| Le Corbusier's "The poem of the right angle" on view at Architekturmuseum in Munich | | Corcoran the only East Coast venue to exhibit Richard Diebenkorn's most celebrated series | | Group of Seven: Travelling exhibition of Canadian Painting in the Groninger Museum | 
Le Corbusier, The poem of the right angle, B.4 Mind, Poem of the Right Angle, 1955, p. 69© FLC/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012.
MUNICH.- In the course of seven years, from 1947 to 1953, Le Corbusier produced a succession of lithographs that can be regarded as an artistic realization of his conception of the world and at the same time as a kind of self portrait. Although the work is thus given utmost importance, it received relatively little attention for a long time, as the artist Corbusier was not met with as much interest as the famous architect. Only recent research has decoded and interpreted the cosmos of imagery and thoughts, stipulated in the architectural poem. ›Le poème de l’angle droit‹ (The poem of the right angle) consists of a long hand-written text and drawings, which are linked in a way that they explain each other and merge into a complex statement. The text is divided into seven stanzas which correspond with 19 coloured lithographs. According to Le Corbusier these lithographs should be arranged axisymmetrically in seven rows in the form of a multi-chain cross above each ... More | | 
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #79, 1975. Oil on canvas, 93 x 81 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with funds contributed by private donors, 1977. ©The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. Image courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This summer, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design will open Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series, a retrospective of one of the most important bodies of work in American abstract painting. On view on the East Coast exclusively at the Corcoran, The Ocean Park Series is the first major museum exhibition to focus on this influential series made between 1967 and 1988. The exhibition features nearly 80 works—large-scale paintings, smaller paintings made on cigar box lids, mixed-media drawings on paper, monotypes, and prints—brought together for the first time to offer a full exploration of the series through the varied media in which Diebenkorn worked. Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) was a pivotal figure in the history of modern painting. The Ocean Park series is distinguished by large, ... More | | 
A.Y. Jackson, Winter, Quebec, 1926. Oil on canvas, 53.8 x 66.5 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Courtesy of the Estate of the late Dr. Naomi Jackson Groves. Photo © NGC.
GRONINGEN.- From 30 June to 30 September 2012, the Groninger Museum will present the exhibition Painting Canada - Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven organized by the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and the Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands. With the generous support of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and other lenders. The exhibition provides an overview of the extraordinary work of the Group of Seven, an artists’ group that arose in Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century and disbanded in 1933. Their landscape paintings are considered among Canada’s most important cultural treasures, yet one that has never before been seen in the Netherlands. The Groninger Museum is thrilled that it has been able to find sponsors ... More |
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| Bonhams smashes world record prices for Bentley and Rolls Royce in £22 million Goodwood Festival sale | | Four new curators bring fresh perspectives to the Smithsonian American Art Museum | | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to exhibit rare copy of Declaration of Independence | 
1932 Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Long Chassis Touring Spider. Photo: Bonhams.
