| Houston man charged with vandalizing 1929 Picasso at the city's Menil Collection | | Rediscovered Old Master and early British drawings & watercolours at Christie's in July | | New York Police Department: Man swiped Salvador Dali painting from art gallery | 
Uriel Landeros of Houston was charged Friday with felony graffiti and criminal mischief for spray painting the artwork.
HOUSTON (AP).- Houston police are searching for a man now charged with vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act that was caught on video. Uriel Landeros of Houston was charged Friday with felony graffiti and criminal mischief for spray painting the artwork titled "Woman in a Red Armchair" at the city's Menil Collection. Crime Stoppers says it's offering a $5,000 reward for tips leading to the 22-year-old's arrest. The painting was damaged June 13. The act of vandalism was caught in a 24-second video taken by a bystander and posted on YouTube. It shows a man dressed in black holding a stencil up to the work of art and spray-painting it. He left behind an image of a bullfighter, a bull and the word "conquista," the Spanish word for conquest. ... More | | 
Thomas Gainsborough, A cottage with trees reflected in a woodland pool. Pencil and watercolour and bodycolour on buff paper, 10 x 7 ¾ in. Estimate: £12,000-18,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- Christie’s announced the sale of Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours which will take place on 3 July 2012, during London’s Master Drawings week. Featuring a selection of works by Old Masters that have been recently discovered, this auction offers the opportunity to acquire drawings and watercolours which have not been seen in public for up to 100 years. Comprising 168 lots, the sale is expected to realise in excess of £3 million. Headlining an important group of newly discovered drawings by Rembrandt (1606-1669) and his school is A blind beggar with a boy and a dog (estimate: £50,000 – 80,000). This group of six previously unpublished drawings was discovered in the attic of a Scottish country house in 2012 and has not been seen ... More | | 
A surveillance camera image of a man suspected of stealing a $150,000 Salvador Dali painting. AP Photo/New York Police Department.
NEW YORK (AP).-A thief who swiped a Salvador Dali painting off the wall of a New York art gallery may have escaped, but experts say the painting will likely be recovered when it comes back onto the art market. Police are searching for a slim man with a receding hairline who walked into a Madison Avenue art gallery on Tuesday posing as a customer and walked out with the $150,000 Dali watercolor and ink painting in a large black shopping bag. The man asked a security guard if he could take a photo, then removed the painting as soon as the guard stepped away, the New York Daily News reported. Surveillance cameras captured the man, who was wearing a black-and-white checked shirt, on his way out the door. The 1949 painting, called "Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio," was part of the Venus Over Manhattan ... More |
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| Hepworth Wakefield's second year of Contemporary exhibitions opens with works by Richard Long | | First exhibition at Yvon Lambert by French architect Claude Parent opens in Paris | | Phillips de Pury & Company to support Britain Creates 2012: Fashion & Art Collusion | 
Works by Richard Long, one of Britain’s most significant artists, will be on display at the UK’s largest purpose-built gallery from 23 June until 14 October.
WEST YORKSHIRE.- The Hepworth Wakefield will be launching its second year of contemporary exhibitions this summer with an exhibition featuring renowned artist, Richard Long. Simon Wallis, Director of The Hepworth Wakefield said: “We’re delighted to launch our second year at The Hepworth Wakefield with new works by one of Britain’s most significant artists, Richard Long. Opening on Saturday 23 June and running until Sunday 14 October, the exhibition features new works by the artist and is part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration, running from 21 June until 9 September 2012, bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK. Works by Richard Long, one of Britain’s most significant artists, will be on display at the UK’s largest purpose-built gallery from 23 June until 14 October. It will comprise two new works inspired ... More | | 
Claude Parent, La grande ville B, 1981 - 2002. Pencil on paper. Courtesy Yvon Lambert. Photo: Didier Barroso.
