| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston receives one of the most significant gifts in its history | | A rare masterpiece by Natalia Goncharova to lead Sotheby's May Sales of Russian Art in London | | Galerie de Bellefeuille hosts premiere; Tom Wesselmann prints arrive in Canada | 
Stuart Davis, Eye Level, 1951–54.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that it has received one of the largest and most significant gifts in its history—the Lane Collection, comprising more than 6,000 photographs, 100 works on paper, and 25 paintings. It is one of the finest private holdings of 20th-century American art in the world and encompasses an unparalleled collection of photographs. Included is Charles Sheeler’s entire photographic estate of nearly 2,500 works; an equal number of images by Edward Weston, considered the greatest assemblage of his work in private hands; and 500 photographs by Ansel Adams, the largest private collection of his work as well. (The gift brings the number of objects in the MFA’s photography collection—currently at 9,000—to 15,000, an increase of 66 percent.) The Lane Collection also features paintings and works on paper by major American modernists, including Arthur G. Dove, G ... More | | 
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, Still Life (Bluebells). Oil on canvas. Est. £3-4 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s May sales of Russian art – to be held in London on 28th, 29th & 30th May – will once again bring to the market a plethora of rare and important works by Russia’s preeminent artists and craftsmen from the mid-18th century to the early avant garde. In particular, this May’s sales will be distinguished by the fact that so many of the works are fresh to the market, having rarely – if ever – been seen in public before. Such is the story of one of this season’s star lots, Vereshchagin’s The Spy, the whereabouts of which have remained unknown for over 120 years. This season’s sales will also be distinguished by a group of exceptionally rare and important examples of the work of Mikhail Vrubel, one of the leading members of the Abramtsevo workshop, the all- important centre for the Slavophile movement during the 19th century. Sotheby’s forthcoming ... More | | 
Tom Wesselmann, Unicef Bouquet, 1998. Silkscreen. Photo: Courtesy Galerie de Bellefeuille.
MONTREAL.- Galerie de Bellefeuille recently received major prints by Tom Wesselmann, (1931-2004), one of the leading American Pop artists of the 60s, along with Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenberg. The 18 prints have never been exhibited together in Canada. Prior to this, no one had organized a print show of this magnitude. Owners of the gallery, Helen and Jacques Bellefeuille, curated the show, carefully selecting each work and assembling important pieces that reflect the range of the artist’s prodigious talent. They worked closely with the Tom Wesselmann Estate and the David Janis Gallery in New York. The David Janis Gallery is directed by the grandson of Sidney Janis, whose gallery was pivotal in driving the careers of contemporary artists of the mid 20th century, and who represented Tom Wesselmann. Wesselmann took ... More |
| Landscapes by Norwegian artists and five paintings by Hammershøi to headline Sotheby's Scandinavian Sale | | Retrospective exhibition introduces the public to the life and work of Eva Besnyö | | Topography of Swiss Art: The great names of Swiss painting through key places in their oeuvre at Sotheby's | 
Frits Thaulow, A Chateau in Normandy. Oil on canvas, 82 by 102cm., 32¼ by 40¼in. Estimate: 60,000-80,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A selection of works by leading Norwegian artists, and five paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), will headline Sotheby’s Scandinavian Sale on Monday, 11 June 2012. This masterful group of works represents the refined skill and aesthetic of nineteenth-century artists from Scandinavia. The spectacular group of Hammershøi paintings comes to the market following the company’s sale of three works by the Danish master in November 2011.** Four of the paintings depict Hammershøi’s home in Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, which provided the backdrop for the artist’s most iconic and celebrated works. Coming to the market for the first time in almost forty years is a winter view by Frits Thaulow (1847-1906). A Château in Normandy (est. £60,000-80,000, pictured on first page) relates to a series of four pastels the artist executed in January 1895, when heavy snow gave him an opportunity to observe the w ... More | | 
Eva Besnyö, Sans titre, 1931 (Garçon au violoncelle, Balaton, Hongrie). Épreuve gélatino-argentique, 29,4 x 24,3 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.© Eva Besnyö / Maria Austria Instituut Amsterdam.
