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The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens 'The Landscape Art of Wang Hui'

Tuesday, 09 September 2008 17:40

artwork: The exhibition features 27 masterpieces by Wang Hui from the Taipei and Beijing Palace Museums, the Shanghai Museum, and several North American collections.

NEW YORK CITY - Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late 17th-century China, played a key role in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting as well as in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Manchu Qing court. An artist of protean talent and immense artistic ambition, Wang developed an all-embracing synthesis of historical landscape styles that constituted one of the greatest innovations in the arts of late imperial China. On exhibition 9 September through 4 January, 2009, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hirshhorn Museum hosting the Black Box Space for New Media

Tuesday, 09 September 2008 17:35

artwork: Ori Gersht likes to freeze the flowers with nitrogen and then blow them up into a million pieces only to capture 1/6000 of a second what the eye is unable to see....but his camera can.

WASHINGTON.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announces upcoming exhibitions in the museum's Black Box space. Since 2005, as part of its commitment to the creative possibilities of new media, the Hirshhorn's Black Box has presented the work of a diverse range of emerging and established international artists. Organized by associate curator Kelly Gordon, the artists featured in upcoming solo shows are Semiconductor (Aug. 25-Dec. 14, 2008), and Ori Gersht (Dec. 22, 2008-Apr. 12, 2009).

Lucian Freud's Rarely-seen Portrait of Francis Bacon to be Offered at Christie's

Tuesday, 09 September 2008 17:06

artwork: Lucian Freud (b. 1922) - Portrait of Francis Bacon - Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2008

LONDON - Christie’s announces that they will offer one of only two oil portraits of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) ever painted by Lucian Freud (b. 1922) at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 19 October 2008 in London. The last known remaining oil portrait (the other was stolen from an exhibition in Berlin in 1988), the rarely-seen painting offers a tangible and intimate glimpse into the inspirational friendship of two of the greatest British artists of the 20th century.

Bellevue Arts Museum to show " Tip Toland ~ Melt, The Figure in Clay "

Monday, 08 September 2008 22:30

artwork: Tip Toland - Milk for the Butter Thief, 2008 - Stoneware clay, paint, pastel, wood - 11' x 53' x 20' Photo: Tom Holt

Bellevue, WA – Bellevue Arts Museum is organizing a new exhibition by Northwest sculptor Tip Toland entitled Melt, The Figure in Clay. On view from September 23, 2008 through February 8, 2009, this solo exhibition will feature six to eight life-size and larger-than-life human figures, most of which will be new works debuting at Bellevue Arts Museum.

Institute Of Contemporary Art will Display a Odili Donald Odita Wall Abstract

Monday, 08 September 2008 22:22

artwork: Odili Donald Odita - Flow, 2007 - Acrylic latex wall paint on wall, dimensions vary. Installation view - Contemporary Arts Center Kaplan Hall Lobby, Cincinnati , Ohio (Nov.10, 2007-fall 2008) - Photo:Tony Walsh

Philadelphia, PA - Odili Donald Odita’s large-scale, abstract wall paintings operate at the intersection of Western modernism and African culture. Borrowing strategies of destabilized perception from Op art—a tradition condemned by formalist criticism—and adding narrative and multicultural inflection, Odita both embraces and critiques the modernist tradition. His vast, animated expanses of fractured, rhythmic planes, equally informed by television test band patterns, African textiles, post-colonial discourse, sensory overload, and digital technology, speak to a contemporary experience. This is the 16th commission in ICA’s Ramp Project Series and will be on view through March 29, 2009.

Damien Hirst Presents His Works of Art In Historic Sale at Sotheby's in London

Monday, 08 September 2008 21:44

artwork: Damien Hirst poses beside his work of art 'The Incredible Journey' at Sotheby's in London Photo: EFE / Andy Rain

LONDON - Including a whole new body of work that covers the complete range of Hirst’s output and more, the Sotheby's auction will run over two days, commencing with an Evening Sale on Monday, 15 September, and continuing throughout the following day (Tuesday, 16 September) with a morning and afternoon session. The two day sale, which will include 223 lots, is expected to realise a sum in excess of £65 million. Estimates will range from around £15,000-20,000 (for a range of new drawings) up to the £8,000,000-12,000,000 estimate attached to The Golden Calf . . the monumental and arresting centre-piece of the sale. Among the works to be offered will be new and exciting variations on many of the key themes that have defined Hirst’s work to date.

Oakland Museum of California to celebrate 'Días de los Muertos 2008'

Monday, 08 September 2008 21:40

artwork: Dances at annual Days of the Dead celebration

OAKLAND, CA.- Bring on the dancing skeletons and sugar skulls, Días de los Muertos returns to the Oakland Museum of California for its 15th annual celebration of the dead. The exhibition opens Wednesday, Oct 8 (through Dec 7, 2008). The Community Celebration is Saturday, Oct 25. Guest curator Fernando Hernández titled the exhibition Evolution of a Sacred Space: Días de los Muertos 2008 to convey how the spiritual tradition has changed since its pre-Columbian roots. A living tradition, Days of the Dead is recognized as a cultural holiday throughout California.

