| With exhibitors from 35 countries the tenth edition of Frieze London opens to the public | | Monet's Water Lilies to lead Christie's Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on November 7 | | Toledo Museum of Art is exclusive U.S. venue for Edouard Manet portraiture show | 
Andreas Gursky, Dubai World II (2007) White Cube, London. Photo: Linda Nylind Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze.
LONDON.- The tenth edition of Frieze London, the leading international contemporary art fair, takes place in London’s Regent’s Park from 11–14 October 2012. Frieze London is sponsored by Deutsche Bank. With exhibitors from 35 countries the tenth edition of Frieze London is the most international event organised by Frieze; confirming the fair’s position as one of the world’s leading contemporary art events. Participants this year include galleries from territories including Argentina, China, Columbia, Hungary, India, Korea and South Africa. Frieze London is a carefully selected presentation of 175 of the most forward- thinking contemporary galleries and will present new work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists. This year the fair is once again housed in a bespoke temporary structure designed by architects Carmody Groarke. The tenth edition features a new section: Focus, open to ga ... More | | 
Claude Monet, Nymphéas (detail). Oil on canvas, painted in 1905, 34 ¾x 38 ¾in. (89.5 x 99.5 cm.). Estimate: $30,000,000-50,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 7, as the star lot of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s New York will offer Claude Monet’s Nymphéas, a 1905 view of the lily pond at Giverny from the iconic series that was the crowning achievement of the artist’s career. Estimated at US$30-50 million, the painting is from the Estate of Ethel Strong Allen, widow of the late Wall Street executive Herbert Allen Sr. In keeping with the Allen family’s long tradition of charitable support, the Monet and two Impressionist landscapes by Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley were bequeathed by Mrs. Allen to Hackley School, a not-for-profit K-12 independent school in Tarrytown, NY, about 20 miles from Manhattan. Proceeds from their sale will benefit the school’s long-term development goals. Monet’s views of his beloved lily pond at Giverny are perhaps the most admired and influential paintings ... More | | 
Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883), Portrait of Emilie Ambre as Carmen, 1880. Oil on canvas, 92.4 × 73.5 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift of Edgar Scott, 1964.
TOLEDO, OH.- An exhibition of portraits by acclaimed French artist Edouard Manet, sometimes referred to as “the father of Impressionism,” opened this fall at the Toledo Museum of Art, the exclusive North American venue for Manet: Portraying Life. Co-organized by TMA and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the exhibition can be seen Oct. 7, 2012–Jan.1, 2013 in Toledo. The exhibition will move to the Royal Academy of Arts for exhibition Jan. 26–April 14, 2013. A contemporary of the Impressionists, Manet (1832–1883) was the most stylish of the 19th–century French painters and a major recorder of Parisian life at that time. The exhibition is the first in-depth examination of Manet's considerable talents as a portraitist. Manet painted his family, friends and the literary, political and artistic figures of his ... More |
| Bonhams offers four 19th Century Russian paintings from an important corporate collection | | Video artist Pipilotti Rist opens exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle | | Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos presents a new site-specific sculptural installation at Haunch of Venison | 
Vladimir Donatovitch Orlovsky, 'River Gnilitsa', 1885 (detail). Oil on canvas, 95 x 155cm. Estimate £250,000-350,000; US$410,000-570,000; €310,000-440,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams Russian sale on November 28th will present four 19th Century Russian works from an important European corporate collection. The paintings are all fine examples of works by significant members of Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers). This group attempted to defeat the strict academic restrictions placed on art and to bring art to the people. They tackled subjects ranging from the poverty of Russian people to the beauty of the Russian landscape and its folk history. All four of these paintings have been in the present collection since 1934. Prices range from £250,000 to £2.5m. • Vladimir Donatovitch Orlovsky (Russian, 1842-1914) 'River Gnilitsa', 1885 signed in Cyrillic and dated '1885' (lower left) oil on canvas, 95 x 155cm (37 3/8 x 61in). Estimate £250,000 - 350,000; US$410,000 -570,000; €310,000 - 440,000. Vladimir Danatovich Orlovsky was one of the most prominent landscape painters of the Russian ac ... More | | 
Pipilotti Rist. A la belle étoile (Under The Sky) [installation view at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007]. 2007. Audio-video installation. Commissioned for the Centre Pompidou in 2007. Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée national d'art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. © Pipilotti Rist. Image courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London and Luhring Augustine, New York.
