| "Murillo and Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship" on view at the Museo del Prado | | National Institute of Anthropology and History finds remains of 15 in ancient Mexican settlement | | Gustav Klimt anniversary exhibition comprising 120 works opens at Belvedere | 
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Don Justino de Neve, 1665. Oil on canvas, 206 x 129.5 cm. London, The National Gallery. Bought, 1979.
MADRID.- The exhibition, on display at the Museo del Prado, comprises seventeen paintings, five of which have been specially restored for this event. They range from religious and devotional works to portraits, allegories and the only known miniature attributed to Murillo. Following the major exhibition on the artist held in London and Madrid in 1982, there have been further ones focusing on specific aspects of his output. None, however, has looked at the creative dynamic generated by the relationship between Murillo and Justino de Neve, which gave rise to an important group of paintings. The fruitful results of their friendship are now the subject of the present exhibition, organised by the Museo del Prado, the Hospital de los Venerables Sacerdotes, Seville, founded in 1670 on the initiative of Justino de Neve and now the headquarters of Fundación Focus ... More | | 
An unearthed skeleton dating back about 700 years is seen at a recently discovered archeological site in Mexico City. AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini.
MEXICO CITY (AP).- Archaeologists in Mexico City have unearthed the skulls and other bones of 15 people, most of them the children of traveling merchants during Aztec times. Researcher Alejandra Jasso Pena says they also found ceramic flutes, bowls, incense burners, the remains of a dog that was sacrificed to accompany a child in the afterlife and other artifacts of a pre-Columbian civilization. Jasso Pena said Friday that construction was about to start on five buildings in a Mexico City neighborhood when the National Institute of Anthropology and History asked to carry out an excavation of the site first. Experts suspected the site was an important ceremonial center for the Tepanec tribe between 1200 and 1300. The influential traders living there were called Pochtecas. Archaeologists say excavation is continuing at the site. ... More | | 
Gustav Klimt, Amalie Zuckerkandl, 1906. Oil on canvas, 128 x 128 cm. Belvedere, Vienna© Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- In the anniversary year of 2012, the Belvedere devotes a comprehensive temporary exhibition to Gustav Klimt, the most renowned Austrian painter and a trailblazer of Modernism. Comprising as many as 120 objects, including 30 paintings by Klimt and works by such fellow artists as Egon Schiele, Ernst Klimt, Franz Matsch, Oskar Kokoschka, and Herbert Boeckl, the anniversary show of the largest collection of Klimt’s paintings worldwide explores the genius in seven thematically focused sections: The Company of Artists, Family, Secession, The Golden Period, Landscapes, Female Portraits, and World War and Death. Besides the monumental icon Kiss and such famous masterpieces as Judith and Salome, the new acquisitions Sunflower and Family from the estate of the Viennese art collector Peter Parzer are on view together for the first time. The latter two paintings, ... More |
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| Man Ray / Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism opens at San Francisco's Legion of Honor | | Exhibition at Princeton University Art Museum explores the long, surprising career of a familiar form in art | | Frye Art Museum reopens: Three new exhibitions celebrate 60th anniversary in refurbished galleries | 
Man Ray, The Artist’s Home), c. 1931. Oil on canvas, 27 7/8 x 20 1/2 in. The Roland Penrose Collection, England© 2010 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/Courtesy of The Penrose Collection. All rights reserved.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- One of the art world’s most notorious relationships comes alive with Man Ray | Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism on view July 14–October 14, 2012 in the Rosekrans Galleries at the Legion of Honor. The exhibition consists of approximately 115 photographs, paintings, drawings and manuscripts that explore the creative interaction between Man Ray and Lee Miller, two giants of European Surrealism. Organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, this is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the pair’s artistic relationship. The works in the exhibition are drawn primarily from the Lee Miller Archives and Penrose Collection in Sussex, England, augmented for the San Francisco presentation by loans from important public and private collections in the United States. Included are selected works by artists in Ray and ... More | | 
Maya, Late Classic: Eccentric flint with profiles of K'awiil, the lightning god, A.D. 600–800. Flint. Princeton University Art Museum Gift of Shelby White in honor of Gillett G. Griffin (2003-292). Photo: Bruce M. White.
