| Detroit Institute of Arts brings five Spanish masterpieces to museum this summer | | Serbian archaeologists discover mammoth field containing at least five of the giant beasts | | Exhibition features the work of ten artists who engage "supporting" elements of painting | 
El Greco, The Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist, ca. 1600, oil on canvas. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
DETROIT, MI.- When the DIA’s Melancholy Woman by Pablo Picasso returns this summer after having been on loan to several prestigious museums over the past two years, it will bring with it four other masterworks by Spain’s most important artists. The DIA celebrates the painting’s return with the exhibition Five Spanish Masterpieces, on view June 21–August 19. It is free with museum admission. The exhibition comprises Portrait of the Matador Pedro Romero, by Francisco de Goya, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; The Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist, by El Greco, Museo del Prado, Madrid; Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, by Salvador Dalí, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Portrait of a Man, by Diego Velázquez, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Melancholy Woman, by Pablo Picasso, Detroit Institute of Arts. Five Spanish Masterpieces underscores the international importance of ... More | | 
Miomir Korac, left, the director of the Viminacium archaeological park, climbs up to a site where mammoth remains were discovered. AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic.
By: Marko Drobnjakovic, Associated Press
KOSTOLAC, SERBIA (AP).- First there was one. Then another. And another. Archaeologists in Serbia say they have discovered a rare mammoth field containing the remains of at least five of the giant beasts that lived here tens of thousands of years ago. The discovery last week at the Kostolac coal mine, east of the Serbian capital of Belgrade, is the first of its kind in the region. It could offer important insight into the ice age in the Balkans, said Miomir Korac from Serbia's Archaeology Institute. "There are millions of mammoth fragments in the world, but they are rarely so accessible for exploration," he told The Associated Press. "A mammoth field can offer incredible information and shed light on what life looked like in these areas during the ice age." The remains were found ... More | | 
Sarah Cain, Balls to the Wall, 2012. Acrylic, ribbon and screws on canvas, 88 x 100 x 3 inches. Courtesy Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong presents Stretching Painting, an exhibition featuring the work of ten artists who engage "supporting" elements of painting, such as the frame, the wall, stretchers and hanging devices, as critical components of their work. Thinking beyond the traditional notion of painting as paint on canvas, many of the artists in this exhibition also expand the possibilities of support. In lieu of using canvas alone, they incorporate and combine hand-woven and hand-dyed textiles, porcelain, and an array of other handmade and found materials in unexpected and exciting ways. While wide-ranging in their interests and methods, the artists of Stretching Painting all demonstrate a deep investment in materiality, labor, and process, part of a stimulating tendency manifest in all aspects of contemporary culture today. Paintings by Hilary Harnischfeger, James Hyde, and Kate Shepherd ... More |
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| In an intimidation campaign, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei barred from court | | Exhibition of works by François Morellet and Gerhard von Graevenitz opens at Sperone Westwater | | Exhibition presents fifty masterful and iconic images from the San Antonio Museum of Art's collection | 
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, left, stands next to his wife Lu Qing at their house's courtyard in Beijing. AP Photo/Andy Wong.