Waterhouse & Dodd presents the acclaimed Michael Canning

Sunday, 07 September 2008 23:02

artwork: Michael Canning - Assumption - Oil and wax on canvas- 122 x 92 cm. at Waterhouse & Dodd, London

London - In October we welcome Michael Canning back to the Waterhouse & Dodd gallery for his keenly anticipated second solo exhibition. His first, in April of last year, was rapturously received and indeed all 26 paintings had sold out within four days of the opening. Since then, Michael has exhibited in Ireland (winning the prestigious Oriel Gallery Award at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin in May 2007) and in America, to great critical and commercial acclaim.

American Museum of Natural History shows an Exquisite Rainbow-Colored Diamond Creation

Sunday, 07 September 2008 21:17

artwork: Young visitors admire the dazzling suite of 240 fancy colored diamonds arranged in the shape of a large butterfly which was unveiled at the American Museum of Natural History. The diamonds for the stunning Butterfly of Peace, weighing a total of 166.94 carats, were painstakingly assembled over 12 years (1992-2004) by Alan Bronstein and Harry Rodman of Aurora Gems, Inc., in New York City

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A dazzling suite of 240 diamonds, representing every variety of fancy colored diamonds in existence and arranged in the shape of a large butterfly, will be on display to the public for a limited time in the Museum’s Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems. The diamonds for the stunning Butterfly of Peace, weighing a total of 166.94 carats, were painstakingly assembled over 12 years (1992-2004) by Alan Bronstein and Harry Rodman of Aurora Gems, Inc., in New York.

Christie's Open Sale Offers a Selection of Contemporary Masters & Emerging Artists

Sunday, 07 September 2008 21:08

artwork: Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) - Modern Painting in Porcelain - Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000 - Christie's Images Ltd. 2008

New York City - Christie’s New York leads its fall season with the eighth edition of First Open on September 9, which includes over 230 lots of Post-War & Contemporary Art and is expected to realize in excess of $6-8 million. First Open displays another stunning array of works for this highly anticipated and successful sale. Highlights of the sale include an exciting assortment of paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs from both well-known and emerging artists.

Zenith Gallery hosts 'Contours & Concourses'

Sunday, 07 September 2008 17:52

artwork: Renèe duRocher - Faster Than Time - Oil on canvas - 30'h x 40'w

Washington, DC - Canadian-born painter Renèe duRocher and sculptor Mary-Ann Prack share more than their native country, including a contemporary style, inspired by the past, and a penchant for abstract figurative art, painted in earth tones with vivid colors and linear grace. Where they differ, at least in this show, is that duRocher’s figures evoke a sense of modern society’s activity and purpose while Prack’s seems timeless and spiritual. Both have exhibited at Zenith Gallery for years and are avidly collected. On view 3 October through 2 November, 2008.

'R. Crumb's Underground' at Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia

Sunday, 07 September 2008 16:45

artwork: Robert Crumb - Jenny - pencil drawing

Philadelphia, PA - In 1967, a young Philadelphia cartoonist named Robert Crumb arrived in San Francisco and quickly established himself as a master of the burgeoning “comix” movement. No one had ever seen anything like Crumb’s skewed adult satire, a brilliant combination of classical storytelling and crass commercialism, expressed in a vibrant symbolic language harking back to “old time” cartooning. This career-spanning survey, on view though December 7, 2008, is organized around specific themes and ideologies critical to his work. These include social satire, sex, blues and jazz music, mind-altering substances, autobiography, and biography.

The Museo del Prado to show " Rembrandt ~ A History Painter "

Saturday, 06 September 2008 23:35

artwork: Rembrandt - Betsabé en el baño - Musée du Louvre

Madrid, Spain - Of the great masters of European painting, Rembrandt is one of the least well represented in the Museo del Prado, which has only one work by his hand, the Artemisia (1634). For this reason, the Museum has decided to organise an exhibition that will allow the public to see more of the work of this remarkable artist. It includes around 30 paintings and five prints loaned from leading European and American museums and will focus on the subject of Rembrandt as a narrative painter. On exhibition 15th October 2008 to 6th January 2009.

The Library of Congress Awards the Gershwin Prize to Stevie Wonder

Saturday, 06 September 2008 22:51

artwork: Stevie Wonder in Concert - Honored with The Gershwin Prize

Washington, DC- Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder—who burst on the scene in the early 1960s as a musical prodigy, and whose dance hits and love songs segued over the years into thoughtful commentaries on the joy and injustice in our world—as the recipient of the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The award presentation will take place in the Great Hall of the Library on Feb. 23, 2009. As an added distinction to this year’s Gershwin Prize, the Library has offered, and Wonder has accepted, a musical commission. He joins a group of eminent composers who have received Library commissions, ranging from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein to Paquito D’Rivera.