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Smithsonian National Museum of American History opens new US history timeline
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Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, from the "Wizard of Oz" are seen on display as part of a new exhibit, "American Stories," at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. The National Museum of American History will open a new exhibit featuring iconic objects from pop culture along with objects dating back to the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620. "American Stories" will be a new chronology of U.S. history from the first encounters of Europeans and Native Americans to the 2008 presidential election. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" have a new home with a diverse set of artifacts in a new timeline of American history that includes a piece of Plymouth Rock, a slave ship manifest, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone and Kermit the Frog at the Smithsonian Institution. The National Museum of American History will open the exhibit Thursday featuring iconic objects from pop culture along with items dating to the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620 in Plymouth, Mass. "American Stories" will be a new chronology of U.S. history from the early encounters of Europeans and Native Americans to a Barack Obama campaign button written in Hebrew in the 2008 presidential election. Dorothy's famed shoes ... More |
| Rembrandt self-portrait from Kenwood House, London, on view in the United States for the first time |
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Works from private collections and institutions to highlight Christie's sale in New York |
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Judge to decide dispute over three bundles of artwork by James Castle found in home in Boise |
Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of the Artist, Ca. 1665. Oil on canvas, 45 x 47 in. Courtesy of English Heritage, The Iveagh Bequest (Kenwood).
NEW YORK, NY.- Kenwood House, the London museum that holds the art collection known as the Iveagh Bequest, is closed for renovations until fall 2013. By special arrangement, Rembrandt’s Portrait of the Artist (ca. 1665), which has never before traveled outside Europe, is on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 20, 2012. This great canvas now hangs next to the Metropolitan Museum’s own Self-Portrait by Rembrandt of 1660, providing a rare opportunity to compare the two works which, although close in date, are utterly different in scale, format, and expression. Both were painted during a period of economic difficulties for the artist. The loan is also an occasion for the Museum to bring together in one gallery the late Rembrandts from the collection, including Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653), Hendricke Stoffels (mid-1650s), The Standard Bearer (1654), and Woman with a Pink (ca. 1660-64). Throughout ... More |
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Wassily Kandinsky, Vibrierend. Watercolor and pen and India ink on paper laid down on card, 14 3/8 x 13¼ in. Executed in July 1928. Estimate 500,000-700,000 U.S. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 2 May, Christie’s New York will offer a fantastic line-up of works in the Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper and Day Sales. With pieces ranging in style, medium, and estimate, the sales present an exciting opportunity for collectors of all levels. Many works of notable provenance will be featured with the sale of private collections, including The Collection of Alan Dershowitz and Carolyn Cohen, The Estate of Paul Mellon, Property From The Ascher Family Collection, and Property From The Collection Of Evelyn D. Haas, as well as works from prominent institutions, such as The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, sold to benefit the museum’s programs and Acquisitions Fund. With over 370 lots, the sales are expected to realize in excess of $25 million. Among the highlights from The Collection of Alan Dershowitz and Carolyn Cohen is Pablo Picasso’s Femme se regardant dans un miroir tenu par u ... More |
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An artwork by US artist James Castle is displayed as part of the exhibition 'Display and Collect'. EPA/JUAN M. ESPINOSA.
BOISE (AP).- A judge this week will decide who owns three bundles of artwork by James Castle found tucked away in the famed artist's home and potentially worth thousands of dollars. Artwork by Castle, who lived in a northwest Boise home until he died in 1977, is collected worldwide. Individual pieces have sold for as much as $50,000. Jeannie Schmidt purchased Castle's home in 1996. Four years later, she found 150 pieces of art and three books Castle worked on as early as the 1930s hidden in his bedroom ceiling, according to The Idaho Statesman ((http://bit.ly/HxCBPq ). Schmidt said the trove belongs to her now, and that Castle's niece, who died in 2007, had told her as much when she bought the home. The only true owner was Castle or possibly his sister, Schmidt argued, and both are dead. But Castle's family, who created a partnership in 1996 to manage and sell his artwork, argue they are the rightful owners through "gift, inheritance and conveyance." Castle was born deaf and mut ... More |
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| Bernardo Laniado-Romero appointed new Director of the Museu Picasso de Barcelona |
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Exhibition of ceramic and marble works by Ai Weiwei opens at Lisson Gallery Milan |
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Recently discovered work of Vivian Maier on view at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York |
Laniado-Romero was director of the Museo Picasso Málaga from 2004 until 2009. Photo: © Ajuntament de Barcelona.
