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| | Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin's Journey on view at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa
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A woman looks at the painting 'Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?' by French painter Paul Gauguin exhibited for the first time in Italy (the second in Europe) in the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Italy. It is part of the exhibition 'Van Gogh and Gauguin's Journey'. The exhibition which opened to the public 12 November 2011 to 05 April 2012 contains many masterpieces painted by Van Gogh, Turner, Rothko, Hopper, Monet and Kandinsky. EPA/LUCA ZENNARO.
GENOA.- In April 1897 Paul Gauguin had already been back in Tahiti for two years. His health was poor and he rarely worked outside in the lush natural world or by the ocean. He spent much more time in his studio. That month he received the news from his wife Mette that his daughter Aline, at the age of only twenty, had died in Copenhagen in January from complications due to pneumonia. Gauguin was utterly distraught at this news and in the following months he gradually resolved to take his own life. Illness and distance from home were an unbearable weight. But before leaving the world he wished to paint his masterpiece, one last great work summing up the meaning of his journey in the world and among the lights of painting. So he ordered fresh paints and lots of brushes, some very large, from Paris. On Tahiti he had an enormous canvas made, almost four meters long and one and a half meters high. Having been admitted to the French Hospital with heart problems on the second day of ... More |
| Artists turn spotlight on themselves and their world in new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum | | The collection of Elizabeth Taylor online - a special online-only addition to December's auctions at Christie's NY | | Dutch Landscapes: Paintings from the Royal Collection on view at the Bowes Museum | 
Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, 1922. Gelatin silver print. 11.9 x 9.8 cm. © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Images of the Artist, a fascinating exhibition that explores artistic identity and image-making by showcasing some of the ways in which artists have represented themselves, their activities and their surroundings, will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, from November 15, 2011 to February 12, 2012. Spanning 500 years, from the late Renaissance to the 20th century, the exhibition’s 41 interconnected objects feature compelling drawings, prints, photographs, paintings, and sculptures from the Getty Museum’s collections, complemented by loans from local institutions and private collections. Divided into four sections, Images of the Artist suggests how artists have found inspiration through self-examination. The first section presents an intriguing group of portraits of artists, while another section illustrates how artists have lived and worked. A third grouping of images shows allegorie ... More | | 
Rhinestone studded handbags owned by Elizabeth Taylor, that are being offered in a special online-only auction. AP Photo/Christie's.
NEW YORK (AP).- Christie's auction house has added a special online-only component to its upcoming Elizabeth Taylor sale that will feature 950 items, with pre-sale estimates ranging from $100-$200 for an art deco bracelet to $10,000 for a white gold and diamond necklace. Highlights of the online-only auction went on view on the fashion website Moda Operandi on Monday. All items covering four categories — fine jewelry, fashion and accessories, costume jewelry and decorative arts and memorabilia — will be featured on Christie's website, beginning Friday. The online sale runs Dec. 3-17. "The online-only sales provide an additional means for her legions of collectors and fans to participate in the auctions, no matter where they live," Marc Porter, chairman and president of Christie's Americas, said in a statement. The auction house said it was its first exclusively online-only auction, which will offer continuous bidding during the two-week period. It is not Christie's fir ... More | | 
Jan van der Heyden, A Country House on the Vliet near Delft (detail). Photo: The Royal Collection © 2011, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
COUNTY DURHAM.- Dutch Landscapes: Paintings from the Royal Collection, which is on show at The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, brings together 38 remarkable works from the ‘golden age’ of Dutch painting, generously lent by Her Majesty The Queen. The exhibition, which opened on Saturday 12 November, draws on the Royal Collection’s rich holdings of Dutch 17th century landscapes, presenting outstanding examples by the great masters of landscape, including Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van der Heyden and Meyndert Hobbema. By the 17th century, landscape painting was well established as a distinct art form and one in which Netherlandish artists excelled. Artists turned to the countryside and to the sea to convey a pride in their homeland – the newly formed Dutch United Provinces – following the Eighty Years War with Spain. As the foundation of trade and empire, the sea was the most important for ... More |
| Botero sculpture, Tamayo painting lead Latin American sales at Christie's and Sotheby's | | Peruvian-born fashion photographer Mario Testino to present 2011 Turner Art Prize | | Ogden Museum of Southern Art announces new Director William Pittman Andrews | 
Fernando Botero's bronze sculpture "Dancers," which is due to be auctioned on Wednesday evening at Christie's in New York, is seen in this handout released to Reuters. REUTERS/Christie's.
