Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA co-curator, Dr. Victoria Lyall, shows a 1,540 lb serpent stone sculpture with polychrome, from Cholula, Puebla, Mexico (AD 900-1200), that is part of the new exhibit: "Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico." The exhibit is an exploration of the ancient kingdoms of southern Mexico and their deity: “Quetzalcoatl,“ the human incarnation of the Plumed Serpent, and is being shown in LACMA's Resnick Pavilion Los Angeles from April 1 through July 1. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes.
LOS ANGELES, CA.-The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico, the first large-scale exploration of the ancient kingdoms of southern Mexico and their patron deity, Quetzalcoatl, the human incarnation of the Plumed Serpent. On view from April 1 through July 1, 2012, this groundbreaking exhibition features more than two hundred objects—including painted codices, turquoise mosaics, gold, and textiles—from Mexico, Europe, and the United States. These rare artworks trace the development of an extensive trade network that resulted in a period of cultural innovation that spread across ancient Mexico, the American Southwest, and Central America during the Postclassic (AD 900-1521) and early colonial periods. ... More
A man views the newly restored painting "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" by Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. AP Photo/Jacques Brinon.
PARIS.- The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most ambitious compositions. Celebrated already by those having visited the Florentine master’s studio in the early stages of the painting’s conception, this work was the culmination of a long process occupying the artist during the last twenty years of his life. To this day, a number of questions remain unanswered, particularly as to the origin of the commission, how the painting evolved, and its early history. Recently, several historical and scientific discoveries have provided important clues, although without resolving all of the doubts surrounding this work. This exhibition aims to present the state of existing knowledge about this now restored masterpiece by bringing together, for the first time since the artist’s death, all of the related works and documents. One hundred and thirty works are thus presented, including two exceptional loans: the Burlington House cartoon from th ... More
Pablo Picasso (1881 –1973), Grande vase aux danseurs, 1950. Estimate: £70,000-100,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
SOUTH KENSINGTON.-Christie’s announced the sale of The Madoura Collection of Picasso Ceramics – the last ever opportunity for collectors to purchase these works by Picasso directly from where they were made, at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris, France. The Collection is offered for sale by Alain Ramié, a friend and colleague of Picasso’s for many years, the author of the catalogue raisonné of Picasso ceramic editions, and the son of the owners of the Madoura Pottery, Georges and Suzanne Ramié. The Ramié family first inspired Picasso to enter into the world of pottery in 1946, the beginning of a fascination that would last until the final years of his life. This unrivalled Collection is expected to realise a total in the region of £2 million, and will be offered at Christie’s South Kensington saleroom over two days – at 4pm on 25 June and at 10am on 26 June 2012. The auctions will comprise of around ... More
Australian painter Tim Storrier's prize winning self-portrait painting titled 'The histrionic wayfarer'. AP Photo/Art Gallery NSW.
SYDNEY.- Tim Storrier was represented in last year’s Archibald Prize with another self-portrait without a face. Entitled Moon boy (self-portrait as a young man), the figure was represented by a suit of empty clothes hanging as if on a scarecrow in a barren landscape. This year’s self-portrait is, as he notes, a work in a quite different mood. ‘It refers to a painting by Hieronymus Bosch called The wayfarer painted in 1510 where the figure is believed to be choosing a path or possibly the prodigal son returning,’ says Storrier. ‘It also has other references, I believe, but they are rather clouded in biblical history and time. ‘A carapace of burden is depicted in The histrionic wayfarer, clothed in the tools to sustain the intrigue of a metaphysical survey. Provisions, art materials, books, papers, bedding, compass and maps, all for the journey through the landscape of the artist’s mind, accompanied by ... More
An inscribed ancient Greek marble slab returned to Greece by the J. Paul Getty Museum is seen. AP Photo/Greek Culture Ministry.
