| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | NEW YORK.- Picasso Black and White, the first major exhibition to focus on the artist?s lifelong exploration of a black-and-white palette throughout his prolific career, is being presented at the Guggenheim Museum. In this image: Head of a Horse, Sketch for Guernica (Tête de cheval, étude pour Guernica), Grands-Augustins, Paris, May 2, 1937. Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Bequest of the artist© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: © Archivo fotográfico Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Pace Gallery in London opens Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes | | The Morgan hosts exhibition of master drawings from Munich's Staatliche Graphische Sammlung | | "Mouton De Laine" from the collection of Adelaide de Menil and Edmund S. Carpenter to be offered at Christie's | 
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 81 x 93"© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artist Rights Society, New York (ARS). Courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Following its recent announcement of plans to open a major gallery in Mayfair, Pace London presents Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes at 6 Burlington Gardens from 4 October through 17 November 2012. The inaugural exhibition juxtaposes Mark Rothko's late black and grey paintings with Hiroshi Sugimoto’s contemporary photographs of bodies of water. The exhibition marks the first private gallery presentation of Rothko’s work in London in nearly fifty years and continues Pace’s five-decade tradition of exhibitions that explore affinities between artists working across decades and mediums. Dark Paintings and Seascapes pairs eight acrylic paintings by Rothko and eight gelatin silver prints by Sugimoto, revealing two different artistic approaches that arrive at similar conclusions. Rothko's use of medium as pure abstraction communes with the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto who, decades later, used the medi ... More | | 
Francis Picabia, Masque en transparence (Transparent Mask), 1925. Inv. F 53© Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. The Morgan Library & Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, The Morgan Library & Museum hosts an extraordinary exhibition of rarely-seen master drawings from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, one of Europe’s most distinguished drawings collections. On view October 12, 2012–January 6, 2013, Dürer to de Kooning: 100 Master Drawings from Munich marks the first time such a comprehensive and prestigious selection of works has been lent to a single exhibition. Dürer to de Kooning was conceived in exchange for a show of one hundred drawings that the Morgan sent to Munich in celebration of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung’s 250th anniversary in 2008. The Morgan’s organizing curators were granted unprecedented access to the Graphische Sammlung’s vast holdings, ultimately choosing one hundred masterworks that represent the breadth, depth, and vitality of the collection. The exhibition ... More | | 
François-Xavier Lalanne, ‘Mouton de Laine’ Un Troupeau de 24 Moutons. A flock of 24 sheep, comprising eight standing sheep and 16 grazing sheep. Aluminum, wood and wool. Designed in 1965. Estimate: $4,000,000 – 6,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced that it will offer property from the distinguished collection of Adelaide de Menil and Edmund S. Carpenter as a highlight of its fall sales season. On November 14, 2012, the most important flock of sheep by Francois-Xavier Lalanne ever to come to market leads the auction at Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Evening Sale. Coming from the extraordinary East Hampton estate of Adelaide de Menil and her late husband, the anthropologist, author and broadcaster Edmund (Ted) Carpenter, this whimsical group of animal-shaped sculptures was a centerpiece of the couple’s Further Lane home, ideally nestled in a serene country setting amid a timeless cluster of eighteenth-century eastern Long Island houses and barns. Conceived by the artist in 1965 and acquired directly from Alexander Iolas ... More |
| Old master portraits open windows into the lives of African individuals from all levels of European society | | Van Cleef & Arpels presents a new, more contemporary, interpretation of The Pierre Arpels watch | | Exhibition devoted to Isamu Noguchi's tools, techniques, and studio practice opens | 
Annibale Carracci, attrib., Portrait of an African Slave Woman, ca. 1580s. Oil on canvas, 60 x 39 x 2 cm (fragment of a larger painting), Tomasso Brothers, Leeds, England.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum presents Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, an exhibition exploring the little known presence of Africans and their descendants in Europe from the late 1400s to the early 1600s. The exhibition looks at the roles these individuals played in society. During the European Renaissance, there was a new focus on the identity and perspective of the individual. Africans living or visiting Europe at this time included artists, aristocrats, saints, slaves and diplomats. The exhibition of vivid portraits created from life encourages face to face encounters with these individuals and poses questions about the challenges of color, class and stereotypes that a new diversity brought to Europe. Aspects of this material have been studied by scholars, but ... More | | 
The Pierre Arpels watch pink, gold, and diamonds.
