| Pace London installs iconic Calder sculpture at St. Pancras, in celebration of the Olympics | | Kunsthaus Zürich presents for the first time works from the bequest of Bruno Giacometti | | Smithsonian picks paleontologist to lead Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History | 
The installation of Calder’s Tripes is the first public art project by Pace London. © 2012 Calder Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
LONDON.- In celebration of the Olympics and on the eve of Pace’s much anticipated opening of a 9,000 squarefoot gallery in London’s Mayfair neighbourhood, Pace London has installed a landmark monumental sculpture by the great twentieth-century artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) at the entrance of the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel. The dynamic form will remain on view for the duration of the Olympics, through 31st December 2012. The installation of Calder’s Tripes is the first public art project by Pace London and spotlights Pace’s expanding global network, which in addition to the new Mayfair location at 6 Burlington Gardens, also includes an existing space in Soho, four galleries in New York City and a 25,000-square-foot gallery in Beijing. Tripes (1974), created from bolted sheets of steel, stands more than nineteen feet tall and spans twelve feet. The Calder installation at St. Pancras Renaiss ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Landschaft in Stampa, 1959. Oil on canvas; 61 x 50,5 cm. Estate Bruno Giacometti© Succession Giacometti / 2012 ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- From 27 July 2012 to 17 February 2013, the Kunsthaus Zürich presents the first showing of works from the bequest of Bruno Giacometti (1907-2012), consisting primarily of more than 250 pieces by his brother Alberto and father Giovanni. There will also be a special presentation featuring sculptures and paintings from the Alberto Giacometti Foundation, revealing where and how these works will be exhibited in the Kunsthaus from 2017, and a chance to see the first results of the multi-year project to restore the Giacometti plasters. The presentation, designed by collection curator Philippe Büttner, is housed on the 1st floor of the building’s modern section. It is divided into two parts. The first presents the most important of the generally little-known paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Giovanni and Alberto Giacometti that were bequeathed to the Zürcher ... More | | 
Kirk Johnson is a paleontology expert who led a major excavation for ice age fossils of mammoths and mastodons in Colorado. AP Photo/Forrest Gibson, Smithsonian.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- A paleontologist who undertook a major excavation of ice age fossils of mammoths and mastodons in Colorado was named the next director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History on Thursday. Kirk Johnson, currently chief curator and vice president of research at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, will take command of one of the nation's most visited museums in late October. As the Smithsonian's largest museum on the National Mall, the natural history museum has about 300 resident scientists and holds more than 126 million specimens and artifacts, making it the largest natural history collection in the world. It draws about 7 million yearly visitors on average. Johnson said he is a "longtime museum guy" and that reaching so many visitors ... More |
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| Museum galleries become a treasure house of Chagall's works, including first local showing of 1957 Bible series | | Diane Carroll selected as Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Media Relations Manager | | Saatchi Gallery brings Contemporary Korean art to a new international audience | 
Marc Chagall, Fantastic Horse Cart, 1949. Gouache and pastel on paper, 23.25 x 18.12 in. Blanden Art Museum, Gift of Ann R. Smeltzer. Marc Chagall © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Two years ago, Ambassador Arnold Saltzman, the founding president and current executive vice president of Nassau County Museum of Art, proposed a highly ambitious undertaking—an exhibition that would make the museum’s galleries a treasure house of works by Marc Chagall. The museum’s former director, Constance Schwartz, was enlisted to organize an extraordinary exhibition of Chagall’s work, more extensive than any other previously seen in this area, and including paintings being shown to the Long Island public for the first time. Saltzman and Schwartz reached out for important loans from the many collectors, galleries and museums that they had established relationships with over the years. These efforts have resulted in Marc Chagall, a major exhibition that features significant paintings and a large selection ... More | | 
Carroll comes to Crystal Bridges from At Home in Arkansas, a monthly design magazine.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Diane Carroll has been selected as the new media relations manager at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. Carroll, who resides in Fayetteville, has been in Northwest Arkansas for more than 10 years. Carroll comes to Crystal Bridges from At Home in Arkansas, a monthly design magazine, where she served as editor in chief, overseeing all editorial aspects of the publication. Carroll previously worked as a regional editor for multiple publishing companies, researching, sourcing and writing feature articles for more than 40 publications. She also has experience managing public relations for a professional artist, and as a senior account executive for a San Francisco-based marketing communications agency. At Crystal Bridges she will be responsible for facilitating communications between the museum and various media outlets. “We’re delighted to welcome Diane to Crystal Bridg ... More | | 
Je Baak, The Structure of #1, #2, #3, #4, 2010. Multi channel LCD monitor installation. About 9 min (looped). Courtesy of Hada Contemporary.
