| The
First Art Newspaper on the Net |
Established in 1996 |
Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
 |
| |
Roy Lichtenstein's "Sleeping Girl" fetches $44,882,500 breaking a record for the artist
|
|
|
|
Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Sleeping Girl’ is auctioned at Sotheby's on May 9, 2012 in New York City. The market for contemporary art has been on fire in recent months with Edvard Munch's "The Scream" posting an auction record of $119 million at Sotheby's on May 2. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby's contemporary art sale on Wednesday. Lichtenstein's "Sleeping Girl," depicting a woman with closed eyes and flowing blond hair, fetched $44,882,500; Weiwei's 1-ton, handmade porcelain "Sunflower Seeds" brought $782,500. Another major work on the auction block — Francis Bacon's "Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror" — sold for $44,882,500. The buyers' names for each of the four pieces were not released. The sale came on the heels of art auction history. Last week, the auction house sold Edvard Munch's "The Scream" for $119.9 million, making ... More |
 |
| Christie's to sell painting by Miguel Covarrubias formerly in the collection of Helena Rubinstein |
|
One of Spain's most prestigious architects, Rafael Moneo, wins Asturias prize |
|
A new generation of wealthy Asians build their own art museums to display collections they've amassed |
Miguel Covarrubias, Bather Holding Up Her Kemban, 1934. Gouache on masonite, 29¾ x 29¾ in. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 22 and 23, Christie's Latin American sale will offer an exceptional selection of works by modern and contemporary masters hailing from Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and many other regions throughout the Americas. Rich in works from private collections, the two-day auction presents over 300 works by leading Latin American artists such as Fernando Botero, Miguel Covarrubias, Matta, Joaquín Torres-García, Candido Portinari, and Leonora Carrington, among others. The sale is expected to realize upwards of $20 million. From the esteemed Robert Brady Museum Foundation and formerly in the collection of the cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein, Bather Holding Up Her Kemban (lot 4) by Miguel Covarrubias (estimate: $300,000-500,000) reflects the artist’s deep love and fascination for the Indonesian island of Bali. He first travelled to Bali in 1930 as a newlywed with his bride ... More |
|
File photo of architect Rafael Moneo pausing while speaking to journalists at the Prado Musuem in Madrid. AP Photo/Paul White, File.
MADRID (AP).- Architect Rafael Moneo has been named the winner of Spain's Prince of Asturias arts award in 2011. Moneo is one of Spain's most prestigious architects whose works include the Los Angeles Cathedral and the Atocha railway station in Madrid. The Prince of Asturias Foundation said Moneo's "work enriched urban space with a serene and meticulously tidy architecture." The prize was announced Wednesday as Moneo turned 75. He already won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1996. Eight Asturias prizes are awarded each year covering the arts, human rights, sciences and sports. They include a €50,000 ($65,000) cash award and a sculpture by Joan Miro. They are presented by Spain's crown prince each autumn in Oviedo. José Rafael Moneo Vallés, 74, was born in Tudela, Spain. He obtained his architectural degree in 1961 from the School of Architecture in Madrid, then worked with Danish architect Jørn Utzon and studied at the Spanish Academy in Rome before opening his own practi ... More |
|
Indonesian-Chinese farming tycoon Budi Tek poses in front of a paiting by Gerhard Richter. AP Photo/Vincent Yu.
By: Kelvin Chan, AP Business Writer
HONG KONG (AP).- Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they've amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China's flashy nouveau riche. Wang and billionaire investor Liu are part of a new generation of wealthy Asians that is better known for splashing out on extravagant toys such as private jets, mega-sized yachts and supercars. Some, instead, have built big art collections and now aspire to showcase their refined sensibility to a wider audience. The trend is most apparent in China, where entrepreneurs who have gotten rich off the country's booming economy have been splurging on art, making it the world's biggest fine art market last year for the second year in a row. As China's best known art collectors, Wang and her husband ... More |
|
| Frieze New York 2012: Widespread acclaim for inaugural edition; visitor numbers in the region of 45,000 |
|
Bortolami presents New York-based visual and performance artist Jutta Koether's The Fifth Season |
|
Major exhibition of new work by artist Jason Martin set to open at Lisson Gallery in London |
"Lea" by Daniel Firman is on display at the Galerie Perrotin at the Frieze New York Art Fair, Friday, May 4, 2012 on Randall's Island in New York. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer.
