| Rarely seen drawings by acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley on view at the Phillips Collection | | White women, sleepless nights, and big nudes by Helmut Newton on view in Berlin | | Exhibition of new works on paper by Howard Hodgkin opens at the Alan Cristea Gallery | 
Antony Gormley, Aperture XIII, 2010. Steel, 74 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. Private collection© Antony Gormley. Image courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Photo: Stephen White, London.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Drawings and sculptures by one of Britain’s most high-profile living artists, Antony Gormley (b. 1950), come to the Phillips this summer. This is the Turner Prize-winning artist’s first U.S. museum exhibition of works on paper. Known for his sculpture, installation, and public artworks that investigate the human form and its connection to natural and architectural surroundings, Gormley is also an accomplished draftsman. Antony Gormley: Drawing Space introduces approximately 80 works on paper that span the artist’s nearly 40-year career along with two recent sculptures, emphasizing the intrinsic link between the two media. The exhibition is on view June 2 through Sept. 9, 2012. Drawing Space follows the presentations of Gormley’s drawings at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma in 2010 and the British Museum, London ... More | | 
Helmut Newton, They are coming, Paris 1981. © Helmut Newton Estate.
BERLIN.- On June 1st, 2012 the new Helmut Newton exhibition opened under the title 'White Women / Sleepless Nights / Big Nudes'. Originally conceived for and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, this exhibition at the Helmut Newton Foundation is dedicated to Newton’s first three legendary publications. The motifs published in the books have been transformed into exhibition prints. During Newton’s lifetime, these photographs bordering between fashion and nude photography were never displayed together. His first photography book, White Women, was published when Newton was already 56 years old, in 1976. The book received the Kodak Photobook Award shortly thereafter and has enjoyed numerous reprints ever since. In White Women, Newton used nudity within the visual world of fashion. While such unusual pictures both astonished and provoked the scene, above all, they revolutionized fashion photograp ... More | | 
Stormy weather, 2012 (detail). Edition of 15 plus 6 artist’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof, 1 B.A.T. and 3 cancellation proofs. ©Courtesy of Alan Cristea Gallery.
LONDON.- A major new body of works on paper by Howard Hodgkin, one of Britain's most important living artists, form the basis of this exhibition in celebration of the artist's 80th birthday. These 11 new works are remarkably different in feel to much of his earlier work; each is a surprising and powerful burst of energy, displaying brio and passion which, together, cover the spectrum of emotions, from a sense of deep foreboding in some, to joy, and, possibly, even anger in others. The exhibition title Acquainted with the Night, references the celebrated Robert Frost poem of the same name, often interpreted as a vivid description of the experience of depression, and has a particularly special meaning for Howard Hodgkin as it was the title of his first, and no longer extant lithograph print, made nearly 60 years ago in 1953. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated ... More |
| Sotheby's to auction watches from the personal collections of Reginald H. Fullerton, Jr. and Henry Graves, Jr. | | Solo projects by Rey Akdogan, Edgardo Aragón, Ilja Karilampi, and Caitlin Keogh on view at MoMA PS 1 | | Christie's presents the very best European decorative arts in London on 5 July | 
Patek Philippe, The Henry Graves Jr. 18K Yellow Gold Tonneau Minute Repeating Wristwatch. Engraved with the Graves Family Coat-of-Arms, 1895 (Movement) and 1927 (Case) Mvt 97589, Case 605759. Est. $600/800,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer watches from the celebrated collections of Henry Graves, Jr. and his grandson Reginald ‘Pete’ H. Fullerton, Jr. in a single owner sale on 14 June 2012 in New York. Representing two of the finest private collections of watches ever assembled, Watches from the Collection of the late Reginald H. Fullerton, Jr. and his Grandfather Henry Graves, Jr. will comprise a group of 13 pieces collected by Mr. Graves that have never before been published or appeared on the market, as well as a group of 42 wristwatches and an important Knibb Grande Sonnerie Long Case Clock assembled with incredible attention to condition and documentation by Mr. Fullerton, who followed in his grandfather’s footsteps as a passionate and private connoisseur. In December 1999, Sotheby’s New York offered The Henry Graves Supercomplication as part of its famed auction of Masterpieces ... More | | 
Cailtin Keogh. Introducing Our Illusion. Solo projects by Rey Akdogan, Edgardo Aragón, Ilja Karilampi, and Caitlin Keogh. MoMA PS1, 2012.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents solo projects by Rey Akdogan, Edgardo Aragón, Ilja Karilampi, and Caitlin Keogh MoMA PS1 presents a series of solo project exhibitions by four international emerging artists, including the New York premiere of videos by both Edgardo Aragón and Ilja Karilampi, Caitlin Keogh’s first solo museum exhibition, and the presentation of a new installation by Rey Akdogan. The projects are organized by MoMA PS1 Assistant Curator Christopher Y. Lew and will be on view June 3 through September 17, 2012, on the second floor of the museum. Assembling works from industrial materials like lighting gels, common packaging plastics, Mylar, and other commercial-grade films, New York-based artist Rey Akdogan is interested in the physical presence of her works and consistently highlights their materiality. Akdogan often utilizes objects counter to their intended use—traditionally, colored gels for cinem ... More | | 
