| New York Botanical Garden exhibition evokes Claude Monet's flower garden in Giverny | | Crocker Art Museum presents first hometown survey for internationally acclaimed artist Mel Ramos | | Exhibition celebrates the art of Toulouse-Lautrec and the Paris Belle Époque | 
A replica of a bridge on the property of artist Claude Monet’s home is featured in an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden. AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Claude Monet's beloved flower and water gardens in the north of France are world-famous. But for those unable to visit the artist's iconic home, a trip to the Bronx over the next several months will offer a taste of Monet's indisputably radiant living masterpiece — a riotous display of color, plant variety and landscape design. "Monet's Garden" at the New York Botanical Garden evokes Monet's lush garden at Giverny, the impressionist's home from 1883 until his death in 1926. A passionate gardener who once declared, "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers," Monet found endless inspiration from his exuberant gardens. The water garden alone accounts for some 250 paintings, including a series of monumental canvases that led to his Grandes Decorations at the Musee de d'Orangeries in Paris. His flower garden is featured in at least 40 works. The exhibition, which runs through Oct. 21, will feature a seasonally ... More | | 
Mel Ramos, “The Phantom Lady,” 1963. Oil on canvas, 60 x 44 in. Leta and Mel Ramos Family Collection. Art © Mel Ramos/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum presents a survey of the work of internationally acclaimed artist and Sacramento native Mel Ramos in the exhibition “Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Superheroes, Nudes, and Other Pop Delights.” This is the first American museum survey of his work in 35 years, the first major exhibition of his work in his hometown, and it follows his recent solo show at the Albertina in Vienna, Austria. The exhibition features 70 paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning Ramos’ 50-year career and is on view from June 2 through October 21, 2012. This survey showcases each of Ramos’ creative phases, including his early Abstract Expressionist paintings, his renderings of superheroes from the 1960s, and the commercially inspired nudes that made him famous. The latter, which Ramos started painting in the mid-1960s and continues to produce today, feature nude female figures wrapped aroun ... More | | 
Jules Chéret, Pantomimes lumineuses, 1892. Color lithograph. Sheet: 48 3/4 x 34 3/4 in. Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milton F. Gutglass. M1998.160. Photo: John R. Glembin.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- This summer, the Milwaukee Art Museum transports visitors to nineteenth-century Paris with its feature exhibition, Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries. Opened June 1, the exhibition brings together the finest French examples from the golden age of the poster. Advertising everything from theatre productions to the debaucherous cancan, bicycles to champagne, brightly hued, larger-than-life-size posters with bold typography and playful imagery punctuated the streets of turn-of-the-century Paris. Posters of Paris features more than one hundred of these posters (including a few designs that were originally censored) by artists hailed as masters of the medium: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, Pierre Bonnard, and Alphonse Mucha, and others. These artists drew from an array of styles, from Byzantine and Rococo to Realist and Art Nouveau. “These works celebrated the dawn of new ... More |
| The Pasadena Museum of California Art opens a retrospective of artist Edgar Payne | | Exhibitions pay tribute to openings of Chihuly Garden & Glass and LeMay: America's Car Museum | | Sotheby's New York announces Auction of Important Watches & Clocks to be held on 14 June | 
Edgar Payne, "Cargo Boats, Chioggio, Italy,” 1923, oil on canvas, 43 by 43 inches. The Buck Collection, Laguna Beach, Calif.
PASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art presents Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey, a retrospective of artist Edgar Payne (1883–1947), one of the most gifted of California’s early plein-air painters. Payne’s work exemplifies the power and dynamism that separate California Impressionism from the picturesque French Impressionism of the 18th Century. One of the first exhibitions of his work in over forty years, the retrospective features nearly 100 paintings and drawings, as well as photographs and objects from the artist’s studio; the exhibition will be on view from June 3 - October 14, 2012. Born in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri in 1883, Payne began his art career by painting signs, stage sets, and murals. He considered himself completely self-taught—his training lasted only two weeks at the Chicago Art Institute—and believed that nature was his best teacher. He ultimately settled ... More | | 
John Miller, Classic Heat #1, 2012. Blown and hot-sculpted glass, 22 ½ x 18 x 12 ½ inches. Collection of Museum of Glass. Photo: Duncan Price.
