| Collection of important later works by Monet, Twombly, and Turner in exhibition at Tate Liverpool | | Marilyn & Me, Lawrence Schiller's first solo exhibition in the United States on view at Steven Kasher Gallery | | Painting in Space: An exhibition to benefit CCS Bard opens at Luhring Augustine | 
J.M.W. Turner, War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet exh 1842© Tate, 2011.
LIVERPOOL.- J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011) produced some of their most stunning and experimental works late in life. This summer, Tate Liverpool will bring together a collection of important later works by the three artists for a groundbreaking exhibition. All three artists were considered radical painters in their time. They met with criticism for pushing the boundaries of the conventions of painting. The exhibition examines not only the art historical links and affinities between the artists, but suggests common characteristics and motivations underlying their late style. The exhibition will explore the artists’ fascination with light, landscape, mythology, mortality, romanticism and the sublime – which the artists shared despite living in different eras – in addition to the rich painterly qualities of their work. While their respective approaches are striki ... More | | 
Whitey and Marilyn, Something’s Got to Give, May 23rd, 1963. Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc., Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery is presenting Marilyn & Me, Lawrence Schiller’s first solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition features over fifty of Schiller’s iconic images of Marilyn Monroe—many of which have been newly discovered in his archives—and coincides with the publication of his eleventh book, Marilyn & Me, published simultaneously, in two editions, by TASCHEN and Nan Talese’s imprint with Doubleday. Shown for the first time are his original proof sheets with Marilyn’s rejection markings and scrawled notes. This exhibition and the publication of his two books on Marilyn mark the fiftieth anniversary of her death. The exhibition also includes vintage prints from throughout Schiller’s illustrious career as photojournalist. Schiller (who is also known for his filmmaking and writing) was in ... More | | 
Olafur Eliasson, National career lamp, 2007. Stainless steel, aluminum, optical lighting film, acrylic, bulbs, 76 3/4 x 20 7/8 x 47 1/4 in. Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson. Courtesy the artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and Luhring Augustine, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announces Painting in Space, a major summer group exhibition to support the Next Decade Campaign of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard). Celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year, CCS Bard pioneered graduate education programs for curators and has evolved into one of the world’s leading centers for contemporary art research. The Center includes a major library and archive, as well as the renowned Marieluise Hessel Collection, the Hessel Museum of Art, and CCS Bard Galleries, through which the Center presents its year-round program of exhibitions. The Next Decade Campaign aims to raise funds over the next ten years to maintain the school’s preeminent faculty and research ... More |
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| The Toledo Museum of Art to return 2,500-year-old water vessel, or kalpis to Italy | | More and Different Flags: Group exhibition opens at Marlborough in Chelsea | | Damien Hirst creates exclusive artwork for London Evening Standard to mark opening of London 2012 festival | 
The water jug displayed at the Toledo Museum of Art will be sent to Italy after investigators determined it was looted from that country. AP Photo/Toledo Museum of Art.
TOLEDO (AP).- The Toledo Museum of Art says it will return an ancient water jug to Italy that investigators believe was probably illegally dug up from that country years ago. The 2,500-year-old water vessel, or kalpis, has been on display at the Ohio museum since 1982, when it was purchased from an antiquities dealer out of Switzerland. It will be displayed in the museum's Libbey Court until it leaves for Rome, probably in late summer. "The right thing to do is to return this object," museum Director Brian Kennedy told The Blade newspaper. "We knew we'd likely lose this. We'll miss it." Italy has pressed an aggressive campaign to win back ancient Roman, Greek and Etruscan vases, bowls, statues and other artifacts prosecutors contend were looted from the country. The campaign was set in motion after a police raid on a Swiss warehouse of an Italian ... More | | 
Terry Haggerty, Guise, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 27 ½ x 21 5/8 in. 70 x 55 cm. Photo: Courtesy Marlborough.
