| Stolen artefacts returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul | | Robert Kime and Piers von Westenholz sale to be held at Christie's South Kensington in September | | One Hundred Fish Fountain by Bruce Nauman on view at Gagosian Gallery in New York | 
Cosmetic flask in the form of an anthropomorphised monkey; Bronze Age Bactrian, late third to early second mill. BC.
LONDON.- 843 heritage objects have been returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul with the assistance of the British Museum with help from the Ministry of Defence. The objects include items made in 3 separate seizures by the UK Border Force as they were being smuggled into the UK, as well as another group from other investigations by the Art and Antiques Unit of the Metropolitan Police. These objects were identified as originating in Afghanistan by the British Museum and were stored at the Museum for safekeeping and recording until their return to Kabul. Additional objects were saved by private individuals. These include exquisite examples of the Begram Ivories, which were featured in the exhibition Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World supported by Bank of America Merrill Lynch at the British Museum in 2011 and an important sculpture of Buddha. Both were stolen from the National Museum of Afghanista ... More | | 
A pair of Chinese blue and white jars 19th century with Ikat-pattern silk shades by Robert Kime. Estimate: £2,000-3,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- Christie's announced a new collaboration with renowned decorators and antique dealers Robert Kime and Piers von Westenholz will take place in its South Kensington saleroom this September. The auction, Robert Kime and Piers von Westenholz - AN ENGLISH TASTE, to be held on Wednesday, 26 September, will incorporate a broad range of items: classic textiles by William Morris; the furniture of A.W.N. Pugin and Sir Robert Lorimer; pictures by Paul Nash, Simon Bussy, William Crozier and Dame Elizabeth Blackadder; as well as a more culturally diverse aesthetic lead by Uzbek susani embroideries and Robert Kime’s own signature soft furnishings. The sale will feature some 450 lots, and with estimates ranging from £300 up to £25,000, there is something for every collector. The sale as a whole is expected to fetch in the region of £600,000. Gemma Sudlow, Specialist and Head of Sale comments: “Following on from the popul ... More | | 
Bruce Nauman, One Hundred Fish Fountain (detail).© 2012 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Robert McKeever.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery is presenting One Hundred Fish Fountain by Bruce Nauman. Since the 1960s, Nauman's radical interdisciplinary approach has challenged conventions while producing new methodologies for making art and meaning. Body and selfhood, the role of language, the phenomena of spatial awareness, and the relationship between artistic process and viewer participation are recurring themes in his art. His rigorous and spare approach to existential questions of life and death, love and hate, pleasure and pain, has embraced many mediums including performance, video, holography, installation, neon, sculpture, and drawing. From the forms and attitudes that he invented in Post-Minimalism and Conceptual art to his most recent sound installations, a series of themes and ideas consistently appear: the use of the human body as material; the relationship between ... More |
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| First solo exhibition of works by James Casebere in Scotland opens at Stills in Edinburgh | | Centennial celebration continues with "Marking a Century, Part II: Recent and Promised Gifts to the Bruce Museum" | | South Africa's leading artist offers stern view of women at Bonhams art auction in London | 
James Casebere, Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #8, 2010. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
EDINBURGH.- On the occasion of the 2012 Edinburgh Art Festival, Stills announces the first solo exhibition of works by James Casebere in Scotland, presented in partnership with The Lisson Gallery, London. Working at the forefront of constructed photography since the late seventies, Casebere is associated with The Pictures Generation, a group of artists who combined a Pop obsession with media culture with the critical framework of Conceptual Art to redefine photography as a Postmodern medium in the 70s and 80s. Based upon his understanding of architectural, anthropological, art historical and cinematic sources, Casebere’s detailed photographs address contemporary and historical social concerns. His work challenges the boundaries between reality and imagination, whether dealing with alienation in sixties America; addressing slavery and colonialism through black and ... More | | 
Robert Natkin, Apollo, c. 1969-71. Print, 30 1/16” x 24”. Gift of Judith and Stephen Wertheimer. Bruce Museum Collection 2011.11.09.
