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| | First retrospective of Maurizio Cattelan opens at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
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Installations, part of the retrospective "Maurizio Cattelan: All" by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, are seen at the Guggenheim Museum in New York November 4,2011. The display of 128 works hangs from the rotunda of the museum. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Maurizio Cattelan: All, the first retrospective of the internationally acclaimed artist’s work, from November 4, 2011, to January 22, 2012. Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960, Padua, Italy) has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely, from popular culture, history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound. Working in a vein that can be described as hyperrealist, Cattelan creates unsettlingly veristic sculptures that reveal contradictions at the core of today’s society. While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing critique of authority and the abuse of power. Maurizio Cattelan: All brings together some 130 works—examples of virtually ev ... More |
| Sotheby's to offer a rediscovered masterpiece by Gustav Klimt not seen in public for over a century | | Exhibition of late paintings by abstract expressionist painter Joan Mitchell at Cheim & Read | | David Zwirner presents an exhibition of small and large new works by German artist Neo Rauch | 
Gustav Klimt, Seeufer mit Birken (Lakeshore with Birches), 1901. Oil on canvas, 90 by 90 cm. Estimate: £6-8 million/ $10-13 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced the sale of Gustav Klimt’s recently rediscovered masterpiece of 1901 Seeufer mit Birken (Lakeshore with Birches), which is estimated to fetch £6-8 million/ $10-13 million and will be offered as part of the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, 8th February, 2012, in London. A work of haunting beauty and innovative format that stands at the very axis of Klimt’s modernism, the present painting was not publicly known to have existed until its recent discovery and authentication. Helena Newman, Chairman, Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department Worldwide, said: “Following Sotheby’s sale of Gustav Klimt’s Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) earlier this week for the remarkable sum of $40.4 million in our New York Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, we are absolutely delighted to offer a further exquisite work by the artist whic ... More | | 
Joan Mitchell, Yves, 1991. Oil on canvas, 110 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches, 280 x 200 centimeters.©Estate of Joan Mitchell. Courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read, New York.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of late paintings by Joan Mitchell. The show brings together 13 works, dating from 1985–1992, that represent Mitchell’s exploration of painting in the last decade of her life. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with a text by Richard D. Marshall. Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) moved from Chicago to New York in 1947. Early in her career, she was included in the historically significant 1951 Ninth Street Exhibition. Organized by Leo Castelli, the show was renowned for its championship of Abstract Expressionism, and positioned Mitchell with older, mostly male painters: Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline among them. Mitchell met de Kooning early on—inspired by his painting, she sought out an introduction—and was a rare female participant in artistic debates ... More | | 
Neo Rauch, Aprilnacht, 2011. Oil on canvas, 118 1/8 x 98 3/8 in, 300 x 250 cm. Photo: Courtesy David Zwirner, New York and Eigen + Art, Berlin/Leipzig.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new works by Neo Rauch, on display at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. The exhibition, the artist’s fifth solo show at the gallery, consists of small and large format paintings—several larger-than-life—as well as a bronze sculpture, representing one of the first instances Rauch has worked in three-dimensional form. Born in 1960 in Leipzig, then East Germany, Rauch is part of a generation of artists who came of age in a war-torn, divided country. While his older East German peers, including Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter, emigrated to the West during the Cold War, Rauch spent his youth in the Eastern Bloc, and received his arts education at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. The impermeable border within Germany famously tempered the advance of Western avant-garde movements in the East, w ... More |
| Germany: Ostwall Museum cleaning woman damages sculpture by Martin Kippenberger | | SFMOMA presents landmark reconsideration of Francesca Woodman's brief career | | James Cohan Gallery presents solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Byron Kim | 
A man passes the sculpture "When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling" by German artist Martin Kippenberger. AP Photo/dapd/Mike Siepmann.