PARIS.- In 1930, when Eva Besnyö arrived in Berlin at the age of only twenty, a certificate of successful apprenticeship from a recognised Budapest photographic studio in her bag, she had made two momentous decisions already: to turn photography into her profession and to put fascist Hungary behind her for ever.
Like her Hungarian colleagues Moholy-Nagy, Kepes and Munkacsi and – a little later – Capa, Besnyö experienced Berlin as a metropolis of deeply satisfying artistic experimentation and democratic ways of life. She had found work with the press photographer Dr. Peter Weller and roamed the city with her camera during the day, searching for motifs on construction sites, by Lake Wannsee, at the zoo or in the sports stadiums, and her photographs were published – albeit, as was customary at the time, under the name of the studio. Besnyö’s best-known ... More | | 
Giovanni Giacometti, Valle Fiorita, 1912/1924. Oil on canvas, 74 x 82 cm. Est. CHF 1.200.000-1.800.000 (€1.000.000-1.500.000). Photo: Sotheby's.
ZURICH.- On 4 June 2012, Sotheby’s Zurich Swiss Art sale will celebrate iconic places that inspired the greatest Swiss artists of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, from the Seeland region at the heart of Albert Anker’s oeuvre to the Engadin Valley that inspired some of Giovanni Giacometti’s most beautiful landscapes, and the village of Savièse – the location of a school of painting. Estimated in excess of CHF 9 million, the sale will include 97 lots which have been meticulously selected for their very high quality and rarity. Among them are major works by Ferdinand Hodler and Cuno Amiet. “Swiss art has witnessed an increasing international interest over the past years”, comments Urs Lanter, Head of Sotheby’s Swiss Art Departments. “Important retrospective exhibitions dedicated to great figures of the discipline have taken place in Switzerland, Europe and the United States and brought t ... More |
| Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to create its 1st human genome exhibit | | Babe Ruth circa 1920 New York Yankees uniform top sells for record $4.4 million | | Noted scholar and curator appointed the George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art | 
An artist’s depiction of the first major exhibit being developed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to explore the human genome. AP Photo/Smithsonian.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is developing its first major exhibit on the human genome with a $3 million pledge announced Monday from a biotechnology company. The philanthropic foundation of Life Technologies Corp. is the lead sponsor for a 2,500-square-foot exhibition slated to open on the National Mall in June 2013. The museum will collaborate with the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health to develop a high-tech presentation of the history and future of genome sciences. The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health also raised $500,000 for the project. The effort marks the 10th anniversary of researchers producing the first complete human genome sequence as a blue- ... More | | 
A circa 1920 New York Yankees baseball jersey worn by Babe Ruth that sold for more than $4.4 million at auction. AP Photo/SCP Auctions.
By: Mike Fitzpatrick, AP Sports Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- Babe Ruth equals big bucks. A baseball jersey worn by The Bambino sold for more than $4.4 million Sunday, a record for any item of sports memorabilia, according to the buyer and seller. SCP Auctions, based in California, said the circa 1920 New York Yankees uniform top is the earliest known jersey worn by Ruth and it fetched $4,415,658 at the company's April auction, which ended Sunday. That price broke the previous record of $4,338,500 set in 2010 for James Naismith's founding rules of basketball. Lelands.com said it submitted the winning bid for the jersey, which had been displayed for years at The Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum in Baltimore. The road top has "New York" written across the front and the Hall of Fame slugger wore it shortly after he was sold to the Yankees by the ... More | | 
Quintanilla is currently the Curator of Asian Art for The San Diego Museum of Art.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announces the appointment of Sonya Rhie Quintanilla as the George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian art, following an international search. As the museum moves toward the completion of its transformational building expansion and Asian collection reinstallation in 2013, Quintanilla will have the opportunity to oversee the installation of the museum’s superb Indian and Southeast Asian art collections. “I am extremely excited that Sonya is joining our curatorial staff. She has the benefit of building upon the legacy established by former curator Stan Czuma, who helped to make Cleveland one of the greatest collections of Indian and Southeast Asia art in the country,” states C. Griffith Mann, Cleveland Museum of Art deputy director and chief curator. “Sonya recognizes the caliber of these collections and is already thinking ambitiously about exhibi ... More |
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| Disputed dinosaur fossil auctioned for $1 million at Heritage Auctions in New York City | | Christie's to sell Surrealist masterpiece "La cuna" by Leonora Carrington and José Horna | | Rich trove of landscape photography in new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum | 
"This beautiful Tyrannosaurus skeleton is one of the most complete, most spectacular specimens that we've ever seen," said David Herskowitz, Director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions.
