| Art Basel announces strong lineup of galleries for Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 | | Love and Death: Victorian paintings from Tate on view at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | | Exhibition of new work by renowned Pop artist James Rosenquist opens at Acquavella Galleries | 
Makoto Saito, Prayer (Yellow), 2011-2012, acrylic and oil ink on canvas , 69 1/4 x 61 3/8 inches. Image courtesy of the artist/Paul Kasim Gallery.
MIAMI, FL.- This year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will feature 257 leading international galleries, with work ranging from the Modern period of the early 20th century to the most contemporary. Application numbers have again been high, exceeding those for 2011, with more than 680 galleries competing to participate. Taking place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 6 to December 9, 2012, the show, whose main sponsor is UBS, will present a geographically diverse selection of galleries from 31 countries across five continents. Roughly 50 percent of the galleries come from the United States and Latin America. Exhibiting galleries include 99 from the United States; 34 from Germany; 18 from France; 19 from Great Britain; 14 from Brazil; 11 from Italy; 10 from Switzerland; 9 each from Spain; 4 each from Austria, Belgium and Mexico; 3 each from ... More | | 
Herbert Draper, The Lament for Icarus, 1898. Oil on canvas. ©Tate London 2012.
BIRMINGHAM.- This autumn eleven of the most spectacular Victorian paintings in the national collection have traveled to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for a special exhibition. Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate features major late 19th-century paintings from Tate alongside related works from Birmingham Museums’ own collections. The centrepiece is John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott (1888), one of Tate's most famous and popular paintings, which rarely travels outside London. The eleven loans from Tate are complemented by paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from Birmingham Museums’ own collection, giving a context to showcase important Victorian works that have rarely been shown in recent years. These include Frederic Leighton’s preparatory oil for And The Sea Gave Up The Dead That Were In It (c.1892) and an exquisite pencil study by the same artist for the profile of the dead ... More | | 
James Rosenquist, The Multiverse You Are, I Am. Oil on canvas, 2012, 132 x 120 inches © James Rosenquist / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Acquavella Galleries presents Multiverse You Are, I Am, an exhibition of new work by renowned Pop artist James Rosenquist from September 10th to October 13th, 2012. The exhibition features eleven paintings – two of which are monumental in scale – that reflect the artist’s continued interest in time and outer space. James Rosenquist is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. Known for his leadership in the American Pop Art movement, James Rosenquist began his career as a billboard painter in New York City. This experience inspired him to work on a large scale. With bright Day-Glo colors and a sleek aesthetic, Rosenquist’s early work juxtaposed fragmented images derived from advertising to create enigmatic, thought- provoking narratives that foster a dialogue about consumer culture. Throughout the ... More |
| Catalog now online: Antiquities, Ancient & Pre-Columbian Art Live Auction on September 14 | | Exhibition at Saatchi Gallery displays chess sets designed by the world's leading contemporary artists | | Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida spotlights prints by American women | 
An Egyptian Faience Flat Amulet of Son of Horus. 3-5/16"H x 3/4"W. Attached to a black lucite block.
BOULDER COUNTY, CO.- In a collecting category as highly-specialized as ancient antiquities, the most valuable asset an auction house can possess is not a 2,500-year-old Egyptian statue or a rare Pre-Columbian artifact – it is integrity, reputation, and expertise. On September 14th, 2012, Antiquities-Saleroom.com, a fully-owned subsidiary of Artemis Gallery Ancient Art, will offer 240+ lots from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Italy, the Near East, Fast East, as well as Pre-Columbian Art from the Ancient Americas (Mexico, Central and South America). This one day live auction will be hosted online exclusively on the LiveAuctioneers.com bidding platform. Bidders can choose to bid live on the day of the sale or leave absentee bids anytime up until the day before bidding begins. “All items of ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin Chess, 2003. Porcelain, wood and leather. Case/board: 75 x 200 (diameter) cm© Yayoi Kusama, 2003. Courtesy RS&A.
