Staff member, Carina Merseburger (R) gives final retouches to a figurine representing the 'Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window' from the painting (1659) by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer at the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden, Germany, 03 September 2010. The special exhibition 'The early Vermeer' takes place until 28 November 2010. EPA/MATTHIAS HIEKEL.
DRESDEN.- The oeuvre of the famous painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) of Delft is surprisingly small and only comprises of 36 works. From 3 September to 28 November, 2010 the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister presents in its exhibition “The Young Vermeer” four paintings by the master of Dutch painting of the 17th century. The exhibition will be enriched by significant artworks of other painters of his time. Within the scope of an international museum cooperation, the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden, the Mauritshuis in Den Haag and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh each present three early works by Vermeer: “Diana and Her Companions”, around 1653/54; “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary”, around 1654/55 as well as “The Procuress”, 1656. The exhibition’s second station, Dresden, is characterized by an extraordinarily enlarged concept. In Dresden, each of the three early work ... More
SEOUL.- Sarah Morris is an internationally recognized painter and filmmaker, known for her complex abstractions, which play with architecture and the psychology of urban environments. Morris views both her paintings and films as parallel - both trace urban, social and bureaucratic topologies. In both these media, she explores the psychology of the contemporary city and its architecturally encoded politics. Morris assesses what today's urban structures, bureaucracies, cities and nations might conceal and surveys how a particular moment can be inscribed and embedded into its visual surfaces. In this exhibition at Gallery Hyundai, Morris will be exhibiting her most recent series of paintings, "Knots" and "Clips". Forms reminiscent of knots or paper clips intertwine. These simple binding structures suggest a transition from enduring utility to contingent organization or text, data and copied material. Morris's paintings crea ... More
For Croatia, a floating pavilion seems to be an obvious solution.
VENICE.- A group of leading Croatian architects, responsible for the strong presence of Croatian architecture on the international scene in recent years, has accepted a task to design a floating exhibition structure to present Croatian art and architecture at the Venice Biennale. The pavilion structure is based on an existing barge with approximate dimensions of 10 x 20 x 3 meters and is towed by a tug boat. Instead of working in the usual formats of their practices and presenting speculative projects, they decided to work together on a single proposal and to have it constructed and towed toward its final destination in Venice right away. The pavilion structure is the barge’s cargo, welded from 30 tons of Q385 wire mesh in more than 40 layers of varying contours. As it left the Kraljevica shipyard , the floating pavilion was towed to the port city of Rijeka where it was presented to the public. The steady flow of people has embraced the raw yet delicate structure as if the ... More
BOSTON, MA.- Jean-François Millet’s depiction of the arresting beauty of the natural world is the subject of Millet and Rural France, an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), that invites visitors to rediscover one of the most important artists of the 19th century. On view September 4, 2010, through May 30, 2011, in the MFA’s Mary Stamas Gallery, the exhibition presents 46 works—many of them rarely seen in the past quarter century—the majority of which are major pastels and drawings, along with lively watercolors, sensitively handled etchings, and a powerful woodcut. All are drawn from the Museum’s renowned Millet collection, one of the finest in the world. The exhibition is supported by the Cordover Exhibition Fund. Millet and Rural France offers an intimate view of the work of Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), whose images of agricultural life are among the most recognized and belo ... More
DUBLIN.- An exhibition of some 40 of the finest and most celebrated masterpieces by the Dutch 17th-century artist Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) was formally opened in the National Gallery of Ireland yesterday by Mary Hanafin, T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport. The exhibition, Gabriel Metsu: Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age features works from all phases of the artist's career, including a number of recently discovered and restored works. It pays homage to his engaging genre scenes which vary from musical companies and amorous encounters, to revellers, street traders and kitchen maids. Examples of Metsu's lesser known yet wonderfully accomplished achievements in the fields of religious painting, portraiture and still life are also highlighted. The works in the exhibition are drawn from public and private collections around the world. Born in Leiden in 1629, Metsu was, like his contemporary Johannes Verme ... More
Don Porcella, 'Global Warming House Party', 2008, Encaustic on wood, 61 x 61 cm., 24 x 24 in. Photo: Courtesy Cain Schulte Gallery.
