| The First Art Newspaper on the Net | Established in 1996 | Tuesday, November 8, 2011 |
| | Thousands send money to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei to help pay tax bill
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Commemorative ceramic seeds from Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" art installation are prepared in packets to send to people who contribute money to him, in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. Thousands of people have sent more than 5.3 million yuan ($840,000) to Ai, some tossing cash folded into airplanes over his gate, he said Monday, to help him pay a tax bill they see as government harassment. The Beijing tax bureau was demanding that he pay 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) in back taxes and fines. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan.
By: Gillian Wong, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- Thousands of people have sent more than $800,000 to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, some tossing cash folded into airplanes over his gate, to help him pay a tax bill they see as government harassment, he said Monday. A state-run newspaper criticized the outpouring and warned it could be illegal. The donation campaign — also in the form of wire transfers and cash stuffed in envelopes or wrapped around fruit that is thrown into his yard — is rare for Chinese dissidents because of the threat of retaliation that comes with supporting high-profile government critics. Nearly 20,000 people have sent more than 5.3 million yuan ($840,000) since he announced a week ago that the Beijing tax bureau was demanding that he pay 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) in back taxes and fines, Ai said. "This shows that a group of people who want to express their views are using their money to cast their votes," Ai told The Associated Press. "It shows that in the Internet age, ... More |
| MACBA opens first major exhibition organised under the cooperation agreement with la Caixa | | Exhibition of recent paintings by British artist Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Gallery | | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says cave painters were realists, DNA study finds | 
Two women walk nex the art works by British artist Tony Cragg as they visit an exhibition, entitled Volume. EPA/TONI ALBIR.
BARCELONA.- Under the title Volume!, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, presents the first in a series of major exhibitions jointly organised with ”la Caixa” Foundation with the purpose of different selections from amongst the 5,500 works in their combined collections. The second show in the series, The Persistence of Geometry, will open at CaixaForum Madrid in mid-December this year. The new contemporary art collection is the result of an agreement signed in July 2010 by Isidro Fainé, president of ”la Caixa” and ”la Caixa” Foundation, and Leopoldo Rodés, Chairman of the Board of the MACBA Foundation, and later extended to include the MACBA Consortium. Now, in Volume!, a selection of 350 works by 75 international artists fills the entire MACBA exhibition space to trace out a path that alternates between the sculptural and acoustic dimensions to pinpoint the turn of the ... More | | 
Howard Hodgkin, Little Garden, 2008-2011 (detail). Oil on wood, 30 3/8 x 37 1/8 in. © Howard Hodgkin. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever”.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Howard Hodgkin. In Hodgkin’s paintings, abstraction and figuration are held in perfect tension. Assertive compressed gestures, sweeping complex textures, a lush palette, and the dynamic interchange of light and dark are all hallmarks of his distinctive signature. Embracing spontaneity and directness in equal measure to the processes of reflection and capitulation, it may take a year of preparation to execute a single and instantaneous brushstroke. Containing maximalist gestures and saturated colors expressed in the effects of the brush, the more intimately scaled paintings appear jewel-like, while larger works are sumptuous and theatrical. With their incorporated frames and painted wooden supports, they operate as both objects and images. In each painting, Hodgkin’s subject is a presence that is sensed rather than apprehended, remaining ... More | | 
A cave painting of pair of spotted horses, found in the Pech Merle Cave in Cabrerets, southern France. AP Photo/Center for Prehistory of Pech Merle, P. Cabrol.
By: Alicia Chang, AP Science Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Cave painters during the Ice Age were more like da Vinci than Dali, sketching realistic depictions of horses they saw rather than dreaming them up, a study of ancient DNA finds. It's not just a matter of aesthetics: Paintings based on real life can give first-hand glimpses into the environment of tens of thousands of years ago. But scientists have wondered how much imagination went into animal drawings etched in caves around Europe. The latest analysis published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences focused on horses since they appeared most frequently on rock walls. The famed Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne region of southwest France and the Chauvet Cave in southeast France feature numerous scenes of brown and black horses. Other caves ... More |
| Monumental career of Daphne Mayo celebrated at Brisbane's Queensland Art Gallery | | Bureau of Land Management approves Christo project over the Arkansas River; still needs local OK | | Art Public: Art Basel Miami Beach to transform Collins Park with a record 24 public art works | 
Daphne Mayo, A student’s head 1921. Bronze, 54 x 37 x 25cm. Elder Bequest Fund 1981. Collection: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
BRISBANE.- An exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Daphne Mayo, one of Queensland’s most significant artists and the creator of some of Brisbane’s grandest monuments, is currently on display at the Queensland Art Gallery. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said ‘Daphne Mayo: Let There Be Sculpture’ is on display from November 5, 2011 to January 15, 2012 in the Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists’ Gallery. ‘This important retrospective includes ceramics, paintings, drawings and wood carvings, as well as the sculptures, for which Mayo is most celebrated,’ Mr Ellwood said. ‘The first retrospective of its kind to be mounted by a state gallery, the exhibition features over 50 of Mayo’s works including portrait busts, architectural ornaments, official commissions and modernist experiments.’ Mr Ellwood said as well as celebrating an outstanding career that spanned over ... More | | 
An image of a proposed art project by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. AP Photo/Christo.
