| Brilliant results for selected works by Fontana, Burri, Castellani and Boetti at Sotheby's in Milan | | First major Canadian exhibition of works by van Gogh for more than 25 years opens at the National Gallery | | Pacific Science Center presents "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Golden Pharaohs" | 
A very rare Concetto Spaziale by Lucio Fontana of the Metalli series sold at € 1,184,750. Photo: Sotheby's.
MILAN.- Concetto Spaziale by Lucio Fontana, lacerations and graffiti on brass, has more than doubled its pre-sale estimate. The work, dated 1964-65, after a few minutes competition, achieved the price of € 1,184,750. This Concetto Spaziale fetched such a remarkable price thanks to its rarity: in fact Lucio Fontana realized only 9 pieces of the Ottoni series. Propaganda, a 1962 beautiful Pop artwork by Mario Schifano, coming from a private collection, set the Italian auction record for the artist, reaching € 252,750. Lucio Fontana realized in 1962-63 for one of his major collectors a gold bracelet - Concetto Spaziale - a unique piece (est. € 30,000-40,000), which quadrupled its high estimate marking a new world auction record for a jewel designed by an artist: it was sold at € 126,750. Giorgio de Chirico, included in the catalogue with two Manichini from his Neo-metaphysical period, registered successful prices: lot 7, Il Poeta Solitario and lot 4, Il ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh, Iris, 1889. Oil on thinned cardboard, mounted on canvas, 62.2 x 48.3 cm. National Gallery of Canada. Photo © NGC.
OTTAWA.- This summer’s much anticipated exhibition, Van Gogh: Up Close has arrived at the National Gallery of Canada. Until September 3, visitors will be able to enjoy 47 paintings from public and private collections around the world that explore the Dutch artist’s fascination with and his representation of nature during his French period (1886-1890). Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition is honoured by the patronage of Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands and His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada. It is supported by Sun Life Financial, presenting sponsor, and the sponsor Shell Canada. For the first time, Van Gogh: Up Close brings together a group of close-up views – still lifes and landscapes - in which the artist experimented with bold visual angles, decorative colour, daring cropping ... More | | 
The golden mask of Psusennes I is seen during a preview of a King Tut exhibit in Seattle. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson.
SEATTLE, WA.- Pacific Science Center opened Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. More than 30 years after the first King Tut exhibition captivated Seattle, the magic and mystery of the boy king return to the Pacific Northwest with an almost entirely new selection of treasures and more than twice the number of artifacts. This major exhibition features more than 100 remarkable objects from the tomb of King Tut and ancient sites representing some of the most important rulers throughout 2,000 years of ancient Egyptian history. Derived from royal and private tombs and temples from 2600 B.C.E. to 660 B.C.E.*, many of these artifacts have never before been seen in North America prior to this exhibition tour. The exhibition will be on display at Pacific Science Center from May 24, 2012 to January 6, 2013. “Pacific Science Center is proud to bring King Tut back to Seattle after more than 30 years. Th ... More |
| Sotheby's announces sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Contemporary Design | | Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery in London showcases the work of Cardiff-born artist Peter Fraser | | Painting by Wu Guangzhong tops Bonhams Sale of Fine Chinese Paintings and Contemporary Asian Art | 
Jean Prouve, Pair of aluminium and glass doors created for the Pavillon du centenaire de l’Aluminium – 1953, 243 x 133 cm. Estimate: 100 000 – 150 000 €. Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- The sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Contemporary Design at Sotheby’s Paris on 6 June 2012 comprises 170 works of varied provenance, spanning a vast range of styles from Art Nouveau down to Contemporary Design. As part of Sotheby’s strategy to make Paris the European centre for sales of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Contemporary Design, the forthcoming sale includes works not just from France but also from a variety of other European countries, ranging from Scandinavia to Spain, Italy, Austria and the U.K. The sale begins with a rare carved 1874 panel by Henry Cros portraying Two Women in Medieval Costume (est. €30,000-40,000 / $39,000-51,000).* Ceramics connoisseurs can choose between works by Ernest Léveillé, Ernest Chaplet, Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Gustav Gurschner and Jean Carriès – represented by ... More | | 
Peter Fraser, Untitled 2008–2011. Photo: © Peter Fraser, courtesy Brancolini Grimaldi.
