| The First Art Newspaper on the Net | Established in 1996 | Monday, June 11, 2012 | | | Exhibition of over sixty marble statues and preparatory studies by Rodin opens in Paris
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Employees put a marble sculpture entitled "Monument à Puvis de Chavannes" by French sculptor Auguste Rodin on a box before packing it, on May 9, 2012, in a storage depot at the Rodin Museum in Paris, for the exhibition "Rodin, la chair et le marbre" ("Rodin, flesh and marble"), which takes place at the Rodin museum's temporary room of the Chapel from June 8, 2012 to March 3, 2013. During the work of renovation at the Hotel Biron, part of the Rodin Museum in Paris, over sixty marble statues, such as "Monument à Puvis de Chavannes" and preparatory studies, many of them from private collections, are presented in this exhibition at the Rodin Museum's Chapel. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOT.
PARIS.- During the work of renovation going on at the Hôtel Biron, over sixty marble statues and preparatory studies, many of them from private collections, are presented in this exceptional exhibition, Rodin, Flesh and Marble. Arranged by Didier Faustino, a talented artist and scenographer, masterpieces such as The Kiss or The Danaïd spring to life again! The question of the materials employed in art is not simply a matter of technique. A strong symbolic dimension is part of the choice, and so marble takes us back to Antiquity, to the myths of ancient Greece, and to Italy of the Renaissance through the figure of Michelangelo. Marble is also considered to be the material that most resembles the flesh; hard and cold, it must become warm and supple as it is transmuted beneath the artist’s chisel, demonstrating through the process both the artist’s virtuosity and his capacity to transform matter. Rodin is above all a modeller, like most of his contemporaries, and, from t ... More |
| Watch Your Step: A group exhibition of floor works on view at The FLAG Art Foundation | | Rare Napoleon Bonaparte letter exhibiting English skills sells at auction for $405,000 | | The Vanity of Small Differences: Victoria Miro's fourth solo exhibition with Grayson Perry opens | 
Lynda Benglis, Untitled, 1970. Pigmented polyurethane foam, 3½ x 36 x 54 inches. Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Traditional sculpture on a pedestal depicts either a person, a place, or an event, so there is always an allegiance to the theme of the representation. Once you take the work off the pedestal, it's in the same behavioral space as the viewer walking around it. Once that happens, time and space come into play, in terms of how you experience the sculpture in relation to the context and the field and your bodily movement. -Richard Serra The FLAG Art Foundation presents Watch Your Step, a group exhibition of floor works on view through August 24, 2012. Watch Your Step surveys a series of floor sculptures by 21 artists in a diverse range of media including found objects, handmade materials, and traditional mediums such as bronze, steel, and marble. The exhibition recalibrates the viewer's perspective, moving it from eye-to ground-level and, in some instances, forcing the viewer to literally watch one's step ... More | | 
A March 9, 1816 letter written in English by French emperor Napoleon the 1st. AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere.
By: Thomas Adamson, Associated Press
FONTAINEBLEAU (AP).- An illuminating letter written by Napoleon in English, sold at auction Sunday for €325,000 ($405,000), offers a window into the mind of the French emperor, struggling with syntax of the language of enemy Britain. The standard-sized sheet of paper is a homework exercise Napoleon sent to an English teacher for correction in 1816 and was sealed with the imperial eagle wax stamp. It's one of three such English-language letters by Napoleon in the world, according to the auction organizers, and was bought by Paris' Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in a dramatic bidding war near the Chateau of Fontainebleau, one of Napoleon's south of Paris. The selling price — five times what was predicted — suggests the document's historic value, as rare proof that Napoleon, who famously dismissed ... More | | 
Grayson Perry, The Annunciation of the Virgin Deal, 2012 (detail). wool, cotton, acrylic, polyester and silk tapestry, 200 x 400 cm, 78 3/4 x 157 1/2 in. Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs. Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London© Grayson Perry.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro announced its fourth solo exhibition with Grayson Perry. In The Vanity of Small Differences Grayson Perry explores his fascination with taste and the visual story it tells of our interior lives in a series of six tapestries at Victoria Miro and three programmes, All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, for Channel 4. The artist goes on a safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain, to gather inspiration for his artworks, literally weaving the characters he meets into a narrative partly inspired by Hogarth's A Rake's Progress. Grayson Perry comments: "The tapestries tell the story of class mobility, for I think nothing has as strong an influence on our aesthetic taste as the social class in which we grow up. I am interested in the politics of consumerism and the history of popular design but ... More |
