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• The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga shows Recent Paintings by Luc Tuymans
• Revolutionary Icon Fidel Castro Turns 85 Quietly but Still a Force in Cuba
• The Albertina Museum Provides Insights into Max Weiler's Entire Drawing Career
• Marrakech Art Fair To Feature The Mid-East Artistic Emerging Scenes
• Los Angeles' Most Famous Landmark, the Hollywood Sign, Invaded by Tourists
• Yoshua Okón Debuts New Video Installation at The Hammer Museum
• Institute of Contemporary Arts Hosts Pablo Bronstein's Building-Wide Exhibition
• Last Chance to See "Chardin, the Painter of the Silence" at the Museo del Prado
• Bonhams Offers Bloch Collection of Lin Fengmian Paintings in London
• Roberley Bell to Bring the Outside In at the Laumeier Sculpture Park
• Sotheby's Sale of Contemporary Turkish Art in London
• Crocker Art Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions for Expanded Museum
• LACMA Displays Most Extensive Presentation of Museum's Contemporary Collection in Ten Years
• "The Jesus Scandal: A Liebermann Painting in the Crossfire of Critics"
• Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Makes Over 3,000 Items Available for View Online
• The Sheldon Art Museum surveys the Works of Elizabeth King
• Christie's Evening Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art ~ Highlights
• Hirshhorn Museum Features Works from the Permanent Collection
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga shows Recent Paintings by Luc Tuymans Posted: 14 Aug 2011 11:19 PM PDT Málaga, Spain.- The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga presents "Luc Tuymans: Portraits and Vegetation", the first major exhibition of the artist's work to be held in Spain, on view until September 4th. One of the most influent and admired european artists, Tuymans' work, enveloped in an apparently simple narrative, has been characterized by a sombre halo that generates a tense and etherel illusory appearance. Paintings that show without allowing us to see, through the indirect allusions and references to the tragic moments of our recent memory – such as the Holocaust, that leave the responsibility of filling spaces and constructing a personal narrative of the image in hands of the spectator. "Portraits and Vegetation" brings to Málaga 16 paintings in a variety of different formats which show why Tuymans is now considered one of leading figurative artists of the current generation. Luc Tuymans was born in Mortsel near Antwerp, Belgium. He began his studies in the fine arts at the Sint-Lukasinstituut in Brussels in 1976. Subsequently he studied fine arts at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels, Belgium (1979–1980) and at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium (1980–1982). He also studied art history at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Belgium (1982–1986). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium and was honored by the Belgian government when they bestowed upon him the title of Commander, Order of Leopold in 2007. He is married to Venezuelan artist Carla Arocha. The artist has been the focus of several retrospectives at various international institutions, including the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois and the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium. Tuymans has recently been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany; MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium (both 2007); Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland (both 2006); and the Tate Modern, London, England (2004). Tuymans' work has also featured in numerous group exhibitions. Tuymans aroused interest in 2000 with his series of political paintings titled Mwana Kitoko ("beautiful boy"), which take themes out of the state visit of King Baudouin of Belgium in the Congo in the 1950's. The most noted painting was of the king himself in his white military uniform. Luc Tuymans is represented by David Zwirner, New York. Work by the artist is held in the public collections of various museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Museum fuer Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany; and the Tate Gallery, London, England. The CAC Málaga is a cultural initiative of The City Council of Málaga. Its aim is the promotion and dissemination of 20th and 21st century visual art by bringing the most recent trends in contemporary art to the public, expressed through visual and audiovisual means. The project is an innovative one within Spain as it combines models of private management with the aims and ideals of public administration. The CAC Málaga was officially opened on 17 February 2003 by Their Royal Highnesses the Infanta Cristina and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarín, Dukes of Palma. Without forgetting its support for local and national artists, the CAC Málaga opened with a clearly stated mission that was directed towards international art, with the intention of becoming a reference point both on the national as well as the European circuit. A pioneering new project was thus launched, based on the model of the German "Kunsthalle". According to this model, the Centre has been conceived as a "House of Art" which is dynamic and open to new trends and forms of expression in contemporary art and characterised by its dynamic nature, its emphasis on the dissemination of contemporary art and reflection on the issues involved in this field. The result is a wide variety of activities and a permanent reflection on contemporary art, its sources and influences. The Centre is a place which encourages local participation and places great emphasis on teaching and education. The CAC Málaga holds exhibitions and other events of a pioneering nature within the context of Spain, strengthening the presence of artists who have never been exhibited in this country. It also offers seminars and courses with the intention of broadening knowledge and reflecting on different aspects of contemporary art. The opening of the CAC Málaga has opened up new cultural possibilities in the south of Spain and the centre was specifically created with the intention of becoming an international reference point. Since it was inaugurated, CAC Málaga has acquired a total of 57 works by local, Spanish and international artists, an increase of 15% on the total of the collection. Despite its youth and small budget, the Centre is already ranked amongst the 150 most important art centres and museums in the world. Visit the museum's website at ... http://cacmalaga.org

