camera’s compact design permitted easy concealment and nearly effortless transport, and its fast shutter speed enabled photographers to capture action as it unfolded. At the moment of roll film’s near obsolescence in the digital age, this exhibition presents a survey of 35mm photography and offers an examination of its characteristic look. On view are 66 photographs, beginning with street photographs by Andre Kertesz made in 1928 shortly after the 35mm camera became commercially available and concluding with work by contemporary artists who continue to use roll film. Highlights include work ... More |
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Otto Dix, Portrait of the publisher J.B. Neumann, 1922.
By: Irith Hadar
TEL AVIV.- The term "Expressionism" spans diverse expressions of the modernist current in art and literature, which developed in Germany and in the sphere of German culture in the first two decades of the 20th century. Expressionist art spoke in multiple voices of individual artists and short-lived associations which moved in different directions to expose the experience of a society and a culture in crisis. The common feature of this multifaceted, multilingual totality was the belief in the therapeutic power of subjective-emotional expression. The new modern condition—the main element generating the crisis experience in Expressionist work—became the subject of public debate. Scholars, scientists, and other intellectuals identified the characteristics of modernity—technology, democracy, rationalism, materialism, positivism, demys- ... More |
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| Bronze sculpture of Hellenistic rider found in London home for sale at Bonhams |
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Washington National Cathedral's preservation needs more than $50 million |
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American photographer Alex Prager wins Foam's annual Paul Huf Award 2012 |
After conservation, this sculpture of a Hellenistic warrior of the 1st Century B.C. will be sold for £50,000 to £80,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams next sale of Antiquities on April 25th in New Bond Street features an important piece of Classical bronze sculpture, believed to depict a Hellenistic warrior of the 1st Century B.C., discovered in a London home. After conservation it will be sold for £50,000 to £80,000. Madeleine Perridge, Head of Antiquities at Bonhams, says: “Once in a while you come across something special and despite the condition this piece was in, its power and significance was unmistakable. When we stumbled across this bronze torso it was in a very fragile and fragmentary state in a London home. But there was no mistaking its importance as one of a relatively small group of surviving life-size Classical bronzes. ” Relatively few bronze cuirassed busts such as this have survived, even in fragmentary condition. The posture of this torso suggests that the figure was originally mounted on horseback, with the right arm raised to b ... More |
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An angel, carved from Indiana limestone, lies shattered. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- It's where the nation's capital gathers to mourn, to pray and to seek comfort during tragedies. Now the Washington National Cathedral needs help weathering its own financial emergency. The church has long been a spiritual center for the nation, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors and worshippers each year. It's the burial site of President Woodrow Wilson and for Helen Keller. It's hosted funeral services for Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and other presidents. And during ordeals such as the Sept. 11 attacks, it's been a place for interfaith reflection. But the Episcopal cathedral is facing one of the worst financial binds of its 105-year-old history. An earthquake in August severely damaged its intricate stone work and architecture, with repair costs estimated at $20 million. Aside from that damage, the structure faces $30 million in preexisting preservation needs. Even before the earthquake, a financial crisis forced ... More |
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Sophie, from the series Week-End, 2009 © Alex Prager / courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
AMSTERDAM.- On March 13th Alex Prager (b. 1979, USA) was chosen as the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2012 by an international jury. This annual prize given to a photography talent under 35 years consists of € 20.000 and an exhibition in Foam Amsterdam. Prager’s work will be on show in Foam from August 31st to October 14th, 2012. The Foam Paul Huf Award continues to attract portfolios from all over the world. Out of 100 nominees this year, 49 were from Europe, 13 from Asia, 19 from North America, 6 from South America, 3 from Africa and 10 from the Middle East. The jury was quoted as saying, “We would like to recognise the incredible diversity and richness of nominations from all corners of the world. Our shortlist resulted in a select group comprising the very best in contemporary documentary, fine art and conceptual practice. In our unanimous choice of winner, Alex Prager, the jury recognises work that draws br ... More |
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 Titanic letter to return to Belfast