BERLIN.-Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin opens the fall season with a double solo exhibition, presenting New York artist Don Porcella and Berlin artist Susanne Ring. Porcella's installation Natural Selection and Ring's Lignification create a humorous and peculiar dialogue about the meaning of life and the appended questions about human existence. The exhibitions will be opened with a reception on September 3rd at 7 pm. Both artists will be present. Porcella's installations combine sculptures, made out of braided pipecleaner with encaustic panels, suggesting a lighthearted frivolity that conceals a deeper environmental and nature loving agenda, and his understanding of consumerism, reality and our own weird mortality. Porcella sees Natural Selection as an opportunity to shed light on our wasteful ways and poke fun at human's tendency to harm the environment. Spoofing Darwin's famous proclamation, this ... More
A Mercedes-Benz 600 car, once owned by US singer Elvis Presley. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis.
LONDON.- A Mercedes-Benz 600, once owned by the 'King of Rock and Roll', Elvis Presley, and a 2000 Ferrari 550 GTZ will feature at Bonhams' traditional end of year sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine Automobilia on 6 December, which this year takes place at an outstanding new venue – Mercedes-Benz World in Surrey. Restored to a very high standard, and one of only a handful of cars that Presley registered in his name, the Mercedes-Benz has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £150,000 – 200,000. Presley kept the car, which was one of two 600 Mercedes he owned, for two years before giving it to a friend, James Leroy Robertson. It was purchased by the vendor in 2005 from Robertson Motors Memphis, and exported to the UK. The Ferrari 550 GTZ is one of only five examples of the car bodied by the famous Italian carrozeria Zagato and the only Right Hand Drive example. Bonhams is delighted to introduce Mercedes-Benz World as th ... More
Stefan Heyne, ‘Ohne Titel‘, 2008, each 180 x 120 cm, Photography on Alu Dibond, Edition of 5 + 2 A.P.
COLOGNE.- With their current exhibition 'For Me / For You' Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery presents new works by Berlin fine art photographer Stefan Heyne. Heyne was born in 1965 in Brandenburg/Havel and studied scenography at the art school Berlin from 1987 to 1993. He was a student at the master class of Prof. Volker Pfüller. Over the past years his photographs were shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany. So far he has published two books that give an insight in his work. Starting out as a stage designer, photography was only a medium to document his work at the theater, but soon evolved into an independend means of expression. Ambitious to overcome deficiencies of traditional photography, the artist finds his own visual language. He breakes with prevailing conventions and ironically reflects on the alleged role of photography which claims acurate representation. Looking at his pictures reminds you of the situation of awake ... More
VENICE.- From September 4 to January 9, 2011 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Adolph Gottlieb. A Retrospective, the first retrospective exhibition of this great American Abstract Expressionist painter to be shown in Italy. Like those previously dedicated to William Baziotes and Richard Pousette-Dart at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, this exhibition brings to Italy a better understanding of a generation of New York artists that in the 1950s came to form American Abstract Expressionism. The origins of this movement in the 1940s is closely linked to the career of Peggy Guggenheim herself, and to her New York museum-gallery Art of This Century. The exhibition has been organized in partnership with the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York, which has lent numerous paintings and sculptures from its holdings. The exhibition also ... More
Artists Anonymous, Everything is possible (Portrait), oil on MDF, 30 x 25 cm. Photo: Courtesy Galerie Adler.
FRANKFURT.- Anything is possible – but in contemporary art there is actually very rarely anything “new”, anything that really challenges our powers of perception and our mind. We’re talking about works that make us a little dizzy when we contemplate them – a sign that we’re unable to fit what we see into any of the accustomed categories. Like the works of the Berlin artists’ group ARTISTS ANONYMOUS, founded in 2001. Assume that we could lay all the pictures ever made on top of one another until this layering of motifs and colours took on, step by step, a uniform shade. The end of colourfulness. Perhaps only black would remain. Everything is done. Or imagine there being a kind of reset button to delete the inner and outer flood of images. A new beginning. What was left would probably be pure white. The colour that contains all others or, according to Malevich, the “monochrome zero state”. Everything is possible. Two ... More
An exceptional 17th century Safavid velvet figural panel. Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
LONDON.-Christie’s Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds sale on 5 October, presents a wealth of over 400 rare and beautiful treasures of high quality and significant provenance which span the 9th to the 19th century. Setting the tone, the sale begins with 50 lots from the core of Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi’s classical Islamic Art collection. The group is led by an extremely rare Fatimid Egyptian carved wooden panel, circa 1150 (estimate: £400,000-600,000) and a late 18th century Indian emerald, ruby and diamond parrot (estimate: £400,000-600,000), which is one of seven spectacular Mughal and Deccani jewelled gold objets de vertu featured. Christie’s Dubai will offer the second sale of Modern Arab Art from the Farsi Collection on the 26th October. Magnificent highlights elsewhere in the London sale range from an exceptional 17th century Safavid velvet figural panel (estimate: £800,000-1,200,000); the only ... More
Sir Anthony van Dyck, Charles I with M. de St Antoine, 1633.
