| Important discoveries to be presented at Europe's premier Old Masters fair: Paris Tableau | | LACMA presents The X, Y, and Z portfolios by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe | | Male nude posters plaster Vienna, draw complaints, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode | 
Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569 – 1622), Louis XIII, King of France, with the Sash and Badge of the Order of Saint Esprit. Oil on canvas: 28 x 21 ½ in. (71 x 55 cm.)
PARIS.- Led by the dealer Maurizio Canesso and Hervé Aaron, Paris Tableau will welcome twenty one international galleries specializing in Old Master paintings. The Fair has come into being in response to the perceived need for a single discipline Old Master paintings fair, allowing collectors to see a breadth of work in a rarified and specialist environment. Last year, sixty major paintings were sold in just five days. Amongst the discoveries at the fair is 'The Vision of St Anthony of Padua', by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, which will be presented by Galeria Caylus from Madrid. Offered at auction in 2010 as ‘Studio of Murillo’, the painting has since been identified by experts as by the artist himself. The beautiful oil sketch was painted as a preparatory study of the artist ́s final work, formerly in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, which was destroyed in 1945. Both the present and final works have been ... More | | 
Robert Mapplethorpe, Jim, Sausalito (X Portfolio), 1977, Gelatin silver print, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Jointly acquired by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Partial Gift of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; partial purchase with funds by the David Geffen Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust, © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents three portfolios created by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). The exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ, features a total of thirty-nine black-and-white photographs, exploring three subject matters: homosexual sadomasochistic imagery (X, published in 1978); flower still lifes (Y, 1978); and nude portraits of African American men (Z, 1981). LACMA’s presentation will showcase the works in three rows—X above, Y in the middle, and Z along the bottom—an idea which was suggested by Mapplethorpe in 1989. “Robert Mapplethorpe is among the most important photographic artists of the twentieth ... More | | 
Two people walk past a poster showing three naked men which has had red tape added to cover the sensitive parts of the three men. AP Photo/Ronald Zak.
By: George Jahn, Associated Press
VIENNA (AP).- Naked men of all sizes and shapes are appearing on Vienna kiosks as a prestigious museum kicks off an exhibit of male nudity. But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that the ad posters are offensive. In a show titled "Nude Men from 1800 to Today," the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday to examine how artists have dealt with the theme of male nudity over the centuries. "Mr. Big" — a four-meter (more than 12-foot) high full-frontal photo mounted on plywood and depicting a naked young man in an indolent sprawl — is set up near the show's entrance, lest there be any doubt what visitors are about to see. Inside, around 300 art works are on display — including the controversial photograph that is raising the ire of Viennese. Created by French artists Pierre & ... More |
| Unflinching moving image works by Steve McQueen presented at the Art Institute | | Kunsthaus Zürich presents investigations into the Giacometti plasters | | Judge sides with DC Comics in fight over Superman, heirs of superhero's co-creator signed away copyrights | 
Steve McQueen. Current, 1999. Photo courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York /Paris, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
CHICAGO, IL.- With the largest collection of work by the artist in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago presents Steve McQueen, the first museum survey devoted to his career. Fourteen of McQueen’s works, including the never-before-seen End Credits (2012), is expansively presented in the Art Institute’s Regenstein Hall from October 21, 2012 through January 6, 2013, offering visitors a rare opportunity to immerse themselves in his captivating and incisive art. Co-organized with Schaulager Basel, the exhibition will be on view in Switzerland from March 1 through July 7, 2013. One of today’s leading visual artists, McQueen combines formal and spatial explorations with a potent, and at times confrontational, political consciousness. His moving-image works take a tight focus on the world and explore a manifold of themes, including exoticism, relationships, and violence, all while combining and recombining th ... More | | 
Installation view Kunsthaus Zürich, October 2012. Photo: Lena Huber. Works: © 2012 Succession Alberto Giacometti / ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- Until 17 February 2013, the Kunsthaus Zürich is presenting the initial results of research and restoration on the plasters by Alberto Giacometti. Visitors will encounter both plasters whose forms were used for the celebrated bronze casts and plaster sculptures that, following analysis, can now be definitively classified as works of art in their own right. These findings will form the basis for the phase of restoration and conservation that is scheduled for completion in 2014. In 2006 Bruno and Odette Giacometti donated their share of Alberto’s then undistributed estate, including almost 80 original plasters, to the Alberto Giacometti Foundation in Zurich. Discussions about the degree of restoration required highlighted the difficulty of distinguishing between dirt and damage on the one hand, and traces of the various moulding processes on the other. It was also unclear whether all the plasters could indeed be categorized as originals or ‘one-offs,’ or w ... More | | 
The cover of "Superman" No. 1, is shown. AP Photo/DC Comics, File.
