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India'a first philanthropic museum exhibits Subodh Gupta's "Line of Control"
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Indian girls look at an installation titled "Line of Control" by Indian artist Subodh Gupta in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 20, 2012. The installation made of steel utensils is in the shape of a giant mushroom cloud referring to the dust-cloud of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while also literally alluding to the contested India-Pakistan border, according to a press release. AP Photo/Kevin Frayer.
NEW DELHI.- India's first philanthropic museum, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art unveiled the recent addition to its collection, the monumental sculptural installation "Line of Control" by nationally and internationally acclaimed contemporary Indian artist Subodh Gupta. Visually, the giant mushroom cloud composed of steel utensils refers to the horrendous dust cloud after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while also literally alluding to the contested Indo-Pak border. The gigantic installation is made of stainless steel utensils, converting a blasé media stereotype into a poetic metaphor. The phrase, Line of Control, invariably used to denote contested borders between disputed territories world over from Kashmir to Bosnia is shorn of its limiting and limited geopolitical rhetoric to describe the invisible-yet-concrete time-space existing between want and aspiration; between dreams and reality; between realization and faith; between night and nightmare. ... More |
| Crocker Art Museum receives long-term loan and future gift of paintings by California's premier Impressionist |
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Major collection to be sold at Christie's reveals the discerning eye of prominent bay area arts patron |
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SFMOMA awarded major grant for unprecedented online collection catalogue |
Guy Rose, In the High Sierra, n.d. Oil on canvas, 24 x 17 inches. Crocker Art Museum, long-term loan and promised gift of The Rose Art Foundation.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum, which houses one of the country’s largest collections of Californian art, is pleased to announce it will be the recipient of a comprehensive collection by the Golden State’s foremost Impressionist painter, Guy Rose. “Guy Rose was as important to California as Monet was to France,” explains Scott A. Shields, the Crocker Art Museum’s Associate Director and Chief Curator. “He is nationally recognized as one of the most significant American artists of his generation.” Guy Rose was perhaps best known for his landscapes, but was equally skilled at painting still lifes and the figure. His deft touch and approach to color were influenced by French example more so than any other artist of the American West. The collection will feature nearly 40 of Rose’s paintings representing the breadth of the artist’s styles, subjects, and achievements, fr ... More |
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Barnett Newman (1905-1970), Untitled. Oil on canvas, 36 x 24¼ in. (91.4 x 61.6 cm.). Painted in 1945. Estimate: $3,000,000 - 4,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the upcoming sale of an outstanding private American collection of Modern and Contemporary Art: Property from the Collection of Evelyn D. Haas. As a patron of the arts and philanthropist, Mrs. Haas immersed herself in a wide range of volunteer work and was a devoted leader of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, while also becoming a well-regarded art connoisseur in her own right. Notable for the extraordinary quality, rarity and important art historical status of the works, her collection includes Modern and Contemporary paintings and sculpture, as well as important works on paper and prints. Among the artists represented in her collection are Post-War artists Richard Diebenkorn, Barnett Newman, Vija Celmins, Richard Prince and Wayne Thiebaud, plus Modern artists Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy and Maurice Utrillo. Christie’s will offer paintings, works on paper, and ... More |
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Robert Rauschenberg, Collection, 1954–55 (detail); oil, paper, fabric, wood, and metal on canvas; 80 x 96 x 3 1/2 in. (203.2 x 243.84 x 8.89 cm); Collection SFMOMA, gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson; © Estate of Robert Rauschenberg / Licensed by VAGA, New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced that the museum has been awarded a $375,000 grant from the Getty Foundation for the implementation of its first online collection catalogue, featuring works by Robert Rauschenberg in the museum's permanent collection. The grant supports further work on the Rauschenberg Research Project, the digital publication SFMOMA is developing for the Getty's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI), an effort dedicated to bringing museum collection catalogues into the digital age. Scheduled for launch in mid-2013, SFMOMA's catalogue promises to be the largest and most comprehensive repository of Rauschenberg research available online, and will serve as a vital and highly accessible resource for the ... More |
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| New Jersey man buys rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card for $1.2 million at online auction |
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Christie's in New York announces new appointments to American Painting Department |
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Heritage Auctions sells rare 1792 penny for $1.15 million at event in suburban Chicago |
Bill Goodwin, a Missouri collectibles dealer, holds up a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card. AP Photo/Jeff Roberson.
