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Fine Chinese paintings sale presents a rare, large pair of gold screens by Qi Baishi
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A man walks past a rare pair of gold screens by Chinese artist Qi Baishi, during a Sotheby's auction previewed for the press, in Hong Kong. The work is estimated at US$1.9 to 2.6 million and will be auctioned as part of Sotheby's spring sale on April 3. AP Photo/Vincent Yu.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its Fine Chinese Paintings Spring Sale 2012 on 3 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The auction will feature over 3 over 300 lots 00 lots amassed from around the world, which are estimated in excess of HK$200 million / US$25.6 million*. Among them are a number of rare and exquisite paintings from private collections which are fresh to the market. C.K. Cheung, Head of Sotheby's Fine Chinese Paintings Department, said: “This season, we have brought gs Department from Europe, the United States and around Asia outstanding works by prominent modern Chinese artists. This again attests to Sotheby’s global network and our longstanding ties with collectors worldwide, which have enabled us to maintain unrivalled access to some of the finest properties for auction. Paintings and calligraphies from private collections in Japan will be on offer this sea ... More |
| First UK exhibition of sculptures by Joan Miró opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park |
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Retrospective of artist Francesca Woodman's work on view at the Guggenheim in New York |
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Unseen Modern British masterpieces from the Frank Cohen Collection go on show at Chatsworth |
Joan Miró, Project for a Monument, 1979 © Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2012. Photo: Gabriel Ramon.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park stages the first major UK survey of sculpture by Joan Miró (1893-1983) in collaboration with the artist’s foundations and family. With key works sited in the Yorkshire landscape, the exhibition will fulfil the artist’s belief that “sculpture must stand in the open air, in the middle of nature”, as well as providing a rare opportunity to experience the repertoire of this iconic Catalan artist, demonstrating his continued relevance to sculpture. While celebrated for his paintings, Miró strove to “destroy painting” through an art form that transcended the two-dimensional plane and was an early pioneer of construction; a radical approach to making that forever transformed the discipline of sculpture. Miró produced around 400 sculptures and a similar number of ceramic works, the majority concentrated within the later part of his career. The artist viewed sculpture as ... More |
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Francesca Woodman, Polka Dots, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976. Gelatin silver print, 13.3 x 13.3 cm. Courtesy George and Betty Woodman © 2012 George and Betty Woodman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work since Woodman’s untimely death in 1981 at the age of 22, is on view at the Guggenheim Museum from March 16 through June 13, 2012. Spanning the breadth of her production, the exhibition includes more than 120 vintage photographs, artist books, and a selection of recently discovered and rarely seen short videos, presenting a historical reconsideration of Woodman’s brief but extraordinary career. Francesca Woodman is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The exhibition has been curated by Corey Keller, Associate Curator of Photography, SFMOMA, where it opened in November 2011. The New York presentation of Francesca Woodman is organized by Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator, Photography, Solomon R. ... More |
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Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith, Connie Martin, 1915. Photo: Courtesy of The Frank Cohen Collection.