NEW YORK, NY.- The first edition of Frieze New York closed on Monday 7 May with many galleries reporting excellent sales across all levels of the market and expressing admiration for the overall conception of the new fair, its structure and environment. More than 180 galleries from 30 countries took part in the inaugural edition of Frieze New York making it the largest event produced by Frieze. The fair took place in a bespoke temporary structure, designed by Brooklyn-based architects SO – IL, on Randall’s Island, Manhattan. With visitor numbers in the region of 45,000, the fair attracted an international spectrum of artists, collectors, curators and journalists who all remarked upon the quality of the material brought by the galleries and pleasant atmosphere of the fair as a whole. Tickets sold out for both Saturday and Sunday. Frieze New York is sponsored by Deutsche Bank. Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp said: ‘ ... More |
|
Jutta Koether, Summer, 2012. Oil on canvas, 63 x 86.61 x .79 inches, 160 x 220 x 2 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami Gallery is presenting Jutta Koether's first exhibition with the gallery, The Fifth Season, from May 2nd to June 16th with a reception for the artist on May 2nd from 6 to 8pm. The Fifth Season will include seven large-scale paintings and one small-scale painting. Integral to the exhibition is a second installment of her work The Seasons, which is currently on view at The Whitney Biennial, the remaining three paintings incorporate garland imagery. There will be a particular "ground plane" completing the arrangement of works in the gallery. In her series Koether updates iconic paintings with a visual vocabulary of erratic, graffiti-like lines in evocative hues of pink, blood-red tones and metallic paint. The activity on the ground creates a heightened experience for the viewer, providing an alternate, almost bucolic setting while viewing two-dimensional landscape-like paintings. The Seasons and T ... More |
|
Jason Martin, Sikh, 2011, Pure pigment on aluminium (quinacridone scarlet), © the artist; Courtesy, Lisson Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announces a major exhibition of new work by Jason Martin, his fifth at the gallery. Martin makes paintings about paint - its materiality, sculptural presence and transformative, alchemical nature. The energy of Martin’s process is palpable in a new series of rich, dark, monochromatic oil on aluminium works. In Tempest (2011), the dense swathes of colour are applied in thick, fluid, overlaid brushstrokes. Light plays across the surface echoing the dynamism and vigour of its making. Sensual and tactile, each work in this group is definitively autonomous. The titles invite contemplation and emphasise the inherent narrative of the work but the meaning is mutable. Pushing the boundaries of painting is at the core of Martin’s creative process. These continuing investigations are evinced in a series of vividly intense, jewel-like pure pigment paintings. Taking a basic ... More |
| Exhibition of recent photogenic drawings by Marco Breuer on view at Von Lintel |
|
New Museum presents first New York solo exhibition of work by sculptor Phyllida Barlow |
|
Picasso, Modigliani and Warhol among luminaries in Heritage Auctions Modern & Contemporary Art event |
Marco Breuer, Untitled (C-1178), 2012. Chromogenic paper, burned, 31 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches, unique. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery announces a solo exhibition of recent photogenic drawings by Marco Breuer. For this new series, Breuer worked in and outside of the darkroom, exposing photographic color paper to heat, light, and physical abrasion. Drawing implements included modified hot plates and the guts of electric frying pans. This exhibition presents works ranging from small photographic sketches to heavily burned and distressed 30 by 40-inch prints. Every individual piece constitutes a search, a move away from the given, a test of the materials' limits. The delicate lines and exquisite surfaces are what make these works so luminous and dynamic. In his 20-year career, Breuer has examined fundamental questions of photographic form and practice. He continues this exploration in Condition by disrupting the figure/ground r ... More |
|
Barlow has been a seminal influence on British sculpture for the past forty years.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum presents the first New York solo exhibition of the work of British sculptor Phyllida Barlow. For her New Museum presentation, Barlow has created a new, site-specific sculptural installation in the Museum’s fourth floor gallery. This exhibition is part of a series focusing on a single project or body of work within an artist’s larger practice. The series began last May with presentations by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Gustav Metzger. “Phyllida Barlow: siege” is on view from May 2–June 24, 2012, and is curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Curator. Barlow has been a seminal influence on British sculpture for the past forty years, having taught a generation of notable British artists. She began making work in the mid-1960s, breaking away from earlier British sculpture exemplified by the formal abstractions of artists such as Anthony Caro. Instead, inspired by Arte Povera and ... More |
