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Morrison Heckscher, center, the Chairman of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, raises his piece from the ceremonial ribbon cutting, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. The wing is scheduled to reopen Monday Jan. 16, 2012 after its $100-million renovation. In background is the restored “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. AP Photo/Richard Drew.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum’s collection of American art, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, returns to view in expanded, reconceived, and dramatic new galleries on January 16, 2012, when the Museum inaugurates the New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts. The new installation will provide visitors with a rich and captivating experience of the history of American art from the 18th through the early 20th century. The suite of elegant new galleries encompasses 30,000 square feet for the display of the Museum’s superb collection. This final phase of the American Wing renovation project is comprised of 26 renovated and enlarged galleries on the second floor. The new architectural design ... More |
| Paintings, drawings, and a sculpture by artist Jason Fox at Peter Blum Chelsea | | New York lawsuit: Andy Warhol Foundation's banana use is unappealing to the Velvet Undergroud | | Poster Auctions International to host specialty sale of over 400 food & wine related vintage posters | 
Jason Fox, Untitled Lake, 2011. Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 48 x 36 in (121.9 x 91.4 cm). Photo: Courtesy Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum presents the exhibition Jason Fox: Eating Symbols, opening on January 12th at Peter Blum Chelsea, 526 West 29th Street, New York. This is Jason Fox’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. For this exhibition, Jason Fox presents paintings, drawings, and a sculpture that bridge together previous bodies of work. As suggested by the exhibition title, Fox plays with a wide range of influences from Abstract Expressionism via the celebrity portraits of Warhol to Cave painting born from A.R. Penck’s timeless alphabet. The paintings create a dialogue between pop culture, religious icons, and abstraction. All the work shares an interest in transparency, and symbols caught in various states of transformation between abstraction and figuration. The paintings can be loosely grouped into three series. In the first layers of water satur- ... More | | 
"The Banana Album".
By: Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Legendary rock band The Velvet Underground sued the Andy Warhol Foundation on Wednesday, saying the banana design created by Warhol and used by group on its first album cover in 1967 should not be used by or sold for use by others. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan claimed the foundation slipped up when it licensed the design for use on iPhone and iPad products and has ignored repeated requests to stop licensing the banana image. The lawsuit cited the success of the group's first record, saying it became known as "The Banana Album" because of the design and it has since become a symbol of The Velvet Underground. It asked a judge to declare that the foundation has no copyrights in the design because it is in the public domain and that the band be awarded any profits the foundation has received. A message for comment left ... More | | 
This visual feast covers every facet of gastronomica.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Sunday, February 12, Poster Auctions International will host a specialty sale of over 400 food & wine related vintage posters. A veritable history of eating and drinking through advertising will be offered, from the whimsical charm of Art Nouveau to the striking boldness of Art Deco to the simplicity of Modern design, all celebrating the culinary arts. This visual feast covers every facet of gastronomica, including original advertisements from the past 150 years for wine, beer, champagne, bitters, liqueur, bottled water, juice, coffee, tea, port, bread, sugar, canned goods, fruit, olive oil, ketchup, cereal, biscuits, crackers, fish, butter, yoghurt, cheese, chocolate, and a myriad of other delectable treats. Posters advertising food & wine are some of the most iconic designs of the 19th and 20th centuries, visually expressing the universal joy of eating. Whether you are a college student surviving on ... More |
| Intensely focused survey of Sean Scully's work opens at Timothy Taylor Gallery | | "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin returns to Stanford University after two years on loan | | Turner and his Contemporaries celebrate Abbot Hall Art Gallery's fiftieth anniversary | 
Sean Scully, Horizontals #1, 1975. Acrylic, tape, ink and graphite on paper, 21 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches. Courtesy Neo Neo Inc, New York. Photo © Sean Scully.
LONDON.- The Drawing Center presents Sean Scully: Change and Horizontals, which begins its transcontinental tour at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, from January 13–February 11, 2012, then travels to the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, from March 2–July 8, 2012, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome from March 14 to June 9, 2013, and The Drawing Center, New York, from September 26–November 10, 2013. This intensely focused survey is comprised of acrylic, ink, graphite, and masking-tape drawings from 1974–75—presented together for the first time in over 30 years—as well as two large-scale paintings from the same period and the artist’s personal notebooks. Selected from two distinct series, the Change and Horizontals drawings—executed in London and New York respectively—highlight the importance of color and form within Scully’s abstractions. Color is ... More | | 
Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1880-81, Bronze. Georges Rudier Foundry, 10/12. Posthumous cast authorized by Musée Rodin, 1972. Cantor Arts Center Stanford University.
STANFORD, CA.- “The Thinker” returns to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University after two years on loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art. Starting Jan. 25, the public can again view this iconic work by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). During his lifetime, Rodin was compared to Michelangelo and was widely recognized as the greatest artist of the era. His most famous works, “The Kiss” and “The Thinker,” are often used outside the world of fine art as symbols of human emotion and character. First created in a smaller size for “The Gates of Hell,” this figure was one of the first that Rodin conceived for his greatest masterpiece, as seen at the top of “The Gates of Hell” in the B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture at the Cantor Arts Center. Rodin thought of the poet Dante as he began the sculpture, but the work evolved beyond the initial reference to rep ... More | | 
John Sell Cotman, A Windmill, c. 1828. © The Hickman Bacon Collection.
