| Sotheby's Paris Asian Art Sale totals $13.4 million; Record for Qing porcelain at Sotheby's France | | Exhibition by one of the seminal figures who shaped the New York photography scene opens at Camera Work | | The Irvine Museum presents the beauty and grandeur of California in "Paradise Found: Summer in California" | 
A very rare Qianlong blue-and-white porcelain six-necked vase. Sold for: €1,207,150
($1.513.078). Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- The sale of Asian Art at Sotheby’s Paris totalled €10,688,875 ($13.397.757), surpassing presale high expectations (estimate of €3.5-4.9 million*). The auction established extremely strong sell through rates of 75.3% sold by lot and 90.2% sold by value. 72% of lots were sold above their high estimate. The €10.7m ($13.4m) total marks the sixth time in a row that a sale of Asian Art at Sotheby’s Paris has exceeded $10m. Over the past three years (Spring 2009–Spring 2012) Sotheby’s have now sold more than $100 million-worth of Asian works of art in Paris. In the words of Caroline Schulten, who joined the Paris office in January 2012 as Head of the Asian Art Department, after working for Sotheby’s in Amsterdam, London and New York: ‘The Paris sale brings Sotheby’s sales of Asian art to a spectacular close. Once again Asian buyers were out in force, seeking objects whos ... More | | 
Ralph Gibson, Umbrella and Car, 1954. © Ralph Gibson.
BERLIN.- Camera Work presents an exhibition of American photographer Ralph Gibson opening on June 16, 2012. The solo exhibition featuring more than 60 photographs gives insight into the impressive body of work of the artist who, together with Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus and others, is among the seminal historic figures who shaped the New York photography scene. Without a doubt, Ralph Gibson is one of the groundbreaking exponents of photographic art and is known above all for his visual mixing of different styles within the medium of photography. The exhibition at CAMERA WORK will show works from the photographic oeuvre of Ralph Gibson that have been created over a period of 40 years – from the mystic-surrealistic photographs taken from the world-famous series »The Somnambulist« and works from his series »Deja-Vu« and »Days at Sea« to his recent nudes. Within Ralph Gibson’s body of work, the connecting characterist ... More | | 
Louis Betts (1873-1961), Mid-Winter, Coronado Beach, c. 1907. Courtesy of The Irvine Museum.
IRVINE, CA.- The Irvine Museum presents Paradise Found: Summer in California June 16 through September 20, 2012. Paradise Found will feature a selection of paintings by California Impressionists that show various familiar views of California as they appeared nearly a century ago, before the great population growth of the late twentieth century. Starting in the early 1900s, Southern California became a popular destination for impressionist and plein air painters. A French expression, which means "in the open air," plein air is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors. The mild climate in California allowed for numerous opportunities to paint outdoors, and a rich variety of subject matter, ranging from expansive beaches, to snow-capped mountains, to desert, and to rolling hills, was within one day's travel. Dedicated to the preservation and display of California art of the Impressionist Period (1890-1930), ... More |
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| African & Oceanic Art Sale at Sotheby's in Paris totals $10.5 million well clear of high estimate | | Apple I sells for $374,000 at Sotheby's in New York; report written by Steve Jobs goes for $27,500 | | Monterey Museum of Art presents legacy of Monterey photography in new exhibition | 
A Kuba anthropomorphic cup (published by Basler in 1929) as a masterpiece of its kind: bidding soared to €780,750 / $971,042 (lot 17, est. €50,000-70,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- The sale of African & Oceanic Art in Paris brought a remarkable €8,441,275 ($10,498,667), one of the highest-ever totals for a Tribal art sale at Sotheby’s France. The sustained bidding in a packed saleroom, complemented by telephone bidders from around the world, reflected the sale’s remarkable quality and series of coherent ensembles: the Oliver & Pamela Cobb Collection and Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection of art from Burkina Faso, both from the United States; and an ensemble of African masks and other major works never seen on the market before. To Marguerite de Sabran, Head of African & Oceanic Art at Sotheby’s Paris: ‘The price obtained for the masterpiece of Fang carving from the Cobb Collection was a magnificent illustration of our efforts and commitment to encouraging appreciation of outstanding works from Africa and ... More | | 
Two bidders battled for the device, which eventually sold to an anonymous telephone bidder. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This morning at Sotheby’s New York, an Apple I Computer – the 1976 device that heralded the start of the personal computing revolution – sold for $374,500, more than doubling the high estimate of $180,000. The exceptionally rare computer is one of only a handful that remains in fully working condition and was a highlight of Sotheby’s sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts. Before the Apple I, computers were enormous, unwieldy machines that could only be operated by an expert, but this compact model enabled casual users to type on a keyboard and operate basic programs. Two bidders battled for the device, which eventually sold to an anonymous telephone bidder. Just before the Apple I came across the block, a 1974 report written by Steve Jobs while he was working at Atari sold for $27,500, above the $10/15,000 pre-sale estimate. ‘The Apple Computer’ was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozni ... More | | 
Martha Casanave, Ansel Adams, Carmel Highlands, 1978 (detail), gelatin silver print, photo © 2012 Martha Casanave.
