| The First Art Newspaper on the Net | Established in 1996 | Tuesday, December 6, 2011 |
| | Bookmakers' favorite Martin Boyce scoops art world's most prestigious prize
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Martin Boyce, is seen after being named as the winner of the Turner Prize 2011 at his installation called 'Do words have voices', at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with Tate, in Gateshead, England, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. AP Photo/Scott Heppell.
By: Alice Baghdjian
GATESHEAD (REUTERS).- Bookmakers' favourite Martin Boyce won the Turner Prize on Monday, claiming a 25,000 pound ($40,000) cheque and one of the art world's most prestigious and controversial awards. The 44-year-old's distinctive sculptural installations, which seek to create an urban landscape within the confines of the gallery space, topped a shortlist of works that some critics said was one of the best in the Turner's 27-year history. "Some really good artists have won the Turner Prize and some really good artists have not won the Turner Prize," Boyce said at a press conference afterwards. "The impact of this hasn't even hit yet and I don't know when or if it's going to hit." Brown paper "leaves" are strewn across the floor of his exhibition at the BALTIC gallery in Gateshead, northern England, which hosted the awards -- only the second time they have been held outside London. "I guess it has something to do with hope a ... More |
| Extraordinary works translate into strong sales at the 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach | | Major exhibition by Cai Guo-Qiang opens at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art | | World-first: Matisse exhibition marks Gallery of Modern Art's 5th anniversary | 
Installation view of McCaffrey Fine Art's booth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011.
MIAMI BEACH, FL.- The 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach closed on Sunday, December 4, 2011, with many galleries reporting strong sales. More than 260 leading galleries from 30 countries across North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa exhibited works by over 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The show attracted a record of 50,000 visitors, which included 150 museum and institution groups from across the world. Renowned collectors from the Americas, Europe and emerging markets returned, and were joined by a new generation of collectors from around the globe. Art Basel Miami Beach confirmed that high-quality work remains in strong demand, with steady sales throughout the week. In many cases, these works were commissioned especially for the show or held back to be presented at Art Basel Miami Beach. In addition, presentations at Art Nova, Art Positions, Art Kabinett, Art Public and Art Vide ... More | | 
Cai Guo-Qiang, Flora on Porcelain, from Miniature Series (2011). Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as three-panel screen, 230 x 232.5 x 2.8 cm. Photo: Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.
DOHA.- Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art presents Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab, a major exhibition featuring newly commissioned work by Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the preeminent artists of our era. As Cai’s first solo exhibition in the Middle East and the first single-artist exhibition presented by Mathaf, Saraab opens new avenues of dialogue for the Arabian Gulf, as the region explores its historic and contemporary links across Asia. On view from December 5, 2011 through May 26, 2012, Saraab (“mirage” in Arabic) connects the history and culture of Cai’s hometown of Quanzhou, China, to that of Doha Qatar. The exhibition illuminates the long-standing but little-known multilayered relationship between China and the Arab world, dating back to the ancient maritime Silk Road. Curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, director of ... More | | 
Henri Matisse / Primavera (Spring) 1938 /Collection: Département des estampes et de la photographie, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris / © Succession H Matisse.
BRISBANE.- Arts Minister Rachel Nolan opened Matisse: Drawing Life, an exclusive exhibition of Henri Matisse’s drawings and prints, showing at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art until 4 March 2012. “The highlight of GoMA’s fifth anniversary celebrations, the exhibition brings together more than 300 works from international museums, the National Gallery of Australia, and private collections, including works never previously shown or reproduced,” Ms Nolan said. “This comprehensive survey explores the extraordinary range and depth of Matisse’s graphic art, providing a new understanding of this great and influential artist.” Ms Nolan said the exhibition was curated especially for Brisbane by Céline Chicha-Castex, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Prints, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and independent ... More |
| David Hockney returns to his native Yorkshire in A Bigger Picture by filmmaker Bruno Wollheims | | Barry Flanagan's 'Built like a tree, flows like a river' at Richard Saltoun in London | | James Hughes-Hallet to succeed Nicholas Ferguson as Chairman of the Courtauld Institute of Art | 
The DVD features a longer 60? version of the documentary and 55 minutes of additional behind-the-scenes material in the form of four films. The DVD is available for purchase from Amazon.