LOS ANGELES (AP).- The government of Turkey has asked the J. Paul Getty Museum and several other American museums to return artifacts that it believes were looted. The Turkish government has contacted the Getty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection to present evidence that objects in their collections may have been illegally excavated from the country's archaeological sites, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. It has threatened to halt all loans of art to those institutions until they respond to the claims. Turkey believes the antiquities were stolen and smuggled out of the country after the passage of a 1906 law that gave the state ownership of antiquities in the ground. It is the latest country after Italy and Greece to take an aggressive stance in reclaiming stolen antiquities. "Turkey is not trying to ... More
Jorinde Voigt, Konnex Study I, 2012, Courtesy Jorinde Voigt.
LES MESNULS.- The Contemporary Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Art Foundation was awarded on the 29th of March 2012 to Jorinde Voigt, a German artist born in 1977 in Frankfurt. She first studied philosophy and literature before studying the plastic arts at the University of Berlin, the city where she lives and works today. In 2011, she was shown at the Von der Heydt Museum, in Wuppertal, Germany, and at the Teckningsmuseet, in Laholm, Sweden. In 2004, she had a solo show in France at the Cité Internationale des Arts, "EPM – émotion per minute" and at Public with "Public Relations VoL.1". In 2010, she participated in a group show "Emporte moi" at the MAC/VAL, Vitry sur SeineShe is represented by the galleries David Nolan, New York, Christian Lether, Cologne and Regina, London and Moscow. The international jury was composed of Bernadette Bainville (France), Joe Battat (Canada), Sandra Mulliez ( ... More
Pascal Broccolichi. Table d’harmonie, 2010.
GIJON.- In 2007, LABoral held the first L.E.V. (Laboratory of Visual Electronics) Festival, whose initials pay tribute to Lev Thermen, the Russian scientist who was the father of the present-day synthesiser. The founding goal of the festival was to provide an eclectic and qualitative overview of electronic sound creation and its intersections with the visual arts. Throughout its five events, the Festival has featured a selection of the most interesting projects by international creators working in this field, spanning from up-and-coming promises to renowned artists. The L.E.V. Festival is a physical and ephemeral space, particularly focused on the natural synergy between image and sound, on live action, on the influence of avant-garde movements on contemporary creation, on the relationship forged between the spectator and the public space, and on the new art movements emerging around the world in connection with au ... More
Circa-1895 linen mounted poster for La Marque Georges Richard Automobiles and Bicycles, 58 x 42 inches. Mosby & Co. image.
FREDERICK, MD.- Ask any regular who attends auctions conducted by Mosby & Co., and they’ll tell you what the Maryland-based company is best known for: everything. Owner Keith Spurgeon makes a point of personally selecting only the most interesting, best-quality pieces from dozens of collecting categories for his well-attended sales. Spurgeon’s April 28 Spring Antiques Auction, which will be held at the Mosby & Co. gallery in the Washington suburb of Frederick, Md., features 550 lots that range from sculptures, clocks and an old collection of Chinese soapstone to toys, historic Americana and a spectacular assortment of 19th- and early 20th-century posters. The approximately 100 pieces of soapstone, to be apportioned into 30 lots, are from a single-owner collection that was started 60 years ago. “It’s a completely unpicked collection. It hasn’t been touched in 30 years,” said Spurgeon, who reg ... More
A brown satin vest worn by Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard. AP Photo/Julien's Auctions.
BEVERLY HILLS (AP).- A bustier worn on stage by Whitney Houston fetched $18,750 at an auction Saturday in Beverly Hills of memorabilia from the late pop star's career. The sale of 13 items brought in a total of $80,187 from bidders in the gallery, on the phone and online, according to celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien. A grey velvet gown the singer wore to music mogul Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party in 1996 went for $11,250. Pearl drop earrings worn by Houston in "The Bodyguard" sold for $2,812, while a vest she sported in the film commanded $3,437. Other items included a plum velvet dress, which brought $7,500, and a black and gold pants outfit that fetched $2,125. Interest in collectibles related to Houston has skyrocketed since her death Feb. 11, Julien said. Most of the items sold Saturday as part of the Hollywood Legends series were provided by the Grammy winner's friends and family in the weeks since she died, he said "What we have now is all we're going to have from Whitne ... More
Fanny Sanín, Composition No. 2, 2009, Acrylic and pencil on paper, 33 x 25.25 in. Photo: Courtesy Frederico Sève Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.-Frederico Sève Gallery is presenting Drawings and Studies 1960 to Now, a retrospective of the works on paper by Fanny Sanín that can be seen at the gallery through April 28. The Colombian-born, now American artist is best known for her symmetrical, geometric abstract paintings in oil and acrylic on canvas. This exhibition provides an illuminating history and insights into the methodical process leading to Sanin's larger paintings on canvas. While each drawing can be appreciated on its own, the suites of drawings that she generates for each of her final composition evince her intricate thought process using a variety of drawing media on paper to build her final compositions. This exhibition project has been organized by New York independent art curator and writer Patterson Sims, and has an accompanying publication with all images of the nearly 100 works that are on view and ... More
“Individuals who saw media coverage about The Dayton Foundation’s gift have agreed to fund this important next stage of the repair work.
