| "1812: A Nation Emerges" at the National Portrait Gallery tells a sweeping story of a forgotten war | | Exhibition of more than 100 prints by Ellsworth Kelly opens at the Portland Art Museum | | Bulgaria: 'Vampire' skeleton going on display at the National History Museum in Sofia | 
Charles Willson Peale, Andrew Jackson, 1819. Oil on canvas. Frame: 90.8 x 75.6 x 5.1cm (35 3/4 x 29 3/4 x 2"). Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The War of 1812 is regarded as a relatively small war that barely registers in the minds of today’s Americans or in British history books. However, for the United States, this small war had great consequences. When it began, the young nation was still defining itself; by the end—a military draw—a new sense of nationalism pervaded the country. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents “1812: A Nation Emerges,” the first major museum exhibition to comprehensively tell this story with objects from Canada, Great Britain and the United States. It will open at the museum June 15 and continue through Jan. 27, 2013. “1812: A Nation Emerges” offers persuasive evidence that this war merits attention in our own time because of the enduring changes it wrought in our nation,” said Martin E. Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “This exhibition will ope ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly, Red-Orange Yellow Blue, 1970, Lithograph on Special Arjomari paper, Edition of 75, (c) Ellsworth Kelly and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
PORTLAND, ORE.- Universally recognized as one of the most important American artists of the last fifty years, Ellsworth Kelly has redefined abstract art through his bold paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings. Born in 1923 in Newburgh, N.Y., Kelly studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn until the age of 20, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II. He spent the majority of his military service in Europe. From 1948 through 1954, he lived in France, traveling and studying art and architecture. French abstraction greatly influenced the young artist, whose style changed drastically during his time in Europe. He abandoned figuration and traditional easel painting, choosing instead to create a vocabulary of simple geometric shapes in pure, vibrant color. Kelly’s visual vocabulary is drawn from observations of the world around him—shapes and silhouettes found in plants, architecture, shadows on a wall—and has developed from his interest in the sp ... More | | 
A skeleton dating back to the Middle Ages and recently unearthed in the black sea town of Sozopol, and displayed at National History Museum in Sofia. AP Photo/Valentina Petrova.
By: Veselin Toshkov, Associated Press
SOFIA (AP).- Ever since archaeologists announced last week that they have found two ancient skeletons in Bulgaria with iron rods thrust through their chests, the media have been reporting how Bulgarians once did that to prevent the dead from emerging from the grave as vampires. On Saturday, one of those 700-year-old skeletons will be put on display at the National History Museum in Sofia, and its director, Bozhidar Dimitrov, says he expects there to be a big turnout. Dimitrov said Thursday that some people who were believed to have led evil lives were treated that way when they were buried in parts of Bulgaria as recently as the beginning of the last century. The media have reported that because vampire tales remain popular in Balkan countries such as Bulgaria some people in the Black Sea resort of ... More |
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| Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar exhibits simultaneously at three Berlin institutions | | Do You Remember the First Time? Contemporary Photography at Atlas Gallery | | Art experts at six-day conference in Germany discuss recovering art looted by Nazis | 
Alfredo Jaar, The Sound of Silence«, 2006, Courtesy: Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin.
BERLIN.- The Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (New Society for Visual Arts) presents an exhibition by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar (*1956) that will be shown, subdivided into six groups of works, simultaneously at three Berlin institutions. The monographic show offers a retrospective survey of an artistic production spanning close to four decades. It gives insights into the political topicality of the works by the two-time documenta participant and elucidates the critical methods of archiving, research and intervention employed by the artist. The artist trained as architect and filmmaker works with urban spaces and spaces of the museum. He dissects surfaces and structures, producing artistic statements related to spatiality and society. The main focuses of the show are on the observation of image languages and image programmes, as well as their deconstruction. They address the artistic strategy of refusing images, present Jaar’s research work and display his considerati ... More | | 
Adam Jeppesen, XX·ophir, 2011 © Adam Jeppesen, courtesy of ATLAS Gallery London.
