| Barnett Newman's masterpiece Stations of the Cross is focus of exhibition at National Gallery of Art | | Two Yves Klein masterpieces to be offered at Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction | | Cycling, Cubo-Futurism and the 4th Dimension. Jean Metzinger's work at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection | 
Barnett Newman, Twelfth Station, 1965. Acrylic on canvas, 198.1 x 152.4 cm (78 x 60 in.). Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new exhibition featuring 26 works by Barnett Newman (1905–1970), one of the great figures of the abstract expressionist movement, will be on view June 10, 2012, through February 24, 2013, in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. In the Tower: Barnett Newman is the fifth show in a series installed in the Tower Gallery that focuses on developments in art since midcentury. The centerpiece of the exhibition, Newman's famed Stations of the Cross (1958–1966), is brought to new light in the vaulting, self-contained space of the I.M. Pei-designed tower. The Stations of the Cross is considered by many to be Newman's greatest achievement. It was his most ambitious attempt to address what he called a "moral crisis" facing artists after World War II and the Holocaust: "What are we going to paint?" "Drawn largely from the Gallery's holdings—one of the world's most important collections of Newman's ... More | | 
Yves Klein (1928-1962), RE 22 (Le Rose du bleu). Natural sponges, pebbles and dry pink pigment in synthetic resin on panel, 78 1/8 x 60 x 6 3/8in. Executed in 1960. Estimate: upon request.
LONDON.- On the 50th anniversary of Yves Klein’s death, two masterpieces by the artist will be offered in Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction, London on 27 June. This follows the outstanding result achieved at Christie's New York last May when the legendary FC 1 (Fire-Color 1), sold for $36,482,500 (£22,619,150), setting a new world record for the artist at auction. Representing the figurehead of the London auction season is Le Rose du bleu (RE 22) (1960; estimate upon request); by far the largest pink sponge relief ever created and included in all the artist’s major exhibitions over the past 50 years. Previously part of the renowned Madeleine Everaert and Menil collections, the work finds a perfect counterpoint in Relief éponge bleu (RE 51) (1959; estimate: £6,000,000-9,000,000), the ultramarine blue sponge relief previously owned by Lucio Fontana. Together ... More | | 
Jean Metzinger, Cyclist (Le Bicycliste), 1912. Oil on canvas and sand, 27,2 x 22,2 cm. Private collection.
VENICE.- Opening June 9 (through September 16, 2012), the exhibition Cycling, Cubo-Futurism and the 4th Dimension. Jean Metzinger’s “At the Cycle-Race Track” focuses on a painting acquired by Peggy Guggenheim in 1945 and now permanently on view in her museum in Venice. Exactly one hundred year years after At the Cycle-Race-Track (1912) was painted, the exhibition reveals how Jean Metzinger (1883 -1956) adapted the avant-garde pictorial language of Cubism to subject matter combining the popular sport of cycle-racing with attempts to depict speed and to define in paint the fourth dimension—alluded to in the number ‘4’ in the stadium grandstand. Metzinger, though less celebrated today than contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, figured prominently among the Cubists that exhibited together in Salle 41 of the 1911 Salon des Indépendants in Paris—the event at which the Cubist movement crystallized in the perception of Parisian art a ... More |
| Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens acquires major Robert Rauschenberg painting | | Amon Carter presents American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and Their Circle, 1927-1942 | | Foam opens exhibition of the work by pioneer of paparazzi photography Ron Galella | 
Robert Rauschenberg (1925¬–2008), Global Loft (Spread), 1979 (detail). Solvent transfer on fabric and paper collage to wooden panels with acrylic paint, three metal brushes, 96 x 111 in. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. ©The Estate of Robert Rauschenberg/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photograph by Robert McKeever.
