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Pop artist Chris Burden poses for photos in front of his kinetic sculpture, "Metropolis II," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. The sculpture does more than just imitate life. The colorful display of roads, cars, trains and buildings is art imitating what the artist foresees life being like in five or 10 years. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Created by artist Chris Burden, Metropolis II (2010) is a complex, large-scale kinetic sculpture modeled after a fast-paced modern city. The armature of the piece is constructed of steel beams, forming an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of eighteen roadways, including a six-lane freeway, train tracks, and hundreds of buildings. 1,100 miniature toy cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour on the specially designed plastic roadways. Every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulates through the sculpture. Situated in the center of the grid are three electrically powered conveyor belts, each studded with magnets at regular intervals. The magnets on the conveyor belt and those on the toy cars attract, enabling the cars to travel to the top of the sculpture without physical contact between the belt and cars. At the top, the cars are released ... More |
| Exhibition at the Pace Gallery juxtaposes the work of Alfred Jensen and Sol LeWitt | | Lily Safra donates Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild 849-3(1997) to the Israel Museum | | Dancing Shiva X-rayed by Rijksmuseum: Indian masterpiece shown to be solid bronze | 
Sol LeWitt, Modular, 1971. Painted wood, 24-1/2" x 24-1/2" x 24-1/2" (62.2 cm x 62.2 cm x 62.2 cm)© The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by: G. R. Christmas / Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition juxtaposing the work of Alfred Jensen and Sol LeWitt, two artists whose bodies of work connect to the grid and are governed by systems. Alfred Jensen/Sol LeWitt: Systems and Transformation will be on view at 32 East 57th Street from January 13 through February 11, 2012. Exhibited side-by-side, Jensen’s colorful and tactile abstract paintings and LeWitt’s minimalist white structures reveal the vastly different outcomes that can arise from similar conceptual foundations. Jensen uses mathematical systems to construct two-dimensional grid paintings and demonstrate color theories, but the work itself is metaphorical, referencing pre-Colombian and Asian cultures, textiles, and divination. LeWitt’s three-dimensional grid sculptures, in contrast, are self-referential, rooted in logic and reality, ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter’, Abstraktes Bild 849-3, 1997 (detail). Oil on canvas. 260 x 340 cm.
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum announced that longtime friend and patron Lily Safra has donated Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild 849-3 (1997) to the Museum in memory of her husband, Edmond J. Safra, a renowned philanthropist and one of the Museum’s greatest benefactors. The monumental abstract work,painted in shades of magenta and blue, is now on view in the Spertus Gallery at the entrance to the Museum’s Edmond and Lily Safra Fine Arts Wing, which was redesigned and reinstalled through the generosity of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation as part of the Israel Museum’s campus renewal project, completed in July 2010. “It is an honor to celebrate my husband’s memory by presenting this extraordinary work to the Israel Museum, an institution for which he cared so deeply and which now provides an even more remarkable and beautiful setting thanks to its recent renewa ... More | | 
Shiva Nataraja, 12th century, South India, Rijksmuseum collection on loan from the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst Association of Friends of Asian Art.
AMSTERDAM.- Research recently revealed that the Rijksmuseum’s monumental bronze statue of Shiva was cast in solid bronze. The thousand year-old temple statue was X-rayed, along with the lorry transporting it, in the most powerful X-ray tunnel for containers of the Rotterdam customs authority. It is the first research of its kind on a museological masterpiece. At 153 cm x 114.5 cm, the Rijksmuseum’s Shiva is the largest known bronze statue from the Chola Dynasty (9th to 12th century) kept in a museological collection outside of India. Given its weight (300 kg), the statue has always been suspected of not being hollow, as has been common practice in Europe since the Greek Antiquity. As part of an earlier investigation, an X-ray was taken of the statue in a Rijksmuseum gallery in 1999 while visitors were evacuated as a precaution against radiation. Unfortunately, the equipment used at the time (280 KeV) was not power ... More |
| New York City man admits forging art appraisal documents claiming to be by Damien Hirst | | Mid-career survey devoted to Zoe Strauss examines everyday life and the role of art in the modern city | | First major Alberto Burri retrospective in the Uk opens at the Estorick Collection | 
Visitors in the exhibition 'The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011' by British artist Damien Hirst at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome. EPA/GUIDO MONTANI.
