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| | U.S. painter Alex Katz opens "Naked Beauty" exhibition at the Kestner Society in Hannover
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US painter Alex Katz poses in the exhibition rooms of the Kestner Society in Hannover, Germany, 23 November 2011. From 25 November 2011 to 05 February 2012 nude paintings and city views of New York will be exhibited. EPA/JOCHEN LUEBKE.
HANNOVER.- The American painter Alex Katz (b. 1927 in Brooklyn, lives in New York) will be showing a series of life paintings covering the period from 1980s to the present day, juxtaposed with selected city views of New York in his show at the kestnergesellschaft. In this way, two extremes coincide in the exhibition »naked beauty«: the human body and architecture stand side by side and tell the story of the capacity of Katz’s painting to transform subjective impressions into universal symbols. Until now, Alex Katz’s life studies have never been gathered together in such a concentration and profusion within the framework of one exhibition. With his characteristically focused works replete with crisp lines and surfaces, the painter explores the relationship between the figure and the painting’s ground, creating singularly beautiful paintings that are also universally symbolic at the same time, ... More |
| Sotheby's London presents its forthcoming important Russian art sales series | | Israel's Antiquities Authority's new find sheds light on Jerusalem's Western Wall | | Puerto Rico: See Matthias Weischer's exhibition at Museo de Arte de Ponce before or after Art Basel | 
Natalia Goncharova, Winter, Wood Gatherers. Oil on canvas. Estimate: £250,000-350,000.
LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s Russian Art Auction in New York this November, which established the highest price for a painting in any Russian Art sale at Sotheby’s worldwide, with the $6.3 million achieved for Natalia Goncharova’s Street in Moscow, Sotheby's to present highlights from the forthcoming Russian Art Sales Series in London. The Important Russian Art Evening Auction on Monday, 28 November 2011 will comprise exceptional paintings by artists including Konstantin Makovsky, Petr Konchalovsky, Konstantin Korovin, Natalia Goncharova and Niko Pirosmani, as well as the superb Collection of Arthur Ferdinand Hamann. The Important Private Collection of Works by Alexander Benois on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 is a stand-alone sale of the artist’s most outstanding and intimate works. The Paintings and Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons auction on Tuesday and Wednesday, 29 and 30 November 2011 features some spectacu ... More | | 
An ancient coin, one of 17 discovered in an underground part of the Western Wall. AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner.
By: Matti Friedman, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP).- Newly found coins underneath Jerusalem's Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world's most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The man usually credited with building the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary is Herod, a Jewish ruler who died in 4 B.C. Herod's monumental compound replaced and expanded a much older Jewish temple complex on the same site. But archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority now say diggers have found coins underneath the massive foundation stones of the compound's Western Wall that were stamped by a Roman proconsul 20 years after Herod's death. That indicates that Herod did not build the ... More | | 
Matthias Weischer, Puppe [Doll] detail, 2010. Lithograph (6 colors), 15.55 x 17.72 in. (39.5 x 45 cm), edition 12. Courtesy of Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig / Berlín. Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin.
PONCE, P.R.- Visitors to Art Basel Miami will have to add a stop on their itinerary to complete the feast of contemporary art, because in its tireless efforts to remain one of the trailblazing art institutions of the hemisphere, the Museo de Arte de Ponce announces the opening of the exhibition “Matthias Weischer: New Work” on Saturday, November 26, at 2:00 pm. This is the first individual exhibition in the Americas of one of the principal representatives of the New Leipzig School, which critics have called the “first art phenomenon” of the twenty-first century. The exhibit will remain open to the public through March 26, 2012, and will be accompanied by a selection of works from the museum that have a connection with Weischer’s works. That “phenomenon” that we know as the New Leipzig School is not a formal or ... More |
| Challenge-defying glass design at the Musee de Design et d'Arts appliques Contemporains | | Fresh to the market works announced at Sotheby's Paris sale of Contemporary art | | Paula Cooper Gallery presents new works by American artist Mark di Suvero | 
A visitor looking at objects from the 'Torno Subito Collection' by French visual artist Pierre Charpin. EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT.
