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Women: Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning exhibition opens in Munich
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Two museum employees look at the artwork 'La Pisseuse' by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, on display for the upcoming exhibition 'Women' at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany. The exhibition will run from 30 March until 15 July. EPA/ANDREAS GEBERT.
MUNICH.- In March 2012, Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne will host the first major exhibition exploring the role of the female figure in the works of three of the most influential artists of the 20th century. »Women. Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning« will bring together around 100 works from international institutions such as the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, the Tate Gallery, London, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, the Centre Pompidou and the Louvre, Paris as well as loans from private collections which have never been on public display before. The Pinakothek der Moderne, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012, holds one of the most comprehensive collections of Max Beckmann works in the world. ... More |
| Guggenheim announces out-of-print John Chamberlain exhibition catalogue now a free e-book |
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First comprehensive exhibition of Lyonel Feininger's photographs makes final stop at Harvard Art Museums |
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Russian works of art, Fabergé & icons for sale at Sotheby's in New York this April |
Ultima Thule, 1967. Galvanized steel, 64 × 44 × 36 inches (162.5 × 111.8 × 91.4 cm). Private collection © 2011 John Chamberlain / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve.
NEW YORK, NY.- For a limited time, selections from the 1971 exhibition catalogue John Chamberlain: A Retrospective Exhibition are free to download through the Guggenheim Store. Available in EPUB format for reading on iPhones and iPads, the title was originally published on the occasion of John Chamberlain's first museum retrospective, held at the Guggenheim more than forty years ago, and reveals early insight into the artist's work, process, and inspiration. The introductory essay, written by former Guggenheim curator Diane Waldman, surveys the artist's diverse influences and examines his explorations in material, highlighting his ability to hew a sense of order and beauty out of the apparent chaos of crushed automobiles and discarded steel. In the accompanying interview, artist Donald Judd and former Art in America editor Elizabeth C. Baker join Waldman and Chamberlain in a free-ranging conversation about ... More |
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Lyonel Feininger, Untitled (Second Avenue El from Window of 235 East 22nd Street, New York), 1939. Gelatin silver print. Gift of T. Lux Feininger, Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Ger 146.4 (379). © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Houghton Library, Harvard University.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- One of the most versatile talents of the modern art movement in Germany, the American-born Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) is celebrated as a master of caricature, figurative painting, and a distinctive brand of cubism, but he also created a fascinating body of photographic work that is virtually unknown. Drawn primarily from the collections at Harvard University’s Houghton Library, the exhibition Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939, presented at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 30 through June 2, 2012, offers the first opportunity to consider his achievement within the medium. Around 60 of Feininger’s photographs, as well as related works on paper and two of his early cameras, are on display. The photographs are complemented by an installation ... More |
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A Rare Fabergé Carved Lapis Lazuli Desk Clock Mounted in Gold, Silver, and Enamel, Workmaster Henrik Wigstrom, St. Petersburg, circa 1910. Est. $250/350,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York auction of Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons on 17 April 2012 will offer a strong selection of rare and magnificent objects, many of which are emerging from private collections where they have been hidden for decades. The morning session at 10am will include icons, bronzes, porcelain and jewelry, featuring 124 dinner, soup and dessert plates commissioned in 1856 by Emperor Alexander II as additions to the St. Andrew Service, and crafted at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in St. Petersburg (11 lots, with estimates ranging from $9,000 to 80,000). The afternoon session at 2pm will offer important silver, enamels, Fabergé pieces, led by A Rare Fabergé Carved Lapis Lazuli Desk Clock Mounted in Gold, Silver, and Enamel, Workmaster Henrik Wigstrom, St. Petersburg, circa 1910 that once belonged to legendary collector and businessman Lansdell ... More |
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| Art from the 20th century and cutting-edge contemporary art on view at the National Gallery of Denmark |
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A visual history of the impact of the ideas of the early Avant-Gardes opens at the Juan March Foundation |
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Sculpture exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art also features portfolio of Jim Dine's Pinocchio Illustrations |
Edvard Weie (1879 - 1943), Faun and Nymph, 1940-41.
