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| | Heroes, Kings, Saints: Pictures & Memories of Hungarian History opens at National Gallery
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks at the opening ceremony of an exhibition entitled 'Heroes, Kings, Saints - Pictures and Memories of Hungarian History' at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest. The exhibition was organised to celebrate Hungary's new constitution coming into effect on 01 January 2011. EPA/LAJOS SOOS.
BUDAPEST.- This display presents Hungarian history through pictures and at the same time is closely linked to the reorganization of the 19th century permanent collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. Built primarily on historical paintings and portraits, the exhibition parades the finest works of Hungarian artistry through the lines of the National Anthem and Summons. Historicism was the great trend in 19th century painting; it was seen as a genre capable of expressing with particular sensitivity the major turning points of Hungarian history, the battles of 1848-49, the years of repression and the transformation that attended the Compromise. The exhibition includes works that the general public has rarely had the opportunity of viewing ... More |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents Richard Aldrich's First Solo Museum Show | | Nearly lost archives of Warhol negatives find their fame aboard Seafair megayacht | | Uniforms, swords and long-barreled guns: Civil War museums changing as view on war changes | 
Richard Aldrich, Untitled, 2011; oil and wax on panel; 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.; collection of JK Brown and Eric Diefenbach; © Richard Aldrich. Images courtesy Bortolami Gallery, New York, New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Through March 25, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents New Work: Richard Aldrich, the first museum exhibition to feature work exclusively by Richard Aldrich. The presentation brings together an array of new paintings by the New York–based artist anchored by a selection of earlier pieces that show the diversity of his work and the expansive possibilities of painting itself. Organized by Gary Garrels, SFMOMA Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, the exhibition continues the museum's New Work series dedicated to featuring the most innovative expressions of contemporary art. Aldrich pursues an open-ended exploration of painting and uses its fundamental elements—canvas, stretcher bars, paint—to interrogate and celebrate the intellectual and sensual conundrums of the art form. Deeply aware of the historical precedents of abstract ... More | | 
The collection finds a new home aboard the SeaFair megayacht during Miami International Art Fair.
MIAMI, FL.- At the age of 81, fine art photographer William John Kennedy began an unprecedented journey and meteoric rise to fame. His recently published archive of negatives from 1963 and 1964, when he befriended and photographed rising stars Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, was quietly introduced to the public by publisher KIWI Arts Group as a collection of silver gelatin prints at a pop-up gallery in Miami Beach last December. After six stops in major international cities and debuting at SCOPE Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach, the collection finds a new home aboard the SeaFair megayacht during Miami International Art “MIA” Fair (January 12 – 16, Booth #312), a five day extravaganza of art and culture taking place along Miami’s waterfront. The curated, museum-style exhibition dubbed “Before They Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy” introduces the pivotal moments and players who shaped the course of American art in the second half ... More | | 
A portrait of General Robert E. Lee is seen at the Louisiana’s Civil War Museum in New Orleans. AP Photo/Louisiana's Civil War Museum, Claude Levet.
By: Mary Foster, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP).- Inside Louisiana's Civil War Museum, battle flags line the walls. Uniforms, swords and long-barreled guns fill museum cases beside homespun knapsacks, dented canteens and tiny framed pictures of wives that soldiers carried into battle. In the back, there's a collection devoted to Jefferson Davis, one-time president of the Confederacy, complete with his top hat and fancy shoes at the spot where his body once lay in state. It's all housed in a little red stone building next door to the bigger and much more heavily visited Ogden Museum of Southern Art and near the National World War II Museum. Yet 150 years after the Civil War, the little museum finds itself struggling — like others both in the North and South — to make changes and stay relevant with new generations. For some museums, that means more displays on African-Americans ... More |
| The World of Duncan Phyfe: The Arts of New York, 1800-1847 at Hirschl & Adler Galleries | | Morphy's Feb. 9-11 auction starts the company's New Year with toys, trains, advertising, superhero comics | | Late New York photographer Milton Rogovin's FBI file reveals scrutiny during era of paranoia | 
Attributed to Duncan Phyfe, Small Console Table with Lion Monopodia Support, about 1817-22. Rosewood, pine, gilded and painted verde antique, and ebony, with ormolu mounts, die-stamped brass inlay inset with rosewood, brass string inlay, mirror plate and marble, 36 ¼ high x 25 in. wide x 16 ½ in. deep. Photo: Eric W. Baumgartner.