LONDON.- Atlas Gallery announces Do You Remember the First Time?, an exhibition of contemporary photography, opening June 15 through July 28. Do You Remember the First Time? features works by contemporary photographers Olivo Barbieri, Jim Goldberg, Nathan Harger, Adam Jeppesen, and Paolo Ventura, presented for the first time in London exclusively at Atlas Gallery. Many of these exemplary contemporary artists have been exhibited internationally, and are included in museum and distinguished private collections worldwide, but have never before been exhibited in a commercial gallery in the United Kingdom. Do You Remember the First Time? presents the opportunity to experience with new eyes key works by known artists who are redefining the boundaries of contemporary photography. Olivo Barbieri takes aerial photographs of cityscapes and landscapes, creating images that look like scale models. First exhibition at Atlas Gallery; f ... More | | 
Wesley Fisher, Director of Research for the Conference on Jewish Claims Against Germany, delivers his speech. AP Photo/Jens Meyer.
By: David Rising, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP).- Call them the looted treasure detectives. Experts from museums, auction houses, government agencies and other institutions are meeting in Germany this week as part of an international effort to train art-world professionals in recovering art and cultural treasures looted during the Nazi era. Sixty-seven years after the end of World War II, there are still millions of items that were lost or stolen during the Nazi era that have not been recovered. The items were taken by the Nazis themselves, plundered by the Soviets at the end of the war and even taken home by Allied troops. The six-day conference that ends Friday in the eastern city of Magdeburg was organized by the European Shoah Legacy Institute and brings together 35 experts from more than a dozen countries. "The press tends to focus on the high ... More |
| Mary Coble's first solo exhibition in Denmark opens at Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art | | Field Theory: A solo exhibition of the work of Michael Theodore opens at the University of Colorado Art Museum | | The Frick Art & Historical Center presents "Three Centuries of Printmaking" | 
Mary Coble, Watermarks (video still), 2012, created in co-operation with Blithe Riley.
COPENHAGEN.- “I am in distress. I do not see any light. I am drifting.” These are some of the maritime code signals that appear in the comprehensive work Maneuvering with Difficulty (Mike and November), 2012 by the American artist Mary Coble. At the opening of Coble’s first solo exhibition in Denmark, Overgaden will be transformed into the colourful setting of a tale of longing, love and loss. In a live performance, large, specially-sewn signal flags will be mounted in the exhibition space, choreographed on the basis of a fictitious dialogue between the first and the last ship to be built at the now-closed shipyard in Nakskov. Mary Coble will present a series of works manifesting issues that relate to physical, social and historical navigation, and through video, sound art, photography, installation and live performance, the exhibition will trace the links in Mary Coble’s practice, which ranges from polit ... More | | 
Michael Theodore, in a landscape (i), 2012 (detail); robotic drawing with ink on bristol; 14 x 17 inches. Image courtesy of the artist © Michael Theodore
BOULDER, CO.- The CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado, Boulder presents Field Theory, a solo exhibition of the work of Michael Theodore. While scientists build mathematical models to better explain the mechanistic structure of the universe, musician and new media artist Michael Theodore builds models in software and hardware to better explore perceptual sensations. Using various media Theodore creates dynamic fields of color, light, and sound that are inspired by observation and experiences of the natural world. In Field Theory Theodore explores the two seemingly contradictory impulses that drive his work as an artist. The first is the need to experience as deeply as possible the continuous flood of sounds, shapes, and colors streaming in from the world around him. The second is the attempt to grab onto some small piece of this magic and distill it into coded instructions that a machine can understand. Th ... More | | 
The Brownies At Home, written and illustrated by Palmer Cox, published by The Century Company, 1893. 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 11/16 in. Collection Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. Image: E. G. Schempf.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- This summer the Frick galleries are home to three simultaneous exhibitions of masterful prints. Built around the Frick’s permanent collection of 18th-century mezzotints and 19th-century chromolithographs, and complemented by a traveling exhibition The Prints of Jacques Callot, these three exhibitions span over two hundred years and provide a look at three different centuries, yet all the works demonstrate the importance of the printmaker in recording, publishing and disseminating a distinct view of the world. The exhibitions, which open at The Frick Art Museum on Saturday, June 16, 2012 will remain on view through September 20, 2012. Admission is free. Jacques Callot (1592–1635) revolutionized printmaking. One of the first artists to gain fame exclusively through prints, Callot made over 1400 prints in his ... More |
| Images of a Paradise Lost: Oil boom, Delta burns: photographs by George Osodi | | Yorkshire Sculpture Park opens Anish Kapoor touring exhibition from the Arts Council Collection | | Recent archaeological finds from northern China presented in exclusive exhibition at the Clark | 
George Osodi, Utorogun gas flare near Warri, 2006. © George Osodi.