BARCELONA.- Bernardo Laniado-Romero became director of the Museu Picasso de Barcelona in March after being appointed by a committee. A seven-person commission of artistic experts, having examined and evaluated the 15 applications to head the Museu Picasso de Barcelona, proposed the appointment of Bernardo Laniado-Romero (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1964). Laniado-Romero, who was director of the Museo Picasso Málaga from 2004 until 2009, did his graduate studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in New. For Jaume Ciurana, Barcelona’s Deputy Mayor for Culture, Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation, ‘the Museu Picasso is embarking an exciting new stage with Laniado-Romero at the helm. I am sure that the new director will connect Pablo Picasso and his work even more closely to Barcelona and Catalonia. He will have the full support of Barcelona’s City ... More |
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Ai Weiwei, Bubble, 2008, Porcelain, Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
MILAN.- Lisson Gallery Milan announces an exhibition of ceramic and marble works by Ai Weiwei, focusing on an area of his boundless practice that has produced many of his best known works. The exhibition will include a number of ceramics made by Ai Weiwei in 2006 during an intensive working residency in Jingdezhen, the heartland of Chinese ceramic production. The traditional techniques passed on to Ai Weiwei by local craftsmen sparked a radical new direction for the artist and were the genesis of his Sunflowers Seeds installation at Tate Modern. The historical and cultural significance of the materials and techniques Ai Weiwei uses are an essential element of almost all his sculptures. Much of his work with ceramics has involved ready-mades: adapting, painting and destroying valuable ancient urns and vases. In contrast the exhibition at Lisson focuses on sculptures he has created by hand from scratch. Porcelain is tradi ... More |
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Untitled (Man with Glasses and Bow Tie), 1969. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery again presents the recently discovered work of Vivian Maier. Vivian Maier: Unseen Images features 35 black and white prints. When Maier died in 2009, she left behind more than 120,000 negatives and 2,000 undeveloped rolls of film. Last year, a couple hundred of these rolls, shot in the 1960s and 1970s, were finally developed. A selection of these images make their debut in this exhibition. Maier, whose day job was as a nanny, made over 100,000 distinctive street photographs, mostly in New York City and Chicago. What is known about Ms. Maier is that she was born in New York in 1926, lived in France (her mother was French) and returned to New York in 1951. Five years later, she moved to Chicago, where she worked for about 40 years as a nanny, principally for families in the North Shore suburbs. On her days off she wandered the streets of New York and Chicago, most often with a Rolleiflex ... More |
| Sturtevant, who was ridiculed when she made her debut in 1965, exhibits at Moderna Museet |
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Pinta to introduce artists from Spain and Portugal as it launches its third year in London |
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Two Chinese artifacts worth $3.2 million stolen from Durham University's Oriental Museum |
Sturtevant, Beuys Fettstuhl, 1993© Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Axel Schneider.
STOCKHOLM.- Clone, doppelgänger, reflection? Sturtevant is one of the great enigmas of the art scene. For half a century she has challenged the meaning of art and what it entails to be an artist. Her legendary repetitions of works by Warhol, Duchamp, Beuys and others were groundbreaking, and her work continues to be exceedingly poignant in our digital era of abundance, copies, clones and increasingly complex issues concerning commodities and copyright. The exhibition Sturtevant: Image over Image at Moderna Museet allows her oeuvre to display its full range. The presence of Sturtevant’s works becomes nearly site-specific in six of the 18 rooms that are usually dedicated to the permanent collection. The artists whose works she has repeated largely overlap with the history of Moderna Museet and its unique collection of Marcel Duchamp, American pop art and minimalism. Moderna Museet also has a history of confronting aut ... More |
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Carmelo Arden Quin, Sin titulo, duco sobre madera,1951. Image courtesy of Durban Segnini. Gallery, Miami. © Carmelo Arden Quin.
LONDON.- Following a hugely successful second year in London in 2011, in which 60 galleries took part and attendance figures surpassed 9000, PINTA, the Latin American Art Show will return to Earls Court Exhibition Centre this June to present the very best in modern and contemporary Latin American art. For the first time in the show’s six year history, PINTA will introduce artists from Spain and Portugal, reflecting the undeniable connection that these countries hold with the Latin American identity. PINTA is a unique event that reflects the increasing demand for Latin American art worldwide. From museums to collectors, art work from Latin America has proved hot property over the past five years; the sale of a bronze sculpture by Colombian Fernando Botero reached a record $1.2 million (£727,000) at Sotheby’s in 2011, whilst ‘Tic-Tac-Toe Series C 8A’ by the Brazilian Cildo Meireles sold for £181,250 ... More |
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Fairy Boat.