GREENWICH, CONN.- On the occasion of its Centennial this year, the Bruce Museum has mounted a three-part exhibition featuring recent and promised gifts to the permanent collection. Executive Director Peter Sutton notes that the permanent art collection of the Bruce Museum includes more than 15,000 objects representing a wide variety of world cultures, with special strengths in American and European art. “Each piece serves to inspire the shows that we organize and they are all essential to the many object-based educational programs that we offer at the Museum.” Marking a Century, Part II includes several extraordinary textiles and costumes, including a 9½-foot-long bridal veil made of delicate Belgian lace, an elaborately embroidered Art Deco evening coat and a lovely Kashmir shawl. Proof of the wide variety of our holdings, there are ... More | | 
Irma Stern, Malay Lady in Yellow 1942. Estimate: £350,000 - £550,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Irma Stern, South Africa’s leading artist, and one of the world’s top five woman artists, following the £3m price for ‘Arab Priest’, is set to make waves again at Bonhams in the sale of South African Art in London on October 17. This time the common theme is women – black, brown and white. Pictures like Mangbetu woman carrying fruit 1942, £500,000 - £800,000; Malay Lady in Yellow 1942, £350,000 - £550,000; Washer Women 1925, £200,000 -£300,000; Portrait of Vera Poppe playing the cello 1943, £200,000 to £300,000: and Woman wearing a mantilla, £150,000-200,000 all focus on and celebrate South Africa’s rich racial legacy. Stern's enthusiasm for African subjects started to wane in the 1950s and, having become disillusioned with the changes wrought by time and politics in Africa, she sought peasant communities in Europe in an attempt to locate her romantic ideas of idyllic existence in nature. ... More |
| Elvis Presley artifacts up for grab in unique Heritage Auctions Memphis event | | Israel Museum in Jerusalem appoints Rita Kersting as new Contemporary Art Curator | | First modern auction house turns 20 and offers original works by Francis, Haring, and Warhol | 
Elvis Presley 1954 Eagles Nest Original Hand-Painted Concert Poster, Memphis TN.
DALLAS, TX.- Fans of the late, great Elvis Presley will have a unique chance to acquire a piece of The King, 35 years after his death – including an Elvis Presley 1954 Eagles Nest original hand-painted concert poster, Memphis TN (estimate: $30,000+), from the beginning of his career – when Heritage Auctions’ presents its second Ultimate Elvis Signature® Auction on Tuesday, Aug. 14, at The Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. “Elvis remains one of the most popular and durable figures in American Pop Culture,” said Margaret Barrett, Director of Entertainment & Music Memorabilia at Heritage Auctions. “This auction, our second event totally dedicated to Elvis, is a celebration of his amazing life and legacy. From autographs and signed documents, rare concert posters and photos, personally owned jewelry and clothing, recordings and a variety of memorabilia, fans of Elvis will all have an opportunity to bid on thei ... More | | 
Rita Kersting was director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum today announced the appointment of Rita Kersting as its new Landeau Family Curator of Contemporary Art. A former director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and currently working in The Netherlands as a curator of contemporary art, Kersting will begin her new position in Jerusalem on October 10, 2012. The Museum has also announced that Mira Lapidot, who has served as a Curator of Fine Arts and Assistant to the Chief Curator of Fine Arts at the Israel Museum since 2003, has been promoted to become the Yulla and Jacques Lipchitz Chief Curator of Fine Arts, effective immediately. The two positions had been held previously by Suzanne Landau, who will be joining the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in September as its Director and Chief Curator. “After a careful international search, we are pleased to have found in Rita Kersting a curator of contemporary art who will extend ou ... More | | 
Richard Diebenkorn, Blue Surround. Crown Point Press, Oakland, publisher, 1982. Spitbite, drypoint and aquatint on Rives. Estimate $60,000 - $90,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Sunday, October 7, 2012, Los Angeles Modern Auctions will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a landmark auction that will feature original works by Sam Francis, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Richard Pettibone, Karl Benjamin, Yayoi Kusama, and David Hockney. “When I look back to my first auction in 1992, I am amazed at the growth of the Modern auction industry,” says Peter Loughrey, founder of LAMA. “That first auction would not only herald what LAMA would be selling for the next 20 years, but would also become a template for other 20th century design auctions - this was the first auction of its kind.” The upcoming 20th Anniversary Auction will feature over 500 lots of rare and important fine art and design, including a strong selection of works by Richard Pettibone, nine works by Andy Warhol, a hand-decorated motorcycle gas tank by Keith Haring ... More |