PARIS.- Yvon Lambert announces Entre utopie et réalité (between utopia and reality), the first exhibition of French architect Claude Parent at the gallery. The exhibition will last until the 28th of July 2012. Claude Parent, born in 1923 in Neuilly-Sur-Seine is one of France’s most revered modernist architects, and an elected member of the Académie des Beaux Arts and the Paris Académie of Architecture. In 1953, his tendency towards avantgarde outlines leads him to Lonel Schein, with whom he creates his agency. From the beginning of the 1960’s, the architect forces himself to a radical break up with the traditional architecture. The emergence of the fracture and the discontinuity in his language leads him to introduce a new vocabulary leaning on an utopian inspiration. His creations are inspired by numerous encounters like the ones with Nicolas Schöffer, who inspires him the “spatial/dynamic” architec ... 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 will support Britain Creates 2012: Fashion & Art Collusion. The project conceived by the British Fashion Council/Bazaar Fashion Arts Foundation and in partnership with the Mayor of London, is a unique opportunity to celebrate and strengthen the longstanding relationships between fashion designers and visual artists. Iconic British designers were paired with top UK contemporary artists and invited to collaborate on unique works of art. Featuring: Giles Deacon + Jeremy Deller, Hussein Chalayan + Gavin Turk, Jonathan Saunders + Jess Flood-Paddock, Mary Katrantzou + Mark Titchner, Matthew Williamson + Mat Collishaw, Nicholas Kirkwood + Simon Periton, Peter Pilotto + Francis Upritchard, Paul Smith + Charming Baker, Stephen Jones + Cerith Wyn Evans The nine works will be auctioned on 27 June by Phillips de Pury & Company at a gala benefit event with Simon de Pury as auctioneer in aid of the ... More |
| Raza and Gaitonde lead Saffronart's Summer Art Auction, where 86% of lots sold | | Exhibition of work by British artist Jenny Saville opens at Modern Art Oxford | | Britain's 50 best new buildings: 2012 Royal Institute of British Architects Awards announced | 
V S Gaitonde, Untitled, 1971 (detail). Winning Bid: Rs. 2, 84, 85,000. USD 527,500.
MUMBAI.- Saffronart, India’s leading auction house, concluded its annual Summer Art Auction on June 20, 2012 with strong results. The auction achieved a total of Rs. 16.7 crore (USD 3.1 million), above its pre-sale estimate, with 86% of the 70 lots on offer selling, making this one of the most successful sales in percentage terms of modern and contemporary Indian art since early 2011. The two-day auction of modern and contemporary Indian art was marked by top prices for several modernists. On the first day of the auction itself, several lots exceeded their higher estimates by several multiples. Fierce bidding on S.H. Raza’s ‘Encountre’ (1985) towards the close of the auction saw it surpass its estimate of Rs. 2 to 2.5 crore (USD 370,375 - 462,965), to eventually sell for an unprecedented Rs. 3.15 crores (USD 585,000). Works by leading artists such as Badri Narayan, Ganesh Pyne, B. Prabha, T. Vaikuntam, S ... More | | 
Jenny Saville, Reproduction drawing IV (after the Leonardo cartoon), 2010. Charcoal on paper, 226.8 x 176.8 x 7.6 cm (framed)). Collection Stuart and Gina Peterson. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford presents an exhibition of work by British artist Jenny Saville. Tracing her practice from the early nineties to the present, this exhibition is the first solo show of the artist's work in a UK public gallery. Saville rose to prominence with a series of paintings that suggested a measuring, marking or constricting of the female form. Later works explored the boundaries between states of the body, medical and social categorisation, and between life and death. In the Stare series, the artist uses a single found image as a starting point for a number of works, with the face of the subject repeatedly reworked in layers of paint. In new works presented at the Ashmolean Museum and Modern Art Oxford, Saville takes inspiration from Renaissance Virgin and Child paintings to create ... More | | 
North House Bowden Roger Stephenson Architects.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects announced the winners of the 2012 RIBA Awards on Thursday 21 June 2012. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence will be presented to 50 buildings in the UK and 9 buildings elsewhere in the EU. The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the building of the year will be drawn from the 59 RIBA Award winners. This year’s winners range from a house in the shape of a sand dune to the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, from a demountable opera pavilion to the radical transformation of a Spanish bull-fighting arena. Well-known architects and smaller architecture practices will be battling it out to make it onto this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist alongside television presenter Kevin McCloud and philosopher Alain de Botton who have nailed their colours to the mast and commissioned two of this year’s award-winning buildings. The dominant ... More |
| Lee Kit to represent Hong Kong at the 55th International Art Exhibition of the 2013 Venice Biennale | | Regen Projects announces gallery relocation to new building in the heart of Hollywood | | Hood Museum of Art's Lesley Wellman named 2012 National Museum Art Educator of the Year | 
Lee Kit, ‘My pillow seems like a bed, a pillow seems like my bed.’ 2007-08. Acrylic on fabric, sewing, video, TV set, readymade objects. Dimensions variable. Installation view at Osage Singapore, 2007 Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery.
HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) and M+, Hong Kong’s future museum for 20th and 21st century visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District, announced today, Friday 22 June 2012, the selection of Lee Kit as the artist to represent Hong Kong at the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, opening on 11 June 2013. Lars Nittve, world-renowned curator and Executive Director of M+, is the Lead Curator of the pavilion. Commenting on the selection of Lee Kit, Lars Nittve said: “Lee Kit is to me one of the leading artists in Hong Kong’s thriving contemporary art scene. I have during my years here been repeatedly touched by how Lee Kit so seemingly effortlessly manages to mix a deep understanding of contemporary art with something very personal and intimate. His work is at the same time ... More | | 
Architectural rendering of the new building. Photo: Courtesy Regen Projects and Michael Maltzan Architecture.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects announced its expansion and move to a new location at 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, in the heart of Hollywood. The new building will open with an inaugural show of gallery artists on September 22, 2012. Since the founding of the original gallery in 1989 at 619 North Almont Drive in West Hollywood, Regen Projects has focused its representation on international contemporary artists at the forefront of their practice. This focus, combined with an unwavering support for Los Angeles art, has made Regen Projects a mainstay of the international art community. After 23 years in West Hollywood, Regen Projects is excited to continue its role as a catalyzing force at the head of a thriving arts community. The new gallery will serve as an artistic anchor, establishing an eastward shift in the cultural center of Los Angeles. With this next step, the gallery will continue its influential work and look t ... More | | 
This award recognizes the exemplary contributions, service, and achievements of one outstanding NAEA member annually at the national level within their division.
HANOVER, NH.- Lesley Wellman, Hood Foundation Curator of Education at the Hood Museum of Art,was selected by the National Art Education Association (NAEA) as the 2012 National Museum Art Educator of the Year. This award recognizes the exemplary contributions, service, and achievements of one outstanding NAEA member annually at the national level within their division. The award was presented in March at the NAEA national convention in New York. Deborah Reeve, Executive Director of NAEA, shared the following comments in spring 2011 when Lesley completed her tenure on NAEA's board: "During her tenure as the Museum Education Director on the [board of directors], Lesley Wellman established new practices and made valuable connections between art educators working in our nation's art museums and those working in schools, school districts, state departments of education, and colleges and universities. Lesley is a transformat ... More |
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 Florida man defends dinosaur's import NEW YORK (AP).- A Florida dealer of fossils who acquired the remains of a dinosaur that the government plans to seize says he is "not some international bone smuggler" and that he risked his finances and reputation to put together the skeleton to promote a love of science in others. Eric Prokopi, 37, struck back Thursday at the U.S. government's account of the Tyrannosaurus bataar fossil it seeks to hand over to Mongolia. "I'm just a guy in Gainesville, Florida trying to support my family, not some international bone smuggler," he said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press. He said transforming chunks of rocks and broken bones "into an impressive skeleton took thousands of hours and every penny my wife and I had, but it was fascinating. "We were thrilled and couldn't wait to share him with the world, and hoped it would inspire others to see the magic of paleontology ... More First U.S. museum survey of Josiah McElheny opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston BOSTON, MASS.