| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | BREGENZ.- Kunsthaus Bregenz is presenting not one but an entire range of media including drawing, photogravure, book, film, and acrylic and oil painting by Ed Ruscha. The focus is on an obvious-enough area which, nevertheless, has never been fully examined to date, namely, the significance of the book and/or the act of reading in his work. In this image: Ed Ruscha, Reading Ed Ruscha, Installation view 1st floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Christian Hinz© Ed Ruscha, Kunsthaus Bregenz. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Unknown pre-Eyckian panel to be shown at 'The Road to Van Eyck' exhibition | | Important Colourist painting by Samuel Peploe makes over £420,000 at Bonhams Scottish sale | | Sotheby's Asia to present its first selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture in Singapore | 
Triptych with the Embalming of the Body of Christ and St Anthony Panel (detail), c. 40 x 70 cm. Private collection.
ROTTERDAM.- An unknown triptych that dates back some six centuries is to appear in ‘The Road to Van Eyck’ exhibition. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will have the opportunity to include this work, one of the highlights of pre-Eyckian panel painting in the Low Countries, in the presentation. ‘The Road to Van Eyck’ exhibition, which includes more than 90 masterpieces of Netherlandish, French and German origin from circa 1400, can be seen at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen from 13 October and will run for four months. The promised tripartite panel, which depicts the embalming of the body of Christ, flanked by portrayals of St Anthony and of John the Baptist on the side panels, is being loaned to Rotterdam from an Italian private collection for the exhibition. ‘It is highly unusual that a totally unknown painting from this period should crop up,’ says curator Friso Lammertse. ... More | | 
Samuel Peploe, Still Life of mixed roses in Chinese vase. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An important still life by the Scottish Colourist, Samuel Peploe, was sold today (August 20) for £421,250 at Bonhams Annual Scottish Sale Part I in Edinburgh. Still Life of Mixed Roses in Chinese Vase, which had been estimated at £200,000-300,000, was painted at a pivotal moment in Peploe's artistic career. In the early 1900s Peploe and his fellow Colourist, George Hunter, explored still life painting, a genre for which there was no established tradition in British art. These early, pre First World War, still life paintings were on a small scale and featured everyday objects against a dark background, much influenced by Manet and the Dutch masters. After his return from Paris in 1912, the relatively conservative Peploe became more experimental, employing more vibrant color and dramatic form. Elsewhere in the sale, a recently rediscovered painting of Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street as it would have appeared to the ... More | | 
Zadok Ben-David, Midnight Dance, Corten Steel, 2012.
HONG KONG.- Patti Wong, Chairman of Sotheby’s Asia, announced today the company will host its first selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture in Asia with the support of the National Parks Board and Singapore Tourism Board from 23 October 2012 to 31 January 2013. Sotheby’s, with many years’ experience staging monumental sculpture exhibitions in the US and the UK, will take a proven formula further afield when it presents 16 works by award-winning international sculptor Zadok Ben-David against the magnificent backdrop of Singapore Botanic Gardens. The exhibition is partly sponsored by Bank Sarasin, and will be free and open to the public. Discussing the exhibition, one of the first collaborations of this scale and nature in Asia, Patti Wong said: “During this period of dramatic growth in the art market, collectors in Singapore have been transacting with ever-increasing enthusiasm, particularly in the field of ... More |
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| Bonhams Fall Books and Manuscripts Sale in San Francisco to offer early King James Bible | | Exhibition presents a groundbreaking new analysis of the work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio | | Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi digs into the infamous Sobibor Nazi death camp | 
Third folio edition of the King James Bible. Est. $12,000 - 18,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- As part of its October 10, 2012, Fine Books and Manuscripts sale, to be held in San Francisco with a simulcast in New York, Bonhams will offer several items of literary and historical importance. Among them is a unique, extra-illustrated copy of an early printing of the King James Bible, featuring a large, mystical fore-edge painting by 19th-century bibliophile John T. Beer, one of the great practitioners of the genre (est. $12,000-18,000). The third folio edition of 1613, the book later belonged to the collection of Alfred Sutro, noted collector and president of the Book Club of California, who, in 1938, commissioned a pamphlet from the Grabhorn Press to celebrate this volume. Also featured are two large panoramas by Italian-British photographer Felice Beato, constructed of photographs taken during the Indian Rebellion of 1857-58 – known in India as the ... More | | 
Villa Repeta Model. Peter Eisenman and Matt Roman.
