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Popular painter Thomas Kinkade, who built an art empire but drew critical scorn, dies
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In this Sept. 15, 2006 file photo, artist Thomas Kinkade unveils his painting, "Prayer For Peace," at the opening of the exhibit "From Abraham to Jesus," in Atlanta. Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches have been big sellers for dealers across the United States, died Friday, April 6, 2012, a family spokesman said. He was 54. AP Photo/Gene Blythe.
By: John S. Marshall, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- Artist Thomas Kinkade once said that he had something in common with Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell: He wanted to make people happy. And he won success with brushwork paintings that focused on idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches — highly popular works that became big sellers for dealers across the United States. The self-described "Painter of Light," who died Friday at age 54, produced sentimental scenes of country gardens and pastoral landscapes in dewy morning light that were beloved by many but criticized by the art establishment. Kinkade died at his home in Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area of what appeared to be natural causes, said family spokesman David Satterfield. He claimed to be the nation's most collected living artist, and his paintings and spin-off products were said to fetch some $100 million a year in sales, and to be in 10 million homes in the United States. Those light-infused renderings are often prominently displayed in ... More |
| Fifty-one galleries will participate with comprehensive programs in the Berlin Art Weekend from 27-29 April |
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"Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity" at the J. Paul Getty Museum |
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Chinese art by Qi Bashi from Wen Tsan Yu Collection brings $2.6 million at Kaminski Auctions |
Billy Apple (b. 1935), Unidentified Fluorescent Object, 1967. Neon, 51 x 28 x 20 in. Photo: Courtesy Moeller.
BERLIN.- This year's Gallery Weekend Berlin will take place from the 27th to the 29th of April. A total of 51 galleries will open their exhibitions during the weekend, and six new galleries will participate in the comprehensive program. The new additions, which include Chert, CIRCUS, Supportico Lopez, Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender, VeneKlasen/Werner and Galerie Niels Borch Jensen, will enrich the spectrum of the annual tour with young positions, new genres, curatorially expanded exhibition concepts and international gallery branches. The increased number of participants this year stems from the aim of promoting young galleries that were established less than five years ago. These also pay a lower registration fee. The Gallery Weekend will open with the Welcome Reception on Thursday the 26th April. The galleries' official exhibition openings will be held on Friday. The traditional Gallery Weekend dinner will be held ... More |
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Man Ray, Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1934. Gelatin silver print. Image: 25.2 x 20 cm (9 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles© Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, April 3–August 26, 2012, surveys some of the visual strategies used by photographers to picture famous individuals from the 1840s to the year 2000. “This exhibition offers a brief visual history of famous people in photographs, drawn entirely from the Museum’s rich holdings in this genre,” says Paul Martineau, curator of the exhibition and associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. “It also provides a broad historical context for the work in the concurrent exhibition Herb Ritts: L.A. Style, which includes a selection of Ritts’s best celebrity portraits.” Photography's remarkable propensity to shape identities has made it the leading vehicle for ... More |
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Yu's collection is one of the rare collections by a Chinese scholar to come to auction.
BOSTON, MA.- The outstanding art collection of Wen Tsan Yu with works by many famous Chinese artists, the most notable Qi Baishi (1864-1957) sold for over $2.6 million dollars to break all records for the artist. Other artists in the collection, included Puru (1896-1963) and Pu Jin (1893-1966). Most paintings included a dedication by the artist to “ Yu San”, Wen Tsan Yu and the collector’s personal seal. Also in this sale, was his collection of exquisitely painted fans, the most important being a 20th century fan of paper leaf and featuring painting by Wang Yun (1888-1934) on reverse with calligraphy by Zhu Nuzhen. “Yu's collection is one of the rare collections by a Chinese scholar to come to auction. This collection of art and antiques is among the best I've ever seen. Ben Wang Asian Specialist “ Five Chinese 20th century paintings by Qi Bashi sold at ... More |
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| Archaeologist says modern sacrifice rituals in the Levant reveal diversity of beliefs |
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Phillips de Pury & Co. announces superb results from the New York April Photographs Auction |
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The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia breaks ground on Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion |
Tomb of Sheikh Ibrahim showing (to right) the metal poles Bedouin use to hang sheep and goat carcasses during sacrificial rituals. Photo: Paleontological Research Corporation.
