| "The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece" on view at the Portland Art Museum | | Dutch police investigating art heist probe tips; heist was more "smash and grab" than "Ocean's 11" | | Klimt sketches lead Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art Sale in London | 
The Discobolus, Roman, 2nd century AD, marble, © The Trustees of The British Museum 2012. All rights reserved.
PORTLAND, OR.- Selected from the world-famous Greek and Roman collection of the British Museum, the Portland Art Museum presents The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, a visually stunning and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition seen through ancient Greek eyes. The exhibition presents a diverse selection of some 130 objects exploring the Greeks’ fascination with the human body and humanity which was pervasive in ancient Greek culture. The development of the human body in art was driven by the ancient Greek lust for life and constant enquiry. Visitors travel back in time to Olympia and the Acropolis, sites that were central to the subject and presentation of Greek art. Olympia and other athletic fields were theaters for the display of the athletic male body. Athletics were central to Greek life and young men engaged in sports to prepare for battle. Even religious festivals ... More | | 
A man admiring a painting holds the catalogue of the Avant-gardes exhibit as the Kunsthal museum reopened its doors to the public. AP Photo/Peter Dejong.
By: Toby Sterling, Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP).- In Hollywood movies, heists usually feature criminals who plan meticulously and use high-tech equipment to avoid detection. But the thieves who snatched seven paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet worth millions from a gallery in Rotterdam appear to have taken a less glamorous approach, relying mostly on speed and brute force. In other words, the theft from the Kunsthal exhibition on avant-garde art was more "smash and grab" than "Ocean's 11." Dutch police said Wednesday they had no suspects in the case, the largest art heist in the country for more than a decade, though an appeal to witnesses had produced more than a dozen tips for investigators to follow up. As questions arose about security at the ... More | | 
Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918), Stehende Dame von vorne, mit leichter Drehung nach links (Marie Henneberg. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Three influential sketches by Gustav Klimt, that played an important role in the development of the artist’s oeuvre will lead Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale at Knightsbridge, London on 30th October. They are offered for sale in Gustav Klimt year, the celebration of the famous Austrian artist’s 150th birthday. Klimt’s intimate sketches of women show the artist’s clear mastery of the female form. They all form part of The Goldberg Collection, a striking set of iconic artworks not seen in public since 1982, which includes other impressive works by artists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dali and Fernand Léger. ‘Liegender Frauenakt mit schlafendem Kind im Steckkissen’ (Reclining female nude with sleeping child in swaddling clothes), a delicately drawn sketch executed in the crayon that Klimt favoured at this time, is the top lot in the sale with an estimate of £30,000 ... More |
| First ever exhibition on Henry, Prince of Wales opens at the National Portrait Gallery | | FIAC 2012 brings together around 180 galleries from 24 countries at the Grand Palais | | Exhibition of new paintings by painter Linda Stojak opens at Stephen Haller Gallery | 
Henry, Prince of Wales by Isaac Oliver, c. 1610-12. ©The Royal Collection Photo: Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery stages the first ever exhibition on Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612), focusing on a remarkable period in British history, dominated by a prince whose death at a young age precipitated widespread national grief, and led eventually to the accession to the throne of his younger brother, the doomed King Charles I. The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart, which opens at the Gallery on Thursday 18 October 2012, marks the 400th anniversary of the Prince’s death and, staged during The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year, assembles for the first time an extraordinary range of objects associated with Henry, including major loans from the Royal Collection. As well as paintings, a large selection of drawings, miniatures, manuscripts, books, armour and other artefacts associated with the Prince illustrate the extraordinary artistic and creative ... More | | 
Women sit by the sculpture "Istanbul Blues, 2012" by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. AP Photo/Francois Mori.