DERBYSHIRE.- A new exhibition of modern British masterpieces, many unseen in public for decades, has opened at Chatsworth today, 19 March 2012. ‘Frank and Cherryl Cohen at Chatsworth’ runs until 10 June and is drawn from their private collection, described by curator Robert Upstone as “one of the finest and most definitive private collections of modern British art”. Internationally known as major collectors of contemporary art, Frank and Cherryl Cohen’s collection of modern British paintings has never before been exhibited publicly. More than 40 works from artists such as LS Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, William Roberts, William Scott, and Paula Rego as well as sculptures by Kenneth Armitage, William Turnbull, Eduardo Paolozzi and Reg Butler are on display with key works including: Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith: Connie Martin, 1915, last exhibited 1960 – Matthew Smith was a key member of the British avant-garde. His picture of Connie Martin subv ... More |
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| Hand-painted Soviet era political posters on view at the Craft and Folk Art Museum |
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The Crisis Commission: Contemporary art greats unite for landmark exhibition and auction |
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Museum of Islamic Art to host new exhibition "Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts" |
Starting in 1985, Gorbachev’s policies of Glasnost, or openness, started to liberalize Soviet society by allowing taboos to be questioned and, in the process, galvanizing people and encouraging them to talk and think freely for the first time.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In collaboration with The Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, the Craft and Folk Art Museum is presenting Deconstructing Perestroika, the first major exhibition in the United States of hand-painted Soviet era political posters that were inspired by a new government policy of transparency in the former Soviet Union. Organized to mark the 20th anniversary of the former super power’s demise in December 1991, this exhibition highlights some of the key political and cultural shifts that defined the era and ultimately led to the fall of the Soviet Union. Curated by Dr. Ljiljana Grubisic, Director of Collections and Public Programs at The Wende Museum, the exhibition showcases thirty original, hand-painted poster designs created by thirteen artists as visual responses to Mikhail Gorbachev’s ... More |
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Leading artist Tracey Emin responds to themes and issues relating to homelessness - isolation, property, security, space.
LONDON.- The Crisis Commission sees some of the most celebrated artists of our day unite to bring major new works to a spectacular exhibition and auction in Spring 2012. The landmark event is a highlight of London’s art scene, bringing together contemporary artists of the highest calibre who have rarely, if ever, exhibited together before. The exhibition takes place in one of London’s most prestigious venues, Somerset House, 14th March – 22nd April 2012. A following auction of exhibited works will take place at Christie’s on Thursday 3rd May, with all proceeds going to Crisis, the UK’s national charity for single homeless people. The cost of creating the works will be met by lead sponsor GlaxoSmithKline. Leslie Morphy, Chief Executive of Crisis said: “We are thrilled that so many leading contemporary artists are participating in the Crisis Commission. This prestigious event will raise much needed funds for our work and ... More |
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Pair of bracelets, Syria or Egypt, 11th Century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha.
DOHA.- The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, announces the exhibition Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, a major international loan exhibition that explores Islamic art through the universal tradition of gift giving. Open to the public from 19 March – 2 June 2012, the exhibition will feature some of the most spectacular and historically significant works of Islamic art. Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts is presented by the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (MIA), in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and with support from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The exhibition features more than 200 works of art, representing a rich variety of media across all periods from the 8th century to the present day. Among the highlights to be shown in Doha will be approximately 20 works from the Museum of Islamic Art’s own collection, a number of which will be shown f ... More |
| The Armory Show announces successful 14th edition, with major sales and more than 60,000 visitors |
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John Newman and Joe Brainard exhibitions on view at Tibor de Nagy Gallery |
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Art Naples art fair presents iconic artists of the 20th and 21st century for sale |
Galerie Guido W. Baudach presented the work by Bjarne Melgaard at the Armory Show.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show, New York’s most important annual international art fair, announced the results of the fourteenth edition, held from March 8 to 11, 2012. Hundreds of major sales were recorded, more than 60,000 visitors attended the fair and the redesigned layout of Piers 92 and 94 in central Manhattan was greeted with an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response. The fair will be remembered as the most vibrant in years. Participants in the 2012 Armory Show represented a thoughtful, curated mix of leading international dealers, who showed work that accentuated the fair’s mission of innovation and discovery. In total, 228 exhibitors participated on Piers 92 and 94. The Armory Show–Contemporary on Pier 94 featured 120 leading international exhibitors, 19 invited exhibitors in Armory Focus: The Nordic Countries, 11 exhibitors in the inaugural edition of Solo Projects and seven arts organizations p ... More |
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Joe Brainard, Untitled (Cherry), 1976. Mixed media, 7 x 5 in. Photo: Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is showing an exhibition of new works by the much admired sculptor John Newman. This marks his first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition comprises ten works that were completed over the last two years. They are all tabletop scaled and represent a wide range of imagery achieved by manipulating and repurposing in some cases an even wider range of material including blown glass, mutex (a composite of cardboard and leather once used in the brims of hats), tulle, wood putty, stones, steel wire, epoxy paint, among many others. The artist works the various material in order to arrive at objects that are inventive, often precariously balanced, brightly colored and both formally sophisticated, in the Modernist tradition, as well as humorous and playful all at once. John Newman’s work has been the subject of over twenty-five solo exhibitions throughout the United States. Hi ... More |
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Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995), VJ Day in Times Square, 1945. Silver Gelatin Print, 20 x 16 inches.
