Major exhibition by German artist Andreas Gursky at Gagosian Gallery in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents a major exhibition by Andreas Gursky. At the 21st Street gallery, Gursky premieres Bangkok, a new series of large-scale works, in tandem with the majestic Oceans of 2010, which are being shown in New York for the first time. Just as history painters of previous centuries found their subjects in the realities of everyday life, Gursky finds inspiration in his own spontaneous visual experience and through reports of global phenomena in the daily media. The resulting [...]

Van Ham Celebrate their 10th Anniversary with Over 400 Works by Outstanding Photographers

COLOGNE.- Van Ham celebrate their 10th anniversary with over 400 works by outstanding photographers, among them regulars such as August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky or Irving Penn. Moreover, Van Ham dedicate a special catalogue to an American collection entitled Selection from an American Collection that comprises numerous works by international top photographers. At this occasion Van Ham again calls top lots from the highly sought-after oeuvre by Cologne photographer August Sander to auction. Particularly remarkable [...]

Christie’s Evening Auctions of Post-War and Contemporary Art and the Italian Sale Realise $61.2 Million

LONDON.- The evening auctions of Post-War and Contemporary Art and The Italian Sale realised a combined total of £38,213,050 / $61,179,093 / €43,371,811. The top price of the evening was paid for Cavaliere by Marino Marini (1901-1980) which led record-breaking Italian Sale and which sold for £4,465,250 /$7,148,865 /€5,068,059 – a world record price for the artist at auction. In total, 6 lots sold for over £1 million and 18 for over $1 million. The corresponding auctions in October 2009 [...]

Lehman Brothers Auction Realises $2.6 Million at Christie’s South Kensington

LONDON.- The auction of Lehman Brothers: Artwork and Ephemera took place today (29 September 2010) at Christie’s South Kensington salerooms and realized £1,641,613 / $2,593,749 / €1,904,271, surpassing its pre-sale estimate of £769,600 to £1,138,900. Offering artworks and selected items of interest which once adorned the walls and offices of the British and European arms of the former banking powerhouse Lehman Brothers, the auction attracted over 1,100 registered bidders from around the world, including 330 clients who registered to bid [...]

Sotheby’s October Sale of Contemporary Art to be Headlined by Gursky and Warhol

LONDON.- Sotheby’s Contemporary Art evening auction on Friday, 15 October, 2010, which coincides with the Frieze Art Fair in London, will present for sale 40 artworks that are estimated to realise in excess of £10 million. In addition to the outstanding pieces by leading artists such as Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach in the auction from the Collection of Jerry Hall, the world-famous American supermodel and actress, the sale will also feature important works by established artists such as Andy [...]

Lehman Brothers Sign, Artworks to Be Auctioned Off in UK

LONDON (AP)- For sale: a sign of the times. Christie’s is auctioning off the 10 foot-long (3 meter-long) sign that adorned the European headquarters of Lehman Brothers, along with paintings, furniture and other objects from the offices of the collapsed investment bank. They are among millions of dollars’ (euros’) worth of items being sold to help pay Lehman’s creditors. The bank collapsed in September 2008. It was the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history and helped cause one of the [...]

A Düsseldorf Perspective at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

DUSSELDORF.- The exhibition “Auswertung der Flugdaten” throws a spotlight on the art of the 1980s from a Düsseldorf perspective. Featured are works by 10 internationally recognized artists who emerged from the milieu of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. The presentation is supplemented with a selection of works by seven artists from various countries having shared attitudes, aims, and working approaches. On view are nearly 70 sculptures, installations, and photographs, including multi-part works, by Richard Deacon, Katharina Fritsch, Andreas Gursky, Reinhard Mucha, [...]

Chris Dercon Leaves Haus der Kunst for Tate Modern

MUNICH.- In spring 2011 Chris Dercon, director of the Haus der Kunst, will leave for London, where he will take over as director of the Tate Modern. He will continue to work with the Haus der Kunst supervising the exhibition, “Carlo Mollino, Rigorously Eclectic,” planned for fall 2011. His successor, to be named by the Ministry, will take up the post in fall 2011. Dercon’s first exhibition at the Haus der Kunst was a surprise for the international art world: [...]

New Visions, New Londons: New Commissions for the Galleries of Modern London

LONDON.- An innovative and radical vision of the city is played out across an impressive elliptical chandelier screen, which stretches for 48 metres around the Sackler Hall, the hub and heart of the Museum’s new galleries. The cinematography of LDN24 takes its inspiration from the still frames, tone poems and landscapes of filmmakers and photographers such as Patrick Keiller, Andreas Gursky, Koyaanisqatsi and Edward Burtynsky. But The Light Surgeons craft a dynamic exchange with the living city by marrying high-definition [...]

Exhibition of New Photographs by Julian Faulhaber at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler

NEW YORK, NY.- Hasted Hunt Kraeutler presents an exhibition of new photographs from the body of work Lowdensitypolyethylene by Julian Faulhaber. The German-born photographer made his United States debut in Chisel curated by Kathy Ryan of the New York Times at the first annual New York Photo Festival in 2008. His first gallery show in New York followed in the fall of that year at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler. Since then, Faulhaber has been named a new and emerging photographer to [...]

New, Six-Part Series by Andreas Gursky at Sprüth Magers in Berlin

BERLIN.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present an exhibition of new works by Andreas Gursky in Berlin. The series of works represents an important new development in Gursky’s practice in which the artist reassesses the way he works with photography. Like many of Andreas Gursky’s works, the new, six-part series Ocean I-VI (2009-2010) goes back to a spontaneous visual experience. As the artist relates, while flying one night from Dubai to Melbourne he stared for some time at the flight [...]

Andreas Gursky Inaugurates Gagosian’s Newly Expanded Beverly Hills Gallery

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition by Andreas Gursky to inaugurate the newly expanded Beverly Hills gallery, designed by Richard Meier & Partners. In the two adjacent main galleries, Gursky will present a new series of large-scale works as well as a grouping of subjects that he has selected from the last twenty years, from the landscape Műlheim an der Ruhr, Anglers (1989) to the empty scene of Untitled XV (2008). Gursky has demonstrated that a photographer can [...]

Jasper John’s “Flag” to be Shown by Christie’s in Los Angeles

NEW YORk, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of works from the Collection of the late Michael Crichton at its highly anticipated Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 11 in New York. Best-selling author and screenwriter, film director and producer, Crichton is renowned for his terrifying and sometimes controversial scientific thrillers such as ‘The Andromeda Strain’, ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘Timeline’, ‘The Lost World’, ‘Rising Sun’, and ‘State of Fear’, and for creating the television series ER. Crichton is also acknowledged [...]

Moderna Museet Director, Lars Nittve, to Retire in October

STOCKHOLM.- On 31 October, 2010, the contract for the Director of Moderna Museet, Lars Nittve, ends. Mr Nittve will resign from the post in accordance with the regulations for all senior civil service posts in Sweden. Lars Nittve, Moderna Museet director 2001-2010 2001-2010, when Mr Nittve was Director, has been an extraordinarily eventful – and successful – period in the museum’s 52 years. Besides some 150 large and small exhibitions covering the entire 20th century, including highlights such as Paul [...]