| Sotheby's to offer the most exceptional collection of eight paintings by Frank Auerbach of Ruth Bromberg | | Louvre opens exhibition of about one hundred works on paper by Gerhard Richter | | 16th century masterpiece by Girolamo Romanino achieves $4,562,500 at Christie's | 
Frank Auerbach, Ruth Bromberg Seated, 1992. Estimate: £450,000-650,000*. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announce that its forthcoming Evening Auction of Contemporary Art in London on Tuesday, 26 June, 2012 will present for sale a remarkable group of works by one Britain’s greatest living artists, Frank Auerbach** (b. 1931). The works come from the collection of Joseph and Ruth Bromberg, friends of the artist from the 1990s onwards. Painted over a 17-year period (1992-2008), this exceptional collection of eight portraits of Ruth Bromberg tells the story of this friendship between artist and sitter, and provides a privileged insight into the experience of sitting for this celebrated portrait artist. The group also includes a captivating etching by Lucian Freud of his daughter Bella. Expected to realize in excess of £1.8 million, the exceptional collection will be sold on behalf of the Executor as a bequest to the UK-registered charity British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel to benefit the Prints ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, 3.1.1978, (25). Watercolor on lined paper, 1978. Kunstmuseum Winterthur © ADAGP, Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
PARIS.- As a counterpoint to the major traveling retrospective devoted to the remarkable career of Gerhard Richter, initiated by Tate Modern (October 6, 2011–January 8, 2012), subsequently on view at the Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie (February 12–May 13, 2012), to be followed by the Centre Pompidou (June 6–September 24, 2012), the Louvre exhibits about a hundred works on paper in the Mollien rooms of the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings. Born in 1932 in Dresden, Gerhard Richter studied art at his native city’s Kunstakademie. He fled East Germany in 1961 and took up residence in Düsseldorf, where he continued his studies. Richter is one of the most important painters of the last fifty years, having first represented West Germany at the Venice Biennale in 1972. From his early Elbe monotypes in 1957 (landscapes executed in black ink) and his Halifax series of tiny abstract pencil drawings beg ... More | | 
Girolamo Romanino, (Brescia 1484/87-1560), Christ Carrying the Cross. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s Old Master Paintings sale on June 6 in New York was led by the magnificent picture of Christ Carrying the Cross by Girolamo Romanino (Brescia 1484/87-1560), which sold for $4,562,500/£2,965,625/€3,650,000, and set a world auction record for the artist. A masterpiece of Romanino’s fully mature style and among the most potent and moving depictions of the theme in 16th century Italian art, the new auction record soars above the previous record of $512,502/£309,500 for Christ and the woman taken into adultery, which sold at Christie’s London in 1996. Comprised of 98 lots, The Old Master Paintings sale realized a total of $12,574,125/£8,173,181/ €10,059,300. A leading painter of the north Italian school, Girolamo di Romano, who during his lifetime came to be called Romanino, was born between 1484 and 1487 in Brescia, then under Venetian rule. Active as a painter of frescoes, alta ... More |
| Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery and Louis K. Meisel Gallery are ALL IN! with new exhibition | | Remains of Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre found by archaeologists from the Museum of London | | A taste for luxury: Two great houses from America's gilded age to be offered at Christie's | 
Mel Ramos, 100 Grand, 2012. Oil on linen, 36 x 24 inches. Photo: Courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery and Louis K. Meisel Gallery are ALL IN! They know the art world can be a gamble and are throwing in the chips. Both galleries will ante up and present a summer exhibition comprising of all their artists including a few wild cards from BMG’s First Look Program and special guest artists. All artists exhibited render precise moments of a visual event through a heightened technical execution of painting or sculpture. Some of the artists exhibited include Luigi Benedicenti, Roberto Bernardi, Hubert De Lartigue, John De Andrea, Randall Rosenthal, Raphaella Spence and guest artists Katherine Mangiardi and Linda Slocum. The theme of the show is poker – and gambling, but more about taking chances than anything. You will see literal depictions such as Randall Rosenthal’s Hush Money, an envelope full of money – all carved out of one block ... More | | 
An archaeologist as she undertakes initial archaeological excavation work at the site of The Curtain Theatre in London. AP Photo/Museum of London Archaeology.
