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Saturday, December 3, 2011


Experts reclassify painting as real Rembrandt after X-ray reveals outlines of a self-portrait



A close up view of an up to now unknown painting by Dutch painter Rembrandt at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 02 December 2011. The small painting 'Old man with beard' is after research attributed to the famous painter. EPA/OLAF KRAAK. By: Toby Sterling, Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP).- Experts have reclassified a painting as a Rembrandt after years of attributing it to one of the Dutch master's students. Ernst van de Wetering of the Rembrandt Research Project said Friday that X-ray analysis of "Bearded Old Man" has revealed outlines of a self-portrait of Rembrandt as a young man underneath. He also cited stylistic analysis and circumstantial evidence in support of the conclusion that the painting — showing a man with unkempt white hair, lost in thought with just a hint of sadness — is by the Dutch master. Van de Wetering dates the small (15 x 20 cm, 6 x 8 inch) but emotive painting to 1630, when Rembrandt van Rijn would have been 24 years old. Rembrandt's reputation as a portraitist was rapidly growing and he was preparing to leave Leiden for Amsterdam, which at that time was enjoying its golden age as a major naval power. ... More

The Best Photos of the Day


DRESDEN.- Michael Schweiger attaches the circular paiting In front of the Village Inn by Flemish renaissance painter, Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678) after its return to the Zwinger after 66 years in Dresden, Germany. The 18.5 centimeter diameter, landscape painting from 1641 with covered wagon, horses and farmer by famous painter Peter Brueghel the Younger is one of the master works missing from the museum since the end of the war. The battle to secure the return of the painting took four years. It was in an art auction house in Munich since the end of 2007. EPA/MATTHIASHIEKEL.

Miami Art Museum receives $35 million gift from Miami developer Jorge M. Perez		Egon Schiele's unsalvageable ego, works from the Albertina on view at Munich's Kunstbau		Metropolitan's Gary Tinterow appointed Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA, Herzog & de Meuron, Park view © Herzog & de Meuron, visualization by Artefactorylab. MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum announced that long-time museum supporter and Miami-Dade County business leader Jorge M. Pérez has increased his contribution to the museum’s new downtown facility to $35 million. The gift includes $15 million in support to the institution’s Capital Campaign—on top of his original $5 million pledge at the campaign’s outset—bringing his total monetary support for the museum’s building project to $20 million–a 300% increase from his original pledge. The monetary gift brings the total amount raised for the museum’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in Miami’s Museum Park complex to $167 million of its $220 million goal. Pérez will also donate a portion of his Latin American art collection valued at more than $15 million to the museum’s permanent collection, bringing his total support to the museum to $35 million. The museum will be renamed ... More		Egon Schiele, Sonnenblumen, 1911. Albertina, Wien © Albertina, Wien. MUNICH.- Egon Schiele is one of the most popular modernist artists, who stands like almost no other for the close relationship between an artist’s work and life. His early tragic death, his turbulent friendship with his model Wally, and the Neulengbach affair, in which he was imprisoned for twenty-four days in 1912 for allegedly seducing a minor, have all led to ongoing public interest in his private life. His best-known works have therefore often been seen in terms of this narrow focus on the autobiographical – nudes of young women showing their sex in provocative poses, and seemingly pathological self-stylisation. This exhibition in the Kunstbau of the Lenbachhauses opens up a new perspective on the work of this expressionist artist, by for the first time addressing Schiele’s philosophical view of the world. A large selection of watercolours and drawings from the Vienna Alb ... More		The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Gary Tinterow has been appointed Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Photo: F. Carter Smith. HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced that Gary Tinterow has been named as its seventh director. Tinterow, an internationally recognized curator and scholar who is currently the Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, succeeds the late Peter C. Marzio, who died in December 2010. Tinterow will assume his new role in early 2012. “Gary Tinterow has built an impeccable record of scholarship and connoisseurship over several decades in his field, and he has achieved an extraordinary level of leadership within one of the world’s most renowned institutions,” Cornelia Long, chair of the board of the MFAH, said in announcing the appointment. “These qualities, along with his commitment to engaging a broad range of audiences through inno- ... More

