| Art 43 Basel: Extraordinary quality translates into strong sales; attracts more than 65,000 visitors | | Twelfth edition of Master Drawings London taking place between 27 June-5 July | | Peabody Essex Museum's Ansel Adams exhibition includes rare objects and images never before seen | 
Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York.
BASEL.- The 43rd edition of Art Basel in Switzerland closed on Sunday, June 17, 2012. This year, the annual reunion of the international artworld again attracted 65,000 artists, collectors, curators, and art lovers from around the globe. Collectors from all over the world confirmed that excellent material and booth presentations spurred great demand, creating strong sales throughout the week and across all levels of the market. A great many artists attended the event, including Marina Abramović, Phyllida Barlow, Nina Beier, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Tracy Emin, Theaster Gates, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Jitish Kallat, Jannis Kounellis, Heinz Mack, Mike Nelson, Damian Ortega, Richard Phillips, Otto Piene, Gavin Turk, Richard Wentworth, Adrian Wong and Gilberto Zorio. Over 70 museum and institution groups, representing almost all the world’s major museums visited Art 43 Basel, as did major private collec ... More | | 
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), Voiliers au large de Naples, 1922. Watercolour and gouache, 62 x 49.5 cm., 24 3/8 x 19 ½ inches. Signed, located and dated lower right.
LONDON.- The twelfth edition of Master Drawings London is taking place between 27 June- 5 July 2012. The dates have been brought forward to better reflect the material shown during the week, while also coinciding with the 20th century auctions that take place at the end of June, as well as the Old Master sales which happen during the first week of July. Leading drawings specialists from London, New York, Düsseldorf, Zurich, and Madrid showcase seven centuries of drawings and watercolours from the Renaissance and to the present day. The event takes the form of a series of coordinated exhibitions in dealers’ galleries throughout St. James and Mayfair, providing a platform for leading specialist dealers to show their stock to an international audience. Together with the auction sales, Master Drawings London provides art connoisseurs with a comprehensive ... More | | 
Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley, about 1961; Photograph by Ansel Adams; Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona; ©2011 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
SALEM, MASS.- This summer, the Peabody Essex Museum unveiled an exhibition shedding new light on one of history's most iconic and beloved photographers. Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge features more than 100 photographs combining famous images with extraordinary lesser-known works that focus on the artist's treatment and exploration of water in all its forms. Full of energy and dynamism, Adams' photographs of seascapes, beaches, bays, tide pools, clouds and waterfalls provide a fresh perspective on the artist's celebrated career. Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge was organized by the Peabody Essex Museum where it will be on view for its exclusive U.S. engagement through October 8, 2012, and will then travel to the National Maritime Museum in ... More |
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| Hyde Collection opens concurrent exhibitions featuring the work by Stephen Knapp and Tiffany Studios | | Celebrating its 25th anniversary, 20/21 British Art Fair will take place from 12-16 September | | Museum Tinguely dedicates exhibition to one of the most important figures of the Russian Avant-garde | 
Stephen Knapp, Studio Assemby.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- Stephen Knapp has been creating art for over thirty years that interacts with, and is transformed by light. Combining art and science Knapp creates innovative and engaging works that are formed at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Dispensing with traditional media and narrative content, Knapp’s “lightpaintings,” a word he coined to describe his light-based installations, are both innovative and invigorating: transposing artistic tradition into the hyper-stimulated world of the twenty–first century. He creates his lightpaintings using a special glass treated with layers of metallic coatings that act as a selective prism to separate focused light into different wavelengths of the color spectrum. Knapp cuts, shapes, and polishes the glass in his studio to create a palette that he uses to refract and reflect light onto a surface and surrounding space. The artist’s unique ability to harness the power of light represe ... More | | 
Bridget Riley, KA 3, 1980. Signed and dated ‘80; signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse. Oil on linen; 28 x 33 ½ in (71 x 58 cm).
