| 1873 dime sells for a pretty penny: $1.6 million at Stack's Bowers Galleries in Philadelphia | | "Eyes Closed/Eyes Open: Recent Acquisitions in Drawings" on view at MoMA | | Detroit Institute of Arts offers rare opportunity to see Johannes Vermeer painting | 
An 1873 dime from Carson City, Nev., is displayed on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in Philadelphia. The dime sold at auction for $1.84 million. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson.
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A dime made in 1873 has cost someone a pretty penny: It sold for $1.6 million at auction. The rare coin was minted in Carson City, Nev., during a one-day run of dimes. An anonymous bidder won the pristine coin, said Chris Napolitano, president of Stack's Bowers Galleries, which auctioned it during an American Numismatic Association convention. The final price included a 15 percent buyer's fee. "Generally speaking, in the coin auction business, you might get a couple of people fighting each other" as they bid, he said Friday. "On this one, we had four or five buyers over a million dollars. We had a fair amount of buyers pursuing it." The 1873-CC "No Arrows" Liberty Seated dime was auctioned Thursday night. It's part of the Battle Born Collection, which contained one of every coin struck in Carson City before the mint there closed in 1893. All 111 pieces were auctioned off Thursday night, fetching a total of nearly $10 million. ... More | | 
Willem de Kooning. Untitled. 1966. Charcoal on paper, 10 x 8″ (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs. © 2012 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- This installation from the collection highlights three series of recently acquired works, Franz Erhard Walther's First Work Set (1963-69), Williem de Kooning's 24 Untitled drawings (1966), and Martha Rosler's House Beautiful: Bring the War Home (1967-72). Over the second half of the 1960s, drawing was taken apart as a discipline and put to multiple uses. Highlighting concepts of process, participation, and protest, these three series of works were produced at the climax of a decade that witnessed radical upheavals across social, political, and cultural borders. This simple chronological coincidence connects them in one aspect, yet in purpose, aesthetics, and address, the three artists have taken vastly divergent approaches. Whether turned inward, outward, or sideways, the visual experiences these works engender speak to the varied ways we choose to be present in the world. Franz Erhard Walther emphasized the ... More | | 
Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, ca. 1664. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection.
DETROIT, MICH.- Rembrandt made about 400 paintings, Van Gogh more than 1,200. Their countryman Johannes Vermeer (1632–75) is known for only around 35. Detroit Institute of Arts visitors have the rare opportunity to see one of only 11 Vermeer paintings in U.S. museums. Woman Holding a Balance, on loan from the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C., will be on view until September 2. “This is an extraordinary loan, and we are especially grateful to our colleagues at the NGA for accommodating our request,” said Graham W. J. Beal, DIA director. “Because the DIA is a player on the international art stage, we can bring a Vermeer and exhibitions like Five Spanish Masterpieces and Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus to Detroit for our local communities to enjoy.” Vermeer was a successful artist in his lifetime, but after his death in 1675, his work was almost forgotten. He was “rediscovered” in ... More |
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| Dr. Nancy Berliner appointed Wu Tung Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | | "Dear John & Dominique": Letters and drawings from the Menil archives on view at the Menil Collection | | State Hermitage Museum presented a universal Hermitage Museum application for iPhone and iPad | 
Dr. Berliner comes to the MFA from the Peabody Essex Museum.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that Dr. Nancy Berliner has been appointed the Wu Tung Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum, effective October 26, 2012. Dr. Berliner comes to the MFA from the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), where she has been the curator of Chinese Art since 2000. Among her many accomplishments there was the conception and development of the landmark Yin Yu Tang House project, which brought a 200-year-old rural Chinese merchant home to the Peabody Essex Museum (2003). In addition, she curated at PEM the much-lauded exhibition Emperor’s Private Paradise, Treasures from the Forbidden City in 2010, which traveled from PEM to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Milwaukee Museum of Art. “Nancy brings to the MFA a rich record of research, writing, and curatorial work that has sought to frame a broad definition of Chinese art and visual culture, including Chinese architecture, garde ... More | | 
Alexander Calder, Sketch caricature of Dominique de Menil, 1964© 2012 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Menil Archives, Manuscript Collection.
HOUSTON, TX.- Architect Philip Johnson referred to the couple as “my first clients, my best clients, the clients who found all my other clients, founders of my career, good friends, good critics, and courageous appreciators of art.” This handwritten tribute is among the archival treasures available for perusal in Dear John & Dominique – organized by Menil Curator Michelle White and Menil Archivist Geraldine Aramanda – which commemorates the Menil’s 25th anniversary and celebrates the lives and vision of founders John and Dominique de Menil. The story is told through the couple’s many decades of correspondence – letters, notes, and drawings – with their close friends: artists, curators, museum directors, architects, and scholars from across the country, and around the world. Conveying excitement, delight, and gratitude, the assembled exchanges − all drawn ... More | | 
This application makes it simpler to view your favourite pieces, locate them on the map and find your way around the museum.
