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| | Exhibition at Vienna's Albertina presents an extensive tribute to René Magritte
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A woman with an exhibition catalogue passes Rene Magritte's painting 'The Pilgrim' during the opening of an art exhibition at Albertina museum in Vienna. The exhibition consists of more than 100 works by Magritte and takes place from November 9, 2011, to February 26, 2012. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer.
VIENNA.- As the year 2011 is drawing to a close, the Albertina is presenting an exhibition highlight with an extensive tribute to René Magritte, one of the most renowned and popular artists of the 20th century. Some 250 exhibits from all over the world, including 150 important paintings and works on paper, cover every creative phase of the Belgian Surrealist’s career. More than 90 lenders have contributed to this great retrospective, thus enabling the Albertina to present every single one of Magritte’s masterpieces. Works such as The Menaced Assassin, The Secret Player, The Gigantic Days, Time Transfixed, The Eternal Evidence, Golconda and The Empire of Light represent Magritte as a main exponent of Surrealism – undoubtedly the most prominent and memorable one next to Dalí. Magritte’s works are not only popular but also have a great intellectual appeal and continue to fascinate present-day viewers du ... More |
| Robert Mapplethorpe's "Shoe" expected to bring $30,000+ to lead Heritage Auctions' sale | | Sale of American paintings, drawings & sculpture announced at Sotheby's in New York | | Exhibition of the history of video games opens in renovated gallery at the Grand Palais | 
Robert Mapplethorpe, Shoe (Melody), 1987. Gelatin silver, 40 x 40 in.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Robert Mapplethorpe's shimmering and subtle Shoe (Melody) estimated at $30,000+, is expected to be the top lot in Heritage Auctions' Nov. 19 Vintage & Contemporary Photography Signature® Auction, taking place at the Ukranian Institute of America at The Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion, 2 East 79th Street (at 5th Ave.). "Mapplethorpe's popularity continues to remain strong with collectors," said Rachel Peart, Consignment Director for Photography at Heritage, "and we expect there will be considerable interest in this particular image, given its rarity, size and the fascination people seem to have with the photographer in the 22 years since his death." Two other Mapplethorpe images look likely to figure prominently in the auction, as well: Two Tulips is estimated at $20,000+, while Flower is expected to bring $8,000+. "We've assembled this auction with an eye to diversity of style and taste," said Ed Jaster, Vice ... More | | 
Winslow Homer, Reverie, signed Homer and dated '72, l.r. Oil on canvas, 22 by 13 ½ in. Est. $1.2/1.8 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s New York auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture on 1 December 2011 will feature a strong selection works across the diverse genres that the category encompasses, with many of the highlights on offer from distinguished institutions and celebrated collections. Following Sotheby’s 2004 sale of a group of 31 George Catlin paintings, on offer from The Field Museum in Chicago and originally in the collection of Benjamin O’Fallon, the December 2011 sale will be led by four additional works from the collection that represent the finest from the original group. The sale will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 26 November. George Catlin was a 19th century painter who specialized in depicting Native American tribes of the Old West, and Benjamin O’Fallon – nephew of William Clark ... More | | 
Sega Rally. 1995. © Sega.
PARIS.- Video games are a new media which first appeared in the early 1970s and have steadily developed into a major cultural industry. From the outset, this new media stimulated much discussion and analysis, focused mainly on the social or personal impact of game playing. This exhibition takes a different approach, looking at video games from an aesthetic and cultural angle. This is the first exhibition held in the renovated South East Gallery in the Grand Palais. The history of video games goes hand-in-hand with the evolution of technology, which allowed game developers to create increasingly rich and varied worlds and game experiences. Thanks to increasingly powerful computer components, each new generation of video game hardware has enjoyed greater design possibilities not only visually but in music, sound and interactivity. The first video games were big white squares; the most recent have high resolution or even 3-D ... More |
| Marlborough and Steinitz Gallery present unique, off-site installation: Le Cabinet de Curiosités | | Modern and Contemporary art from an important private collection at Sotheby's Milan | | Cranbrook Art Museum to reopen after two-year, $22 million restoration and expansion | 
The works of Despont, Valdés and Bravo, though individually diverse, are rooted in shared cultural memories reflected through a veil of historical reference and trompe l’oeil.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Marlborough and Steinitz galleries announce the opening of Le Cabinet de Curiosités, conceived and curated by Thierry W Despont, opening on Saturday, November 12th in the former headquarters of New York Mercantile Exchange at 6 Harrison Street. Le Cabinet de Curiosités is a unique, off-site installation in which contemporary art converges with 18th- and 19th-century antiquities in a setting that blurs the confines of time and categorization. Le Cabinet de Curiosités presents work by Marlborough artists Thierry W Despont, Manolo Valdés and the late Claudio Bravo, as well as rare antique furniture from the Steinitz Collection. The exhibition will continue through January 31, 2012. The works of Despont, Valdés and Bravo, though individually diverse, are rooted in shared cultural memories reflected through a veil of historical reference and trompe l’oeil. Despont’s assemblage sculptures, s ... More | | 
Alberto Savinio, La mère et l’enfant. Eseguito nel 1928, 55 x 46cm. Estimate: 250.000/350.000 euro. Photo: Sotheby's.
