| Art Gallery of Ontario presents major survey of masterworks by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera | | Galeria Caylus to present a rediscovered Murillo from Dudley House at Paris Tableau | | Denver Art Museum brings together 70 works by van Gogh to reveal key steps in his artistic evolution | 
Diego Rivera, Self-Portrait 1941. Oil on canvas 68 X 92 cm. Collection of Michael Audain, Vancouver. © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D. F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
TORONTO.- This fall, the Art Gallery of Ontario will present a major survey of masterworks by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two renowned and prolific early 20th-century painters whose work continues to resonate with viewers around the world. Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting features 75 works by the artists, drawn primarily from the collection of Mexico’s Museo Dolores Olmedo. These works highlight Rivera and Kahlo’s lives together and apart, their politics and relationship to society and how their passionate views and activism influenced their work. The exhibition will be at the AGO from Oct. 20, 2012 through Jan. 20, 2013. Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting is presented in collaboration with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, which will display the exhibition in February 2013. This relationship signals a continuation of the AGO’s commitment to working with the world’s most este ... More | | 
Bartolome Esteban Murillo, (Seville, 1617-1682), “The vision of Saint Anthony of Padua” (detail). Oil on canvas, 61 x 39.7 cm.
LONDON.- This beautiful oil sketch of The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua was painted by Murillo as a preparatory study of the artist´s final work (165 by 200 cm.), formerly in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, but destroyed in 1945. Both the present and final work have been dated by scholars towards the end of the great Sevillian master´s career, circa 1670-1680. The ex-Berlin picture is recorded through an old black and white photograph and the composition also exists in another version, of lesser quality, formerly in the collection of the Earl of Rosebery ( until sold London, Sotheby´s, 9 December 1987, lot 40), which was given to the Countess of Rosebery as a wedding gift by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1878. Murillo produced oil sketches as an integral part of his working technique and some thirty seven still survive today, although many more must have been lost. The artist´s “prima idea” for the present composition appears to be a drawing, today conserved ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, 1887. Oil on canvas. Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
DENVER, CO.- Becoming Van Gogh, an in-depth exploration of Vincent van Gogh’s unconventional path to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable artists, will be on view at the Denver Art Museum from October 21, 2012, through January 20, 2013. The exhibition examines critical steps in the largely self-taught artist’s evolution through more than 70 paintings and drawings by Van Gogh, along with works by artists he responded to. Organized by the DAM and curated by Timothy J. Standring, Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the DAM and Louis van Tilborgh, Senior Researcher of Paintings at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, Becoming Van Gogh brings together loans from more than 60 public and private collections from across Europe and North America to tell the story of a number of key formative periods throughout the artist’s career. “This is a unique opportunity for our audience ... More |
| International debut of new dye transfer prints by William Eggleston on view at ROSEGALLERY | | Police release pictures of Rotterdam art heist, perpetrators are not recognizable in the images | | Huntington Library acquires 13 important pieces of Frank Lloyd Wright furniture | 
Detail of Untitled, 1970-1973; from William Eggleston, Chromes; published by Steidl in 2011, Image courtesy The Eggleston Artistic Trust and ROSEGALLERY.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- ROSEGALLERY announced the international debut of new dye transfer prints by William Eggleston. Images from New Dyes are on view from 13 October – 24 November, 2012. William Eggleston’s vision is deceptively casual and sometimes brutally direct. The results are often unsettling. Whether he is making portraits, landscapes, interiors, still-life’s or street scenes, he works with unflinching, unsentimental candor. By marrying this sensibility with sophisticated color, Eggleston continuously rediscovers the mundane world. His first solo exhibition, simply titled Color Photographs opened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York on May 25th, 1976. Comprised of dye transfer prints of the artist’s early color work, produced between ... More | | 
A video still from a security camera showing perpetrators leaving the Kunsthal museum. AP Photo/Police Rotterdam.