MIAMI, FL.- Harvard University educated anthropologist and president of the Paleontological Research Corporation, Dr. Joel Klenck, conducted a study of Bedouin sacrificial rituals that reveal a diversity of beliefs in Arab populations in the Levant. Sponsored by a grant from the Joe Alon Museum, Klenck conducted a study of Bedouin sacrificial rituals completed in 2012 and featured in a forthcoming publication. Rarely revealed by Western researchers, Arab pastoral nomads practice several types of sacrificial rituals other than the main feast of sacrifice or “Id al ‘Adha” that occurs the tenth day of the Hadj or “Dhul Hijjah” and is practiced by all observing Muslims. Three other rituals include sacrifices to spirits or “ginn”, ritual slaughters to ward off curses and bless newly married couples, and commemorations to deceased family ... More |
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Andy Warhol, Seven photobooth strips Holly Solomon, 1963-1964. Est: $50,000-70,000. Image courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s Photographs and The Face of Modernism: A Private West Coast Collection at 450 Park Avenue, sold 90% by value and 81% by lot totaling $6,101,400. World auction records were set for photographs across the classic and contemporary spectrum, indicating the expansive breadth of interest in the medium. Highly competitive bidding on works by Peter Beard, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Andreas Gursky reflected collectors’ eagerness for exemplary works by masters of 20th-century photography. Additionally, successful results were achieved for artists making their world auction debut, including Yuval Yairi, Lee Yanor, Yulia Lebedeva, Sergey Shestakov and Chris Heads. “We are thrilled to have been able to tap into the pulse of the contemporary photography art market with strong results achieved for master artists such as Cindy Sherman, Andreas ... More |
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The science museum broke ground Thursday on the large expansion that will include a planned exhibit featuring a giant walk-through brain. AP Photo/Matt Rourke.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Franklin Institute officially broke ground on an ambitious new state-of-the-art building addition, the first major expansion project for the museum in more than two decades. The 53,000 square foot Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion will host a cuttingedge new core exhibit entitled Your Brain, an expanded education center with integrated learning technologies, a modern conference center, and a climate-controlled traveling exhibition gallery. The addition is named in grateful recognition of the leadership and generosity of Nicholas and Athena Karabots, whose $10 million transformative gift marks the largest individual contribution ever to the science museum. “The Franklin Institute is extremely thankful to the Karabotses and all of our many supporters who have helped make this day a reality,” said Dr. Dennis M. Wint, President and CEO, The Franklin Institute. “Today’s groundbreaki ... More |
| Gallery to bring Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts to New York International Antiquarian Book Fair |
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Architect and artist Maya Lin produces a special artwork representing Pittsburgh's 3 Rivers |
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National Portrait Gallery announces four artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2012 |