NEW YORK (AP).- A New York City man who unwittingly sold fake art prints he believed were by British artist Damien Hirst has pleaded guilty to forging appraisal documents. Richard Silver bought the prints from an Irvine, Calif., man online in 2006 for about $40,000. He resold them for $84,000. A defense lawyer said Friday that Silver didn't know the prints were fake until after he'd sold them. The lawyer says Silver had some works appraised to get shipping insurance and altered the appraisal documents to match the rest of the prints so he could ship quickly. He says Silver didn't mean to defraud anybody. Silver pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor forgery and false-filing charges. He also admitted not reporting profits on his state taxes. He's expected to be sentenced next week to 60 days in jail and ordered to pay restitution. ... More | | 
Everything, Philadelphia, 2005 (image); 2011 (print). Zoe Strauss, American, born 1970. Inkjet print, Image: 20 x 29 13/16 inches (50.8 x 75.7 cm) Sheet: 24 x 34 inches (61 x 86.4 cm). Gift of the artist and the Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Zoe Strauss, a Philadelphia photographer with a growing international reputation, is the subject of a major exhibition that opens on January 14 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is a mid-career retrospective of this acclaimed artist’s work, representing the first critical assessment of her decade-long project to exhibit annually in a public space beneath Interstate-95 (I-95) in South Philadelphia. The exhibition will include 170 prints and a selection of artist-created slideshows, one of which will be projected on the Museum’s exterior façade during the exhibition’s opening week. Additional images by the artist will be displayed on over 50 billboards located throughout the ... More | | 
Alberto Burri, Combustion, 1961. Scorch marks, fabric, paper, acrylic and PVA glue on cardboard, 22 x 17 cm. Fondazione Magnani Rocca © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Collezione Burri, Città di Castello, 2012.
LONDON.- Alberto Burri (1915-1995) revolutionised the artistic vocabulary of the post-war art world. During the 1950s his celebration of humble materials such as sacking and tar created a new aesthetic, rich in expressive power, that was later to prove decisive for artists associated with the Arte Povera movement. Despite his importance, this exhibition is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work to be held in the United Kingdom. It offers a comprehensive overview of Burri's achievement through works spanning four decades: from rare, figurative pieces of the late 1940s to the ground-breaking abstract works for which he is best known. Burri was born in Città di Castello, in Italy's central Umbria region. Trained in medicine, he served as a doctor in North Africa during ... More |
| Mucha's Art Nouveau beauties among highlights of Swann Galleries' auction of vintage posters | | Jorge Wilmot, one of the most distinguished artisans of Mexico, dies at age 83 | | Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler at the de Young Museum | 
The auction opens with a selection of approximately 100 rare and important Art Nouveau posters.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will offer an outstanding assortment of more than 430 Vintage Posters at auction on Thursday, February 2. This sale, the first of Swann’s 2012 season, features some exceptional rarities, as well as iconic images from the U.S. and Europe. The auction opens with a selection of approximately 100 rare and important Art Nouveau posters, which features a stunning set of Alphonse Mucha’s The Seasons, four decorative panels, each in near perfect condition, 1896 (estimate: $70,000 to $100,000); and two variations of Mucha’s celebrated Reverie, one 1897, the other circa 1898 ($12,000 to $18,000 each). Of great technical interest is a group of six color proofs for Jules Chéret’s Libraire ed. Sagot / Affiches-Estampes, which offers insight into the poster printing process, 1891 ($2,000 to $3,000); a rare horizontal-format piece for The New York Symphony Orchestra, 1893 ($3,000 to $ ... More | | 
"Pot with Skulls," a vase by artist Juan Jorge Wilmot Mason is shown at the Dallas Museum of Art.