NEW YORK, NY.- Duncan Phyfe (1768–1854), whose name is known to even those with the most casual interest in American art and American history, holds a prominent place in a list of those who have made significant contributions to the arts of the United States. During the course of a career of more than four decades in America, Phyfe’s shop produced extraordinary pieces of furniture for some of the wealthiest and most prominent figures of their time, in New York and beyond. In December 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a comprehensive exhibition that will ultimately travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, chronicling the life and work of Duncan Phyfe, Scottish émigré, with a thorough view of his work through four decades. In so doing, they will present the history of the popularity of Phyfe, ... More | | 
‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ No. 1 comic book, 1963, CGC-graded 8.5 with off-white pages. Est. $25,000-$30,000. Morphy Auctions image.
DENVER, PA.- More than 2,000 lots of antique toys, trains, advertising and rare comics are primed and ready to make their appearance Feb. 9-11 in Morphy Auctions’ first sale of 2012. All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet, with start times set for 10 a.m. on Thursday and Friday, and 9 a.m. for the Saturday session. The fun begins with 350+ lots of Coca-Cola and other soda pop advertising. Highlights include a 1929 Orange Crush calendar with full pad, est. $700-$1,200; a 1900 Coca-Cola serving tray, $3,000-$4,000; and a complete set of 10 original Coca-Cola advertising pocket mirrors from the years 1906-1916. The set is expected to fetch $1,800-$2,500. Following the soda pop section, there will be 150 general advertising lots, including an Ingraham Hills Liver Ticker reverse-on-glass clock with the image of a pretty girl, $3,000-$4,000; and a small grouping of dye cabinets, including examples promoting Peerless Dyes and Diamond Dyes. After a ... More | | 
File photo of photographer Milton Rogovin in the subway station where several of his photos hang in Buffalo, N.Y. AP Photo/David Duprey.
By: Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press
BUFFALO (AP).- Before photographer Milton Rogovin began documenting the lives of the poor and working class, the U.S. government was documenting Rogovin, relying on a network of informants in an era of paranoia toward suspected communists. "He is dangerous to the internal security because of his strong adherence to Marxist-Leninist principles," read an internal FBI memo dated April 8, 1968. It is one of more than 600 pages of material on Rogovin secretly compiled by the FBI from the 1940s to the 1970s. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the file with the approach of the first anniversary of Rogovin's Jan. 18, 2011 death at the age of 101. The file contains memos from former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, informant-provided chronologies of Rogovin's attendance and comments at Buffalo Communist Party meetings, handwriting samples ... More |
| Yerba Buena Center for the Arts selects Marc Bamuthi Joseph as Director of Performing Arts | | Exhibition of new works by German artist Birgit Brenner opens Marc Straus' new space | | Artists Charles Sowers transforms the facade of the Randall Museum with 500 wind-activated sculptures | 
Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Photo: Bethanie Hines Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts announced that, after an extensive nationwide search, leading Bay Area performing artist, activist and educator, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, has been selected as YBCA’s director of performing arts. Since 1999, Joseph has been the founding program director and artistic director of Youth Speaks, Inc. in San Francisco, the leading nonprofit presenter of spoken-word education and youth development programs in the country. Joseph also developed the Living Word Project, Youth Speaks’ renowned resident theater program that centers on cutting-edge, verse-based work, and, in 2001, started the organization’s Living World Festival, which takes place annually in the Bay Area and features new co-commissioned performance works, live music and outreach activities. In addition, he is the co-founder of Life is Living, a national series of one-day festivals designed to activate under-resourced ... More | | 
Birgit Brenner, Kurz vorher schlief sie noch mit ihm, 2011. Board, acrylic gloss, digital print, acrylic paint, oil, 137.8 x 118.11 in. © VG Bild-Kunst / Artist Rights Society. Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin. Courtesy of MARC STRAUS and Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus announces an exhibition of new works by German artist Birgit Brenner. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in the US and inaugurates the gallery's new space at 299 Grand Street (between Allen and Eldridge). For this, her first solo show in the U.S., Brenner has expanded her visual language with works not easily classified as painting, sculpture, or drawing. While structurally mining some Beuysian territory, Brenner's work is highly personal, concerned with social issues as loneliness, isolation, and aging. Some works evolve almost cinematically based on stories written by the artist. Humans experience difficult contradictions and are buffeted by uncertainities and fears. We make do, we rationalize, but always the remnants have resonance; ... More | | 
