| Exhibition presents rarely seen holographic works by several major artists | | The Columbia Museum of Art showcases Modern & Contemporary art from the collection | | Rarely seen Pablo Picasso portrait goes on display at the National Gallery in London | 
Eric Orr, Untitled #2, 1995. Reflection hologram on glass plate, 14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 cm). Private Collection. Photo: Dean Randazzo.
NEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with the Museum-wide summer exhibition “Ghosts in the Machine,” the New Museum is presenting “Pictures from the Moon” in the Lobby Gallery, which features a focused selection of holograms from the 1960s to the present by several leading, contemporary artists. The 1960s ushered in new technologies and new frontiers for image production. The development of laser technology in 1962 enabled the creation of holograms that displayed three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional surface. Artists were drawn to holography, hailed as a medium of the future that turned space inside out, for its spatial, volumetric, and sequential qualities, and to the creative possibilities it offered in contrast to photography, film, and early video. “Pictures from the Moon”—its title inspired by photographs of earth taken by astronauts on the first mission to the moon that also expanded ... More | | 
Sam Gilliam (American, born 1933), Cape III, 1970. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of Ed McGowin CMA 1973.28
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art showcases Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection beginning August 2012, featuring over 30 paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures that will remain on view indefinitely. "Since arriving at the Columbia Museum of Art six months ago, it has been a pleasure discovering the depth and quality of the Museum's collection," chief curator, Will South, said. ?The collection is so rich in number that for some time the museum?s modern and contemporary holdings have been in storage. For our visitors to have the most diverse and exciting experience possible here at the CMA, some of these greatest hits need to be back out and that?s what?s happening." Long-time CMA members will also find old friends on view, including works by Jasper Johns, Howard Thomas, Sally Mann and Edward Ruscha, whose famous image of the Hollywood Hills on view has become a staple of the art world. "Modern ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), Portrait of Bibi la Purée, 1901 Oil on panel, 69 x 67cms© Private collection 2012.
LONDON.- This arresting portrait of Bibi la Purée, a famous reprobate in turn-of-the century Paris, was painted by the 20-year-old Picasso when he returned to Paris in 1901 to prepare his first exhibition in the city at Galerie Vollard. Bibi la Purée was a picturesque figure in the bohemian circles of Montmartre and the Latin Quarter. A former actor turned vagabond, he was affable and eccentric and survived by shining shoes, stealing umbrellas and drinking absinthe. He occasionally acted as private secretary to the poet Paul Verlaine, who dedicated a sonnet to his friend. Picasso probably met the ragged dandy in the brasseries and seedy bars they both haunted, and would have been fascinated by his elderly, grimacing features. The portrait is brushed in broad, gestural strokes vigorously applied, which capture Bibi’s grin with uncompromising energy. This expressionistic treatment, combined with Picasso’s use of harsh colours, enhances the tramp’s grotesque energy. ... More |
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| Tiffany's love of nature inspires exhibition from the Chrysler Museum of Art's collection | | "India: Art Now" is the biggest exhibition in Danish art museum Arken's history | | Ruby Rumie's multimedia proposal comprised of photography, video and painting opens at NH Galeria | 
Tiffany Studios (New York), Dragonfly Library Lamp, ca. 1905?10 Leaded glass; cast bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art presents The Natural Beauty of Tiffany: Selections from the Chrysler Museum August 18 to December 30, 2012. Admission is free. Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), one of America’s best known businessmen and most talented artists, directed an artistic empire in the design and creation of stunning leaded glass windows and lamps, blown glass vessels, mosaics, and other objects of luxury. Tiffany found great beauty in the natural world—the primary inspiration for his paintings and decorative work in metal, pottery, and glass. This exhibition presents many of the Museum’s finest examples of his work inspired by flora and fauna. "Louis Comfort Tiffany was deeply moved by the complex beauty found in nature,” said Kelly Conway, the Carolyn and Richard Barry curator of glass. “He created an idyllic landscape at his home on Long Island, with many exotic species of ... More | | 
Subodh Gupta, Terminal, 2010. Brass and thread. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
COPENHAGEN.- The Indian art scene has developed explosively since the beginning of the 1990s and today constitutes one of the most exciting powerhouses of contemporary art. INDIA : ART NOW is the biggest exhibition in the Danish art museum ARKEN’s history. It is showing 13 of the best artists and artist groups from India in a veritable cornucopia of Indian installation art, sculptures and giant paintings, and many of the works have been produced specifically for ARKEN - one of the biggest contemporary art museums in Denmark. Saris and trash landscapes, the sounds of the Delhi street vendors and high-tech shadow plays. Several works have been created specifically for the exhibition, and they both encourage and defy all our preconceived notions of Indian art. For the subjects, materials and narratives the artists often take their point of departure in local Indian phenomena, but their works extend far beyond the idea of exotic India into global culture. “The 13 artists h ... More | | 
In this project Rumié investigates the collective trauma of Getsemaní, a poor Colonial neighborhood in danger of transformation as a consequence of urban development.