By: Catherine Tsai, Associated Press
DENVER (AP).- Federal land managers announced a final decision Monday approving Christo's art proposal to suspend 5.9 miles worth of silvery, translucent fabric over a stretch of the Arkansas River, with measures aimed at protecting bighorn sheep and other wildlife. Christo's team still needs permits from two counties, the Colorado Department of Transportation and the State Patrol for the $50 million Over the River project, but construction is expected to start next year. It would be displayed for two weeks in August 2014 before being dismantled. The Bureau of Land Management had said in July its preferred alternative for the project stuck close to what Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, formally proposed. It's believed to be the first artwork to receive the agency's approval through the drafting of an environmental impact statement, ... More | | 
Antony Gormley, Strain, 2011. Sean Kelly Gallery.
MIAMI, FL.- For the 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the show will collaborate with the Bass Museum of Art on the Art Public sector, which will transform Collins Park with a record number of public art works. Featuring sculptures and performances by renowned artists and emerging talents, the sector will open to the public with a specially curated program of performances by Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi, Sanford Biggers and Moon Medicine, and Alalâo presenting Ronald Duarte. Curated for the first time by Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Co-founder of the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), this year’s Art Public reflects a shift toward expanded conceptual, performative and temporal works. Focused on a strongly defined but varied exhibition area, the grouping of 24 artworks responds to reflections on the art practices of p ... More |
| Sotheby's Paris to sell important items owned by antiques dealer Adriano Ribolzi | | A selection of Robert Graham's "Early Work 1963-1973" at David Zwirner in New York | | Miami International Art Fair 2012 returns January and premieres sculpture Miami | 
Important Pair of Gilt-Bronze Tritons – circle of Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), Rome, early 18th century. Estimate: €200,000-400,000 / $274,850-550,000.
PARIS.- Sotheby’s Paris to offer for sale on 30 November 2011 an Important Collection of Furniture & Works of Art owned by antiques dealer Adriano Ribolzi. This refined and homogenous ensemble consists of a hundred works presenting a rich overview of late 17th and 18th century French creativity: cabinet-making, furniture, bronzes, carpets and precious textiles, along with scientific objects, are all represented by major works from the period. Throughout his career Adriano Ribolzi, a highly cultivated man with an in-depth knowledge of the art market, has rigorously selected works imbued with the characteristics sought by the world's most demanding connoisseurs. 'The criteria guiding my choices have always been perfect quality, aesthetic appeal and authenticity. I ... More | | 
Robert Graham, Untitled, 1969 (detail). Wax, gypsum, paper tissue, paper, plant root, paint, Plexiglas, and mixed media, 9 9/16 x 24 x 18 in. Photo: Courtesy of Robert Graham Studio and David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents a selection of early work by Los Angeles artist Robert Graham (1938-2008), on view at 519 West 19th Street. The exhibition brings together rarely seen works that span the years 1963-1973, providing an overview and reconsideration of the artist’s initial engagement with Minimalism and figurative sculpture. In the early 1960s, while he was still attending the San Francisco Art Institute, Graham made miniature objects during idle moments as a Woolworth’s counter-salesman. Although the prevailing attitude of his abstract expressionist instructors favored large-scale objects, Graham’s early work included small-scale Plexiglas-encased environments populated by wax figurines engaged in leisurely and pleasurable activities. Over the ... More | | 
Wifredo Lam, Standing Woman.
