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NEW YORK.- Harry N. Abrams, Inc. just published the book The Charm of Charms: By Jade Albert and Ki Hackney. From antique shops to such upscale stores as Tiffany and Cartier, from flea markets to the chic design houses of Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, charms are making a grand reappearance on the fashion scene. Drawn to these tiny treasures for their ability to express elements of the wearer's personality, today's charm lovers are using them to adorn everything from bracelets and necklaces to dog collars and diaper pins.
In The Charm of Charms, photographer Jade Albert and writer Ki Hackney tell the fascinating story of this ever-popular jewelry item. The stunning color photographs provide an up-close and personal view of hundreds of cherished charmed jewels, including pieces belonging to Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, the Duchess of Windsor, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige among other celebrities. The intriguing stories behind these beloved trinkets are told in the lively, informative text, which also covers the history of charms and amulets from prehistory to the present. Combining up-to-the-minute trendiness with nostalgic glamour, this gorgeous volume will appeal to fashion and jewelry enthusiasts both young and old.
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Monet’s London: Artists’ Reflections on the Thames, 1859–1914 will present selections from Claude Monet’s series of London paintings, created between 1899 and 1904, alongside artworks by his contemporaries, including paintings, prints, watercolors, drawings, and photographs by European and American artists.
LONDON, ENGLAND.- The vivid responses of a new generation of Chinese photographers and video artists to the rapid cultural, political, social and economic changes taking place in China will be on view in a compelling and varied exhibition at the V&A this autumn.
'Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China' is the first comprehensive survey of Chinese photography and video from the past decade. As well as introducing an extraordinary body of work to a UK audience, the exhibition will provide remarkable insight into the dynamics of Chinese culture at the start of the 21st century.
Featuring 80 works by 40 artists, the exhibition reflects the energy of younger Chinese artists. The works, by both rising stars and established artists, are often monumental in scale and experimental in nature.
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK.- Statens Museum for Kunst celebrates the centenary of the breakthrough of fauvism - and thus of Matisse - with a startling and challenging exhibition that provides contemporary audiences with new perspectives on the museum's Matisse masterpieces. The years from1905 to 1918 were crucial for Henri Matisse's ouvre. It was during those years that he created his most important works and established his position as one of the leading figures within 20th century art. Statens Museum for Kunst owns a unique collection of major works from the period. These works are not just regarded as milestones within Matisse's body of work by posterity – they also attracted a great deal of attention at the time of their creation and were much appreciated by the artist himself.
Different takes on Matisse - MATISSE & shows different takes, different perspectives on nine of the museum's works by the French master. Works by three contemporary artists - Jesper Just and Malene Landgreen from Denmark and Aino Kannisto from Finland - are intervowen in a dialogue with Matisses' early works, establishing formal and thematic synchronicities and contrast across the span of years. In addition to this, eight pre-eminent Matisse scholars provide a new optics on the early works by pointing to hitherto overlooked connections in Matisse's motifs and imagery.
LONDON, ENGLAND.- The Art Fund has awarded a grant of £400,000 towards the purchase of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ striking Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers, (c 1770), giving Tate a flying start in its bid to secure the painting – one of the highlights of Reynolds’ oeuvre – for the nation. The picture was export stopped in January following its sale to a European institution at the end of last year. At the time, it was given a starred rating by the Export Reviewing Committee, indicating that every possible effort should be made to keep it in the country. Tate has also secured a pledge of £500,000 from Tate Members and now has to raise the £3,200,000 necessary to match the agreed market price.
The Archers is a double full-length portrait of the dashing Colonel John Dyke Acland (1746-1778, on the right) and Dudley Alexander Sydney Cosby (1732-1774). Acland was an MP, and raised his own militia at the suggestion of George III, joining General Burgoyne on his expedition to America in 1775. (His wife was a heroine of the American Wars of Independence.) Cosby (later Baron Sydney) became Lord Halifax’s private secretary in 1762; he was also a diplomat and reportedly committed suicide by ‘a dose of Danish poison’ in 1774.
NEW YORK.-The Old Master Paintings auction at Christie’s was a great success. 130 lots were sold for $16,823,000.