| Bonhams to offer Tiffany Studio highlights as part of the June 20th Century Decorative Arts Auction | | "Tomas Erhart: Deconstructive Nudes" opens at Inner Circle Consultants in Hamburg | | Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat confers title of Honorary Citizen of Jerusalem on Israel Museum Director, James Snyder | 
The centerpiece of the Tiffany section is a superb Favrile glass and patinated bronze Trumpet Creeper Lamp, circa 1910 (pre-sale est. $400,000-600,000). Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will present a strong selection of works by Tiffany Studios as part of its 20th Century Decorative Arts auction, June 12. Tiffany Studios, founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1885, has continually set the standard for creating beautiful, intricate and imaginative art glass, windows, metalwork and leaded glass lamps. The centerpiece of the Tiffany section is a superb Favrile glass and patinated bronze Trumpet Creeper Lamp, circa 1910 (pre-sale est. $400,000-600,000). Inspired by Tiffany’s love of nature, the floral pattern in this lamp is particularly vibrant in its use of brilliant color, and representative of Tiffany’s finest work. Another fine example of Tiffany Studio’s work is a Wisteria Lamp designed by Clara Driscoll, circa 1899-1918 (pre-sale est. $300,000-600,000). This irregular border lamp is arguably ... More | | 
Tomas Erhart, Catwalking, Berlin, 2008. © Tomas Erhart.
HAMBURG.- 'Deconstructive Nudes' is presented by the Hamburg based agency Inner Circle Consultants. Opening June 12th, 2012, the exhibition will feature 10 new large formats by Berlin photo-artist Tomas Erhart as well as 7 of his sequential works - all in the tradition of his first digital photography project „5pm“. „How much we long to know what tomorrow might be. Perhaps we can see it in the pictures that are so very much today‘s pictures. For example, now we are sad about having tried to be happy ,yesterday‘, when yesterday was still ,today‘. We are sad about having searched for and found the intimacy in sex with somebody else and having lost it again immediately. So, what will there be tomorrow? The memory and the new hope - and the wonderful, poetic, melancholic pictures by Tomas Erhart. (Maxim Biller, writer) Already in 2009, Tomas Erhart thrilled and moved the Berlin art scen ... More | | 
James Snyder. Photo by Ariel Jerozolimski.
JERUSALEM.- Mayor Nir Barkat conferred the title of Honorary Citizen of Jerusalem on Israel Museum Director, James Snyder for his inspirational management of the Israel Museum. Participants in the ceremony, held at City Hall, included Bank of Israel Governor, Prof. Stanley Fischer; Charles Bronfman; Michael and Judy Steinhardt; and Lynn Schusterman, among others. “Under the baton of James Snyder, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem has become recognized throughout the world,” said Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. '' The Israel Museum is an international cultural ambassador for Jerusalem and for Israel.'' James Snyder was born in 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Snyder is a graduate of Harvard University and a Loeb Fellow of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In 1997 he was appointed Director General of the Israel Museum. During his tenure as Director, the Israel Museum has become one of the ten largest and most important museums in the world. Since its renewal, comp ... More |
| Sale of colorful Lalique vases at Bonhams includes one of his rarest designs | | 50 years later, Seattle Center continues to evolve; from a zip line to a new art glass museum | | 1879 Flowing Hair Stella brings $184,000 to lead Heritage Auctions sale | 
Lot 44: Serpent Amber. Estimate: £30,000-35,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The most colourful selection of Lalique vases ever assembled for auction is to be sold at Bonhams The Colours of René Lalique and Design from 1860 Sale in London on 12 June 2012. René Lalique (1860-1945) was a celebrated figure of the Art Deco movement. His work was highly fashionable during his lifetime and is sought after today by private collectors and by interior designers. All the major designs which made Lalique famous are featured in the sale, in a stunning array of different colours. The natural world was a constant source of inspiration for Lalique and one of his most elaborate designs, Serpent (snake), is represented in amber (£30,000-35,000) and in clear glass heightened by staining (£20,000-25,000) while the elegant and flowing Poissons (fish) appears in green (£24,000-28,000) and red (£24,000-26,000). There are green, deep amber and electric blue versions of Perrruches (budgerigars) ranging from £18,000 ... More | | 
the Space Needle towers over "The Sun". AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo.
