| Getty Museum presents Drama and Devotion: Heemskerck's 'Ecce Homo' Altarpiece from Warsaw | | Ellsworth Kelly's drawings of plants, flowers, leaves, spanning 60 years, on view at Metropolitan Museum | | Jean-Michel Basquiat's Untitled, 1981 poised to achieve the highest price for the artist | 
Ecce Homo (detail, center panel), 1544.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- American museum-goers will have the rare opportunity to view a complete triptych by Renaissance master Maerten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), one of the most admired Netherlandish painters of the 16th century, when his dramatic Ecce Homo altarpiece (1544) is presented at the J. Paul Getty Museum in a focused exhibition from June 5, 2012 through January 13, 2013. As a result of the Getty Museum’s Conservation Partnership Program and with the support of the Museum’s Paintings Conservation Council, the Ecce Homo triptych came to Los Angeles from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland for conservation and study. Drama and Devotion: Heemskerck’s ‘Ecce Homo’ Altarpiece from Warsaw will be presented at the Getty for six months and helps mark the occasion of the National Museum’s 150th anniversary. The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) collaborated with the Getty Museum on this conser ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly, Banana Leaf, 1992. Graphite on paper, 30 1/8 x 22 1/2 in. Private collection© Ellsworth Kelly. Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the foremost artists of our day, Ellsworth Kelly may be best known for his rigorous abstract painting. However, Kelly has made figurative drawings throughout his career, and has created an extraordinary body of work that now spans six decades. Ellsworth Kelly Plant Drawings—at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 5 through September 3, 2012—will be the first major museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to the artist’s drawings of plants, flowers, and leaves. The selection of approximately 75 drawings begins in 1948 during Kelly’s early sojourn in Paris and continues throughout his travels to his most recent work made in upstate New York. The exhibition will include loans from major public and private collections. Ranging from seaweed suspended in his studio, to a flower ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Untitled, 1981. Acrylic, oilstick and spray paint on canvas, 78 x 72in. (199.5 x 182.9cm.). Estimate in the region of $20 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 27 June, Christie's Evening Auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art will present a selection of important works including a pivotal painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, created in the seminal year of 1981. Bursting forth from the canvas in a combustive palette of scarlet red, dusky pink, vermillion and fluorescent yellow, Untitled is an intuitive, gestural maelstrom from the very height of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s practice. Undertaken in 1981 and formerly owned by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Untitled is one of the artist’s earliest masterpieces, marrying the gritty urbanism of his street graffiti with his raw and guttural symbolism. In 2007, Untitled, sold for $14.6 million, breaking the artist’s world auction record at the time, today, the estimate is within the region of $20 million ... More |
| Sotheby's to offer a selection of rare and important furniture and decorative arts of noble provenance | | Annual summer display at the Morgan Library to include Noah Webster's dictionary | | Jan David Winitz discusses how to look at and to learn about antique oriental rugs | 
The Shah of Persia’s Elephant Automaton Clock – A George III paste-set ormolu musical automaton clock, circa 1780, signed by Peter Torckler (est. £1-2 million). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London will hold its third Treasures, Princely Taste auction on 4th July, 2012. The sale will comprise an outstanding selection of rare and important furniture, silver, objets de vertu and tapestries, many with aristocratic provenance and each displaying the remarkable qualities of princely taste. The centrepieces of the sale are a historic gilt-bronze-mounted table by Jacques-Louis David (est. £200,000-300,000), which appears in a painting by David in the collection of the Louvre Museum, and the Shah of Persia’s golden elephant automaton clock, an 18th-century, British-made technical marvel and a dazzling sight (est. £1-2 million). The sale comprises 42 lots, which are estimated to realise a total in excess of £12 million. Mario Tavella, Sotheby’s Deputy Chairman, Europe, comments: “Each of the masterpieces in this, our third offering of ‘Treasures, ... More | | 
Noah Webster (1758-1843), Autograph Manuscript of A Dictionary of the English Language, not dated. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Photo: Graham Haber.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum will open its vault again this summer for an exhibition of twenty-nine exceptional items from its permanent collections, including its noted holdings of important Americana. The works will go on view Tuesday, June 5 in the museum’s historic 1906 McKim building, and range from Noah Webster’s Dictionary manuscript, to revealing letters by Ernest Hemingway and James Madison, to music manuscripts by Mozart, Debussy, Schubert, and Haydn. The display will remain on view through September 8. The items from American history are chosen with an eye towards celebrating the country’s achievements and struggles as the Fourth of July holiday approaches. The presentation’s centerpiece is the manuscript of a work familiar to all Americans, Noah Webster’s classic An American Dictionary of the English Language. Webster spent twenty-seven years and learned twenty-six languages ... More | | 
An early 19th century Bakshaish “Dragon and Phoenix” carpet Jan David Winitz bought when he was 19.
