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Sleeping Beauty recreated by artist Taras Polataiko at the National Art Museum in Kiev
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Young visitors looks on a new art project called 'Sleeping Beauties' created by a Canadian-Ukrainian artist Taras Polataiko in The National Art Museum in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Five young Ukrainian women, dressed in white wedding gowns, take turns sleeping on display in the museum for a couple of hours every day. Based on the fairytale 'Sleeping Beauty', the idea of the art-exhibition is for visitors to look at a sleeping girl, and, if they feel the urge, kiss her on the lips. If a sleeping beauty opens up her eyes she's obliged by a legal contract to marry. AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky.
By: Maria Danilova, Associated Press
KIEV (AP).- Looking for true love? Fall asleep in Ukraine's top museum and wait for a kiss. A Ukrainian-Canadian artist is presenting an interactive art project called "Sleeping Beauty," in which five attractive young women take turns sleeping under dim lights in Kiev's top gallery, each under a pledge to marry the visitor who wakes her with a kiss. Any unmarried museum-goer can kiss the woman in the hope of making Beauty fall in love and awaken. Taras Polataiko, a Ukrainian-born artist now based in Canada, says the goal of his exhibit is to recreate the famous fairy tale and witness the birth of love. But it also has political undertones, symbolizing the patience of the Ukrainian people trapped by what he calls the oppressive government of President Viktor Yanukovych, and hopes that the nation will one day awaken to true freedom. "I am turning the ... More |
| Lyon & Turnbull sell historic New York collection of television producer for £1.3 million |
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Sotheby's to offer masterpieces of Abstract Expressionism from a private American collection |
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Exhibition of works by Robert Irwin opens at two Pace Gallery venues in New York |
F.C.B. Cadell, Tulips. Estimate, £60,000-80,000 (US$95.000-127,000).
EDINBURGH.- The contents of the New York home of the late Donald L. Taffner, iconic independent television producer and his wife Eleanor B. Taffner, the largest single private collection of furniture, drawings and paintings by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, sold at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh today 7th September 2012 for £1.3 million. “It was a fantastic atmosphere in a packed sale room with many of the bidders flying in from the United States and Europe, some leaving their private jets at Edinburgh International Airport.” said John Mackie, Director and specialist at Lyon & Turnbull. He continued, “Although some lots were sold abroad I am pleased to say that many will remain in Scotland. The result is a fitting tribute to Donald and Eleanor Taffner who made an extraordinary contribution to Scotland’s cultural heritage with their interest and promotion of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his c ... More |
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Jackson Pollock, Number 4, 1951. Est. $25/35 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the evening of 13 November 2012 in New York, Sotheby’s will present eight 20th century masterworks from part of the extensive collection of Sidney and Dorothy Kohl. Acquired predominantly in the early 1970s, the offering features prime examples by the titans of the American Abstract Expressionist movement - Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joan Mitchell, Hans Hofmann and Adolph Gottlieb. Distinguished by their provenance and out of public view for decades, the eight works are estimated to sell for $80/100 million. Highlights will be exhibited in Los Angeles, London and Doha, before returning to New York, where all of the works will be on view beginning 1 November. “To offer a group of true masterpieces that have remained together in the same private collection for four decades is an event nearly unheard of on the art market,” commented Tobias M ... More |
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Robert Irwin, Untitled, 2012 (detail). Acrylic, dimensions variable© 2012 Robert Irwin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © 2012 Philipp Scholz Ritterman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace presents the second part of Dotting the i's & Crossing the t’s, an exhibition exploring the seminal themes that have defined Irwin’s career: condition, experience, perception, and light. The two-venue show, on view at 510 West 25th Street and 32 East 57th Street from September 6 through October 20, 2012, continues a presentation of Irwin’s work that began in the spring. Robert Irwin, who will celebrate his 85th birthday this September, is one of the most significant and influential artists working today. Dotting the i's & Crossing the t’s refines and crystallizes six decades of exploration of perception as the fundamental issue of art. Beginning his career as a painter in the 50s, by the early 70s, Irwin left the studio to expand the role of art from an object into something that could be experienced as perce- ... More |
| Solo exhibition of new paintings by Chinese artist Liu Ye opens at Sperone Westwater |
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Scholars from Amherst College in Massachusetts may have 2nd photo of poet Emily Dickinson |
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Unforeseen: Exhibition of new paintings by Callum Innes opens at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin |
Liu Ye, Small Painter, 2009-2010. Acrylic on canvas, 11 7/8 x 8 inches (30,2 x 20,3 cm). Private Collection. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents Bamboo Bamboo Broadway, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Liu Ye. For his third solo show at the gallery, the artist continues to engage the history of modernism, while referencing the tradition of abstraction in historical Chinese painting. Here, Liu Ye introduces new genres such as landscape and still-life painting to his oeuvre. The centerpiece of the show is a nine-part painting of abstracted and simplified details of a bamboo plant which spans the gallery's double-height wall. Bamboo Bamboo Broadway (2012), also the title of the exhibition, is the artist's largest work to date. Painted in New York, this nine-part work measures 6 x 9 meters. Liu Ye utilizes a familiar trope in Chinese painting -- bamboo imagery in a landscape format -- but employs a modernistic approach to the composition. Each canvas hangs abutted in a grid, reminiscent of Bauhaus architecture in its ... More |
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A copy of a circa 1860 daguerreotype purported to show a 30-year-old Emily Dickinson, left, with her friend Kate Scott Turner. AP Photo/Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, and the Emily Dickinson Museum.
