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Queen Elizabeth II views a photograph of her first visit to the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in 1954 with Australian Defence Force personel and veterans in the Orientation Gallery at the AWM in Canberra, Australia. The Queen and Prince Phillip are on a 10 day official visit to Australia. EPA/GRAHAM TIDY.
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria welcomed Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh to The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. The Royal visit in the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150th anniversary year acknowledges the significant role that the Gallery has played in the cultural life of Victoria since 1861. Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV said: “We are honoured and delighted that Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh chose to visit the NGV during this milestone year. “The Royal Couple were greeted warmly by NGV staff and expressed how pleased they were to visit the Gallery. “Her Majesty was particularly interested in the works within our Indigenous Art exhibition Living Water and spoke with several of the Western Desert artists whose work is on display in the Gallery.” Living Water is an Indigenous art exhibition which consist ... More |
| Exhibition of masterpieces from the Dutch Golden Age at Pinacothèque de Paris | | J. Paul Getty Museum announces acquisition of rare Francesco Primaticcio bronze | | Fernando Botero's Via Crucis: The Passion of the Christ at Marlborough in New York | 
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Vieil Homme en buste avec turban, c.1627/1628. Huile sur bois, 26,5 x 20 cm © photo: The Kremer Collection/Fondation Aetas Aurea.
PARIS.- The exhibition L’Âge d’or hollandais, organized in the Pinacothèque de Paris in the fall of 2009, around the treasures in the Dutch royal collections, provided a spotlight on that unique period in Europe during which a very important human revolution had taken place a century and a half before the one in France. That first middle-class revolution occurred thanks to the arrival to political power of a merchant class, which had turned the little territory of the Republic of the United Pro¬vinces of Holland into an autonomous country based on an incredible economic wealth, and had made of the country, uniquely in Europe, one of the few places where war was not waged, without any Inquisition or intolerance. It also transformed Holland into a refuge for the artists, thinkers, writers and philosophers who could find nowhere else such freedom of expression. Thus was born what is usually described as the Dutch ... More | | 
Francesco Primaticcio, Double Head, about 1543 -1556. Bronze. Object: H: 38.5 x W: 35 x D: 20 cm L.2011.44
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a rare bronze female double head attributed to Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna, 1504–Paris, 1570). Created in France in about 1543, Double Head is closely related to the head of the so-called Cesi Juno, one of the most famous antique marble statues in 16th-century Rome, a work that Michelangelo considered the most beautiful object in Rome. Female double heads are unusual both in classical and post-classical sculpture. Though its original purpose is not known, Double Head most likely was conceived as an independent work of art, and is closely related to the series of bronze casts that the French king François I commissioned Primaticcio to make after the most famous antique statues in Rome. Several of those survive at the palace of Fontainebleau outside Paris. Double Head may have been conceived as a homage to the duchesse d'Etampes, François I's mistress, who w ... More | | 
Fernando Botero, Head of Christ/ Cabeza de Cristo, 2010. Oil on canvas, 17 3/4 x 15 in. Photo: Courtesy Marlborough Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Marlborough Gallery presents the first showing of a new body of work by the world renowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero. The exhibition, entitled Via Crucis, is based on scenes from the passion of Christ. This will be Botero’s first New York exhibition since 2006 when he presented the critically acclaimed show of paintings dealing with the events of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003. The show of Via Crucis (Latin for The Way of the Cross) will consist of twenty-seven oils on canvas of various sizes and approximately thirty-four drawings in mixed media on paper. One of the largest works in the show is a Pieta measuring 93 x 58” while a Descent of the Cross measures 90 by 50”. Smaller works measuring 20 x 20” lose no power from their size and are made all the more touching by their very intimacy. The ... More |
| Blain/Di Donna's inaugural exhibition presents survey of paintings by Magritte | | Sotheby's in London announces sale of Victorian & Edwardian art in November | | Newly discovered portrait by Spanish artist Diego Velazquez to be sold at Bonhams | 
René Magritte Le Goût de l'invisible, 1964 Gouache on paper, 13.94 x 10.39 in (35.4 x 26.4 cm)© Charly Herscovici - ADAGP, 2011
