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| | Dig for San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center unearths artifacts from the Gold Rush
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A rope pulley, crucibles and a chisel are shown at an exhibit of artifacts in San Francisco, recently dug up from the Transbay Terminal construction site. Archaeologists working at the site during demolition of the old terminal have unearthed artifacts that help reveal what it must have been like to live in the Irish working-class neighborhood that existed in that part of the South of Market in the mid- to late 1800s. AP Photo/Eric Risberg.
By: Beth Duff-Brown, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- The big dig for San Francisco's multibillion dollar transportation terminal has unearthed some artifacts from the city's heady Gold Rush days, including opium pipes from a Chinese laundry and a chipped chamber pot found in a backyard outhouse. The 70 artifacts have city archaeologists eager for more and local residents pondering the ground beneath their feet. "It's not often that you get a chance to stop for a moment and have a window into what used to be," said James M. Allan, an archaeologist with William Self Associates, the firm ensuring the items are unearthed and preserved. "It gives you pause." The $4 billion Transbay Transit Center under construction in the South of Market financial district is billed as the "Grand Central Station of the West." The 1 million-square-foot bus and train station will serve as the northern end of California's planned high-speed rail between ... More |
| Guggenheim Museum presents a focused exhibition selected from its permanent collection | | Kunsthal Rotterdam presents presents a major exhibition of Egyptian mummies in the Netherlands | | First major Canadian exhibition of works by van Gogh for more than 25 years to open at the National Gallery | 
Richard Hamilton, The Solomon R. Guggenheim (Spectrum), 1965–66. Fiberglass and cellulose, 121.9 x 121.9 x 20.3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents a focused exhibitions selected from the museum's permanent collection, exploring Pop art. The explosion of Pop art in America in the early 1960s signaled the return to representational images following the Abstract Expressionists of the preceding decades, who favored large gestural canvases and expressive colors. Other artists at this time investigated the aesthetic potential of paintings and sculpture dominated by a single color or limited to a narrow spectrum of tones. Pop Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection is on view on Annex Level 5 from through January 11, 2012, with an additional gallery on Annex Level 7 on view through February 8, 2012. Pioneered in England in the late 1950s, the Pop art movement took hold in America after support from critics, including British critic Lawrence Alloway ... More | | 
Statue of a man and two women. New Kingdom; Dynasty 18; ca.1425 B.C. Painted sandstone. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
ROTTERDAM.- The Kunsthal Rotterdam presents a major exhibition of Egyptian mummies in the Netherlands. In a stunningly designed exhibition, over 225 objects provide insight into the fascinating burial rituals of ancient Egypt. Highlights are the mummy of Anchhor from Thebes and his authentic coffins, which are still completely intact. The exhibition includes countless rare objects such as the magic scarabs, amulets, jewels and statues that were placed inside the coffins. Some of the secrets of the mummies have been revealed thanks to the use of new technological developments. There is also a comprehensive educational programme for children and students in the MummieLAB. Nowhere does death such an important role as in the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The exhibition tells the story of the ritual of mummification, which began in approximately 2600 BC as a way of preserving the body for as long as possible for its journey to ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh, Iris, 1889. Oil on thinned cardboard, mounted on canvas, 62.2 x 48.3 cm. National Gallery of Canada. Photo © NGC.
OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada’s 2012 exceptional summer show, Van Gogh: Up Close, will be the first major Canadian exhibition of works by the famous Dutch artist for more than 25 years. In what promises to be a truly unique exhibition, visitors to the National Gallery will have the opportunity to discover Vincent van Gogh’s genius from an entirely new perspective by exploring the artist’s approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view. Opening on May 25, 2012, the exhibition is organized in partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and supported by Sun Life Financial, the exhibition will be honoured by the patronage of Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands and His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada. Van Gogh: Up Close will feature some 45 paintings from private and public collections around the world, offering the opportunity to see so ... More |
| After two years of extensive renovation work the Museum of European Cultures reopens in Berlin | | Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer opens at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | | 20/21 International Art Fair 2012 to offer accessible prices, quality and variety | 
Wilhelm Kiesewetter Harem eines tatarischen Kaufmanns Krim/ Ukraine, zw. 1845-1847 Öl auf Leinwand © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Foto: Ute Franz-Scarciglia.