By: Jim Salter, Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP).- A New Jersey man paid $1.2 million for a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card in an online auction that brought interest from many potential buyers who had never owned a card before, the sale organizer said. The buyer hasn't decided whether to come forward publicly, and the seller, a Houston businessman, wants to remain anonymous, said Bill Goodwin, the suburban St. Louis collectibles dealer who ran the auction that ended Friday. The buyer's bid was the highest of 14 made since the auction began last month. "We're thrilled with the outcome," Goodwin said. "There's been so much media attention surrounding this card, and the final price proved this card was worth watching." Wagner was a member ... More |
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Elizabeth Sterling has been promoted to Head of Department. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, announces new appointments to the firm’s American Paintings team for 2012. The following staff advancements will strengthen the team’s reach and reinforce the firm’s position as the auction house of choice among both new and established collectors worldwide. Effective immediately, Eric Widing has joined the team of senior business getters in the Americas Chairman’s Office as a Deputy Chairman. Eric joined Christie’s in 1998 and was most recently Head of the Department. During his tenure, the department has set auction records in every category of American Art, including individual artist records for Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Thomas Moran and Georgia O’Keeffe. He has been in the appraisal business since 1981 and from 1996-1998 he was an owner of Widing and Peck Fine Art Inc. From 1985-1996 he was the Exec ... More |
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Todd Imhof, executive vice-president of Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas poses for a photo with a copper and silver 1792 experimental penny. AP Photo/Daily Herald, George LeClaire.
SCHAUMBURG (AP).- When is a penny worth $1.15 million? When it is a rare experimental penny minted in 1792. The unusual coin was auctioned off Thursday at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in suburban Chicago. Officials with Heritage Auctions say Kevin Lipton of Beverly Hills, Calif., bought the penny on behalf of a group of unnamed investors. The winning bid was $1 million, but the investors also must pay the auction house's 15 percent commission. The coin is made from copper and incases a small plug of silver. The silver was added to make the penny heavier, said Todd Imhof, executive vice president of Heritage Auctions. On one side of the coin, a depiction of Miss Liberty is ringed by the phrase "Liberty Parent of Science & Industry." The back ... More |
| Tyrannosaurus may bring $1,000,000+ at Heritage Auctions' Natural History Signature auction |
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Estorick Collection presents exhibition by key figure of 20th century Italian photography: Giuseppe Cavalli |
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The Hood Museum of Art presents Edward Burtynsky's Vermont quarry photographs in context |
"This beautiful Tyrannosaurus skeleton is one of the most complete, most spectacular specimens that we've ever seen," said David Herskowitz, Director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the great dinosaurs of the Cretaceous era, an eight-foot tall, 24-foot long, 75% complete Tyrannosaurus bataar — the slightly smaller Asian counterpart to the legendary North American T-Rex — will be the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions May 20 Natural History Signature auction, taking place at Center 548 (548 W. 22nd Street, between 10th Ave. and West Street), in New York. The stupendous, impeccably preserved museum-quality specimen is expected to bring $950,000+. "This beautiful Tyrannosaurus skeleton is one of the most complete, most spectacular specimens that we've ever seen," said David Herskowitz, Director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions. "These dinos, distant cousins of the T-Rex, were recently reclassified as Tyrannosaurids. ... More |
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Giuseppe Cavalli (1904-1961), The Little Ball, 1949. Gelatin silver print, 30 x 24 cm. Prelz Oltramonti Collection, London.