By: Jill Lawless, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- Archaeologists in London have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theater where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed — a venue immortalized as "this wooden O" in the prologue to "Henry V." Experts from the Museum of London said Wednesday they had uncovered part of the gravel yard and gallery walls of the 435-year-old Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch, just east of London's business district. The remains — of a polygonal structure, typical of 16th-century theaters — were found behind a pub on a site marked for redevelopment. The Curtain opened in 1577 and was home to Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, from 1597 until the Globe Theatre was built across the river two years later. Plays premiered at ... More | | 
A French chinoiserie tapestry. 11 ft. 3 in. (343 cm.) high, 8 ft. 2 in. (249 cm.) wide
Estimate 100,000 - 150,000 U.S. dollars. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s presents A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from America’s Gilded Age on June 21. The private collection includes furniture, tapestries, old master paintings and drawings, silver and porcelain from two exquisite residences: The Henry Cook mansion at 973 Fifth Avenue, designed by McKim, Mead and White; and the country estate of Blairsden in Peapack, New Jersey by Carrère and Hastings. The interiors of both residences are miraculously still intact and remain elegant reminders of the early 20th century and of the great families and fortunes - as well as the great architects - that built them. Comprised of over 270 lots, this sale is expected to realize in excess of $3.5 million and is the perfect opportunity for collectors at all levels to participate in America’s Gilded Age. Just steps away from Museum ... More |
| Chris Martin opens first solo exhibiton with Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels | | Prof. Jeffrey Quilter announced as the new Director at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology | | Britain's first celebrity transvestite...Rare painting acquired by National Portrait Gallery | 
Chris Martin, Case Solved #2, 2008-11. Oil and collage on canvas, 114.3 x 94 cm., 45 x 37 in. Courtesy : Galerie Rodolphe Janssen.
BRUSSELS.- Galerie Rodolphe Janssen presents its first solo show of his new artist Chris Martin (born 1954, USA) Pushing the boundaries between the most sophisticated formalism and outsider art’s instinctive logic, Chris Martin makes abstract painting look enviably effortless. His large scale canvases reflect a zany approach to experimentation and a methodological mode of play, conceiving painting as something intrinsically haptic that resolves from an intimately hands-on negotiation of materials. India, the exploration of psychedelics in the 1970’s and his 15 years job as an art therapist for AIDS patients in New York highly influenced his work. Chris Martin’s works are renowned for their extremely physical surfaces which are created by collaging found items onto the canvas. In the newspaper serie, Martin is constantly questioning the boundaries between high art, kid’s art, sidewalk art, fol ... More | | 
Quilter has been the Peabody Museum’s deputy director for curatorial affairs, curator for intermediate area archaeology, and a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard, since 2005.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University announced Prof. Jeffrey Quilter will be the next William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum as of July 1, 2012. The Howells Director is appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from among the faculty. “I’m extremely honored and pleased,” said Quilter. “This is a wonderful opportunity to lead a remarkable museum with committed staff in fulfilling its mission to serve Harvard University in its educational and research roles.” Quilter has been the Peabody Museum’s deputy director for curatorial affairs, curator for intermediate area archaeology, and a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard, since 2005. Prior to his arrival at the Peabody, he spent ten years as director of pre-Columbian studies ... More | | 
Chevalier d’Eon by Thomas Stewart, 1792 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has acquired its first painted portrait of a male transvestite in women’s clothing. Painted in 1792, it depicts Britain’s first celebrated male cross-dresser. Lost since 1926, this painting of the Chevalier d’Eon, an eighteenth-century diplomat, is on show at the Gallery for the first time today, Wed 6 June 2012. Following its discovery by the gallery owner Philip Mould, this will be its first period of public display. Chevalier d’Eon lived in London from 1762-1777 as a man, and from 1785-1810 as a woman and, during both periods, he enjoyed considerable fame in international politics, high society and popular culture. No transvestite or transsexual, until the late twentieth century has enjoyed such public recognition, acceptance and popular affection. The portrait is seen as an unprecedented historic document of his identity and acceptance into British society at a time ... More |
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| Science fiction-fantasy master Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies | | Dorothea Arnold to become Curator Emeritus after 21 years heading department at Metropolitan | | Critical Mass: Contemporary art from India on view at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art | 
Ray Bradbury looks at a picture that was part of a school project to illustrate characters in one of his dramas. AP Photo.
