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| | Seattle Art Museum presents Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
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A visitor looks closely at an acrylic painting by Yayoi Kasama (I Want To Live Forever, 2008) as part of one of two new exhibits featuring art exclusively by women at the Seattle Art Museum, in Seattle. Included in the exhibition is the only U.S. stop for an exhibit from the Pompidou Center in Paris, home of the modern art museum there, of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and video. The exhibit runs through Jan. 13, 2013. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson.
SEATTLE, WA.- This fall the Seattle Art Museum presents Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, an exhilarating survey of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, and installation by forward-thinking women artists from one of Europe’s most extensive collections of modern and contemporary art. Elles, on view from October 11, 2012 through January 13, 2013, is an unforgettable visual experience that challenges visitors’ assumptions about art of the past century. More than 125 works of art made by 75 women artists from 1909 to 2007 reveal a history of 20th and 21st century art from a new and illuminating perspective. Seattle is the only US venue for Elles, which includes key works by women artists from around the world including Sonia Delaunay, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar, Diane Arbus, Marina Abramović , Louise Bourgeois, Atsuko Tanaka, Cindy ... More |
| Major exhibition of new works by Anish Kapoor on view at Lisson Gallery in London | | Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London stops in Milwaukee | | Vessels reveal the intricacies of eighth-century Maya life, lore and courtly intrigue | 
Anish Kapoor, Installation View, Lisson Gallery, London 2012, Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announced a major exhibition of new works by Anish Kapoor. Spanning both the gallery’s spaces on Bell Street, London, the exhibition marks 30 years of Lisson Gallery working together with the Turner-prize winning artist and provides a thorough exposition of Kapoor’s most recent work. The first living artist to be the subject of a solo exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts (2009), Kapoor, born in Bombay in 1954, first rose to prominence in the 1980s with his brightly coloured, pigment-coated sculptures, the biomorphic forms of the seminal 1000 Names series. Later works saw large-scale installations negotiating and negating space, seeming to swallow the ground whole, yet, at other times, collapsing in on themselves into a void, or creating a new space hovering between the work and its viewer. The Royal Academy exhibition, and a series of ... More | | 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of the Artist, ca. 1665. Oil on canvas, 47 x 45 in. Kenwood House, English Heritage, England (88028836) Photo courtesy American Federation of Arts.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- Yesterday, the Milwaukee Art Museum opened Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, an exhibition of forty-eight masterpieces on tour from the Iveagh Bequest collection. Most of the paintings have never traveled to the States before, and many of them have rarely been seen outside London’s Kenwood House. The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and English Heritage. A magnificent painting collection known as the Iveagh Bequest resides at Kenwood House, a neoclassical villa in London that Scottish architect Robert Adam remodeled in the eighteenth century. Donated to the nation by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927) and heir to the world’s most successful brewery, the collection ... More | | 
Maya, Service Set with Wahy Figures, Late Classic, ca. 755. Photo Bruce White.
PRINCETON, NJ.- Dancing into Dreams: Maya Vase Painting of the Ik’ Kingdom offers an intimate glimpse into a world rich with courtly intrigue, portrayed on exquisitely painted eighth-century chocolate drinking cups from a Maya center located in present-day Guatemala. Complementing the Princeton University Art Museum’s important holdings of Ik’ vessels with loans of select masterpieces from other collections, this exhibition both elucidates the politics and dynastic history of the Ik’ kingdom and reveals the vital role of master artists in these schemes. Ik’ vessels comprise an extraordinary and sophisticated history of artistic achievement. During a brief period of time from 700 to 800 C.E., in a discrete locale in the Central Maya lowlands, a critical mass of aesthetic and social trends nurtured a flourishing artistic culture. Artists enjoyed exceptional creative license ... More |
| Random International's experimental artwork "Rain Room" comes alive at the Barbican Centre | | Asian Art Week at Christie's London to offer a diverse array of rare and beautiful works | | Philadelphia Museum of Art explores the evolution of Ronaldus Shamask's creative process | 
Rain Room Installation images © Felix Clay. Rain Room - Random International 2012. Courtesy of Barbican Art Gallery.