TACOMA, WASH.- Museum of Glass has organized two exhibitions that coincide with the opening of the Pacific Northwest’s newest cultural attractions—Chihuly Garden & Glass in Seattle and LeMay – America’s Car Museum in Tacoma. Both displays opened in May, just prior to each institution’s grand opening. Origins: Early Works by Dale Chihuly showcases works made by Chihuly in his early career. The artwork displayed include 30 transitional pieces from prominent local collections and the Museum’s Permanent Collection along with historic exhibition posters from the Mary Hale Cockran Library. Collectively, the works chronicle Chihuly’s influence as an artist, a visionary and a pioneer of the American Studio Glass movement. The earliest works in the exhibition date back to 1968 when Chihuly was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. Funded by a Fulbright Grant, Chihuly traveled to Ve ... More | | 
‘The Billiken’, an important and unique rock crystal, onyx, gold and enamel diamond-set eight-day desk timepiece made by Cartier circa 1925. Est. $200/300,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s annual spring auction of Important Watches & Clocks in New York will be held on 14 June 2012. The sale comprises one of the most impressive selections of wristwatches, pocket watches, clocks, automata and other timepieces that Sotheby’s has ever offered in New York, with a focus on pieces that come fresh to the market from private collections. The various-owner auction complements the sale of Watches from the Collection of the Late Reginald H. Fullerton, Jr. and His Grandfather Henry Graves, Jr., which will take place at 10:00am on the morning of 14 June. The exhibitions for both auctions will open in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries on 9 June. Sotheby’s will host the lecture The Life and Timepieces of Henry Graves, Jr. by Stacy Perman at 5:30pm on Wednesday, 13 June. Of the exceptional selection of ... More |
| Gagosian Gallery to present a single sculpture by Franz West at Art Basel's Art Unlimited | | Rarely seen photographs by Ansel Adams on view at Bert Green Fine Art in Chicago | | First solo museum exhibition of German artist Esther Kläs work opens at MoMA PS 1 | 
Franz West, Gekröse (model), 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery will present a single sculpture by Franz West. West began his career in mid-1960s Vienna when a local movement called Actionism was in full swing. His earliest works were a reaction to this movement in which artists engaged in displays of radical public behavior and physical endurance meant to shake up art-world passivity. In the early 1970s, West began making a series of small, portable sculptures called "Adaptives" ("Paßstücke"), awkward-looking plaster objects that he only considered completed as artworks when the viewer physically interacted with them. In many ways, his large-scale aluminum sculptures are simply overgrown versions of the "Adaptives." Gekröse (2011) is a leviathan of a sculpture which is simultaneously monumental and playful; it is imposing in scale but whimsical in its cheery rose hue and dynamic sense of movement. The complexly intertwining pink coils may be reminiscent of ... More | | 
Overlooking Hill Street, Los Angeles c.1940.
