| U.S. District Court confirms Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation of Spain as owner of artwork | | Getty presents first major museum exhibition to focus entirely on Gustav Klimt's drawings | | Donald Judd's historic New York home and studio will open to the public in June 2013 | 
Camille Pissarro, Rue Saint-Honore, après-midi, effet de pluie (1897).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- After a seven year legal dispute, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has confirmed that the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation of Madrid, Spain is the rightful owner of the oil painting by Camille Pissarro, Rue Saint-Honore, après-midi, effet de pluie (1897). The Court ruled in favor of the Foundation in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemizsa Collection Foundation, dismissing the complaint with prejudice and without leave to amend. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation is represented by Thaddeus J. Stauber and Sarah E. André of Nixon Peabody LLP in Los Angeles, CA and Pedro Alemán Laín and Javier Martínez Bavière of Pedro Alemán Abogados in Madrid, Spain. The Pissarro painting was acquired by Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in good faith in 1976, and later by the Foundation in 1993 when the Baron’s collection came to Spain. The Foundation’s collection has an extensive worldwide public exhibition and publicati ... More | | 
Gustav Klimt, Drawing of a Woman with Cape and Hat in Three-quarter Profile, 1897–1898. Black and red crayon. Unframed: 44.6 x 31.8 cm. Image courtesy of the Albertina, Vienna.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- —Drawing the human figure was Gustav Klimt’s starting point for exploring overarching themes of existence—the cycle of life, human suffering, happiness, love, and longing. Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum July 3, 2012 through September 23, 2012, is the first major museum exhibition devoted entirely to the modern master’s drawings. Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918), the father of Viennese modernism, is renowned for his ornate paintings, but he was also an exceptionally innovative and gifted draftsman. Featuring more than 100 drawings, many having never before been exhibited in North America, this exhibition traces Klimt’s radical evolution from early academic realism and historical subjects in the mid 1880s to his celebrated modernist icons that broke new ground in the beginning of the 20th century. This ... More | | 
101 Spring Street, New York, Exterior. Photo Credit: Andrea Steele-Judd Foundation Archives. Image © Judd Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- The restoration of Donald Judd’s home and studio at 101 Spring Street in SoHo’s Cast Iron Historic District in New York City began on June 3, 2010 (the artist’s birthday) and will conclude three years later, in June 2013. Judd Foundation will open the five-story landmark to the public, offering programs and access to the building where Donald Judd lived with his family beginning in 1968, and which served as his New York studio until his death in 1994. The New York City design practice Architecture Research Office (ARO) leads Judd Foundation’s project team of consultants, which includes a preservation architect and consulting engineers. In progress since the purchase in 1968, Judd’s renovation of the building initially focused on modifying it for his use. Later, there was a focus on restoring the historic parts of the building, but this was not completed before Judd’s death. In 2002, Judd Foundation installed temporary protective scaff ... More |
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| Sergio Pininfarina, former head of Ferrari design company and senator for life, dies at 85 | | Art Gallery of Hamilton summer exhibitions focus on singular visions created by singular artists | | Versions and copies of Tudor portraits on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London | 
Sergio Pininfarina observes a Ferrari model in Turin. AP Photo/Silvio Durante, Lapresse.
ROME (AP).- Sergio Pininfarina, who headed a family company known for its designs of sleek Ferraris and other cars, has died. He was 85. The company said Tuesday Pininfarina died overnight at his home in Turin. No cause of death was given. The company founded in 1930 has designed cars for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Cadillac and Volvo but is most closely associated with Ferrari, designing nearly all of its models since the 1950s. Pininfarina was born in Turin. After joining his father Battista Farina at Carrozzeria Pininfarina, he quickly became integral to the company, and during his career oversaw many of the designs (particularly Ferraris) for which the company is famous. In 1961, by decree of the Italian president, his family surname was changed from Farina to Pininfarina to match that of the company. In 1965 it was Sergio Pininfarina who personally persuaded Enzo Ferrari to adopt a "mid-engined" engine configuration for a new line of road cars, with the engine positioned behind the d ... More | | 
Anselm Kiefer, Karfunkelfee 2007. Mixed media on board, 290 x 190 cm. Collection of Dr. Stephen Seltzer and Dr. Stuart Seltzer. Courtesy of Galerie Samuel Lallouz. Photo: Mike Lalich.