ROTTERDAM (AP).- Police hunting for the thieves who broke into a Rotterdam art gallery and snatched seven paintings worth millions are releasing security camera footage of the heist in a bid to gather more tips. But don't expect to see the thieves' faces. Detectives said in a statement Friday "the perpetrators are not recognizable in the images" but they hope members of the public may recognize the bags they were carrying. Three dark, grainy stills posted on a police website show the thieves apparently walking out of the gallery's rear door. The thieves broke into the Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam early Tuesday morning and fled with paintings by artists including Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse. ... More | | 
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 -1959), Arthur Heurtley House Reclining Armchair, ca. 1902. Birch and elm, 37 x 32 x 30 inches. Purchased with the Virginia Steele Scott Acquisition Fund for American Art.
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced the acquisition of 13 important pieces of furniture designed by seminal American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959). The highlight of the group is a nine-piece dining room suite designed in 1899 for the Husser House (which since has been destroyed) in Chicago, a commission that marked a crucial turning point in Wright’s career. With that project, Wright began to conceive of interior space that was more open and flowing than in his earlier commissions, breaking down the notions of architecture that had prevailed until that point. The Huntington also acquired four chairs from four ... More |
| Frank Lloyd Wright 1952 house in Phoenix to be offered for sale at $2,379,000 | | Friedensreich Hundertwasser: Against the Grain. Works 1949-1970 opens at Kunsthalle Bremen | | New, monumental light sculpture in the form of a Carbon 60 molecule to illuminate Madison Square Park | 
Real estate broker Robert Joffe is working to sell this home designed by noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin.
By: Paul Davenport, Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP).- A Phoenix home designed by noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright had been threatened with demolition but is now about to go on the market. The 1952 home will be listed Monday for sale at $2,379,000, real estate broker Robert Joffe said Friday. Joffe said there wouldn't be strings on the sale but that he doesn't foresee the house being bought for resale or as a residence for the purchaser. Instead, he said he expects a philanthropic buyer either would donate the property to a Wright foundation or use it for housing for students at a Wright-affiliated school. "This is not going to be the normal buyer," he said. Wright designed the home for his son, David, and daughter-in-law, Gladys, who died in 1997 and 2008, respectively. Wright family members sold the two-acre property in 2008, and the property has been resold since. The ... More | | 
Detail from "178 The Green Woman – The Political Gardener", Melun, April 1954. Oil on three joined box covers made of wood fibre. Die Hundertwasser Gemeinnützige Privatstiftung, Vienna© 2012 NAMIDA AG, Glarus/Schweiz.
BREMEN.- From 20 October 2012 to 17 February 2013, the Kunsthalle Bremen will be presenting a comprehensive exhibition of the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. New perspectives will be revealed of Hundertwasser's creative output through a selection of seldom displayed early works of the artist along with classic masterpieces. Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) is one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century who is often misunderstood and underestimated. The exhibition Friedensreich Hundertwasser: Against the Grain. Works 1949–1970 presents the artist as a prominent member of the international avant-garde who worked in Paris during the 1950s and developed a highly original visual language in parallel to the prevalent Art Informel. During the 1950s and 60s ((in der PM Line of ... More | | 
Installation of Leo Villareal's BUCKYBALL (2012) underway in Madison Square Park. Image courtesy of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art program announces a new, monumental sculpture by world-renowned artist Leo Villareal. Largely inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, Villareal’s BUCKYBALL will apply concepts of geometry and mathematical relationships within a towering 30-foot tall, illuminated sculpture. The site-specific work will remain on view daily from October 25, 2012 through February 1, 2013 in Madison Square Park. A commission of the Mad. Sq. Art program, Villareal’s BUCKYBALL will feature two nested, geodesic sculptural spheres comprised of 180 LED tubes arranged in a series of pentagons and hexagons, known as a “Fullerene,” referring to the form’s discovery by Buckminster Fuller. Individual pixels located every 1.2 inches along the tubes are each capable of displaying 16 million distinct colors and will be specifically tuned by the artist’s own sof ... More |
| Charles Stainback announced as the new Director of Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College | | "Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms Works from 1959-1979" opens at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum | | Fitchburg Art Museum appoints deCordova's Nicholas Capasso as new Director | 
Stainback was the founding Director of Skidmore College’s Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.
COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- Ursinus College announces the appointment of Charles Stainback as the new Director of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art. “We are fortunate to have someone of Mr. Stainback’s extensive experience,” said Ursinus College President Bobby Fong. Stainback currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Norton Museum of Art, the largest art museum in Florida and one of the state’s major cultural institutions. Prior to that appointment, he served as the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography for the Norton. Stainback was the founding Director of Skidmore College’s Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. As Dayton Director of the Tang, his exhibitions responded to cultural and educational needs of the college and surrounding community. At the Tang he helped secure a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. He was also a Professor ... More | | 
Unique "Wall Table No. 16." Designed and made by Wendell Castle, Rochester, New York, 1969.
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announces Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959–1979, the first major museum exhibition of the iconic American designer’s work in over twenty years, and the only one to focus exclusively on the period when he defined his inimitable style of ground-breaking sculptural furniture. Curated by Evan Snyderman and Alyson Baker and designed by Cooper Joseph Studio, the exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, October 20, 2012, and remain on view through February 20, 2013. It will coincide with Castle’s eightieth birthday and be accompanied by an illustrated monograph co-published by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Gregory R. Miller & Co., featuring texts by Alastair Gordon and Evan Snyderman and designed by Pandiscio Co. The handmade pieces created by Wendell Castle in Rochester, New York, helped shape the American studio furniture m ... More | | 
Capasso currently serves as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
FITCHBURG, MA.- Dr. Roderick Lewin, President of the Board of Trustees of the Fitchburg Art Museum, today announced the appointment of Nicholas Capasso as the museum’s new Director. He will join the museum on December 3, 2012. Capasso currently serves as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, where he has helped to reposition that institution to identify and forefront its unique asset, the Sculpture Park. Capasso has worked for over 22 years at deCordova, where he oversees a permanent collection of 3,500 objects, gallery exhibitions, and the outdoor sculpture park. He is a member of the museum’s senior management team and served as deCordova’s Acting Director in 2007-2008. Although he specializes in contemporary art, Capasso is eager to work with the Fitchburg Art ... More |
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 Delaware Art Museum announces centennial juried exhibition WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum announced its Centennial Juried Exhibition, which celebrates the Museum’s 100-year commitment to supporting regional visual artists. On view October 20, 2012 through January 13, 2013, the Centennial Juried Exhibition commemorates the Museum’s past annual exhibitions of painting and crafts—which combined to form the Biennial in 1989. Guest-juried by John B. Ravenal, this exhibition celebrates the tradition of juried exhibitions in Delaware and the surrounding region while identifying the artistic trends that will characterize the region’s future. “The 1,300 artworks submitted covered a wide range of media, styles, and abilities,” says Ravenal. “There were accomplished senior artists, emerging talents, and probably some Sunday hobbyists. There was painting, sculpture, installation art, video, drawing, photography, crafts, and things that ... More Line, Color, Pattern: Textile Designs of Central and South America at the Morris Museum MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum announces a new exhibition: Line, Color, and Pattern: Textile Designs of Central and South America, on view through February 18, 2013. The exhibition is a survey of the different styles, techniques, and patterns in the traditional dress of Central and South America and features more than 30 textiles that were a gift from Drs. Wolfgang and Maria Jochle. The exhibition features several huipils (a tunic-like garment whose decorative elements can signify history, cultural identity, something personal about the wearer and more; most of the clothing designs generally relate to the natural world), woven belts, and shoulder bags, among other objects from the Morris Museum collection. Showcased as works of art rather than garments, each piece is intricately woven with thread in a rainbow of colors, exploring various patterns and textures. The