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Blain|Di Donna presents as its inaugural exhibition, Dangerous Liaisons, a survey of paintings, works on paper and objects by the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte. Bringing together over twenty five major oils, gouaches and drawings, this is the first Magritte show of this scale to be presented in New York in almost fifteen years, and comes at a time of renewed interest in Surrealism and its key exponents. The exhibition’s title is derived from Magritte’s seminal early work, Les Liaisons dangereuses (1935), an enigmatic painting thought to have been inspired by the eighteenth century French novel of the same name, in which two rival lovers deploy sex as a weapon to humiliate others. As with many of the works in the artist’s oeuvre, it delights and disturbs in equal measure; uncanny, poetic, playful and erotic, it underlines his unsettling ability to pull at the threads of philosophical and ... More | | 
Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), Return from Fishing, Estimate £100,000-150,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's Victorian & Edwardian art sale on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 will include a collection of six works by Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) which come to the market from a Private Collection. With a combined pre-estimate low estimate of just over £200,000, the group comprises oils, a sculpture and a watercolour. Although Tuke was born in Yorkshire, the family moved to Falmouth during his early childhood, where his connection with Cornwall began. He studied in London at the Slade School under Sir Edward John Poynter and then travelled to Paris and Italy where he had his first taste of en plein air painting. The concept of painting outside direct from the subject and of using ordinary models was a new and exciting one, which he embraced with his young artistic contemporaries who had settled in Newlyn in the early 1880s. Led by Stanhope Forbes, they initiated a new approach to painting, depicting the local fis ... More | | 
The stylistic similarities to works by the great Spanish master led to extensive research by the department and consultant Brian Koetser. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A previously unknown portrait by the Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660) will be the highlight of the Old Master Paintings auction on Wednesday 7th December 2011 at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. The work is a Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a black tunic and white golilla collar and measures 47 x 39cm. It is estimated to sell for £2,000,000-3,000,000. Andrew Mckenzie, Director of Old Master Paintings at Bonhams, comments, “This is an extraordinarily beautiful portrait which after extensive research we believe to be by the hand of Velázquez. We expect there to be great interest from around the globe as works by this master so rarely come to auction.” In August 2010 a number of works by the nineteenth century British artist, Matthew Shepperson, were consigned for sale at Bonhams Oxford office. Among these works was a portrait of ... More |
| International exhibition of early modern Scandinavian painting opens at Scandinavia House | | An eleventh key witness for the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin becomes German Cultural Heritage | | Rare early Smurf drawings by Belgian cartoonist Peyo on sale at Artcurial in Paris | 
Edvard Munch, Bathing Boys, 1904–1905.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912, an international loan exhibition of paintings by Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Anders Zorn, and other Scandinavian pioneers of modernism, opened at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. The exhibition brings together 48 works by Nordic artists who embraced, and pioneered, the transformative aesthetic innovations that swept the European continent during late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. It remains on view through February 11, 2012. Luminous Modernism looks back at the first exhibition organized by The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF), a 1912 survey of contemporary Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish painting that traveled to Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, and Toledo following its debut in New York City. The exhibition had an enormous impact in and beyond the cities to which it traveled. Reviewers used words like “radical&# ... More | | 
The fossilized skeleton of a young dinosaur during the special exhibition 'European Dinosaurs' in Munich. EPA/ANDREAS GEBERT.
MUNICH.- Just one week after the announcement of one of the most beautiful theropod dinosaurs yet discovered, from Kelheim, Bavaria, and just in time for the "the 150th anniversary of Archaeopteryx, an 11th and previously unknown specimen of one of the most famous fossil species has emerged in Germany. It was also registered as part of the German Cultural Heritage. Experts hope this will act as a signal for others to follow this lead. For the first time this new Archaeopteryx can be seen among other remarkable theropods and the most important original dinosaur finds from Europe such as Europasaurus, Compsognatus and Balaur - exclusively presented at Munich Show – Mineralientage München from the 28th to the 30th of October. ‘Of particular interest are the superbly preserved imprints of the feathers which will surely help to answer some important, unresolved questions’, said Dr. Oliver Rauhut, ... More | | 
A visitor looks at the ink on paper original drawing by Belgian cartoonist Peyo for the cover of the 1960 album, "Johan and Peweet The Smurfs and the Magic Flute". REUTERS/Charles Platiau.
