| Dallas Museum of Art discovers George Inness painting "In the Woods" in the Collection | | Christie's to offer Franz Kline's most important work ever presented at auction | | Looters strip Bulgaria of ancient treasures; Powerless to prevent the rape of its sites | 
George Inness, In the Woods (detail).
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced today the reattribution of a painting to the artist George Inness, widely admired as one of America’s greatest landscape painters. The work of art has been in the Museum’s collection for eighty years, entering in 1931 as part of a bequest by Cecil A. Keating. At the time of the painting’s acquisition, the unsigned work carried the title of In the Woods and was believed to be by the hand of Asher B. Durand, a leading figure of the first generation of the Hudson River school painters in the mid-19th century. At some point during the next forty years, doubts as to the authorship of the painting were raised and the attribution was downgraded to possibly being by Durand, which held until August of this year. Sue Canterbury, The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art, viewed the painting in the Museum’s art storage area and was intrigued b ... More | | 
Franz Kline (1910-1962), Untitled (detail). Oil on canvas, 79 x 112 ½ in. Painted in 1957. Estimate: $20-30 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s presents a major work by Franz Kline, Property from a Notable Private Collection, as one of its highlights of the evening sale. Painted in 1957, Untitled is a nearly three-meter long work, which is one of the finest of the great series of predominantly black-and-white abstractions that Kline produced between 1950 and his premature death in 1962. A large, powerful and almost visually explosive work with its vast, sweeping brushstroke forms colliding into one another create a taut and febrile tension of surface, a classic example of the tradition established by Kline’s works. Untitled 1957 is the most important and the rarest painting by the artist ever presented on the market, and the most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York. “These past years the ... More | | 
Mid relief on a Roman tombstone , found on the site of Ratiaria, an ancient Roman settlement. AP Photo/Valentina Petrova.
By: Veselin Toshkov, Associated Press
ARCHAR (AP).- On the banks of the Danube, in the northwest corner of Bulgaria, lie the remnants of an ancient Roman settlement called Ratiaria, host to a priceless cultural heritage. Craters pockmark the huge site, evidence of a scourge threatening one of the world's great troves of antiquities: looters digging for ancient treasure to sell on the black market. Archaeologist Krasmira Luka, who heads a team excavating part of the 80 hectare (200 acre) site, says the area has been repeatedly raided by thieves who dig pits looking for ancient coins and jewelry. Everything else, including precious ceramic vessels and other historically significant artifacts, is smashed to pieces. "Destroying the items is not just a crime, it's an ... More |
| Exhibition of new works by the inimitable American artist Red Grooms opens at Marlborough | | Behind, Before and Around Portraiture" on view at Tatiana Kourochkina Contemporary Art Project | | Sotheby's London to sell Portrait of Kate Perugini, Daughter of Charles Dickens, by Sir John Everett Millais | 
Red Grooms, Something’s Fishy (René Magritte), 2011. Watercolor, ink and magazine page mounted on illustration board, 12 x 9 in., 30.48 x 22.86 cm© Red Grooms, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery announced an exhibition of new works by the inimitable American artist Red Grooms. The exhibition, entitled Torn from the Pages, opened October 24 and continues through December 1, 2012. Since Ruckus Manhattan, his first widely acclaimed exhibition at Marlborough in 1976, Grooms has staked his claim as one of America’s most original, inventive, and popular artists. In this exhibition he turns his creativity towards other established artists, making them his subjects. The exhibition comprises 24 small mixed media constructions that examine influential artists from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Gerhard Richter, Leonora Carrington, Edward Hopper, Natalia Goncharova, Edouard Vuillard, Erich Heckel, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, John Marin, Richard Prince, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Dorothea Tanning, Andy Warhol, ... More | | 
Jean Baptiste Huynh, Nu XX, 2005. Black and white photograph. 120 x 120 cm.
