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| | John Chamberlain, an artist who turned automotive scrap metal into sculpture, dies at 84
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John Chamberlain in his studio, 2011. Photo: Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announced that John Chamberlain has died on December 21, 2011, in Manhattan. Brandishing a wicked sense of humor and notoriously ornery, Chamberlain was a larger-than-life personality who was as bold and expressive as his sculptures, photographs, paintings, and films. He was constantly experimenting with new materials and processes over his five-decade long career—including discarded automobile parts, galvanized steel, paper bags, Plexiglas, foam rubber, aluminum foil--revealing a near-constant stream of inventiveness. His recent exhibitions—in Giswil, Switzerland, in 2009 and 2010; at Gagosian Gallery’s New York and London locations in the spring of 2011; and at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munch, Germany, in the summer of 2011-- featured some of the largest and most jubilant sculptures of his career, proving that despite his advancing age, the artist ... More |
| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | LONDON.- The skeleton, left, of Charles Byrne, nicknamed The Irish Giant, who stood about 7 feet, 7 inches (2.3 meters) tall, and died in 1783 aged 22, is displayed in Londons Hunterian Museum. Two experts are calling for the skeleton of the famous 18th-century giant to be removed from the museum and buried at sea in keeping with his last wishes. Writing in the British Medical Journal, medical ethicist Len Doyal and lawyer Thomas Muinzer say there is no good scientific reason to display the skeleton and a strong moral case against it. Museum director Sam Alberti said Thursday Dec. 22, 2011 that the skeleton is still valuable to scientists, who have used Byrnes DNA to help develop treatments for the condition from which he suffered. AP Photo/Royal College of Surgeons. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| More than sixty prints by Pablo Picasso on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum | | First fully representative retrospective of David LaChapelle's work at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague | | The Art of Protection: The Fantastic Collections of Karsten Klingbeil ends with 100% lots sold | 
Pablo Picasso, Two Clowns, 1954. Color lithograph. Museum Purchase, 1955.767.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The life and work of Pablo Picasso the painter was one of drama and extraordinary talent. Much of that excitement found its way into his prints. This December, the Cincinnati Art Museum will sweep you away in an exhibition that examines how Picasso brought beautiful women and mythical half man half animals alive in etchings, linoleum cuts and lithographs. More than sixty prints by Pablo Picasso are on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, December 17, 2011 through May 13, 2012. Picasso Master Prints surveys the career of one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century –who just happens to have been one of the century’s leading printmakers.This group of Picasso’s prints chronicles his lifelong exploration and accomplishments in the graphic medium. He explored the themes of his paintings in depth in his printmaking, often before he started ... More | | 
David LaChapelle, Andy Warhol: The Last Sitting, November 22, 1986. Silver gelatin print.
PRAGUE.- David LaChapelle (born 1963 in Farmington, Connecticut, USA) has ranked among the world’s most eminent photographers since the mid-1990s. His work has exerted an influence on dozens of other artists and over time, LaChapelle has evolved a style entirely his own, one which is recognizable at first glance. In the context of his exhibitions, the present show, entitled Thus Spoke LaChapelle and held at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, occupies a unique place. It is the first fully representative retrospective of his work, as it includes also his early works from the mid-1980s. His early photographs are only shown rarely, and the Prague exhibition is the first to present them in the context of the artist’s oeuvre thus far. The exhibition presents an extensive selection of LaChapelle’s work, surveying all of the seminal phases of his creative career. Still, the emphasis is largely on work created in re ... More | | 
Enormous international interest in the rare, partly unique objects had been evident for months.
MUNICH.- The auction houses Pierre Bergé & associés in Brussels and Hermann Historica oHG in Munich opened doors on 13 December for the auctions of the Fantastic Collections of Karsten Klingbeil. Museum representatives, specialist traders and collectors from all over the world gathered at the head office of the Belgian cooperation partner at the beginning of the auction of the private museum of the renowned Berlin sculptor, philanthropist and former construction mogul. On the previous evening the audience had been prepared for this important event by specialist presentations, and on the following day circa one hundred lots of partly unique preserved crustaceans in conjunction with 240 of the total of 600 historically significant objects in the field of antique arms and armour came under the hammer. In this group complete armours ranging in date from the 15th to the 17th century as well as a selection of helmets, hafted w ... More |
| Over half the United Kingdom's collection of paintings now online in Your Paintings | | Artists announced for New York's Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial 2012 | | Leading artists auction self portraits for Face Britain - The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts | 
Peter Paul Rubens, Marchesa Maria Serra Pallavicino, 1606. Oil on canvas, 233 x 145 cm. National Trust, Kingston Lacy, Dorset.