LONDON.- One of the key figures of 20th century Italian photography, Giuseppe Cavalli (1904-1961) is surprisingly little known outside his native country. Reacting against the rhetorical and overblown imagery of the Fascist era, Cavalli’s work was imbued with the intimate poetry of daily life: subtle studies of reclining nudes and everyday objects such as bottles, glasses and candlesticks. Cavalli subscribed to the principle that ‘the subject has no importance at all’ in a work of art – and indeed such elements were essentially vehicles for his true subject: light. This exhibition Giuseppe Cavalli: Master of Light, from 18 April to 17 June 2012, presents a selection of delicate and timeless images spanning the artist’s brief career, which ended prematurely with his death at the age of fifty-seven. Cavalli was born in 1904 in the town of Lucera, in Italy’s southern Puglia region. Although his brothers Emanuele and Pasquale were both artists, Gius ... More |
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Edward Burtynsky, Abandoned Marble Quarry #18, Rutland, Vermont, 1991 (detail), digital chromogenic color print. Photograph courtesy Howard Greenberg & Bryce Wolkowitz, New York / Nicholas Metivier, Toronto.
HANOVER, NH.- Nature Transformed takes as its starting point a remarkable series of photographs by pioneering, internationally celebrated artist Edward Burtynsky. His now signature pursuit of conceptual subjects—from oil extraction in the United States and in Azerbaijan to shipbreaking in Bangladesh—started in 1991 just fifty miles north of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, in the granite quarries of Barre, Vermont. One hundred years before Burtynsky encountered Vermont’s quarries, stoneworkers emigrated here primarily from the ancient quarrying town of Carrara, Italy, as artists and artisans to contribute their expertise to an industry in the throes of expansion. They brought along with them a love for opera, political activism, and strong values that made their assimilation into American society relatively easy. ... More |
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| Artist Mildred Burrage's years in France in new exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art |
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University of York's high tech guide helps new generations explore Shakespeare's church |
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First solo show in the UK of work by Sergio Fermariello opens at Ronchini Gallery |
Mildred Giddings Burrage, Souper à Deux (Supper for Two), 1912. Oil on canvas, 34 5/16 x 30 1/2 inches. Gift of the artist. Photo by Benjamin Magro.
PORTLAND, ME.- This spring, the Portland Museum of Art will present From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage’s Years in France, an exhibition devoted to the work of Portland-born artist Mildred Burrage (1890-1983), who as a young aspiring painter traveled to Giverny, France in the early 1900s. On view April 21 through July 15, 2012, the exhibition will feature more than 70 works of art including paintings, drawings, and never-before-exhibited letters from a collection of works given to the Museum in the 1980s as well as works on loan from private collectors. While Mildred Burrage was a prolific artist up until her death in 1983, this exhibition will celebrate the crucial, formative years (1909-1914) of her life when she traveled abroad and was introduced and exposed to modern European movements. There, Burrage trained her eye on the landscape, creating oil paintings ... More |
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Screenshot from the Shakespeare's Church phone app.
YORK.- Visitors and pilgrims can explore Shakespeare’s church in new and exciting ways thanks to an innovative mobile phone app created for Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon by the University of York. The ground-breaking smartphone app guide will be launched on 26 April, during the week of Shakespeare's birthday and as the World Shakespeare Festival begins. The launch will take place in Holy Trinity Church during an evening of readings by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion which forms part of the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival. Over 200,000 people a year visit Holy Trinity Church where Shakespeare was both baptised and buried. Thanks to a partnership between Holy Trinity and the University of York’s Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, visitors can now engage with the church in new ways and learn about the unique features and stories the building has t ... More |
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Sergio Fermariello, Untitled, 2012, 170 x 180 cm. Marble resin on canvas. Courtesy Ronchini Gallery.
