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Exhibition in Paris presents a genre of painting epitomised by Canaletto and Guardi
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A woman looks at a painting entitled "An Architectural Capriccio" by the Venetian artist Canaletto during a preview of the first exhibition in France entirely dedicated to the Venetian veduta paintings of the 18th century at the Jacquemart-Andre Museum on September 13, 2012. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON.
PARIS.- In the 18th century, Venice and its timeless charm became the subject of choice for painters known as the Vedutisti. Their views of Venice quickly spread across Europe, making the Veduta the most collected and one of the most loved genres among the public to this day. Thanks to some generous loans, the Jacquemart-André Museum is now devoting an exhibition to the Veduta for the first time in France, a genre of painting epitomised by Canaletto and Guardi. It is a very under-represented artistic genre in French public and private collections, which makes this exhibition at the Jacquemart-André Museum, "Canaletto - Guardi, the two masters of Venice", a must-see event, from 14 September 2012 to 14 January 2013. Curated by Bożena Anna Kowalczyk, the focus is on spreading an artistic movement born at the dawn of the 18th century, which was mainly collected ... More |
| Summer exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum stimulate $781 million economic impact for New York |
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Sotheby's Hong Kong Contemporary Asian Art Autumn Sale to take place on 7 October |
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Swann Galleries announces October 4 Auction of Fine Photographs & Photobooks |
Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, 1905–06. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 32 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946 (47.106) © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Three widely acclaimed and highly attended exhibitions in the spring/summer 2012 season at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations; Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City; and The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde—generated an estimated $781 million in spending by regional, national, and foreign tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released today. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study found that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum for the season totaled some $78.1 million. The Museum’s report was released today as it was being submitted to a joint hearing of the New York City Council Committees on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International ... More |
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Liu Wei, Revolutionary Family Series – Invitation To Dinner (1992). Est. HK$ 12–15 Million / US$ 1.5–1.9 Million. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong Contemporary Asian Art Autumn Sale 2012 will take place on 7 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, presenting an important selection of museum-quality contemporary Chinese artworks. Leading the sale is Liu Wei’s Revolutionary Family Series – Invitation to Dinner from 1992. Featured at the 1993 Venice Biennale, the painting is of great art historical importance as it was a testament to the newly-acquired prominence of contemporary Chinese art in the international art arena. Another seminal work is Zhang Xiaogang’s Tiananmen No. 1 (1993), one of only three works on the same subject matter that powerfully recreates, with its valiant, multi-layered brushwork, the grave history behind Tiananmen Square. The sale will also bring forward specially-curated sections on contemporary Hong Kong art and Chinese abstract art, exploring their significance within the con ... More |
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Edward Clark’s striking large-format color glamour shot of Marilyn Monroe in a Mink Stole, 1950, printed circa 1995 ($8,000 to $12,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- Headlining Swann Galleries’ Thursday, October 4 auction of Fine Photographs & Photobooks is Edward S. Curtis’s magnum opus The North American Indian, a documentation of the customs, manners and rituals of more than 80 Native American tribes west of the Mississippi. This complete set, with 20 folios on Japan tissue (featuring 722 large-format photogravures), and 20 text volumes (with more than 1500 small-format photogravures on vellum), is one of the most stunning and ambitious photographically illustrated books ever produced. Ink numbered 113/500, it appears to be the only version containing a treasure trove of 111 large-format photogravures signed by Curtis. Estimate: $1.25 to $1.75 million. Other early photographic highlights include Alexander Gardner and Henry DeWitt Moulton’s Rays of Sunlight from South America, 1865 ($15,000 to $25,000); the Charles Lummis album Picturesque New Mexico ... More |
| Massachusetts artists William Bradford and Edward Simmons to lead Grogan's September auction |
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Late master Tyeb Mehta's work titled Falling Figure with Bird to lead Saffronart's Autumn Art Auction 2012 |
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Exhibition of new work by Lawrence Weiner opens at Blain / Southern in Berlin |
Edward Simmons, The Reflection, oil on canvas. 24 x 24 in. Estimate: $20,000-30,000.