By: Anna Maria Jakubek
PARIS (REUTERS).- Rare original drawings of the Smurfs, blue-skinned cartoon characters created by Belgian artist Peyo, are set to fetch up to 120,000 euros ($167,000) each on Saturday in the first auction of the late artist's work. The highlight of a sale of 33 full-page Peyo comic strips at the Artcurial auction house on the Champs-Elysees in Paris will be a black-and-white sketch -- "The Smurfs and the Magic Flute." It is the first time Peyo's family has sold original Smurf artwork, although some drawings given as gifts has been sold, and the sale is drawing interest from enthusiasts worldwide. "It was a stroke of genius on Peyo's part to have made the Smurfs blue because everyone -- whether they're Chinese or European -- can identify with them," said Eric Leroy ... More |
| Numerous collectors from the four corners of the world attend this year's FIAC in Paris | | Bonhams inaugural Period Art & Design auction in Los Angeles announced | | Loved, hated, and much-delayed China TV tower by architect Ole Scheeren to open next year | 
Visitors look at the installation "Perfect volume (high heels)" by Madelm Company. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau.
PARIS.- French and international collectors and professionals were particularly numerous on the opening day of FIAC : 15,455 guests attended the inauguration at the Grand Palais on Wednesday 19th October. In 2010, there were 14,053 at the Grand Palais, or an increase of 10% for the professional day this year. FIAC welcomed numerous collectors from the four corners of the world: from across Europe, Switzerland, the United States, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon, the Middle East, South America, India, China and Indonesia among others. Groups of collectors, foreign art-world professionals, friends of museums including the Guggenheim in New York, the Power Plant in Toronto, the Ludwig Musem in Cologne, the Wiels in Brussels, the MAMCO in Geneva, as well as many groups of French collectors gathered at FIAC this year. FIAC 2011 was inaugurated at the Grand Palais by Frédéric Mitterrand, French Minister of Culture and Communication. Valérie ... More | | 
Leon Ricket, Malin, Belgium (detail), oil on canvas. Est. $3,000-5,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES.- Bonhams, following in the success of its UK auctions in this category, announces its inaugural two-day Period Art & Design auction in Los Angeles, November 20-21. The new auction category will feature property of the late Charles Bronson and property of Candy and the late Aaron Spelling, as well as an impressive selection of Fine Art, European Furniture and property from private West Coast collectors and estates. Tim McNab, Los Angeles Director of Period Art & Design auctions says of the sale, “We are pleased to launch this new auction category for collectors of all levels. We look forward to expanding the global Period Art & Design brand in the US.” Bonhams to offer Property from Mr. Charles Bronson's residences in Serra Retreat, Malibu and Woodstock, Vermont. The American actor starred in such films as "The Dirty Dozen," The Great Escape," "Once Upon a Time in the West," "The Magnificent Seven," "T ... More | | 
Window cleaners stand on a platform hanging from the front of the CCTV (China Central Television) building on a sunny day in central Beijing. REUTERS/David Gray.
By: Ben Blanchard
BEIJING (REUTERS).- The much-delayed but striking steel, concrete and glass headquarters for Chinese state television is expected finally to fully open in the new year, said Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, whose firm designed the building, on Thursday. The skyscraper, described by its chief architect Ole Scheeren as a "loop folded in space," is two towers sloped together and joined by a gravity-defying canopy equivalent to 80 stories in height. Dominating the skyline of Beijing's central business district, the building was among several projects the city undertook to reinvent itself for the 2008 Olympics, along with Norman Foster's $3.6 billion new airport terminal and French architect Paul Andreu's egg-shaped National Grand Theater. But the Olympics came and went and the state television building failed to open. Instead ... More |
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 Man pleads guilty to Picasso theft at San Francisco gallery By: Beth Duff-Brown, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- A New Jersey man who walked out of a San Francisco gallery with a pencil sketch by Pablo Picasso worth $275,000 pleaded guilty to grand theft Thursday. Workers at the Weinstein Gallery said Mark Lugo brazenly snatched the drawing, called "Tete de Femme" (Head of a Woman), from a wall of their gallery on July 5. Lugo then walked down the street and got into a cab with the sketch under his arm. But quick police work, video surveillance cameras and an alert taxi driver led to his arrest within 24 hours. When investigators searched Lugo's apartment in Hoboken, N.J., they uncovered a treasure trove of stolen art worth some $430,000. Lugo, 30, pleaded guilty to grand theft in the San Francisco case. Under terms of a plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop other charges, ... More Historic 1894 Roper steam-powered motorcycle expected to set new world record at Auctions America AUBURN.