OAKLAND, CA.- For over thirty years, Jan David Winitz, President and founder Claremont Rug Company in Oakland, CA, has built a global reputation among carpet collectors and connoisseurs. Since Claremont Rug Company opened its doors in 1980, their niche has been a challenging, yet incredibly exciting one - offering only the finest in authentic, art-level antique carpets, coupled with entirely first cabin service. Claremont Rug Company holds a central position on the international market as a "first source" buyer, ambitiously acquiring superlative private collections and significant family estates rich in carpets that will literally enrapture the viewer through their great creative depth and exquisite craftsmanship. Jan David Winitz took some time out from his busy schedule to answer some basic questions about the carpet business. This is the second part of the interview. The first part of this intervie can be seen More |
| Mystically Nordic: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finland, and the Modernist Spirit on view at Museum Kunstpalast | | Recent paintings and sculptures by Shirazeh Houshiary on view at Lisson Gallery in Milan | | Israel Museum's Suzanne Landau appointed Director and Chief Curator at Tel Aviv Museum of Art | 
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Boy and a Crow, 1884, oil on canvas, © Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Photo: Jukka Romu and Hannu Aaltonen.
DUSSELDORF.- In collaboration with the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Helsinki Art Museum, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf will be showing, from 2 June – 9 September 2012, a survey exhibition of one of the most important northern European and the most eminent 19th-century Finnish artist: Axel Gallen, who in 1907 changed his name to Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931). The exhibition, curated in Düsseldorf by Barbara Til, Deputy Head of the Collection and curator for applied art at Museum Kunstpalast, comprises around 70 paintings – portraits, interiors, landscapes, everyday scenes, mythological depictions of heroes -, a number of textile and furniture designs and objects, as well as graphic art spanning five decades. From the 1880s onwards Akseli Gallen-Kallela was among the leading artists of early Modernism in Finland. Even though he was firmly rooted in his native country, he was a convinced cosmopolitan who was i ... More | | 
Shirazeh Houshiary, White Shadow, 2005. Aluminium bricks and steel cable. Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
MILAN.- Shirazeh Houshiary’s work mediates between presence and absence, being and not-being. Utilising various media … painting, sculpture and animation, Houshiary’s work strives to capture the intangible essence that underlies existence. Her compositions of finely wrought skeins of pencil and pigment, armatures of aluminium, or fleeting digital apparitions, evoke impossible topographies: the microscopic or cosmological. Though elusive and visually confounding, these works are invested with an energy that, while exposing the limits of human perception, register as an intensely physical presence. Houshiary’s paintings both insist on and deny being read. Beginning with a black or white aquacryl ground, she uses pencil to inscribe layers of text derived from two words – one an affirmation, the other a denial – crushed upon one another until transformed into intricate webs and diaphanous veils, which are then laced with bursts of pigment. In ... More | | 
