| Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on view at the Royal Academy of Arts | | The Dazzling opening of "Royal Style: Qing Dynasty and Western Court Jewelry" | | MOCA's past and future: Eli Broad talks about the recent departure of top curator Paul Schimmel | 
Jean-Francois Millet, Shepherdess: Plains of Barbizon, before 1862. Oil on panel, 38.1 x 27.5 cm. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.532
LONDON.- This summer the Royal Academy of Arts presents From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism Paintings from The Clark. The exhibition showcases 70 major works, many of which have never been on public display in the UK before. Masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Sisley and Morisot, as well as an exceptional group of more than twenty paintings by Renoir, from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, are shown. The exhibition illustrates the Clark Art Institute’s holdings of French 19th-century art, with particular emphasis upon Impressionism. The exhibition also embraces important works by pre-Impressionist artists such as Corot, Théodore Rousseau and J-F.Millet, as well as examples of highly polished ‘academic’ paintings by Gérôme and Bouguereau. The paint- ... More | | 
Panther clip brooch.
TAIPEI.- The National Palace Museum, the Shenyang Palace Museum and the Cartier Collection jointly present the dazzling exhibition entitled “Royal Style: Qing Dynasty and Western Court Jewelry,” held at the National Palace Museum’s Library Building exhibition hall from June 9 to September 9, 2012. The display showcases 475 sets and pieces of precious jewelry, juxtaposing dazzling modern gems from the West with splendid examples from the Qing dynasty court in China. Beautiful jewelry not only reflects the personality and taste of the wearer, it also is a form of cultural sign that symbolizes his or her status and authority. “Royal Style” is a unique exhibition bringing together and comparing jewelry used at the Qing court and by members of the Western upper classes, focusing on the people and stories around which they revolve. The display begins with the tastes of the imperial family and nobility, expressing their eternal and unchanging classicism. It is ... More | | 
"There has been much confusion about Schimmel's departure." AP Photo/Reed Saxon.
By: Eli Broad
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the wake of Paul Schimmel's departure as chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, much has been written about the museum. Given my long-standing relationship with MOCA, I would like to provide some background about the museum in an effort to set the record straight. In 1979, Los Angeles lacked a modern and contemporary art museum. Artists and collectors talked about starting a museum for years, but they couldn't make it happen. I was the founding chairman of the board of trustees at MOCA and was pleased to join with several others in creating the museum by persuading Mayor Tom Bradley to aggregate the funds developers were required to pay for art. He agreed to use the money to create MOCA's Grand Avenue building if we could raise $10 million for an endowment. We succeed ... More |
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| Record set for drawing by Caneletto as rare, newly-discovered work soars at Sotheby's | | 360 Degree Communications announces insightful new documentary Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry | | Global buyers battle for treasures at Sotheby's; Estimates defied as collectors pursue exceptional works | 
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Campo San Giacomo di Rialto, Venice, (detail). Pen and brown ink and grey wash, 246 by 372mm est. £300,000-500,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A rare, newly-discovered drawing by Canaletto sold for a record £1,945,250 /US$ 3,050,347 / €2,423,199 at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday. Completely unrecorded, this exceptional work – a view of the Campo di San Giacomo di Rialto - had not been seen in public since 1876. Its appearance at auction today generated huge excitement, culminating in an intense bidding battle between six determined collectors. Together they drove the price to a sum more than five times the original estimate of £300,000-£500,00, and four times the previous record for a drawing by the artist ($715,000/ £493,103 achieved for view of Warwick Castle, from the John R. Gaines Collection, sold in New York in November 1986.) Greg Rubinstein, Worldwide Head of Old Master Drawings at Sotheby’s, said: “The exceptional price realised today for Canaletto’s superb drawing is a fitting testimony to its importance and its qu ... More | | 
First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to the charismatic artist, as well as his family and others close to him, while working as a journalist in Beijing.
