| Baltimore Museum of Art reopens newly renovated contemporary wing; first phase of $24.5M renovation | | New insight into John Constable's studio practice discovered at Bonhams | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston unveils new arts of Korea gallery and exhibition of rare Buddhist paintings | 
Visitors exploring the Baltimore Museum of Art's newly renovated Contemporary Wing. Photo: Stephen Spartana.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art yesterday unveiled an exciting new look at the art of our time when it reopened its newly renovated contemporary wing, completing the first phase of a $24.5 million renovation leading up to the Museum’s 100th anniversary in 2014. Visitors discovered 16 refreshed and revitalized galleries showcasing masterworks by Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol alongside more than a dozen new acquisitions created by established and emerging artists working today. Highlights of the project include a major architectural intervention by artist Sarah Oppenheimer; three new exhibitions; a new black box gallery for light, sound and moving image works; two new interactive galleries; and the museum’s first mobile art guide for the collection. “The reopening of the contemporary wing is an important milestone for the BMA, as it is the first completed phase of the ... More | | 
Great painter used assistant to trace outlines for masterpieces. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An important study by renowned English landscape painter John Constable has surfaced for sale after 62 years in private hands. The oil on paper is a precise study of figures and horse-drawn wagons on Hampstead Heath, most likely created in 1824 and estimated to sell for £60,000 – 80,000 at Bonhams Old Masters sale on 5th December at New Bond Street, London. Constable’s present study exactly matches the composition for the right-hand foreground of two seminal works of ‘Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead’, painted in 1824. At this time Constable was at the height of his fame, having won the gold medal at the Paris Salon for ‘The Haywain’ and ‘View on the Stour near Dedham’ that year. He was receiving an increasing number of commissions from Parisian dealers and English patrons and was called upon to create two almost identical paintings of ‘Branch Hill Pond’. Bonhams analysis o ... More | | 
Maebyeong, early 13th century. Glazed stoneware with inlaid decoration. Bequest of Charles Bain Hoyt—Charles Bain Hoyt Collection. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- A new gallery showcasing a range of Korean works of art, from ancient to contemporary, and an exhibition of rare Korean Buddhist paintings debuted on November 16 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Arts of Korea Gallery features a display of some 120 objects, including Buddhist paintings, celadons and other ceramics, inlaid lacquerware, gilt silver metal work, archeological artifacts, and jewelry, as well as contemporary pieces. These works of art are drawn from the Museum’s collection of more than 1,000 Korean objects, one of the largest and finest holdings in the West. Complementing the new Arts of Korea Gallery is the exhibition Divine Depictions: Korean Buddhist Paintings featuring 10 rare Buddhist paintings, and one contemporary work, on view November 16, 2012, through June ... More |
| Sotheby's to sell 17th-century amber games board with reputed Stuart royal provanance | | Figure drawings by Anthony Caro and Jules Olitski on view in exhibition at FreedmanArt | | Arte Laguna Prize widens the opportunities for artists and launches 2 new art residencies | 
Attributed to Georg Schreiber (active first half 17th century), German, Konigsberg, 1607, games board with twenty-eight contemporary draughtsmen. Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This December, Sotheby’s will offer at auction a superb 17th-century amber games board with a provenance that is believed to trace back to King Charles I of England and Scotland (1600-1649). The games board dates from the golden age of amber production in Königsberg and comes to the market with an estimate of £300,000-500,000. It will be offered in Sotheby’s sale of European Sculpture & Works of Art: Medieval to Modern on 5 December 2012. The games board is thought to have been owned by King Charles I, who may have inherited it from his father King James I (1566-1625) or his elder brother Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612); it later came into the ownership of the Hesketh family of Rufford Hall, Lancashire and Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. According to Hesketh family tradition (recorded in 1855), the board was bequeathed by King Charles I to his close confidant, William Juxon, bishop ... More | | 
Jules Olitski, Nude Standing.