BERLIN.- After two years of extensive renovation work, the Museum of European Cultures reopened this December and is again able to host exhibitions in Dahlem. Highlights will include: • a permanent exhibition on the theme of 'Cultural Contacts - Life in Europe' • a temporary exhibition entitled 'Explorations in Europe - Visual Studies in the 19th Century' and • a study collection, with regularly rotating displays of groups of objects from the museum's collection. The Museum of European Cultures was called into being in 1999 and was created by merging the 110 year-old Museum of European Ethnology (Museum für Volkskunde) with the European collection of the Ethnological Museum. It focuses on lifeworlds in Europe and European cultural contacts from the 18th century until today. Comprising some 27,000 original objects, the museum houses one of the largest European collections of everyday culture and popular art. The topics covered by the collection are as diverse as t ... More | | 
Inside Taxi. With his RCA portable transistor 7 radio blasting away in the back of a local cab from the train station, Elvis is about to leave for the Jefferson Hotel. He has two performances at the Mosque Theater (now the Landmark Theater) that afternoon and evening. Richmond, Va., June 30, 1956 © Alfred Wertheimer. All rights reserved.
RICHMOND, VA.- Fifty-six dramatic 1956 photographs of Elvis Presley on the brink of international superstardom - including intimate images taken in Richmond - are being shown in Elvis at 21 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The black-and-white photographs taken by Alfred Wertheimer show a baby-faced Elvis just as his career began but before he was a recognizable rock-and-roll icon. "You'll see some extraordinary behind-the-scenes shots of Elvis just as his career was starting," VMFA Director Alex Nyerges said. "The exhibition includes images taken here in June of 1956 of Elvis leaving Richmond's train station, riding in a taxi, having breakfast at the Jefferson Hotel, eating - unrecognized - at the hotel's lunch counter, waiting backstage and performing on-stage during two shows at the Mosque, stealing a steamy kiss in a Mosque ... More | | 
Shepard Fairey (b. 1970 USA), ‘Panther Power’, 2008. Silkscreen on metal, signed, dated and numbered. From Dominic Guerrini.
LONDON.- The 20|21 International Art Fair will take place at the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 16 to 19 February 2012. It will be opened by Jeffrey Archer at 12 noon on the 16th. The fair features modern and contemporary art from the UK but has a significant number of dealers who specialise in work from China, India, Japan, Russia, Poland, Serbia and the Ukraine. However, art from a whole host of other countries will also be on show including many European countries, South America and, this year a special exhibit from Australia. International names include Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Braque, Chagall (all works on paper), plus British 20th century favourites such as Henry Moore, David Hockney, Peter Blake and Damien Hirst, together with many emerging and less well known artists whose work will be there to be discovered and enjoyed. An added attraction is a display from the Royal College of ... More |
| French connection with masters of French Realism highlight Art Gallery of Hamilton exhibitions | | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to Richard Diebenkorn' | | Landscapes that emerge from nature: Retrospective of the work of Naoya Hatakeyama at Huis Marseille | 
James Tissot (French 1836–1902), Croquet c. 1878 (detail). Oil on canvas. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Basil Bowman in memory of their daughter Suzanne, 1965.
