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| | Woman damages painting worth more than $30M at Denver's new Clyfford Still Museum
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The painting before it was allegedly damaged by Carmen Tisch, 36, on Dec. 29, 2011. Tisch is accused of damaging the painting, valued at between $30 million and $40 million. Prosecutors say restoring the painting will cost an estimated $10,000. Tisch was in jail with bond set at $20,000. AP Photo/Clyfford Still Museum.
By: Steven K. Paulson, Associated Press
DENVER (AP).- Investigators are trying to determine why a woman caused $10,000 worth of damage to a large expressionist painting at the Clyfford Still Museum by punching and scratching it, then removing her pants and sliding down the artwork. Carmen Tisch, 36, faces charges of criminal mischief in the Dec. 29 attack on the painting, said district attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough. The painting, referred to as 1957-J-No. 2, is valued at more than $30 million. The large montage of black, white and burnt orange swaths with a sliver of yellow is from Still's middle period. Museum officials said they believe security is adequate for the facility and that they regularly evaluate security to protect the collection and visitors. Museum spokeswoman Regan Petersen said in a statement that its guards "acted swiftly and appropriately; the police were summoned immediately and the offender was taken into ... More |
| Christie's January sale "The Art of France" celebrates 18th century French paintings | | Pablo Picasso painting of Notre-Dame to highlight Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction | | Rare and rediscovered paintings lead Christie's Old Master paintings and drawings sales | 
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris), The Good Mother. Oil on canvas, oval, 19¼ x 15 3/8 in. (48.9 x 39.2 cm.). Est: $5,000,000-7,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Following the sale of Old Master Paintings on January 25, 2012 at 2pm, Christie’s will hold a specialized sale, The Art of France, dedicated to 18th century French paintings including a rich selection of works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, among others. That same afternoon, at 5pm, Christie’s will present a sale of Wines of France. Leading the sale is one of the most beautiful of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s (Grasse 1732–1806 Paris) small-scale domestic scenes, The Good Mother (estimate: $5-7 million). This oval-shaped painting pairs its harmonious subject with a composition that envelops the happy family in the natural yet domesticated surroundings of a verdant park with banks of hollyhocks and summer flowers, sparkling Mediterranean light and an arching bower. Similar in ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Notre-Dame de Paris. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Alongside the beautiful Jeune fille aux cheveux noirs by Amedeo Modigliani (£700,000-1,000,000), Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction on 7th February 2012 at 101 New Bond Street, London, includes an exciting selection of works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Candido Portinari and Carlos Nadal. A stunning painting of Notre Dame de Paris by Pablo Picasso is a highlight. Here Picasso has taken a subject he knows well, via his walks to, and the view from, his studio, but he chooses to challenge the truth in order to explore artistic aims other than realism. He toys with the artistic conventions of perspective and scale to leave the viewer separated from reality and immersed instead into Picasso's own pictorial truth. Dated 1954, it is one of his later landscapes, but it shows the influence of his earlier experiments with Cubism. By October 1954, when it was completed, the artist wa ... More | | 
Hans Memling (Seligenstadt 1430/40-1494 Bruges), The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child. Oil and gold on panel, circular, 6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) diameter. Est: $6,000,000-8,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s announces its upcoming auctions of Old Master Paintings and Old Master Drawings on January 25-26, 2012, offering a superb selection of rarities, rediscoveries and masterpieces. The sales will be led by a graceful tondo painting of The Virgin Nursing the Christ Child by Hans Memling, one of two works by this artist remaining in private hands, and a dazzling, light-filled oil sketch of The Arrival of Henri III at the Villa Contarini (c. 1744–45) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a major work made to commemorate an historic event. The sales are also distinguished by the inclusion of works by Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, Thomas de Keyser, Gerrit Dou and Giuseppe Arcimboldo that are fresh to the market, having come to light again after generations ... More |
| Time cloak created: How an art thief can walk into a museum and steal a painting | | New Hampshire dealer selling 1878 Alexander Graham Bell note with phone sketch | | Photojournalist Eve Arnold, first woman admitted into Magnum agency, dies at 99 | 
Scientists demonstrate how they have have created, a new invisibility technique. AP Photo/Heather Deal, Cornell University.