LONDON.- Peter Fraser has created a new photographic portrait of London. A City in the Mind takes its inspiration from Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities in which the explorer Marco Polo tells the Emperor Kublai Khan of the many fantastical cities he has visited on his travels. However, Marco Polo and the Emperor don’t speak the same language so the explorer uses objects from the cities to help tell their story. Similarly Fraser’s enigmatic photographs of London can be read as portals to another world, openings onto stories and histories, even other civilizations. What kind of city is Fraser asking us to imagine through the images he brings back? Several photographs feature antiquated miniatures or models, perhaps from some kind of museum. Other images show objects whose visceral texture and colour leaps out from the picture plane –a suggestively fleshy conch shell; shiny chestnuts on a table; the glowing red vellum of a volume of Who’s Who. A dazzli ... More | | 
Wu Guanzhong's A Fish Pool in the Mountain City, sold for HK$15,220,000 against an estimate of HK$8,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- The saleroom was packed during the Bonhams Hong Kong sale of Fine Chinese Paintings and Contemporary Asian Art held on 26 May at the Island Shangri-La Hotel. Over 170 lots went under the hammer and spirited bidding drove the top lots over their high estimates, achieving a total of over HK$52,000,000. Befitting their star quality, top honours went to the front and back cover lots of the sale. The highest price was achieved by an oil painting by Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010), A Fish Pool in the Mountain City, selling for HK$15,220,000 against an estimate of HK$8,000,000 – 12,000,000. Painted at the peak of his career in 1987 at the age of 68, the composition bears witness to the fact that in his youth he studied European and Chinese painting techniques, producing together a fluent merger of the two traditions. Unlike his teacher Lin Fengmian (1900-1991), Wu Guangzhong continued to paint both ... More |
| Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey predicts evolution debate will soon be history | | Exquisite vases owned by Bachelor of Narford Hall sell at Bonhams for outstanding price | | "Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today" opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 
Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey recovers skull fragments of a Homo habilis specimen. AP Photo/Turkana Basin Institute, Bob Campbell.
By: Frank Eltman, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that "even the skeptics can accept it." "If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it's solid, that we are all African, that color is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive," Leakey says, "then I think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global challenges." Leakey, a professor at Stony Brook University on Long Island, recently spent several weeks in New York promoting the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya. The institute, where Leakey spends most of his time, welcomes researchers and scientists from around the world ... More | | 
The vases sold for the exceptional price of £40,850, smashing the pre-sale estimate of £20,000 - 30,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A pair of exquisitely decorated Castelli maiolica campana vases and covers was one of the top lots in the Fine European Ceramics sale at Bonhams on Wednesday 23rd May. After competitive bidding, the vases sold for the exceptional price of £40,850, smashing the pre-sale estimate of £20,000 - 30,000. Originally owned by the legendary 18th century art collector, Sir Andrew Fountaine, the vases were sold in the famous Fountaine Collection sale in 1884, which included stunning works of maiolica from Narford Hall in Norfolk. Sebastian Kuhn, Director of the Ceramics department at Bonhams said: “These vases are fabulous examples of highly coloured maiolica ceramics from the Fountaine Collection, much of which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. It has been very exciting to see so much interest in the vases, which were originally part of a prominent Norfolk collection, with a fascinating history.” Sir Andrew Fo ... More | | 
Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive II, 1963. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, partial gift of Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson. Art © Rauschenberg Estate/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo © MCA Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago showcases the evolution of contemporary painting from its modern gestural roots to the intersection of the machine and the hand-made, which is influencing many of the boldest young painters today. Primarily based on the MCA's own collection, and augmented with works from the Chicago community, the exhibition maps a historical skepticism about painting. This exhibition is curated by James W. Alsdorf Curator Michael Darling, and is on view May 5 to October 21, 2012. Phantom Limb contributes to the dialogue among artists and critics that challenges painting's relevance through an analysis of its rules and biases to trace the medium's artistic evolution and present its current influential status. Artists from Robert Rauschenberg and ... More |
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| At Home with the Queen: Photographic portraits of Londoners at home with their treasured souvenirs | | Laumeier Sculpture Park receives grant to support conservation of a major art work by Donald Judd | | New York's Metropolitan Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine with Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno | 
Brenda Wilshere © Museum of London.
LONDON.- Opened yesterday to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, the Museum of London presents At Home with the Queen. This display features twelve professional photographic portraits of Londoners at home with their treasured souvenirs, alongside photographs taken by Londoners themselves with their cherished mementos featuring an image of the Queen. At Home with the Queen runs until the 28 October 2012. A selection of Royal commemorative objects from the Museum's collections is also on display, including ephemeral trinkets produced for Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, striking official Coronation Day street decorations, evocative Silver Jubilee party paper tableware and current Diamond Jubilee souvenirs. The 12 Londoners professionally photographed embrace people of all ages and backgrounds. They include Mak Gilchrist, a model from the iconic Robert Palmer video, Addicted to Love; Miles Landes ... More | | 
The grant is part of NEA announcement of 788 Art Works grants and $24.81 million in funding nationwide.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park has been awarded a $100,000 Art Works grant by the National Endowment for the Arts, the full amount requested. The park is one of two recipients in Missouri to be awarded this grant. Chairman Rocco Landesman recently announced that NEA plans to award $24.81 million to 788 not-for-profit organizations nationwide under the Art Works category with an average granting amount of $31,490. “The arts should be a part of everyday life,” said Chairman Landesman, “Whether it’s seeing a performance, visiting a gallery, participating in an art class, or simply taking a walk around a neighborhood enhanced by public art, these grants are ensuring that across the nation, the public is able to experience how art works.” Laumeier will use these funds to undertake a major conservation project on one of its signature works, Untitled, 1984, by Donald Judd. “The granting of thi ... More | | 
Visitors look at a structure by Tomas Saraceno called "Cloud City" on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. AP Photo/Seth Wenig.