By: Isolda Morillo, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- Police barred artist Ai Weiwei from a hearing on his company's lawsuit against Beijing tax authorites and blocked filming at the courthouse Wednesday as part of an intimidation campaign against the outspoken government critic. Ai told reporters that police had ordered him to stay away from the court, and that he complied. Chinese authorities detained Ai for three months last year and his design company was ordered to pay 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) in back taxes and fines, in a penalty interpreted by activists as punishment for his criticism of the authoritarian government. The company has appealed the fine and separately filed a lawsuit that accuses the tax bureau of violating laws in handling witnesses, evidence and company accounts in the case. To the surprise of many, the lawsuit was accepted. Ai said police haven't explained why he was barred from the hearing nor have they ever explained his long detention ... More | | 
Francois Morellet, Répartation aléatoire de 20% de carrés superposés 9 fois, en pivotant au centre, 1969. Serigraphic ink on canvas, 31 ½ x 31 ½ inches (80 x 80 cm). Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents Moving Spirits: François Morellet & Gerhard von Graevenitz an exhibition of works by François Morellet (French, born 1926) and Gerhard von Graevenitz (German, 1934 – 1983) in collaboration with The Mayor Gallery in London. The exhibition includes paintings, reliefs, and kinetic works dated from 1960 to 1976 and reunites the two artists who were friends. The exhibition will be on view 21 June through 27 July 2012. During the 1950s and 1960s Morellet and von Graevenitz worked as part of the Light-Kinetic movement which coincided with the activities of the ZERO Group, Nouveau Realists, and “New Tendencies” artists. The artistic output during this time was concentrated throughout Europe in the hubs of Dusseldorf, Milan, Amsterdam, Paris, Stockholm, Zagreb, and Ulm. The Bauhaus, Piet Mondrian, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucio Fontana, and Piero Manzoni’s Achrome works ... More | | 
Kay Bell Reynal, Two Models with Sunshields, 1948. Gelatin Silver print. San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Hearst Foundation, 77.232
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Sublime Light: A Survey of American Photographs from the Permanent Collection gathers more than fifty masterful and iconic images from SAMA’s holdings of photography and strives to illustrate the breadth and vitality of the medium over the last one and one half centuries. Although the first fixed image was recorded in 1826, artists were exploring the possibilities of recording light-generated images as early as the Renaissance using an optical device called the camera obsura. It consisted of a darkened room or box with a hole in one side, light rays from an external scene passed through a small hole in one wall to form an image on the opposite wall, long enough to be traced on paper. Over time, this camera evolved through technological advances, diminished in size, and eventually became the modern portable camera. A selection of historic photographic images emerge from SAMA’s vault for the exhibit ... More |
| Sports world and leisure events artist LeRoy Neiman dies in New York at age 91 | | Aleah Chapin wins BP Portrait Award 2012 for large nude portrait of family friend | | Bortolami Gallery opens exhibition of works by artists Barbara Kasten & Justin Beal | 
Artist LeRoy Neiman poses in his studio in New York. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Painter and sketch artist LeRoy Neiman, best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes, died Wednesday at age 91. Neiman was the official painter of five Olympiads and was a contributing artist at Playboy magazine for many years. His longtime publicist, Gail Parenteau, confirmed his death at a Manhattan hospital on Wednesday but didn't disclose the cause. Neiman was a media-savvy artist who knew how to enthrall audiences with his instant renditions of what he observed. In 1972, he sketched the world chess tournament between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a live television audience. He also produced live drawings of the Olympics for TV and was the official computer artist of the Super ... More | | 
Auntie by Aleah Chapin (1st Prize, BP Portrait Award 2012). ©Aleah Chapin.
LONDON.- On Tuesday 19 June 2012 the winner of the BP Portrait Award 20102 was announced at the National Portrait Gallery. The prestigious first prize was won by 26-year-old artist Aleah Chapin, for her large-scale nude portrait of a family friend. Aleah Chapin wins £25,000 and a commission, at the National Portrait Gallery Trustees’ discretion, worth £4,000. The portrait can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery from Thursday 21 June when the BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition opens to the public. The second prize of £8,000 went to Ignacio Estudillo for El abeulo (Agustin Estudillo) and the third prize of £6,000 to Alan Coulson for Richie Culver. The BP Young Artist Award of £5,000 for the work of an entrant aged between 18 and 30 has been won by Jamie Routley for Tony Lewis. Brooklyn-based Aleah Chapin has just completed a MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art. She gained her BFA at Cornish College of the Arts ... More | | 
Barbara Kasten, Studio Construct 130, 2012. Archival pigment print, 50 x 40 in. Photo: Courtesy Bortolami Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami Gallery presents Constructs, Abrasions, Melons and Cucumbers, an exhibition of works by Barbara Kasten and Justin Beal from June 21st to August 3rd with a reception for the artists on June 21st from 6-8p.m. The exhibition aims to underline the artists' contrasting ways of "mis"-leading the audience's first reading of their work. Though forty-two years apart in age, both artists are interested in challenging the potential of their chosen mediums; Kasten presents complex sculpture as photography; Beal incorporates architectural elements into sculptural works, as well as transforming natural objects into humorous constructs. Throughout her career Kasten has continually pioneered experiments in photography and will exhibit works spanning from 1975 to 2012. In her cyanotypes from 1975 entitled Photogenic Paintings, Kasten folds and crumples ... More |
| First solo exhibition of Los Angeles artist Joe Deutch opens at Marlborough Chelsea | | Drawn from Photography exhibition opens at DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago | | Monumental Contemporary sculpture installation joins Warhol for a modern summer | 
Joe Deutch, I Have a Gun, 2006. Photo: Courtesy Marlborough Chelsea.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Chelsea presents the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles artist Joe Deutch, opening the evening of Thursday, June 21, 2012 from 6PM – 8PM at the gallery, located at 545 West 25th Street. Coming out of a long Los Angeles tradition of performance that includes such canonical artists as Chris Burden and Ron Athey, Joe Deutch’s practice seeks to continue a commitment to physicality through an exploration of his body and the constructed landscape beyond the studio as compelling sites for artworks. Among other feats of self-imperilment, his performances have included disabling a police car in broad daylight, being intentionally bitten by a poisonous rattlesnake and, most infamously, playing Russian roulette in front of an art class at UCLA, a performance that has been linked to Burden’s departure from his position at the university. The risk of incarceration, disfigurement and d ... More | | 
Ewan Gibbs, From the Empire State Building, 2003. Pencil on graph paper. Courtesy of the Flag Art Foundation.
