| Vancouver Art Gallery presents "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters" | | Christie's announces it will sell one of the oldest artworks ever offered at auction | | Bonhams achieves fifth sell out auction of the snuff bottles from the Mary & George Bloch Collection | 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Washerwomen, c. 1888, oil on canvas, The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. ClaribelCone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, BMA.
VANCOUVER, BC.- Henri Matisse called them “my two Baltimore ladies.” Their friend Gertrude Stein wrote a poem about them entitled “Two Women.” The sisters Dr. Claribel Cone (1864-1929) and Miss Etta Cone (1870-1949) began buying art directly out of the Parisian studios of avant-garde artists in 1905. Although their taste for this radical art was little understood – critics disparaged Matisse at the time and Pablo Picasso was virtually unknown – the Cones followed their passions and eventually amassed one of the world’s greatest art collections. The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore, an exhibition of over 50 works from The Baltimore Museum of Art’s internationally renowned Cone Collection, from May 26 through September 30, 2012. Paintings, ... More | | 
A Judean desert limestone mask, pre-pottery neolithic B, circa 7th millenium B.C. 9 in. (22.8 cm.) long. Estimate 400,000-600,000 U.S. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On June 8, Christie?'s Antiquities sale will offer a 9,000-year-old limestone mask from the Judean desert that is among the earliest sculptural types to survive from the ancient Near East. Additional highlights among the 260 lots in the sale are an extremely rare Egyptian painted votive linen from the 18th-19th Dynasty (circa 1300 . 1200 B.C.), beautiful examples of 2nd century A.D. Roman sculpture.a head of Apollo and a torso of Venus.and one of only four known complete standing figures in marble of a Roman actor wearing the theater mask of the ?"Old Man of Comedy". The sale also offers a wide and varied selection of antiquities from distinguished private collections including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Property from the Estate of Ernst Beyeler, and Property from the Collection of Alan Dershowitz and Carolyn Cohen. The sale is estimated to achieve in excess of $8 million. The intriguing ... More | | 
An exquisite 5cm high ‘famille-rose’ enamelled-copper with gold ‘European ladies with children’ snuff bottle sold for HK$4,820,000. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- Bonhams Hong Kong achieved an unprecedented fifth sell out auction of the celebrated Snuff Bottles from the Mary & George Bloch Collection with the sale of Part V today, 27 May 2012 at a packed saleroom at the Island Shangri-La Hotel. Hot on the heels of the extraordinary success achieved from the sales of Parts I to IV in which every single snuff bottle from the collection has been sold, with world records broken in 11 different categories, Bonhams sold all 168 bottles from Part V of the collection for a total of HK$42,423,000, exceeding its high pre-sale estimate of HK$40,000,000. As expected, Imperial ‘Famille-rose’ enamel on copper with gold snuff bottles made in the Beijing palace workshops took the top spots of the sale. Lot 38, an exquisite 5cm high ‘famille-rose’ enamelled-copper with gold ‘European ladies with children’ snuff bottle sold for HK$4,820,000, while another ‘f ... More |
| Prized portrait of Consort Chunhui sold for almost HK$40 million at Bonhams Hong Kong 2012 Spring Auctions | | Tracey Emin comes home to Margate with an exhibition of new works at Turner Contemporary | | Solo exhibition of new sculpture by David Altmejd opens at Stuart Shave/Modern Art | 
Intense bidding both on the floor and on the telephone culminated in a Chinese bidder in the room taking home the prized portrait. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- An Imperial portrait of Consort Chunhui smashed all expectations by selling for HK$39,860,000 at Bonhams Hong Kong 2012 Spring Auctions today, 27 May at the Island Ballroom of the Island Shangri-La Hotel. Intense bidding both on the floor and on the telephone culminated in a Chinese bidder in the room taking home the prized portrait. Attributed to the Italian missionary-artist Giuseppe Castiglione, who served at the Qing Court under the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors, the half-length portrait of Consort Chunhui in court dress is executed in oil on gaoli paper and measures 54.5cm by 41.5cm. Vividly painted in brilliant colours depicting the sitter in front profile from the waist up, her serene expression delicately rendered with full naturalistic attention, her face bright as if from natural sunlight, revealing a young yet dignified woman opulently adorned with feather hat, pearl earrings and a sumptuous or ... More | | 
Infamous English artist Tracey Emin poses during the opening of a major exhibition of her work at the Turner Contemporary. AP Photo / Tom Pugh, PA.
