| Christie's to offer Contemporary art at attractive price points in newly re-launched open house sale | | "One Life: Amelia Earhart" opens at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington | | Rare 415-year-old Wytfliet Atlas stolen from the Royal Library of Sweden recovered at NYC gallery | 
Victor Vasarely, TA-MA, acrylic on canvas, 1977. Estimate: $30,000 - 50,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s Interiors Department presents the newly re-launched Open House Sale, which will take place on July 16. The sale encompasses 173 lots from world renowned artists including Ruth Asawa, Sol LeWitt, Louise Lawler, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, John Baldessari, Jules Olitski and Cindy Sherman. Estimates start at $1,000, and with many of the works coming from distinguished institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, this sale presents a rare opportunity for collectors to obtain well-priced works of distinguished provenance. The Open House Sale is expected to realize in excess of $1.5 million, and will complement the July 17 Interiors sale, which incorporates an additional selection of over 200 works of contemporary works of art. Leading the sale, is Ruth Asawa’s Untitled, (S.073 Hanging Single Sphere, Five Layer Cont ... More | | 
Amelia Earhart by Unidentified Artist. Gelatin silver print, 1936. Image: 20.8 x 15.8cm. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Amelia Earhart, known as “Lady Lindy,” was an aviation pioneer, and her fame extended far beyond her flying feats. In addition to setting aviation records, she founded a pilots’ organization for women called The Ninety-Nines, was a member of the faculty at Purdue University and campaigned for women’s rights. A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, “One Life: Amelia Earhart,” will recognize her life and remarkable career with a special focus on her commitment to women’s rights. Earhart’s biography will be told through portraits—photographs, paintings and drawings—and other objects that tell more about her experiences—her pilot’s license, leather flying helmet and smelling salts. The one-room exhibition will be on view June 29 through May 27, 2013. “Amelia Earhart’s impact on American culture extends beyond ... More | | 
Royal Library’s map librarian, Greger Bergvall, holds the Wytfliet Atlas. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A rare atlas stolen a decade ago from the Royal Library of Sweden by one of its chief librarians was recovered in New York and given back to its rightful owner. Swedish and U.S. authorities showed off the 415-year-old Wytfliet Atlas at a news conference Wednesday. The book, created by Cornelius van Wytfliet and containing the earliest maps of the Americas, had been in the Royal Library collection for more than 300 years before it was stolen. There are only eight other copies worldwide, according to the library. The atlas was one of 56 rare books stolen by Anders Burius, the chief of the Royal Library's manuscript department, and the first of his haul to be located. Burius stole the books between 1995 and 2004, nearly the entire time of his employment there, and later committed suicide, said Steven ... More |
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| Two group exhibitions of gallery and guest artists open at Stephen Haller Gallery | | Phillips de Pury & Company's London Contemporary Art Evening Auction totals $36,233,420 | | Pottery fragments 20,000 years old found by Chinese and American scientists in a Chinese cave | 
Larry Zox, Untitled, 1964. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 66 inches. Photo: Courtesy Stephen Haller Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Haller Gallery announces CONCURRENCE and FACE UP two group exhibitions of gallery and guest artists opening June 28th and running through August 3rd. An intimate show in Gallery III FACE UP gives examples of artists’ different approaches to the issue of identity. James Brown’s neo-primitive works reveal simple constructs: the face, the mask. What does he intend in this dialogue between modernism and tribal art? Is Richard Diebenkorn’s identity more apparent in the simple lines of an etched self-portrait, or the minimalist abstraction characteristic of his work? Linda Stojak’s potently emotional paintings have been called “psychological self-portraits.” Sam Jury’s heads are often compilations of photographic images projected on a sculpted blank then photographed and re-photographed and reworked in a computer – what is the identity of the resulting po ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Irony of Negro Policeman, 1981.Acrylic and oilstick on wood, 182.9 × 121.9 cm. Signed and dated ‘Jean Michel Basquiat 81’ on the reverse. Estimate: £6,000,000-8,000,000.
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s Contemporary Art Evening auction totaled £23,376,400/$36,233,420, selling 98% by value and 86% by lot. Tonight, Phillips de Pury & Company’s Evening auction totaled over its high estimate; the only auction house to do so in the present season. The top lot of the auction was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s seminal painting Irony of Negro Policeman selling for £8,161,250/ $12,649,938, above its pre-sale estimate. There was competitive bidding for lot 8, the collaboration between Warhol and Basquiat, fittingly sold in the London Olympic year. A world record was achieved at £6,761,250/$10,479,938 beating its previous record held by Phillips de Pury since May 2011. “We are thrilled with tonight’s results which demonstrate that works of rarity and of high quality like Basquiat’s Irony of ... More | | 
One of the pottery fragments recovered from a layer dating approximately 20,000 years old. AP Photo/Science/AAAS.