By: Anthony McCartney, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- DC Comics will retain its rights to Superman after a judge ruled Wednesday that the heirs of one of the superhero's co-creators signed away their ability to reclaim copyrights to the Man of Steel roughly 20 years ago. The ruling means that DC Comics and its owner Warner Bros. will retain all rights to continue using the character in books, films, television and other mediums, including a the film reboot planned for next year. DC Comics sued the heirs of artist Joe Shuster in 2010, seeking a ruling that they lost their ability to try to reclaim the superhero's copyrights in 1992. U.S. District Court Judge Otis Wright II agreed, stating that Shuster's sister and brother relinquished any chance to reclaim Superman copyrights in exchange for annual pension payments from DC Comics. Shuster and writer Jerry Siegel created Superman, who made his comic book debut in 1938 in Action ... More |
| MoMA PS1 presents a thematic exhibition investigating the nature of images in contemporary art today | | Exhibition of recent paintings, prints, and tapestries by Chuck Close opens at the Pace Gallery in New York | | Rowan and Erwan Bouroullec's first major solo show in the U.S. in almost ten years opens in Chicago | 
Margaret Lee. Cucumber (on the wall), 2012. Archival pigment print. 9 x 14 inches. Courtesy the artist and Jack Hanley Gallery.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents New Pictures of Common Objects, a thematic exhibition investigating the nature of images today. Treating images as raw material, these five artists work in a range of media including sculpture, video, photography, and installation. They recognize the elastic and diffuse nature of images, utilizing pictures that may or may not be created by themselves to challenge expectations of genre, form, and meaning. New Pictures of Common Objects is curated by MoMA PS1 Assistant Curator Christopher Y. Lew and is on view in the Second Floor Project Rooms at MoMA PS1 from October 21 through December 31, 2012. The title of the exhibition references the 1962 show New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps. This early survey examined how artists first engaged with mass consumption and popular culture. Today artists have a very different relationship to these topics. The divisions between high a ... More | | 
Lucas, 2011. Jacquard tapestry, 87" x 74" (221 cm x 188 cm). Edition of 6 + 2 APs© Chuck Close, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo by: Donald Farnsworth, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace presents an exhibition of recent paintings, prints, and tapestries by Chuck Close. Close has been represented by Pace since 1977. The exhibition is on view from October 19 through December 22, 2012 at 534 West 25th Street. For more than five decades, Close has captured his friends and family in portraits that are as abstract as they are realistic, executed in a diverse range of media and techniques. The vehicles for Close’s mark-making range from oil paint, airbrush, and finger printing, to paper pulp, colored pencil, and photography—including the Daguerreotype, which, like the artist’s jacquard tapestries, revived a centuries-old-tradition, propelling an antiquated technique into the modern era. This exhibition includes the first presentation of Close’s newest experiment with technology: watercolor prints. “Invention,” Storr writes, “plays ... More | | 
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Photo © Ola Rindal.
