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Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
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A visitor looks at the raw meat dress worn by Lady Gaga at a 2010 awards ceremony during "Women Who Rock; Vision, Passion, Power" exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington on September 7, 2012. The exhibition, organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio to highlight "the essential roles women have played in moving rock and roll and American culture forward," runs to January 6, 2013 and will then be displayed in Omaha, Nebraska, Seattle, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts closes its 25th Anniversary year by saluting women’s contributions to rock and roll in Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power. This year’s Fall Benefit honors singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge. Organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the exhibition highlights the flashpoints, the firsts, and the celebrated and lesser-known women who have influenced the genre from its inception through today. The only east coast venue, NMWA presents Women Who Rock from Friday, September 7, 2012, through Sunday, January 6, 2013. Legendary singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who is among the celebrated artists in Women Who Rock, will receive the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts at the museum’s annual fall benefit on ... More |
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WOLFSBURG.- Featuring 63 mostly large-format works as well as 82 drawings and sketches, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is honoring Frank Stella with a comprehensive exhibition that makes up the capstone to the wide range of presentations celebrating the artist?s 75th birthday. In this image: Installation view Frank Stella ? The Retrospective (08.09.2012 ? 20.01.2013), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Left: The Grand Armada (IRS, No. 6, 1X) , 1989, Painted aluminum relief, 315 x 186.5 x 99 cm, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Right: Mysterious Bird of Ulieta I, 1976, Enamel, oil, and glass on aluminum, 300 × 400 × 60 cm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.© VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2012, Photo: Marek Kruszewski.
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| Comprehensive retrospective of Frank Stella's work on view at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg |
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Possible Renoir found: Virginia woman's flea market find for sale at Potomack Company |
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Exhibition of new work by British artist Gary Hume on view at Sprüth Magers in Berlin |
Frank Stella, Bene come il sale, 1987. Mixed media on aluminum, 238 x 227 x 157 cm. Sammlung Henkel. Photo: Jack Richmond© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012.
WOLFSBURG.- Frank Stella (born 1936) is one of the last living heroes of American painting from the 1950s and 1960s, the time when American art found its way to its own identity, reaching its historic zenith in the process. The hardly twenty-year old artist conquered the New York art scene in the late 1950s with a sensation: His large Black Paintings not only intensified the discussion of Minimalism in painting, but also prepared the way for the “exit from the picture into space.” But to the great surprise of the art critics, the passionate racecar driver did not follow the crowd avant-garde artists heading almost inevitably in the direction of Minimal Art. Stella pioneered a completely different path that led him to ever more opulent, ever more baroque reliefs. With this idiosyncratic turn “from Minimalism to Maximalist,” Frank Stella developed into one of the most distinctive artists of the 20th century. More |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Paysage Bords de Seine" (detail). The auction gallery estimates the painting will sell for $75,000-100,000. PRNewsFoto/The Potomack Company.
ALEXANDRIA (PR NEWSWIRE).- An auction house can never anticipate what might come through the door. Elizabeth Haynie Wainstein, owner of The Potomack Company, announces that a Virginia woman's flea market find - a lost Renoir painting the auction house recently revealed - will be for sale at the gallery's September 29th catalogue auction. The Potomack Company's fine arts specialist, Anne Norton Craner, determined that the painting which had been purchased along with a box of random items in the Shenandoah Valley was actually a work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir worth many times more than its purchase price. "When I removed the painting from the plastic bag it was stored in, I saw that its radiant plein air quality – the rapid brush strokes, the vibrant purple and pink colors, the Seine as subject matter and the luminous light reminded me immediately of Renoir's 1879 ... More |
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Gary Hume, 2, 2012. Gloss paint on aluminium, 182 x 137 cm / 71 5/8 x 54 inches © Gary Hume. Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London.
BERLIN.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present an exhibition of new work by Gary Hume. For the artist’s second solo show in Berlin, the gallery showcases an intimate series of never-seen-before works on paper, completed by the addition of gloss paint upon the glass of the frame. These multi-layered compositions will be shown alongside three recent paintings on aluminium. A member of the celebrated group of ‘Young British Artists’ who emerged from London’s Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms and an innovative use of colour. Renowned for his large-scale paintings which use high gloss paint to create planes of industrial colour, Gary Hume’s principal thematic concerns are colour and light and formal ambiguity, while his subject matter ranges from friends, family and celebrities, to motifs drawn from nature and childhood. ... More |
| No jail time for Obama 'HOPE' poster artist; ordered to do 300 hours of community service |
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Nancy Davidson's larger than life inflatable sculptures on view at Betty Cuningham Gallery |
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Most comprehensive presentation to date of work by Frank Moore opens at NYU's Grey Art Gallery |
Los Angeles street artist Shepard Fairey poses in front of the Barack Obama Hope artwork he designed. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes.