By: Didi Tang, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say. The findings, which will appear in the journal Science on Friday, add to recent efforts that have dated pottery piles in east Asia to more than 15,000 years ago, refuting conventional theories that the invention of pottery correlates to the period about 10,000 years ago when humans moved from being hunter-gathers to farmers. The research by a team of Chinese and American scientists also pushes the emergence of pottery back to the last ice age, which might provide new explanations for the creation of pottery, said Gideon Shelach, chair of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at ... More |
| Exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art explores the relationship of architecture to culture and identity | | United States Mint in Philadelphia reopens to public with new $3.9 million self-guided tour | | Masterpiece London 2012, with a record 5,195 international and UK collectors, triumphs on opening day | 
Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects. Tietgen Dormitory, Amager, Denmark, 2006. Photo: Jens Markus Lindhe.
HUMLEBAEK.- New Nordic – Architecture & Identity is the first exhibition in a new series at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, which will explore the relationship of architecture to culture and identity. The series deals with architecture as a field where collective memories and narratives are reflected materially and spatially. This exhibition attempts to reveal whether certain special ‘Nordic’ features recur in architecture, and whether this involves a fundamental formal idiom that is regularly reinterpreted. Is there a Nordic identity? Does The Nordic Way exist? Can one, despite the tendency of globalization to erase national and cultural differences, still understand identity as something that is associated with particular places? And if that is the case, how has the Nordic identity developed alongside the development of the rest of the world? These are some of the questions that the exhibition spotlights. T ... More | | 
Joe Kulesa, metal forming machine operator pulls a jammed dime out of the machine at the U.S. Mint. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson.
By: Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- The last time the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia upgraded its public exhibits, Richard Nixon was in the first year of his presidency and The Beatles had just performed their final concert. On July 3, the Mint opens to the public with a new $3.9 million self-guided tour that is the first update since 1969. The two-level exhibit includes displays of artifacts and coins from the Mint's earliest days, as well as windows overlooking the production floor with new touch screens and interactive features that describe the coin-making process. "I hate to use the term embarrassment, but it was an embarrassment," Mint spokesman Tom Jurkowsky said of the Woodstock-era former exhibition. "What we do touches every American, and the people who work here have pride and passion in what they do ... More | | 
Damien Hirst, High Windows (Happy Life). From Robilant + Voena.
LONDON.- Yesterday saw Masterpiece London's busiest Preview yet, with a record 5,195 international and UK collectors and designers streaming through its doors to find the most beautiful pieces, from the best of the best. Among the Americans who attended were designers Ellie Cullman, Scott Snyder, Rose Tarlow, Matthew Patrick Smyth, Jamie Drake, Alexander Papachristidis, and Audrey Gruss all of whom are on the Masterpiece London American Committee. Dealers from the world over, collectively selling £1 billion of art under one roof at Masterpiece London, are confident that the third year, which has brought together more exhibitors than ever before, will be a resounding success. Masterpiece London strives for quality and diversity, offering the world's very best in fine and decorative arts and premium collectors' items, within supremely elegant surroundings. Taking in this unparalleled fair gives fascinating insight into c ... More |
| Executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey supports sphere move to 9/11 memorial | | First UK solo exhibition of accomplished international artist Jacob Hashimoto opens at Ronchini Gallery | | Brooklyn Museum presents the final exhibition in Raw/Cooked featuring artist Ulrike Müller | 
Pedestrians pass 'The Sphere' in Battery Park. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II.
By: David Porter, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Michael Burke's voice still cracks when he talks about how his older brother Billy, a firefighter in Manhattan, was helping two people in the World Trade Center when the towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001. His tone darkens when he talks about the refusal of organizers overseeing the 9/11 memorial and museum to include a large spherical sculpture that survived the attacks and currently sits just south in Battery Park. "They say the sphere is reminding us directly of the attacks," he said. "That kind of ignores the sphere's existence. It's absurd. Barring it from the site is a betrayal." Burke received a high-profile endorsement Thursday when Pat Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, agreed that the sphere should be part of the trade center memorial. Foye spoke after Burke delivered ... More | | 
Jacob Hashimoto, Untitled, 2012. Bamboo, paper, dacron, acrylic. Courtesy the artist and Ronchini Gallery.
