| Exhibition at Moderna Museet covers a broad sprectrum of Irving Penn's oeuvre | | Crocker Art Museum presents first survey of Contemporary photography from its collection | | Sotheby's to present its largest ever sale of European sculpture and works of art: Medieval to Modern | 
Irving Penn, Fishmonger, London, 1950. © by Condé Nast Publications Ltd.
MALMO.- For the first time in the Öresund region, a rich selection of Irving Penn’s photographs from some of his most famous serial photography are being presented. His innovative fashion features, portraits and still-lifes made Irving Penn one of the leading photographers of our time. Spanning more than 60 years, his career is characterised by a cool, minimalist approach to the medium. With a selection of nearly 90 works and samples from his assignments for numerous publications, the exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö covers a broad spectrum of Irving Penn’s oeuvre. Irving Penn (1917-2009) is regarded as one of the leading photographers of our time. He was active in both the commercial and artistic fields. In 1985, he won the prestigious Hasselblad Award. In his terse serial works, Irving Penn developed a style that is distinguished by its sharpness, detail, meticulousness and minimalist imagery. The exhibitio ... More | | 
Yousuf Karsh, “Pablo Picasso,” 1954. Gelatin silver print, 19 ½ x 15 ¾ in. Crocker Art Museum. Gift of Rex Backman.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The first survey of the Museum's photography collection in more than a decade, this exhibition showcases the history and artistic development of contemporary photography. “Brought to Light,” on view June 16 through September 3, 2012 features more than 35 works from the 19th through the 21st century, with images by artists ranging from Peter Henry Emerson to Chris McCaw. The beauty of the medium and its embrace of aesthetic, social, and conceptual concerns moves from the darkroom to the digital in this exhibition. Because of changing technology, the once common chemicals and photo papers widely used by artists during the 20th century have become rare. As more and more creative photographers discard their film and paper stocks, some experimental photographers like Chris McCaw have seized these abandoned materials for use in unexpected and genre-defying ways. “Brought to Light” also features photographer and conceptual artist Lewis deSoto—a ... More | | 
A mid-13th century copper alloy Leopard Aquamanile estimated at £400,000-600,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London is to present the company’s largest ever sale of European Sculpture and Works of Art: Medieval to Modern on Tuesday, 3 July 2012. The auction will comprise some 200 lots and feature nine private collections, and is estimated to bring in excess of £4 million. Spearheading the sale is an Important European Private Collection of Medieval Works of Art. This group includes the auction’s highest-value item, a mid-13th century copper alloy Leopard Aquamanile estimated at £400,000-600,000. It is especially rare to find an aquamanile (designed for the washing of hands and used in Western Europe from the 12th century onwards) in the form of a leopard. From the same collection comes an exciting rediscovery: a partially gilt, champlevé and cloisonné plaque, only recently identified as a missing section of the Shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne (estimate £8,000-12,000). A French Gothic ivory, k ... More |
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| Saffronart's summer art auction features an exceptional collection of paintings and drawings | | Louisiana State University names Jordana Pomeroy Executive Director of Museum of Art | | Reflecting Fashion: Art and Fashion since Modernism at museum moderner kunst | 
S H Raza, Encountre, 1985. Acrylic on Canvas, 47 x 47 inches. Estimate: $370,375 - 462,965.