COPENHAGEN.- Art from the 20th century and cutting-edge contemporary art are on the agenda when the National Gallery of Denmark officially presents the results of the third and final stage of its recent and comprehensive revitalisation of the Gallery’s collections of 700 years of art. Artistic gravitas and innovative modes of presentation are obvious objectives for the National Gallery of Denmark, but in addition to this the Gallery’s new displays of the permanent collections aim to establish a clear overview of the collection’s key areas. That particular challenge is especially demanding as regards art from the dawn of the 20th century onwards: During this time art explodes and scatters into a wealth of modes of expressions and media at dizzying speeds. "Danish and International Art after 1900" is a multi-faceted display of the main movements within Danish art. Arranged in an overall chronological order, the pres ... More |
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Natan Al'tman, Alumno del Ejercito Rojo no 8, 1923. Maqueta en tinta y gouche sobre papel. Coleccion Merril C. Berman.
MADRID.- The Avant-Garde Applied (1890–1950) opens in Madrid on 30 March at the Fundación Juan March. Featuring almost 700 works ranging from original designs to photomontages, books, magazines, posters, postcards, leaflets, preparatory sketches and models, the exhibition aims to offer an overview of the way that avant-garde ideas were applied to politics and ideology, advertising, the media, architecture, urban and interior design, exhibitions, the theatre, film and photography, from the last decade of the 19th century, in the years just prior to the rise of the avant-garde movements, and throughout the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition will be on show at the Fundación Juan March until 1 July. Prior to the formulation of modern aesthetics in the 18th century that brought about a new autonomy of the fine ... More |
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Jim Dine, White Gloves, 4 Wheels, 2007. Oil-based enamel and charcoal on wood, 81-1/2 x 58-1/4 x 24 inches (207 x 148 x 61 cm). Photo by: G. R. Christmas / Courtesy The Pace Gallery© Artists Rights Society/ ARS NY.
ROSLYN, NY.- Within the galleries and on the sculpture grounds at the Nassau County Museum of Art, this exhibition highlights Jim Dine’s recent sculptural works. Sculpture / Jim Dine / Pinocchio will be on view at the Museum from March 31 through July 8, 2012. The museum’s main galleries will be devoted to several themes – the artist’s Heart and Venus works, Gardening and Carpentry Tool imagery, and recent Pinocchio sculptures. Several major sculptural works will be installed outdoors on the Museum’s expansive 145-acre sculpture park and nature preserve, including The Mountains in the Distance of 1987-88. This iconic bronze work places the Venus de Milo form on its side, abstracting the vertical of the figure to evoke a hori- ... More |
| New site-specific wall sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly to be installed at new visual arts center at Dartmouth |
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Eddie Rickenbacker's pub in San Francisco Tiffany lamps coming to New York City auction |
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Photographer Nick Brandt, "On This Earth, A Shadow Falls" opens at Hasted Kraeutler |
Rendering by Machado and Silvetti Associates, Inc, courtesy of Dartmouth College.