By: Karen Wilkin
NEW YORK, NY.- British sculptor Anthony Caro and American painter Jules Olitski are an unlikely pair, each specializing in widely different forms of art from one another. However to the naked eye, the two men are closely linked in talent. A selection of figure drawings — the female nude — by Caro and Olitski are on display at FreedmanArt, 25 East 73rd Street, NY starting through February 2, 2013. The exhibition, Caro and Olitski: Masters of Abstraction Draw the Figure, will feature many images seen for the first time, and is a reprisal of the 1996 exhibit at The New York Studio School . The British sculptor Anthony Caro and the American painter Jules Olitski were separated by their disparate origins and their choice of divergent media, but they were also closely linked. Almost exact contemporaries — Caro was born in 1924, Olitski in 1922 — they were friends for more than four decades, from the early 1960s u ... More | | 
The deadline for the € 180,000 prize has been extended to November 27th by mail and to December 5th directly on-line on the website www.artelagunaprize.com
VENICE.- The 7th International Arte Laguna Prize, based in Venice, Italy and dedicated to contemporary visual art, is open to artists with no limits of age or nationality, offering a finalists collective exhibition at Venice Arsenale, artist-in-residence programs, personal and collective exhibitions, participation in international festivals, publication in the official catalogue and a network of opportunities. The Italian Cultural Association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art), in collaboration with Arte Laguna, organizes the Seventh Edition of the International Art Prize “Arte Laguna”, aimed at promoting and enhancing contemporary art. The total value of the Prize is 170000 Euros. The Prize obtained a medal by the President of the Italian Republic, with the patronage of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Veneto Region, the Municipality of Venice, Cà Foscari University of Veni ... More |
| Eight new exhibitors to be featured in the 2012 Winter Antiques Show to be held in January | | Alice's Adventures in Antarctica: Carroll's books on board Scott's "Discovery" expedition offered | | The Renaissance Society names Solveig Øvstebø its first new Executive Director in nearly 40 years | 
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Portrait of Dorothy Vickers, c. 1885-86. Oil on canvas, 18 x 15 inches, 45.7 x 38.1 cm. Inscribed and signed at upper left/upper right: to Mrs. Vickers / John S. Sargent.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Antiques Show announced eight new exhibitors for the 2013 Show: Cove Landing, featuring 18th and early 19th century English and Continental decorative objects; Delaney Antique Clocks, a family dealing in antique clocks for 35-plus years; Didier Ltd., London-based specialists in 20th century artists’ jewelry by leading Modern masters, painters and sculptors; Glass Past, experts in Italian glass from 1870-1970; Carlton Hobbs LLC, focusing on the acquisition, conservation, and research of 17th-19th century British and Continental furniture and works of art; Old Masters paintings dealers Derek Johns Ltd. and Theo Johns Fine Art Ltd., exhibiting jointly; Magen H, a specialist in the work of French ... More | | 
An electroplated silver teapot with a wooden handle dated to 1901 (estimate £8,000-£12,000). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The timeless books ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ (1889) and ‘Through the Looking Glass’ (1901) are featured in the Polar II sale at Bonhams on 4th December at Knightsbridge (estimate £2,000-£4,000). These treasured editions of Carroll’s best work, on the market for the first time, were kept on the mess deck of Scott’s ‘Discovery’ expedition to Antarctica. They were available for reading by the non-officer class to ease the difficult living conditions on an icy expedition and would most likely have provided an imaginative escape from the harsh surroundings. Also included in the sale is an electroplated silver teapot with a wooden handle dated to 1901 (estimate £8,000-£12,000). Engraved with the emblem, ‘Discovery Antarctic Expedition ... More | | 
Solveig Øvstebø. Photo by Paul S. Amundsen.