Revolutionary Icon Fidel Castro Turns 85 Quietly but Still a Force in Cuba Posted: 14 Aug 2011 10:49 PM PDT HAVANA, CUBA - Revolutionary icon Fidel Castro marked his 85th birthday behind closed doors Saturday as the aging leader famous for railing against Washington increasingly fades from the spotlight — even if his outsize persona continues to cast a long shadow over Cuban society and U.S. relations.There were no announcements of how Castro planned to spend the day, though Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in Havana for cancer treatment, said via Twitter that he was with his longtime friend and political mentor. "Here with Fidel, celebrating his 85th birthday! Viva Fidel!" Chavez tweeted. The previous night two dozen musical acts from across Latin America held a concert in Castro's honor.

The Albertina Museum Provides Insights into Max Weiler's Entire Drawing Career Posted: 14 Aug 2011 10:27 PM PDT VIENNA.- Max Weiler (1910 – 2001) was not only a great painter, but also a fascinating and important graphic artist. In more than seventy years of creative activity, he produced an estimated 4000 drawings covering virtually all formats and techniques and forming a collection that is on par with his paintings. The exhibition provides insights into Max Weiler's entire drawing oeuvre, focusing on the development and variety of the works as well as the significance they had for the artist himself. Parallel to the paintings, the drawings constitute a world of their own. At the same time, however, they are interrelated - a relationship, which is illuminated with a selection of paintings on display.

Marrakech Art Fair To Feature The Mid-East Artistic Emerging Scenes Posted: 14 Aug 2011 09:52 PM PDT MARRAKECH, MOROCCO - For its second edition, the modern and contemporary fair Marrakech Art Fair is back at the Palace Es Saadi from September 30th to October 3rd, with 45 international galleries exhibiting their major artists. About 20 additional galleries join the Marrakech Art Fair 2010 exhibitors. Besides the important representation of the Turkish contemporary scene, and for the very first time, 6 galleries from Istanbul participating to an international art fair outside Istanbul (CDA Projects, PI Artworks, Empire Project, CAM Gallery, PG Art Gallery, and Merkur), Marrakech Art Fair also welcomes two major actors of the New-Yorker scene: Metro Pictures and Edwynn Houk Gallery. Another front rank gallery has just announced its participation to the fair : Galleria Continua, which is established in San Gimignano (Italy), Beijing (China) and Le Moulin (France). All these renowned galleries reinforce the international dimension of Marrakech Art Fair.

Los Angeles' Most Famous Landmark, the Hollywood Sign, Invaded by Tourists Posted: 14 Aug 2011 09:23 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA. - The Hollywood Sign: It's more than just nine white letters spelling out a city's name; it's one of the world's most evocative symbols – a universal metaphor for ambition, success, glamour … for this dazzling place, industry and dream called H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D. Robert deVico can't help but laugh at the irony: a 1920s advertisement for his Hollywoodland neighborhood lured homebuyers by promising sylvan hills "above the traffic laden arteries, congestion, smoke and fog of the metropolis" and branded the community with a giant mountainside sign.

Yoshua Okón Debuts New Video Installation at The Hammer Museum Posted: 14 Aug 2011 08:43 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- Mexican artist Yoshua Okón's videos blur the lines between documentary, reality, and fiction. He collaborates closely with his actors (often amateurs who are also the subjects of the work) to create sociological examinations that ask viewers to contemplate uncomfortable situations and circumstances. He works with marginalized groups such as pit-bull owners, Nazi-war memorabilia collectors, and Venice Beach homeless people, in order to reflect back onto mainstream culture. For this show, Okón debuts a new two-channel video installation which was produced during his residency at the Hammer Museum. The work, shot on location at a Los Angeles Home Depot store, explores the relationships amongst Guatemalan day laborers who at home fought on opposite sides, yet here in the U.S. are working together in their efforts to find work.

