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Maya exhibition at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia seeks to dispel 2012 myths
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A jade figurine of Maize God is shown at the Maya 2012: Lords of Time exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. The exhibit opened May 5. AP Photo/Matt Rourke.
By: Kathy Matheson, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- If the world ends on Dec. 21, 2012 — as some believe the Maya predicted — that leaves plenty of opportunity to see a new exhibit that examines the civilization's ancient kingdoms, intricate calendar systems and current culture. Experts at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia apparently give little credence to the apocalypse myth, considering the show runs through early 2013. But they say the legend, which has been perpetuated in pop culture through disaster movies and sensational tabloid headlines, offers a chance to engage people about ancient and modern Maya society. "Maya 2012: Lords of Time" features artifacts excavated from the historic Maya ruins of Copan in Honduras, including ... More |
| First major one-person, New York exhibition of Edouard Vuillard's work in over twenty years opens |
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Bouguereau paintings sell for $1.2 million in Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 19th Century Paintings Sale |
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Gallery Taglialatella exhibition focuses on the popular affection and the worship generated by Marilyn Monroe |
Edouard Vuillard, Lucy Hessel Reading, 1913, oil on canvas. The Jewish Museum, New York, Purchase: Lore Ross Bequest, 2010-23.
NEW YORK, NY.- The art of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) – a painter who began his career as a member of the Nabi group of avant-garde artists in Paris in the 1890s – is being celebrated at The Jewish Museum in the first major one-person, New York exhibition of the French artist’s work in over twenty years. Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 includes more than 50 paintings as well as a selection of prints, photographs and documents exploring the crucial role played by the patrons, dealers and muses who comprised Vuillard’s circle. On view from May 4 through September 23, 2012, the exhibition examines the prominence of key players in the cultural milieu of modern Paris, many of them Jewish, and their influence on Vuillard’s professional and private life. The exhibition explores Vuillard’s continuing significance from the turn of the 20th century to the onset of World War II. Ed ... More |
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William Adolphe Bouguereau, Le Gouter, Sold for $688,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers held their Spring auction of Contemporary, Modern, American and European art on Wednesday, May 2nd. With a filled auction room of private collectors, dealers and very active telephone and online bidders, the sale was a resounding success. The European and Old Master paintings session realized a total of $2.87 million. Much of the auction’s success can be attributed to the collection from the Lucie Sable Sandler Trust, which included two paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau that brought a combined $1.2 million with premium. Each of the Bouguereau paintings went to successful international bidders from the United Kingdom. Also from the Sandler Trust, Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky’s Woman in a White Hat, sold to an East Coast buyer for $292,000. In addition to realizing strong prices, the sale set auction records. Salvatore Marchesi’s Altar Boys achieved the highest ... More |
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Lawrence Schiller (1936), Marilyn (Color 2 Frame 29), 1962-2007.
PARIS.- During summer 1962, Lawrence Schiller, a 24 year old photographer is contacted by the French magazine Paris Match to make photos of Marilyn Monroe – whose career was falling off at that time – during the shooting of the film Something’s Got to Give. The photographer buckled down to the task without knowing that he immortalized the actress for the last time. Fifty years after, the worship of one of the more famous heroine of the 20th century didn’t lose its intensity. Indeed, 2012 seems to be Marilyn Monroe’s year. First, her famous white dress was sold in auctions. Then, last March, a few unseen photographs of the star have been disclosed. In April, the movie My week with Marilyn will come out and the Cannes’ Festival have chosen the iconographical image of the star for its 65th edition. More than never, the icon of the American movies seems more than ever present in the public consciousness, even fifty years after the day she died on August ... More |
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| Tracing the Grid: The Grid in Art after 1945 on view at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart |
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Renowned collection of Hudson River School paintings visits Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art |
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Sixty small masterpieces by modern and contemporary artists at Gagosian in Paris |
Reinhard Voigt, Porträt A.H., 1969. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm. Courtesy BQ, Berlin. Photo: Studio Schaub, Cologne. ©Reinhard Voigt.