SAN JOSE, CA.- David Hockney: Bigger Picture is film-maker Bruno Wollheim’s account of David Hockney’s return to his native Yorkshire, after 25 years of living in California. Filmed over three years, it finds the artist at a crisis point in his life and art. Hockney has come back to oil painting after a six-year break, for the first time working outside, directly from nature, en plein air. At the age of 70, he is painting through the seasons and in all weathers. He also wants to be filmed at work – another first. It emerges that Hockney wants to co-opt the documentary on an anti-photographic mission to prove the superiority of painting as visual truth. His recent work on the controversial book and film Secret Knowledge has convinced him that Western art for the last 500 years has embraced a photographic view of the world, and that he must abandon the camera, up to then the mainstay of his art. The film traces Hockney’s uneasy love affair with photography and ... More | | 
Barry Flanagan in collaboration with Karsten Schubert, Built like a tree, flows like a river 1980. Photo: Courtesy of Karsten Schubert and Richard Saltoun.
LONDON.- Built like a tree, flows like a river is a major sculpture made by Barry Flanagan employing for the last time some of the artistic strategies that had made his reputation as one of the leading sculptors of the1960s and ’70s. The sculpture has been exhibited only once, in France, at the time of its making. Shortly after Flanagan would turn to the subject of hares. Made from cotton fabric and granite, Built like a tree, flows like a river was commissioned for the exhibition Europe 80 in Lyon, which included Mario Merz, Guilio Paoloni, and Bernd and Hilla Becher, amongst others. An overview of the avant-garde in Europe at the beginning of the decade – stressing artistic positions that insisted on independence from a dominant American aesthetic – each of the artists was invited to Lyon to produce a work on-site. Flanagan’s sculpture draws on the geography and history of Lyon, one of only three towns in Europe to be located at the confluence of three rive ... More | | 
James Hughes-Hallett’s experience in Asia chimes perfectly with the recent establishment of The Courtauld’s two new faculty teaching and research posts in Asian art history. Photo: © Jon Kempner.
LONDON.- The Board of The Courtauld Institute of Art announces that James Hughes-Hallett has been appointed Chairman as successor to The Courtauld’s first Chairman, Nicholas Ferguson, who retires from the post in July 2012 after ten years of outstanding leadership. James Hughes-Hallett is Chairman of John Swire & Sons Ltd, as well as a director of Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Swire Pacific Ltd and James Finlay Ltd. Born in 1949, James Hughes-Hallett graduated from Oxford University in 1970 with a degree in English Literature. He joined the Swire group in 1976 since when he has held various management positions in the group’s operations in Japan, Taiwan, Australia and Hong Kong. He was Chairman of Swire Pacific Ltd and Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd from 1999 to 2004 and assumed his current responsibilities in London in 2005. He joined the board of HSBC Holdings later that year as an independent non ... More |
| Band signed copy of 1964 Meet The Beatles expected to bring $75,000+ in HA.'s Music & Entertainment event | | German artist Thomas Demand's installation in the Städel Museum's Metzler Hall | | Haus der Kunst chooses Base Design to develop a new visual identity for the museum | 
Beatles Autographed Meet The Beatles LP (Capitol T 2047, 1964). Estimate: $75,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- An original copy of 1964's Meet the Beatles, signed by all the members of the Fab Four, is expected to bring $75,000+ when it comes to auction on Dec. 13 as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions' Music & Entertainment Signature(r) Auction. "An original pressing of this classic album is cool enough in-and-of itself, given that it introduced so many millions to the timeless music of The Beatles," said Garry Shrum, Consignment Director of Music & Entertainment Auctions at Heritage. "Add the autographs of all four members of the band and you have one of the great Beatles collectibles of all time." The album was given to Dr. Jules Gordon, the "house doctor" of New York's Plaza Hotel in February 1964 by none other than George Harrison himself. The quiet Beatle had been treated by Dr. Gordon and, in appreciation, George gave the good doctor this signed album. The doctor immediately gave his son, Jeffrey, this treasu ... More | | 
A woman walks through the historic Metzler Hall re-designed by German artist Thomas Demand inside the Staedel Museum. EPA/FRANK RUMPENHORST.