By: Donna Godon Blankinship, Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP).- Fifty years after the World's Fair inserted the Space Needle into Seattle's skyline, the city is celebrating that anniversary by offering an array of new things to see and do at Seattle Center: from a zip line to a new art glass museum. Seattle's 74-acre gathering place has been gradually reinventing itself for years, with a new opera house and a rock 'n roll museum designed by Frank Gehry. This year's changes may be the most dramatic since the Experience Music Project opened in June 2000. The rides and games that have been around since 1962 have all but disappeared. Glass art, a sophisticated new restaurant, history displays and a temporary playground filled with blow-up toys have taken their place. Beyond the connection to the World's Fair, Seattle Center isn't easy to describe. If it were in New York City, for example, it might be described as ... More | | 
1879 $4 Flowing Hair, Judd-1635, Pollock-1833, R.3, PR64 PCGS.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Collectors had American gold rarities on their minds May 31-June 31 at the Long Beach Convention Center during Heritage Auctions’ $12.67 million U.S. Coins Signature® Auction, as an 1879 $4 Flowing Hair, Judd-1635, Pollock-1833, PR64 PCGS rose to the top of the auction with a final price realized of $184,000. All prices include 15% Buyer’s Premium. “We were impressed with the amount of collectors that participated and equally impressed with the prices realized in the auction,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. “Gold has fluctuated wildly at melt value, but high-grade numismatic gold is as strong as ever.” Two coins tied for the second and third spots in the auction’s top tier: a rare and beautiful 1887 $10 PR65 Cameo NGC. Ex: Miller Collection, with magnificent eye appeal and one of the finest known 1931 $10, MS66, Ex: Duckor/Eliasberg – a superb examples of ... More |
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| Artists community grows in Mark Twain's hometown of 18,000 near the Mississippi River | | One hundred years after the introduction of the Oreo, plans for historic NYC home drawing fire | | Asian art dealers Duchange & Riché open first gallery in the United Kingdom at Grays | 
Artist Nancy Lee Kaufman in her shop in Hannibal, Mo. AP Photo/The Courier-Post, Mary Lou Montgomery.
By: Jim Salter, Associated Press
HANNIBAL, MO (AP).- Nancy Lee Kaufman was prominent in the arts scene in chic Santa Fe, N.M., and later made her woven art along the ocean near San Diego. So how did she end up living in a previously condemned house near the railroad tracks in small-town Missouri? The short answer: By choice. Other artists began telling Kaufman about the burgeoning arts community in Hannibal, a Mississippi River town of 18,000 known mostly for favorite son Mark Twain. When she visited in 2005 she happened upon a once-gorgeous old downtown home overlooking the Mississippi River, an early 19th century building in such disrepair that demolition was weeks away. The inside was a mess of crumbling boards and piled up debris. But, oh, that view from the window. "I looked out and there were icebergs floating down the river, the sun shining off of them, eagles flying overhead," Kaufman, 64, said. "That was it." Twain still is the main attraction for the half-million tourists who visit Hannibal each year, ... More | | 
visitors and shoppers browse the indoor mall at Chelsea Market in New York. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.
By: Karen Matthews, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- One hundred years after the introduction of the Oreo, an expansion plan at the iconic cookie's New York City birthplace has left a bitter taste in the mouths of its neighbors. Community activists say the two new towers that developer Jamestown Properties wants to affix to the historic factory known as Chelsea Market would be eyesores and would increase traffic and congestion. But the company that bought a majority stake in Chelsea Market in 2003 says the block-long complex — home to the Food Network, Google and a tourist-friendly ground-floor food mall — must grow if it is to thrive. Jamestown's plan to mount a new 250-foot (75-meter) box-like structure atop Chelsea Market's western section and a similar 150-foot (45-meter) structure on the eastern side is going through an approval process that will likely end with a City Council vote later this year. Foodies outside New York may know Chelsea Market from cable TV shows like "Chopped" ... More | | 
Rare blue and white bottle vase. China, Kangxi Period, c1700. 20,5cm high.