MUMBAI.- Saffronart, India’s leading auction house will showcase an important selection of works by modern masters and contemporary artists at its annual Summer Online Art Auction 2012. With a total of 70 lots, the sale provides an excellent opportunity for collectors and connoisseurs to acquire works by 34 pre-eminent modern and contemporary Indian artists. The auction will take place online at www.saffronart.com on June 19-20, 2012. This year’s Summer Online Art Auction includes a collection of major modern paintings by established artists including V.S. Gaitonde, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza and Ganesh Pyne, and also features a strong selection of contemporary Indian art, led by Bharti Kher, Surendran Nair, Subodh Gupta and Jitish Kallat, among others. The auction has a total estimate of Rs. 15.90 crore (US$ 3.1 million) to Rs. 20.75 crore (US$3.9 million). Featured on the front cover of this auction catalogue is an ... More | | 
Pomeroy comes to LSU after serving as chief curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
BATON ROUGE, LA.- LSU has named Jordana Pomeroy the new executive director of the Museum of Art. Pomeroy will start with the museum on July 2, pending approval of the LSU Board of Supervisors. She is replacing outgoing executive director, Tom Livesay, who retired on March 30 after being with the museum since January 2007. “The LSU Museum of Art has infinite potential to become a major cultural destination, as well as a vital center for learning and exploration,” said Pomeroy. Pomeroy comes to LSU after serving as chief curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. While there, she organized exhibitions ranging from “An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum” in 2003 and “Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque” in 2007, to “Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers” in 2004 and “Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of ... More | | 
Exhibition view, Reflecting Fashion, mumok. Photo: Lisa Rastl. © mumok/VBK Wien, 2012.
VIENNA.- The convergence of art and fashion had already been fully developed more than 100 years ago. Today, they have combined together in a productive crossover that defines the creative expression of a new lifestyle. This summer, a comprehensive exhibition at the mumok embarks upon a journey through the history of art and fashion from early modernism to the present. Reflecting Fashion unites more than 300 paintings, drawings, sketches, textiles, videos and photographs by such artists as Giacomo Balla, Sonia Delaunay, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Willats and many more. The exhibition includes works on loan from more than 70 internationally renowned institutions and private collections. Since Baudelaire (1821–1867) fashion has been considered to be the epitome of modernity. He understood them to be nearly synonymous describing them in terms of the ephemeral, fleeting and the possible. The ... More |
| Anderson Collection at Stanford University to be displayed in an elegant new home | | Important Banksy canvases sourced in Bristol to be sold at auction in Los Angeles | | The Courtauld Institute of Art appoints new Curator of Paintings at The Courtauld Gallery | 
The Anderson Collection is one of the largest and most outstanding private collections of post-World War II American art in the world. Photo: Courtesy of Stanford University and Ennead Architects.
By: Robin Wander
STANFORD, CA.- The Anderson Collection at Stanford University has reached another on-schedule milestone in the trek toward beginning construction this summer and opening its doors in 2014. The Stanford Board of Trustees approved Ennead Architects' building design at their meeting this week. The Anderson Collection is one of the largest and most outstanding private collections of post-World War II American art in the world. The collection has been built over the last 50 years by Bay Area residents Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, affectionately known as "Hunk" and "Moo," and by their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, affectionately known as "Putter." The trustees also took a step forward with the McMurtry building for the Department of Art and Art History. ... More | | 
Banksy, Winnie the Pooh. estimated at $50,000 – 80,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An outstanding selection of works by renowned British street artist, Banksy, will go under the hammer at Bonhams first-ever Urban Art sale in Los Angeles, on 29th October 2012. Ahead of the sale, a number of valuable artworks by Banksy, including Precision Bombing, have been newly discovered in the Bristol area, where the artist spent much of his youth. Banksy started his career as a street artist in Bristol, where he grew up in the 1980s. He developed his recognisable stencil-based images, which gradually appeared in a variety of unusual locations around the city. The launch of the Urban Art sale in Los Angeles comes after a thriving series of Urban Art auctions in London. Earlier this year, Bonhams held a highly successful Urban Art Sale in New Bond Street, London, with many of the highest selling lots sourced in Bristol. Banksy’s iconic image, Precision Bombing, estimated at $35,000 – 45,000 (around £ 22, ... More | | 
Dr Serres is currently Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery.