PRINCETON, NJ.- This summer and into autumn, as the leaves turn and fall, the Princeton University Art Museum presents Root & Branch, an inquiry into tree forms and branching structures in art, nature and information design. Showcasing objects in all areas of the Museum’s collections across three millennia and from around the world, the exhibition looks beyond the role of trees as providers of oxygen, food, building materials, medicine and fuel to explore their equally prominent role in visual representation as models of order and complexity. “Trees are the source of an ancient symbolic form, as well as the language we use to describe that form,” said Joel Smith, Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum and the exhibition’s curator. “It is easy to forget that one is employing a metaphor when one says that a river, a road or a drawn line ‘branches.& ... More | | 
Franz von Stuck. Die Sünde (Sin), ca. 1908. Syntonos on canvas. 34 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. Frye Art Museum, Charles and Emma Frye Collection, 1952.169.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum reopened July 14, 2012 with three new exhibitions celebrating its 60th Anniversary following extensive refurbishment of the galleries, Gallery Café, Museum Store, and public spaces. Opening exhibitions showcase both the Founding and American Collections of the Museum and introduce one of China’s leading conceptual artists, Liu Ding, with a specially commissioned work based on Sin by Franz von Stuck, one of the Frye’s iconic paintings. “The Perfection of Good-Nature”: The Frye Founding Collection examines for the first time the impact of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago on the collection of Charles and Emma Frye, founders of the Frye Art Museum, and reveals Charles Frye’s vision of a “Seattle Art Museum” in 1915. Liu Ding’s Store: Take Home and Make Real the Priceless in Your Heart, the first solo exhibition in the United States of work by Li ... More |
| A selection of work by Maurizio Vetrugno in first exhibition at Blum & Poe | | Critically-acclaimed photographer Arthur Tress' early work on exhibit at RoseGallery | | Aging anti-war sculpture by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad prompts explosive debate | 
Maurizio Vetrugno, Francoise Hardy, 2007. Hand embroidered silk thread on canvas. Approximately 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches image size (39.4 x 39.4 centimeters).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe and legendary musician Van Dyke Parks present a selection of work by Maurizio Vetrugno, his first one-person exhibition in Los Angeles. Vetrugno’s practice alters everyday objects, such as cloth and tools, into wry commentary on popular culture of a bygone era. Hand-made, embroidered textiles, woven in Laos, depict the distinctive designs of vinyl record sleeves from the 1950s-1980s. The selected album covers reference the legacies of exotica, modernism, glam rock and the golden age of graphic design in music. Fashion has been a continuing influence on Vetrugno’s work, as exemplified in his female portraits woven in monochromatic hues of blue and green. Sources for these works derive from black and white images taken from fashion magazines of the same time period as the album ... More | | 
Girl with protestors.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- In the summer of 1964, San Francisco was ground zero for a historic culture clash as the site of the twenty-eighth Republican National Convention (the “Goldwater Convention”), the launch of the Beatle’s first North American tour and civil rights demonstrations. In the midst of the excitement, a young photographer new to the city was snapping pictures not of the politicians or musicians but of the people in the crowds and on the streets. Arthur Tress, who went on to become one of America’s most accomplished photographers, known for his dreamlike and surreal imagery, created what is perhaps his first mature documentary work. Finding himself immersed in a hotbed of cultural and political transformation, Tress shot over nine hundred negatives. Exulting in juxtapositions of the mundane and the absurd, he captured a wide array of city life including political rallies, street portraits, and a miscellany of odd signage that effectively fixes t ... More | | 
"Chain Reaction," a sculpture by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong.
By: John Rogers, Associated Press
SANTA MONICA (AP).- For decades the big, black mass of chain link that's piled up outside the Civic Center has alternately awed and inspired, annoyed and confounded, and, perhaps most often, simply divided residents of this otherwise famously tolerant beach town. Nearly three stories high and shaped like an atomic bomb's giant mushroom cloud, "Chain Reaction" was sculpted out of copper, fiberglass and stainless steel as an enduring artistic statement against nuclear war. Its creator, the brilliant Los Angeles Times political cartoonist Paul Conrad, gave it to the city as a gift in 1991, and it has remained there, four blocks from the Pacific Ocean, ever since. During that time, everyone from passing schoolchildren to inebriated rock concert patrons leaving the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium have climbed all over it. ... More |
| OSTRALE'012: Contemporary Arts and international statements in the city of Dresden | | Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art celebrates its tenth birthday with the launch of Baltic Editions | | "Jonathan Brand: One Piece at a Time" opens at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum | 
Johanna Gehring walks in the installation 'Bathroom' by members of E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design Wroclaw, Poland. AP Photo/Jens Meyer.
DRESDEN.- From July 13th to September 16th the OSTRALE - International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts takes place in Dresden. Already for the sixth time the entire range of contemporary art is presented at the festival. For two months the OSTRALE invites national and international artists to take part in a remarkable event at a historical site. The Hans-Erlwein-slaughterhouse offers 15,000 m² exhibition space and an outdoor area more than three times larger in a truly special atmosphere. This year the works of 245 artists from 33 different nations are exhibited. In cooperation with the association of artists Dresden 6 artists from Dresden are presented. Already for the second time the OSTRALE presents the international art academy project "IAM international art moves“. The continuously increasing network is a chance for ... More | | 
Dan Holdsworth, Mount St. Helens from Spirit Lake, 2012. Courtesy of the Artist.
