| "Explosion! The Legacy of Jackson Pollock" opens at The Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona | | Exhibition of marble and bronze sculptures by Fernando Botero opens at Marlborough Gallery in New York | | The Prado Museum is presenting Portrait of a Man, recently attributed to Velázquez | 
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, ca. 1949 © Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel/Jackson Pollock/BUS 2012.
BARCELONA.- The Fundació Joan Miró presents Explosion! The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, an exhibition curated by Magnus af Petersens and organised in conjunction with the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. After the Second World War, many artists wanted to start from scratch by attacking painting, which was seen to represent artistic conventionality. Explosion! takes off where modernism ends; when it was so ripe that it was on the verge of exploding. Which it did, in the form of a variety of new ways of making art. Practically every door was opened with an aggressive kick, and a new generation of artists began seeing themselves not as painters or sculptors but simply as artists, who regarded all material and subjects as potential art. That is how the North American artist and writer Allan Kaprow, the man who invented the word “happening”, described the situation in 1956 in his now legendary essay “The Legacy of ... More | | 
Fernando Botero, Ballerina, 2011. Bronze, 17 1/8 x 22 x 15 3/4 in., 43.50 x 55.88 x 40.01 cm. Photo: © Fernando Botero, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery announces an exhibition of marble and bronze sculptures by the world-renowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero on October 24th. This will be Botero’s first major New York exhibition of his highly prized small and medium size sculptures. The show will continue to December 1. Botero’s monumental sculptures are well known the world over. They have been shown in critically acclaimed exhibitions, much loved by the public, in such capital cities as Paris, Washington D.C., Madrid, Berlin, Monaco, Tokyo, and also in New York. The summer of 1999 marked an unprecedented event when the City of Florence invited Botero to exhibit his monumental sculptures in the famous Piazza della Signoria next to the Uffizi Gallery. This was the first time that a contemporary artist had been offered this extraordinary site to exhibit work, and the great honor was not lost on Botero. Just as admired ... More | | 
Portrait of a Man, Diego Velázquez. Oil on canvas, 68, 6 x 55,2 cm, 1630 – 1635, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Jules Bache Collection.
MADRID.- On loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, of which Plácido Arango is an honorary patron, Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man has arrived in Spain in honour of the President of the Museum’s Board of Trustees over the past five years. Until 27 January 2013, and thanks to the sponsorship of the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man is being exhibited within the “Invited Work” programme that was launched in 2009 with the aim of enriching visitors’ understanding of the works in the Museum’s own collection. The Prado is offering the public the exceptional opportunity to see the painting now that it has been re-attributed to Velázquez, having been catalogued as a work by his circle since 1963. The portrait temporarily joins the Museum’s own collection of works by Velázquez and is on display in Room 9A alongside The Surrender of Breda, one his ... More |
| Sotheby's London to sell the Ronald Horton / Derek Ancil Collection of pictures by Edward Seago | | Gagosian Gallery opens new exhibition space at Le Bourget in the north of Paris with "Morgenthau Plan" | | Milwaukee Art Museum acquires Lanford Wilson Collection of self-taught art | 
Detail of Early Morning, Britford Lane, signed and dated: Edward Seago / 42, oil on canvas. Estimate: £30,000-50,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s will offer a group of forty works by British artist Edward Seago in a sale of British & Irish Art in London on Tuesday, 13 November, 2012. The Ronald Horton / Derek Ancil Collection comprises one of the most important groups of its kind ever to come to auction. With estimates ranging from £3,000-5,000 to £60,000-80,000, the collection is expected to bring in excess of £500,000. The story of their journey to the open market can be traced back directly to Seago and the unique relationship that formed between artist and patron. Ronald Horton first encountered Seago’s work at the artist’s second London exhibition, held at the Sporting Gallery in 1933. Of the sixty pictures on view, more than half were circus scenes, with a further twenty equestrian subjects. Seago’s imagination had been captured by a visit to Bertram Mills’ travelling circus in Norwich in 1930 ... More | | 
Anselm Kiefer, Morgenthau Plan. Photo: ©Anselm Kiefer, courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery inaugurated a new exhibition space at Le Bourget in the north of Paris with "Morgenthau Plan," an exhibition by Anselm Kiefer. Following major exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery in New York (1998, 2000, 2002, 2010), Los Angeles (2008), and Rome (2009), this is Kiefer's first exhibition with the gallery in Paris. Kiefer's monumental archive of human memory gives overt material presence to a broad range of cultural myths and metaphors—from the Old and New Testaments, the Kabbalah, and ancient Roman history to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan. Fusing art and literature, painting and sculpture, Kiefer engages the complex events of history and the ancestral epics of life, death, and the cosmos. He integrates, expands, and regenerates imagery and techniques, emphasizing the importance of the sacred and the spiritual. In "Morgenthau Plan," the gallery is filled with a sculpture of a golde ... More | | 
Clementine Hunter (American, 1886 or 1887–1988), Zinnias, ca. 1970. Oil on canvas board, 17 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (45.09 x 34.93 cm). Milwaukee Art Museum, The Lanford Wilson Collection. Image credit: John R. Glembin.
