| World record for Jean-Etienne Liotard: Portrait of Mademoiselle Jacquet sold for $1,853,509 | | A selection of two hundred photographs by Diane Arbus on view at Martin Gropius Bau | | The Mauritshuis acquires an exceptional painting by Clara Peeters; one of her best works | 
PARIS.- With a total of €7.2 million ($9 million), Thursday’s sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings at Sotheby’s Paris achieved one of the highest-ever totals for a sale in the field organized by Sotheby’s France, yielding five record prices and reflecting strong market demand for high quality works. Amongst the Old Masters, it was 18th century French paintings which enjoyed the greatest success with several remarkable prices, led by €1,464,750 ($1.853.509)– a world record for the artist – for Portrait of Mademoiselle Jacquet (1748-52), a rediscovered pastel by Jean-Etienne Liotard. The appearance on the market of a masterpiece of this importance constituted a major event, and seven international bidders locked horns before it was knocked down to an American collector (lot 57). Another outstanding lot in the first part of the sale was François Boucher’ ... More | | 
Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C. 1967 © The Estate of Diane Arbus.
BERLIN.- Diane Arbus (New York, 1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves. Arbus found most of her subjects in New York City, a place that she explored as both a known geography and as a foreign land. She was committed to photography as a medium that tangles with the facts. Her contemporary anthropology - portraits of couples, children, carnival performers, nudists, middle-class families, transvestites, zealots, eccentrics, and celebrities - also stands as an allegory of the human experience, an exploration of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief, theater and reality. The Martin-Gropius-Bau present ... More | | 
Clara Peeters: Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels from circa 1615 (detail).
THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis had the opportunity to purchase an exceptional painting by Clara Peeters: Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels from circa 1615. Clara Peeters (c.1580/1590–in or after 1621) is one of the few women painters of the seventeenth century. She was active from 1607 to 1621 and probably came from Antwerp. All of her paintings were still lifes, mainly banquet pieces with simple foodstuffs and valuable tableware. The painting recently purchased by the Mauritshuis is one of her best works. A pewter plate holds some crumbly cheeses, on top of which is an earthenware plate with curls of butter. Figs, almonds, and raisins lie in a Wan Li porcelain dish, behind which a Venetian glass (decorated with gilt) is on display beside an earthenware jug. Other items lie loose on the table: a roll, some pretzels and a richly decorated knife. Clara Peeters excelled at painting banquet scenes of this type. T ... More |
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| Major exhibition of the work of celebrated artist Yoko Ono opens at the Serpentine Gallery | | Bonhams June Fine Asian Works of Art Sales in San Francisco bring over $5.5 million | | Hans van Bentem's wonderful installations diplayed in the Gemeentemuseum's period rooms | 
Yoko Ono, Installation view, Yoko Ono: TO THE LIGHT, Serpentine Gallery, London © 2012 Jerry Hardman-Jones.
LONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery presents a major exhibition of the work of celebrated artist Yoko Ono for the London 2012 Festival, which includes #smilesfilm, a large-scale participatory project. The Serpentine’s timely exhibition reflects upon the enormous impact that Yoko Ono has made on contemporary art, exploring her influential role in art, music, film and performance. Her first exhibition in a London public institution for more than a decade, Ono presents new and existing works, some of which have rarely been shown in the UK. These include installations, films and performances. As a part of her exhibition, Ono presents #smilesfilm, a large-scale project which is exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery and online for the London 2012 Festival. Conceived as a way of connecting people across the world, the project invites people to upload and send an image of their smiles, to create a global anthology of portrai ... More | | 
A fine huanghuali and burlwood table. 22 1/2 x 32 x 43in (57 x 81 x 109cm). Sold for $458,500. Image: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams held a successful two-day auction of Asian Works of Art, June 19-20 in San Francisco, achieving over $ 5.5 million in sales. The auctions' over 700 lots of predominantly Chinese art attracted a strong international bidding audience and brought strong prices in all categories. The first of the two sale days was devoted to Fine Asian Works of Art. This 400-lot session saw strong prices in Qing dynasty and Republic period jade carvings, with the cover lot, a fine pair of Republic period spinach jade landscape plaques (est. $10,000-15,000) selling for over 10 times its estimate at $116,500. An elegant 18th century carved nephrite censer brought $98,500, against an estimate of $12,000-15,000. Furniture and works of art and paintings were the target of frenzied bidding on the telephone, the internet and overseas. A huanghuali and burlwood table, composed of 18th century elements, soared to ... More | | 
Hans van Bentem, The Louis XV Room, 2012, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
THE HAGUE.- Hans van Bentem (b. The Hague, 1965) uses his unbridled imagination and energy to create a constant stream of artworks, each more brilliant, coruscating and colourful than the last. His breathtaking installations are informed by influences he sponges up from around the world and the exciting and eclectic oeuvre that results features elements as diverse as robots, lotus flowers, a Kalashnikov and a phallus. His art is designed first and foremost to elicit emotion. In this respect, the artist himself claims to be ‘a romantic, primarily in search of the beautiful.’ He operates entirely autonomously and independently in the contemporary art world of today. The exhibition showcases the results of an artistic career that spans almost a quarter of a century. Van Bentem’s wonderful installations are displayed in the Gemeentemuseum’s period rooms: the ideal setting for an unprecedented encounter be ... More |
