Our art news magazine is updated DAILY with new articles, and is published FREE to subscribers worldwide. We are sponsored by the Art Appreciation Foundation. AKN brings to its readers unbiased art information and news about art, the art world, museums, artists, exhibitions, articles reprinted from renowned art publications, art resources, special features, photos, commentary, and a vast array of art images found nowhere else in one source. Subscribe today!
|
|
Written by Yolanda Lanning
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 04:59 |
|
NEW
YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s sale of Indian and South East Asian Art in New
York on 24 March 2010 features a well curated selection of Indian, Himalayan and
South East Asian works of art. A strong selection of Indian miniatures as well
as modern and contemporary paintings are also included in the 184 lot sale that
is estimated to fetch $5/7.3 million; the auction will be on exhibition at
Sotheby’s from this Friday, 19 March. Leading the modern paintings in
the sale is an Untitled work by Manjit Bawa. The canvas is one of the largest
paintings produced by the artist and the most important work by him ever to
appear at auction (est. $200/300,000).
|
|
Read more... Indian and South East Asian Art Sale Announced at Sotheby's
|
|
 |
 |
|
Written by Donald Corning
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 03:49 |
|
CALABASAS, CA.- George Hurrell’s iconic portrait
of Jean Harlow on a white bearskin rug created for Vanity Fair magazine now
spearheads the largest auction of Glamour Photography in art history. The
original camera negative, as well as a custom print of this incomparable
photograph is regarded as Hurrell’s most important portrait and is estimated to
sell for well over $20,000. The multi-million dollar Michael H. Epstein
and Scott E. Schwimer collection, which contains tens of thousands of the best
examples of Hollywood fine art, will be auctioned by Profiles in History March
26-27, 2010. Worldwide bidding begins at 12:00pm (noon) PST both days.
|
|
Read more... Auction of the World's Largest Collection of Original Vintage Glamour Photography
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Kirstin Davies
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 02:32 |
|
LONDON.- Christie’s announced that they will offer
an exceptionally important and highly celebrated masterpiece by Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973) in the evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on
23 June 2010. Painted by the most influential artist of the 20th century,
Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, 1903 comes from the artist’s celebrated
Blue Period, arguably the greatest period in Picasso’s career. The
painting will be priced at £30 million to £40 million and all the proceeds will
benefit The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, a charity founded by the celebrated
composer in 1992. Working for the public benefit, The Foundation focuses on the
promotion of arts, culture and heritage in Britain.
|
|
Read more... Christie's to Offer Andrew Lloyd Webber's Picasso Blue Period Masterpiece
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Vanessa Gera, Associated Press Writer
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 02:31 |
|
WARSAW (AP).- A Polish court
convicted three men Thursday of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei"
(Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December. The men,
two of whom are brothers, were given prison sentences ranging from 18 months to
2½ years. In footage from the court, TVN24 showed the men, with their
faces blurred, showed each man in turn expressing regret and acknowledging that
stealing the sign was not a good idea. The theft occurred in the night
between Dec. 17 and Dec. 18, a brazen heist that shocked Holocaust survivors and
many others committed to preserving the Auschwitz-Birkenau site.
|
|
Read more... Polish Court Convicts Three Men in Theft of Notorius Auschwitz Sign
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Julia Joern
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 02:03 |
|
NEW
YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents the first solo exhibition by
Marlene Dumas since the artist joined the gallery in 2008. Against the Wall
features all new works from 2009 and 2010. This marks the first time since 2001
that the artist has presented a new body of work in New York. Known for
her unique approach to canvas and her thought-provoking subject matter, Marlene
Dumas is widely considered one of today’s most important painters. Her
work is characterized by a sensual and gestural technique that is also swift,
dry, and minimal, as if under pressure to leave only what is necessary. On view
18 March through 24 April, 2010.
|
|
Read more... David Zwirner presents First Exhibition by Marlene Dumas with the Gallery
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Harold Newsome
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 01:48 |
|
AUSTIN, TX.- Screenwriter and director Paul
Schrader has donated his collection to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities
research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
Schrader wrote screenplays for such iconic films as "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Blue
Collar" (1978), "Raging Bull" (1980), "American Gigolo" (1980), "The Mosquito
Coast" (1986) and "Affliction" (1997). Schrader had previously donated
De Niro's costume from "Taxi Driver" after De Niro donated his archive to the
Ransom Center in 2006. The costume is now on display in the Ransom Center's
exhibition "Making Movies," which runs through Aug. 1.