NEW YORK, NY.- Taking its title from the above poem, and its content from Martin’s commitment to the complexity of simple forms, repetition and pattern, this wide-ranging exhibition brings together emerging artists who share a loose affinity with her approach. Each of the artists makes use of patterning and geometry in the service of very different ends: some strident and definitive, and others the mere trace of an action—a memory of process. Meditative repetition mingles with blatant exposition, and pure formal concerns make their case alongside more conceptual strategies. The inherent modesty of Ben Berlow’s delicate gouaches on forgotten paper supports belies their impact. Geometries suggested by the existing folds in a flattened paper bag or repurposed envelope are honored and allowed to emerge, limned in blocks of pigment with straight lines that play against the torn and weathered surface. Originally from British Columbia, Amy Brener makes her Chelsea debut ... More | | 
Called ‘Seer’, the work is made with butterflies and household gloss on canvas.
LONDON.- London Evening Standard today unveiled an exclusive cover featuring Damien Hirst artwork to mark the launch of the London 2012 Festival – the beginning of the capital’s biggest ever arts extravaganza. In support of today’s official opening day of the festival, the most controversial and most expensive of the Young British Artists has created one of his butterfly works for the London Evening Standard. The cover, created exclusively for the paper’s readers, will celebrate Damien Hirst’s first ever retrospective at Tate Modern. The retrospective will show off his greatest hits in one of the centerpieces of the London 2012 Festival. Called ‘Seer’, the work is made with butterflies and household gloss on canvas and is printed in a specially chosen blue for the Evening Standard, creating a beautiful, stained-glass window luminosity. In addition to the cover artwork, The London Evening ... More |
| Four prolific contemporary Indian women artists exhibit at Rossi & Rossi in London | | Some restrictions on dissident artist Ai Weiwei ending; domestic travel restrictions lifted | | RIBA International Awards: Winners of the 2012 awards for architectural excellence announced | 
Anita Dube, Neti Neti (Not This, Not This Either), 2009. Found votive glass eyes (enamel on copper sheet) on painted wall (Edition 2/3 + 1 AP), 250 x 250 cm (98 ½ x 98 ½ in).
LONDON.- Rossi & Rossi presents Stargazing – an exhibition bringing to London a discriminating selection of works by four prolific contemporary Indian women artists: Chitra Ganesh, Mithu Sen, Anita Dube, and Jaishri Abichandani, and an exciting new Muslim American artist, Nida Abida. Provocatively addressing issues of gender, race and power, Stargazing is a fantastical contemplation on hidden realities at the personal and cosmic level. The exhibition includes installation, sculpture, drawings and prints, with new works created for the show and a full-colour catalogue featuring a critical essay by the curator of the show, Jaishri Abichandani. Applying a Hindu tantric lens, the artists approach their work with a sensual, subversive, and dark femininity akin to the energy of Kali, the fierce goddess associated with empowerment. Chitra Ganesh, ... More | | 
Ai Weiwei talks on his mobile phone as he walks in his house's courtyard in Beijing. AP Photo/Andy Wong.
