| Christie's presents fine Chinese ceramics and works of art in September | | Charles L. Venable appointed as new Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art | | Evansville Museum trustees approve sale of Pablo Picasso artwork from the museum's collection | 
A Rare Peachbloom-Type Baluster Vase, Meiping. Yongzheng Six-Character Mark In Underglaze Blue Within Double-Circles And Of The Period (1723-1735). Estimate: $70,000-90,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On September 13-14, Christie’s New York will present Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, comprising over 500 lots and featuring a broad range of art and objects—jade, porcelain, ceramics, snuff bottles, and archaic and later bronzes. Highlighting the sale is a superb green jade brush pot, Qianlong period (1736-1795), (estimate: $500,000-800,000), masterfully carved with a scene of the Six Scholars of Zhuxi that elegantly unfolds around the brush pot like a scroll painting. The spectacular brush pot was formerly in the collection of the eminent collector, Heber R. Bishop (1840-1902), whose treasured jades now form the cornerstone of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. With estimates ranging from $5,000 to $800,000, the sale is expected to realize over $15 million. This mag- ... More | | 
Charles L. Venable, Melvin and Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Photo: Courtesy of James Meredith.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Board of Governors of the Indianapolis Museum of Art announced today that Dr. Charles L. Venable has been appointed The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Museum. Venable, who is currently the director and CEO of the Speed Art Museum, succeeds Maxwell L. Anderson, who became director of the Dallas Museum of Art in January 2012. Venable will assume his role at the IMA on October 8, 2012. Venable brings more than 25 years of museum experience to the IMA, having held senior positions at some of the country’s top encyclopedic art museums including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art. During his five-year tenure as director and CEO of the Speed, Venable fueled tremendous institutional growth and initiated innovative programs that placed a special focus on the permanent collection and fostered deeper engagement with the public. He launched a comprehensive analysis ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Seated Woman with Red Hat. Image courtesy of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science. Photo: Michael Wheatley.
EVANSVILLE, IN.- The board of trustees of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science on Monday approved the execution of a contract to sell a rare Pablo Picasso-signed work of art from the museum’s collection. The board’s action was approved by the museum’s members at a meeting held Tuesday, Aug. 14. Recently, the Evansville Museum learned the piece in its collection – “Seated Woman with Red Hat” (“Femme assise au chapeau rouge”) c. 1954-1956 – had not been identified as a Picasso in documentation provided to the museum when the piece was gifted in the 1960s. It has been in the museum’s storage area for nearly 50 years. The museum has determined that the expense and added requirements to properly secure a piece of potentially significant value are too great. The trustees therefore entered into a contract with the auction house Guernsey’s in New York, which will condu ... More |
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| Harry Ransom Center announces modern cartography now visible online and in detail | | Counterculture guru Timothy Leary original unpublished manuscript for sale at Bonhams | | Monumental installation by Ron Arad in Israel Museum's Billy Rose Art Garden | 
Coronelli celestial globe, ca. 1688. Photo by Pete Smith. Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has introduced an online database for its entire Kraus map collection. The 36–map collection, acquired in 1969 by Harry Ransom from the New York antiquarian dealer Hans P. Kraus, features a wide range of individual maps of Europe and America, atlases, a rare set of large terrestrial and celestial globes (ca. 1688) produced by the Italian master Vincenzo Coronelli and a group of manuscript letters by Abraham Ortelius. "Visitors can see the remarkable foundations of modern cartography in this digital collection," said Richard Oram, the Ransom Center's associate director and Hobby Foundation Librarian. "From a medieval map that shows the world divided into three parts split by the Mediterranean Sea to an early portolan chart of the coast of Africa and a rare 1541 Mercator globe, it's all accessible from any ... More | | 
Timothy Leary, The Periodic Table of Energy. Estimate: $30,000 to $50,000. Photo: Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- An unpublished and virtually unknown manuscript from psychologist, writer, countercultural guru and provocateur,Timothy Leary, will be sold by Bonhams in San Francisco on October 10th for an estimated $30,000 to $50,000. Titled The Periodic Table of Energy, and composed while Leary was an inmate in a California state prison, the work explores “correspondences among the Periodic Table of Elements, the Neurogenetic Theory of Evolution, the Tarot, the I Ching, [and] the Zodiac.” The 203-page typescript is profusely annotated and edited in manuscript, and illustrated with images, advertisements and articles clipped from newspapers and magazines. Originating from the papers of Leary’s one-time wife and collaborator Joanna Harcourt-Smith, whose name appears with Leary’s on the title page, the manuscript represents a major discovery in countercultural literature. As a clinical ... More | | 
Installation view of 720° by Ron Arad in the Israel Museum's Billy Rose Art Garden. ©Haim Yafim Barbalat. Image courtesy of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem Season of Culture.