CHICAGO, IL.- The exhibition Drawn from Photography, which opens at the DePaul Art Museum June 21, showcases 13 artists who use drawing to meticulously translate images originally received through photo-based media or digital circulation. Free and open to the public, the exhibition runs through Aug. 19. Drawn from Photography is organized by The Drawing Center, New York, and curated by center curator Claire Gilman. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on June 21 at the museum, located at 935 W. Fullerton Ave., just east of the CTA’s Fullerton “L” stop. Drawings feature scenes of social transformation from the last two centuries, including scenes of war and protest as well as views of urban landscapes and industrial developments. Whether using found media sources or their own photographs, the artists share a reconstructive, labor-intensive impulse that counteracts the rapid di ... More | | 
Philip Haas has created a group of large-scale sculptures, inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s renaissance paintings of the four seasons. © Matthew Hollow.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery presents a monumental installation in its grounds to coincide with Andy Warhol: The Portfolios, The Bank of America Collection. The Four Seasons, a set of four fifteen-foot fibreglass sculptures by American artist and film-maker Philip Haas, is the first ever public display of all four works and continues the Gallery’s commitment to displaying contemporary sculpture. In a spectacular transformation that is typical of his work, Philip Haas has created a group of large-scale sculptures, inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s renaissance paintings of the four seasons, comprising Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. The colossal size of Haas’s sculpture accentuates the visual puzzle of natural forms –- flowers, ivy, moss, fungi, vegetables, fruit, trees, bark, branches, twigs -– as they are ... More |
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 The 30th China Guardian quarterly auction yields over $33 million USD BEIJING.- China Guardian Auction Co., Ltd, the leading Chinese auction house based on sales volume,hosted its 30th Quarterly Auction on June 16-18, 2012, in Beijing, and was well received by thousands of bidders. Favored items sold for up to thirty times the estimated price. A series of precious lots previously collected by Zhang E, a renowned Chinese cartoonist and former Deputy Curator for the National Art Museum of China, were among the most popular items for sale. Works included Character and Landscape, a calligraphy by Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) and Chen Banding (1876-1970), which sold at 2.47 million yuan (388,778 US dollars), thirty times its estimated price. Landscape by Fu Baoshi sold at 2.07 million yuan (325,818 US dollars), twenty-five times its estimated price. In addition, Orchid and Bamboo by Pan Tianshou (1886-1971) sold at 1.84 million yuan ... More The Whitney presents Sharon Hayes: There's So Much I want to Say to You" NEW YORK, NY.- Beginning June 21, artist Sharon Hayes (b. 1970) will take over the Whitney Museum of American Art’s third-floor Peter Norton Family Galleries for a projectbased exhibition – her largest museum installation to date featuring a group of new works commissioned by the Whitney as well as a selection of existing works. All the works articulate different forms of what the artist refers to as “speech acts.” Neither a retrospective nor a survey of Hayes’s career, There’s so much I want to say to you is the fourth in a series of full-floor artist projects that has so far included exhibitions by Paul McCarthy, Christian Marclay, and Cory Arcangel. Hayes’s exhibition is curated by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, in close collaboration with the artist. Throughout her work in performance, video, photography, sound, and installation, Sharon Hayes explores t ... More Musical composition housed within a stone sculpture on view at Fairlop Waters LONDON.