- A historic 1894 Roper Steam Motorcycle is expected to establish a new world record* for a motorcycle sold at auction when it crosses the podium at Auctions America by RM’s debut Last Vegas sale, January 12 – 14, 2012. The multi-day auction will feature an impressive docket of over 400 collector motorcycles. The second of just two steam-powered motorcycles built by Sylvester Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts, arguably one of America’s first auto manufacturers, the 117-year-old motorcycle is regarded as one of the world’s oldest, predating early examples produced by Orient, Indian and Harley-Davidson. “We’re delighted to have been selected to present this historic and pioneering motorcycle at our inaugural Las Vegas sale in January. A significant piece of Americana, it is arguably one of the world’s most important motorcycles,” says Glenn Bator, Head of Auctions America by RM&# ... More Wayne Gonzales' first solo museum show in the United States opens in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, LA.- New Orleans Museum of Art presents Wayne Gonzales: Light to Dark / Dark to Light, the artist's first solo museum show in the United States. This exhibition of paintings by nationally recognized Louisiana artist Wayne Gonzales spans from early portraits to never before seen work. Highlights range from paintings of New Orleans native Lee Harvey Oswald to the Louisiana Rigolets. "It's a proud moment for New Orleans that a native son is returning home to have his first major U.S. exhibition here where his inspiration started," said NOMA Director Susan M. Taylor. "Wayne's first interaction with art was at NOMA and no doubt his exhibition will inspire young artists." The exhibition features paintings depicting crowds, which Gonzales is well known for, including waiting crowds in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The newest painting is a large blue Seated Crowd completed this year, which depicts a passive ... More Who shot Rock and Roll? at Tucson Museum of Art TUCSON, AZ.- A visual celebration of the marriage of photography and rock and roll being held at the Tucson Museum of Art October 23, 2011 – January 15, 2012. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum and guest curated by noted photography scholar Gail Buckland, Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History 1955 to the Present is a multi-media exhibition that features more than 180 photographs and videos by approximately one hundred artists that express the vitality and spirit of Rock and Roll and its impact on society. From Jimi Hendrix to Amy Winehouse, this exhibition reveals the intimate and public moments of many legends of Rock and Roll, as well as the crowds and fans who have followed them. Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major museum exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music. The exhibition ... More Anita Kassof appointed new Deputy Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust announced that Anita Kassof has been named Deputy Director. Robert M. Morgenthau, Museum Chairman, says, “Anita brings to the Museum a significant background in both Jewish history and the Holocaust, as well as impressive management and curatorial experience. We will look to her decades of experience in strategic planning and program development to help strengthen the Museum’s offerings as we enter this new exciting chapter in our history.” As the Associate Director of the Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM) in Baltimore for the last decade, she shared management responsibility for all Museum departments and activities as well as developing exhibitions. During her tenure, she served as co-curator of The Synagogue Speaks and Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore, for which she also co-edited t ... More Collection of Shaker objects on view at the Portland Museum of Art PORTLAND, ME.- This fall the Portland Museum of Art presents an exhibition of the most significant collection of Shaker objects. Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection, on view October 27, 2011 through February 5, 2012, at the Portland Museum of Art, tells the story of the first and most avid collectors of the Shaker art, Edward Deming Andrews and his wife, Faith Young Andrews. This exhibition of more than 200 objects features Shaker furniture, printed works, visual art, tools, textiles, and small craft collected over four decades from the Andrews collection. The most comprehensive collection of Shaker materials ever assembled, the exhibition provides insight into the Andrews’s complex role as pioneers in the field of Shaker studies. Organized by the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, this exhibition examines the full scope of the Andrews’ involvement with Shakerism-as schola ... More Klara Kristalova's first solo exhibition in New York opens at Lehmann Maupin Gallery NEW YORK, N.Y.- Lehmann Maupin Gallery presents Sounds of Dogs and Youth, Klara Kristalova’s first solo exhibition in New York, on view 27 October, 2011 – 28 January, 2012 at 540 West 26th Street. A skilled and imaginative storyteller, Klara Kristalova draws inspiration from music, current events, and her daily surroundings to create figurative ceramic works that often mirror imagery from myths and old folk tales, and address themes surrounding oppression, anxiety, and the sub-conscious. Exuding both an innocence and horror, Kristalova's uncanny sculptures portray adolescent girls and boys, often marked with exaggerated features or in the midst of transformation, and bring to mind memories of childhood fantasy, dreams, and nightmares. Through the medium of ceramic, described by Kristalova as having once been “seen as a low material, and not serious enough, especially when glazed,” the artist forms m ... More |
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