| Archaeologists, anthropologists and other experts meet: Mayas prophesized, but not end of world | | Large-scale pigment images from William Eggleston's Los Alamos series on view at Gagosian Gallery | | Sotheby's Paris to offer the Marsel & Zaira Mis Collection of Modern & Contemporary Art | 
Archaeologists and experts in Mayan culture are racing against time to prove that despite the approaching end of that civilization's calendar, the end of the world is not coming. Photo: DMC INAH H. Montaño.
By: Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP).- As the clock winds down to Dec. 21, experts on the Mayan calendar have been racing to convince people that the Mayas didn't predict an apocalypse for the end of this year. Some experts are now saying the Mayas may indeed have made prophecies, just not about the end of the world. Archaeologists, anthropologists and other experts met Friday in the southern Mexico city of Merida to discuss the implications of the Mayan Long Count calendar, which is made up of 394-year periods called baktuns. Experts estimate the system starts counting at 3114 B.C., and will have run through 13 baktuns, or 5,125 years, around Dec. 21. Experts say 13 was a significant number for the Mayans, and the end of that cycle would be a milestone — but not an end. Fears that the calendar does ... More | | 
William Eggleston, Untitled, 1971-74/2012. Pigment print, 60 x 44 inches. Edition of 2. © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs from William Eggleston’s Los Alamos series. This is Eggleston’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since 2004. A Memphis native, Eggleston carved his distinct oeuvre from the immediate world around him, incorporating all shades of life into his vivid photographs and thus pioneering an approach that derives its power from a refined form of spontaneous observation. A modern-day flâneur, he captures compelling fragments, events, and personalities of the ordinary world on the streets and in the parlors of small-town America. His subject matter, such as parked cars, billboards and abandoned storefronts, are seemingly banal, yet the idiosyncratic manner in which he orders his observations creates a world of enigma and unexpected beauty, unflinching in its veracity. This exhibition comprises twenty-eight large-scale pigment images from the Los Al ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Four multicoloured Marilyns. Signé et daté 79/86 sur le retour de la toile. Acrylique et encre sérigraphique sur toile, 92x70,5 cm. Estimate: 1.5-2 M€. Photo: Sotheby’s/ArtDigital Studio.
PARIS.- The sale of the Zaira & Marsel Mis Collection on 24 October 2012 will be one of the top auction events in Paris this Autumn. The collection was formed by Zaira and Marsel Mis over nearly half a century, and includes works from Egon Schiele to Andy Warhol via Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana, Robert Rauschenberg, Alighiero Boetti, and features above all an extraordinary ensemble of works by René Magritte. Zaira and Marsel came to collecting from very different backgrounds–Zaira from a family with a tradition as modern art collectors, Marsel with a curiosity stimulated by his profession as a textiles engineer–and they acquired works throughout their lives through a variety of encounters and opportunities. The Mis Collection makes no claim to chart the history of 20th century art, or concentrate on any specific period or movement. But ... More |
| SFMOMA Presents Alessandro Pessoli's first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast | | First comprehensive exhibition of the work by Thomas Scheibitz opens at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst | | Exhibition at the National Library in Bucharest shows Romanian artists resisted regime | 
Alessandro Pessoli, The son of P, 2012; spray paint and oil pastel on paper; 24 x 19 in.; courtesy greengrassi, London; and Anton Kern Gallery, New York; © Alessandro Pessoli; photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- This fall, Italian-born, Los Angeles–based artist Alessandro Pessoli debuted his latest body of work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in his first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast. On view September 28, 2012, through February 10, 2013, New Work: Alessandro Pessoli highlights the artist's diverse range of art making since relocating from Milan to the United States in 2009, bringing together 40 recent graphite drawings and a selection of works on paper and ceramic sculptures. Together, these pieces reveal an imaginative, organic meditation on Modernism, mythology, childhood, and the artistic persona. The exhibition is organized by Jenny Gheith, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA, and marks the latest installment of the museum's ongoing New Work ... More | | 
Thomas Scheibitz, Henry Stand, 2012 (detail)© VG Bild-Kunst 2012.