MILWAUKEE, WIS .- The Milwaukee Art Museum announced its acquisition of the Lanford Wilson Collection, comprised of 179 works by untrained creators such as William Hawkins, Eddie Arning, and Joseph Yoakum. The gift of the Wilson Collection significantly builds on the Museum’s strengths in the field of folk and self-taught art, and solidifies it as the leading institution in North America for work by untrained creators. Lanford Wilson (1937–2011), the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Burn This!, Talley’s Folly, and Fifth of July, began collecting self-taught art while in Louisiana for the filming of friend Robert Harling’s screenplay Steel Magnolias. While on location, Wilson attended an exhibition of work by Clementine Hunter and purchased one of her works. This inspired a love affair ... More |
| Center premieres first major Anthony Caro exhibition in US in nearly forty years | | Brilliant but still misunderstood: Scottish Colourist George Leslie Hunter at the Fleming Collection | | Menno Meewis, Director of the Middelheimmuseum in Antwerp, dies at age 58 | 
Paper Sculpture No. 98, 1981, pencil, chalk, acrylic, handmade paper, and Tycore on cardboard tubes filled with leadshot, 30 x 15 x 16 inches, Private collection, London.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- With a career spanning more than sixty years, Sir Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is Britain’s most acclaimed sculptor since Henry Moore. This October, the Yale Center for British Art premiered an exhibition bringing together more than sixty works by the artist. Featuring early drawings—many of which have rarely or never been exhibited—and small-scale sculptures in a range of media dating from the 1950s to the present, the exhibition is drawn from Caro’s studio and family collections, and private lenders in the US and UK, with key loans from the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This selective survey is the first major exhibition of Caro’s work to be held in an American museum since his retrospective at MoMA in 1975. Concurrently with Caro: Close Up, the Center displays modern and contemporary works from its permanent collection by artists whose pra ... More | | 
George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931), Peonies in a Chinese Vase, c. 1925. Oil on board, 61 x 50.8cm. The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation.
LONDON .- A major exhibition of works by the Scottish Colourist painter Leslie Hunter, covering his life in San Francisco, Scotland, France and Italy, has gone on show at The Fleming Collection at 13 Berkeley Street, London W1 from 23 October 2012 to 9 February 2013. Over 70 pictures, two-thirds of which are from private collections, are exhibited at The Fleming Collection, which has become an embassy for Scottish art in London, in the show entitled Leslie Hunter: A Life in Colour. Hunter was a brilliant painter but more than 80 years after his death he remains misunderstood and is the least appreciated of the four Scottish Colourists, according to Bill Smith and Jill Marriner, who have written a new biography of Hunter. His fellow Colourist Samuel John Peploe said that Hunter’s best pictures were as good as Matisse yet his work could be uneven and his life was marred by tragedy and ill health. George Leslie ... More | | 
Menno Meewis started his career with the city of Antwerp in 1977.