CHICAGO, IL.- Greg Cameron, President of the Board of The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, an internationally renowned contemporary art museum, today announced the appointment of Solveig Øvstebø (‘Săl-vēg ōvst-‘ē-bō) as the organization’s first new Executive Director in nearly 40 years. Øvstebø is currently the director of Bergen Kunsthall, a premier avant garde contemporary art space in her native Norway. She is expected to start at The Renaissance Society in June 2013 and until that time, current longtime Executive Director Susanne Ghez will remain at the helm; a position she has held since 1974. “The Renaissance Society has built a reputation for being artist-focused and identifying new art that is conceptually rigorous and formally strong,” said Cameron. “Solveig has demonstrated her curatorial muscle and her intellectual power. With he ... More |
| Boltanski's installation at the Carpenter Center is a meditation on memory and the passing of time | | Small and large scale works by Julie Sass on view at Galleri Lars Olsen in Copenhagen | | MW [Moment Magnitude]: Groundbreaking exhibition on view at the Frye Art Museum | 
Christan Boltanski, 6 septembres, 2005. Three-channel video Installation. Courtesy: Marian Goodman Gallery.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University presents Christian Boltanski: 6 Septembres, a three-channel video installation by celebrated artist Christian Boltanski, on view in the Main Gallery from November 1–December 20, 2012. Starting with the notion of "I remember" (Je me souviens) and using headlines that had an impact on his own life as a point of departure, Christian Boltanski worked with newscast archives from France's Institut national de l'audiovisuel, gathering footage of events which occurred on each of his birthdays: every September 6th starting from 1944, the year of his birth, through September 6th, 2004. This collection of images has been sped up two thousand times, and the events of one life flow in front of the viewer, retracing historical moments including the end of the Second World War, the overthrow of Allende, and the death of Princess Diana, to name just ... More | | 
Julie Sass, Untitled 9, 2012 (detail). Mixed media on canvas, 165 x 185 cm.
COPENHAGEN.- Julie Sass connects painting to texture (materiality) and the process of painting to establishing functions and relations within painting together with an investigation of how it relates to its surroundings. In the exhibition “All Out”, small and large scale works are combined with the intention of giving the images the possibility of large dynamic shifts in such a way that the viewer is able to engage with the work. At first glance, each piece contrasts with the next but at the same time, the different elements relate to each other within the group, such as loose paintwork, line placement or pictorial elements. The largest paintings in the exhibition can be seen as a sort of architecture put together within 'modules', where if you took an element away, it would lose its balance. As a whole, they suggest a sense of a moveable aesthetic experience. Julie Sass works with layers upon layers of varying transparent washes, where different materials such as viny ... More | | 
Leo Saul Berk. Clinkers, 2012. Duratrans, sculptural light box. 78 x 65 x 5 in. Collection of the artist.
SEATTLE, WA.- Creativity as a commanding force of nature and a veritable tsunami of exceptional Seattle artists have their full impact felt at the Frye Art Museum through January 13, 2013 during MW [Moment Magnitude], a cross-platform project of visual art, performances, readings, concerts, dance, rehearsals, and specially designed arts engagement programs. This groundbreaking exhibition poses the question: What is the magnitude of this moment? The concluding event in the Frye’s 60th Anniversary celebration, MW [Moment Magnitude] is a large-scale project conceived and curated by a collective of five distinguished artists, musicians, writers, and curators: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Joshua Kohl, Ryan Mitchell, Doug Nufer, and Yoko Ott. Numerous leading Seattle artists take part in MW [Moment Magnitude]. MW [Moment Magnitude] takes its name from the moment magnitude scale used by seismologists to measure the ... More |
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 Property from the Estate of San Francisco socialite John Triana leads auction at Bonhams SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Period Art & Design auction at Bonhams, November 18, presented Property from the Estate of John A. Traina Jr., a well-known businessman, entrepreneur, collector and bon vivant, renowned for his impeccable style and limitless charm. As a serious collector of fine art, antiques, designer decor, natural curiosities and objet d'art, he curated a collection that was the epitome of worldly elegance and San Francisco chic. Highlights from the Estate included a 20th century, patinated bronze portrait bust of Czar Nicholas II, after a model by Leopold Bernhard Bernstamm, after the Sèvres model, sold for $6,875 (est. $2,500-3,500); a pair of fourth-quarter 20th century, Neoclassical style, gilt bronze mounted rock crystal obelisks, sold for $6,875 (est. $1,800-2,500); a second-half 19th century, Grand Tour, gilt bronze souvenir of the Egyptian Obelisk of Luxor ... More San Ildefonso etched redware jar brings $32,500 in Heritage Auctions American Indian Art event DALLAS, TX.