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PAN Amsterdam' in the RAI Exhibition and Convention Center in Amsterdam runs from 20 to 27 November 2011. EPA/ROBIN UTRECH.
AMSTERDAM.- PAN Amsterdam is twenty-five years old and a celebration for every art lover. This fair of today for art, antiques and design presents a fascinating cross-section of what the trade currently has to offer and is an important indicator of the mood of the art market. One hundred and twenty-five art dealers, antique dealers and gallery owners will be showing a fascinating variety of old, modern and contemporary art in an inspiring setting—from Jan Steen and Studio Job to a Roman statue of the Greek god PAN and top photography by Schilte & Portielje. PAN Amsterdam runs from 20 to 27 November in the Parkhal of the Amsterdam RAI. • Most appropriately Mieke Zilverberg will be showing a Roman statue of the Greek god Pan on her stand. The marble statue is considerably older than the fair—by a cool 2,000 years. The statue of Pan is identifiable by the hairy goat’s feet and the pan pipes, named ... More |
| Clyfford Still Museum in Denver reintroduces the life and work of the American artist | | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art shows three large, striking works by Ai Weiwei | | "Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus" exhibition opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts | 
Installation view of the Clyfford Still Museum's inaugural exhibition. The experience of the collection is enlivened by natural light that enters the galleries through a series of skylights over a cast-in-place, perforated concrete ceiling.
DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum opened its doors to the public on November 18, 2011, reintroducing the life and work of one of America’s most significant yet least understood artists. The new museum, which houses 94% of Clyfford Still’s total creative output, allows the public to explore the full trajectory of the artist’s 60-year career for the first time, including his rarely seen figurative works from the 1930s, paintings from the 1960s and 1970s created after Still’s retreat from the commercial art world, and the hundreds of works on paper that the artist created, often on a near-daily basis. The museum’s collection of approximately 2,400 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures, the majority of which have never been on public display before, provides an unprecedented opportunity to reflect on the full scope ... More | | 
Ai Weiwei, Fountain of Light, 2007. Steel and glass crystals on a wooden base, (h)700 x 529 x 400 cm. Photo: Ai Weiwei.
HUMLEBAEK.- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, as planned, opened an exhibition dedicated to Ai Weiwei with a number of the Chinese artist’s works from the years 2003-2010 – despite the authorities’ detention and isolation of the artist for several months earlier in the year. Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) has to a rare degree alternated in his practice between traditional physical artworks, conceptual projects, social activities, design and architecture. This has given his oeuvre the character of a compass that registers the currents of the age in art globally, and stimulates discussions of the role of art in his native China. Ai Weiwei expresses himself in a distinctive, simple formal idiom, in a dialogue with factual history and personal memory. His art relates to the universal human condition and insists on respect for the individual. By using traditional Chinese materials and craftsmanship as well as modern indust ... More | | 
Head of Jesus, attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648-54, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts.
DETROIT, MI.- Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, at the Detroit Institute of Arts Nov. 20, 2011–Feb. 12, 2012, brings together for the first time many of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn’s finest paintings, prints and drawings that portray Jesus and events described in the Bible. The exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Musée du Louvre and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition of 64 works includes approximately 52 small, intimate paintings, prints and drawings by Rembrandt and his students that illustrate how Rembrandt broke from traditional 17th-century representations of Jesus. In addition to the organizers, works come from more than 30 lenders, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum in New York; and the British Museum and National Gallery in London. Western portrayals of Jesus in the 17th century were based on ancient Greek sculpture and ... More |
| Stanley Whitney to receive first Robert De Niro Sr. Prize for achievement in painting | | Frieze New York 2012: Participating galleries announced for inaugural edition of the art fair | | Columbia Museum of Art hosts exhibition of unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School paintings | 
Portrait of the artist, Stanley Whitney. © Barney Kulok, 2009.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Estate of Robert De Niro Sr. announced the inaugural recipient of The Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, an annual award which honors an outstanding mid-career American painter. New York-based artist Stanley Whitney will receive the $25,000 award, administered by the Tribeca Film Institute, for his considerable contribution to the field of painting. The merit-based prize—among the first to celebrate and shine a light on mid-career artists—honors the work and legacy of accomplished painter De Niro Sr. A selection committee of distinguished individuals in the art world was appointed to nominate candidates and select the prize recipient. Whitney was selected by a jury including Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem; Agnes Gund, President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and Chairman of its International Council and Chairman of the Mayor’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission of the City of New York; Barry Schwabsky, art ... More | | 
Marine Hugonnier, Art For Modern Architecture Glr GuardianIranian Revolution/Hostage Crisis, Max Wigram Gallery. Frieze Art Fair 2011 Photo by Linda Nylind Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze.