AMHERST, MA (AP).- Scholars at Amherst College in Massachusetts believe a collector may have what would be just the second known photo of Emily Dickinson. The college says the collector, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought the photo in 1995 in Springfield. He brought it to the college's archive and special collections staff in 2007, and they've been researching it since. Last month, it was publicly shown during the Emily Dickinson International Society conference in Cleveland, Ohio. The daguerreotype, dated around 1859, appears to show Dickinson sitting next to a friend, Kate Scott Turner. There's strong evidence it's Dickinson, including comparisons of high-resolution digital images of the newer photo with the known image, from 1847, said Mike Kelly, head of the archive and special collections depart- ... More |
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Callum Innes, Untitled No. 19 2012. Oil on linen, 160 x 156 cm., 63 x 61.4 in. Images courtesy of Kerlin Gallery and the artist.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery opened, ‘Unforeseen’, an exhibition of new paintings by Callum Innes. Callum Innes makes work in a number of different ways, all of which are evolving simultaneously. He shifts from one series to the next allowing each new painting to build on those that have gone before in a subtle but constant development. This exhibition is comprised of new Exposed Paintings, Isolated Forms and a wonderful example of the Monologue series with a focus on new works from the Untitled series. At first, the strength and orderliness of geometry seems paramount but the work's fragility and power resonates in the space where the line between Form and non-Form comes and goes. Further observation reveals that his characteristic mode of atmospheric abstraction involves a complex process of reduction, given that they've all started off as black paintings with their key compositional elements ... More |
| Exhibition of eleven still-life and jungle-landscape paintings by Erik Parker opens at Paul Kasmin Gallery |
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Al Capone's original music composition "Madonna Mia" up for bid at RR Auction's sale |
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Exhibition of new paintings by Thomas Lawson opens at David Kordansky Gallery |
Erik Parker, Nyabinghi Bay, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 40 inches, 121.9 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of eleven 2012 still-life and jungle-landscape paintings by Erik Parker (b. 1968 Stuttgart, Germany; lives and works in New York City). Updating these traditional art-historical genres through the pictorial idioms and sly humor of satirical cartoons, psychedelia, and underground comic books, Parker’s paintings provide vistas into brilliantly colored worlds of semi-sentient flora and idiosyncratic geometries. For Parker, creating the jungle paintings provides him with a way to escape into custom-made exotic locales without having to leave his Brooklyn studio. He draws inspiration from the imaginary landscapes of Henri Rousseau—who never left his native France, and Joseph Yoakum—who mixed his memories of his own travels into his visualizations of unknown cities and countries. In Parker’s fantastical scenes, fleshy, claw-like leaves and snakin ... More |
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Moving love song, penned by the musically inclined Chicago crime boss while incarcerated at Alcatraz, among over 130 amazing and stunning lots up for Auction September 30, 2012.
