| "The Horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot"; British Museum explores the influence of horses | | Greek relief from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens goes on view at the Getty Villa | | World record achieved for Ghanaian artist at Bonhams Contemporary African Art Sale | 
Baked clay model of horse and rider; latter with stamp on arm; inscribed. 8thC BC, Neo-Hittite. Acquisition date 1913. Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The history of the horse is the history of civilisation itself. The horse has had a revolutionary impact on ancient civilisations and this major exhibition explores the influence of horses in Middle Eastern history, from their domestication around 3,500 BC to the present day. Britain’s long equestrian tradition is examined from the introduction of the Arabian breed in the 18th century to present day sporting events such as Royal Ascot and the Olympic Games. Important loans from the British Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Royal Armouries, as well as rare material from Saudi Arabia, will be seen alongside objects from the British Museum’s exceptional collection, including famous pieces such as the Standard of Ur and Achaemenid Persian reliefs. Supported by the Board of Trustees of the Saudi Equestrian Fund, the Layan Cultural Foundation and Juddmonte Farms. In association with the Saudi Commissio ... More | | 
Decree Relief with Antiochos and Herakles, about 330 B.C. Greek; found in Athens. Marble. Lent by the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum today placed on view a Decree Relief with Antiochos and Herakles, the first Greek loan to arise from a 2011 framework for cultural cooperation between the Getty and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture. On loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the marble relief bears a historical decree, dated to 330 B.C., which honors Prokleides, a military officer (taxiarch) in the Athenian army. The relief will be on view at the Getty Villa for three years in a second-floor gallery devoted to Religious Offerings. The relief takes the form of a stele, a stone slab decorated with images and text, crowned with the figures of Herakles and his son Antiochos, who was the mythical hero of the tribe Antiochis. Herakles is depicted as an athletic nude, holding a club and the pelt of the Nemean Lion he vanquished, referring to the first of the twelve labors he had to ... More | | 
The huge masterwork by El Anatsui (born 1944) – a magisterial tapestry measuring 11ft by 16ft (350x500cm) - is similar to work the artist has shown at the Venice Biennale. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams achieved a world record for the Ghanaian artist, El Anatsui, today (23.5.12) with an immense woven tapestry of flattened bottle caps, titled ‘New World Map’ which sold for £541,250 ($850,544) in London. The huge masterwork by El Anatsui (born 1944) – a magisterial tapestry measuring 11ft by 16ft (350x500cm) - is similar to work the artist has shown at the Venice Biennale. Giles Peppiatt, Director of Contemporary African Art at Bonhams, says: “We are delighted make a world record with this stunning work. It speaks of Africa in its use of traditional patterning but is very much of the moment – a massive hauntingly beautiful contemporary statement.” El Anatsui is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost contemporary artists. He was born in Ghana in 1944 but is now based in Nigeria, where he is Head of Sculpture in the ... More |
| Royal Bank of Scotland ten-pound note celebrates Queen Elizabeth II's 60-year reign | | Leo Villareal's latest body of work in new exhibition at Conner Contemporary Art | | Wanted: Bigfoot hair samples for European study by Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology | 
A 10 pound ($15.80/12.38 euro) commemorative banknote. AP Photo/Royal Bank of Scotland.
LONDON (AP).- The Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday is celebrating the 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II by issuing 20 million pounds ($31 million) worth of 10-pound notes with four images of the queen from the 1940s to the 21st century. Notes with special serial numbers have been donated to several charities including the Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust, Oxfam, the National Museum of Scotland, Scottish Rugby Union, Scottish Golf Union and a children's help organization. A charity auction of the notes and others is planned later this year to raise money for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Charity Trust. "We're hoping that auctioning the commemorative note will raise money to help young people in Scotland set up their own business," said Geoff Leaks, director of the Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust. The Royal Bank of Scotland was the first to issue notes bearing the monarch's image, starting from its foundation in 1727 during the reign of George I. The Bank of Englan ... More | | 
Leo Villareal, Scramble (installation view), 2011, light emitting diodes, mac mini, custom software, circuitry, wood, plexiglas, 60 x 60 inches. ed: 3.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art presents Leo Villareal’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Villareal’s latest body of work enacts formal inquiries into imagery closely identified with modernity, reimagining colors and forms in the works of post-painterly abstractionists Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, and Ellsworth Kelly. Villareal introduces temporal actions of light into traditional abstract imaging, using LEDs (light emitting diodes), custom software and sequencing. With these new media the artist explores, in single digital sculptures, extensive frameworks produced in serial paintings, such as the colorful concentric squares in Frank Stella’s Scramble series. Villareal activates familiar static forms, changing their color, definition, intensity, and duration. His imagery unfolds gradually, as if revealing the live application of pigments, a process that color painters of the 1950s and ... More | | 
Al Hodgson, a volunteer guide at the Willow Creek-China Flat Musuem, holds up a plaster cast of a Bigfoot imprint. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file.
