Rabu, 06 Juli 2011

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The Jane Sauer Gallery To Show Irina Zaytceva's Fantastic Porcelain

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 10:48 PM PDT

artwork: Irina Zaytceva - "Nymph & Pan" Four Cups - Handbuilt porcelain, overglaze painting, 24k gold luster - 15" x 5 1/2" x 2 1/2". Courtesy Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe. On view in "Irena Zaytceva: Sense and Sensuality" from July 15th until August 9th.

Santa Fe, NM.- The Jane Sauer Gallery is proud to present "Irina Zaytceva: "Sense and Sensuality", on view at the gallery from July 15th through August 9th. Born and raised in Russia, Irina Zaytceva immigrated to the United States in 1990 with her ex- husband and 3 year old son. Her art work today still speaks of her Russian heritage and excellent art education, graduating from the prestigious Art Institute of Moscow with a B.A. and M.F.A. in Book Illustration. Soon after graduating Zaytceva began experimenting with the sculptural possibilities of ceramics combined with her paintings. Porcelain had a particular attraction for Irina because of its historical importance and the finer grain this material offered. She developed several unique techniques, which opened more doors for her creative talents.


artwork: Irina Zaytceva - "Death of a Mermaid" Teapot - Handbuilt porcelain, overglaze painting, 24k gold luster - 13" x 9" x 5". Courtesy Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe.All of her works are created using high fire porcelain, overglaze as well as underglaze colors, and 14 carat gold. Irina says of her work over the last 20 years: " My colors and powers came together to help me to speak, to tell my stories, to harvest the fruits and flowers of the garden of my mind and soul, sculpting my works and adding to the further meaning of  them by painting the surfaces with colored pictures."

Zaytceva describes her process as "I begin sculpture without knowing how the story ends. I mean, I almost never do sketches for the piece, and if I do them, the piece still manages to surprise me, turning out a bit different than my plan. I explore a story using sculpture, feeling my way around. First, I build an object in clay. It could be as simple as almost conventional tea pot with a visible spout and lid or it could be a figurative sculpture where the position of the spout or the lid is not yet obvious. At this stage my task is to create a plastically intriguing shape. Most of the time I do not think how I will decorate it. When the object is done, then I try to see what its shape suggests in terms of colors, space, painting, and gold luster. It is always an improvisation." Surrounded by over 2,500 books, Zaytceva works in a small converted garage studio listening to CD's of still more books while creating her exquisite worlds.

The products of her inventive imagination defy belief in their meticulous detail and striking beauty. They are fairytales, mythical illusions, and a celebration of the majesty of nature. The porcelain clay allows her to paint in much greater detail than other clay bodies as she adds layer upon layer of paint followed by firing after firing. The gold luster reminiscent of Byzantine icons is the last application. The magnificent detail of each piece keeps the viewer deeply engaged, making discovery after discovery. Zaytceva's work creates its own language. The pieces bring together her origins as a book illustrator making visual a story, a lifetime as an avid reader and her desire to tell the stories flowing from her brilliant mind. She is an artist with an engaging story to tell and has extraordinary technical ability to visually display these tales for involvement of the viewer. Her talents are immediately arresting whether Irina is painting delicate faces and hands or lyrical scenes from nature. In each work there exists beauty, tension and a hint of erotica.





artwork: Irina Zaytceva - "Bulldog" Teapot - Handbuilt porcelain, overglaze painting, 24k gold luster 8" x 8" x 6". Courtesy Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe. On view from July 15th until August 9th.





The Jane Sauer Gallery is known for its excellent reputation among art admirers, collectors, museum curators, art critics, and artists. Jane brings to the gallery 34 years of wide experience as a highly recognized professional in art. She is known nationally by museum curators and collectors for her work as an innovative studio artist, and is often requested to serve as guest judge or curator for exhibitions. Artists and collectors throughout the country continue to seek her advice and remember her for her continuous activism in promotion of the arts. Jane brings her lifelong experience, training, and artistic eye to bear on the selection of artists she represents in the gallery. Her selection process is rigorous: "I seek to present work that is conceptually sound, meaningful, and captures the essence of intellect and creativity. Although each work must be technically accomplished, I look for a quality in the work that reveals 'the hand of the artist'." Throughout her long career, Jane Sauer has been at the forefront in supporting creative artists who are not limited--in their vision or in the materials they use:  "The field of art is ever-expanding, limited only by the range of the human imagination. Contemporary artists are redefining our notion of art, creating a fluid field that is not tied to traditionally recognized techniques or media." Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.jsauergallery.com

The Royal Academy of Arts Shows Albert Irwin's Vibrant Abstract Prints

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 10:14 PM PDT

artwork: Albert Irvin RA - "Tabard", 2005 - Screen-print with woodblock - Edition of 75 - 76.5 x 96.75 cm. Courtesy of Advanced Graphics London. On view at the Royal Academy of Arts in "Albert Irvin: From Hollyrood to Stratford" until September 25th.