NAPLES, FL.- Art Naples presents the world's most iconic artists of the 20th and 21st century to the Southwest Florida community. The fair will debut the best in blue chip art from modern masters, to vast wall murals by the next generation of urban artists. Highlights from modern masters such as Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, and Miro include Dame mi Tomate (1930) by Paul Klee for $1.2 million and a rare 6' painting from 1979 by Joan Miro valued at $750,000. 20th Century masters set record setting prices at auction and galleries in 2011. Benjamin Genocchio, editor Art & Auction, stated in the March 2012 issue: "There appears to be a consensus among collectors that the value of the 20th century collectables is a safe bet—perhaps safer now than other volatile asset classes, from securities to real estate." For the avid American art collectors and enthusiasts, recently discovered Girl Asking Directions in French (1931) by ... More |
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| World's largest private collection of Lotus cars to be sold by Bonhams at Goodwill 2012 |
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Fine Chinese ceramics and works of art for sale on 20 March at Sotheby's New York |
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1940 census documenting Great Depression to be released by the U.S. government |
Olav Glasius became a lifelong fan of this legendary British marque. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The Lotus collection of Olav Glasius, a world renowned collector and lifetime Lotus fan will be sold on Friday the 29th June 2012 at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale and is expected to realise in excess of £1.5million. As a young motor racing enthusiast watching the legendary Jim Clark dominate the 1963 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in a Lotus 25, Olav Glasius became a lifelong fan of this legendary British marque. As a Dutch textile industrialist, Olav’s lifetime of work and passion for race cars has allowed him to accumulate probably the world’s largest privately owned collection of Lotus road and racing cars. Having assembled one of the finest-quality collections of Lotus products, Olav Glasius has now hung up his racing overalls and entrusted Bonhams with the sale of his superb collection “so that others can enjoy these wonderful machines”. The Glasius Lotus Collection will be offere ... More |
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Two Extremely Rare Famille Rose ‘Heaven and Earth’ Revolving Brushpots, with Qianlong seal marks and dated to the period. Ests. $120/150,000 and $80/120,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 20 March 2012 Sotheby’s New York will present Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art as part of the Asia Week series of Auctions. The sale includes property from over seventy private collections some of which has not been seen in public for over fifty years. The auction features a wide selection of ceramics, jades and furniture including a number of Imperial works. Overall the sale is estimated to fetch between $11.9/16.8 million, the pre-sale exhibition opened this Friday, 16 March. Among the highlights of the sale are two Extremely Rare Famille Rose ‘Heaven and Earth’ Revolving Brushpots, with Qianlong seal marks and dated to the period (ests. $120/150,000 and $80/120,000). Rich with Daoist and cosmological symbolism, only one other pair and two single examples of revolving ... More |
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A poster for the 1940 Census is shown. AP Photo/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.