CUMBRIA.- As part of its Fiftieth Anniversary, Abbot Hall Art Gallery will be exhibiting a selection of outstanding works from the magnificent collection assembled by one man, Sir Hickman Bacon (1855-1945), almost 100 years ago. It is probably the most important private holding of British eighteenth and nineteenth century watercolours in the world, and now, thanks to the generosity of the present owners, more than 40 of these masterpieces (including eighteen Turners) will be on show in Cumbria, an area that played a crucial role in the development of watercolour as the medium of choice for the itinerant artist in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. At the heart of the show will be the towering figure of JMW Turner (1775-1851) who, pushed to ever greater heights through his association with his contemporary, Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), transformed the medium and raised the humble watercolour to a technical a ... More |
| New group of prints by Canadian photographer Robert Bourdeau at Edwynn Houk Gallery | | Full emotional ranges of Weegee's photographs explored in exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery | | Portraits / Self-Portraits from the 16th to the 21st Century at Sperone Westwater | 
Robert Bourdeau, Lorraine, France, 1999. © Robert Bourdeau/Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Edwynn Houk Gallery is exhibiting a new group of prints by the renowned Canadian photographer, Robert Bourdeau (b 1931). This will be his second exhibition at the gallery and the first since his election to the prestigious Order of Canada and the publication of his retrospective monograph printed in 2011 by the Magenta Foundation and the Stephen Bulger Gallery, “The Station Point.” The “station point” is a term coined by Bourdeau himself, that fleeting moment when a photograph comes into being, when all the elements align – the light, the subject within the viewfinder, and the photographer himself. Bourdeau’s landscapes and sweeping vistas delicately and intricately focus on a man-made object within nature and nature’s eventual reclamation, be it either an abandoned factory of the Industrial Era, an overgrown and barely visible Buddhist shrine, or dwellings dwarfed by the r ... More | | 
Weegee, Emmett Kelly, May 7, 1943. Photo: Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery presents Weegee: Naked City in conjunction with two major specifically-focused Weegee exhibitions, Weegee: Naked Hollywood at MoCA and Weegee: Murder is My Business at the ICP. With over 125 Weegee prints the gallery explores the full emotional and satirical and aesthetic ranges of Weegee's photographs of New Yorkers and other urbanites. The exhibition features multiple prints from each of Weegee's basic subjects: Song and Dance, Drink, Party, Spectacle, Circus, Love and Sex, Crime and Disaster, Citizens, Celebrity, Art and Weegee Himself. The exhibition also features audio and film recordings of Weegee's voice, one of the great guttural Jewish NewYorkese hybrids of spoken English. The exhibition takes its cues from the title of Weegee's first book, Naked City, which became a bestseller, made Weegee famous, and transformed him from a journalist into ... More | | 
Jacopino del Conte, (Florence 1510 – Rome 1598) Portrait of a man with a glove. Oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches (75 x 59 cm). Photo: Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of portrait and self-portrait paintings by notable European and American artists from the sixteenth century to the present. This survey includes Old Master paintings from Italy, France, England, and The Netherlands, as well as works by modern and contemporary artists. The breadth of the works in Portraits/Self-Portraits demonstrates that portraiture has been an on-going and reoccurring theme in art history, especially in Western culture, for centuries. The earliest portraits were created to illustrate physical or material attributes of the sitter, which historically included nobility, family, friends, lovers, and the self. According to Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art – who has written the essay for the Portraits ... More |
| David Lamelas re-examines and expands on previous works in new show at Maccarone Gallery | | Bonhams open office in Dublin, appoint Gayatri Juneja as new representative in India | | Exhibition explores the interaction between Europe and the rest of the world over the course of 2,500 years | 
“Corner Piece” is re-examined and expanded upon in four variations of the original. Photo: Courtesy Maccarone Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- International artist David Lamelas was born in Argentina in 1946, at 21 immigrated to England and then to Los Angeles in the late 1970’s. His works examine the limitations of space, temporality, and the possibilities of creating alternative processes of communication. His 1968 transformation of the Argentinian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale spurred his fascination with travel, modes of discourse and singularity. Lamelas exhibits a site-specific installation at Maccarone Gallery-evidence of an evolving process begun in the mid-1960s with his “Corner Pieces.” Ideas collected through an embryonic process of deassociation, objectivity and documentation are put to task in a series of architectural interventions cutting through and around the structure of the gallery. “Corner ... More | | 
Bonhams agent in Ireland, Jane Beattie. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, this week announced that it is taking new office space in one of the most prestigious parts of Dublin, 31 Molesworth Street. This Georgian townhouse provides a suite of offices on two floors with direct access from the street (ground and 1st floor). Before the office opens officially later this year it will undergo refurbishment to bring it up to an `as new’ standard to provide the best possible space to display art to its best advantage. The building provides 142.5sq metres and features a large ground floor office, a private meeting room for valuations, and first floor exhibition rooms. It maintains many of its original period features and is located in a handsome Georgian terrace in the heart of Dublin City centre in what has historically been a main thoroughfare for leading art galleries, antique shops and salerooms. Bonhams agent in Ireland, Jane Beattie, com ... More | | 