LONDON.- Known for their distinctive approach to digital-based contemporary art, Random International’’s experimental artworks come alive through audience interaction. Their largest and most ambitious installation yet, Rain Room is a 100 square metre field of falling water for visitors to walk through and experience how it might feel to control the rain. On entering The Curve the visitor hears the sound of water and feels moisture in the air before discovering the thousands of falling droplets that respond to their presence and movement. Kate Bush , Head of Art Galleries, Barbican Centre, said: The Curve has previously played host to guitar-playing finches, a World War II bunker and a digital bowling alley. Random International have created a new work every bit as audacious and compelling - Rain Room surpasses all our expectations. At the cutting edge of digital technology, Rain Room is a carefully choreographed ... More | | 
A fine Yoshitsune-Gote do-maru Armour. Estimate: £100,000-150,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- Christie’s will celebrate Asian Art in London this autumn between 6 – 9 November, with a diverse array of rare and beautiful works with excellent provenance and many highlights from important private collections. The sales include: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 6 November at King Street; and at South Kensington: Interiors – dedicated to Chinese Art – and The Japanese Aesthetic on 7 November; and Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles on 9 November. Christie’s London Asian Art week in autumn 2012 opens with a stellar offering of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 6 November. A selection of exquisite works from a Private English Collection and Property from the Michael D. Stevenson Collection will be offered alongside notable ceramics, jade carvings, bronzes, cloisonné enamel, lacquer ware, painting and furniture. The sale features over 300 works which demonstrate the i ... More | | 
Hakama Evening Overall, 1979, version 2012. Designed by Ronaldus Shamask, American (born Netherlands), born 1945. Black, yellow, and red silk taffeta, Length: 58 inches (147.3 cm). Courtesy of Shamask LLC. Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This fall, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an overview of Ronaldus Shamask’s unique multi-disciplinary approach to fashion, honed over a 35-year career. Ronaldus Shamask: Form, Fashion, Reflection explores the evolution of the designer’s creative process and includes clothing as well as life-sized “architectural” fashion drawings, dance costume sketches, and video clips of fashion shows and dance performances. It also focuses upon his collaborations with fellow artists working in a variety of fields. The exhibition includes iconic garments from his collections and contemporary designs, presented here for the first time. This exhibition showcases Shamask’s women’s wear collections, which are known for their clean lines and focus on cut, construction, color, and the finest textiles. With a ... More |
| Santa Monica Museum of Art looks to the future, with two new Deputy Directors and a new Board President | | Fascinating Fabergé exhibition from Virginia museum collection comes to Detroit Institute of Arts | | Albright-Knox Art Gallery to work with leading international architecture firm to develop master plan for growth | 
Doug Rimerman most recently served as director of corporate and foundation relations at the Fulfillment Fund. Photo: Kim Bishop.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Santa Monica Museum of Art announces the appointments of two new co-deputy directors and a new board president as it ushers in the fall season’s groundbreaking exhibitions of work by Michael Queenland, Kianja Strobert, and Agnes Denes. Under executive director Elsa Longhauser’s twelve-year leadership, the Santa Monica Museum of Art has evolved into one of the most dynamic venues for contemporary art in the country. Arts management consultant Gloria Gerace, who functioned as interim deputy director, led the executive search, and has been integral to the transition period. With these new hires, Longhauser has reorganized the leadership team following the departure of deputy director Lisa Melandri, who, after a flourishing decade at SMMoA, will head the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Following a six-month national search, Doug Rimerman and Claire Ruud have been selected as co-deputy directors. R ... More | | 
House of Fabergé, Mikhail Perkhin, workmaster, Miniature Easter Egg Pendant, undated, chalcedony, gold, diamond. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Bequest of Lillian Thomas Pratt. Photo: Travis Fullerton. © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
DETROIT, MICH.- More than 200 precious objects made under the direction of Karl Fabergé provide a glimpse into a bygone era of Russian imperial glory in the exhibition Fabergé: The Rise and Fall, The Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts Oct. 14, 2012–Jan. 21, 2013. In addition to the array of stunning artworks, the exhibition explores Fabergé’s rise to international fame and the eventual demise of his designer brand, House of Fabergé. For more than 40 years, the House of Fabergé, led by Karl Fabergé, produced world-renowned luxury objects during one of the most decadent and turbulent eras in modern Russian history. At the height of its success, the company employed more than 1,500 craftsmen and was selling today’s equivalent of $175 million worth of goods per year. The exhibition traces the story of Fabergé’s business savvy, ... More | | 
Visitors view a light sculpture by artist Dan Flavin, part of the art exhibition "Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s". AP Photo/David Duprey.
