| The Getty and University of Iowa Museum collaborate on conservation of Jackson Pollock's "Mural" | | It's lunchtime at the New York Public Library with new, free exhibition covering some 150 years of lunch hour | | Minneapolis Institute of Arts opens largest Rembrandt exhibition ever in the U.S. | 
Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943. Oil on canvas, 247 x 604.5 cm. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1956.9. Reproduced with permission from The University of Iowa.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock’s seminal work Mural (1943) will be conserved as part of a new collaboration between the Getty and the University of Iowa Museum of Art. The painting will travel to the Getty Center in Los Angeles this summer, where it will undergo technical study and conservation treatment by research scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum. “This is a win-win situation for everyone,” said University of Iowa President Sally Mason. “With this conservation treatment by the Getty, Pollock’s Mural will continue to be viewed for many years to come.” James Cuno, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, added “This painting is of phenomenal importance in the history of 20th century art, and this project meshes perfectly with the skills of the Getty Museum’s paintings conservators and th ... More | | 
Hot Dog Stand, West St. and North Moore, Manhattan. Berenice Abbott. Gelatin silver print, 1936. Photo: NYPL, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. 1219152.
NEW YORK, NY.- The clamor and chaos of lunch hour in New York has been a defining feature of the city for some 150 years. Now, The New York Public Library explores New York’s relationship with the midday meal in Lunch Hour NYC , a free exhibition at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Organized in four thematic sections— quick-lunch, lunch at home, charitable lunch, and power lunch—Lunch Hour NYC reveals how the city's pace and people have influenced where and what we eat. From kitchen tables to cafeterias, oysters to Jamaican beef patties, the changes in lunch reflect demographic shifts, economic development, and the city's historic appetite for new foods. While some classics endure—the "power lunch" restaurant has been with us since Delmonico's set the standard in 1837—other features of the city's culinary landscape have transformed over the years, especially in respons ... More | | 
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–69), Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Gold-Trimmed Cloak (detail), 1632, oil on panel, © Private Collection, New York.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- "Rembrandt in America"? brings together the largest number of authentic paintings by the famous Dutch master ever assembled in the United States. This groundbreaking exhibition opened June 24 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Featuring rarely seen work from two dozen museums and a few extraordinary private collections, the exhibition traces the arc of Rembrand's career and influence as revealed in fifty paintings. Approximately thirty are bona fide works by the master. All were purchased as authentic Rembrandts for American collections, but modern scholarship has re-attributed some. Others are still debated and the exhibition presents them as open questions for public consideration. "Rembrandt in America" was organized and presented by the MIA, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. One of the most important painters in the history of European art, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) ... More |
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| Vienna's Albertina offers first survey of the US artist Joel Sternfeld’s work in Austria | | Harry Ransom Center announces first photograph to travel to Europe for first time in 50 years | | Art Institute announces appointment of Sylvain Bellenger as Curator of Medieval to Modern Department | 
Joel Sternfeld, Nags Head, North Carolina (#1), June-August 1975© Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York, 2012.
VIENNA.- This exhibition offers the first survey of the US artist Joel Sternfeld’s work in Austria. The Albertina shows eleven series by the photographer dating from between the early 1970s and 2007. Influenced by William Eggleston, but also by the color theories of the Bauhaus, Joel Sternfeld, who was born in New York in 1944, began to experiment with color photography in the 1970s and soon developed his own style. He brought color to bear on a subject that had a long photographic tradition in the United States: the American social landscape. A critical observer, Sternfeld travelled across the USA for years, capturing the country and its inhabitants in all their peculiarities and contradictions. Most of his pictures explore political and social issues by representing their subjects’ relationship to nature or the landscape around them. Sternfeld’s photographs combine a documentary objective with an artist’ ... More | | 
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras. c. 1826. Photo by J. Paul Getty Museum.