By: Juan Bufill
BARCELONA.- Portraiture, like landscape, was much more than a traditional genre, a type of painting that was codified and fixed, once and for all. This explains why it didn't disappear following the success of the avant-garde isms; why in the twenty-first century it is still around, transfigured and still renewing itself many years after the emergence of the trends that broke away from the pre-modern world that, unfortunately, still prevails and tyrannically rules over a number of areas. Behind the Portrait is a show that alludes to what lies beyond a portrait, but also to what precedes and surrounds it. It proposes an extended and updated notion of the genre, i.e., of what the term can end up meaning, and of its possible means and modes of representation in an age when digital technology coexists with pencil and paper. Although the historical avant-garde movements are now quite remote, I feel that the diversity of means and especially of modes we ... More | | 
John Everett Millais (1829-1896), Portrait of Kate Perugini, Daughter of Charles Dickens (detail). Estimate: £150,000-200,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Portrait of Kate Perugini, Daughter of Charles Dickens by Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) is to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in the bicentennial year of the author’s death. The famous and innovative portrait will headline the Victorian works in the company’s auction of British & Irish Art in London on Tuesday, 13 November, 2012. Estimated at £150,000-200,000*, the painting comes to the market from the Estate of Katherine Mellon, and following its inclusion in the touring V&A exhibition ‘The Cult of Beauty’ in San Francisco. The painting has been widely exhibited in major exhibitions over the previous twenty years and was prominent in the Millais retrospective at Tate Britain. Kate Dickens is now recognised as a significant figure in her own right, and Charles’ great great great granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley published a book about her in 2006, entitled ‘Katey, The Life and ... More |
| Christie's launches '90s to Now', a new concept of sale dedicated to art created from 1990 to the present | | Phillips de Pury & Company announces highlights from its London November Photographs Auction | | UBS Wealth Management Director Doug Woodham appointed President of Christie's Americas | 
Marilyn Minter (B. 1948), Bridle. Chromogenic print mounted on aluminium, 40 x 26 1/8 in. Executed in 2004, this work is from an edition of five plus two artist’s proofs
Estimate: £7,000-10,000 / US$11,000-15,000 / €7,900-11,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2012.
LONDON.- On 20 November, Christie's London Post-War & Contemporary Art department will launch ‘90s to NOW’, a new concept of sale dedicated to art created from 1990 to the present. Featuring more than 170 works of art, ‘90s to NOW’ will showcase the radical themes, approaches, and practices emerging from a variety of new artists across the globe over the last two decades. With prices ranging from under £1,000 up to £15,000, this auction is designed to be accessible to all kinds of collectors, whether they are looking for a first piece or aiming to add that missing element to a well-established collection. Darren Leak and Cristian Albu, Co-Heads of the Sale: “The last twenty years have seen the contemporary art world flourish globally. The ambitions of young artists working with a myriad of materials, methods and scales have grown to ... More | | 
Constantin Brancusi, View of the Studio, The Sorceress and the Chief, c. 1925. Est: £18,000 - £22,000.
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced its 8 November Photographs sale. The London Photographs department, a leader in the European Market, will offer a diverse and exciting mix of vintage and Contemporary works by leading and notable artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries. The viewing will be open to the public from Friday, 2 November 2012. “I feel that the sale absolutely caters to anyone who deeply loves and is fascinated by the medium of photography. The selection of images hold one’s attention no matter what your preferred genre or period may be. Photography has so much to offer and I think the sale definitely indicates this!”
Lou Proud, Head of Photographs, London “This is one of London’s strongest sales with a perfect balance of iconic photographs such as Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus II by Helmut Newton, and very important contemporary works by Stephen Shore, Richar ... More | | 
Over the last 20 years, Mr. Woodham has been a leader working at the intersection of finance, technology and business transformation. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced that Doug Woodham has been appointed President of Christie’s Americas, effective immediately. In the role, Mr. Woodham will report directly to Steven Murphy, Christie’s Chief Executive Officer, and will be responsible for the overall management of the company in the Americas. Marc Porter, former President, continues in his role as Chairman, Christie’s Americas, having assumed a new and additional global role earlier this year as International Head of Private Sales. “Doug Woodham’s long-standing interest in the arts married to his professional experience and business acumen will make him an invaluable leader at Christie’s,” Mr. Murphy commented. “This combination puts him in an ideal position to represent this region during a period of tremendous growth in the art market.” “I am honoured to join this great company Christie’s and ... More |
| Art Gallery of South Australia announces that artist Trevor Nickolls has died at age 63 | | First exhibition devoted emphatically to Heinz Mack's relationship with Berlin opens at Arndt | | The Whitney presents a major retrospective of the art of Richard Artschwager | 
Brush with the Lore 2009 (detail - portrait).