HANOVER, NH.- Dartmouth College today announced the naming of its visual arts center in honor of Leon Black, Class of 1973, and his wife Debra, who are contributing $48 million toward the new state-of-the-art visual arts center, opening September 2012. Designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates, the Black Family Visual Arts Center will house the Departments of Studio Art, Film and Media Studies, and the nascent Digital Humanities program. The 105,000-square-foot sustainably designed building will serve as an intellectual and cultural hub in Dartmouth’s new Arts District, which includes the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Hood Museum of Art, both of which are initiating expansion projects. “This visionary gift recognizes the centrality of the visual arts in our lives and the value of visual literacy for all,” said President Jim Yong Kim. “The work enabled by the Black Family Visual Arts Center—th ... More |
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Tiffany's circa 1910 "Laburnum" leaded glass and bronze table lamp. AP Photo/Christie's.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- The original Tiffany lamps that lined the bar at Eddie Rickenbacker's pub in San Francisco are heading to a New York City auction house, where they are expected to bring more than $2 million, Christie's said Thursday. All six of the table lamps and one Tiffany hanging chandelier will hit the auction block on June 14. Eddie Rickenbacker's colorful proprietor, Norman Jay Hobday, died in February 2011. He is credited with inventing the "lemon drop" martini and the "fern bar," a term applied to another bar he had owned called Henry Africa because of all the hanging plants. Hobday later adopted Henry Africa as his own name. His signature decor at Eddie Rickenbacker's included vintage motorcycles hanging from the ceiling and the Tiffany lamps. He purchased his first Tiffany lamp at a 1993 auction, and kept them safe ... More |
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Nick Brandt, Elephant Drinking, Amboseli, 2007. Photo: Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hasted Kraeutler announce their inaugural exhibition of work by Nick Brandt, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, beginning March 29 and running through May 19, 2012. The prints in this exhibition span nearly a decade of the photographer’s work and will feature the most famous and sought after images of his career. Nick Brandt photographs endangered animals in Africa and was first drawn there In 1995 when he went to Tanzania to direct Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song”. Deeply moved by the experience he searched for a way to capture and preserve what he saw. Nick Brandt photographs his subjects, “in the same way I would a human being, watching for the right ‘pose’ that hopefully will best capture his or her spirit.” “What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being. In the state of Being before they are ‘no longer are.’ Before, in the w ... More |
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| Artist Eugene Lemay's first exhibition with Mike Weiss Gallery opens in New York |
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Looking South: Mingei Museum sends part of permanent collection south of the border |
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Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with exhibitions |
Eugene Lemay, Unbounded 2, 2012. Inkjet print on archival paper, 59 x 74 inches. Photo: Courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents Navigator by Eugene Lemay. For his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Lemay presents an installation of large-scale, atmospheric tableaus composed of layers of digitally altered Hebrew text. Nearly black at first glance, the tapestry of indiscernible marks conjures notions of remembrance as ethereal terrains and undulating mountains reveal themselves in fictional nightscapes. Measuring up to 20 feet in length, the works are adhered directly onto the gallery walls, enveloping the viewer’s entire field of vision and inviting an experience of the sublime. The title of the show is derived from Lemay’s time spent as a navigator in the Israeli Army. Guided by the recollection of studied aerial strips while engulfed in utter darkness, the role of the navigator is to plot, ascertain and move on foot through the night. The navigator ... More |
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Mask, Sierra Leone, 19th century, wood. Gift of Edmund Burke. Collection of Mingei International Museum.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- On March 30, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) will open the largest exhibition to date of Mingei International Museum’s permanent collection. Titled MINGEI – The Beauty of Use, the exhibition will feature 500 objects installed in the El Cubo International Gallery at CECUT, on view until July 22nd. “This exhibition showcases objects that are among the highest expressions of human creativity arising from daily life in cultures around the world,” said Mingei director Rob Sidner, who is also the curator of the exhibition. “We have partnered with CECUT to bring Mexican artwork here to Mingei, and now we are honored to have the opportunity to mount a truly international exhibition across the border.” MINGEI – The Beauty of Use will capture and present the essence of the Museum’s collection, which now includes over 21,000 objects from 141 countries. Visitors will begin the experience seeing objects both old and contemporary from th ... More |