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (L) and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (R) arrive for the opening of the exhibition
COPENHAGEN.- The National Museum in Copenhagen opened its doors to a new temporary exhibition with the title “Europe meets the World”. This exhibition depicts the interaction – good and bad – between Europe and the rest of the world. "In nomine domini” (in the name of the Lord) is the inscription on the blade of a sword that is one of the items exhibited. The sword was probably made to be used in the Crusades and is a very good illustration of how, for many centuries, Europeans met the surrounding world – not only during the Crusades, but also in the times that followed. The major voyages of discovery from Portugal and Spain in particular put the world at Europe’s feet. When they encountered new, foreign cultures in South America, for example, the Europeans’ unshakeable religious faith, mixed ... More |
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 Poppy Sebire presents a single-projection show-reel of short films and videos LONDON.- The artists participating in ‘Other Surfaces’, a single-projection show-reel of short films and videos, are essentially known for materially hands-on approaches to making. While there are some obvious points of connection -- few appear concerned with the conventions of the medium -- it’s unlikely they would ever be shown together as a group of object and mark makers. Yet, however diverse each individual line of enquiry, all use video as a research tool as much as a recording device: a means of finding other ways around the issues of representing ideas with things. This exhibition, sat somewhere between the screening and the group show, offers a quiet space in which to consider what these artists do, both behind and life-side of the lens. Vanessa Billy pushes the physical and associative limits of the materials and modes of display at her disposal. The poetic relationships that result from the artist’s placement ... More Tate and National Galleries of Scotland appoint new managing curator for artist rooms LONDON.- Tate and National Galleries of Scotland have appointed Amy Dickson as the new Managing Curator of ARTIST ROOMS. Amy Dickson has been an Assistant Curator at Tate Modern since 2005 and started her new role on 9 January 2012. Amy will be based in London and Edinburgh and will manage ARTIST ROOMS, the inspirational collection of modern and contemporary donated in 2008 by Anthony d’Offay to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Amy has worked on many exhibition projects at Tate Modern including Cildo Meireles, Gauguin: Maker of Myth and most recently, Gerhard Richter: Panorama. She is also writing a book on Richter in the Modern Artists series for Tate Publishing, which will be published next year. She takes over from Lucy Askew who is now a Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Amy Dickson commented: "I am delighted to be taking up the position ... More Blindspot Gallery presents "Memory and Fiction" by Wong Wo Bik HONG KONG.- Blindspot Gallery presents “Memory and Fiction”, featuring Wong Wo Bik, one of Hong Kong’s most accomplished photographers, as well as one of a small number of female photographers active in the territory. The retrospective exhibition features selected works of Wong dated from the 1980s, including photographs of Hong Kong's historical and notable landmarks, such as Lai Yuen Amusement Park and the Eu family mansions that were now demolished, and the Main Building of the University of Hong Kong. Since the 1980s, Wong took all possibilities to photograph historical architecture threatened by demolition in Hong Kong. “I paid particular attention to landmarks or buildings that were not considered 'built heritage', but carried historical significance or were once frequented by locals. Because their demolition was inevitable, the only thing I could do was to document them photographically. It ... More Art Quilts: Contemporary expressions from the collection of John M. Walsh III at the Morris Museum MORRISTOWN, N.J.- More than 35 art quilts from the collection of New Jersey resident John M. Walsh III will be on view at the Morris Museum from January 13 through April 25, 2010. Representing the creative genius of highly skilled and academically trained studio artists, Art Quilts: Contemporary Expressions from the Collection of John M. Walsh III explores the intriguing fusion of materials and techniques that are redefining the contemporary quilt movement. The artists whose work appears in this exhibition have pioneered innovative design and construction techniques, transforming textiles into objects of phenomenal expressive depth. This exhibition celebrates art quilts as compelling works of art. These quilts were created by highly skilled and academically trained studio artists who have pioneered innovative design and construction techniques, transforming textiles into objects of phenomenal expressive ... More Beautiful Potential: Uri Aran, Shane McCarthy and Anna Sagstrõm at mother's tankstation DUBLIN.- The title for the opening show of the 2012 season at mother’s tankstation, Beautiful Potential, is based upon a corruption of the title from one of the show’s premising installations; Beautiful Expectation, by Shane McCarthy (born Ireland, 1988). McCarthy’s eternally ‘incomplete’ installation (or more exactly; a carefully arranged sculptural installation about the poetry of incompletion or unfinishedness), attempts to deny the permanence of resolution by an apparent perpetuation of the possible. The text, Beautiful Expectation, appears to hover, luminously, somewhere just proud of the surface of a wall. Its intangible promise constituted by nothing (literally) other than pure light, neither the expected neon, paint nor applied vinyl, its diffused, auratic presence is, however surrounded by hard, real things, the objects and events of its creation; a stepladder, various scattered to ... More |
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