HAMILTON.- Six stellar exhibitions, featuring visionary Canadian and international artists, opened at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. “The Art Gallery of Hamilton is presenting a number of firsts this summer: a rare Ontario solo exhibition of leading Canadian contemporary sculptor, Valérie Blass; works by European artist Anselm Kiefer never before seen in Ontario; and, the first exhibition in Hamilton of paintings by Emily Carr in the last 25 years,” said Louise Dompierre, AGH President and CEO. “The diversity and bold vision inherent in each of the exhibitions reflects the dynamism of the AGH. I hope that our members and visitors from far and wide will find them thought provoking and engaging.” The exhibitions are presented under the banner of A League of Their Own, the AGH year-long celebration of Canadian visionary artists presented by TD. Eighteen works are featured in the first solo exhibi ... More | | 
William Warham By Unknown artist after Hans Holbein the Younger Oil on panel, late sixteenth century. ©Lent by permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church Commissioners.
LONDON.- Five pairs of nearly identical Tudor portraits have been brought together in a new display at the National Portrait Gallery. The display explores how and why duplicates and copies of portraits were made in the sixteenth century. Portraits from the Gallery’s Collection of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Archbishop William Warham, the merchant Thomas Gresham and Lord Treasurer Thomas Sackville are paired with portraits on loan from other collections. This is the first time that the Gallery’s well-known portrait of Anne Boleyn is on display since undergoing recent structural conservation. Research undertaken as part of the Making Art in Tudor Britain project has used scientific techniques to analyse the portraits in the Double Take display to increase our understanding of the working practices of Tudor artists. The project has used dendochronology, infrared reflecto- ... More |
| Newly discovered Gainsborough for sale at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale | | Exhibition of works on paper by acclaimed American artist Sol LeWitt on view at Waterhouse & Dodd | | Friday July 13th will be a lucky day for buyers of Ancient & Ethnographic Art at Antiquities-Saleroom | 
Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Catherine Warneford. Estimate: £20,000 – 30,000.. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A previously unknown portrait by the renowned artist, Thomas Gainsborough, will go under the hammer at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale on 4th July at New Bond Street. This rare painting has surfaced at auction through the family of the sitter. Originally passed down to the sitter’s great-great grandson and through six generations to the present owner, the painting has been in the family since it was executed around 1766. It is estimated at £20,000 – 30,000. The Gainsborough portrait continues the tradition of portraiture as a record of the sitter’s rank, and it is thought that this picture was painted to mark the sitter’s status as an heiress after the death of her father. She was the daughter of Samuel Claverley, a successful drug merchant from Southwark, who owned estates in London, Surrey and Sussex, which Catherine inherited after his death in 1765. The portrait shows Catherine Warneford, neé ... More | | 
Sol LeWitt, Squiggly Brushstokes, 1996. Gouache on paper, 30 x 22 inches. Photo: Courtesy Waterhouse & Dodd.
NEW YORK, NY.- Waterhouse & Dodd is presenting an exhibition of works on paper by acclaimed American artist, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007). Revealing the variety of techniques LeWitt employed during the final decades of his life, the works on view consist of gouaches, woodcuts, etchings, and engravings and range from formal geometric studies to compositions in vivid colors that convey a kind of lyrical expressionism. As a survey of LeWitt's later practice, these works testify to the innovation and evolution of the artist's visual language. Heralded as the pioneer of conceptual and minimal art, Sol LeWitt became known for transforming primary colors and geometric shapes into formal compositions that developed a certain complexity through spatial organization. LeWitt was pivotal in the formation of the new radical aesthetic of the 1960s and controversially had no concern for descriptive imagery or narrative. Rather, the a ... More | | 
Tin Retablo Santa Painting, San Francisco de Paula, Mexico, dated “Agosto 20 de 1896.” Estimate $3,500 - $4,500.