ANTWERP.- With great sadness, the City of Antwerp, Museums & Heritage Antwerp and Middelheimmuseum notify you of the sudden death of Menno Meewis, director of the Middelheimmuseum. Menno Meewis, 58, passed away in Canada on 17 October 2012 as a result of cerebral hemorrhage. Menno Meewis started his career with the city of Antwerp in 1977, only temporarily interrupted by a short period at the end of the eighties when he went to work as coordinator of contemporary art exhibitions for Europalia Japan (1989). As director, Menno Meewis turned the Middelheimmuseum into a meaningful player in the Flemish cultural field. He was the driving force behind the notable rejuvenation and expansion of the museum that was finalized earlier this year, with among others the brand-new half-open pavilion 'Het Huis,' designed by Robbrecht en Daem as a special exhibition pavilion for fragile works of art. Through the purchase of sculptures by international top stars like Lawrence Weiner, Tony Cragg, ... More |
| Experienced consultant Noémie Bonnet appointed Executive Director of Asia Week New York | | Medieval sword captured from Mamluk arsenal in Alexandria during last Crusade for sale at Bonhams | | Auckland Art Gallery announces artist Kate Newby as winner of the Walters Prize 2012 | 
Noémie Bonnet is an experienced consultant for various institutions, companies and non-profit organizations.
NEW YORK, NY.- Noémie Bonnet has been appointed Executive Director of Asia Week New York, it was announced by Henry Howard-Sneyd, Chairman of Asia Week New York 2013 and Sotheby’s Vice-Chairman Asian Art, Americas. "We are delighted that Noémie Bonnet has joined the Asia Week New York team," said Howard-Sneyd. "The experience and dynamism she brings to the position of Executive Director is certain to further enhance our visibility and broaden our reach to new collectors." Working with the group’s Asia Week Planning Committee of gallery and auction house representatives, Ms. Bonnet will oversee the strategies and operations necessary to continue raising Asia Week New York’s profile as a premier destination on the international Asian art calendar. She will execute the organization’s plans for branding, communications, development, and ... More | | 
The sword is estimated to sell for £40,000 to £60,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A rare medieval sword taken from the Mamluk Arsenal at Alexandria during the last Crusade in the second half of the 14th Century is the top item in Bonhams sale of Antique Arms and Armour on November 28th in Knightsbridge. The sword is estimated to sell for £40,000 to £60,000. This Italian-made sword was given as a gift to the Mamluk rulers of Alexandria by the Christian ruler of Cyprus and Jerusalem, King Peter I as part of a gift sealing a treaty. The sword was then forcibly taken back into Christian hands during the last Crusade’s victory over the city of Alexandria. Consequently the sword symbolises the history of the time when Christians and Muslims fought for dominance in the eastern Mediterranean. King Peter I, the King of Cyprus and Jerusalem, launched the last Crusade in 1362 against the Muslim Mamluk Empire in the region. A fleet set out from Cyprus and proved victorious, taking the city of Alexandria ... More | | 
Kate Newby: Crawl out your window, shown at Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst GAK,
Bremen.
AUCKLAND.- At the Walters Prize dinner held at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Kate Newby was announced the winner of New Zealand’s most prestigious contemporary art award. Newby wins $50,000 and an all expenses paid trip to New York with the opportunity to exhibit her work at Saatchi & Saatchi’s world headquarters. International judge, Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in Tokyo, Japan, Mami Kataoka says, ‘I would like to award the 2012 Walters Prize to Kate Newby. It has been very difficult to create an order among the four artists’ practices, which are all outstanding in different ways. While Newby’s work is probably the least eloquent by making minimal interventions into the given space, it embraces memories of locations, her personal gestures and subtle actions, which viewers can relate to through small objects embedded into the ... More |
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 The White House Years Of Robert S. McNamara brings in more than $1 million at Sotheby's NEW YORK, NY.- Today’s sale of The White House Years Of Robert S. McNamara – the personal archive of one of the most significant cabinet members in American history – brought a total of $1,008,571, almost doubling the low estimate (est. $505,500/775,300). With over 90% of lots sold, the sale was led by personal items from McNamara’s time in government, Two Kennedy Administration Cabinet Room Chairs, accompanied by an autograph letter of presentation signed by Jacqueline Kennedy, which sold for $146,500. David Redden, Vice Chairman and Director of the Special Projects Department and today’s auctioneer, noted: “For two hours, the history of the 1960s became a vivid reality for those who participated in this auction. The sale was filled with extraordinary pieces from the remarkable life of this pivotal figure.” Selling for $95,500, more than three times its ... More Flight suit from Cuban crisis goes to Smithsonian