WEST SUSSEX.- The eyes of the world were on Bonhams on Friday 29 June as its Goodwood Festival of Speed sale broke several world records on its way to £22 million in the festival’s 20th anniversary year. Leading the pack was the ex-Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin 1929 4 ½-litre supercharged ‘Blower’ Bentley single-seater, which when new raised the Brooklands Outer Circuit record to 137mph. It sold for £5,042,000, the highest price achieved for a British car sold at auction. The next highest sale price was achieved by “The Corgi”, a 1912 Rolls-Royce 40/50hp ‘Silver Ghost’ Double Pullman Limousine, which sold for a record-breaking £4.7 million. Robert Brooks, Chairman of Bonhams, said: “We always believed that the Goodwood Festival of Speed was the perfect place to sell two of Britain’s most iconic cars. “Bonhams has sponsored this event from its inception 20 years ago. These re ... More | | 
Hostetler comes to the museum from the Milwaukee Art Museum. Photo: Kevin Miyazaki.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has enhanced its curatorial staff with four new appointments—Lisa Hostetler, Karen Lemmey, Michael Mansfield and Leslie Umberger—who will bring fresh perspectives to interpreting the museum’s collection and future exhibitions. Hostetler is the museum’s new curator of photography. Lemmey is the new curator of sculpture. Mansfield is the associate curator of film and media arts. Umberger is the new curator of folk and self-taught art. Each will be responsible for research, exhibitions and acquisitions related to the museum’s collection. These four join eight curators currently on staff for contemporary art, craft and decorative art, Latino art, media art, works on paper and 19th- and 20th-century painting. Mansfield has been at the museum since 2006 and starts his detail as associate curator Sept. 3.Hostetler begins work at the museum Sept. 10, and ... More | | 
The documents, which are on loan from a private collection, will be on view from June 30 through September 17, 2012.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- This summer, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will present a temporary exhibition of rare early-American documents. The exhibition, titled “Declaration: Birth of America,” will include one of only 25 known existing copies of the printed broadside version of the Declaration of Independence, among other documents from the American Revolution. The documents, which are on loan from a private collection, will be on view from June 30 through September 17, 2012. The exhibition is sponsored by Randy and Valorie Lawson / Lawco Energy Group, and Chip and Susan Chambers. On the evening of July 4, 1776, the text of the newly penned Declaration of Independence was typeset in the Philadelphia printing shop of John Dunlap and 200 large-format "broadside" copies were printed. These were rapidly distributed throughout the colonies to inform them ... More |
| 10,000 diamonds go on display at Buckingham Palace to mark the Jubilee | | Bruce Munro announces Field of Light At Uluru (Ayers Rock) Australia, May-October 2013 | | Prominent Museum Director will lead museum dedicated to American west into new era | 
Queen Mary wears the Delhi Durbar Tiara set with Cullinan III and IV, 1912, Thomson. Photo: The Royal Collection © 2012, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
LONDON.- More than 10,000 diamonds set in works acquired by six monarchs over three centuries go on display at Buckingham Palace to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s 60-year reign. The special exhibition Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration (30 June – 8 July & 31 July – 7 October) includes a number of The Queen’s personal jewels and works from the Royal Collection chosen for their artistic significance and their historic importance, and for the supreme skill in diamond cutting and mounting they embody. Several pieces of jewellery, such as the Delhi Durbar Tiara, Queen Victoria’s Fringe Brooch and the Kokoshnik Tiara, are on display for the first time. The exhibition also includes jewellery made from the world’s largest diamond, the Cullinan Diamond, which weighed 3,106 carats as an uncut stone. Pieces containing seven of the nine principal stones cut from the Cullinan Diamond are reunited for t ... More | | 
Computer generated image of the project. Photo: Stephen Weeks.
LONDON.- Today fundraising begins on an extraordinary project to take Bruce Munro’s iconic Field of Light installation back to its birthplace: Uluru (Ayer’s Rock) at the heart of the Australian red desert. This will be Munro’s largest installation to date, a monumental piece consisting of a quarter of a million stems of light, covering one square kilometre of land. Munro has just returned from Longwood Gardens, USA, where his smash-hit one-man show continues until September 29th. Uluru is a World Heritage site, which lives in the world’s imagination as a universal symbol of man’s ancient heritage, and is primarily a place sacred to the Anangu people. For many foreigners, it’s a symbol of Australia itself, and for some a haunting memory of Peter Weir‘s film ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’. Field of Light at Uluru will be entirely solar powered, and made of 3,290 kilometres of optic fibre and 165 kilometres of recycled 12mm acrylic tube. Mun ... More | | 
With a Master’s Degree in American History from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford University, Mr. West spent decades in the legal arena.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Board of the Autry National Center of the American West has announced W. Richard ‘Rick’ West, Jr. will be joining the museum as its new President and CEO. He will be taking leadership of the organization as it moves into the next critical phase of its development as a premier museum, education center and research institution bringing together diverse experiences, collections, and stories that make Western history come alive. “As you know, the Autry is undergoing comprehensive and exciting changes as an organization, with refocused programming in new exhibit galleries, the Autry Resource Center in Burbank, and the newly conserved Southwest Collection,” said Marshall McKay, Chairman of the Board of the Autry National Center. “In our strategic development, we’ve encountered new challenges and opportunities and ... More |
| Adirondack photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard exhibit opens at the New York State Museum | | Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Cathrine David opens at Vienna's Secession | | Belgian Artist Ives Maes' first U.S. solo exhibition opens at Nelson-Atkins Museum | 
Horicon Sketching Club in 1882. Photo: New York State Museum.