MILAN.- Sotheby’s announces Identità Italiana - another section of the same fulfil Private Collection recently successfully presented in London in October which registered many records, such as a 1957 Combustione by Alberto Burri Alberto Burri, sold at €3.627.467. This nucleus for sale in Milan, is composed by nearly 60 lots and contains many ground-breaking works by early 20th Century Italian Masters like Giacomo Balla Giacomo Balla and Arturo Martini Arturo Martini which lead into Modern masterpieces by Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico, Massimo Massimo Campigli Campigli and Mario Sironi Mario Sironi. The Futurist identity is intensively represented by Canto patriottico by Giacomo Balla Giacomo Balla (est. €300.000-400.000), a vibrant canvas combining the iconic colours of the Italian flag with a study of shape lirically recalling the protests and marches that convulsed Italy in 1915. The work of Alb ... More | | 
Cranbrook Art Museum Director Gregory Wittkopp pulls out a custom-designed rack containing one of the museum’s gems, a four-panel modular painting by Roy Lichtenstein. AP Photo/Jeff Karoub.
By: Jeff Karoub, Associated Press
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI.- No hidden treasures. That was the primary goal during a two-year, $22 million restoration and expansion of the Cranbrook Art Museum aimed at enlivening the collection and inspiring new artists. The contemporary art museum north of Detroit plans to reopen Friday after a complete renovation of its building, designed by famed architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen, on the 320-acre campus of the century-old Cranbrook Educational Community. A new Collections Wing makes more accessible the museum's permanent collection of about 6,000 works of art, architecture and design, including rarely seen works by Ray Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. "We're trying to make visible what is normally invisible within the museum," said museum director Gregory Wittkopp. "This is ... More |
| Sotheby's London auction of fine Chinese ceramics and works of art brings £12.3 million | | Erik Frydenborg opens second solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles | | After $70 million renovation, a transformed New-York Historical Society reopens to the public | 
A large ‘famille rose’ ‘landscape’ dish, Yongzheng mark, sold for £1,049,250 million / $1.2 million / €1.7 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art brought a total of £12.3 million /$19.8 million / €14.4 million, within estimate. Headlining the sale was a large ‘famille rose’ ‘landscape’ dish, Yongzheng mark. The elaborately enamelled dish sold after a dramatic four-way telephone bidding battle, for £1,049,250 / $1.2 million/ €1.7 million. Decorated in blue, green, turquoise and sepia enamels, the dish’s interior depicts a landscape with cliffs and a craggy mountain range shaded by pine trees. Stephen Loakes Sotheby’s London’s Acting Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art said: “We have experienced an extraordinary level of interest from our clients worldwide and with our auction coinciding with Asian Art week in London, bidding today from our packed saleroom and over the telephones was extremely competitive. In particular, ... More | | 
Erik Frydenborg, Codec 18 (Interpreted as Opus 11), 2011. Pine, wood stain, wax, medium density fiberboard, linen, polyurethane plastic, pigments, 46 x 72 x 4 in. Courtesy of Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; photo by Robert Wedemeyer.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In his second solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin, Erik Frydenborg develops a sustained examination of a single, found scholastic illustration. Through a series of dissections, alterations, and physical reconstructions of the original image, Frydenborg merges elements of collage, sculpture, display architecture, and a “timeline” of taxonomic wall reliefs, constructing a chimerical museum environment. In an elliptical blending of analysis and fiction, the objects on view are presented as historical artifacts from the obsolescent work of a vaguely described, possibly delusional academic-- likely discredited in his methods, and separated by an irretrievable distance from our own era. In its staging of these ersatz specimens, Dr. (illegible) traces ... More | | 
Photo of the newly renovated New-York Historical Society. Photo: New-York Historical Society.