DAYTON, OH.- Following the recent announcement of a $45,000 gift from The Dayton Foundation for roof repairs, The Dayton Art Institute has received a gift for the restoration of plaster work in the galleries and drainage repairs in the Italian Cloister. “Individuals who saw media coverage about The Dayton Foundation’s gift have agreed to fund this important next stage of the repair work, and we are grateful for their support,” Executive Director Michael R. Roediger said. “This is another important step in our efforts to safeguard our permanent collection and move forward with new programs and exhibitions at the museum.” The anonymous gift, made through a Charitable Donation Fund at The Dayton Foundation, will be used to restore plaster work in the museum galleries that has been damaged by roof leaks. Work is already underway in the Gray Gallery of 18th ... More
The expansion is part of a $45 million capital campaign that has been in a quiet phase for two years.
NORFOLK, VA.-The Chrysler Museum of Art Board of Trustees voted yesterday to move forward with plans for a major expansion and renovation of the Museum in 2013. Architectural plans have been approved, and the Board will solicit construction bids this spring. The Museum will begin construction in July 2012, with completion scheduled for early 2014. The expansion is part of a $45 million capital campaign that has been in a quiet phase for two years. To date, the Museum has raised $41 million. The campaign has three primary components: the new Chrysler Museum Glass Studio, the building expansion and renovation, and endowing the Museum to ensure financial stability in the future. The expansion project will transform nearly every aspect of the Museum, which currently has 210,000 square feet of space on two floors. An additional 8,000 square feet of new gallery space in two new wings will flank the Museum’s entrance. The ad ... More
The pristine condition of the greatest classic wines from Bordeaux Wine Bank attracted those who want perfect stock for consumption. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.-Sotheby’s Hong Kong two-day Spring wine sale series concluded today with a combined total of HK$63.6 million / US$8.2 million. The two sales - The Classic Cellar From A Great American Collector IX and Finest & Rarest Wines, Including The Bordeaux Winebank Collection and Wines Direct From Château Angélus, Louis Roederer and Colgin Cellars were both 100% sold. Serena Sutcliffe, M.W., International Head of Sotheby’s Wine, commented on the sale today: “This was an exciting weekend of wine sales for Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, bringing to Asia superb direct-from-thecellar collections which wine lovers lapped up with great enthusiasm. Mature, classic Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne were a huge success, with California’s Colgin Cellars flying to new heights.” The pristine condition of the greatest classic wines from ... More
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Kirsten Hassenfeld: Cabin Fever opens at the Hunterdon Art Museum CLINTON, NJ.-The Hunterdon Art Museum announce a solo exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Kirsten Hassenfeld. The site-specific exhibition, titled Cabin Fever, opens to the public on April 1 and continue through June 3, 2012. Kirsten Hassenfeld makes extraordinary sculpture and collage with ordinary materials. She carefully saves odds and ends from her daily life, such as bottle caps, thread spools, envelopes and wrapping paper and incorporates them into complex works of art that defy expectations. In her hands, these items become multi-faceted chandeliers, highly detailed architectural forms, and abstract three-dimensional sculptures that illuminate dark rooms, often inviting the viewer to enter a private space, and, at the same, recall the vernacular handicrafts of the original American settlers. Over the years, the main ingredient in Hassenfeld’s work has ... More
San Francisco artist Joshua Pieper's "Nothing In Particular" on view at Romer Young Gallery SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Romer Young Gallery presents its third solo exhibition with San Francisco artist Joshua Pieper, Nothing In Particular. The title of the show Nothing In Particular sums up the approach Joshua Pieper takes in creating an artwork. The phrase refers to something and nothing at the same time. The artist’s themes derive from language and Pieper’s attraction to art lies in double meaning, the self-referential, and the possibility of obliterating the distinctions between high and low, old and the new, found and fabricated, the real and its representation. His pieces resonate beyond their form, and are witty challenges to preconceived expectations about art and nature. “Generally I’m still trying to figure out the life of a given artwork, and I try to make things that beg that question.” Embracing the notion that “nothing is original,” Pieper relishes in the struggle ... More