FRANKFURT.- The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main is now featuring the first comprehensive exhibition of the multi-faceted oeuvre of Thomas Scheibitz (b. in Radeberg in 1968) to be staged in Germany. In the early nineties, Scheibitz began developing a new form of conceptual painting and sculpture which differed strongly from the other artistic developments of his generation. Since his presentation at the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennale – if not before – his work has been widely received and can be found in important museums and private collections internationally. The exhibition “Thomas Scheibitz: One-Time Pad” is being carried out in cooperation with the BALTIC – Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead (England), where it will be featured from July to November 2013. “For me, Thomas Scheibitz is one of the most innovative painters and sculptors of the present. Taking the ... More | | 
A woman visits an exhibition of visual art created by Romanian artists during the Communist period. AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda.
By: Alison Mutler, Associated Press
BUCHAREST (AP).- One painting shows a peasant crucified above a hole in the shape of Romania. Another of a man holding a book is painted in the style of Pablo Picasso. Neither work would have been displayed in public during the communist era, when censorship was rife and art was used as a propaganda tool to glorify late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. A new exhibit of some 650 paintings that opened this week at the National Library seeks to show how some artists subverted the regime, creating works that criticized communism or painting in styles like cubism that were out of favor. "It's late justice," said Ruxandra Garofeanu, the curator of the exhibition, who worked for two years to assemble the works from 27 museums and 30 collections in Romania and abroad. ... More |
| Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst hopes to initiate a rediscovery of the work by Vlassis Caniaris | | Buddhist statue found by Nazis shortly before World War II is made from meteorite | | Hammer Museum presents first retrospective of Indian-born American artist Zarina | 
Coexistence, 1964. Mixed media, 29 × 32 × 25 cm. Private collection.
BREMEN.- In Greece, Vlassis Caniaris (1928-2011) ranks among the most widely known artists of his generation. In 1958, he presented the first exhibition of abstract paintings to be held there, and adopted a critical position on political and social issues in his work. Beyond the borders of his home country, Caniaris is frequently viewed as an “artist’s artist”: while his work is known among and appraised among international artists, he has been almost forgotten by the wider art world after his major international exhibitions between the 1960s and 1990s. Following his death in 2011, the GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst is staging the first solo exhibition by Caniaris outside Greece since 1992, hopefully initiating a long overdue process of rediscovery. Caniaris’ work reveals a tremendous artistic development both in terms of its formal aspects and thematic diversity. Striking out on his own from the 1950s o ... More | | 
An ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II. AP Photo/University of Stuttgart, Elmar Buchner.
By: Frank Jordans, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP).- An ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II was carved from a meteorite that crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. What sounds like an Indiana Jones movie plot appears to have actually taken place, according to European researchers publishing in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science this month. Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart said Thursday the statue was brought to Germany by the Schaefer expedition. The Nazi-backed venture set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race — a cornerstone of the Nazis' racist ideology. The existence of the 10.6-kilogram (23.4-pound) statue, known as "iron man," was only revealed in 2007 when its owner died and it came up for auction, ... More | | 
Zarina. Dividing Line, 2001. Woodcut printed in black on Indian handmade paper mounted on Arches Cover white paper. Edition 16/20. 25 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.. UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Graphic Arts. Photograph: Robert Wedemeyer.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum presents Zarina: Paper Like Skin, the first retrospective of Indian-born American artist Zarina, featuring approximately 60 works dating from 1961 to the present. This long overdue survey of Zarina’s work will be on view September 30 to December 30, 2012 at the Hammer Museum, and will travel to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from January 25 to April 21, 2013, and the Art Institute of Chicago from June 27 to September 22, 2013. The exhibition is organized by Allegra Pesenti, curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. “Paper Like Skin reveals the breadth of Zarina’s vision and the versatility of her practice,” explains Hammer ... More |
| Election-year exhibition looks at founding ideals and a wide range of artists' views of American society | | Long overdue Giuseppe Capogrossi retrospective opens at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection | | "All His Sons: The Brueghel Dynasty" exhibition on view at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art | 
Skylar Fein (b. 1968), Black Flag (Marcuse), 2009 (detail). Painted Wood, 68 x 114-1/2 in.