By: Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds. On the rooftop of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Cloud City" welcomes visitors. Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno created the 16 stainless steel-framed bubbles, accessible via transparent staircases that take visitors on a journey up, with spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline and Central Park. Saraceno's first major U.S. commission "blends and reflects the environment," says the 38-year-old artist. "It's multi-reality, it's like a walk in the sky." So when the sky is blue, "it will get really blue," he says. And "when it's cloudy, you are walking in a kind of cloud scape; somehow you lose your sense of orientation." The installation — 54 feet long and 29 feet high — is part of the Met's rooftop sculpture program, now in its 15th ... More |
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 DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces works by Jedediah Caesar as part of PLATFORM series LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces PLATFORM 9: Jedediah Caesar on view May 26–August 12, 2012. PLATFORM 9: Jedediah Caesar presents new work centered on the artist’s interest in the temporal nature of landscape—specifically as it pertains to deCordova’s Sculpture Park. As part of the ongoing PLATFORM series, in which artists are invited to envision work which responds to deCordova’s unique indoor and outdoor space, Caesar created an outdoor installation along with new sculpture, video, and printed matter, presented with his sculptural cuts, that collectively reflect on place as a temporal, social, and sculptural material. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jedediah Caesar is now based in Los Angeles and creates sculptures from amassed and congealed materials that speak to process, temporality, and ... More First exhibition in Scandinavia by the Canadian artist Christina Mackie opens at Kunsthal Charlottenborg COPENHAGEN.- Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the first exhibition in Scandinavia by the Canadian artist Christina Mackie. The exhibition, entitled Painting the Weights, consists of an extraordinary installation that features such diverse elements as watercolours, photographs and ceramics, as well as found materials that range from mineral specimens to plastic beer crates. The exhibition follows Mackie’s ongoing fascination with both human technologies and natural materials, and her exploration of the connections that run between people, societies and the natural world. Mackie’s exhibition is conceived as a single installation in two main parts. In the first galleries a host of found and crafted objects is arranged on makeshift tables and shelves, reflecting the artist’s studio environment. This sequence follows a principle of repetition and morphosis that runs through Mackie’s ... More Thorburn owned by first man to propose remembrance silence to honour war dead for sale at Bonhams LONDON.- A splendid watercolour of a pheasant in flight by the celebrated Scottish ornithological artist Archibald Thorburn heads Bonhams Sporting Sale in Edinburgh on 21 June. It is estimated at £20,000-30,000. Flying Pheasant has a fascinating history. It was owned by Sir Crawford McCullagh, a prominent Ulster politician and the first man to suggest holding a period of silence to commemorate soldiers who had died in the First World War. As the Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1914-17, McCullagh called for a five minute silence for the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division who had died in their thousands at the Battle of Somme on 1 July 1916. The familiar Two Minute Silence was first held at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1919 so that, in the worlds of George V “in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious ... More Havana sees United States invasion at key art festival HAVANA (AP).- Ruben Alpizar never met the American collector who fell in love with his painting of a plummeting Icarus against a starry background, hanging on the wall of a Spanish colonial-era fortress across the bay from Havana. Nor did he get a name or a hometown, or even learn whether the buyer was a man or a woman. It all happened quickly, starting with a phone call from a broker. "How much for the painting? Look, I think somebody wants it. I'll call you right back." Soon after, the phone rang again: "Sold." "We need more people coming from Gringoland," Alpizar said with a smile, not a hint of derision in his voice as he employed a term that can be either affectionate or pejorative depending on the context. "They pay the price you ask." The streets of the Cuban capital are, in fact, awash with American art pilgrims during the monthlong Biennial, a showcase connecting ... More Kaminski Auctions' June Estate Sale includes paintings by Canadian-born artist Victor Ostrovsky BEVERLY, MASS.- Kaminski Auctions announced their June Estate Sale on Saturday June 16th beginning at 11am. Included in the collection are several oil paintings by Canadian-born artist Victor Ostrovsky, as well as a pair of Persian Kashan rugs (estimated $8,000-12,000), and an impressive selection of antique furniture and silver. As a best selling author and screenplay writer, Victor Ostrovsky is also an accomplished painter. At a young age, the artist’s family moved from Canada to Israel, where well-known Israeli painter, Gilaldi, taught him to use oil paints. At the age of eighteen, Ostrovsky was a second lieutenant in the Israeli armed forces, and soon assumed the role of a lieutenant commander in the Israeli Navy. Soon after, he received an invitation to train for his country’s elite foreign intelligence service. Ostrovsky believes that such experience has ... More Park of animatronic dinosaurs opening in New Jersey SECAUCUS (AP).- A new family attraction featuring more than 30 animatronic dinosaurs opens this holiday weekend on 20 acres of woods and grass in northern New Jersey. Field Station: Dinosaurs in Secaucus includes a base camp and four learning stations along a three-quarter-mile trail. Its moving dinosaurs include a 90-foot Argentinosaurus that park operators say will be visible from the Empire State Building in Manhattan, which is about 10 miles away. The dinosaur attraction was designed in partnership with the New Jersey State Museum. It will be open each year from Memorial Day weekend to mid-November. ... More |
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