HAMILTON, ON.- The Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Fall 2011 exhibition season offers a closing salute to its French Connection year with a stunning display of nineteenth-century French Realist paintings alongside three intriguing exhibitions drawn from private collections. On view from September 24, 2011 to January 15, 2012, Masters of French Realism showcases works by various French painters associated with the central nineteenth-century artistic movement Realism, which achieved its most coherent expression in French painting. At the centre of French Realism was Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), represented in the exhibition by two landscape paintings. While Courbet’s Realist representations of peasants and labourers were motivated by strong political views, other French Realists, such as Philippe Rousseau (1816-1887), found both popular and critical success with their naturalistically painted humble subjects. Another type of Realism is represented in the work of James ... More | | 
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #27, 1970. Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 in. (254 x 203.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Roebling Society and Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Blatt and Mr. and Mrs. William K. Jacobs, Jr. ©The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn.Image courtesy The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is presenting the exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series. This exhibition is the most comprehensive show to date of Diebenkorn’s most celebrated body of work, the Ocean Park series. Presenting more than 75 Ocean Park paintings, prints, and drawings-the largest selection ever on view together-this unprecedented project offers visitors the opportunity to explore in-depth the complexity of Diebenkorn’s artistic and aesthetic achievements within this series. Works in the exhibition come from prominent museums, institutions, and private collections across the country, many of which have rarely been seen by the public. The exhibition tour continues at the Orange County Museum of Art and concludes at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. While ... More | | 
Naoya Hatakeyama, Atmos#04304, 2003. Photo: ©Courtesy the artist.
AMSTERDAM.- The stories told in Natural Stories – the retrospective of the work of the great Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama – are about the relationships between humans and nature. Hatakeyama’s photographs do not tell stereotypical stories. He takes pictures not of plants or animals, but of stones and minerals, of the raw materials we exploit in order to give ourselves protection and warmth, of the nature we use in order to survive. Naoya Hatakeyama’s camera tells of the poetry of human industrial activity in factories, coal mines and quarries. Hatakeyama photographs landscapes that emerge out of a shared history with people. A part of nature may be either beautiful or ugly in itself, in Hatakeyama’s view, but the process of documenting it in a certain way turns it into ‘landscape’ – that is, a part of nature that has been ascribed a certain meaning. It is always people who turn nature into landscape; nature itself is indifferent t ... More |
| Charles M. Russell's finest watercolors to be shown at the Amon Carter Museum in February 2012 | | Winner of the 2010 Baloise Art Prize, Claire Hooper, exhibits at mumok in Vienna | | Exhibition by American artist and architect Paul Laffoley at Hamburger Bahnhof | 
Charles M. Russell (1864–1926), Bronc to Breakfast, 1908. Watercolor on paper. Montana Historical Society, Mackay Collection X1952.01.06
FORT WORTH, TX.- On February 11, 2012, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents more than 100 of the finest and best-preserved watercolors by Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) in the special exhibition Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell. Never before have so many of Russell’s singular depictions of the Old West been brought together. The exhibition is on view through May 13, 2012; admission is free. “Charles Russell is recognized today as a leading artist of the Old West,” says Dr. Rick Stewart, curator of the exhibition and former Amon Carter director and curator of western paintings and sculpture. “The body of work on view in this exhibition represents the most memorable watercolors he created during his lifetime, placing him in the upper tier of American watercolorists at the turn of the 20th century.” Russell created appro- ... More | | 
Claire Hooper, Nyx, 2010. Filmstill. Foto: Claire Hooper © Claire Hooper.