GENEVA.- At Van Cleef & Arpels, each watch tells a story and the Pierre Arpels in particular is part of the Maison’s watchmaking heritage, just as the rarest stones are part of the Maison’s jewellery heritage. Created especially for Pierre Arpels in 1949, the watch that carries his name has become a legend, the symbol of an elegance which is discreet and sophisticated. The lines have stayed the same, but to celebrate the SIHH 2012, Van Cleef & Arpels presents a new, more contemporary, interpretation of this timepiece icon. It is all about style, a sort of essential elegance: a beauty that is not flaunted but suggested. To understand this, all we have to do is observe Pierre Arpels in the opening scene of the French film “Fantômas”, shot in 1964. Van Cleef & Arpels agreed to lend the place Vendôme boutique for the filming of the first scene which is set at a prestigious jeweller’s. Pierre Arpels ... More | | 
Isamu Noguchi working on ceramics in his Kamakura , Japan Studio, c. 1952. Photographer unknown.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Noguchi Museum opened Hammer, Chisel, Drill: Noguchi’s Studio Practice, the first exhibition to explore the distinctive working methods of Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), one of the most critically acclaimed sculptors of the twentieth century. In the course of his peripatetic, sixty-year career, Noguchi established a succession of studios around the world—in the United States, Italy, and Japan—and their geographic locations and cultural milieus profoundly influenced his artistic development and production. With objects drawn from the incomparable holdings of The Noguchi Museum, the display features an array of hand- and industrial tools owned by the artist, archival photos and film footage of Noguchi at work, and a relevant selection of finished as well as unfinished sculptures. The exhibition remains on view through April 28, 2013. Jenny Dixon, director of The ... More |
| American artist Romare Bearden's "Black Odyssey" debuts at Reynolda House Museum of American Art | | The Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge by Stanton Williams wins the RIBA Stirling Prize 2012 | | Dallas Museum of Art presents "Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries" | 
Romare Bearden, Poseidon, The Sea God, 1977, Collage, Courtesy Thompson Collection, Indianapolis, Indiana.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- The first full-scale presentation outside of New York of Romare Bearden's "Odysseus Series" debuted at Reynolda House Museum of American Art on October 13, 2012. "Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey" will be on view through Jan. 13, 2013. In 1977, Romare Bearden (1911–1988), one of the most powerful and original artists of the 20th century, created a cycle of collages and watercolors based on Homer's epic poem, "The Odyssey." Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden's "Odysseus Series" created an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African American culture. The works conveyed a sense of timelessness and the universality of the human condition, but their brilliance was displayed for only two months in New York City before being scattered to private collections and ... More | | 
Sainsbury Laboratory. ©Hufton+Crow.
LONDON.- The Sainsbury Laboratory, a major new plant science research centre in Cambridge by architects Stanton Williams, has won the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize 2012 for the best building of the year. Now in its 17th year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is the UK's most prestigious architecture prize, awarded to the architects of the best new European building built or designed in the UK. The presentation of the RIBA Stirling Prize trophy and £20,000 to Stanton Williams architects took place at a special ceremony this evening (Saturday 13 October) in Manchester, hosted by BBC Radio 4's Mark Lawson. This is the first time that Stanton Williams has won or been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize. With the Sainsbury Laboratory they have achieved world-class architecture for world-class science. Set within the University of Cambridge Botanic Gardens the low-rise, collonaded stone and glass building is carefully designed to comp ... 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.
DALLAS, TX.- This fall, the Dallas Museum of Art presents Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries, an exhibition exploring the earliest days of the affiche artistique (artistic poster) and its flowering in Paris, first under Jules Chéret in the 1870s and 1880s, and then with a new generation of artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre Bonnard. These artists brought the poster to new heights in the 1890s. On view October 14, 2012, through January 20, 2013, the exhibition brings together the finest French examples from the golden age of the poster. “The Dallas Museum of Art is pleased to be one of only two venues to present these bold and captivating posters from Paris at the the turn of the 19th century,” said Maxwell L. Anderson, The Eugene McDermott ... More |
| Ends of the Earth: Land art from the 1960s to 1974 on view at Haus der Kunst in Munich | | "Edouard Baldus and the Modern Landscape" opens at James Hyman Gallery in London | | Dartmouth expands public art initiatives with major installation by projection artist Ross Ashton | 
Keith Arnatt, Liverpool Beach Burial, 1968. Vintage silver gelatin print, printed by the artist, 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches. Estate of Keith Arnatt, London. Photo: courtesy Maureen Paley, London and The Estate of Keith Arnatt.