ADELAIDE.- South Australian artist Trevor Nickolls has died at the age of 63 after an illness. His death is a great loss to the art world. The Art Gallery of South Australia would like to honour his significant contribution to the arts through a commemorative event to be held on behalf of his Estate on Saturday 17 November 2012 at 2pm in the Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia. The event will include an address by Art Gallery of South Australia Director, Nick Mitzevich and artist, curator and academic, Brenda L Croft and a visual presentation of Trevor Nickolls’ work spanning 45 years, by AI Arts’ Angelika Tyrone. Born in 1949 in Adelaide, South Australia, Trevor Nickolls leaves a large legacy to the art world. With a unique, inventive style he was a true innovator. He brought together disparate influences from Aboriginal art and Western art thereby creating a union between traditional and non ... More | | 
Heinz Mack, Formal coloris, 2002 , Acrylic on canvas, 136 x 166 cm | 53.54 x 65.35 in.
BERLIN.- With Heinz Mack in Berlin — Works 1958-2012, ARNDT presents the hitherto most comprehensive show of works since his retrospective in the Pergamon Museum in 2006. This show of one of the most important living German painters and sculptors marks the official start of a collaboration between Heinz Mack and Matthias Arndt. On show are main works from all periods, starting with the canvas Black & White, 1958 already exhibited in 1960 at the Galerie Schmela, along with museum works from the ZERO period, such as White Relief, 1959, the kinetic rotor-work, Prism Whirl, 1960 (Denise René Gallery, New York) and the Cabinet of Light Treasures, 1964. In an exhibition covering almost five hundred square metres, a total of forty reliefs, paintings, sculptures, kinetic works and works on paper from 1958 up to the most recent paintings and reliefs made this year are shown. ... More | | 
Sitting and Not, 1992. Acrylic and Formica on Celotex with painted wood frame, 75 x 59 in. (190.5 x 149.9 cm). Collection of Harriet and Larry Weiss© Richard Artschwager. Photo: Photo by Adam Reich.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Artschwager!, the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the artist’s work, opened on October 25 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Organized by the Whitney in association with the Yale University Art Gallery, and curated by Jennifer Gross, Seymour H. Knox, Jr. Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the show has been installed in the Emily Fisher Landau Galleries on the Whitney’s fourth floor through February 3, 2013; it will travel next summer to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, June 16 September 2, 2013. Now 88, Richard Artschwager (b. 1923) has remained steadily at the forefront of contemporary art for fifty years. He began making art in the 1950s, had his first one-person exhibition at the age of 42 ... More |
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 Smithsonian launches Global Marine Biodiversity Project with $10 million donation WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian announced that it will launch a major long-term project to study coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystems around the globe. The project is made possible by a $10 million donation from Suzanne and Michael Tennenbaum, senior managing partner of Los Angeles-based Tennenbaum Capital Partners and philanthropist. The goal of the project—Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories—is to monitor the ocean’s coastal ecosystems over a long period of time. The Tennenbaum Marine Observatories will be the first worldwide network of coastal ecological field sites, standardizing measurements of biological change. By studying sites with Smithsonian experts in biology, ecology and anthropology, and using technologies like DNA sequencing, the project will provide an unprecedented understanding of how marine biodiversity is affected by local ... More Massive, iconic Civil War flag on display at the New York State Museum ALBANY, NY.- A massive, iconic Confederate flag, torn down by a Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, a soldier born in Saratoga County and widely remembered as the first Union officer killed in the Civil War, is now on display at the New York State Museum. The 14-by 24-foot Marshall House Flag is being exhibited in South Hall through Feb. 24, 2013 in conjunction with the nearby 7,000-square foot exhibition on the Civil War. An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War is open through September 22, 2013 in Exhibition Hall. James Jackson hoisted the Confederate national flag onto a 40-foot-tall flagpole atop his hotel, the Marshall House, in Alexandria, Va. shortly after the Confederates bombarded Fort Sumter, S.C. in April 1861. The flag was so large that it was visible from the White House. Federal forces, including Colonel Elmer Ellsworth and the 11th New York Volunteers, crossed ... More Rare Gustav Klimt monograph sets auction record at Swann Galleries NEW YORK, NY.