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| | Of Beauty and Death: Animal Still Lifes from the Renaissance to Modernism in Karlsruhe
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Visitors look at a dead game still life with wolf, dogs and hunter from 1702 by Dutch painter Jan Weenix at the state art gallery of Karlsruhe, Germany. It forms part of the exhibition 'Von Schoenheit und Tod. Tierstillleben von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne' (Of Beauty and Death. Still Life from the Renaissance to the Modern) which runs from 19 November 2011 to 19 February 2012. EPA/ULI DECK.
KARLSRUHE.- On 19 November, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe unveiled a new major exhibition that will, for the first time ever, cast the spotlight on the rich history of the genre of the animal still life, spanning from the 16th to the 20th century. Over 120 paintings, watercolours and reliefs by such famous artists as Dürer, Rubens, Weenix, Chardin, Goya, Manet, Ensor, Kokoschka and Beckmann form a testimony of the subject’s importance. Besides works from our own collection, around 90 exquisite loans from renowned museums in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna and Zurich provide insights into this fascinating pictorial world. In its conception, the exhibition is based on the Kunsthalle’s own collection—a collection rich in animal paintings that dates back to the margraves and grand dukes of Baden, and which features works by Jan Fyt, Willem van ... More |
| Collection of 300 drawings made during Rodin's last thirty years on view at the Musée Rodin | | Sotheby's in New York announces sale of rare synagogue interiors by Marc Chagall | | Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World in original exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum | 
At over 60, Rodin embarked upon a true career as a drawer.
PARIS.- We know Rodin the sculptor, but do we know Rodin the creator of drawings? This exhibition spectacularly presents a collection of 300 drawings of his last thirty years. During the last part of his life, drawing was the artist’s predominant form of expression. At over 60, Rodin embarked upon a true career as a drawer. He had always drawn, but the drawings that date from after 1890 can be considered the last manifestation of his genius. Drawing every day from a live model, his passion resulted in a collection of nearly 7,000 pages, brought together almost in its entirety at the Musée Rodin. Starting in 1903, the museum organized several exhibitions devoted exclusively to the body of his works in drawing. The Musée Rodin’s ambition is to reconnect with the richness and the breadth of these exhibitions, allowing the public to discover this little-known aspect of his talent. Through the reconstitution of the m ... More | | 
Marc Chagall, Interior of the Ashkenazi Ha’Ari Synagogue, Safed, 1931. Est. $300/500,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s New York announces that it will present for sale three exceptionally rare oil paintings of synagogue interiors by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). In all, only six finished oils of synagogues by the artist are known to exist. These three paintings come to market for the first time in 66 years from a descendent of the original owner Max Cottin, who acquired them from the 1945 exhibition at the Gallery of Jewish Art in New York. Leading this offering in the forthcoming Israeli & International Art auction on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 is Chagall’s 1931 Interior of the Yemenite HaGoral Synagogue, Jerusalem, illustrated above, which carries an estimate of $400/600,000*. Commenting on the sale of these rare and revealing paintings, Jennifer Roth, Senior Vice President and Head of the Sotheby’s Israeli & International Art Department, said: “Documentary paintings by Chagall are remark ... More | | 
Paint container in the form of a curved hand Shell, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Post-Classic Period (900-1521 CE). Museo Regional de Yucatán Palacio Cantón, Mexico 10-426205.
TORONTO, ON.- The Royal Ontario Museum has premiered Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World on Saturday, November 19, 2011. On display in the ROM’s Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall until Monday, April 9, 2012, this original exhibition vibrantly brings to life the Classic Period (250 - 900 CE) of this ancient Mesoamerican culture. The exhibition was unveiled to the media this morning at an event hosted by ROM Director and CEO Janet Carding. Special guests in attendance included the Hon. Michael Chan, Ontario’s Minister of Tourism and Culture, His Excellency Francisco Javier Barrio Terrazas, Ambassador of Mexico to Canada, and Ambassador Mauricio Toussaint, Consul General of Mexico in Toronto, as well as a number of representatives from the ROM’s collaborators, the National Institute ... More |
| Bonhams offers two masterpieces of American landscapes by Russian painter in $14 Million Russian sale | | Mummy Secrets of the Tomb, International exhibition on life, mummification and afterlife | | Saint Louis Art Museum announces major gift of nearly 150 European artworks | 
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich, Rocky landscape, c. 1921. Inscribed with numbers '44' and '36' on stretcher, tempera on canvas, 45.5 x 76.3cm. £100,000-150,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
LONDON.- Two rare works by the celebrated Russian artist Nikolai Roerich are amongst the highlights of the Russian sale, taking place on the 30th November at Bonhams, New Bond Street in London. "The Grand Canyon" (estimate 100,000-150,000 GBP) and "Rocky Landscape" (estimate 100,000-150,000 GBP) depicting breathtaking landscape of the South-West are among a small group of paintings completed by the artist during his short stay in New Mexico, Arizona and California in August-October 1921. Roerich was immediately seduced by the intensity of the blue endless sky, crimson sunsets, fiery red mountains, and endless open landscapes. Fresh and exotic beauty of the ancient cliff dwellings in the Jemez Mountains north of Santa Fe, spectacular canyons, and excavated dwelling of the ancient civilizations fascinated Nikolai Roerich. 'The beauty ... More | | 
Mummy of Nesperennub, 22nd Dynasty (about 800 BC), from Thebes. Human tissue, linen, cartonnage, wood © The Trustees of the British Museum.