By: Didi Tang and Isolda Morillo, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- Dissident artist Ai Weiwei gained a bit of freedom Thursday when authorities said they would lift domestic travel restrictions imposed a year earlier, but he was still barred from leaving the country. A notice from Beijing's Chaoyang District police headquarters that Ai received Thursday said his domestic travel restrictions will expire Friday, exactly a year after his release following nearly three months of detention. Ai, 55, had been the highest-profile target in a crackdown in spring 2011 to stop Chinese from imitating democratic uprisings in the Arab World. Despite the treatment, he remains an outspoken government critic. Ai said police told him Thursday he cannot travel outside China because he remains under investigation on charges of pornography and illegal exchange of foreign currency, which Ai said are far-fetched. Ai, known for his ... More | | 
Sperone Westwater, Bowery, New York City - Foster + Partners
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the twelve buildings which will receive RIBA International Awards for architectural excellence on Thursday 21 June 2012. From Foster + Partners’ high-density urban development Troika in Kuala Lumpur to the world’s tallest building designed by a British architect, the Guangzhou Finance Centre by Wilkinson Eyre, the awards recognise some of the world’s most imaginative, dramatic and green buildings. The RIBA International Awards are presented to architecture practices based outside the UK building anywhere outside the UK; or for practices based in Britain and working outside the EU. All winners are eligible for the RIBA Lubetkin Prize awarded to the best international building by an RIBA member. The winner of the RIBA Lubetkin Prize will be announced later in the year. The full list of twelve RIBA International Award winners is: • Clayton C ... More |
| Unique Warhol prints and Robert Motherwell works among top lots at Swann Galleries' auction | | United Photo Industries announces programming for Photoville at Brooklyn Bridge Park | | $5 million in stolen documents and medals returned to Chicago's Polish museum | 
Andy Warhol, Grapes, unique color screenprint, 1979, record price of $64,800 (including premium).
NEW YORK, NY.- The top lot in Swann Galleries’ June 14 auction of American Art & Contemporary Art was a unique color screenprint, Grapes, by Andy Warhol, 1979, which brought an auction record price of $64,800*. This special edition print, with diamond dust on Strathmore Bristol paper, was separate from the regular Grapes series issued in an edition of 50. Other Warhol highlights in the sale included Mimosas, unique color screenprint and acrylic paper collage on canvas, circa 1976, $36,000; Flowers, unique double-sided screenprint, 1970, $24,000; and two circa 1956 pen and ink drawings, Charles Lisanby with Heart, $16,800, and Untitled (Pants), $14,400. The auction offered two oils on canvas by Harland Miller, in his signature tongue-in-cheek style that reinterprets Penguin Books jacket covers: Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore, 2007 brought ... More | | 
Bono by Deborah Feingold.
BROOKLYN, NY.- United Photo Industries announces artists, programming and vendors for the inaugural Photoville in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Free and open to the public, Photoville is part country-fair, part photography event whose centerpiece is over 30 shipping containers of exhibition space showcasing international and local talent. Photoville also includes public talks, hands-on workshops, nighttime projections and a photo dog run along with a summer food & beer garden, creating a photographic destination like no other. Photoville will take place at the uplands of Pier 3 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, rain or shine, from June 22—July 1. Admission is free. Photoville will be open June 22, 28, and 29 from 4pm–10pm; June 23 and 30 from 11am–10pm; and June 24 and July 1 from 11am–7pm. The public is encouraged to enter Brooklyn Bridge Park at the foot of Old Fulton Street at the waterfront and to then walk south ... More | | 
Chicago coin and antiques dealer Harlan Berk, accompanied by Chicago FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Kosanovich, speaks at a news conference. AP Photo/M. Spencer Green.