London.- The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a selection of Albert Irvin's vibrant abstract screen prints dating from the late 1980s to present. "Albert Irvin: From Hollyrood to Stratford" will include many works which have not previously been displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts and works on show will be a mix of editions and monoprints. The exhibition title evokes a wide geographical spread, which in turn is evident in the broad range of work which will be exhibited. 'Holyrood' is a street in SE1, London and 'Stratford' is a road in a small town outside Boston, USA. Irvin's titles always have a connection with a cartographical reference. The exhibition remains on view until September 25th.


Plymouth City Museum Acquires 17th Century Painting with Local Connections

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 09:59 PM PDT

artwork: Portrait of Johann Friederich, the Elector of Saxony and the Reformers

PLYMOUTH, UK
- A 17th century painting that was part of one of the most important collections of historical portraits in England has been acquired by Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery for the city's permanent collections. The 'Portrait of Johann Friederich, the Elector of Saxony and the Reformers' was purchased thanks to funding support from the Art Fund (£5,344) and the V&A/MLA Purchase Grant Fund (£6,120). The painting is a copy of an original 16th century work and shows the leaders of the Protestant Reformation – a movement that aimed to reform the Roman Catholic Church in Northern Europe during the 1500s. At the centre of the portrait is Johann Friederich, the Elector of Saxony - a powerful supporter of the Reformation movement. The painting also includes portraits of Martin Luther and other German and Swiss reformers.

The Famous Abstract Expressionist Painter Cy Twombly Dies at 83

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 09:27 PM PDT

artwork: Archive photo of a museum visitor looking at Cy Twombly's "Lepanto 2001" at Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: EFE/Eddy Risch

ROME - Cy Twombly, a controversial American artist whose deceptively simple scrawls, smudges and sculptural shapes made him one of the most significant artistic figures of the past 50 years, died July 5th in Rome. He was 83 and had cancer. Mr. Twombly, a native of Lexington, Va., spent most of his adult life in Italy, where he forged an original artistic path in spite of early criticism and outright mockery. Along with artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Mr. Twombly was considered an heir to the mantle of Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.


Martin Schoeller's Portraits of Celebrities at The Kennedys in Berlin

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 08:18 PM PDT

artwork: Martin Schoeller - Angelina Jolie - Digital C-print, 2004 - Collection of the artist, courtesy Hasted Hunt, New York City - © Martin Schoeller

BERLIN.- With the beginning of the Showroom Days Berlin, the Museum The Kennedys will temporarily turn into a photographic catwalk for trendsetters, style icons as well as fashion rebels of the international fashion world. The exhibition »Behind the Mask« shows one of the most fascinating portrait series of the last couple of years worldwide. Whether pop stars, athletes, actors, or politicians: It is the people from the public sphere who influence the public opinion and create a socially acceptable consensus out of short-lived lifestyle trends. Not only do they perfectly master the art of self-representation in the media – the high society also creates an impression of all-encompassing perfection and flawless beauty. In combination with their omnipresence in the media, public figures thus appear as inaccessible, seemingly surreal figures. To break through this masquerade and to present the person behind it is the self-proclaimed goal of internationally renowned photographer Martin Schoeller. On exhibition 6 July through 31 July.

Photographs from the Legendary Mexican Suitcase at Les Rencontres d'Arles

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:39 PM PDT

artwork: Robert Capa photo - (Exiled Republicans being marched down the beach to an internment camp, Le Barcarès, France), March 1939. © International Center of Photography / Magnum. Collection International Center of Photography.