textiles focus ... More Clare Rojas' second solo presentation at Prism opens in West Hollywood WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- PRISM announces an exhibition by Clare Rojas, the artist’s second solo presentation at the gallery. Entitled Pith, this body of paintings signals a further exploration for Rojas, in respect to both subject and materiality. In this exhibition, we observe the artist’s concentration on abstract space and the blurring between architectural dimensionality and geometric flatness. Rojas intentionally generates surfaces that describe both an architectural and psychological site of interiority - a pictorial space that is indeterminate enough to operate on an emotive and sensory level. The removal of the figure from this recent body of work is a purposed decision, as the artist elects to concentrate on the atmospheric possibilities of painting. These works are ambient, spatially open and emotionally drenched - re-directed away from a character-driven narrative, Rojas ... More First retrospective of photographer Terry Evans opens at Nelson-Atkins KANSAS CITY, MO.- One of the nation’s finest landscape photographers, Terry Evans, is widely recognized for her views of the Midwest prairie, its people, and its artifacts. Her first retrospective, Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans, opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on Oct. 20 and runs through Jan. 20, 2013. “Terry Evans is best known for her aerial views of the American Midwest,” said April Watson, associate curator of photography. “From that vantage point she found a fresh, compelling way to look at this uniquely complex, though often overlooked, landscape.” In recent years, Evans has made sustained explorations of other subjects from a variety of visual perspectives: natural history museum specimens, the city of Chicago, and the steel industry. “However varied it may seem,” said Keith F. Davis, senior photography curator, “Her life’s work is united by her ... More MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of Matt Connors LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of Matt Connors (American, b. 1973), comprising twenty-three paintings from 2008 to the present, including five new works. Organized by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey, Matt Connors: Impressionism is on view on the 3rd floor of MoMA PS1 through December 31, 2012. The paintings of Matt Connors aren’t catchy, but they rattle around the brain like a Top-40 track sung last night in a karaoke bar—familiar, slightly off-key, and delivered in an honest voice. Like the singer, Connors offers profane and intimate tributes, inserting his artistic voice alongside and among the popular melodies of the modernist pictorial tradition. This is the thrill of the “vocals” of his Vocals (2010), which at first appears to be little more than squiggles. On closer examination, an endearing two-step reveals itself: a collection of doodles ... More Narrow house opening as art work in Warsaw By: Monika Scislowska, Associated Press
WARSAW (AP).- The new house is only four feet wide (1.2 meters), but it comes with a bathroom, a kitchen and a bedroom, and its first tenant, an Israeli writer, will move in this weekend. Architect Jakub Szczesny said Friday he designed the two-story aluminum and plastic house three years ago to fill a narrow space between a pre-war house and a modern apartment block in downtown Warsaw. The Foundation of Polish Modern Art and Warsaw Town Hall helped fund the project, which they consider an art work. But it may not be easy for the tenants. The triangular building runs 33 feet (10 meters) deep at the base and stands 30 feet (9 meters) tall. Metal and aluminum pipes hold the structure nearly 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground, and visitors will climb ... More Le Meurice announces winner of the 5th Annual Prize for Contemporary Art PARIS.- Dorchester Collection's Le Meurice in Paris, located on rue de Rivoli and across the Tuileries Garden, named Bordeaux-born artist Alexandre Singh as the winner of the iconic hotel's 5th Annual Prize for Contemporary Art. Represented by Galerie Art: Concept in Paris, Singh was selected among eight finalists and received 20,000€ to share with his gallery for his sculptural series, The Humans. As a performance and sculptural piece, The Humans project displays six different screens and takes place inside a room lined with synthetic lawn. Set during Genesis, the opposing Apollonian and Dionysian characters try to prevent the creation of the universe. However, their attempts are disastrous and ultimately fail, resulting in the world we know today. The action comes to a head when the two characters "accidentally give life" to the chorus, which are Humans. Le Meurice is currently featuring ... More |
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