|
Amedeo Modigliani, Femme nue assise, 1916. Pencil and watercolor on paper, 15-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches. Estimate: $80,000 - $100,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Pablo Picasso’s Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1962, and Amedeo Modigliani’s Femme nue assise, 1916, are both expected to bring more than $80,000 to lead a pack of art world giants in Heritage Auctions’ May 22 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature® Auction, taking place at the company’s Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. “This is a very exciting auction to be a part of,” said Ed Beardsley, Vice President and Managing Director of the Department of Fine and Decorative Arts at Heritage. “Our specialists have searched far and wide to cull the best available examples, at a variety of price points, and tailored it to appeal to buyers across the spectrum.” Andy Warhol, arguably America’s most revered Modern artist, is amply represented in the auction, with a variety of iconic color screenprints, led by the superb trio of Superman (from Myths), 1981 ... More |
 |
|
| Smash hit documentary "Gerhard Richter Painting" to have its Los Angeles premiere on May 31 at LACMA |
|
Art Greenwich, to be held May 25th – 28th, promises a "next-generation" experience for collectors |
|
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announces inaugural Creative Director for its Captiva Artist Residency |
Gerhard Richter working on "Abstract Painting (910-1).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kino Lorber announced that Corinna Belz’s acclaimed documentary Gerhard Richter Painting, now in its sixth week at New York’s Film Forum, will open at local Laemmle Theatres (http://laemmle.com/) in Los Angeles on Friday, June 15. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will host a special sneak preview of the film on Thursday, May 31, as part of their Film Independent at LACMA Film Series, presented by The New York Times. One of the world’s greatest living painters, Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. Infamously media-shy, he agreed to appear on camera for the first time in 15 years for a 2007 short by Belz called Gerhard Richter’s Window. Her follow-up, Gerhard Richter Painting, is exactly that: a thrilling doc ... More |
|
Marko Remec, Miss Piggy. Courtesy of Fernando Luis Alvarez.
GREENWICH, CONN.- In addition to offering a wide breadth of 20th Century masters, SeaFair plays host to an unconventional and energizing new wave of special installations and performance projects from living contemporary artists. For the inaugural spring edition International Fine Arts Expositions (IFAE), have partnered with cultural and community organizations, as well as established and emerging artists, to unveil a bevy of surprises and ensure a comprehensive and “next-generation” experience. The noted Greenwich dealer, artist and entrepreneur, Fernando Luis Alvarez has created a truly multi-disciplinary playground for audiences through his performance piece “Convergence”. Through a collaborative of music, dance and painting Alvarez demonstrates a theatrical portrayal of his transition from business executive to full-time artist and entrepreneur. Alvarez will ... More |
|
For over 40 years, Captiva was home to one of the world’s most innovative and collaborative artists – Robert Rauschenberg.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced the appointment of Jason Kalajainen as the Creative Director of the Foundation’s Artist Residency program in Captiva, Florida. In this role, Jason will be responsible for transforming Robert Rauschenberg’s 26-acre estate on Captiva Island, Florida into a creative center that welcomes leaders in the visual arts, music, dance, writing, and a variety of scholarship and disciplines from around the world to live, work, and develop new work in residence on the property. The RRF/Captiva residency program is inspired by Rauschenberg’s early years at Black Mountain College where an artistic community brought out elements central to his legacy - collaboration and exploration - learning from and working with others to break new ground. “The development of an Artists Residency ... More |
|
| More News |
 Green Art Gallery introduces the works of renowned eastern European artists to the region
DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery presents the exhibition ‘Referencing History’, curated by London based curator Jane Neal. The exhibition brings together artists Kamrooz Aram, Hale Tenger, and Ali Banisadr with a selection of some of the most internationally renowned Eastern European artists including Alexander Tinei, Daniel Pitin, Marius Bercea, Zsolt Bodoni, Ivan Grubanov, Ciprian Muresan, Mircea Suciu, and Serban Savu. The artists brought together in this exhibition share an active interest in history, be that a collective or personal one. In several cases the artists share the experience of growing up under a restrictive regime and witnessing its disintegration, as was the case for those living through the collapse of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. In others, there is simply a fascination with historical processes and the systemic interpretations of “historical events”. It can ... More Los Angeles Modern Auctions sets record prices for local and international artists