ST. PETERSBURG.- The State Hermitage Museum presented a universal Hermitage Museum application for iPhone and iPad. The interiors and collections of the Hermitage are now available not only for iPhone, but for iPad as well! The Hermitage Museum application was specially universalized for the iPad. This application makes it simpler to view your favourite pieces, locate them on the map and find your way around the museum. Floor plans of the museum, panoramic views of the halls and images of collection items will cover the whole screen of your iPad. This museum makes it possible to go on fascinating excursions through the halls of one of the largest museums in the world, with a collection of over 3,000,000 items, view the palatial interiors of the grand residence of the Russian Emperors, see world-famous masterpieces of painting, sculpture, applied and decorative art, wonderful examples of antique ... More |
| Propeller of 1946 United States Douglas C-53 Skytrooper plane crash in Swiss glacier | | National Gallery of Victoria celebrates 100,000th visitor to "Napoleon: Revolution to Empire" | | Civil War remnants discovered by archaeologists beneath Virginia's College of William and Mary | 
Swiss Manuel Ruefener, left, and Swiss Peter Fluehmann, right, two of the three finders, pose next to the propeller of US warplane C-53 Skytrooper “Dakota” that crashed in 1946. AP Photo/Keystone, Gaetan Bally.
GENEVA (AP).- Mountain rescuers have recovered the propeller of a U.S. Air Force plane that crashed in November 1946 on a glacier in the Bernese Alps. The crash of the Douglas C-53 Skytrooper on the Gauli Glacier marked the first time a rescue mission used an aircraft to land on a glacier and led to the creation of Switzerland's air rescue services. The propeller was removed Thursday from the glacier and taken to nearby Gauli hut at 2,205 meters (7,234 feet). Swiss newspaper Der Bund reported three young climbers found a piece of the propeller about three kilometers from the crash site in late July. The plane went down in poor visibility on its way from Austria to Italy with four crew members and eight passengers, causing some injuries but no fatalities. ... More | | 
Antoine-Jean Gros, General Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole on 17 November 1796 1796. Oil on canvas, 130.0 x 94.0 cm. Napoleonmuseum Thurgau, Schloss und Park Arenenberg, Salenstein. Collection of Queen Hortense.
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria today welcomed its 100,000th visitor to this year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Napoleon: Revolution to Empire. The exhibition has been popular with crowds from all over Victoria and Australia since it opened in June and today, Diana Bradley of Melbourne became the 100,000th visitor. To mark this milestone Ms Bradley was awarded an NGV prize pack including a Gallery membership, Peter Rowlands Catering gift voucher and the Napoleon: Revolution to Empire catalogue. NGV Director, Tony Ellwood, said celebrating the 100,000th visitor to Napoleon was one of the highlights during his first week as Director. “Napoleon: Revolution to Empire is a compelling exhibition. We are delighted to be welcoming the 100,000th visitor to the exhibition ... More | | 
Jack Aube works at a the dig near the Brafferton at the College of William and Mary. AP Photo/The College of William & Mary,Steve Salpukas.
By: Brock Vergakis, Associated Press
WILLIAMSBURG (AP).- The College of William and Mary has long claimed fame as the "Alma Mater of a Nation," pre-dating the American Revolution. Now archaeologist say weeks of fresh excavation have uncovered the remnants of earthworks apparently dug by occupying Union troops — new evidence that the colonial-era school had an outsized role in the Civil War. Buried just beneath the surface lies a reminder that the country's second-oldest college still bears the scars of America's bloodiest conflict. Archaeologists in recent weeks have probed a defensive encampment in downtown Williamsburg. It was here that Union forces survived raids by Confederate troops from 1862 to 1865 and kept a small portion of secession-minded Virginia under federal control. Joe Jones, director of the William and ... More |
| Lisa Corinne Davis presented by Gavin Spanierman at Peter Marcelle Gallery in Bridgehampton | | California's Designing Women, 1896-1986: A Museum of California Design exhibition at the Autry | | Asia Society Museum appoints Michelle Yun as Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art | 
Lisa Corinne Davis, Legit Strategem. Photo Courtesy Gavin Spanierman and Peter Marcelle Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gavin Spanierman, Ltd. and Peter Marcelle Gallery present an exhibition of works by Lisa Corinne Davis, on view August 11th through August 23rd. Lisa Corinne Davis’s paintings in oil on panel show her fluency in adapting abstract forms to the expression of meaning. Her forms have a rigorous ferocity that evokes wild-style graffiti, a kinship that is echoed in a color palette full of brights and contrasts, rendered with clean draftsmanship that sometimes echoes the “pop” of commercial illustration. Using a vocabulary of forms as individual as a fingerprint, she explores themes of hybridization, identity, and representation. The proliferation and diversity of forms in her compositions stimulate the natural human desire to label and categorize. Some of her paintings teem with potent life, like a slide seen under a microscope, complete with microbes and dust mites, or larger forms like larvae ... More | | 
Marilyn Kay Austin (United States, born 1940), floor vase, circa 1962, earthenware. Manufactured by Architectural Pottery (Manhattan Beach, California). Collection of Bill Stern. Photo by Susan Einstein.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Autry National Center presents California’s Designing Women, 1896–1986, an unprecedented exhibition that honors forty-six women designers and includes more than 200 examples of textiles, ceramics, furniture, lighting, jewelry, clothing, and graphics. These functional and decorative objects—from Arts and Crafts to Art Deco to Mid-century Modern and beyond—exemplify California’s national and international reputation for unrestrained creativity. Women have long been recognized as practitioners of the decorative arts, but commercial design and fine craft were long considered the province of men. For this exhibition guest curator Bill Stern selected women who were the sole designer of the objects exhibited or were responsible for a clearly defined aspect of them. ... More | | 