LONDON.- Named by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world, Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. In April 2011, when Ai disappeared into police custody for three months he quickly became China’s most famous missing person, having first risen to international prominence in 2008 after helping design Beijing’s iconic Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium-and then publicly denouncing the Games as party propaganda. Since then, Ai Weiwei’s critiques of China’s repressive regime have ranged from playful photographs of his raised middle finger in front of Tiananmen Square to searing memorials to the more than 5,000 schoolchildren who died in shoddy government construction in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Against a backdrop of strict censorship, Ai has become a kind of Internet champion, using his blog and constant ... More | | 
An extraordinary 18th-century gilded elephant automaton clock, sold to an Asian collector for £1.6m/$2.5m. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Wednesday's sale of Treasures, Princely Taste at Sotheby’s London saw collectors from across the globe compete vigorously for exceptional works of art and furniture. Many of the works in the sale were pursued to prices well in excess of pre-sale estimates, chief among which was a pair of gilt-bronze-mounted Sèvres porcelain vases (c. 1788-1790); realising £1,777,250, they tripled their pre-sale estimate of £600,000.* Close behind the vases was the Shah of Persia’s musical elephant automaton clock (c. 1780), which sold to an Asian collector for an impressive £1.6 million, at the high end of its £1-2 million pre-sale estimate. Together, the 39 lots offered this evening realised £9,507,800 / $14,909,181 / €11,837,193, with 72% sold by lot and 84% sold by value. 44% of the works sold in this evening’s sale realised prices in excess of their pre-sale high estimates. Mario Tavella, Sotheby’s ... More |
| Mairead O'hEocha's "The Sky was Yellow and the Sun was Blue" on view at Mother's Tankstation | | The Tiffany & Co. Foundation names the Jewellery Gallery at the Rijksmuseum | | Third edition of Masterpiece London concludes with strong sales and record attendance for the preview | 
Mairead O'hEocha, Preformed Ponds and Water Barrell, Co. Dublin, 2012. Oil on board 54 x 46 cm. Photo: Courtesy Mother's Tankstation.
DUBLIN.- If we can assume that nothing stands by coincidence or chance, given the considered intellectual and practical construction of Mairead O’hEocha’s work, then the title of her much anticipated, second solo exhibition at mother’s tankstation; The Sky was Yellow and the Sun was Blue, may at first raise a questioning eyebrow. Does it suggest an unexpectedly anarchistic inversion of the natural order, the world turned upside down? What could possibly be the relationship of a psychedelic Grateful Dead sub-cultural classic from the haze of 1974, to the work of a relatively realist, well, lets say loosely ‘depictive tradition’ painter, renowned for her thoughtful images of Irish semi-suburban/rural liminality? Furthermore… given that the works constituting O’hEocha’s new show, come from her recent excursions to garden centres… then the (perhaps) purple river of questions ... More | | 
When it opens in 2013, the completely renovated Rijksmuseum will offer visitors no less than 1½ kilometres of art and history. AP Photo/Peter Dejong.
AMSTERDAM.- The Tiffany & Co. Foundation approved a grant to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for the creation of the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gallery, dedicated to the exquisite jewellery collection of the museum, which plans to reopen in spring of 2013. Displayed in a 15 meter-length spectacular showcase, three hundred pieces of jewellery from the 8th century to the 1960s will emphasize the continuity in jewellery art. After a nine-year renovation, the new Rijksmuseum will open its doors in the spring of 2013. In the new Rijksmuseum, paintings, images, historical objects and applied arts will be displayed together in context, offering a comprehensive study of Dutch art and culture. A wing specially designed for the purpose will house the Rijksmuseum’s Special Collections. Large sub-collections will be on display there, including the Jewellery Collection, expected to be one of the main attractions of the newly renovated b ... More | | 
A pair of hall benches, designed by Robert Adam in the 177os for Kenwood House and missing for over 100 years. Photo: Courtesy Godson & Coles.