PARIS.- For its 39th year, FIAC continues to build on past editions, developing and evolving while maintaining the strong features inherent to FIAC, including: its rigorous selection process, guaranteeing exemplary standards of quality; its broad scope, which allows for a balanced overview of modern and contemporary art and works by emerging artists; its firm foothold in the heart of Paris, working alongside public and private stakeholders in the world of arts and culture; and it's acute perceptiveness surrounding current developments within the creative and intellectual fields, both on a Parisian and world wide scale. FIAC 2012 will bring together around 180 galleries from 24 countries at the Grand Palais. France will be represented by 61 galleries (or 34% of the exhibitors), followed by the United-States (30 galleries), Germany (24 galleries), Italy (12 galleries), Belgium (14 galleries), the United Kingdom (9 galleries), and S ... More | | 
Linda Stojak, Figure 70, oil, mixed media on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Photo: Courtesy Stephen Haller Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Haller Gallery announces the opening of an exciting exhibition of new paintings LINDA STOJAK: TETHER running from October 18th until November 24th. The Guggenheim Award-winning painter is known for intensely personal work characterized by a disquieting beauty. Her indelible images deal with feminist issues of power and identity. In this new series, as in her best-known work, Stojak confronts the self, identity, and the female body. Her works have been called “psychological self-portraits.” Critic Michael Amy has written that Stojak’s paintings give “the illusion of almost intangible flesh, as open as a wound.” He described the “flesh-like surfaces of her pictures” as “rich epidermises filled with the history of their own generation.” Aside from the underlying narrative impact of the work, Stojak is also focused on quite painterly concerns. Art in ... More |
| New paintings by Roberto Bernardi and new cityscapes by Raphaella Spence at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery | | Nadav Kander's Prix Pictet award-winning photographic series debut in New York at Flowers Gallery | | Hyde Collection exhibition pays tribute to Romare Bearden on his centennial celebration | 
Roberto Bernardi, Vagabondi, 2012. il on canvas, 27 ½ x 31 ½ inches. Photo: Courtesy of Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery presents two solo exhibitions; new candy paintings by Roberto Bernardi entitled, Le Mie Caramelle and new cityscapes by Raphaella Spence entitled, Cityscapes: Day and Night. Both Bernardi and Spence’s paintings exemplify the juxtaposition of traditional painting with contemporary digital source material. Both artists use high resolution cameras to capture extraordinary detail, not visible by the human eye, using that information to paint some of the most detailed paintings in the world. Bernardi’s paintings of candy present a visual aesthetic that transcends traditional realism, pushing the boundaries through his precisionist attention to light and detail. Born in Todi, he began his career restoring frescos in Renaissance Churches and Cathedrals in and around Rome, Italy. Highly influenced by the ... More | | 
Yibin V, Sichuan Province 2007 (detail). Chromogenic Color Print, 48¼ x 58¾ in Edition 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Flowers Gallery announces the New York debut of Nadav Kander’s Prix Pictet award-winning photographic series, Yangtze —The Long River. For this body of work, Kander traveled the nearly 4,000-mile long Yangtze River, from mouth to source, photographing the landscape and the people living along its shores. Yangtze — The Long River is a body of work that captures the dramatic effects of a nation at the precipice of enormous industrial and economic change and considers the history and folklore of the waterway that runs through the blood of the people. The exhibition will run from October 19th through November 24th, with a reception for the artist on October 18th, from 6-8pm. Flowing for a distance of 3,988 miles, the Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and the third longest river in the world. Roughly bisecting the country of China from West to East, the edges of this watercourse are home to a ... More | | 
Romare Bearden, American, 1911-1988, Falling Star, 1980, lithograph, 23 1/2 x 18 in. (image), Edition 175. © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection joins institutions across the country as part of a centennial tribute honoring artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988). The Museum’s exhibition, From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden, is on view in the Wood Gallery from October 6, 2012 through January 6, 2013. Presenting over seventy-five lithographs, etchings, collagraphs, collagraph plates, screen prints, drypoints, monoprints, and engravings, these works were created over a span of thirty years. Together they demonstrate how Bearden, considered one of America’s most important and inventive artists, experimented, innovated, and collaborated on his journey toward mastery of the print medium. This important exhibition offers an unparalleled opportunity to examine Bearden’s printmaking process revealed ... More |
| Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, designer of Brazil's futuristic capital, Brasilia, hospitalized | | Exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Valerie Jaudon opens at Von Lintel Gallery | | Rare Qatar and Dubai banknotes sell way above estimate at Bonhams in London | 
In this Sept. 10, 2010, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer attends a ceremony where he was decorated with Spain's Arts and Letters medal. AP Photo/Felipe Dana.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP).- Renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Samaritano, but his doctor said Wednesday that he was "fine" and in stable condition. Niemeyer, 104, entered Rio's Hospital Samaritano on Saturday, according to spokeswoman Bruna Tenorio. The architect's doctor, Fernando Gjorup, said by telephone that Niemeyer "is fine." "He's a bit dehydrated. He entered the hospital complaining of nausea, but little else. He's on a saline drip, that's all," Gjorup said. The physician gave no forecast on when Niemeyer might leave the hospital, where he spent nearly two weeks in May being treated for pneumonia and dehydration. Last year, he was treated for a urinary infection there. Niemeyer designed much of Brazil's futuristic capital, Brasilia, and Rio's Sambadrome, where the annual carnival parade is held. He also helped design ... More | | 
Valerie Jaudon, Circa, 2012. Oil on linen, 56 x 64 inches. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Valerie Jaudon. In her latest body of work, Valerie Jaudon abandons the subtle grid that ordered her previous paintings' compositions and places all emphasis on line itself. Yet her line is not a single stroke, traveling idly from point A to point B. Instead, it unfurls itself across the canvas. In following her line one must work through a thicket of curves and arcs, graceful figure eights and undulating waves which loop and double back on themselves. Her bands are unbroken and as infinite as they are complex. They enter and exit the asymmetric paintings at unexpected points, suggesting a continuous extension in either direction. To read these paintings is to engage in an act of movement. Bands of black or white paint are either set against a raw linen ground or seemingly incised into a solid black or white field. The work is ... More | | 
The notes issued by the Qatar & Dubai, Currency Board, were a full set of 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 Riyals from September 1966, all serial number 000009. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A series of rare Qatar and Dubai banknotes sold for £180,000 against a £25,000-35,000 pre-sale estimate at Bonhams auction of Banknotes and Coins in Knightsbridge, London, today. These uncirculated notes are extremely rare. The matching early serial numbers further enhanced this rare set. The sale included many rare coins from a variety of countries and periods from as far back as Egypt 285 BC the rule of the Ptolemaic kings. The sale raised a total of £580,194 with 90 per cent of the lots sold. John Millensted, Head of Coins at Bonhams, commented after the sale: “It is a tremendously rare set and has been preserved well over the years, the price exceeded all expectations and we are very pleased with the result.” The notes issued by the Qatar & Dubai, Currency Board, were a full set of 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 Riyals from ... More |
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 National Museum Wales acquires two new paintings of Margam House CARDIFF.- Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales is today (17 October 2012) celebrating two new art acquisitions - View of Margam House, Glamorgan, looking South & View of Margam House, Glamorgan, looking North - after receiving generous grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Art Fund. The two large panoramic paintings of Margam House, which are now on display for the first time at National Museum Cardiff, were purchased by private treaty sale through Sotheby’s for £218,500. Dating back to the early 18th century, they are the only substantial records of one of the great Tudor houses of Wales, which was owned by the Mansel Family - the most important gentry family in Tudor and Stuart Glamorgan. The estate was converted from the buildings of a Cistercian monastery and demolished a century later. As well as the architecture of the house and the ... More Pair of majestic Duesenbergs top RM's $10.7 million Hershey sale BLENHEIM, ON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, continued its strong track record in Hershey, Pennsylvania last week (October 11–12), generating more than $10.7 million in total sales with a remarkable 95 percent of all lots sold at its annual sale held during the AACA Eastern Regional Fall Meet. Highlighted by a magnificent series of Brass and Classic Era automobiles, the two-day sale saw approximately 120 automobiles, joined by a selection of vintage motorcycles and memorabilia, cross the auction podium before a packed house. The standing-room only audience was joined by bidders on the phone and via the Internet, resulting in numerous, spirited bidding wars. Reflecting RM’s international clientele, bidders hailed from 17 countries around the world, including as far away as Germany, Israel, and New ... More Power and status, transience and mortality are themes in new exhibition at Museum Van Loon AMSTERDAM.