BOULDER COUNTY, CO.- Antiquities-Saleroom will host an online-only auction of Antiquities, Pre-Columbian & Ethnographic Art on Friday, July 13 beginning at noon EDT. The sale features Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal and Spanish Colonial Art. Internet live bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com. The first part of the auction features Classical Antiquities from Egypt, Greece and Rome. In the Egyptian category, highlights include An Egyptian Diorite Libation Cup, An Egyptian Bronze Osiris (8"H), A Hittite Egyptian Stone Bull's Head, ex-Christie's and An Egyptian Limestone Relief Fragment Horus. In the Greek section, there are several important examples, including An Attic Black Figure Lekythos Herakles and Greeks, A Greek Terracotta Seated Figure of Attis, An Etruscan Pottery Wine Groupingand A Greek Mycenae ... More |
| Explore "Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960" online | | Exhibition presents more than a thousand pictures in a dark space on ten iPads | | Rare collection of fifteen photographs of Arab and international leaders on view at Ayyam Gallery | 
Isamu Noguchi, The Cry, 1959. Balsa wood on steel base, 221 x 85.1 x 47.6 cm, including base. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2012 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Kris McKay/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with the exhibition Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960, the Guggenheim has produced a special exhibition site and several videos, illuminating the 1950s as a period of radical experimentation and highlighting the Guggenheim’s commitment to the contemporary avant-garde. In the exhibition site, browse a selection of twenty of the nearly one hundred works on view by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Asger Jorn, and Jackson Pollock. Read about their relationship to abstraction and how the artists challenged traditional concepts of subject, material, and process. Six stories, such as “Expanding the Sculpture Collection” and “Tastebreakers of the 1950s,” ... More | | 
Images from this archive have been combined into an installation called Double Extension Beauty Tubes.
AMSTERDAM.- Rico Scagliola (1985, Switzerland) and Michael Meier (1982, Switzerland) have taken pictures and have filmed teenagers for more than two years, creating their archive of photographs and videos of today's Facebook generation. Images from this archive have been combined into an installation called Double Extension Beauty Tubes. More than a thousand pictures are being presented in a dark space on ten iPads. The order of the images is intuitive and in a stream of consciousness mode. Metal heads, vampires, platinum blonds in high fashion outfits pose self-consciously in front of Rico & Michael's camera. The rhythm in which the images are presented greatly influences the experience of the installation. Sometimes you see the same teenager ten times in a row, then you see ten different but fast-changing images. Sometimes the presentation slows down, sometimes the images actually stop for a moment. Using soft-focus and theatrical lighting, the photographs are balanced between ... More | | 
Ammar Abd Rabbo "Queen Elizabeth II and prince Philip (not seen on the photograph) await for French president Jacques Chirac and his wife Bernadette at Windsor Castle" 91 x 61 cm. Archival Print on Cotton Paper, Edition of 5 2004
DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery, Dubai presents'Follow the Leader' by renowned photojournalist, Ammar Abd Rabbo. Featuring a rare collection of fifteen photographs of Arab and international leaders taken at various moments of their life, Ammar Abd Rabbo’s new series offers an unprecedented glimpse at these leaders. Captured while on assignment and never staged or digitally manipulated in any way, Ammar Abd Rabbo manages to immortalize those moments reserved for private spheres that slip into view. An internal thought read across the lines of a face, a smirk and side glance, the way the poster of one leader is ignored while another is carefully cared for. With the eye of a journalist, each of Ammar Abd Rabbo’s images relay just enough information to set the scene, yet with an unfailing artistic eye, his intriguing compositions retain a graphic beauty. ... More |
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 Lifting the veil of history through New York's art By: Pearl Duncan
NEW YORK, NY.- History inspires artists to be incisive and dramatic. Artists reflect human ancestry and everyday events, and create art that reflects their time, history and controversies. But sometimes the history of dramatic events are lost and all we have left is the art that tells a story. Some of the paintings at the clubs at Gramercy Park that tell a story are being sold, so I revisited the stories the paintings tell. Sometimes fine artists capture people and events portrayed by literary artists. That is what happened in New York in the late 1800s. The stories of inheritance and property were so notorious, artists made them their subject matter. One phrase we do not hear anymore, at least I don’t, is “heir-in-law to the estate.” But the playwright, George Colman, and ... More Unseen: Photo pair with a festival flair; inaugural edition & initial galleries announced AMSTERDAM.