Billionaire Russian investor Vladimir Potanin gives DC's Kennedy Center $5 Million		LACMA appoints Dr. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts as curator to launch African art program		Sotheby's results: American Paintings led by Marsden Hartley & George Catlin
View of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts glowing at dusk along the Potomac River in Washington. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO . By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- Billionaire Russian investor Vladimir Potanin announced a $5 million gift Thursday to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to mark its 40th anniversary and support its programs. The gift, a first from Russia to the Washington center, includes additional funding from Potanin's foundation to renovate an Opera House lounge at the center. It will be renamed the Russian Lounge and redecorated to feature Russian culture when it reopens in late 2012. Potanin, 50, is a founder of Interros Company and the biggest shareholder in the world's largest nickel producer, Norilsk Nickel. For years, he has been locked in a dispute with rival Oleg Deripaska over control of the mining giant. Engaging with the Kennedy Center is a "natural expansion" of his foundation's philanthropic activities in Russia, Potanin said in a written statement ahead of the gift ... More		Dr. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, appointed Consulting Curator of African Art, will help launch a program and establish a gallery dedicated to the arts of Africa. Photo: Caro. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has named Dr. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts Consulting Curator of African Art to help launch a program and establish a gallery dedicated to the arts of Africa. Dr. Roberts is Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, and will continue her full-time teaching position while consulting for LACMA. She was Senior Curator of the Museum for African Art in New York from 1984–1994 and Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Fowler Museum at UCLA from 1999-2008. Additionally, she was a guest curator at LACMA for the 2008 exhibition Tradition as Innovation in African Art. The goal of Dr. Roberts’s appointment is to bring greater visibility to African arts in Southern California, while creating programmatic linkages between LACMA and UCLA. As LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan states, “We have looked forward to launching a program for African art f ... More		Marsden Hartley, Untitled (Still Life), signed Marsden Hartley and dated 1919, l.r. Oil on board, 32 by 25 ¾ in. Est. $700/900,000. Sold for $3,218,500. Photo: Sotheby's. NEW YORK, N.Y.- American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture brought $24,557,750 at Sotheby’s New York, above a low estimate of $22.3 million* and with 71.2% percent of the lots sold. The auction was highlighted by a group of four paintings of Native Americans by 19th century artist George Catlin, on offer from The Field Museum in Chicago and originally in the collection of Benjamin O’Fallon – nephew of William Clark and the ‘United States Indian Agent’ for the Missouri River Tribes. Together the works brought $4,576,000, led by Interior of a Mandan Lodge that sold for $1,538,500 above a high estimate of $1.2 million. Five determined bidders drove Marsden Hartley’s Untitled (Still Life) to a remarkable $3,218,500, more than three times the high estimate of $900,000 and the single highest price in today’s auction. The work was on offer from the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg ... More

Three International Olympic Committee employees fired in museum embezzlement case		Sword & Pistols of British officers with chequered careers head record sale of arms at Bonhams		Sotheby's sales of Russian art concluded this week bringing $95.5 million
A visitor looks at Olympic Torches in the Olympic Museum of the International Olympic Committee, IOC, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 02 December 2011. EPA/LAURENT GILLIERON. By: Stephen Wilson, Associated Press LONDON (AP).- The IOC's finance department is being overhauled in the wake of an embezzlement scandal at the Olympic Museum involving up to $1.85 million. Three members of the department have been fired for "negligence" in the alleged fraud by the former manager of the museum shop in Lausanne, Switzerland, International Olympic Committee director general Christophe De Kepper told The Associated Press on Thursday. In a separate development, IOC finance director Thierry Sprunger told the AP he has decided to resign from his post, citing health issues, "burnout" and a desire to change direction after 17 years at the IOC. Sprunger, whose department was responsible for oversight of the museum's finances, said he will announce his departure next week at a meeting ... More		A Lloyds Patriotic sword awarded to Captain Arthur Farquhar sold for £79,250. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON.- The Antique Arms and Armour market seems armour plated as Bonhams latest sale at £1.4 indicates. This was the top result for any sale of Arms and Armour in London this year with 89 per cent of lots sold. The two top items in the sale on November 30th in Knightsbridge were not surprisingly weapons with a fascinating provenance – a Lloyds Patriotic sword awarded to Captain Arthur Farquhar which sold for £79,250 and a set of duelling pistols once owned by the colourful Lt-Colonel Thomas Thornton at £67,250. David Williams, Director of Antique Arms and Armour at Bonhams, says: “The market remains buoyant with interest coming from round the world for what was an outstanding collection of material. Interest in collecting Antique arms and militaria continues to grow.” Farquhar, Commander of HMS Acheron, survived the ultimate Royal Navy catastrophe of losing his ship to a French man of war, but in the subseque ... More		A visitor stands in front of the painting of Alexander Yakovlev 'Opera in Peking. 1918' during an exhibition. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV. NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s global auctions of Russian Art in 2011 concluded this week realising a combined worldwide total for Russian Art sold by the company of $95.5 million, an increase of 16%($13.5 million) on our 2010 global total for sales in this field. This total of $95.5 million confirms Sotheby’s position as global leader in the market for Russian Art, for the ninth consecutive year. Discussing the results of Sotheby’s Russian Art Sales in 2011, Jo Vickery, Senior Director and Head of the Russian Art department in London, said: “Participation from serious collectors of Russian Art in Sotheby’s global sales has remained resolutely steadfast for several years, and have also become increasingly selective. Collectors want the very best and this is driving prices up for museum-quality works or paintings with a solid provenance. This week’s un- ... More