ARLES, FRANCE
- Sometimes, even in the world of photography, miracles happen. On 19 December 2007, three battered, commonplace cardboard boxes arrived at the International Center of Photography in New York. Within these boxes the so-called Mexican Suitcase was a treasure trove of photographic history believed lost since World War II: the legendary Spanish Civil War negatives of Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour (known as Chim). The Mexican Suitcase contained 126 rolls of film, mostly shot between May 1936 and spring 1939, that are an inestimable record of innovative war photography and of a definitive episode in Spanish history. The photographs include Capa's images of the Battle of Rio Segre, Chim's famous image of a woman nursing a baby at a land reform meeting in Estremadura, and Taros last photos at the Battle of Brunete where she was killed in 1937.

New York State Museum Biologists Map Strategy to Save Adirondack Spruce Grouse

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:20 PM PDT

artwork: If you are lucky you might also run into a Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) while out on the back roads of some moist forests of the Adirondacks and other Northeastern mountains.This bird is of similar size as the ruffed grouse but slightly less common than its ruffed cousin.

ALBANY, NY (AP).- Genetic analysis at the state museum confirms what biologists squishing through Adirondack bogs already knew: New York's population of the Spruce Grouse, a chicken-like bird of the boreal forest, is nearing extinction. Avid birders travel great distances to glimpse rare boreal species in the cool, moist forests of the Adirondacks and other Northeastern mountains. While boreal species — including the boreal chickadee, Bicknell's thrush, blackpoll warbler and gray jay — are plentiful further north in Canada, biologists say global climate change and habitat loss are driving them out of the southern reaches of their range.

"Cities of Gold and Mirrors" on View at the Julia Stoschek Collection

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:20 PM PDT

artwork: The 16mm film which gave this exhibition its title, Cyprien Gaillard's CITIES OF GOLD AND MIRRORS (2009), places fictional elements alongside scenes for tourists holidays. Gaillard contrasts a Cancún hotel complex in Mexico built in the 1970s with the ruins of the once-mighty Mayan civilization.

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY
- The Julia Stoschek Collection is presenting selected works in a newly designed exhibition. The show features 44 works by 35 artists in all, including many that have never been shown before, works acquired in the past few years and site-specific spatial interventions. Each work is presented in its own, carefully elaborated setting. Rather than being organised around a single theme, the exhibition picks up on several content strands and reflects current themes in contemporary art. Its title, CITIES OF GOLD AND MIRRORS, taken from a film by Cyprien Gaillard shown in the exhibition is a metaphor for the fact that the pieces on display explore socio-political questions relating to urban development, humankind's relationship to architecture, and our own personal vanities and desires. The first exhibition area presents artists like Gordon Matta-Clark, Tobias Zielony, Cyprien Gaillard and Francis Alÿs, whose works reflect on the relationship between humankind and architecture. On view until summer of 2012.

University of Sydney Exhibition Offers Clues on the Mysterious Etruscans

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:19 PM PDT

artwork: Details of a Etruscan wall painting from the Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, 5th century BC.

SYDNEY, AU - A new exhibition at the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum offers insight into a once dominant but enigmatic ancient Italian civilization. The Etruscans – based in what is now known as Tuscany – were the most powerful Mediterranean people in the 6th century BC before being conquered by the Romans and incorporated into the Roman Republic. Their empire was built on mineral wealth, enabling the development of elaborate cities and a powerful oligarchy which greatly influenced the Roman Empire.

While the Etruscans' early dominance is undisputed, little is known about who they were and where they came from. There language is like no other spoken then, or since, in Europe. No Etruscan literature or major buildings survive, and much Etruscan art – mostly made from stone, wood and terracotta - was summarily destroyed by the Romans.

The Nicholson Museum's The Etruscans: A Classical Fantasy sheds light on what little is known about the Etruscan people, their history and their lifestyle. It features sculpture, jewellery, bronzes, pottery, terracotta figurines and body parts, and funerary urns. The urns, date to the 2nd century BC, offering some of the best available clues about life in Etruria.

artwork: Markedly, the Etruscans had no qualms about expressing their sexuality openly and freely, both in their culture and in their art.

"Now, we know nothing about the Etruscans except what we find in their tombs," wrote D.H. Lawrence in Etruscan Places, published in 1932. "There are references to them in Latin writers. But of first-hand knowledge we have nothing except what the tombs offer. So to the tombs we must go: or the museums containing the things that have been rifled from the tombs."

