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Two Sotheby's staff members put off their gloves after hanging a painting by Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner at the London auction house in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 09 January 2012. The painting from 1911 'Das Boskett Albertplatz in Dresden' ('The boscage Albertplatz in Dresden') is offered by an estimated value of seven million euros. The auction of works by the German expressionist painter will take place in London from 08 until 09 February 2012. EPA/FRANK RUMPENHORST.
LONDON.- On 8th February 2012, Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale will offer a selection of works of exceptional quality and importance. Highlights include Joan Miró’s monumental Peinture of 1933, estimated at £7-10 million, Gustav Klimt’s recently rediscovered landscape Seeufer mit Birken (est. £6 - 8 million), which has not been seen in public in over a century, and a rare and atmospheric winter scene by Claude Monet, L’entrée de Giverny en hiver (est. £4.5 - 6.5 million). The auction features a particularly strong Surrealist group, with works by Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte, as well as an outstanding group of paintings by German artists including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger and Otto Dix. The sale is estimated to realise in excess of £78 million. Helena Newman, Chairman, Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art, Europe, sai ... More |
| Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation proposes building a museum in Finnish capital | | A Stamp with the Temple Menorah was uncovered in excavations near Akko | | $5 million gift marks 25th anniversary year of the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | 
Juan Ignacio Vidarte (R), the head of the Guggenheim Foundation's global strategies, and the Mayor of Helsinki, Jussi Pajunen (L) chat in front of an aerial photo of Helsinki's south harbor. EPA/MARKKU OJALA.
HELSINKI (AP).- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on Tuesday proposed building a museum in the Finnish capital after a yearlong feasibility study. The organization said that the board of trustees approved the study last month. "The board's enthusiastic support reflects its conviction that moving forward to the next stage of the project would strengthen the Guggenheim network," the report said. "It ... (will) make an outstanding contribution to the cultural life of the Nordic and Baltic regions." The 190-page study was commissioned in January 2011 by the mayor of Helsinki at a cost of $2.5 million. "Finland's tradition of innovation and design and its cutting-edge technology could be helpful," said Juan Ignacio Vidarte, head of the foundation's global strategies. City councilors are expected to decide on the $180 ... More | | 
A 1,500 year old seal bearing an image of the seven-branched Temple Menorah was discovered near the city of Akko. Photo: Dr. Danny Syon, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
JERUSALEM.- A ceramic stamp from the Byzantine period (6th century CE) was discovered in excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is currently conducting at Horbat Uza east of Akko, prior to the construction of the Akko-Karmiel railroad track by the Israel National Roads Company. This find belongs to a group of stamps referred to as “bread stamps” because they were usually used to stamp baked goods. According to Gilad Jaffe and Dr. Danny Syon, the directors of the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “A number of stamps bearing an image of a menorah are known from different collections. The Temple Menorah, being a Jewish symbol par excellence, indicates the stamps belonged to Jews, unlike Christian bread stamps with the cross pattern which were much more common in the Byzantine period”. ... More | | 
Dame Jillian Sackler, the New York-based philanthropist and widow of Arthur M. Sackler.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian has received a gift of $5 million from Dame Jillian Sackler, the New York-based philanthropist and widow of Arthur M. Sackler, for whom the Gallery is named. The gift will be used to establish an endowment to support the position of the director and programs at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, which together constitute the Smithsonian's museums of Asian art. In recognition of Jillian Sackler's generosity, the museums' director position will be known as the Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art. "This remarkable gift will ensure that the Sackler and Freer Galleries will have the best possible leadership into the future," said Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough. "Nothing could be more important, and we are deeply grateful to Dame Jillian Sackler for her commitment and foresight, particularly coming on the ... More |
| City of San Francisco launches Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary celebrations | | Art Institute of Chicago names new Vice President of Marketing and Public Affairs | | Renovation of four Chinese galleries at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art complete | 
San Francisco launched a yearlong 75th anniversary celebration of the opening of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu.
