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| | Carnegie Museum of Art showcases legendary black photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris
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A visitor to the Carnegie Museum of Art views an exhibit of work by Pittsburgh photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. He grew up poor and could barely read and write, but Harris created what critics say is one of the greatest photographic archives of daily African-American life, seen from the inside. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar.
By: Kevin Begos, Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP).- Charles "Teenie" Harris had a photographic mission: going beyond the obvious or sensational to capture the essence of daily African-American life in the 20th century For more than 40 years, Harris — as lead photographer of the influential Pittsburgh Courier newspaper — took almost 80,000 pictures of people from all walks: presidents, housewives, sports stars, babies, civil rights leaders and even cross-dressing drag queens. Now, a new exhibit and online catalog is showing the depth of Harris' work, an archive showing a major artistic achievement that influenced people around the country. "His shots of everyday people are amazing. People seem to kind of jump off the page," said Stanley Nelson, an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and MacArthur genius grant winner who has made a number of acclaimed films on African-American artists, business people, and workers. ... More |
| Cincinnati Art Museum to display more than two thousand pieces from its collection | | New works by Jannis Kounellis, master of Arte Povera, on view in China for the first time | | Glass artist Dale Chihuly to launch Halcyon Gallery in London's New Bond Street | 
Lion Funerary Monument, Greece (Attica), circa 350 B.C., Pentelic marble, Museum Purchase: John J. Emery Fund, 1946.40
CINCINNATI, OH.- Six thousand years of human history will surround you in The Collections: 6000 Years of Art, which opens on December 1, 2011. In ten thousand square feet of space, the Cincinnati Art Museum will display more than two thousand pieces drawn from its collection of over sixty thousand objects. With snarling Greek lions, fine furniture, tea pots, and fine silver all around you, the riches of what the best craft and creativity has left us will amaze you! Many of these pieces have not been on display before, and all reflect the very best of art history. According to Cincinnati Art Museum’s Chief Curator James Crump “Gallery designers, curators and the Director of the Museum Aaron Betsky, opened the door to the treasure chest that is our storage and put on view for the public the density and depth that make up this incredibly deep collection covering the span of six thousand years.” & ... More | | 
A close up view of an art installation by Greek artist Jannis Kounellis. EPA/HOW HWEE YOUNG.
BEIJING.- Art Povera and its representative Jannis Kounellis may sound strange to Chinese audiences. Yet Art Povera has been widely acknowledged as a hugely influential school in art history. As an internationally renowned artist, Kounellis is highly acclaimed for his achievements. Some of his works are regarded as significant connecting points in art history. In 1967, works by Kounellis first became typical of Arte Povera and they were internationally recognized in first contemporary Italian art movement. In late 1980s, his works were well received in many large events in Europe to an extent that current dancers and musicians were influenced as well. As an artist who is mostly seen in important museum exhibitions all over the world, he has attended Venice Biennale 7 times. From 1972 – 1982, he attended Kassel Documenta on invitation for 10 times. From 1970s until now, his works have been on show all around the world, including Tate Gallery (UK), Museum Ludwig etc. ... More | | 
The timing of this exhibition is significant for Chihuly, as 2012 will mark fifty years of the International Studio Glass Movement.
LONDON.- Halcyon Gallery will open its new gallery on New Bond Street on 5 December 2011, with an inaugural exhibition by Dale Chihuly. The artist comments, "Returning to London to show this important collection of work is truly exciting. The inaugural exhibition at Halcyon Gallery, in such an incredible building, presents the ideal space to show this work - I'm pushing the boundaries of the medium as far as they can go in terms of scale and new techniques all the time." The timing of this exhibition is significant for Chihuly, as 2012 will mark fifty years of the International Studio Glass Movement. Chihuly is a founding member and leading protagonist of the Movement, which started from humble beginnings in America in 1962.Since the early days, Chihuly has done more to revolutionise how glass is perceived as an art form worldwide, than any other artist working with the medium. The Chihuly ... More |
| Vasily Vereshchagin's masterpiece to highlight Christie's Russian Art sale in London | | Wright announces bi-annual sale featuring rare and significant works of the 20th century | | Michel Majerus' complex and comprehensive oeuvre on view at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart | 
An auction house worker poses for the photographers sitting in front of a1887 painting by Vasily Vereshchagin, entitled ''Crucifixion by the Romans'. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis.
