| Exhibition explores the private side of Josef Albers's work and the influence of the U.S. and Mexico in his career | | Twenty-seven newly discovered letters reveal details of the search for Captain Scott and his companions | | Claremont Rug Company exhibits "The Bostonian Collection," important 19th century Oriental carpets | 
Josef Albers, Color Study for White Line Square, not dated (detail). Oil on blotting paper (with gouache, pencil, and varnish), 29.53 x 29.66 cm© 2012 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society New York. Digital Image by Imaging 4 Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Josef Albers (1888–1976) is best known for his series of paintings Homage to the Square, in which he repeatedly explored color relationships within a similar format of concentric squares. Much less familiar, however, are the painted studies on paper that Albers made for his paintings. Expressively experimental, the works offer a revealing look at the artist’s investigation of form and color. Now, for the first time in New York, The Morgan Library & Museum will present an exhibition entirely devoted to this aspect of the artist’s work. Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper, on view from July 20 to October 14, features approximately eighty such studies spanning the four decades after the artist left Nazi Germany and immigrated to the United States. ... More | | 
Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- A newly-discovered letter describing the discovery of the bodies of Captain Scott and his companions on their famous fatal polar journey 100 years ago is to be auctioned. Written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of the Terra Nova expedition and one of the 12-man search party who found Scott, the letter will be offered for sale within the Polar section of Christie’s Travel, Science and Natural History auction to be held in South Kensington on Tuesday, 9 October 2012. Preserved by a family member, and hitherto unknown to scholars, the correspondence is part of a series of twenty-seven letters covering the whole span of the expedition from its departure in June 1910 to the sad return of the survivors to New Zealand in February 1913. The correspondence is a major new source by one of the most prominent expedition members and is estimated to fetch between £50,000 and £80,000 when sold as a complete coll ... More | | 
Detail of Persian Kermanshah "Tree of Life" (4-6 x 7-8, ca 3rd quarter 19th century).
OAKLAND, CA.- Jan David Winitz, an eminent art dealer who specializes in 19th century antique Oriental carpets, today announced the opening of an exhibition of “The Bostonian Collection,” a globally significant private rug collection assembled and held by a New England-based family over four generations. Winitz, the president and founder of Claremont Rug Company, said, “The Bostonian Collection” will be displayed starting today at the Gallery located at 6087 Claremont Avenue in Oakland, CA. Identified in ArtDaily as one of the three most significant collections of antique Persian Rugs to come to market this century, the 180-rug trove includes 18 highly sought after undyed camelhair rugs, dating to circa 1825 and six extremely rare Persian Motasham Kashans rugs from the first half of the 19th century. Many of these antique carpets are in pristine condition, having been in storage for more than a century and none have ... More |
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| World's second largest fashion collection at The Chicago History Museum goes digital | | Mark Cavendish and Boris Johnson among 40 new portraits of London 2012 stars | | Turner Prize-winner artist Tracey Emin calls Olympic torch run a surreal experience | 
The digital collections portal offers researchers, students, scholars, designers, and fashion aficionados a significant fashion resource and a rich source of historical information.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Chicago History Museum announces the launch of the online Digital Collection which currently features 1,382 digital images representing nearly 400 costumes, accessories, and fashion drawings including all costume materials exhibited in the museum’s Charles James, Dior, Bertha Palmer, Chic Chicago, and I Do exhibitions. The official launch of the Digital Collection is on July 10, and will be accessible from the Chicago History Museum website. The Digital Collection is made possible by a generous donation from the Costume Council of the Chicago History Museum. Garments by Gianni Versace, Christian Dior, Charles James and Cristóbal Balenciaga headline the content on the Digital Collection. In addition to hundreds of garment and accessory images, the website also features videos of CT scans of ... More | | 
Boris Johnson, photographed by Jillian Edelstein, 13 Jan 2012, City Hall, London. ©Jillian Edelstein National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 project.
