| "Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present" opens at the National Gallery in London | | Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven exhibition makes its triumphant return to Canada | | Xavier Veilhan's first major U.S. museum presentation at the Phillips Collection this fall | 
Ignace-Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour, The Rosy Wealth of June, 1886. Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 61.6 cm© The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present is the National Gallery’s first major exhibition of photography. This groundbreaking show explores the relationship between historical painting, early photography of the mid-19th century, and some of the most exciting work being done by photographers today. 'Seduced by Art' takes a provocative look at how photographers use fine art traditions, including Old Master painting, to explore and justify the possibilities of their art. Right from the beginning, photography dared to claim traditional ‘high art’ subjects as its own. Far from being a general survey, the exhibition draws attention to one particular and rich strand of photography’s history, in major early works by the greatest British and French practitioners alongside photographs by an international array of contemporary artists. The show includes new photography and video specially comm ... More | | 
Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945), October Gold, 1922, Oil on canvas, 119.5 x 98 cm, Gift of the Founders, Robert and Signe McMichael, McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
KLEINBURG, ON.- The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in conjunction with London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) announced the most impressive exhibition dedicated to Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven ever to travel to Great Britain and Europe will return to Canada for an exclusive engagement at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, from November 3, 2012 to January 6, 2013. Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven is organized by the National Gallery of Canada and Dulwich Picture Gallery, in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands, with the generous support of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and other lenders. The Canadian galleries ... More | | 
The sculpture called "The Bear"of the French artist Xavier Veilhan is seen outside the Phillips Collection Gallery in Washington DC. AFP PHOTO/MLADEN ANTONOV.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This fall, The Phillips Collection presents (IN)balance, an exhibition featuring 18 recent works by French artist Xavier Veilhan (b. 1963), including paintings, sculpture, and photo-based works. In 2009 Veilhan famously animated the gardens at Château de Versailles with a lacquered royal purple horse and carriage, and he similarly transforms the Phillips lawn at 21st and Q Streets with The Bear (2010), an angular, eight-foot-tall polyurethane beast painted Ferrari red. The Bear heralds the show’s arrival beginning Oct. 22, 2012, and (IN)balance is on view Nov. 3, 2012, through Feb. 10, 2013. Fascinated with technological innovation, Veilhan creates works that reflect historical styles and subjects yet appear futuristic. Digitally rendered sculptures like Xavier (2006) and The Bear (2010) ... More |
| Celebrated memorabilia charting the history of film and music at Christie's in November | | 75 years after the outlawing Degenerate Art, Neue Pinakothek exhibits Berlin sculpture find | | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen announces "Digitising Contemporary Art" project exceeds expectations | 
Paul McCartney. A Contemporary Series Hofner 500/1 Violin Bass. Estimate: £5,000-7,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- Christie’s presents POP CULTURE, showcasing important memorabilia dating from every decade of the past century of popular culture from the ubiquitous industries of film and music, on 29 November 2012. Charting the history of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin, Anna May Wong and early Disney animation through to Skyfall, and the history of pop and rock and roll from Elvis through to Nirvana and The Beatles through to Madonna and Britney, the auction will offer costumes, props, photographs, original artwork, instruments and personal items. Featuring items previously worn, owned or played by rock, pop and Hollywood royalty the selection on offer provides collectors spanning several generations the opportunity to acquire a piece of memorabilia associated with their celebrity idols. Many of the items presented have never been offered at auction before. The sale will comprise 160 lots with estimates for individual items ra ... More | | 
Edwin Scharff (1887-1955), Bildnis der Schauspielerin Anni Mewes, 1917/1921, Vorkriegszustand. Zentralarchiv, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
MUNICH.- 75 years after the outlawing ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition, the Neue Pinakothek is showing the Berlin sculpture find of 2010. The exhibition highlights in an exemplary fashion how works of art that were confiscated from the Pinakothek museums and other German museums at the behest of Adolf Hitler in 1937, were lost, in part destroyed or sold at a profit. The aim was for ‘degenerate’ works of art to be liquidated in their entirety or put to further use. This spectacular find is now being shown at the Neue Pinakothek, the third venue after the exhibition in 2010 at the Neues Museum in Berlin and in 2012 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. The Berlin sculpture find has been particularly revealing and of great value to provenance research. Under the direction of Adolf Ziegler, the President of the Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste, the first ‘Kommission’ confiscated 14 painting ... More | | 
Salvador Dalí, Mae West Lips Sofa, 1937-38. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, © Fundacion Gala - Salvador Dalí. Foto / Photo: Beeldrecht Amsterdam 2007.
ROTTERDAM.- The project ‘Digitising Contemporary Art for Europeana’ (DCA) is in full swing and has exceeded expectations. In recent months visitors to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen have been given a peek behind the scenes during the digitisation of installations, sculptures and assemblages by contemporary artists in the museum’s collection. Over the past few months Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has digitally documented more than a hundred artworks, many of them complex ones. Visitors were able to follow the process over the summer. Specially for this project numerous multi-part installations have been built, photographed and carefully documented in the past five months. In this period, 73,000 visitors have witnessed the documenting of works including the Salvador Dalí’s famous Mae West Lips Sofa van, Barry Flanagan’s insta- ... More |
| New Pocket Art Gallery app extends the legacy of the Great British Art Debate project | | Stunning triptych by Greek master of abstraction, Spyropoulos, leads Bonhams Greek Art Sale | | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art adds four new employees to museum relations team | 
As well as looking through an iPhone camera to see the artworks in the real world, the user can access information about the artist, the history of the piece and the subject depicted.