By: Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker. Think of it as an art heist that takes place before your eyes and surveillance cameras. You don't see the thief strolling into the museum, taking the painting down or walking away, but he did. It's not just that the thief is invisible — his whole activity is. What scientists at Cornell University did was on a much smaller scale, both in terms of events and time. It happened so quickly that it's not even a blink of an eye. Their time cloak lasts an incredibly tiny fraction of a fraction of a second. They hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second, according to a study appearing in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature. We see events happening as light from them reaches our eyes. Usually it's a continuous flow of light. In the new research, however, scientists were able to ... More | | 
A page of an 1878 letter sent to his parents by Alexander Graham Bell. AP Photo/RRAuction.
By: Lynne Tuohy, Associated Press
CONCORD (AP).- A New Hampshire dealer is auctioning an 1878 letter from Alexander Graham Bell to his parents instructing them to ground the telephone he invented by running a copper wire from their house to the duck pond. The seven-page letter contains two drawings by Graham of the phone and how to run its elaborate wiring system to avoid harm from lightning strikes. Bell was responding to a letter from his parents telling him about how a lightning strike had damaged their wiring between several poles. Bell writes that he was "quite troubled" by the news and proceeds to instruct them how to avoid such an incident in the future. "If you have good connection with a permanently moist stratum of earth, you need never fear lightning and your posts will be safe," Bell writes. His drawing shows a long strand of wire running to a rectangular box, above which is written, "Bury in duck pond." The letter is more than a tutorial on how to ground his new invention. He opens with "My dear P ... More | | 
File photo of photographer Eve Arnold. AP Photo/PA, David Cheskin.
By: Jill Lawless, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- Eve Arnold, a world-traveling photojournalist whose subjects ranged from the poor and dispossessed to Marilyn Monroe, has died, the Magnum photo agency said Thursday. She was 99. Magnum spokeswoman Fiona Rogers said Arnold died peacefully Wednesday in a London nursing home. Born in Philadelphia in April 1912 to Russian immigrant parents, Arnold lived on Long Island when she became interested in photography while working in a photofinishing lab. After taking a six-week photography course at the New School for Social Research in New York, she began her career in the 1940s, working for publications including Picture Post, Time and Life magazine during a golden age of magazine photojournalism. Her subjects included migrant laborers, New York bartenders, Cuban fishermen and Afghan nomads; celebrities such as Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor; and political figures including Jacqueline Kennedy, Malcolm X and Margaret Thatcher. Arnold was renowned for her rapport with t ... More |
| Georgia Museum of Art announces receipt of collection of American art by African American artists | | PBS announces new reality competition show from the producers of Antiques Roadshow | | Creative Spirit: Outstanding examples of the Art of David C. Driskell at DC Moore Gallery | 
Radcliffe Bailey (American, b. 1968), Untitled, 1996. Acrylic on paper and photo, 30 x 22 1/2 inches.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia announces Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson’s donation of a prominent collection of works by African American artists. The couple will also fund an endowment to support a new curatorial position at the museum known as the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of the African Diaspora. Larry Thompson announced the donation and endowment support at a panel discussion held at GMOA in conjunction with the exhibition “Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art” on March 24, 2011, part of the 50th-anniversary celebration of the desegregation of the University of Georgia. The agreement between the museum, UGA and the Thompsons was recently finalized and secured an initial donation of paintings, prints and sculpture by African American artists. The gift complements and enriches the original donation of 100 ... More | | 
File photo of Asian art expert and veteran "Antiques Roadshow." appraiser Lark Mason. AP Photo/WGBH.