STUTTGART.- The grid defines art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries like no other structure. For the avant-garde, for Piet Mondrian and the Bauhaus movement this has been extensively researched; however, the importance of the grid in art since 1945 has never been presented in an overview. The special exhibition »Tracing the Grid. The Grid in Art after 1945«, which is being shown in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart from May 5 to October 7, 2012, fills this gap with exponents by fifty artists. On 2,500 square meters of exhibition space works by Sigmar Polke, Chuck Close, and Roy Lichtenstein investigate the subject of the grid. Works by younger artists such as Esther Stocker, Sarah Morris, Michiel Ceulers, and Tim Stapel also make the immense artistic potential of the grid structure clear. For this special exhibition, generously sponsored of by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes as well as the Stiftung Froehlich and HU ... More |
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Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) Lake Maggiore, Italy, 1858 (detail), Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection, S-193.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Painters of the so-called Hudson River School in the mid-19th century became known for their romantic work celebrating the American landscape. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will present a special exhibition of 45 masterworks by Hudson River School artists on loan from the New-York Historical Society, opening May 5 and on view through September 3, 2012. The exhibit, titled The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision, will be presented in the galleries currently occupied by Wonder World, an exhibition featuring contemporary works from the museum's permanent collection, which closed April 2. Admission to the exhibition will be free to Crystal Bridges members, and $5 per person for non-members. There will be no charge for guests under age 18. "We are delighted with this unique opportunity to present such a distinguished and important collection for our Members and guests," said Don Ba ... More |
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Shéhérazade by Réné Magritte, 1947, copyright ADAGP, Paris, courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery is presenting an exhibition of the miniature in art titled “Micro-Mania” featuring nearly sixty small masterpieces by a panorama of modern and contemporary artists, including Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, René Magritte, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Cecily Brown and Rachel Whiteread to name some. Accordingly the Project Space has been transformed into a modern day cabinet de curiosités, a glass vitrine in the center of the gallery accommodates within the intricacies of diminutive sculptures such as Claes Oldenberg’s Pancakes and Sausages (1962), Alexander Calder’s Untitled (Standing Mobile) (1955), Lucio Fontana Concetto Spaziale (1959) and Joseph Cornell’s Untitled (1933) – which measures less than 3 centimeters in diameter – can be seen to full effect. Among the intimate works that line the wal ... More |
| Christopher Winter's singular paintings featured in "Unnatural History" on view at Edelman Fine Arts |
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Bill Blass, Halston, Norman Norell, and Stephen Sprouse honored in exhibition of fashion designers from Indiana |
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Works by Miró and Warhol lead spring prints auction at Bonhams in San Francisco |
Christopher Winter, Bunny, 2012. Acrylic on Canvas, 23 ½ x 23 ½ in (60 x 60 cm) Photo: Uwe Walter.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christopher Winter's singular paintings remind us that, once upon a time, art and magic emerged simultaneously, indeed were one and the same. Caves in the Paleolithic era were not clean, well-lighted spaces, and cave paintings were not viewed in the detached, observer-and-observed way we now regard art. They were magic in which viewers were participants. The first paintings were likely experienced as genuinely living entities, gateways into the spirit-world, the mind's own terra incognita. 32,000 years on, give or take a decamillenium, we find ourselves in that terra incognita we know as the present, on a darkly magical mystery tour with artist-magician Christopher Winter as our guide. This time round, Winter pulls more than a few rabbits from his prestidigitator's hat, with one painting of a rabbit emerging from the magician's topper, and several paintings of domesticated fauna leaping through the skies. Aloft before demure storybook mountain valleys, these gr ... More |
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Halston, American (1932-1990), evening dress, 1972, silk knit, 56 x 38 in.; Gift of the Alliance of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and purchased with funds provided by Gene and Rosemary Tanner, Patricia J. LaCrosse, Walter and Joan Wolf, Anne Greenleaf, and Frank and Barbara Grunwald, 2010.227.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- An American Legacy: Norell, Blass, Halston & Sprouse at the Indianapolis Museum of Art highlights the achievements of celebrated fashion designers Norman Norell, Bill Blass, Stephen Sprouse and Halston, all of whom hailed from Indiana. Spanning more than 50 years of fashion history, the exhibition presents the work of four innovative designers, their individual styles and lasting influence on American fashion. Featuring some of the most outstanding garments from the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s fashion arts collection, An American Legacy will be on view from May 4, 2012, to January 27, 2013. Adhering to individual creative philosophies, these designers produced bodies of work that contributed significantly to the ... More |