| ArtPrize confirms more than 1,500 artists from 56 counties will compete for $560,000 | | Sotheby's Summer Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art in London total $139.9m | | Dulwich Picture Gallery awarded £2 million Catalyst Endowment funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund | 
Tia Tavonatti’s “Crucifixion” was the $250,000 first-place winner of last year’s ArtPrize contest. Photo: Brian Kelly.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- ArtPrize, the radically open, international art competition, announced 1,511 entries from 56 countries and 45 states will show their work in 162 venues within three-square miles of downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. Artists will now compete for a combination of public votes and juried prizes to secure part of the world’s largest art prize, totaling $560,000. The event begins Sept. 19-Oct. 7, 2012. A complete list of participating artists and venues can all be viewed at www.artprize.org/entries. Event organizers today closed Connections—the period when artists can officially secure a venue and participate in ArtPrize 2012. Unique to any other art competition in the world, ArtPrize requires artists and venues to self-curate all exhibition spaces, which allows for the event’s epic scale, challenging use of space and dramatic surprises. An open call for entries allowed any place to be a venue and a ... More | | 
Joan Miró, Peinture (Étoile Bleue). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s two-day sale series of Impressionist & Modern Art concluded realising a combined total of £89.2m / $139.9m / €110.7m. This brings the total for Impressionist & Modern Art sold worldwide at Sotheby’s so far this year to £449m / $719m / €513m -a 12% increase on the same period last year,and the second highest year-to-date total for worldwide sales of Impressionist & Modern Art in the company’s history.* The star of this season’s Impressionist & Modern Art sales was undoubtedly Joan Miró’s Peinture (Étoile Bleue) which sold for £23,561,250 / $36,946,396 /€29,260,764–the highest price achieved across all London auction houses this week and a strong new record for the artist at auction.** Commenting on the week’s sales, Helena Newman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department, Europe, said: “The exceptional price for Miró’s Pein ... More | | 
Income from this new endowment fund will be dedicated to safeguarding the sustainability and growth of the Gallery.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery announced that it has been granted £2 million in endowment funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Catalyst Endowments scheme. This generous pledge challenges the Gallery to raise another £4 million in matching donations to create a new £6m endowment fund for visual arts learning. Income from this new endowment fund will be dedicated to safeguarding the sustainability and growth of the Gallery’s award-winning and life-changing learning and community engagement programmes, curatorial research and the provision of research services for students. In addition, it will help the Gallery attract new supporters and encourage existing donors to give towards its endowment. Simon Freakley, Chairman of the Trustees ... More |
| Sean Kelly Gallery presents Disruptive Desires: Laurent Grasso, Rebecca Horn and Ran Huang | | Crocker Art Museum presents retrospective of ceramic artist Karen Karnes | | "Izhar Patkin: the Wandering Veil": mid-career show opens at Tel Aviv Museum of Art | 
Ran Huang, Disruptive Desires, Tranquility and the Loss of Lucidity, 2012 (detail). HD video transferred to Blu-ray DVD, 23 minutes, edition of 5© Ran Huang. Courtesy: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York and Long March Space, Beijing.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly announces the new exhibition, Disruptive Desires, featuring work by Laurent Grasso, Rebecca Horn and Ran Huang. In the exhibition, each of the gallery’s three spaces is dedicated to a single artist, with film-based works that explore the notion of desire in disparate and unique ways. Gallery one features a compilation of some of Rebecca Horn’s earliest performance works, which were the first to incorporate the artist’s “body extension” sculptures—objects strapped to the figure to exaggerate the structure of the human form as it moves through space. One such example is Einhorn (Unicorn), 1970, which was originally presented at Documenta in 1972; it depicts a woman walking through a field and down a tree-lined path without offering ... More | | 
Karen Karnes, Flower Container, 1997. Glazed stoneware, woodfired. 9 ¾ x 9 ½ x 9 ½ in. Collection of Abel Weinrib. Photo credit: Anthony Cuñha.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum presents a major retrospective of ceramic artist Karen Karnes from June 23 through September 30, 2012. For more than 60 years, Karnes has been at the forefront of the studio pottery movement, creating some of the most iconic vessels and sculptural objects in American ceramics. This exhibition will highlight 69 masterworks from this pioneering artist. Karnes’ artistic output is recognized for its understated, poetic surfaces and sublime biomorphic forms. From her dramatic salt-glazed pottery of the 1960s and ‘70s to her most recent joined sculptural pieces, Karnes consistently has challenged herself and transformed expectations of the medium. She remains one of the most influential working potters today and is a mentor to several generations of studio potters. “American Craft” magazine noted, “Karen Karnes is ... More | | 
This mid-career survey, titled, “The Wandering Veil” is structured thematically rather than chronologically.
