| The family of Ileana Sonnabend donates Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon to The Museum of Modern Art | | The Cyrus Cylinder travels to five major museum venues in the United States in 2013 | | Major new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Valentino opens at Somerset House | 
Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959. © 2012 Museum of Modern Art. Photo by John Wronn.
NEW YORK, NY.- Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art announces the gift of Robert Rauschenberg’s Canyon (1959) to MoMA by the family of legendary gallerist Ileana Sonnabend. Canyon is one of Robert Rauschenberg’s best-known Combines—a term the artist invented to describe works that combine art materials and a rich variety of other elements. It had been in Sonnabend’s collection from the year of its creation until the dealer’s death in 2007. “Canyon is a glorious landmark of 20th-century art,” said Mr. Lowry. “We are profoundly grateful to the family of Ileana Sonnabend for this extraordinarily important addition to MoMA’s collection, which will be enjoyed by generations of visitors to the Museum.” “We and our families are delighted with the agreement with MoMA and the fact that this important work of art, which meant a great deal to our mother, will be on di ... More | | 
The Cyrus Cylinder, a 6th century B.C. clay tablet which is thought to be the world's earliest bill of rights. AP Photo/British Museum.
LONDON.- The British Museum today announces that one of its most iconic objects, the Cyrus Cylinder, will tour to five major museum venues in the United States in 2013. This will be the first time this object has been seen in the US and the tour is supported by the Iran Heritage Foundation. The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. The Cylinder was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform (cuneiform is the earliest form of writing) on the orders of the Persian King Cyrus the Great (559-530BC) after he captured Babylon in 539BC. It is often referred to as the first bill of human rights as it appears to encourage freedom of worship throughout the Persian Empire and to allow deported people to return to their homelands. It was found in Babylon in modern Iraq in 1879 during a British ... More | | 
Italian designer Valentino poses for photographers during the 'Valentino: Master of Couture' photocall at Somerset House in central London.
LONDON (AP).- If there's one name that represents red carpet glamour, it's probably Valentino. Over half a century, the legendary designer has created exquisite, classic gowns for the world's most glamorous women, from Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren to Sarah Jessica Parker and Gwyneth Paltrow. Now a new London exhibition is bringing together more than 130 of his handcrafted designs, showcasing the intricate detailing that has gone into couture dresses and outfits only a few women in the world could afford. "Valentino: Master of Couture" shows some of the world's most recognizable gowns: The high-necked, short wedding dress from Valentino's 1968 White Collection that Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her wedding to Aristotle Onassis, and the black velvet gown with white ribbons worn by Julia ... More |
| Over 470 artworks pledged to collections campaign deepen museum's photography holdings | | New works by seminal American artist Lawrence Weiner on view at Lisson Gallery | | Annual sale of Israeli & International Art at Sotheby's New York announced for December | 
Shomei Tomatsu, Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat, Radiation, and Fire, Nagasaki, 1961, printed 1980; gelatin silver print; 9 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.; Kurenboh Collection, promised gift to SFMOMA; © Shomei Tomatsu.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced today promised gifts of 473 photographs from three separate collectors, adding significant new depth to the museum's holdings in 20th-century American and Japanese photography. A pledge of twenty-six photographs by Diane Arbus from San Francisco collector and gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel doubles SFMOMA's holdings of work by the artist and continues the museum's dedication to collecting artists in depth. Two additional gifts—one from an anonymous donor, the other from the Kurenboh Collection in Tokyo—strengthen, in particular, the museum's collection of works by Japanese photographers; the nearly 350 Japanese works included in these gifts cement SFMOMA's standing as home to ... More | | 
Lawrence Weiner, PUSHED AS IF & LEFT AS IS, 2012, Language & the materials referred to. Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by seminal American artist, Lawrence Weiner. Widely recognised for his pioneering role in the development of conceptualism in the 1960s, Weiner has spent the last five decades deconstructing artistic practices into various concepts of language and idea. In his new show, Weiner focuses on the concept of truncation, a mathematical term referring to the discarding of unnecessary digits, as an inherent meaning and material reality. His works will populate the gallery walls on a grand and small scale, and will include a new piece occupying the entirety of a 12 metre wall. In the upper space of 52-54 Bell Street are two facing works which reverberate off one another: PUSHED AS IF & LEFT AS IS and STASIS AS TO VECTOR (ALL) IN DUE COURSE (both works 2012). Weiner is primarily a sculptor working with ... More | | 