- The star lot in Swann Galleries’ October 11 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books was Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, Einleitende Worte: Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg, a stunning volume containing 50 plates in the original case designed by Julius Dratva, Vienna and Leipzig, 1918—it is the only monograph of Klimt’s work published in his lifetime. This beautiful and scarce book sold for an auction record price of $144,000*. Also setting a record was Lucien of Samosata’s Die Hetaerengespraeche, illustrated with erotic pencil and ink studies by Klimt, in the original binding created by designer Josef Hoffmann at the Wiener Werkstätte, Leipzig, 1907, $5,520. From the same era was Otto Czeschka’s program for the Wiener Werkstätte cabaret, Kabarett Fledermaus, Vienna, 1906, $15,600. Bidders competed vigorously for a signed and numbered copy of Andy Warhol’s ... More China wants to stop profiteering at temple sites By: Louise Watt, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- China is telling tourist-favored Buddhist temples: Don't let money be your mantra. Authorities announced a ban this week on temples selling shares to investors after leaders of several popular temples planned to pursue stock market listings for them as commercial entities. Even the Shaolin Temple of kung fu movie fame was once rumored to be planning a stock market debut — and critics have slammed such plans as a step too far in China's already unrestrained commercial culture. "Everywhere in China now is about developing the economy," complained Beijing resident Fu Runxing, a 40-year-old accountant who said he recently went to a temple where incense was priced at 300 yuan ($50) a stick. "It's too excessive. It's looting," she said. ... More Vast Broadway costume collection on display in Florida By: Kelli Kennedy, Associated Press
POMPANO BEACH (AP).- Box by box they arrived, the once glittering costumes of Broadway legends and theatre memorabilia, now dirty, tattered and forgotten. There were painstakingly hand-beaded bodices and garments worn by Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett and Vanessa Williams, each more unkempt than the next, stored on rusty hangars and covered in black soot. It was to be one of the largest collections of Broadway costumes in the country. There were more than 500 boxes in all, newly purchased by Marilynn Wick to add to her multimillion dollar collection of costumes at Costume World which she rents to professional theatres and high school productions. Wick and her daughter Kimberly surveyed the treasures they had just purchased at a 2005 auction: a Judy ... More Museum debuts epic exhibit that expands the definition of Western American art Desert Caballeros Western Museum opened an epic exhibition by artist, LUDVIC, titled, “Don’t Fence Me In: LUDVIC Paints the West.” This is the first public showing of this new and exciting body of work. The exhibit continues through January 6, 2013. Having been featured in a multitude of exhibitions nationally and internationally showcasing his contemporary art, LUDVIC, has ventured into Western American art with indelible force in this one-man show. This exhibition introduces some of LUDVIC’s finest work ever, and stretches the boundaries of Western American art. A catalog is available with essays by Desert Caballeros Western Museum Director, James Burns and renowned art critic, Robert C. Morgan. A longtime New York City resident, LUDVIC harnesses his unique aesthetic to this new body of work, where he alludes to the myth that is the West. From his studio in the Sonoran Desert, ... More Spain's 2012 Prince of Asturias awards handed out; Architect Rafael Moneo honored in the arts category MADRID (AP).- The winners of Spain's Prince of Asturias awards have received their prizes from Prince Felipe. U.S. author Philip Roth won the 2012 literature prize in recognition of his contribution to American literature, but was unable to be present because he is recovering from recent surgery. U.S. Ambassador Alan Solomont read words of thanks on Roth's behalf. Other recipients Friday included Japan's Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of video game Mario Bros, who claimed the communication and humanities award. British biologist Gregory Winter and American pathologist Richard Lerner were distinguished in science and technology research. Spain national soccer team players Iker Casillas and Xavi Hernandez received the sports award, while Spanish architect Rafael Moneo was honored in the arts category. The awards, created in 1981, are each worth ?50,000 ($65,000). ... More |
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