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem Season of Culture will present Ron Arad’s monumental installation 720°—an immersive experience that presents 360-degree screenings of films and video art—in the heart of the Museum’s Isamu Noguchi-designed Billy Rose Art Garden. Composed of 5,600 silicon rods suspended from a height of 26 feet (8 meters) to form a perfect circle, 720° will allow visitors to experience projections both inside the installation’s interior and also from vantage points across the Museum’s 20-acre campus. 720° will be presented from August 16 through September 5, and will feature a nightly scheduled program of video projections by leading multi-media artists, together with surprise, one-time-only performances by Israeli performers and performance artists. A prolific artist and designer who has experi- ... More |
| Morphy's to auction premier Adolf Grenke breweriana, beer can collection, Sept. 21-22 | | Ethan Lasser appointed Harvard Art Museums' Margaret S. Winthrop Associate Curator of American Art | | Christie's Fall Asian Art Week to feature Asian art reference books from the C.T. Loo Library | 
Atlas Brewing Co., Chicago Bock Beer lithograph featuring half-man/half-goat characters, copyright 1888, est. $12,000-$18,000. Morphy Auctions image.
DENVER, PA.- The convivial atmosphere of a century-old corner tavern welcomes visitors to Morphy’s southeastern Pennsylvania gallery in the run-up to the big Sept. 21-22 sale of Adolf Grenke’s breweriana and beer can collection. More than 40 years in the making, the approximately 4,000-piece Grenke collection will be sold in its entirety and without reserve over the course of the two-day event. At the core of the remarkable single-owner collection – which also includes 400 beer taps and a selection of advertising signs, artwork and promotional items – are some 500 antique and vintage beer cans, many of which are exceedingly rare. “A few key examples are expected to exceed $50,000 each,” said Morphy Auctions CEO Dan Morphy. A former plastics industry executive and president of an elevator company, Grenke became aware of beer cans as a collectible in 1972 after his wife took their two young ... More | | 
From 2007 to the present, Lasser has been curator of the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo: Courtesy Ethan Lasser.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums announced the appointment of Ethan Lasser as Margaret S. Winthrop Associate Curator of American Art, effective September 18, 2012. Lasser will join the Art Museums’ Division of European and American Art. Lasser’s innovative work as a curator and academic experience align well with the Art Museums’ teaching and research mission. From 2007 to the present, Lasser has been curator of the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a research institute committed to advancing progressive scholarship in American art through exhibitions, publications, teaching, and public programming. In 2008, he reinstalled the foundation’s permanent galleries at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a 13,000-square-foot exhibition space for American paintings and decorative arts. He has also served as adjunct professor ... More | | 
C.T. Loo, circa 1940s, image courtesy of Pagoda Paris. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On September 13, Christie’s will present In Pursuit of Knowledge: A Collection of Asian Art Reference Books including selections from the C.T. Loo Library. Comprising more than 120 books, periodicals, and catalogues, this sale presents a unique opportunity to acquire rare and important reference materials that are valuable tools for the study of Asian art and trace the history of collecting in the 20th century. With a focus on Chinese materials, the sale includes selections from private American libraries and is anchored by the working library of C.T. Loo. Estimates range from $500-$15,000 and include rare exhibition and sale catalogues, important academic journals, out of print and additional references on the history of Chinese art, and other materials. Recognized as one of the most influential figures in the international trade of Chinese art in the first half of the 20th century, C.T. Loo helped to ... More |
| Utah Museum of Fine Arts announces new Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art | | Works from The Hyde loaned to museums throughout the United States | | Bonhams puts classic car museum to bed on behalf of former pyjama manufacturer | 
Over the past seven years Tassie served as the Director of Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- Following an international search, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah announced the appointment of Whitney Tassie as the organization's new Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Tassie fills an important role that will strengthen the UMFA’s position as Utah’s premier visual arts institution. In her curatorial capacity, Tassie will create a cohesive vision for the growth, management and interpretation of modern and contemporary art at the UMFA. She will organize rigorous exhibitions of 20th and 21st century art, including the continuation of the UMFA’s salt series of projects highlighting emerging international artists. Tassie will work closely with University of Utah faculty and the UMFA’s Young Benefactors, a donor affinity group dedicated to supporting the museum’s modern and contemporary art collection. Tassie will also create contemporary art programming ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890 The Orchard with Arles in the Background, April 1888 Pen, ink and graphite on paper, Bequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, 1971.81