By: Maria Cheng, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists. In a project announced this week, Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology scientists appealed to museums, scientists and Yeti aficionados to share hair samples thought to be from the mythical ape-like creature. New genetic tests will be done on just a few strands of hair and should be completed within weeks. Even if the sample is judged to come from an unknown species, scientists should be able to tell how closely it is related to other species, including apes or humans. Bryan Sykes of Oxford University said the group had already received many offers of samples to test, including blood, hair, and items supposedly chewed by Bigfoot. Sykes and colleagues plan ... More |
| June auctions at Koller: Large number of high quality objects in all the specialist areas | | Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid recreates German artist Rosemarie Trockel's Cosmos | | "Made Active: The Chartwell Show"; Artists who explore gesture, action and its effects at Auckland Art Gallery | 
Albert Anker (1831 Ins 1910), Strickendes Mädchen. 1883/84. Oil on canvas. Signed: Anker. 56.5x43.5 cm. Estimate: CHF 2 000 000 / 3 000 000.
ZURICH.- The June auctions at Koller from 18 to 23 June are dedicated to Swiss Art as well as Modern and contemporary Art. On 22 June, the auction house will present works with estimates at over a million Swiss Francs by Albert Anker, Salvador Dalì, Paul Signac and Pierre-August Renoir. Further top works by Félix Vallotton, the Giacomettis, Fernando Botero and Marc Chagall are also included in the range of paintings on offer. Alongside an exquisite selection of items of furniture from European master workshops, signed jewellery and wristwatches, modern prints by Picasso and Klee and selected items of tribal Art, on 23 June Koller is also pleased to present the collection of the renowned Basel gallery «Antiquités ségal». "Taken as a whole, our June auctions are notable for the large number of high quality objects in all the specialist areas. We are especially pleased that - after the sales of the collections Iseli ... More | | 
Rosemarie Trockel, Shutter 1 (a), 2006. Ceramica vidriada, 83 x 62 x 7 cm. ©Rosemarie Trockel, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2011. Photo: Courtesy Spruth Magers/Barbara Gladstone Gallery.
MADRID.- “Kosmos” was the title given by the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) to his culminating work, a book on the theme of discovery, more specifically, on the discovery of the Americas. In awarding the palm to Columbus, von Humboldt, who was well aware that the Spanish explorer was not the first European to discover the New World, made his decision on philosophical grounds. Since progress, he believed, comes from accumulated knowledge; the real discoverer is the one who opens up new frontiers of knowledge. In this exhibition the German artist Rosemarie Trockel (Schwerte, 1952), long been admired for her highly independent, even intrepid, exploration of certain fundamental questions, places her work in the company of others whom she regards as kindred spirits. For over thirty years Trockel has deflected any identifiable stylistic signature: films and videos, installations involving animals, projects for children, knit paintings, ... More | | 
The exhibition, made possible by long-time Gallery supporters Chartwell Trust, reveals how the Chartwell Collection has developed from 1974 until the present day.
AUCKLAND.- Made Active: The Chartwell Show opened at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Made Active explores ideas of ‘action’ through painting, sculpture, installation and performance art, including a range of works from contemporary New Zealand, Australian and American artists. The exhibition, made possible by long-time Gallery supporters Chartwell Trust, reveals how the Chartwell Collection has developed from 1974 until the present day, showing artists who explore gesture, action and its effects. Made Active includes major examples of works by contemporary artists Daniel Malone (NZ) and Stephen Birch (Aust), and a small retrospective collection of important paintings by Allen Maddox (NZ). A new installation for the Gallery’s Edmiston Sculpture Terrace has also been commissioned from artist Sriwhana Spong, who will represent New Zealand at the Biennale of Sydney later this year. Exhibition cura ... More |
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| Exhibition of works by New York based artist Holton Rower opens at Shizaru in London | | American Folk Art Museum presents Jubilation/Rumination in celebration of its 50th anniversary | | Quinn's Auction Galleries to offer fine and decorative art from Washington-area estates on June 9 | 
Holton Rower, 'Free Kittens'. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Shizaru Gallery.