AMHERST, NH.- Murderous Chicago crime-boss and legendary Gangster Alphonse “Al” Capone is well known for controlling a large part of Chicago’s underworld during the Prohibition era, and his image reached celebrity status in the Windy City and beyond. Less well known, of course, is the fact that Capone had a softer side: he was a jazz and opera aficionado, going so far as to form a band while imprisoned at Alcatraz and writing his own music. While imprisoned for tax evasion, Capone developed a close friendship with Vincent Casey, a Jesuit priest in training who visited Alcatraz to offer spiritual counsel to prisoners in the 1930s. Already quite accomplished on the mandola, he took advantage of his spare time in prison to further hone his musical talents. After two years of meeting in his cell every Saturday, Capone penned this original composition – ... More |
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Thomas Lawson, Voluptuous Panic, 2012. Oil on canvas, 72 x 66 in. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Photo: Brian Forrest.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents In the Shadow of the Beast, an exhibition of new paintings by Thomas Lawson. Consisting of medium- and large- scale canvases, the show presents the latest developments in Lawson's on-going investigation of allegory and the human figure. The exhibition will open on September 8 and run through October 20, 2012. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 8 from 6:00 until 9:00pm. For over thirty years, Lawson has explored the ways in which figurative representation allows for––and sometimes disrupts––the transmission of meaning. He has shown how images of the human form in art invariably take on a host of allegorical possibilities: the immediate, phenomenological pose of the viewer's own body before the artwork; the manipulated presence of the human figure in contemporary media outside of the visual arts; and ... More |
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| "Fragility and Resilience: Sculpture by Stephen De Staebler" at Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art |
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Miami Art Museum brings Rashid Johnson's first major solo exhibition to South Florida |
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Museum Deputy Director knighted by French Prime Minister of Culture for outstanding cultural diplomacy |
Stephen De Staebler, Single Winged Figure on Plinth, 2010, bronze, ¾, 112.5 x 30 x 30 inches. Acquired with funds provided by the Humana Foundation Endowment for American Art.
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Notre Dame opened a new exhibition, Fragility and Resilience: Sculpture by Stephen De Staebler, September 2, 2012. “Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides—ashes to ashes, dust to dust—man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.” ––Stephen De Staebler Stephen De Staebler’s figurative sculptures juxtapose the frailty and transience of individual lives against the remarkable resilience of humankind. Their forms ... More |
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The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Thurgood), 2008. Lambda print, 64 ½ x 55 ½ in. (163.8 x 141 cm). Artist’s proof 2 of 2, aside from an edition of 5. Collection of Liz and Eric Lefkofsky, Glencoe.
MIAMI, FL.- This September, Miami Art Museum presents Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks, the first major solo exhibition for Johnson, a preeminent artist of his generation. Johnson’s practice encompasses photography, sculpture, painting and video and explores diverse questions relating to the self, identity, metaphysics and art, rooted in his individual experience. On view September 7 to November 4, 2012, the exhibition includes more than a decade of Johnson’s work with an emphasis on major works from the last five years. "Rashid Johnson’s unusual vocabulary of materials and innovative mixing of diverse forms and cultural references makes him one of the most vital and interesting artists working today," said Tobias Ostrander, MAM chief curator and deputy director. "Johnson’s work has been supported for many years by our ... More |
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Ruth Berson, Deputy Museum Director of Curatorial Affairs, SFMOMA; Photo: Thierry d'Allant.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Ruth Berson, deputy director of curatorial affairs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, was named Officer in the French Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) in a medal ceremony held at the residence of the Consul General of France Romain Serman in San Francisco earlier this summer. The Order was created in 1957 and is awarded by the French Minister of Culture to recognize international artists, writers, and scholars for their achievements in promoting global awareness of France's cultural heritage. The honor is given out twice yearly and includes three ranks— Chevalier (up to 200 per year), Officer (up to 60 per year), and Commander (up to recipients 20 per year). Past American recipients include Maxwell Anderson, Paul Auster, Ornette Coleman, George Clooney, Philip Glass, William Griswold, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Redford, Patti Smith, Robert Storr, Meryl Streep, and Gary Tinterow. ... More |
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 Tribute to the stateless, eclectic figure of Felice Filippini opens in Ticino
By: Mario Casanova, translation Pete Kercher