LONDON.- Striking new portraits of Mark Cavendish, Boris Johnson and Anish Kapoor were unveiled today Thursday 19 July 2012 at the National Portrait Gallery, as part of its new exhibition Road to 2012: Aiming High, by its patron, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. After three years and more than 100 photographs, the National Portrait Gallery’s largest commission, made possible by BT, includes 40 new portraits of some of the key players in London 2012. The works by photographers Anderson & Low, Nadav Kander and Jillian Edelstein go on show at the National Portrait Gallery from today 19 July. The exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival, the spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration from 21 June until 9 September 2012, bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK. Among Anderson & Low’s group of athletes and sports ... More | | 
British Artist Torchbearer 068 Tracey Emin as she carries the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Margate and Westgate-On-Sea. AP Photo/Yui Mok/LOCOG.
LONDON (AP).- She's won the Turner Prize and shown the world her messy bed, but artist Tracey Emin says carrying the Olympic torch was an overwhelming experience. The artist ran with the flame Thursday through her seaside hometown of Margate in southeast England, posing on the steps of the Turner Contemporary art gallery, currently showing an exhibition of her work. Emin said the experience had been "like the most surreal dream you can ever imagine" — and exhausting. She confessed that "it's a long way. I haven't run since about 1978." Emin is renowned for her provocative and confessional art. Her most famous works include a recreation of her disheveled bed — complete with soiled clothing and empty vodka bottles — and an appliqued tent entitled "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With." ... More |
| $5 million Gift from alumni endows directorship of Princeton University Art Museum | | Saatchi Online launches world's largest online exhibition created by top curators from around the world | | Flowers Gallery offers an exploration of environmental interventions in contemporary photography | 
James Steward, who is also a lecturer with the rank of professor in Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology, will become the first to hold the named directorship.
PRINCETON, NJ.- A $5 million gift from Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger of Dallas, both members of Princeton University's Class of 1976, will endow the directorship of the Princeton University Art Museum. The funds to create the Nancy A. Nasher-David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Directorship will provide essential support for this key leadership position in the arts community, according to Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman. "This much-appreciated gift will strengthen the ability of one of Princeton's great treasures to meet the educational and scholarly needs of our University community, while broadening the artistic horizons of countless visitors," she said. "Nancy and David's love of the visual arts — and the generous spirit with which they share it — promises to enrich both the cultural life of their alma mater and, because the Princeton University Art Museum is open to all, that of our nat ... More | | 
The 100 curators selected for the Saatchi Online project by Rebecca Wilson, Director of the Saatchi Gallery, London and Board Member of Saatchi Online, represent the world’s most prestigious museums and galleries.
LONDON.- Saatchi Online, a global platform for emerging artists, announces today the launch of 100 CURATORS 100 DAYS, a major initiative that recognizes 1,000 artists for their outstanding work. Beginning Wednesday, July 18, every day for 100 days Saatchi Online will reveal one curator’s selection of ten artists to be included in the largest exhibit of its kind. The curators have made their selections from over 60,000 artists that are currently exhibited on Saatchi Online. The entire list of curators for 100 CURATORS 100 DAYS can be viewed July 18 at saatchionline.com/100curators. The 100 curators selected for the Saatchi Online project by Rebecca Wilson, Director of the Saatchi Gallery, London and Board Member of Saatchi Online, represent the world’s most prestigious museums and galleries. They include: • Adam Budak, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC • Peter MacGill, Pace/MacGill ... More | | 
Raven Smith, Untitled (from the series The Worst Day of my Life), 2006. C-type print, Edition 10, 40 x 50 cm. Photo: Courtesy Flowers Gallery.