TEL AVIV.- A major exhibition of over 100 works by Izhar Patkin frames two central narratives in the artist’s 30-year career: the crisis of the physicality of the image in painting and in representation in the age of cinema; and the power of the global city. The exhibition opened concurrently on 21st June at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and on June 23rd at The Open Museum in Tefen, northern Israel, until November 2012. The show will travel to MASS MoCA in 2013. This mid-career survey, titled, “The Wandering Veil” is structured thematically rather than chronologically. It focuses on the last decade, but also includes groundbreaking earlier work. At the heart of the exhibition are six rooms enveloped with Patkin’s scenic veil paintings. Ethereal and dreamlike, they tread the boundaries between illusion and reality; a cross-pollination of nationalities and religions. The works on 14’ high pleated tu ... More |
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 Cumbrian arts and heritage organisation share in a £56 million Catalyst: endowments scheme CUMBRIA.- Thirty four arts and heritage organisations across England including Cumbrian based Lakeland Arts Trust are set to get a share of a £162 million funding boost after successfully applying for a share of a new £56 million scheme to support endowments. The Catalyst: Endowments programme is a joint initiative between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Designed to bring new money into the cultural sector, the programme offers match-funding to help arts and heritage organisations become more sustainable and resilient by building a new endowment fund or developing an existing one, in order to increase their annual income. The funding will support the Lakeland Arts Trust in a fundraising campaign to secure a £1M endowment for the Windermere Steamboat Museum: for every ... More First American retrospective of artist Jack Goldstein opens at the Orange County Museum of Art NEWPORT BEACH, CA.- The Orange County Museum of Art opens the exhibition Jack Goldstein x 10,000. Organized by OCMA and guest-curated by Philipp Kaiser, the exhibition is the first American retrospective of the Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein (1945-2003), who spent most of his life in Southern California and became a central figure in the Pictures Generation of the 1970s, which grounded much of its art on the Postmodernist discourse of the time. This extensive exhibition frames Goldstein a pivotal artist of his generation, and showcases his influential paintings and films, while also including many sound recordings, installations, and ephemera. Goldstein's work, considered critical to younger artists now looking back to the 70s and 80s, has been highly influential, and Jack Goldstein x 10,000 provides audiences who may not be familiar with his work an in-depth ... More Chicago based "Artist Painters" creates jobs for artists while raising art awareness In the community CHICAGO, ILL.- "Artist Painters" is not your ordinary painting company. The Chicago based LLC is the latest art piece by artist Gene Pellegrene, 38. The concept behind Artist Painters was to form a painting company, utilizing artists from all creative fields to execute high quality interior/exterior painting projects for their customers. This painting company functions as a way to financially support the participating artists, pay them a generous wage and subtly raise art awareness one project at a time. The artists involved are all experienced house painters as well as relevant artists in their communities either as visual artists, musicians, actors or artists of other means of expression. Artist Painters embraces the philosophy of the "local living economy" by taking an ethical and socially responsible approach to business and its artists. The goal is to serve the common good in the ... More 100-year-old Battleship Texas to reopen after leak LAPORTE, TX (AP).- A temporary patch has halted a leak that shut down the 100-year-old Battleship Texas, and the relic from World Wars I and II is set to reopen. Ship manager Andy Smith told the Houston Chronicle the public will have access to the ship again Saturday (http://bit.ly/PIyD7m ). He says workers are determining whether to upgrade a rubber patch, but that the "emergency is controlled." The ship was turned into a museum in 1948 and is the last remaining dreadnought from that era. It sprang a leak two weeks ago, when staff with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the ship's caretaker, found it listing and discovered flooded areas. Before pumping out the water, workers removed oil left from when the ship was still used in battle. ... More |
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