Design Museum adds M1 motorway sign, AK-47 Rifle and Sony Walkman to its collection		Galleries at Art Miami see robust sales and promising leads from serious art collectors		SCOPE art show celebrates eleventh year with return to 2010 midtown Miami location
Type Writer. Valentine. Ettore Sottsass, 1969, Olivetti, Italy. LONDON.- The Design Museum has added 13 classics to its collection. They include a Sony Walkman, a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle and an example of the motorway signage system, whose standardised typeface, designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert in 1960, has not changed to this day. The road signs, commissioned by the government for Britain’s new network of motorways and major roads, were tested in 1958 in an underground car park and in Hyde Park, where they were propped against trees to determine the most effective background colours and reading distances. ‘Style never came into it,’ Calvert has said of the typeface. Calvert redesigned many of the picture signs to reflect her personal experiences. She replaced the image of a boy in a school cap leading a little girl on the school children crossing sign, with one of a girl, modelled on a photograph of herself as a child, leading a younger boy. Calvert describe ... More		San Francisco's Modernism, Inc. sold Michael Dweck's "Gisele and Rachel Cruising Down the Malecon", 2009, Havana, Cuba (detail), 49"x60", at Art Miami for $14,000. MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami, the city’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the City of Miami, opened to the public for the first full day Thursday, with galleries continuing to report strong sales and promising leads from serious art collectors and museums. Distinguished for its depth,diversity and quality, Art Miami presents an incredible showcase of works from internationally renowned modern and contemporary art from more than 110 international art galleries. “Attendance on the first day of Art Miami was very strong, and galleries reported solid sales after a banner Opening Night VIP Preview,” said Nick Korniloff, Director of Art Miami. “In light of the competing opening day for Art Basel, we saw acontinuous flow of qualified attendees—numerous galleries reported sales from loyal returning ... More		Artist Yuhi Hasegawa is surrounded by his paintings as he is interviewed during Scope Miami art fair. AP Photo/ Lynne Sladky. MIAMI, FL.- The art show that has established its name by curating cuttingedge contemporary art from around the world proudly returns to Miami for its eleventh year. Cementing its future with an 80,000 square foot pavilion SCOPE Miami’s high-proﬁle venue is centrally located in the heart of the Wynwood Arts District. Running concurrently with Art Basel Miami, SCOPE’s Midtown Miami home is just steps from The Rubell family collection, Margulies Collection at the Warehouse and the Goldman Collection. This year’s edition of SCOPE Miami, November 29th-December 4th, 2011, presents 80 international galleries upholding a unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. Returning galleries include: SPINELLO Projects(Miami), Jacob Karpio Galeria (San Jose), New ... More

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New exhibition, website guide visitors through the evolving universe
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The cosmos constantly changes. Stars are born, live out their lives, and die – sometimes calmly, sometimes explosively. Galaxies form, grow and collide dramatically. A new exhibition and website, developed jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, reveal the dynamic and evolving universe through breathtaking photographs and informative captions. “The Evolving Universe” explores how the stars, galaxies and universe undergo the same stages as life on Earth: from birth, to maturity and, eventually, to death. This remarkable journey from present-day Earth to the far reaches of space and time will be on view at the Natural History museum in Washington, D.C., through July 7, 2013. A worldwide audience also can experience the exhibition through its website, located at www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/evolving-universe. All ... More

