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Gibbes Museum of Art Announces New Acquisition
Friday, 21 December 2007 22:28
Charleston, SC – In 2008, the Gibbes Museum of Art will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Carolina Art Association and the beginning of what is now the Gibbes’ permanent collection. In recognition of the upcoming anniversary, Dr. and Mrs. Anton Vreede have gifted the museum with Artist, a watercolor painting from Charleston artist Mary Whyte. In 2004, the Vreedes gave the museum 27 James McNeill Whistler prints and in 2001, they contributed funds toward the purchase of Bombardment of Fort Sumter by William Aiken Walker.
Magna Carta Saved For America ~ Rubenstein Pays $21.3 Million
Thursday, 20 December 2007 00:20
NEW YORK CITY - Sotheby’s, in an overflowing salesroom, The magna Carta was saved for America by David Rubenstein, who intends to place the document back on view at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Mr. Rubenstein, who referred to the manuscript as a “beacon for freedom,” purchased the document for $21,321,000. “I have always believed that the three most important documents were the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the magna Carta,” said Mr. Rubenstein after the sale. “This document stands the test of time. There is nothing more important than what it represents. I am privileged to be the new owner, but I am only the temporary custodian. This is a gift to the American people. It is important to me that it stay in the United States.”
Read more: [Magna Carta Saved For America ~ Rubenstein Pays $21.3 Million]
Deborah Aschheim Exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 22:32
ST. LOUIS, MO - Laumeier Sculpture Park presents the work of Deborah Aschheim in an exhibition which opens February 9, 2008. Continuing through May 11, 2008, the exhibition will transform the Laumeier galleries into an intensely immersive sensory experience. Deborah Aschheim comes from a family with a history of Alzheimer’s disease. As a result, much of Aschheim’s work focuses on creating sculptural and interactive multi-sensory responses to neuroscience, memory and cognitive processes. Much of the work emanates from her personal experiences.
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Sotheby's Noortman Collection Sale Yields €6.104.040
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:29
AMSTERDAM, NL - The auction of the Robert & Angelique Noortman Collection at Sotheby’s Amsterdam turned out to be a very successful sale. Over 600 paintings, works of art, silver, furniture and tribal art from Château De Groote Mot in Belgium found their way to new owners during a three sessions sale divided over two days. Many items were sold far above their estimates. The exact result was €6.104.040, doubling the estimate.
Read more: [Sotheby's Noortman Collection Sale Yields €6.104.040]
Jolans Fung ~ 'Desire/Disappearance' ~ at Art Beatus
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 02:51
Hong Kong - Can you place the desires of consumerism, that encourage the fast disposal of the goods and services of our everyday life, side by side with the battle cries of collective memories, that strive to preserve some commonly known objects which have been with us for a while? Jolans Fung attempts to play out these notions with his conceptual photography.
Read more: [Jolans Fung ~ 'Desire/Disappearance' ~ at Art Beatus]
" Identities " at the Santa Barbara Museum
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 02:22
Santa Barbara, CA - The Santa Barbara Museum of Art highlights its collection of contemporary art from Asia, Europe, and the Americas and explores the theme of identity as both a collective consciousness and individual reflection. The aptly-named Identities exhibition includes approximately 25 works, some very large in scale, dating from 1981 to 2003, and represents a broad range of media, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photography. On exhibition through 14 September, 2008.
'Ecology*Design*Synergy' at Heinz Architectural Center
Tuesday, 18 December 2007 23:59
PITTSBURGH, PA - Ecology.Design.Synergy, an exhibition that presents recent collaborative work by Behnisch Architekten, the distinguished Stuttgart-based architectural firm, and Transsolar ClimateEngineering, the Stuttgart-based environmental engineering company, will be on view at Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center February 23–May 25, 2008. Ecology.Design.Synergy documents 10 innovative, aesthetically refined, energy-efficient, and sustainable building projects in Europe and the United States including RiverParc, a green, mixed-use, residential and arts neighborhood in downtown Pittsburgh.
Read more: ['Ecology*Design*Synergy' at Heinz Architectural Center]
Gary Schneider ~ genetic self-portrait ~ at the Warehouse Gallery
Tuesday, 18 December 2007 23:58
Syracuse, NY – The Warehouse Gallery opened its first solo exhibition with work by Gary Schneider titled genetic self-portrait. The exhibition will be on view through Jan. 26, 2008. The show includes 55 photo-based works that Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.
Read more: [Gary Schneider ~ genetic self-portrait ~ at the Warehouse Gallery]
Juan Soriano exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Monday, 17 December 2007 22:27
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935-1950, the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s early years in Guadalajara and Mexico City and the first to be seen at a major U.S. museum. Juan Soriano (1920-2006) is one of modern Mexico’s especially intriguing artists. His work draws upon regional traditions as well as Cubism and Surrealism to create a distinctly romantic, representational style. This focused exhibition is guest curated by Edward J. Sullivan, Professor of Art History at New York University, where he also serves as Dean of Humanities.
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Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) hosts Alice Creischer
Monday, 17 December 2007 21:53
Barcelona, Spain - The intensely narrative work of Alice Creischer (Berlin, 1960) is shaped around a quest to find instruments to visualise the forms, moments and situations in which the history of capitalism and its operating principles become tales of exploitation, exclusion and distortion of the basic principles of western democracy. On exhibition : 1 February - 18 May 2008 at MACBA.