LONDON.- Uncommon Ground is an exploration of environmental interventions in contemporary photography. Inspired by the work of Keith Arnatt and Gabriel Orozco, this exhibition aims to obscure the intersection between photographs of observed reality and artistically altered reality. Here, environment is taken in its broadest sense: natural ecosystems, urban and suburban space, domestic interiors, industrial landscapes and even political arenas. A selection of represented and invited artists’ work spanning the last decade, across a variety of international locations, are on view. Documentarians create visual evidence of human interference with a growing propensity for scale and complexity; they describe complicated phenomena by embedding concepts within their subject matter. Other practioners perform figurative or sculptural interventions by physically inserting themselves and their subjects into an environment. They engage, manipulate, transform, or become transformed by th ... More |
| Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh appoints Michele Fabrizi as new Board Chair | | Russia comes to London's summer celebrations in the shape of an extraordinary exhibition | | Major sales by Mallett at Masterpiece include important rediscovered chairs and a king's desk | 
She joined MARC USA in 1982, and in 2003, was named President and CEO of the nationwide advertising division, the post she holds today.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Michele Fabrizi has been named the new board chair at The Andy Warhol Museum. Fabrizi’s responsibilities will include working with the board to develop the mission and strategy of the museum, and recommend an operating budget. Fabrizi will oversee the board in developing new programs, raising funds, and establishing committees to carry out the work of the board. In addition, Fabrizi will evaluate members of the museum’s board, advise the museum director, and make recommendations for the appointment of individuals to the museum board. Fabrizi now also serves as a trustee of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and a member of its Executive Committee. “I’ve always been a fan of Andy Warhol – he was such an original, a game-changer and that’s the appeal to me. Beyond my ... More | | 
The 4th Heigth + Urs Bigler, TRINITY, 135 x 100cm.
LONDON.- Erarta Galleries London with The Fourth Height + Urs Bigler bring The Crown to Diamond Jubilee London. The photographic exhibition is “the multicultural trashdreaming” vision of The Fourth Height, a troika of colourful Russian artists (Dina Kim, Katya Kameneva, and Gala Smirnskaya) working in collaboration with renowned Swiss photographer Urs Bigler. Following the successful exhibition at Volta New York last year, Russia comes to London’s summer celebrations in the shape of an extraordinary, much talked about exhibition. The exhibition presents a series of highly aesthetic photographic images that capture the artists as they stage three intertwined narratives: The power of femininity, capitalism versus Russia’s folk tradition, and the societal and geographical challenges the Russian continent-country has faced since its birth. Drawing upon the visual rhetoric of the feminist movement, and r ... More | | 
Some of the Regency mahogany chairs attributed to Gillow’s and decorated by John Nost Sartorius.
LONDON.- Mallett, one of the world’s leading antiques dealers, achieved its best sales at a fair for more than a decade at Masterpiece, which took place in London from 28 June to 4 July. A mixture of British, continental European and American private collectors bought important pieces including a desk commissioned by the Duke of Clarence, later William IV, with a fascinating story behind it, a rare and recently rediscovered set of Regency chairs and a pair of exceptional George III commodes attributed to William Hallett, the most fashionable cabinetmaker of his day. “This has been our most successful fair of the 21st century”, said Giles Hutchinson Smith, Chief Executive of Mallett, which recently moved to magnificent new premises in Ely House, an elegant former bishop’s palace in Mayfair, central London. The Carlton House Desk, so called because this design ... More |
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 Glasgow-based artist Andrew Miller exhibits at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art GATESHEAD.- Dusk or Dawn by Glasgow-based artist Andrew Miller is the second exhibition at BALTIC 39, a new cultural hub for contemporary art. Miller is part of the celebrated generation of artists to have emerged from Glasgow School of Art in the 1990s. He works across a variety of media including drawing, sculpture, photography and site-specific installation. Exploring the ambiguous territory between form and function, Miller re-assembles worn and redundant materials, charging them with an unfamiliar presence to prompt questions about use, context and value. The exhibition takes its title from the ambiguities explored in Miller’s work and the in-between states of the materials he uses. Dusk or Dawn comprises two new works made especially for the exhibition and in response to BALTIC 39 gallery. The first, You me something else 2012, is a canopy of bunting that traverses the gallery ... More Fashion District rolls out the green carpet on Broadway NEW YORK, NY.