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Joan Miró, Inceste au Sahara (D. 766), 1975. Etching and aquatint in colors on wove paper, signed in pencil and numbered 40/50, published/printed by Maeght/Morsang, Paris, the full sheet, framed. Sheet 63 x 47 5/8in. Sold for $32,500; Est. $20,000-30,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The auction of fine Prints at Bonhams, May 1 in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles, brought an impressive result of $1,277,413. Leading the auction were various works by Joan Miró (1893-1983). The top lot of the auction was Miró’s One Plate, from The Prints of Joan Miró, 1947, a signed etching with intricate handcoloring on Auvergne paper, which achieved $35,000, far exceeding its pre-sale estimate of $15,000-20,000. Not far behind that lot in the top ten were two more of Miró’s works: Inceste au Sahara, 1975, a signed etching and aquatint in colors, which brought $32,500 (est. $20,000-30,000) and Les Orfevres, 1971-73, a signed, unique print with etching and handcoloring in crayon and pastel on wove paper, which took in $23,750 (est. $20,000-25,000). Two iconic Andy ... More |
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| Edward Lycett and Brooklyn's Faience Manufacturing Company on view at Brooklyn Museum |
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Fine decorations, Chinese offerings and Old Master drawings featured at Grogan's May auction |
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New exhibition of paintings by Belgian artist Jan De Vliegher opens at Mike Weiss Gallery |
Edward Lycett, Vase, 1886–90. Cream-colored earthenware applied with molded fish and shells. 35.6 x 17.5 cm.Collection of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Nearly forty decorative arts objects, including vases, ewers, plates, and other wares, drawn from public and private collections, will be on display at the Brooklyn Museum in the exhibition Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company. The exhibition highlights the nearly fifty-year career of ceramicist Edward Lycett (American 1833–1910), creative director of the Faience Manufacturing Company from 1884 to 1890. The range of works illustrates Lycett’s talent and his adaptability to stylistic changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as his vision for Faience, a company based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that earned acclaim for producing ornamental wares that set a new standard of excellence in American ceramics. These bold and eclectic pieces synthesized Japanese, Chinese, and Islamic influences characteristic of the ... More |
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The auction will be comprised of over 600 lots of American and European paintings, prints and sculpture.
DEDHAM, MASS.- In addition to fine art, Grogan and Company’s May 20th auction will include a large collection of European decorative works of art and an impressive selection of Fine Oriental Rugs and Carpets. The auction, which will begin at 12 noon on Sunday, May 20th, will be comprised of over 600 lots of American and European Paintings, Prints and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, Old Master Drawings, American and Continental Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, Jewelry, Silver and Oriental Rugs and Carpets. The fine art includes two provocative Black and White Photographs by New York artist and AIDS activist Robert Mapplethorpe include Ron Simms and Cock, and are estimated at $3,000-5,000 and $8,000-12,000 respectively. The featured, Josef Alber’s Homage to the Square, ‘Late Sound’, a 40 x 40 inch oil on masonite created in 1964 is estimated at $200,000-400,000 and Milton Avery’s ... More |
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Installation view of Jan De Vliegher's exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents Treasury, a new exhibition of paintings by Belgian artist Jan De Vliegher. For his first solo exhibition in the United States, De Vliegher creates a series of monumental paintings which reference the artist’s obsessive hunt for otherwise overlooked porcelain plates. United in their ritualistic and repetitive compositions the series of circular abstractions reveal De Vliegher’s fascination with the painting experience while also speaking to broader themes of contemporary collecting. Like a cultural anthropologist, De Vliegher meticulously documents his varied sources of inspiration in their traditional museum context. The lush colors, dramatic brushstrokes and overpowering scale of his work, however, starkly diverge from the otherwise controlled subject matter. The subsequent rush-infused paintings transcend their representational qualities and assume the commanding ... More |
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 Civil War shipwreck in the way of Georgia port project