By: Walker Simon
NEW YORK, N.Y. (REUTERS).- A towering Fernando Botero sculpture and a painting by Mexican master Rufino Tamayo lead Latin American art auctions this week, which could benefit from strong demand seen in earlier art sales in New York. Botero's bronze "Dancers," which was cast in 2007 and is 10 feet 5 inches tall, could sell for as much as $2 million when it goes under the hammer at Christie's. If it reaches its top estimate it will exceed the $1.6 million auction record for a Botero sculpture, said Virglio Garza, Christie's Latin American art chief. "It could be one of his tallest sculptures ever to come to auction," he said. "It's unusual because the dancers are of equal proportion. Normally Botero shows one dancer as larger." As an example, he pointed to Botero's 1982 painting "Dancing Couple," which ... More | | 
File photo of Peruvian-born fashion photographer Mario Testino arriving for the Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer 2012 show during London Fashion Week. EPA/DANIEL DEME.
LONDON (REUTERS).- Celebrity photographer Mario Testino will present this year's Turner Prize, Britain's coveted annual art award, when it is announced in Gateshead, northern England, on December 5. The choice of Peru-born Testino, famous for his portraits of subjects including Princess Diana and Kate Moss, is in line with recent presenters who combined a recognizable name with links to the world of art. "I draw endless inspiration from the work of other artists so I am honored to be presenting this year's Turner Prize," Testino said in a statement Monday. Last year fashion designer and contemporary art collector Miuccia Prada handed out the prize while in 2008 Australian musician Nick Cave did the honors. In 2001, U.S. singer Madonna made a four-letter outburst during the live broadcast of the Turner Prize, for which the Channel 4 broadcaster had to apologize. That year the Turner Prize was controversia ... More | | 
The 41-year-old native of Starkville, Miss., has been the director of the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses since 2009.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- William Pittman Andrews has been named director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans, in New Orleans, La. Andrews will start on Jan. 2, 2012. The 41-year-old native of Starkville, Miss., has been the director of the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses since 2009, where he was also an adjunct assistant professor of art at the university. While he was director, Andrews worked to establish a vital museum community in the town of Oxford, Miss., well known for its vibrant culture of literary and visual arts. “We are thrilled to have found someone with William’s enormous energy and vision, as well as his deep knowledge of Southern art,” says Julia Reed, chair of the Ogden Museum’s board of trustees. “We are looking forward to his leading the Museum into the next phase by expanding the museum’s already excellent programming, as well as i ... More |
| Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration and Transformation exhibition opens at Yale School of Architecture | | Dissident artist Ai Weiwei faces new hurdles from Chinese authorities in $2.4 million tax case | | Mid-Hudson Galleries to auction unique archive of Liberace's jewelry, stage apparel, and personal mementos | 
View of Great Hall and Haas Library Beyond. Photo: Peter Aaron/ESTO.
NEW HAVEN, CT.- Yale University’s School of Architecture presents Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration an Transformation, an exhibition devoted to the work of Gwathmey Siegel + Associates Architects, one of the most influential American architectural firms of the last century. The exhibition, which runs through January 27, 2012 at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery in Paul Rudolph Hall, coincides with the arrival of the firm’s collected records for permanent inclusion in Yale Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Archives. “This exhibition means a great deal to the firm, not only because Charles was a graduate of Yale, but because it is taking place within the magnificent Paul Rudolph Hall, which we had the honor of restoring and expanding,” said Robert Siegel, one of the founders of Gwathmey Siegel, which is now Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman + Associates. “The renovation of and addition to t ... More | | 
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei walks to the door of his home after talking to his lawyers in Beijing November 14, 2011. REUTERS/David Gray.
By: Ben Blanchard and Chris Buckley
BEIJING (REUTERS).- Chinese authorities are setting hurdles for artist-activist Ai Weiwei to pay a bond that would let him appeal a tax fine his backers have called a political vendetta, threatening to complicate his legal battle, one of his lawyers said Monday. Ai, whose secretive 81-day detention this year sparked worldwide attention, has until Wednesday to lodge collateral that would allow him to contest a 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) fine for tax evasion, which he denies. But the government is demanding he pay the 8.4 million yuan bond in cash straight into a tax bureau bank account, something his lawyer Pu Zhiqiang said lacked legal provision. The government is also refusing to accept Ai's mother's house as collateral, Pu added. "We have done everything we were ... More | | 
Liberace’s Louis XVI boudoir chair from his Palm Springs home. The chair is featured in the DVD ‘ A Tour of Liberace’s Palm Springs House,’ which accompanies the lot. Mid-Hudson Galleries image.