AUSTIN, TX.- The first photograph will be loaned, along with 119 other images and photography-related items from the Harry Ransom Center's Gernsheim collection, to the Reiss Englehorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany, for the exhibition "The Birth of Photography-Highlights of the Helmut Gernsheim Collection." The exhibition runs from Sept. 9 through Jan. 6, 2013. The first photograph has been removed from display at the Ransom Center to be prepared for its departure in July. The first photograph will be back on display at the Ransom Center in February 2013. The first photograph was acquired by the Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, as part of the Gernsheim collection from Helmut and Alison Gernsheim in 1963. Taken in 1826 or 1827, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s "View from the Window at Le Gras" depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce’s estate, Le Gras, wh ... More | | 
Bellenger is currently Chief Curator of National Heritage at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced the appointment of Sylvain Bellenger as the Searle Chair and Curator of the museum's Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture. Bellenger, a French citizen, will assume his new responsibilities on October 1, 2012. This position was previously held by Douglas Druick, who became the Art Institute's President and Eloise W. Martin Director in August 2011. The Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture is the largest of the Art Institute's 11 curatorial groups, with a collection that includes the museum's renowned holdings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works; modern European masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Vasily Kandinsky; and earlier paintings by such artists as El Greco, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Bellenger is currently Chief Curator of Natio ... More |
| "Painting in Photography: Strategies of Appropriation" opens at Stadel Museum in Frankfurt | | 18th Biennale of Sydney: All our relations officially launched by Artistic Directors | | The Fundació Joan Miró and "la Caixa" Foundation present Mona Hatoum's first exhibition in Barcelona | 
Richard Hamilton (1922?2011), Eight-Self-Portraits (Detail), 1994. Thermal dye sublimation prints, 40 x 35 cm. DZ BANK Kunstsammlung© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012.
FRANKFURT.- From 27 June to 23 September 2012, the Städel Museum will show the exhibition “Painting in Photography. Strategies of Appropriation.” The comprehensive presentation will highlight the influence of painting on the imagery produced by contemporary photographic art. Based on the museum’s own collection and including important loans from the DZ Bank Kunstsammlung as well as international private collections and galleries, the exhibition at the Städel will center on about 60 examples, among them major works by László Moholy-Nagy, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, and Amelie von Wulffen. Whereas the influence of the medium of photography on the “classic genres of art” has already been the subject of analysis in numerous exhibitions and publications, less attention has been paid to the impact of painting on contemporary photography to date. The show at the Städel ex ... More | | 
18th Biennale of Sydney, Cal Lane, Domesticated Turf, 2012 (Installation Shot).
SYDNEY.- Artistic Directors Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster today unveiled the work of more than 100 artists from over 44 countries, presented at inner-city and harbourside locations across Sydney for the 18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations. Presented free to the public from 27 June until 16 September 2012, the Biennale of Sydney is Australia’s largest and most respected contemporary visual arts event, attracting more than half a million visitors in 2010. Beginning with the two curators in dialogue, the curatorial premise all our relations provides a collaborative framework that allows conversations to extend to both artists and audiences. The collaboration between Artistic Directors Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster is the first time in the Biennale’s 39-year history that an exhibition has been developed by a curatorial duo. Exploring new ideas from unexpected voices around the world, the 18th Bie ... More | | 
Globe, 2007. Mild steel. Diam. 170 cm© the artist. Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen. Courtesy Galerie Max Hertzler, Berlin.
BARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation and ”la Caixa” Foundation present Projection, an exhibition by Mona Hatoum, the winner of the third Joan Miró Prize awarded jointly by the two institutions in 2011. Projection, curated by Martina Millà in close collaboration with Mona Hatoum, is the artist’s first monographic exhibition in Barcelona. It includes nearly forty pieces from the last twenty years, with a stronger presence of recent work. The aim of the show is to broaden our view of the artist and position her beyond the geopolitical references that have become almost synonymous with her production. Through this ensemble of installations, videos, sculptures, photographs and works on paper, Projection aims to subtly disrupt the semantic field that we usually identify with Hatoum in order to open up new possibilities, suggest new meanings and offer a new, complex and fresh reading of her universe and her large ... More |
| Magnificent, mysterious designs in American Folk Art revealed in African iconography | | Kaminski Auctions to offer Nautical, Americana, and Estate Auction during two-day sale | | Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation copy sells for $2.1M at the Robert Siegel Auction Galleries | 
The adinkra ram?s horn design of the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa.
