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Reflections of contemporary art on the newspaper medium at Martin Gropius Bau
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A man observes the artwork 'Und dann noch das Wetter' (And now the weather, 2010) by German artist Olaf Metzel on display at the exhibition 'Art and Press' held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Germany, 22 March 2012. 56 international artists are featured during the exhibition that runs from 23 March to 24 June. EPA/STEPHANIE PILICK.
BERLIN.- The newspaper has served as material and subject matter for art since the mid-19th Century. Artists deal with this medium in many ways, whether in its function as an instrument of information or of manipulation. The motivations and meanings behind the use of the medium are always different. The exhibition ARTandPRESS shows 56 artistic positions on this issue. Many artists have created new work especially for the exhibition or have selected pieces from their oeuvre. Anselm Kiefer, for example, shows his view on the subject of media change in a large installation in the central atrium of the Martin-Gropius-Bau. The young Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri deals with the subject of censorship with his installation "Newsstand". In their series of paintings "London Pictures", ... More |
| One of the last important Edward Hopper works in private hands acquired by SFMOMA |
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Former San Diegans bequest major works of art to city's two largest art institutions |
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Wall Drawings from 1968-2007 by Sol Lewitt on view at Centre Pompidou in Metz |
Edward Hopper, Intermission, 1963 (detail); oil on canvas, 40 x 60 in.; collection SFMOMA, purchase in part through gifts of the Fisher and Schwab families; © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art; photo: courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced today the acquisition of Edward Hopper's Intermission (1963), among the artist's largest and most ambitious paintings, and one of the last significant Hopperworks remaining in private hands. Intermission was acquired from Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, in part through gifts from the Fisher and Schwab families, and will immediately go on view to the public at SFMOMA on Friday, March 23. In the last years of his life, Hopper, who was never prolific, made only two complete works each year—one in the spring and one in the fall. Intermission was painted in March and April of 1963, and was one of the last four paintings that Hopper finished before his death in 1967. Measuring 40 by 60 inches, it is ... More |
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Max Pechstein, Untitled Palau Landscape, ca. 1914-18, oil on canvas. From the Estate of Vance E. Kondon and Elisabeth Giesberger.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- A private art collection amassed over more than 30 years is returning home to San Diego, bringing to the city masterpieces of minimalism and of German Expressionism. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and The San Diego Museum of Art are both the recipients of a major bequest valued at more than $40 million from the late Dr. Vance E. Kondon and his wife Elisabeth Giesberger. Kondon was one of San Diego’s premier art collectors and an avid supporter of the city’s cultural scene. His collection ranged from figurative works from the first half of the 20th century to refined abstract pieces from 1950 forward. Kondon served several terms on the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Board of Trustees between 1971 and 1981, and his contemporary collection reflected the minimalist aesthetic that the Museum was presenting at that time, and for which the institution is still ... More |
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Sol Lewitt, Wall Drawing #462.
METZ.- Centre Pompidou-Metz presents a major project around the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). In the 13,000 square feet of Galerie 2, Centre Pompidou-Metz is hosting a retrospective of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings on a scale never seen before in Europe. The selected thirty-three wall drawings, the largest group ever exhibited in Europe, span the artist's career from its beginnings to his final works. Chosen from the 1200 wall drawings which LeWitt created between 1968 and 2007, the selected wall drawings reflect both the extraordinary consistency of the artist’s systematic explorations - with logical sets and combinations of geometric elements - and the remarkable diversity of his practice, both in the evolution of the forms (from simple geometric figures to what the artist called "complex" or "continuous" forms), and of the materials used by LeWitt (from pencil and crayon to India ink, acryl ... More |
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| Five paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi to headline Sotheby's Scandinavian sale in London |
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Sotheby's Classical Chinese Paintings sale soars over estimate to total $35.2 million |
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Images of powerful women dominate £3.5M South African art sale at Bonhams |