LONDON.- Portraits have played a central role in shaping the image of Monarchy. They have helped legitimise claims to the throne, reinforced dynastic ambitions, cemented political alliances, accompanied proposals of marriage, and even offered a glimpse into the private life of the royal family. The Royal Portrait: Image and Impact brings together iconic images of kings and queens by some of the most celebrated portrait artists, including Holbein, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Lawrence and Freud. It looks at the creation of a monarch’s identity through portraiture over the past 600 years, assessing the influence of patron, artist and audience. The story is brought up to date with images of Her Majesty The Queen, including the work of the photographers Rankin and Annie Leibovitz, as the author considers the relevance of the royal portrait in the age of paparazzo photography and global media. Up to the early 16th century, the main function of the portrait was to communicate the st ... More
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NEW YORK, NY.-Heritage Auction Galleries has announced that Arthur Blumenthal has been appointed Senior Numismatist by the company, working out of Heritage’s recently opened New York offices at 445 Park Avenue (at 57th Street). “Arthur brings a tremendous amount of experience to his position with Heritage,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage. “His expertise encompasses the numismatic, currency and gold markets as well as the New York market, easily one of the most important in the entire business.” Blumenthal, a New York native, graduated from C.W. Post College with a B.A. in History Education, teaching school for a few years before going to work in the coin department at Gimbels in New York City. Arthur then made his way to Galerie des Monnaies of Geneva, also in New York, where he spent more than a decade as head trader. From there he spent almost 15 years with Stacks, where he focused ... More
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SFMOMA to Honor William T. Wiley with 11th Annual Bay Area Treasure Award SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, the Modern Art Council of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will host the 2010 Bay Area Treasure Award Luncheon, honoring esteemed artist William T. Wiley. Organized by the Modern Art Council, SFMOMA's premier fundraising auxiliary, this annual lifetime achievement award recognizes Bay Area artists who continually define and redefine contemporary art. Wiley is the eleventh honoree; previous award recipients are painters Robert Bechtle, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, and Wayne Thiebaud; sculptor Richard Serra; sound artist Bill Fontana; industrial designer Sara Little Turnbull; architect Lawrence Halprin; and photographers Ruth Bernhard and Larry Sultan. William T. Wiley has challenged precepts of mainstream art for the last fifty years with works in media ranging from drawing, painting, and sculpture to film and performance. Difficult to classify as part of any mov ... More
Smithsonian American Art Museum Offers Largest Mission-Based Game Ever Designed WASHINGTON, DC.- A new mission-based, alternate reality or “big” game, called Pheon, will debut in September at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A variation on the classic game Capture the Flag, Pheon is a competition to obtain the game’s virtual talisman, the pheon, which will occur online and at live events during the course of a year. Pheon, like other mission-based games, revolves around the completion of tasks, the making of objects, discovery and documentation. It follows the successful run of the museum’s first alternate reality game, Ghosts of a Chance. Pheon is innovative in that the narrative of the game will be written as it is played. The game is set in Terra Tectus, a virtual world in which two warring factions, Staves and Knaves, struggle to restore balance after the intrusion of Seers, people from the real world. Players will interact with scripted characters, and each player’s performance will help shape the storyline. To begin, indiv ... More
Sotheby's Exhibition of Sculpture at Chatsworth, Now in Its Fifth Year LONDON.- Following the continued success and popularity of Beyond Limits - Sotheby’s annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture hosted within the magnificent gardens of the ancestral home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth - the exhibition returns to Derbyshire this autumn and enters its fifth consecutive year. The 2010 selling exhibition, which promises to be another great installation, will showcase the works of an international lineup of artists: Manolo Valdés, Lynn Chadwick, Yue Minjun, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, Subodh Gupta, Ju Ming, Eduardo Chillida, Germaine Richer and Barry Flanagan, among others. The show, which opens to the public on Monday, September 13 and runs until Sunday, October 31, 2010, will present 24 extraordinary works, which are all for sale. The quality and range of the exhibition reflects the current strong demand from international collectors to acquire mod ... More