LONDON.- A new app, commissioned by Tate as part of The Great British Art Debate project, has been launched, available for free across the UKand Europe. The Pocket Art Gallery is an augmented reality app which allows users to virtually curate their own gallery, positioning famous artworks from a number of key collections across the country in personalised surroundings. Users can also take photographs of their art collection and share them with friends on Facebook, twitter or the Pocket Art Gallery map:
http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/apps/pocket-art-gallery This inventive app is native to iOS. As well as looking through an iPhone camera to see the artworks in the real world, the user can access information about the artist, the history of the piece and the subject depicted. The Great British Art Debate is a partnership ... More | | 
Yiannis Moralis, another master of Greek abstraction is also well represented in the sale with ‘Figurehead’ painted in 1994 and estimated at £100,000 – 150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An extraordinary creation of lyrical and expressionistic abstraction by Yiannis Spyropoulos, which is the largest in private hands and is fresh to the market, will come under the hammer at Bonhams Greek Art sale on 27th November at New Bond Street, London. Estimated at £120,000 – 180,000, ‘Triptych A’ from 1969 is the third largest work the painter ever created. It is an immensely sophisticated painting, combining drama, linear elegance and simple grandeur with a play on light that echoes Rembrandt’s dramatic canvases. The monumental work, measuring 117 by 272 centimetres is one of the finest examples of abstract art and has been exhibited in the National Gallery in Athens and in other leading museums across the world. Spyropoulos is one of Greece’s greatest artists and was internationally recognised for his talent in the Venice Biennale in 1960, ... More | | 
Alison Nation has recently transitioned into the role of project coordinator for the museum’s communications division.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has added four new employees to its Museum Relations team, and bids farewell to a long-time staff member this month. Facilities Director David Burghart has retired after spending three years overseeing the museum’s construction process. Randy Graham was chosen as the museum’s group tours manager; Anne Jackson has joined the development division as development coordinator; Alison Nation has joined the communications division as project coordinator; and Nathan Pollet joins as manager of special events. Randy Graham, Bella Vista, is Crystal Bridges’ group tours manager. Graham’s charge is to organize, staff, facilitate and promote group tours to Crystal Bridges. Since its opening, the museum has hosted more than 350 groups and expects at least another 111 groups before the end of the calendar year. Graham has a variety of experience that contrib ... More |
| Museum of Everything curates exhibition in an ex Catholic school in St Germain | | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven's "Love and Insight in Trendy Places" opens at Galerie Barbara Thumm | | Schantz Galleries opens exhibition by the best glass blower in the world: Lino Tagliapietra | 
Anonymous, Untitled (carousel), c 1950/60. Photo: Pavlos Metaxas. ©The Museum of Everything 2012.
PARIS.- The Museum of Everything is the world’s only travelling museum for undiscovered, unintentional and untrained artists of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries, with over 350,000 visitors since its creation in 2009. The Museum of Everything works with leading international artists, curtors and thinkers, receives substantial media attention and has created a successful series of books, films and its own award-winning retail brand. In October 2012, The Museum of Everything presents Exhibition #1.1 in Paris at The Chalet Society, the radical new art project helmed by Marc-Olivier Wahler, former Director and Chief Curator of Le Palais de Tokyo. For this inaugural French exposition, The Museum of Everything curated an ex Catholic school in St Germain with five hundred artworks by contemporary and historic self-taught, visionary and non-traditional artists and reveals their private drawings, signs and carvings, handmade book ... More | | 
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Chanel (Boss orange), 2012. Collage drawing, mixed materials on canvas. 65 x 45.5 cm. Galerie Barbara Thumm.
