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Early Dubai April sale highlights include works by Kayyali, Guiragossian & Afjehei
DUBAI.- Early highlights consigned for this spring’s Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art sale at Christie’s in Dubai on April 17th and 18th, 2012 will include works by Louay Kayyali, Paul Guiragossian and Nasrollah Afjehei. The sale is sponsored by Zurich, who recently signed a three-year contract to be the sole sponsor of the... [Read full article]
Third Annual Collectors Evening secures three new acquisitions for the High Museum of Art
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art hosted its third annual Collectors Evening on Friday, January 20, 2012. The participants at the event voted to secure three new acquisitions for the Museum, including the first Museum acquisition of a work by the artist KAWS, titled “DOWN TIME” (2011); Marcel Wanders’s decorative arts and design piece “Crochet... [Read full article]
A way of thinking: Christie’s announces sale of works from an important private collection
LONDON.- Following the success of a selection of works from the celebrated Collection of Anton and Annick Herbert of Minimal Art, Conceptual Art and Arte Povera auctioned in New York in November 2011, Christie’s will offer for sale a portion of another extraordinary private collection, presented with the title ‘A Way of Thinking’. A unique... [Read full article]
The Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair: The specialist fair for every type of art on paper
LONDON.- The Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair returns to the stylish and spacious Level 2 Galleries at the Science Museum, South Kensington, London from 2 – 5 February 2012. The 2012 fair brings together an impressive range of art on paper exhibited by leading art dealers from across the UK. This eclectic and lively fair presents all types... [Read full article]
MoMA exhibits James Rosenquist’s F-111 as it was first exhibited at the Castelli Gallery in 1965
NEW YORK, NY.- James Rosenquist designed the eighty-six-foot-long F-111 to wrap around the four walls of the Leo Castelli Gallery, at 4 East Seventy-Seventh Street in Manhattan. He began the painting in 1964, in the middle of a turbulent decade marked by the escalating Vietnam War. Funded by citizens’ tax dollars, the F-111 fighter-bomber plane was... [Read full article]
Abu Dhabi developer outlines a new timetable for opening of Louvre, Guggenheim
DUBAI (AP).- The developer of an ambitious cultural district in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday outlined a new timetable for the stalled project, with its first attraction — a branch of the Louvre — now slated to open in 2015. A division of the Guggenheim will follow in 2017, which like the outpost of the French art institution will make its debut in the... [Read full article]
Record numbers attend 24th London Art Fair
LONDON.- London Art Fair today reports a record attendance for the 24th edition of the UK’s largest and longest running fair for contemporary and Modern British art. 25,020 visitors attended the event at the Business Design Centre, Islington between 18-22 January 2012, compared with the previous record of 24,389 in 2011. Many of the 120 galleries... [Read full article]
Annie Leibovitz opens new art show at Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP).- Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new project now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that marks a departure from her popular celebrity portraits. Two years ago, Leibovitz was facing millions in debt and a mismanaged fortune that nearly cost her the... [Read full article]
Purdue University President France Cordova becomes Smithsonian Institution chairwoman
WASHINGTON (AP).- Purdue University President France Cordova was installed Monday as chairwoman of the Smithsonian Institution’s governing board as the museum complex expands with the coming construction of a new black history museum and amid calls for another focused on Latino American heritage. As Cordova begins her three-year term, she will... [Read full article]
Lisa Jonasson’s “Man’s Inner in Average” opens at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm
STOCKHOLM.- Lisa Jonasson transforms colored paper into figures with scissors. It is both intuitive and meticulous work that takes place at her studio table and later develops into large collages. The figures, equal parts human, animal, and fantasy, can be said to form states of mind and provoke thoughts connected to what it is to be human today. There... [Read full article]
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announces historical endowment
BOSTON, MA.- Charles Brizius, President of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, announced at a museum board meeting last night that both the Director and Chief Curator positions have been endowed for the first time in the museum’s 75 year history. Ellen Poss has endowed the Director position, now named the Ellen Matilda... [Read full article]
James Holloway CBE to retire as Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland announced that James Holloway CBE will retire from his post as Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery at the end of January 2012. James Holloway (b. 1948) began his career in Scotland back in 1972 as a Research Assistant and Assistant Keeper at the National Gallery of Scotland (Department... [Read full article]
Sotheby’s forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction highlighted by desirable and fresh-to-market works
LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s third most successful year ever (2011) for global auctions of Contemporary Art, which totalled $1.17 billion, the company presents its forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction. The sale, which will be staged in London on Tuesday, February 15th, 2012, will include an array of major artworks by established Post-War... [Read full article]
In Living Color: A group exhibition of 10 artists at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting the exhibition In Living Color, a group exhibition of 10 artists. The exhibitions will be on view through May 19, 2012. The exhibition presents a chromatic study from a wide range of artists including: Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Kristin Baker, Olaf Breuning, Dan Colen, Mark Grotjahn, Anselm Reyle,... [Read full article]
“Stowaways” Series at New Museum features Brian Bress’s Status Report
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum announces the latest presentation in its ‘Stowaways’ series, the New York premier of Brian Bress’s Status Report (2009). In Bress’s low-tech video, humorous characters, all played by the artist, struggle with interpersonal relationships, the pursuit of intended goals, and the desire to communicate. Manipulating... [Read full article]