SEATTLE, WA.- This Fall, the Henry installed the work of internationally acclaimed video artist Pipilotti Rist. A la belle étoile is presented in collaboration with Seattle art Museum and in conjunction with the exhibition Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris. A la belle étoile transformed the Henry’s east gallery by projecting moving images onto the floor, filling the entire 850 square foot gallery space. The artist creates an environment where the viewer is sucked into the video projection and where the camera zooms from microcosms, like individual bodies, to macrocosms, like a galaxy of stars. Whether by viewing the piece from the overlook above, or walking among the projected images, visitors can experience a sense of disorien- ... More | | 
Joana Vasconcelos, Full Steam Ahead (Red #1), 2012. Steam irons, electric system, 160 x 150 cm. ©Unidade Infinita Projectos.
LONDON.- Haunch of Venison presents a new site-specific sculptural installation by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. Following her celebrated exhibition at Château de Versailles and the announcement that she will represent Portugal at the2013 Venice Biennale, Joana Vasconcelos has created a site-specific installation of large–scale sculptural works that fill the spaces of Haunch of Venison’s Mayfair gallery. In this exhibition, and frequently in her work, Vasconcelos incorporates objects and materials from daily life into large, intricate and colourful assemblages that explore issues of identity, politics of gender, religion, class and nationality. In the first gallery space is Full Steam Ahead (Red #1), a sculpture constructed in the shape of a water lily with a steam iron in place of each petal. The petals of the sculpture open and close, mimicking the movement of a real flower, emitting steam as the iron pl ... More |
| "Towers and Skyscrapers. From Babel to Dubai" exhibition opens at CaixaForum Madrid | | National Archives to recount John F. Kennedy's Cuban missile crisis in new exhibition | | Histories in Conflict: Haus der Kunst and the Ideological Uses of Art, 1937-1955 | 
The show forms part of a series of exhibitions in which ”la Caixa” Foundation takes architecture as the starting point to explore great questions in cultural history.
MADRID.- Yesterday, Luís Reverter, secretary general of ”la Caixa” Foundation, and the curators Robert Dulau and Pascal Mory presided over the official opening of the exhibition Towers and Skyscrapers. From Babel to Dubai, a journey through the history of the construction of towers and skyscrapers starting from the myth of the Tower of Babel. The show forms part of a series of exhibitions in which ”la Caixa” Foundation takes architecture as the starting point to explore great questions in cultural history. Through exhibitions like Building the Revolution. Art and Architecture in Russia 1915-1935 and the projects devoted to such figures as Andrea Palladio and Richard Rogers, the organisers seek to construct an overall vision that goes beyond the focus on particular styles and historical periods to suggest a broader understanding of architecture in the world around us. On this occasion, ”la Caixa” Fo ... More | | 
In this June 3, 1961, file photo, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President John F. Kennedy talk. AP Photo.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- Fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, the National Archives has pulled together documents and secret White House recordings to show the public how President John F. Kennedy deliberated with advisers to avert nuclear war. A new exhibit, "To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis," opens Friday to recount the showdown with the Soviet Union. While the recordings have been available to researchers for years, this is the first public showcase of Kennedy's recordings to replay tense conversations about national security from the Oval Office and Cabinet Room. In the fall of 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered a secret deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba that were soon detected by U.S. spy planes. On Oct. 16 that year, Kennedy was briefed on photographic proof of the missile sites being developed. U.S. officials determined from the size of the weapons that the medium ... More | | 
Rupprecht Geiger E 226, 1955. Maße ohne Rahmen: 110 x 105 cm. Eitempera auf Leinwand. Fotografie: Stefan Obermeier und © Sammlung HypoVereinsbank – Member of UniCredit© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012.