Yun was most recently curator at Hunter College Art Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michelle Yun has been appointed Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Asia Society Museum. Yun will manage the museum’s considerable initiatives in modern and contemporary visual art by Asian and Asian American artists. Asia Society Museum is recognized as a leader in the field of Asian contemporary art; its efforts in this area date back to the early 1990s. Yun will plan and implement the museum’s upcoming modern and contemporary exhibitions, as well as manage and build the Contemporary Art Collection, initiated in 2003. Yun was most recently curator at Hunter College Art Galleries where she was responsible for multiple aspects of exhibition planning and management, including curatorial, publications, conservation, and public programming. During her tenure at Hunter College Art Galleries she curated such exhibitions as Patti Smith. 9.11: ... More |
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 Bertrand Delacroix Gallery presents artists Elizabeth Allison & Joseph Adolphe NEW YORK, NY.- This is Elizabeth Allison's premier exhibition at Bertrand Delacroix Gallery. Allison is most well known for her public art installation, River Gazers, in Riverside Park South from June 2011 to June 2012. However, she demonstrates her talent with watercolor in her large scale works on paper in this exhibition. Allison states that she uses her paintings to “record the emotional temperature” of places she has visited that have had an effect on her. Her work unites the artistic medium with the subject as each watermark, drip and spill work together to create the surreal atmospheres that distinguish her pieces. Allison was born in 1975 in Chicago, Illinois. After receiving her BFA from the University of Michigan, she moved to New York City where she continued her studies at the Art Students League. Allison is the recipient of the Raluca Popescu Memorial Scholarship, the Nessa ... More "Leslie Hewitt: Where Paths Meet, Turn Away, Then Align Again" on view at Artpace in San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced the unveiling of its International Artists-in-Residence exhibition. New works by resident Leslie Hewitt (New York, New York) will be on view through September 23, 2012. The residents were selected by guest curator Sarah Lewis, an independent curator and historian. Leslie Hewitt’s work invites viewers to experience a unique space between photography and sculpture. Her compositions are often comprised of political, social, and personal materials that result in the possibility of seeing multiple histories embedded in sculptural, architectural, and even abstract forms. Mundane objects and structures open into complex systems of knowledge; this perceptual slippage is what attracts her to both the illusions of film (still and moving photography) and the undeniable presence of physical objects (sculpture). Exploring this as an artist and not as a ... More Norman Rockwell Museum to present "Girl Scout Festival: A Centennial Celebration" STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- In 1977, Norman Rockwell was approached by the Franklin Mint to create a dozen designs for medallions depicting the ideals of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America on the occasion of the organization’s 65th anniversary. The artist, a long-time supporter of Scouting, created engaging scenes illustrating such tenets of the Girl Scout Law as “respectful,” “resourceful,” “be prepared,” and “on my honor.” On Saturday, September 22, Norman Rockwell Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts with a special centennial celebration to be held at the Museum from 1 to 4 p.m. Discover Rockwell’s ties to the Girl Scouts with gallery tours of a special exhibition of related works, at 1 and 3 p.m. At 2 p.m., meet Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low as portrayed by actress Kate Carney; learn about the woman who challenged girls to find their talents, ... More Museum of Glass selects Joanna Sikes as Director of External Affairs TACOMA, WASH.- Museum of Glass announces the selection of Joanna Sikes for the position of director of external affairs. In this role, Sikes joins the development and marketing team in building and fostering relationships with Museum constituents. Prior to coming to MOG, Sikes worked for more than 20 years at Chihuly Studio in the roles of studio manager, marketing/client relations and director of special projects. According to Museum of Glass Executive Director Susan Warner , “Joanna has an exceptional background in the studio glass community and possesses the leadership, relationship building and planning skills needed for this position. She also has a strong vested interest in the Pacific Northwest arts community, so she was an ideal candidate for us. We are excited to have her on board.” Sikes previous experience includes tenures at the Phoenix Fine Arts Museum the ... More Milwaukee Art Museum hires new Exhibition Designer MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum has welcomed David Russick as its new exhibition designer. Russick has a long history in the art world, most recently he was Chief Designer at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where he was a key participant in the museum’s re-installation and special exhibition designs. He started his career at the Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago before moving to Indianapolis where he was director/curator at the Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University. He received his MFA from Northern Illinois University. “We are thrilled to add David to our staff,” said Brady Roberts, chief curator for the Milwaukee Art Museum. “His knowledge, experience, and skills will benefit not only the Museum, its members and visitors, but our community as a whole.” New to the Milwaukee area, Russick and his wife are already enjoying the lake, the diverse ... More |
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