CARTAGENA DE INDIAS.- Ruby Rumie: Getsemani: Subject-Object, 1998-2008, a multimedia proposal comprised of photography, video and painting, that deals with the undergoing gentrification* process in the historical town of Getsemaní, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The exhibition is on view at NH Galería from August 17th through October 17th, 2012. In this project Rumié investigates the collective trauma of Getsemaní, a poor Colonial neighborhood in danger of transformation as a consequence of urban development. Through a personally conducted census and photographic registry, Rumié reveals the neighborhood inhabitants that will eventually be displaced and dispersed, thus breaching their traditions, customs, everyday routines, social solidarity and collective memory. The result is a collection of images with an extraordinary formal and ... More |
| 1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight Racing Car brings $11 million at RM's Friday Monterey sale | | Original artwork by da Vinci, Warhol, Picasso, more to be sold by Universallive.com | | Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts to celebrate 50th anniversary in May 2013 | 
1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight Racing Car. Photo: Pawel Litwinski ©2012 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
MONTEREY, CA.- The iconic 1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight Racing Car, chassis P/1074, used extensively as a camera car in the legendary Hollywood film, Le Mans, sold for a remarkable $11,000,000 before a packed house at a href="http://www.rmauctions.com" target="_blank">RM?s Monterey, California sale last night (August 17), setting a new world record for an American automobile sold at auction. The first, by serial number, of several lightweight GT40s built for the J.W.A./Gulf team, this exceptional racing car was completed in 1968 and carries an incredible history from new. Finished in the Gulf team colors of Powder Blue with a Marigold stripe, it raced extensively throughout 1968 from Daytona to Le Mans, as well as the Le Mans trials at the hands of Jacky Ickx before it was sold to Solar Productions in 1970 and used in the making of Steve McQueen?s Le Mans. A star attraction of this weekend?s RM sale, the GT40 spurred a spirited bidding war in the room, eventually se ... More | | 
Fans of Salvador Dali will be eager to bid on the six sculptures from the Clot collection. Est. $3,500-$5,380.
NORTHBROOK, IL.- About 265 original works of art, fine art prints and sculptures are being sold in an Internet auction already online, at www.universallive.com, and slated to end Thursday, Aug. 23, from 6-10 p.m. (CDT). Original works by artists such as Da Vinci, Warhol, Picasso and others will be sold, along with fine prints by Matisse, Peter Max, Renoir and others. The entire catalog is up for viewing now, at the UniversalLive website, where people can also register and bid. Internet bidding is facilitated by iCollector.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. All lots are being sold without reserve, meaning everything will sell, regardless of price, once a modest opening bid figure is met. Bidders are encouraged to log on and start bidding right away. A highlight of the auction promises to be the two dozen or so paintings, sculptures, bas-reliefs, woodcuts, drawings and bronzes by Elizabeth Heredia (Am., 1919-2011), better known ... More | | 
In this Jan. 18, 1949 file photo Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier sits in his office in Paris. AP Photo.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University is Le Corbusier's only building in North America, and one of the last to be completed during his lifetime. Made possible by a gift from Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, it was completed in 1963, with the intent to house the art-making programs of Harvard College under one roof and to symbolize the University’s visible recognition of the importance of contemporary art. The undergraduate visual arts program, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), was created five years later, accepting its first honors concentrators in 1968. Le Corbusier designed the Carpenter Center at his Paris studio with the collaboration of Chilean architect Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente; the on-site preparation of the construction plans was handled by the office of Josep Lluís Sert, then dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Its won ... More |
| Art Greenwich to offer a kaleidoscope of culture from the 20th and 21st century this September | | hpgrp Gallery in New York announces exhibition "Views of Life" curated by Reiko Tomii | | "A Taste for Spoons from the Collection of Nora and Norman Stevens" at the Fuller Craft Museum | 
Paco Camus, Hercules. Courtesy of Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery.