VIENNA.- Claire Hooper is the winner of the 2010 Baloise Art Prize. At mumok she is presenting her prize-winning video Video Nyx (2010), as part of a trilogy which also includes two works from 2011, Aoide and Eris. In her films, the British artist (born 1978) interweaves narratives from the present with characters and concepts from Greek mythology. These become elements of a kaleidoscopic mélange of reality and fiction, in which Hooper, in the manner of a Nouveau Roman, also dispenses with the linear succession of past, present and future. Nyx, named after the goddess of the night, takes its viewers on the psychedelic journey of the young man Furat. He cannot understand why he is intoxicated after ‘just two beers’, and his nocturnal U-Bahn journey home turns into a trip through the underworld. The film is set in the stations of U-Bahn line 7, designed by Rainer Rümmler between 1971 and 1984, along the route between Neu ... More | | 
Paul Laffoley The Visionary Point 1970, 186,7 x 186,7 cm © Private Collection, New York
BERLIN.- In an exhibition series entitled secret universe, the Hamburger Bahnhof is dedicating itself to artists who have largely gone unnoticed within the established art discourse and will feature them in monographic projects. The second exhibition in this series presents works by the American artist and architect Paul Laffoley (*1940). Since the mid-1960s, Laffoley has confronted scientific, philosophical and spiritual matters in his work with equal verve. He studied art history, history, philosophy and architecture and spent more than 38 years living in a one-room apartment in Boston, which he dubbed the 'Boston Visionary Cell'. He is influenced in his work by his collaboration with the visionary architect Frederick Kiesler, as well as by the theories of Buckminster Fuller and C.G. Jung and the literature of Johann Wolfgang Goethe and William Blake. Another factor that has left a mark on his work is the ... More |
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 Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle BETHLEHEM, CONN (AP).- In the little town of Bethlehem, a cloistered nun whose luminous blue eyes entranced Elvis Presley in his first on-screen movie kiss is praying for a Christmas miracle. Dolores Hart, who walked away from Hollywood stardom in 1963 to become a nun in rural Bethlehem, Conn., now finds herself back in the spotlight. But this time it's all about serving the King of Kings, not smooching the King of Rock and Roll. The former brass factory that houses Mother Dolores and about 40 other nuns cloistered at the Abbey of Regina Laudis needs millions of dollars in renovations to meet fire and safety codes, add an elevator and make handicap accessibility upgrades. Like 73-year-old Mother Dolores, the order's nuns have taken a vow of stability with the intent to live, work and die at the complex. The order was established in 1947 in Bethlehem, a small burg in Connecticut's rolling western hills. Now, the ... More New tour offers glimpse of New Orleans movie sites By: Stacey Plaisance, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP).- Sitting near the New Orleans streetcar line aboard a van equipped with video screens and a speaker system, tourists watch actress Vivien Leigh ride the city's vintage electric rail vehicles in a scene from the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire." In the French Quarter, passengers look on as Bruce Willis escapes attackers outside a praline shop in the 2010 film "Red." They also watch a young Kirsten Dunst bite into a woman's neck in Jackson Square in one of her early roles as a bloodthirsty child vampire in 1994's "Interview With a Vampire." A new multimedia tour being offered in New Orleans takes passengers to locations where famous movie scenes were filmed and shows them a clip from the film on site. The tour also includes peeks at the New Orleans ... More Folklore, fantasies, and fears featured in Andrea Dezsö's Haunted Ridgefield RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The Aldrich is showing Andrea Dezsö: Haunted Ridgefield—the latest installment of the Museum’s popular Main Street Sculpture Project—featuring folklore, fantasies, and fears. The Transylvania-born artist’s site-specific exhibition at The Aldrich showcases her skill in traditional, labor intensive, hand-crafted book-making, and will take the form of a diorama, in which a series of cut-out panels will reveal layers of a hallucinatory narrative featuring fantasy worlds and idiosyncratic characters. Dezsö presents a powerful journey to the interior of the psyche through giant multimedia tunnel books, visible through the windows of the Museum’s historic 1783 administration building on Main Street. Aldrich curator Mónica Ramírez-Montagut explains, “Dezsö was inspired by Connecticut’s haunted places and their stories; her exhibition will feature strange child-like creatures that ... More Catástrofes: Exhibition containing works from the its collection opens at Artium VITORIA-GASTEiZ.- Basque Art Centre-Museum of Vitoria-Gasteiz, presents the exhibition Catástrofes, containing works from the Museum's own collection, prepared by the Education Department. Among other objectives, the exhibition aims to support pedagogic activities and workshops developed by Artium together with a number of different groups, ranging from the school community to our most elderly visitors. On the other hand, the exhibition aims to define the type of catastrophes that might exist in someone's life, by creating a space for dialogue through activities and workshops that allows each individual to express and materialise the feelings it arouses. Catástrofes consists of eight works and includes paintings, drawings and sculptures. The Education exhibition at ARTIUM follows the same methodology applied on previous occasions, in other words, to ask both general questions, such as “What do we ... More |
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| Christmas comet Lovejoy captured at Paranal Observatory in Chile Posted: 24 Dec 2011 10:46 AM PST The recently discovered Comet Lovejoy has been captured in stunning photos and time-lapse video taken from the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The comet graced the southern sky after it had unexpectedly survived a close encounter with the Sun.  | | HIV study named '2011 breakthrough of the year' by Science Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:41 AM PST The journal Science has chosen the HPTN 052 clinical trial, an international HIV prevention trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, as the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. The study found that if HIV-infected heterosexual individuals begin taking antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems are relatively healthy as opposed to delaying therapy until the disease has advanced, they are 96 percent less likely to transmit the virus to their uninfected partners.  |
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| | Domenichino masterpiece returns to Dulwich as a fitting climax to the Gallery's bicentenary
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Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri), The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1607-10, Oil on canvas, 143 x 115cm, National Gallery of Scotland.
