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| | Rare first edition of John James Audubon 's 'The Birds of America' to be sold at Christie's
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A Common American Swan from a rare first edition set of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America.” Considered a masterpiece of ornithology art, the four-volume set contains more than 400 engraved hand-colored plates of all the North American species known to Audubon in the early 19th century. The volumes stand 3 ½-feet high because of Audubon’s desire to depict the birds in their actual size and natural habitat. Christie’s said the set is expected to sell for $7 million to $10 million at it's Jan. 20 auction. AP Photo/Christie's.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A rare first edition of John James Audubon's sumptuously illustrated "The Birds of America," depicting more than 400 life-size North American species in four monumental volumes, is going on the auction block for an estimated $7 million to $10 million. Considered a masterpiece of ornithology art, the 3½ -foot-tall books feature hand-colored prints of all the species known to Audubon in early 19th century America. Audubon insisted on the book's large format — printed on the largest hand-made sheets available at the time — because of his desire to portray the birds in their actual size and natural habitat. The set, being sold by the heirs of the 4th Duke of Portland, will be auctioned by Christie's Jan. 20. It will be accompanied by a complete first edition five-volume set of Audubon's "Ornithological Biography." They will be on view at Christie's Rockefeller Center galleries Jan. 14-19. ... More |
| Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge to become a Royal Patron of The Art Room | | James Cohan Gallery presents a group exhibition curated by Jessica Lin Cox and Elyse Goldberg | | Polish art student hangs own painting at National Museum in the southwestern city of Wroclaw | 
File photo of Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge attends St Mary Magdalene Church for the Christmas Day church service. EPA/Chris Radburn.
OXFORD.- The Duchess of Cambridge announced that she will become a Royal Patron for The Art Room, a small charity based in Oxford and London which uses art to provide therapy for children and young people with challenges. The Founder Director of The Art Room Juli Beattie said: “This is wonderful news. On behalf of all of our Trustees and staff and the children and young people we support, I want to thank The Duchess for choosing The Art Room. It is a fantastic endorsement of the work we do and the role that art and creativity can play in helping children and young people whose start in life has been difficult.” The Art Room was set up in Oxford in 2002 to offer art as therapy to children and young people aged between five and 16, using art to raise their self esteem, confidence and independence. Many are disengaged from mainstream education and are disruptive or withdrawn; some may have specific learning diffi ... More | | 
Matt Johnson, Mother and Child, 2011. Stainless steel, 24 x 20 x 16 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- James Cohan Gallery presents OBJECT FICTIONS, a group exhibition curated by Jessica Lin Cox and Elyse Goldberg, opening on January 6 and running through February 11, 2012. The exhibition includes work by Helene Appel, Richard Artschwager, Talia Chetrit, Patricia Dauder, Harrell Fletcher, Tom Friedman, Noriko Furunishi, Robert Gober, International Necronautical Society (INS), Matt Johnson, Louise Lawler, Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, Allan McCollum, Kaz Oshiro, Trevor Paglen, Roxy Paine, Katie Paterson, and Alison Elizabeth Taylor. OBJECT FICTIONS assembles a diverse group of artists whose works investigate notions of perception, in its many definitions. Through a variety of media and processes, these artists explore the potential of ordinary objects, historical events, invented narratives and in some cases even other artworks, to expose reality through the lens of fiction. Through sustained looking, th ... More | | 
View of the small painting by art student Andrzej Sobiepan. AP Photo/Bartlomiej Kudowicz.