NEW YORK, NY.- Throwing wide its doors as never before, the New-York Historical Society will reopen its landmark building to the public at 11 am on Veterans Day, Friday, November 11, 2011. A three-year, $70 million renovation of the Central Park West building has sensitively but thoroughly transformed the face of the institution—the first museum established in New York—to welcome visitors of all ages to a great cultural destination, and to immerse them in New-York Historical’s collection of extraordinary objects and sweeping ideas. To help extend the welcome, New-York Historical will remain open on November 11 until 11 pm, offering free admission during that day to veterans and active service members and to children under 13, and free admission for all visitors after 6 pm. Entering New-York Historical, renovated by the distinguished firm of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, visitors will encounter: • ... More |
| Vignos Estate auction achieves over $3 million, Jasper Francis Cropsey sells for $660,000 | | Haunch of Venison New York presents "Castellani e Castellani" by Enrico Castellani | | Technical, economic and structural possibilities of timber explored at the Pinakothek der Modern | 
Jasper Francis Cropsey, Dawn of Morning, Lake George, sold for $660,000, setting an auction record as the fourth highest price ever paid for a work by the artist.
CHICAGO, IL.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers auctioned the personal collection of accomplished Cleveland rheumatologist Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr. to a packed room of bidders and thousands of others on the telephones and internet. The November 6-8, 2011 auction included American and European paintings and prints, English, French and American 18th and 19th century furniture, European and American silver, porcelain and glass, antiquities, sporting decoys and angling and fishing equipment. Competitive bidding resulted in a successful sale total of $3,018,378 and set numerous auction records. John Bunyan Bristol, Gate, St. Augustine, Florida, sold for $73,200, becoming the highest price ever paid for a work by Bristol. Jasper Francis Cropsey, Dawn of Morning, Lake George, sold for $660,000, setting an auction record as the fourth highest price ever paid for a work by the artist. Other highlights included William Trost Richards, Rock ... More | | 
Superficie angolare cromata, 2010/2011, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 42.5 x 42.5 cm, courtesy of the artist and Haunch of Venison.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Haunch of Venison announces Castellani e Castellani, a special exhibition of both new and seminal work by Enrico Castellani, one of Italy’s most influential artists, from November 11th 2011 to January 7th 2012. The show features new paintings that continue the dialogue set forth in his formative Angolare series as well as present his critically acclaimed Spazio Ambiente, a roomlike environment from 1970 that has rarely been exhibited publicly, and which is graciously on loan from the Fendi collection. Although created decades apart, the works exemplify Castellani’s signature style and merge art, space and architecture to transcend the confines of painting. The Angolare (“Angular”) series consists of 12 painted works from 1960-1965 for which Castellani fabricated corner-shaped armatures that impose concave and convex curvatures on the canvas, yielding subtly disorienting perceptual and ... More | | 
JKMM Architects,Viikki Church, Helsinki, Finland, 2005© Kimmo Räisänen, Helsinki.