GLENS FALLS, NY.- Beginning in September 2012, The Hyde Collection will lend works of art to three American exhibitions in the cities of Philadelphia, Denver, and Newark. Forebodings (1881), a watercolor by one of America’s best-known artists, Winslow Homer (1836-1910), will be part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and ‘The Life Line’. The Hyde’s watercolor provides a link between Philadelphia’s dramatic image of an American rescue at sea painted in 1884 and Homer’s earlier work created at Cullercoats on the north coast of England in 1881-82. The aptly titled Forebodings, captures the anxious mood of two fishermen’s wives standing on a wind-driven shore, looking across the vastness of a stormy sea to distantly silhouetted fishing vessels. The exhibition will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from ... More | | 
The specialist museum, in Porlock in Somerset, has been the retirement project of keen collector Stephen Johns. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The entire contents of the Exmoor Classic Car Museum will go under the hammer at the Bonhams Beaulieu Sale in Hampshire, which takes place on Saturday 8th September. The specialist museum, in Porlock in Somerset, has been the retirement project of keen collector Stephen Johns. Mr Johns, an entrepreneur who ran a pyjama manufacturing business in Keighley, West Yorkshire, for 45 years, moved to the West Country 12 years ago and decided to set up the museum to house the collection he had built up over the years. Highlights among the 10 cars, 13 motorcycles and assorted automobilia he amassed include: • a 1972 Ferrari 246GTS ‘Dino’ Spider (estimate £100,000 - £120,000) • a 1927 Bugatti Type 40 Tourer (estimate £80,000 - £100,000) • a 1923 Rolls-Royce 20hp Doctor’s Coupe by Mitchells of Nottingham (estimate £38,000 - ... More |
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 Van Gogh Museum receives millionth visitor AMSTERDAM.- Yesterday the Van Gogh Museum welcomed its millionth visitor this year, a proud milestone for the museum on the eve of its temporary move to the Hermitage Amsterdam. In 2011, the millionth visitor arrived one week earlier. In comparison with recent years, visitor numbers for 2012 are right on schedule. ‘Relative to last year, we are seeing a slight shift in the composition of our visiting public,’ says Axel Rüger, director of the Van Gogh Museum. ‘Among all the art lovers visiting the museum, 88% come from abroad and 11% from the Netherlands.’ These are the figures as of the end of July. Over the past five years, the proportion of Dutch visitors to the museum has varied between 9 and 13 percent. A growing share of visitors are tourists from Australia, Great Britain, Russia, Brazil, South Korea and China. Notably, an increasing variety of Eastern European nationalities is ... More Michener Art Museum enjoys record crowds with "Treasures from the Uffizi" DOYLESTOWN, PA.- It's been a sizzling summer at the Michener Art Museum, where lines have wrapped around the lobby as visitors poured in for one last chance to see Renaissance and Baroque paintings by such masters as Botticelli, Titian, Tintoretto and Parmigianino, right here in Bucks County. Art lovers, moms and dads, families and friends, and busloads of tourists and local residents all got their taste of European art at an important moment in its history. People filled the galleries, listening intently to the audio tour, studying the ornate frames up close, buying the catalogue so they could take the experience home. Many came again and again, knowing this was their only chance to see these masterpieces before they are returned to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. "We've been averaging about 1,000 visitors a day, and when all is said and done, more than 100,000 people will ... More Life in space? Exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago ponders the possibilities of life on Mars CHICAGO, IL.- Was there—or is there—alternate life in space? Could humans find a way to live in space one day? These questions have plagued scientists for hundreds of years, ever since Earth was discovered to be one of countless planetary bodies. In reality, the search for life on Mars is not for the octopus-like Martians of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds but for microbes that would give us an indication that Mars ever supported life—even millions of years ago. And even though we first landed on the Moon in 1969, the idea of a Moon colony presents the issues of solar radiation, and lack of oxygen, power, sustenance and plentiful water. Despite the challenges behind these complex questions, scientists have never stopped asking them and searching for possible answers. The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago’s new temporary exhibit, Life in Space?, examines the latest ... More Thousands of Elvis fans flock to Graceland vigil By: Adrian Sainz, Associated Press
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