| Christie's Hong Kong presents the first Chinese Contemporary ink exhibition titled Beyond Tradition | | Photographer David Douglas Duncan's Leica camera snapped up for 1.6 mn euros in Vienna sale | | Greek police crack Olympia robbery, recover artefacts after three Greek men offer them | 
Li Huayi’s landscape strikes viewers with its intricate details of trees and rocks set against an expressive splashed ink background. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
HONG KONG.- Christie's presenting its first Chinese contemporary ink exhibition titled Beyond Tradition from November 22 to 27, 2012 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibition features 18 works by leading artists in the field, including Liu Guosong, Li Huayi, Liu Dan, Gu Wenda, Xu Bing, Yang Jiechang, and Qiu Zhijie. This exhibition aims to examine this traditional medium through a modern lens and presents works that reinterpret the ink painting tradition and innovate in terms of technique, presentation and subject matter. By showcasing this particular group of artists, Christie’s introduces the new face of Chinese ink painting. The aim is to engage audiences in a dialogue on the ways in which works of art in a traditional medium can be innovative ... More | | 
A woman holds a rare Leica I(A) Luxus gold plated camera dated 1929. AFP PHOTO / DIETER NAGL.
VIENNA (AFP).- A custom-built Leica camera that once belonged to influential American photographer David Douglas Duncan fetched more than 1.6 million euros at a Vienna auction Saturday. Duncan used the 1955 black M3D Leica when he worked for Life magazine. The final sale including fees was 1.68 million euros ($2.18 million). Leica built the camera specially for Duncan, according to the Westlicht photo gallery, which ran the auction in the Austrian capital. Its estimate had been between 250,000 and 300,000 euros. Duncan is best known for his combat photos, including pictures taken during the Korean and Vietnam wars, and his close friendship with Pablo Picasso. Saturday's sale also included thousands of NASA vintage photographs and slides that went for 200,000 euros. Another batch of photographs of Russia's space exploration was sold for 60,000 euros. ... More | | 
A golden ring dated from the late Bronze age. AP Photo / Greek Police.
PATRAS (AFP).- Greece officials announced on Saturday they had solved an embarrassing museum robbery in Olympia in February after a police sting operation netted three suspects and recovered dozens of archaeological artefacts. Earlier Saturday, police said they had arrested three Greek men aged between 36 and 50, and were seeking another two suspects. The three were arrested at a hotel in the city of Patras late on Friday after one of them tried to sell the Bronze Age gold ring for 300,000 euros ($387,000) to an undercover officer posing as a potential buyer. The original asking price had been 1.5 million euros, the police said. Officers were then dispatched to a village near Olympia where they found the remaining artefacts buried inside a sack in a field. "The discovery and arrest of the perpetrators of the robbery and the recovery of the stolen items are a great ... More |
| "The Queen: Portraits of a Monarch" opens at The Drawings Gallery in Windsor Castle | | "Lawrence Schiller: Marilyn Monroe and Great Moments of the Sixties" at Heather James Fine Art | | Comprehensive solo exhibition of works by Anselm Reyle on view at Hamburg's Deichtorhallen | 
HM Queen Elizabeth II, 1953 by Baron Studios (Sterling Henry Nahum, 1906-56). Royal Collection Trust/ ©Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
LONDON.- Her Majesty The Queen has been portrayed by some of our most accomplished artists and photographers during her 60-year reign. This autumn, a new exhibition at Windsor Castle presents a selection of official, commissioned and formal portraits that highlight the diverse ways in which Her Majesty has been represented in different media throughout her six decades on the throne. Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and the anniversary of the Coronation in 2013, The Queen: Portraits of a Monarch includes work by Andy Warhol, Dorothy Wilding, Pietro Annigoni, Cecil Beaton, Lucian Freud, Rankin and Annie Leibovitz. Capturing the essence of a sitter has always been the overriding challenge for portrait artists. When the subject is instantly recognisable to millions around the
world, that challenge requires particular consideration, as many artists have ... More | | 
Memories of Marilyn, 1962. Signed and numbered recto. C-print, 24 x 20 inches. Edition 1/75.
PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art - Palm Desert is presenting a special exhibition of photographs by photojournalist, filmmaker, and writer Lawrence Schiller. On display are the artist's famous photographs of Marilyn Monroe in addition to several of his photographs of major figures of the time. Throughout the turbulent and tumultuous decade of the 1960s, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of "Something’s Got to Give", he thought nothing of it. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in th ... More | | 
Ohne Titel, 2012. Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, Holzrahmen 270 x 482 x 9 cm, frame 276 x 488 x 11 cm. © Anselm Reyle.
HAMBURG.- Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen is presenting a comprehensive solo exhibition entitled »mystic silver« on Anselm Reyle, the Berlin-based artist who teaches at Hamburg’s University of Fine Arts. The show runs from November 9, 2012 to January 27, 2013 and is curated by Dirk Luckow and the artist. It features some 80 selected works from the different series created in recent years as well as new pieces devised specially for the show. Reyle meets this challenge by separating the 3.200 sqm large North Hall into two different sized areas: Like a curtain, a wall made of silver foil separates a room illuminated with natural light from a dark room. He shows a typical selection of his paintings, which are based on each other in their conceptual development, such as stripe paintings, gestural works, various foil paintings to recent works following the »paint-by-numbers« ... More |
| Irreverent, wry & self-referential pop culture works by Funk Art co-founder Robert Arneson at Allan Stone Gallery | | Bonhams sets new world record with exquisite Sri Lankan sapphire ring from Van Cleef & Arpels | | ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art opens exhibition featuring works donated to its collection | 
Robert Arneson, Spiked Tea, 1969. Glazed ceramic with luster, 13 x 4 x 10 1/2 in.© The Estate of Robert Arneson/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo: Oren Eckhaus.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Allan Stone Gallery is presenting Robert Arneson: Playing Dirty, November 1-December 21, 2012, an exhibition of approximately twenty-five early ceramic sculptures and paintings by this premier Funk Artist who elevated clay as a medium and changed the definition of art. A fully illustrated catalogue is available featuring a previously unpublished lecture by Robert Arneson and an introduction by Arneson scholar Jonathan Fineberg. Inspired by Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson (1930-1992) rejected the idea that ceramic artists can produce only utilitarian or decorative items and, in the 1960s, began creating nonfunctional clay pieces—contradicting the more formal traditions previously associated with this medium. These objects included often facetious renditions of household wares, such as the ... More | | 
Van Cleef & Arpels Sapphire & Diamond ring. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- An exquisite sapphire and diamond ring by Van Cleef & Arpels featuring a rectangular-cut sapphire weighing 43.16 carats set a new world record, selling for HK$12,084,000 on 23rd November at the sale of ‘Eight Exceptional Jewels from a Private Collection’ at Bonhams in Hong Kong. Bidders competed fiercely for the striking ring, which at HK$280,000 (US$36,000) per carat, went well over its pre-sale estimate of HK$4,260,000 – 5,050,000 and broke the previous record for a Sri Lankan sapphire, which was US$26,000 per carat. The total for the sale also far exceeded the pre-sale estimate realising HK$33,856,500. In 1969, Jacques Arpels travelled to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in person to acquire the exceptional 43.16 carat sapphire. The perfectly crystalline, flawless stone was subsequently mounted in a ring and flanked by two pear-shaped diamonds. This ring demonstrates the jeweller’s expertise in sourcing st ... More | | 
Albert Oehlen, Ohne Titel, 1994. Donation Werner-Stober-Stiftung © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
KARLSRUHE.- Since the founding of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in 1989, a comprehensive collection has been built up with a high degree of competence and expertise – initially by the founding director Heinrich Klotz (1935-1999), and subsequently pursued by Peter Weibel, Chairman of the ZKM. In addition to the most extensive collection of interactive art worldwide, and in keeping with its programmatic focus on major artists, the ZKM has in its possession numerous works in the genres of video and photography, characterized during the founding years as “new media”. However, traditional forms of artistic expression such as painting, sculpture and drawing by renowned creators of art can also be found in the ZKM collection, which has grown to include approximately 1,500 positions since its founding. In addition to a far ... More |
