| Restitution of a floral still-life from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder by museum in Munich | | Tacoma Art Museum receives gift of 280 works of American Western art from the Haub family | | Detroit Institute of Arts present Picasso and Matisse: The DIA's Prints and Drawings | 
Workshop of Jan Brueghel d.Ä.; Bouquet of Flowers in a Clay Vase, beginning 17. Jh., 70 x 52 cm, Öl auf Eichenholz, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek Munich.
MUNICH.- ‘Bouquet of Flowers in a Clay Vase’ is a workshop replica of the original by Jan Brueghel the Elder in the National Gallery in Prague. It has been in the possession of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen since 1992 (Inv. No. 15280), having been acquired from the collection of Fritz Thyssen. During preparatory work for the major Brueghel exhibition in 2013, the painting in the Alte Pinakothek was thoroughly examined and exhibition labels discovered on the reverse which showed that Julius Kien had once been the owner of the painting. Research carried out by the Referat für Provenienzforschung (Art Provenance Research) at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen revealed that Julius Kien had been forced to sell the work as a result of the persecution of Jews ... More | | 
Georgia O'keeffe, Pinons with Cedar. Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 in. Tacoma Art Museum, promised gift of Erivan and Helga Haub.
TACOMA, WASH.- Tacoma Art Museum announced a major donation by Erivan and Helga Haub and family of 280 major works of American Western Art along with a contribution for a new 10,000 square foot wing to house the collection as well as endowment funds for the care of the collection. The new wing will be designed by award-winning architect Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig Architects; Olson Kundig Architects is also leading the museum's plaza redesign project . This will be Tom Kundig's first completed museum project, set to open in 2014. "We are extremely grateful to the Haub family for this extraordinary gift, the largest in the museum's 75-year history," said Stephanie A. Stebich, Director of Tacoma Art Museum. "The 280 works from noted artists will make our museum a key destination to view American Western Art." Thi ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline in a Flowered Hat, 1963. Linoleum cut. Detroit Institute of Arts. © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
DETROIT, MI.- Works by two artists who have long been favorites of the public will be on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Picasso and Matisse: The DIA’s Prints and Drawings, on view July 11, 2012–January 6, 2013, will feature almost all of the works by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Henri Matisse (1869–1954) in the museum’s collection, showcasing their revolutionary achievements that came to define much of 20th-century art. This exhibition has been organized by Detroit Institute of Arts and is free with museum admission. Support has been provided by Comerica Bank. The story of Picasso’s and Matisse’s stylistic progression and artistic range will be told through more than 100 prints and drawings, including exceptional works such as Matisse’s 1919 drawing The Plumed Hat and Picasso’s 1939 gouache of The ... More |
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| Exhibition at Camera Work offers an insight into fashion photographer Steven Klein's work | | Carnegie Museum of Art announces major promised gifts; Photography collection to gain seven masterworks | | Creative Time launches a new work by artist Trevor Paglen into outer space in fall | 
Steven Klein, X-Static Process 03, 2002 © Steven Klein.