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William T. Sherman by Mathew Brady Studio, c. 1865 (printed 2011). Modern albumen print from wet collodion negative. Image: 9.4 x 5.8 cm. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Portrait Gallery continues to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, with rotating exhibitions, many of which draw heavily on the museum’s permanent collection. These presentations, which mark each year of the war, complement the installation of objects from the Civil War that are on long-term display in the exhibition “American Origins.” In addition, the building that houses the museum at Eighth and F streets N.W., served as a Civil War barracks and hospital to Union soldiers and hosted Lincoln’s second inaugural ball March 6, 1865, as the war was nearing its conclusion. Having come to the United States in 1848 in the wave of immigration from Germany after its failed revolution, Adalbert Volck settled in Baltimore. Unusual for the politically liberal ... More |
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 Egypt artists "reopen" street by graffiti protest
CAIRO (AP).- After Egypt's ruling military sealed off streets around Cairo's Tahrir Square with walls of imposing concrete blocks, a group of artists decided to reopen the avenues on their own — in the public imagination, at least. On one of the walls, they painted an exact trompe-l'oeil reproduction of the street behind it, as if it were open. The perspective painting matches up with the architecture of the neighboring buildings and even has some "pedestrians" strolling along the boulevard. The street's new name is "No Walls Street." The graffiti piece is the work of the Revolution Artists Association, a group of young Egyptian artists who say the uprising against authorities in the country continues a year after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. They have covered walls around Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the anti-Mubarak uprising, with graffiti art, including portraits of protesters ... More Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum receives Buzz Lightyear flown in space
WASHINGTON, DC.- Space-ranger Buzz Lightyear, of Toy Story fame, became part of the National Air and Space Museum’s popular culture collection today. Launched May 31, 2008, aboard the space shuttle Discovery with mission STS-124 and returned on Discovery 15 months later with STS-128, the 12-inch action figure is the longest-serving toy in space. Disney Parks partnered with NASA to send Buzz Lightyear to the International Space Station and create interactive games, educational worksheets and special messages encouraging students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The action figure will go on display in the museum’s "Moving Beyond Earth" gallery in the summer. "We are pleased to welcome Buzz Lightyear into the National Collection; very soon space shuttle Discovery—his ride to space—will join him," said ... More Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin video installation opens at the Jewish Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum is presenting Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin: a small world…, a video installation, from March 30 through August 26, 2012 in the Museum’s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center. In this video (1999-2001, 6 min. 30 sec.), Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin juxtapose home movies of their families - one African American and one Jewish American - to explore the commonalities of middle-class life across racial lines. The silent footage was shot during the childhood of the artists in the 1970s, Biggers in California and Zackin in New York. The similarities in both family narratives are striking, and the tone is playful. The Biggerses and the Zackins celebrate birthdays, travel to Disneyland, and entertain at indoor and outdoor gatherings. Yet the split screen sets up two clearly delineated and nonintersecting worlds - black America ... More Lorax statue taken from home of Dr. Seuss's widow
SAN DIEGO (AP).- They took the Lorax, made of bronze, the thieves they came, and now he's gone. A 2-foot statue of Dr. Seuss' Lorax character was stolen from the San Diego backyard garden of the 90-year-old widow of the beloved author whose real name was Theodore Geisel. Audrey Geisel noticed the statue and its tree-stump base were missing from the garden and were likely stolen over the weekend. Property manager Carl Romero told U-T San Diego (http://bit.ly/H9hxPz ) on Tuesday that he found footprints indicating the thieves had dragged the 300-pound statue to an access road and lifted it over a fence. He had seen the statue Saturday afternoon, and Geisel noticed it was missing Monday morning. Audrey Geisel's daughter Lark Grey Dimond-Cate cast two of the sculptures. One was the lone Seuss character to reside on the family's property overlooking the Pacific ... More Smithsonian showcases replica of monster snake
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- A prehistoric monster snake the length of a school bus that likely fed on supersize turtles and crocodiles has made its way to the Smithsonian Institution for an exhibit opening Friday. The National Museum of Natural History is featuring a life-size replica of Titanoboa (ty-tan-uh-BOH'-ah) along with a cast of its large vertebra through January 2013. When it was alive, the snake averaged 48 feet long. Fossils from the world's largest snake were first discovered in 2004 in a coal mine in Colombia that once was a rainforest. Eventually bones from at least 60 of the monster snakes were uncovered. At first scientists labeled the fossils as being vertebra from a crocodile, but a graduate student noticed there was a difference. A student interning ... More |
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