LONDON.- The Courtauld Gallery announce the appointment of Dr Karen Serres as its Schroder Foundation Curator of Paintings. Presently working for the prestigious Yale University Art Gallery in the United States, she will take up this important post in September 2012. Karen Serres will take charge of The Courtauld’s outstanding collection of pre-1900 paintings, which ranges from the early Renaissance to celebrated Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces. She will also
contribute to the Gallery’s highly successful programme of temporary exhibitions. The post of Curator of Paintings has been generously supported by the Schroder Foundation since 2006. Dr Serres is currently Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. Having studied art history at the École du Louvre and the Université of the Sorbonne in Paris, she gained an MA and PhD from The ... More |
| Copper heiress' Huguette Clark's huge gifts, a whopping $37 million, spotlighted in New York court | | The French Connection: Five Japanese women ceramists and their passion for France at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd. | | Dixon Gallery and Gardens announces acquisition in memory of John Buchanan | 
In this April 29, 1922 file photo, former U.S. Sen. William A. Clark, center, marches in New York's Easter Parade with his daughter, Huguette, right. AP Photo/New York Times, Paul Thompson.
By: Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK, NY.- Her nurse was showered with almost $28 million in gifts, including three Manhattan apartments, two homes elsewhere and a $1.2 million Stradivarius violin. Her doctors' families received more than $3 million in presents. A night nurse received a salary plus money to cover her children's school tuition and to help buy two apartments. Now the court-appointed official overseeing copper heiress Huguette Clark's estate wants all these gifts — and more — back. Saying the recipients manipulated the reclusive multimillionaire into lavishing largesse upon them during her long life, public administrator Ethel J. Griffin is trying to reclaim a whopping $37 million for the $400 million estate. Besides seeking an order for return of those gifts, the administrator asked a court last month to investigate whether a hospital where Clark lived should have to give back a ... More | | 
Katsumata Chieko, Biomorphic sculpture in the shape of an akoda pumpkin, 2009. Stoneware with blue glaze, 16 1/8 x 10 5/8 x 13 inches. Courtesy of Joan B Mirviss, Ltd., NY. Photo: Saiki Taku.
NEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition titled The French Connection: Five Japanese Women Ceramists and their Passion for France, explores the dramatically increasing importance of Japanese women artists in the current ascendency of contemporary Japanese ceramics on a global stage and focuses on how their relationships to France have influenced, and indeed enabled, the five show-cased artists to find their unique voices. Stifled at one time or another by Japan’s restrictive view in the role of women and the lack of freedom with regard to their career choices, especially in the arena of ceramics, these committed female artists have successfully overturned such limitations by choosing to train/study/work/live abroad, particularly in Paris. Maintaining professional and personal contacts with both countries, they have managed to succeed in ways unavailable to their male colleagues. These women have come to this life-style via varied routes, some working exclusively in France while other ... More | | 
Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861 - 1942), Portrait of Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz, 1890. Pastel on canvas. Collection of Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
MEMPHIS, TENN.- Dixon Gallery and Gardens announced that Jacques-Émile Blanche's large and beautiful 1890 portrait of Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz will serve as a continuing reminder of John Buchanan's leadership of the Dixon. John E. Buchanan, Jr. was director of the Dixon from 1986 through 1994, a period of great vitality at the museum. When he passed away in late 2011, Buchanan was director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz (1860–1954), the subject of Blanche’s striking pastel portrait, was a famous beauty, muse, and patron of the arts in fin-de-siècle Europe. When Blanche painted her in his London studio, she was a young wife and mother but also a wealthy and cultured Chilean expatriate traveling frequently between Paris, Biarritz, and London. She is pictured here as elegant and modest, fashionable but tasteful, and strikingly attractive. John Singer Sargent paint ... More |