LONDON.- The Art of Chess brings together 16 chess sets designed by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists in celebration of the ‘game of kings’ and its continued relevance to the creative arts. These specially commissioned chess sets have been created by: Maurizio Cattelan, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Oliver Clegg, Tracey Emin, Tom Friedman, Paul Fryer, Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Paul McCarthy, Alastair Mackie, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Matthew Ronay,Tunga, Gavin Turk and Rachel Whiteread. Each set is individually crafted in a wide variety of different materials including wood, porcelain, glass, amber and silver. This exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery is the first time that all 16 chess sets are displayed together and it is also be the first public showing ... More | | 
Betye Saar, Return to Dreamland, 1990. Intaglio and screenprint on paper. Promised Gift of Martha and Jim Sweeny. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, N.Y.©Betye Saar.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Contemporary Prints by American Women: A Selection from the Gift of Martha and Jim Sweeny features approximately 30 prints from this growing collection of more than 60. The group of artists reads like a “Who’s Who in American Art,” but the selection is more than a gathering of illustrious names. These are often signature works and reveal the MFA’s commitment to the art of our time. The vast majority of these artists remain at the forefront, still pushing boundaries. This impressive introduction to the collection is on view from September 8, 2012-February 2, 2013. This collection and exhibition would not be possible without Martha and Jim Sweeny, who have made an enormous difference in the life of the Museum. ... More |
| Green Art Gallery Dubai presents "Wounds", a new series of works by Syrian photographer Jaber Al Azmeh | | Phillips de Pury & Co. announces highlights from its Contemporary Art Under the Influence auction | | Solo exhibition of historical and recent works by Braco Dimitrijević at Sperone Westwater | 
Jaber Al Azmeh, The People, 2012 (detail). Printed on cotton paper, ed of 3, 50 x 75 cm.
DUBAI.- For the opening of the fall season, Green Art Gallery is presenting ‘Wounds’, a series of works by Syrian photographer Jaber Al Azmeh. This series began and evolved along with the revolutionary movements happening in Syria during the crucial first ten months that the country was in turmoil. Photographing individuals from his social circle, including those who were actively part of the revolutionary movement, Al Azmeh asked his subjects to re-enact and perform the stories that they had witnessed or heard about from what was happening in the streets. As the protests and violence increased, Al Azmeh along with many other activists and critics of the current regime had to leave their country for their own safety. Isolated and left with only stories that he heard about the events unfolding within Syria, Al Azmeh eventually became the protagonist of his own work, re-enacting and photographing himself as he transf ... More | | 
Kelly Walker, Untitled, 2007. Estimate $150,000-200,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced highlights from its Contemporary Art Under the Influence auction taking place on 20 September 2012 at 450 Park Avenue. Under the Influence, the season’s first auction, serves as both a forecast of trends in collecting contemporary art and as a platform for bringing new works from both emerging and established artists to market. “This auction bears testimony to the strength of the present market and speaks to the unique competency of Phillips de Pury in bringing the ‘next and best’ to the auction block.” – Corey A. Barr, Specialist and Head of Sale. KELLEY WALKER Untitled, 2007 estimated at $150,000-200,000. In coating the recycling sign—one of the artists’ most recognizable themes—in gold, Walker continues to challenge his audience with tactical games where both form and concept are concerned. This work evokes the pretense ... More | | 
Braco Dimitrijević, Tolerance II, 1998. Digital color print, Edition of 5 and 3 AP. Edition: 2/5. 31 x 23 3/4 inches frame. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting a solo exhibition of historical and recent works by Braco Dimitrijević. The conceptual artist first exhibited at Galleria Sperone in Turin in 1974 and in New York in 1975. On the Bowery this September, he presents a monumental obelisk sculpture, an inscribed marble slab, a group of photographic works and a video piece resulting from his installations with living animals. The exhibition is on view 6 September through 27 October 2012. Dimitrijević first gained international attention in 1970s with his "Casual Passerby" series, where photo-portraits of anonymous people were displayed on prominent facades in European and American cities. At the core of Dimitrijević’s philosophy is his idea of "Post History", which he defines in his 1976 book, Tractatus Post Historicus, as the ... More |
| Leo Villareal's computer-driven imagery on view at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art | | Former diplomat Jota Castro opens largest exhibition of his work at Museum Het Domein | | Georgia Museum of Art exhibits large, minimalist 1970s sculptures by De Wain Valentine | 
nstallation view of Leo Villareal at the San Jose Museum of Art. Top: Double Hexad, 2002. Plexiglas, LEDs, stainless steel, custom software, and electrical hardware, 30 x 30 x 7 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Gering & López Gallery, New York. Bottom: Amanecer, 2010. LEDs, diffusion material, custom software, and electrical hardware, 84 x 240 x 15 inches. Private Collection, Courtesy Collection Galleria Javier López, Madrid. Photo © San Jose Museum of Art.