FRANKFURT.- The internationally renowned German artist Thomas Demand (born in Munich in 1964) will realize a site-specific room-spanning work in the Städel Museum’s historical Metzler Hall in the context of the institution’s structural and thematic extension. The installation “Saal” (Hall, 2011) covers all four walls of the 240-square-meter event space with an illusionistic crimson curtain which reveals itself as an optical illusion on closer inspection. Spanning a wall area of 380 square meters, “Saal” is the largest work conceived by Demand for a museum to date. “Encompassing moments of the past and the present, Thomas Demand’s works are concerned with the reality and transformation of visual memory. What we found particularly appealing in this context was inviting the artist to deal with a historical building that houses an important collection of ... More | | 
Base Design, new visual identity for Haus der Kunst, simulation of Bus shelter, 2011.
MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst announces the selection of BASE DESIGN to develop a new Visual Identity for the museum. The comprehensive proposal for a completely redesigned visual identity system presented by BASE DESIGN, which has offices in Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, New York, and Santiago de Chile, was selected after an international search in which six design agencies from five different countries participated. The jury comprised of members of the Haus der Kunst staff, and the board of the museum. Based on the idea of elasticity, the agency's proposal for Haus der Kunst elaborates a concept based on the qualities of flexibility, resilience, and adaptability. The visual system is initially founded on a morphing wordmark with irregular spacing inside the letters, which in turn seeks to address the strong neo-classical features of the architecture through the malleability of the identity ... More |
| Art Miami closes with record attendance of 55,000 and significant sales of blue-chip artists | | The Crisis Commission contemporary art greats unite for landmark exhibition to help homeless people | | Early Marilyn Monroe photos by Joseph Jasgur sell for over $300,000 at Julien's Auctions | 
Cyril Power's "The Eight" which sold by Osborne Samuel for approximately $150,000.
MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami, the city’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the City of Miami, announced a new record attendance of 55,000 and significant sales of blue-chip artists at the close of the five-day fair. Many galleries also reported strong leads from high-profile collectors, museum professionals and curators that will continue to foster sales in the days and weeks following Art Miami. Distinguished for its quality, depth and diversity, the 22nd edition of Art Miami presented an incredible showcase of extraordinary modern and contemporary art from 110 international art galleries. “The year’s fair has exceeded all of our expectations, from the vast array of high-quality works and extraordinary galleries to a record number of important sales,” said Nick Korniloff, Director of Art Miami. “The high volume of transactions and record attendance at Art Miami are also strong ... More | | 
Antony Gormley © Lars Gundersen.
LONDON.- The Crisis Commission sees some of the most celebrated artists of our day unite to bring major new works to a spectacular exhibition and auction in Spring 2012. The landmark event will be a highlight of London’s art scene, bringing together contemporary artists of the highest calibre who have rarely, if ever, exhibited together before. The exhibition takes place in one of London’s most prestigious venues, Somerset House, 14th March – 22nd April 2012. A following auction of exhibited works will take place at Christie’s on Thursday 3rd May, with all proceeds going to Crisis, the UK’s national charity for single homeless people. The cost of creating works to fill a wing of Somerset House will be met by lead sponsor GlaxoSmithKline. Leslie Morphy, Chief Executive of Crisis said: “We are thrilled that so many leading contemporary artists are participating in the Crisis Commission. This pres ... More | | 
1946 file image taken by photographer Joseph Jasgur of Norma Jean Dougherty. AP Photo/Julien's Auctions, Joseph Jasgur.
