| New Tate Modern Tanks open to the public with commission by Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim | | Ornament Perspectives on Modernism: Ornamental Prints from Dürer to Piranesi at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg | | Metropolitan Museum announces 6.28 million attendance, highest ever since it began tracking attendance | 
Visitors take pictures as they listen to a recording of The Crystal Quilt by Suzanne Lacy in a room in The Tanks. AP Photo/Sang Tan.
LONDON.- A new commission by Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim was unveiled today in The Tanks at Tate Modern. This major new work is the first installation to be created especially in The Tanks, the world’s first museum galleries permanently dedicated to exhibiting live art, performance, installation and film works. In Kim’s work, visitors are plunged into a fantastical world of optical illusions that draws on a rich history of performance and film. The commission for the Maja Hoffmann/Luma Foundation Tank is supported by Sotheby’s and runs from 18 July to 28 October. The launch is part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. A new commission by Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim was unveiled today in The Tanks at Tate Modern. This major new work is the first installation to be created especially in The Tanks, the world’s first museum galleries permanently dedicated to exhibiting live art ... More | | 
Albrecht Dürer after Leonardo da Vinci, Knots with oblong escutcheon (without monogram), woodcut, after 1507.
WOLFSBURG.- The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is known for the thematic exhibitions with which it regularly takes looks back at the classic and early periods of modernism. With Ornament, the museum ventures even further back into the past based on a special theme from the history of the graphics art—the ornamental print. Beginning with Albrecht Dürer’s famous series of knots, six impressively decorated Renaissance woodcuts, the exhibition brings together around 100 precious prints and several ornamented objects from the 15th to the 18th century. Most of these art historical treasures come from the comprehensive collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig; others are from MAK in Vienna. This survey of the history and development of the ornament as an art form makes the unbroken currency of the ornamental in contemporary art particularly evident. On show will be woodcuts, engravings and etchings, ... More | | 
Andrea Mantegna, Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan, Ca. 1459-60. Tempera on wood, 17 7/8 x 13¾ in. Gemäldgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded since the Metropolitan Museum began tracking visitor attendance more than 40 years ago. The total number of visitors was nearly 600,000 greater than in Fiscal Year 2011. “We are delighted by this extraordinary response to the Met’s collections, exhibitions, and programs over the past year,” said Thomas P. Campbell, the Metropolitan Museum’s Director and CEO. “Anchoring this success was the public’s interest in the new galleries for our Islamic collection and our American Wing, with each of those areas receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors in their inaugural months. Attendance at our exhibitions, which covered a broad spectrum of topics traversing centuries and geographic areas, was also strong throug ... More |
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| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announces highlights from its latest acquisitions | | "George Hendrik Breitner: Pioneer of Street Photography" on view at Kunsthal Rotterdam | | Americans for the Arts announces 2012 National Arts Awards and Honorees | 
Marsden Hartley, Franconia Notch (Mt. Lafayette, Franconia Notch, N.H.) detail, 1930, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches, Henry Heydenryk period frame, J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art.
RICHMOND, VA.- The following artworks were acquired in May 2012 by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. VMFA is a state agency and a model public/private partnership. All works of art are purchased with private funds from dedicated endowments. After the VMFA Board of Trustees approves proposed acquisitions on a quarterly basis, the art becomes the property of the Commonwealth of Virginia to protect, preserve, and interpret. Franconia Notch by Marsden Hartley – among the most celebrated figures of the early 20th-century American avant garde – is a quintessential expression of the artist’s self-proclaimed “Americanness.” The painting belongs to a series of some 25 canvases depicting the White Mountains and rivers of New Hampshire, produced on Hartley’s 1930 return to America after an extended eight-year stay in France. ... More | | 
Marie Jordan seen from the back, no date. Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
ROTTERDAM.- The Kunsthal Rotterdam in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam presents a major retrospective of photographs that the Rotterdam-born photographer George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) took around 1900. Breitner is known primarily as an eccentric painter of cityscapes, nudes and genre studies. This exhibition, however, shows him to be one of the most interesting photographers of his day, recording life in Amsterdam and other large cities such as Paris and Berlin in a style that was singularly personal and modern. He created many snapshot-style photographs on the streets as well as informal images of people’s home life. The photographs he took were less static than the typical professional photographs of his contemporaries. Breitner digressed from standard practices and experimented with technology. He opted for extremely high or extremely low perspectives, photographed into the light and managed to portr ... More | | 
Award specially designed by artist Jeff Koons in 2010 for the annual National Arts Awards. Courtesy Americans for the Arts.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Americans for the Arts, the leading organization for advancing the arts and arts education in the United States, announces recipients of the 2012 National Arts Awards. The annual awards recognize artists and arts leaders who exhibit exemplary national leadership and whose work demonstrates extraordinary artistic achievement. This year’s recipients are: • Paul G. Allen – Eli & Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts • James Rosenquist – Isabella and Theodor Dalenson Lifetime Achievement Award • Brian Stokes Mitchell – Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award • Josh Groban – Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award • Lin Arison – Arts Education Award The awards will be presented on October 15 as part of a by-invitation benefit at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City during National Arts and Humanities Month, ... More |
| After a three year absence... Adrian Mibus and An Jo Fermon of Whitford Fine Art return to New York | | Show proposes six artists who deal with various interpretations of love's wide range of emotions | | Brandywine River Museums names Thomas Padon as Director; To start in September | 
Adrian Mibus, and his wife and partner, the Belgian-born author and dealer An Jo Fermon.
