| Christie's announces third edition of the contemporary art in editions fair: Multiplied | | The Estate of Bruno Giacometti to be sold at Christie's in Zurich to benefit children's hospitals | | Sydney "grunge" painter Adam Cullen, winner of the prestigious Archibald Prize, died at age 47 | 
Michael Craig-Martin, Love/Glove, 2011. Courtesy of Counter Editions.
LONDON.- The third edition of the contemporary art in editions fair, Multiplied, returns to Christie’s South Kensington this October. Christie’s announced forty-one international contemporary galleries will be participating, in what continues to be the UK’s only contemporary print fair. Once again the salerooms in South Kensington will be transformed during Frieze week. The fair will be open to the public with free admission from 12-15 October 2012. Murray Macaulay, Director, Multiplied, commented: “Multiplied Art Fair celebrates all that is new and vibrant in contemporary art in editions from all over the world - from Oaxaca to Philadelphia, Paris to New York, Barcelona to Dublin, and Shoreditch to Deptford. Featuring print, digital art and photography, artist’s books and 3-D multiples, Multiplied really is an excellent way to connect with contemporary art. Not only will there be the chance ... More | | 
The collection is expected to realize in the region of CHF 1 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
ZURICH.- Christie’s will offer over 30 lots from the estate of the late Bruno Giacometti (1907-2012), the youngest of the famous Giacometti brothers. Bruno Giacometti died at the age of 104 earlier this year in Zürich. His estate has been split into two parts: any painting, preparatory drawings or works of art either by Alberto and Diego Giacometti or befriended artists have been donated to the Kunsthaus Zurich, and his private belongings will be sold at auction to benefit the Dr Beat Richner foundation of Kantha Bopha Children’s hospitals in Cambodia. The estate will be offered in the upcoming Swiss Art sale, which will take place on 24 September 2012 in the Kunsthaus Zurich, Grosser Vortragssaal. This institution was of personal significance to Bruno who sat as a member as well as president on the exhibition committee of the Kunsthaus for many years. The collection is expected to realize in the region of ... More | | 
Adam Cullen, Portrait of David Wenham, 2000. Acrylic on canvas 182 X 153 cm. Private Collection.
SYDNEY.- The Archibald Prize-winning artist Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists and well known for his distinctive portraits of high-profile Australians, has died. Adam Cullen was a unique figure in contemporary Australian art, a larger-than-life artist whose abrasive yet expressive paintings were a confronting and incisive view of contemporary life. His often satirical works were a form of social allegory, a cutting portrait of our national psyche caught in a suspended stage of development. Cullen’s visual language and references are relentlessly local, even parochial, as his work encapsulated a particular experience of urban and suburban existence. Early in his career, Adam Cullen became renowned as an enfant terrible in the Australian art world. He was never been afraid to skirt around danger in his aesthetics and his practice. He gained early fame in his art school days by dragging a rotting pigs head ... More |
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| American classics, such as a 1930 Duesenberg, top RM's $6.8 million Michigan sale | | Fotomuseum Winterthur explores the current state of the document and documentary image in exhibition | | Major exhibition of photographs of Muhammad Ali on view at Forman's Smokehouse Gallery in London | 
1928 Cadillac V-8 “Al Capone” Town Sedan. Photo: Stephen Goodal © 2012 courtesy RM Auctions.
PLYMOUTH, MICH.- A majestic 1930 Duesenberg Model SJ Convertible Victoria, J272, formerly owned by noted band leader Paul Whiteman of “Rhapsody in Blue” fame, garnered top dollar at RM’s Michigan sale yesterday, selling for a strong $957,000 before a packed house. One of just 16 examples bodied with convertible Victoria coachwork by Rollston, the stunning Duesenberg led a magnificent group of top-selling American classics at the single-day sale, held in conjunction with the famed Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s. In total, the three-and-a-half hour auction lifted the gavel on a total of 74 automobiles, generating more than $6.8 million in sales* with a solid 82 percent of all lots sold. “RM Auctions is proud of our association with the Concours d’Elegance of America and to be the longest running sponsor of the event. Once again, this weekend’s event provided a wonderful c ... More | | 
Trevor Paglen, LACROSSE/ONYX II Radar Imaging Reconnaissance Satellite Passing Through Draco (USA 69), 2007. From the series: A Compendium of Secrets.