LONDON.- For the first time since 1971, Domenichino’s masterpiece returns to Dulwich to close the celebrations of the Bicentenary. Domenichino’s The Adoration of the Shepherds, believed in the eighteenth century to be the work of Annibale Carracci, was one of the most highly-prized paintings in the collection of Noel Desenfans and Sir Francis Bourgeois, the Gallery’s founders, in their house in Charlotte Street, London. The canvas was arguably the most important Italian seventeenth-century painting left by Desenfans and Bourgeois to Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1811. The decision of the Governors of Dulwich College to sell the painting at auction on 24 March 1971 was heavily criticised by the public and press at the time and became a topic of heated dicussion, as the will and donation of Sir Francis Bourgeois was openly contradicted. The loss of this significant painting was mitigated by the fa ... More |
| Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition presents artists creating artworks with one tool | | A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution revealed at the Getty Museum | | More accurate view of George Washington crossing debuts at the New-York Historical Society | 
Mark Lindquist, Dowel Bowl, 2011.
MILWAUKEE,WI.- In March of 2011, the Chipstone Foundation invited sixteen established artists from Britain and America to participate in an unusual experiment: each artist was asked to lay aside his or her standard tool kit and craft a work of art with one tool alone. The Tool at Hand showcases these works, the tools that crafted them, and short, explanatory videos produced by each artist, in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Decorative Arts Gallery, December 8, 2011–April 1, 2012. “The challenge presented to the artists sounds simple: create a work of art with one tool. The material and tool to be used were left open-‐ended, with the purpose of encouraging creativity within the one-‐tool constraint,” said Ethan Lasser, curator of the exhibition for the Chipstone Foundation. “For centuries, artists and artisans have felt a particularly intimate connection to their tools. Tools have been described as ex ... More | | 
Ernesto Pena, Age 13, Mexico, ca. 1910–1918. Gelatin silver photographic postcard. The Getty Research Institute.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920), which lasted a decade and transformed the nation, was extensively chronicled by Mexican, American, and European photographers and illustrators. Thousands of images captured a country at war. Never before, and possibly never since, had a country’s struggles been the subject of such scrutiny or fascination. Organized as part of Los Angeles’ celebration of the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed, presented by the Getty Research Institute and the Los Angeles Public Library, chronicles a complex, multifaceted chapter in Mexico’s history. A Nation Emerges, on view at the Central Library, Getty Gallery, 630 W. Fifth St., down- ... More | | 
Mort Kuntsler's “Washington's Crossing: McKonkey's Ferry, Dec. 26, 1776.” AP Photo/Mort Kuntsler.