MUNICH.- As the first major museum exhibition on Land Art, "Ends of the Earth" provides the most comprehensive historical overview of this art movement to date. Land Art used the earth as its material and the land as its medium, thereby creating works beyond the familiar spatial framework of the art system. The time period covered in "Ends of the Earth" spans the 1960s to 1974, when, in the context of Land Art, movements such as Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Happenings, Performance Art, and Arte povera, became more distinct and began to diverge. The nearly 200 works by more than 100 artists from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, the Philippines and Switzerland demonstrate that Land Art was not a predominantly North American phenomenon. The exhibition presents works that are less well known than the canonical works "Spiral Jetty", "Lightning Field" and "Double Negative", thereby creating a shift in perspective. By incl ... More | | 
Edouard Baldus, Pavillon Richelieu, Nouveau Louvre, Paris. Salt print mounted on card, 45 x 34.5 cms (17.69 x 13.56 ins). c.1855.
LONDON.- James Hyman presents a loan exhibition of one of the greatest photographers of the nineteenth century, Edouard Baldus. Remarkably, this is the first major exhibition of Edouard Baldus ever to be staged in London. Acclaimed as the greatest architectural photographer of the nineteenth century, Baldus's prints were some of the largest photographs in existence and pioneered an aesthetic of presenting modernity and the modern city that would have a profound influence on later photographers from the Bechers to John Davies. Baldus was famed for his monumental photographs of the buildings of Paris at a time of massive transition under Napoleon III, Baron Haussman and Viollet-Le-Duc, as well as the depiction of the contemporary landscape of France. The exhibition includes examples of acclaimed works that were exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts magnificent Baldus exhibition of 1996, as well as major rediscov ... More | | 
The work animates each of the five windows of the Hop’s northern façade, an iconic exterior designed by architect Wallace Harrison as a model for his later work on Lincoln Center.
HANOVER, NH.- Dartmouth has commissioned artist and designer Ross Ashton to debut a site-specific light-and-sound installation across the façade of the Hopkins Center of the Arts, in conjunction with “The Hop’s” 50th anniversary and Dartmouth’s ongoing celebration of the arts during the 2012-13 year. The dynamic and large-scale work, titled Five Windows, celebrates the Hop's trailblazing history as one of the first collegiate arts centers in the United States and its role as a regional epicenter of interdisciplinary creativity during the past five decades. On view from October 12 through 16, Five Windows follows the recent installation of major works by Ellsworth Kelly and Louise Bourgeois on campus, and marks the latest example of Dartmouth’s continuing commitment to commissioning and presenting public art by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists. “Five Windows is part of a remarkable roster of public art that is being presented on ... More |
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 Innovative new architects' house in Peckham wins 2012 Stephen Lawrence Prize LONDON.- King’s Grove, an elegant new house squeezed behind two Victorian terraces in Peckham, has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Stephen Lawrence Prize 2012 - an architecture award that recognises fresh talent and smaller construction budgets. The presentation of the award and a £5000 prize to Duggan Morris Architects took place at a dinner in Manchester this evening, hosted by BBC Radio 4’s Mark Lawson. The Stephen Lawrence Prize, sponsored by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, rewards the best examples of projects that have a construction budget of less than £1 million. The prize, set up in memory of the teenager who was setting out on the road to becoming an architect when he was murdered in 1993, is intended to encourage fresh talent working with smaller budgets. Speaking about King’s Grove, the judges said: “We ... More Ronnie Landfield "Where it All Began": Exhibition at New York City's famed High School of Art and Design NEW YORK, NY.- New York City’s famed High School of Art and Design presents an exhibition of paintings by renowned artist and distinguished alumnus Ronnie Landfield entitled Where it All Began celebrating the opening of their stunning new Skidmore Owings and Merrill designed building. The exhibition will take place in the school’s ground floor Kenny Gallery at East 56th and 2nd Ave in Manhattan and will be open to the public Monday through Friday 1-5. In 1960, at age 13, Ronnie Landfield was in the first class of students to begin their high school studies in what was then the “new” High School of Art and Design which opened that year. Now he is back celebrating a new building for the school which is “where it all began” for him. Since then Bronx born Landfield has had over 60 solo exhibitions around