CHICAGO, IL.- Bert Green Fine Art is presenting, in association with drkrm in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), Ansel Adams Los Angeles, rarely seen photographs that reveal the lost landscape and lifestyle of a prewar Los Angeles. These nostalgic images from the archives of The Los Angeles Public Library Ansel Adams Collection represent Ansel Adams as a photojournalist on assignment for Fortune Magazine in 1940. In 1940 Los Angeles had a population of 1.5 million. The cost of gas was 10 cents and a new car was $700. The U.S. began rearming for World War II and the prestigious Ansel Adams was commissioned by Fortune Magazine to photograph a series of images for an article covering the aviation industry in the Los Angeles area. For the project, Adams took over 200 black & white photographs showing everyday life, businesses, street scenes and a variety of other subjects. But when the article, City of the Angels, appe ... More | | 
Esther Kläs, (F), 2012. Aqua-Resin, pigment, 79 x 20 x 11 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of Esther Kläs (German, b. 1981), featuring sculptures, monoprints and paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist. Working with a range of processes and materials, Kläs creates totems that register the residues of their construction. Her plaster, ceramic, resin, and concrete sculptures are usually made using very basic forms of casting, which the artist does herself, alone in her studio. They lack decoration; what color appears on their surfaces is never applied after the fact, but instead is introduced by the artist early in the casting process. Kläs embraces the variable possibilities that arise from her methods of production, deriving a freedom from the structures and procedures she puts in place. Her works are constructed from the inside out, and the visible indices of their making delicately undermine their outwardly monolithic appearance. ... More |
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| Transcending Nature: Paintings by artist Eric Aho opens at Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire | | Experiences of the War of 1812 are evoked in showcase of 21st century photographs | | Quint Contemporary Art exhibition takes a look at a new generation of artists | 
Eric Aho, Naturalist, 2011, 82 inches x 108 inches, oil on linen. Image Courtesy of the Artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York. © Eric Aho.
MANCHESTER, NH.- Opening June 2, visitors to the Currier Museum of Art will have the rare opportunity to see an artist who has developed a fresh visual vocabulary all his own, as Eric Aho responds to the world around him and re-interprets the artistic traditions of landscape subjects and abstract painting. The Currier Museum of Art is the first American museum to present a survey exhibition of Eric Aho’s work. Transcending Nature features paintings by the Vermont-based artist (born 1966), whose earlier works on view include dramatic, plein air paintings of landscapes influenced by such artists as Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, John Constable and Frederic Church. Aho’s most recent paintings are abstract monumental compositions – some as large as eight feet by nine feet. His abstract paintings capture the lived, remembered and imagined experience of being outdoors. Through the unexpected use of color, vigorous paint handling and surprising compositions, Aho’s pain ... More | | 
East Entrance of Fort York, Toronto, Ontario, November 2006 (printed 2008), 8” x 10” pinhole camera, 12” focal-length attachment. Gelatin silver contact print on fibre paper. Edition 1/8. 2011.95.10. ©Tod Ainslie.
TORONTO.- On the eve of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the Royal Ontario Museum presents Afterimage: Tod Ainslie’s Vision of the War of 1812. These evocative photographs, documenting many of the War’s historically significant sites, were taken between 2001 and 2009 by Burlington-based Tod Ainslie using three pinhole cameras that he designed and built. The 22 photographic works are displayed from Saturday, June 2, 2012 to Sunday, February 24, 2013 in the ROM’s Wilson Canadian Heritage Exhibition Room of the Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada, located on Level 1 of the Weston Family Wing. Dr. Arlene Gehmacher, Curator of Canadian Paintings, Prints & Drawings in the ROM’s World Cultures department is the exhibition’s curator. She says, “The power of Tod Ainslie’s photographs lies in the tension from the blurring of lines between the documentary and the aesthetic. The ... More | | 
Lee Materazzi, In Between a Path, 2012. C-print, archival mount on plexiglass, 137.2cm x 101.6cm© Lee Materazzi. Photo courtesy the artist and Quint Contemporary Art.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Quint Contemporary Art announces a group exhibition of collage, conceptual work, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and paintings by artists Mike Calway-Fagen, Joseph Huppert, Francesco Longenecker, Lee Materazzi, Timothy Neill, and Ali Silverstein. This is the first exhibition at QCA for all the artists except Lee Materazzi, who was part of a two-person exhibition in 2009. FRESH BRED is a look at a new generation of artists whose work stems from Conceptual Art, Light and Space, Abstract Expressionism and Performance Art in a variety of media that offer fresh takes on old styles and modes of working. The artists represent a cross-section from San Diego, as well as national artists. Mike Calway-Fagen’s collages are seemingly removed from reality, an effect that he attributes to his critique of the current state of complacency in American culture. The images reference a ... More |