BUFFALO, NY.- The Albright-Knox Art Gallery announced that it will partner with the international architecture, landscape, and interiors collaborative SnØhetta to develop a Master Plan for Growth at the Gallery’s campus in Buffalo, New York. SnØhetta will work with the Gallery over the coming months to develop a comprehensive plan that will outline a vision for the future, addressing pressing short-term space needs and setting the course for long-term ambitions, which might possibly include an expansion. “It has been an honor to have participated in imagining what the future could be for the Albright-Knox. With the extraordinarily talented firm of SnØhetta engaged in this significant process, I am quite certain that the vision and solutions will be inspired and inspiring. I look forward to seeing the next great chapter of the Albright-Knox as it unfolds,” said Director Louis Grachos. “Space needs are o ... More |
| 200 works of art, representing many genres, will be sold at Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers sale | | MOLA: Kuna needle arts from the San Blas Islands, Panama at the Indianapolis Museum of Art | | Phoenix Art Museum's newest exhibition 'Big Picture' highlights scale, perspective | 
Acrylic on canvas by Nicholas Krushenick (Am., 1929-1999), titled United Color Kit (est. $30,000-$50,000).
MILLFORD, CONN.- Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers will kick off the fall auction season in grand fashion with an Oct. 24 sale showcasing 200 works of art in an array of genres, to include the Hudson River School, the Cape Ann School, the New Hope School, American Impressionists, American and European Modern and Abstract artists, 19th century European artists and Orientalist artists. The event will take place live, in Shannon’s gallery located at 354 Woodmont Road in Milford, and online, via Artfact.com. There will also be 20 phones available for phone bidding. An online catalog, showing all the lots, may be viewed on the Shannon’s website, at www.shannons.com. The auction will begin promptly at 6 p.m. (EST). Previews will be held daily, Oct. 15-24, from 11 a.m-5:30 p.m. (closed on Sunday). “We only conduct two sales a year, one in the spring and one in the fall. For every consignment we accept we probably tu ... More | | 
Mola (shirt), Kuna people, 1920-1970, appliqued cotton, L: 18 5/8 in. The Paul and Irene Hollister Collection of Kuna molas. 2008.380
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Kuna Indians, an indigenous people of Panama and Columbia, are renowned for their molas: bright, colorful, and meticulously appliquéd textiles that adorn the front and back of Kuna women’s blouses. In 2008, a collection of more than 350 molas was donated to the Indianapolis Museum of Art by Irene Hollister. Living in New Hampshire, Hollister had identified the IMA as the ideal home for the molas from the San Blas Islands of Panama that had been collected by her late husband, Paul Hollister—a writer, lecturer, painter, and photographer—during the 1960s and 1970s. Opened October 12, a selection of about 50 of the finest molas from the Museum’s collection, ranging in date from the early 1900s to the 1970s, are displayed in the IMA Alliance Gallery. Molas are handmade using at least two layers of fabric in contrasting colors. Older and more complicated molas may be constructed with up t ... More | | 
James Casebere, Nevisian Underground #1, 2001. Digital chromogenic print mounted to Plexiglas, edition of 3 (2/3), 48" x 77.” Museum purchase with funds provided by Contemporary Forum and Elaine and Sidney Cohen, Bobbie Haas, Richard Kinsler, Patricia Pallas, Dilys and Howard Popper, Beth and Robert Solem, Faith Sussman and Rick Corton.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Beginning October 13, 2012, Phoenix Art Museum presents The Big Picture, a special installation of large-scale photography from Phoenix Art Museum’s collection. These 15 large-scale photographs, some measuring as big as five feet by seven-and-a-half feet, represent trends in large scale contemporary photography apparent in museums across the country, which are a relatively new phenomena made possible by advances in photographic technology. The works in this installation, selected by Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography, encompass a range of styles and approaches from contemporary photographers, including James Casabere, Gus Foster, and Gregory Crewsdon. Some represent compo- ... More |