By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- A flight suit worn by an American pilot who flew a reconnaissance mission over Cuba in 1962 that photographed nuclear missile sites under construction by the Soviet Union was donated Tuesday to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The family of Navy Capt. William Ecker, who died in 2009, pulled the nondescript khaki flight suit from a family closet to make it a museum piece on the anniversary of his flight. Photographs taken on Ecker's low-level flight over Cuba on Oct. 23, 1962, were used two days later by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to help prove Soviet missiles were being stockpiled in Cuba. After nearly two weeks of extreme tension, the Cuban missile crisis was peacefully defuse. The ... More Georgia Museum of Art exhibits lovers' eyes ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition “The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection” from Oct. 6, 2012, to Jan. 6, 2013. Organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, this show is the first major exhibition on the little-known subject of lover’s eye jewelry and makes use of an iPad app to enhance visitors’ experience of the works of art. This exhibition looks at the exquisite craftsmanship of small-scale portraits of individual eyes set into various forms of jewelry from late-18th- and early-19th-century England. In addition to the skilled artistry with which each of these tiny portraits was painted are enchanting stories of secret romance and love lost. In 1784, the Prince of Wales (later George IV) secretly proposed to a Catholic commoner and widow named Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert. Because it was highly unlikely ... More BMW Guggenheim Lab to open in Mumbai December 9 MUMBAI.- Today, Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Frank-Peter Arndt, member of the Board of Management, BMW AG, announced that the BMW Guggenheim Lab will open in Mumbai on December 9, 2012, and will operate through January 20, 2013. The central site for the Mumbai Lab will be at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, located in the heart of the Byculla district next to the city's botanical gardens and zoo. Additionally, nearly half of the public programs will be held at a network of satellite locations throughout the city, making the Lab’s programming available to a wide range of audiences and communities. In a statement, Armstrong said,"The BMW Guggenheim Lab Mumbai will take its programs out to the people in a new way. As we expand and evolve the conversation about important issues of urban life, what better ... More Assaf Shaham, winner of the Constantiner Photography Award, exhibits at the Tel Aviv Museum of Ar By: Nili Goren
TEL AVIV.- Assaf Shaham uses new ways to convene old souls to discuss mythological issues that have fascinated visual culture even before it was assigned theories. He creates poetic images while provoking the artificial intelligence of sophisticated mechanisms, disrupts the operating instructions of advanced equipment and defiantly breaches the accepted codes of ethics and esthetics. With a seemingly innocent move, whose visual expression is simple and succinct, he renews complex controversies that were considered long outdated. He posits, near a bluish field of wireless-controlled security cameras standing erect like flowering squills—collected throughout public spaces in London and joined into one photograph whose gradual colorfulness ... More South African photographer Alfred Kumalo, who depicted apartheid, dies at age 82 By: Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise of Nelson Mandela, died of renal failure in a Johannesburg hospital on Sunday night, the ruling party said Monday. The African National Congress described Kumalo as a "rare and significant talent that was pivotal in raising social consciousness and exposing the brutality of the apartheid administration." He was 82. "South Africa has lost a self-taught giant in the media field who still bears the scars of torture and mental scars of continuous detentions by the apartheid security forces," the ANC said. "The (ANC) bows its head in honor of a singularly brave and daring South African who bequeathed our country and future generations historic ... More Take Another Look! Exhibition on view at the Demuth Museum LANCASTER, PA.- The Demuth Museum announced its newest exhibition, Take Another Look! celebrating the 100th anniversary of Lancaster’s landmark exhibition, Loan Exhibition of Historical and Contemporary Portraits Illustrating the Evolution of Portraiture in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, held at the Woolworth Building in 1912. That exhibition was brought together by a large committee, and the Lancaster Historical Society along with the Iris Club helped to coordinate the efforts. The Demuth Museum is pleased to partner with LancasterHistory.org, in the creation of two exhibitions that will expand upon that landmark exhibition held here in Lancaster in 1912, which included over three hundred portraits of Lancastrians, many painted by the most accomplished artists of the day. The Demuth Museum’s exhibition features a selection of portraits that were included in the original ... More |
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