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions set new world records for art and design in the May 6, 2012 Modern Art & Design Auction. Total sales realized $2.97 million, a new company sales record, selling 81% of the 502 lots by value. The Le Corbusier tapestry, Bogota, 1950, (Lot 169 est. $40,000 – 60,000), set a new world auction record for the highest amount ever paid for a tapestry by the designer. Bidding from international and local buyers drove the final price to $131,250, further confirming LAMA’s ability to achieve exceptional prices for works of international importance. A rich selection of nine paintings from the Hard Edge School brought a total of $361,875. Frederick Hammersley’s Figure of Speech, 1974-75, (Lot 139 est. $30,000 – 50,000), nearly doubled the previous auction record (also set by LAMA) bringing $87,500. Karl Benjamin’s, Yellow Landscape ... More National Gallery of Canada presents an exhibition dedicated to Arnaud Maggs
OTTAWA.- Visitors to the National Gallery of Canada can see Arnaud Maggs: Identification, a survey exhibition that follows the Canadian senior artist’s production over four decades. On view until September 16, 2012, the exhibition features both older works that established his reputation as well as more recent material. Arnaud Maggs: Identification features his early portrait series, his monumental photographic installations of found historical ephemera – invoices, notes, and labels, the typography used in signage and numbering systems, as well as pieces that centre on rare books, including his own Scrapbook (2009), which is filled with the inspiring items Maggs collected while working as a graphic designer. Each work on display records in some way the people, places and lived experiences that have marked him – they can be seen as portraits of the artist. "Over the last four ... More National Museum of African Art presents "Lalla Essaydi: Revisions"
WASHINGTON, DC.- Lalla Essaydi, one of today’s most provocative and engaging visual artists, is the focus of a multimedia exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. “Lalla Essaydi: Revisions” will debut May 9 and run through Feb. 24, 2013. Essaydi, a Moroccan-born, New York-based artist, pushes the boundaries of Arab, Muslim, African and perceptions of women’s identities with her art, which includes themes of feminism, gender, identity and the private inner lives of women. Her work, which draws on Arabic calligraphy for its decorative and communicative potential, inscribes these spaces with a personal and feminine voice. The exhibition features approximately 30 works of diverse media drawn from each of the artist’s photographic series, including the richly hued “Silence of Thought.” It also includes her better-known, “Converging Territories” and ... More Brooklyn Museum publishes catalogue of more than 100 highlights from works acquired in the past decade
BROOKLYN, NY.- Collecting for the Future: A Decade of Acquisition Highlights, a fully illustrated volume, presents notable artworks acquired for the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum over the past ten years. Ranging from ancient Egyptian coins from the Ptolemaic Period to the contemporary Moroccan artist mounir fatmi's work incorporating fifty skateboards covered with fragments of prayer rugs, more than one hundred exceptional works are reproduced in color plates with accompanying curatorial commentaries. The book includes a Foreword by Barbara Knowles Debs, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum, and Chair of the Collections Committee; a Preface by Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman; and an Introduction outlining the history of the Museum's collection, by Chief Curator and project director Kevin Stayton. It is available for $19.95 ... More Some Chicago museums to close 3 days for NATO summit
CHICAGO (AP).- Three of Chicago's top tourist attractions will close for three days instead of one day for next week's NATO summit. The Adler Planetarium, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Shedd Aquarium announced Wednesday that the institutions will be closed from May 19-21. The U.S. Secret Service originally said the institutions would be closed on Sunday, May 20, the first day of the NATO summit. That's the same day protesters plan a rally and march on Michigan Avenue. Representatives for the museums say they support and welcome the summit. But they say schedules were adjusted because of each organization's "close proximity" to McCormick Place, the site of the summit. All three institutions also are near the protest route. ... More |
|
|
|
|
|
|