The Ogden Mills Armoires a Six Medailles. Attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle and his workshop, first half 18th century. Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- In 2008 Christie’s launched a unique sale platform for the very best decorative arts; The Exceptional Furniture Sale saw 10 masterpiece works realise a total of £10.3 million. Building on the success of this sale and The Exceptional Sale held in 2011, Christie’s is pleased to announce details of The Exceptional Sale 2012 which will take place on the evening of 5 July. Comprising 48 lots, the sale presents three centuries of decorative arts, from the first quarter of the 16th century to the first quarter of the 19th century. Featuring the finest examples of furniture, silver, sculpture, clocks and porcelain – including recent discoveries and previously unknown examples - the sale exemplifies the very best of European decorative arts; it is expected to realise a total in excess of £13 million. Robert Copley, Deputy Chairman Christie’s UK, International Head of Furniture and Decorative Arts: ‘ ... More |
| Denmark's most famous landmark, The Little Mermaid, gets a male counterpart made by Elmgreen and Dragset | | Lynn Hershman Leeson: Seducing Time-Interactive Media Art at Kunsthalle Bremen | | Twenty years of painting by Beijing-based artist Zhu Jinshi on view at Blum & Poe | 
HAN by Elmgreen and Dragset. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
COPENHAGEN.- She has been beheaded twice, lost an arm, and been daubed with paint at least seven times. The iconic statue of the Little Mermaid from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale is now getting a male counterpart: “Han” – a polished stainless steel sculpture featuring a young boy on a stone. The sculpture has been created by Elmgreen & Dragset, the artist duo behind the recent four-meter high bronze sculpture in one of London’s most distinguished spaces – Trafalgar Square. “Han” (HIM - in Danish) depicts a young man. He is positioned on a stone by the seaside - just like his famous “sister” in Copenhagen. The new sculpture has been created in contemporary materials: both the male figure and the stone have been cast in polished stainless steel, mirroring the surroundings in the sculpture’s curved surface thereby creating a distorted imagery reminiscent of a psychedelic aesthetic. With true Elmgreen & Dragset chicanery ... More | | 
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Reach, 1987. Aus der Serie: Phantom Limb, gelatine silver print, 105 x 75 cm© courtesy of the artist.
BREMEN.- On the occasion of the 4th DAM DIGITAL ART AWARD |DDAA| Kunsthalle Bremen is showing the survey exhibition “Lynn Hershman Leeson. Seducing Time” from 2nd June to 19th August 2012. The American artist and filmmaker is regarded as a pioneer of interactive art. In Bremen her works interact not only with visitors to the exhibition, but also with the Kunsthalle’s permanent collection. Since the 1970s, Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941) has been one of the leading proponents of media art. On the basis of the visual arts, film and popular culture, she has been investigating issues of identity, memory and history for more than 40 years now. She explores themes that emerge in connection with consumerism, the private sphere, surveillance and personal power, consistently incorporating the viewer as an active ... More | | 
Zhu Jinshi, Dragon Boat Festival, 2011. Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches. Photo: Courtesy artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe presents twenty years of painting by Beijing-based artist Zhu Jinshi. This marks Zhu Jinshi's first solo presentation in the United States, as well as his inaugural exhibition with Blum & Poe. Zhu Jinshi's dynamic, nearly sculptural paintings avoid easy classification, defining themselves instead through an inherent physicality and visceral power. Zhu's innovative style of painting (the aggressive application of massive amounts of oil paint and the employment of spatulas and shovels as his primary painting tools) retains a strong historical link to traditional Chinese mark making, while simultaneously finding a place within the canon of western action painting. Dramatically ranging in scale and palette, several works on view span more than ten feet tall, while others find their rhythm ... More |
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| David Claerbout's first solo show in a public London gallery opens at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art | | Shirly Bar-Amotz, recipient of the 2012 Andy Prize, exhibits at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art | | Galerie Barbara Thumm presents the work of Teresa Burga and Anna Oppermann | 
David Claerbout, The Quiet Shore, 2011. Single channel video projection, black & white, silent, 36 min 32 sec loop, Courtesy Lilian and Billy Mauer © David Claerbout.