By: Monika Scislowska, Associated Press
WARSAW (AP).- Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery. By Wednesday, the young artist was getting plenty of attention after a nationwide TV channel reported on his stunt at the National Museum in the southwestern city of Wroclaw. He told reporters he hoped galleries would give more exhibition space to young artists as a result. "I decided that I will not wait 30 or 40 years for my works to appear at a place like this," Sobiepan told TVN24. "I want to benefit from them in the here and now." Sobiepan, a Wroclaw Fine Arts Academy student whose last name means "his own master," said he was inspired by the elusive British graffiti artist known only as Banksy. His own painting is small, white and green, and partly uses swine leather to show a drooping acacia leaf. On Dec. 10, Sobiepan put ... More |
| Nationalmuseum announces acquisition of Cactus Exhibition vase by Edward Hald | | James Nares: Movies, photographs and related works on paper at Paul Kasmin Gallery | | Galerie Lelong presents an exhibition featuring a new generation of contemporary artists | 
Edward Hald, Cactus Exhibition, Glass. Photo: Hans Thorwid/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired one of four known examples of Edward Hald’s Cactus Exhibition vase dating from 1926. This is a superb example of the high-quality glass, decorated in contemporary style, for which Orrefors was known in the early 20th century. One of the other examples is owned by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Nationalmuseum has bolstered its collection of art glass with Cactus Exhibition, a vase designed in 1926 by Edward Hald (1883–1980). This example was produced by Orrefors in 1927 and engraved with great skill and precision by Wilhelm Eisert. Only four examples of the work are currently known to exist. Besides the vase now in Nationalmuseum’s collection, there is one in a museum in Dusseldorf (produced 1926), one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (produced 1926) and one in the possession of HM Queen Elizabeth II (produced 1931). The Cactus Exhibition ... More | | 
Film still from Pendulum, 1976, approx. 17 minutes. Photo: Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents 1976: Movies, Photographs and Related Works on Paper, a new exhibition by James Nares. Before he was painting large, single movement brush strokes, Nares’s kinetic investigations took other forms and directions. His preoccupation with movement and bodies in motion was well provided for in what amounted to an enormous, open air, common studio. The post-industrial landscape became the backdrop, subject and the medium during his prolific early career. The exhibition will feature five films including his 1976 Pendulum, which clocks a large spherical mass as it swings on a wire, strung up high from the footbridge, since dismantled, crossing Staple Street in downtown Manhattan. The exhibition will also feature a series of black and white chronophotographs that reveal the temporal structure of a pendulum’s swing, invisible to the naked eye, along with drawings, diagram ... More | | 
Cinthia Marcelle, Film stills from Cruzada [Crossing], 2010 (detail). Film with sound. Running time: 5 minutes, 36 seconds© Cinthia Marcelle. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Galerie Lelong presents An Other Place, an exhibition featuring a new generation of contemporary artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru whose works explore environmentalism, urbanism, and the relationship between interior and exterior spaces. For the majority of the artists included in An Other Place, this is their first public presentation in New York City. The show's title, An Other Place, highlights the concept of "other" in regard to identity and physical and metaphorical place. The "other," whom we sometimes call "the stranger," is only one by virtue of context. Though the nine artists in An Other Place are new to New York audiences, they have developed from strong aesthetic traditions within their home countries and have exhibited in significant ... More |
| Friedrich Seidenstücker: Of hippos and other humans at Berlinische Galerie in Berlin | | John Eskenazi to present Hindu Gods and Serene Buddhas in New York coinciding with Asia Week | | Phillips de Pury & Company announces highlights from Modern and Contemporary editions sale | 
Friedrich Seidenstücker, Ohne Titel, um 1927© bpk / Friedrich Seidenstücker.