MIAMI, FL.- International Fine Art Expositions, founders of Art Miami in 1991, announced the third edition of the Miami International Art Fair, January 12th-16th, 2012. Relocated to Miami’s premiere downtown entertainment district, MIA will bring together international and emerging artists to the waterfront scene for a five day extravaganza of art and culture. In addition MIA will premiere Sculpture Miami, a waterside installation and sculpture exhibition in Bayfront Park. Over thirty large scale sculptures by major international sculptors will be on public display beginning Dec. 5 through March 12. MIA 2012 will be held aboard the 228-foot megayacht exhibition venue – SeaFair. The visionary vessel - which will remain dockside during the event - will be conveniently located at the Intercontinental Hotel Dock at 100 Chopin Plaza, Miami, Florida. The acclaimed venue recently completed a summer tour of New England after re ... More |
| A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney destined to become a classic | | 1932 classic movie poster, "The Most Dangerous Game" expected to bring $25,000+ at Heritage Auctions | | Julien's Auctions presents: Icons and Idols, featuring the first Lady Gaga dress to ever come to public auction | 
David Hockney painting "Felled Trees on Woldgate," 2008© David Hockney Photo: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima.
LONDON.- Here's a great idea for your wish list: A Bigger Message - Conversations with David Hockney is a book destined to become a classic. This remarkable new title from Thames & Hudson records a decade of private conversations between David Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford (author of Man with a Blue Scarf). In A Bigger Message, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. The conversation is punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists, and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and Yorkshire, the birthplace to which he has returned. Some of the diverse people he has encountered along ... More | | 
The Most Dangerous Game (RKO, 1932). Half Sheet, 22" X 28", (detail). Estimate: $25,000 - $45,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A one-of a-kind half sheet movie poster to RKO's 1932 thriller The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray and Leslie Banks as the evil hunter, is expected to bring more than $25,000 when it comes to auction as part of Heritage Auctions' Nov. 18-19 Vintage Movie Poster event, with more than 1,400 rare lots on offer. "Posters from this film rarely surface," said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Movie Posters at Heritage, "and when they do, they are rarely in such gorgeous condition as this one. We expect a smart collector will take full advantage of the opportunity to own this piece and bid accordingly." One of the most important offerings in the auction comes in the form of classic comedy as the only known copy of the one sheet to the Three Stooges in Three Little Beers (1935) is expected to command $30,000+. "Interest in the Three Stooges is always high," said Smith. "When you combine that with t ... More | | 
A sculptural dress and shirt worn by Lady Gaga for a photo-shoot and seen on the cover of the May 21, 2001, Madame Figaro magazine. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Julien's Auctions, the world's premiere entertainment and celebrity auction house will once again make history when the doors open for a star studded auction that includes items from the worlds of Rock n Roll, Sports, the Royal family and political memorabilia on Thursday, December 1, 2011 through Sunday, December 4, 2011 at the Julien's Auctions gallery in Beverly Hills. Julien's will highlight the rock n roll portion of the auction event with a very rare offering of items from the Fame Monster herself, Lady Gaga. The award winning multi-platinum music icon's unmatched style can be seen on stage, in print, on billboards and at Julien's gallery. Her famous structured dress worn for the cover of Madame Figaro magazine in 2001 will be offered for auction. The now famous costume designed by and is estimated to sell for $10,000 - $20,000. Additionally the prop gun used in ... More |
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 Silk road luxuries glitter at the Smithsonian's Freer in newly renovated Gallery WASHINGTON, D.C.- Highways and byways crossing the vast Central Asian desert did more than facilitate the spread of Buddhism in the early Common Era, they also paved the way for the exchange of luxury goods between China and the West. “Silk Road Luxuries from China,” opened Nov. 5 in newly renovated Gallery 16 at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, reveals the cross-cultural impact of Silk Road trade on Chinese luxury goods. The small but exquisite array of 21 objects, including intricately decorated mirrors, cups and other forms of tableware, display the highest levels of craftsmanship practiced by Tang dynasty artisans working in precious materials. “A revolutionary change began to happen in China’s decorative arts, fueled by an open and cosmopolitan, multicultural society centered in the vibrant Tang capital, Chang’an,” said J. Keith Wilson, curator of ancient Chinese art. “The ... More Hermès Diamond Birkin, one of the most sought-after handbags in the world, expected to bring $80,000+ DALLAS, TX.