MUNICH.- 2012 marks the 75th anniversary of Haus der Kunst. At the same time Haus der Kunst looks back on 20 years as a non-profit limited liability company (Stiftung Haus der Kunst München, gemeinnützige Betriebsgesellschaft mbH). In recognition of these two milestones, Haus der Kunst is pleased to announce Histories in Conflict: Haus der Kunst and the Ideological Uses of Art, 1937-1955. This comprehensive exhibition, spanning the pre-war and post-war periods explores the historical legacy of the museum both in German and international contexts. The exhibition proposes an encounter with two competing perspectives: On the one hand the National Socialist promotion of a pure German art through the annual exhibitions Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung ("Great German Art Exhibition") from 1937-1944, and the denigration of the artistic avant-gardes in the Entartete Kunst ("Degenerate Art" exhibition) of 1937 on the other. As a pr ... More |
| The unwavering relationship between art and vice in exhibition at Shizaru in London | | The Shapes of Sculpture: Exhibition of recent paintings by Bruce McLean opens at Bernard Jacobson Gallery | | Bonhams appoint Padua-born architect Emma Dalla Libera as its representative in Rome | 
Donald Baechler, Brown Cone.
LONDON.- As the international community flocks to London for Frieze, Shizaru hosts BAD FOR YOU, an exhibition curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody featuring sixty-eight contemporary and established artists primarily from America. Taking inspiration from its eponymous title, BAD FOR YOU highlights the unwavering relationship between art and vice, displaying the human relationship with what is ʻbadʼ through issues like self destruction, drugs, alcoholism, gambling, materialism, vanity, and cigarettes. A title that is at once humorous and grim the exhibition avoids judgment, allowing the viewer to draw their own conclusions. Artists explore these many themes through various moralistic viewpoints. Some works celebrate, disregard and revel in what is seen as being ʻBadʼ whilst others raise alarm and aim to forewarn the consequence of a life of decadence. Artists celebrate the excitement of experimentation, and th ... More | | 
Bruce McLean in his studio. Photo: Gill Vaux.
LONDON.- Bruce McLean has been investigating the condition of sculpture since the late 1960s, creatively interrogating, in an astonishing diversity of media, the nature of its validity, its diverse possibilities of meaning, its propositions and pretensions, its presentations, positionings and re-positionings, its private and public settings, indoor and outdoor, and its critical contexts. The paintings in the forthcoming exhibition at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 6 Cork Street, London W1, mark a new direction in this continuously lively, witty and profound inquiry. They may be regarded as paintings of things that look like sculptures, or in some cases, paintings of paintings of things that look like sculpture, sometimes based on photographs of things in the artist's studio that look like sculpture but are in fact merely two-dimensional representations based on photographs of sculptures; these are thus paintings of pain ... More | | 
Emma is a qualified architect. Born in Padua, she graduated from I.U.A.V. [Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia] in April 1999 and was licensed as an architect under the Italian Law by the same university two months later.
LONDON.- Emma Dalla Libera has been appointed as Bonhams representative in Rome from November 5th. Matthew Girling, Bonhams CEO comments: “We are delighted to welcome Emma to our team in Italy. The success of Bonhams in Italy and the significance of our team operation in both Milan and Rome, will be greatly strengthened by her arrival. While other international auction houses are cutting back in these locations we are surging forward.” Emma is a qualified architect. Born in Padua, she graduated from I.U.A.V. [Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia] in April 1999 and was licensed as an architect under the Italian Law by the same university two months later. At university she focused on history of art, history of architecture, ... More |
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 South Africa's review board OKs Zuma painting By: Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- South Africa's Film and Publication Board Wednesday declassified a painting showing the genitals of President Jacob Zuma. The board's spokesman, Prince Mlimandlela Ndamase, said that artist Brett Murray's "The Spear" — which outraged supporters of President Zuma when it was displayed early this year at Johannesburg's Goodman Gallery — is no longer deemed offensive to public taste. The review board "has set aside the classification decision" after meeting about two weeks ago to review the painting, which was first displayed in May, said Ndamase. The painting was condemned by the ruling ANC and Zuma himself said in court documents that the artwork undermined his constitutional right to dignity. But the gallery and the ... More Rare veteran car built by the inventor of the tank to be sold at Bonhams LONDON.