Successors of the early Iron Age Villanovans (900-700 B.C.), Etruscans built such cities as Tarquinii, Vulci, Caere, and Veii. Each autonomous city, originally ruled by a powerful, wealthy king, had a sacred boundary or pomerium. Etruscan homes were mud-brick, with timber on stone foundations, some with upper stories. In southern Etruria, the bodies of the dead were buried, but in the north, the Etruscans cremated their dead. Much evidence about the early inhabitants of Italy comes from Etruscan remains.

artwork: A dancing Etruscan man from the painted walls of the tomb of the Augurs at Tarquinia, 525-500BC.The Etruscans exerted a heavy influence on early Rome, contributing to the line of Roman kings with the Tarquins. The possible, but debated dominance of the Etruscans ended with the Roman sack of Veii, in 396 B.C. The final stage in the Roman conquest of the Etruscans was when the Volsinii were destroyed in 264 B.C., although the Etruscans maintained their own language until about the first century B.C. By the first century A.D. the language was already a concern for scholars, like the Emperor Claudius. Most consider the Etruscans as a great mystery.

Though Etruria may have been an ancient civilization, all societal and artistic evidence reveals how very open-minded the Etruscan people were. They repeatedly demonstrated that the concept of gender and sexuality in Etruria was a pervasive and acknowledged part of daily life, so integral to the mores of the society that it was incorporated through murals, reliefs, and statues that adorned not only domiciles, but entire cities. From the brothels of Pompeii to dwellings located in strongholds such as Tarquinii, the theme of intense sexuality and women in Etruscan art is always a common theme. It clearly indicates a comfort with said theme that has certainly not been integrated into modern-day tradition. Today, modern tradition is shy and prudish, unwilling to open their eyes and enjoy the simple beauty of sexuality and see the human body for what it is; a work of art.

The Etruscans curator Michael Turner says present day fascination with the Etruscans in part derives from the magnificent painted tombs which, being underground, survived the worst excesses of the Romans.

"The Etruscans built cities of the dead outside the walls of their cities of the living in the Tuscan hills," he says. "Within these cities family tombs were built into mounds, carved into hills or cut into bedrock. They were painted and decorated as if inhabited and filled, for instance, with dining and drinking accoutrements. Illustrated imagery reflected the important rituals of life: dancing, feasting, games, sex and death.

"Several urns on display in The Etruscans: A Classical Fantasy feature customised lids depicting the deceased, with writing on the front giving the dead person's name and family."







Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza ~ A Jewel In The "Golden Triangle of Art" In Madrid

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:09 PM PDT

artwork: Lord Frederick Leighton - "Greek Girls Playing at Ball", 1889 - Oil on canvas - 114 x 197 cm. East Ayrshire Council, Scotland, currently on display as part of the exhibition

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Spanish), is one of the three Madrid museums that make up the "Golden Triangle of Art", which also includes the Prado and the Reina Sofia (modern and contemporary) galleries. The collections's roots lie in the privately owned Thyssen-Bonremisza collection, once the second largest private art collection in the world (after the British Royal Collection). The collection started in the 1920s as a private collection by Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (1875–1947). In a reversal of the movement of European paintings to the United States during this period, one of the Baron's sources was the collections of American millionaires coping with the Great Depression and inheritance taxes, from which he acquired such exquisite old master paintings as Ghirlandaio's 'Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni' (once in the Morgan Library) and Carpaccio's 'Knight' (from the collection of Otto Kahn). The collection was later expanded by Heinrich's son Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921–2002), who re-assembled most of the works from his relatives' collections (distributed after his father's death) and proceeded to acquire large numbers of new works. In 1985, the Baron married Carmen Cervera (a former Miss Spain 1961) and introduced her to art-collecting. Carmen's influence was decisive in persuading the Baron to decide on the future of his collection and cede the collection to Spain. When Baron Thyssen decided to open his collection to the public, he initially tried to have his museum in the Villa Favorita in Switzerland expanded, when this proved impossible, a Europe-wide search for a new was home started. The competition was won in 1986 when the Spanish government came to an agreement to provide a home for the collection (the 19th century Villahermosa Palace close to the Prado in Madrid) and fund the museum in return for the loan of the collection for a minimum of nine and a half years. Pritzker prize winning Spanish architect, Rafael Moneo was employed to redesign and extend the building and the museum opened in 1992. However, so impressed were the Thyssen-Bornemiszas with the building and Spain's commitment to the collection, that even before it opened, they were negotiating with the Spanish government to make the museum permanent. In 1993, the Spanish government agreed to buy the collection (valued at up to 1.5 billion dollars) for $350 million and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum became a permanent fixture in Madrid. The museum currently houses two collections from the Thyssen-Bornemiszas, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, acquired by the Spanish government from Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza on permanent display since the museum opened in 1992 and the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, owned by the baron's widow and held by the museum since 2004 on loan. These two collections comprise over one thousand works of art (mostly paintings), with which the museum offers a stroll through the history of European painting, from its beginning in the 13th century to the close of the 20th century. The Baroness remains involved with the museum, deciding the salmon pink tone of the interior and in May 2006 campaigning against plans to redevelop the Paseo del Prado as she thought the works and traffic would damage the collection and the museum's appearance. A collection of works from the museum is housed in Barcelona in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.museothyssen.org