By: Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A dinosaur dispute is brewing between the Mongolian government and an American auction house, which sold a fossil of a fearsome T. Rex relative despite a court order not to. The 8-foot-tall, 24-foot-long skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar — or tarbosaurus, a name that means "alarming lizard" — went for $1,052,500 Sunday at a New York auction, says Heritage Auctions, which hasn't identified the buyer or seller. But the sale is contingent on the outcome of the Dallas-based auction house's court fight with Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia, the auction house said. Elbegdorj says the fossil — a nearly complete skeleton of a two-legged, fanged beast that stalked Central Asia about 80 million years ago — may belong to his country. Heritage says that it was assured the specimen was obtained legally, and ... More | | 
Leonora Carrington with José Horna, La cuna (The Cradle), 1949. Painted wood with mesh cloth, grommets and rope, 138 x 129 x 66 cm. Estimate: $1,500,000 - 2,500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- The cradle, the ship, the sails, and the journeys they recall, transport me to my earliest memories. These archetypes of travel enabled our childhood to move much like a pendulum oscillating between states of grace and an affectionate, ludic, and quotidian atmosphere that permeated our family home, surrounded with all the protective and magical objects that filled our house in the Roma district including La cuna (The Cradle) among other marvels. Undoubtedly for cultured and expert eyes devoted to the study of Leonora Carrington's oeuvre, this work--painted on the best possible "canvas," constructed by my father in wood, and which simultaneously functions as a rocking chair, a cradle and a ship--represents one of the most important works of twentieth century art, particularly in the context of modernism and surrealism. Similarly for those that know and admire the talent, the work, and the remarkable ... More | | 
Aspens and Grass, Elk Mountain Road, New Mexico, October 3, 1972.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In Focus: Picturing Landscape, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, May 22–October 7, 2012, offers a rich trove of landscape photography from some of the most innovative photographers in the genre. Drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition brings together the work of twenty photographers, spanning the medium from the mid-1800s to the current decade, including Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Imogen Cunningham, William Garnett, John Beasly Greene, Eliot Porter, Clifford Ross, Toshio Shibata and Edward Weston. “The range of photographs chosen for this exhibition were selected from hundreds of extraordinary landscape works in the Getty Museum’s photography collection with an eye towards the various ways that photographers have responded to the daunting challenge of depicting the natural landscape photographically,” says Karen ... More |
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 First museum retrospective for Lois Dodd opens at Kansas City's Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art KANSAS CITY, MO.- New York- and Maine-based painter Lois Dodd is long overdue for a celebration of her artistic works. The exhibition Lois Dodd: Catching the Light is the first career retrospective for the painter, now in her 80s, and features more than fifty paintings from six decades. The exhibition is on view May 18–August 26, 2012, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and travels to the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, where it will be on view January 17–April 7, 2013. The exhibition was organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art by Barbara O’Brien, chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections. Lois Dodd is best known for her works in which she paints the world around her—the cityscapes of New York City and the woods and gardens of Maine and New Jersey. A key member of New York’s postwar art scene, she was a founding ... More South Africa's most famous township gets new theater JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Playwright, director and actor John Ledwaba gave up theater during South Africa's turbulent 1980s and left his Soweto home to train to be an anti-apartheid guerrilla. But he soon stopped training to lead the fight through theater, staging powerful