the world. His work is included in the collections of more than 40 museums and public ... More The Path to Crystal Bridges: New exhibition showcases the work of architect Moshe Safdie BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is known not only for its remarkable collection of American masterworks, but also for its breathtaking architecture and natural setting. The museum was designed by international architect Moshe Safdie, with specific attention to integrating the building complex with the landscape and providing a venue in which guests could enjoy art, architecture, and nature simultaneously. On October 13, Crystal Bridges opened Moshe Safdie: The Path to Crystal Bridges, a temporary exhibition that traces the fascinating design development of the museum by showcasing four of Safdie’s earlier buildings whose architecture helped to inform Crystal Bridges. This exhibition illuminates Safdie’s path to Crystal Bridges by highlighting his aesthetic language of transcendent light, powerful geometric form, and metaphoric imagery. Moshe ... More World-wide quest uncovers cross-cultural world's fairs art objects PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art’s exhibition Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 presents over 200 objects from 88 years of fairs, together for the first time. Co-curated by Jason T. Busch, Chief Curator and The Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at Carnegie Museum of Art, and Catherine L. Futter, The Helen Jane and R. Hugh “Pat” Uhlmann Curator of Decorative Arts at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Inventing the Modern World showcases objects painstakingly assembled from European and American collections. For Busch, the exhibition represents a true achievement, since “the exhibition checklist comprises decorative arts unattainable as a group in any one museum in the world.” Futter adds, “We looked at literally thousands of decorative arts from around the globe….We kept refining our choices ... More Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art appoints Hunter O'Hanian Museum Director NEW YORK, NY.- After an extensive nationwide search, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the world’s first and only museum focused on LGBT art, announced today the appointment of its first Director since it became an official museum in 2011. Hunter O’Hanian will join the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art as its Director in October 2012. In addition, he will serve as the Executive Director of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation. Jonathan D. Katz, President of the Leslie- Lohman Museum’s Board of Trustees, commented that “Hunter brings the right mix of qualities for our first Director; a deep well of experience in arts management, a commitment to queer art, a track record in fundraising and, not least, the management skills to move the Museum, already gaining attention for its innovative exhibitions, into the first rank. We are a national, even ... More Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents "The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg" SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Swedish-born artist Nathalie Djurberg’s unsettling avian menagerie takes flight this fall at YBCA. In addition to the wild flock of more than stunning 80 freestanding bird sculptures on view, the exhibition also includes five animated films, in which avian psychology is superimposed upon human behavior with extraordinary results. Using actual bird species as inspiration for her sometimes grotesque figures, Djurberg explores physical and psychological transformation as well as pageantry, perversion and abjection. Her clay animations are set to music and sound effects by her partner and collaborator Hans Berg. Djurberg’s nightmarish cinematic tales depict the depths of jealousy, revenge, lust, submission, gluttony and other primal emotions with an unblinking eye. In conjunction with the exhibition The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg, YBCA ... More Moon rock brings $330,000 to lead $1,066,000+ meteorite event at Heritage Auctions NEW YORK, NY.- The sky did indeed fall, as prices rose for the best examples of aesthetic meteorites, in New York City on Sunday, Oct. 14, in the packed auction room at the Fletcher Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America) when Heritage Auctions’ Natural History Signature® Meteorite Auction, featuring more than 125 select meteorites – many with museum provenance – realized $1,066,106 (all prices include Buyers Premium). “The enthusiasm among collectors for these rare, aesthetic space rocks was just tremendous,” said Jim Walker, Director of Nature & Science at Heritage Auctions, “and the top prices that collectors were willing to pay for the prime examples reflected that passion.” The auction’s centerpiece, the fourth largest piece of the Moon ever made available to the public, with a final price realized of $330,000, led the day. “This Moon rock is easily worthy of the finest n ... More |
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