DEDHAM, MASS.- Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers announces their upcoming September 30th Auction will include over 700 lots of Fine Art, Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs, and will span five centuries of artistic expression and craftsmanship from various estates and collections throughout New England. The highlight of the fine art offerings is Low Tide, Labrador, a 20 x 30 inch oil on canvas by celebrated 19th century Hudson River School artist William Bradford. Born in New Bedford, a fishing town along the coast of Massachusetts, Bradford was best known for his dramatic paintings of icebergs and Arctic landscapes, which were inspired by his seven voyages to Newfoundland and Greenland between 1861-1869. On his last voyage, which departed in July of 1869, Bradford set out aboard the Panther, a 325 ton sealing ship, for Newfoundland on an expedition funded by art collector and New York banker, LeGrand Lockwood. Like his ... More |
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Tyeb Mehta’s 1988 work ‘Falling Figure with Bird’ is estimated at Rs 8,10,00,000 to Rs. 10,80,00,000 (US$ 1,500,000 to 2,000,000).
MUMBAI.- Two eminent Indian artists from different eras are featured in auction in September. Led by Tyeb Mehta’s important 1988 canvas ‘Falling figure with Bird’ and an extremely rare painting by Amrita Sher-Gil from the early 1930s, Saffronart’s annual Autumn Art Auction promises collectors some of the finest modern Indian paintings to come to market in recent years.. This auction also includes works by established modern masters including M.F. Husain, V.S. Gaitonde, F.N. Souza and Arpita Singh, alongside a strong selection of contemporary works by Bharti Kher, Sudhir Patwardhan, Atul Dodiya and Jitish Kallat, among others. The auction will take place online at www.saffronart.com on September 19-20, 2012. The auction includes 75 lots, with a total estimate Rs. 21.78 crore (US$ 4.03 million) to Rs. 28.6 crore (US$ 5.29 million). Tyeb Mehta’s 1988 work ‘Falling Figure with Bird’, also featured on the cover of the catalogue, is estimated at Rs ... More |
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The new works, in both English and German, draw into question the relationship between sculptural form, signification and meaning.
BERLIN.- Blain|Southern Berlin announced an exhibition of new work by Lawrence Weiner, CONCENTRICITY PER SE. Directly responding to the gallery's vast, post-industrial space, which formerly housed the printing presses of Der Tagesspiegel newspaper, Weiner has created a large-scale wall installation utilising his primary medium of language. The new works, in both English and German, draw into question the relationship between sculptural form, signification and meaning. They are accompanied by a number of drawings and diagrams, demonstrating the creative process and working methods involved in the artist’s practice. Weiner has an ongoing relationship with Berlin, beginning in the early 1970s. He received a DAAD grant in 1975, and produced his movie, A SECOND QUARTER, in Berlin (A FIRST QUARTER was produced in 1973 in New York City). His opera, THE SOCIETY ARCHITECT PONDERS THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, was performed at the ... More |
| Exhibition of new work by Catherine Goodman opens at Marlborough in London |
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Freeman's offers handwritten record of Thomas Alva Edison's last experiment: An alternative to rubber |
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Contemporary art destination Gillman Barracks officially opens in Singapore with 13 galleries |
From Rembrandt Self-Portrait at the Age of 34. 2011/12, charcoal and pastel on paper. 84.1 × 59.4 cm.
LONDON.- Marlborough announces the exhibition of new work by Catherine Goodman. Goodman is the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Prince’s Drawing School and drawing is at the centre of this exhibition. The accompanying catalogue includes essays by critic Rachel Campbell Johnston and art historian Duncan Robinson. Worlds Within are paintings of the inner landscape. They are the result of twenty five years of working in the Indian Himalayas and are a dialogue between Indian and London, the artist’s home. They combine paintings of mountains and huts with interiors of her family home and studio. Also showing are drawings made after paintings by Rembrandt and Veronese in the National Gallery which record her intimate familiarity with these artists The scale of the mountainous landscape with its massive peaks impacts on works which dwarf the artist and finds a counterpoint in the intimate drawings ... More |
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Lot 632, Edison's notebook, estimated at $15,000-25,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Among the exquisite treasures on the block next week at Freeman's Auction are the last experimental work in the career of Thomas Alva Edison, America's quintessential inventor--a scientific journal, penned and illustrated in his own hand; and among the most fascinating of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's manuscripts--his Final Farewell to Sherlock Holmes. The notebooks of history's greatest inventors are highly prized. Edison is especially desirable. While he produced many in his prodigious career, few remain in private hands. In this, among the final of his career, he documents his search for an alternative to rubber. "Edison's secretary frequently wrote and signed documents for the famous inventor," according to Freeman's specialist David Bloom, "The document is remarkable because it is one of the few entirely in Edison's handwriting. This notebook will provide a rare opportunity to acquire a tangible piece of scientific history by a great American who changed h ... More |
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Singapore’s position as an Asian arts hub strengthens with Gillman Barracks opening.