SAVANNAH, GA (AP).- Before government engineers can deepen one of the nation's busiest seaports to accommodate future trade, they first need to remove a $14 million obstacle from the past — a Confederate warship rotting on the Savannah River bottom for nearly 150 years. Confederate troops scuttled the ironclad CSS Georgia to prevent its capture by Gen. William T. Sherman when his Union troops took Savannah in December 1864. It's been on the river bottom ever since. Now, the Civil War shipwreck sits in the way of a government agency's $653 million plan to deepen the waterway that links the nation's fourth-busiest container port to the Atlantic Ocean. The ship's remains are considered so historically significant that dredging the river is prohibited within 50 feet of the wreckage. So the Army Corps of Engineers plans to raise and preserve what's left ... More The Collection of Prince and Princess Henry de La Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais realizes $7,072,872
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced that Thursday’s sale of The Collection of Prince and Princess Henry de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais realised a total of £4,372,178/€5,389,594/$7,072,872, well above the pre-sale estimate of £1.73 - 2.62 million. The sale, which comprised property from the London homes of one of France’s noblest families, was 85% sold by lot, 95% sold by value. The sale included museum quality Neo-classical and Empire furniture by some of the greatest French ébenistes, as well as drawings and books from the library of the Prince’s uncle, renowned designer and architect Emilio Terry. The headline lot of the auction was a magnificent gilt-bronze mounted amaranth and tulip wood secrétaire by Joseph, circa 1770 (pictured overleaf), which sold for £385,250. Estimated at £150,000-300,000, an identical secrétaire is held in the Getty Museum in ... More Reed Gallery presents Eye to Eye with Andy Warhol: The Multiples
PRESQUE ISLE, ME.- The University of Maine at Presque Isle’s Reed Fine Art Gallery presents its second exhibition of photographs by Andy Warhol in Eye to Eye with Andy Warhol: The Multiples. The exhibition, which will be on display May 4 through June 16, is being sponsored by the Maine Community Foundation (The Meander Fund); the Maine Arts Commission; the Bank of Maine Presque Isle; and Morningstar Art and Framing, which framed the exhibit. The photos are among the 153 silver gelatin prints and Polaroid photographs that UMPI received in the spring of 2008 – valued at more than $100,000 – from the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. Eye to Eye draws on multiple images of individuals in the UMPI collection that posed for Warhol’s much desired, and much solicited, portraits, according to curator for the show and former Reed ... More University of Michigan Museum of Art opens exhibition by video pioneer Peter Campus
ANN ARBOR, MICH.- Peter Campus is a pioneer of video art who experimented with the medium in the 1970s alongside other notable artists Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, and Joan Jonas. These innovators advanced the formal and conceptual potential of these new imagemaking technologies in art frameworks. Video represented a new frontier, one that allowed artists to channel and expand upon common artistic concerns of the era at the intersection of minimalism, performance, interdisciplinary exploration, and conceptual art. Campus pursued many directions, and fully exploited the medium’s nascent potential—he employed special effects like chromakey (making a composite of video streams) to surrealistically layer images within footage, and experimented through presentation rather than production by creating large-‐scale projections and a series of little-‐seen installation works ... More Nortse returns to Rossi & Rossi with 18 new mixed media painting
LONDON.- Following his first sold-out solo exhibition in 2008 and a run of acclaimed group shows from Beijing to Tel Aviv and Santa Monica, Nortse returns to Rossi & Rossi with 18 new mixed media paintings, along with a video work and an installation. Part of an exciting generation of Tibetan artists who repurpose traditional Tibetan motifs to confront the erosion of Tibetan culture and its “redevelopment” under Chinese hegemony, his work is critically assessed in a full-colour catalogue accompanying the exhibit, featuring an essay by HG Masters, a freelance writer and editor-at-large for ArtAsiaPacific. Bandaged Landscape exemplifies another new turn in Nortse’s artistic approach. He says, “For me, ‘duplicating’ myself is a very painful experience, which makes it difficult to continue using any one method for very long.” In contrast to his first solo show with Rossi ... More Loch Ness monster ordered to leave Wisconsin river
EAU CLAIRE, WIS (AP).- The Loch Ness monster is on vacation in Wisconsin — and state officials want the legendary lady to leave. Department of Natural Resources spokesman Dan Baumann says a sculpture of Nessie is illegally obstructing the Chippewa River in Eau Claire and must be removed by the person who placed it there. The sculpture's creator remains a mystery, although a person who anonymously emailed the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram on Thursday (http://bit.ly/ILl70C ) said it would be removed within 10 days. Retailer Menards says it would like to acquire the guerrilla art and that the monster could make her home in retention ponds at the home improvement chain's Eau Claire property. The Loch Ness monster was first "spotted" at Loch Ness, a waterway some 10 miles south of Inverness, Scotland, in 1933. ... More |
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