LONDON.- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents an exhibition dedicated to the filmic works of Belgian artist David Claerbout, from 31 May – 10 August 2012. The show features key work made since the year 2000. The exhibition is Claerbout's first solo show in a public London gallery. As one of the most innovative and acclaimed artists of his generation working with moving image, Claerbout has created a striking body of works within which the media of film and photography appear to co-exist. Claerbout's works often depict some everyday activity or event that seems to be the subject of the work, but as time passes we as viewers face a dilemma in how to decipher the artist’s intention. The works not only alter our established understanding of time and the narrative process but also our notions of reality, illusion, and the relationship between them. The exhibition opens with Orchestra, 2011. Viewers e ... More | | 
Bar-Amotz's contemporary, free craft work combines traditional materials and techniques with synthetic materials and readymade objects.
TEL AVIV.- The exhibition "Happy Days" features a body of work by jeweler Shirly Bar-Amotz, mostly created in the past year. Most of the works are round silver brooches, marked by rich imagery and a vibrant palette. Bar-Amotz meticulously constructs miniature sculptures: landscapes populated with swans, bears and rabbits, as well as circus animals like elephants and lions, immersed in colorful balloons and lights. At first sight, there is a sense of a merry carnival or celebration. A second glance, however, reveals that the animals are stuck: some are drowning in a mound of paint that prevents them from moving; others are trapped among trees, strings and balloons. Both the jewelry imagery and the pastoral readymade landscapes that Bar-Amotz "stains," which are also on view in the exhibition, convey a longing for a memory long gone. They represent the diasporic European culture of Israel's founders, a material culture that Zionist society suppressed and erased in its endeavor t ... More | | 
Teresa Burga, Untitled, Dec. 20, 1978, 1978, Ink and rubber stamps on paper, 13 x 15 cm, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm.
BERLIN.- To this day, the work of Teresa Burga (Iquitos, 1935) holds an exceptional position within Latin American discourse on art. From the 1960s onwards, Burga developed her pop and conceptual art in a country that was ruled by a nationalist military regime between 1968 and 1980, and thus at first she had to overcome significant obstacles in order to exhibit and become known. Accordingly, her artistic endeavours took a path parallel to populist demands of the time for a "Peruvian national" art. On this parallel course, in an extensive series of drawings, sketches and installations completed during the 1970s, Burga developed her method of constructing subjectivity using gestures and repetition. Her most important exhibition of this time was Autorretrato. Estructura. Informe. 9.6.72 (Self-portrait. Structure. Report. 1972). In this wide-ranging project, the artist used her own body to create a medical map of herself – using drawings of her profile and photographs of her fa ... More |
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 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Tony Auth retrospective opens at the Michener Art Museum DOYLESTOWN, PA.- A retrospective of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Tony Auth is on view at the Michener Art Museum June 2 to October 21 in the Fred Beans Gallery. "This exhibition is a celebration of newspapers and wouldn't be possible without them," says Guest Curator David Leopold. "With the patronage of newspapers, Tony has had a regular nationwide exhibition for decades. He's had more people see his work in a day than most artists get seen in a lifetime." To Stir, Inform and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth is organized in sections like a newspaper. "There's local, national, and international news," says Leopold, "as well as sections on the economy, the arms race, civil rights and healthcare." Throughout are sections on the nine presidential administrations which function as a timeline for the show. In the center of the installation is Auth's drafting ... More Exhibition of large photographs of athletes and key London 2012 figures on view in Edinburgh EDINBURGH.- Photographs of Scottish athletes – oarswoman Katherine Grainger and Team GB women’s Hockey players Emily Maguire and Laura Bartlett – are on display in Edinburgh as part of a new outdoor exhibition of 30 portraits of key figures involved in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London, working in partnership with London 2012 partner BT, Road to 2012 opened at The Mound, Edinburgh on Friday 1 June 2012. Having won gold, with Anna Watkins, this weekend in the double sculls at the 2012 World Cup in Lucerne, Glasgow-born Katherine Grainger is Britain’s most successful oarswoman. She took up rowing at Edinburgh University in 1993 and competed internationally for the first time in 1997. In 2009 Grainger won silver in the women’s single sculls at the World Rowing Championships. At the finals ... More Chimneypiece with reputed provenance from Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton's home to be sold at Bonhams LONDON.