ALBANY, NY.- A new exhibition opens on June 29 at the New York State Museum showcasing the works of Adirondack photographer and conservationist Seneca Ray Stoddard, who was instrumental in the establishment of the “forever wild” Adirondack Park. Seneca Ray Stoddard: Capturing the Adirondacks is open through February 24, 2013 in Crossroads Gallery. It includes over 100 of Stoddard’s photographs, an Adirondack guideboat, freight boat, camera, copies of Stoddard’s books and several of his paintings. There also are several Stoddard photos of the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island. These and other items come from the State Museum’s collection of more than 500 Stoddard prints and also from the collections of the New York State Library and the Chapman Historical Museum in Glens Falls. “This is the first time the State Museum has exhibited these remarkably important photographs from our extensive Seneca Ray Stoddard collection,” said Museum Director ... More | | 
Andrea Branzi, Grandi Legni, Secession 2012. Photo: Oliver Ottenschlaeger.
VIENNA.- Mutatis Mutandis brings together a number of works that explore the complexity of contemporary events, materiality, history, and memories, and propose possible re-presentations. Discontinuous narratives as well as formal and mental strategies for re-editing information and images question the functioning of visible and invisible structures and networks. They also challenge—through the sometimes paradoxical use of modern and traditional media—the complexities of contemporary subjectivities. Babak Afrassiabi is working with various formats such as video, objects, and text. He often collaborates with Nasrin Tabatabai; they also produce a bilingual magazine in Farsi and English. Under the name Pages, Afrassiabi and Tabatabai have been realizing joint projects since 2004 which are based on research into the historical conditions of politics and cultural production and their re-articulation through art. Based on a true story, Thicker than Paint Thinner is a film abo ... More | | 
Ives Maes, Belgian, b. 1976. MVRDV Pavilion (Expo 2000 Hannover), 2012. C-print on acrylic. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- For his first solo American exhibition, Belgian artist Ives Maes explores the architecture of world’s fair sites as they look today in The Future of Yesterday: Photographs of Architectural Remains at World's Fairs June 28–Sept. 9 in Bloch Lobby of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. In 16 dramatic photographic sculptures, Maes investigates the effect of time, place and context on the remains of these global events. “Architecture for world’s fairs was built to disappear,” said Maes. “Everyone works in a frenzy to complete structures for a fair, and then they walk away when it’s over. We need to remember these buildings and these moments in time.” The Future of Yesterday is held in conjunction with a major international loan and traveling exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins entitled Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851- ... More |
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 The National Endowment for the Arts announces leadership of Citizens' Institute on Rural Design WASHINGTON, DC.- In the Mississippi Delta -- a region plagued by poverty, illiteracy, and geographic isolation -- local history and culture can often become buried beneath the area's woes. And yet, it is these unique assets that can revitalize local pride and make the difference between community survival and decay The National Endowment for the Arts is dedicated to helping communities like the Delta rediscover their identity and reshape their cultural landscape. Beginning July 1, 2012, the Citizens' Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) will be a partnership among the NEA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Project for Public Spaces, along with the Orton Family Foundation and the CommunityMatters® Partnership. CIRD works to enhance the quality of life and economic viability of rural areas. CIRD does this through design workshops that gather local leaders together with experts in ... More Veronika Kellndorfer's French Window: A new project above staircase in the Pinakothek der Moderne MUNICH.