MONTEREY, CA.- The Monterey Museum of Art presents In Sharp Focus: The Legacy of Monterey Photography, June 16-September 30, 2012 at the MMA La Mirada, 720 Via Mirada, Monterey, CA, 93940. In Sharp Focus will examine the Group f/64 photographers—seven innovative northern California artists including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Alma Lavenson—and their continuing legacy to the Monterey Peninsula. Turning away from the expressive, soft-focused, pictorial style of photography of the early twentieth century, these artists instead delivered realism, precision, high contrast, and intense detail without interpretive manipulation. Their approach was a modernist departure of its time, which revealed the natural world as never before and transformed American photography. Complementing these legendary photographers will be works by the succeeding generation of photographers, among them: Henry ... More |
| Magnificent Cobb commode, rare miniature dolls chair and giltwood picture frame smash pre-sale estimates | | Concession stand by visiondivision marks the third season for Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park | | "California Impressionism Selections from The Irvine Museum" on view at the Portland Art Museum | 
A Queen Anne walnut miniature dolls armchair sold for £17,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An exquisite George III serpentine commode led Bonhams Fine English Furniture and Works of Art sale on 13th June, selling for £175,250, well over the pre-sale estimate of 80,000 – 120,000. The commode, which has remained in the same family since the 19th Century, is a superb example of designs by the esteemed furniture-maker, John Cobb. In 1761 Cobb, who was known for the high quality of his pieces, was granted a royal warrant to supply furniture to the crown. Other impressive results were achieved for a Queen Anne walnut miniature dolls armchair and a striking giltwood frame. After enthusiastic and competitive bidding, the miniature dolls chair sold for a total of £17,500, significantly over the estimate of £5,000 – 8,000. The chair is an extremely rare piece, not often seen at auction, with two other prized examples seen in the V&A Museum collection. Often wrongly thought to be ‘apprentice pieces’ ... More | | 
Chop Stick will debut at the IMA’s annual Summer Solstice celebration June 16, 2012.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art will mark the two year anniversary of the opening of 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park by premiering its tenth site-specific installation, Chop Stick, an inventive concession stand designed by the Swedish architecture duo visiondivision. Chop Stick will debut at the IMA’s annual Summer Solstice celebration June 16, 2012, which will be free to the public. Also this summer, the Park will host its third resident on Andrea Zittel’s Indy Island, present an exciting slate of new programming, and offer improved access to the Park’s trail system. Located on 100 acres of land that includes untamed woodlands, wetlands, a lake, and meadows adjacent to the Museum, 100 Acres is one of the largest museum art parks in the country and one of only a few to feature the ongoing commission of temporary, site-responsive artworks. 100 Acres opened with eight ... More | | 
John Hubbard Rich (1876 - 1954), The Idle Hour, 1917, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of The Irvine Museum, © Estate of John Hubbard Rich.
PORTLAND, ORE.- During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, California artists produced a unique style that combined several distinctive aspects of American and European art. This style—known as California Impressionism or California plein air painting, after the French term for “in the open air”—focused on capturing the special light and color of the state’s landscape and helped to define modern landscape painting. Impressionism was initially embraced by a small group of radical artists working in France during the late 1860s. Their work was greeted with scorn and criticism by the Royal Academy and the public. By the time Impressionism was introduced in the United States around 1885- 90, much of the hostility had dissipated and the style was favorably received. Many of America’s leading artists studied Impressionism in Paris and brought it back to the United States, invigorating ... More |
| Louis Grachos named Executive Director at Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse | | 37 year old artist Bedwyr Williams to represent Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2013 | | Schirn Kunsthalle shows first retrospective dedicated to the founder of the Friday Kitchen Michael Riedel | 
Mr. Grachos is currently director of the renowned Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Photo: Jim Bush.
AUSTIN, TX.- AMOA-Arthouse announced today that Louis Grachos has been named its executive director. The appointment completes an extensive, seven-month international search. Mr. Grachos, director of the renowned Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, brings with him more than thirty years of experience in the contemporary and modern art world. Throughout his career, Grachos has demonstrated a clear and uncompromising vision as a curator and community-focused museum director. He has designed high-impact, multidisciplinary exhibitions and innovative education initiatives, and commissioned exceptional works of art. At AMOA-Arthouse, Grachos will play a major role in reinvigorating art presentation, commissioning new art, and programming the museum's two sites. He will bring nationally prominent exhibitions and artists to Central Texas. Grachos takes on his new role part time at AMOA-Arthouse on November 1, 2012, and wil ... More | | 
Sentry Box, My Bad,Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2012. Photo: Courtesy the Artist and Ceri Hand Gallery.