LONDON (AP).- The descendants of a doctor who died on the Titanic said Tuesday they are delighted that a letter he penned days before the ship sank will return to his hometown, Belfast. John Edward Simpson's family had appealed for a benefactor to buy the note, which was put up for auction earlier this month in Long Island, New York. It did not meet the reserve price of $34,000, Philip Weiss Auctions said, but a buyer who did not want to be named then bought it for an undisclosed sum after hearing about the family's campaign to bring the letter to the Northern Irish city for public display. Simpson's great-nephew John Martin said the note will soon return to Belfast, where the Titanic was built. "For it to be on its way back is just amazing and so appropriate now just ahead of the 100th anniversary of his death. We are so thankful to the benefactor," he said. The surgeon wrote ... More The Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards: Tomorrow Never Knows
LONDON.- Ed Atkins, Emma Hart, Naheed Raza and Corin Sworn are four of the most exciting new talents to emerge on the contemporary art scene. Picked from a 50-strong nominated shortlist of early to mid-career artists specialising in the moving-image, Atkins, Hart, Raza and Sworn were selected last summer, as the first recipients of The Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards. These awards (consisting of a £4,000 bursary, including production support from Film and Video Umbrella) were given to each artist to develop proposals for a ‘project for the future’ – providing a platform to move their practice forward (and highlight where their thoughts are heading), while also reflecting on ideas and images of ‘the future’ and how they resonate in the present. These pilot projects are revealed in the exhibition Tomorrow Never Knows, curated by Film and Video Umbrella and Jerwood ... More Sharjah Art Foundation announces 5th annual March Meeting
SHARJAH.- The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the fifth annual March Meeting, a three-day symposium featuring presentations by artists, art professionals and institutions on the production and dissemination of art in the MENASA (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia) region and internationally. March Meeting 2012: Working With Artists and Audiences on Commissions and Residencies will take place March 17 -19, 2012, in Sharjah’s scenic Heritage Area. The three-day forum will be held daily from 10 am – 6 pm and will coincide with a programme of engaging exhibitions and events showcasing work that has been created through commissions and residencies in the spirit of this year’s March Meeting theme. Special events will include the opening reception for Ziad Antar’s solo exhibition on March 16, followed by the Middle East premiere of a cinematic project ... More Melbourne contemporary artist Brent Harris exhibits at the National Gallery of Victoria
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria opened the highly anticipated self-titled exhibition of Melbourne contemporary artist, Brent Harris. Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV said: “Brent Harris is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists and we are delighted to be showcasing a solo exhibition of his work.” Brent Harris features works that span more than two decades and represent significant stages in the artist’s career. Well known for haunting imagery that often drifts between abstraction and figuration, Harris’s paintings, prints and drawings are often motivated by an exploration of personal memories and the expression of psychological states. Jane Devery, Assistant Curator Contemporary Art, NGV said: “Harris’s creative output has been marked by a number of aesthetic shifts. He’s an artist who has continually challenged his own approach to image-making to ... More Solo exhibition by Michal Budny at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius
By: Eglė Mikalajūnė
VILNIUS.- From March 9 through April 29, 2012, the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius presents the solo exhibition ‘Big Country’ by Michał Budny. Michał Budny (b. 1976) made his debut in the art world in 2003 with a show at the recently opened Raster Gallery in Warsaw. It was an unexpected exhibition by an artist who seemed to have emerged out of the blue. He was not a graduate of the Art Academy, and was not known at the time in the Warsaw art world. Since then, interest in his work has grown rapidly. He has participated in exhibitions in various European countries, and in 2009 had a solo show in Ujazdowski Castle, in one of Poland’s most prominent contemporary art museums. At first sight, Budny’s elegant, formally laconic works may resemble abstract ... More Sanctuary: Published by Thames & Hudson features a stellar cast of artists
LONDON.- From Botticelli to Bacon, artists have always invested their personalities in their working environments, but these private spaces, often containing the visible remains of artistic ingenuity, toil and torment, are usually kept behind firmly closed doors. Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and their Studios gives a rare and privileged insight to the studios and inspirations of 120 of Britain’s greatest living artists working today, both in Britain and abroad. Sanctuary features a stellar cast of artists including Frank Auerbach, Ron Arad, Fiona Banner, Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Martin Creed, Tracey Emin, Gilbert & George, Susan Hiller, Howard Hodgkin, Polly Morgan, Cornelia Parker, Grayson Perry, Paula Rego, Juergen Teller, Gavin Turk, Keith Tyson, Rachel Whiteread – the list is extraordinary - and their work encompasses many different ways of thinking about and ... More |
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