| First solo museum exhibition by Heidi Norton opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | | Bid & Hammer in New Delhi to conduct India's first exclusive 'Historic Silver' auction | | New director named for UC Davis' Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art | 
Heidi Norton, Explore Every Aspect of the Finite, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the first solo museum exhibition of Chicago artist Heidi Norton as part of the BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works series. Known for using houseplants in her work, Norton often captures botanical material in resin or wax, emphasizing cycles of life and death and natural changes in color and form. In addition to plants, Norton also works with sheets of glass as a material. These recurring elements appear in her work as both photographic imagery and physical objects, developing a complex set of relationships between her sculptures and photographs. Norton’s exhibition, curated by MCA Curatorial Assistant Karsten Lund, opens on Tuesday, August 7, and runs through October 23, 2012. Methods of reuse play a role in Norton’s practice, and this exhibition continues her interest in cycles of change and regeneration. She is creating several large, new sculptural works ... More | | 
A very fine pair of Indian silver ceremonial procession mast plaques, circa 1870s (only one is shown). Estimate: 11,00,000–12,00,000.
NEW DELHI.- Bid & Hammer's first ever exclusive auction in this category (and the twelfth auction overall) on 26th August 2012 in New Delhi comprises 197 plus an additional 47 lots with estimates starting from just ` 4,000 (USD 72 approx) and going up to ` 12,00,000 (USD 21,800 approx). Titled ‘Hallmarked English, Continental & Indian Silver’, the uniqueness of this auction lies in the fact that a vast proportion of the works are over 150 years old and on offer are tea & coffee service sets, teapots, jugs, sauce-boats, candlesticks, salvers & plates, trophy bowls, commemoration models and a host of related collectables from some of the most renown silversmiths from the English cities of London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Chester amongst others, and their counterparts in Europe besides from the master craftsmen in India from Agra, Calcutta, Kutch-Bhuj & Rajasthan. On offer in this auction are works based on the Ne ... More | | 
Rachel Teagle is known for her arts education and for building new audiences.
DAVIS, CA.- An innovative educator and museum director with experience launching new museum facilities and designing one-of-a-kind museum programs has been selected as the first director of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis. Rachel Teagle will bring more than 15 years of experience as a museum director and curator in San Diego and the Bay Area to her new role as director of the UC Davis museum, which is slated for completion in 2016. Teagle, who is known for her work in arts education and in building new audiences for contemporary art, begins the job this week. She will lead the museum to completion and build an exhibition and educational program. “I am thrilled to join UC Davis and humbled by the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to launch an art museum,” Teagle said. “UC Davis’ illustrious arts alumni and its legacy in the arts are key component ... More |
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 65 new photographs of East Londoners document the impact of the London 2012 Olympic Games LONDON.- An exhibition of 65 new photographs of East Londoners that document the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on their communities is to open at Four Corners, Bethnal Green on 9 August 2012. Using a range of photographic styles and techniques, fine art and photography students from the University of East London have created Facing East, an exhibition resulting from a twelve-week project which focused on themes or groups of sitters in the build-up to London 2012. These include local Games volunteers, people working for the Green Legacy in the Lee Valley, commuters, swimming club members, coffee shop baristas, landlords renting out their rooms, locals on Hackney Marshes and allotment owners. As well as curating and staging the exhibition under the guidance of National Portrait Gallery staff, the students developed their ... More How to capture modern day India, caught in a dilemma as it hesitates between tradition and modernity? LONDON.