By: Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- The artist who created the "HOPE" poster that came to symbolize Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was ordered to do 300 hours of community service Friday for a criminal contempt conviction but was spared jail time. Shepard Fairey, 42, of Los Angeles nodded his head several times and said "OK" as U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas told him he must commit no crimes during two years of probation and must pay a $25,000 fine to the U.S. government. During remarks before the sentence was announced, Fairey called his decision to fabricate evidence in a civil lawsuit he brought against The Associated Press in 2009 the "worst thing I've done in my life." He also apologized. "I am deeply ashamed and remorseful that I didn't live up to my own standards of honesty and integrity," he said. After the sen- ... More |
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Nancy Davidson, RowdyAnn, 2012. Fabric, foam, wood, plastic, metal, 87 x 67 x 72 in., 220.98 x 170.18 x 182.88 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery opened its 2012-13 season with Nancy Davidson, featuring her inflatable sculpture, Dustup. This is the artist?s first exhibition at the Gallery. Davidson, a sculptor and video artist, is known for her unique media - larger than life inflatable sculptures - and for her interest in American icons and gender issues. In 2005 with the support of a Creative Capital Grant, she began her exploration on the myth and reality of the cowgirl. After researching western women?s history Davidson focused on the rodeo cowgirl. In this exhibition, Nancy Davidson?s Dustup offers a humorous, absurdist critique of the American cowgirl as a spectacle to admire, a tall tale fantasy of western legend. Like enormous puppets, the Dustup inflatables, suspended in midair, measuring 21 x 16 x 16 feet, combine playfulness and grandeur with a rodeo spirit. Davidson draws attention to the overblown, usin ... More |
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Frank Moore, Wizard, 1994 (detail). Oil and silkscreen on canvas mounted on wood, in artist’s frame (pharmaceuticals, resin, and aluminum), 68 x 95 1/2 in. Private collection, Milan. Image: Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- On view from September 6 through December 8, 2012, at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, "Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore" the most comprehensive presentation to date of work by this remarkable artist whose life was cut short by AIDS. Curated by independent scholar Susan Harris with Grey Art Gallery director Lynn Gumpert, the exhibition features approximately 35 major paintings and over 50 gouaches, prints, and drawings, as well as numerous sketchbooks, films, maquettes, source materials, and ephemera. Spanning Frank Moore’s entire career, the retrospective is on view at both the Grey Art Gallery and the Tracey/Barry Gallery at Fales Library, which houses NYU’s special collections and renowned Downtown Collection, the world’s most extensive archive of books, ... More |
| Artwork from Doris Duke's Shangri La comes to New York City's Museum of Arts and Design |
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Asia Week kicks off at Freeman's featuring the Frank J. Schwind Collection |
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Kabul's National Museum of Afghanistan rebuilds with returned artifacts |
The Syrian room at Doris Duke's Shangri La, in Honolulu. AP Photo/Museum of Arts and Design, The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, David Franzen.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Shangri La calls to mind a secluded paradise, an exotic place that evokes the mysteries of the ancient Orient. For the late philanthropist and art collector Doris Duke, her 5-acre retreat in Honolulu was that place. She used the name of the mythical oasis for her earthly slice of Eden on the edge of the Pacific Ocean and filled it with the art and architecture of the Islamic world that enthralled her all her life. A selection of the artifacts she assembled is being shown for the first time outside the estate at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. "Doris Duke's Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art" opened Friday to celebrate the year of her 100th birthday and runs through Jan. 6. The exhibit is intended to give a wider audience a look at the interplay among Shangri ... More |
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Daoguang famille rose 'peach and bat' vase.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Asia Week is rapidly approaching and as auction houses up and down the East Coast prepare to receive hundreds of Asian Art collectors and enthusiasts, Freeman's anticipates yet another record-breaking sale. This September 9, 2012 Freeman's will offer a selection of Chinese porcelain from collector and interior designer, Frank J. Schwind. The sale is highlighted by three lots: lot 757, a Qianlong flambé glazed vase and lot 762, a Daoguang famillé rose "peach and bat" vase, $20,000-30,000 and $15,000-20,000 respectively. The sale will also include a painting by renowned Southeast Asian artist, Lee Man Fong, titled "Compoon," lot 115, estimated at $60,000-100,000. Lee Man Fong's "Compoon" is new to the market and has impeccable provenance-the current owner was a close friend of the artist. In recent years, Lee is increasingly sought after in auctions for his unique style and for integrating orie ... More |
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A worker looks at a damaged statue at the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul. AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid.