Institute of Contemporary Arts Hosts Pablo Bronstein's Building-Wide Exhibition Posted: 14 Aug 2011 08:03 PM PDT LONDON.- Pablo Bronstein signals a new era in the history of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) with Sketches for Regency Living, a groundbreaking exhibition in which, for the first time, an individual artist is invited to work across the entire ICA building—Nash House on The Mall—introducing major architectural interventions and choreographing extraordinary art and ballet performances from 9 June to 25 September. Bronstein draws upon London's Regency history and that of the ICA building for Sketches for Regency Living, using a wide range of media to explore his interest in architecture from performance and drawing to installation and sculpture. His work demonstrates an affinity for how architecture and sculpture intervene in personal identity and inform our movements and social mores. Intimate and stylized tours through the building-wide exhibition, inspired by guided visits around country houses and other historic properties, offer insights into the history of Nash House and Bronstein's work. In this, Bronstein's most ambitious exhibition to date, the work penetrates every area of the ICA—the bar, entrance hall, theatre, galleries, concourse and the Regency Nash & Brandon Rooms overlooking St James's Park. Throughout Sketches for Regency Living existing architecture is embellished with forms that reference the Regency period and incorporate various decorative schemes, while visitors encounter neo-classical structures—a Regency room will be built within the theatre—and daily choreographed performances. Bronstein combines elements of the past with the present, and encourages the ICA to engage with its own identity. The exhibition includes a retrospective programme of Bronstein's dance works; newly choreographed performances with performers' costumes designed by fashion designer Mary Katrantzou; and an original ballet devised by Bronstein and co-commissioned by the ICA and Tramway, Scotland's leading venue for contemporary visual and performing art with performances at Tramway and the ICA. Pablo Bronstein's unique intervention at the ICA forms a point of reference and springboard from which a diverse range of programmed and spontaneous events challenge and engage audiences over the course of the exhibition, inviting artists and audiences to experience the ICA in deconstructed and reinterpreted spaces. Pablo Bronstein (born 1977, Buenos Aires) lives and works in London. He completed his BA in Fine Art at the Slade (2001) and an MA Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College (2004). Solo exhibitions include Garden A La Mode at Tate Britain (2010), Pablo Bronstein at the Met at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2009), and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich (2007). Significant group shows include Move at the Hayward Gallery (2010), Manifesta 8, Mucia (2010), PERFORMA 07, New York (2007), and Tate Triennial (2006). To complement the exhibition Pablo Bronstein has created a hand-coloured etching; Cafetiere in the Piranesi Taste 2011 in a limited edition of 85, plus an edition of 15 prints with special colouring. Visit : http://www.ica.org.uk/