TICINO.- On 8 September 2012 at 5.30 p.m., the MACT/CACT Contemporary Art in Canton Ticino is inaugurating an exhibition with some strictly museum-like traits, albeit with considerable aperture towards a strong character who still arouses much opposition in cultural environs on the southern side of the Alps. As always, what the exhibition’s curators are tackling is not so much this great artist’s vision and his consequential impact on his native soil, as his deserved repositioning on the international art scene that came about during the great century of the avant-gardes and what goes by the epithet of modernity: those self-same methods of critical approach to the cultural and artistic milieu, restricted to the twentieth century, as a notable period in history not only of ... More NY judge: Dinosaur might be more like Frankenstein
By: Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A federal judge expressed surprise Wednesday that a dinosaur skeleton seized by the U.S. government is a composite of several ancient creatures, calling it a "kind of Frankenstein model of a dinosaur." U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel said it seemed much more needs to be learned about the 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton, known as Ty, before it can be carted off to Mongolia, where the U.S. government says it originated and belongs. With the judge's approval, U.S. agents swooped into a storage facility in June and snatched the fossil after the government insisted it was a rare specimen that could only have originated in Mongolia. The fossil's seizure seemed urgent after it was sold by Dallas-based auction house Heritage ... More Amar Kanwar's Evidence on view at Fotomuseum Winterthur
ZURICH.- Two pivotal events in 1984 impacted Amar Kanwar’s early years as a student. One was the orchestrated killings of Sikhs in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination on 31 October 1984. The other was the Bhopal disaster on 3 December of the same year, when toxic gas escaped from a pesticide plant owned by the American company Union Carbide, killing several thousand people and injuring hundreds of thousands more. Amar Kanwar studied history at the University of Delhi at the time. After graduation, he travelled to a coal-mining area in the interior of India to research the problem of alcoholism and occupational hazards. Shortly afterwards he enrolled at the film school in the Mass Communications Research Center of Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. His breakthrough came with Earth as Witness, which he made in 1994 for the Tibetan government ... More Art Gallery of Ontario's Picasso exhibition a blockbuster success
TORONTO, ON.- Picasso: Masterpieces from Musée National, Paris, the hit exhibition that made the only Canadian stop on its world tour at the Art Gallery of Ontario, drew 308,582 visitors during its 17-week run, ranking as the fourth highest-attended exhibition in the AGO’s history. Hailed as “a genuine blockbuster” by the Globe and Mail, the travelling collection of “Picasso’s Picassos” was on view at the AGO from May 1 to Aug. 26, 2012. The busiest day of the run was Wednesday, Aug. 22, which logged 6,055 visitors. “This exhibition was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO’s director and CEO. “It was a delight to have shared this rare opportunity with our members and visitors, and to see them respond with such enthusiasm. I would like to extend my gratitude to the Musée Picasso as well as to our lead sponsor, BMO Financial Group, for helping the ... More Rare bottle of Black Pearl Cognac surfaces at Bonhams after life at sea
LONDON.- An exceptional selection of rare Cognac will be offered at Bonhams Fine & Rare wines sale on 13th September at New Bond Street, London. One of the highlights is a bottle of Rémy Martin Black Pearl Cognac. The unusual Cognac, bottled in a special, limited edition, black crystal decanter is estimated at £5,000 – 7,000. After several years travelling the world on a luxury cruise-liner, the bottle will end its voyage at auction. It started life at sea in the on-board shopping mall and was eventually purchased by an experienced South African bar manager, who trained as a sommelier. He spotted the bottle while cruising across the Mediterranean and, realising its importance and rarity, he bought it and sent it from Greece to South Africa for safe-keeping. The Cognac, a ‘Louis XIII de Remy Martin’, is made using a special blend of 1200 eaux de vie, between 40 and 100 ... More First solo exhibition in New York of painter Monique van Genderen opens at D'Amelio Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- D'Amelio Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in New York of Los Angeles-based painter Monique van Genderen, who has exhibited in both Europe and Los Angeles. Often working in the large-scale formats of murals and installation, for this exhibition van Genderen is focused on a body of medium to large-scale paintings, offering a format that is more directly related to human scale. The layers of Monique van Genderen's paintings interlace a painterly elegance with a complexity and assertiveness of composition. As if shuffling transparencies, the artist builds her collage-like works from overlapping blocks of color that root her works with a flat, graphic formality. Gestural, calligraphic brushstrokes challenge this gravity, yet van Genderen renders these drips and bleeds with a deliberateness that also questions their own haphazardness. In such a way, van ... More |
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