NEW YORK, NY.- Frieze have announced today the participating galleries for the organization’s first New York fair, which is to take place 4–7 May 2012 in Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan. Sponsored by Deutsche Bank, Frieze New York is a carefully selected presentation of over 160 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries. A strong American and European contingent of galleries is joined by those from the rest of the world. Galleries that are regular exhibitors at Frieze Art Fair London are accompanied by those new to Frieze, in particular the young galleries included in Frame, a section dedicated to those established less than six years ago. The New York fair introduces Focus, a section for galleries opened in or after 2001 showing a presentation of up to three gallery artists. For those looking to make new discoveries Frame is selected on the basis of a proposed solo presentation. Frame allow ... More | | 
Sanford Robinson Gifford, Lake Maggiore, Italy, 1858 (detail). Oil on canvas, 17 3/4 x 30 in. The Robert L. Stuart Collection, S-193.
COLUMBIA, S.C.- Forty-five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New-York Historical Society will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art this fall, beginning November 19, 2011 and on view through April 1, 2012 in a major traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters. Though individual works are very seldom loaned, these iconic works of 19th-century landscape painting are traveling on a national tour for the first time and are circulating to four museums around the country as part of the Historical Society's traveling exhibitions program Sharing a National Treasure. The Columbia Museum of Art is the only stop in the Southeast. “The Museum is delighted to bring this extraordinary exhibition to Columbia, giving visitors from around the Southeast the opportunity to see incredibly beautiful works by highly skilled painters of the 19th centu ... More |
| Art Dubai announces 2012 galleries: Major new galleries join the global selection of participants | | Forever in a Moment: 19th Century Photographs of Egypt at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida | | Exclusive selling exhibition Hunters & Gatherers: The Art of Assemblage opens at Sotheby's | 
Wim Delvoye represented by Galerie Rodolphe Janssen.
DUBAI.- The sixth edition of Art Dubai takes place March 21-24, 2012, at Madinat Jumeirah, UAE. Art Dubai 2012 includes leading galleries and dynamic young spaces from across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Australia, Asia and Africa. The most established international fair in MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), Art Dubai 2012 features a carefully selected roster of 74 galleries from 31 countries. “Art Dubai epitomizes the globalised phenomenon that is today’s art world,” said Antonia Carver, Fair Director, Art Dubai. “Over the past five years, the fair has become known as a site of discovery, and an essential meeting point on the art world calendar.” In 2011, Art Dubai welcomed over 20,000 visitors, including 60 international museum groups. “The 2012 fair was oversubscribed, and the gallery selection process was particularly tough,” said Ms Carver. “The selection is l ... More | | 
G. Lekegian, Colossi of Memnon (about 1865). Albumen print. Gift of Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Egypt was an exotic land to nineteenth-century European artists. Painters, writers, and photographers traveled to Egypt to explore, document, and interpret this great country, its civilization, and its newly discovered antiquities. Technical advances in the young medium of photography encouraged direct observation and the advancement of knowledge. The more than 40 images in Forever in a Moment capture this wonderful sense of discovery. The exhibition is the third in a series unveiling the magnanimous gifts of photography from Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert L. Drapkin. Additional works have been lent by The Drapkin Collection, Timothy Welsh, and another private collector. Forever in a Moment beautifully complements ... More | | 
Community Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, copper, metal, fibers, horns, animal hides, fabric, beads. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York announce that from 18 November to 16 December, 2011 it is hosting its third selling exhibition in S|2, the newly constructed gallery space within Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters dedicated to private sales. This show focuses on the accumulative tendency in art that has been broadly labeled ‘assemblage’. It features American Indian, African & Oceanic art, Modern and Contemporary art, Photography and Design. The works in the exhibition range in price from $25,000 to over $10 million* Lisa Dennison, Chairman of Sotheby’s North and South America and one of the organizers of the exhibition, commented: “Until about 10,000 years ago, all human beings were hunters and gatherers. While the invention of ... More |
| First exhibition of artist Wayne Gonzales' work in Spain opens at CAC Málaga | | Recent paintings inspired by Jane Wilson's childhood home at DC Moore Gallery | | 58th Winter Antiques Show celebrates the Rockefeller family patronage of historic Hudson Valley | 
US artist Wayne Gonzales poses in front of his work 'Waiting Crowd 2008' at an exhibition inaugurated at the Contemporary Art Center in Malaga. EPA/JORGE ZAPATA.