Ed Ruscha's Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and Others at Sprüth Magers BERLIN.-Sprüth Magers present an exhibition of work by Ed Ruscha in Berlin, featuring early photographs, drawings as well as two filmic works. Since the early 1960s, Ed Ruscha has created an extensive painterly, graphical, and photographic oeuvre. Ruscha first considered working as a graphic artist but soon developed a deep passion for painting and photography. Inspired by the American photography of the 1940s and 1950s, Ruscha developed an independent conceptual approach which is manifested in the sixteen photo-books, created between 1963 and 1978, in which he offered a fresh interpretation of the idea of the artist's book. These small, unpretentious books, which Ruscha always issued in a limited edition, anticipated with their titles in a laconic manner the entire contents of the books, for example Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963); Various Small Fires and Milk (1964); Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965); Every Building ... More
Artist Mladen Miljanovic Draws Inspiration from Bosnia's Turmoil BANJA LUKA (REUTERS).- Ethnic tension and the haunting memory of war vex Bosnia 15 years after Europe's worst fighting since World War Two, but artist Mladen Miljanovic draws inspiration from such turmoil. Working in a wide variety of media from painting to video, sculpture and performance art, the 29-year-old Bosnian artist is attracting growing international attention with his take on the absurdities of war and Bosnia's divide along ethnic lines. "Culture in Bosnia generally needs to play a bigger role to connect those two opposite, separate, divided sides," he said in Banja Luka, the capital of the Bosnian Serb half of the country where he lives. "Subversive art, eclectic art, is affected by the crucial problems, so if there are more problems, you will see that there are more, and better, eclectic and subversive art." In one 2006-2007 project, Miljanovic, ... More
Japanese Fascination with the West is Explored in Exhibition of Prints PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Isolated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate from the outside world, Japanese citizens were naturally curious about the Westerners who began to arrive on their shores following Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic voyages to Japan in 1853–1854. This growing fascination led to the flourishing of hundreds of color woodcuts portraying the foreigners who arrived after Japan opened its borders to trade with the United States, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Russia at the end of the 1850s. The exhibition of 98 woodcuts, selected from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s extensive collection of 19th-century Japanese prints, showcases the rising interest in the dress, habits, and technologies of Westerners. The prints feature the coal-powered vessels, known as “Black Ships,” of the trade nations, ladies in fancy hoop skirts and gentlemen in top hats, unusual household furnishings, and imaginar ... More
Pearl Harbor Marks 65th Anniversary of World War II's End PEARL HARBOR (AP).- Like many other vets, Don Fosburg marked the anniversary of World War II's end reflecting on a victory dearly earned and on men who helped make that happen but never came home. "You start to thinking about the guys that you knew. You can't help but do that. And maybe you think you're pretty lucky," said the 84-year-old, who was a radioman aboard the USS Missouri during the war. "I had a cousin who was on Bataan and didn't survive. His brother was blown up off the coast of Africa," said Fosburg, a retired insurance broker from Whittier, Calif. He returned to the Missouri — now a museum moored in Pearl Harbor — for a ceremony Thursday commemorating 6½ decades since Japan formally signed surrender papers on board the battleship when it was anchored in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945. Fosburg ... More
Galerie Anita Beckers Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Jürgen Klauke Exhibition FRANKFURT.- 20 years after the foundation of Galerie Anita Beckers, the gallery opens its new show with Juergen Klauke. Starting as a publishing house, Anita Beckers carried editions by renowned artists such as Juergen Klauke, Guillaume Bijl, Wim Delvoye, Thomas Huber and Urs Lüthi. Later, this edition gallery resulted in an art gallery which is based in Frankfurt since 1998. We are celebrating this special anniversary with an exhibition by Jürgen Klauke, one of the most important performance, photo and media artists in Germany . As a pioneer of body art he has not only written history but also a discourse on identity which provided a visual-mental basis since the seventies. The films produced during that time have lost none of their actuality. On the contrary, they continuously stand for the political state of affairs of our society and as an artistic role model for subsequent generations. Galerie Anita Beckers is plea ... More