LONDON.- After 40 years selling modern art from many of the most respected painters and sculptors of the 20th century, London-based, Australian-born art dealer Adrian Mibus says, “Fashions in art can be fickle. Some of the most successful collectors I know are the ones with the patience to learn about and enjoy works that over the decades have proven to stand the test of time. Even high-profile art buyers have been stung when they see that acclaim can be fleeting for artists whose works are untested.” At the Haughton International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York October 19th to October 25th, Mibus, and his wife and partner, the Belgian-born author and dealer An Jo Fermon, will show an exciting mix of works that range from mid-century French and British artists to stars of Cubist and Post war Abstraction, to signature Pop Art and sculpture. Credited early in his career for his “rediscovery” of 20th century modernist paint ... More | | 
Paul Branca, Untitled (Indigo), 2012. Oil on canvas. Photo: Courtesy Scaramouche NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scaramouche presents the exhibition, Gli amori difficili, inspired by the collection of tales by author Italo Calvino. Impressed by banal oppositions of daily life, Calvino penned several amorous stories which make up Gli amori difficili (Difficult Loves) in Italy of the 1950's and 60's. Calvino’s storytelling is simultaneously simple and complex. His sheer range in subject matter from the tragic to the quotidien, from the Neo-Realist to the experimental, is consistently softened by his Mediterranean humanism, and is phenomenal in its clarity and lightness. Gli amori difficili (1970) presents the reader with 15 novellas, each sharing the theme of love’s often inescapable condition of being misunderstood by its protagonists, and how communication is pertinent yet its mutual sharing is rare. Calvino gives us a gift of written beauty in his descriptions of life’s everyday, yet amorous, situat ... More | | 
Thomas Padon comes to the Brandywine River Museum from the Vancouver Art Gallery.
CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Trustees of the Brandywine Conservancy announced the appointment of Thomas Padon as the next director of the Brandywine River Museum. Padon, who will take up the post on September 1, 2012, will be the Museum's third director since its founding in 1971. The Brandywine River Museum has an international reputation for its collections of American art and illustration, including works by N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. Padon will report to Virginia A. Logan, whose tenure as Executive Director of the Brandywine Conservancy began on January 1st of this year. "Together with eight trustees on the Search Committee, we reviewed scores of candidates, and are delighted to have found in Tom Padon the ideal mix of museum management experience, leadership style and enthusiasm for our collection and mission," said Logan. "Tom Padon brings extensive experience ... More |
| Anthony McCall: Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art | | The exquisite art of Isabelle de Borchgrave on view at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens | | Opus Fine Art announces signed screenprint editions from founding member of Squeeze, Chris Difford | 
Anthony McCall Installation view at Hangar Bicocca Milan, 2009 Foto: Giulio Buono.
By: Dr. Kai Artinger
BERLIN.- What is light? What is time and space? What is light in sculpture? And what is the significance of light as a medium of art? All these and other questions arise at the current exhibition by the British artist Anthony McCall (born 1946) at the Berlin Museum of Contemporary Art. It is an impressive presentation that throws interesting light on our way of observing and perceiving the world around us. Anthony McCall’s light sculptures juggle with paradoxes, showing us something that is simultaneously both real and unreal, that contains nothing of substance and is pure light. Though the works are intangible, we want to touch or grasp them. But there is nothing to hold onto, nothing to touch or to feel. These sculptures deceive our senses; confronted with them, we fall victim to an optical illusion. For visitors to the to the pitch-black exhibition hall in which these works are displayed ... More | | 
18th century costume. Created for Pret-a-Papier exhibition. Photo © Alain Speltdoorn.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A selection of iconic dresses, reinterpreted in trompe l’oeil paper masterpieces by Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave, are presented in the exhibition Prêt-à-Papier: The Exquisite Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave, on view at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens from June 16 to December 30, 2012. The first exhibition of the artist’s work to be presented in Washington, DC, Prêt-à-Papier brings together more than 25 of de Borchgrave’s quintessential interpretations of historical costumes and haute couture dresses, with six new works made for this exhibition, including one commissioned solely for Hillwood. For over 15 years, inspired by the rich history of fashion represented in European paintings, famous costumes in museum collections, and designs of the grand couturiers, de Borchgrave has turned her passion for painting toward the recreation of elaborate costumes – crumpling, pleating ... More | | 
These new prints feature lyrics from some of Chris Difford’s and Squeeze’s most memorable and best-loved songs.