- This June, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents the first museum survey of Josiah McElheny. McElheny uses the ancient and labor intensive medium of glass to create objects of exceptional beauty and formal sophistication. An artist of diverse interests, McElheny draws on art history, politics, and astronomy to encode his glassworks with information, turning these exquisite objects into repositories of meaning. A mid-career survey of the artist’s work, Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the Infinite traces the artist’s investigations into the representation of time and space, and in particular, the concept of infinity. McElheny’s interest in this subject can be seen in early works that deal with the problem of how to represent archeological time––using glass shards and fragments––up through his most recent explorations of the Big Bang and astronomical ... More Bonhams tick up huge prices for clock that bombs could not stop and one that had not moved for 279 years LONDON.- A fine robust clock that is still ticking despite a bomb strike on the house, in which it once stood, was sold in Bonhams Fine Clock sale on June 20th for £43,250. This trooper of a timekeeper has a story to tell. The clock survived the London Blitz in WWII despite an exploding bomb striking the top of the house. Shrapnel hit the clock’s carrying case, stored in the attic, but thankfully this magnificent clock remained unscathed in a downstairs room. This rare mid 19th century French 'Bubble' top grande sonnerie giant carriage clock, built in gilt bronze with a glass dome, stands 11 inches tall. The clock-making Berrolla family who lived in Paris’ Rue de la Tour between 1850 and 1860 made and retailed this exquisite timepiece. They showed their carriage clocks in the Paris Exposition of 1839 and exhibited carriage clocks at the London Exhibition in 1851 and 1857. Another ... More Second Annual ArtMRKT Hamptons set to hit the beach NEW YORK, NY.- Created to appeal to the culturally engaged art buyers and enthusiasts, the second annual ArtMRKT Hamptons will feature leading galleries from across the country. Forty galleries will exhibit original contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and prints at the Bridgehampton Historical Society grounds on July 19 – 22. Underscoring the Fair’s commitment to the visitor experience, this year’s Opening Night Preview will benefit the Parrish Art Museum. Noted Brooklyn chef Leon Gunn, formerly of Wolfgang Puck, Aria, Noho Star and Williamsburg’s Traif restaurants, will serve opening night guests his “refined take on the quintessential Hamptons dining experience -- the summer barbeque.” Returning this year are many leading New York galleries including Lennon Weinberg, Nancy Hoffman, Forum Gallery, Kathryn Markel and Morgan Lehman. Halsey ... More Portland Museum of Art in Maine launches new brand PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art premiered a new brand. A collaboration between Museum staff, Garrand, Murphy Empire Design, and TypeCulture, this visual identity presents a unique blend of the traditional and the contemporary. The brand anticipates an exciting new chapter in the Museum’s history with the opening of the Winslow Homer Studio in September. It speaks to the Museum’s vision of the future, while honoring Maine’s rich cultural history. The crisp, clean red arch and circle are contemporary and evocative of the iconic architectural presence of the Museum’s Charles Shipman Payson Building, while at the same time acknowledging the historic red brick facades prevalent in 19th-century Portland. The letters “PMA” within the circle add new energy to “Portland Museum of Art,” yet are reminiscent of traditional block-lettered signs painted on buildings, ... More Elvis Presley's crypt pulled from auction block By: Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer
LONDON.- Elvis Presley's crypt has left the auction block. Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien said Friday that his company has agreed not to sell the crypt after fans worldwide demanded that it be kept as a shrine to his memory. Julien's Auctions announced in May that it would sell the empty tomb at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., at its "Music Icons" auction Sunday. Julien said the company won't sell the crypt "until Forest Hills finds a plan that best suits the interests of the fans while respecting and preserving the memory of Elvis Presley." Presley was interred there alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died Aug. 16, 1977. Two months later, they were reburied at his Graceland home. The original crypt has remained empty ever since. ... More |
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