Reuven Rubin, Self Portrait, 1920. Est. $200/300,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s annual sale of Israeli & International Art in New York on 19 December 2012 features a wide ranging selection of classic and contemporary Israeli art spanning over 100 years. The auction will be led by a group of works by celebrated artist Reuven Rubin, including the magnificent landscape of Jerusalem Seen from Mt. Scopus from 1927 (est. $300/500,000*). The sale will also feature a series of drawings by famed Polish artist and writer Bruno Schulz, and an important portrait by Chaïm Soutine painted right after the end of World War I. Additional artists whose works will be included in the sale are Yaacov Agam and Mordecai Ardon, as well as contemporary artists including Ori Reisman, Adi Nes, and Michal Rovner. The works in the auction will be exhibited in our York Avenue galleries beginning on 14 December, alongside the exhibition for the sale of Important Judaica. Reuven Rubin’s Jerusalem Seen ... More |
| "Comparing Paths to Modernism: 1910-1950" opens at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. in New York | | Sotheby's New York announces sale of Important Judaica to be held on 19 December | | Exhibition of major new works by Antony Gormley opens at White Cube Bermondsey | 
William Schumacher, Floral Still Life, c. 1915, 22 x 18 inches, oil on canvas.
NEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition is organized around the theme of how American artists took different paths to create modern art between 1910 and 1950. The gallery compares the artists who continued to evolve Impressionism in the Teens and Twenties with the artists influenced by new European styles promoted by Alfred Stieglitz and exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. The exhibition then considers the diverse styles of the 1930s and 1940s when Realist painters looked to past styles from both European and native sources. The exhibition comes full circle as it considers how the nature-based abstraction of the Stieglitz Circle contributes to non-objective abstraction. The Impressionist paintings offered were selected for their advances in color and texture developed from Fauvism, as well as their daring compositions created through adaption of Cubist structural ideas. Morning Shadows, 1925 by George Luks ... More | | 
The Herlingen Haggadah, est. $800,000/1.2 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York sale of Important Judaica on 19 December 2012 will offer examples of Hebrew ceremonial metalwork, illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, original decorative bindings and fine art. The auction, which presents works from across the globe, is led by A Magnificent Passover Haggadah, written and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen, from Vienna, 1730 (est. $800,000/1.2 million*). The sale also includes important paintings by Isidor Kaufmann, a silver section highlighted by a German Hanukah Lamp, and the Kagan-Maremba Coin and Medal Collection that will be sold on behalf of The Jewish Museum (est. $300/500,000). The sale will be exhibited in its entirety in our York Avenue galleries beginning 14 December, alongside the sale of Israeli & International Art. Undoubtedly the highlight of the Books and Manuscripts section of the sale, The Herlingen Haggadah from 1730 is a magnificent ... More | | 
Antony Gormley, Model, 2012. Weathering steel, 197 5/8 x 1275 9/16 x 535 7/16 in. (502 x 3240 x 1360 cm)© Antony Gormley. Photo: Ben Westoby. Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube Bermondsey presents ‘Model’, an exhibition of major new works by Antony Gormley. Challenging the physical possibilities of the gallery space, this ambitious exhibition investigates our experience of architecture through the body and of the body through architecture. Made in direct response to the space of the South Galleries is the vast, new work Model (2012), which is also the title of the exhibition. Fabricated from 100 tonnes of weathering sheet steel, the work is both sculpture and building, human in form but at no point visible as a total figure. Visitors will be able to enter the work through a 'foot' and journey through its inter-connected internal chambers, the sculpture demanding that we adjust our pace and bend our bodies to its awkward yet absolute geometry. The experience of this analogy for the ... More |
| Auction house Ketterer Kunst in Munich to sell rare oil painting by artist Zao Wou-Ki | | First UK solo exhibition of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini's work opens at Haunch of Venison | | Andrei Tarkovsky archive shatters estimates to sell for £1.5million at Sotheby's in London | 
Wou-Ki, Zao, Ohne Titel, 1960. Estimate: 30,000 EUR / $38,400.