LONDON.- Opus Fine Art has exclusively released a collection of six collectable signed screenprint editions from founding member of Squeeze, Chris Difford. These new prints feature lyrics from some of Chris Difford’s and Squeeze’s most memorable and best-loved songs, including Up The Junction, Woman’s World, Tempted and Is That Love. The result of a collaboration between Chris Difford and designer Andrew Morrison and printed on Somerset Velvet paper, each print in this new collection measures 14.5 x 21.5 inches, and is from a numbered edition of 100, and signed by Chris Difford. Appealing to music fans and serious art collectors alike, each print is priced at just £100 (plus VAT where applicable), and is available to buy through www.opus-art.com. Best known as a member of Squeeze, Chris Difford is considered one of Britain’s most celebrated and iconic lyricists. His timeless kitchen sink lyrics are classic ... More |
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 New acquisition on view at the Gibbes Museum of Art, J. Henry Fair donates work of art CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art has received a work of art from Charleston native J. Henry Fair, whose photographs were exhibited at the museum in a solo exhibition in 2011. The photograph, titled Bacon, Warsaw , N.C., is now a part of the museum’s permanent collection and is currently on view in The Charleston Story exhibition. “We are so pleased to have one of Fair’s large-scale aerial photographs in our collection. The 2011 exhibition J. Henry Fair: Industrial Scars evoked much conversation about his abstract images that are both aesthetically pleasing and unsettling in their depictions of the changing southern landscape,” noted Gibbes Executive Director Angela Mack. J. Henry Fair moved from Charleston to New York City in 1980 to pursue a career in photography. For decades he enjoyed success making portraits of many of the world’s notable ... More Artist brings 3-D pavement art to Grand Canyon FLAGSTAFF (AP).- Uninspired by modern art, Kurt Wenner set out to learn how European masters made architecture soar and figures float in ceiling frescoes. What started off as two-dimensional chalk and pastel art on the streets of Rome decades ago, mimicking what Wenner saw in Renaissance classicism, morphed into an art form of his own — one that makes objects appear to rise from or fall into the ground in three-dimensional pieces. His latest piece unveiled just outside the Grand Canyon has visitors perched atop spires and starting down a winding trail that seemingly plunges into the depths of the massive gorge. The piece, "Grand Canyon Illusion," certainly is puzzling to the eye, blending the visitors who pose in it with a scenic, infinite backdrop. It's the first semi-permanent display of Wenner's work in North America and one that he hopes will help take pavement art to a ... More Pedro Barbeito's Pop Violence on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Spanish-born, New York-based artist Pedro Barbeito’s exhibition at The Aldrich presents a series of works produced between 2005 and the present. The paintings in Pop Violence are informed by images of war drawn from American entertainment and news media. For Barbeito, these works address the formative role of violence in contemporary life, from a political ethos driven by “terror” and deception to the aesthetics of visual assault prevailing in popular culture. Drawing upon the anxieties of an age when we are afforded, primarily through the Internet, unprecedented visual access to the violence of war and political strife (the conflict in Iraq and the Abu Ghraib images of torture, for example), these canvases materialize through painting the ubiquitous command found in most NYC transportation hubs: “If you see something, say something.” “Painting, ... More Historic North Carolina mountain lodge reborn By: Allen G. Breed, AP National Writer
BLOWING ROCK, NC (AP).- Not long after he and his brother bought the derelict Green Park Inn at auction, Steve Irace learned something that astonished him. "If you looked in the lobby or the dining room or the bar, you saw the columns," the Long Island, N.Y., native says. "Those columns are single pieces of solid American chestnut that run from floor to ceiling and beyond." With American chestnut selling for $12 a board foot on the collector lumber market, he realized the hotel "was worth more dead than alive." Luckily for the community, and for history buffs, that's not why the brothers bought this "Grande Dame of the High Country." "We feel that we're caretakers of a national treasure," Irace said during a recent visit to this Victorian jewel, perched atop ... More Bling, Ball & Chain: Leeza Meksin's "Flossing the Lot" in New Haven NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Interdisciplinary artist Leeza Meksin installs Flossing the Lot, a new outdoor installation, and the last in a series of three public works all employing artist-designed spandex printed with oversized golden chains on a gleaming white background. The chain links symbolize many, often divergent ideas such as bondage, community building, wealth, adornment, incarceration and continuity. When placed in a new geographic context, the print transforms itself and the location, creating a playful urban space for new connections, associations and encounters. The New Haven installation is monumental in scale. Comprised of corseted vertical banners stretching across the enormous walls of The Lot, FTL references New Haven's Historic Corset Factory as well as jewelry displays, the ivory tower, and hangings. The gold link motif re-used at the busy corner ... More FIGMENT announces finalists for 2012-2013 City of Dreams Pavilion Design Competition NEW YORK, NY.- FIGMENT, the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY), and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) are pleased to announce the finalists for the third annual 2012-2013 City of Dreams Pavilion Design Competition: • The Enneper Pavilion by Maria Mingallon • Head in the Clouds by Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang • For Rent by MTWTHFSS (Ed Blumer and Pete Storey) • Fodder Form Pavilion by HuycKurlanDowling (Teddy Huyck, Alexis Kurland, and Conner Dowling) • A cloud, in a Tree by SAMPLES (Julien Boitard and Richard Nguyen) Each of the five finalists will have until September 4, 2012 to respond to jury comments and refine their designs. By September 31, 2012, the jury will reconvene to review the revised designs and select a winner. The winning team ... More |
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