By: Pearl Duncan
NEW YORK, NY.- Communities around the United States celebrated June nineteenth in historic, cultural and art events. The commemorative celebrations known as Juneteenth represent the date and delayed knowledge about an important historical event. Upcoming Colonial American stoneware auctions in July will also reveal new knowledge about history and art. In colonial times, news of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, liberation from slavery, finally reached African-Americans and others of Galveston, Texas in June 1865. The notification resounded in the nation. Today, news of important artists and art influences in Colonial American seep out equally slowly. To celebrate these new artistic discoveries, museums, auction houses and art dealers are working to credit and acknowledge American folk artists by revisiting the attributions of Colonial American art images. They are adding the names and identities of individuals, groups and cultures omitted from the historical art recor ... More | | 
William Pierce Stubbs (American, 1842-1909), Schooner under sail (detail), oil on canvas, signed lower left, 27" x 39" (frame).
NAHANT, MASS.- Kaminski Auctions presents an exciting two-day Nautical, Americana, and Estate Auction on July 14th and 15th. The sale will take place at the scenic Devereaux Estate at 291 Nahant Road in Nahant, Massachusetts. Featuring wonderful collections of American furniture, nautical paintings, decorative art, silver, and jewelry, the sale will also be accompanied by a two-day tag sale at the estate. Highlights in the nautical genre will be two wonderful collections of paintings by Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Ameircan 1850-1921) and William Pierce Stubbs (American, 1842-1909). Denmark-born Jacobson and Maine-born Stubbs are two artists renowned for their extensive works of American maritime scenes. For their ability to masterfully capture ships and seascapes, both artists’ work have appeared in many of the nation’s leading art galleries and auction houses. In July, Kaminski Auctions will feature t ... More | | 
A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. AP Photo/Seth Kaller, Inc.
By: Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation sold Tuesday at a New York auction for more than $2 million. It's the second-highest price ever paid for a Lincoln-signed proclamation — after one owned by the late Sen. Robert Kennedy that went for $3.8 million two years ago. The latest copy of the 1863 document ordering the freeing of slaves, which was auctioned at the Robert Siegel Auction Galleries, went to David Rubenstein, managing director of The Carlyle Group investment firm. The American seller remained anonymous. The $2.1 million purchase price includes a buyer's premium. This price and the one for the Kennedy copy are the highest ever paid for the proclamation, reflecting a "growing appreciation for documents that capture the most important moments in our history," said Seth Kaller, a dealer in American historic documents and expert on the ... More |
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 Santa Fe hosts world's largest folk art market By: Jeri Clausing, Associated Press
SANTA FE, NM (AP).- The stories are as diverse as the artists themselves: Afghan women who have lifted themselves out of poverty through a cooperative that sells their traditional embroidery; a former cook for the Sudan People's Liberation Army who now sells beaded corsets to help support her family and send her many grandchildren to school; and sisters from Kyrgyzstan who make hand-stitched felt and silk scarves using a family tradition that dates back some 300 years. The women and their tales are just a sampling of the real lives behind the work that will be featured in New Mexico next month at the popular Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, which sends 90 percent of its $2 million-plus annual proceeds back to the artists and ... More Large Liz? Tower housing Big Ben to get a new name LONDON (AP).- The iconic Clock Tower of Britain's Parliament — widely, though incorrectly, known as Big Ben — is being renamed in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, authorities said Tuesday. The 315-foot (96-meter)-high structure, one of Britain's most recognizable landmarks, will now formally be known as Elizabeth Tower following a campaign by lawmakers to mark the monarch's 60 years on the throne. A House of Commons Commission statement said arrangements were being made for the "decision to be implemented in an appropriate manner in due course." The tower was completed in 1858. It houses a four-faced chiming clock and the famed 13.5 ton Big Ben bell. Over the years, people began calling the whole tower Big Ben. Prime Minister David Cameron, who backed the campaign for a change, said the new name was a "fitting tribute to the queen and the service she has ... More Vincent Fantauzzo undertakes an artistic marathon by painting 30 inspirational Australians in 30 days MELBOURNE.