LONDON.- Preview Day at Masterpiece London welcomed a record number of 5,175 serious national and international collectors, many of whom had flown in especially to attend the third fair thus confirming its position as central to the international art market. ‘This year has seen Masterpiece London settle in and cement its position at the centre of London’s vibrant art market...’ said Masterpiece London Chairman, Philip Hewat-Jaboor, “The incredible breadth and variety of works of art for sale, united by the thread of excellence that runs throughout the fair and the strength of exhibitors, has ensured the fair has attracted every serious collector, curator and patron from the Middle East, the Far East, Europe, America and Canada. We’ve seen an extremely high calibre of visitor including Lord Thompson, Sheikh Al-Thani, Charles Saatchi, Terence Conran, and Jeffery Archer. This year proved that for ... More |
| Two former Fuller Building dealers collaborate opening joint gallery space in Chelsea | | German artist Mike Meiré opens exhibition at Bartha Contemporary in London | | Exhibition at LABoral traces a historical path through the most important music videos | 
Elizabeth K Garvey, former Co-Director of Schmidt-Bingham Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jacquie Littlejohn of Littlejohn Contemporary, a dealer since 1984 with a gallery in SoHo in the 80s and The Fuller Building in the 1990s; and Elizabeth K Garvey, former Co-Director of Schmidt-Bingham Gallery (Fuller Building) in the 1990s, Principal of EKG Art Advisory, and co-founder of Garvey Simon Art Access have joined forces and are exhibiting together at Suite 207: 547 West 27th Street in Chelsea. The gallery space is one of collaboration, not consolidation. The two dealers will alternate use of the exhibition space but mingle their inventory in the back viewing room / office area and in group shows and art fairs. Although other dealers have worked with shared spaces, mounting exhibitions concurrently within the same space (as did Michael Foley and Sasha Wolf in the same building) - the model Littlejohn and Garvey are using for this collaborative venture is seemingly unprecedented in Chelsea. After leaving the Fuller Building, Garvey, a private art a ... More | | 
Mike Meiré, Your Ideals Just Words, 2012, lacquer-paint on newspaper, 150 × 105 cm. Photo: Courtesy Bartha Contemporary.
LONDON.- For his first solo-exhibition at Bartha Contemporary, German artist Mike Meiré (B. 1964) presents a series of new large-scale works on paper alongside recent ceramic sculptures. Entitled “Economy of Attention” the exhibition embraces the medium of newsprint and highlights its structural beauty. Mike Meiré’s latest body of work follows on from a series of singular paintings on newsprint, which examine existing grids in newspapers and primarily reflect on the prioritization of information through graphic design. The artist has been working as an art-director for many years and it is his intrinsic understanding of this medium, which allows him to strip the composition of his works to a bare minimum. By adding an element of repetition and juxtaposition to the compositions of his larger works, Meiré embraces a highly minimalist mantra, akin with Judd’s stacked sculptures or Walter de ... More | | 
Kylie Minogue, Come Into my World, 2002. EMI Music.