CHICAGO, IL.- This rare exhibition of work by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec traces their design career over fifteen years of collaboration and constant evolution. Their first major solo show in the United States in almost ten years, Rowan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac is organized by the Centre Pompidou-Metz and highlights their exceptional international career, during which the brothers have become widely recognized as two of the most exciting and innovative designers working today. On view from October 20, 2012 to January 20, 2013 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, this exhibition shows how their work is at once conceptual, flexible, and elegant, offering adaptability for diverse and changing environments and spaces. Since they began collaborating in the late 1990s, the Bouroullecs have brought a visionary energy to international contemporary design. They consider their studio to be a laboratory, con ... More |
| Royal Ontario Museum researchers publish new theory on origin of flightless birds | | CAM Raleigh presents new artworks in exhibition by Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero | | StolenSpace Gallery opens Shepard Fairey's second solo exhibition in London | 
Allan Baker, Vice President/Senior Curator (Ornithology) Natural History Department with Dinornis robustus or the “South Island Giant”. Photo: Oliver Haddrath.
TORONTO.- New DNA studies by Royal Ontario Museum researchers indicate that two opposing views on the origin of ratites, large flightless birds originating on the southern supercontinent Gondwana, might both be correct. Dr. Allan J. Baker, Head of the ROM’s Department of Natural History and Oliver Haddrath, Research Technician, Ornithology Division, Department of Natural History at the ROM, studied the ancient DNA of New Zealand moas (extinct flightless birds), using molecular dating. The study showed that three of the ratite lineages diverged at around the same time as the northern and southern continents fragmented, however, two of the lineages had subsequently flown to the continents they now live on. This study provides important evidence to the ongoing controversial debate on whether or not flightless birds, such ... More | | 
Angel Otero, Untitled, Fired porcelain and steel. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta Chicago Berlin.
RALEIGH, NC.- CAM Raleigh’s latest Independent Weekly Gallery Emerging Artist Series exhibition by Angel Otero is a museum premiere of new works and the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. The exhibition, consisting primarily of new artworks including never-been-exhibited sculpture made from steel and porcelain, opened October 19, 2012. CAM Raleigh Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder says, “The history of painting is over 4,000 years old. In that time, art historians can point to only a handful of moments when an artist created a new process for creating visual art with pigment and Angel has cemented himself into that historical discussion with methods that push the limits of painting. We also have an amazing example of Otero’s new work on loan from local collector and North Carolina Museum of Art director Larry Wheeler.” Otero’s painting process is anything but conventional—he spen ... More | | 
Sedation of Millions.
LONDON.- StolenSpace Gallery announced a solo exhibition of work by Shepard Fairey. This is Fairey’s second major London exhibition, following his collaboration with the Gallery in 2007. It features a range of new works including mixed media paintings on canvas, works on paper, retired stencils collages, rubylith cuts, and as well as serigraphs on wood, metal and paper Entitled Sound and Vision, the exhibition title is taken from the David Bowie song of the same name. Bowie has been a major influence on Fairey, because he was able to master music and visual presentation with equal virtuosity. Music is an artistic medium that Fairey reveres almost more than he does visual art. He comments: “Music is visceral, but also has the additional powerful layers of the lyrics, with their content and politics, and the style, politics, and personalities of the musicians themselves. No matter how much I love art, or try to convince myself of its relevance in society, the fact remain ... More |
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 New York based artist Juliana Cerqueria Leite opens second solo show with TJ Boulting LONDON.- TJ Boulting is presenting the second solo show with the gallery of Brazilian and New York based artist Juliana Cerqueria Leite. The work in this show stems from her consistent investigations into the physical action of her own body in space with materials. In particular this new work regards ideas of mirroring and movement. As such, the title of the show ‘Portmanteau’ refers to the linguistic mechanism of morphing two existing words together to create a new one. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a large sculpture, of two separate latex forms joined in the centre; one describing the artist’s movement up stairs and the other down. This stemmed from the artist responding to the unique situation of the gallery’s underground space, and the very specific motion of going down the stairs and exiting through an inverse mirroring of this motion. The two parts were cast from a large ... More Florida man charged in New York dinosaur fossils case By: Suzette Laboy, Associated Press