1514 First Edition of humanist Henricus Glareanus account of Helvetia or Swiss Confederacy.
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than half a century the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair has attracted thousands of book collectors and connoisseurs to see important acquisitions presented by as many as 200 of the world’s most renowned dealers in rare and collectible books and manuscripts. This year is no exception as Les Enluminures gallery of Paris and Chicago is bringing what owner Sandra calls, “A wonderful Rare First Edition of a geographical, historical and linguistic account of Helvetia or the Swiss Confederacy composed in hexameters by Henricus Glareanus. He was a nationalist who was one of the foremost humanists of the period. Finely rubricated and hand-colored, this 1514 copy includes extensive annotations and a contemporary manuscript section by an unknown author, likely a student in the close circle of Glareanus and Osvaldus Myconius which, with modifications, was used ... More |
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File photo of architect Maya Lin speaking with reporters. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Architect, artist, and dedicated environmentalist Maya Lin’s groundbreaking works are on view at Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center, including a new piece, created for the exhibition, commemorating Pittsburgh’s rivers. The Heinz Architectural Center invites consideration of the built and natural world, and promotes consideration of contemporary environmental concerns. Lin’s diverse work achieves a balance between nature, science, and art by observing natural phenomena and imaginatively representing them as physical objects. The 21 sculptures and drawings in Maya Lin, on view through May 13, 2012, provide surprising glimpses into diverse aspects of water and land. Particle board blocks reflect a pass in the Rocky Mountain range, a cast of trickled silver represents the line of the Colorado River, and a square of recycled green glass with a rippled ... More |
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Richie Culver by Alan Coulson © Alan Coulson
LONDON.- Four artists have been short-listed for the BP Portrait Award 2012, one of the world’s most prestigious art prizes. This year the prize received 2,187 entries from 74 different countries. For the sixth year, the competition has been open to all aged 18 or over. 55 portraits have been selected for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which runs from 21 June until 23 September 2012. This year the BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival, the spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running from 21 June until 9 September 2012 bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK. The four artists shortlisted for the 2012 award are: Aleah Chapin for Auntie; Alan Coulson for Richie Culver; Ignacio Estudillo for El abuelo (Agustín Estudillo) and Jamie Routley for Tony Lewis. In addition to a prize of £25,000, the winner of the BP Portrait Award ... More |
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| Austrian artist Gerwald Rockenschaub, Plattform (2012) on view at Vienna's Secession |
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Princeton University Art Museum debuts first mobile app: Princeton and the Gothic Revival |
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Luis Gispert combines elements of photography, sculpture, and installation at OHWOW |
Gerwald Rockenschaub, Plattform, 2012. Secession 2012, Photo: Wolfgang Thaler.
VIENNA.- The installation developed by Gerwald Rockenschaub for the room containing the Beethoven Frieze at the Secession allows visitors to perceive this work from unusual perspectives and new viewpoints. His sculptural intervention allows the frieze, that runs round the room at a height of between three and five meters, to be viewed at eye level for the first time. The two works, Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze and Rockenschaub’s Plattform, enter into dialog on equal terms. While the platform is functional, in its quality as an object it also asserts itself as an autonomous work. “Up to a certain point,” says the artist, “the platform is also supposed to appear in this setting as a work of art, not just as purely functional architecture.” Plattform displays many features that are characteristic of Rockenschaub’s artistic idiom: standard commercial materials, symbolic minimalism, monochrome surfa ... More |
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Princeton and the Gothic Revival takes visitors on a tour of nine existing and historic sites on the Princeton campus.
PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum announces the debut of its first mobile web application, Princeton and the Gothic Revival, a multimedia exploration of Princeton’s Gothic Revival architecture—the campus’s defining visual language—through text, audio, and images. The mobile app is accessible from any iPhone, iPod touch, or Android device and is available here. The Princeton and the Gothic Revival mobile app was developed in conjunction with the exhibition Princeton and the Gothic Revival: 1870–1930, on view at the Princeton University Art Museum through June 24. Princeton and the Gothic Revival takes visitors on a tour of nine existing and historic sites on the Princeton campus: Chancellor Green Library, East Pyne Library, the Class of 1877 Biological Lab (demolished in 1946), University Chapel, Marquand Chapel (destroyed in 1920), the Museum of Historic Art (demolished in 19 ... More |