By: Cristian Salazar, Associated Press
Randy Herschaft, Associated Press
LONDON.- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad. Now, intimate details of 132 million people who lived through the 1930s will be disclosed as the U.S. government releases the 1940 census on April 2 to the public for the first time after 72 years of privacy protection lapses. Access to the records will be free and open to anyone on the Internet — but they will not be immediately name searchable. For genealogists and family historians, the 1940 census release is the most important disclosure of ancestral secrets in a decade and could shake the branches of many family trees. Scholars expect ... More |
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 MythBusters exhibition opens in Chicago
By: Don Babwin, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP).- Who gets wetter, someone walking in the rain or running? Is it really possible to hang from a cliff by your fingers until help arrives like they do in the movies? And is Superman the only one who is faster than a speeding bullet? Those are questions the Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" has asked for years, and starting this past Thursday, anybody who's wondered how long it takes to put on a superhero outfit in a phone booth — don't forget the cape — can answer them for themselves at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. "MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition," opened Thursday, marking the first time the show has taken such questions on the road. The Chicago exhibition, which runs through Sept. 3, is the first of a ... More Thirty recent silver gelatin photographs by photographer Michael Kenna on view at M97 Gallery
SHANGHAI.- M97 Gallery presents the exhibition “Hokkaido to Huangshan”, which includes over 30 recent silver gelatin photographs by internationally acclaimed photographer Michael Kenna. Spanning across Asia from Hokkaido to Huangshan to Halong Bay in Vietnam, this will be Mr. Kenna’s second exhibition in Shanghai, after his 2007 solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum. Michael Kenna is widely known for his enigmatic and ethereal black and white photographs, and is regarded as a contemporary master of the landscape genre. Often using minimal elements and compositions, Kenna creates works of extreme beauty that touch the pinnacle of the viewer’s imagination. The timeless landscapes of China’s Huangshan Mountain and Hokkaido’s pristine natural world have been a source of inspiration for painters and poets throughout history. ... More Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Materiality: An exhibition of painting and sculpture by four artists
NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Materiality, an exhibition of painting and sculpture by four artists: Joey Archuleta, Yevgeniya Baras, Thornton Dial and Matt Stone. Investigating the relationship between materials, process and product, the exhibition examines the formality and informality of the object. The four artists in Materiality arrive at the same point by very different paths. Each is circling his chosen media before deciding on how and when to attack, though when the strike occurs it is with a precise violence. Joey Archuleta’s assault on his works feels like we have weathered a war to get here. The surfaces of the paintings are convex, as if he has punched them in the guts during their making. In works like Caricultural Misdirection, a delicate layer of thin paper rests atop the board, fanning slightly at the edges. The central portion is scrubbed away and a thick ... More 2011-12 Core Program artists and critics present new work in highly anticipated, annual exhibition
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s acclaimed Core program awards residencies to emerging visual artists and art scholars. Overseen by the Core Program’s associate director, Mary Leclère, the Core fellows present an exhibition each spring that showcases work made during that year’s residency. This year’s edition opened with works on view in the Laura Lee Blanton Gallery at the Glassell School of Art through April 20, 2012. The 2012 Core Exhibition features work by artists-in-residence Miguel Amat, Anthea Behm, Lourdes Correa-Carlo, Fatima Haider, Jang Soon Im, Gabriel Martinez, Nicole Miller and Clarissa Tossin. Core critical studies residents Sally Frater, Philip Kelleher and Massa Lemu contribute essays based on their independent research to the Core 2012 Yearbook publication that accompanies the show. For more information about the ... More Solo exhibition by Dutch-Moroccan artist Hamid el Kanbouhi at De Hallen Haarlem
HAARLEM.- This spring De Hallen Haarlem presents La Vache Qui Rit, a solo exhibition by Dutch-Moroccan artist Hamid el Kanbouhi. In 2011 he concluded his residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam with his performance and room filling installation Casting. His new project La Vache Qui Rit is again a ‘performative’ installation, custom made for the exhibition space. La Vache Qui Rit will be on view from 16 March until 3 June 2012. This exhibition coincides with a show of video-installations by Charles Atlas and a presentation of recent acquisitions by De Hallen Haarlem. Drawing constitutes the basis of Hamid el Kanbouhi’s (Larache, Morocco, 1976) practice as an artist. Whether making clay sculptures or a painting, the point of departure is always a sketch or a drawing. Sometimes the drawings are works onto themselves; in other cases they form part of an installation, ... More |
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