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 National Postal Museum announces launch of centralized gateway to world's greatest philatelic research WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum announces the launch of the Global Philatelic Library website, a centralized information gateway to the world’s greatest philatelic research. Founding partners include the National Postal Museum and Smithsonian Libraries in Washington, D.C., the Royal Philatelic Society London and the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pa. On Feb. 15, 1888, American Philatelic Association President John K. Tiffany wrote to Edward Denny Bacon, secretary of the then Philatelic Society London, regarding a joint indexing project. He said, “…I consider the project as utterly impossible of any practical execution...” One hundred and twenty-four years later the project has become a reality. This ambitious project has become a present-day reality thanks to the inspiration and dedication of the founding partners. The ... More South London Gallery opens exhibition by pioneer of conceptual art Stephen Willats LONDON.- London-based artist Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art and has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the early 1960s. Willats' first South London Gallery exhibition in 1998, Changing Everything, was the culmination of a two-year project with local residents. Aiming to create a cultural model of how art might relate to society, the work was made with and invigilated by the project's participants, and visitors were also invited to make their own contributions to it. Fourteen years later, Willats' new show, Surfing with the Attractor, re-presents material from Changing Everything alongside a new installation featuring a huge ‘data stream’ spanning 15 metres and made in collaboration with 14 London-based artists. Comprising hundreds of carefully ordered images from diverse media, the data stream documents two contrasting streets in ... More New series of work by New York based artist Andrea Cohen at Walter Maciel Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- Walter Maciel Gallery presents a new series of work by New York based artist Andrea Cohen. For her third solo show at the gallery, Cohen introduces a series of highly textured and patterned hydrocal sculptures cast from bubble wrap, Styrofoam, plastic and foil. In previous work, Cohen has used these materials as her medium to make concurrent references to nature and industry. Now, through the casting process, the legacy of these materials is imprinted on her new work. The liquidity of pigmented hydrocal allows for varying effects when it cures; for example, foil and plastic folds generate both stone-like and fleshy forms in contrast to bubble wrap which leaves behind bold yet mutable patterns suggestive of pock-marked landscapes and perforated architectures. Cohen continues to build her sculptures as assemblages, working with play, improvisation, ... More Alaskans mark 100th anniversary of big volcano By: Rachel D'Oro, Associated Press
ANCHORAGE (AP).- Even a century after one of the world's largest volcanic eruptions, a strong wind still whips up the ash that rained down on what became known as Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Pumice chunks still dot the beaches of Kodiak Island across Shelikof Strait. The three-day explosion that began June 6, 1912, spewed ash as high as 100,000 feet above the sparsely populated Katmai region, covering the remote valley to depths up to 700 feet. The volcanic cloud spread across the United States and traveled as far as Algeria in northern Africa in the most powerful eruption of the 20th century and one of the five largest in recorded history. "Every minute we are awaiting death," John Orloff wrote to his wife from Kaflia Bay, 30 miles ... More Exceptional results for MacDougall's Russian Art Sale, with all top lots sold LONDON.- MacDougall?'s two day Russian Art Auction 27 and 30 May showed continued strength of the market, with ?’13m raised in total, one of the specialist firm?'s best results ever. All top lots were sold, and several new world records were set. Kuzma Petrov?-Vodkin?'s magnificent Still Life. Apples and Eggs, sold for ?’2,318,100, making it the most expensive work by the artist ever to be sold at auction. The work was painted in 1921 and is one of the most important works by Petrov?-Vodkin to remain in private hands. Two Female Figures (Venus) by Ignaty Nivinsky sold for ?’465,900, significantly exceeding its pre?-sale estimate of ?’260,000?- ?’400,00 and setting a record price for this artist at auction. Another new auction record was set for Sergei Sudeikin, whose painting Porcelain Figures and Flowers sold for ?’517,000. Still Life with Azalea and Apples by Aleksandr Deineka, estimat ... More |
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