LONDON.- This autumn’s Russian Art Sale in London will feature Vasily Vereshchagin’s awe-inspiring Crucifixion by the Romans, painted in 1887 in Paris. It will be offered on 28th November with an estimate of £1,000,000-1,500,000. The picture will be sold to benefit the acquisitions fund of the Brooklyn Museum, where it was exhibited for the last time in 1932. “After conducting a careful review of the Museum’s late-19th and 20th-century Russian holdings, we came to the conclusion that Crucifixion by the Romans by Vasily Vereshchagin does not represent the focus of the collection, which is on modern and avant-garde Russian art. The painting deserves to be better utilized than it has been at Brooklyn, where it was last on view in 1932. We did not foresee a time when it would be ... More | | 
Ponti Important dining table from Villa Arreaza.
CHICAGO, IL.- On December 15th Wright concludes the year with their Important Design auction, a bi-annual sale featuring rare and significant works of the 20th century. Important Design is comprised of a number of works from prominent collectors and distinguished interiors as well as exceptional forms by the 20th century’s leading artists and designers. The sale includes more than two dozen sculptures by Harry Bertoia, including an excellent Gong and an unparalleled selection of sculptures from the Stahr Collection. Italian master, Gio Ponti features prominently in this sale with a selection of works designed for Villa Arreaza, Caracas (1956), one of two complete residential commissions completed by the designer in Venezuela. Modernist Ettore Sottsass is represented with a large collection of rare glass forms, each from a small edition. And finally, a great collection of beautifully crafted works from interiors designed ... More | | 
A visitor of a preview showing stands in front of an artwork, entitled Gold, by Luxembourgian artist Michel Majerus. EPA/BERND WEISSBROD.
STUTTGART.- -Michel Majerus only lived to the age of thirty-five and nevertheless the artist left behind a complex and comprehensive oeuvre. In a creative period of just ten years he produced a unique statement about painting that remains relevant today. Majerus worked with diverse techniques and varied subjects and motifs taken from the realm of computers, comics, and advertising. At the same time he made use of art history, drawing on works by artists such as Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and other representatives of Pop Art and Minimal Art. With his »sampling method« of combining various elements in a free and nonhierarchical manner, he created his own world of imagery and thereby gave painting an important impulse. Because of his works’ large size and their installation character, very few ... More |
| Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences brings 'Birds of America' to public | | "Cloud Studies: The Scientific View of the Sky" at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur | | Nebraska "Carhenge," car replica of Stonehenge, up for sale - Price: $300,000 | 
Robert Peck, senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and curator of Art and Artifacts, turns a page in a bound folio of John James Aududon's "The Birds of America". AP Photo/Alex Brandon.
By: JoAnn Loviglio, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- One of the world's rarest and most valuable books is out of the vault and on public view as part of an unusual daily ritual at the nation's oldest natural history museum. Every weekday at 3:15 p.m., a white-gloved staff member of the Academy of Natural Sciences lifts the locked protective cover from 19th century naturalist John James Audubon's influential book, "The Birds of America," and turns a large linen-backed page to reveal the bird of the day. More than 180 years after Audubon created the life-size illustrations that now link his name with ornithology, their vibrant watercolors and fine details are still remarkable. "Many times these were framed as artworks and faded from exposure to light," said curator Robert Peck, who does many of the page turnings. "Ours weren't exposed to light, so they're in wonderful condition." The Academy of Natural ... More | | 
Unknown photographer, Feine Schäfchen. Ci.-Cu, from: Wolken im Luftmeer (Delicate fluffy clouds. Ci.-Cu, from: Clouds in a sea of air). Photographs taken by German fighter pilots during WW1, Berlin, 1917.