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with Two Candles, painted in 1904 (67 by 54cm., 26½ by 21¼in.). Estimate: £400,000-600,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Five paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) will headline Sotheby’s Scandinavian Sale on Monday, 11 June 2012. An exceptional offering, the group comes to the market following the company’s sale of three works by the Danish master in November 2011**. Four of the paintings depict Hammershøi’s home in Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, which provided the backdrop for the artist’s most iconic and celebrated works. Together, the group is estimated to bring in excess of £1.45 million. Commenting on this unprecedented event in recent years, Claude Piening, Senior Director in Sotheby’s European Paintings Department, said: “We are delighted to be offering such an important and representative group of paintings by the artist, particularly at a time when his work is receiving the attention and appreciation it deserves, in light of the major 2008 retrospective at the Royal Academy and the Mus ... More |
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Emperors of the Southern Song, 12th to 13th Century. Calligraphy In Various Script Forms. Est. $750,000/1 million, (one of four is pictured) Sold for: $5,682,500. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today at Sotheby’s the auction of Fine Classical Chinese Paintings brought a total of $35,162,938, totally eclipsing the pre-sale estimate of $9.8/13.7 million. Estimates tumbled throughout the sale and nine lots sold for over $1 million. The auction was led by Emperors of the Southern Song 12th to 13th Century, Calligraphy In Various Script Forms which sold for $5,682,500, several times the $750,000/1 million estimate. This was the first time Sotheby’s has included a dedicated sale of Classical Chinese Paintings in the March series of auctions coinciding with Asia Week New York. Today’s auction brought the overall total for this week’s Asian art sales at Sotheby’s to $61,802,816, well over the estimate of $29.1/41.3 million. Iris Miao, Head of the Classical Chinese Painting Department at Sotheby’s New York said: “I am ... More |
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Zulu Girl, painted in 1935 at the height of Stern’s creative powers sold for £457,250. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Images of powerful women dominated the Bonhams sale of South African Art in London yesterday (21st March 2012) which made a total of £3.5m (R43m). Works featuring women by the country’s leading artists, Irma Stern, William Kentridge and Gerard Sekoto were among the strongest performers in the sale. Giles Peppiatt, Director of South African Art at Bonhams, comments: “This sale once againconfirms the pre-eminence of Irma Stern in South African art and the continuing interest of the international art market in South African art, It was just a couple of years ago that prices of the kind achieved in this sale would not have seemed credible.” A stunning image from one of Irma Stern’s trips to Zanzibar which inspired some of her best work, titled ‘Pink Sari’ , signed and dated 1947, and with its original Zanzibar frame, sold at Bonhams today for £959,650 .Never before seen on the open market, ... More |
| Exhibition at Grand Palais brings together more than two hundred photographs by Helmut Newton |
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Exhibition at Weserburg centered around Rebecca Horn's films and performances |
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Broad Art Museum at MSU appoints Adjunct Curator, Development Director, and Curator of Performances |
British Vogue, Londres, 1967© Helmut Newton Estate.
PARIS.- Since Helmut Newton?s death (1920 ? 2004), there has been no retrospective of his work in France, although he did much of his work there, particularly for the French edition of Vogue. Provocative, sometimes shocking, Newton?s work tried to capture the beauty, eroticism, humour ? and sometimes violence ? that he sensed in the social interaction within the familiar worlds of fashion, luxury, money and power. The exhibition bring together more than two hundred photographs, mostly original or vintage prints made under Helmut Newton?s supervision: Polaroid, working prints in various sizes, monumental works. It will be supported by a film made by his wife of sixty years, the photographer June Newton: Helmut by June. It takes a retrospective, thematic angle. Through the major themes in his work: fashion, nudes, portraits, sex and humour, the exhibition seeks to show that Newton was much more than a fashion photographer. His photography shook off all constraints, even though he ... More |
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Rebecca Horn, Zen für einen Adlerflügel, 1994, Detail, Slg. Nieders. Sparkassenstiftung Hannover © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012, Foto: Björn Behrens.
BREMEN.- Rebecca Horn is one of the most prominent contemporary artists. Known worldwide for her space-consuming installations, her protean oeuvre comprises drawings, collages, performances, films, as well as objects and moving sculptures that develop a secret life of their own. Concurrent with the TANZ BREMEN festival, the Weserburg is going back to the beginnings of her creative work and is mounting an exhibition centered around her films and performances. Her early works already exhibit striking poetic force and iconographic diversity; their point of departure and source of energy is the human body, whose possibilities and limitations she explores and seeks to overcome. In the early 1970s, Rebecca Horn began filming her performances. With her body sculptures and her so-called body extensions she ... More |
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Marcia Crawley has joined the Broad/MSU as Development Director, leading the final stages of the fundraising campaign for the new museum and garnering support for future exhibitions and programs.