LIVERPOOL.- A photographic exhibition looking at the impact of the oil industry on the lives of people in Niger Delta opens at Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum. Oil boom, Delta burns: photographs by George Osodi opens on Friday 15 June. The Nigerian born photo-journalist, 37, witnessed first hand the exploitation of one of Africa’s largest deltas by multi-national companies. People who live in the oil rich state have had to live with environmental catastrophes for decades. Since the 1950s oil spill after oil spill in this part of Nigeria have left areas polluted and seen traditional livelihoods destroyed. Severe economic deprivation within communities stands in sharp contrast to the enormous oil wealth of the area. George Osodi photographed people living in the Niger Delta from 2003 to 2007 to highlight the brutal conditions they were living in. The free exhibition of 10 large scale images will ... More | | 
Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 1995 Stainless steel, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. Acquired with the assistance from The Henry Moore Foundation, 1998 © Anish Kapoor.
WAKEFIELD.- Flashback is a major series of touring exhibitions from the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre. Taking as its starting point the Collection’s founding principle of supporting emerging artists through the purchase of their work, the series showcases internationally renowned British artists whose works have been acquired by the Collection. The monographic exhibitions combine works from the Collection with new pieces borrowed directly from the artists, giving a unique insight into the evolution of these key figures in British art. Following on from the success of the first Flashback exhibition of work by Bridget Riley, the second artist in the series of monographic exhibitions is renowned artist and Turner Prize winner, Anish Kapoor. Kapoor’s sensual and beguiling sculptures are created using a range of materials including pigment, stone, ... More | | 
Civilian Official and Military Officer, Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE). Excavated 1965 at Yejiabao, Gansu Province. Three-color lead-glazed (sancai) earthenware, height 133.5 cm and 135.5 cm. Gansu Provincial Museum, Lanzhou.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents rare Chinese burial objects in an exclusive exhibition that considers both the discovery and the impact of modern Chinese archaeology, Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China, open June 16 – October 21, 2012. The exhibition features objects recently excavated from sites in the Shanxi and Gansu provinces and never before seen outside of China, including a full-size stone sarcophagus discovered intact in 2004. Unearthed leads the Institute’s interrelated summer exhibition program of four exhibitions, including three presentations in Williamstown and one in New York. The exhibitions are part of the Institute’s current cultural exchange initiative ... More |
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 Galloping Geese ride again at Colorado railroad museum By: Dan Elliot, Associated Press
GOLDEN, CO (AP).- Seven contraptions known as the Galloping Geese may be the most motley-looking machines — and the most endearing — ever to rattle down American railroad tracks. A mash-up of vintage autos, buses and railroad cars, the Geese were cobbled together in the 1930s by the Rio Grande Southern, a luckless and threadbare railroad that served mining towns in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The railroad shut down in the 1950s, but six Geese were rescued by collectors and museums. This weekend, five of the original Geese and a replica of another will make a rare joint appearance at a "Goose Fest" at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, just west of Denver. "People can touch these things, they can ride ... More Artist Katie Holten selected for Second Annual Great Hall Project Series at the New Orleans Museum of Art NEW ORLEANS, LA.- For the second annual installment of the Great Hall Project series at the New Orleans Museum of Art, artist Katie Holten will map the ever-evolving boundaries or "edges" between land and water in Southern Louisiana through a group of large-scale drawings. The installation, on view from June 15-September 9, 2012, will be suspended from NOMA's Great Hall ceiling, translating the two-dimensional drawings into a three-dimensional sculpture. Visitors will be invited to take new paths to enter the museum as they walk beneath, through, and around the drawings, creating a new interactive experience in the space. Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge was commissioned specifically for the series, which provides contemporary artists with an opportunity to develop new site-specific work that is inspired by New Orleans' landscape, culture, and history. "The Great ... More New solo exhibition by New York-based artist Deric Carner opens at Romer Young Gallery SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Romer Young Gallery presents The Light that Failed, a new solo exhibition by New York- based artist Deric Carner. In an ambitious departure from the works-on-paper that characterized Carner’s past two solo exhibitions with the gallery (2008, 2010), The Light that Failed incorporates painting, c-prints, sound and sculptural elements in an associative installation that blurs cinematic storylines and real-life narratives dealing with themes of inspiration, melancholia and transformation. Taking its name from the Rudyard Kipling novel, and subsequent film starring Ida Lupino, the exhibition traces a slippage of intertextual relations, engaging viewers to look through one subject into another. In Kipling's novel, a former war correspondent finds success as genre artist, and is laboring to finish what is meant to be his great masterwork— ... More 100-year-old Battleship Texas springs massive leak LA PORTE (AP).- Children shimmy up the barrels of massive cannons on the upper decks of the 100-year-old Battleship Texas, focused on firing at an imaginary enemy and oblivious to the tension in the historic vessel's belly where a crew works on pumping out dozens of gallons of oil-laced water. The battleship where the young tourists roam became flooded over the weekend. Staff arrived Saturday and immediately noticed something was wrong with the ship that fought in World Wars I and II and has served since 1948 as a memorial and museum to those who sacrificed their lives. The vessel was sitting awkwardly in its slip. She was lower in the water and listing to the left. "We got down to the lower portions of the ship and discovered that we had taken on more water than usual in areas that we normally don't," ship manager Andy Smith said. "They started pumping throughout ... More Sotheby's spring auctions of watches & clocks total $14.8 million in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s spring auctions of watches and clocks concluded this afternoon in New York with a strong total of $14,802,067, exceeding their combined high estimate of $14.1 million and marking the highest total for a day of watch sales at Sotheby’s New York since 2004. The day began with Watches from the Collection of The Late Reginald H. Fullerton, Jr. and His Grandfather Henry Graves, Jr., which was 100% sold by lot and saw dramatic leaps in bidding throughout the session, as collectors vied for a piece of two of the finest private collections of watches ever assembled. The auction was led by The Henry Graves, Jr. Yellow Gold Minute Repeating Wristwatch by Patek Philippe that sold for $2,994,500, soaring above its $800,000 high estimate* to achieve the highest-ever price for a wristwatch at Sotheby’s worldwide. The various-owner auction of ... More "The Stuff that Dreams are Made of: San Francisco and the Movies" exhibition at the Old Mint SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum and Historical Society presents an exhibition highlighting the movies and the filmmakers that have made our city one of the world’s unique film capitals June 16–24, 11:00 am–4:00 pm at the Old Mint at Fifth and Mission Streets. Admission is $5 for SFMHS members and $10 for the general public. It is the capstone to the Society’s Standing Ovations benefit gala taking place Thursday evening, June 14, with guest of honor Kim Novak receiving the San Francisco Cinematic Icon Award. People everywhere know of the City by the Bay, even if they have never been here. For many of them their image of the city is what they have seen in the movies. Visitors to the exhibition will come away with a greater understanding of why San Francisco has been an irresistible magnet for filmmakers and moviegoers. The exhibition ... More |
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