- NGV Studio opened 30 portraits 30 days, an exhibition that sees acclaimed Australian artist Vincent Fantauzzo undertake an artistic marathon by painting 30 inspirational Australians in 30 days. This exciting exhibition is a collaboration between the NGV and Lucid, a new social enterprise for which Vincent is an ambassador, that aims to raise awareness and break through the stigma surrounding alcohol and other drug addiction. Each day, a new artwork will be revealed as Vincent produces portraits of well-known Australians including The Hon Bob Hawke AC, film director Baz Lurhman, musician Kimbra and celebrity chef Matt Moran. “We are thrilled to be presenting another unique project like 30 portraits 30 days at NGV Studio. As the 30 days march on, Vincent will add each new portrait to the exhibition space – the final collection will be spectacular,” said ... More Preserving Asia's last bastion of colonial era By: Denis D. Gray, Associated Press
YANGON (AP).- There's nowhere in Asia like it any more: a cityscape studded with hundreds of grand and humble buildings from the colonial era amid multiethnic communities that have remained intact, vibrant and colorful for a century and more. Yangon, Myanmar's largest city and the country's former capital, has been bypassed by the rapid modernization that has bulldozed the past in virtually every other Asian metropolis. Once known as Rangoon, Yangon is being described as "a city that captured time." Now, as Myanmar opens its long-closed doors to the outside world, including a rapidly growing number of tourists, a major effort has been launched to preserve both Yangon's architecture and enchanting atmosphere from rampant development and ... More bitforms gallery to open summer group exhibition that features the work of seven artists NEW YORK, NY.- bitforms gallery announced a summer group exhibition that features the work of seven artists: Marco Brambilla, Daniel Canogar, Yael Kanarek, Tim Knowles, Mark Napier, Casey Reas, and Marina Zurkow. Borrowing its title from World on a Wire, Rainer Fassbinder's 1973 sci-fi film set in a cybernetics and futurology lab, the exhibition explores behavioral complexity, madness and simulation. Three projects in the exhibition are New York debuts: Mark Napier's net.flag: ten years of flags, comprised of nearly 23,000 flags created by visitors to the net.flag website; Marina Zurkow's The Thirsty Bird, an ecologically-charged animation informed by a recent residency in Houston, Texas; and Marco Brambilla's RPM, a psychological video portrait of a Formula One driver's point-of-view. The line between man and machine is blurred in Marco Brambilla's 3D video ... More Artist replaces Sandusky image on Penn State mural STATE COLLEGE (AP).- The depiction of Jerry Sandusky on a well-known mural across the street from the Penn State campus has been replaced by an image of a poet and activist draped with a blue ribbon — a symbol for awareness of child sexual abuse. It was artist Michael Pilato's latest step in erasing the image of the disgraced former assistant football coach following Sandusky's conviction last week on 45 counts at his child sex abuse trial. Sandusky was removed from the mural days after his arrest in November. But Pilato returned to the work on Sunday, painting in Dora McQuaid, a Penn State graduate who is a poet and an advocate for domestic and sexual violence victims and issues. The blue ribbon was added on Monday. Also replacing Sandusky were two red handprints — one belonging to Ann Van Kuren, one of the 12 jurors who convicted Sandusky, and the ... More Jewels from reputed mobster's home up for auction CHICAGO (AP).- Jewelry collectors who don't mind if their gems have a shady past will soon get the chance to bid on a stash of valuables found in the home of reputed mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. Federal agents raided Calabrese's home in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook two years ago and found a hoard of jewelry, guns and cash in a secret compartment behind a family portrait. Now, the Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/Mxe8YZ ) reports an online auction house in Texas plans to sell the items, which are valued at more than $500,000 and include more than 250 loose diamonds, earrings, engagement rings, luxury watches and other jewelry. "He's got lots of diamonds," said Bob Sheehan, owner of the Gaston & Sheehan, which will hold the online public auction July 10-24. Calabrese is currently behind bars. He was one of several reputed mobsters convicted in 2009 in a ... More |
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