Les Cohen Amphora pottery collection featured at Morphy’s, Nov. 2-3

DENVER, PA.- A spectacular collection of Amphora pottery that includes a number of very rare designs will headline Morphy Auctions’ Nov. 2-3 sale. The Les Cohen collection is one of several fresh collections featured in the 1,125-lot Fine & Decorative Art Auction. The Friday session includes more than 150 outstanding pieces of Amphora from the Les Cohen collection, many of which are the actual examples shown in leading reference books. An extraordinary Amphora Bat vase, 10 inches tall, is dominated [...]

Major gift to Tate Gallery marks leading British painter William Scott centenary of his birth

LONDON.- A major work by the leading British painter William Scott (1913-1989) has been pledged to Tate by the artist’s sons, Robert and James Scott, to mark the centenary of his birth in 2013. The Harbour 1952 is one of the artist’s most radical works and was a treasured painting in his own collection. Valued at over £500,000, it is the first example of Scott’s seminal black and white works to enter the Tate Collection. The Harbour will be included [...]

New loan to the Columbia Museum of Art arrives in an unexpected and peculiar way

COLUMBIA, SC.- A special and unexpected loan to the Columbia Museum of Art now provides visitors a view of Venice, Italy, by the renowned painter, Thomas Moran. Typically, the CMA researches and strategically plans for loans of art, but in this case, CMA Chief Curator Will South was surprised and delighted when the painting arrived at the Museum unforeseen. The owners (also CMA donors) of this Thomas Moran painting weren’t expecting to see it here either. They asked their friends [...]

Painting by Joaquín Sorolla, formerly in Berlin’s Nationalgalerie, to be auctioned for the first time

LONDON.- The wealth and diversity of Europe’s cultural and artistic heritage will be broadly represented at Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings sale on 20 November 2012 with works from the most prominent Continental artists. Leading the way is Spain’s greatest exponent of the period, Joaquín Sorolla with Pescadores valencianos, a work that marks a stylistic watershed in the artist’s oeuvre, was recognised at the time as a masterpiece and boasts a very distinguished provenance. The Spanish paintings section of the [...]

The Museo del Prado presents the first monographic exhibition on landscape painter Martín Rico

MADRID.- Starting today, visitors to the Prado Museum will have the opportunity to obtain a first-hand overview of the work of the Madrid-born landscape painter Martín Rico (1833-1908). Rico is of the most important Spanish painters of the first half of the 19th century and the finest representation of his work is to be found in the Museo del Prado. In addition to the twelve canvases, forty notebooks and an album of watercolours in the Museum’s collection, this first monographic [...]

Meijer Gardens curates exhibition featuring international sculptor Bernar Venet

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park presents a special, year-long exhibition showcasing revolutionary sculptor, Bernar Venet. Demonstrating his iconic work in steel, five of Venet’s large-scale sculptures will be installed outdoors and will open to the public on October 30th. The length and inclusion of this additional sculpture exhibition is unique to Meijer Gardens and will remain on display until October 2013. “Meijer Gardens is honored to have been selected to host this special exhibition of works [...]

Pinta New York 2012 announces new expansions in its sixth edition to be held November 15th to 18th

NEW YORK, NY.- Expanding its horizons through diverse strategies, Pinta 2012 will feature an entire section of alternative art spaces that inspire artistic residences in Central America; with the support of renowned galleries, it will continue showing the individual “Art Projects” selected by Brazilian curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and it will present NY-based Argentinean Liliana Porter as guest artist. In its sixth edition, on November 15th to 18th at 7 West 34th Street, Pinta poignantly bridges the Old and New [...]

The Art Institute of Chicago presents a specially developed platform for the iPad

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago‘s Department of Digital Information and Access and the Department of European Decorative Arts unveiled a new gallery interactive that revolutionizes the museum experience while improving public access to art. LaunchPad is a specially developed platform for the iPad–containing engaging and interactive multimedia resources–that brings three-dimensional objects to life. With the new LaunchPads in the galleries, visitors have at their fingertips basic introductory facts about works of art enhanced by animations, brief video documentaries [...]

Largest show to date dedicated to the work made by Claes Oldenburg in the sixties opens

BILBAO.- Co-organized by mumok Vienna and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties is the largest show to date dedicated to the path-breaking, emblematic, early work of the 1960s by Claes Oldenburg (Stockholm, Sweden, 1929), one of the most influential artists since the 1950s. With his ironic and sharp witted representations of everyday objects from the 1960s, Oldenburg made a huge contribution to renovating the North American art scene, and is a major figure in performance art, installation art [...]

Solo exhibition of works on paper by New York-based artist Roland Flexner opens at D’Amelio Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works on paper by New York-based artist Roland Flexner. Over the last decade, Flexner has been expanding his drawing practice, which relies on elements of chance, spontaneity, and the self-directedness of his materials. Through a restrained approach to mark making, including indirect gestures such as tilting the paper to encourage gravity’s effect on ink, or using his breath funneled through straws, the artist creates images unified by the natural properties [...]

American West photography exhibition opens in 10 museums – and online

JACKSON HOLE, WY.- The exhibition National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West opened in 10 museums across the country. Featuring 75 iconic images of the West selected from among thousands in the National Geographic archives, the exhibition – already innovative in its simultaneous opening in so many U.S. venues – also connects with audiences at a website, www.photographsofthewest.org, and via social media. “Visitors to the exhibition can further connect with the exhibition by visiting the website, which includes additional [...]

Vancouver Art Gallery presents major retrospective of the work of Ian Wallace

VANCOUVER.- One of Canada’s most significant artists, Ian Wallace has played a fundamental role in the development of contemporary art since the late 1960s by bringing together two great image-making traditions, painting and photography. Opened on October 27th, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s exhibition Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography is an expansive survey of his artistic career, mapping Wallace’s creative trajectory from the mid-sixties to the present while providing unprecedented insight into his impact on the development [...]

LACMA’s 2012 Art+Film Gala raises $3.5 million to support film-based programming at the Museum

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted its second annual Art+Film Gala on Saturday, October 27, honoring artist Ed Ruscha and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Co-chaired by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and LACMA Trustee Eva Chow, the evening brought together 550 international guests from the worlds of art and design, entertainment, fashion, and music, among others. The evening raised over $3.5 million, with proceeds going to support LACMA’s initiative to make film more central to the museum’s curatorial [...]

Abstract art from the collections of the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

VADUZ.- The Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, founded in 1946, boasts an impressive, extensive collection of Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Yugoslavian art from the late 19th century to the present. The particular artistic traditions of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 20th century are, however, practically unknown in Central Europe. This prompted Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, as national gallery of the principality of Liechtenstein, to invite its sister institution in Sarajevo to develop a presentation on the history of abstract art in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The exhibition at [...]

Iranian artists Tabatabai and Afrassiabi present Seep at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

BARCELONA.- MACBA, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, presents Seep, the first solo exhibition in Spain by the Iranian artists Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi. Illustrating the Museum’s interest in contemporary art from North Africa and the Middle East, the show explores the introduction of modernity to Iran, from the British intervention and the industrialisation of oil extraction to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Presented for the first time, the installation includes two video projections and a series of objects [...]