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Art Gallery of Nova Scotia receives an important gift of photographs by Annie Leibovitz Art Gallery of Nova Scotia receives an important gift of photographs by Annie Leibovitz

June 7, 2013 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


HALIFAX.- The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has received a major gift of contemporary art, a set of photographs by the influential photographer Annie Leibovitz. The gift is made in honour of Al and the late Faye Mintz by their children. The Mintz family is honouring their parents by giving this important set to a Canadian museum, ensuring that the work will be seen by Canadians for years to come. “My parents have always loved Annie Leibovitz’s photography, how she combines technique with creativity, beauty with controversy, humour with honesty,” says Al and Faye... [Full Article]

Exhibition covering 40 years of Robert Baribeau’s work opens at Allan Stone Gallery Exhibition covering 40 years of Robert Baribeau’s work opens at Allan Stone Gallery

June 7, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


NEW YORK, NY.- Allan Stone Gallery presents Robert Baribeau: 1980-NOW, June 5-July 26, 2013. For over thirty years painter Robert Baribeau has been exploring landscape and place in visceral, expressionistic abstractions. Baribeau’s eleventh solo exhibition at Allan Stone Gallery since 1980 chronicles the focus and intensity spanning his career, in painting, mixed media and works on paper. Baribeau grew up on a farm in Oregon and worked for a landscape architect while in college. The memory of those experiences remains in his aesthetic. Baribeau’s abstractions... [Full Article]

Sotheby’s Paris Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art achieves $25.9 million Sotheby’s Paris Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art achieves $25.9 million

June 7, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Market, Featured


PARIS.- Tonight Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale realised an overall total of €19,759,050 /$25,891,271 /£16,777,651 (est. €14,584,200–20,831,800/$19,154,305-27,359,653/ £12,412,069-17,729,169), the second-highest total in this category at Sotheby’s Paris. The top lot of the sale was Pablo Picasso’s Femme Assise en Robe Grise which exceeded pre-sale expectations and sold for €3,793,500/ $4,970,813/ £3,221,107 (est. €2.5-3.5m/ $3.2-4.5m). The work was offered from the personal collection of his granddaughter Marina Picasso.... [Full Article]

Toledo Museum of Art offers baby tours developed by leading expert Toledo Museum of Art offers baby tours developed by leading expert

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


TOLEDO, OH.- Museums across the country are beginning to offer tours to the youngest members of their audience, and the Toledo Museum of Art is leading the way. In the past year the Museum began offering monthly baby tours designed by one of the world’s foremost experts on how babies’ visual experiences can fuel learning and cognitive development. The innovative tours for 2-to-18-month-olds are the brainchild of Dr. Kathy Danko-McGhee, director of education at the Toledo Museum of Art. Dr. Danko-McGhee’s groundbreaking research centers on how infants and toddlers... [Full Article]

Frieze London: New Design for 2013 Frieze London: New Design for 2013

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


LONDON.- Frieze has announced today the details of their eleventh contemporary art fair in London. On entering its second decade, Frieze London will introduce a new look in 2013 with more sizable public areas and a new layout of galleries. Frieze London will take place 17–20 October 2013 in Regent’s Park, London and is sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the tenth consecutive year. Working with architects Carmody Groarke, Frieze London has been redesigned to provide the best conditions for showing and viewing art. The new format will ensure that the fair has a more... [Full Article]

First solo gallery show in the United States by the Campana Brothers opens at Friedman Benda First solo gallery show in the United States by the Campana Brothers opens at Friedman Benda

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda presents Campana Brothers: Concepts, the first solo gallery show in the United States by the renowned Brazilian designers, June 5-July 3, 2013. The exhibition introduces several new bodies of work that demonstrate a different direction for the brothers, while offering a complex and in-progress view of their practice as it stands during a pivotal moment in their careers. Loose and experimental in nature, Concepts will see the Campanas exploring a series of new approaches to their practice while overturning previously held certainties... [Full Article]

Deborah Cullinan appointed Executive Director at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Deborah Cullinan appointed Executive Director at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Artists & People


SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts announced the appointment of Deborah M. Cullinan as Executive Director. Cullinan will begin her new role on September 15, 2013. Cullinan comes to YBCA after having served as the executive director at San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts, the Bay Area’s pioneering arts and community development organization. During her tenure at Intersection, Cullinan took the organization from financial crisis and turned it into a thriving and vibrant institution with leading-edge programming. “Deborah is the perfect... [Full Article]

Exhibition of new work by British artist Bill Jacklin opens at Marlborough Fine Art in London Exhibition of new work by British artist Bill Jacklin opens at Marlborough Fine Art in London

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


LONDON.- Marlborough Fine Art announced their exhibition of new work by Bill Jacklin opening in London. The Artists writes: “My paintings have to have a sense of place. The subjects invariably are locations that I have made drawings of whether it is the pulsating energy of the crowds in Times Square or the rhythmic and repetitive movement of the figures and their shadows diving into the waves in Coney Island or Cape Cod. Bill Jacklin, Clouds over the City I. Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in152.4 x 182.9 cm Almost all my paintings have become concerned with the passing... [Full Article]