- A San Ildefonso etched redware jar by famed potter Tony Da took top lot honors Nov. 10 when it brought $32,500 in Heritage’s American Indian Art Signature® Auction. Bidders recognized the value in a trio of Sioux beaded hide objects and the work of several contemporary potters. Delia Sullivan, American Indian Art Specialist at Heritage, said the auction recorded a 96% sell-through rate due to spirited bidding between new buyers. “It’s thrilling to see numerous new buyers participate in another successful auction,” Sullivan said. “This was a diverse auction and truly offered something for every collector.” A Sioux beaded hide bowcase and quiver and a Sioux beaded hide war shirt, circa 1900, each brought $20,000 while a Sioux pictographic hide shield, circa 1880, brought $18,750. A Western thule carved caribou bone quiver stiffner, circa 1880, sold for $11,250 and a handmade ... More Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery expands notions of drawing in new exhibition WASHINGTON, DC.- When the word portrait is mentioned, many immediately think of oil paintings of faces. The National Portrait Gallery is committed to expanding visitors’ ideas of portraiture through its programs, including the ongoing series of “Portraiture Now” exhibitions. Through “Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge” the museum reconsiders the once-narrow boundaries that defined drawing. It is open at the museum Nov. 16 through Aug. 18, 2013. “Drawing has traditionally been a quick sketch, compositional study or memory aid,” said Wendy Wick Reaves, interim director of the Portrait Gallery. “Over the past two decades, contemporary artists have moved to embrace drawing with new enthusiasm and ambition. ‘Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge,’ reveals this trend with a variety of approaches.” The six artists included in the show expand the definitions of drawing ... More The Vinyl Factory announces the release of the debut album by Dinos Chapman, Luftbobler, LONDON.- Brimming with subversive energy, searing wit and gallows humour, Luftbobler is the debut album by Dinos Chapman. Consisting of 13 tracks of electronic “Schlampige Musik”, Luftbobler is the result of a decade of experimenting with sound. Inspired by insomnia, horror movies and boredom, and made in a DiY fashion in the basement of his East London home, Luftbobler reflects Dinos Chapman’s interests in the industrial pulse of T/G, willful experimentation of Stockhausen and impish playfulness of Squarepusher, but sounds like none of them. At once eerily familiar and yet unplaceable, the album’s multi-layered, innately physical soundscapes create a powerful sense of dislocation. Abstract and kinetic, the heavy low end hits you in the solar plexus while the densely collaged melodies toy with your imagination. Dinos Chapman has also created the album’s cover ... More A selection of drawings and the debut of three interactive works by Björn Schülke at bitforms gallery NEW YORK, NY.- bitforms gallery announced a second solo exhibition in New York with German sculptor Björn Schülke. Luftraum features a selection of drawings and the debut of three interactive works. Tools of modern observation and precision are evoked by Schülke's new sculptures, which utilize the gallery's airspace, as well as its floor and walls. His constructions delight, disrupt, and disorient the viewers' expectation- staging an unpredictable behavioral exchange between the audience and the machine. Drawing attention to the viewer's own corporeal experience, Schülke's work is characterized by its lively interior consciousness. Revealed through a complex cycle of communication and movement, each object possesses irrational character traits or distinctive emotional features. All three 'creatures' on view are suspicious, vulnerable subjects that are awakened by motion sensors as ... More galerie antoine ertaskiran in Montreal showcases the work by Sayeh Sarfaraz MONTREAL.- Since 2010, Sayeh Sarfaraz, an artist of Iranian descent, has had eight solo exhibitions in France, Germany, New York and Quebec. She has won numerous awards and is the recipient of five research grants. In her first solo exhibition at galerie antoine ertaskiran, Sarfaraz is presenting a large installation in which toys, drawings and projection serve as a somewhat naïve pictorial language, evoking both her personal history and the political conflict raging in the Middle East. This installation speaks of contemporary art's involvement in social and political issues. The title of the exhibition, mémoire d'éléphant (memory of an elephant), is a direct reference to the collective memory of the people scarred by violence and dictatorships. Each work is a testament, a witness to the political upheaval. The accumulation of small objects, the repeated use of Persian ... More |
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