LONDON.- Ronchini Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition of accomplished international artist, Jacob Hashimoto, at their recently opened Mayfair gallery from 29 June – 28 August 2012. For this exhibition Hashimoto will build a new site-specific installation compromised of hundreds of small bamboo and paper kite elements. The installation will investigate themes evidenced in his previous work as he continues to explore his fascination with the intersections of painting and sculpture, abstraction and landscape. Based in New York and of Japanese descent, Hashimoto has exhibited at numerous museums, public institutions and galleries in the USA and Europe. He is represented by: Mary Boone Gallery, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Studio La Città and Galerie Forsblom. He has completed large scale public installations at The University of Houston; Andaz, West Hollywood; MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome; and Palazzo Fortu ... More | | 
Adriana Minoliti (Argentinian, b. 1980), Abstract plus pink lips & starts & triangle. Acrylic on canvas, 12.5 x 9 in. (31.8 x 22.9 cm.). Courtesy of the artist.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The fifth and final exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series presents the work of artist Ulrike Müller and will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from June 29 through September 9, 2012. Raw/Cooked is a major series of five ten-week-long exhibitions of under-the-radar Brooklyn artists. Müller, whose studio is in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is interested in starting a conversation on the lesbian feminist movement and examining the visibility of queer bodies within mainstream culture and the Museum. Müller has orchestrated a collaborative drawing project that is based on the inventory list of the feminist T-shirt collection at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Park Slope. She has distributed the textual T-shirt descriptions to feminists, queer artists, and other interested New Yorkers, and asked that they translate these texts into new images. ... More |
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 Study reveals overbuilding of cultural facilities during building boom CHICAGO, IL.- Civic leaders, arts organizations, donors and government officials can better plan new or expanded arts facilities by first focusing on the arts organizations’ missions and assessing demand for the projects, according to a new study from the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago. The study, “Set in Stone,” looks at a major building boom of museums, performing arts centers and theaters in the United States from 1994 to 2008. It is the first scientifically prepared study of its kind and was requested both by cultural leaders and major foundations that had, in many cases, provided support for these building projects. “Set in Stone” (which is at culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/setinstone/) was released on June 28 by the Cultural Policy Center, a joint project of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies, and the independent ... More Personal collections of Dale Chihuly provide backdrop for progressive American menu at Collections Café SEATTLE, WASH.- Chihuly Garden and Glass’ Collections Café, the newest restaurant in Seattle’s acclaimed dining scene, takes its inspiration from artist Dale Chihuly. Housed within the Exhibition Hall at Chihuly Garden and Glass, the Café uses global cuisine as its muse and infuses it with a Northwest twist. Chihuly’s various collections of vintage objects and material culture are artfully arranged throughout the café, bringing a playful dimension to this Northwest dining experience. Drawing inspiration in part from Chihuly’s iconic Boathouse on Seattle’s Lake Union, the familiar combination of colors and materials used throughout Chihuly Garden and Glass inspired Chihuly to share some of the very collections that adorn the walls of his home and studio spaces. “I love to find beauty in everyday objects,” says Chihuly. “Building and adding to these collections ... More Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Steven Holl and others elected as new National Academicians NEW YORK.- The National Academy announced twenty-three newly elected visual artist and architect Academicians, including Robert Gober, Steven Holl, Bruce Nauman, and Cindy Sherman. Elected annually by the Academy membership, they are recognized for their contribution to American art and architecture. For the first time, nominees include artists working in video, photography and installation, reflecting recently revised member designations of visual artist and architect. “The roster of newly elected members reads like a “who’s-who” of the past few decades,” states Professor Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Honorary Master of Ceremonies for the fall induction ceremony. “By introducing the categories of photography as well as video and performance art, the National Academy signals a ... More Christie's Auction of the Daphne Guinness Collection achieves $744,285 LONDON.- Christie’s evening auction of The Daphne Guinness Collection; Sold to Benefit the Isabella Blow Foundation realized a total of £476,800 / $744,285 / €595,523 – far-exceeding the pre-sale estimate of £100,000. The auction offered 102 lots, including a selection of dresses, coats, skirts, tops and jackets belonging to Daphne Guinness, as well as selected photographs and her signature shoes. The top lot of the sale was Daphne Guinness, a photograph taken by Mario Testino for British Vogue, March 2008 which realized £133,250 / $208,003 / €166,429, setting a new world record price for the photographer at auction.* The top dress of the sale was an ivory silk tulle empire line gown, The Girl Who Lived In The Tree by Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2008-9, sold ... More Statue of firefighter, arson dog visits New York City museum NEW YORK (AP).- A bronze sculpture depicting a firefighter and a dog trained to help in arson investigations is making a stop in New York City during a 12-city tour. The life-size national fire dog monument is called "From Ashes to Answers." It was created by 22-year-old firefighter Austin Weishel, of Loveland, Colo. It was commissioned by an arson investor and owner of Sadie, the canine model. It will be permanently located in Washington, D.C., after the cross-country tour. Arson dogs are specially trained to sniff out accelerants used to start fires, including lighter fluid and gasoline. The sculpture was at the New York City Fire Museum on Wednesday. The tour is sponsored by the American Humane Association and State Farm. ... More |
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