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 Rancho Los Alamitos opens new Rancho Center, restored historic barns area and gardens LONG BEACH, CA.- After more than two decades of careful restoration and thoughtful transformation, Rancho Los Alamitos/Povuu’ngna—a nationally significant cultural landmark and a sacred site that represents the past, present and future of California—reopened to the public on June 10 with a new Rancho Center and restored historic Barns Area and Gardens, providing exhibition spaces that will greatly enhance its award winning programs and free visitor experiences. Located on Bixby Hill in the heart of urban Long Beach, the 7½-acre Rancho Los Alamitos is the quintessential place to experience the living story of the region, where every year thousands of visitors come and learn about how the cultural and ecological history of Southern California still resonate throughout the beautiful landscape. Envisioned and implemented by the Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation, ... More CREATE commissions three short films that present personal journeys through London's Olympic boroughs LONDON.- CREATE has commissioned three short films about east London, directed and created by Paul Kelly and Saint Etienne, Eva Weber, Michael Smith and Wojciech Duczmal. London has been a constant throughout the artists’ careers and has been a source of influence, inspiration and curiosity. This film series will mix fact and fiction, and present personal journeys through London's Olympic boroughs, revealing the spaces between the landmarks and the places Londoners inhabit. The films will premiere at the Barbican on June 26 and will receive a second screening during CREATE on July 19th at the new arts venue Sugarhouse, created by winners of the CREATE Art Award 2011, Assemble CIC. Michael Smith and Wojciech Duczmal have collaborated on many BBC documentaries and this film further develops their idea of the lyrical essay-film, or ... More Corning Museum of Glass unveils plans for $64 million expansion CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass unveiled the preliminary design for an expansion that will create a new North Wing, featuring light-filled galleries for its collection of contemporary works in glass, as well as one of the world’s largest facilities for glassblowing demonstrations and live glass design sessions. Designed by architect Thomas Phifer and Partners, the 100,000-square-foot expansion will dramatically enhance the visitor experience for the Museum’s growing domestic and international audiences. The $64 million project—fully funded before groundbreaking by major benefactor Corning Incorporated—is scheduled for completion in 2014. “We are the world’s leading art museum dedicated to glass,” said Karol Wight, executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass. “Over the past decade, we’ve experienced tremendous growth: in our collections; in our ... More First comprehensive exhibition in Europe of recent works by Paul Sietsema opens at Kunsthalle Basel BASEL.- Kunsthalle Basel presents the first comprehensive exhibition in Europe of recent works by Paul Sietsema. Born in 1968, the Los Angeles and Berlin based artist has lately been receiving considerable attention for his films and other works. Each specific work by Paul Sietsema can be described as a formalization of the work process — the end phase or perhaps just the suspension of this process — following several years of researching, constructing and layering of the varied, often personally connoted cultural material. Thus, the durational character of films is equaled by the duration of the process of their making — a particular work ethic that informs the work’s proper sub- ject, while the motif and medium may vary. Sietsema’s drawings and paintings, often realized with the use of idiosyncratic, labor-intensive techniques devised by the artist, usually involve ... More David Ter-Oganyan, winner of the Henkel Art.Award. 2011, exhibits at mumok VIENNA.- The winner of the Henkel Art.Award. 2011 David Ter-Oganyan was born in 1981 in Rostov-on-Don and lives in Moscow. The mumok hosts his first institutional solo exhibition which in the autumn will also be shown in the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM). David Ter-Oganyan works in numerous media. Alongside collectively realized actions, installations, and diverse projects – including curatorial activities – his oeuvre consists of paintings, drawings, object art, photography and video. At the mumok, he exclusively shows drawings – a form of artistic expression which more than any other enables him to react and comment directly on what he encounters and what moves him. The breadth of the subject matter he deals with in these drawings is extensive, ranging from personal existential experiences to reflections on art or to an analysis of social and ... More Obama tours new World Trade Center site By: Julie Pace, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- President Barack Obama ventured onto the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center site Thursday, getting a firsthand look at the skyscraper being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "This is what the American spirit is all about," Obama said. The president toured the 22nd floor of One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, walking along the unfinished cement floor and stopping at easels set up with renderings of what the completed tower will look like. Joined by first lady Michelle Obama, the president later came down to the base of the building and signed a large white beam — affixed with the words "One World Trade Center" painted in blue — that will be used in the construction. ... More |
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