By: John Rogers, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw. In his books, the science fiction-fantasy master conjured a dark, depressing future where the government used fire departments to burn books in order to hold its people in ignorance and where racial hatred was so pervasive that some people left Earth for other planets. At the same time, his work, just like the author himself, could also be joyful, whimsical and nostalgic, as when he was describing the magic of a Midwestern summer or the innocence and fearlessness of a boy who befriends a houseful of ghosts. Bradbury, who died Tuesday at age 91, said often that all of his stories, no matter how fantastic or frightening they might be, were metaphors for everyday life and ... More | | 
Dorothea Arnold, the Lila Acheson Wallace Chairman of the Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced that distinguished curator, scholar, and archaeologist Dorothea Arnold will retire on June 30, following 21 years as head of the Department of Egyptian Art, including seven years most recently as its Lila Acheson Wallace Chairman. Her career at the Museum began in 1985. She will become Curator Emeritus as of July 1. “For the past 27 years, Dorothea Arnold has served as a highly respected member of our curatorial staff. Her contributions to her field have been enormous—as a long-time archaeologist, noted scholar and author, curator of important exhibitions, and leader of an impressive team of experts in the Department of Egyptian Art,” said Mr. Campbell in making the announcement. “She has also overseen the reinstallation ... More | | 
Bharti Kher, Makeup 2010.
TEL AVIV.- Critical Mass at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is the first major show to introduce the Israeli public to the thriving contemporary Indian art scene. The exhibition features seventeen artists – both established well-known artists and several young, emerging artists. It takes place in the museum's newly inaugurated and highly celebrated Herta and Paul Amir building. The works included in this exhibition are anchored in a tumultuous social and political reality, and their multiple layers of meaning reflect different responses to the deep transformations that have been taking place in Indian society over the past two decades. These works were created in a wide range of mediums including photography, painting, video, sculpture, and installation. The notions of matter and materiality serves as the principle metaphor for the dynamic, physical and visual experiences of life in the contemporary Indian megalopolis. On ... More |
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 First solo show in New York City of photography by Mitra Tabrizian opens at Leila Heller Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- The first solo show in New York City of photography by Mitra Tabrizian will be on view at Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea at 568 West 25th Street from June 7 – July 7, 2012. The exhibition will feature seven monumental photographs taken in Iran and England. The artist had a solo show at Tate Britain in 2008, and has been commissioned to do a portrait for the London Olympics this year. A fully illustrated brochure with an essay by Vali Mahlouji, a London-based independent curator and writer, will accompany the exhibition. Tabrizian creates fabricated mise-en-scenes. Bankers in an office building, women walking through Tehran’s surrounding mountains, a man standing on the sidewalk—nothing seems out of the ordinary—yet Tabrizian stages these evocative scenes as if we are walking in on the subjects mid-scene, immediately before or after the climax of the ... More Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey opens Norton Museum of Art summer season WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art opens it s summer exhibition schedule on the evening of June 7, 2012 with Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey. Gorey is among the rare breed of artist whose work is as much beloved by children as it is by adults. The exhibition includes more than 150 drawings that Gorey, who died in 2000 at 75, created for many of his books, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Unstrung Harp, The Gilded Bat, among others. An illuminating array of sketchbooks, illustrated envelopes, book-cover ideas, and theatrical costume designs are also included in the exhibition. The exhibition, which is organized by the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust and Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA, runs through Sept. 2, 2012.