MARGATE.- Tracey Emin’s first exhibition in her home town opened at Turner Contemporary on 26 May 2012. She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea: Tracey Emin at Turner Contemporary is conceived specially for Margate, where Emin grew up and which has provided inspiration for many of her most famous art works. The exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running from 21 June until 9 September 2012 bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK. The exhibition explores the themes of love, sex and eroticism in Emin’s oeuvre. It features new works, including drawings, monoprints, sculptures, tapestries, embroideries and neons and have been installed throughout Turner Contemporary’s suite of first-floor galleries. The central themes are continued in a group of sketches and paintings of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin, JMW T ... More | | 
David Altmejd, Le ventre, 2012. Plexiglass, resin, thread, metal wire, acrylic paint, acrylic gel, epoxy clay, coconut shells, 244.5 x 168 x 291.5 cm., 96 1/4 x 66 1/8 x 114 3/4 in.
LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art announced a solo exhibition of new sculpture by David Altmejd. This is the artist's third solo show with Modern Art. David Altmejd’s work iterates fantastical ideas of spirited bodies. He taps into languages abstracted from architecture, ornament, and naturalistic figuration in the making of sculptures which are, for the artist, whole worlds in which he can lose himself in imaginative fantasises of making and open-ended storytelling. For this exhibition at Modern Art, Altmejd presents three large sculptures, each solely occupying a room within the gallery. The boxed and vitrine-like clear Perspex structures of these sculptures provide support for complex arrangements of symbolic objects and suggestive forms: arrested flows of liquid, coconut shells, silver chains and coloured threads. Creatures of myth and ... More |
| Galleri Lars Olsen presents new Marianne Grønnow paintings in the exhibition Light. Dusk. Darkness. | | Six young artists respond to the iconic sculptures of highly respected artist Lynn Chadwick | | DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents second nature: abstract photography then and now | 
Marianne Grønnow, Light. Dusk. Darkness, 2012. Acrylic on paint, 225 cm x 140 cm. Photo: Courtesy Galleri Lars Olsen.
COPENHAGEN.- In this exhibition, Marianne Grønnow moves into an abstractive track, which has always been a suffused undercurrent in her works. The prime principle in these powerful paintings is the geometrical forms which interweave in and out of each other in both visual and tactile layers, creating complex depths and levels in the paintings. The exhibition title Light. Dusk. Darkness. serves to emphasise colour graduations in the works, stretching from a black foundation to white rectangles, and between transparent and graduated layers to areas where the colour is dense, opaque and intensely clear. The paintings shift from light to dark, from compact to feather-light, creating a vibration motion that despite the uncompromising expression, captures the organic sense implied in the exhibition’s title: a snapshot capturing both night and day. As always, Marianne Grønnow challenges herself artistically. Whereas ... More | | 
Cockings & Hodge, Bucket and Spade (detail). Bronze and sand. Series of 6. Image courtesy of Steve Russell/Pangolin London.
LONDON.- Pangolin London is holding Strange Beasts; an exhibition of six young artists responding to the iconic sculptures of highly respected artist Lynn Chadwick. Strange Beasts creates a new context for Chadwick’s intrinsically appealing forms and reaffirms his status as one of the giants of the Modern Era. The works within this exhibition encompass a diverse response to the challenging brief set by Gallery Pangolin in June, 2011. Establishing a connection between heritage and that of the vibrant local art scene in Stroud, Cockings & Hodge, Ralph Macartney, Gavin McClafferty, Daniel Sparkes and curator of the exhibition Lorraine Robbins all share a strong connection with Chadwick having all grown up, studied or worked in the area. The participating artists have approached this project with artistic rigour and innovation to create a surprising and delightful experience for those both familiar and new to Chadwick ... More | | 
Aspen Mays, December from the series The Sun 1957, 2010 (detail). Silver gelatin prints, 15.5 x 11.5 inches each. Courtesy of the artist and Golden Gallery, Inc., New York, NY.