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today the acquisition of a major painting by Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), who said it was a visit to the Huntington Art Gallery in the 1940s that inspired him to become an artist. Global Loft (Spread), 1979, a dynamic example of the groundbreaking artist’s “Spreads” series, will go on view in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art on July 5, 2012. “This is a tremendous day for American art at The Huntington,” said John Murdoch, Hannah and Russel Kully Director of the Huntington Art Collections. “This is our first purchase of a major painting representing the period in which American art was indubitably ... More | | 
Lee Krasner, Composition, 1943. Oil on linen© 2011 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Otto L. Spaeth, David S. Purvis, and anonymous donors and through the Director’s Discretionary Fund, 1987.33
FORT WORTH, TX.- On June 9, 2012, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and Their Circle, 1927–1942, an exhibition that brings together more than 60 pioneering works of American modernism. Organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, the exhibition is on view through August 19, 2012, and admission is free. During the early 20th century, the enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886–1961) and his circle of New York artists, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, forged their identities and dramatically transformed conceptions of what a painting or sculpture could be. They, along with others ... More | | 
Jackie Onassis and Ron Galella on Madison Avenue, October 7, 1971, New York City © Ron Galella.
AMSTERDAM.- This summer Foam presents a major exhibition of work by Ron Galella, pioneer of paparazzi photography. The exhibition features photos of stars including Mick Jagger, Jackie Onassis, Greta Garbo, Brigitte Bardot, Marlon Brando, Andy Warhol, Sean Penn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Penélope Cruz and many more. These photos have appeared in magazines such as Life, Time, Rolling Stone, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Ron Galella (1931, The Bronx, New York) started his career in the US Air Force. After returning from Korea he attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and graduated in 1958 as photo journalist. In his spare time he started photographing stars attending premières. This became his true passion. Galella typically doesn't view his 'victim' through his lens; in order to really make contact, he looks right into the star's eyes. He is also lightening fast, the essence of what he calls the 'Art of Paparazzi' ... More |
| Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection opens at the de Young Museum | | Gene Kelly memorabilia to be offered at Sotheby's Fine Books and Manuscripts sale | | Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's "Oil" opens at the Nevada Museum of Art | 
Roe Etheridge, Thanksgiving 1984 (Green Dress), 2009. Chromogenic print, 44 x 33 in. (111.8 x 83.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Opening June 9, 2012 at the de Young Museum and drawing upon the dynamic collection of San Francisco native Trevor Traina, Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection features approximately 110 photographs made by some of the pre-eminent artists working in photography this past century. Mixing rare black-and-white vintage prints of classic images by Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand with luscious, eye-popping works in color by artists ranging from Stephen Shore and William Eggleston to Cindy Sherman, Alec Soth, and Andreas Gursky, Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection celebrates photography’s fundamental richness and plasticity. Curated by art historian Kevin Moore, who also served as an advisor to Mr. Traina on the collection, and Founding Curator of Photography/Chief Administrative Curator at the Fine Arts Museums Julian Cox, Real ... More | | 
A gold and enamel money clip given to Gene Kelly by Cyd Charisse. Gold and enamel money clip (2 3/8 x 1 1/4 in.; 62 x 33 mm). Est. $7/10,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- A remarkable collection of memorabilia that was once owned by the actor and singer Gene Kelly will be offered in Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on 15th June 2012. The group of three lots all previously belonged to the star who is widely acknowledged as one of the most recognizable Hollywood figures of his day. All the pieces were given by the actor to his daughter Kerry Kelly Novick and go on view at Sotheby’s on Saturday 9 June. Gene Kelly is perhaps best known for Singin’ In The Rain, the 1952 musical which he both directed and stared in as Don Lockwood. A Gold Enamel Money Clip was given to Kelly by Cyd Charisse with whom he partnered in the film’s ‘Broadway Melody’ ballet sequence. The money clip is both a personal memento and an emblematic relic of the film which has been voted the greatest American musical of all time by the American Film Institute (est. $7/10,000) ... More | | 