By: Melissa Eddy, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP).- A modern art installation valued at euro800,000 ($1.1 million) was damaged after an overzealous cleaning woman scrubbed away a patina intended to look like a dried rain puddle, a Dortmund official said Friday. Martin Kippenberger's "When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling" remains in place at the city's Ostwall museum, despite the damage sustained earlier this month when a cleaner scrubbed away the painted puddle beneath a rubber trough placed under a stacked tower of wooden slats. The work by Kippenberger, a German-born artist who died in 1997, was on loan to the museum from a private collector, who agreed that it should remain on display despite the incident, said Dortmund city spokeswoman Dagmar Papajewski. In the meantime, insurance adjusters are assessing the damage. It has not yet been decided whether the patina would be restored, or if the artwork ... More | | 
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977–78; gelatin silver print; 4 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (12.1 x 11.4 cm); The Black Dog Collection; © George and Betty Woodman.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Woodman's brief but extraordinary career, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 5, 2011, through February 20, 2012. In less than a decade, before Woodman committed suicide in 1981 at age 22, she produced a potent body of photographs exploring the human body in architectural space and the complex problem of representing the self. Haunting and intimate, direct and visceral, her work reveals the unusually coherent vision of an artist who had barely entered adulthood but who has greatly influenced subsequent generations of artists, particularly women. Now, 30 years after her death, the moment is apt for a historical reconsideration of her work and its initial reception. Organized by SFMOMA Associate Curator of Photography Corey Keller, Francesca Woodman continues the museum's leading scholarship in photography by assembling approximate ... More | | 
Byron Kim, Untitled (for B.L.), 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 90 X 72 inches, 228.6 X 182.88 cm © The Artist. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- James Cohan Gallery announces the solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Byron Kim’s recent work—a series of large-scale paintings inspired by the sky at night in the city. The exhibition opens on Friday, November 4th and runs through Saturday, December 17th. Byron Kim: Dark, a 56-page hard-cover catalog including 15 color plates of the new work along with essays by David Hinton and Mark Dow will be published on the occasion of the exhibition. This is the gallery’s first exhibition with the artist whose career spans over two decades and includes important solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Like the artists whom he admires; Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin, Byron Kim works in an area one might call the abstract sublime; his work sits at the threshold between abstraction and representation, between conceptualism and pure painting. In his richly hued, minimalist works, Kim seeks t ... More |
| Sri Lankan ivory carvings from the Dutch period at Francesca Galloway in London | | Nate D. Sanders to sell Harper Lee letter about Atticus Fitch's Maycomb County | | New initiative launched for earthquake/tsunami-damaged sites in Japan | 
Ivory Flywhisk, India, Mughal 18th century. Carved ivory.
LONDON.- Ivory has been the medium of choice for luxury and precious objects since Antiquity. Indian ivory objects were already in considerable demand during the Achaemenid Empire in Iran (650-330 BC) and one of the most famous examples of Roman Trade with India is the carved ivory mirror handle that was found amongst the ruins of Pompeii (79 AD). The 16th century witnessed dramatic change in India with the establishment of the Mughal Empire in 1526 and the start of the classic period of Mughal art in the mid-16th century. Trade with Europe took on greater importance during this century when the Portuguese became the first Europeans to secure trading settlements at Cochin in 1503 and then at Goa in 1510. Precious and exotic objects such as intricately carved ivory caskets from India and Sri Lanka were exported to Europe, many commissioned by the royal courts. Ivory- Material of Desire at Francesca Galloway centres a ... More | | 
The famed novelist wrote the letter just two months after the publication of her landmark Civil Rights book.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A 1960 typed letter signed by Harper Lee elaborates about the fictional Maycomb County in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and includes a hand-drawn map of the state of Alabama with the words “Maycomb County.” The letter will be auctioned at Nate D. Sanders’ Tuesday November 8, 2011 auction. The famed novelist wrote the letter just two months after the publication of her landmark Civil Rights book. The letter reads in part, “You ask me where Maycomb County is, where the Landing is—the only answer I can give you is that Maycomb County is in my heart and the Landing is in my imagination. If, in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” I persuaded you that those places are real, that means I have succeeded in my profession, which is writing fiction. Lee inscribes at the bottom of the letter, “Here is your map:” and scribbles an outline of the state of Alabama with the words ‘ ... More | | 
Kakuboshi merchant house in Kesennuma, after the earthquake, 2011. Mitsuo Inagaki/World Monuments Fund.