CARDIFF.- Bedwyr Williams in a project jointly curated by Mostyn and Oriel Davies and supported by the Arts Council of Wales will be the artist to represent Wales at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013 International Art Exhibition. The 37 year old artist born in St Asaph now lives in Caernarfon, North Wales. His comedic and poetic live performances and installations deal with Welshness, otherness and difference. He has in the past assumed different personas in his work - a one-eyed preacher, a Grimm Reaper and Count Pollen. "I'm interested in worst case scenarios and the people that get caught up in them", he says. The artist’s work often draws upon the quirky banalities of his own autobiographic existence to develop his sculptures and performances. His work merges art and life with an idiosyncratic twist that is instantaneously sympathetic and relational. His sculpture, installations, text and photography based works and live performances explore subject matter ranging from gro ... More | | 
Michael Riedel, Porträt des Künstlers. Foto von Jason Schmidt, 2011© Michael Riedel/ Jason Schmidt.
FRANKFURT.- Recording – labeling – playback. Frankfurt-based artist Michael Riedel has been investigating the issue of reproduction and repetition since his first performances in the context of the legendary art space “Oskar-von-Miller-Straße 16,” which he initiated at this address in Frankfurt in 2000. This was the venue of repetitions or copies of exhibitions, concerts, readings, club evenings, and of the “Freitagsküche” (Friday Kitchen), an event amidst art and life continued to this day. Riedel works with recorded conversations, films, performances, or other artists’ shows. His system of production is based on the combination of these elements into ever new variations and on the transformation of one medium into another. Through the process of transcription, for example, Riedel transfers voice recordings into the visual realm, defamiliarizing and expanding them with the help of technological means in order to ultimately reproduce them in a ... More |
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 Exhibition of new work by artists Fiona Burke and Marzia Rossi opens at David Dale Gallery & Studios GLASGOW.- David Dale Gallery & Studios present an exhibition of new work by artists Fiona Burke and Marzia Rossi. Although both artists work under the auspices of painting, and the long shadow cast by its history, Burke and Rossi’s practices differ greatly. Diametric in approach, application and scale, their work is separated along clear lines. Explosions of colour are set against muted greys, while pigment thrown to the floor sits uneasily against a line of oil on board. However, this exaggerated contradiction cannot help but lead to a similar outcome of reification. Both artists’, in working through inherited histories of representation and perception arrive at points frozen in time - Burke through her reworking of museological artifacts, and Rossi with gestural eruptions of paint suspended motionless. Navigating through petrified examples of painting’s accumulated history, Burke and ... More "George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher" opens at Cranbrook Art Museum BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI.- George Nelson is considered one of the most influential figures in American design during the second half of the twentieth century. Operating from the western-side of Michigan as Design Director at the Zeeland-based furniture manufacturer Herman Miller for more than twenty-years, Nelson had his sights firmly focused on Cranbrook, which was also playing a defining role in the development of Modernism. This shared Michigan history comes into sharp focus in the exhibition, “George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher,” which opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on June 16 and runs through October 14, 2012. “Cranbrook and George Nelson helped to define what Modernism would be,” says Gregory Wittkopp, Director of Cranbrook Art Museum. “Although Nelson never formally studied or taught at Cranbrook, he traveled in the same ... More WWII plane wreck not Stuka, but larger JU88 By: David Rising, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP).- It looked like a Stuka, partly buried in the muck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, but researchers now say the wreck German military divers have been recovering for the past week is a totally different — though nearly as rare — World War II aircraft. German Military Historical Museum spokesman Capt. Sebastian Bangert said Friday that enough of the plane has now been recovered to make clear it is not a single-engined JU87 Stuka divebomber, but a twin-engine JU88 aircraft. The two Junkers planes shared several parts — including the engines on many models — and from the way it sat in the seabed Bangert says it appeared to have been a JU87. But now that a wing section is up, it's clearly the larger JU88, he said, talking from ... More World Event Young Artists: 1,000 young artists from 100 nations across 30 venues in 10 days NOTTINGHAM.- World Event Young Artists, a new international arts festival for artists aged 18-30 today Friday 15 June, announced the programme for its festival in Nottingham from 7-16 September 2012. During the 10-day showcase of creative talent of all kinds, 30 venues around the city will host exhibitions, performances, concerts and workshops by 1,000 young artists from 100 nations including Brazil, Russia, China, India, Iran, USA, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Israel, Syria, Spain, San Marino and the UK, offering the public a unique opportunity to experience arts from the four corners of the world. WEYA will mark a spectacular finale to the Cultural Olympiad in the East Midlands. The participating artists’ work spans a wide range of art forms and mediums from the videos of Lv Dongyuan, a Chinese computer games developer, to comedy-theatre of UK based performance ... More Water, Water Everywhere...Royal Parks Foundation creates the ultimate drinking fountain LONDON.-Yesterday the Royal Parks Foundation’s quest to create the ultimate drinking fountain for the Royal Parks was finally complete as Watering Holes, a unique sculptural stone fountain, was launched in Green Park, following the unveiling of Moxon Architects’ Trumpet in Kensington Gardens earlier this year. The two fountains are the winners of an international RIBA design competition supported by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, New York. Robin Monotti Architects and Mark Titman’s Watering Holes is an 800kg slab of Cornish granite (the same as was used in the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park and Tower Bridge) perforated with three watering holes at heights from which adults, children, wheelchair users and dogs can drink cool, fresh water, in one of London’s most visited Royal Parks. The installation in Green Park, near the new Bomber Command Memorial, ... More |
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