MEXICO CITY.- Jorge Wilmot was one of the most distinguished artisans of Mexico, and has been credited with the introduction of stoneware and other high fire techniques to the country. His work is also known for its more austere, Oriental-inspired designs blended with Mexican motifs. His work has been widely sold and exhibited both in Mexico and abroad and he has trained and influenced generations of ceramicists at the school he established in Tonalá, Jalisco. Jorge Wilmot died January 12, 2012 in Tonala, Mexico, at the age of 83 years. Jorge Wilmot was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, in 1928. He began artistic studies at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in the Academy of San Carlos in the early 1950s before going on to Europe. There he studied at the Instituto Franco-Italiano in Paris in 1953 and worked in Sweden with ceramicist Limberg Koge Londgren. He had further studies in Basel, Switzerland, in design at the Escuela de Oficios from 1953 to 1957. Wilmot began working for the c ... More | | 
Stephen De Staebler, Standing Woman and Standing Man, 1975. 93 x 14 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. © Estate of Stephen De Staebler. Photo: Scott McCue.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Approximately 55 ceramic and bronze works spanning the career of sculptor Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011) will be installed in the American art galleries at the de Young Museum from January 14 to April 22, 2012. Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler and its accompanying monograph commemorate the life and work of the renowned Bay Area artist, who died earlier this year in his Berkeley home. For more than 50 years, De Staebler created figurative sculptures from clay—a medium that derives from the primordial earth. Drawing inspiration from childhood experiences with nature, a transformative adolescent encounter with human mortality, and adult studies in the history of art and religion, he explored and extended a tradition of human representation that includes the religious monuments of ancient Egypt, the Renaissance humanism of Michelangelo’s finished ... More |
| The Living and the Dead: Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby at the Walker Art Gallery | | Exhibition of recent work by British illustrator Quentin Blake opens at the Foundling Museum | | Irish Museum of Modern Art announces appointment of Sarah Glennie as new Director | 
John Kirby, The Juggler, 2007. © John Kirby, courtesy of Flowers, London.
LIVERPOOL.- From 13 January until 15 April 2012 the Walker Art Gallery hosts the first retrospective of work by the Liverpool born artist John Kirby. The Living and the Dead: Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby explores the themes of gender, religion, sexuality and race and Kirby’s complex relationship with each of them. Comprising over 50 paintings and 10 sculptures The Living and the Dead: Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby brings together a group of work spanning over three decades, from early paintings made at the Royal College of Art in the 1980s to more recent works. Highlights in the exhibition include Lost Boys (1991), an image of fighting altar boys that references Kirby's Catholic upbringing and is one of the artist's favourite paintings and White Wedding, (2006), depicting a civil partnership. The sculptures in the exhibition are a more recent development in his artistic practice but also a con ... More | | 
Installation view of 'As Large as Life' by British illustrator, Quentin Blake, at the Foundling Museum, London. AP Photo/Jonathan Short.
LONDON.- Quentin Blake is one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful illustrators. Well known for illustrating stories by Roald Dahl, Blake was Britain’s first Children’s Laureate. Showing at the Foundling Museum, Quentin Blake – As large as life presents recent work commissioned by four hospitals in the UK and France. This exhibition of over sixty works enables visitors to reflect on artists’ continuing contribution to hospitals and child welfare. The Foundling Museum tells the story of the thousands of children brought up in the Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home for abandoned babies and London’s first public art gallery. Hanging alongside Blake’s work are paintings by William Hogarth and his contemporaries who donated paintings and sculptures to the Foundling Hospital in the 1740s. The Museum’s art collection, spanning ... More | | 
Sarah Glennie has been working professionally in the cultural realm for sixteen years and has extensive experience of directing and working in a number of public cultural institutions in Ireland and Britain.