By: Caryn Rousseau, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP).- Stolen documents, military medals and other artifacts valued at about $5 million — including letters signed by Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson — were returned Wednesday to Chicago's Polish Museum after being found in the basement of a home decades after they went missing. The more than 120 items, which were returned following an FBI investigation, include letters and documents dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, seals, military medals and Nazi propaganda from World War II. The pieces also included documentation about Napoleon, George Washington, John Adams and American Revolution hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Museum president ... More |
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 Major exhibition by celebrated British artist Mark Wallinger opens at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art GATESHEAD.- This June BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a major exhibition by celebrated British artist Mark Wallinger. Nominated twice for the Turner Prize, once in 1995 and again in 2007 when he won, Wallinger is one of the best known figures in the British art world. In 1999 his Ecce Homo occupied Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth to great critical acclaim and in 2001 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. For SITE, the artist’s largest exhibition in the UK for over a decade, Wallinger will realise three new commissions: 1000000000000000, The Other Wall and SELF PORTRAIT (Times New Roman). It will also mark the UK premiere of his recent film Construction Site 2011. SITE continues BALTIC’s longstanding commitment to commissioning new work from the world’s most exciting artists as it celebrates its 10th anniversary year. Site is the ... More Collection of Indian temple jewellery in gold, diamonds & rubies found in Spain to be sold by Bonhams LONDON.- A stunning single-owner collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century Indian temple jewellery used to ornament the Hindu gods, will be sold by Bonhams through private treaty. The 28-piece collection was put together by a Spain-based owner passionate about these objects. The jewellery was made to honour the Hindu gods Shiva, Krishna and Nandi amongst others, and to generate good fortune for the gift giver. Normally these objects would have been stored in a temple treasury and brought out to adorn the gods for festive occasions and holidays. The objects include necklaces, hair braids, earrings, pendants, broaches, and solid gold bulls set with jewels. The quality of the gold is higher than the 24-carat gold commonly used in the west. Alice Bailey, Head of Bonhams Indian and Islamic Department, which is selling the collection, says: “The collection is in wonderful ... More Soggy solstice: Stonehenge gets soaking STONEHENGE (AP).- Rain-sodden crowds welcomed a spectacularly rainy summer solstice at Stonehenge in true British fashion Thursday: With stoicism and wit. Even one of Britain's latter-day druids — fixtures of the annual celebration — was forced to seek refuge with journalists in a tent set up near the entrance. "It's a wash," said King Arthur Pendragon, his fine white beard turned into a soggy silver sponge. "Literally." The crowd at the festival was way down on previous years, when numbered have hovered just below 20,000. But through the wind and rain, drummers inside the ancient stone circle kept up their thumping rhythm, new age pagans kept up their chaotic dance, and visitors kept up their sense of humor. "Everyone's very friendly," said Teresa Smith, 50, who spoke from underneath a rain-streaked plastic poncho. "Whether alcohol- or drug-induced, everyone's very ... More US takes control of dinosaur skeleton in NY Friday By: Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A dinosaur skeleton is scheduled to be taken by U.S. authorities on Friday from the custody of an auction house after a judge permitted its seizure for its likely return home to Mongolia. Heritage Auctions Co-Chairman Jim Halperin said the Dallas-based company, the dinosaur's current custodian, looks forward to releasing the dinosaur after it was assured it will be properly and carefully transported and stored by the government in a secure, climate-controlled and fully insured art storage facility. "We hope arrangements can be made for the public to view the Tyrannosaurus bataar at a museum or other convenient venue while efforts continue to reach a fair and just resolution," Halperin said Wednesday. He said earlier this week ... More Canadian artist Patrick Lundeen's first New York City solo exhibition opens at Mike Weiss Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents Good For You Son by Canadian artist Patrick Lundeen. For his first New York City solo exhibition, Lundeen brings together seemingly disparate objects—from flags to rugs to posters to keyboards to grocery store dailies and magazine pages—into cohesive works resembling anthropomorphic masks. Neon-colored, kaleidoscopic patterns embellish six-foot tall cut out canvas masks, speaking to the artist’s fascination with the exaggerated theatricality of Coney Island type characters, the Contemporary Macabre, and Outsider Art motifs. Borrowing from pop culture imagery and the neo- impressionists, the works hover between the humorous and sinister and the naïve and sardonic. Accompanying the exhibition is a 7” vinyl record by the artist’s experimental three man rock band, The Oblique Mystique. While Lundeen’s musical ... More New York State Museum launches new website to commemorate War of 1812 ALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum has launched a new statewide website and facebook page dedicated to commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812. The website will include a web-based exhibition and be a statewide clearinghouse for information about New York’s pivotal role in the War of 1812, as well as for all War of 1812 events across New York State and into Canada. The goal is to provide a site for conversation and coordination among all of those interested in commemorating the memory of the war. To complement this website, there is a special Facebook page dedicated to posting upcoming events found on the War of 1812 website, as well as links for collections, artifacts and resources related to the War. The New York-Canadian border was the central front of the war, which was waged against the British Empire from June ... More |
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