NEW WINDSOR, NY.- Before Elton John, Madonna or Lady Gaga dominated the world stage with their outrageous costumes and over-the-top performances, there was Liberace – a charismatic showman whose onstage presence combined the glitz of Las Vegas with a dash of quaint but endearing schmaltz. For nearly two decades, Liberace (1919-1987) was the world’s highest-paid entertainer, earning as much as $300,000 per week and garnering some 40,000 fan letters per month. Eye-popping diamonds and flashy clothes were Liberace’s trademark, both onstage and off. He took pleasure in giving gifts of jewelry and apparel from his lavish wardrobe to friends in his inner circle, which included a man named James Myers. When Myers died in 2005, he bequeathed his treasured archive of Liberace ... More |
| Major mid-career survey of Rivane Neuenschwander at the Irish Museum of Modern Art | | Long-lost Victorian Painting in US beach house could fetch $800,000 at Christie's | | Magnum Contact Sheets: landmark book presents an unparalleled wealth of unpublished material | 
Rivane Neuenschwander, I Wish Your Wish, 2003, Silkscreen on fabric ribbons, Dimensions variable, Detail, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, EUA / USA, Photo: Chocolate Milk.
DUBLIN.- A major mid-career survey of the work of leading Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander opens to the public in the New Galleries at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Wednesday 16 November 2011. Covering the period since 2000, Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other highlights the artist’s unique contribution to Brazilian Conceptualism and reveals a wide-ranging interdisciplinary practice, which includes painting, photography, film, sculpture, collaborative actions and participatory events. A variety of elements inform Neuenschwander’s work – the nature of time, the fragility of life, cycles of existence and the delicacy of human exchange. Motifs such as circles and ovals are of primary importance, together with drops of water, bubbles, hole-punched confetti, constellations and cascading zeros. These act sometimes as soundtracks or symbols of fragility, trail markers or life sources, ... More | | 
Detail of "Derby Day" by William Powell Frith. AP Photo/Christie's.
By: Jill Lawless, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- A long-lost Victorian painting that hung in a family's unlocked New England beach house for half a century could fetch 500,000 pounds ($800,000) when it is sold next month, Christie's auction house said Tuesday. "The Derby Day" is an early version of one of the era's most famous pictures — William Powell Frith's teeming, picaresque image of the crowds at an 1850s horse race, from a rich family in their carriage to gamblers, acrobats and prostitutes. The finished painting hangs in the Tate Britain gallery in London. The 15-by-35 inch (39 centimeter by 91 centimeter) oil-on-canvas sketch being sold by Christie's is Frith's first complete version of the scene. Peter Brown, Christie's director of Victorian pictures, said the rediscovery of the oil sketch was "immensely exciting." It had been hanging in a modest New England beach house for decades before a friend of the owner suggested it might be worth something. ... More | | 
The images featured – both celebrated icons of photography and lesser-known surprises – encompass over seventy years of history.
LONDON.- This landmark book presents an unparalleled wealth of unpublished material, revealing the story behind many iconic and historical images of modern times taken by the world’s most celebrated photographers.The book shows their creative process and also acts, in the words of Martin Parr, as an ‘epitaph to the contact sheet’ as it marks the end of the film era and the move to digital photography. The images featured – both celebrated icons of photography and lesser-known surprises – encompass over seventy years of history: from the Normandy landings by Robert Capa, the Paris riots of 1968 by Bruno Barbey and war in Chechnya byThomas Dworzak, to René Burri’s filmic sequence of close-ups of Che Guevara, classic New Yorkers by Bruce Gilden, and Eve Arnold’s iconic portrait of the charismatic and image-savvy Malcolm X. Further insight into each contact sheet is provided by texts written by the photographers themselves or by experts chosen by m ... More |
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 Vietnam war graffiti exhibit opens at the New York State Museum in Albany ALBANY, NY.- The personal thoughts and feelings of American soldiers and Marines going to war in Southeast Asia come to life in the “Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam” exhibition at the New York State Museum. The stories of these soldiers and Marines are told through the graffiti they left behind on the bunk canvases they slept on, aboard a ship that brought them to Vietnam in 1966-67. Eight canvases inscribed by soldiers from New York state are included in the traveling exhibition, open until Feb. 26, 2012. Uncertain about their future, the young troop passengers inscribed personal thoughts about families, hometowns, patriotism, love, anxiety, discomfort and humor. Their canvases, bunks and personal items were discovered in 1997 onboard the General Nelson M. Walker. The transport ship was being scrapped after seeing service during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. In between it was in reserve status in ... More Contemporary Art Fair New York City returns to the Jacob Javits Center SLATE, N.Y.