BERLIN.- This first comprehensive retrospective exhibition about Friedrich Seidenstücker presents more than 200 original photographs in the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin’s State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture. Almost every Berliner knows Seidenstücker’s photographs. Those who are interested in the history of their city appreciate Seidenstücker’s atmospheric shots of everyday life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. He developed a positively legendary reputation among animal and zoo lovers with his sensitive animal studies, and his haunting images of Berlin in ruins represent a valuable source for historians. Although Seidenstücker is regarded as a typical Berlin photographer, he is also known far beyond the city boundaries, not least because of one special achievement: his images evidence a sense of humour that is rarely found in photography. Friedrich Seidenstücker’s work e ... More | | 
Goddess Durga, Vietnam or Cambodia Kingdom of Funan. Pre-Angkorian period, 7th century, Sandstone. Height: 31½ in, 80 cm.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- John Eskenazi, the highly-respected London dealer in Indian, Gandharan, Himalayan and Southeast Asian works of art, will be presenting outstanding sculpture in his annual New York exhibition at Adam Williams Fine Art and Moretti Fine Art, 24 East 80th Street . Recent Acquisitions will be on view from 14 to 25 March 2012, as part of Asian Art Dealers New York and coinciding with Asia Week. The timeless beauty of the finest Southeast Asian sculptures is evident in a graceful figure of the goddess Durga holding a discus in her upper left hand. The sandstone sculpture dates from the Pre-Angkorian period, 7th century and comes from the ancient kingdom of Funan , situated on the Mekong Delta, which was once a great centre of international maritime trade. Indian merchants who were established there probably introduced Durga and other Hindu deities into the region. The 6th/7th centuries are known for such fi ... More | | 
Lynn Chadwick, Walking Cloaked Figures IV: one sculpture, 1980. Est: $15,000-25,000.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from the upcoming Modern and Contemporary Editions Auction at 450 Park Avenue. “A graphic winter wonderland will kick off auctions at Phillips de Pury & Company in 2012 at the Park Avenue galleries. The 270 lots of classic to cutting edge modern and contemporary artist’s editions, with a range of estimates, will appeal to the widest variety of collectors – young and old, new and experienced”. Kelly Troester and Cary Leibowitz, co-Directors, Modern and Contemporary Editions at Phillips de Pury & Company. Modern European prints set the historic stage with classic works by Paul Klee Der Seiltänzer (Tightrope Walker), 1923 (est. $20,000-30,000) and Kopf – Bärtiger Mann, 1925 (est. $3,000-5,000), two of the earliest, whimsical (yet so Modern) lithographs in the sale. George Braque’s simply elegant Oiseau verni (Oiseau VII), 195 ... More |
| Pacific Standard Time announces eleven-day performance and Public Art Festival | | A precious painting by Admiral Sir George Back resurfaces at the Canadian Museum of Civilization | | Isaac Layman's first solo museum exhibition on view at the Frye Art Museum | 
Accidents in Abstract Painting, 2003, Richard Jackson, Photo by Stefan Altenburger. © Richard Jackson.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The art of Pacific Standard Time heads into the streets, clubs and public spaces of Southern California from January 19 through 29, 2012, during a special Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. This 11-day celebration will feature more than 30 extraordinary performances—including contemporary re-enactments of iconic works by artists such as Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Robert Wilhite and James Turrell—and interventions both large and small in the public sphere. Organized by the Getty Research Institute and LAXART, and supported by grants from the Getty Foundation in conjunction with the ongoing Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 initiative, the Performance and Public Art Festival will reexamine, reinvent, reinterpret and renew an epochal movement in contemporary art for which Los Angeles has been an epicenter. In the 1960s and 1970s, Los Angeles became one of th ... More | | 
Detail of the small work by Admiral Sir George Back shows HMS Terror anchored near a cathedral-like iceberg in the waters around Baffin Island, while a smaller boat is rowed nearby. ©CMC/MCC, Photo: Marie-Louise Deruaz.
GATINEAU, QC.- The Canadian Museum of Civilization has acquired at auction in Britain a dramatic watercolour by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Admiral Sir George Back, whose drawings and paintings are recognized as an invaluable visual record of the early exploration of the Canadian Arctic. The painting depicts an immense iceberg towering one hundred metres above the illustrious British vessel HMS Terror and one of its boats in the waters off the southeast coast of Baffin Island. “This is an exciting acquisition for the Museum,” said Mark O’Neill, President and CEO of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. “Admiral Sir George Back played an important role in the British voyages that laid the foundation for Canada’s Arctic sovereignty. Now all Canadians will have access to this ... More | | 
Isaac Layman, Untitled, 2011 (detail). Photographic construction, ink-jet on paper. 59 x 78 in. Collection of the artist.