EAST LANSING, MI.- As it prepares to open to the public in fall 2012, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (Broad/MSU) continues to build its international leadership team with three new staff appointments. Beijing-based curator and critic Dr. Wang Chunchen, a recipient of the prestigious Contemporary Chinese Art Award for art criticism, joins the Broad/MSU as Adjunct Curator. The museum has also appointed Marcia Crawley, formerly of the Salvador Dali Museum , as Development Director, and Dan Hirsch, formerly of the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston and Emerson College , as Curator of Performances and Public Programs. “I am thrilled to be working with such an accomplished group to realize our mission to explore culture and ideas through international contemporary ... More |
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| Celebrated works of the 20th century featured in Wright's bi-annual Modern Design auction |
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Arts Council Collection announces new partnership with four regional museums supported by Christie's |
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Cain Schulte Contemporary Art presents the newest metal sculptures by David Buckingham |
Jordan Mozer, Potato Chip chair.
CHICAGO, IL.- Wright’s 2012 auction season opens March 29th with the bi-annual Modern Design auction featuring celebrated works of the 20th century; all works included in the sale are on view, March 22nd – 28th at Wright, 1440 W. Hubbard St., Chicago. Modern Design includes an impressive selection of American mid-century design with works by George Nelson & Associates, Charles and Ray Eames and Greta Magnusson-Grossman. The sale also features works by Pierre Jeanneret, George Nakashima, Paul Evans and Edward Wormley as well as remarkable objects by Guido Gambone, Ettore Sottsass and Peter Shire. Finally, the sale concludes with a prominent collection of works by Chicago-based designer, Jordan Mozer. From the D’Alba Residence in Glencoe, IL, the Mozer works standout as distinct and complex forms of the highest quality. Chicago designer Jordan Mozer creates distinct and imaginative structures and interiors. His approach to design is comprehensive; with degrees in bo ... More |
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Goshka Macuga, Kabinett der Abstrakten (after El Lissitzky), 2003. MDF, oak veneer, lacquer, 200 x 200 x 200cm. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist. Installation view: Star City- The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, 2010. Photo: Andy Keate.
LONDON.- The Arts Council Collection, one of the largest loan collections of modern and contemporary British art in the world, today, 22 March 2012, announced The Arts Council Collection Partnerships supported by Christie’s, a new partnership with four regional museums. During the four-year scheme, the partner museums – Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Leeds Museums & Galleries, Manchester Art Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool – will create a dynamic programme of displays and exhibitions based on loans from the Arts Council Collection combined with their own collections. Over the course of the scheme, the Arts Council Collection will also provide sustained curatorial and technical support in developing displays and exhibitions of works ... More |
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David Buckingham: "Chicken s#it Motherf%cker", 2012, 40 x 22 inches. Photo: Gilbert Ortiz.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Cain Schulte Contemporary Art presents the newest metal sculptures by David Buckingham in Hell Is Other People. The exhibition opened on March 22 and runs through April 28, 2012. The artist's sixth solo exhibition at the gallery addresses a variety of issues found within American culture, from gun fascination, violence and rampant capitalism to current neuroses surrounding gender, sexuality, and the attainment of beauty through artificial means. The most recent works draw text and surface inspiration from the works of Mel Bochner and from the color studies of Ellsworth Kelly and Damien Hirst. Buckingham also explores a new political involvement in works such as “Die Yuppy Scum”, inspired by Occupy Wall Street. Buckingham's deceptively simple sculptures made of found metal are stunningly direct in technique yet maintain a semiotic ambiguity that is cleverly ... More |
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 "Clothes do not Make the Man" Or do they?