NEW HAVEN, CT.- The 2012–13 season at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery opens with Palladio Virtuel. The exhibition presents a groundbreaking new analysis of the work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio by Peter Eisenman, renowned New York architect and Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at Yale. It represents the culmination of ten years of study of Palladio’s villas by Eisenman, adding an important contribution to the sixteenth-century master’s already robust legacy. Palladio Virtuel has been conceived and designed by Eisenman and Yale School of Architecture critic Matthew Roman. Focusing on twenty villas, it proposes a reading of the buildings that undermines the traditional view of Palladio’s architecture as founded on ideal forms. The exhibition remains on view at the School of Architecture Gallery through October 27, 2012. Palladio Virtuel asks what might still be ... More | | 
Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi shows an aluminum plate belonging to young people from Dror school in Israel. AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski.
By: Aron Heller, Associated Press
KIRYAT MALACHI (AP).- When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family's unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began to dig. After learning that two of his uncles were murdered in the infamous Sobibor death camp, he embarked on a landmark excavation project that is shining new light on the workings of one of the most notorious Nazi killing machines, including pinpointing the location of the gas chambers where hundreds of thousands were killed. Sobibor, in eastern Poland, marks perhaps the most vivid example of the "Final Solution," the Nazi plot to wipe out European Jewry. Unlike other camps that had at least a facade of being prison or labor camps, Sobibor and the neighboring ... More |
| Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art opens fall season with three new exhibitions | | University of Richmond Museums presents photographs by Dorothea Lange and her contemporaries | | The Autry National Center welcomes Anna Norville as its new Vice President of Development | 
Edward Burtynsky, SOCAR Oil Field #1 a&b, Baku Azerbaijan, 2006. Digital chromogenic color print, 40 x 60 in. 101.6 x 152.4 cm. 2009.31. Museum purchase with funds from Mrs. Martha W. Smith by exchange. Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Haggerty Museum of Art on the campus of Marquette University will feature three exhibitions from August 22 through December 22, 2012, including Thenceforward, and Forever Free; Freedom Of/For/To Photography from the Permanent Collection; and The Freedom Project: Text/Context An exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents the exhibition Thenceforward, and Forever Freefrom August 22-December 22, 2012. The exhibition features seven contemporary artists whose work deals with issues of race, gender, privilege, and identity, and more ... More | | 
Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965), Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, gelatin silver print, 23 x 18 inches,Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg © Estate of Dorothea Lange.
RICHMOND, VA.- University of Richmond Museums presents The Social Lens: Photographs by Dorothea Lange and Her Contemporaries on view in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art from August 22 to October 7, 2012. Influential photographer Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965), helped establish the visual and cultural history of Depression-era America in the 1920s and 1930s with her iconic photographs documenting rural conditions, migrant workers, suffering families, and ravaged landscapes. The exhibition includes 30 of Lange’s strikingly empathetic photographs along with the work of other important socially conscious photographers of the period, such as Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, and Ben Shahn. In conjunction with The Social Lens, UR Downtown is presenting the exhibition ... More | | 
Former Director of Major Gifts, Anna Norville, returns to The Autry.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Autry National Center announced the appointment of its former Director of Major Gifts, Anna Norville, as the new Vice President of Development. Reporting to the President and CEO, Norville will strategize and lead all fundraising efforts among individuals, foundations, and corporations, as well as drive capital campaigns and lead board relations. As a nonprofit institution, funds raised contribute to the growth and promotion of the Autry’s public programs, exhibitions, and world-class collections. Norville will assume her new position on September 5, 2012. “We are delighted to welcome back Anna Norville as the new Vice President of Development,” said W. Richard West, Jr., Autry President and CEO. “As we celebrate the Autry’s 25th anniversary, we embark on a dynamic new vision for the Autry, one that requires the skills and passion that Ms. Norville brings to the table. With her h ... More |
| A Moment, Master Photographers: Portraits by Michael Somoroff" coming soon | | Knoxville Museum of Art's Community Gallery project honors Tennessee folk artists | | The Galleries at Moore present The Long Now, featuring film and video works | 
Duane Michals, New York City, 1980. Copyright© Michael Somoroff.