Art in Hamburg in the 1920s and Onward at Hamburger Kunsthalle

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:08 PM PDT

artwork: Karl Kluth (1898-1972) - "Küste in Nordschleswig", 1931. - Oil on canvas, 75 x 100 cm. - © Nachlass Karl Kluth © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk. Photo: Elke Walford.

HAMBURG.- As part of the festival "Himmel auf Zeit" – die 20er Jahre in Hamburg ("A Temporary Heaven" – the 1920s in Hamburg), the Hamburger Kunsthalle is highlighting the diversity of the city's art scene in the period after the First World War. In the years between the foundation of the Weimar Republic and the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, Hamburg's avant-garde art scene was dominated by four different movements: one was a style strongly oriented towards contemporary French painting, while another reflected emerging expressionist tendencies; this in turn gave way to Magic Realism and – from the second half of the 1920s onwards – there was also a distinct move from objective depiction towards abstract pictorial forms.

The Arkansas Art Center Shows "The Impressionists and Their Influence"

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:07 PM PDT

artwork: Claude Monet - "Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil", 1873 - Oil on canvas. Collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. On view at "The Impressionists and Their Influence" at the Arkansas Art Center.

Little Rock, Arkansas.- The Arkansas Art Center is proud to present "The Impressionists and Their Influence" until June 26th. Organized in conjunction with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, this exhibition brings together beautiful paintings and intimate works on paper by such French artists as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, as well as works by major Post-Impressionist artists Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Paul Signac. In addition, the show features works by American artists, such as Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson, who fell under the influence of the Impressionists. Featuring more than 100 works from the collections of the renowned High Museum of Art, the Arkansas Arts Center, and private collections, The Impressionists and Their Influence is a splendid opportunity to explore the movement that became Impressionism.


The Maillol Museum In Paris Pays Homage to Joan Miró’s Sculpted Work

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:06 PM PDT

artwork: Isabelle Maeght, commissioner of the exhibit 'Miro Sculptor' stands near the 1968 oil painting 'La Marche Penible guide par l'Oiseau Flamboyant du Desert' by Spanish artist Joan Miro at the Musee Maillol in Paris. Some 101 sculptures, 22 ceramics, 19 pieces on paper, and one painting, managed by Successio Miro/Adagp, will be shown at the exhibit which runs from March 16 to July 31. - Photo by Reuters


Paris.- The Maillol Museum is paying homage to Joan Miró's sculpted work. Although the artist is internationally acknowledged, his sculptures have not been exhibited in Paris in nearly 40 years. To mark the occasion the museum has gathered up 101 sculptures, 22 ceramics, 19 works on paper and one painting. The works on display mostly come from the outstanding collection of the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. His first ceramics, carried out with Josep Llorens Artigas, are dated 1941. Three years later, Miró created his first bronze sculptures. In 1964, Joan Miró took part in the creation of the Fondation Maeght where he had finally found a place in which to create monumental works. The encounter between Joan Miró and Aimé Maeght proved essential. For the very first time, Miró's sculpture was deliberately linked to both architecture and to nature, an infinite source of inspiration for him: he thus created specifically for the Fondation Maeght a garden of sculptures and of monumental ceramics, a dreamlike world inhabiting the « Labyrinth », and that serves as a reminder that Miró was not only a painter but was also a sculptor. On exhibit which runs from March 16 to July 31.