MUNICH.- “28.3.71” is one of the rare oil paintings by the Peking artist Zao Wou-Ki to be sold in Germany. On 8 Dec. 2012, it will come up at auction, for an estimated price of € 300,000 – € 400,000, at the renowned auction house Ketterer Kunst in Munich. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to auction this impressive work, for unlike any other artist, Zao Wou-Ki is able to masterfully combine oriental calligraphy with the European Informel. With apparent effortlessness, he guides the traditions of the different cultures toward each other and then lets them melt together,” says Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. He further notes: “I am very curious to see if this piece of art will remain in the Western world or if the artist’s countrymen will prevail.” With its discreet, yet very expressive color and the pairing of wide brushstrokes with finely an ... More | | 
Patricia Piccinini, Sphinx, 2012. Silicone, fibreglass, human hair, bronze. 127 x 110 x 55 cm.
LONDON.- Haunch of Venison presents the first UK solo exhibition of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. Patricia Piccinini has exhibited internationally including major museums and biennials. This is her first UK solo exhibition and includes five new large-scale sculptural works alongside earlier works dating from 2005 to 2011. Piccinini’s work encompasses sculpture, photography, video and drawing and examines the increasingly blurred boundary between the artificial and the natural as it appears in contemporary culture. Through her work she explores both our desire to humanise technology and perfect or homogenise the human body, and challenges our capacity to accept those who don’t measure up to a manufactured idea of perfection. She is fascinated with both medical science and bio technology and how the subject can be used to explore the fears and concerns of ... More | | 
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was the most important Russian director of modern times since Eistenstein. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky's personal archives sold at auction in London for £1.5 million ($2.4 million, 1.85 million) on Wednesday, returning to Russia at the end of a fierce bidding war. The 18-minute battle, which saw the sale price rise far above the £80,000 to £100,000 estimate, was won by the government of his native Ivanovo region, northeast of Moscow, Sotheby's auctioneers said. Tarkovsky, considered a great of world cinema, died of lung cancer aged 54 in Paris, in 1986. The director was forced into exile after challenging the orthodoxies of Soviet leaders, notably by asserting religious values running directly counter to the official atheism of the Communist superpower. The archive, pertaining to the years 1967-1986, will go on display in the Tarkovsky museum in the town of Yuryevets, where he spent his ... More |
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 Ownership of Henry Moore sculpture called into question LONDON.- Tower Hamlets' ownership of the bronze sculpture, Draped Seated Woman by Henry Moore, was called into question last night following new research into the details of the transfer of ownership of the work from the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1985. The sculpture was created by Henry Moore in 1957 and acquired in 1962 by the London County Council for the new Stifford housing estate at Stepney Green. When the GLC was abolished in 1985, ownership was thought to have passed to Tower Hamlets but lawyers acting for the Art Fund charity and others say new research may prove this to have been incorrect. The bronze sculpture, nicknamed "Old Flo" was installed on the Stifford council estate in 1962 but was removed when the estate was demolished in 1990. It was re-sited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1997. In October this year, Tower Hamlets Mayor ... More The El Paso Museum of Art announces The III Bienal Ciudad Juárez - El Paso Biennial 2013 EL PASO, TX.- The III Bienal Ciudad Juárez-El Paso Biennial 2013, based in El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juárez, MX and dedicated to contemporary visual art, is open to Mexican and American artists with no limits of age and offering a collective exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte Juarez, artist-in-residence programs, personal exhibitions at the El Paso Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte Juarez and publication in the official catalogue. The exhibition features the awarding of two purchase prizes, the organization of an important solo exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez, two Art Residencies and the publication of an official Catalogue. Participants can freely choose the subject of their artworks, but each work submitted must be either two-dimensional, three dimensional or video. All works of a given artist should be in the same ... More The Architects Gallery opens "Outlands": An exhibition by six international emerging artists LONDON.