ZURICH.- A few years after the digital turn the shift from analog to digital image production and archiving, Fotomuseum Winterthur explores the current state of the document and the documentary image in the exhibition Status – 24 Contemporary Documents. Whereas the term “status” used to have a thoroughly positive connotation, indicating a confident display of one’s own condition or state, today we ask about the “status” of things almost with a sense of apprehension, knowing full well that situations are often uncertain, precarious, and usually in flux. This uncertainty carries over into the field of photography. The rapid dissemination and availability of images and videos in print media, on the Internet, on social platforms such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Flickr have led to new forms of ... More | | 
Muhammad Ali by Michael Gaffney.
LONDON.- Since 1960, when he won gold in Rome, to 1996 when he managed with shaking hands to light the Olympic Cauldron in Atlanta, he has been a symbol of all that is inspirational and heroic about the event In 2012, to mark Ali’s 70th birthday, a major exhibition is being held at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery, overlooking the London 2012 Olympic stadium. Photographs and paintings of Ali at different stages of his life are being shown alongside audio and video installations, poetry and memorabilia, recording not just his contribution to sport but also his extraordinary humanitarian work through the decades. The opening private view brought together some of the greats of British boxing over the last 25 years. They included Duke McKenzie, Dave “Boy” Green, Colin McMillan and Prince Rodney, to name but a few. Other Olympic boxing teams as well as many celebrities will also be invited, including represent ... More |
| Carnival: Caribbean grandeur comes alive at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto | | Unique film installation by Neil Jordan to be shown at IMMA at National Concert Hall | | United Federation of Doll Clubs: Black cloth dolls growing in collector popularity | 
Carnival offers a journey through Mac Farlane’s stunning carnival creations from the last three years.
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum presents Carnival: From Emancipation to Celebration, featuring the work of internationally renowned masquerade designer Brian Mac Farlane along with Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival photographs. As an opportunity for visitors to also commemorate this year’s celebration of Jamaican and Trinidad and Tobago Independence, and Emancipation Day, Carnival is displayed in both the Hilary and Galen Weston Wing on Level 2 of the ROM and in the Hyacinth Gloria Chen Crystal Court from July 28, 2012 to February 24, 2013. The exhibition’s February 2013 closing coincides with Black History Month. Carnival offers a journey through Mac Farlane’s stunning carnival creations from the last three years: Resurrection: The Mas (2010); Humanity: The Circle of Life (2011); and Sanctification…In search of (2012). The exhibition also acknowledges the rich symbolic and historical significance ... More | | 
Neil Jordan, Not I, 2000, Six-screen film installation with sound, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, 2000, Production still by Pat Redmond, ©Company of Wolves Éire Ltd, Co. Dublin.
DUBLIN.- A unique film-based installation, Not I, directed by Neil Jordan and featuring the American actress Julianne Moore, opens to the public in the Irish Museum of Modern Art's temporary exhibition space in the Annex at the National Concert Hall site in Earlsfort Terrace on Friday 10 August 2012. The private view for Not I takes place on Thursday 9 August at 6.00pm, Neil Jordan will discuss his work in conversation with Dr Maeve Connolly before the opening at 5.00pm. As part of the ongoing IMMA Collection exhibition Time out of Mind, a film installation by Clodagh Emoe, Parados, 2009, is presented in the entrance space of the Annex. Based on Samuel Beckett's play Not I, 1972, the film installation presents an actress seated on a stage with just her mouth visible. The mouth then delivers a long monologue, a constant stream of consciousness. Beckett?s friend, and one of his favourite interpreters of his work, Billie Whitelaw rec ... More | | 
A historic black cloth doll appear on display in New Orleans. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert.