Nicholas Hall, International Director, and Anthony Crichton-Stuart, Head of Old Master Paintings Department, New York stated: “We are absolutely delighted with the result of today’s sale and the continuing strength of the Old Master Paintings market at Christie’s. Competitive bidding from all over the world, both in the room and on the phones, fully repaid the efforts of the New York team’s research and presentation of a fine selection of works. Today’s result is also very encouraging for the important sales to be held at King Street on July 5 and 8, which includes pictures from the Champalimaud Collection.?
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- The Brooklyn Museum of Art presents Living Legacies: The Arts of the Americas, a thematic installation that features the Museum’s world-renowned collections of indigenous art from North, Central and South America, dating from about 3000 b.c. to the present. The three exhibitions currently on view comprise the first of two phases that, when completed in 2006, will present over four hundred objects of remarkable beauty, some of which have never before been shown.
The first phase of Living Legacies presents approximately one hundred objects in three thematic exhibitions: “Threads of Time: Woven Histories of the Andes,? featuring the Museum’s world-renowned textile collection; “Enduring Heritage: Arts of the Northwest Coast,? recontextualizing sculptural objects; and “Stories Revealed: Writing Without Words,? emphasizing the universality of the indigenous pictorial tradition. Each section includes examples of contemporary works, demonstrating the continuity of these artistic traditions and underscoring their role as living legacies for the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
TEMPE, ARIZONA.- Latin American art entered the Arizona State University Art Museum among its earliest acquisitions. The Latin American collection is comprised of over 800 works. Plans are now developing to expand the collection to include work by artists of the Southern Cone. A seminal part of the Museum’s collection for over a half century, Latin American art’s vitality and its relevance to our geographic location and to contemporary themes of globalization make it an engaging focus and a dynamic strategy to the advancement of the Museum.
The ASU Art Museum showcases works from the Latin American collection, complemented by works on loan from Arizona collectors and beyond. The project reflects the ongoing commitment of the ASU Art Museum to present new and challenging work, and to create exhibitions that engage the audience in new ways, bringing the museum toward “social embeddedness,? a University priority. Its emphasis on Latin American artists reflects the University commitment to Pan-American initiatives and the expansion of the museum exhibition, education, and collecting programs to works of art from that region.
STANFORD, CA.- Some of the world’s oldest cultures have survived in the Amazon River basin and are among the last in the New World to retain their centuries-old, pre-conquest traditions and rituals. The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents an exhibition that celebrates ceremonies and rites of passage unique to these people. "Vanishing Worlds: Art and Ritual in Amazonia" showcases rare works that are the surviving expressions of these cultures.
"Using brilliantly colored feathers of some 40 species, including parrots, macaws, and herons, the Amazonian Indians create objects that call upon a range of physical and magical forces — forces integral to their conception of the environment around them, as well as the universe as a whole," said Manuel Jordán Pérez, who is the Cantor Arts Center's curator for the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Until recent years, the exquisite artistry of these ritual objects was virtually unknown outside of ethnographic and anthropological circles. We are pleased to be able to bring these works to the Bay Area to share with the public."
LONDON, ENGLAND.- Tate presents Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated Portrait of Omai as one of the important loans to Tate Britain's exhibition Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity. The work, which remains in a private collection, will be among the highlights of the exhibition.
During his lifetime Joshua Reynolds was among the most celebrated artists in the Western world. He was a brilliant portraitist but also an impresario, a skilled networker, and a master of spin. Through his paintings, his friendships and his manipulation of the media, Reynolds was – as this exhibition will reveal – a driving force in the creation of the modern-day cult of the celebrity.
This will be the first ever exhibition dedicated to Joshua Reynolds at Tate. Rather than providing a general survey of Reynolds’s art, this show will be the first monographic exhibition to identify and focus on a key aspect of Reynolds’s achievement, and set it within the social, political and cultural context of the artist’s times.
Neuberger Museum of Art.
Purchase, NY, USA. Horses have been the single, sustained focus of the work of Deborah Butterfield for more than 20 years. Deborah Butterfield, on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art, offers a comprehensive overview of the work of an enormously popular, significant American sculptor, showcasing her magnificent horse sculptures and celebrating the release of a major book on her remarkable career. Most of the works in the exhibition are on loan from Butterfield’s personal collection and have rarely, if ever, been seen by the public.
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