- An extremely rare veteran motor car built by an inventor credited with the invention and development of the first tank will go under the hammer in New Bond Street, London, on Friday 2nd November. The 1904 Wilson-Pilcher four-seater (estimate £180,000 - £220,000) is one of a number of important entries in the Bonhams auction of Veteran Motor Cars and Related Automobilia ahead of this year’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, which is sponsored by Bonhams. Irish-born Walter Wilson (1874 – 1957), who built the car, was an engineer and inventor with an early interest in aviation that later gave way to all things automotive. The King’s College Cambridge graduate initially focused his creative energy on attempting to develop an aero engine, until the tragic death of his friend and associate Percy Pilcher in a flying accident. After the accident Wilson started ... More Monumentality and opulence combined in Imperial Chinese cloisonné for sale at Bonhams LONDON.- A magnificent and large pair of Imperial cloisonné enamel cranes from an Italian private collection will be sold by Bonhams on 8 November 2012 for £150,000 to 200,000. This magnificent pair, measuring over two metres high, would have adorned an Imperial throne hall, flanking the throne. Their majestic graceful form and impressive size would have served to impress upon those present the importance of the stately room as well as reinforcing their auspicious symbolism. Cloisonné enamel cranes standing on either side of the throne in Imperial halls can be seen in the Forbidden City in the Taihedian (Hall of Supreme Harmony), the largest and most important building in the Forbidden City, popularly known as the 'Throne Hall'; and in the Qianqinggong (Palace of Heavenly Purity), which was another major throne room in the Palace during the 18th century. ... More Unique group of Mai 1968 French political posters opens FRED's new project space LONDON.- To launch their new project space FRED presents a unique group of Mai 1968 French political posters, alongside an archive of publications and material that examines the impact and influence of the French radical thinking of the late 1960s on London of the 1970s. The French National Strikes of the late 1960s began as student strikes, which broke out at a number of universities in Paris. The de Gaulle administration's attempts to disperse and control the strikes by police action only inflamed the situation and led to street battles in the Latin Quarter, a general strike by students, and strikes throughout France. The Paris students were particularly active in producing posters documenting slogans for social reform using revolutionary artwork. The “Situationist International” was heavily involved in the protests in 1968. The group rejected all art that separated itself ... More Krannert Art Museum reinstalls African collection, explores contemporary Chinese photography CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Krannert Art Museum highlights its newly renovated African Gallery with Encounters: The Arts of Africa, as well displaying a survey of contemporary Chinese photography, at the opening Thursday, October 11 from 6–8 pm. KAM opens its newly designed gallery devoted to the arts of Africa. Encounters: The Arts of Africa is a thematically organized installation inspired by the idea that objects can “tell” multiple stories, not only about themselves but also about the broader social contexts and often fraught global histories through which they have journeyed. Indeed, as a 21st century museum, KAM is committed to raising awareness about the “life histories” of African artworks, as well as the museum’s role in shaping an understanding of those histories. The installation displays nearly 70 artworks from KAM’s African holdings, many of which have not been on ... More Revision DNA by Andrey Gorbunov opens at Erarta Galleries London LONDON.- Erarta Galleries London presents Revision DNA by Andrey Gorbunov. Marking a break with his earlier more painterly approach to image making, Gorbunov’s new work questions the relationship that links art and science and our lives with technology, asking if it is possible to assume that we are dealing with two opposing factors. On the one hand, the positive and confirmed structure of scientific knowledge and the ordered binary coding of the internet, and, on the other, the intuitive nature of art produced by the irrationality of biological man. Where science is to be considered the product of pure rationalism, the result of procedures amply verified, the search for unequivocal truths, certain and impossible to confute, Gorbunov asks if this rationalism translates to the virtual world of the Internet? Are our verifiable virtual constructs of self more real than our physical ... More The Walters' paintings are "off the wall" and roaming a neighborhood near you BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum has partnered with 25 local organizations to present Off the Wall, an open-air exhibition that brings reproduced classic paintings to Baltimore’s main streets and outdoor spaces. The museum is replicating paintings on weather-resistant vinyl, placing them in period-correct frames, mounting them to commercial walls and “planting” them in parks. These high-quality reproductions will be displayed from Nov. 2012 through April 2013. For phase two—July through Dec. 2013—the same works will be installed in new locations. CFG Community Bank is generously sponsoring Off the Wall with a $15,000 donation. “Off the Wall encourages people to explore the wonderful neighborhoods and businesses throughout Baltimore,” said Gary Rever, CEO of CFG Community Bank. “People in Fell’s Point will enjoy three displays, including Manet’s At ... More |
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