BERLIN.- CWC Gallery presents an exhibition by Steven Klein, one of the most famous fashion photographers worldwide.The exhibition offers an insight into Klein’s work, featuring photographs from different points in his successful career. Steven Klein has created a unique visual language: Cinematic, surreal and often shocking, his photographic aesthetic is controversial, yet internationally admired. Since the 1990s, Klein has produced numerous photo series with international stars. Apart from creating the exhibition installation »X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS« with photographs and videos of Madonna, Klein has worked with celebrities like Britney Spears, David Beckham, and recently, Kate Moss and Lady Gaga. The portrayal of these artists, who are famous for their controversial performances and eccentric life styles, seems an apt choice for Steven Klein, whose work has always been prone to provocation. In 2005, Klein created ... More | | 
Alfred Stieglitz, (American, 1864–-1946) View from 291, 1915, gelatin silver print.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art, announced today the promised gifts of six photographs and one glass plate negative from the collection of William Talbott Hillman. Five photographs are currently on loan to the museum for its groundbreaking exhibition Impressionism in a New Light: From Monet to Stieglitz, and will soon be joined by two additional, very rare images of Alice Liddell, taken by none other than Lewis Carroll. Ranging from a pioneering 1845 salt print by David Octavius Hill to a 1915 early Modernist cityscape by Alfred Stieglitz, each of the objects represents, according to curator of photography Linda Benedict-Jones, “an exceptionally important addition” to the museum’s growing permanent collection of early photographs. “Indeed,” she says, “they may pave the way for further collect- ... More | | 
The Last Pictures artifact. Courtesy of Trevor Paglen.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Creative Time will launch The Last Pictures, an archival disc created by artist Trevor Paglen, into outer space, where it will orbit the earth for billions of years affixed to the exterior of the communications satellite EchoStar XVI. To create the artifact, Paglen micro-etched one hundred photographs selected to represent modern human history onto a silicon disc encased in a gold-plated shell, designed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Last Pictures is both a message to the future and a poetic meditation on the legacy of our civilization. The images contained in the artifact constitute what the artist describes as “cave paintings from the 21st-century,” as they will become one of the longest-lasting material remnants of contemporary civilization. Following its launch from Kazakhstan in September 2012, the artifact will remain in the Earth’s geosynchronous o ... More |
| The Fallout of Living: New work by Ryan Gander opens at Lisson Gallery in London | | Gravity and Disgrace: Rachel Howard, Jane Simpson and Amelia Newton Whitelaw at Blain/Southern | | Suspended Disbelief: A group exhibition on view at Von Lintel Gallery in New York | 
Ryan Gander, The way things collide (condom, meet USM cabinet), 2012. Mixed media (carved beech). Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents The Fallout of Living, a rich and entirely new body of work by Ryan Gander. In his second solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery, Gander continues to explore layered systems of meaning through his simultaneously playful and deeply conceptual practice. The Fallout of Living sees Gander reach new levels as a masterful visual storyteller, while taking an introspective direction in his work. The title of the exhibition refers to the fallout from the moment in an artist’s life when, having become so fluent in visual language, their life and practice have become indistinguishable. This innate creativity infiltrates, and is inextricable from, all aspects of daily life, every decision (down to the clothes you wear, the food you eat, the placement of objects in your home) becomes creative and aesthetic. I Is…(I) (2012) and Tell My Mother not to Worry (ii) (2012), both take inspiration from Ga ... More | | 
Rachel Howard, Suicide Painting 4, 2007 (detail). Household gloss and acrylic on canvas, 213.4 x 335.3 cm / (84 x 132 in).
LONDON.- Blain|Southern presents Gravity and Disgrace, a group show curated by Rachel Howard which brings together the artist’s own work with that of Jane Simpson and Amelia Newton Whitelaw. Inspired by the Hayward Gallery’s 1993 exhibition Gravity & Grace: The Changing Condition of Sculpture, 1965 – 1975, the exhibition considers how select artists today continue to explore unconventional materiality through painting and sculpture. Gravity and Grace celebrated the transitional nature of sculpture during the late 1960s and early 1970s by presenting some of the most important and provocative works made during these years. Illustrating the revolutionary influence of Arte Povera upon sculptural practice in America and Europe at this time, the exhibition highlighted a rejection of sophisticated methods of construction and traditional materials. Using this specific show as a springboard, the curatorial paramete ... More | | 