LONDON.- The 20/21 British Art Fair, the only Fair which specialises exclusively in Modern British art, will take place from 12 – 16 September at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London. This year is a landmark year as the fair is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Founded in 1988 as The 20th Century British Art Fair (it became the 20/21 British Art Fair in 2000) at the Cumberland Hotel, it moved to the Royal College of Art, arguably ‘the spiritual home of British art’, in 1991. At that time Modern British art, with the exception of Moore, Bacon, Freud and Nicholson, was much undervalued and needed a flagship. Having survived the depths of the recession in the early 90’s, the Fair thrived but few people could have foreseen the meteoric rise of interest in art which has occurred since then. Attitudes to buying have also changed dramatically; whereas in the late 1980‘s, it w ... More | | 
Vladimir Tatlin, composition with female nude, 1913. State Tretiakov-Galery, Moscow. © Photo: 2012, State Tretiakov-Galery, Moscow.
BASEL.- This year the Museum Tinguely in Basel is dedicating its large summer exhibition to one of the most important figures of the Russian avantgarde: Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953). It is now almost twenty years since the last comprehensive retrospective to be devoted to this radically innovative artist. The presented works will include early paintings, counter-reliefs that reach out into the surrounding space, reconstructions of his revolutionary tower, and the flying machine Letatlin. The exhibition is rounded off with examples of his work for the theatre. The oeuvre of this outstanding artist from the watershed period at the beginning of the twentieth century will be represented in over one hundred masterpieces, mostly on loan from major collections in Moscow and St Petersburg. Vladimir Tatlin began his career as a seaman. Until 1913 his artistic ... More |
| Jerry Weist collection of sci-fi and fantasy art leads Heritage Auctions summer illustration event | | Arte Primitivo announces Fine Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art, Classical and Asian Antiquities auction | | A local think tank with a global perspective: BMW Guggenheim Lab opens in Berlin | 
Frank R. Paul (American, 1884-1963), Wonder Stories pulp cover, August 1930. Gouache and watercolor on board, 24 x 17 in. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- The Jerry Weist Collection of Science-Fiction and Fantasy art anchors Heritage Auctions June 27-28 Illustration Art Signature® Auction with iconic art from greats of the genre such as Frank R. Paul, J. Allen St. John, Michael Whelan, Alex Schomburg, Wally Wood, and many others. “This is our second special auction from the estate of the pioneering collector, publisher, historian and scholar Jerry Weist,” said Todd Hignite, Vice President of Heritage Auctions, “who many of us had the pleasure to also name as a good friend.” This is one of the most important collections of artwork from the genre to ever be offered and the impeccable selection represents the last substantial group from the estate. Highlights include Frank R. Paul’s masterful Wonder Stories pulp cover, August 1930 (estimate: $10,000+) ... More | | 
Bakota “ngulu”, Reliquary Figure, 19th Century.
NEW YORK, NY.- Arte Primitivo, a gallery specializing in Pre-Columbian Art, Classical and Egyptian Antiquities, Asian Antiquities and Antiques and Ethnographic Art in New York City, NY, announced its latest online absentee auction - Fine Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art, Classical and Asian Antiquities – featuring more than 800 lots of authentic examples from around the world. Arte Primitivo’s absentee bidding format allows bidders to register and then place bids at their own pace right up until each auction’s unique closing time. Everything in the auction is an authentic, quality item. All art has been legally acquired and is legal to sell. All auction lots can be viewed online or by visiting the gallery now through June 18, 2012. The first part of Arte Primitivo’s June 18th auction features a rare selection of Egyptian lithics and artifacts from ancient Egypt deaccessioned from The Heckscher Museum of ... More | | 
BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin. Design architect: Atelier Bow-Wow. Exterior view. Photo: Christian Richters © 2012 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