Hood Museum of Art presents a Comprehensive Display of European Art at Dartmouth

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:05 PM PDT

artwork: Paul Cézanne, French, 1839­-1906 - Large Bathers, 1897 - Color lithograph, state ii/III, 161/4 x 201/2 inches. Signed on the stone lower right: P. Cézanne - Gift of Herbert E. Hirschland, Class of 1939

HANOVER, NH -  The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents its largest display ever of the museum's remarkable holdings of British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish art from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. From August 30, 2008 to March 8, 2009,  will feature over 120 works of European art, including paintings by Perugino, Claude, De Heem, Van Loo, Batoni, and Picasso; sculptures dating from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century; and prints by Dürer, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Goya, Archapiho, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec. It is part of an ongoing series focusing on the museum's permanent collection, following last year's celebration American Art at Dartmouth.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards a $2 Million Challenge Grant

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:04 PM PDT

artwork: Most visit the Art Institute of Chicago to see Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Now, a piece by Yves Behar/fuseproject has made its way into the museum's modern wing.

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago has been awarded a $2 million challenge grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to aid the museum's efforts in conservation and scientific research on its collections. Of this generous grant, $1.5 million, to be matched by $500,000, will be used to endow a new position for an associate conservation scientist within the museum's Department of Conservation. The remaining $500,000 of the grant will support, over a four-year period, the continuation and expansion, in both depth and scope, of the art conservation and scientific research collaboration the museum has recently undertaken with colleagues at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory.

Loans by Oberlin College to Open at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:03 PM PDT

artwork: Louis Lagrenée (French, 1724-1805) - Midday (Le soleil dissipant les vents et les orages), 1772 - Oil on canvas Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund, 1974.10 i - Courtesy of the Allen Memorial Art Museum's (AMAM) collections.

OBERLIN, OH.- Beginning March 23, 2010, through early 2011, 20 works of art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum's (AMAM) collections of 17th-19th century European art will be integrated into the galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). The works on view include paintings by Batoni, Lawrence, Hogarth, Van de Venne, Hobbema, Chardin, Boucher, Oudry, Lagrenée, and Boilly. Two bronze statues— one by 18th-century artist Francesco Bertos and another from the 17th century after a model by Giambologna—have been on view during the past month in the CMA's Italian Baroque court. In fall 2010, seven miniatures will also be put on display in a special case the CMA recently fabricated for the display of such works.

Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) displays Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporay Collection

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:02 PM PDT

artwork: Amelie von Wulffen. German, born 1966 - Untitled. 2003 - Cut-and-pasted chromogenic color print, synthetic polymer paint, and ink on paper, 119.4 x 174 cm. - The Museum of Modern Art. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2009 Amelie von Wulffen

New York, NY - The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary works on paper. Through a selection of more than three hundred works, this first comprehensive presentation of the gift surveys the various methods and materials within the styles of gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, and systems-based and conceptual drawings. On exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) through 4 January, 2010.

Tate Britain Shows Major William Hogarth Exhibition

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:01 PM PDT

artwork: William Hogarth Marriage A La Mode

LONDON - The most comprehensive exhibition for over thirty years of the leading eighteenth-century artist, William Hogarth (1697-1764), opens at Tate Britain on 7 February 2007.  No other artist's work has come to define a period of British history as powerfully and enduringly as that of Hogarth.  He was also greatly admired and collected on the international stage, influencing a broad range of artists across the centuries, including Greuze, Goya, the Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler and Hockney.  The exhibition incorporates the full range of Hogarth's work, highlighting his unique contribution to the development of modern British art.  On exhibit until 29 April, 2007.

Basquiat Masterpiece from The Collection of Lars Ulrich to Highlight Christie's Sale

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:00 PM PDT

artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) - Untitled (Boxer), signed `Jean Michel Basquiat' (on the reverse) - Acrylic & oil paintstick on linen, 76 x 94 in. (193 x 239 cm.) - Painted in 1982 - © Christie's Images Limited 

New York City - Christie's announced the sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat's Untitled (Boxer), 1982 from the collection of musician and renowned collector Lars Ulrich in the New York Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 12 November 2008. One of the most important works by Basquiat to come to auction, Untitled (Boxer) features an exhilarating depiction of a black heavy-weight fighter, which the artist saw as a self-portrait, and is poised to establish a record price for the artist at auction. It will be on public view from today at Christie's, 8 King Street, London.

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Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:00 PM PDT

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