GREENWICH, CT.- SeaFair returns September 20-23 for the second installment of Art Greenwich 2012. Docked at the Delamar Greenwich Harbor at 500 Steamboat Road, the four-day contemporary art fair will present a dynamic and diverse array of contemporary art from the 20th and 21st century. Paired with an enriching program of informative lectures and social events, the weekend promises to unveil a bevy of surprises and ensure a comprehensive cultural experience for collectors. HIGHLIGHTS: • An exhibition of original rare works by Andrew Wyeth (1912-2009) will be a main feature of Art Greenwich in September. The exhibition will be presented by Gerald Peters Gallery (Santa Fe and New York) and curated by Peter Marcelle Fine Art (Bridgehampton). • Anthony Brunelli Fine Art (Bridgehampton), and Arcadia Fine Arts (New York), will bring a body of artists exhibiting works of realism. • Gary Snyder Gallery and Proje ... More | | 
Takashi Horisaki “Duct” from Social Dress Buffalo: The Past Reflecting the Future. Latex, acrylic pigment, cheesecloth, PVC pipe, rope, debris from abandoned homes. 27" x 46".
By: Reiko Tomii
NEW YORK, NY.- Views of Life presents eight Japanese artists, five based in New York and three in Japan, who cast an intent look on “life” in its many different manifestations, personal, social, or historical. In doing so, some of them also interrogate the meaning of “viewing” itself. Hailing from Kyoto, Kohei Yamashita offers a metaphor for the nature of “viewing.” In rest and other works from his mountain series, he invites the visitor to look into a telescope installed in a gallery. In its eyepiece, the visitor will see a mountaineer resting on a mountainside (or climbing up or arriving at a mountaintop, depending on the work) as though she likewise were on a climbing trek. Once she realizes that she is looking at a small figure posed on a seemingly non- ... More | | 
Mark Gardner, NC, 2006. Dogwood & tagua, ebony & tagua.
BROCKTON, MASS.- Wood carvers from around the world take one of the world's oldest, most essential, everyday tools—the spoon—and create sculptural masterpieces of decorative art. A Taste for Spoons from the Collection of Nora and Norman Stevens features 90 of the nearly 300 nine inch spoons. Started by Norman Stevens back in 2005, this distinctive collection of 9 inch, carved wooden spoons has an exciting range of designs from the more traditional spoon shapes of neck and bowl—to spoons shaped like bullfrogs, faces, strawberries, eagles, and hearts. The exhibition highlights the various carving techniques, styles, and interests of a variety of wood carvers from almost every US state, several Canadian provinces, as well as 28 countries including Australia, Great Britain, Romania, and Sweden. This collection also represents a stunning spectrum of wood species like ash, English boxwood, ... More |
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 Kenneth Foster, Executive Director at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, to take new position at USC SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The board of directors of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts announced today that Kenneth Foster, executive director since October 2003, will be leaving the organization at the end of this fiscal year, to take the position of associate professor and director of a new graduate program in arts leadership at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. The board will begin the search for his successor immediately. Foster will remain in his position at YBCA until May 2013, and begin full-time at USC in the fall of 2013. “Leaving YBCA is, of course, a bittersweet moment for me,” said Foster. “I have loved every minute of my time here and look back with great pride at where I have been privileged to lead this extraordinary organization. YBCA now is a much stronger institution with a vital and respected artistic program, a solid financial base, a dedicated staff ... More Solo exhibition by Jane Rosen, titled "Full Circle", opens at Cynthia-Reeves New England HANOVER, NH.