Australian Pavilion in Venice Showcases a New Perspective on Cities VENICE.- At this year’s 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Australia is showcasing a collection of dramatic urban visions using ground-breaking 3D stereoscopic technology, allowing visitors to move around a range of existing and hypothetical urban environments. Led by the Australian Pavilion’s Creative Directors, John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec, the 'NOW and WHEN Australian Urbanism' exhibition will act as a catalyst for debate on the future of our cities, engaging in timely issues that include sustainability, urban sprawl and density, and immigration. The exhibition features two theatres. The NOW theatre highlights five of Australia's most interesting urban and non-urban regions as they are now, captured by Co-Creative Director and well-known architectural photographer, John Gollings. In the second theatre, 17 futuristic urban environments imagine WHEN we reach 2050 and beyond. Depicting Australian cities 40+ years into the future, these ... More
Phillips Collection to Reopen on Saturday, Museum Waives Admission Fees WASHINGTON, DC.-The Phillips Collection reopens Saturday, September 4 after closing due to a renovation-related fire on the roof of the Phillips House. The Phillips House will remain closed for repairs until further notice. All other galleries will open, including those where special exhibitions Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings and Robert Ryman: Variations and Improvisations are on view through September 12, 2010. Regular museum admission is waived for the month of September; visitor contributions by donation are gladly accepted. Interruptions to programming schedule may occur. Visitors should check for updates at www.phillipscollection.org. The Phillips Collection has received an outpouring of support from friends and colleagues in the city of Washington, D.C. and across the nation since the fire. Director Dorothy Kosinski says, “All of us at the Phillips are tremendously grateful for the countless ... More
Mexica Ceremonial Censer Replica Handed over to Tlahuac Community MEXICO CITY.- Fifteen years ago, 5 ceremonial censers were found in community plots at Tlahuac, a Mexico City delegation. The dwellers are celebrating the return of one of them dedicated to Chicomecoatl, the Mexica maize goddess, which replica will be guarded at Cuitlahuac Regional Community Museum from September 4th 2010. It was in August 3rd 1995 when Jesus Galindo Ortega discovered the terracotta censers covered with stucco, which dimensions go from 106 to 120 centimeters and present a great ornamental richness, as well as a good conservation state. These high-quality pieces represent priests dressed as deities participating in a ceremony dedicated to maize and fertility, as the 36th Borbonic Codex page illustrates, where several lords at the Titl ceremony carry the same iconographic elements of the censers. The censers represent Xilonen, goddess of fertility; Chicomecoatl, ... More
Museum of Modern Art Announces ContemporAsian NEW YORK, NY.- Asian cinema is fast becoming a cinema without borders. ContemporAsian showcases films that get little exposure outside of their home countries or on the international festival circuit, but which engage the various styles, histories, and changes in Asian cinema. Presented in special weeklong engagements, the films in the series include recent independent gems by both new and established filmmakers whose work represents the rapidly transforming visual culture of the region. ContemporAsian is organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, and William Phuan, independent curator. Special thanks to the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. This season’s opening program features a rare selection of recent shorts made by four of Asian cinema’s most renowned directors, all of whom have received only limited visibility in the U.S., despite worldwide critical acc ... More
Renaissance Seattle Hotel and Seattle Art Museum Celebrate Legacy of Pablo Picasso SEATTLE, WA.- Almost everyone knows the name Pablo Picasso. Hailed by art historians as one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century, Pablo Picasso changed the way people understood art. Now the Seattle Art Museum offers the public a rare opportunity to discover some of Picasso’s major works. The Seattle museum begins its Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris exhibit on October 8, 2010. To celebrate this tour of Picasso work, the Renaissance Seattle Hotel has created a Picasso package that includes king room accommodations, tickets to the museum, self parking and amenities inspired by the artist. The deal is available now at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel. Typically, the Musée National Picasso in Paris, France houses the majority of Picasso’s work; however, since the Parisian museum has closed for renovations, the art can now travel. Because of these unique circumstances, this mi ... More
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On a day like today, German artist Oskar Schlemmer was born
September 04, 1888. Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 - 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical representations of the human body in what he described as a "party of form and colour". In this image: Costumes from Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett (1922).
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