Suzanne Landau is currently Chief Curator of Fine Arts at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV.- Suzanne Landau, Chief Curator of Fine Arts at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, will join the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as its next Director and Chief Curator in September, 2012, after 34 years at the Israel Museum. Landau was recommended by the Tel Aviv Museum’s Appointment Committee and approved by its Board of Directors today. Since the passing away of the late Professor Mordechai Omer in June, 2011, the position has been filled by his Deputy, Mrs. Shuli Kislev. The Appointment Committee was chaired by Adv. Haim Samet, with members Irith Rappaport, Doron Sebbag, Dr. Ron Pundak, Allen Baharaff and Ofer Lelouche. Suzanne Landau has a vast museum experience, gained through her tenure at the Israel Museum, where she has been on staff since 1978 and served as Chief Curator since 1998. As the Israel Museum’s curator of contemporary art since 1982, Landau has greatly expanded the museum’s international contempo ... More |
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| Iconic 'napalm girl' photo taken by the Associated Press' Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut turns 40 | | Only known document signed by Lewis and Clark in private hands may fetch $100,000+ at Heritage | | Legendary art dealer and collector Michael Werner makes major gift of 130 works to Paris | 
In this 1973 file photo, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, left, is visited by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut at her home in Trang Bang, Vietnam. AP Photo/File.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Vietnam War had been raging for years. On June 8, 1972, a single photo communicated the horrors of the fighting in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of the most divisive conflicts in American history. Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut heard the little girl's screams and couldn't turn away. In the time of film and darkrooms, the 21-year-old Vietnamese photographer didn't know the power of the image he had just taken, but he knew what he had to do. He drove the badly burned child to a small hospital. There, he was told she was too far gone to help. But Nick flashed his American press badge, demanded that doctors treat the girl and left assured that she would not be forgotten. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning image, children run screaming from a burning Vietnamese village. The little girl in the center of the frame, Kim Phuc, is naked and crying, her clothes and layers of skin melted away by napalm. "I cried when I saw her running," said Ut, whose older brothe ... More | | 
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: The Only Known Document Bearing the Signatures of Both Legendary Explorers in Private Hands, a land indenture signed "Meriwether Lewis" and "Wm. Clark." Two pages, 12.5" x 15.75", St. Louis, August 23, 1809.
DALLAS, TX.- The only known document in private hands signed by both legendary American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the men who opened up the West for America after the historic Louisiana Purchase of 1803, is expected to bring $100,000+ in Heritage Auctions’ June 10 Legends of the Wild West Signature® Auction. In July, 1803, the United States – at the price of four cents an acre (totaling $15 million) – purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France. The Louisiana Purchase was arguably the most important land deal of the 19th century, doubling the size of the United States and giving it control of the important port city of New Orleans. “Considering how the names Lewis and Clark are linked in the popular mind, it’s nothing short of amazing that this should be the only surviving document bearing both their signatures that ... More | | 
Detail from The Man, The Woman, The Lion and the Animals at the Water Hole, 1989 by A.R. Penck. From the Michael Werner Collection.