Read more: [Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) hosts Alice Creischer]
BP Portrait Award 2007 : Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Sunday, 16 December 2007 23:21
Edinburgh, Scotland - For only the second time in its history, the BP Portrait Award exhibition will be shown in Edinburgh this year, where it will be the highlight of the winter programme at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London, the BP Portrait Award promotes the best in contemporary portrait painting, by encouraging artists to focus upon and develop the theme of portraiture in their work. First established in 1980 – and in its 18th year of BP sponsorship - the Award is one of the most prestigious visual arts prizes in the world, and its main winner receives the sum of £25,000, plus a commission worth £4,000.
Read more: [BP Portrait Award 2007 : Scottish National Portrait Gallery]
Lucian Freud ~The Painter's Etchings ~ on view at MoMA
Sunday, 16 December 2007 15:54
NEW YORK CITY - Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings, on view at MoMA from December 16, 2007, to March 10, 2008, highlights the artist's exceptional achievements in the medium of etching and explores the crucial relationship between these works on paper and his works on canvas. In a career spanning more than six decades, Freud (British, b. Germany, 1922), has redefined portraiture and the nude through his frank scrutiny of the human form.
Read more: [Lucian Freud ~The Painter's Etchings ~ on view at MoMA]
This Is War! ~ Robert Capa at Work
Sunday, 16 December 2007 14:31
![artwork: Gerda Taro - [Robert Capa holding an Eyemo movie camera at the Segovia front, Spain], May 1937 © International Center of Photography - on exhibition at International Center of Photography](http://img.artknowledgenews.com/files2007a/GerdaTaroRobertCapa.jpg "artwork: Gerda Taro - [Robert Capa holding an Eyemo movie camera at the Segovia front, Spain], May 1937 © International Center of Photography - on exhibition at International Center of Photography")
New York City - Robert Capa is, without a doubt, one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century. His most striking images—of the Spanish Civil War, of the Sino-Japanese conflict, of World War II—all appeared in the pages of the leading picture magazines of the day. This was the context in which Capa worked and was known, and where he honed his skills as a master of the cinematic photo narrative.
Fake Paul Gauguin Sculpture " The Faun " Revealed by ICA
Saturday, 15 December 2007 09:44
CHICAGO, IL - The Art Institute of Chicago ( ICA ) has recently concluded that The Faun, a sculpture acquired by the museum in 1997 as a work by Paul Gauguin, is a creative, well researched forgery of a lost work by the artist produced by the recently sentenced Greenhalgh family from Bolton, England.
Read more: [Fake Paul Gauguin Sculpture " The Faun " Revealed by ICA]
Sotheby's sells Francis Bacon's Seated Woman for $20 Million
Friday, 14 December 2007 08:49
PARIS, FRANCE - Sotheby’s inaugural Evening Sale of Contemporary Art achieved a phenomenal total of €23,140,600 ($33,869,276; £16,569,285), the highest total for a sale of Contemporary Art staged by Sotheby’s in Continental Europe and the highest total for any auction held at Sotheby’s in France.
Read more: [Sotheby's sells Francis Bacon's Seated Woman for $20 Million]
CAMILLE PISSARRO ~ AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM ~
Friday, 14 December 2007 08:34
NEW YORK, NY – A founding member of the Impressionists and a master of depicting urban life and rural settings, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the only artist to show his paintings in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions from 1874 to 1886, and the only Impressionist who was Jewish. Pissarro is celebrated for his Impressionist landscapes painted in and around the villages of the French countryside surrounding Paris. He also painted more cityscapes than any other Impressionist artist. Pissarro’s continual artistic experimentation revolutionized late-19th-century art.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) presents "Hey Girl !"
Friday, 14 December 2007 08:17
CHICAGO, IL - The visual effects are as breathtaking as the story is intense in the darkly poetic dreamscapes of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Hey Girl! Meant to fascinate and provoke the imagination, this most recent project by the radical Italian theater company creates a world that is both beautiful and horrific. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Hey Girl!, Friday-Saturday, January 18-19, 2008.
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Cliff Evans five-channel video at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Friday, 14 December 2007 07:56
Boston, MA - Cliff Evans: Empyrean, 2007 is a new digital installation by leading video artist Cliff Evans and the first solo-museum exhibition of the artist’s work. Using recognizable images from contemporary advertising excerpted from the Internet to create an animated five-panel collage, Evans turns a critical eye on contemporary American culture and challenges the viewer to confront issues of power, politics, militarism life-style and control in our society. Infused with the artist’s wry sense of humor and keen eye for color and detail, Empyrean is as engaging as it is disquieting.
Read more: [Cliff Evans five-channel video at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]
Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts ' Abstract Expressionist & Modern Works '
Wednesday, 12 December 2007 08:51
New York City - One of the preeminent collections of Abstract Expressionism, The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection was given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006, contributing significantly to the Museum’s holdings in modern art. To celebrate the gift, Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art — on view through February 3, 2008 — presents 55 works assembled by one of the most prescient and astute collectors of the mid-20th century.
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Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:48
New York City - Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel is a groundbreaking exhibition that tells the story of a little-known aspect of American carousel history and its connection to Jewish visual culture. On view at the American Folk Art Museum, New York, through March 23, 2008, the exhibition is organized by Murray Zimiles, guest curator, and coordinated by Stacy C. Hollander, the museum’s senior curator and director of exhibitions. Approximately one hundred splendid and rarely exhibited artworks are on loan from public and private collections from the U.S. and Israel.
Read more: [Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel]
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