By: Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP).- Among porcelain antique dolls, whimsical Kewpies, Barbie dolls and even paper dolls, cloth dolls in the image of African-Americans drew special attention among more than 1,200 collectors in New Orleans for the annual convention of the United Federation of Doll Clubs. The oldest of the black dolls on display was sewn about 1850, said curator Joyce Stamps of Framingham, Mass., who put together the exhibit at the federation's request. Because cloth is fragile, most surviving black cloth dolls date from about 1870 — during Reconstruction — and on. But records indicate hundreds were sold at bazaars before the Civil War to raise money for the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, textile historian Roben Campbell said. Interest in black cloth dolls from the Victorian era and early 20th century has grown in the past decade, she said. That's because of a 2007 exhibit of dolls made from 1870 to 1930, from the personal collection of antiques dealer Pat Hatch of ... More |
| National Weather Center at the University of Oklahoma debuts art biennale, prizes for weather in art | | Colonial African-American stoneware artists, stolen, hidden, now rediscovered | | Monumental sized paintings by Sean Scully on view at Valencian Institute for Modern Art | 
Tony Abeyta (Navajo, b. 1965), Storm from the South, 2011. Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in. On loan from a private collector.
NORMAN, OK.- How does weather affect the artistic muse? The National Weather Center at the University of Oklahoma teams up with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Norman Arts Council to explore the theme of weather in art with the National Weather Center Biennale – the first national juried exhibition featuring art about weather. Prizes totaling $25,000 will be offered to the top winners. An overall prize of $10,000 will be awarded to one work for Best in Show, with $5,000 given to the first-place winners in three categories: painting, works on paper and photography. “Art reflects the human relationship with the environment and particularly with weather,” said Berrien Moore, director of the National Weather Center. “Lightning bolts and cloud imagery in Native American pottery, the skies and atmospheres of Georgia O’Keeffe, the Clearing Storm, Sonoma County Hills of Ansel Adams; weather vibrates through art. We are delighted to invite artists to t ... More | | 
Top row: stoneware pottery in the Metropolitan Museum’s collection, bottom: Pottery sold at auction.
By: Pearl Duncan
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 21st, a Maryland auction company offered more than 400 pieces of antique pottery. Among these was a piece of premium early 19th century Colonial American stoneware pottery. The estimated sale price of this pottery was $10,000 to $20,000. Interestingly, the same piece of premium Colonial American antique pottery was offered by a seller earlier in April for $500 on eBay. The pottery, painted in cobalt, says “Coerlears Hook” on one side and “N. York” on the other side. The seller pulled the piece of antique pottery from eBay after she received many private e-mail offers, before the bidding began. So what changed? One word. The difference between the description of the same piece of pottery on eBay and in the upcoming auction is the colonial pottery artist’s ancestry is identified in the major Crocker Farm upcoming auction. He is Thomas Commeraw, an African-American potter and entrepreneur. His ... More | | 
The series was fundamentally conceived as a celebration of the contribution of classic Greek culture to humanity.
VALENCIA.- The work of Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945) is indebted to the influences of Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Henry Matisse. While working as a typographer's apprentice, he started his studies at London’s Central School of Arts, completing his education at Croydon College of Arts in London, Newcastle University and at the University of Harvard. Since 1970, and from his research on optical illusions, perception of serial structures and the sense of movement through superposition, Scully reduced his iconographic repertoire to a series of lines, bands and blocks that have become representative of his work. He assembles these elements of his painting in an alternative order and, in addition, he builds subtle monumental arrangements in which the contrast between figure and background is neutralized. The treatment of colour in his work implies a handcrafted process: the progressive superposition of thin layers impregnated of different pigments that are revealed by ... More |