Sotheby’s Paris achieves highest Contemporary Art Evening Sale total of the Paris summer sale season Sotheby’s Paris achieves highest Contemporary Art Evening Sale total of the Paris summer sale season

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Market


PARIS.- Tonight, in a packed sale room, Sotheby’s sale of Contemporary Art achieved €21,623,600 / $28,222,906 / £18,403,043 (pre-sale estimate €15.3 – 21.6 Million/ $20–28.2 / £13-18.3), which represents the second-highest total for a sale in this category at Sotheby’s Paris. The top lot of the sale, and a record price in France for the artist was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s monumental Crown Hotel (Mona Lisa Black Background) from The Collection of the Comtesse Viviane de Witt, which sold for €5,697,500 / $7,436,320 / £4,848,931 (est. €5-7m/$6.6-9.2m).... [Full Article]

A masterful landscape by Ferdinand Hodler soars above estimate to sell for $8,423,261 A masterful landscape by Ferdinand Hodler soars above estimate to sell for $8,423,261

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Market


ZURICH.- On Tuesday night, Sotheby’s Zurich Swiss Art sale was led by an important landscape by the prominent Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler which soared above estimate to sell for CHF 8,005,000 ($8,423,261/ €6,430,952). The auction – conducted by Stefan Puttaert, the new Head of Sotheby’s Zurich – brought a combined total of CHF 12,564,750 ($13,221,258/ €10,094,105) (est. CHF 10,960,500-13,779,500). Commenting on the evening’s results, Urs Lanter, Head of Sotheby’s Swiss Art Department said: “Since our first Swiss Art auctions in 1979,... [Full Article]

Distinguished collection of Alphonse Mucha lithographs on offer at Bonhams New York Distinguished collection of Alphonse Mucha lithographs on offer at Bonhams New York

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Market


NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will present a private New York collection of Art Nouveau lithographs by the master illustrator Alphonse Mucha at its June 14 auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts. Essentially an ode to the collector’s grandmother, an ethereal beauty who came of age at the turn of the century, the collection was formed over forty years and reflects a discerning eye for line, color and draftsmanship. Mucha’s sensual style, which typically featured intriguing female figures, is well represented. The highlight of this private Mucha collection is undoubtedly... [Full Article]

Record breaking Roerich at Bonhams: Most valuable picture ever sold in Russian auction Record breaking Roerich at Bonhams: Most valuable picture ever sold in Russian auction

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Art Market


LONDON.- Russian art is back on fighting form at Bonhams with a record breaking Russian sale today, 5th June 2013 totalling £12,384,675 and setting two new world records. In an overflowing saleroom, the mesmerizing Madonna Laboris by Nikolai Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947) sold to a bidder on the telephone for £7.9million, setting a new world record price for the artist and making it the most valuable Russian picture ever to be sold in a Russian art auction. The lost masterpiece Madonna Laboris was always known to exist but its whereabouts had remained a mystery... [Full Article]

PHotoEspaña 2013 widens its map and presents a program that includes 74 exhibitions and activities in Madrid PHotoEspaña 2013 widens its map and presents a program that includes 74 exhibitions and activities in Madrid

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Photography


MADRID.- Between June 5 and July 28, PHotoEspaña 2013, the XVI edition of the international festival of photography and visual arts, presents 74 exhibitions with works by 328 artists from 42 countries and an ample selection of public and professional activities. Lanzarote, Zaragoza and Prague are added to Madrid, Cuenca, Alcalá de Henares, and Alcobendas as venues of the festival. In his last year as general curator of the festival, Gerardo Mosquera presents an exhibition program that revolves around the theme, “Body. Eros and Politics.” During a period... [Full Article]

“Death in the Making: Photographs of War by Robert Capa” opens at Atlas Gallery “Death in the Making: Photographs of War by Robert Capa” opens at Atlas Gallery

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Photography


LONDON.- Marking what would have been the 100th birthday of Robert Capa, the 20th Century’s most famous war photographer, London’s ATLAS Gallery has curated a diverse exhibition which celebrates his life and work. Death in the Making will not only feature images from the numerous conflicts he captured on the ground – including the civil wars of Spain and Cambodia, D-Day and The Liberation of Paris, and the First Indo-China War – but also rare printed works from Gallery Owner Ben Burdett’s private collection. The very camera that launched Capa’s career,... [Full Article]

Smithsonian will not proceed with Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s Bubble Smithsonian will not proceed with Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s Bubble

June 6, 2013 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian will not move forward with plans for the Hirshhorn’s Seasonal Inflatable Structure, known as the Bubble. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, made the announcement today (June 5) citing financial uncertainties as the reason for the decision. The proposed structure on the plaza of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was to be a seasonal venue used for two months each year with programming devoted to arts and culture. Kurin also said that Hirshhorn Director Richard Koshalek, who announced... [Full Article]