By: Kay Johnson, Associated Press
KABUL (AP).- Right down to the power cuts that frequently plunge its artifacts into shadow, the National Museum of Afghanistan is a symbol of the country's decades of hardships. Its building was shelled, looted and caught fire during the 1990s civil war. Taliban extremists later smashed many centuries-old statues. Now, the museum is slowly rebuilding, thanks to international efforts to return thousands of looted treasures — and to heroic Afghan staff members who hid its most priceless works during the war years and kept the secret for more than a decade. The museum welcomed home nearly 850 Afghan artifacts in early August — including a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age axe, a 1st Century ivory elephant carving and a life-sized Buddha statue — that were either stolen from the museum or ... More |
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| Peruvian artist Alberto Borea opens second solo show in New York at Y Gallery |
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Second private collection of exceptional Hermès handbags to be offered by Bonhams |
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Asia Society presents first retrospective of one of China's foremost women artists |
Alberto Borea, Immigration Line (detail), 2012. Immigration cards and black paint on paper, 15 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches each.
NEW YORK, NY.- Y Gallery presents ?Because of Construction?, the second solo show in New York of the Peruvian artist Alberto Borea, who?s work has been consistent in depicting the poetics of the objects as the primary point of access. For this exhibition, Borea employs the formal qualities of objects such as, Native American pottery, construction tools, immigration cards among others to continue to investigate the materiality of the ?residues of civilization,? and by that the changes in society. His new work raises questions of accountability for the situations of the cities he is surrounded by. Daily examples like: ?The train service is delayed because of construction?; ?the economy is delayed because of?? point out justifications used to legitimize the fragility of our economic model, and the imminent coming of obsolescence. The title of the show ?Because of Construction? takes the everyday announcement excusing in ... More |
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A red crocodile Birkin bag, estimated at £28,000 – 30,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A stunning selection of eighteen iconic Hermès handbags from a private collection will come to auction at Bonhams Jewellery sale in Knightsbridge, London on 28th November. The selection includes some of the best examples of the sought-after ‘Birkin’ and ‘Kelly’ bags. The November sale is hotly anticipated, following the success of Bonhams May sale, which included sixty-four pristine Hermès bags, realising a total of £562,750. Interest from a packed saleroom and bidders both online and on the telephone, meant the majority of the bags far exceeded their estimate. The Hermès handbags come for sale from a vendor who has had a passion for handbags since she was a small child. From the first days of excitement watching her mother open the neat orange Hermès boxes, through her first Hermès purchase at the age of 21, she has built up a collection to rival the best across the world. One of the highlights of ... More |
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Here? Or There? (detail), 2002. Fiberglass, fabric, thread, mixed media. Dimensions variable. Collection of the artist, courtesy Galerie Lelong.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society Museum presents the first major solo exhibition in the United States of leading Chinese artist Lin Tianmiao. Surveying her work since 1995, the exhibition highlights the remarkably consistent focus on the human form that is embodied in her work. Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao comprises a series of installations, sculpture, and two dimensional works that fill Asia Society’s entire Museum space. Included are several large-scale, complex installations. Many of the works in the exhibition have never been seen outside of China and several are new works on view for the first time. “Lin Tianmiao is one of only a handful of female artists to have emerged from her generation born in the 1960s in China,” says Asia Society Museum Director and exhibition curator Melissa Chiu. “Her subjects and use of materials evoke domestic female labor and emotional struggles, orienting the works towards femi ... More |
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 My Century (An Illustrated Guide for Aliens), Mike Weiss' second solo exhibition by Marc Séguin
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents My Century (An Illustrated Guide for Aliens), the gallery’s second solo exhibition by Marc Séguin. The title, like his latest body of work, is rich with cynicism, melancholia, and sarcastic humor. Using charcoal and oil on raw canvas, Séguin achieves near photographic grisaille images that read as "postcards of now". Unabashedly tackling hot-button issues such as economic disparity, human rights, and environmental exploitation, Séguin’s large-scale paintings are deceptively beautiful reflections of the era in which they were produced. The artist's brazen approach to image-making frequently pairs his exquisite renderings with unexpected appliqués like taxidermy animals, rhinestones, tar and locks of hair to create bold motifs that bespeak our contemporary climate. Lunging road-kill coyotes, tar dripping from their fangs, flank a young woman in My ... More Kopeikin Gallery presents Andy Freeberg's take on the art world
