| First exhibition in Australia dedicated to the Neo-Impressionists opens at the National Gallery of Victoria | | Photograph of the Royal Family at Balmoral goes on display in Diamond Jubilee exhibition | | Drawing's fundamental role as a catalyst and vehicle for change in art explored at Tate Liverpool | 
Théo van Rysselberghe, Girl in a straw hat (Portrait of Elisabeth van Rysselberghe), 1901. Oil on canvas, 81.0 x 70.0 cm. Private Collection.
MELBOURNE.- This summer’s must-see exhibition Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists opened at the National Gallery of Victoria on 16 November. Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV said, “The NGV is the first Australian public art gallery to stage a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to this significant European art movement.” “Visitors will be captivated by the vibrant and technically rich style of Neo-Impressionism, as they trace the movement’s development through a magnificent selection of works by founding artist Georges Seurat and his contemporaries,” said Mr Ellwood. This fascinating exhibition presents 78 works spanning Neo-Impressionism’s 20 year history and features spectacular paintings by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce and Théo van Rysselberghe among others. Radiance has been co-curated by Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Directeur scientifique, Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny, w ... More | | 
The Royal Family at Balmoral, August 1955. Photographer: James Reid. All rights reserved / (C)Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
LONDON.- An image selected by Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh for their personal Christmas card in 1955 goes on display in a special Diamond Jubilee exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. The Queen: 60 Photographs for The Queen: 60 Photographs for 60 years(16 November 24-February 2013) captures Her Majesty in fleeting moments on official occasions and at relaxed family gatherings in Scotland and around the world. This photograph of the Royal Family was taken by Scottish photographer James Reid (1905-74) in August 1955, just two years after the Coronation. It shows The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh sitting on a stone wall in the gardens of Balmoral Castle, with a young Prince Charles and Princess Anne standing on either side of them. The Royal Family is accompanied by two of The Queen’s corgis, one of which is looking directly at the camera. The ... More | | 
Julio González, Profile of a Girl in a Head-Dress c.1904. Pastel on paper, 362 x 267 mm © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2012.
LIVERPOOL.- Tracing the Century, presented at Tate Liverpool this autumn, highlights drawing’s fundamental role as a catalyst and vehicle for change in modern and contemporary art. The exhibition includes around one hundred artworks from the Tate Collection together with key loans by artists such as Sara Barker, Leon Golub, Jasper Johns, Julie Mehretu, Matthew Monahan, Richard Tuttle and Hannah Wilke. Programmed in parallel with Tracing the Century, a new commission by Matt Saunders in the Wolfson Gallery will look at new drawing practices. Tracing the Century has at its heart artworks based on the human body and the inner self, opening up the conversation between figuration and abstraction that characterised art in the twentieth century. Rather than approaching abstraction and figuration separately, the exhibition integrates these genres to explore the continuous ... More |
| "Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art" opens at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts | | American artist Spencer Finch presents a series of new works at Lisson Gallery in Milan | | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Musée de Louvre announce major accord | 
Edward Ruscha, Landmark Decay, 2006 (detail). Original Color Lithograph, 3 1/2 x 9 in. Bottom Image: Further Landmark Decay, 2006 (detail). Original Color Lithograph, 3 1/2 x 9 in.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles presents an expansive exhibition titled "Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art" which includes works by more than thirty contemporary L.A.-based artists who incorporate elements of words and letters in their work. Co-curated by Aldis Browne and Jack Rutberg. The exhibition runs through Saturday, December 22nd at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, located at 357 North La Brea Avenue. L.A.'s association with typography in the visual arts is perhaps unique. Text has historically been ubiquitous on the city's streets with political and gang graffiti, and L.A.’s ever-present billboards that surfaced as far back as the onset of Southern California's car culture and highway system. While other cities are represented by monumental structures such as New York's Empire State building, the Acropolis ... More | | 
Spencer Finch, Colour Study (Dreams Memories), 2012, Watercolour on paper, 129 x 172. © the artist; Courtesy, Lisson Gallery, London.