BEVERLY HILLS (AP).- Copyrights and images from Marilyn Monroe's first photo shoot sold for $352,000 at an auction that included items from Lady Gaga and John Lennon. Julien's Auctions spokeswoman Caroline Galloway tells The Associated Press on Sunday that the Monroe photos — taken in 1946 when she was still Norma Jeane Dougherty — were the highlight of the Beverly Hills auction known as "Icons & Idols" The photos come with negatives and the rare right to sell and distribute them. A judge in September ruled they must be auctioned to settle debts of photographer Joseph Jasgur. Before she was Marilyn Monroe a young Norma Jeane Dougherty wrote to her foster mother, Grace Goddard, to describe a meeting with army photographers, specifically David Conover and her burgeoning modeling career. The ... More |
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 EB&Flow present an exhibition of new work from Threadneedle Prize 2011 Visitor's Choice Winner LONDON.- This December, EB&Flow present an exhibition of new work from Threadneedle Prize 2011 Visitor’s Choice Winner, Nicholas McLeod. McLeod’s meticulously painted sinister landscapes of abandoned places, wastelands and crime scenes employ a sense of power and energy. McLeod’s work investigates how a quotidian setting can easily become threatening; fictional scenes indicate that some event has taken place, or is just about to, but nothing is explicitly revealed. In depicting abandoned clapboard houses, disused water parks and remote farms, a general atmosphere of darkness and unease is apparent although not prescribed. Badlands was created using source material gathered from films, documentaries and the internet as part of McLeod’s ongoing documentation of contrastingly banal yet ominous crime scene images. McLeod’s paintings often create a mood of isolation and all of his ... More Emilio Ambasz, Inventions: architecture and design at the Museo Reina Sofia MADRID.- Emilio Ambasz, an Argentine architect and graphic and industrial designer, strives in his projects to "give poetic form to the practical" and he is considered one of the most important forerunners of what is known today as "green architecture." Convinced that any architecture project that does not try to propose new or better forms of existence is not very ethical, Ambasz designs organic spaces that seek harmonious integration between construction and nature, between architecture and landscape, either by burying the buildings, completely or partially, or by taking vegetation to its façades and/or roofs and indoor areas. Emilio Ambasz places great importance on reconciling building and urban-planning needs with respect for the environment and ecological sustainability. For this reason his projects make a priority of giving back to the community all the land occupied, by creating green areas which, in contrast to the ... More Treasures from the Imprimerie Nationale on public view at the Grolier Club in New York NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Grolier Club of New York will devote both its upper and lower galleries to an unprecedented public exhibition on the history of the French national typographic and printing establishment, the Imprimerie Nationale, arguably the most important printing house in Europe. Drawn from the ancient, vast, and comprehensive archives of the Imprimerie Nationale, Printing for Kingdom, Empire, & Republic will document the significant influence of the press, not only on printing and the book arts, but also on French — and therefore European — literary culture from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day. The exhibition has been organized by The Grolier Club and the Groupe Imprimerie Nationale, S.A., with administrative and organizational support from the Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine, France’s largest archive of authorial and publishing materials. The exhibition has been cura ... More Inaugural Palm Springs Fine Art Fair to contemporary art to America's mid-century cultural capital PALM SPRINGS, CA.- Hampton Expo Group announces the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, a sparkling new addition to its growing family of art fairs, February 17-19, 2012, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Featuring more than fifty top international art galleries exhibiting more than 2,000 carefully-culled works of post-war and contemporary art, the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair appeals to the sophisticated collector and casual fan alike. Punctuated by an Opening Preview Party on February 16, 2012, as well as an exquisite program of special events and exhibitions throughout the run of the show, the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair is a Presidents Day weekend retreat for art lovers near and far. Palm Springs has long been a hidden gem of post-war art and culture. Located in the American Southwest's stunning Sonoran Desert, just two hours east of Los Angeles, Palm Springs is a warm winter cultural oasis, boasting the highly rega ... More New book by one of the "new talent" discoveries at Houston FotoFest this year HOUSTON, TX.- In her highly evocative and personal first monograph, Historia, memoria y silencios (Schilt Publishing, February 2012), Argentinian artist Lorena Guillén Vaschetti ponders what the family photograph reveals about our past, and most importantly, what is hidden beyond the frame. In 2009, Vaschetti’s mother threw away all the family slides to protect her daughter from the family history. Vaschetti was able to recover only one box from the many that her mother had discarded. She re-photographed the contents from her perspective, choosing to leave the slides that were wrapped in packages unopened. A collection of these beautiful, and often haunting images in which Vaschetti re-writes her own past, is published here for the first time in this intimate and exquisitely designed volume. The book begins with a carefully chosen sequence of photographs of the loose slides Vaschetti found in the box. The artist ... More |
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