- The Fashion Center Business Improvement District has a new public art installation titled Broadway Green that will delight and intrigue onlookers along Broadway Boulevard this summer. Designed by Fashion District-based environmental artists Patricia Leighton and Del Geist, the exhibit occupies the neighborhood’s pedestrian plazas through August 27th . “Everyone knows the Fashion District is America’s fashion capital, but it has emerged in recent years as an artistic center of New York City as well,” said Barbara Blair Randall, president of the Fashion Center BID. “Broadway Green is part of a new tradition of world-class public art installations in the neighborhood that began three years ago with Sidewalk Catwalk and continued most recently with Figurations and Tour de Fashion.” "With crisp, green grass and striking stands, Broadway Green is far from garden-variety ... More Mattress Factory welcomes new Director of Education PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Mattress Factory announced the addition of Felice Q. Cleveland as the museum’s new Director of Education. Cleveland joins the Mattress Factory after five years as the Education Coordinator at the renowned American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, where she led the way in developing the museum’s workshops, summer camps, and after school programs. Cleveland brings with her a wealth of experience in the areas of art education, community development, and youth leadership programming. After earning her BA in Art History in 2002, she joined the Peace Corps and spent two years teaching English grammar and environmental and cultural studies to middle and high school students in rural Cameroon." Says Cleveland, “It was during that time that I discovered the importance of working with and in a community, and also that I wanted to ... More Philbrook debuts Campana Brothers exhibition to North America TULSA, OK.- Philbrook Museum of Art opened Antibodies: The Works of Fernando and Humberto Campana, 1989-2009, an exhibition of Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany. Following an extensive tour of Europe and South America, this mid-career retrospective of these Brazilian brothers’ contemporary designs features over 200 objects including furniture, art pieces, jewelry, and every day objects as curated by MathiasSchwartz-Clauss of the Vitra Design Museum. This exhibition will run through October 7, 2012. Through merging the high-tech and the hand-made, Fernando and Humberto Campana have built a name for themselves as unconventional design by bringing the culture of their native Brazil or personal experience into each piece. In Favela the brothers showcase the hybridity of Såo Paolo with this functional chair built to mimic the city’s “slums,” where ... More New Zealand artist brings smiles to children at Brookdale Hospital BROOKLYN, NY.- Children at Brooklyn’s Brookdale Hospital are using their imaginations and creativity this summer as they work alongside New Zealand artist, Vivien Masters. Vivien is collaborating with Brookdale as part of her international non-profit art project for seriously ill children, the Dreamscape Project. Throughout July she will be working with the Child Life Department at Brookdale to deliver art classes to children facing the daily challenges of long-term medical treatment. Together, they will create three large-scale artworks with the children, all of which will be donated to Brookdale Hospital by the artist upon completion. Newly appointed CEO Mark E. Toney is 100% behind the project, understanding the importance of such opportunities for young patients to express themselves. Vivien works as a visual artist and art educator in Auckland, New Zealand, and has a background in working ... More Exceptional roster of Porsche race cars join the starting grid for RM's eagerly awaited Monterey sale BLENHEIM, ON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, has announced more star consignments for its highly anticipated Monterey sale, August 17–18, in California, this time a remarkable group of Porsches. Comprising twelve examples in total and spanning 48 years of production, the offering is headlined by an exceptional group of racing greats from the sixties, seventies, and eighties. Continuing RM’s commitment to present the world’s finest automobiles, each represents the ultimate in design, engineering, and performance and showcases Porsche’s magnificent racing prowess over the years. “Whether they’re looking for road or racing cars, Porsche enthusiasts are always extremely discerning as they look for quality cars with good history and authenticity,” says Rob Myers, Chairman & Founder, RM Auctions. ... More |
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