- An imposing Egypto-Roman revival white marble chimneypiece, reputedly from the home where Lord Nelson planned to spend his retirement, is set to be sold at Bonhams Fine English Furniture and Works of Art sale on 13th June. The chimneypiece is estimated at £20,000 – 30,000. Lord Nelson bought Merton Place in 1801, fulfilling his dreams of buying a residence that he could share with Sir William and Lady Hamilton, his mistress, when on leave. He had also recently fathered Emma Hamilton’s child, Horatia, spurring him on to make a comfortable home for the family. Nelson’s feverish letters to Lady Hamilton attest to his ambitions to extend and improve the property and it is conceivable that such a chimneypiece may have formed part of the decoration in this country mansion. The chimneypiece is a fine example of early 19th century marble ... More Fundacion Mapfre presents photography exhibition with the work by Jitka Hanzlová MADRID.- Fundacion Mapfre inaugurated the photography exhibition Jitka Hanzlová, a first for the city of Madrid, which will be on display at the Azca gallery (Avenida General Perón, 40) until the 2nd September. Jitka Hanzlová (Náchod, Czech Republic, 1958) is one of the best-known photographers on today’s international art scene. In her work, Hanzlová seeks out the essence of individuals, the natural world and objects, and highlights the relationships and tensions that occur between them. As such, the images she creates are very direct, condensing down the physical presence of the objects and beings she represents. This show, organized by Fundacion Mapfre, is the largest international retrospective of Hanzlová’s work, and includes all of her most representative photographic series, as well as three previously unseen groups of work: Horses, Flowers and There ... More Pasadena Museum of California Art announces intervention by Los Angeles based architecture practice PASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art announces Layer: A Loose Horizon, which explores the threshold between perception and logic and continues the trajectory of exciting, viewer-driven installations on which LA-based architectural practice Layer has been establishing its name. While software and digital fabrication have become indispensible elements of architectural design, enabling greater complexity of forms, the artists of Layer ---Lisa Little and Emily White-- challenge the ability of these tools to render environments that truly engage the visitor. By combining a computational approach with a perceptual one, the artists create a physically engrossing and intellectually stimulating spatial construction. Their intervention begins at the outside façade of the museum, where the installation is first evident, extending out from the second floor open-air window. ... More An Architect's Dream, a group exhibition curated by Todd Levin opens at Curator's Office WASHINGTON, DC.- Curator's Office presents An Architect's Dream, a group exhibition curated by Todd Levin. The exhibition takes its title from a Kate Bush song about creation and focuses on the concept of arrangement and presentation as the unifying formal device used by four diverse artists. Within this context, the shelf becomes a mini-stage upon which objects become surrogates for ideas. This 'framing' stratagem transforms each work into an arena of potential discourse ranging from the personal to the universal. With its stellar potency Joseph Cornell's Untitled (Celestial Navigation) (1958) is the cornerstone for the exhibition as his box constructions opened doors for subsequent generations of artists to explore combinations of humble yet talismanic objects, whether from natural or manufactured sources. A self-taught artist who limited his physical travels to New York ... More After stop at New York City airport, shuttle goes to sea NEW YORK (AP).- The prototype space shuttle that arrived in New York City by air earlier this spring is on the move again, this time by sea. The Enterprise has been parked at Kennedy Airport since it flew from Washington to New York atop a 747 jet. The shuttle was placed on a barge Saturday and readied for a slow journey through the harbor to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Manhattan's West Side. The barge is scheduled to be taken Sunday across New York Harbor to Port Elizabeth, N.J. Then, on Tuesday, a tugboat is to move the Enterprise to the Intrepid, a decommissioned aircraft carrier. Plans are in place for a floating crane to lift the spacecraft onto the flight deck. ... More |
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