Melanie Willhide, T and V, Mesa Elks, 2008, 2011. Archival pigment print, 30 x 28 inches, ed. of 5. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents Suspended Disbelief, a group exhibition featuring work by Marco Breuer, John Chiara, Yvonne Estrada, Dana Melamed, Antonio Murado, Mark Sheinkman, Joseph Stashkevetch, Allyson Strafella and Melanie Willhide. Suspended Disbelief asks its audience to put its disbelief aside. Assembling works by nine contemporary artists, the exhibition challenges its viewers to accept a basic, though unlikely, premise about each piece in the show in order to fully engage in the work. Dana Melamed's wall piece uses unconventional materials to create a sprawling urban landscape that couldn't possibly exist in reality. Marco Breuer's one-of-a-kind photographs are made without a camera or negative, while Joseph Stashkevetch's detailed drawing is difficult to imagine as anything but a photograph. John Chiara and Antonio Murado offer their own unique take on landscape as Yvonne ... More |
| Stand still like the hummingbird: An exhibition curated by Bellatrix Hubert at David Zwirner | | Exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Charline von Heyl opens at Kunsthalle Nürnberg | | Jane Austen's ring sells for five times estimate in Sotheby's English Literature Sale | 
Installation view of Stand still like the hummingbird (curated by Bellatrix Hubert) at David Zwirner, New York. Photo: Jon Smith. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Stand still like the hummingbird, an exhibition curated by Bellatrix Hubert in the gallery’s 525 and 533 spaces. It takes its title from a collection of short stories and essays by American writer Henry Miller, published in 1962. Known equally for his mysticism and dark humor, Miller proposed the idea of “flying backwards, standing still like a hummingbird” as a lighthearted antidote to the frantic pace of modern society. In borrowing Miller’s title, the exhibition also embraces the paradox at its heart: the hummingbird, of course, only appears inert because we cannot visually process its wing beat quickly enough. Hubert has gathered a careful selection of paintings, sculptures, and videos by artists who engage with contradictions, impossibilities, and
the absurd. They also share a concern with understated gestures and formal ... More | | 
Now or Else, 2009, Acrylic and oil on linen/Acryl und Öl auf Leinwand, 82 x 78 inches/208 x 198 cm © Charline von Heyl; Courtesy of Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne/Köln & Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
NUREMBERG.- Charline von Heyl’s paintings and works on paper generate vibrant energies and tensions due to their wide spectrum of materials and techniques: large, dynamic forms enclose fine graphic structures, bright colours encounter subdued tones, abstract expression confronts the fleeting memory of something real. Figure and background exist in a permanently shimmering interchange. The relationships in these images are complicated, bold and mysterious, but so much charged with atmosphere and emotion that they address us directly despite evading swift categorisation. Charline von Heyl creates images which, as she herself says “have the iconic significance of symbols but nonetheless remain enigmatic in meaning; something that feels like representation although it is not; something that looks as if it would have content or a story although that is not the case; ... More | | 
Jane Austen, a gold and gem set ring, est. £20,000-30,000, sold for £152,450. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This afternoon in Sotheby’s English Literature, History, Children’s Books & Illustrations sale, a previously unknown gold and gem set ring belonging to the great English author Jane Austen, sold for £152,450 – more than five times its pre-sale high estimate of £20,000-30,000. Eight bidders battled for the turquoise ring, which was eventually won by an anonymous private collector over the telephone. The ring was offered for sale for the first time, having remained in Jane Austen’s family for nearly 200 years – handed down between female descendants over many generations. The Gandhi-Kallenbach archive of letters, papers and photographs spanning five decades, was privately sold before the auction to the Indian Government. Sotheby’s manuscripts specialist Dr Gabriel Heaton commented: “Jane Austen‟s simple and modest ring is a wonderfully intimate and evocative possession The price ... More |
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 The Renaissance Society announces new President of its Board of Directors, Greg Cameron CHICAGO, IL.- The Board of Directors of The Renaissance Society, Chicago’s internationally renowned non-collecting museum of contemporary art, has elected Greg Cameron to be its new President, succeeding Jennifer Levine. Cameron takes office immediately, for a three-year term. "The Board of Directors is pleased to anticipate working under the leadership of Greg Cameron," said Susanne Ghez, Chief Curator and Executive Director of The Renaissance Society. "Greg’s long commitment to the arts and to public service demonstrates that he will be an excellent leader for the museum as it prepares for its centennial celebration in 2013, and beyond. A trusted and valuable member of The Renaissance Society's Board since February 2010, we are truly grateful to him for the additional commitment he assumes in taking on this new role. At the same time, we thank Jennifer Levine for her ... More Valencian Institute of Modern Art opens the exhibition "Exit. Francisco Solana" VALENCIA.