By: Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- One of America's most famous images, a painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River, got much of the story wrong: The American commander wouldn't have stood triumphantly on a rowboat in daylight, but on a ferry bracing himself against a fierce snowstorm on Christmas night. That's the historic scene depicted in a new painting that goes on display this week at the New-York Historical Society museum in Manhattan. "No one in his right mind would have stood up in a rowboat in that weather," artist Mort Kunstler said. "It would have capsized." He told The Associated Press that he's "not knocking the original" — the well-known 1851 painting by German-born artist Emanuel Leutze, who Kunstler says "was glorifying ... More |
| Occupy Wall Street becomes highly collectible at half-dozen major museums and organizations | | Bonhams to sell the Meyer & Ebe Collection of ancient Greek coins on January 6 | | 10 historical and contemporary photographers about Africa at Young Gallery | 
Jean Ashton, left, library director at the New-York Historical Society, and Matthew Murphy, the library's head of cataloging, display part of an ongoing collection of Occupy Wall Street items. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.
By: Cristian Salazar and Randy Herschaft, Associated Press
NEW YOR (AP).- Occupy Wall Street may still be working to shake the notion it represents a passing outburst of rage, but some establishment institutions have already decided the movement's artifacts are worthy of historic preservation. More than a half-dozen major museums and organizations from the Smithsonian Institution to the New-York Historical Society have been avidly collecting materials produced by the Occupy movement. Staffers have been sent to occupied parks to rummage for buttons, signs, posters and documents. Websites and tweets have been archived for digital eternity. And museums have approached individual protesters directly to obtain posters and other ephemera. The ... More | | 
This small, exquisite collection of coinage of classical antiquity will comprise just over 100 lots. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Bonhams announces the sale of the Meyer & Ebe Collection of Ancient Greek Coins on January 6. This small, exquisite collection of coinage of classical antiquity will comprise just over 100 lots, with coins issued from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD. Several classic design types will be represented in this unique auction from a number of the most famous parts of ancient Greece, including but not limited to Syracuse, Macedon, Athens, Rhodes, Bithynia, Cappadocia and Syria. Pre-sale estimates for this sale range from the very affordable $150-200, up to loftier prices such as $115,000-125,000. Paul Song, Director of the Rare Coins and Banknotes Department at Bonhams, states, “Bonhams is delighted to have been entrusted with this lovely collection of Greek Coins from a private collector who has enjoyed searching for and purchasing these coins over the last decade. Different regions of Classical Gr ... More | | 
Malick Sidibé, Soirée Las Vegas. Photo: Courtesy Young Gallery.
BRUSSELS.- Young Gallery Brussels presents an exhibition of 10 historical and contemporary photographers about Africa. These established and up and coming photographers from all over the world give their creative and original view of Africa. Philippe Bordas was born in 1961. He is living and working in Paris. Director of the film “Grand combat” selected at the Venice Festival in 1996, he has exhibited his pictures all over the world. His photographic work joined his literary work, which began in 2008 with the publication of the highly acclaimed Madman. In 1993, he met the artist Frederick Bruly Bouabré writer he celebrates the poetic journey into the invention of writing (Fayard, 2010). From 1994 to 1999, he entered the closed world of the wrestlers of Senegal. The destinies of the boxers and wrestlers are the frame of the book text and photos bare knuckle Africa (Seuil, 2004. Nadar Prize), the first of a t ... More |
| Groninger Museum presents solo exhibition of the world-famous designs of of Studio Job | | Los Angeles' 'Wonderful Life' Day honors Frank Capra film starring Jimmy Stewart | | The outstanding George Daniels Motor Car Collection to be sold by Bonhams at Goodwood Festival of Speed | 
Studio Job, Robber Baron: Cabinet, 2007. Polished, patinated and gilded cast bronze, 70 1/2" x 45 3/4" x 22 3/4" (179 x 116 x 58 cm) © Groninger Museum.