- In 2005 and 2009 Museum Van Loon showed its hospitality towards Foam (Fotografie Museum Amsterdam) which is located directly opposite the museum, across the Keizersgracht canal. In the fall of 2012 Foam temporarily closes its doors once again to organize a large retrospective on Diane Arbus, but remains open to the public at the Museum Van Loon. This time photographer Daniëlle van Ark has been invited by Foam to be inspired by the house of the Van Loon family, resulting in the remarkable exhibition Foam in Van Loon III, Daniëlle van Ark. Power and status, transience and mortality are recurring themes in the work of Daniëlle van Ark. In this exhibition she presents photographs and installations in which these themes are expressed, for instance by photographing women with their jewellery. She also investigates her own position in these themes. Daniëlle ... More Rare Luger pistol to be offered at Gavin Gardiner Ltd's auction in December LONDON.- Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s final auction of 2012, of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns and Rifles will take place on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London. The sale, as always, will have a selection of interesting pistols (which can be viewed at Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s office in West Sussex). Among the pistols in the December sale will be one of the rarest Luger pistols – only 10 are known to have been made and all have been given to high profile recipients such as President Roosevelt, Hiram Maxim, The King of Italy, Diaz of Mexico as well as the Kaiser Wilhelm II. The example in Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s auction was given to Andre Noel, Governor of Konstanz (on the Swiss/German Border) in 1946 and is being sold by a member of his family, who now lives in London. It would have been personally inspected by George Luger and the ... More Jessie Willcox Smith, Gil Elvgren and N.C. Wyeth top Heritage Auction's $3.3+ million Illustration Art Event NEW YORK, NY.- The stalwarts of Illustration art, across all aspects of the genre, showed their mettle once again on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America) in Heritage Auction’s $3.3+ million Illustration Art Signature® Auction, Heritage’s most successful Illustration event of 2012. “The auction room was packed, the phones were buzzing and the online bids were fast and furious,” said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President at Heritage Auctions. “The demand for the best examples of Golden Age, Classic, Pin-up and Pulp art continues to grow.” The auction’s top lot came from the legendary hand of Brandywine master Jessie Willcox Smith as her crayon and watercolor Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Swift's Premium Soap Products calendar illustration, 1916, drew a $134,500 final price realized (all prices include Buyer’s Premium). “This painting is one of t ... More Bonhams to offer stellar line up of works by Impressionist and Modern masters in New York NEW YORK, NY.- The Bonhams sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, November 5 in New York, will feature 80 lots by period masters. Highlights will include works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Emil Nolde and Marc Chagall, among other significant artworks drawn primarily from private collections. Pablo Picasso’s sensitively rendered Trois nus féminins (est. $220,000-$280,000) from 1923 was inspired by his summer at Cap d’Antibes with wife Olga Kokhlova and son Paulo at the invitation of American friends, patrons and collectors Sara and Gerald Murphy. Picasso’s Neoclassically inspired composition of three figures was based on photographs from that trip and appeared in subsequent sketches and designs for the ballet Mercure. Previous owners of this drawing include important collectors Gerald Barry and Sir Hugh Walpole. Fascinated with the energy and modernity ... More RISD Museum names Elizabeth A. Williams new Curator of Decorative Arts and Design PROVIDENCE, RI.- The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design announced today the appointment of Elizabeth A. Williams as Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, concluding a nationwide search. In her new role, Williams will be responsible for the interpretation, development and care of the RISD Museum's significant collection of American and European Decorative Arts, with emphasis on exhibitions, publications, and participation in Museum teaching and community engagement. "I am thrilled to welcome Elizabeth Williams as the newest member of the RISD Museum's exceptional curatorial team," says John W. Smith, Museum Director. "She brings an impressive record of exhibition development, scholarship, and community engagement, and I am confident that she will lead a dynamic revitalization of the RISD Museum's acclaimed collection of American and European decorative arts ... More |
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