LINCOLN, MASS.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents second nature: abstract photography then and now from May 26, 2012–April 21, 2013. Abstract photography continues to be a catchall genre for the blending of media and disciplines, and a fertile arena in which artists can test photography itself. It challenges the popular view of photography as an objective record of reality and calls attention to the constructed nature of the photographic image. Today, anyone who has a cell phone can take and send digital images instantaneously. In response to this ‘snapshot’ culture, many artists are taking up photography’s underlying properties to consciously construct an image of reality. Second nature looks at this embrace of the highly fabricated image as a return to an earlier time in photography’s history—and will pair the scientific and expressionistic ... More |
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| This summer, Antwerp presents exhibition of Jan Fabre's Pietas in renovated Park Spoor Noord | | Christie's New York announces Luxury Week, a bi-annual auction series devoted to the finest | | 'Who More Sci-Fi Than Us, contemporary art from the Caribbean' opens at KadE, Kunsthal Amersfoort | 
Jan Fabre, Ascending oracle stones Pieta. Photo: Pat Verbruggen. ®Angelos bvba.
ANTWERP.- From 25 May until 23 September 2012, the city of Antwerp presents the exhibition Pietas Jan Fabre. Created by Jan Fabre in 2011, this marble sculptural suite was featured for the first time during the 54th Venice Biennale, where it occupied the prestigious Nuova Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia. In the artist’s home city of Antwerp, PIETAS will be the first exhibition to be held in the renovated Parkloods in Park Spoor Noord. Jan Fabre is best known in Flanders for his 1998 sculpture The man who measures clouds, and for his 2002 work Heaven of Delight, a permanent installation in the Mirror Room of the Royal Palace in Brussels made from 1,400,000 jewel beetle shields. He is also renowned for his deep Bicblue ballpoint drawings entitled The Hour Blue, created between 1977 and 1992, and for his innovative theatre work. However, for over thirty years Jan Fabre has also surprised an international audience with his diverse and highly original work. The P ... More | | 
Tiffany's circa 1910 "Laburnum" leaded glass and bronze table lamp. AP Photo/Christie's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York announced Luxury Week, a bi-annual auction series devoted to the finest in Jewelry, Watches, Wine and 20th Century Design. Over the course of four days, beginning June 12 and concluding June 15, Christie’s will host five distinctive sales devoted to these refined collecting categories, which promise to draw bidders from around the world. Over 1,000 items in total will be offered, with a combined week-long total expected to realize in excess of $23 million. Luxury Week begins on Tuesday, June 12 with Important Jewels, a selection of over 180 exquisite items, including investment-quality diamonds, rare gemstones, and period jewels. Among the highlights of the upcoming June sale is an array of large top-quality diamonds, including more than a dozen colorless stones rated as D, E or F – the finest color quality possible. The largest in the group is a stunning 22.46 carat rectangu ... More | | 
Ryan Oduber, 'Kima Momo', video still, 2011. Courtesy: the artist.
AMERSFOORT.- Kunsthal KAdE opened an exhibition entitled ‘Who More Sci-Fi Than Us, contemporary art from the Caribbean’. The exhibition is guest curated by Nancy Hoffmann. ‘Who More Sci-Fi Than Us’ features work by a representative selection of contemporary artists from all over the Caribbean, from south (Antilles and Surinam) to north (Cuba and Jamaica) and from west (Costa Rica and Panama) to east (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and every island in between. Nancy Hoffmann: 'This exhibition is the first in the Netherlands to reveal the whole gamut of contemporary Caribbean art and artists. It focuses on a shared identity, shared history and shared socio-economic conditions: a combination of factors that has produced a certain surreal way of communicating, both in words and images. Or, as Dominican-American writer and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz so beautifully puts it, 'It ... More |
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 Acker ends spring season in Hong Kong on high note with impressive results of HK$70+ million/US$9+ million HONG KONG.- Acker Merrall & Condit, the world’s leading wine auctioneer and America’s oldest fine wine merchant, held its May Hong Kong sale on May 25th & 26th 2012 and achieved an impressive total of HK$70+Million/US$9+Million and was 95% sold. Over 1,000 lots world-class fine wines on offer generated immense interest from collectors all over the world. The original Chateau Latour bottles came directly from one of the former owners of this historic property and were lying in their ancient cellars in France until this sale. They created enormous interest in the market and an absolute sensation in the salesroom. A stunning array of some of the rarest bottles of Chateau Latour in the world was offered, starting with the legendary 1905 vintage all the way up to 1985, with the collection achieving over double the high estimate and HK$14,244,695/US$1,826,243. All bottles came from ... More Craft and Folk Art Museum opens exhibition of baseball-related traditional folk art LOS ANGELES, CA.