- From the 29th November onwards The Architects Gallery Teddington presents "Outlands" an exhibition which holds all the promises of an exciting, unique art event. Six international emerging artists are presenting a body of work ranging from oil on canvas, screen prints, etchings, photography, and oil on household products. Very few galleries are brave enough to sponsor such a varied field of artistic endeavours, however The Architects gallery is rapidly gaining well deserved fame for events of this kind. Sam Kamleh, owner of the gallery explains that the gallery plans to hold three or four shows every year, each one showing work by different artists from around the globe, each with their own unique style and medium. Five large scale works by Christopher Stone will also be on display at the gallery. Christopher's sculptures are in public, and private collections across the globe, but ... More Guggenheim Museum acquires work by R.H. Quaytman NEW YORK, NY.- The Guggenheim recently acquired selections from R.H. Quaytman’s Point de Gaze, Chapter 23 (2011), on view now in the exhibition Now’s the Time: Recent Acquisitions. The Guggenheim has a long history of collecting and exhibiting Conceptual art, and with this exceptional acquisition, the museum strengthens its holdings in Conceptual painting. Quaytman, who will discuss her artistic practice in the Conversations with Contemporary Artists series on November 28, works exclusively on wood panels and, since 2001, has organized her paintings into what she calls “chapters.” Each chapter revolves around a site-specific installation and specific formal concept, and Quaytman leverages the relationships between them in order to display how seemingly unrelated elements combine to produce the overall experience of an artwork. Point de Gaze illustrates this process. ... More Cutting edge new fashion exhibition opens at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art TEL AVIV.- The exhibition "Fashioning the Object: Bless, Boudicca, Sandra Backlund" conceived by Zoë Ryan, curator for the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, explores different practices and representations of identities via clothing. The presentation of fashion (whether haute couture or "ready-to-wear" clothing) in the ivory towers of the art establishment poses a special challenge as it introduces a contradiction in terms: emblematic of the apparatuses of constant change, fashion is akin to a sociological capsule of the present moment, whereas the museum represents a slow, compressed time which pinpoints the present along a historical continuum, providing a seal of approval and canonizing by means of its retrospective view. Can such a presentation preserve the vibrating, vibrant quality of fashion as a cultural form, without transforming ... More Quinn's to auction revered 60-year Mang netsuke collection, Dec. 7 FALLS CHURCH, VA.- Netsukes – the miniature carvings used in Japan as ornamental fasteners on boxes and silk robes – have been a high-end niche collectible in the United States for many decades. Intricately detailed netsukes have won the favor of a number of distinguished collectors, including the late diplomat Jack A. Mang and his wife Helen Randall Mang, whose estate collection will be auctioned at Quinn’s Auction Galleries on Friday, December 7, 2012. The Mangs were longtime residents of the nation’s capital and founding members of the Washington, DC chapter of the International Netsuke Society (INS). Their door was always open to fellow collectors, who regarded Jack and Helen as the ultimate resource for information on netsukes. Some traveled from as far away as Europe and Hawaii to visit with the Mangs and view their fabled collection. In an Isabel Cunningham ... More Dallas Contemporary announces Pedro Alonzo & Lilia Kudelia as new Adjunct Curators DALLAS, TX.- Dallas Contemporary announces the addition of Pedro Alonzo & Lilia Kudelia as new Adjunct Curators. Pedro Alonzo is a Mexican-American freelance curator living in Boston. Lilia Kudelia is an independent curator and writer with interests in new media, technology, and Ukranian contemporary art. Adjunct curators enhance the institution’s mission of presenting regional, national and international projects by artists. In their new positions, Alonzo and Kudelia will expand the dialogue and exchange between artists and contemporary culture. “It is important to keep an international view of the world, and Pedro and Lilia will play an important role in our curatorial vision for the future, “ said Dallas Contemporary’s director, Peter Doroshenko. “Dallas Contemporary will continue to organize and commission new work by the best international artists and create bespoke platforms for region ... More |
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