FRANKFURT.- The United Nations have proclaimed 2011 the »International Year of Forests«. On this occasion the Architekturmuseum in cooperation with the Department for Timber Construction at the TU München is presenting in an extensive exhibition entitled »Building with Timber – Paths into the Future« the technical, economic and structural possibilities of the material. Wood has acquired an importance as a building material that, only a few years ago, would have been unimaginable. Since the 1970s, a growing global awareness of the need to use resources sparingly and to follow certain ecological principles has introduced a new way of thinking in the building industry, too. Research into building technology has brought about major improvements in the fire safety and insulation against noise of timber buildings, while computer-aided calculation and production methods make possible entirely new forms of design. Thus ... More |
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 Artist Jeanette Doyle performs a dematerialized act at The Warhol Museum PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces its latest special exhibition, Jeanette Doyle: Fifteen Days, A Prequel to Factory Direct: Pittsburgh. Fifteen Days is a preview of Doyle’s work for Factory Direct: Pittsburgh, an upcoming exhibition at The Warhol opening in June 2012. For a period of fifteen days, artist Jeanette Doyle will perform a dematerialized act at The Warhol Museum. An extension of the performance will be rendered immaterially on The Warhol’s website. The project emerges from a consideration of the relationship between “dematerialized” artworks versus current definition of the “immaterial.” Each day from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., Doyle will change the light bulbs illuminating the Museum’s entrance gallery. After Doyle’s daily performances at The Warhol, she will then commute to the offices of Ansaldo STS, a leading local technology company involved in traffic manag ... More The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Sherrie Levine: Mayhem NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Whitney Museum of American Art presents SHERRIE LEVINE: MAYHEM, the first major museum survey of the artist’s work. The exhibition is a project developed by the artist in collaboration with guest curator/art historian and critic Johanna Burton, and Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, with Carrie Springer, Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney. The show runs from November 10, 2011, through January 29, 2012, in the Whitney’s third-floor Peter Norton Family Galleries. For more than thirty years, Levine (b. 1947) has borrowed and re-contextualized images, texts, and objects in her work, often presenting them as installations that provide a compelling sense of context. The title of this exhibition, MAYHEM, suggests the destabilization that occurs as we consider the complex layers of reference and meaning that unfold between Levine’s sources and her own ... More Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens Ignacio Burgos retrospective exhibition MOSCOW.- Moscow Museum of Modern Art continues the program of the Year of Spain in Russia with the solo exhibition of Ignacio Burgos, one of the most interesting contemporary artists in his country. His art is recognizable and self-contained; for long years, the master is faithful to his style and does not surrender to the dictation of markets, galleries, and curators. His manner can be defined as ‘figurative expressionism’: in his canvases, the exquisite palette of blues, purples and ochres comes into balance with a special Mediterranean light, and soft but precise brushwork. During his career, Ignacio Burgos travelled a lot and lived in different cities, from Barcelona and New York to Shanghai and Casablanca. These migrations brought a variety of themes and subjects to his oeuvre: here one can find Arabic and Chinese women, soldiers of Egyptian army, participants of a yacht race, children on the seashore, ... More William Vareika to exhibit pair of rediscovered John La Farge paintings for the first time in 75 years BOSTON, MA.- A pair of monumental historic paintings, The Virgin and St. John the Evangelist at the Foot of the Cross, by the famous 19th century American artist John La Farge, will be exhibited for the first time in seventy-five years by the Newport gallery William Vareika Fine Arts at the Boston International Fine Art Show, November 17-20, 2011, at the Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts. Among the largest and most important paintings ever created by La Farge, these works were lost until recently and were last publicly shown in 1936 when they were loaned by the Whitney Museum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for An Exhibition of the Work of John La Farge. The only time that they were seen in Boston was exactly 133 years ago, on November 19 and 20, 1878, at a sale at the Pierce and Company Auction House at 5 Park Street. The names of La Farge patrons at t ... More LAMA announces the most important selection of California design ever offered in one auction LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions’ (LAMA) December 11, 2011 Important Modern Art & Design Auction will present the most important selection of California Design to ever be offered at auction. Examples include prototypes and personally commissioned,unique works each with strong provenance and rarity. Highlights include exceptionally important examples from nearly every major movement of the 20th century: • 1907: Greene & Greene linen press: The most significant cabinet ever offered at auction • 1925: Armand-Albert Rateau dining chair: The lost and (previously thought destroyed) chair from the set now in the permanent collection of The Legion of Honor • 1932: T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings "Sans Epoch" tables: Commissioned for Hilda Weber's landmark "Casa Encantada" • 1945: Charles and Ray Eames: MoMA prototype chair produced prior to December 1945. The only such ... More With the stroke of a finger, drawing app Doodley races up the Apple App Store rankings list BOULDER, CO.- Doodley™, a new drawing application using fingers or a stylus that allows even the most artistically challenged to release their inner Van Gogh, continues to race to the top of app rankings. Despite a noisy apps market, Doodley has hit 90,000 downloads completely through virtual word-of-mouth., and. Doodley has hit number 32 in the U.S. App Store rankings in the “entertainment” category, number 8 in Taiwan, 17 in the U.K. and made Apple’s “New and Noteworthy” all within a few weeks of launch. “Without expecting it, Doodley struck a nerve and created an instant, active user community,” said Ryan Ozonian, founder of Mention Mobile, the Los Angeles-based development company that created Doodley. “People all around the world and of all abilities are demonstrating amazing artistic expression with this tool. Doodley has become a hit app for casual drawing on iOS touch ... More |
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