By: Beth Duff-Brown, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- The city on Monday launched a yearlong 75th anniversary celebration of the opening of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge with a string of parties, guided tours and festivals to be held along the waterfront graced by the burnt-orange span since 1937. "The Golden Gate Bridge stands today as a testament of innovation and imagination, a bridge built by the people during the Great Depression," said Janet Reilly, president of the bridge district board. She and dozens of other civic leaders, national parks officials, bridge authorities and supporters spoke before a backdrop of the bridge set against a crisp, blue winter sky. Authorities, however, won't be inviting the public to walk en mass along the storied bridge that marks the opening to San Francisco Bay. Officials tried that in 1987 for the 50th anniversary. They closed down the ... More | | 
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CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced the appointment of Gordon Montgomery as Vice President of Marketing and Public Affairs, on January 3, 2012 . Montgomery leads a team of more than 50 people that together manages the museum's programs in marketing, public affairs, communications, graphics, and membership. Montgomery brings a wealth of marketing and advertising experience gained from working with a variety of companies--from start-ups to multinational corporations--to a position charged with building new audiences and ensuring that the museum's outreach efforts are consistent with the organization's mission and evolving strategic vision. "We are very excited to welcome Gordon Montgomery to the museum," said David Thurm, Chief Operating Officer of the Art Institute. "He has exactly the kind of experience we are seeking: a long and extremely effective history with a premier advertising and marketing agency; the f ... More | | 
Tomb Model of a Tower Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 c.e.) Earthenware with unfired pigments. Height: 52 inches (132.08 cm) Purchase: Nelson Trust, 33-521
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has completed renovation on four of its Chinese galleries, and they will be opened to the public at the start of the Museum’s Chinese New Year celebration, which begins at 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27. The main Chinese gallery and the Temple Room re-opened in 2010 and involved a complete re-organization of displays, along with the addition of a number of important pieces that have been off display for decades, including a 6th-century stone tomb gateway and three-color-glazed Tang dynasty tomb figures. Lighting has been added to the coffered ceiling in the Temple Room, where Guanyin of the Southern Seas majestically sits, so visitors can now see the intricately carved dragon pattern in the concentric gilded wood framework. Linked to the main Chinese galleries are two newly renovated galleries that explore the mysterious world of ritual and ancestors in a ... More |
| $3 million gift to Denver Art Museum will fund new galleries, major textile art initiative | | President Dwight D. Eisenhower's family ask to delay Washington, DC memorial | | Architect Frank Gehry residence selected to receive the AIA Twenty-five Year Award | 
Detail of Dragon insignia roundel, silk and gold thread embroidery on silk. China , Qing Dynasty, second half 19th century. Denver Art Museum ; Neusteter Textile Collection: Gift of Mrs. Carroll B. Malone.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum announced today a $3 million gift from the Avenir Foundation that will transform the institution’s textile art program. In addition to expanding the current textile art gallery space to more than six times its current square footage, the gift will allow for the development of scientific and educational spaces, a staging area for exhibition preparation and conservation and storage of the more than 5,000 textile objects in the DAM’s collection. “This gift will help us tell the story of textiles as triggers of cultural exchange and creative expression from around the world,” said DAM’s Frederick and Jan Mayer Director Christoph Heinrich. “It reinforces our commitment to textile art and allows greater public access to this wonderful collection.” By reclaiming more than 7,000 square-feet of space on level six of the North Building , the museum will be abl ... More | | 
A model for the national memorial to be built in Washington for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. AP Photo/Eisenhower Commission.