- Cynthia-Reeves New England presents its concluding summer solo exhibition by Jane Rosen, titled "Full Circle", currently on view through September 22, 2012. Rosen's ability to evoke both enigma and precision with her work, as she subtly and elegantly reconciles the relationships between nature and culture, are what make her artworks resonate with viewers. She senses the movements beyond the physical world, and tries to understand it through her art-making process. "One of the reasons for making art is to express that for which there are no words...for something to be really art, not social commentary, it has to engage more of the viewer. It has to activate what can be felt, what can be sensed, and what can be thought." Her chosen subjects, animals wild and tame, are used as vehicles to explore ideas of instinct and innate intelligence. For Rosen, understanding animal ... More Fruitlands Museum opens "Visceral Murmurs" exhibition HARVARD, MA.- “Visceral,” meaning instinctive or elemental, is not usually a word associated with sound, even the most gentle one, as it is in the title of the Fruitlands Museum’s newest exhibition, “Visceral Murmurs.” Appropriately enough, “Visceral Murmurs,” opening Sunday, August 19th and running through October 28th, is a collection of works that evokes emotions ranging from the familiar to the unsettling. The works explore some of the more subtle and elemental qualities of light and darkness, earth and sky. Each of the artists – Brian Burris, Scott Erb and Cynthia Woehrle – has created pieces around the theme of “night,” which are sure to leave much for viewer interpretation. Erb is a photographer whose compositions challenge our expectations of landscape and portraiture by experimenting with the latest photographic technology and techniques. “This work is d ... More Bar-Tur Photography Award exhibition set to open at Paradise Row LONDON.- The winners of the Bar-Tur Photography Award in 2011 and 2012 will have their work showcased in a dedicated exhibition at Paradise Row Gallery, London from 21st - 25 August. From Briony Campbell’s moving images of her father’s last days, to Blaise Chatelain’s exuberant image of his friend flying across a lake, the exhibition will reflect the great wealth of creativity and photographic talent the Bar-Tur Award has discovered in the past two years. The award, which is open to students and alumni of University of the Arts London, aims to recognise the immense power photography has to influence the way we engage with the world. In 2011 entrants were challenged to address one of four themes: the environment, identities, lifestyle and communication. London College of Fashion student Sam Ledger took the overall student prize for his ethereal black and white image ... More La Salle University Art Museum to present exhibition of drawings and sculpture by Howard Tran PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The La Salle University Art Museum presents the exhibition Howard Tran: Drawings and Sculpture, on-view September 19—November 29, 2012. Opening reception on September 19, 2012, from 5 to 7 p.m. Artist’s Talk, Olney Hall Room 100, November 29, 12:30-1:15 p.m. The exhibition and all programs and events are free and open to the public. This exhibition primarily features Tran’s two-dimensional work. A sculptor by training, Tran also works extensively in two-dimensional media. For Tran, working on a flat surface offers a different way of approaching the art-making process. While his sculptures are always figurative, his drawings are more abstract. When Tran begins a sculpture, he already knows how it will look. It has all been planned and decided. Working with acrylic and ink on a flat surface, however, forces him to instead think fast as he works. ... More Noted Duke Ellington archivist Kuebler dies in New Jersey NEWARK, NJ (AP).- A jazz archivist known for her work on the Smithsonian's Duke Ellington papers has died in New Jersey. Ann Byrnes Kuebler (KEEB'-ler) was 61. Her former supervisor at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, Vincent Pelote, says she died of a brain aneurysm Monday at a hospital in Atlantic City. Kuebler helped make 200,000 pages of music and documents in the Smithsonian Institution's Ellington collection public and became a noted Ellington scholar. She went to Rutgers in 2001 and was the lead archivist on its Mary Lou Williams collection. She also helped the university acquire the collection of pianist and composer James P. Johnson. Kuebler was from Baltimore. She started her career as a volunteer at the Archives Center of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. ... More |
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