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Alberto Giacometti, Objet désagréable à jeter (Disagreeable Object to be Thrown away) Wood: 19.60 x 31.00 x 29.00 cm. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
EDINBURGH.- A major new exhibition, which uses the extraordinary collection at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to explore the development of sculpture over the last 110 years, opened in Edinburgh this week. The Sculpture Show highlights the enormous diversity of sculptural practice in this period, bringing together some 150 works, by artists such as Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Barbara Hepworth and Damien Hirst. This fascinating overview of Modern and Contemporary sculpture also includes key loans from private and public collections, and brings the story right up to date, with works by this year’s Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce and nominee Karla Black. Simon Groom, Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art said: 'The Sculpture Show gives us a fantastic opportunity to showcase the huge strengths of the collection in innovative ways. It also allows us to celebrate the specific strengths o ... More |
| National Museum Australia acquires rare 1813 New South Wales "Holey dollar" | | Denver Art Museum presents Ed Ruscha exhibition inspired by seminal work by Jack Kerouac | | Sotheby's New York announces annual sale of important Americana for January 2012 | 
The National Museum of Australia acquired the Holey dollar at auction for a total price, including auction house commission and GST, of $129,315. Photo: Courtesy National Museum Australia.
CANBERRA.- The National Museum of Australia in Canberra has acquired a rare 1813 New South Wales ‘Holey dollar’ – the first currency minted in Australia. In the early days of New South Wales, the colony faced a shortage of currency and in 1812 Governor Lachlan Macquarie imported 40,000 Spanish dollars, called ‘pieces of eight’, and had William Hensell, a convicted forger, cut the centre out of each coin. The outer ring became known as a ‘Holey dollar’ and the centre was called a dump. Governor Macquarie set their value at five shillings for the Holey dollar and 15 pence for the dump. The coins went into circulation in 1814 and, in doing so, Macquarie created the first currency minted in Australia. “Holey dollars speak eloquently of the creative and improvisatory attempts to create an orderly administration in colonial Australia. The holey dollar we have acquired for the National Museum is ... More | | 
Ed Ruscha, Brakemen Eat, 2010 (detail). Acrylic on canvas. Private collection. Image courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery. © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum presents Ed Ruscha: On The Road, a vibrant exhibition featuring works inspired by Jack Kerouac’s seminal work On The Road, the novel that came to define the Beat Generation. Both artists utilize language as a form of social commentary, documenting the continuing shifts in the American cultural landscape. Ed Ruscha: On The Road will be on view from December 24, 2011 through April 22, 2012. By superimposing passages from Kerouac’s epic 1957 novel onto images of snow-capped mountainsor abstract backgrounds, Ruscha injects new life into the feverishly written words. Much of the novel, typed on a continuous 120-foot-long scroll, is set against the backdrop of post-World War II lower downtown Denver. “On The Road is a quintessential Western sojourn,” said Thomas Smith, director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the DAM. “As Denver played a ... More | | 
Ammi Phillips, Portrait of a Winsome Young Girl in Red with Green Slippers, Dog and Bird, circa 1840 (est. $300/500,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s annual auction of Important Americana will take place on 20 & 21 January 2012 in New York. The sale will offer American furniture, silver, folk art, prints, carpets, English pottery and Chinese export porcelain, and features several important discoveries across categories – from two previously undocumented chests by legendary cabinetmaker John Townsend, to a second iconic Ptarmigan Vase and an extremely rare Colt Model 1849 pocket revolver. The sale will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 14 January, alongside the auction of Important American Schoolgirl Embroideries: The Landmark Collection of Betty Ring. The first day of the auction will be led by a group of American silver from the First Parrish Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The Church is steeped in American history: it is the oldest congregation in the current city of Boston, and one of the ... More |
| MOMA appoints Pedro Gadanho curator in the Department of Architecture and Design | | Japanese Art Dealers Association announces exhibition to be held during Asia Week 2012 | | Winner of Bravo's Work of Art Kymia Nawabi opens solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum | 
Lisbon-based architect, curator, and writer Pedro Gadanho named curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. Photo: David Farran.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Modern Art announces that Pedro Gadanho, a Lisbon-based architect, curator, and writer whose international work has focused on the connections between architecture and contemporary culture, has been appointed Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. He will join MoMA on January 11, 2012. In his new role, Mr. Gadanho will be responsible for a broad portfolio that reinforces the Museum's commitment, since 1932, to contemporary architecture. In addition to building the Museum's holdings of contemporary architecture, he will oversee the annual Young Architects Program (YAP), co-organized with MoMA PS1, and the two-year-old YAP International Program in conjunction with the MAXXI in Rome and Constructo in Santiago, Chile (www.moma.org/uap); organize further exhibitions in the Museum's ... More | | 