LAUSANNE.- Following upon Post Mortem : dix créateurs repensent l’urne funéraire (ten creators rethink funerary urns) and In vino veritas : a project by Matali Crasset, the mudac continues to explore glass design editions through the work of Ettore Sottsass and Pierre Charpin. A major figure in the realm of design, Ettore Sottsass, who passed away in 2007, founded the Memphis Group in 1981. Internationally acclaimed for putting a new light on the link between architecture and design, he focused his research on defining forms and space, granting much importance to light and color. Having studied the visual arts, Pierre Charpin's first influences were the conceptual and minimal art theories. Yet in the early 1990s, he set out on the more concrete path of design rather than aesthetic research. A decisive moment came with his discovery of the Memphis outlook of "not thinking of objects only according to their structure but also in terms of surface, color, ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat, MP, 1984. Estimate: €700,000-900,000 / $965,000-1,250,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- The next Sotheby’s sales of Contemporary Art in Paris will welcome connoisseurs and collectors to the Galerie Charpentier for two auction sessions, on 7 December (Evening Sale) and 8 December 2011 (Day Sale). Some of the 141 works to be offered for auction are fresh to the market and come from prestigious collections – notably the Art Institute of Chicago, with Jean Dubuffet's Tête d’Homme (Theatre Mask XX, est. €70,000-90,000 / $96,500-125,000) and Jean-Michel Atlan's Agrigente (est. €120,000-180,000 / $166,000-249,000), to be offered at the evening session; and Arman's Don’t Touch (est. €30,000-40,000 / $41,400-55,500) and three small, unique bronzes by Germaine Richier, included in the Day Sale. Among the session's star lots is Jean-Michel Basquiat's MP, a monumental self-portrait-like figure painted in 1984 and kept in the same collection since 1985 (est. €700,000-900,000 / ... More | | 
Mark di Suvero, Paula's Pleasure, 2011. Steel, 248 x 66 in. (629.9 x 167.6 cm)© Mark di Suvero. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK. N.Y.- The Paula Cooper Gallery presents new works, including a painting and a monumental steel sculpture, by the preeminent American artist Mark di Suvero, at its 534 West 21st Street space. Mark di Suvero continues to test the limits of large-scale sculpture, engaging space through seemingly weightless compositions of colossal steel beams, torqued metal and kinetic elements. The never-before-seen Paula’s Pleasure, a soaring construction measuring approximately twenty feet in height, is an assemblage of intersecting I-beams tied around a central steel “knot”. The piece invites active contemplation from various angles, shifting our perception of space and sense of balance as we move under and around it. Par la Fenêtre, also 2011, is a free standing cut out steel sheet that exemplifies di Suvero’s treatment of metal as if it were a thouroughly malleable, pliable material like paper or ink. ... More |
| Exhibition of new site specific and situated works by Daniel Buren at Lisson Gallery | | Sotheby's Paris announces sale of Impressionist & Modern Art to be held in December | | Stunning restoration reveals beautiful seventeenth-century masterpiece at Dulwich Picture Gallery | 
Daniel Buren, A Perimeter for a Room, work in situ, 2011. Clear acrylic sheets, coloured self-adhesive filters, wood, screws, steel cables, white paint, self-adhesive black vinyl, Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents an exhibition of new site specific and situated works by Daniel Buren, France’s most influential living artist. His first solo show in the UK since 2009 will include a large scale installation and outdoor work. For over forty years Buren has examined the role of the gallery as a supposedly neutral space. He creates works “in situ”, by working within the context of existing architectural, spatial and social elements. Since the 1960s Buren’s critical analysis of painting -attempting to refine the act to an elemental form - led him to find what is now a trademark “visual tool”, the use of 8.7cm wide white and coloured vertical stripes. Once chosen for its anonymity and neutral presence, the stripe has become a signature for Buren’s work. Buren explains: “The visual tool is no longer a work to be seen, or to be beheld, but ... More | | 
Matta's masterful Le Pendu is presented at auction for the very first time (detail). Est. €1,000,000–1,500,000 / $1,380,000-2,070,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- The 73-lot sale of Impressionist & Modern Art to be held at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday 8th December (6pm) will be highly selective, paying tribute to some of the 20th century's most outstanding artists – including Ernst, Matta, Lam, Metzinger and Miró – and featuring numerous works which have a remarkable provenance or which are fresh to the market. After the recent Impressionist & Modern Art sales in New York, where his works were targeted by bidders from around the globe, Max Ernst will again be a focus of attention in Paris, thanks to an exceptional ensemble of market-fresh works. The highlight will be La Carmagnole (1927), consigned from the collection of a major connoisseur, and the most important Ernst painting of the 1920s to appear at auction for many years. The painting's violence, with its fearsome apparitions produced by frottage, harks back to the Middle Age and the Danse ... More | | 
Bolognese School, Saint Cecilia, 17th century, oil on canvas, Bourgeois Bequest 1811, © By permission of the Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery.