GRONINGEN.- From 16 October 2011 to 4 March 2012, the Groninger Museum presents the exhibition entitled Studio Job & the Groninger Museum. The exhibition displays the world-famous designs of Studio Job, which consists of Job Smeets (1970) and Nynke Tynagel (1977). In the past ten years, the Groninger Museum has accumulated a substantial collection of work by Studio Job. Important series such as Homework (2006-2007) and Robber Baron (2007) illustrate Studio Job’s virtuoso handling of extraordinary materials and extreme techniques. But the archetypical and monumental objects show, above all, an expressive engagement at the interface of art and design. Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel both graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven. In 1998, Smeets founded Studio Job and two years later, after her graduation, Tynagel joined him ... More | | 
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LOS ANGELES, CA (AP).- George Bailey can rest easy. He really did make a difference in the lives of people, including all 3.8 million in Los Angeles. Bailey, for the one or two people who still haven't seen the classic Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life," is a man driven to the brink of suicide when he comes to believe his life never really mattered. It's up to his quirky guardian angel Clarence to set him straight by showing Bailey, played by Jimmy Stewart, what the world would have been like without him. In honor of the film's 65th anniversary, the City Council declared Friday "It's A Wonderful Life Day" in Los Angeles. To get people in the spirit, Councilman Tom LaBonge, several members of Capra's family and a few others gathered at the director's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on a sunny holiday morning. The section of the walk, it turns out, is one filled with cheesy souvenir shops and sex toy emporiums. They give it more the look of Pottersville, the disreputable ... More | | 
The ex-Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin 1929-32 Bentley 4½-Litre Supercharged Single-Seater. Photo: GPL.
CHICHESTER.- The outstanding collection of motor cars owned by the famed watchmaker George Daniels is to be sold by Bonhams at auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Friday 29th June 2012. The seven motor cars and two motorcycles are expected to realise in excess of £8,000,000. George Daniels CBE, DSc, FBHI, FSA (1926-2011) was one of the few modern watchmakers who could conceive, design and hand-make a complete watch from blank sheet of paper to finished, ticking, utterly supreme timepiece. This master of his art-cum-science is perhaps most famous for creating the co-axial escapement (the device that drives a timekeeping mechanism) which has been described as the most important horological development for 250 years. As a specialist watchmaker, during his lifetime he created less than 100 pocket watches and wristwatches, each of which would typically involve ... More |
| Fifteen leading Bay Area artists to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2012 | | New York State Museum receives gift of major stoneware to add already major collection | | Visually provocative abstractions by Beverly Fishman at Galerie Richard in New York | 
The Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Point. Photo by Monique Deschaines/FOR-SITE Foundation.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In one of the signature events celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2012, fifteen leading artists from the Bay Area and around the world will create on-site installations responding to the bridge as an icon, historic structure, and conceptual inspiration. Organized by the nonprofit FOR-SITE Foundation in partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the National Park Service, International Orange will occupy selected areas of all three floors and the spacious courtyard of the historic Fort Point building, dating from 1861 and nestled at the southern base of the bridge. International Orange will open on Memorial Day weekend, May 26–28, as part of the kickoff to the 75th anniversary and will remain on view to the public free of charge through October 2012. Featuring site-specific installations, live performance, interactive art experiences, and public programs ... More | | 
Monumental Jug, c. 1865. Attributed to Philip Riedinger and Adam Caire (1857–1878).
Poughkeepsie, New York, 20 ½ inches high x 7 ¾ inches diameter at base.