Jar Earthenware, Yayoi period (ca. B.C.300 – A.D.300) H 44.5cm Dia. 35.5cm. Courtesy Mika Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Masterworks of the traditional fine arts of Japan will be on view during New York’s Asia Week in JADA 2012: An Exhibition by the Japanese Art Dealers Association. Held from March 17 to March 21, 2012, JADA 2012 will present exceptional examples of screens, paintings, scrolls, prints, lacquers, fine ceramics, and tea ceremony accoutrements ranging in date from around the 1st century B.C. to the 19th century. The unique, collaborative event brings together five of New York’s preeminent dealers in a joint exhibition, or mini-fair, with the works of art from the different galleries integrated by material, style, or period. JADA 2012 will be held at the Ukrainian Institute of America, at 2 East 79th Street and is the association’s fifth collaborative exhibition. “Now nearly two decades old, Asia Week is New York’s inspiring and informal gathering of curators, collectors, dealers, and As ... More | | 
Kymia Nawabi, winner of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, season two, installing a work in the episode "The Big Show." Photo: Heidi Gutman, courtesy of Bravo.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Work of Art: Kymia Nawabi, an exhibition by the winner of the second season of Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, opened to the public on Thursday, December 22, and will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum through February 5, 2012. Bravo’s Work of Art is an hour-long, 10-part, creative competition television series among fourteen contemporary artists who assembled in New York City under the watchful eye of art world luminaries to battle it out for this show at the Brooklyn Museum. A poem by Nawabi, titled "Not for long, my forlorn," introduced this presentation when it initially appeared on the final episode of the Bravo series. Nawabi’s poem articulates her ideas on the cyclical nature of life, with death and rebirth as natural aspects. Her winning exhibition may be seen as an expression of her personal my- ... More |
| Animism: Modernity through the Looking Glass at the Generali Foundation | | Museum of Modern Art presents first U.S. retrospective of the work of Sanja Ivekovic | | Art with sustainable solutions: Morrison Studio installs Sun-Catcher, a solar powered light sculpture | 
Candida Höfer, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin III, 2003. Courtesy the artist © Candida Höfer, Köln, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
VIENNA.- Animism is a multipart exhibition project; after episodes in Antwerp and Berne, it is now on display at the Generali Foundation. The exhibition Animism. Modernity through the Looking Glass takes up the current broad-based reassessment of modernity, examining the ethnological conception of animism as it was framed in the context of colonialism as well as the concept of animism in psychoanalysis. In Vienna, the city of Sigmund Freud, one focus of the exhibition is on aesthetic approaches that subject the distinction between the psychological “inside” world and the material “outside” world to critical scrutiny. By the end of the nineteenth century, animism is defined as a set of superstitious beliefs, as a “projection” and misapprehension of reality in which the “primitive mind” populates the world with souls and spirits, endowing things and nature with life, ... More | | 
Sanja Iveković. Sweet Violence. 1974. Video (black and white, sound), 5:56 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds. © 2011 Sanja Iveković.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence, the first retrospective in the United States of the artist’s work, from December 18, 2011, to March 26, 2012. The exhibition covers four decades of Iveković’s audacious work as feminist, activist, and video and performance pioneer. Iveković (b. 1949, Zagreb) came of age in the post–1968 period, at a time when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying ground for a form of opposition to official culture. In the 1970s Iveković probed the persuasive qualities of mass media and its identity-forging potential, and after 1990—with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the birth of a new nation— ... More | | 
Deedee Morrison, Sun-Catcher (night).
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.- Recycled aluminum, colored lucite and solar panels were used to fabricate this powerful 15 ft. tall Sun-Catcher sculpture for the City of Clearwater, Florida. "This is the wonderful opportunity for a sustainable public art project along the islands in the Cleveland Street District," says Deedee Morrison. As a sculptor and installation artist, Morrison has a particular affinity for plants, other natural forms, and light. The sculptor has coupled her interest in the natural world with a fascination for technical and scientific advances. A unique style has evolved that reflect the artistʼs understanding of the nature, by using heavy industrial metals and laser jet cutting methods to create solar powered sculptures. By necessity, nature has solved many of the problems we are currently facing in our physical and built environments. Morrison attempts to imitate the design principles that exis ... More |
| Fundació Suñol presents an installation by Francesc Ruiz "The Paper Trail" | | Ronchini Gallery expands with the opening of a new London gallery in Mayfair | | Sotheby's Important 20th Century Design & Tiffany bring $9.7 million in New York | 
The Green Detour, 2010 - 2011. Digital print on paper and offset print. Nine 4-page comics. Variable sizes.