Windswept uses the power of the wind to create a kinetic sculpture that is engaging, fun and beautiful.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Arts Commission and the Randall Museum announce the installation of Windswept, a wind-driven kinetic façade by Charles Sowers. An artist and exhibit developer at the Exploratorium, Sowers has created thought-provoking, beautiful experiences for visitors for 15 years. Consisting of over 500 freely-rotating directional arrows, Windswept transforms a blank wall into a large-scale observational instrument that reveals the complex interactions between the wind and the environment. The artwork was funded by the Art Enrichment monies generated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's capital projects. A public dedication ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 4 at 10 a.m. with an Artist Talk to follow at 10:30 a.m. in the Museum's theater. "Windswept uses the power of the wind to create a kinetic sculpture that is engaging, fun and beautiful. Children ... More |
| Hi n Lo, Carrie Marill's latest body of work at Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale | | Joseph Montgomery's paintings, named in the sequential order, at Laurel Gitlen | | Jack Hanley Gallery presents exhibition of the San Francisco social activist and counter-cultural scene | 
Carrie Marill, JT 7 & 8, 2011, acrylic on linen, 21" x 17". Photo: Courtesy Lisa Sette Gallery.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- Exquisitely attuned to the graphic signals of the universe, painter Carrie Marill translates the ephemera of the visual world into intriguing and sophisticated works. The artist’s unflinching aesthetic curiosity threads through series inspired by such disparate influences as 18th century European landscapes and Asian textile design. Hi n Lo, Marill’s latest body of work, addresses a question that struck her after a trip to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and, subsequently, the American Folk Art Museum: “Why is an Op Art piece valued as ‘high’ art and an intricate quilt considered ‘low’?” "The theme centers around this idea of blending the two worlds. What if Joseph Albers was a quilter or Gee's Bend quilts turned into Abstract Expressionist paintings?" - Carrie Marill Comprised of works that explore the significant commonalities between these traditions, the works of Hi n Lo revel in the uses of pattern--the e ... More | | 
Joseph Montgomery, Image One Hundred Twenty-Seven, 2009–2011. Canvas, clay, lacquer, oil, plaster, sheet metal, and wax on canvas board, 12 x 10 x 2 1/2 inches, 30.5 x 25.4 x 6.4 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Velveteen begins with Image One Hundred Nineteen and ends with Image One Hundred Thirty-Six. Named in the sequential order in which they are completed, Joseph Montgomery’s paintings are propelled by a sense of adjacency, where each work sets the conditions for the next. In his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Montgomery's approach to generating paintings is both streamlined and complicated by combinatory structures, repeated forms (shims or wedges), and radical scale shifts. Shifting between positions of painting, sculpture, and the spaces in between, his work interrogates the nature of the image: its repetition, fabrication, origin and duplication. Some works are built up over an extended period of time, accumulating traces of painterly gestures, layering paintings on top of paintings. Others are constructed of wooden ... More | | 
Invisible Circus Poster. Photo: Courtesy Jack Hanley Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jack Hanley Gallery presents Diggers, Mimes, Angels and Heads, an archival exhibition of the San Francisco social activist and counter-cultural scene from 1966 to 1968. The exhibition includes photographs, posters, periodicals and other printed ephemera. At this moment, with the Occupy Wall Street movement offering up the thought of less capitalism and shifting the values of a money-oriented society, it seems timely to remember The Diggers--and a different use of the 1%. The Diggers, a loosely based gang of improv actors from the San Francisco Mime Troupe and their anarchist/absurdist friends, formed in 1966 and were active until about 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. These "activists" considered it “dribble” to have 10,000 people marching around the Federal Building to protest the war. But how great, they thought, would it be to have 10,000 people march around the Feder ... More |