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 Inaugural Art Southampton proves to be game changer on Hamptons art scene SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- What was to be the art event of the year became the event of the year as International Society’s finest turned out for the inaugural Art Southampton presented by Art-Miami on Thursday evening. Art Southampton Director + Partner Nicholas Korniloff and Vice President, Sponsorships and VIP Relations Pamela Cohen were joined by Southampton Village Mayor Mark Epley, Southampton Hospital President and CEO Robert Chaloner, Brenda Simmons, Special Assistant to the Mayor, and Southampton Hospital Foundation President Steve Bernstein in cutting the enormous, white satin ribbon to officially open what is clearly the greatest art fair to be mounted on the East End of Long Island. Following the presentation of a check in the amount of $10,000 by Korniloff to President Chaloner, prominent collectors, socialites and philanthropists flooded through the doors ... More "Accidentally on Purpose" exhibition opens at QUAD Derby DERBY.- A new exhibition at QUAD, in Derby, looks 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 until 7th October 2012. Accidentally on Purpose is 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 of the relationship ... More 1970s New York graffiti artists still have urge to tag By: Bonny Ghosh, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- In torn jeans and saddled with a black backpack, Andrew Witten glances up and down the street for police. The 51-year-old then whips out a black marker scribbles "Zephyr" on a wall covered with movie posters. He admires his work for a few seconds before his tattooed arms reach for his daughter, holding her hand as he briskly walks away. Witten and a generation of urban latchkey kids who spray-painted their initials all over Manhattan in the 1970s and '80s and landed in the city's street art scene are coming of age — middle age, that is. And like Witten, a 51-year-old single father, some street artists considered now to be graffiti elders are having trouble putting away their spray paint cans. As Witten says, "I'm ready. I could go tonight ... More COLOROPHIL: Nomad cool-down at Reinisch Contemporary GRAZ.- White as glacial ice. Turquoise as a mountain lake. Blue as the night. That is how Reinisch Contemporary presents itself in midsummer, showing a selection of unique textile pieces originating from the Nomad cultures of Morocco. His latest exhibition, COLOROPHIL -GLACIERWHITEMOUNTAINLAKETURQUOISENIGHTBLUE, takes Austrian art collector and dealer Helmut Reinisch back to his original area of expertise: rare works of authentic textile art, with distinctive designs reminiscent of modern art. This seasonally inspired insight into the Reinisch collection focuses on pieces, which counter the summer temperatures in a special way. Gallerist and collector Helmut Reinisch: “Europe is not the only place where it is a common practice to surround oneself with cool colours during the summer in order to counteract the heat. Like European artists, Oriental nomads intuitively knew how ... More Old Master exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts drawing statewide visitation FLINT, MI.- The exhibition The Golden Age of Painting, 1600-1800 now on view at the Flint Institute of Arts through August 19 is drawing visitors from throughout Michigan and neighboring states. As the only Midwest venue for the rare collection of Old Masters from the Speed Art Museum, the exhibit has been a magnet for museum goers who are taking advantage of the opportunity to view paintings by many of the great artists of the period including: Rembrandt, Rubens and Gainsborough. The collection spans two hundred years of European painting and chronicles the sweeping changes that occurred in art, science, religion and exploration during the years 1600-1800. The images rendered by many of the greatest artists of that era, offer a window into this rich cultural period of history. “One can’t help being impressed by the quality and depth of this remarkable collection,” said John Henry ... More Design September: The annual meeting for designers to host more than 100 cultural events in Brussels BRUSSELS.- Design September, the annual meeting for people passionate about design, collects more than 100 cultural and commercial events in Brussels. The city becomes, for a whole month, the platform for meetings with belgian and international designers such as: Michele de Lucchi, Tom Dixon, BarberOsgerby, Ron Arad, Patrick Jouin, David Trubridge, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Maarten Baas, Karim Rashid and Ora Ito. For its sixth anniversary the festival will put forward the different applications of design and the multidisciplinary interactions between different design applications such as furniture design, product design, urban design, architecture, prototypes, strategic design, jewelry creation, illustration, food design,….and particlurarly this year graphic and textile design. Other specificity, young creators take part in this 2012 edition. A great diversity of qualitative ... More "With and By Nature": New photographs by Hartmut Neumann on view at Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung BERLIN.- Hartmut Neumann’s abstract, sculptural, utopian, and staged view of nature offers an inherent frame of reference for the works of Alfred Ehrhardt, which the artist used as a basis when conceiving this exhibition specifically for the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation. Neumann thus makes a new contribution the dialogical approach underlying the foundation’s exhibitions, in which the historical photographs and films of Alfred Ehrhardt are shown together with works by contemporary photographers addressing the concepts of nature and the natural. Hartmut Neumann creates assemblage-like compositions of taxidermized animals, plant elements, natural materials, and man-made objects—visual worlds of alarming artificiality. He constructs an image of nature that appears puzzlingly alien, although it is compiled of recognizably natural forms. He creates absurd visual environments ... More |
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