BARCELONA.- Fundació Suñol’s Nivell Zero presents ACTE 21: Francesc Ruiz, The Paper Trail, an installation originally presented at the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo on 15 October 2010. The various pieces took shape in spring 2010, a time when the artist was researching the unique network of authors, characters, magazines, bookshops, publishers, leaders and censors that make up the social history of comic books in Egypt, as well as the world of print media, which let him explore the country’s complex political and religious sides in depth. Within this fairly clearly defined research setting he was able to record the changes that were already taking place in the subjective perspectives of the reporters and other people he talked to and worked with, as well as events such as the extension of the emergency law, the police brutality against Khaled Saeed and the widespread corr ... More | | 
Domenico Bianchi, Untitled, wax and palladio, 2010, 140x110cm, courtesy Ronchini Gallery
LONDON.- Since its inception in 1992 in Umbria, Italy, Ronchini Gallery has been dedicated to exploring pioneering movements at the forefront of Italian contemporary art practice whilst also representing international artists. Subscribing to the highest standards of curatorship and scholarship, the gallery provides a rigorous context in which its artists can be viewed. A second gallery space will open at 22 Dering Street, London, on 17 February 2012. Director, Lorenzo Ronchini explains the move into Northern Europe, ‘Ronchini Gallery has always been about progression. A gallery in London opens a lot of doors for us. People ask if opening a new space is a daunting prospect, but I would be more afraid to remain only in Italy.’ The inaugural show, Italian Beauty featuring works by leading Italian contemporary artists Giulio Paolini and Domenico Bianchi ... More | | 
Tiffany Studios, A Highly Important Three-Panel “Magnolia” Window (detail). Circa 1910. Est. $400/600,000. Sold for: $506,500 (£327,260). Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On 15 December, Sotheby’s New York sales Important 20th Century Design and Important Tiffany totaled $9,704,126, with strong prices for rare and unique works throughout the day. The morning auction of Important 20th Century Design was led by An Important and Rare “Centaure” by François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne, which sold for $542,500 above a high estimate $300,000*. Signed by both artists, the work is the only known example of the monumental size of the subject ever to be offered at auction, measuring 87 ¼ inches high. The afternoon auction of Important Tiffany was highlighted by A Superb “Wisteria” Table Lamp circa 1905-1910 whose model was designed by Clara Driscoll in 1901. The lamp achieved $842,500, well in excess of its $600,000 high ... More |
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 High to Host Third Annual Collectors Evening to Help Build Permanent Collection ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will host the third annual Collectors Evening on January 20, 2012. Created with the single goal of building the Museum’s permanent collection, the event will showcase the High’s curators as they each present a work of art that they wish to have added to the High’s collection. With seven works proposed for acquisition, guests will cast their ballots in four rounds and the High will purchase the works of art that receive the most votes, via funds raised for the evening. The event is open to the general public; tickets and more information, including curator videos, are available online here. To view the objects and related videos click on “Browse Proposed Acquisitions and Curator Videos.” “We are thrilled that Collectors Evening has created such exciting momentum among our curators and patrons in se ... More Brandywine River Museum Acquires Major Painting by Horace Pippin CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Brandywine River Museum recently purchased a major painting by Horace Pippin, the West Chester, Pennsylvania artist of national importance and recognition. Entitled Birmingham Meeting House III, the painting depicts an 18th century Quaker building that still stands four miles south of West Chester. The painting is on view in the Museum's first floor gallery. Horace Pippin is one of America's most important 20th-century untutored artists. A self-taught painter, Pippin was severely wounded in his right arm during World War I and turned to painting in the late 1920s. He demonstrated enormous talent for rendering bold and engaging compositions that express keen observation and feeling for his community and personal experiences. His work drew the attention of artist N.C. Wyeth and others. Wyeth promoted the organization of the first exhibition of Pippin's work ... More Guggenheim Museum relaunches Learning Through Art website NEW YORK, N.Y.- Explore the newly relaunched website of Learning Through Art, the Guggenheim’s artist residency program that sends working artists into public classrooms throughout New York City. A rich resource for scholars, artists, and educators interested in integrating art into the classroom, the redesigned and expanded site promotes content discovery and exploration by making it easier to find teaching techniques, lesson plans, research studies, videos, and other educational tools. Visit the For Educators section to learn about LTA and the resources it offers, including teaching strategies and best practices for using art to inspire discussion and collaboration in the classroom. The section features classroom videos and Find Lessons, a searchable database of lesson plans, as well as a list of recommended books and websites. For educators looking fo ... More Two archaeological sites surveyed on Mount Ararat CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Harvard University educated archaeologist and director of the Paleontological Research Corporation, Dr. Joel Klenck, surveyed and completed a preliminary analysis of two sites on Mount Ararat in Turkey discovered by a Kurdish guide, Ahmet Ertugrul. “The research areas are noteworthy”, states Klenck, “and comprise a large wood structure and cave with an archaeological assemblage that appears to be mostly from the Late Epipaleolithic Period.” These assemblages at other sites in the Near East have calibrated radiocarbon dates between 13,100 and 9,600 B.C. Located at elevations above 4,200 meters on Mount Ararat and covered by layers of ice and stones, he states: “The wood structure shows various states of preservation and exhibits a wide array of plant materials including structures made of cypress and one room with a floor covered by chickpea ... More Richard Gere to receive George Eastman Award ROCHESTER (AP).- Richard Gere is getting a George Eastman Award in upstate New York for his contributions to movies and humanitarian causes. The star of such films as "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Pretty Woman" will be honored Feb. 16 during a ceremony at Rochester's George Eastman House, the restored home of the founder of photography pioneer Eastman Kodak Co. Gere has appeared in more than 40 films. In 1991, he founded the Gere Foundation, which gives grants for public health, education and emergency relief in Tibet. He has long been prominent in the fight against HIV-AIDS. Past recipients of the George Eastman Award include Lauren Bacall, Martin Scorsese and Meryl Streep. ... More |
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