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 Interior designers, new collectors and philanthropists gather to support East Side House Settlement NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, January 26th, East Side House Settlement will host the annual Young Collectors Night at the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory. This high-energy night attracts over 650 new collectors, young philanthropists, interior designers, and art and antiques enthusiasts. Sponsored by New York magazine, Benjamin Moore, and Elie Tahari, the evening offers guests a private viewing of one of the world’s most prestigious antiques shows renowned for its unparalleled showcase of American, English, European, and Asian fine and decorative arts dating from antiquity through the 1960s. Proceeds from the event will benefit East Side House Settlement, a leading social services agency that serves young people and families in the South Bronx and surrounding communities The evening is co-chaired by Courtney Booth, Emily Israel Pluhar, and Stephanie Clark. The Vice Chairs ... More Muhammad Ali returning to Kentucky for 70th birthday- fundraiser for center and museum organized By: Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press
LOUISVILLE (AP).- Muhammad Ali is coming home to Louisville to celebrate another milestone — his 70th birthday. The iconic heavyweight boxing champion will bask in the limelight once again at a private birthday bash on the evening of Jan. 14 at the Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville. Ali turns 70 on Jan. 17. The party will double as a fundraiser for the center — a cultural and education complex that also features a museum focusing on Ali's long career as a boxer, social activist and humanitarian. "Louisville was the first to support Muhammad in his pursuit of gold," Lonnie Ali, the boxer's wife, said in a statement Saturday evening. "It is only fitting that Louisville and surrounding communities participate in this important celebration to mark his 70th birthday." Ali Center ... More Sculpture goes interactive in new Canary Wharf art exhibition LONDON.- The art world’s latest interpretation of the global craze for touch-based technology has arrived in London, with an impressive new exhibition set to be unveiled in Canary Wharf on 9 January. ‘Marbles’, a new interactive artwork by Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde, recent winner of the prestigious Design for Asia Award, features eight spectacular glowing forms which come alive upon human touch, using sound and colour to communicate to people in the vicinity and to each other. The exhibition runs until 2 March 2012 in Jubilee Park, on top of the Canary Wharf Jubilee Line Station. Keith Watson from Canary Wharf Group, which curates an award-winning public art collection and programme, said “Roosegarde’s Marbles reflects the demise of traditional childhood games, such as marbles, and the current obsession with interactive technology, questioning how it can be used in a more social manner.” ... More Dalle Mani del Maestro: The Art of Lino Tagliapietra to be presented at Art Palm Beach STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- The Schantz Galleries will present Dalle Mani del Maestro: The Art of Lino Tagliapietra at Art Palm Beach, January 19-23, 2012. On Friday, January 20, from 3:30-4:30pm, the artist will participate in a roundtable discussion, The Studio Glass Experiment: The First 50 Years, moderated by Bill Warmus, former curator at the Corning Glass Museum, and also featuring Mary Shaffer, Mark Peiser, and Beth Lipman. This lecture will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Studio Glass movement in America, beginning with the historic workshop at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1962, and discuss the developments made in Studio Glass between then and now. James Yood, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and frequent contributor to Glass magazine writes in the exhibition book, Dalle Mani del Maestro, that “there are probably no two ... More Y Gallery presents solo shows by Norma Markley and Leor Grady NEW YORK, NY.- Y Gallery presents an exhibition of Norma Markley’s recent work—neon, silkscreen prints, and sewn drawings—inspired by the rhythm and language from literary sources and images from a film to explore the notions of sex, on the one hand, and the concept of answering questions with a yes or no, on the other hand. Fade in. Fade out (neon and cutout words). “I love you tenderly, totally, tragically” references Jean Luc Godard’s film Contempt. These words in neon accompanied by cutout text set a romantic but fragile scene: a long take between husband and wife lying apart in bed sharing sweet nothings. We never see them embrace or kiss. She (questioning him): “See my feet in the mirror? Think they’re pretty?” … Him (answering breathlessly): “Yes.” Point of view sequences (silkscreens). Sex is explored both humorously and erotically through a series ... More Drew Barrymore engaged to art consultant Will Kopelman NEW YORK (AP).- Drew Barrymore is engaged to art consultant Will Kopelman. Barrymore's publicist confirmed the engagement Friday. The couple were reportedly engaged over the holidays in Sun Valley, Idaho. It will be the actress' third marriage. Us Weekly first reported the engagement. A photo of the pair, in which Barrymore sports a diamond ring, was released to People magazine. The 36-year-old Barrymore was briefly married to Jeremy Thomas in 1994 and to comedian Tom Green in 2001. Kopelman is the son of former Chanel CEO Arie Kopelman. ... More |
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