RICHMOND, VA.- The exclusive U.S. presentation of a major international touring exhibition of ancient Egyptian antiquities from the British Museum’s world famous collection opens at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on November 19, 2011 and continues through March 11, 2012. A 7000-square-foot exhibition of more than 100 ancient artifacts is brought to life and contextualized by a 3-D film exploring the life, mummification and afterlife of an Egyptian priest. Visitors to Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb will be immersed in the life and afterlife of of Nesperennub, a temple priest who lived 3,000 years ago and whose mummy serves as the focus of this exhibition. In addition to the mummy of Nesperennub, the exhibition includes other human and animal mummies, jewelry, canopic jars, monumental stone sarcophagi, statuary, a gilded mask and bronze and stone sculpture. “Visitors to this exhibition will be taken ... More | | 
Attributed to Jacopo Sansovino, Seated St. John the Baptist, c. 1505-10. Pigmented terracotta, h: 26 1/4 in. Mark Weil Artwork Trust.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces that Mark Weil and Phoebe Dent Weil have pledged to the Museum their collection of European art. Collected over the past 25 years, this generous promised gift of paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints will enhance the experience of generations of Museum visitors. “This gift will transform the Museum’s collection of European art,” said Museum Director Brent R. Benjamin. “The Museum is honored to have worked so closely with Mark and Phoebe and is grateful for the generous commitment of their distinguished collection.” The nearly 150 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints are predominantly from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands and represent a variety of media. Some particularly noteworthy works are Andrea Mantegna’s Entombment and Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve. There are also outstanding examples of sculpture, such as ... More |
| Heather Gaudio Fine Art in New Caanan announces waterways photography exhibition | | Orange County Museum of Art appoints founder of Prospect New Orleans Dan Cameron as Chief Curator | | Concentrated and impressive survey of Douglas Gordon's work at MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst | 
Michael Dweck, Mermaid 43, Miami 2007. Chromogenic print mounted on dibond, 20 x 24 inches. Photo: Courtesy Heather Gaudio Fine Art.
NEW CANAAN, CT.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art, a contemporary art gallery featuring paintings, sculptures, photography, and works on paper present their latest exhibition, Waterways, at their gallery located at 21 South Avenue in New Canaan, CT. The exhibition features a powerful display of works by established photographers and sculptors, who have captured the beauty and fluidity of water in each of their representations. The exhibition, which runs from November 17th through January 26th, showcases aqueous photographs by Shawna Ankenbrandt, Ethan Boisvert, George Diebold, Michael Dweck and Kim Keever. The exhibition also includes Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh’s painted bronze Tsunami sculptures. Shawna Ankenbrandt: “As a child growing up in the Texas countryside, landlocked, just ... More | | 
In 2008 Dan Cameron launched Prospect New Orleans.
NEWPORT BEACH, CA.- The Orange County Museum of Art announced the appointment of Dan Cameron as Chief Curator. With more than three decades of organizing acclaimed exhibitions of contemporary art throughout the United States and abroad, Cameron’s experience and perspective will strengthen the museum’s curatorial program and bring a major new voice into the artistic community of Southern California. Among his many accomplishments, Cameron was the first U.S. commissioner for the Aperto section at the 1988 Venice Biennale; in 1994 he curated Cocido y Crudo at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the most comprehensive exhibition of new international art ever presented in Spain; in 2003 he presented Poetic Justice, the 8th Istanbul Biennial; and in 2008 he launched Prospect New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art in the United States. His appointment begins January 2012, coinci ... More | | 
Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno, Zidane: A 21 st Century Portrait, 2006 Film still, courtesy Anna Lena Films & Naflastrengir.