Last Chance to See "Chardin, the Painter of the Silence" at the Museo del Prado Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:50 PM PDT Madrid.- Since the exhibitions on Jean S. Chardin organised in conjunction with the bicentenary of his death and the tercentenary of his birth, in 1979 and 1999 respectively, there have been no further revisions of the relatively small oeuvre (around 200 works) of this admired and highly original artist. Featuring 57 paintings, "Chardin, the Painter of the Silence" offers a rare opportunity to appreciate Chardin's work and is the first on the artist to be held in Spain, at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The exhibition is currently on view, and can be seen until May 29th. The exhibition is structured chronologically, covering the most important phases of the artist's career from his beginnings in the second decade of the 18th century to his late pastels of the 1770s. Visitors will encounter some of Chardin's most celebrated paintings, shown alongside other, little known canvases loaned from private collections, and some recently identified compositions. In addition, the version to be shown in the Prado includes 16 works not exhibited in Italy. They include "The Ray", one of Chardin's most important paintings, loaned from the Musée du Louvre; "The Attributes of the Arts", from the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, which is a large-format composition on an allegorical theme that has never previously been loaned to an exhibition; and the three versions of 'The young School Teacher" (National Gallery London, National Gallery of Art Washington, and National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), now shown together for the first time in Madrid. The exhibition opens with still lifes from the second half of the 1720s, including the celebrated painting "The Ray", on loan from the Louvre. It was Chardin's entry piece into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris but the artist was only admitted in the lesser category of "Painter of animals and fruit". At this point he broadened his areas of interest and introduced the motif of live animals in his paintings, as can be seen in the two canvases from the Museo Thyssen on display in this section: "Cat with a Piece of Salmon" and "Cat with a Rayfish". The next section opens with still lifes from the 1730s, including "A green-necked Duck hanging on the Wall and a bitter Orange", and "Still Life with a Porcelain Vessel and two Herrings suspended by pieces of Straw from a Nail in front of a Niche". Shown next, and also from this decade, are three examples from the celebrated "Soap Bubbles" series. Chardin worked in a variety of genres, never completely abandoning one in order to take up another and was continually inventive within all of them. He would also frequently return to earlier themes and simultaneously work on different paintings at the same time. In the 1730s, and influenced by 17th-century Dutch painting, the artist turned his attention to genre scenes. Chardin masterfully conveyed the meditative mood of his figures and the serene dignity of simple domestic tasks, while his stylistic evolution is clearly evident in these works. His brushstroke becomes more vaporous and the soft tonality heralds the pastels of his final years. In addition, he abandoned his use of models from the humbler social classes to focus on the bourgeois circle of his second wife. It was works such as "The young School Teacher", seen here in three versions that have been brought together for the first time, "Boy with a Top", and "Girl with a Shuttlecock", that would bring Chardin true popularity in the second half of the 19th century. The exhibition then turns to works from the 1750s and 1760s and to the artist's return to the still life, a genre that he had almost completely abandoned. These compositions are clearly different to the works of the 1720s due to the presence of a greater variety and number of types of game, species of fruit and objects (costly pieces of porcelain and sophisticated glass ware). Among works from this period in the exhibition are the delightful "Basket of wild Strawberries", "Glass of Water and Coffee Pot", and "Bouquet of Carnations, Tuberoses and Sweet Peas in a white porcelain Vase with a blue Pattern", the latter a masterpiece loaned by the National Gallery of Scotland. Works such of this type reveal a more agile, smoother type of brushstroke and also demonstrate the artist's interest in painting reflections, transparent effects, light and shadow. The exhibition ends with two pastel portraits, the medium to which Chardin turned after he was obliged to abandon oil painting due to failing health and which provoked great surprise at the 1771 Salon. These pastels reveal Chardin's confidence in his own powers and mark the end of his artistic career. The Prado Museum (Museo del Prado) in the Spanish capital, Madrid, is the most prestigious museum in Spain and probably the largest gallery of classical paintings in the world. The museum features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection. The building that is now the home of the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed on the orders of Charles III in 1785 by the architect Juan de Villanueva. Originally designed to house the Natural History Cabinet, construction was delayed by the War of Independence and the building's final function was eventually decided by Charles III's grandson, Ferdinand VII. Encouraged by his wife, Queen María Isabel de Braganza, the building became the new Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures. The Royal Museum, which would soon become known as the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture and following nationalization in 1868, the Museo Nacional del Prado (after the area of Madrid in which it is located), opened to the public for the first time in November 1819. Despite the size of the original building, space has always been a problem, and in 1971 the nearby Casón del Buen (which began life in 1637 as a ballroom for the Buen Retiro Palace) was acquired to house the 19th century collections from the Prado and "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso. In 1992, this building was transferred to the Reina Sofia Museum of modern and contemporary art (along with "Guernica"), and the Prado once again had to look for more space. The museum's exhibition area increased by more than 50% in 2007 with a new, modern extension designed by Pritzker prize winning Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. Visit the museum's website at: http://www.museodelprado.es

Bonhams Offers Bloch Collection of Lin Fengmian Paintings in London Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:49 PM PDT LONDON.- Bonhams will offer the Mary and George Bloch Collection of Lin Fengmian paintings at its 2009 Autumn Auction. A foremost collector of fine arts in Hong Kong, George Bloch (12 October 1920 - 27 April 2009) was born into a prominent industrial family in Vienna. He went to school in England, but his life changed radically in the mid-1930s when his father died and the Nazis nationalized the family business. In 1938 he moved to Shanghai, arriving with only twenty pounds in cash, and knowing almost no one. After a couple of years, he started his own trading business and laid the foundations for his wealth. In 1949 George uprooted yet again and moved to Tokyo. The entrepreneur recognized the business opportunities there and established Herald International Ltd, initially to sell watches to soldiers and staff on U.S. military bases throughout the Asia-Pacific region. George moved the company to Hong Kong in 1955.

Roberley Bell to Bring the Outside In at the Laumeier Sculpture Park Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:48 PM PDT SAINT LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park presents Roberley Bell: Inside Out, an exhibition that explores the relationship between the man-made and the natural with a focus on the artifice of nature. Opening October 9 and continuing through January 10, 2010, Bell 's colorful and intricate sculptures will enliven the Park's indoor galleries with a survey of her recent work including the Flower Blobs, the Wonder Series, and new indoor sculpture. A full-color publication with an essay will accompany the exhibition.