NEW YORK, NY.- American photographer Michael Somoroff's much anticipated book of portraits of some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, most of them taken over 30 years ago and never published before, will have its official launch at Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th floor, New York, on Wednesday, October 3 at 6:30pm. Somoroff will be in conversation with some of the photographers in the book followed by a book party and signing. During Paris Photo there will be a special exhibition of the work at the Art District Gallery, located at the fashionable Royal Monceau Hotel, 41 Avenue Hoche, 75008 Paris, from November 12 through 18, with an artist reception on November 16. A Moment. Master Photographers: Portraits by Michael Somoroff published by Damiani, presents Somoroff's classic, exquisitely executed portraits ... More | | 
Photo by Dean Dixon, Celina, TN, Willie McLerran.
KNOXVILLE, TN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Tradition—Tennessee Lives and Legacies in the KMA Community Gallery through September 2. The exhibition was created by the Tennessee Arts Commission Folklife Program and is the result of 25 years of fieldwork experience by its director, Dr. Robert Cogswell. Tradition highlights photographic images from around the state in beautiful color renderings taken by photographer Dean Dixon of Nashville. A companion book by the same title featuring 25 engaging essays by Dr. Cogswell and over 150 of Dixon’s photographs is available for purchase in the KMA Gift Shop. The Tennessee Arts Commission contracted Nashville photographer Dean Dixon to provide visual images to compliment Cogswell’s expressive essays. Dixon spent over 18 months traveling the state and provided stunning photography for the book. A supporting touring exhibition, produced by the Commission in partners ... More | | 
Paul Pfeiffer’s visually breathtaking yet destabilizing Morning After the Deluge (2003).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Long Now, a group exhibition that explores the dialectical relationship between the still and moving image through the work of nine internationally acclaimed artists and filmmakers, will be on view at The Galleries at Moore August 24 – October 3, 2012. The exhibition is curated by Kaytie Johnson, the Rochelle F. Levy Director and Chief Curator of The Galleries at Moore. During the second half of the twentieth century, artists and filmmakers increasingly embraced slowness as a strategy to counter the rapidly accelerating speed and spectacle of modernity. As speed lost its critical edge and artistic credentials, slowness became a radical gesture. Bound by their deployment of reductive cinematic and visual strategies – including minimal narrative structure, the long take, a pronounced emphasis on quietude and the everyday, and a forensic attention ... More |
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 Balloons to transform Hadrian's Wall into artwork LONDON (AP).- A group of American artists is using 450 balloons and thousands of light emitting diodes to turn the 2,000-year-old Hadrian's Wall into the world's longest work of art. New York digital arts collective YesYesNo has been invited by organizers of Britain's Olympic-themed summer arts festival to transform the wall, built by Roman invaders to guard the northern frontier of their empire. "Connecting Light" will suspend hundreds of white weather balloons above the 73-mile (117- kilometer) wall, which snakes across northern England south of the Scottish border. Group member Zachary Lieberman said Tuesday he hoped "to imagine the border as a means of connection" rather than separation. The work will be staged Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 as part of the London 2012 Festival. ... More New work by disabled and deaf artists presented alongside the London 2012 Paralympic Games LONDON.- With just eight days to go until the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, London 2012 Festival presents a ground-breaking series of commissions by disabled and deaf artists in the Unlimited programme. Originally initiated as part of the Cultural Olympiad, the programme represents the largest ever series of commissions to disabled and deaf artists and celebrates their work on an unprecedented scale across the UK. The Paralympic Games has grown from its inception as a wheelchair archery competition at a hospital for British World War II veterans in 1948 to become one of the largest international sporting events held today. In the same vein, The Unlimited season is the UK’s largest programme of its kind, with 29 diverse commissions presented across the UK ranging in art form, including dance, visual arts, music, comedy, circus and theatre. To coincide with ... More Christie's first online-exclusive wine sale totals $819,715 NEW YORK, NY.