TOKYO.- The Foundation for Cultural Heritage and Art Research (Ueno, Taito Ward, Tokyo/ President: Ryohei Miyata) announced that a project entitled “Save Our Culture” has been launched in international collaboration with World Monuments Fund (NY, U.S.A/ President: Bonnie Burnham) and with cooperation from the Agency for Cultural Affairs and Tokyo University of the Arts. SOC aims to raise domestic and international resources while identifying and assisting efforts at the local level to preserve and restore cultural heritage damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, contributing to rebuilding of afflicted communities. SOC is seeking support for the rescue and restoration of three types of cultural heritage at risk that are the most urgent and/or have the most meaning nationally or locally: *Immovable (buildings and historic ... More |
| Phillips de Pury & Company announces highlights from its Latin American art sale | | Christie's announces "Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets" sale | | "Wall Street" artist Geoffrey Raymond sets sights on MF Global Holdings Ltd's Jon Corzine | 
Adriana Varejão, Ambiente Virtual II, 2001. Estimate: $500,000-700,000.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from its Latin American Contemporary Art auctions. The Evening auction will feature 33 lots with a low estimate of $5,935,000 and a high estimate of $8,205,000. The Day auction will comprise of 104 lots with a low estimate of $1,099,000 and a high estimate of $1,585,500. “For years the Latin American sales in New York have been almost exclusively focused on Figurative art of a particularly regional nature, not representing well the extraordinary artistic production of Brazil , which of all the countries in Latin America best understood and absorbed Modernist art of Europe and North America . In 1950 Max Bill had a major retrospective in São Paulo and in 1953 Picasso’s Guernica was brought to the newly formed São Paulo Biennial, the second oldest art biennial in the world. For 60 years Brazil has produced generation after generation of radi ... More | | 
A Louis XIV Ormolu/mounted rosewwod, ebony and marquetry commode circa 1700, possibly by Andre-Charles Boulle, 34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high, 47¼ in. (120 cm.) wide, 26 in. (66 cm.) deep. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Collectors of fine European decorative arts will have a rare chance to own treasures brought to the New World during the Gilded Age by titans of American business and philanthropy in Christie's upcoming sale, The Gilded Age, 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets on November 22. Led by de-accessioned works from some of America‟s leading art and history museums, the sale features a rich and diverse selection of furniture, sculpture, works of art, tapestries, ceramics and carpets. The last two decades of the 19th century and the first three of the 20th bracketed the rise of great American industrial fortunes. Newly minted millionaires such as Henry E. Huntington, William Tilden Blodgett, John L. Severance, William Andrews ... More | | 
Artist Geoffrey Raymond poses with his painting of News Corp's CEO Rupert Murdoch, titled "Inverted Murdoch", in front of the NewsCorp building in New York in this file photo. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid.