- Unseen, the new international photography fair, announces it’s inaugural 2012 edition, which will take place in Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek from September 20 – 23. Unseen is a joint venture of Foam (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam); Platform A (office for cultural business development); and Vandejong (branding agency). Unseen is an effort to give new photography the platform it deserves. It brings together galleries that focus on new developments, young photographic talent, known photographers with new works to show and a global audience interested in discovering groundbreaking work. Unseen focuses on exciting and ‘emerging’ developments in the world of photography, on pioneers and adventurers, providing a source of inspiration for international collectors and photography lovers worldwide. Unseen has invited over 50 galleries from ... More Exhibitor line up announced for Bloomsbury Art Fair 2012 to be held July 6-8 LONDON.- This summer the Bloomsbury Art Fair offers the public an unparalleled opportunity to buy and enjoy great works of art at an event that celebrates the talents of many established, as well as emerging, contemporary artists. The line-up of artists and galleries who will be exhibiting at this year’s event has been now been selected by the Advisory Board. Visitors can be rest assured that the quality and scope of the works available to buy will be of the highest quality. Prices range from £50-£25,000. The Bloomsbury Art Fair is welcoming back artist Sophie Morgan, photographer David Constantine, sculptor Ian Edwards and The Helium Foundation who will be showing works from internationally fêted artists such as Nick Walker and Damien Hirst. In addition, the Bloomsbury Art Fair will be showcasing artists and galleries including Tag Fine Arts, ArtDog London, Half Moon Studio, ... More Monterey Museum of Art presents Rodin: Light & Shadow MONTEREY, CA.- The Monterey Museum of Art presents Rodin: Light & Shadow, Selections from Guardian Stewardship and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, July 5-October 21, 2012 at the MMA Pacific Street, 559 Pacific Street, Monterey, California, 93940. In conjunction with the reopening of Philadelphia’s Rodin Museum, on July 13, 2012, 6-8 pm, the Monterey Museum of Art will present a guided exploration of Rodin’s mastery of light and shadow with special guest Ted Wells, architect and author of Rodin: Casting Shadows. This unique exhibition is interactive for all ages and is set amidst the character of Rodin’s Parisian studio. Consisting of a selection of portrait busts and figurative sculptures such as The Thinker, The Kiss, John the Baptist, and Romeo and Juliet, each one has its own fascinating, complex story to tell. Rodin: Light and Shadow encourages the viewer to take a close look ... More United Kingdom art trade campaign to stop royalties for artists LONDON.- A campaign against the Artist’s Resale Right is threatening an important source of income for emerging artists. The Artist’s Resale Right entitles UK artists and their families to royalties for artworks re-selling above €1000. However, a campaign led by art dealers is calling for this threshold to be raised to €3000. The Government’s decision in 2005 to opt for a lower threshold of €1000 meant that more emerging artists could enjoy resale royalties, as well as photographers and illustrators, whose works often sell at lower prices than fine art. 41% of artists who have received resale royalties since the Right came in in 2006 did so because of the lower threshold. Raising the threshold could deprive them, and other artists, of future royalties. ‘For the sake of royalty payments of around £32, raising this threshold will disenfranchise younger and emerging artists as their works resell ... More The XVA welcomes Fereydoon Omidi for a solo exhibition of contemporary Persian calligraphy DUBAI.- For its new show, the XVA welcomes Fereydoon Omidi, who presents his latest works of contemporary Persian calligraphy within the popular DIFC gallery. Omidi previously exhibited in the XVA four years ago, and it is felt that his arresting, large-scale works draw attention from both art connoisseurs and visitors to the DIFC over the summer period. Running from the 20th June to early September, the exhibition marks the return of Fereydoon since his previous show at the XVA Bastakiya’s venue four years ago. The exhibition represents the artist’s latest series of paintings, namely large scale, oil on canvas calligraphy works. Through this new body of work, Fereydoon uses Persian calligraphy in a repetitious manner, playing with the spacing and volume of letters, and with such rhythmic motions, ignites the imagination of the audience. The overall objective is not to create meaning, as ... More Kaminski Auctions announces 20th Century Decorative Arts sale BEVERLY, MASS.- Kaminski Auctions announced that they will hold an exciting 20th Century Decorative Arts sale on July 28th. Presenting an impressive range of items from oil paintings and sculpture, to lithographs, furniture, and important collectible items, bidding is set to begin at 11:00 AM in the Kaminski auction gallery at 117 Elliot Street in Beverly, Massachusetts. The top lot of the sale is an oil on canvas work by American painter Dennis Akervik Coelho. Born in 1968 in Rhode Island, Coelho is most noted for his abstract and figural works, as well as his seascapes. Two of his pieces are on offer in this July auction: “Puffer Fish” (estimated $15,000-$20,000), and “On The Atlantic” (estimated $1,000-$5,000). Both are impressive compositions that include certificates of authenticity from the artist. Another highlight is a large-scale magiscope sculpture by Mexican-American artist Feliciano B ... More |
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