MADISON, WI.- A pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven imagery, Leo Villareal is increasingly renowned for his sculptural and architectural works that use light to engage audiences in immersive, highly sensory experiences. With more than fifteen sculptures and expansive installations, as well as video documentation of his architectural, site-specific works, Leo Villareal is the artist’s first major traveling museum survey. The exhibition is on view at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art from September 9 to December 30, 2012. Leo Villareal traces the development of the artist’s work over the past decade, from his earliest experiments using a limited ... More | | 
Jota Castro, Seguro, 2010, mixed media. Courtesy Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.
SITTARD.- Jota Castro (Lima, Peru, 1965), a French-Peruvian artist living in Brussels, Belgium, is one of today’s most prominent activist artists. At the end of the 1990s he retired from his work as a diplomat at the European Union and the United Nations to devote himself fully to his activities as an artist and curator. Castro has curated exhibitions including The Fear Society / Pabellón de la Urgencia for the 2009 Venice Biënnale and more recently, Dublin Contemporary 2011. In his artistic work, he exposes the machinations of contemporary (consumer) society, sometimes with biting, politically incorrect humor, and he champions the protection of intellectual freedom and democracy. Castro’s exhibition at Museum Het Domein deals with problems caused by the global economic crisis and developments in European politics. In a 2005 interview with Jerôme Sans, Jota Castro posited that ‘Society is changing and the powe ... More | | 
Lavender Column, 1968, 69.5 x 23.25 x 5.25 inches (tapers to 21 x 5/8 inches at top). Collection of Beau Randall Ott.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents a definitive exhibition of large-scale works by the American sculptor De Wain Valentine from Sept. 8, 2012, to Jan. 27, 2013. The exhibition, “De Wain Valentine: Human Scale,” features eight translucent sculptures, most measuring between six and eight feet tall. Valentine was already working with plastics when he moved from Colorado to the California coast in 1965, where he began a “love affair with the sea and the sky” and sought to render them in his art. He and his peers using similar materials—Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Helen Pashgian, Peter Alexander and others—got the label “Finish Fetish” from critics, implying an obsession with material that was attributed to the region’s aerospace industry and surfboard and car culture. Although he was the most technically advanced of the group (he partnered w ... More |
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 Chicago-based artist Dan Peterman presents work at DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum LINCOLN, MASS.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents PLATFORM 10: Dan Peterman, the tenth project in the PLATFORM series. Since the 1980s, Chicago-based artist Dan Peterman has worked at the intersection of art and ecology. Through the creation of minimal sculptures, installations, and functional objects that often rely upon reclaimed, reconfigured, or recycled materials, Peterman explores how art can be at once critical and poetic, socially engaged and subtly provocative. As part of the ongoing PLATFORM series, in which artists are invited to present work which responds to deCordova’s unique indoor and outdoor spaces, Peterman has sited his reprocessed plastic sculpture—Love Podium (2006)—on the Main Entrance Plaza of the museum as a functional stage for visitor debates and spoken word performances. Love Podium is a stark grey platform ... More Sotheby's to offer magnificent jewels from the Collection of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer an important selection of jewelry from the collection of philanthropist, arts patron and collector Mrs. Charles Wrightsman in a dedicated auction on 5 December 2012 in New York. Magnificent Jewels from the Collection of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman will comprise more than 60 lots reflective of Mrs. Wrightsman’s elegant personal style, with historically important pieces spanning from 19th century diamond jewels to contemporary designs by JAR – evidence of her comprehensive taste and connoisseurship. Select highlights from the sale will travel to Hong Kong, Geneva, Los Angeles and London* before returning for exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 1 December, alongside the auction of Magnificent Jewels. “It is a privilege to offer these superb jewels from Mrs. Wrightsman’s collection,” commented Lisa ... More Trees and Stones: Andrea Branzi's first exhibition in the United States opens at Friedman Benda NEW YORK, NY.