LONDON (AP).- Two Chinese artifacts with an estimated combined value of 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) have been stolen from a British museum, authorities said Saturday. Two men and a woman from the West Midlands area have been arrested in connection with the Thursday night theft at Durham University's Oriental Museum, but the items had not yet been recovered, police said. The northern England-based university confirmed that two "priceless" artifacts were stolen when thieves broke into a ground-floor gallery at the museum: a large jade bowl with a Chinese poem written inside that dates back to 1769, and a Dehua porcelain sculpture. "We are extremely upset to have fallen victim to such a serious crime," museum curator Craig Barclay said in a statement. "The two pieces are highly significant in that they are fine examples of artifacts from the Qing Dynasty." Police said they were still trying to locate "several outstanding suspects." The museum will be closed until further no ... More |
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| Exhibition shows the great diversity and richness of Russian contemporary art |
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"Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip" opens at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum |
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Bonhams announces it will hold three June native American art auctions in San Francisco |
The Throne of Thyatira, 2011 (detail). Oil on canvas, 152 x 75cm. Photo: Courtesy Erarta Galleries.
LONDON.- Erarta Galleries presents Past, Present & Future, a group exhibition conceived in support of the Gift of Life foundation. This unique exhibition highlights the great diversity and richness of Russian contemporary art with 30% of proceeds from sales donated to the Gift of Life foundation to aid children with cancer in Russia. Art in Russia has often been viewed as a vehicle for change. During the turbulent years following the fall of the Soviet Union, artists finally felt they had a means to exert their will on the world around them in the great tradition of historical revolution. Since those initial years, the idea of artistic practice as a form of direct social change has given way to a more thoughtful approach that reconsiders the legacy of modernism and its aesthetic ambitions of social renewal. Selected from the very best and illustrating the continuing evolution of Russian contemporary ... More |
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Grateful Dead Mickey Hard Drum Art Steal Your Face.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum presents a major exhibition devoted to a truly unique American rock and roll band, Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip. The exhibit will open to the public on Thursday, April 12, as a part of the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Week events. “The Grateful Dead is a band that is identified with a remarkable era in American history, and, inasmuch as they embody that era, their work is timeless,” says Jim Henke, vice president of Exhibits and Curatorial Affairs. “They’ve inspired many performers and bands, but none has exhibited their musical depth and cultural resonance. In a 30-year career, this group wrote their own rules and created a community unlike any band before or since.” Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip explores the band from a non-linear point of view. Individual sections within the exhibit will be devoted to Grateful ... More |
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A Washo basket, Dat-so-la-lee. Est. $100,000-150,000. Photo: Courtesy Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announced it will hold three auctions of Native American Art, June 4-5, in San Francisco: The Robert “Trader Bob” Bayuk Collection of Native American Art, The G. Lorenzo Fritz Collection of Historic Native American Photographs and a various owners sale of Fine Native American Art. The auctions cumulatively will feature about 500 lots of rare art and artifacts for a range of collecting levels. From the Robert “Trader Bob” Bayuk Collection, June 4, will come a most important collection of Native American basketry. The star lot of the Collection is a major degikup, or ceremonial style basket by the most famous of weavers, Dat So La Lee, a Washo woman from the Lake Tahoe area of Northern California (est. $100,000-150,000). The impeccably woven basket is one of only about 40 ... More |
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 Google partners with SCAD Museum of Art and Gibbes Museum of Art on innovative Google Art Project
CHICAGO, IL.- Google announced its partnership with the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, bringing a number of the museums’ top works online with the innovative Google Art Project. The museums are the only two in the Southeastern United States to participate in the project. The Google Art Project is a unique collaboration between Google and the world’s most respected and acclaimed museums, enabling visitors to virtually explore museums, discover and view hundreds of artworks online at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share their own collection of masterpieces with a few clicks of a mouse. “The SCAD Museum of Art provides SCAD students and visitors with a world-class public space to learn and grow in their understanding of art and design,” said Laurie Ann Farrell, executive director ... More Civil War museum gives severed arm a good look
By: David Doisneau, Associated Press