Holiday ephemera: Many one-of-a-kind items on sale at artnet Auctions
NEW YORK, N.Y.- artnet Auctions presents the Holiday Ephemera Sale, an extensive auction of over 150 rare and unusual art collectibles—-many of them one-of-a-kind—-from the personal collections of well-known artists and collectors, covering a wide range of periods, styles, and art movements. The highlight of the Holiday Ephemera Sale is an extremely rare, fully-realized drawing by Jack Kerouac (American, 1922–1969), Untitled, c.1957 (Est. US$7,500–9,500), rich in the Catholic imagery that was a recurring theme in his work, and an important part of his cosmology. The drawing depicts Christ on the cross, with three wise men standing in the foreground, as an angel descends from the heavens. In the background, a man hangs from the gallows while the sun shines over distant hills. The drawing comes from John Sampas, who was the brother of Kerouac’s third wife. The sale also offers a wonderfully spi ... More

The Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada bring ancient creatures to life
TORONTO, ON.- The Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada announced the launch of the Burgess Shale online exhibition, as part of the Virtual Museum of Canada. The website provides, for the first time ever, an immersive journey into the world of the bizarre prehistoric creatures that formed the foundation for all animal life on Earth half a billion years ago. Through the use of never-before-seen visuals, including stunning virtual animations, the website brings to life over 100 years of research and discoveries, in which the ROM and Parks Canada play a vital role. The online exhibition showcases Yoho National Park’s 500-million-year-old Burgess Shale fossils. Considered the most current and comprehensive resource for knowledge on the Burgess Shale, the website features an authoritative fossil gallery including approximately 200 species, almost every Burgess Shale species ever described. The creatures are highlighted ... More

Don't Miss "Undertow" at 101/exhibit during Art Basel Miami
MIAMI, FL.- 101/exhibit presents Undertow, an exhibition of new works by Jason Shawn Alexander, the Los Angeles-based Expressionist figurative painter. The show, which opened to the public on Friday, December 2 through February 8, 2012 at 101 NE 40th Street, Miami, Florida, coincides with the publication of a book, also called Undertow. An invitation-only preview took place on December 1. “I am very pleased to present Jason’s third exhibition at 101/exhibit,” said 33-year old Sloan Schaffer, who gave the artist his first solo show in 2009, the same year he opened his gallery. “His masterfully rich figures inhabit settings that, at times, evoke the stillness of theater. “These paintings offer the viewer a glimpse of private moments, captured in the wake of a great receding void,” said Schaffer. “With his intense personal narrative combined with vertones of allegory, the painting ... More

Attila Csörgõ exhibition at Secession in Vienna combines photography, sculpture, and drawing
VIENNA.- Combining the media of photography, sculpture, and drawing, the works of Hungarian-born artist Attila Csörgő offer viewers an ironic and humorous introduction to questions of science and technology. The results are often unexpected, amusing, or even poetical. In long-term experiments the artist explores branches of science such as kinetics, optics, or geometry to examine questions of perception; and on this basis he develops his theories about the construction of reality. His photographs capture sequences of motion or energetic processes, which appear as traces of light, making phenomena visible that, under normal conditions, are not or only barely perceptible to the human eye. While such processes rely on scientific and mathematic calculations, the artist frequently assembles his technological arrangements from everyday objects and materials. Element by element, his transparent systems sharpen our ... More

Jewelry, art from New York City's Brooke Astor to be sold at Sotheby's
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- Jewelry and artwork from the estate of philanthropist Brooke Astor will go on the auction block next year. Sotheby's announced this week that it will hold a sale of property from Astor's estate in New York City in April. All of the proceeds will benefit Astor's favorite charities including the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York City schools. Astor died in 2007 at 105. Her son Anthony Marshall was found guilty in 2009 of exploiting his mother's dementia to help himself to millions of dollars of her money. He is free pending appeal. The auction will include property from Astor's Manhattan apartment and her country house in Westchester County. Sotheby's says details will be released next year. ... More

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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:11 PM PST

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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:09 PM PST

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NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft eyes the future

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:06 PM PST

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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:05 PM PST

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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:03 PM PST

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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:02 PM PST

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