BERLIN.- The BMW Guggenheim Lab opened in Berlin, the second stop on the project’s six-year global tour. Offering free programs from June 15 to July 29, 2012, the BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin is a temporary public space and online forum encouraging open dialogue about issues related to urban life. A local think tank with a global perspective, the BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin focuses on practical making and doing, with programs designed to empower residents with tools and ideas to actively engage in city change. The Lab is located in Prenzlauer Berg at Schönhauser Allee 176 in the Pfefferberg complex, a converted nineteenth-century brewery. The Lab is open Wednesday through Friday, 2–10 pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 12–10 pm. All programs are free of charge and will be offered in German or in English ... More |
| Arcade/Arcadia, an installation by Ellen Harvey on view at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia | | Penumbra: A new exhibition by Danja Akulin opens at Erarta Galleries London | | Institute of Contemporary Arts presents the UK premiere of Bruce Nauman's Days, a sound installation | 
Ellen Harvey, Arcade/Arcadia, 2011-12. Mixed media installation, 34 hand-engraved Plexiglas panels, lighting, wood. Dimensions variable.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Locks Gallery presents Arcade/Arcadia, an installation by Ellen Harvey, on view June 1st through July 13th, 2012. Ellen Harvey is known for her use of traditional media or aesthetics to create situations that call into question our expectations and desires for art. In Arcade/Arcadia (2011–12) an amusement arcade collides with a gallery to create an unsettling embodiment of how easily the desire for the sublime can collapse into an acceptance of commercial spectacle. From the outside, the viewer sees an old-fashioned aluminum fairground sign spelling out the word “ARCADIA” in six foot high lights leaning against an open framework wood shack. The inside of the structure is filled with the artist’s characteristic hand-engraved mirrors mounted on light boxes, offering a 360-degree view of a derelict seaside resort. The engravings appear as lines of light floating on the mirrored ... More | | 
Danja Akulin, Untitled. 2011, pencil on paper on canvas, 200 x 145cm. Photo: Courtesy Erarta Galleries.
LONDON.- Erarta Galleries London presents Penumbra, a new exhibition by Danja Akulin. The word penumbra is often rendered "half-light," but the Latin origin paene umbra literally means "almost shadow." In between the shadow and the light there is a zone through which we may see what is in the penumbra, but we see it with a darkened hue, and it is problematic to say whether it is illuminated or not. In his work Danja Akulin is able to cast light into what is but a partially illuminated landscape. In the way he masters the light he is able to visually translate emotions and thoughts within the duality of darkness and brightness. The more obscure the landscape, the less light is needed for the mysteries that are either hidden or obvious to our eyes, and vice versa. This metaphor accounts for the fact that weak and unimportant feelings might easily resurface, while other strong ones might live in perpetual obscurity: ... More | | 
Installation view of the exhibition, "Bruce Nauman: 'Days'" The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Thomas Griesel.
LONDON.- From 19 June 2012 the ICA presents the UK premiere of Bruce Nauman’s Days, a sound installation consisting of a continuous stream of seven voices reciting the days of the week in random order. Fourteen flat panel speakers will be installed with one voice emanating from each pair of speakers as the visitor passes between them. The work invokes both the banality and the profundity of the passing of each day and invites reflection on how we measure, differentiate and commemorate time. In conjunction with the exhibition of Nauman’s Days, the ICA presents a series of sound commissions by over a hundred international artists. Selected by the ICA and institutions worldwide, the artists have been invited to submit a sound work taking its stimulus from the themes evoked in Nauman’s Days. SOUNDWORKS aims to take a broader look at the range of work being ... More |
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 Exhibition of moving 3D images by Jeff Robb on view at Hay Hill Gallery LONDON.- Jeff Robb continually pushes the boundaries in 3D image making. He is one of very few artists who has set out to explore the aesthetic and technical possibilities of ‘lenticular’ photography in his fine art practice. This arresting exhibition of moving 3D images at Hay Hill Gallery, Cork St, London will be the artist’s largest exhibition in London, his home city. ‘Liminal State’ is an exhibition of two parts. The upper gallery features a selection of nude studies and figurative works, never previously seen. Colourful semi-abstract works from Robb’s latest series ‘Eidolon’ and underwater lenticular photographs from the ‘Aerial’ series are shown alongside striking monochrome singular nudes and complex compositions from the ‘Unnatural Causes’ series, featuring multiple moving figures in complex cellular structures made by Robb himself. Of his pioneering figurative work, Robb ... More Architect Moshe Safdie selected to design tallest residential building in Colombo BOSTON, MASS.