Sotheby's Sale of Contemporary Turkish Art in London Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:47 PM PDT LONDON.- Sotheby's London will be staging its annual London Sale of Contemporary Turkish Art on Thursday, April 7th, 2011. The auction will present 102 works by among the leading Modern and Contemporary Turkish artists, including Mubin Orhon, Burhan Dogancay and Taner Ceylan, in addition to artists new to the auction scene, such as Onur Gulfidan, Erdem Ergaz, Yasam Sasmazer and Mehmet Ali Uysal. The auction carries an estimate of £2,087,000-3,000,000. Whispering Wall II is an exceptionally rare work by Burhan Dogançay, which he executed in 1985. In the early 1960s Dogançay turned his attention to the urban walls which bore witness to the emotions and opinions of the people during a time of drastic political and social changes. With his Ribbons series, this time he looked upon his own cultural roots and his Eastern background and Western life which came together to create this striking new series. The ribbons painted in bright colours are reminiscent of the letters of the Arabic alphabet and recall traditional calligraphic forms that shaped Islamic Art.

Crocker Art Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions for Expanded Museum Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:46 PM PDT SACRAMENTO, CA.- This fall the Crocker Art Museum will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, Wayne Thiebaud: Homecoming is one of a series of special exhibitions that will inaugurate the galleries in the Crocker's new Teel Family Pavilion. Featuring more than 50 paintings and drawings spanning the artist's career, Wayne Thiebaud celebrates the work of Sacramento's most renowned artist.

LACMA Displays Most Extensive Presentation of Museum's Contemporary Collection in Ten Years Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:45 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) displays the most extensive presentation of the museum's permanent collection of contemporary art in ten years. Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection features approximately seventy-five pieces, representing a striking variety of works in diverse media—painting, drawing, photography, video, and audio. Borrowing its title from a work by seminal artist Bruce Nauman, Human Nature surveys works by several generations of artists who have made defining contributions to the recent art landscape, from 1968 to the present. Many of the works are on view for the first time since their acquisition, including pieces by Haegue Yang, Leslie Hewitt, Rachel Harrison, Glenn Ligon, Paul Pfeiffer, and Zhang Huan, among others.

"The Jesus Scandal: A Liebermann Painting in the Crossfire of Critics" Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:44 PM PDT HAMBURG.- The exhibition The Jesus Scandal at the Hamburger Kunsthalle centres on an oil painting of pivotal standing, The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple, 1879. One of most important works by Max Liebermann (1847–1935), it is being highlighted to mark the 75th anniversary of the artist's death. When the artist showed the painting for the first time in 1879 at the Munich International Art Exhibition it sparked a scandal. Contemporary critics took offence that the Jewish painter should dare to address the Christian theme of the "twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple", especially as he depicted the Saviour as a "Jewish urchin" off the streets. Liebermann was admonished for having strayed too far from the traditional portrayal of the young Christ as a divine youth and of his intellectual superiority over the Jewish scholars.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Makes Over 3,000 Items Available for View Online Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:43 PM PDT SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum has introduced on its website a searchable online database with images of over 3,000 items from the museum's collection, as well as materials from the archives of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center. Through the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections Online, the public can now view items including, among others, images of art and photographs in the Museum Collection and correspondence from Research Center Collections. Online availability of these materials was created to increase public awareness of and access to the museum's art and Research Center collections.

The Sheldon Art Museum surveys the Works of Elizabeth King Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:42 PM PDT LINCOLN, NE - A mid-career survey, The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye presents approximately 65 sculptures, film animations, installations, drawings and photographs by Elizabeth King . On exhibit at The Sheldon Art Museum through 12 October, 2008.

Christie's Evening Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art ~ Highlights Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:41 PM PDT LONDON - The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place at Christie's on 4 February and will offer 47 works of art, including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Kees van Dongen, Edward Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £60 million and is led by an important European collection of 6 paintings, including Claude Monet's Dans la Prairie, 1876, which was exhibited at the seminal third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and which is expected to realise in the region of £15 million. Highlights of the auction will be on public view at Christie's in London from 12th January 2009.

Hirshhorn Museum Features Works from the Permanent Collection Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn announces a new installation of work by Guido van der Werve (Dutch, b. Papendrecht, Netherlands, 1977) and Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. Tokyo, 1948). On view at the Museum for the first time is Van der Werve's "Nummer Negen (#9) The Day I Didn't Turn with the World" (2007), a recent acquisition, which is paired with five works from Sugimoto's "Seascapes" series. Sugimoto's works are drawn from a grouping acquired for the Museum by The Glenstone Foundation on the occasion of the artist's 2005-2006 retrospective, co-organized by the Hirshhorn. Seen together, the pieces quietly create synergy, harmoniously exploring concepts of time, space and solitude, while highlighting the formal and conceptual interplay between cinema and photography.

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