LONDON.- Your Paintings is the first national online museum of all publicly owned oil paintings in the UK. It was launched in June of this year (2011) by the Public Catalogue Foundation and the BBC. It has been announced that a further 40,000 paintings have been uploaded to the site since the launch, taking the total to 104,000 paintings, over half the national collection. Among the latest painting images uploaded to the site are works by Thomas Brooks (RNLI Grace Darling Museum, Northumberland), Edgar Degas (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham), Joshua Reynolds (The University of Aberdeen), Bridget Riley (Morley College, London), Peter Paul Rubens (National Trust, Saltram, Devon) and Henry Whiting’s Man Wrestling an Alligator from Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre, a world-class collection of British fairground art from the 1880s to the 1980s. In total ... More | | 
Curator Elisabeth Sussman. Photo: David Armstrong.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial, which takes place at the Whitney Museum from March 1 through May 27, 2012. This is the 76th in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded. The Whitney Biennial is an exhibition held every two years in which we gauge the current state of contemporary art in America. The 2012 Biennial is being curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney, and Jay Sanders, a freelance curator. The curators began working on the research and planning of the show in early December 2010. Fifty-one artists have been selected. The Biennial comprises work—including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations—from both emerging and established artists. In addition to visual artist ... More | | 
James Naughtie for Face Britain©Children & the Arts.
LONDON.- Quentin Blake, Angela de la Cruz, Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander, Rankin, Gerald Scarfe, Bob & Roberta Smith and Gavin Turk are amongst the high-profile artists contributing self portraits to the Face Britain project. As well as these artists, a wide range of well known faces from the worlds of film, TV, theatre, sport, music, fashion and literature are also donating self-portraits which will go under the hammer in aid of this important and timely cause. Face Britain is the UK’s largest ever mass collaborative art project developed by The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts, who aim to increase access to the arts for all children. Thousands of self portraits have already been uploaded to an online gallery by children across the UK, who have been learning about the art of self portraiture at school, at home and through gallery visits. Face Britain is open to all children and young people aged 4 ... More |
| For the love of the game: Collection of baseball board games for sale at Heritage Auctions | | Francesco Manacorda, Director of Artissima, appointed Artistic Director of Tate Liverpool | | Fine Chinese furniture tops two-day auction in $12.8-million auction at Bonhams in San Francisco | 
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DALLAS, TX.- The finest collection of vintage baseball-themed board and arcade games ever assembled, The Dr. Mark W. Cooper Collection, is currently being offered in its entirety via Private Treaty sale from Heritage Auctions. "The best-known documentation of baseball's rich history comes in the form of the rare early cardboard that bears the faces of great players," said Chris Ivy, Director of Vintage Sports Memorabilia at Heritage. "The purest expression of diamond worship, however, may well be the board games that have echoed all the eras and great players, and nowhere is this made more evident than in Dr. Cooper's amazing collection." Besides being the finest collection of its kind, the Cooper Collection has the added distinction of having been one of just 21 collections featured in Stephen Wong's celebrated hardcover Smithsonian Baseball: Inside the World's Finest Private Collections. "The Dr. Mark W. Cooper Collect ... More | | 
Francesco Manacorda (b 1974 in Turin, Italy) has been Director of Artissima since February 2010. Photo: Max Tomasinelli.