SEATTLE, WA.- One of Seattle’s most talented contemporary artists, Isaac Layman (b. 1977), at the Frye Art Museum through January 22, 2012. In his first solo museum exhibition, Paradise, Layman expands his practice of constructing large-scale, psychologically charged, photographic-based visions of the spaces and objects found in his Seattle home. Curated by the director of the Frye Art Museum, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Paradise includes more than twenty new photographic constructions created especially for the exhibition. Layman’s most recent constructions, small-to-epic photographic re-orderings of objects, tools, materials, doors, windows, surfaces, and debris in his home, explore the shared cultural desire to fabricate escapes, destinations, and monuments and examine the role discontent plays in driving the ... More |
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 The New York Public Library Launches eBook Central NEW YORK, N.Y.- In an effort to help New Yorkers understand their Kindles, Nooks, iPads and other e-readers, The New York Public Library has launched a new free service called eBook Central. Starting December 27 2011, patrons can head to nypl.org/ebookcentral for detailed information on how to download the Library’s digital material - including eBooks, music and videos - on to any major device. The website will also explain how to find and access free educational apps, including the Library’s catalog app Bibliocommons. In addition, from Jan. 4 until Jan. 13, trained reference librarians will provide in-person assistance with e-readers at both the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, located on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, and The Mid-Manhattan Library, located at 455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th Street). The free service will take place during specific hours from Monday to Saturday – patrons should ch ... More Nashville Antiques Week site taking off NASHVILLE, TN.- When NashvilleAntiquesWeek.com launched in November 2011 as the destination site for the antiques shows and happenings that make Nashville the place to be the first week in February, not even the site’s co-founders expected it catch on as quickly as it has. But, Eric Miller, co-founder along with Regina Kolbe, announced that traffic is building exponentially, faster than the blog postings can go up. “It’s clear,” Miller, stated, “that the thousands of affluent buyers preparing to go to Nashville need clarity on the events.” Over the past last 31 years, Nashville has blossomed into an antique buyers center. The recent addition of Antique Archaeology, a retail store owned by American Picker Mike Wolfe helps cement Nashville's destination status. The longest running show is The Heart of Country Antiques Show at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, now in its 31st year. It's compl ... More Acker Merrall & Condit 2012 January sale presents world-class collections of finest wines HONG KONG.- Acker Merrall & Condit, the World's leading wine auctioneer and America's oldest fine wine merchant, will hold its first 2012 Hong Kong sale on 13 & 14 January at Island Shangri-La and Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. A total of 992 lots of top quality wines, estimated at over HK$80 million/ US$10 million, will be offered in the sale, including a number of world-class collections featuring finest Burgundy, Bordeaux and Californian wines. John Kapon, CEO of Acker Merrall & Condit Companies, said, “In 2011, Acker became the first wine auction house in history to break US$100 million in annual global sales. In fact, with 2011 revenues over US$110 million, Acker has achieved a global Triple Crown -- #1 in Asia, #1 in America, and #1 in the World. Our November Hong Kong auction, featuring Don Stott’s amazing collection of Burgundy and hailed as the “Greatest Burgundy Sale in the World”, was the largest auc ... More Heart of Brooklyn launches national initiative BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Heart of Brooklyn, a cultural partnership of six neighboring cultural institutions anchored around Grand Army Plaza in central Brooklyn, announces the next phase of Building Strong Community Networks — a catalyst for promoting critical change and inclusive civic and cultural engagement in Brooklyn. Building upon a planning process that began in fall 2010 and the award-winning community initiatives already in place at the Heart of Brooklyn cultural institutions, Building Strong Community Networks will include a comprehensive public value audit and a cross-organizational capacity-building curriculum. The partnership includes Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park Alliance and Prospect Park Zoo. HOB will develop new tools and processes to share with other partnerships across the country to facilitate cultural and community col ... More Dumbo Arts Center presents 100 Tweets by Michelle Vaughan BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Dumbo Arts Center presents Michelle Vaughan's project "100 Tweets," January 5 - 15, 2012. "100 Tweets" is an exhibition of letter-press prints culled from the artists twitter feed, recording pockets of time and history in short observations. Michelle Vaughan produced “100 Tweets” from September 2010 - June 2011. This is a hand typeset letterpress project printed at The Arm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For “100 Tweets”, Vaughan spent months combing her Twitter feed in search of 100 comments which fit into her vision of the project as a whole. In the beginning, she collected snarky, throw-away tweets mostly centered on banal and mundane comments. This eventually evolved into a more personal project, as she looked for tweets which mirrored her own opinions and thoughts, but were well-executed by the author. Vaughan says that the process "was laborious but satisfying." She followed a str ... More |
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