BERLIN.- In 2002, a sunny day in Berlin. I was killing time, sitting on the corner of the Dircksenstrasze, reading a belgian newspaper article on "the archfiend of matter": in the CERN in Switzerland, an international team of scientists just succeeded in creating a relative high amount of antimatter. This breakthrough was going to open the way to exhaustive research on this enigmatic mirror picture of everyday matter, but also could wipe the floor with the standard model of physics. Sunstruck, focusing in the shadow of the Funkturm, I saw the content of the article melting into a sharp and striking insight in western creative activity since 1945. An insight in what art actually is doing at society today, what society is doing with art, is doing in spite of art, and thanks to art. Two hours of concentration transformed a media-generated insight in the opposition matter-antimatter into a clear prognosis on the opposition art-antisade. My text got ... More | | 
Lino Tagliapietra with two panels.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- “Glass is one of the most wonderful materials that an artist has to work with. What makes this material so unique are its characteristics of being fragile and strong at the same time," says Lino Tagliapietra. "A well-made piece of glass work would show this incredible duality." In 1989, after more than forty years of working and designing for various Murano factories, including Ferro, Venini, and as the Artistic and Technical Director for Effetre, Lino Tagliapietra set out to redefine himself as a visual artist. To this day, part of this designation and creative process involves travels all over the world to teach and create, while absorbing the cultural offerings of places such as Finland, Japan, Australia, Istanbul, Morroco, South and North America. Through all these influences and a full and learned lifetime, it is clear that the artist has a well informed global perspective while maintaining his o ... More |
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 The 25th London Art Fair announces Art Projects LONDON.- London Art Fair today announces details of Art Projects, the Fair’s curated showcase of the freshest contemporary art. Focusing on London’s leading contemporary galleries, Art Projects will again provide a critical platform for demonstrating the breadth and depth of contemporary art today. Art Projects will present a snapshot of the current practice and concerns of artists shown through installations, solo shows and group displays. Exhibitors include Hannah Barry, showing images from The Evaluation of Space series by Oliver Griffin: a photographic documentation of the context in which the artist’s life plays out; Poppy Sebire, who in presenting the work of Georgie Hopton poses questions about the coming together of nature and culture; and Limoncello, displaying a space inspired by ITV’s popular dating show Take Me Out. This year's Art Projects sees contemporary ... More Chinese table screen sets record at Chartres auction house CHARTRES (AFP).- An 18th century table screen likely from the heart of Imperial China sold for more than one million euros ($1.3 million) in a French auction house, an official said Monday. The decorative wooden item, measuring 26 cm (10.2 inches) high by 18 cm (7 inches) long, features a white jade disc at its centre, said Pascal Maiche from the auction house in Chartes, near Paris. A Taiwanese couple, who decided to fly to France for the auction, won the piece Sunday by paying a total of 1.2 million euros with fees. Also used for meditation, the table screen has "a poem by Emperor Qianlong on the back," and its probable origin from the heart of Imperial China makes it extremely rare, Maiche said. Originally valued between 50-80,000 euros ($64-100,000), the seller decided to part with the piece because he was moving. He "thought it could be worth something" because it had been ... More Canadian Museum of Civilization acquires Empress of Ireland collection GATINEAU.- The greatest Canadian maritime disaster will soon take centre stage at the Museum of Civilization. Canada’s national history museum has acquired the most comprehensive collection of artifacts and archival material related to the sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland, and is planning an exhibition in 2014 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the tragedy. The Canadian Pacific Railway ocean liner sank in the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski, QC on May 29, 1914, after being broadsided by a Norwegian coal carrier, the Storstad. The accident happened in dense fog in the dark of night just hours after the ship left port in the City of Québec. The Empress sank within 15 minutes, killing an estimated 1,012 of the 1,477 passengers and crew. The victims included 134 of the 138 children on board, the majority of passengers in the lower decks, and most of the Salvation ... More Shirin Neshat: Games of Desire opens at Art Plural Gallery in Singapore SINGAPORE.- Art Plural Gallery announces the inaugural solo exhibition of New York-based artist of Iranian descent, Shirin Neshat in Southeast Asia. The exhibition titled Shirin Neshat: Games of Desire runs from 26th October to 15th December, 2012 and features photography and video works from her Games of Desire series. “Poetically speaking, I thought it could be beautiful to connect the plight of the women with the plight of the country. They are looking for the same thing: democracy, change, freedom. So it is an allegorical story.” - Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat visited Luang Prabang in Laos in 2005 and 2008 to participate in a project entitled The Quiet in the Land, an invitation to conceive a project that somehow examined an aspect of the Laotian culture. This has led to the conception of the Games of Desire series. Having had mostly engaged in Islamic topics, she found ... More Bush library to feature park recreating prairie DALLAS (AP).- A 15-acre park at the upcoming George W. Bush Presidential Center will recreate a Texas prairie, complete with a wildflower meadow, a new blend of native grasses and even trees transplanted from the former president's ranch. "I'm really excited about it. I think it's so pretty, so beautiful," said former first lady Laura Bush, who said she envisions people strolling along the park's paths and picnicking there once the center opens at the end of April. The park's landscaping, which was just completed this month, recreates the kind of prairie landscape that would have existed in the area before the city was here, said Mark Langdale, president of the George W. Bush Foundation. The wildflower meadow should include Indian paintbrush, evening primrose, and, of course, Texas' beloved state flower, the bluebonnet, when it blooms next year. "This spring I'm feeling pretty good we'll have ... More Superstorm deflates Intrepid's shuttle pavilion NEW YORK (AP).- The superstorm has caused the Space Shuttle Pavilion at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to deflate. A statement from museum president Susan Marenoff-Zausner says unprecedented levels of water on the Hudson River flooded both the museum's main power source and backup generators Monday. She says the resulting power problem caused the pavilion, which is like a giant bubble of material that houses the shuttle Enterprise, to deflate. The shuttle Enterprise itself was draped in protective cloth. Marenoff-Zausner says rebuilding will begin when it's safe enough to work, but that the museum is closed for now. ... More |
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