SINGAPORE.- Gillman Barracks – the new contemporary art destination in Asia – officially opens with 13 galleries from 10 countries launching their maiden exhibitions in Singapore. The galleries at Gillman Barracks will display some of the best art of our time, including works by both established and emerging artists such as Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Heman Chong, Yayoi Kusama, Yoshitomo Nara and Sebastião Salgado, among others in the ever-changing exhibitions. They will showcase the depth and variety of contemporary art practices and provide regional collectors access to a wide selection of contemporary art in one location. Prominent art talent will come to Gillman Barracks to create, exhibit and discuss contemporary art. Top artists such as Christian Thompson and Zhang Enli, as well as curators such as David Elliott, Hou Hanru and Charles Merewether, will give talks at Gillman Barracks over the opening we ... More |
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| New exhibition explores how Staten Island has evolved and shaped the city for over 350 years |
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Olga de Amaral recreates the inner world of the universe at Nohra Haime Gallery |
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National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces 2012-2013 appointments |
Byron Company, Bathing, Midland Beach, 1899. Vintage photograph. Photo: Museum of the City of New York, The Byron Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- From Farm to City: Staten Island 1661-2012, an exhibition which opened on September 13 at the Museum of the City of New York, looks at the individuals, communities, institutions, and city agencies that have shaped Staten Island’s development over the past 350 years. Through compelling case studies, the exhibition examines not only the emergence of Richmond County as its own place, but also the Island as a landscape that shaped and was shaped by the larger historical forces of New York City. Strategically located at the entry to the world’s greatest harbor, Staten Island has served as a breadbasket for New York City; a pleasure ground of estates and sporting grounds, including cricket, tennis, and foxhunting; a refuge for the needy at charitable institutions such as Sailors’ Snug Harbor; a center for early industrial activity at Linoleumville and Factoryville; an international port with ship-building ... More |
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Olga de Amaral, Dos Mitades III (Two Halves III), 2012. Gold leaf, linen, gesso, acrylic, 61.02 x 47.24 in., 155 x 120 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Olga de Amaral: Places, an exhibition of 23 hangings, opened at the Nohra Haime Gallery on September 13th. First exhibited in New York at the André Emmerich Gallery in 1973, Amaral’s abstract “golden surfaces of light” are unlike anything else. Transcending any one specific media, her work plays a unique balancing act between fine art and fiber art. Filling a gap that is virtually untouched, she pulls inspiration from pre-Columbian weaving and precious metals, abstracting them to the extent of universality. Gold has become a formal part of her vocabulary and renders her work collectively recognizable. Methodically assembled with a myriad of rectangular pre-fabricated pieces of fiber made into strips and rolls, the artist recreates the inner world of the universe. She choreographs these compositions with a labyrinth of winding, swirling and twisting interwoven ... More |
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Lynne Cooke, Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 2012–2014. Photo © 2003, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, courtesy Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has announced the appointments of members for the 2012–2013 academic year. They include Oskar Bätschmann, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zürich, as Samuel H. Kress Professor; independent scholar and curator Lynne Cooke as Andrew W. Mellon Professor for 2012–2014; and Cecilia Frosinini, Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro, Florence, as Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor for spring 2013. Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University/The Museum of Modern Art, has been named the 62nd A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts for spring 2013. CASVA also announced the appointment of six senior and four visiting senior fellows, a sabbatical curatorial fellow, two ... More |
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 Chrysler Museum of Art adds Nick Cave Soundsuit to Collection
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art has added a whimsical toy-themed Soundsuit by Nick Cave to its collection. Cave was one of the contemporary artists featured in the Museum’s recent exhibition 30 Americans. Cave’s four mesmerizing soundsuits were among the public’s favorite works in the show, popular for their curious combination of movement and masquerade. The Chrysler’s new sculpture is one of eight that Cave has fabricated from used toys. Its horns, jack-in-the-boxes, and noisemakers evoke sound, color, action, and childlike joy. The knit fabrics and hand-crocheted details on the mannequin form are typical of his hallmark attention to detail and skilled needlework. “With their strong visual appeal, his soundsuits are created from a wealth of diverse materials, from twigs, sequins and buttons to toys, metal birds and flowers,” said Amy Brandt, Ph.D., the Chrysler’s ... More PULSE Miami 2012 announces exhibitors list
