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Written by Benard Klugmann
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:12 |
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ESSEN.- The Museum Folkwang’s masterpieces
have
been reunited again for the first time in over 70 years. The museum’s
spectacular pre-1933 collection has been reassembled for the first
large-scale
special exhibition in the New Building designed by David Chipperfield
Architects. The Museum Folkwang was home to one of the most
significant
collections of modern and contemporary art worldwide in the 1920s and
early
1930s. On his visit to Essen in 1932, Paul J. Sachs, co-founder of the
MoMA in
New York, called it “the most beautiful museum in the world”. The exhibition presents the main artworks of the
Folkwang collection for the first time in 70 years from 20 March to 25
July
2010.
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Read more... Folkwang Museum's Masterpieces Reunited for the First Time After 70 Years
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Written by Ken Johnson, NY Times
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:11 |
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New York Times - The
AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost
exhibition
of fine art photography. Much
of photography’s
past is on display at the Association of International Photography Art
Dealers
Photography Show, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
But
if you are concerned about the future of the medium, there are only a
few hints
of what might be to come. Mainly it is a show for collectors of vintage
prints. Among the 72 dealers, scores are presenting usual-suspect
inventories:
Evans, Weston, Arbus and so on. Some, however, have exercised more
creativity.
On view at the Park
Avenue Armory in New York City through 21
March.
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Read more... The AIPAD Photography Show New York ~ NY Times Critics Review
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Written by Alisa Bunbury
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:11 |
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MELBOURNE,AU - The National Gallery of Victoria
presents "Stick it! Collage in Australian Art", the Gallery’s first
exhibition
to focus on this fascinating art form. Featuring over forty works
primarily
drawn from the NGV Collection together with a small number of loans,
Stick it! explores graphic and eye-catching works created by pasting and
applying paper, ephemera and other materials to a base. Stick
it!
Collage in Australian Art will be on display at The Ian Potter Centre:
NGV
Australia, Federation Square from 20 March to 29 August 2010. Open
10am–5pm, closed Mondays. Entry is free.
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Read more... National Gallery of Victoria opens "Stick it! Collage in Australian Art
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Written by Frederick Carlson
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:11 |
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New York,
NY - Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original
artworks
by the legendary New Yorker magazine
cartoonist that
capture Addams's quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive
view of the
city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations,
and
distorted reimaginings of the cityscape. The works in the
exhibition
include watercolors, preliminary pencil sketches, completed cartoons,
and
examples of published work from the cover of the New Yorker. On
view at
the Museum of the City of New York through 16 May,
2010.
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Read more... Charles Addams’s New York" at The Museum of the City of New York
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Written by Abby Newsome
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:11 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- As a tribute to J. D. Salinger (1919–2010), who
died
January 27, The Morgan Library & Museum presents a pair of
exhibitions, the
first beginning March 16, of ten letters by the author. Written to
Michael
Mitchell, who was commissioned by Salinger to create the dust jacket for
The
Catcher in the Rye, the letters cover a forty-year period and
constitute an extraordinarily rare and revealing correspondence. They
richly
document a period of Salinger's life that has remained obscure and
provide
hitherto unknown details about the daily habits and thought of this
legendary
author.
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Read more... Letters by J.D. Salinger on View at the Morgan Library & Museum
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Written by Barnet Newbury
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:10 |
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MIAMI BEACH, FL.- Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi
unveils
a new side of her work at Walgreens Windows, an opportunity made
possible by
ArtCenter/South Florida. Known for her signature use of found objects in
creating eerie, yet poignant assemblages, Yaghoubi shares a series of
mixed
media paintings that exude an unexpected calm. Representations
of
Middle-Eastern women hang today in the storefront of the Collins Avenue
at 67th
Street location in Miami Beach. This context is both appropriate and
ironic, as
Yaghoubi’s friendly women in hijabs are set to reach thousands of
passerbys
through the facades of Walgreens, America’s quintessential drugstore.
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Read more... Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi Unveils Middle Eastern Women in Walgreens' Window
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Written by Georgina Madden
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:10 |
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LONDON.- Sophie Ristelhueber (b.1949,
France) has
been awarded the 2010 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. At a special
ceremony on
Wednesday 17 March 2010, the film director Terry Gilliam presented the
£30,000
award. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 is organised by The
Photographers’ Gallery and is on show until 18 April 2010. For
over 25
years, using photography and, more recently, moving image, Ristelhueber
has
investigated the impact of human conflict upon architecture and
landscape in
places such as Bosnia, France, Iraq, Lebanon and Kuwait. Often playing
with an
ambiguity of scale in her installations, Ristelhueber’s work confounds
traditional photographic genres and unsentimentally draws attention to
the scars
and traces we leave behind, addressing the essence of our human
existence.
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Read more... Sophie Ristelhueber Wins 2010 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
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Written by Claire Dennison
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:09 |
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LONDON.- Bonhams London sale of 20th Century British
Art once more exceeded expectations when it made a £2 million
total
and a brand new world record price for a Helen Bradley picture
sold at
auction, for £144,000. Bradley (1900-1979), who started
painting
in her sixties, and died shortly before she was due to be honoured
with an
MBE, had previously commanded £97,000 as a best price at auction,
said a
delighted Matthew Bradbury, Head of 20th Century British Art at
Bonhams.
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Read more... 20th Century British Art Makes World Records at Bonhams
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Written by AP Writer
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:08 |
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ROME (AP).- Ancient Greek artworks —
pieces of
silverware with gold detail dating to the third century B.C. — are going
on
display in Rome after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New
York. The
16 pieces include two large bowls, a cup with two handles, plates and
drinking
utensils. They were returned as part of Italy's aggressive campaign
against
illegal trafficking in antiquities.
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Read more... Museo Nazionale Romano Displays Ancient Greek Silverware Returned by the Metropolitan
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Written by Molly Warnock
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:07 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of
paintings
by Simon Hantaï at the 293 Tenth Avenue space. Held from March 19 –
April 24th,
it will be followed by an exhibition of his earlier works at Galerie
Jean
Fournier in Paris from April 8 - May 22, 2010. Curated by Molly
Warnock, this will be Hantaï's first showing in America since his
inclusion in
the exhibition "As Painting: Division and Displacement" at the Wexner
Center for
the Arts in 2001.
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Read more... Paul Kasmin Gallery Presents Paintings by Simon Hantai
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Written by Yolanda Lanning
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Friday, 19 March 2010 04:59 |
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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).
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Read more... Indian and South East Asian Art Sale Announced at Sotheby's
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Written by Donald Corning
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Friday, 19 March 2010 03:49 |
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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.
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Read more... Auction of the World's Largest Collection of Original Vintage Glamour Photography
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