| Selling exhibition of recent works by the celebrated American realist painter Jacob Collins opens at Christie's | | Greek-born curator Katerina Gregos appointed as the Artistic Director of Art Brussels | | Light side of the moon: US Information Agency photo mosaic of the moon on sale at Bonhams | 
Jacob Collins, Studio in Sharon, 2012. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s Private Sales and Adelson Galleries announced a public selling exhibition of recent works by the celebrated American realist painter Jacob Collins (b.1964), Jacob Collins: New Works, in New York, from November 24 – December 19, 2012. Held at Christie’s Private Sales Gallery, located at 1230 Avenue of the Americas, the exhibition unveils a selection of 40 recent works comprised of landscapes, still lifes and figural compositions. New Works marks the third in a series of remarkable American realist collections presented this year, in partnership with Christie’s Private Sales and Adelson Galleries, following Stephen Scott Young, and Andrew Wyeth in China. Warren Adelson, Adelson Galleries, commented “Aside from Jacob’s obvious technical skill as a painter and draftsman, his paintings have a rich and elusive psychological character. Throughout his broad range of subject mat ... More | | 
Katerina Gregos has extensive international curatorial experience.
BRUSSELS.- Art Brussels announced the appointment of Katerina Gregos as Artistic Director. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College (University of London) where she read Art History and European Literary and Historical Studies, as well as the City University London where she obtained a second MA in Museum Management, Greek-born, Brussels-based Gregos comes to Art Brussels with extensive international curatorial experience and a host of critically acclaimed exhibitions including, more recently, Newtopia: The State of Human Rights (Mechelen & Brussels), Speech Matters, the Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9 (Genk) and the 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Germany (the latter two of which she was co-curator). Apart from her experience as an independent curator, Gregos also served as founding director and curator of the Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary A ... More | | 
The US Information Agency (1953-1999) commissioned Kodak to create the mosaic in 1967. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- A giant mosaic of the near side of the moon is on sale with Bonhams on 5th December in New York (estimate $80,000-$100,000). The US Information Agency (1953-1999) commissioned Kodak to create the mosaic in 1967. The images were taken from NASA’s Lunar Orbiter IV whose purpose was to photograph the front side of the moon at a high resolution quality. Kodak was then responsible for manipulating the images into this gigantic mosaic. Comprised of 218 panels, the mosaic constructed spans in the region of 34 x 24 ft overall. Once assembled the photographs were covered with clear plastic, so the public could effectively walk upon the moon following in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong. Only two mosaics were produced and one was exhibited in a gymnasium in Prague, during the 1967 August International Astronomical Union meeting. The version on sale is the second copy as the Prague mosaic, despite many ... More |
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 Artvera's in Geneva celebrates a master of lyrical Abstraction: Gérard Schneider GENEVA.- Artvera's, the modern art gallery located in the heart of the old town of Geneva, offers once more this autumn a new major exhibition. In the six extraordinary rooms, it celebrates a Master of lyrical Abstraction, member of the « Nouvelle Ecole de Paris », Gérard Schneider. Bringing together forty paintings and works on paper, all created between 1945 and 1975, which were the grand years of the artist. Most of them were never exhibited before and they come from important international private collections! This event allows the visitors to discover or rediscover a prominent artistic personality of the art history of the XX° century. It is a twenty year old Swiss that leaves to study at the « Beaux Arts » in Paris. And finally settles there. During this after-war period, Schneider plays a key role in art history and becomes one of the ... More The Jewish Museum launches its first Hanukkah app NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum's first Hanukkah app is now available for free at the iTunes Store. Light My Fire: A Hanukkah App allows users to select a contemporary or traditional Hanukkah lamp from the Museum's renowned collection, choose a unique background to place it on, light the lamp and then share it with their family and friends. There is a choice of eighteen lamps from different time periods and countries, and thirteen backgrounds from the traditional to whimsical, including a window sill, Op Art, a photo of a cat, and more. Users can save the lamps they choose to their very own collection. The app also provides options to access blessings in English, Hebrew, and transliterated Hebrew; lighting the menorah instructions; holiday information; and background details on menorahs in general as well a ... More Graffiti finds a new canvas in Paris By: Rachel K Rogers
PARIS (AFP).- Suspended between two trees along the Seine River in Paris, a graffiti mural flexes slightly in the breeze. It's painted on plastic wrap - up close you can see little folds in the overlapping layers - wrapped around the trunks and pulled taut to create a new "wall" in front of the stone behind it. It's called CelloGraff. Paris is known for its art, but usually evokes visions of grand museums, and masterpieces by artists like Leonardo Da Vinci or Pablo Picasso. Leaning against the bar in a Parisian cafe, wearing jeans and a beat up jacket, Astro says brushes don't interest him. But give him a few cans of spray paint and a roll of plastic wrap and his work explodes with colour, and is more detailed than seems possible with a spray can. Astro Greg has been tagging ... More Anna Borowy opens solo exhibition at janinebeangallery in Berlin BERLIN.- Anna Borowy titled her this year‘s solo exhibition in janinebeangallery „Champagnerbad“ (Champagne bath), giving an ironic hint in advance which the random spectator might require facing Borowy‘s elysian show of blessed figures. Nevertheless her artworks don‘t need this headline for comprehension, since the overwhelming sensuality of the paintings finds grounding in the firm calm of the expression and balance of the protagonists. Their sphinx-like posture ban the spectator not only with a transfigured noli me tangere, but also they are genuine catalyzers for the viewer‘s pause to think. Where the generell artistic consent falls regularly into line with the ugliness and hardship of society insofar as it mirrors these features as cathartic as possible, Anna Borowy seems to lever with the other end of the spectrum of human nature and its abysses. For her the instrument and object o ... More Angeli Sowani's third solo show with Grosvenor Gallery opens in London LONDON.- Grosvenor Gallery presents its exhibition, Angeli Sowani: Seraphim, Sowani’s third solo show with the gallery, following Vaahan in 2010 and Inner Weaves in 2007. Angeli Sowani (born 1959, New Delhi) trained as an illustrator and graphic designer at the prestigious National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. She has travelled extensively, living and working in Nepal, Thailand, Hong Kong and England, each place presenting her with new sources of inspiration, whether it is the Buddhist imagery and use of gold leaf in Thailand or the votive papers burnt in offering to the Gods in Hong Kong. Sowani first started experimenting with a blowtorch after the 2003 Mumbai bombings, playing with the shapes and patterns created on the scorched canvas. Explaining the process, “Even in destruction there was fresh creation as shapes of birds, flames and whirls emerged, cut from the ... More MoMA celebrates Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini with a comprehensive restrospcetive NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, Luce Cinecittà, and Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini/Cineteca di Bologna present Pier Paolo Pasolini, a full retrospective celebrating the filmmaker’s cinematic output, from December 13, 2012 through January 5, 2013, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. Pasolini’s film legacy is distinguished by an unerring eye for cinematic composition and tone, and a stylistic ease within a variety of genres—many of which he reworked to his own purposes, and all of which he invested with his distinctive touch. Yet, it is Pasolini’s unique genius for creating images that evoke the inner truths of his own brief life that truly distinguish his films. This comprehensive retrospective presents Pasolini’s celebrated films with newly struck prints by Luce Cinecittà after a careful work of two years, many shown in recently restored versions. The exhibition is organized by Jytte Jensen, ... More |
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