FRANKFURT.- With the major solo exhibition "Douglas Gordon" (19 November 2011–25 March 2012), the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst presents an artist who is one of the most important and most influential of his generation. While he gained renown above all for his films and large video installations, his oeuvre also comprises photographs, texts, sculptures and sound installations. Douglas Gordon (b. 1966 in Glasgow) has been a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt since 2010. The MMK has in its possession one of Gordon's magnum opera—the video installation Play Dead; Real Time (2003)—as well as a number of other photo and video works. These holdings now form the point of departure for the first major survey in Europe since Gordon's presentation at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2007. ... More |
| Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design presents 'Jeremy Deller: Manchester Tracks' | | Reinstalled contemporary art wing to open Fall 2012 at the Baltimore Museum of Art | | Stunning Daniel Weil Clocks to debut in selling exhibition at Sotheby's London | 
Album cover from Happy Mondays’ Bummed (1988) produced by Factory Records. Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art. Courtesy of the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- Cultural traces from the city of Manchester, England, are viewed through the lens of contemporary British artist Jeremy Deller in Jeremy Deller: Manchester Tracks, which opened at the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Friday, November 18. The exhibition highlights the RISD Museum of Art’s January 2011 acquisition of Deller’s Shaun Ryder’s Family Tree (2008), along with a selection of materials drawn from the artist’s projects in and about the northwestern English city of Manchester. Acquired through the Museum’s Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art, Shaun Ryder’s Family Tree reflects Deller’s remix approach to popular art forms and vernacular culture, and his love of music and Manchester. “Jeremy Deller is an important artist working in a hybrid realm of production," says Sabrina Locks, Curatorial Assistant for Contemporary Art and curat ... More | | 
Allora & Calzadilla, A Man Screaming is not a Dancing Bear, 2008. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund. ©Allora & Calzadilla, courtesy Gladstone Gallery.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art is reinstalling its contemporary art wing, which will open in fall 2012 launching a three-year, comprehensive renovation plan leading up to its 100th Anniversary in 2014. Known for its longtime commitment to collecting and supporting the work of living artists and acquiring works that speak to the events and innovations of our time, the BMA’s contemporary art wing features a significant collection of American art from the last six decades, including major late paintings by Andy Warhol, as well as works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Donald Judd, Glenn Ligon, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Anne Truitt. The museum is also home to a remarkable collection of notable international artists, including Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Hirschhorn, Susan Philipsz, and Franz West. Several new ... More | | 
Daniel Weil, Timber, 1994, 1400 x 250 m. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London presents “Making Time”, a selling exhibition of stunning clocks by designer Daniel Weil of Pentagram, from January 9th-13th 2012. The exhibition comprises two sharply contrasting collections Weil created 17 years apart – his Time for All series from 1994, and his revolutionary new A Matter of Time series, which will be shown for the first time. The Time for All clocks, based on wooden tree-trunks, will be made in editions of up to 10 and those from A Matter of Time, constructed from nickel-plated brass and steel, are one-off designs. Both will be offered for sale for the first time. Janice Blackburn, curator of “Making Time” said: “I regard Daniel Weil as one of the most innovative and distinctive designers working in Britain today. The two collections showcased in “Making Time” offer a unique insight into the development of Weil’s career and his preoccupa ... More |
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 First individual exhibition in Poland of works by the world famous artist Wolfgang Tillmans WARSAW.- Zachęta Ermutigung, the first individual exhibition in Poland of works by the world famous photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, has been prepared by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf in cooperation with Zachęta National Gallery of Art. In the late 1980s, this artist (born in 1968 in Remscheid, near to Düsseldorf) living in London and Berlin started to experiment in an unconventional way with black and white prints and photographic enlargements of various details. In the 1990s, he came to the fore with works that included snapshot portraits of young people from his surroundings, in particular that of subculture circles. His name became known to a wider public in 2000, when he became the first non-British artist and photographer to be awarded the prestigious Turner Prize. Wolfgang Tillmans is continuously broadening the thematic scope of his works – which encompass portraits, interiors, la ... More Battle of the Buddha: Jeffrey Wisniewski creates a choreographed fight scene at Patrick Painter SANTA MONICA, CA.