Mention the name of the late artist and illustrator and adjectives such as ghoulish, gothic, and well, gory, often come ... More "Material Matters," a group exhibition featuring four female artists opens at Lyons Wier Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Lyons Wier Gallery announced "Material Matters," a group exhibition featuring four female artists exploring contemporary notions of identity as seen through their unique artistic endeavors. Using various common mixed media such as thread, ribbon, discarded clothing, beads, and resin, each artist brings a fresh interpretation to their chosen medium transforming the ordinary into extraordinary. Stephanie Hirsch appropriates iconic, once rebellious, rock-and-roll images that have become somewhat commonplace fashion logos and re-infuses them with personal mantras. Through her use of beads, sequins and embroidery, Hirsch's canvases are literally 'illuminated' with words of enlightenment and hope. Her simple text and quips often cause the viewer to question their moral standings and beliefs, all the while offering aesthetically charged images ... More Major international honour for Emily Carr: Seven works by Carr on exhibit at prestigious dOCUMENTA (13) VANCOUVER, BC.- She toiled largely in obscurity during her lifetime. But now, sixty-seven years after her death, iconic BC artist Emily Carr is getting some major recognition. On June 9th, Carr joins the ranks of a select group of modern painters who have had their work exhibited at the prestigious international art exhibition dOCUMENTA. Every five years, dOCUMENTA is mounted in Kassel , Germany to showcase contemporary art from around the globe. A small number of historical artists are occasionally included in the presentation, which otherwise features cutting-edge work by artists producing today. Modern painters whose work has been shown in the past at this enormously influential exhibition include Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. At dOCUMENTA (13), seven Carr canvasses from the permanent collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery ... More Twenty-five unreleased images by Roger Ballen in exhibition at Musée de l'Elysée LAUSANNE.- In Johannesburg, where he has been living since the 70s, the American photographer Roger Ballen visited a very peculiar house four years ago, a house that has become the central focus of his present work. There he found a heterogeneous compound of SouthAfrican society. A great number of wild birds freely share the space with the humans, and with many other animals such as cats, rabbits, mice or ducks. The birds are cageless and free to come and go as they please. The rooms in this house are all covered with drawings of familiar, sometimes chimerical, figures and portraits made by the inhabitants. Roger Ballen has named this place Asylum, which is also the title of his series. An asylum can be both a place of refuge, or confinement. Thus the ambiguity that gives sense to these images, a balancing act between the birds, illuminating symbols of freedom ... More FIGMENT Weekend: 6th annual participatory arts event on Governors Island June 9-10 NEW YORK, NY.- FIGMENT, a free, family-friendly participatory arts event held in multiple cities and attracting tens of thousands of participants each year, has announced their sixth annual FIGMENT NYC Weekend. FIGMENT is an explosion of creative energy, a celebration of participatory art and culture where everything is possible. For one weekend every summer, FIGMENT transforms Governors Island into a large-scale collaborative artwork — and then it’s gone. Founded in 2007 on New York City’s Governors Island with a handful of projects and a few thousand enthusiasts, FIGMENT has grown exponentially into a multi-day, multi-city event that drew over 30,000 participants in NYC, Boston, Jackson (MS) and Detroit in 2011. With the addition of Washington DC, Cedar Rapids and Pittsburgh in 2012, FIGMENT grows to seven cities and continues its mission ... More Haroon Mirza's A Sleek Dry Yell (2008) jointly acquired by five public galleries MANCHESTER.- Manchester Art Gallery, the Whitworth Art Gallery, The Walker Art Gallery, Victoria Gallery and the Grundy Art Gallery announced their collaborative acquisition of A Sleek Dry Yell (2008) by award-winning artist Haroon Mirza. The work has been bought thanks to support from the Contemporary Art Society's new Sculpture Fund. Supported by the art collector, philanthropist and Contemporary Art Society Patron and board member, Cathy Wills, the innovative new sculpture purchasing fund enables Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester), The Walker Art Gallery and Victoria Gallery (Liverpool) and the Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool) to research and then buy jointly chosen new sculpture for shared ownership. This pioneering new model for partnership art collecting will help ensure the northwest's public art collections remain ... More |
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