Edward Burtynsky, Highway #1, Intersection 105 & 110, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2003 (detail). Chromogenic color print. Photograph © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg & Bryce Wolkowitz, New York
RENO, NEVADA.- Edward Burtynsky: Oil, an original exhibition featuring more than 50 large-¬scale color landscapes by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky will be on view at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, June 9 through September 23, 2012. The exhibition surveys a decade of photographic imagery exploring the subject of oil, chronicling the “life cycle” of this major energy resource, one that has profoundly shaped the modern world. “Edward Burtynsky’s timely and cautionary photographs have long been a vital part of the Nevada Museum of Art’s permanent Carol Franc Buck Altered Landscape photography collection,” commented Ann M. Wolfe, curator of exhibitions and collections, Nevada Museum of Art. “Given the Museum’s ongoing commitment to issues related to ... More |
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| BAM/PFA introduces two new curatorial hires-Apsara DiQuinzio and Philippe Pirotte | | Exhibition of Judith Turner's photographs opens at The University of Michigan Museum of Art | | Eminent South African anthropologist Tobias dies; excelled in a variety of scientific fields | 
DiQuinzio is currently assistant curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced the hiring of Apsara DiQuinzio to the position of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator and Philippe Pirotte to the position of Adjunct Senior Curator. “With these two hires BAM/PFA adds tremendous depth and vitality to our already strong curatorial team,” says BAM/PFA Director Lawrence Rinder. “Apsara and Philippe will both bring extraordinary knowledge, discernment, and creative thinking about modern and contemporary art across a wide range of global cultures. Apsara’s strong engagement with artists, enthusiasm for non-mainstream art and culture, and commitment to art’s social role wonderfully complement Philippe’s passionate connection to the contemporary art of Africa and Asia, his deep knowledge of historical and contemporary film and video, and his spe ... More | | 
Untitled, 1976. Gelatin silver print. Peter Eisenman, House VI, Frank Residence Cornwall, Connecticut. Courtesy of the artist.
ANN ARBOR, MI.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art's exhibition encompasses approximately forty works that span the artist?'s three-decade career and will include Turner?'s architectural photography of buildings by some of the major architects of our time, including Alvar Aalto, Shigeru Ban, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Louis Kahn, Fumihiko Maki, and Renzo Piano. Judith Turner is a noted American photographer whose subject matter is mostly architecture. Her signature style consists of highly abstract black-and-white compositions that play with the ambiguity of light, shadow, and tonality to heighten the aesthetic character of her subject matter and reveal visual relationships not readily apparent. Tonality is a very important aspect of her illuminating compositions. An example of this can be seen in the way she employs the sky- above or beyond an actual building-as a monochromatic surface that then becomes part of an ove ... More | | 
File photo of leading South African palaeo-anthropologist, Phillip Tobias. AP Photo/Adil Bradlow.
By: Donna Bryson, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP).-— Anthropologist Phillip Tobias, internationally renowned as an authority on human evolution and remembered for his love of humanity, died Thursday, South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand said. He was 86. In a statement, the university where Tobias studied and then taught and conducted research until the 1990s, said he died in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness. The university said Tobias's name was synonymous with research at the Sterkfontein caves near Johannesburg where an ape-man's skeleton — millions of years old — known as Little Foot was discovered. The area, now a World Heritage site, is where over a third of all known early hominid fossils have been found. Lee R. Berger, who studied under Tobias and went on to follow him as the leading researcher in his field at the university, compared Tobias to famous ... More |