MIAMI, FL.- PULSE Contemporary Art Fair presents PULSE Miami 2012, a leading art fair dedicated to international contemporary art, from December 6-9, 2012, at the The Ice Palace Studios in Miami. Currently in its eighth edition, PULSE Miami will open on Tuesday, December 4, 2012, with a special preview evening and silent auction, hosted by artnet Auctions, benefiting The Lotus House Women’s Shelter in Miami. This year’s fair will be home to eighty six national and international galleries, presenting exhibitions that span across all media, from works on paper, paintings, and sculptures, to performances, installations, and video art. “The gallery submissions for PULSE Miami 2012 represent the highest caliber of applicants we’ve received in the history of the fair. Eighty percent of our exhibitors are returning to us from previous years, and we are pleased to have a hand in their ... More Retrospective exhibition of works by Lewis Baltz opens at Hanover's kestnergesellschaft
HANOVER.- The kestnergesellschaft presents works by the legendary American photographer Lewis Baltz. This retrospective exhibition investigates the varied oeuvre of one of the central representatives of conceptual photography and is a cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn. The exhibition highlights the well-known series The Prototype Works (1967–76), The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California (1974) and Candlestick Point (1987–89), which examine the spoiled landscape and neglected suburbs of California’s postwar boom. In these works Baltz aims his camera with a soberly objective eye at newly built industrial facilities, straggling suburbs, building facades, shop windows and billboards. The almost abstract photographs, reduced to a very few architectural details, became classics of conceptual photography. The kestnergesellschaft is also exhibiting the series ... More Exhibition lets you enter a world of material excess, accumulation, bravado and theatricality
EDMONTON, AB.- The Art Gallery of Alberta opens its Block III exhibition schedule with Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, September 15, 2012-January 6, 2013. The 18th-century art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once chastised Bernini’s exuberant aesthetic as misguided, having been “misled by nature.” His critique stands as one of many that, until recent times, repudiated the ornate excesses of the Baroque period and its “deformed pearls” of art and architecture as a decadent, if not decayed, betrayal of Renaissance achievements and aesthetic values. For many scholars, the historical Baroque is of strong relevance today as the era that ushered in the truly modern world. It was a period in which religion and aesthetics were coming to terms with humanism, technology and the development of scientific inquiry. In his sculptures and architecture, Bernini ... More Riflemaker opens first public exhibition of the work of feminist artist Penelope Slinger in forty years
LONDON.- The art and the life of Penelope Slinger (b.1947 London) are inextricably interwoven. Hear What I Say is the second of three exhibitions focussing on the artist’s early output: photographic collages, objects and sculptural works from the 1970s. In 2009, her collages were exhibited at Tate St Ives as part of The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in Modern Art, and in Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists & Surrealism, Manchester Art Gallery. In these pieces, Slinger uses Surrealism to penetrate the female psyche, presenting herself as both subject and object in a group of collages and montages which sidestep the topical themes of 1960s and 70s art. Exhibited in London in 1977, the work’s explicit depiction of feminine power and an anarchic approach to life challenged and outraged many of her peers, as well as the critics. The artist left Britain in 1979, never to return. This ... More Cemetery of African slaves honored
By: Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP).- Wearing full-skirted white dresses and turbans, the religious leaders chanted blessings and sprinkled water on the concrete floor of a modest house near this city's port. Beneath their feet were the remains of tens of thousands of African slaves who had died shortly after arriving from their horrific sea voyage. The bodies had been dumped into a fetid, open-air cemetery, often chopped up and mixed with trash. With the 15-minute ceremony this week, the Afro-Brazilian priests were finally giving the slaves at least the semblance of a proper burial centuries later. "I thank God for this opportunity," said Edelzuita Lourdes de Santos Oliveira, or Mother Edelzuita, a well-known leader of a house practicing the candomble religion. "We honored ... More |
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