LONDON.- KOREAN EYE: 2012, provides a unique platform to bring contemporary Korean art to a new international audience at the Saatchi Gallery to coincide with the Olympic Games. The exhibition presents the largest survey of new Korean art to date, and highlights an exciting group of artists who have recently emerged on the global art scene, producing work that provides an arresting insight into the future of contemporary art in Korea. KOREAN EYE: 2012 will be the very first time this group of artists have shown their work together, demonstrating a very diverse range of influences including fluency with technology, incredible attention to design and detail, and more historic factors, such as western classical art and Korea’s many years of occupation by foreign powers. It will also be the first time the Saatchi Gallery has helped curate an exhibition of this scale from work outside its own collection, selecting t ... More |
| Fine Allan Ramsay portrait of Scots lawyer John Campbell at Bonhams annual Scottish sale | | Guggenheim exhibition examines Frank Lloyd Wright's first buildings in New York City | | Valencian Institute for Modern Art opens exhibition featuring work by Frank Stella | 
Allan Ramsay, Portrait of John Campbell. Estimate: £80,000 - 100,000.. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A fine portrait of John Campbell, Lord Stonefield, by the well known Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay, is one of the outstanding lots in Bonhams Scottish Sale Part I in Edinburgh on 20 August. It is estimated at £80,000 - 100,000. John Campbell of Stonefield, better known as Lord Stonefield, was a prominent Scottish lawyer. The Ramsay portrait, regarded as one of the artist’s finest, is notable for the assertive gaze of the sitter and the exquisite rendering of the intricate costume. It was painted in 1749, the year before Campbell’s marriage to Lady Grace Stuart, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Bute, and the year after he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was appointed Lord of Session in 1762 and sat for 39 years on the bench until his death in 1801. Lord Stonefield had seven sons, all of whom predeceased him. His second son was Colonel John Campbell who achieved fame as the defender of M ... More | | 
Sketch by Frank Lloyd Wright sent to James Johnson Sweeney, illustrating the pavilion and Usonian house, May 23, 1953. Copy in the Estate of James Johnson Sweeney collection Drawings © Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1953, six years before the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened to the public, two of his structures—a pavilion and model Usonian house—were built on the future site of the museum to house a temporary exhibition displaying the architect’s lifelong work. From July 27, 2012, to February 13, 2013, the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim Museum will present A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian House and Pavilion, an exhibition comprised of selected materials from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives, highlighting the first Wright buildings erected in New York City. This exhibition is organized by Francine Snyder, Director of Library and Archives, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. ... More | | 
Recently, Frank Stella was awarded by the IVAM with the Premio Internacional Julio González.
VALENCIA.- Frank Stella (Malden, Massachusetts, 1936) is one of the twentieth-century’s great masters of abstract art who is still active. Awarded by the IVAM with the Premio Internacional Julio González, Frank Stella is considered the precursor of Minimalism. His work from the 1950s meant a radical rupture with the plastic precepts that had defined American Abstract Expressionist painting. His precise geometrical lines and plain coloured painting transformed not only the rectangular format of traditional canvas, but also the conceptual and vital precepts of the pictorial creation itself. Frank Stella, who first studied at the Philips Academy in Andover from 1950 until 1954, and later, in Princeton, until 1958, was heavily influenced by the impact made on American students by the creators of the Bauhaus exiled due to the menace of Nazism. Stella belongs to a generation of artists entirely formed ... More |
| Vietnamese government lends Australia its war monument to dead during the Vietnam War | | Art and artifacts of the Americas on the auction block at Bonhams in San Francisco | | Appraiser Caroline Ashleigh joins Heritage Auctions as consignment director | 
An Australian memorial cross from the Long Tan rubber plantation is unloaded from a shipping crate. AP Phoro/Channel 10.
By: Rod McGuirk, Associated Press
CANBERRA (AP).- The Vietnamese government has lent Australia a white concrete crucifix built by Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War in memory of their fallen countrymen, a gesture that is a milestone in the former enemies' warming relations. The 1.9-meter (6-foot) -tall steel-reinforced cross was erected as a memorial to the 18 Australian soldiers killed in the Battle of Long Tan, the largest loss of Australian life in a single engagement during the country's decade-long war in Vietnam. At least 245 Vietnamese were confirmed dead. The Long Tan Cross that was unpacked at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Thursday is the first museum relic of the war that ended in 1975 to be shared between Vietnam and Australia, memorial assistant director Peter Pedersen said. ... More | | 
A Tubatulabul bottleneck basket. Est. $1,500-2,500. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announced it will hold its third annual Arts and Artifacts of the Americas auction, September 10 in San Francisco, featuring items from the Robert “Trader Bob” Bayuk Collection and the Nancy Sue and Judson C. Ball Collection. The auction will be comprised of approximately 500 lots of desirable art and artifacts for a range of collecting levels. From the Robert “Trader Bob” Bayuk Collection will come more than 150 lots of Native American art, with a focus on basketry from California, the Southwest and the Northwest, including a Tubatulabul polychrome bottleneck basket (est. $1,500-2,500). The collection will also feature Southwest jewelry, Pueblo pottery and a variety of materials from the Plains and Northwest Coast, ranging in estimate from $500-2,500. From the Nancy Sue and Judson C. Ball Collection will be more than 40 lots of (mostly Hopi) kachina dolls, ranging in estimate fr ... More | | 