- Jeffrey Wisniewski is an artist whose work becomes more relevant as news headlines shape the histories that describe society today. His art is not strictly political rather his work regularly employs objects linked to commodities, such as oil drums, corn, or solar panels which are a signature motif throughout his work. In past seminal works, Wisniewski sent an entire American colonial house through a wood chipper, in another project he dropped a one ton steel trough attached to a lace parachute out of an airplane. Weighty judgments do not feign the pretense of the serious in Wisniewski's artmaking, rather he lets the story tell itself. Like a portrait painter whose subject slips in and out of view, Wisniewski brings us context without a subject. In his sculptures, he leaves us with the shell of a person, the detritus of their personalities left behind in their clothing and their settings. It is a person who has ... More State University of New York Plattsburgh breaks ground on new academic building PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.- The State University of New York at Plattsburgh broke ground on its new School of Business + Economics/Computer Science building, designed by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman + Associates Architects. The LEED project is the first new academic building to be constructed on the university campus in more than 30 years. “The campus at SUNY Plattsburgh is spectacular, combining the breathtaking natural beauty of the Chaplain Valley with an intelligent built environment,” said Robert Siegel, one of the founders of Gwathmey Siegel who led the design team. “This new academic building will add sensitively to its surroundings while providing state-of-the-art facilities for students and faculty. We are delighted that the project is underway and we look forward to opening the doors in early 2013.” GSKA, which has an extensive resume of acclaimed academic design work for institutions ... More Buyers at sale target hats worn by Queen of Soul LIVONIA, MICH (AP).- A beige cashmere hat with fur and matching collar and cuffs worn by Aretha Franklin sold for $400 during a sale of dozens of items once owned by the Queen of Soul. Hats were big draws at a sales event attended Saturday by several hundred people in Livonia, according to sales distributor Jill Pendergast. "A lot of people found a lot of items," Pendergast said. "Somebody wanted T-shirts that had been stained up. Some people just came for blue jeans. Some people were looking for just shoes. "They just kept coming in and going out," she said. One of Franklin's gowns sold for $550. Pendergast would not say who currently owned the items or how much was raised by the sale which ran from 9 a.m. to about 5 p.m. in a store west of Detroit. Franklin has said she has no connection to the sale. The Grammy Award-winning artist said the items were left many years ago in a storage locker because she no ... More Florian Germann exhibits at Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst ZURICH.- In his wide-ranging cycles of works, each of which is devoted to a unifying thematic narrative, the Swiss artist Florian Germann (b. 1978; lives and works in Zurich) creates complex systems of reference, playing with the role of the artist-researcher. As points of departure for these individual experimental arrangements, Germann uses characters from history such as Napoleon or motifs from myth and fantasy such as lycanthropy (from the Greek lukos, "wolf," and anthropos, "man": the werewolf motif), which he subjects to a revisionary rewriting, interweaving factual and fictional aspects. For his first solo exhibition at an institution, Germann creates an extensive new cycle of works; to be on public display for the first time at the migros museum für gegenwartskunst, it is based on his study of apparitions and their physical substance, the so-called ectoplasm. Florian Germann's new cycle of works "The Poltergeis ... More Talented Seattle artist Isaac Layman's "Paradise" at the Frye Art Museum SEATTLE, WA.- One of Seattle’s most talented contemporary artists, Isaac Layman (b. 1977), will be celebrated at the Frye Art Museum November 19, 2011 through January 22, 2012. In his first solo museum exhibition, Paradise, Layman expands his practice of constructing large-scale, psychologically charged, photographic-based visions of the spaces and objects found in his Seattle home. Curated by the director of the Frye Art Museum, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Paradise includes more than twenty new photographic constructions created especially for the exhibition. Layman’s most recent constructions, small-to-epic photographic re-orderings of objects, tools, materials, doors, windows, surfaces, and debris in his home, explore the shared cultural desire to fabricate escapes, destinations, and monuments and examine the role discontent plays in driving the need to create imagined perfection. The ... More Mad. Sq. Art to present first-ever public art commission by acclaimed Dutch artist Jacco Olivier NEW YORK, NY.- Mad. Sq. Art announces an outdoor exhibition of six painterly animations by acclaimed Dutch artist Jacco Olivier as the final presentation of its 2011 season. Mad. Sq. Art celebrates the artist?s first public art commission in New York City, which will feature both new, site-specific and existing works displayed throughout the Park. Olivier?s series of stop-motion animations will brighten New York?s winter landscape with moving images exemplary of the artist?s characteristically rich color palette and lavishly textured style. The exhibition will remain on view daily in Madison Square Park from December 15, 2011 through March 12, 2012. Beginning with a single image, Olivier introduces subtle alterations with each additional layer through his process of over-painting. After he paints and re-paints his images, Olivier photographs each stage of the process as stop-motion animation until an original no longer e ... More |
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