By: Brett Zomgker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- President Dwight D. Eisenhower's family wants a memorial in the nation's capital redesigned, saying the current plans overemphasize his humble Kansas roots and neglect his accomplishments in World War II and the White House. Architect Frank Gehry has proposed a memorial park framed by large metal tapestries with images of Eisenhower's boyhood home in Abilene, Kan. In the park, a statue of "Ike" as a boy would seem to marvel at what would become of his life, leading the Allied forces, integrating schools and the military, and creating NASA and interstate highways. Smaller sculptures would depict Eisenhower as general and president. Gehry's idea echoed Eisenhower's speech when he returned to Kansas and spoke of a "barefoot boy" who achieved fame in Europe. He came ... More | | 
As soon as it was completed in 1978 reactions ranged from hagiography to anathema. © Gehry Partners LLP.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Gehry Residence in Santa Monica, Calif., has been selected for the 2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award. Recognizing architectural design of enduring significance, the Twenty-five Year Award is conferred on a building that has stood the test of time for 25 to 35 years as an embodiment of architectural excellence. Projects must demonstrate excellence in function, in the distinguished execution of its original program, and in the creative aspects of its statement by today’s standards. The award will be presented this May at the AIA National Convention in Washington, D.C. A seemingly ad hoc collection of raw, workmanlike materials wrapped around an unassuming two-story clapboard bungalow, Frank Gehry’s, FAIA, home for his wife, Berta, and two sons found a literal, but unexpected, answer to the question of neighborhood context, and used it to forever re-shape the formal and material boundaries of architecture. As ... More |
| Spanish Contemporary artist Juan Genovés is featured artist at the 2012 Naples Winter Wine Festival | | National Air and Space Museum opens new archives facility at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center | | Focus falls on European archaeology exhibition at University of York's historic King's Manor | 
Genovés' body of work is devoted to the subject of political engagement, developing his genre amidst the isolated world of Franco's Spain. Photo: EFE/J.C.Cardenas.
NAPLES, FL.- Naples Winter Wine Festival announces Juan Genovés as the 2012 Featured Artist, adding to its already lengthy list of talented chefs and vintners participating in this year's event, scheduled for Jan. 27-29 in Naples, Fla. Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés is considered to be one of Spain's best known contemporary artists. "Recognized for his aesthetic style rooted in social realism and political art, Genovés has a distinctly critical voice that became a force for political change during the Francisco Franco regime in Spain," said Tara K. Reddi, vice president of Marlborough Gallery, which represents the artist. Genovés' body of work is devoted to the subject of political engagement. His artistic development occurred in the isolated world of Franco's Spain, where he was influenced by modern photography and cinema, especially the work of Sergei Eisen- ... More | | 
Maryland One on display in AirCraft: The Jet As Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Air and Space Museum opened the new Archives Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center to the public Tuesday, Jan. 10. The opening of the reading room is the culmination of a massive move that took place during Fall 2011, when the Archives Division consolidated the majority of its collections from the Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland, Md., into one location at the Steven F. Udvary Hazy Center. Visiting researchers will be able to access more than 2 million technical drawings, 1,600 cubic feet of technical manuals, more than 2 million photographs and 700,000 feet of motion picture film chronicling the history of aviation and spaceflight. The Museum's Archives Division contains the personal papers of such notables as aircraft designer Giuseppe Bellanca, aviator Louise Thaden and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the Tuskegee Airmen. The collection also includes scrapbooks that record historic events, ... More | | 
Refitting thousands of sherds from a 14th century dump of a pottery kiln. This pitcher is one of the results, Mechelen, Belgium. © Buch Edition.
YORKSHIRE.- The University of York's historic King's Manor is hosting a European photographic exhibition depicting the day-to-day work of archaeologists. The public exhibition Working in Archaeology, which runs from 9 January to 6 March, features photographs by Belgian photographer Pierre Buch and reflects the different and varied activities of modern archaeological practice. Brought to York by the Archaeology Data Service at the University’s Department of Archaeology, the exhibition opened at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in November and will be shown across Europe this year. The photographic exhibition is part of an EU Culture Programme funded project - Archaeology in Contemporary Europe (ACE) - which aims to promote contemporary archaeology at a European wide level. The Archaeology Data Service at the University of York is the lead UK partner in ACE. ... More |