ALBANY, N.Y.- After hiding away in private collections – and a California coat closet – for nearly 200 years, a valuable piece of early American decorative art returns home to New York, where it will be available for the public to enjoy at the New York State Museum thanks to a generous donation by collector Adam Weitsman, President of Upstate Shredding. At the same time, Weitsman also donated a monumental jug, two water coolers deemed ‘important’ by the museum and a gallon jug decorated with the image of a ship. “The addition of these recent pieces of decorated stoneware surely put the New York State Museum on the map as having the premier collection of American stoneware. Not only are the decorations unique and outstanding as works of American folk art, but the documentation and history of these recent acquisitions enable us to learn so ... More | | 
Dividose W.E.P.B., 2011, enamel on polished stainless steel, 64 x 84 inches. Photo: Courtesy Galerie Richard.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- In a new series of visually provocative abstractions Beverly Fishman explores the fast evolving relationship between our bodies and contemporary technology. Her vibrantly colored paintings and sculptures have their genesis in diverse patterns and iconography drawn from scientific imaging systems and pharmaceutical packaging. By manipulating and layering these representational traces of the body into dense, psychedelic compositions, Fishman raises questions about the vulnerability of human identity in an increasingly digitized and electronically-mediated world. Beverly Fishman’s paintings are configurations of horizontal panels of polished stainless steel, each containing dense visual fields woven from neural imagery, sounds waves, EEG graphs and other technological data. These accumulate into optically dazzling moiré patterns that are interrupted by images of drug capsules and molecular symbols. Painted in enamel on mirrored metal, the dynamic ... More |
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 Details of Photo50 announced, London Art Fair's annual showcase of contemporary photography LONDON.- London Art Fair has announced details of Photo50, its annual showcase of contemporary photography at the Business Design Centre, Islington, from 18–22 January 2012. With the title The New Alchemists: contemporary photographers transcending the print , curator Sue Steward has selected 50 works by contemporary artists whose practice sees them adorn, transform, subvert or deface the photographic print. They are: Veronica Bailey, David Birkin, Aliki Braine, Julie Cockburn, Melinda Gibson, Noemie Goudal, Joy Gregory, Walter Hugo, Lesley Parkinson, Jorma Puranen, Esther Teichmann and Michael Wolf. Together, they provide a snapshot of contemporary artists working in photographic mixed-media in the UK and overseas. Many of the photographs in the exhibition are for sale, including a number of new artworks exclusive to the fair. Sue Steward, critic, writer, broadcaster and curator of ... More DigitisedArt collaborates with London master paintings week LONDON.- DigitisedArt, the brainchild of online entrepreneur Paul Evans, is emerging as the new digital connector and facilitator for art businesses, events and associations. Conceived earlier this year with galleries, dealers, photographers and printers in mind, DigitisedArt has recently been appointed by Master Paintings Week 2012, to provide a digital platform for the participating galleries and auction houses. This is the first time an arts event of this calibre has decided to use digital media as opposed to a traditional printed catalogue. DigitisedArt will provide the following: • All participants will be given a free (restricted) account on DigitisedArt, to upload and manage five works of art. • Master Paintings Week will have its own account to manage the ‘collection’ of paintings from all the participants. • The ‘collection’ will then be used as a resource for the printed ma ... More Samsøn presents Antoniadis & Stone \ ROUGH SHAPE BOSTON, MA.- Samsøn presents Antoniadis and Stone’s 1st solo exhibition, ROUGH SHAPE, on view December 16th to January 28th 2012. “ROUGH SHAPE refers to the current state of affairs as we see it: a struggling economy, a growing sense of alienation in one’s own world and the spiritual poverty that is inherent in our culture’s institutional systems.” Using urethane foam, latex paint, plastic and poly-vinyl chloride, three sculptures create a spiritual awakening from realist boundaries and realms of corporate failure. Social Climber reflects a certain current human condition; a relic of empty anxiety that pulls elements from a Post-Minimalist sensibility. Support System provides evidence of the materials as signifiers camouflaged and subverted by the industrial process. All the works question materiality and architectural strictures placed on us by the institution. There are no found objects. Creat ... More AmericanaWeek.com offers antique show visitors discount hotel rates NEW YORK, N.Y.- The co-founders of AmericanaWeek.com, the website that bills itself as the “Gateway to Americana Week,” now offers antiques show and Americana auction visitors discount deals on select hotels in New York City during Americana Week, January 17 – 29. According to Eric Miller, co-founder, along with Regina Kolbe, of AmericanaWeek.com, a block of rooms has been reserved for Americana Week visitors at the Hilton Hotel New York. The special discount rate can be booked through AmericanWeek.com by clicking on the Stay tab. A direct link takes visitors to the Hilton Hotel reservation page. The Hilton Hotel Americana Week is valid for guests staying January 17, 2012 through January 30, 2012. Reservations must be made by December 27, 2012. Mr. Miller said this is the first of many hotel partnerships under consideration. “As we continue to roll out antiques weeks sites, we will be offering coll ... More |
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