- The director of the IVAM, Consuelo Ciscar, artist, Francisco Javier Solana, the curator, Fernando Castro, and D. Carlos Mataix, Director of Institutional Relations of Heineken Spain Mediterranean Arc, presented the exhibition "Exit. Solana Francisco 'will remain on display until September. The exhibition, sponsored by Heineken, Spain, brings together 25 recent works by the artist between Miami and Cartagena in 2011 and 2012. His painting, heir to the tradition of painting hyper-American of the late 60's of last century, it connects with the aesthetics of Pop art and its normal everyday settings. Francisco Solana's paintings (Madrid, 1968) reformulate the point of figurative and poetic mode of capturing reality. His paintings are a detailed performance of the look experience, analyzing the complex field of figurative realism where that "untemporary happiness of vision" ... More The Forum d'Avignon: An international think tank dedicated to culture AVIGNON.- The Forum d’Avignon is an independent, international think tank that aims to break down the barriers between culture and the economy and propose new ideas and solutions at global, European and local levels. Founded in 2008 and supported by over 30 partners and sponsors, it brings together some 450 leading figures from major international private companies and the public sector as well as, among others, artists, architects, philosophers, musicians and students. The fifth edition of the Forum will be held in the Palais des Papes in the southern French city of Avignon from 15 to 17 November 2012. The theme will be Culture: reasons to hope – Imagining and passing on. It will examine and highlight the positive links between culture, the economy and the media – the linchpins of the knowledge economy – including their roles in creating social cohesion and jobs. Amid troubled ... More John Gerrard's major new commission premieres at the Old Power Station in Oxford OXFORD.- The latest project in Modern Art Oxford’s offsite programme, Exercise (Djibouti) 2012 by John Gerrard is being presented as a large-scale cinematic installation in the dramatic setting of a disused power station in Oxford. Originating in found documentary images of US military exercises in Djibouti (Horn of Africa) and informed by the artist’s research into athletic achievement, the work makes unprecedented use of emerging technologies to reflect on the relationship between competitive sport, military training, theatrical performance and dance. On a simulacrum of the barren Djibouti landscape, two teams of computer-generated figures, wearing red and blue - the traditional colours of war gaming - meet daily at dawn to initiate a series of cryptic gestural routines: precise, repetitive, faintly antagonistic. The scene is a painstaking and extraordinarily detailed ... More Recent Gifts: A World of Art, an exhibition at the La Salle University Art Museum PHILADELPHIA, PA.- La Salle University Art Museum presents an exhibition of recent gifts of artwork donated from the private collections of both alumni and non-alumni supporters as well as an oil painting gifted by the Rosenbach Museum and Library. The exhibition features a selection of artworks chosen out of several hundred artworks given to the Art Museum during the past two years. The exhibition showcases work by artists from Europe and America, as well as Africa and Asia --- reflecting the Art Museum’s diverse collecting interests and its educational mission within an increasingly global world. Highlights include a portrait of James McNeill Whistler by his student Walter Greaves (1846-1930), received as a gift from the Rosenbach Museum and Library; a lithograph by German Surrealist Max Ernst (1891-1976) from the Estate of Lady Isolde Radzinowicz; a painting, intaglio ... More Sculpture, an exhibition of new work by Ruby Neri on view at David Kordansky Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announces Sculpture, an exhibition of new work by Ruby Neri. The show runs from July 7 through August 18, 2012. Neri's work is marked by a commitment to figurative forms that are modeled expressively by hand and animated by the application of unabashed colors. Her practice, which includes painting, plaster and bronze sculpture, and ceramics, reveals an uncommon intimacy with the ebb and flow of diverse physical and mental energies. This exhibition focuses exclusively on the artist's recent object-based work, and will include sculptures that draw in equal measure from ceramics and painting, primitivism and modernism, and an array of West Coast figurative lineages. The objects are made from plaster, steel and clay, and marked with both paint and glazes. In scale they range from smaller, pedestal-based works to looming, life-sized ... More New Vuitton-Kusama collection is a frenzy of dots By: Samantha Critchell, AP Fashion Writer
NEW YORK (AP).- French fashion house Louis Vuitton is again putting a bit of Japanese culture on the arms of its customers. The brand, best known for leather goods, formally unveiled a new collection on Tuesday created in collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs. The theme is bold, graphic polka dots — a signature of the artist — offered in a frenzied series of sizes and colors. Jacobs and Kusama started with inspiration of "obsession and seriality," according to a company statement. The dots cover shoes, handbags, shirts, skirts and sunglasses, among other items. Jacobs met Kusama in 2006. He is an avid art collector and was a fan of Kusama's sculptures and paintings. "The obsessive character and the innocence ... More |
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