LIVERPOOL.- Tate announced that Francesco Manacorda, Director of Artissima, the international fair of contemporary art in Turin, has been appointed the new Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool. Francesco Manacorda (b 1974 in Turin, Italy) has been Director of Artissima since February 2010. Between 2007 and 2009 he was Curator at Barbican Art Gallery where he realised the large-scale Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art (with co-curator Lydia Yee) and Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009 (2009). Also at Barbican Art Gallery, for Curve Art he commissioned Hans Schabus Next time I’m Here, I’ll Be There 2007, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Frequency and Volume 2008 and Clemens von Wedemeyer The Fourth Wall 2009. In 2007 he curated Venetian, Atmospheric Tobias ... More | | 
A rare huanghuali clothes rack, yijia, Qing dynasty. 56 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 16 1/4in. Sold for $338,500; Pre-sale est. $120,000-200,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A group of fine Chinese furniture, formerly in the Collection of Eleanor Majors Carlisle - a pillar of San Francisco society at the turn of the 19th century, took the spotlight at Bonhams more than $12.8-million auction of Fine Asian Works of Art held December 20-21. The two-day sale offered up 900 lots, obtained from private collectors, estates and institutions throughout the United States. A rare pair of zitan and hongmu recessed leg altar tables, 18th/19th century, from the Carlisle estate soared to $2,714,500 (est. $120,000-200,000) against fierce bidding on the telephones and a packed room of international buyers. An elaborately carved zitan and hongmu throne chair, 19th century, brought $1,022,500 (est. $200,000-300,000), preceded by an unusual huanghuali clothes rack, Qing ... More |
| With shrinking salaries, rising taxes and record unemployment, crisis spurs gold fever in Greece | | Keen competition for antique signs, early European toys at Noel Barrett's $1.2M auction | | Thousands of rare manuscripts, books, journals and writings burned in Egypt clash | 
A pick lies abandoned in a tunnel opened by unsuccessful treasure hunters near the northern Greek town of Grevena. AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis.
By: Costas Kantouris, Associated Press
GREVENA (AP).- Not all Greek myths are ancient. In rural towns and villages, where millennia-old pottery shards and broken classical masonry are sometimes found, shepherds and farmers have similar tales to tell. They cite the buried golden sow with its seven golden piglets (which made a poor farmer rich), the coin hoards guarded by dragons from the times of Alexander the Great or the Byzantine emperors, the gold plunder squirreled away by long-dead Turkish pashas or fleeing Nazi officers. All it takes, they say, is a lucky thrust of a shovel. Legends like that have taken on a new life in debt-crippled Greece. As two years of austerity take a harsh toll — with shrinking salaries, rising taxes and record unemployment for many — more and more Greeks are finding ... More | | 
Elaborate watchmaker’s trade sign of cast and sheet metal, 32 inches tall by 26 inches wide, $11,500. Noel Barrett Auctions image.
NEW HOPE, PA.- Antique toy expert and Antiques Roadshow senior appraiser Noel Barrett hosted a Nov. 18-19 auction featuring clockwork toys and automata from the Frank Mohr collection. The sale also included early advertising signs and toys from the personal collection of Bill Powell, a Tennessee-based dealer known for his well-cultivated taste in antiques of many types. The auction realized $1,187,000 (all prices quoted inclusive of 15% buyer’s premium), with Saturday’s sales exceeding the session’s total high estimate by a whopping 40%. “It was like an old-fashioned sale in terms of turnout. It drew about the same size crowd we had in the very same hall 23 years ago, at our first auction in New Hope. You don’t see that sort of turnout nowadays, with so many people opting for the convenience of phone and Internet bidding. It was one heck of a crowd,” said Noel Barrett. “The auction took us ... More | | 
An Egyptian book restoration official arranges burnt pages of the original ancient copy identified as "Le Description de L'Egypt", (The Description of Egypt,). AP Photo/Amr Nabil.