MALAGA.- “Art is political per se” Wayne Gonzales has noted on more than one occasion, although he seeks to avoid standard viewpoints in order not to be considered a political artist. The CAC Málaga is now presenting the first exhibition of this artist’s work in Spain and one that includes two previously unexhibited works, Seated Crowd and Slingshot Boy, both of 2011. The dark backgrounds of Gonzales’s crowd scenes, with their sketchily defined faces and brushstrokes that create seemingly immobile, inexpressive figures, leave the viewer to decide on the true meaning of the work and we cannot know if these are images that depict some type of demonstration or whether they simply show people sitting down and waiting for a concert to start. For Fernando Francés, Director of the CAC Málaga: “The references to mystery and political conspiracies and to the ... More | | 
Jane Wilson, Getting Colder, 2011. Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches. Photo: Courtesy DC Moore Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Wilson: Recent Paintings features work inspired by the landscape of the East End of Long Island and the artist’s childhood home in Iowa. The catalog accompanying the exhibition presents an overview of Wilson’s sixty-year career and features a compilation of writing about her art by such figures as John Canaday, Fairfield Porter, James Schuyler, and Stephen Westfall. Wilson’s ethereal new paintings are sensitive investigations of color, documents of fleeting hours, and experiential understandings of seasons. The artist translates her memories of the land, sea, and sky into hovering presences of light and texture shot through with vibrant, unexpected color. At once spontaneous and contemplative, her paintings make the most passing phenomena tangible, evoking the common but impossible-to-articulate experiences of heavy air, oncoming night, and passing thunderstorms. Wilson has exhibited steadily in New York since 1953, when she was a founding me ... More | | 
John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840), Washington Irving (1783-1859), New York, 1809, Oil on wooden panel.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Antiques Show’s 2012 loan exhibition, Celebrating Historic Hudson Valley 60: Rockefeller Patronage in Sleepy Hollow Country highlights more than 25 objects from Historic Hudson Valley’s five National Landmarks and marks the 60th anniversary of John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s founding of Sleepy Hollow Restorations, now Historic Hudson Valley. The exhibition showcases fine and decorative art objects from Philipsburg Manor, Van Cortlandt Manor, Washington Irving's Sunnyside, Montgomery Place, and the Union Church of Pocantico Hills in Hudson Valley. Historic Hudson Valley was established in 1951 as a museum and educational non-profit dedicated to the preservation of buildings, landscapes, and collections within Hudson Valley. The pieces selected for this year’s loan exhibition exemplify the multi-generational Rockefeller legacy of research-based collecting, preservation ... More |
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 Exhibition devoted to a selection of artists working with paper at Karsten Greve Gallery PARIS.- The Karsten Greve Gallery presents the third edition of on paper, a collective exhibition devoted to a selection of artists working with paper. The exhibition brings together twelve artists who each use paper in different ways. The abstract works of Louis Soutter (1871 - 1942), evoking human silhouettes and referred to as finger drawings, were produced during the last five years of his life. The personal and direct approach of the artist using finger painting and drawing – which was quite unique for the 20th century – produce a remarkable and expressive effect that combines seriousness and tragedy in an essentially Christian context. Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) also developed her drawing practice considerably in her later works. The themes of the feminine figure and the body that she has used for several decades in different genres have assumed an almost obsessive character these past years. In ... More Indian Modernist art focus of new exhibition series at Rubin Museum of art NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, a new, three-part exhibition series providing a detailed look at the colorful history of modernist art in post-colonial and post-Independence India will premiere at the Rubin Museum of Art. On view from November 18, 2011 – April 9, 2012, the first installment of the series, The Body Unbound, traces the trajectory of figuration in modernist Indian art from the 1940s to the 1980s and show how the country’s shift from colonial subject to sovereign nation impacted artistic trends. The works on display, gathered from local private and institutional collections, explore the relationship between traditionally Indian, realistic depictions of the human form and the growing influence of abstraction. After the country gained independence in 1947, growing secularism and modernity emerged in the 1950s, as artistic collectives like the Progressive Artists' Group in Bombay and the Delhi Silpi Chakra i ... More "China through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872" at the Chester Beatty Library DUBLIN.