Titanic's legacy: A fascination with disasters NEW YORK (AP).- Epic disasters — the anguished cries, the stories of heroism — are the central narratives of our age, both enthralling and horrifying. And our obsession began a century ago, unfolding in just 160 terrifying minutes, on a supposedly unsinkable ship, as more than 1,500 souls slipped into the icy waters of the North Atlantic. And the band played on. It was the Titanic. And ever since, we've been hooked on disasters, in general — but the tale of the great luxury liner, in particular. And the approaching 100th anniversary of the sinking has merely magnified the Titanic's fascination. There were catastrophes before that fateful Sunday night in April 1912, but nothing quite captivated the newly wireless-connected globe's attention. It was more than news. It was a macabre form of entertainment. Bigger, deadlier disasters followed, but they all borrowed from the ... More
Exhibition of new works by Eli Hansen opens at Maccarone NEW YORK, NY.-Maccarone announce an exhibition of new works by Eli Hansen. Displaying a laboratory of hand-blown glass, CFL and LED light bulbs, plastic and chopped wood locally sourced from the artist's surroundings in Upstate New York, Hansen crafts a narrative of regionalism, subterranean laboratories, the idiosyncrasy of hand and the spectral presence of a storyteller. These ethereal components congregate in the dimly lit gallery space, simulating an environment of codependence. In the penumbral light exists the murky sensation that a protagonist has been there, abandoning the audience to contemplate who will stop the chemistry set from bubbling over, or pick up the shards of a shattered beaker. In both wall pieces and freestanding sculpture, irregularities emerge from glass blown so precisely it could be mistaken as mass- produced. Hansen ... More
Scott of the Antartic's dying letter sells for £163,250 at Bonhams LONDON.- The first of the farewell letters written in the Antarctic by Captain Robert Scott as he realised that he and his team would not survive was sold at Bonhams Polar Sale in London on 30 March for £163,250. It had been estimated to make £100,000-150,000. The letter, which was found on Scott’s body in November 1912, was written on the 16th March of that year to financier Sir Edgar Speyer, honorary treasurer of the fund-raising committee for the ill-fated trip. In it, Scott expresses his great concerns for his family and the families of his companions and asks that the nation provide for their future. Sensing that the position was hopeless, Scott wrote, “I fear we must go...but we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen – I regret only for the women we leave behind. If this diary is found it will show how we stuck by our dying companions and fought this thing ... More
National identity is topic in Aleksandra Domanović's exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel BASEL.- Monumentality and national identity—within and beyond borders—are important topics in Aleksandra Domanović ’s work, which often takes place on the internet as well as she broaches this issue in a reflexive manner. From yu to me, Domanović ’s title for her exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, describes the breakup of former Yugoslavia. The deactivation of the international, country- specific, and top-level domain “.yu” (the internet country abbreviation for the nation) in 2010 can be understood as the final, symbolic elimination of the state of Yugoslavia. Yet, as the existing national identity is banned from the internet, new identities emerge. The federated states become independent and receive their own presence within the virtual world. Montenegro is registered under the domain .me and hence has also virtually become a state of its own. To that end, Domanović ... More
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On a day like today, botanist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born
September 02, 1647. Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 - 13 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly. In this image: Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717), Dwarf Caiman and False Coral Snake from The Insects of Suriname, 1719. Hand-colored etching. 87.5 x 53 cm EX.2008.2.14. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen, Netherlands, 699Z. Photo: Dirk Fennema, Haren (Netherlands).
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