- Safdie Architects announced that the firm has been selected to design a new mixed-use development in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The project will be the first for Moshe Safdie in Sri Lanka, and is slated to be the tallest residential building in Colombo when it is completed. The 69-storey mixed-use development is in the city center and will face Beira Lake, with pedestrian accessible retail outlets at the ground level. The design includes expansive family and community space amenities such as community gardens, shared outdoor spaces within the upper levels of the building, and individual roof gardens or terraces for every residence, a hallmark of Safdie’s design philosophy to provide access to outdoor spaces in high density urban housing. The Colombo project draws on Safdie’s groundbreaking Habitat ’67 in Montreal. Since that time, Safdie Architects has ... More South Carolina library shows 'Catch-22' author's writing tools COLUMBIA (AP).- Students more accustomed to computer screens than manual typewriters are getting a chance to sit at author Joseph Heller's stained wooden desk and type on the battered Smith-Corona he used to compose his acclaimed novel "Catch-22." A small exhibit at a University of South Carolina library displays the desk, typewriter and lamp used by Heller as he wrote many of his major works. The university library has one of the largest collections of his papers, manuscripts and other memorabilia available to researchers, library officials said. "We acquired this with the expectation that students would type on the typewriter and experience sitting at his desk," said Elizabeth Suddeth, director of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Ernest F. Hollings Library on the Columbia campus, where the display is located. The display is available for ... More Zone of Contention: The U.S./Mexico Border examined in exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum GREENSBORO, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro opened a new exhibition, Zone of Contention: The U.S./Mexico Border. The exhibition focuses on artists’ investigations of issues related to the U.S./Mexico border, a geographic area of much debate and contention. Through photography, sculpture, works on paper, video, and new media, subjects such as migrant labor, immigration law, national sovereignty, and border control are examined in terms of their current social and ideological impact. The exhibition features new and recent works by both U.S. and Mexican-born artists based in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, including Andrea Bowers (Los Angeles, CA), Blane De St. Croix (New York, NY), Todd Drake (Greensboro, NC), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Montreal, Canada), Nicolas Lampert & Dan S. Wang (Milwaukee, ... More Artist faces wreckage of sandy NY tall ship By: Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Artist Matthew Long spent days carving 23 tons of sand into a sculpture of a tall ship to display on New York City's waterfront. Then, in seconds, it suffered the fate of sand castles everywhere. Long, a 57-year-old sand sculptor, arrived at Manhattan's South Street Seaport on Saturday morning to find his creation partially demolished and covered in boot prints, "about a size nine." "There were footprints all over the sand, and I was cursing under my breath," he said. "It was devastating — such a hard, sinking feeling after days of carving in the hot sun." Laughing at his own cheesy humor, the Staten Island resident added, "It took the wind out of my sails." He said he'd worried about leaving his work sitting outside on a Friday night near the ... More Most extensive exhibition to date of works by the British artist Hilary Lloyd at Kunstmuseum Basel BASEL.- The Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents the most extensive exhibition to date of works by the British artist Hilary Lloyd (b. 1964; lives in London). On two floors, the numerous works selected—and in some instances, created—for the show not only offer an impression of Hilary Lloyd’s enormous productivity; the synoptic arrangement also marks an important moment in her career as an artist. In her earlier installations from the 1990s, Lloyd primarily trained the camera’s eye on people involved in their everyday rituals and on the interdependency between humans and the city they inhabit. Her more recent works, by contrast, chiefly focus on architecture, surfaces, and light effects. Lloyd gradually abandoned the vantage points that used to be characteristic of her work, now pursuing her motifs with the camera or turning them upside down in order to generate ... More |
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