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 Recent acquisitions displayed at Nelson-Atkins Museum KANSAS CITY, MO.- A grid of photographs of people sleeping. A pair of high-end designer shoes featuring intricate American Indian beadwork. A silk sari from India, richly embellished with metallic brocade. These are just a few of the disparate artworks displayed at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s Showcase: Collecting for Kansas City exhibition opening June 9. The exhibition features 25 recent acquisitions and puts the generosity of museum patrons in the spotlight. “Our collection is internationally known and we are so pleased to be able to add to it through the generosity of our donors,” said Julián Zugazagoitia, Director & CEO. “More than 850 works of art have been given to the museum in the past two years, and now is the time to celebrate those gifts.” Nearly every area in the museum is represented in Showcase, including Asian, American, Prints and Modern & ... More Forbidden Castle: A selection of work by Xu Zhen opens at Museum Montanelli in Prague PRAGUE.- Forbidden Castle presents a selection of work by Xu Zhen, one of the most radical and humorous artists working in China today. The exhibition challenges notions of reality, politics, and the self and will include installation sculptures, video-films, and photography. The works pre-date the founding of Xu Zhen's MadeIn Company in 2009, after which he ceased to produce work under his own name. MuMo presents the last work Xu Zhen produced under his own name, Untitled, a house of cards made of over 160,000 custom playing cards in the form of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the castle-like former residence of the Tibetan god-king, the Dalai Lama. The Museum Montanelli stands below Prague Castle, the largest castle in the world and for centuries the seat of the powerful and inspiration for Kafka's novel The Castle. Prague Castle's function and location remind ... More Peter Bo Rappmund's first solo exhibition at a museum opens at Laguna Art Museum LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Peter Bo Rappmund is a graduate at California Institute of the Arts (2010) and has been based in Laguna Beach for the past two years. This will be Bo Rappmund's first solo exhibition at a museum. Working mainly in film, video, photography, and sound, Bo Rappmund will be showing serveral photographs for the first time and three films in his ex·pose exhibition: Psychohydrography (2010, HD, color, sound, 60 minutes), Vulgar Fractions (2011, HD, color, sound, 30 minutes), and Tectonics (2012, HD, color, sound, 60 minutes). This will be the world premier of Tectonics. "I am excited to have this opportunity and am truly honored that curator Grace Kook-Anderson has chosen me as the inaugural artist for ex·pose," said Peter Bo Rappmund. "The fact that this will be a solo exhibition gives me a unique chance to show how my work has developed ... More Local heroes & sporting legends share podium at the Bowes Museum COUNTY DURHAM.- Local heroes are to share the podium with sporting legends in an exhibition taking place at The Bowes Museum, inspired by the 2012 London Olympics. Our Sporting Life, which opens at the Barnard Castle treasure house on Saturday 9th June, will be officially launched by horsewoman Karen Dixon - who rode for Britain at four Olympic Games, winning a team silver in Seoul in 1988 – on Sunday 10th June. Our Sporting Life is part of an initiative created by the Sports Heritage Network which has seen a nationwide programme of community exhibitions bring together objects and memories to tell the story of great British sport. Karen, who is both sporting legend and local hero, is loaning her medal from the 1988 games, as well as photographs and the dressage coat she wore to compete. These will be shown alongside the gold medal of ... More Building dialoque, bridging communities, portable media rig explores North America RENO, NEVADA.- Venue — a portable media rig, interview studio, multi-format event platform, and forward-operating landscape research base — will pop up at sites across North America from June 2012 through fall 2013. Under the direction of Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG and Nicola Twilley of Edible Geography, both co-directors of Columbia University’s Studio-X NYC and Research Fellows at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, Venue officially launches Friday, June 8, with a public event from 6 – 8 pm at the Nevada Museum of Art in downtown Reno, NV. During the event, attendees will be encouraged to interact with Venue’s array of specially-designed devices, and suggest sites and people for Venue to visit during its travels. On Saturday, June 9, Venue’s inaugural interview will be with famed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, the ... More Photographers explore the South in High exhibition ATLANTA (AP).- Atlanta's High Museum of Art invited three photographers to present their views of the American South, and the results — including slices of urban life, rural portraits and eroding marshlands — will be on display starting this weekend. The exhibition is part of the "Picturing the South" initiative established by the High in 1996. Since then the museum has commissioned a total of nine photographers — both established names and emerging artists — to shoot photos inspired by the region. The 76 prints will go on view Saturday alongside an exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art in New York called "Picturing New York." A related exhibition, "Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach's Cancer Alley," is also on view. The three photographers chosen for the latest installment of "Picturing the South" are British documentary photographer and photojournalist Martin Parr, who ... More |
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