WINTERTHUR.- The English pharmacist and meteorologist Luke Howard wrote in 1802 in the preface to his manuscript On the Modification of Clouds: “Clouds are subject to certain distinct modifications, produced by the general causes which affect all the variations of the atmosphere; they are commonly as good visible indicators of the operation of these causes, as is the countenance of the state of a person’s mind or body.” Eighty years later, meteorologists had still not reached a consensus on how to classify, label, and read the forms of clouds. It was during this time that scientists first began using photography to record and measure clouds. With its help, they attempted to gain precise and accurate images that would provide insight on the interplay between clouds and the atmosphere and which could be used to create and convey a classification of cloud forms. The exhibition CLOUD STUDIES – The Scientific View of the Sky presents six stages of meteorological c ... More | | 
"Carhenge," a full-scale automotive replica of England's Stonehenge made of 38 vintage automobiles. REUTERS/Stringer.
ALLIANCE, NE (REUTERS).- For sale: 38 vintage automobiles. Price: $300,000. Mystical and entertainment value: Priceless. Carhenge, America's answer to England's Stonehenge, is for sale. The Friends of Carhenge put the full-scale automotive replica of the prehistoric circle of stones on the sale block because the organization lacked capital and volunteers to maintain the quirky tourist attraction, said Marcia Buck, the group's president. "This wasn't easy...," she said. "We've spent many a sleepless night wondering if it's the best thing to do." Buck said it's time for an entrepreneur to take the steering wheel and drive Carhenge into the future. Carhenge will mark its 25th anniversary next year. The Carhenge autos mimic the Stonehenge stones in size, dimension and northeast orientation to the sunrise. The attraction consists of 38 gray-painted autos in a 96-foot circle. Some are buried five feet deep, trunk end down. Some ju ... More |
| Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla's third solo show at Lisson Gallery opens in London | | Selection of new and recent works by Russian artist Vladimir Ovchinnikov at Erarta Galleries | | Luxury and quality form a partnership for Quinn's Dec. 7 Estate Jewelry Auction | 
Allora and Calzadilla, Half Mast Full Mast, 2010,. High Definition two-channel video, colour, silent, 21:11 min. Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents Allora & Calzadilla’s third solo show at the gallery ‘Vieques Videos 2003-2011’. Made over the course of a decade Returning a Sound (2004), Under Discussion (2005) and Half Mast/Full Mast (2010) are now shown here together for the first time. Each video addresses the complicated history of Vieques, an inhabited island off Puerto Rico that was used by the United States Navy as a bomb-testing range from 1941 until 2003. The Navy was forced to evacuate by a civil disobedience campaign waged by local residents, with supporters throughout the world. Allora & Calzadilla contributed to the visual culture of this campaign with a long-term, multi-sited project entitled ‘Landmark’, informed by the following questions: ‘How is land differentiated from other land by the way it is marked? ... More | | 
Vladimir Ovchinnikov, The Illustionist, 2011. Oil on canvas.
LONDON.- Erarta Galleries London presents a selection of new and recent works by Vladimir Ovchinnikov. One of the most significant artists to emerge from St. Petersburg during the Soviet era, Vladimir Ovchinnikov is known for his paintings that blur the boundaries between realism and surrealism, fusing together contemporary Russian subject matter with magical, fantastic elements, often derived from myth and religion. His distinctively rotund, heavy-bodied, yellow-skinned figures have a primeval, statuesque quality, as if stemming from ancient monuments or religious icons – and yet at the same time his works also allude to social and political conditions, vividly satirizing contemporary mores, and puncturing the hypocrisy and spiritual bankruptcy at the heart of everyday life. A pioneer of the nonconformist movement, in which artists rebelled against the State aesthetic of Socialist Realism, Ovchinnikov co-organiz ... More | | 
Exquisite jeweled bird pin from a selection of 14K and 18K mid-century animal-form pins. Quinn’s Auction Galleries image.