By: Ashley Lau
NEW YORK, N.Y. (REUTERS).- Artist Geoffrey Raymond, famous for his paintings of troubled Wall Street figures, has found his next muse in MF Global Holdings Ltd's Jon Corzine. Raymond told Reuters on Thursday that, after news broke of the former New Jersey governor's fallen firm, he went back to his studio in Troy, New York, painted a fresh coat of primer over an initial sketch of Bank of America Corp's Ken Lewis and now plans to use that canvas to paint Corzine. MF Global filed for bankruptcy on Monday after a failed attempt by Corzine, its chief executive, to turn the futures brokerage into an investment bank. Corzine's efforts to boost profits by taking more risk ended up bringing about the firm's demise. "The missing ... More |
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 Sketch-leaves for Elgar's unfinished masterpiece at Bonhams LONDON.- The only two surviving sketch-leaves in private hands for Edward Elgar’s unfinished Third Symphony are to be sold at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs Sale in London on 22 November. They are part of a rich collection of material that belonged to Vera Hockman, the woman with whom Elgar fell in love at first sight in November 1931 and who re-lit the composer’s creative spark after 10 fallow years. Part of the proceeds will go towards helping her great granddaughter study at the Royal College of Music. The two sketch-leaves for sale are the first and last ones for the Third Symphony. The first bears the inscription in Elgar’s hand, “Ist sketch of VH’s own theme above/Edward Elgar” with the addition “Will never be finished?”. The last leaf bears the inscription “First thought for Sym III and last though for VH and is dated Jany 1933.” Both lea ... More 19th Century European Art brings $19.4 Million at Sotheby's New York NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 19th Century European Art auction brought $19,373,250 today in New York, with spirited bidding from an international pool of buyers competing for the impressive range of lots on offer. “Buyers in today’s sale were international private collectors, many of whom are assembling first rate collections of 19th Century European masterpieces,” commented Polly Sartori, Head of Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings department in New York. “We are delighted to be able to offer them the very best to add to their collections.” Sporting art from the collection of Edward P. Evans, whose famed Spring Hill Farm in Casanova, Virginia earned him an extraordinary record within the equine community, performed exceptionally well today. Sold to benefit the Edward P. Evans Foundation, the six paintings on offer achieved a total of $4,703,000, nearly twice their combined high estimate o ... More Eleven sensational costumes worn by actor Paul O'Grady's alter ego Lily Savage displayed in Liverpool LIVERPOOL.- Eleven sensational costumes worn by actor Paul O’Grady’s alter ego Lily Savage are being displayed for the first time. Savage Style: Costumes from Lily’s Wardrobe 4 November 2011 to 19 February 2012 features seven outfits at the Walker Art Gallery and four at the Museum of Liverpool. Lily Savage, a single mother-of-two notorious for her acid tongue and shop-lifting, was created by Birkenhead-born O’Grady in the late 1970s. The costumes were worn during many stage and TV appearances. Lily’s trademark wardrobe of mini-skirts and ball gowns, dominated by animal prints and sequins, delighted audiences bowled over by this outrageous character. Reyahn King, director of art galleries, says: “Lily Savage is one of the great comic creations and it is a delight to have these stunning costumes among our collections. This is a great opportunity to get close to these outfits a ... More Live Cinema/Peripheral Stages: Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Presented together in a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Live Cinema/Peripheral Stages, the works of Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony address tensions inherent in the peripheries of modern cities, especially as expressed by marginalized youth. Both artists respond to this context in their work: Bourouissa disputes the power of the mass media to display and propagate information, while Zielony documents decaying urban structures and the people who inhabit them. “While addressing the peripheral condition, the work of Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony questions cultural representations of marginalized populations and depicts their subjects in critical yet poetic ways,” says Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Bourouissa and Zielony are representative of a young generation of artists who have turned their attention towards ... More Of Trees and Rocks: New Objectivity photography by Albert Renger and Patzsch and Ernst Jünger" MUNICH.- Albert Renger-Patzsch is today seen as the most influential proponent of New Objectivity photography. The exhibition “Of Trees and Rocks – Albert Renger-Patzsch and Ernst Jünger” at Pinakothek presents around 30 original photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch, as well as the historic photobooks themselves and a selection from his correspondence with the author, chosen by Ann and Jürgen Wilde. In a letter to Ernst Jünger, Albert Renger-Patzsch describes his work for the publications “Bäume” (“Trees”, 1962) and “Gestein” (“Rock”, 1966) as “the sum of [his] existence”. They were to be the last two photobooks that the most famous protagonist of New Objectivity photography published before his death in 1966. Both series of works had been initiated and funded by the industrialist Ernst Boehringer, for whom Albert Renger-Patzsch had already ... More |
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