GIJON, SPAIN.- From 3rd July LABoral is showing eCLIPSe, an exhibition engaging on a journey through the creative world of music videos with a selection of the 50 videos which, throughout history, are considered to be crucial for an understanding of a discipline that has been consolidated as both a form of artistic expression in itself and as an intersection between the visual arts and cultural industries. The year 1975 is considered to be a pivotal moment in the history of music. The group Queen released the single Bohemian Rhapsody, accompanied by what was probably the first video in history aware of its status as a medium. Years later, in 1983, Michael Jackson and his legendary Thriller paved the way for the video as a concept and as industry support for music publishing. Since then, and initially thanks to the television channel MTV which required every single released by record labels to be illustrated with au ... More |
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 New body of work by Boston based artist Marilyn Levin on view at Toomey Tourell SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Toomey Tourell announces an exhibition of new paintings, entitled Cycles of Time, by the artist Marilyn Levin In this new body of work, Marilyn Levin, a Boston based artist, continues her exploration of color and form, rendered firmly in abstraction. These recent paintings reflect Levin’s ongoing fascination with her experiences in India. Within Hindu ideology, the process of time and creation is cyclical. In much of the imagery here, you see various forms of the circle, often dense and deeply saturated with color. The surfaces of these paintings are textural layers of oil that have been poured and scraped, at times appearing excavated rather than applied to the canvas. As she paints, the work often changes and develops in a new way- a testament to the importance of process in Levin’s work. These layers of paint create a stage for the configuration of shapes ... More The biggest exhibition in the history of London's oldest botanic garden set to open LONDON.- Pertaining to Things Natural… A major outdoor sculpture show opens on 10 July at Chelsea Physic Garden. The exhibition, a collaboration between Art Happens and Chelsea Physic Garden, presents monumental sculptural works, ephemeral land art projects and delicate interventions by over twenty leading artists. Curated by David Worthington, Vice President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, Pertaining to Things Natural… takes its name from the 17th century definition of ‘physic’ and is a reminder of the Physic Garden’s founding mission as a place for the study of useful plants especially those used in medicines. Artists: Owen Bullett, James Capper, Annie Cattrell, Jo Coupe, Joe Currie, Judith Dean, Chris Drury, Tessa Farmer, James P Graham, Greyworld, Tim Knowles, Tania Kovats, Keith Rand, Peter Randall-Page, William Peers, Michael Shaw, Ward ... More Franz Erhard Walther's "Stand Pieces" presented for the first time at ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art KARLSRUHE.- To actively integrate into the sculptural artwork the observer, who is otherwise condemned to mere contemplation – this was fundamentally new when Franz Erhard Walther first established it in his work of the 1960s. Participative object and textile sculpture formulated an offer to the observer to “use” the artwork, to “unfold” the sculpture and to rearrange it. With this, Walther has subjected the understanding of art and the relationship between art and its recipient to a fundamental re-evaluation and amplification. Today he is unquestionably one of the most influential artists of recent decades. Scarcely any other artist has been able to change the definition of what sculpture can be with such foresight and consequence as Walther has done. The ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art is now showing, in the context of this year’s main exhibition theme of performativity, a ... More Gabriel Rolt opens first solo show in the gallery by the Amsterdam based, Chinese artist, Xue Mu AMSTERDAM.- Gabriel Rolt presents A Childish Nothingness, the first solo show in the gallery by the Amsterdam based, Chinese artist, Xue Mu. Comprising paintings, objects, photographs and a substantial body of large scale drawings, A Childish Nothingness utilizes elliptical tactics and an ambiguous aesthetic in order to achieve an extreme artistic ambition – to create work whilst avoiding the familiar, worn-out forms imposed by the modern world in which we live. Her major series of large-scale drawings, entitled Black Diamond, exemplifies her approach. Using paper, charcoal and tape, Mu developed a physically demanding process of mark making that has resulted in the works on show. In the drawings depth and complexity are pictured and in doing so visually alludes to the, perhaps unrepresentable, structure of thought and creativity. This almost synesthetic approach extends into the ... More Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Presents "Occupy Bay Area" SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Since its inception in September 2011, the Occupy Movement has generated both praise and condemnation and it continues to resonate in the American consciousness. In response to the significant output of art and documentation produced in support of the Occupy Movement in Oakland and San Francisco, YBCA has put together an exhibition of works that have proven to be particularly effective in supporting the goals and aspirations of the Movement. Impressively, various political poster artists devoted their talents to messaging the politics and culture of the movement by creating iconic images—designs that were a call to action, or posters announcing an upcoming event. In many ways these works, by 25 Bay Area artists, carry forward the region’s long tradition as a leader in political struggles, from the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, ... More |
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