Caroline Ashleigh is a graduate of New York University with a degree in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts. Photo: Holly Qualman.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced that Caroline Ashleigh, former Antiques Roadshow and current HGTV appraiser, has accepted a position with the auction house as consignment director. "I am extremely happy to be part of the Heritage team," said Ashleigh. "This is an exciting company, one committed to an expanding role in the world of fine art auctioneering and I look forward to being a part of that growth." Ashleigh will continue operating Caroline Ashleigh Associates, LLC from her home base in Birmingham, Michigan, using her internationally recognized expertise to bring in consignors and buyers from all over the world. Caroline Ashleigh is a graduate of New York University with a degree in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts, and is a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America. She is an accredited USPAP ... More |
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 Art Students League of New York and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation install 'BioMask' BRONX, NY.- The Art Students League of New York, one of America’s premier art schools, and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation unveiled today the monumental sculpture BioMask in Van Cortlandt Park. BioMask, a 16-foot tall aluminum and steel mask, is a collaborative work by an international team of seven students in the Model to Monument (M2M) Program, a partnership between the League and the Parks Department. Earlier this month seven monumental works were installed in Riverside Park South as part of the M2M program. “Sculptors in the second year of the Model to Monument Program have responded to the work of their predecessors, and advanced the collaborative creative process with wonderful results,” says Ira Goldberg Executive Director of the Art Students League. “With BioMask in Van Cortlandt, the sculptors have literally transformed last ... More Technical innovations shed new light on archaeology YORK.- A new digital system that makes thousands of important fieldwork documents freely accessible to scholars and the public has received a British Archaeological Award for Innovation in recognition of its potential to transform research. Fieldwork documents known as Grey Literature are unpublished by traditional means, despite often dealing with archaeology of huge value and significance. But thanks to technical innovations developed by the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) at the University of York, they are now freely available online to any user through the Grey Literature Library using a classified and map based search mechanism, the ADS ‘ArchSearch’ interface. Working with the British Library’s international DataCite programme, the ADS, has developed a second significant innovation which makes it easier to cite unpublished online documents. The Director ... More Chrysler Museum adds John Henry sculpture to its collection NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art has added a work by noted sculptor John Henry to its collection. The piece, Homage to Man Ray, 2009, was installed on the lawn between the Museum and the adjacent Glass Studio. Henry, a long-time master of public sculpture, has works in many prestigious museum collections including the Smithsonian Institution, the Miami Art Museum, and The British Museum. His public works can be seen in cities across the world, including Chicago; Pittsburgh; St. Louis; Hannover, Germany; and Shenzhen, China. He is developing plans for a new work for the city of Baltimore that will be one of the largest outdoor sculptures in the world, measuring over 200 feet tall. Henry’s Homage to Man Ray pays tribute to an important artist of the Dada and Surrealist movements. The Chrysler owns 13 works by Man Ray, who developed innovative, avant-garde ... More Heritage Auctions debuts free Heritage Mobile Catalog for iPad DALLAS, TX.- As of yesterday, July 25, collectors can officially download Heritage Auctions’ brand new Heritage Mobile Catalog for iPad, completely free, at the Apple iTunes store. “This is a fully interactive, completely immersive app that collectors will find completely in line with the first class Heritage experience they’ve come to know and appreciate,” said Paul Minshull, COO of Heritage Auctions. “We’re a company that not only embraces technological innovation, but also holds it to a very high standard. For many collectors this will provide significant change in their collecting experience.” The Heritage Mobile Catalog, easily downloadable when “Heritage Auctions” is typed online at the Apple iTunes Store, the HMC allows collectors to download all the items in Heritage’s current and past auctions – viewable at your con ... More Accidentally on Purpose exhibition in QUAD Derby DERBY.- A new exhibition at QUAD, in Derby, will look at the relationship between success and failure by looking at common place materials and repetitive processes. Accidentally on Purpose is a mixed media group show which will be on display from 27th July until 7th October 2012. Accidentally on Purpose will be an exhibition, online publication and audio project exploring the occurrence of repeating problems, and the strategies for (re)approaching them. Accidentally on Purpose takes its title from an American Sitcom situated in the banality of the everyday. Its characters strive to make the best of an unfortunate situation, repetitively re-negotiating the uncertainty of their lives. The desire for escapism through the consumption of mass broadcasts and episodic formulas offers an interesting context for the curator’s approach to this exhibition; which connects the structure of the sitcom to an exploration ... More 1912 Red Sox World Series trophy to be auctioned BOSTON (AP).- The 1912 Boston Red Sox World Series trophy presented to team manager Jake Stahl is going on the auction block. The sterling silver trophy will be auctioned Aug. 2 at Camden Yards in Baltimore during a national sports collectors convention. The trophy's current owner is Red Sox fan Robert Fraser. He says several companies wanted to auction it off for the 100th anniversaries of the team's World Series win against the New York Giants and the opening of Fenway Park. The Westwood, N.J., real estate broker says he and his wife paid $74,000 for it in 2007. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions says it expects the trophy will fetch more than $300,000. Fraser says there were two trophies made but no one knows what happened to the other one. ... More |
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