- On September 11th, Friedman Benda will present Trees and Stones, Andrea Branzi’s first gallery exhibition in the United States. An exemplary social thinker, professor, architect, and designer, Branzi has been a fundamental influence on contemporary design in Italy and abroad since the early 1960s. Here he offers the latest works in his Trees series and unveils a new body of work, Stones, beside it. Since his emergence at the forefront of the 1960s and 1970s Italian radical design movements, Branzi has sought to reconcile design and architecture with the challenges of contemporary society. He was among the first thinkers to consider and integrate issues of unlimited supply, the mass-production of images and products, and the over-saturation of cities with conflicting aesthetics. Decades of thought-work and experimentation have produced Trees and Stones, gestures ... More Berlin sculptor Jürgen Drescher opens first exhibition in Brussels at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen By: Barbara Buchmaier
BRUSSELS.- What do you get? The artist asks the viewer: “What do you get?” What can I convey through my works? How much of that comes through to you? There is no unambiguous answer to these questions, because usually no surveys are carried out, and it is surely also always a question of viewers’ readiness and mood, of their taste, and of their previous experience—all of which shape their reactions. In his first solo exhibition in Brussels, the Berlin sculptor Jürgen Drescher (b. 1955) has created a distinctive mise-en-scène of a selection of three-dimensional objects; some of these have been executed in two different forms and are presented in a juxtaposition of sorts. In his work, the artist constantly interrogates the socio-political potential of art and ... More London-based artist Kevin Francis Gray's first exhibition with Haunch of Venison opens in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Haunch of Venison is showing London-based artist Kevin Francis Gray’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition showcases several of Gray’s porcelain, bronze and marble sculptures that merge elements of both classicism and the sculpted human form with an aesthetic that contextualises the work firmly within the visual landscape of contemporary society. Drawn heavily from both popular culture and the gritty reality of an uncompromised urban life, Gray’s subjects are people from the neighborhood surrounding his studio in London who he approached in chance meetings on the street. Gray frequently works with his subjects on multiple pieces, forming a lasting relationship between the artist and sitter. Depicted in classical form with materials often reserved for immortalizing grand historical figures, Gray’s work injects dignity and admiration into an often ... More Dalton Ghetti: 9-11 Memorial (3000 Tears) opens at Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University FAIRFIELD, CT.- Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Museum of Art, commemorates the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 by presenting the exhibition Dalton Ghetti: 9-11 Memorial (3000 Tears), which opens on Tuesday, September 11, 2012, and is on view through October 13, 2012. This exhibition marks the launch of the Bellarmine Museum’s new “pop-up” art series, which highlights contemporary works by dynamic artists with little advance notice, at unpredictable intervals and for just a few weeks at a time, all for the greater enrichment and enjoyment of Bellarmine Museum’s diverse audiences. Mr. Ghetti’s exhibition includes 3000 Tears, his tribute to 9/11, as well as three other works: Twin Towers, 2007, Sewing Needle and Spool, 2003, and Church, 1990. Artist Dalton M. Ghetti (b.1961) was deeply affected by the events on September 11, 2001; so much so that he was moved to create ... More Fine clocks, Renaissance art and important tapestries among highlights of Bonhams Fall auction NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams auction of Fine Furniture, Silver, Decorative Arts & Clocks on September 24 opens the New York furniture auction season at its 580 Madison Avenue salesroom with approximately 500 lots from several important private collections. For the first time at Bonhams in New York, a special section of the furniture auction will be devoted to Fine European and American Clocks, with nearly 50 lots of high quality timepieces. This sale has something for all clock enthusiasts, including marine chronometers, carriage clocks, longcase clocks, skeleton clocks, musical clocks and much more. Bonhams is exceedingly pleased to present its fine and rare examples of American, English and Continental clocks, some of which have not seen a public auction in close to a century. In addition to the exciting and diverse timepieces on view, three private collections of ... More |
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