GHENT, NY.- Ever since the events leading to Independence created our democracy, citizens of the United States of America have demonstrated their pleasure and disgust with government in an unrivaled expression of honesty, passion, patriotism, intellect and love for their country by exercising their right to vote. “Vote for Me and I’ll Set You Free: Works from the Collection of Lawrence B. Benenson” draws on historical documents, artifacts and works of contemporary art to create a kaleidoscopic view of the political process of voting and the role of the public and the artist in the political process. It touches on themes of aspirations, equality, justice, power, free speech, minority opinion and representation, hypocrisy and what it means to be part of the most fundamental aspect of the political process – the right to elect leaders – regardless of political orientation. The exhibition is being held at Omi ... More | | 
Giuseppe Capogrossi, Surface 399, 1961. Oil on canvas, 160 x 196 cm. MART 2885, VAF 1313 Rovereto, MART - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, VAF – Stiftung© Archivio fotografico MART / foto Nicola Eccher.
VENICE.- With Capogrossi: A Retrospective, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection pays tribute to a major figure in the first generation of post war artists who, with his painting Surface 210 (1957), has been represented in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation since 1958. The distinctive glyph of Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900–1972), like Lucio Fontana’s gesture of piercing the canvas, or the materiality of Alberto Burri’s works, has left an indelible mark on the history of Italian art in the 20th century. With the collaboration of the Fondazione Archivio Capogrossi, Rome, and with the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic and of the Italian Ministry of Culture, this long overdue retrospective brings together over seventy of the artist’s ... More | | 
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The Seven Acts of Mercy, circa 1616-18 (detail). Oil on panel, 44 x 57.5 cm. Private collection, Brussels.
TEL AVIV.- "All His Sons: The Brueghel Dynasty" exhibition - is a great international project presented first at Villa Olmo, Como, and now at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. It shows a pictorial history of the most important Flemish family of artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – five generations working over the course of about 170 years. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Pieter Brueghel III, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Ambrosius Brueghel, Jan-Pieter Brueghel, Abraham Brueghel, Philips Brueghel, Ferdinand Brueghel and Jan-Baptist Brueghel. Confused? The Brueghels were a big family of gifted painters, active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels. In fact, members of the family were active in several countries and were closely related to several other Flemish artists' families. The museum ... More |
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 Historian, 95, brings Palm Beach landmark to life By: Matt Sedensky, Associated Press
PALM BEACH (AP).- No place in this storied playground of the rich evokes as much history as The Breakers and no one knows the sprawling resort's story better than Jim Ponce. Sixty years after first coming to work as a front-desk clerk at the hotel, 95-year-old Ponce still serves as the in-house historian, showing up every Tuesday to offer a tour to guests. He dresses in period clothes, this day most notable for a red blazer, Panama hat and brass-handled ebony walking stick. And from the frescoed ceilings to the terrazzo floors, the 15th-century tapestries to the Roman arches, he guides visitors through one of America's most celebrated hotels. He's spent so much time here, he admits it's as if his own history is entwined with that of the property. "It certainly ... More Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna presents works works from the private collection of Ernesto Esposito BOLOGNA.- Continuing in its investigation into the identity and functions of a contemporary museum, which is one of its principal lines of research, the MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna opens its exhibition spaces to offer a critical approach to the junction between the public dimension of a museum and the intimate one of a private collection, presenting the CARA DOMANI opere dalla collezione Ernesto Esposito from 29th September to 2nd December 2012. The wide-ranging exhibition, curated by Caroline Corbetta, provides an opportunity to showcase for a wider public a selection of works from the private collection of Ernesto Esposito, the internationally-renowned designer of haute couture shoes and owner of a collection of over 900 pieces of contemporary art, one of the most significant