- China through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872, a historic exhibition of photographs of pre-modern China, opened at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle. On loan from the Wellcome Library London, the exhibition features 51 images taken by legendary Scottish photographer and explorer John Thomson. The photographs form a unique archive documenting the people, customs and landscape of 19th century China providing a valuable historical record of a nation undergoing major change. The exhibition continues until 26 February 2012 and is timed to coincide with Chinese New Year celebrations. Traditional clothing and material from the Library’s own collection, are included in the exhibition. A pioneer of photojournalism, and one of the most influential photographers of the 19th century, John Thomson was the first Western photographer to document the people and landscape of China for publication. ... More National Museum of American History's transformation continues with West Exhibition Wing plans WASHINGTON, DC.- The transformation of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will continue with a major project to renew the building’s 120,000-square-foot west exhibition wing. (The museum’s center core and east wing will remain open.) The plans feature new galleries, an education center, interior public plazas and performance spaces as well as modernizing the infrastructure in this section of the building, including wireless environments. A new panoramic window on the first floor will give a sweeping view of the Washington Monument and connect visitors to the National Mall’s landmarks. Exhibition closings began in October with the Lemelson Center’s Spark!Lab and will continue through early 2012. The museum expects to receive construction proposals by late spring 2012. Architecture firm EwingCole is responsible for the overall planning and design. The west exhibition wing will b ... More Smithsonian named one of the 10 best places to work in the federal government in 2011 WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Institution has been named one of the 10 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. The rankings were released today by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service headquartered in Washington, D.C. This is the second year that the Smithsonian participated in the survey. The Institution ranked fourth in the top 10, the same ranking as last year. Employee satisfaction at the Smithsonian was 76 out of 100, 12 points higher than the overall Best Places to Work index score for the federal government. “We’re delighted to be in the top 10 again, but it is no surprise because our employees come to work with a can-do attitude and a commitment to serve the public,” said Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough. “I see it every day in many different ways and I’m proud of our passionate people and all they do to make the Smithsonian a better place.” The annual Best Places to Work ... More Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid, to open at MSU April 21, 2012 EAST LANSING, MI.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, a new Zaha Hadid-designed contemporary art museum at Michigan State University (MSU), will open to the public on April 21, 2012. Dedicated to exploring international contemporary culture and ideas through art, the Broad/MSU will serve as an educational resource for the University and a cultural hub for the state of Michigan. The museum will also actively engage with the international artistic community through a series of partnerships with contemporary art spaces around the world, which will launch in conjunction with the April opening. The Broad/MSU’s inaugural exhibitions, curated by founding director Michael Rush, exemplify the museum’s dual focus on presenting international contemporary art in all media, as well as thematic exhibitions that investigate contemporary works within a historical context:• Global Groove 1973/2012 will use Nam June Paik&# ... More Eva Rothschild's fragile and linear formal vocabulary at Kunstverein Hannover HANNOVER.- The Irish artist Eva Rothschild (born 1972, lives and works in London) is one of the most important protagonists of a generation of young artists dealing with the formal aspects of sculpture. Influenced by minimalism of the nineteen sixties and seventies, Eva Rothschild’s works convince through their tension-filled combinations of such diverse materials as leather, paper, Plexiglas, wood and metal. Eva Rothschild has already exhibited internationally, including the impressive spacial site-specific 2009 installation “Cold Corners” at Tate Britain. The exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover is the first presentation of her work in Germany. The fragile and linear formal vocabulary of Eva Rothschild’s sculptures and objects convince through their compositional clarity and strictness. The graphic linearity of her installations creates a fascinating impression of three-dimensional drawings in space. In Rothschild’s object ... More |
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