- David Bailey’s latest two books for Steidl, Bailey’s Delhi Dilemma, tell many stories of the Indian capital. As India’s economy grows with a rising middle class, Bailey explores the areas away from westernised shopping malls, huge internet company HQs and housing estates. In Bailey’s Delhi the new world keeps trying to eradicate the old, but long held traditions will not go without a fight. The books show the British and global impact on the city and its culture, but also how a strong Indian identity has endured. The mini histories include a museum of natural history, faded theme parks, transvestites, sex workers, hand painted posters, the world of the sadhus, Reeta Devi and a Bollywood prop-laden photostudio. The books show elements of Indian life that are unexpected and also very beautiful. Bold portraits sit alongside images of markets and city life. The books will be on sale ... More Copenhagen Art Festival takes art to the streets COPENHAGEN.- Copenhagen’s upcoming festival for international contemporary art is literally taking art to the streets. With the clear ambition to blur boundaries between art institutions and public space, the festival will present an obvious transformation of Copenhagen’s inner city and invite the local population and visitors to renegotiate familiar city spaces. The festival opens 24 August, 4-8pm. Major contributions to the cityscape includes Lise Harlev’s (DK) large-scale installation on the faces of a 13th century former church tower, visible from most of Copenhagen, and a thick scented fog will fill the open arcades of a well-known renaissance building in a piece by Yuan Gong (CH). In Copenhagen’s very centre on the Højbro Plads square the internationally celebrated artist Jeppe Hein (DK) functions as artistic director for a large new public art project, featuring more than ... More Think tank to stimulate and facilitate collaboration, innovation, and global thinking in the art museum world MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Art Consortium, a new international think tank dedicated to shaping the future of art museums, is being launched this fall to stimulate collaboration, innovation, and global thinking among leaders in the art world, and to facilitate the development and application of new ideas in museums. The lead funder is Christie’s with additional support from other private donors and foundations. The flagship event of The Art Consortium will be its annual three-day member meeting, the first of which will be held in Vienna on October 22-24, 2012. The meeting will convene imaginative thinkers, leaders, and opinion-makers for conversations with the Consortium’s members that will help generate ideas and solutions to key issues confronting art museums today. “The overall purpose of the Consortium is to create a mechanism that fosters collaboration and idea sharing ... More Aspen Art Museum's 2012 ArtCrush Benefit raises $1.8 million ASPEN, CO.- On Friday, August 3, 2012, the Aspen Art Museum hosted a successful eighth annual ArtCrush summer benefit, raising $1.8 million to benefit the Museum’s educational programming and exhibitions. The ten-lot Live Auction of contemporary art raised a total of $770,000 and the seventy-lot Silent Auction of contemporary art garnered an additional $774,000. With the addition of twelve rare wine lots, the combination represented the highest auction value ever in the history of the event. ArtCrush honoree and AAM 2012 Aspen Award for Art recipient Tom Sachs was on hand as the bricolage sculpture he created especially for this year’s ArtCrush gala was sold for $155K – well over its $120K estimated value. Titled Poche Vide (2011-2012), the work was among the highlights of the live auction, which was presided over by Sotheby’s European Senior International Specialist ... More Custom sister parish designs and fine European antiques on offer at Bonhams this fall SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams has quite the sale in store for furniture and decorative arts collectors and shoppers this fall, October 29 at its San Francisco showroom, timed to coincide with the separately-occurring San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. The Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts auction will feature various-owner offerings of European antiques, including more than 70 early works of art, as well a sale within the sale of 200 lots from the Estate of San Franciscan Gloria Lowengart, comprising English and Italian furniture, important Chinese export porcelain and custom designs by American interior decorator and socialite Sister Parish. From the various-owners portion of the sale will come such notable lots as a Francois Linke gilt bronze mounted marquetry commode (est. $35,000-55,000); a pair of mid-18th century, Venetian Rococo paint decorated and scagliola consoles ... More |
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