LONDON.- Ronchini Gallery, London announces the first solo show in the UK of work by Sergio Fermariello, curated by ARTNESIA, from 20 April to 9 June 2012. The exhibition will feature new works alongside existing key works. Fermariello takes archetypal symbols and shapes from the past with a particular emphasis on mythology and antiquity. Icons of archers and soldiers are borrowed from the Etruscans and the Garamantes. His work began with the symbol of a warrior and ever since these armed figures have been synthesised and repeated
throughout his canvases with an obsessive rhythm for over 20 years. The warrior is an image that holds particular significance to the artist as a sign of strength. Fermariello explains; ‘Mankind can not do without weapons, which is why my warriors are always armed. The spear corresponds to the letter ‘I’ and the shield resembles ... More |
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 Bucksbaum Award bestowed by the Whitney: 2012 recipient Sarah Michelson
NEW YORK, NY.- Adam D. Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, has announced that choreographer Sarah Michelson is the recipient of the seventh Bucksbaum Award. The award is given every two years to one of the artists in the Biennial; Michelson was selected by a jury from among the fifty-one artists showing in the current 2012 Biennial. The Bucksbaum Award ceremony will take place at the Whitney on Wednesday evening, April 25. Sarah Michelson (b. 1964) is a New York–based, British-born choreographer. Her Biennial piece, Devotion Study #1—The American Dancer, commissioned by the Whitney for the 2012 Biennial, employed a text written for the occasion at Michelson’s request by another Biennial artist, theater director/playwright Richard Maxwell, founder of New York City Players. As her epigraph, Michelson chose ... More Over 200K children's self portraits form a giant image of HM The Queen on the front of Buckingham Palace
LONDON.- Buckingham Palace has been lit up by thousands of self portraits by children from across the UK which have been projected on to the frontage of the palace to form a montage image of HM The Queen. Launched at by Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton, The Face Britain projections will run until Sat 21st April. Face Britain is a unique project created by The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts and brought to life by PhotoBox to provide a platform to celebrate the nation’s children and young people in the lead up to HM The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, The London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts is an educational charity established by HRH The Prince of Wales to enable disadvantaged young people to access and engage with professional arts. Face Britain is their most expansive project to-date. Children ... More Model Lily Cole branches into art, film, TV
LONDON (AP).- British it-girl Lily Cole doesn't want to be boxed in: The successful model launched an eco-friendly clothing line, has two upcoming films and a new television series in the works. "I quite like breaking down this conception of art as this very kind of insular space," Cole explained in a recent interview. "I've worked with a lot of artists through film as a medium... so I'd love to keep doing more within that medium. We'll see how that manifests." The 23-year-old Vogue cover girl, who recently graduated from Cambridge with a degree in art history, will be interviewing top contemporary artists for a six-part Sky Arts series called "Lily Cole's Art Matters." Cole also stars in Mary Harron's coming of age drama "The Moth Diaries," available now on Video on Demand and in theaters Friday. Her clothing line is called The North Circular. And in June she'll share the big screen with Charlize ... More Thirty-year survey of works on paper by New York-based artist Carroll Dunham opens at Blum & Poe
NEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe presents a thirty-year survey of works on paper by New York-based artist Carroll Dunham. This exhibition marks Dunham’s second solo presentation with the gallery. Comprised of almost 400 works on paper, executed between 1982 and 2012, this exhibition serves as the most comprehensive evaluation of Dunham’s drawing practice to date. Dunham’s remarkable commitment to the medium is evident in both the sheer volume of drawings included in the exhibition (a fraction of his archive) and the frequency with which these works have been produced. A meticulous cataloger of his own work, Dunham dates each piece on its face with the day, month, and year of its making, offering viewers an intimate glimpse into his history as a practitioner and stylistic shifts from week to week, month to month, or decade to decade. In many cases, Dunham ... More West Virginia artist charged with littering in potty prank
MARTINSBURG (AP).- A West Virginia artist is charged with littering after he placed a toilet on a pedestal in a city square in what he says was a plea for more public art. The Herald-Mail (http://bit.ly/JjCpUv) reports 42-year-old David Heatwole of Martinsburg could be fined up to $500 if convicted May 2 in Municipal Court. He tied three purple, helium-filled balloons to the toilet's handle and attached a fake bill of sale for a "crappy work of art." Heatwole tells the newspaper he wanted to show the city that art can make the city a better place to live. The pedestal he used was built last year for a planned sculpture of Martinsburg's founder, Revolutionary War Maj. Gen. Adam Stephen. Heatwole has suggested installing a contemporary art sculpture on the pedestal instead of a historical monument. ... More |
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