- For more than twenty years, the Berlin-based artist Veronika Kellndorfer (*1962) has been working with photographs, most of which she takes on her travels. She selects details from these pictures with great precision so that they can be fitted into architectural spaces in the form of silkscreen prints on glass. Through the resultant images created in this way, different places become interwoven and induce a concomitance between the past and the presence. Anticipated correlations frequently gain surprising new interpretations. Veronika Kellndorfer’s most recent project has been specially conceived for the tall window at the upper end of the grand staircase in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Its title: »French Window«. Early in 2009 Kellndorfer went to Paris to photograph the windows in the Palais de Tokyo that had provided the American painter Ellsworth Kelly the inspiration ... More Photographer and filmmaker Petra Noordkamp opens "La Madre" at Foam AMSTERDAM.- In the project La Madre, photographer and filmmaker Petra Noordkamp (1967) shows her most recent, not previously exhibited work. The impetus for La Madre was Noordkamp's short relationship in the mid-1990s with Emilio Quaroni, son of the well-known Italian architect and urban planner Ludovico Quaroni. After her contact with Emilio deteriorated, Noordkamp discovered in 2001 that Emilio had murdered his own mother in the same year. The violent story of Emilio and the matricide stayed with Noordkamp - for years she thought about doing something with it. The form of the project remained vague for a long time, until two paths unexpectedly converged. In 2009, Noordkamp visited Sicily for her photo project Cinecittà , and there she encountered the modernistic La Chiesa Madre. This extraordinary, white spherical church turned out to be a design by none other than ... More Long-term prognosis for California state parks murky By: Jason Dearen, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- While California found ways to keep open most of the state parks earmarked for closure due to budget cuts, the long-term future of its 279-park system remains murky as most of the solutions are short-term fixes. With a busy Fourth of July week looming, California parks officials announced Thursday most of the 70 state parks once slated to close Sunday would remain open. The reprieve came after the governor signed a bill allocating new funds for the beleaguered parks system for the next year, and the state said it had reached agreements with nonprofits, local governments and others regarding 40 of the parks that will keep them open at least for a few years. Deals with other groups were in the works for 25 more, which will stay open ... More Steven Holl Architects reveals first designs for Maggie's Barts LONDON.- Steven Holl Architects has been selected as architects of the Maggie's Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Maggie's Barts will replace an existing 1960s block that was once used as offices, which is located at the periphery of the square. Steven Holl said, "It is a great honor to design a Maggie's Centre and a very special challenge to be given such an important central site in London. The hospital has been at the forefront of medial understanding for centuries. We are inspired by the deep history of the area, and particularly the nearby St Bartholomew the Great church, which has been in continuous use with marvelous music since 1143. Our proposal is like a vessel within a vessel within a vessel. In the spirit of music, architecture can be a vessel of transcendence." Laura Lee, chief executive of Maggie’s said: “We are very excited that Steven Holl Architects is working ... More Frieze Projects 2012: Participating Artists Announced LONDON.- Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze London. It is curated by Sarah McCrory and this year includes five specially commissioned projects as well as the Emdash Award, which each year enables an emerging artist working outside the UK to present new work at Frieze London as part of the Frieze Projects programme. Frieze Projects is commissioned by Frieze Foundation and is supported by the Emdash Foundation. The artists commissioned to make site-specific work for Frieze London 2012 are: Thomas Bayrle, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, DIS magazine, Grizedale Arts / Yangjiang Group and Joanna Rajkowska. This year’s programme of commissioned projects incorporates a number of unique viewpoints of the fair and includes: a programme of performative projects around the relationship between art and food, an immersive and ... More |
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