GATESHEAD.- Marking the gallery’s tenth birthday, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art launched a new specially commissioned range of artist limited edition prints, BALTIC Editions. The donated works, all by artists who have exhibited at the gallery, will go on sale during the birthday year and proceeds from the sales will help support BALTIC’s exhibition and education programme. BALTIC Editions will be exclusively available from BALTIC Shop and will include works by the following artists: Martin Boyce • Graham Dolphin • Antony Gormley • Dan Holdsworth • Ant Macari • Yoko Ono • Cornelia Parker • Elizabeth Price • Matt Stokes • Mark Titchner • Mark Wallinger Godfrey Worsdale, BALTIC Director added: “We have been overwhelmed with the support the artists have given us; it is through their generosity that we are able to mark the birthday in such a fantastic way. At ... More | | 
One Piece at a Time (detail, Motor), 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
By: Mónica Ramírez-Montagut
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Cars played a pivotal role in Canadian-born artist Jonathan Brand’s youth. He grew up on the border with Michigan, where his grandfather, a millwright, built assembly lines for the auto industry, specifically CAMI Automotive in Ingersoll and Ford in Talbotville. An uncle and a cousin are mechanics, and Brand and his father restored three antique vehicles together, one of them a 1969 Ford Mustang that belonged to the artist. Restoring the Mustang during his college years presented a tough challenge: the artist wanted to propose to his girlfriend, now wife, and was in need of funds for the diamond ring and the wedding, which prompted the sale of the car. However, his memories of the Mustang lingered on, and in 2010 Brand decided to re create the vehicle full-size from his ... More |
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 Letters of South Carolina soldier killed in Vietnam come home By: Susanne M. Schafer, Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA, SC (AP).- Four letters from a courageous South Carolina soldier who tried to tell his family about the fearsome battles that raged around him in Vietnam were returned to his family Saturday, some 40 years after he was killed. Military representatives of the Army's 101st Airborne Division presented the letters from Sgt. Steve Flaherty of Columbia to his uncle Kenneth Cannon and sister-in-law Martha Gibbons during a ceremony at the state's memorial honoring Vietnam veterans. Flaherty was killed in combat in Vietnam in 1969. Vietnamese soldiers took the letters after Flaherty's death. They were turned over to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last month when he visited Vietnam. "It's a miracle these letters have shown up after all this time," Cannon said, ... More Curtain: A project by Jerome W Haferd and K Brandt Knapp organized by Socrates Sculpture Park LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Socrates Sculpture Park and The Architectural League present Folly, a new residency and commission for emerging architects and designers to produce and exhibit a full-scale project at Socrates Sculpture Park. Socrates, in partnership with the League, established the residency to explore the intersections between architecture and sculpture and the increasing overlaps in references, materials, and fabrication techniques between the two disciplines. Especially popular among the Romantics of the 18th and 19th centuries, architectural follies are small-scale structures placed within a garden or landscape as a means to draw the eye to specific points or to frame a view. A folly-the name of which derives from the French folie, to mean "foolishness" or "madness"- often has no discernible purpose or function (hence its name), though it might sometimes ... More "Westchester Women and War: Portraits" on view at the Hudson River Museum YONKERS, NY.- An artist, a museum, and an Army recruitment officer joined forces in 1944 as World War II raged. The artist, Frances Vandeveer Kughler, the museum, the Hudson River Museum, and a woman lieutenant, Joanne Coates, captured the images of a small band of Yonkers women, enlisting in the United States Women’s Army Corps (WACS), a new opportunity for this country’s women. The volunteer soldiers embarked to Europe, the United States, and Canada to become drivers, telephone operators, cryptographers breaking codes and traffic controllers ─ just some of the 239 jobs the country’s armed services opened to them. As the women began the adventure of war, Westchester was gifted with a collection of their portraits in oil and pastel, now on view in the exhibition Westchester Women & War: Portraits at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, ... More Daredevil dancers perform at London landmarks LONDON (AP).- Daredevil dancers have sky-walked, bungee-jumped, and tumbled across some of the British capital's best-known landmarks ahead of the Olympic Games. The performance — called "Surprises: Streb" — saw red-suited acrobats bounce up and down like yo-yos from London's futuristic Millennium Bridge, while others walked across the roof of London's glass-domed city hall. At the 17th-century stone column known as The Monument, performers spun around in what appeared to be a giant hamster wheel. And at Trafalgar Square, a group of dancers wowed tourists with delicate maneuvers on a gently rotating ladder. Sunday's eye-catching series of events is part of London's Cultural Olympiad, a celebration of film, music, theater and other art which is coinciding with the games due to begin July 27. ... More Bellevue Arts Museum presents major exhibition on Shaker culture BELLEVUE, WA.- Bellevue Arts Museum presents Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection, a captivating exhibition of more than 200 Shaker objects collected over 40 years by Faith and Edward Deming Andrews. Gather Up the Fragments is on view at BAM from July 11 through October 28, 2012. The Andrews were among the first to recognize the unique contributions of the Shakers, an almost‐vanished religious community known for the ecstatic nature of their worship, to American culture. The story of how they acquired and eventually disposed of their collection is a fascinating tale of intrigue, promises made and broken, relationships, friendships, ethics, passion and scholarship. From the 1920s through the 1960s, they actively pursued Shaker objects, collecting mainly from the Shakers themselves. Their efforts resulted in numerous publications, nearly ... More |
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