FALLS CHURCH, VA.- Sparkling diamonds, lustrous pearls and spectacular Victorian cameos join a select array of Swiss watches and other high-quality estate jewelry in a 300-lot sale to be held Wednesday, Dec. 7 at Quinn’s. The family-owned auction house that serves the Washington, D.C. and Mid-Atlantic region has built a strong following for its annual pre-Christmas Estate Jewelry Auction, which perennially includes the types of glittering stocking stuffers that never go out of style. An impressive offering of diamond rings is led by a 1930s example featuring a 4.3-carat old European-cut diamond in platinum setting. The stone is graded VVS2 for clarity and I-J color. “The last woman who wore the ring referred to it as ‘The Headlight,” said Quinn’s Jewelry specialist Lynnae Henderson, who ... More |
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 Unseen Michael Jackson film valued at $6-8 million goes unsold at Fame Bureau auctioneers LONDON (REUTERS).- Previously unseen footage of Michael Jackson's 1993 "Dangerous" tour, which had been expected to fetch 4-5 million pounds ($6.2-7.8 million) failed to sell at auction in Britain on Saturday. "At this stage it has not sold," said a spokesman for The Fame Bureau auctioneers, who specialize in pop memorabilia. "We are still talking to people, but online it did not sell." He said he was confident a buyer would be found, although "nothing is a certainty." The auction house said it had been forced to remove a brief clip of the video from its website before the online auction after Jackson's record label made a "copyright claim." The fact that a successful buyer may not be able to use the film for commercial purposes may have dampened demand given the hefty asking price, but the spokesman played down the copyright dispute. "I don't think that was a problem at all," he said, adding that any serious ... More Expanded museum gives boost to Tel Aviv art scene By: Ari Rabinovitch
TEL AVIV (REUTERS).- Tel Aviv's recently expanded modern art museum, with its dazzling new building no less an attraction than the art showcased inside, has given a home to hundreds of displaced Israeli works and helped boost the city's cultural scene. The new wing, designed by Massachusetts architect Preston Scott Cohen, has doubled the size of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by 19,000 square metres (200,000 square feet) and lured a growing number of art fans through its new, triangular concrete and glass complex since its November 3 unveiling. "There has never been an exhibit that fully reflected Israeli art, and now there is," said the museum's acting director Shuli Kislev. "Tel Aviv received a wonderful gift." The reason for the four-year, $50 million building project, she said, was to provide ... More Exhibition surveys responses by visual artists to pressing social issues in America today NEW YORK, N.Y.- School of Visual Arts presents "Being American," an exhibition surveying responses by visual artists to some of the most pressing social issues in America today. Culled from various forms of contemporary visual culture, the works address topics ranging from recent environmental catastrophes to the pervading effects of the economic crisis; from the long shadow of 9/11 and two overseas wars to the home-front debates surrounding religious tolerance, gay marriage, capital punishment and firearms possession. Curated by Visual Arts Gallery Director Francis Di Tommaso, the exhibition will be on view at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, New York City, from November 22 - December 21. Curator Francis Di Tommaso explains, "The twenty artists in this show have twenty stories to tell about the experience of being American today. Though many would not normally exhibit in the same venue ... More 10 carat yellow diamond ring, estimated at $100,000+, leads jewelry sale at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- A Fancy Intense Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring, custom-made by Underwood's, is expected to bring in excess of $100,000 when it comes to auction on Dec. 5 as the lead lot in Heritage Auctions' Fine Jewelry Signature(r) Auction, being held at the company's Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. The ring, featuring a cut-cornered rectangular modified brilliant-cut fancy intense yellow diamond weighing 10.02 carats, comes to auction from The Property of an Arkansas Estate. "This gorgeous ring is the perfect centerpiece for one of our deepest auctions yet," said Jill Burgum, Director of Fine Jewelry at Heritage. "We've put together a wide variety of pieces, nearly 1,600 in all, designed to appeal to collectors across the spectrum." A Diamond, Platinum Ring, featuring a square modified brilliant-cut diamond weighing 9.02 carats, is a worthy compliment to the Fancy Yellow Diamond, bringing ... More Once Removed: Tania Theodorou & Adam Etmanski at Seelevel Gallery AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition Once Removed is an open ended visual chitchat between Tania Theodorou, Adam Etmanski and the audience about the way they both approach meaning, photography, and the presentation of it in an original and idiosyncratic way. The Greek artist Tania Theodorou uses images and objects that already sustain evidence of significance or function. She attempts to set them loose, into a new context, and see to what kind of meaning they are able to attach themselves. She likes to see the process by which the very meaning of a work can take on different nuances. This leads to layered installations where the work is in a kind of open-ended conversation with itself and the audience. There is a lot of appropriation and re working of pre-existing images in the works of Tania. Objects are approached in a fanciful way in an effort to distil a feeling of essence. Tania Theodorou (1977) initiated Dead ... More |
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