|
|
Read more... Film Director Paul Schrader Donates Collection to Harry Ransom Center
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Jessica Leighton
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 01:48 |
|
LONDON.- Paintings by Stockport artist William
Turner achieved world record prices at Bonhams Chester Picture sale on Wednesday
17 March. William Turner, who was born in 1920, specialized in painting urban
views based on the mills and streets of Manchester and Stockport. Bonhams
offered five important paintings dating from the 1960s and 70s, which
generated great enthusiasm from local buyers and collectors. The top price of
the day was £17,760 paid for a 1961 oil painting ‘The City’, purchased by a
private collector. Three other paintings by Turner also attracted prices over
£10,000.
|
|
Read more... World Records Tumble For Paintings by William Turner at Bonhams
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Leslie Moran
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 01:47 |
|
WILMINGTON, DE.- James Gurney’s Dinotopia bring the
worlds of science and the imagination to life by chronicling Arthur and Will
Denison’s remarkable experiences on a lost island in vibrant color and
meticulous detail. Recounted in words and pictures in the best-selling
book series, Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time (1992), Dinotopia: The World
Beneath (1995), and Dinotopia: First Flight (1999), the artist’s compelling tale
has engaged and enchanted readers by inviting them to explore the far reaches of
a mysterious destination. On exhibition through 16 May, 2010
at the Delaware Art Museum.
|
|
Read more... Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney" to Open at the Delaware Art Museum
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Rajendra Roy
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 01:47 |
|
NEW
YORK, NY.- 'World on a Wire' (1973), written and directed by Rainer
Werner Fassbinder (German, 1945–1982) and based on the novel Simulacron-3 by
American author Daniel F. Galouve, will have a weeklong run at MoMA, from April
14 through April 19, 2010. Originally made for German television in
1973, Fassbinder’s revolutionary adaptation has only been shown in America once
before, in 1997, as part of a comprehensive Fassbinder retrospective at The
Museum of Modern Art.
|
|
Read more... MoMA to Show Fassbinder's Visionary Science-Fiction Thriller
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Hilda Garvey
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 01:47 |
|
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an
exhibition of recent paintings by Alberto Di Fabio. Di Fabio's work is inspired
by the fundamental laws of the physical world, as well as organic elements and
their interrelation. His paintings and works on paper merge the worlds
of art and science, depicting natural forms and biological structures in vivid
color and imaginative detail. On view 18 March through 24 April,
2010.
|
|
Read more... Gagosian Opens Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Alberto Di Fabio
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Jeff Wilson, Associated Press Writer
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 01:46 |
|
SIMI VALLEY, CA (AP).- All 208 episodes of
television's "General Electric Theater," hosted by then-actor Ronald Reagan, are
being delivered to former first lady Nancy Reagan on Wednesday as part of the
two-year celebration of the late president's 100th birthday. The
1954-1962 "General Electric Theater" tapes, most believed to be damaged or lost,
were recently uncovered in the General Electric/NBC Universal archives. They
were restored to broadcast quality for use in the Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library in Simi Valley.
|
|
Read more... Reagan 'GE Theater' Tapes Restored, Go to Presidential Library
|
|
|
|
|
Written by Belle Gossburg
|
|
Friday, 19 March 2010 01:46 |
|
MADRID.- The Palacio de Cristal was inaugurated in
1887 with an exhibition of the flora of the Philippines, Spain’s pre-eminent
colony at that time. Palm trees and indigenous plants of many kinds were
installed in a ceremonial layout that centred on two chairs raised on a dais,
flanked by tapestries and accessed across a spread of oriental carpets.
Transforming the greenhouse into an exotic mise-en-scene, Pierre Huyghe's
installation formed part of a larger project devoted to the Philippines, its
natural resources and material culture. In its built form the Palacio
de Cristal belongs to the typology of the green house; in its role and
functions, however, it can be more closely aligned with Joseph Paxton’s Crystal
Palace built in 1852 for one of the first world’s fairs. The kinds of exhibits
presented in London at that epochal event – manufacturing and industrial goods,
art and artefacts – became the staple of the Universal Exhibitions that were to
prove such a popular feature of later 19th and early 20th century western
culture.
|
|
Read more... Pierre Huyghe's La saison des fetes Installation at Museo Reina Sofia
|
|
|