LONDON.- Yesterday, on the feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, Dulwich Picture Gallery unveiled its newly restored painting: Saint Cecilia. The campaign to restore this seventeenth-century masterpiece to its original appearance began in 2009. The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, with support from The Pilgrim Trust, adopted the painting and its frame, enabling conservation work to begin. Rips were repaired, the painting was cleaned and its frame was adjusted to fit. The results of this painstaking work will be unveiled tonight in an event to include a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Ode to Saint Cecilia. The painting was first brought to London in 1790 when it was purchased by Noel Joseph Desenfans from the French print-maker and dealer, Jean-Baptise Pierre Le Brun. At the time of its purchase, Saint Cecilia was thought to be a work by seventeenth-century Bolognese painter Annib ... More |
| Sotheby's sale of European Paintings in London brought a total of $9,820,347 | | Frick Collection names Mary L. Levkoff winner of its biennial $25,000 book prize | | London's National Gallery crackdown on re-sale of Leonardo da Vinci exhibition tickets | 
Eilif Peterssen, Sunshine, Kalvøya, signed and dated Eilif Peterssen / 91 lower centre. Oil on canvas, 97 by 75cm., 38¼ by 29½in. Estimate: £150,000-200,000. Sold: £181,250.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of European Paintings in London (including works by German, Austrian and Central European artists, The Scandinavian Sale, Spanish painting and The Greek Sale) brought a total of £6,264,175/€7,283,989. Commenting on the sale, Adrian Biddell, Senior Director and Head of the European Paintings Department, and Claude Piening, Senior Director, European Paintings Department said: The sale featured a number of especially attractive groups of works from different regional schools across Europe. Buyers both locally and internationally responded very positively to these choice lots, with a range of top works by Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian and Turkish artists attracting particularly strong bidding from collectors around the world. It was very satisfying to achieve a new world record price for the work of Ignacio Zuloaga in the Spanish section, as this is a painter who deserves greater recognition. ... More | | 
A voracious collector, William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) is well known as one of the most powerful men in American culture and politics during the first half of the twentieth century.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Frick’s Center for the History of Collecting has awarded Mary L. Levkoff its Sotheby’s Book Prize for a Distinguished Publication on the History of Collecting in America for her critically acclaimed 2008 monograph Hearst the Collector (Abrams and Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Comments Frick Director Ian Wardropper, “Since its inception at the Frick Art Reference Library four years ago, the Center for the History of Collecting has fostered a high-level of discourse through fellowships, research tools, and symposia. Simultaneously the history of collecting art has found acceptance as a formal academic field, and we are very proud to play a role in that development. The Center’s book prize further strengthens this area of study by acknowledging—and perhaps inspiring—relevant new publications, and we are grateful to Sotheby’s for supporting this vital program. We offer ... More | | 
a gallery worker view Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Cecilia Gallerani entitled 'The Lady with an Ermine'. EPA/LEWIS WHYLD.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- London's National Gallery said on Wednesday it would crack down on the re-sale of tickets to its blockbuster show of Leonardo da Vinci paintings which are being offered online at up to 300 pounds each ($470). The normal price of a ticket to "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan," billed as the most complete collection of Leonardo's few surviving paintings ever staged, is 16 pounds $25). "We are obviously very disappointed at the resale of these tickets for profit," said a spokeswoman for the gallery. "The resale of tickets for the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition is against the terms and conditions of their sale and this information is printed on the tickets. "Our website clearly states: 'Tickets that have been resold will be canceled without refund and admission will be refused to the bearer.'" She added that the gallery was in the process of contacting companies and websites offering to re-sell tickets and requesting that they "stop immediately. "We ... More |
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 World record at auction expected for a Turkish work of art at Antik A.S. in Istanbul ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S. is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an exceptional auction. The leading auction house of Turkey will offer exceptional paintings by the most important classic Turkish masters. The auction will take place on November 27, 2011 at the Swissotel the Bosphorus and will present selected 200 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. exhibition rooms until 27th of November. One of the highlights being offered in the sale is titled “SERENITY”, a large spectacular canvas by Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910), one of the most important and most popular Turkish artists whose painting; “The Turtle Trainer” had fetched 3.9 million USD in 2004, which was the world record price for any Turkish work of art sold at auction. In 2008 “A Lady of Constantinople” at Sotheby’s auction sold for 6.9 Millio ... More Very rare Fabergé work in Avant-Garde style acquired by museum for 800,000 euros BADEN-BADEN.