- An Hermès Diamond Birkin, with Diamond and White Gold hardware - a beautiful example of one of the most exceptional handbags made - is expected to bring $80,000+ when it comes across the block on Dec. 6, as part of Heritage Auctions' Handbags & Luxury Accessories Signature® Auction at the company's Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. "As one of the rarest, most sought-after and valuable bags in the world, the Hermès Diamond Birkin - with a retail price more than $140,000 - should get significant attention," said Matthew Rubinger, Director of Luxury Accessories at Heritage. "It would make quite a Christmas for one savvy collector." In compliment to the Diamond Birkin, Heritage will offer an Hermès Himalayan Crocodile Birkin Bag with Palladium Hardware, in pristine condition, with an estimate of $60,000+. "The Holiday Luxury auction has been carefully curated to feature some of the ... More Turner Prize nominee, Karla Black limited edition bags to be auctioned off for charity LONDON.- Turner Prize nominated artist Karla Black has hand painted and signed three beautiful linen bags for her exhibition for Scotland + Venice at the Venice Biennale 2011. These signed artworks will be auctioned off via silent auction with the proceeds going towards the Glasgow Project Room. The Project Room is a non-profit contemporary art exhibition and project space based in Trongate 103, which has been championing emerging artists since 1997. Black believes The Project Room was instrumental to her continuing creativity in the first few years after leaving The Glasgow School of Art. It was the first place that Black ever publicly exhibited a piece of work which was in a group show that she co-curated in 2000, and then, in 2002, she had her first ever solo exhibition there. Black, along with fellow Glasgow artist Katie Exley, curated an experimental public art event which included her own work and that ... More Ariella Azoulay "From Palestine to Israel" a photographic record of destruction & state formation, 1947-1950 LONDON.- This November, the Mosaic Rooms in Kensington presents an extraordinary photographic exhibition documenting the early years of the Israeli state, curated by celebrated visual theorist Ariella Azoulay. From Palestine to Israel is a collection of photographs, previously confined to Israeli state archives, which depict four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel: 1947 to 1950. This is the first time that many of these images have been shown outside Israel. Through over 200 striking images, Azoulay provides a new account of the first years of the Israeli State and its relationship with the remaining Palestinians, a subject that has been previously ignored or only partially acknowledged in both Israel and the West. The photographs featured tell the story of how the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel, while the Jewish minority established a new political entity in which it ... More Art by a new generation of artists from former communist countries at the Knoxville Museum of Art KNOXVILLE, TN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art presents After the Fall November 4, 2011-February 5, 2012. After the Fall is one of the first major surveys devoted to the exciting art being produced by a new generation of artists from Eastern Europe’s former communist countries. Most of the artists represented are in their thirties, and several are quickly becoming widely known after being featured in international biennials, art fairs, and museum exhibitions. Most were born under Communist rule but their art training occurred following the fall of Communism. Despite being involved in the global art world, these artists are devoted to living and maintaining studios in their home towns. Their work offers a variety of inside perspectives on Eastern Europe’s complex cultural legacy. The idea was formulated by Marc and Livia Straus, internationally recognized collectors and curators, and founders of the Hudson Valley Cent ... More Work by Ai Weiwei to be featured at Art Miami 2011 MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami announces that influential and world-renowned artist Ai Weiwei will be among the artists showcased as part of the 2011 Persol Art Video and New Media Loungeentitled “ZOOOM! Decoding Common Practice.” Curated by Julia Draganovic, the Persol Art Video and New Media Lounge “ZOOOM! Decoding Common Practice” at Art Miami will present six videos by artists, who research the human condition and experiment with the variety of tools that video art provides. It reveals a glimpse beyond the ordinary anddiscovers the precariousness of the stability that those communities try tomaintain. “ZOOOM! Decoding Common Practice” is the fourth video programsponsored by Art Miami. It follows the fair’s well-received 2010 Art Video Lounge, also curated by Julia Draganovic. Ai Weiwei’s long video, Chang’an Boulevard, describes the main traffic concourse that crosses the Chinese capi ... More Steven Pearson creates "Amalgamations": Tracings of earlier paintings at Studio H WASHINGTON, D.C.- We are all subject to a flood of information on a daily, if not hourly, basis via a variety of technological means- emails, text messages, Facebook, Twitter, online newspapers, countless websites, as well as television and radio. With such a wide array of information from so many sources, one is obligated to discern what is true, verifiable, and good; and what is false, speculative, inflammatory, and bad. Steven Pearson is interested in how our ability to receive and assimilate a myriad of information on a constant basis can be reflected in a 2-dimensional format. In his paintings, he employs complex compositions and an autobiographical visual language consisting of codes and symbols. Each painting possesses a layered history- as new statements are juxtaposed next to or on top of earlier ones, the paintings begin to suggest the manner in which we store memories or assimilate and make sense ... More |
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