LONDON.- Shizaru announces POUR, an exhibition of works by New York based artist Holton Rower. The unprecedented exhibition invites viewers to experience first-hand the artist’s vertiginous vision, showcasing his acclaimed Pour Paintings in the United Kingdom for the very first time. The works begin their lives as an assembly line of several hundred individual cups of acrylic paint. After constructing a specialised platform, the paints are poured one by one in meticulous succession, timed perfectly so their viscosity allows a flawless cascade of colour. Determined to find their own paths, each cup of paint flows like lava across the geometric constructions, and is thwarted by specially built Intention Dams that obstruct the flowing paths. Within each pour painting, which consists of up to 50 gallons of paint, Rower toys with intent and outcome that stems from the precarious relationship between artistic manipulation and c ... More | | 
Jim Colclough, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, after 1961. Paint on wood, 41 3/4 x 44 1/2 x 12". Collection of American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of David L. Davies. Photo: Gavin Ashworth, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the American Folk Art Museum is presenting Jubilation/Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. The exhibition, conceived and organized by the Museum’s senior curator, Stacy C. Hollander, runs through September 2, 2012. Hollander, who has been with the museum since 1986 and been instrumental in shaping its collection, has selected for display nearly 100 paintings, drawings, weathervanes, quilts, collages, and sculpture representing the full sweep of traditional folk art and creative expressions by self-taught artists. The groupings of these disparate works of art trace evocative, visual relationships that weave between the past and the present. “Jubilation/Rumination is a deeply personal exhibition for me,” said Hollander. “Since starting at the Folk Art Museum 25 ... More | | 
Circa 1821-1850 Chinese Daoguang porcelain snuff bottle with enamel crickets, one of more than 60 snuff bottles consigned from the collection of John W. Sinclair. Quinn’s image.
FALLS CHURCH, VA.- On June 9, Washington, D.C.-area estate specialists Quinn’s will present at auction an outstanding selection of fine and decorative art with an international flavor. Most of the articles to be sold are of exceptional quality and have come from Mid-Atlantic estates and residences. American art is led by a Hale Aspacio Woodruff (1900-1980) oil-on-canvas landscape, a painting considered important not only on the basis of its own aesthetic merit but also because of the artist’s distinguished history. Woodruff played an instrumental role in the development of African-American art, both as an artist and art educator. In 1931, following a five-year period spent studying and traveling in France, Woodruff joined the art faculty at Atlanta University. He subsequently served as an art instructor at NYU, ... More |
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 Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry WASHINGTON (AP).- From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry. Summer's 1977 hit "I Feel Love" is joining the Grateful Dead's famous 1977 Barton Hall concert as sounds of cultural significance, among 25 additions that are being announced Wednesday by the Library of Congress as part of its registry. The world's largest library has chosen a diverse array of songs and sounds from history to retain for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry. Among the new choices this year are Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors," Prince's "Purple Rain" and more. Some selections are truly historic and rarely heard. They include the only known audio of former American slaves who were interviewed in the 1930s, ... More Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA LAS VEGAS (AP).- It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon. If they're real, they were plucked from the lunar surface by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, given by then-President Richard Nixon to former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, pilfered by a Costa Rican mercenary soldier-turned Contra rebel, traded to a Baptist missionary for unknown items, then sold to a flamboyant Las Vegas casino owner who squirreled them away in a safety deposit box. Now, more than 2½ years after Bob Stupak's death, an attorney for his estate has sent to NASA officials in Houston a tabletop display featuring the four gray chips the size of grains of rice. They're magnified in a Lucite dome about as big around as a U.S. 50-cent piece set with a small ... More Astrodome fades, crumbles as Houston decides fate HOUSTON (AP).- The Astrodome was once the envy of other cities, a fully air-conditioned stadium that had a translucent roof to keep out the heat and humidity, the first synthetic grass — and the power to make Houston into a sports-entertainment destination. Walt Disney, according to local legend, was so blown away when he stood under the dome that he dubbed it the Eighth Wonder of the World. Then stadium designers began building venues with retractable roofs. And the Astrodome, in its heyday the proud host to everyone from Muhammad Ali to Madonna, rapidly became a relic of the past. Now, after years on the sidelines, the Astrodome is in the spotlight again. The agency that runs the facility planned to render a recommendation Wednesday on its future. One option could be a fate that other domes have met — demolition. For now, the signature feature of Houston's skyline ... More 1,600 museums offer military families free tickets WASHINGTON (AP).- More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in a program that has more than doubled in size since 2010. The expanded Blue Star Museums initiative was announced Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City where more than 40 museums are participating. The offer of free admission runs from Memorial Day until Labor Day at sites nationwide. The program began in 2010 as a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families and the Defense Department. It's adding 300 new museums this year. The participating sites include art museums, science centers, history museums, nature centers and about 70 children's museums. New participants include the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Va., the New ... More 6-year-olds wander from Pa. school to museum PITTSBURGH (AP).- Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are investigating an impromptu field trip of sorts that occurred when two 6-year-old students wandered away from their school and walked to the city's Children's Museum a few blocks away. District spokeswoman Ebony Pugh says she can't specify what sort of discipline officials at Martin Luther King Elementary School will face for the incident Monday, because that's a personnel matter. A museum spokesman tells WTAE-TV (http://bit.ly/KcnmKo ) that the students showed up at the museum about 2 p.m. Monday and asked if admission was free. When they were told no, the students ran into the museum until they were caught by security guards. The school was locked down after a teacher noticed the students were missing. Pugh says the school is developing a plan to prevent future incidents. ... More |
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