at a European level. The exhibition at the MAMbo explores Esposito’s ... More Jen Stark's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles opens at Martha Otero Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- Martha Otero Gallery presents Jen Stark’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, To the Power Of. Jen Stark’s work is instantly recognizable for its breathtaking color spectrums rendered in mind-bending forms cut from paper, wood and other organic materials. Stark's sculptures seemingly reconstruct elements of time, nature and the cosmos on an exponential scale. She draws inspiration for her works from the rhythmic visual qualities of mandalas and other such sacred objects, while they simultaneously behave like the imagery of topographic maps, geometric repetitions and three-dimensional prisms. This aligns directly with her interest in mathematics: ‘to the power of…’ being a statement of exponential growth also infers the definition of ‘power’ as both the possession of physical or mental control and the fortitude to act decisively. Her unique experience ... More Jeremy Deller's first mid-career survey on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania is presenting Jeremy Deller: Joy in People, the first mid-career survey of this unpredictable, generative, and vibrant artist. Hugely influential, Jeremy Deller (b. 1966, London; lives London) has helped to rewrite the rules of contemporary art over the past two decades by putting people at the center of his work. Operating as forums for discussion, display, and social interactions of all kinds, this work is disarmingly democratic in its muddling of class and cultural hierarchies. The sheer delight Deller takes in various forms of sub and folk cultures--Goth style, Manchester music, pro wrestling, street parades, and historical reenactment societies--transmits itself with a sense of awe at the creativity and zeal with which people resist mainstream values and patterns of consumption. His work explores compelling ... More Irish famine museum opening at Connecticut university By: John Christoffersen, Associated Press
HAMDEN, CONN (AP).- While he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls, the Irish famine was almost a taboo topic. But these days, the Quinnipiac University president and former grand marshal of the New York St. Patrick's Day parade is determined to show the world the horror and learn from the tragedy. Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, which the Connecticut university is opening to the public on Oct. 11 in Hamden, has the world's largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials related to the famine, college officials say. It's known in Irish as Músaem an Ghorta Mhóir. "To have this museum right here I think is going to be a huge draw for Irish-Americans and others," said Lahey, who is 66. "I think it's going to become a nationally known and indeed ... More New York public libraries announce initiative to connect schools citywide to millions of books NEW YORK, NY.- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott, New York Public Library President Tony Marx, Brooklyn Public Library President and CEO Linda E. Johnson, Queens Library President and CEO Thomas W. Galante and Citi Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit today announced the expansion of MyLibraryNYC, an initiative that connects New York City public schools with the millions of books and other learning materials available through the public libraries. MyLibraryNYC supplements the materials available in public school libraries and will provide access to the more than 17 million books and other items that are a part of the New York, Brooklyn and Queens Public Library catalogs to up to 250,000 students in 400 public schools this year and 1.1 million students by 2015. The program is made possible with $5 million in funding from Citi. The ... More Joseph Goebbels love letters fail to sell in Connecticut NEW HAVEN (AP).- A Connecticut auction house says the love letters and other pre-war writings of Adolf Hitler propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels (GUR'-buhls) have failed to sell. Alexander Historical Auctions says it offered the letters, school papers and dramatic works of Goebbels on Thursday. The collection spans the period from Goebbels' childhood to shortly before he joined the Nazi party in 1924. Auction officials had hoped it would sell for more than $200,000. Auction house president Bill Panagopulos says an overseas phone bidder made an offer that was too low and he's disappointed. He says the collection will remain for sale, possibly at a lower price once he talks to the owner. The thousands of pages include Goebbels' college dissertation, report cards, poems, school essays and letters from relatives, friends and girlfriends. ... More |
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