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 Metro Show presents an eye-alluring bonanza of treasures for collectors, designers and art-insiders alike NEW YORK, N.Y.- The inaugural Metro Show reveals its brand new face when it opens to the public on January 19 through 22, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street in New York. Joining the brigade of the Americana dealers who signed on from the previous American Antiques Show is a new group of specialists who have expanded the vernacular of historical design, adding an exciting vitality and diversity to the fair’s new incarnation. Recently, The Art Fair Company asked the Metro dealers: “If you had to select just one object to submit to a Top Ten list, what would it be?” and here are their responses: History certainly does not repeat itself with the Metro dealers who offer one-of-a-kind pieces that played a role in the forming of our country. Take, for example, the “Washington” Lafayette Presentation Gold Button featured by Steven S. Powers – in its first display in the United States ... More First exhibition surveying the work of Sylvia Wishart RSA opens at the Royal Scottish Academy EDINBURGH.- The Royal Scottish Academy presents their first exhibition surveying the work of Sylvia Wishart RSA, featuring drawings, paintings, printmaking and artefacts from the artist’s studio. The works on display concentrate on Orkney, where Wishart spent her time painting mostly in two locations, on the mainland near Stromness and on the island of Hoy, where she found herself endlessly fascinated by Rackwick Bay. Born in 1936 in Stromness, Orkney, Wishart decided to wait a few years before taking the encouraging advice of her school art teacher Ian MacInnes, instead opting for a career in the Post Office and painting in her spare time. Eventually she conceded and enrolled as a mature student at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. After this came various teaching posts in Lewis, Orkney and Aberdeenshire before she returned to Gray’s in 1969 to take on a lecturing position, where, over the yea ... More Markéta Othová's large-scale black-and-white photographs at Nicolas Krupp in Basel BASEL.- The movement inscribed into Markéta Othová’s works evokes an instinctive descent through the history of photography. Her point of departure has turned out to be the 1990s “archival turn”: beginning in 1994, the artist started to mine an extensive archive of her own snapshots, made primarily during trips abroad, putting together photographic installations of such a nature that the significance of the particular pictures was specified only by the syntax of the whole. Towards the end of the decade, Othová then shifted to the technique of temporal series, recorded sequentially – which put her close to the use of photography as we know it from 1970s Conceptual Art. And in her latest works, she is more focused than ever on the composition of particular images, now shot (in clear contrast to her previous cycles) exclusively in the lab environment of a photographer’s studio – so that, in her trajectory through the history of ... More Italian artist Pietro Ruffo's "The Political Gymnasium" at Blain-Southern LONDON.- For his debut exhibition with Blain|Southern, Italian artist Pietro Ruffo has created a series of large-scale, intricately worked drawings on paper. The inspiration for The Political Gymnasium derives from Ruffo’s time spent as a research fellow at Columbia University, New York, in 2011. He studied a number of American philosophers, concentrating on John Rawls’ and Robert Nozick’s theories relating to freedom. In his seminal work, Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974), Nozick attacks Rawls’ Theory of Justice (1971), in which Rawls proposes a system where the fair distribution of resources will ultimately benefit the disadvantaged sections of society. Nozick conversely argues in favour of a minimalist state, and ultimately questions whether it is ever fair to take something from one individual and give it to another. In order to highlight and further consider Nozick’s arguments, Ruffo has iso ... More A radical reappraisal of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at The Fleming Collection LONDON.- The painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is usually classified as a St Ives School artist yet her Scottish roots and her continuing close links with her homeland had a huge influence on her work. A major exhibition marking the centenary of her birth being held at The Fleming Collection at 13 Berkeley Street, London W1 from 10 January to 5 April 2012. W. Barns-Graham: A Scottish artist in St Ives, radically reappraising her career looking at the influence of her artistic training in Edinburgh, the inspirational resource she found in Scotland and its continuing creative importance as she divided her time between Cornwall and Fife. The Fleming Collection, which has become an embassy for Scottish art in London, is mounting the exhibition, the first to look at the artist from this perspective, in association with The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust. W. Barns-Graham: A Scottish artist in St Ives, is curated ... More Phillips de Pury & Company appoints Thomas Dryll and Niklaus Künzler as contemporary art specialists LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company announces two new appointments to the European offices. Thomas Dryll, studied History of Art at Sorbonne University and joins Phillips de Pury & Company after ten years as Director at Almine Rech Galleries. In addition to in-depth knowledge of the Parisian and French collectors and art market, Thomas brings with him a wealth of experience gained attending the major international art fairs over the past decade. Thomas is fluent in French, German and English. Niklaus Künzler, started his art market career while still studying Law and Art History at the University of Zurich; he joins Phillips de Pury after nearly two decades of working for leading Swiss galleries Susanna Kulli, Bruno Bischofberger, Eva Presenhuber and most recently Lumas. Niklaus is fluent in German, English, French with a working knowledge of Italian. “As a reflection of our continued expansion of business activit ... More |
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