- Opening at the height of baseball season, the Craft and Folk Art Museum presents Baseball: The All-American Game from May 26 through September 9, 2012. For the first time in Los Angeles, the public has access to the largest exhibition of baseball-related traditional folk art since the American Folk Art Museum’s historic The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball in 2003. This exhibition explores baseball’s impact on American folk art made between the late-1800s to present day. Approximately 75 works of baseball-inspired folk art and memorabilia are shown from the private collection of Gary Cypres, owner of one of the largest sports memorabilia collections in the world. No other sport is more ingrained within the American national consciousness than the great game of baseball. Baseball became the first organized sport in the United States in ... More Final voyage: USS Iowa on way to Southern California home SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- A famed battleship that saw action during World War II and the Korean War and carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a wartime summit traveled along the California coast Sunday on its final voyage. The iconic USS Iowa left San Francisco Bay on its way to its new home in Southern California. Surrounded by pleasure boats and other vessels, the 887-foot long, 58,000-ton battlewagon was towed through the bay and passed under the Golden Gate Bridge at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Crowds watched from both sides of the bridge as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sockeye provided an official escort and the San Francisco fireboat Phoenix led the way. At the St. Francis Yacht Club on San Francisco's shoreline, officers and crew members of the USS Decatur, outfitted in their dress whites, saluted as the Iowa drifted past, Rogers said. Club ... More Renovated Middelheim Museum in Antwerp reopens to the public ANTWERP.- Sustainability is the key to Antwerp’s visual arts and heritage policy. The city has the explicit intention of remaining the visual arts capital of Flanders and has opted for a sustainable renewal of creation and the programme. In recent years, Antwerp has been strengthening, along with temporary exhibitions showcasing renowned artists, the permanent programme of contemporary art in the city. The ongoing theme for the Middelheim Museum this year is its renovation. The renovated Middelheim Museum reopened for the public with a huge opening party. The Museum has undergone a complete metamorphosis, including a considerable expansion of the museum grounds and the modernization of the infrastructure. The Middelheim Museum worked in tandem with guest curator, Paul Robbrecht. Robbrecht and Daem constructed a semi-open pavilion, The House ... More Who's afraid of black, yellow, red, blue and yellow? L'VIV, UKRAINE.- Belgie Art Centre presents the first exhibition at Museum of Ideas in Lviv and second exhibition of Belgie art centre, as part of the official programme of the Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art. The exhibition shows the works of Flemish, Walloon and Ukrainian artists: Wim Delvoye (BE), Jacques Charlier (BE), Johan Grimonprez (BE), Emilio Lopez Menchero (ES-BE), STEVE&BRAT (artist group Steve Schepens & Sergey Bratkov, BE-UA), Lukas Vandenabeele (BE), Angel Vergara (BE) and Andy Wauman (BE). The starting point for the exhibition Who’s afraid of black, yellow, red, blue and yellow, curated by Philippe Braem is Belgie founder, is Steve Schepens’ artist residency at the Museum of Ideas. Belgie is not just a popUP art space: it is an idea, a concept that can be applied to all sorts of events, happenings, situations and media, related to contemporary ... More Luis Gispert's first solo exhibition in Australia opens at Mclemoi Gallery in Sydney SYDNEY.- Mclemoi Gallery presents “Decepción”, Luis Gispert’s first solo exhibition in Australia. “Decepción” is the Spanish word for disappointment or disillusionment, in English the word translates to “deception.” Both meanings are relevant to Gispert’s photographs, as they disclose a neo-liberalistic realm of society. This body of work was an exploration in sociology over a 2-year period where Gispert sought out individuals in the United States that collect and/or craft unique customized vehicles in their backyards. The vehicles’ interiors were the project’s initial focus and the windshields viewpoint provides a frame for a transcendent landscape, which were shot independently. Their union creates a conversation between the classic landscapes and contemporary urban aesthetics. Throughout Gispert’s researching process he discovered a subculture within a subculture. Besi ... More Frieze Masters 2012: Participating galleries announced LONDON.- Frieze have announced the participating galleries for Frieze Masters, the organisation’s first art fair for historical art. Frieze Masters will take place 11–14 October 2012 on Gloucester Green, Regent’s Park, London, and is sponsored by Deutsche Bank. Frieze Masters is a carefully selected presentation of over 90 of the world’s leading galleries, with 77 in the main section and 22 in Spotlight. The fair will give a unique contemporary perspective on art throughout the ages. Coinciding with, and within walking distance of, Frieze London, the two fairs will make London the focus for as broad as possible an international art audience and will benefit from a crossover between audiences of contemporary and historical art. The participating galleries will exhibit art ranging from the ancient era and old masters through to art of the 20th century. Representing 18 countries, galleries ... More |
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