- American Art Marketing is excited to announce the second annual Contemporary Art Fair NYC in conjunction with the American Craft Show at the Jacob Javits Center, Hall 1A, NYC this November 18, 19 and 20, 2011. This year there will be over 90 independent international artists exhibiting from Canada, Spain, and across the United States along with 100 artisans in the American Craft Show section. The art works presented reflects the contemporary art world with a dramatic and diverse range of styles and methods of production. There will be a full schedule of talks, performances, demonstrations and other events. Richard Rothbard, Director of American Art Marketing said “Overall, last year’s launch of the first Contemporary Art Fair and the American Craft Show was exceptional. This year we are on target to double, probably more than that, all of last year’s numbers.” Last year the ... More Naval Coat Ian Fleming wore as he dreamed up "OO7" for sale at Bonhams LONDON.- The naval jacket worn by James Bond author, Ian Fleming, throughout World War II, when the character of ‘007’ was first taking shape in his mind, is to be auctioned at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs sale in London on November 22. For a serving officer in Naval Intelligence such as Fleming, his naval jacket was an essential and much valued piece of kit and the author to be was wearing it while acting as observer at the ill fated Dieppe Raid in 1942. Years later, Fleming spoke of how he first began to dream up the character of Bond during the war and of how his own experiences at that time influenced the development of his most famous creation. The jacket, which is estimated at £5,000-7,000, has an impeccable provenance. It was given by Fleming to his close friend, Ivar Bryce, whom he had known from his schooldays at Eton and whose middle name – Felix – he gave to Bond ... More Haitian artists invite Western and non-Western artists to 2nd Ghetto Biennale PORT-AU-PRINCE.- The 2nd Ghetto Biennale is due to take place from 28th November until 18th December 2011. The 1st ‘Ghetto Biennale’ was held in December 2009 and was hosted by the Atis-Rezistans, the Sculptors of Grand Rue. They invited fine artists, film-makers, academics, photographers, musicians, architects and writers, to come to the Grand Rue area of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, to make or witness work that was shown or happened, in their neighbourhood. In the words of the writer John Keiffer it was a “'third space'...an event or moment created through a collaboration between artists from radically different backgrounds”. Artists from many countries including Australia, Italy, the UK, Jamaica, the USA and Cuba came to Haiti to participate in the Ghetto Biennale. This is not in reality a Biennale, as traditionally conceived, rather an invitation by a group of Haitian artists to visitin ... More Check Into Cash CEO brings historic war painting home to Tennessee CLEVELAND, TENN.- A painting long coveted by art collectors worldwide is now in its rightful home of Tennessee. On Veteran's Day 2011 – also known as 11/11/11 – Cleveland, TN, Mayor Tom Rowland announced that philanthropist and Check Into Cash CEO Allan Jones had completed the purchase of the historic "Sergeant Alvin C. York," created in 1919 by acclaimed artist Frank Schoonover. "This painting of Tennessee's legendary war hero is regarded as the most sought after World War I painting in history," said Rowland. "We are honored that Mr. Jones has brought it home to Tennessee, which is what Alvin and his family would have wanted." The subject of the painting, Sergeant Alvin York, is one of America's most famous soldiers due to his remarkable act of courage in October of 1918, which is depicted in the Schoonover work. York, a native of Pall Mall Tennessee, played a crucial role in the attack of Argonne ... More Exhibition of mystical tales by infamous storytellers at Berlin's Strychnin Gallery BERLIN.- Strychnin Gallery opened an exhibition of mystical tales visualized by the infamous storytellers Benjamin Vierling, Marcus Poston, Raf Veulemans and Saturno Butto‘. The exhibition showcases a series of artworks which inevitably present their beholders with narratives that frequently cause mixed feelings and which are often perceived differently by each individual. In many cases beauty, dismay and curiosity are terms that come up at the same time when the works of these visual storytellers are being discussed. Benjamin A. Vierling was born in San Francisco and has been studying painting since he could hold a brush. His work utilizes the renaissance technique of mixing egg tempera and oil paints. Specializing in mythical portraits, arcane symbolism, and vanitas themed still lives, his paintings have appeared on numerous book and album covers, including Joanna Newsom's critically acclaimed record, ... More |
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