- Signature Cellars, Christie’s first online-exclusive sale of Fine & Rare Wines totaled $819,715 (£524,618/€663,969) selling 88% by lot. The top lot of the sale was a dozen bottles of 1982 Château Lafite-Rothschild, which sold for $42,350 to an Asian private collector. The two-week timed auction, in which all browsing and bidding for lots was done completely online, was the first in a planned series of online-only auctions that will run in parallel to Christie’s calendar of live saleroom-based auctions. After completing two successful online-only sale pilots with The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor and a spring charity auction of couture handbags by Hermès, Christie’s announced in June that it would launch Signature Cellars as the next step in the firm’s market-leading global e-commerce strategy. “We are delighted with the wine-buying community’s ... More Personal global photo essay addresses the immediate and lingering effects of war on women LOS ANGELES, CA.- One Person Crying: Women and War, an exhibition by award winning photojournalist Marissa Roth, is a 28-year, personal global photo essay that addresses the immediate and lingering effects of war on women. Roth states, “In an endeavor to reflect on war from what I consider to be an underreported perspective, the project brought me face to face with hundreds of women who endured and survived war and it’s ancillary experiences of loss, pain and unimaginable hardship.” The photographer’s journey took her from Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1984, to its conclusion in Vietnam in April 2012. The eighty-seven photographs cover twelve conflicts over a twenty-eight year time period, starting with the photographer’s own history as a child of Holocaust refugees. Additionally, the exhibition includes panels with historical perspectives and references to the wars ... More Stella Contemporary launches online gallery to promote artists from the Malmö-Copenhagen area ODENSE.- Stella Contemporary announces the launch of its new online gallery for contemporary art on Tuesday the 21th August 2012! The gallery has its headquarters on stellacontemporary.com and also presents artists and artworks in pop-up exhibitions around the local area. In the web-gallery, the exhibitions are documented, artists and virtual exhibitions are presented and artworks can be bought online. At its launch, Stella Contemporary concentrates on artists from the Malmő-Copenhagen area. We hereby weight sustainability at several levels, reducing transport and supporting local artists. The gallery sells artworks of high artistic quality, spanning many different artistic media, forms of expression and formats, which are presented online and in temporary solo- and group exhibitions. The gallery is run by KKArt and opens, apart from the branch in Malmo, a division in ... More Rocio Rodriguez: "Divergent Fictions: A Selection of Works from 1988 - 2012" exhibition opens in Columbus COLUMBUS, GA.- The Rocio Rodriguez - Divergent Fictions: A Selection of Works from 1988 – 2012 exhibition will be on display through November 4, 2012 in the Third Floor Galleries. This exciting exhibition will celebrate twenty-five years of work by Rocio Rodriquez, an important contemporary, Atlanta-based artist. The exhibition is extensive, featuring twenty-five paintings and thirty-one works on paper. Rodriguez’s works reflect on universal themes referencing the opposing forces of nature, beauty, war, conflict, and pain. She transforms these forces suggesting a world where nothing is fixed and everything is in the process of becoming. This new “reality” is at once organic and mechanical, graphic, and painterly, creating a whole that is based on all fictions and possibilities. The monumental images surround the viewer; sometimes caressing, sometimes hammering the message ... 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