PASADENA, CA.- PBS yesterday unveiled a new competition series from the producers of Antiques Roadshow: Market Wars, a 20-episode series, airing summer/fall 2012, that gives audiences a lesson in the bare-knuckles business of scoring a bargain. In each one-hour episode, professional antiques dealers put their reputations on the line — as they’re pitted against the clock, a budget and each other — and embark on nationwide treasure hunts, scouring flea markets and antiques shops for vintage valuables. The goal: to score the biggest profit in each show’s final auction segment. “Antiques Roadshow has been the leader in the popular antiques and collectibles genre for a long time,” said Marsha Bemko, Antiques Roadshow executive producer. “Market Wars turns its lens on the antiques experts themselves and the real, rough-and-tumble competition they face in the marketplace.” In each episode, four ant ... More | | 
David C. Driskell, Ancient Alphabets, 1990 (detail). Encaustic and collage on paper, 17 ½ x 22 in. Photo: Courtesy DC Moore Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the art of David Driskell and in honor of his eightieth birthday, DC Moore Gallery’s new exhibition, Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell, features outstanding examples of his work from more than five decades. In his paintings, drawings, and collages, Driskell unites a strong modernist impulse with personal vision, memory, and aspects of traditional culture. As an artist, scholar, and curator, he has made many contributions to the field that have changed the way we think about African American art. Organized by co-‐curators Julie L. McGee and Adrienne L. Childs for the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, the exhibition continues at DC Moore through February 4. Driskell’s work ... More |
| Bertoia's to auction the Richard T. Claus Collection of nautical toys and boats in May | | "The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011" celebrates bicentennial of audacious plan | | Peter Liversidge's new exhibition "Where We Begin" at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York | 
Antique toy boats from the Richard T. Claus collection are lining up for a two-part 2012 auction series at Bertoia’s in Vineland, N.J. Bertoia Auctions image.
VINELAND, NJ.- Bertoia Auctions, the New Jersey company that made international headlines with its $12.1 million five-part auction of the Donald Kaufman antique toy collection, is gearing up for yet another high-profile event. The company’s owner, Jeanne Bertoia, has confirmed that Bertoia’s will auction the renowned Richard T. “Dick” Claus collection of nautical toys and boats later this year. The collection will be divided into two parts, with part I to be auctioned on May 12. Part II will be offered in the fall. “We’re thrilled to be handling Dick Claus’ collection. It’s widely acknowledged as the best toy boat collection in America and rivals the finest of known antique boat collections in Europe,” said Jeanne Bertoia. The collection was documented in Claus’ 2005 reference book The Allure of Toy Ships: American & European Nautical Toys from the 19th and 20th Centuries. “In his book, Dick showcased his encyclopedic knowl ... More | | 
Thomas Howdell, A South East View of the City of New York in North America, ca. 1763 (detail). Museum of the City of New York, 51.48.2
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The first comprehensive exhibition to trace one of the most defining achievements in New York City’s history—the breathtaking vision, planning, and implementation of Manhattan’s iconic grid system—is now on view at the Museum of the City of New York. The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811—2011, on view through April 15, 2012, documents the development of the “Commissioners’ Plan,” which in 1811 specified numbered streets and avenues outlining equal rectangular blocks ranging from (today’s) Houston Street to 155th Street and from First Avenue to Twelfth Avenue. The exhibition, which is organized on the occasion of the bicentennial of the plan, elucidates, through remarkable maps, photographs, and other historic documents, this monumental infrastructure project—the city’s first such civic endeavor—which transformed New York throughout the 19 ... More | | 
Peter Liversidge, Installation view of Where We Begin at Sean Kelly Gallery, December 9, 2011 through January 28, 2012© Peter Liversidge. Photography: Jason Wyche, New York. Courtesy: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sean Kelly Gallery announces Peter Liversidge’s new exhibition, Where We Begin. From the earliest stages of his career, the genesis of Liversidge’s creative process has been the conceptually-based practice of developing proposals for artworks across a wide range of mediums, including performance, drawing, photography, video and neon. Liversidge types his proposals on an old, manual typewriter; complete with typographical errors and handwritten annotations, the proposals for Where We Begin describe ideas from the practical to the purely hypothetical, which, when viewed in totality, create a unique narrative specifically related to the forthcoming exhibition and the beginning of his relationship with the gallery. While all of the proposals for Where We Begin are displayed in the ... More |