LONDON.- In addition to their gallery in the heart of Sablon, Brussels, Asian art dealers Duchange & Riché have opened a new gallery at Grays in Mayfair for their London based customers. Anne Duchange and Philippe Riché continue a family tradition that began in Paris in 1965 with Anne’s father. Anne now shares her enthusiasm and expertise with her husband, Philippe, who is a member of the Oriental Ceramic Society. Specialising in fine Chinese porcelain and works of art from the 14th-19th Century, Duchange & Riché display an important collection of porcelain from China, Japan and the East India Company. The Ming and Tsing dynasties are particularly well represented as well as objets d'art of Canton enamel, cloisonné enamels, lacquer, jade, ivory and bamboo works. Many pieces are of museum quality, some of which have counterparts in the Musée des Pagodes at Laeken, or the Musée du Cinquantenaire. Duchange & Riché join a number of recognised Asian art dealers at Grays. Gr ... More |
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 Riflemaker presents exhibition of new photographs by Leah Gordon LONDON.- Leah Gordon's new photographs investigate the practice of the grading from black to white of skin colour, referred to as Caste, which revealed the extent of racial mixing in 18th century colonial Haiti. A measuring system which moves through black to white in nine degrees, it was developed by a French colonialist living in Haiti during the slave plantation period. Moreau de St Mery created a surreal taxonomy of race which classified the skin colour of the colony’s population, where white, or Blanche was inevitably socially superior to black, or Noir. Using names borrowed from mythology, natural history and bestial miscegenation, St Mery classified nine degrees of shading, from pure black to 1/8 white, and 7/8 black and so on through Sacatra, Griffe, Marabou, Mulâtre, Mamelouque, Quarteronné and Sang-Mêlé to White. As Colin Dayan, a Haitian historian, comments, ‘Stranger ... More One of the oldest military flags, the Dettingen Standrard, to be offered in sale of arms and armour LONDON.- The unique and highly important ‘Dettingen Standard’ of the 8th Regiment of Horse (late the 7th Dragoon Guards), dating from 1743 - one of the earliest British standards of a regiment of cavalry known to exist and therefore extremely important in the history of British military flags is among Thomas Del Mar Ltd’s auction. Held in association with Sotheby’s, the auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria will be held at 25 Blythe Road, London W14 on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. The Battle of Dettingen was the last battle in which a King of England (in this case George II) led his troops into battle. The standard has an important provenance, since it has descended in the family of Cornet Henry Richardson - the subaltern (officer) who carried it at Dettingen in Bavaria on June 16, 1743. It has remained his family until the present day and it has also been exhibited ... More Los Angeles' Getty Museum illustrates death in Middle Ages LOS ANGELES (AP).- Death and taxes may both be inevitable in this modern-day world of ours, yet it seems only death has had the ability to inspire great art in people since at least Medieval times. So much so that life's final curtain call, as seen through the brushes and pens of artists of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, is the subject of the J. Paul Getty Museum's latest exhibition, "Heaven, Hell and Dying Well: Images of Death in the Middle Ages." With paintings, drawings, parchment illustrations and works on stained glass, each of them intricately detailed and most of them stunningly colorful, the exhibition takes visitors on a tour of the final days of existence and straight into the afterlife. It opened last week in a dimly lit gallery that, while the space was darkened mainly to protect the priceless and fragile parchment works, also manages to evoke through its muted lighting a quiet, ... More Les Paul guitar auction fetches nearly $5M BEVERLY HILLS (AP).- An auction of guitars and memorabilia owned by the late Les Paul, known as the godfather of the electric guitar, has raised nearly $5 million for a foundation in his name benefiting music education and innovation. Julien's Auctions of Beverly Hills said Sunday that the two-day sale fetched record-setting prices for guitars. The items most coveted by rock musicians, museum curators and collectors included a 1951 Fender No-Caster, which sold for $216,000, a 1982 Gibson Les Paul that went for $180,000 and a 1940s Epiphone Zephyr that fetched $144,000. Other Paul memorabilia included a recording console ($106,250), research notes ($28,125) and guitar schematics ($40,625). Paul invented one of the world's most widely played guitars, the Gibson Les Paul. The sale concluded Saturday, on what would have been his 97th birthday. ... More Detroit museum to host Navy's War of 1812 display DETROIT (AP).- The National Museum of the United States Navy's traveling mini-exhibit on the War of 1812 is coming to Detroit next weekend. Called "War of 1812: A Nation Forged by War," the display commemorates the conflict's 200-year anniversary. It will be featured at nearly 200 locations across the U.S. and Canada. The display opens Saturday at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle. "War of 1812: A Nation Forged by War" highlights the roles the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service played in getting Great Britain to the negotiating table and tells the stories of U.S. Navy crews in battles on the oceans and Great Lakes. ... More |
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