- Mira Calix’s Nothing is Set in Stone is a new immersive art installation, a musical composition housed within a stone sculpture at Fairlop Waters in Redbridge. Calix, an award-winning composer and artist, has created the musical sculpture from a striped rock known as Angel Stone (or Gneiss). Working with mineralogists from the Natural History Museum, she has pushed sound through the rock which creates a surprisingly physical experience of music. Nothing is Set in Stone will be embedded in its environment, accentuating and dramatising its beautiful location. For passers-by this surprising intervention into the landscape lends a cinematic quality reminiscent of classic music scores, which often rumour, hint and circle around a main theme that is not realised until the closing bars. As the listener hears Nothing is Set in Stone, the melody and composition never meet, ... More Benrimon Contemporary opens exhibition featuring installations, sculptures, and works on canvas NEW YORK, NY.- Benrimon Contemporary announced Love Me, a group exhibition featuring site specific installations, sculptures, and works on canvas created by Adam Bateman, Piper Brett, Michelle Carollo, Travis Childers, Alastair Levy and Hyungsub Shin. Their works demonstrate the varied effects manipulating the banal can achieve. Michelle Carollo and Piper Brett each give their selected subjects friendly and even funny connotations. Carollo inserts rubber hoses and nozzles, shiny air-conditioning tubes, grates, and sheet metal into elaborate scenes comprised of shapes stacked on multiple plains. The industrial materials snake through their fantastic environments like happy inhabitants. Brett similarly does not disguise her chosen objects, but plays with them for a humorous or nostalgic effect. In My First Name (in lights) and My Phone Number, she has written her name ... More The "anarchitectures" of Gordon Matta-Clark dialogue in the MACBA Collection BARCELONA.- The MACBA presents a journey in three chapters through the relationship that has been established over time between artistic practice and urban condition. The first part shows the legacy left by architect Le Corbusier and writer Jean Genet following their visit to Barcelona in the early nineteen-thirties, when they each applied their critical gaze to the city’s streets. The central theme of the exhibition is set by Office Baroque Portfolio, a display of the 46 photographs that evidence Matta-Clark’s ephemeral interventions during the last six years of his life and which were recently deposited in the MACBA by the long-term loan of Harold Berg, along with the series of drawings entitled Sky Hooks (1978), recently acquired by the MACBA Foundation. The final section is taken up by screening of Roberto Rossellini’s documentary film portraying the first days of the Pompidou ... More Exhibition of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres opening at Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art in Korea SEOUL.- PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, entitled Double. This exhibition examines the broad spectrum of Gonzalez-Torres’s oeuvre with particular emphasis on the malleable nature of his works, demonstrating how their meaning, as much as the form, can shift as the architectural, social, and curatorial landscapes change. As suggested in the title, Double proposes a dual presentation at both PLATEAU and our sister museum Leeum, as well as multiple locations throughout the city of Seoul, involving various ways of repetition and reconfiguration of the artist’s works. Utilizing editions and simultaneous manifestations of identical pieces, the presentation hopes to reflect the continuing vitality of his art, which continues to inspire countless artists in contemporary art today. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died at the early ... More 15 new and recent works from Jun Kaneko's ongoing dango series on view at Locks Gallery PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Locks Gallery is presenting an exhibition of ceramic and bronze sculptures, and paintings by Jun Kaneko, through July 13th, 2012. The exhibit features 15 new and recent works from his ongoing dango series—the artist’s signature sculpture. These rounded forms are each unique in profile, surface design and coloring. The works for this exhibit specifically reference the human body or face, and Locks will exhibit a pair of his bronze heads for the first time. The art critic Arthur Danto has called the dangos Kaneko’s “gentle giants”; their benign presence belies their heft and solidness. As Kaneko moves fluidly in his studio between sculpture, painting and drawing, his ideas have extended organically onto the opera stage—he received commissions for Madama Butterfly, Fidelo (world premiere in Philadelphia) and The Magic Flute (premiering San ... More |
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