By: Ziva Koort
TEL AVIV.- Clothes reflect people's passions, social preferences and personalities, and enable us to probe into a given social texture. Garments and jewelry, as well as the design of one's living environment in general, bear characteristics of power, gender and human condition. During the twentieth century, and especially during the last decades, the relationship between fashion and fine art has tightened. Fashion designers are influenced by works of art, quote them in the clothes they design and respond to them. Artists, too, respond in their works to fashionable trends, consumer culture, body images and other related issues, that have to do with personal and social identities. The course Body Oriented Textile Design has been conducted for two years ... More Rotimi Fani-Kayode opens first solo exhibition in New York at the Walther Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- The Walther Collection presents Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Nothing to Lose, the first solo exhibition in New York of photographs by the British-Nigerian artist, featuring large-scale color and black-and-white portraits from the late 1980s. Fani-Kayode's images interpret and reveal sexuality across racial and cultural differences, vividly merging his fascination with Yoruba "techniques of ecstasy" and homoerotic self-expression through symbolic gestures, ritualistic poses, and elaborate decoration. The exhibition, on view at The Walther Collection Project Space from March 23 through July 28, 2012, will focus on the influences of exile, religion, sexuality, and death on the artist’s last works. As a Nigerian-born photographer who lived and worked in the U.K., Fani-Kayode was active in the gay political response to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and was a leading voice among black ... More Unknown Pleasures & Competing Tendencies by Ndidi Dike at the National Museum, Lagos
LAGOS.- The National Museum, Lagos at Onikan is presenting Unknown Pleasures & Competing Tendencies, a solo exhibition by the Nigerian artist Ndidi Dike. Featuring a diverse range of materials, the exhibition includes a new large-scale installation and several new cycles of paintings that, created over the course of the past three years, signal new approaches in the technical and conceptual development of Dike's artistic practice. Oscillating between cultural, personal and political spaces, her new body of work effects a complex tableau of meaning wherin both the past and present are made visible through a rigourous engagement with process and materiality. Through assemblage strategies that distort, complicate or rupture prevailing associations with discarded and synthetic materials—such as industrial printing plates, marine wood, acrylic, and polyurethane ... More Rod Barton Gallery presents Blitz, an exhibition of new work by four contemporary German artists.
LONDON.- Playfully referring to the artist’s country of origin, the show’s title uses the colloquial development of language as a departure point. Fifty years ago the word ‘blitz’ would need to be used delicately, especially in London - yet the passage of time allows for words and symbols to become liberated of their original context, freely adopted for multiple purposes. The contemporary use of this term might be used regarding the act of completing a task quickly, even flippantly. Considering this shift from historically charged content to informal slang, Blitz brings together artistic practices that channel these processes of co-option and transformation. Appropriating diverse materials such as cloth, dye, paper, cling-film, spray paint and candle wax these four artists employ an exploratory approach to image making that plays particular attention to surface and gesture and further ... More Michael Rosenfeld Gallery to relocate to Chelsea
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery announces it will be moving to Chelsea after 23 vital years on West 57th Street . The gallery has purchased the ground floor commercial condominium space of 100 Eleventh Avenue (at 19th Street ), the iconic residential tower designed by Pritzker Award winning architect Jean Nouvel. The sale was brokered by agent Suzanne Sunshine of S. Sunshine & Associates LLC. To design the 6500-square-foot space, Rosenfeld has enlisted the services of preeminent architect Richard Gluckman of Gluckman Mayner, designer of a wide range of institutional, commercial, and residential projects throughout the United States , Europe, and Asia , including over forty commercial art galleries. Construction has begun under the management of Gorton & Partners, LLC and is scheduled to be completed by the end of summer 2012. “Our move ... More "Picasso to Warhol" brings in record school attendance at the High Museum of Art
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art in Atlanta announces that more than 75,000 students have seen or are scheduled to visit the current “Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters” exhibition, a record for the institution. Of those students, 43,000 will visit as part of the Museum’s Art Access program, which allows free admission and bus travel for students at Title I schools. In January the High broadened the reach of the Art Access program, allowing any Title I school in the state to participate. Since that announcement, 23,000 students from 174 schools were booked to visit the High from 51 of the surrounding counties in Georgia. “The High’s Art Access program serves such an important purpose as an educational resource for the schools and students of Georgia,” said Patricia Rodewald, the High’s Eleanor McDonald Storza Director of Education. “The response that ... More |
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