FREDERICK (AP).- Long after the guns fell silent at Antietam, the earth yielded up gruesome reminders of the bloodiest day of the American Civil War: bodies, bones, buttons and entire severed limbs — one of which is now the focus of intense study at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. A Sharpsburg-area farmer is said to have found the human forearm while plowing a field two weeks after the 1862 battle. Officials at the museum in Frederick, Md., are trying to learn more about the limb in hopes of verifying that it's a relic of the Battle of Antietam and exhibiting the well-preserved specimen during the battle's 150th anniversary in September. The muddy-looking right forearm, with skin and hand attached, was donated anonymously to the museum ... More Furniture from the Reign of Henry VIII at Bonhams "Beedham Oak Sale 1450-1750" in Chester
CHESTER.- Bonhams will sell the Beedham Collection of early oak and works of art on 24th May at Chester, offering the most outstanding oak items to international collectors of this increasingly sought after furniture. David Houlston, Bonhams vernacular furniture specialist in Chester, comments: “If you want to own a piece of oak furniture made during the reign of Henry VIII this is your chance, they don’t come along very often. The sale is put together from selected stock and personal items. The Beedham name has been a byword for excellence in the world of antique oak furniture furniture for over four decades. This sale offers a great opportunity to buy some outstanding works. Since the family first opened an antique shop at Ivy House Antiques in Baslow, a late 17th century farmhouse near Chatsworth in Derbyshire in 1974, their reputation has just grown. At the forefront ... More London Original Print Fair to host 80th birthday celebrations for Sir Peter Blake
LONDON.- The 27th London Original Print Fair will open its doors with an evening dedicated to the 80th birthday celebrations and printmaking accomplishments of Sir Peter Blake. Blake will give a special ‘in conversation’ talk on Thursday 19 April 2012 hosted by the London Original Print Fair. The talk will reveal Blake’s longstanding dedication to print media and underline his status as one of Britain’s most influential artists. Within the fair, CCA Galleries will stage a special retrospective of Blake’s iconographic works, spanning the six-decade printmaking career that has seen him work in woodcut, etching, lithography and, more recently, digitally. Blake’s dedication to printmaking goes hand in hand with his belief that art should be accessible to a wide audience. With his paintings often fetching six figure sums, his prints represent an opportunity to collect Blake at an affordable pr ... More Italy's museum czar: Culture can save the economy
By: Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press
ROME (AP).- One of Italy's top culture officials has pushed private investment in the country's museums and galleries and the seemingly insatiable Chinese and Indian appetites for art and archaeology as the way to pull the country out of its recession. Mario Resca, a former CEO of McDonald's Italian operations who was appointed in 2008 by the government of Silvio Berlusconi to be director-general of the Culture Ministry, said that an increase in ticket sales to Italian museums has not been matched by an increase in state finding . Chatting with a small group of foreign correspondents in Rome, Resca said the number of visitors to state museums and archaeological sites increased by some 15 percent from 2009 to 2010 and by about 7 percent ... More Game Room: An exhibition of new sculpture by artist Michael Combs at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery announces Game Room, an exhibition of new sculpture by artist Michael Combs. The exhibition will run through May 19th, 2012. Michael Combs uses familiar elements of Americana and materials reminiscent of masculine icons such as Hemingway and Roosevelt. His football helmets, punching bags, and sports equipment illustrate another boyhood obsession, and are symbolic of how the west was won within the context of an infamous sports rivalry. The equipment acts as another example of the societal need for acceptance and a reminder that sometimes it's best to be all that you can't be. Growing up on Long Island's East End, Combs was raised by generations of hunters, fishermen, boat builders, and decoy makers. Instead of becoming an avid hunter himself, the upbringing ignited his passion for nature and position against ... More 1823 printing of Declaration of Independence brings $597,500 in New York auction
NEW YORK, NY.- With a price worthy of its historic stature, a recently discovered 1823 printing of the Declaration of Independence, painstakingly engraved and printed by William Stone to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the founding of The United States, sold for $597,500, more than doubling its' pre-auction estimate, at auction in New York on April 11, 2012. It was purchased by an anonymous East Coast buyer and was considered the centerpiece of the Heritage Auctions Historical Manuscripts Signature(r) Auction. "In 1820, English-born engraver William J. Stone of Washington, D.C. was commissioned to produce an exact copy of the original Declaration of Independence onto a copperplate, a process which took him three years to complete," said Sandra Palomino, Director of Historic Manuscripts at Heritage. "It was almost 45 years after the ... More |
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