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Luis Gispert, double-double, 2012. Silver gelatin print, 30 x 40 inches. Edition of 3.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- OHWOW announces Luis Gispert’s solo exhibition, titled All Oyster, No Pearl, on view April 7 through May 12, 2012. Combining elements of photography, sculpture, and installation, with a focus on the corollary of arrangement, this exhibition is somewhat of a departure from his previous methods and concerns. All Oyster, No Pearl unravels Gispert’s creative process, as familiar themes now communicate through novel and more instinctual ways. A series of silver gelatin prints mounted onto customized boxes are in fact closer to sculptures, due to presentation and subject matter. Staged composites of modern furniture with cheap items; in Wishbone (2012), a fake gold chain intersects a Hans Wegner chair, for example. These photographs invite a conversation of quality and attribution of worth, as opposing elements level and ultimately dissolve through the image’s final, monochromatic depiction. With a gr ... More |
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 Pace University art professor awarded grant to research link between augmented reality and viewer response
NEW YORK, NY.- Will Pappenheimer, associate professor of art at Pace University, and a founding member of the artist collective, Manifest.AR, have recently been awarded the ARtSENSE Commission at The Foundation for Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool, England for their proposal entitled ‘Invisible ARtaffects.’ Invisible ARtaffects will explore the apparent link of virtual objects with viewer response, via wearable devices designed to interpret the sensory input of the audience to control and create “augmented reality” objects and information. The goal is for the exhibitions to create an experience of virtual art which is responsive to viewers. The virtual affects the real, which in turn affects the virtual. Researchers will include artists from Manifest.AR, the ARtSENSE Consortium of European organizations, and FACT working in collaboration, culminating ... More Frédérique Chauveaux and Michael McCarthy explore the human form at Galerie Duboys
PARIS.- The Human form exhibition presents two artists whose work questions the human body and all its associations, presenting two diverse artistic perspectives which share common themes but also two approaches which challenge and involve the spectator. For one artist the self develops into a vision while the eye of the second artist turns back upon itself. Coming from the world of dance, Frédérique Chauveaux has moved from the dancer's focus on body and movement to that of the director/choreographer creating and capturing images which are in turn retransformed into the three-dimensional. A photographer, Michael McCarthy has moved from behind the camera to become subject and paper. Without indulgence, he explores and transgresses his photographic techniques to discover his body again. Frédérique Chauveaux: dancer, performer, ... More Utah-based artist highlighted in series of global contemporary art
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah is presenting salt 5: Daniel Everett, the fifth project in the Museum’s series of exhibitions showcasing innovative contemporary art from around the world. salt 5: Daniel Everett is organized by Jill Dawsey, associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and former chief curator at the UMFA. The fifth salt installation will remain on view through July 29, 2012 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah. The exhibition is located in the salt gallery on the UMFA’s second floor. Working in a range of mediums, artist and Utah resident Daniel Everett investigates the ways in which the built environment shapes our experience as individuals. His work explores ideas relating to architecture, virtual and physical space, modes of vision and surveillance, and the ... More In tough times, British artists hit the streets
LONDON (AP).- Christiaan Nagel scrambles up an aluminum ladder, carrying a big blue mushroom. In seconds, the 29-year-old sculptor is on the roof of a once-handsome, now neglected Victorian building in London. Under a crescent moon, he works quickly; within minutes the polyurethane fungus stands tall over the street below — an impromptu landmark to be enjoyed and photographed by passers-by. Nagel is a street artist, one of a growing band of painters, stencilers and sculptors bringing vibrancy to the recession-tattered streets of Britain. His work pops up unannounced, and in that it captures the spirit of the times. Unauthorized art in public places is booming in austerity Britain. As public funding dries up, businesses struggle and economic uncertainty hits collectors' pocketbooks, London's streets have been colonized by artists. Empty stores become pop-up ... More Schantz Galleries to exhibit the work of Martin Rosol at SOFA NY
STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- Martin Rosol came to the United States in 1988 to pursue a career as a glass sculptor, a path unavailable to him in his native Czechoslovakia before Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution transformed the country. Rosol’s sculptures—works of elegant design and craftsmanship—emerge from skilled and meticulous hands. Pieces are precisely cut from blocks of crystal, (some of which are sandblasted) then constructed in an architectural form designed to contain illumination. With a range of translucent and reflective surfaces artfully combined to create enclosed spaces, they are indeed monuments to light. Pristine surfaces provide fields for light to play in the sculptures of Martin Rosol, a glass artist who makes looking a participatory and ever-changing experience. His forms—faceted like futuristic gemstones—are designed to maximize light, show off its myriad ... More Angry 'gladiators' climb Colosseum in Rome protest
ROME (AP).- Several Romans dressed as gladiators have climbed the Colosseum to protest a crackdown on their unauthorized business of posing with tourists for money. Saturday's protest came three days after city police fined the fake gladiators for offering paid services without authorization. They also were ordered to stop their paid posing. Culture officials contend the fake gladiators ruin the decorum at the ancient archaeological site. Some tourists gladly pose for a photo, then are dismayed when the costumed men demand money. The fake gladiators insist they perform a popular service and that their costumes evoke the atmosphere of ancient Rome. ... More |
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