works that exposed the horrors of racist rule to the world. Theater mattered in Soweto in those days. With the opening this week of the first state-of-the-art playhouse in South Africa's most famous township, Ledwaba and others think it can matter again. Apartheid planners saw Soweto as little more than a dormitory for Johannesburg's black maids and gardeners, mine and factory workers. But it has long been a cosmopolitan center of political and artistic life for black South Africans. The 150 million rand (about $18 million) Soweto Theatre complex with a 436-seat main stage and two smaller performance spaces is ... More Darling Quarter flicks the switch on massive digital canvas WATERLOO, AUSTRALIA.- The World’s largest permanent interactive light display, named Luminous at Darling Quarter, has been turned on. Luminous at Darling Quarter represents an important investment in green digital art by the Darling Quarter joint stakeholders, Lend Lease, Commonwealth Bank and Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. The project, which has taken 12 months to complete, will establish Darling Harbour’s vibrant new precinct - Darling Quarter, as the new face of digital arts in Australia. Bruce Ramus, creator of Luminous at Darling Quarter says, “The digital façade will add radiance and playfulness to the precinct and bring people together in the spirit of creating light and art for others to enjoy.” Ramus says Luminous at Darling Quarter has been the collaborative effort of many, resulting in a unique approach to urban space that aligns public art, ... More Customs House Museum features plein air work of Lori Putnam CLARKSVILLE, TN.- The Customs House Museum brings the “Outdoors In” with an exhibit of plein air paintings by noted artist Lori Putnam, opening May 22nd. Lori says of her work “Like a candid snapshot, I strive to record my first impression, to capture a moment in time or everyday life. I express the effects of light and atmosphere, translated so that viewers can experience the beauty in something ordinary, something they may never have seen that way before”. Putnam has studied with many of the nation’s best painters, among them, Dawn Whitelaw, Quang Ho, Scott Christensen, and Kim English. In 2008 and 2009, she traveled to Italy for more than seven months with the sole intention of study, and growth. During this time she painted almost 200 pieces from the southeastern Adriatic coastline to the northeastern Italian Riviera and many towns in between. Her intense work during ... More New Hyde Collection staff appointments announced GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection announced the following new staff appointments. Barbara A. Bertucio has been hired as the Registrar and Collections Manager. Ms. Bertucio has significant museum and not-for-profit experience. Before coming to The Hyde, she was the Database and Pledge Processing Manager at United Way of the Greater Capital Region. Prior to United Way, she had accumulated over two decades of museum experience. As Registrar of the Albany Institute of History and Art from 2005 to 2009, she was responsible for all aspects of registration of curatorial acquisitions and documentation, as well as administering their collections database system. Her extensive museum experience also includes positions working with the collections at Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens, Western Reserve Historical Society, The Hubbard Museum of the ... More Pilgrims allowed back into Azerbaijan monastery GARDABANI, GEORGIA (AP).- Pilgrims to one of former Soviet Georgia's most renowned monasteries, part of which lies in Azerbaijan, are again able to visit the entire complex after an agreement between two countries. Early this month, Azerbaijan began blocking pilgrims from visiting the approximately 2 percent of the David Gareja monastery complex inside its borders. The monastery, dating from the 6th century, is one of the Georgian Orthodox Church's most sacred sites. Azerbaijan's move sparked distress in Georgia; hundreds of protesters marched in the capital Sunday. Hours later, after the two countries' presidents discussed the dispute on the sidelines of the NATO summit, the countries' border police reached an agreement on allowing pilgrims from Georgia to enter the Azerbaijani section. Thousands of pilgrims streamed to the monastery on Monday, in a protest that had been organized before the dispute was resolved. ... More |
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