- On the Eve of Russian Art Auctions in London, the Fabergé Museum in Baden Baden Spent 800,000 euros to Acquire a Rare Item Dating from 1905 that Carl Fabergé Made in the Avant-garde Style. The Fabergé Museum acquired an extremely rare piece for its collection; one that will significantly alter our understanding of Fabergé’s work, and possibly our understanding of the Russian avantgarde. The stone-cut jeweled still-life shows a fragment made of silver depicting the newspaper, Vedomosti SPB gradonachalstva, dating from 18 October 1905, the day that the October Manifesto signed by Czar Nicolas II was published. The Manifesto was considered a prototype to the first Russian Constitution; and in this document Nicholas II announced the establishment of a two-chamber parliament, and he guaranteed basic freedoms to all citizens. Next to the newspaper are leftover foods that are positioned ... More 'Modern Masters' propels Reynolda House to record-breaking month WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.- The numbers are in, and results show that last month was the best October in terms of walk-in visitation for Reynolda House Museum of American Art since the museum opened the Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing in 2005. Throughout the month, 2,868 people visited the museum to tour the historic house and view the featured exhibition "Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum." To provide an accurate comparison from year to year, attendance reflects walk-in visitation only; programs and special events, which vary from year to year, are excluded. In October 2011, another 1,000 people attended museum programs and events. "Modern Masters," an exhibition that examines the complex nature of American art in the mid-20th century, opened at Reynolda House the first weekend of October 2011. October is typically a popular month for visitation to the museum, ... More Diango Hernandez: The Humid Image at Nicolas Krupp, Basel BASEL.- A massive amount of water particles went back, invisibly and slowly, to where it came from - to the sky. Only rests of colors, dissolved paper and fragments of plaster and terracotta remained on the floor. The shelves and some tables were still in good shape, but most of the sculptures were broken or just vanished, because of the heavy rain. The roof was partially gone; its large wood bars fell down and crashed every single fragile object in the room, the whole studio looked like a destroyed temple of ceremonies after an earthquake. Years after the studio of Florencio Gelabert ‘dispersed’ in the earth of Havana City, someone offered me a drawing, which I immediately recognized as an original Gelabert. The drawing was a gentle charcoal study of a boy’s head. The head was smartly positioned in the corner of the paper and the boy with his careless expression seemed to look into the centre of the sheet. What really called ... More Making: Room' contemporary Israeli photography at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art TEL AVIV.- Most of the works in the exhibition are new acquisitions made possible by a gift from the Tel Aviv Educational and Cultural. The exhibition tackles the discourse about "place" – a major concern and challenge in contemporary Israeli photography – while addressing key issues in contemporary photography, related to the modes of seeing and representation that this medium makes possible. The thirty photographs on view span a variety of representations of place ranging from landscapes, through military and civilian sites, to the private domestic space and portraits of people taken in their surroundings. These spaces are depicted through a variety of photographic approaches ranging from direct photography, through some measure of digital processing (either overt or indiscernible), to photography that is the product of utter simulation (which at times mimics the look of direct, traditional photography, and at ... More First time a gallery in New York shows a comprehensive survey of Concrete art from Brazil NEW YORK, NY.- Dickinson New York presents Playing With Form: Concrete Art from Brazil, a comprehensive survey of Brazilian geometric abstraction from the 1950s through the early 1960s, curated by Olivier Berggruen. The exhibition is on view through December 21st 2011 and features seminal works by artists including Geraldo de Barros, Aluisio Carvao, Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Raymundo Colares, Judith Lauand, Maria Leontina, Almir Mavignier, Helio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel and Ivan Serpa; the majority of which are on loan from prestigious private collections. The exhibition marks the first time a gallery in New York has shown a comprehensive survey of Brazilian art from this period, and is Dickinson’s first foray into the field of Latin American Art. Playing With Form: Concrete Art from Brazil emphasizes the articulation between two of Brazil’s most enriched art movements, the ... More Frozen Dreams: Contemporary art from Russia a visionary new art book LONDON.- The first comprehensive survey of Contemporary Russian Art to appear in English, Frozen Dreams: Contemporary Art from Russia is a landmark study of Russia’s vibrant, rapidly growing and important contemporary art scene. Guided by the expertise of Hossein Amirsadeghi, the prolific author of fine arts subjects, and Joanna Vickery, Executive Editor of Frozen Dreams and Senior Director and Head of the Russian Art Department at Sotheby’s London, the seminal book charts the evolution of the Contemporary Russian Art scene, explores its origins from Russian history to the Soviet-era cultural paradigm shift, examines the current market for contemporary Russian art, introduces the biggest players in the field today and forecasts its future. Frozen Dreams brings together eighty profiles of must-know artists, collectors, institutional leaders and patrons in a lively and revealing survey of the Russian ... More |
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