MIAMI (AP).- A Florida man was charged Wednesday with smuggling dinosaur fossils into the United States, including a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus Bataar skeleton from Mongolia, federal prosecutors said. Eric Prokopi, a self-described "commercial paleontologist" who buys and sells whole and partial dinosaur skeletons, was arrested at his home in Gainesville, according to a complaint unsealed by prosecutors. He was charged with smuggling goods into the U.S. and interstate sale and receipt of stolen goods. He also faces one count of conspiracy to smuggle illegal goods, possess stolen property and make false statements. If convicted on all of the charges, he could face up to 35 years in prison. Prokopi made an appearance Wednesday in ... More Mid-career retrospective of the work of Irish artist Alice Maher opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art DUBLIN.- A major mid-career retrospective of the work of leading Irish artist Alice Maher opened to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s temporary exhibition spaces in Earlsfort Terrace. Becoming charts the development of Maher’s practice over 25 years, from her early drawings, paintings and sculptural works, to a new film work specially commissioned by IMMA for the exhibition. The title points to the evolutionary processes which are at the heart of many of Maher’s individual works and which inform her entire practice. The layered history of the Earlsfort Terrace building, as a university and a former seat of government, and its labyrinthine nature have also influenced the presentation of the exhibition, with works from different periods occupying the same spaces, creating new associations and illuminating recurring themes. Becoming illustrates the particular philosophical arena in ... More Chrysler Museum introduces Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak and her interactive installation to America NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition by Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak, marking the first time her celebrated interactive installation Temporary Insanity has been shown in the United States. The exhibition opens on October 19 and admission is free. A field of red, orange, and yellow silk-covered forms transforms the Museum’s Bernini Gallery into a meditative space. Each pillowy form rocks to its own rhythm and shakes to the sound of footsteps. For Sanpitak, there’s meaning beyond the movement. The soft forms suggest Buddhist stupas as well as bodily shapes, and their gentle swaying and excited shaking mimic universal human emotions. “This exhibition invites viewers to lose themselves within an interactive environment that is at once dynamic and contemplative,” said Amy Brandt, Ph.D., the Chrysler’s McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary ... More The Hilton Brothers: 'Andy Dandy and other works' at galerie hiltawsky in Berlin BERLIN.- On October 18th, the Berlin-based photo gallery hiltawsky opened the latest exhibition by the New York photographers Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg, a.k.a. The Hilton Brothers. Christopher Makos, whose works are currently shown in the exhibition 'Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists. Fifty Years' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), has been an important and influential member of the international art and glamour scene since the 1970s. When he met Andy Warhol in 1975, an intense, creative and innovative friendship was born. Makos not only taught Warhol how to use a camera, but also introduced him to the works of Keith Haring and Jean-Michael Basquiat. Today, Christopher Makos is called the “visual biographer” of Andy Warhol on the one hand, and works as one of the Hilton Brothers on the other hand. Paul Solberg, a rising photographic force, known ... More Constructivist sculpture exhibition opens at The Ukrainian Museum NEW YORK, NY.- A solo exhibition entitled Ron Kostyniuk: Art as Nature Analogue comprised of twenty-eight unique constructivist relief sculptures opened at The Ukrainian Museum on October 21, 2012. Art as Nature Analogue is on view through January 13, 2013. This exhibition illustrates Ron Kostyniuk's fascination with biology and the structuring process found in nature, and from his interest in the work of modernist and constructivist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Archipenko, Charles Biederman, Naum Gabo, and Vladimir Tatlin. The selected works span the period from 1967 to 2011 and represent the evolution of his constructive relief sculptures in a number of series that comprise his creative output. Ron Kostyniuk's works have been exhibited throughout Canada, U.S.A., Asia, and Europe, and are included in many museum and private collections. The artistic community ... More |
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