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 Browse & Darby open first exhibition of work by contemporary artist Nicholas Rena LONDON.- Browse & Darby present their first exhibition of work by contemporary artist Nicholas Rena (b.1963). Twenty works, ordered formally over the three floors of the gallery, proceeds from deep greens through rich reds and purples to a top floor of bright yellows and lilacs. The title of the show, a line from a Leonard Cohen song, suggests a ritualised and romantic set of encounters, as do the titles of the works themselves, which are taken from the T. S. Eliot poem, Ash Wednesday. Nicholas Rena creates monumental, imposing vessels, with thick walls and definite flat rims. They are meticulously finished and painted and are press moulded in clay, which the artist finds both ‘precise and sensual’. Rena’s work is concerned with uniting figure with landscape, emptiness with fulfilment. The vessels, so evidently empty, have the capacity to be filled and their variety of soft ... More The early work of photographer Philip Trager on display at The New York Public Library NEW YORK, NY.- The early work of preeminent photographer, Philip Trager, is on display in a new exhibition, Echoes of Silence: Philip Trager, Early Photographs, 1967-83, in the Prints and Stokes Gallery on the third floor of The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. “The idea for this exhibition began with my deep appreciation of Philip Trager’s first book of photographs, Echoes of Silence,” said Stephen Pinson, the Assistant Director of Arts, Prints, and Photographs, and Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography at The New York Public Library. “The twelve images in that book are sequenced so beautifully that they somehow seem inevitable. The images possess a quietly relentless formal beauty that informs Trager’s personal vision as a photographer and which, I think, is developed and perfected in his early work.” Widely acknowledged as one of the ... More Major Civil War photographs exhibition opens at the Huntington in San Marino SAN MARINO, CA.- Some of the deepest, most wrenching complexities of the American Civil War are examined in a pair of exhibitions that bring to light rare photographs and manuscripts at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The exhibition of photographs—“A Strange and Fearful Interest: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the American Civil War” runs from Oct. 13, 2012, through Jan. 14, 2013, in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery. It is complemented by a companion exhibition, “A Just Cause: Voices of the American Civil War,” on view Sept. 22, 2012, through Jan. 7, 2013, in the West Hall of the Library. “When we began thinking about how The Huntington might weigh in on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, we knew that an exhibition of photographs was indisputably the way to go,” said David Zeidberg, Avery Director of the Library. “This is the first time ... More Columbus Museum of Art opens first Instagram exhibition COLUMBUS, OH.- Embracing technology and the power of social media, the Columbus Museum of Art presents the first museum exhibition generated by Instagram. CMA used its critically acclaimed exhibition The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936 – 1951 as the inspiration for a social media campaign encouraging people to “become a modern-day Photo Leaguer by participating in Columbus Museum of Art Photo Hunts.” The result is an exhibition of more than 30 works, each taken using the popular Instagram app, on view in CMA’s Community Gallery. “The Columbus Museum of Art is leading the national conversation in creating a visionary, innovative, visitor-centered model for a participatory, twenty-first century museum,” said Executive Director Nannette V. Maciejunes. “CMA Photo Hunts extend the idea creating a great, visitor-centered experience into the digital ... More Haunch of Venison opens first solo exhibition with British painter Justin Mortimer LONDON.- Haunch of Venison presents its first solo exhibition with British painter Justin Mortimer. Justin Mortimer’s exhibition, Resort, presents twelve new oil paintings - including five large-scale works - that showcase the artist’s facility as a figurative painter and his signature multi-dimensional environments. These pictures are characterized by depictions of the human figure isolated in landscapes or interior chambers and surrounded by medical apparatus, machinery and in several works, acid coloured balloons which hover around the anonymous figures. While the specific subject or location of the paintings remains mysterious, they suggest an underworld of clandestine operations and suspicious intent. In the title work, Resort, a group of malnourished soldiers form a diagonal line across a snowy landscape. Two of them appear to be treating a wounded arm while others scavenge ... More New Vision for the National Gallery of Australia CANBERRA.- On the 30th anniversary of the National Gallery of Australia, Director Ron Radford AM announced the Gallery’s ambitious new strategic vision for the next four years. Speaking today at the National Press Club, Dr Radford outlined the Gallery’s achievements over the last three decades which have resulted in building the largest and most valuable collection of art for the Australian nation. The National Gallery of Australia is still the world’s youngest national art gallery and yet in its short history, the institution has developed the national art collection to more than 165,000 works of art, now valued at more than $4.7 billion. Dr Radford said that it was now time to look to the future of the Gallery and the ways in which access to this wonderful collection could be dramatically expanded in the future. “The new strategic vision for the National Gallery of Australia is focused on ... More |
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