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 2012 Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation PARIS.- Following the deliberations of the Contemporary Drawing Prize's committee, the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation has announced the names of the three selected artists for the 2012 award. Marc Bauer was born in 1975 in Geneva. He lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Ecole Supérieur d'Art Visuel of Geneva and was in residence at the Rijksakademie of Amsterdam, then the Swiss Institute in Rome. In 2009, he showed in the exhibition "Laque" at the Frac Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand. In 2011, he had a solo show at ReMap 3, in Athens, "History of Masculinity III: The Great expectation of M. H." Again in 2011, he was exhibited in group shows notably in "Le réel est inadmissible, d'ailleurs il n'existe pas" at the art centre of the Hangar à Bananes, Nantes and in the presentation of "Recent acquisitions of the Drawings Department" at the Centre Pompidou. He is represented by the galleries F ... More Titian's Diana and Actaeon goes on tour LONDON.- Titian's masterpiece Diana and Actaeon which was ArtFunded in 2009 is to go on tour before returning to the National Gallery for the exhibition Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. The painting was jointly acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery, London with funds donated from the Wolfson Foundation and the Art Fund. The work, with its pendant Diana and Callisto, is one of the most celebrated and admired paintings in the European tradition. It has influenced the work of generations of high-profile artists, from Velázquez and Rubens to Turner and Constable down to Lucian Freud. The fable of Diana and Actaeon is recounted by Ovid where the young huntsman Actaeon unwittingly came upon Diana and her nymphs bathing naked. Diana exacts a terrible revenge on the innocent Actaeon by transforming him into a stag, who is then devoured by his own loyal hunting dogs. ... More Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert present Zefrey Throwell Ocularpation: Wall Street NEW YORK, N.Y.- Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert present the exhibition Ocularpation: Wall Street by Zefrey Throwell, from January 6-February 11, 2012, featuring photographs, paintings, video, and sculpture. The exhibition centers around a large-scale continuous video projection of Ocularpation: Wall Street, created on August 1, 2011, in which 50 performers directed by Zefrey Throwell, gathered outdoors on Wall Street, stripped down to nothing, and began working in a call for transparency that caught fire and spread across the globe. The experience and documentation of Ocularpation informs the varied works in the exhibition. A series of acrylic paintings, using signature Wall Street blue trader jackets sewn together as the canvas, are collaged with photographs of the performances. Fifty sculptures of everyday objects, relating to the Wall Street professions (i.e. broom—janitorial, handcuffs—police, piggybank— b ... More Forum Gallery presents Out of Sight: Imaginary Landscapes by Tula Telfair NEW YORK, N.Y.- Forum Gallery presents Out of Sight: Imaginary Landscapes by Tula Telfair, an exhibition of twelve panoptic paintings that transport the viewer to emotive land formations derived entirely from the artist’s mind. Representing both a place and moment in time not reachable by mankind, these landscapes offer a private glance at the beauty and majesty of nature. In this new body of work, the artist introduces the viewer to sweeping landscapes dominated by the vagaries of weather. More than a single moment in time, each scene is a continuum that develops a narrative of the past, present and future, indicative of nature itself. Clouds gather, the sky grows dark and shadows spread over the land predicting the wrath of nature. A sense of suspense and wonder are evoked by these places Telfair constructs from her own memories and experiences. The places Telfair depicts are physically withdrawn from ... More Furor after New Jersey hometown removes Landon plaque COLLINGSWOOD (AP).- There's a bonanza of controversy and a big mess in a little New Jersey town over a decision to move a plaque honoring hometown celebrity Michael Landon. A bronze plaque was dedicated to the actor, writer and producer and star of TV's "Bonanza" and "Little House on the Prairie", who died of cancer in 1991 at 54. That plaque has been moved from a park, an act that has enraged fans who frequent a website dedicated to "Little House," and the New Jersey woman who raised the money for the memorial 15 years ago. Collingswood Mayor Jim Maley says it was a temporary move meant to make a park safe. Maley said it wasn't a show of disrespect for Landon, who had a famously rough childhood in the town and became best known for the characters he played on TV: Little Joe Cartwright on "Bonanza," Charles Ingalls in "Little House" and Jonathan Smith in "Highway to Heaven." "It was ... More Bonnie and Clyde guns to be auctioned in Missouri By: Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press
KANSAS CITY (AP).- Eighty years after their Depression-era robbery and murder spree captivated the country, Bonnie and Clyde continue to fascinate crime and history buffs. At least that's the hope of a Missouri family selling a pair of rare weapons believed to have been seized from the outlaw couple's Joplin hideout in 1933. The weapons are owned by the great-grandchildren of a Tulsa, Okla., police detective who was given them by a police officer involved in the April 13, 1933 raid. The .45-caliber , fully automatic Thompson submachine gun — better known as a Tommy gun — and 1897 Winchester 12-gauge shotgun had spent the past 40 years in relative historical obscurity, stored in a Springfield police museum that didn't acknowledge the cache's pop culture significance. "People ... More |
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