LONDON.- The legendary art dealer and collector, Michael Werner has made a major gift of 130 works from his collection to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. To mark this exceptional gift, an exhibition of works from the collection will go on show at the museum from 5 October 2012 – 3 March 2013. Michael Werner will open a new gallery in London in October 2012 with new works by Peter Doig. Michael Werner’s donation includes works by Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Gaston Chaissac, André Derain, Otto Freundlich, Étienne-Martin, Robert Filliou, Antonius Höckelmann, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Bernard Réquichot, Niele Toroni and Don Van Vliet. The gift consists of a number of works by the artists Michael Werner has represented through the years, as well as a group of modern works by artists such as Lehmbruck, Freundlich, Derain and others. ... More |
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 Exhibition of the work by Jeremy Deller opens at Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art BRUSSELS.- Jeremy Deller has never been that interested in academic rules and has always preferred to work with people and their habits, symbols and social rituals. His practice has introduced radical changes to the themes, forms and public function of contemporary art, and yielded a body of work thoroughly informed by the anthropological and ethnographic gaze he casts on Western society in general, and British society in particular. Folk or ‘popular’ culture attracts his interest because it combines wit, inventiveness and creativity in a way that distinguishes it clearly from mass culture. Deller works as an assembler of components, as ‘director’ of collective actions, organising parades that reconstruct historical events, making films, curating exhibitions and intervening in public space. Through a combination of boldness and a focus on current events, Deller finds new ways ... More Works by renowned contemporary native artists at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Contemporary works from the 2011 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship are at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, from Saturday, June 2, through Sunday, Sep. 23. “We Are Here! The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship,” organized by the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, includes Bonnie Devine (Ojibwa), Skawennati (Mohawk), Duane Slick (Meskwaki/Ho-Chunk), Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo/Creek/Greek) and invited artist Alan Michelson (Mohawk). Michelson is a New York-based installation artist who addresses the intersection of American landscape, history and memory in his work. His “Frontier Land” (2011) comprises small log cabins created out of paper, some printed with significant text. Collectively addressing the issues of colonialism ... More David Jablonowski opens his first solo exhibition at Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Fons Welters presents the first solo exhibition of David Jablonowski. 'A user is an agent, either a human agent (end-user) or software agent, who uses a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified by a username (also user name). Other terms for username include login name, screen name (also screenname), nickname (also nick), or handle, which is derived from the identical Citizen's Band radio term. Users are also widely characterized as the class of people that use a system without complete technical expertise required to understand the system fully. In hacker-related contexts, such users are also divided into lusers and power users.' We navigate from one link to the other, browse from one textual fragment or a pixilated image to the newest printer and consume the best and most desirable designs, we tap into their messages, ... More Rubin Museum of Art announces new leadership appointments NEW YORK, NY.- Robert M. Baylis, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Rubin Museum announced today that the Trustees have made several new appointments to the museum’s leadership and board. Patrick Sears, who previously served as the Rubin Museum’s Deputy Director, has been appointed Executive Director. He will lead the museum in the expansion of its programming and audience engagement in support of its mission to explore the art and culture of Himalayan Asia. The new position of Director of Museum Services and Operations will be held by Linda Dunne, who will join the museum on July 9th. Dunne will be responsible for the oversight of a significant portion of the museum’s operations, staff, and budget, including the continued development of Serai, the Rubin Museum’s new shop and café experience. Four new trustees ... More Opening season at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia generates record-breaking attendance figures SYDNEY.- The MCA reopened on 29 March 2012 following a $53 million redevelopment. It reached 100,000 visitors in the first three weeks, 200,000 visitors in just under seven weeks and when Marking Time, Christian Marclay: The Clock and Local Positioning Systems closed on Sunday, 3 June, 264,625 visitors or over a quarter of a million people had visited. The two busiest days were Thursday 31 May and Sunday 3 June, peaking at respectively 8,233 and 7,509 visitors. MCA Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor said: “We are thrilled by the public response. The building expansion does all that we dreamed of, providing a great frame for the art and encouraging people in.” Of Christian Marclay’s The Clock, MCA Senior Curator Rachel Kent said: “We faced an exciting new challenge by opening The Clock for 24 hours every Thursday to Friday throughout the exhibition ... More Amistad Center for Art & Culture highlights collection and commemorates African American culture HARTFORD, CONN.- The Amistad Center for Art & Culture presents Collective Memories: Selections from the Collection of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, one of two exhibitions this year to commemorate the Amistad Center’s 25th anniversary and continued dedication to celebrating art andculture influenced by people of African descent. On view now through September 23, 2012, Collective Memories will explore how societal ideas about race and culture are created, distributed, and maintained historically to form an understanding of what is African American. This exhibition is organized thematically around three topics: people, places, and things. Drawing from the Amistad Center’s permanent collection, it features art, artifacts, manuscripts, documents, and ephemera from the 17th to the early 20th century. “A broad range of material is presented including ... More |
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