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kopeikin Gallery announces their second exhibition with San Francisco based artist Andy Freeberg, whose series “Art Fare” is his third body of work dealing directly with the Art World.“ Art Fare” was photographed in 2009 through 2011 at Art Basel (Switzerland) Art Basel Miami, The Armory Show in New York and several “satellite fairs” taking place at the same time as the larger ones. The exhibition opens on Saturday, September 8th and continues through October 27 If you have not seen the recent 60 Minutes piece on Miami Basel you may find it of interest: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403948n "… it’s an unregulated utterly bizarre place to conduct business" - Tim Blum Gallery owners and their staff are usually hidden behind large entry desks (the subject of Freeberg’s bo ... More Hosfelt Gallery opens new San Francisco venue with group exhibition
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Hosfelt Gallery inaugurates its new San Francisco venue with the group exhibition, Look Both Ways, opening at 260 Utah Street (at 16th Street) on September 8, 2012. Both a culmination of the gallery's 15th anniversary and a preview of programming in our new 8,900 square foot San Francisco space, Look Both Ways reflects the culture and values of the gallery, centered on the belief that art should challenge, alter and expand one's definition of self and reality. Look Both Ways commemorates a history of 219 solo and thematic group exhibitions in our New York and former San Francisco venues as well as presents a foretaste of upcoming shows, including the introduction of several new artists to the gallery's roster. Consistent with the philosophy of Hosfelt Gallery, the artists in Look Both Ways make work that is grounded in a broad understanding of ... More Maloney Fine Art opens an exhibition of new work by sculptor Joel Otterson
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Maloney Fine Art presents an exhibition of new work by sculptor Joel Otterson. For the past three decades, Joel Otterson has made sculpture, which combines aspects of domestic handicraft with traditional sculptural materials. Copper pipe, woodworking, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware, concrete, marble, stained glass, quilting and lacemaking are the raw materials of Joel’s sculpture. Utilizing practices such as sewing and quilting, traditionally associated with feminine craft making, Joel turns these humble materials into muscular art. The artist blurs the line between high and low culture, art and craft to create poignant sculptures, which are both utilitarian and de-constructivist sculptural objects. Through this endeavor, exploring Rock N Roll, Baseball, and 'what it means to be an American.' The artist has collected American Pattern Glass for over a decade. Early ... More South Africa: Johannesburg highlights African art
By: David Mac Dougall, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- With a profusion of colors, textures and styles, the annual Johannesburg Art Fair highlights artists, galleries and museum collections from across Africa. The fourth annual Johannesburg exhibit showcases work that provokes debate on many of Africa's social issues. As well as more traditional mediums for artists, the Johannesburg art fair includes modern video and electronic installations. Flashing neon lights and sculpted glass heads attract the attention of the crowd. But it is art inspired by Africa's socio-economic woes and political upheavals that attracts buzz among visitors to the fair. A life-size elephant made from trash draws a steady stream of art enthusiasts who pose for pictures with the sculpture. The recycled pachyderm, ... More Car first owned by 1940s screen icon Margaret Lockwood offered for sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- The car bought new by 1940s star of stage and screen Margaret Lockwood (1916 – 1990) with one of her first film pay cheques is to be offered for sale at the Bonhams Beaulieu Sale in Hampshire on Saturday 8th September – one week before what would have been her 96th birthday. The 1938 Delage D6-70 Tourer, in striking red-and-black paintwork, was purchased by the actress directly from the Delage stand at the 1938 Motor Show. Born on 15th September 1916 in Karachi, British India (now Karachi, Pakistan), Margaret Lockwood attended Sydenham High School for Girls in London before studying for the stage at the Italia Conti, making her debut in 1928 aged 12. After further training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and numerous other theatre roles, she entered films in 1934, starring in the 1935 film version of Lorna Doone. In 1938 she ... More |
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