By: Aya Batrawy, Associated Press
CAIRO (AP).- Volunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks stood on the back of a pickup truck Monday along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that were little more than charcoal debris. The volunteers, ranging from academic experts to appalled citizens, have spent the past two days trying to salvage what's left of some 192,000 books, journals and writings, casualties of Egypt's latest bout of violence. Institute d'Egypte, a research center set up by Napoleon Bonaparte during France's invasion in the late 18th century, caught fire during clashes between protesters and Egypt's military over the weekend. It was home to a treasure trove of writings, ... More |
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 Orson Welles Oscar sells for $861,000 at Nate D. Sanders LOS ANGELES, CA.- One of the most magical pieces of movie memorabilia, Orson Welles' Academy Award for Citizen Kane was sold by Nate D. Sanders for $861,542, which includes the buyer's premium. Welles received this Award for Best Original Screenplay, which was, incredibly, the only Oscar that either Citizen Kane or Orson Welles received. In an exciting auction that included David Copperfield and bidders from around the world, Orson Welles’ Oscar – thought to be lost for decades – achieves the distinction of being one of only a handful of Academy Awards that have sold for nearly a million dollars. The sale has turned heads in the auction community, as Sotheby’s failed to sell this same Oscar in 2007. Auction house owner Nate D. Sanders said, "This is a testament to the popularity of Orson Welles and his magnum opusCitizen Kane. I’m proud to have represented this fantastic Award to the cinema collec ... More Park Avenue Armory appoints Alex Poots artistic director NEW YORK, N.Y.- Rebecca Robertson, President and Executive Producer of Park Avenue Armory, announced that Alex Poots has been appointed Artistic Director, and will start work in early 2012 on the development of the Armory’s 2013 season. Mr. Poots is the Festival Director of the biennial Manchester International Festival in England, a position he will continue to hold. Park Avenue Armory is a new cultural institution that works with artists in the creation of works that are catalyzed by the scale and character of the Armory’s spaces and the immersive engagement of audiences. Building upon the artistic foundation established during the past four years, the Armory’s next phase will include an expanded program of commissioning of new works by leading visual and performing artists that need a non-traditional setting to realize their ambitions. Towards this goal, the Armory has been exploring commissioning p ... More Computer History Museum receives Google.org grant for digital repository MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA.- The Computer History Museum announced that Google.org has provided a grant of $500,000 for the Museum to preserve its valuable digital collection chronicling the birth of computing through the modern networked world. Support from Google.org will allow the Computer History Museum to create a Digital Repository infrastructure that will effectively preserve its present digital collection as well as future acquisitions, to prevent the loss of digital material through physical degradation and digital obsolescence, as well as support increased storage capacity, to allow the Museum to expand its collection to include new media, such as email, websites, databases and datasets. The Museum has actively digitized content for the past six years, including moving images, photographs, documents and sound recordings, accessed extensively for exhibits and research. The Museum currently holds a digital ... More Exhibition of Dale Chihuly Venetians marks the re-opening of the Fort Collins Museum of Art FORT COLLINS, CO.- Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection opened at the Fort Collins Museum of Art on Wednesday, December 14, 2011. It will be on view until March 18, 2012. This exhibition marks the re-opening of the museum that has been closed since September 28th due to significant water damage created by HVAC failures at the museum’s 100 year-old National Historic Register facility in Old Town Fort Collins. Chihuly Venetians showcases over 45 works from Chihuly’s most innovative and unusual series that was inspired by Art Deco Venetian art glass from the 1920’s and 1930’s. The Venetians are characterized by their voluptuousness and sensuousness as well as their rich color combinations and idiosyncratic forms. The series came about after Chihuly visited Venice during the winter of 1987-88 and saw a private collection of Venetian Art Deco vases. Chihuly described ... More Stanford's Board of Trustees approves sites for two new arts buildings STANFORD, CA.- The Stanford University Board of Trustees has approved sites for two new buildings: the McMurtry Building and the museum building for the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. These facilities will be critical to expanding and enhancing the role the arts play throughout campus. Trustees gave concept and site approval – the first two steps in the university's construction approval process – to the two buildings at their Dec. 12-13 meeting. The McMurtry Building, the future home of the Department of Art & Art History, will be located on Roth Way near the Cantor Arts Center. The building was named in honor of Burton "Burt" and Deedee McMurtry, longtime friends of the university, who provided a $30 million gift toward its creation. Burt McMurtry (MS '59, PhD '62) is a former chair of the Board of Trustees. The museum building for the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, which ... More MOCA GA Working Artist Project winner, Katherine Mitchell, presents "Places of Memory and Dreams" ATLANTA, GA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia announces the opening of the third installment in the 2010/2011 series of the Working Artist Project exhibitions – Katherine Mitchell: Places of Memory and Dreams. There will be an Artist Talk by Mitchell on Thursday, January 26 at 7 p.m. with a reception beforehand at 6:30 p.m. Katherine Mitchell: Places of Memory and Dreams runs Dec. 17 – March 31, 2012. The artist, Katherine Mitchell, states, “In this exhibition I explore the way in which houses where we have lived early in our lives affect our dreams, and thus our later creativity and art.” MOCA GA Director, Annette Cone-Skelton states, “This completes the exhibitions for the 2010/2011 Working Artist Project winners. We’ve experienced three very different Atlanta artists in this series, illustrating the impact of a grant program such as WAP on our artistic community. During their one yea ... More |
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