Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Highlights from Bric 2011 Sale

LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company, announces the highlights from its BRIC 2011 Evening and Day auctions featuring 203 lots with a low estimate of £7,280,500/$11,657,566 and a high estimate of £10,865,500/ $17,397,883.The Evening sale will feature 39 important works with a low estimate of £5,917,000 /$ 9,474,325 and a high estimate of £8,933,000/ $14,303,556. Ilya Kabakov, Holidays #10, 1987 estimated at £1,500,000 – £2,500,000. Photo: Courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company. Following the thrilling results for the first [...]

Chinati Foundation Names Dr. Thomas Kellein as Director

MARFA, TX.- The Chinati Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Thomas Kellein as its next director. An accomplished art historian, curator, and museum director, Dr. Kellein, who will assume his duties in January 2011, succeeds Dr. Marianne Stockebrand, who earlier this year announced her retirement after serving as the museum’s director since 1994. Dr. Stockebrand will assume the role of Director Emeritus. Founded by artist Donald Judd in 1986, the Chinati Foundation is located in Marfa, Texas on 340 acres [...]

Selected Works from the Collection of Viktor Bondarenko at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

MOSCOW.- The exhibition presents to the public one of the largest collections of contemporary Russian art – the collection of Viktor Bondarenko, collector, patron of arts, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, and member of the State Tretyakov Gallery Council of Trustees. The display includes approximately 100 works by artists belonging to several generations. The main idea of the exhibition is to reflect the history of contemporary art through the prism of a private collection. Amongst the artists [...]

New Series of Paintings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Sprovieri Gallery

LONDON.- The Kabakovs are Russia’s foremost living artists. In 2008 they launched the Garage Centre for contemporary art in Moscow, exhibiting their total installations for the first time in twenty years since they left the country, and their exhibition Incident at the Museum and Other Installations at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg in 2004 was the first exhibition by living Russian artists ever to be held there. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Flying#13. Photo: Courtesy Sprovieri Gallery Ilya Kabakov [...]

Print Portfolios from Four Biennials on View at International Centre of Graphic Arts

LJUBLJANA.- The exhibition presents print portfolios from four biennials (Hamburg 1985, Sydney 1990, Istanbul 1995, and Cetinje 2005) containing more than eighty graphic works by sixty well-known and established artists from all over the world; thus it mirrors the development of art in the past twenty years. These print portfolios represent a unique artistic and art-historical achievement, for they show the development of printmaking techniques and their involvement in the context of contemporary art. They present artists from different generations [...]

MIA to Present Inaugural Show by Newly Appointed Contemporary Art Curator

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) celebrates its new commitment to contemporary art with Until Now: Collecting the New (1960–2010). Opening April 16, 2010, the exhibition includes more than 75 works of art—including paintings, sculpture, prints, installation art, photography, and video—by artists who have altered the direction of art over the past five decades, and in some cases challenged our basic conceptions about art. Artists represented include modern masters as well as those emerging on the scene, such [...]