DUBLIN.- The Chairperson and Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art today (13 January 2012) announced the appointment of Sarah Glennie, currently Director of the Irish Film Institute, as the new Director of IMMA, where she previously held the post of Curator from 1997 to 2001. Sarah Glennie has been working professionally in the cultural realm for sixteen years and has extensive experience of directing and working in a number of public cultural institutions in Ireland and Britain. Prior to joining the Irish Film Institute (IFI) in 2008, where she oversaw a major redevelopment programme, she was Artistic Director of the Model Arts and Niland Gallery in Sligo. While there she initiated a nationally and internationally significant programme, including The Eternal Now: Warhol and the Factory and an exhibition and ... More |
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 New York based artist Chloe Piene opens second exhibition in Germany at Barbara Thumm BERLIN.- Gallery Barbara Thumm present their second solo show of the New York based artist Chloe Piene in Germany. Chloe Piene is well known for her ability to straddle an extremely wide spectrum, both in the physical play of her materials and as a certain philosophical position. Her work has included such diverse associations as prisoners, love letters, ironworkers, Christian mystics, ruins, political dictatorships and instruments of torture. A sudden discovery of works in wax by Medardo Rosso, (1858-1928), resonated for her as bodies found accidentally in forests. It reminded her of archaeological ruins and the burial sites of kings or families in Ireland and across the European Continent. Iron was at one time a sacred material touched only by the blacksmith, who was given both a high rank and magical status for his ability to transform it. Piene makes no qualitative distinction between the material she uses to ... More Video installation features dialogue among 150 diverse black men at the Brooklyn Museum BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Question Bridge: Black Males, an innovative video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair, features dialogue among 150 Black men recruited from eleven American cities and towns. On view at the Brooklyn Museum from January 13 through June 3, 2012, it will also be presented at the Oakland Museum of California from January 21 through April 21, 2012. The exhibition includes five video screens, placed in an arc, playing videos of the men responding to questions. The videos were edited so that it appears as if the men are having a conversation. For the past four years the four collaborators have traveled throughout the United States to locations including New York, Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco, Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, creating 1,500 video exchanges in which ... More Capitain Petzel presents Sam Samore in his first solo exhibition BERLIN.- Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel announce the first solo exhibition by Sam Samore at Capitain Petzel, presenting a series of new pictures and three recent short films. On display a group of archival ink prints on rag paper called The Dark Suspicion – this title comes from a series of paintings by René Magritte. Samore has been inspired by Magritte’s exploration of the uncanny, his use of the unconscious and the plenitude of playing off sites of psychic repression. In his previous photographs, Samore has concentrated on the relation of cinema to painting via a monochrome palette, by way of narration, the framing of action, character development and the suspension of disbelief. Less about cinema and more about painting, these new pictures, imbued with vivid coloration, emanate a sense of detachment and silence. Sometimes the characters charge through the picture plane with kinetic agitation, and in ... More Paintings by Mavis Smith suggest atmospheres of the mind in a new exhibit at the Michener Art Museum DOYLESTOWN, PA.- You're strolling down a busy sidewalk, absorbed in your thoughts. Suddenly someone walking the other way glances in your direction, you glance back, and your reverie is broken. Two souls meet, briefly, then the moment passes, and without breaking stride you each walk on. The paintings of Mavis Smith are about that moment, hinting at a narrative, yet remaining intentionally elusive. Mavis Smith: Hidden Realities will be on view at the James A. Michener Art Museum January 14 to May 20, 2012 in the Fred Beans Gallery. Part storyteller, part portraitist and part stage director; the Bucks County resident and Trenton native creates images like single frames of a movie with no beginning and no end. Who are these mysterious figures, gazing at the world with enigmatic calm, surrounded by swimming pools, moody interiors and distant skies, portals to another world? Smith, who earned a bachelor's ... More Stolen New Mexico meteorite worth $20K-$40K found ALBUQUERQUE (AP).- A meteorite that landed in Russia in the 1940s and was recently stolen from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque has been located. KRQE-TV reports (http://bit.ly/zE9stH ) authorities found the rock after a man in Missouri bought it for $1,700. It's worth between $20,000 to $40,000. The Meteorite Museum at UNM flew an employee to retrieve the nearly 21-pound chunk of space — and lug it through security. School police believe someone stole the meteorite from the display case and walked out the front door. Investigators have a suspect but no one has been arrested. The meteorite was once part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and crashed in Siberia. It was a gift from a Soviet scientist. The Meteorite Museum is closed for a security review. ... More |
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