MILAN.- Spencer Finch presents a series of new works including a site-specific LED installation, a suite of photographs and a large watercolour that explore memory, colour and the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious. At the core of Finch’s practice is his on-going investigation into the nature of light, colour, memory and perception. He uses scientific method to poetic effect, examining the mechanics and mystery of perception. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a large, outdoor installation that comprises a forest of barely perceptible vertical brass rods of varying heights, each with a tiny LED at its tip. Like fireflies against the night sky, the LEDs light up intermittently and in different configurations, choreographed to ‘perform’ a scene from Shakespeare’s play. The spectator is invited to track these blinking LEDs in their jerky, unpredictable trajectory. Finch is fascinated by the process of taking a beautiful, ... More | | 
The Louvre: The world's most popular art museum. AP Photo/Christophe Ena.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Officials from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Musée du Louvre announced an exclusive agreement in which the two institutions will collaborate on a series of exhibitions and exchanges. The agreement will include plans to share significant works of art from both museums’ collections with audiences in San Francisco and Paris during the next five years. The international accord, signed amid much fanfare today before the opening of the new exhibition Royal Treasures from the Louvre: Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette at the Legion of Honor, marks a unique partnership between the two museums that will include collaborations on publications, art conservation projects, and public education programs. Under terms of the agreement, the Louvre and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which comprises the Legion of Honor and the de Young Museum, will work together to identify art works to be made availab ... More |
| Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition focuses on three decades of Matisse's dancers | | 1895 Cameo Morgan dollar highlights Heritage Auctions' U.S. Coins Signature Auction | | Global cultural influences converge in new Jeffrey Gibson exhibition at Marc Straus | 
Henri Matisse. Dancer Reflected in the Mirror. 1927. The Balitmore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, BMA 1950.12.202. @Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The BMA presents an intimate exhibition of more than 30 dance-themed prints, drawings, and sculptures by the great French artist Henri Matisse. On view in two of the Cone Collection galleries from November 14, 2012 through February 24, 2013, Matisse’s Dancers spans three decades of the artist’s career— from sculptures created in 1909-11 to delicate drawings of dancers sketched in 1949. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a rarely shown series of 11 transfer lithographs of a dancer/acrobat moving through various positions that evolve into an abstraction of reality, movement, and shape. These prints, drawn as lithographs in 1931-32, but published after Matisse’s death, are among the most eloquent examples of the artist’s way of seeing. The BMA has ... More | | 
Among the finest Cameo examples certified.
DALLAS, TX.- A proof-only 1895 Philadelphia Morgan dollar, PR66 Cameo PCGS, leads the thousands of lots up for bid at Heritage Auctions’ November 2012 U.S. Coins Signature® Auction, the official auction of the Money Show of the Southwest, with floor sessions scheduled for Nov. 29-30. “The 1895 Morgan dollar is one of the all-time famous rarities,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage. “Morgan dollar enthusiasts dream of owning any specimen from the issue of just 880 proofs, so our offering of this high-end example – a gorgeous PR66 Cameo survivor – will thrill the winning bidder.” Another high-end silver coin is an 1896-S Barber quarter, MS66 NGC, considered among the half-dozen finest available. The 1896-S is the first of three San Francisco Barber quarters that form the key dates of the series. While it has the highest mintage of the three and generally is considered to be the most common in l ... More | | 
Jeffrey Gibson, Three Bars, 2011. Acrylic on recycled and collaged painting, glass beads, steel studs, 58 x 46.5 inches, 147.3 x 118.1 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jeffrey Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, Korea, England and elsewhere. He is also a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half Cherokee. This unique combination of global cultural influences converge in his multi-disciplinary practice of more than a decade since the completion of his Master of Arts degree in painting at The Royal College of Art, London in 1998 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. Gibson’s artwork intermingles elements of traditional Native American art with contemporary artistic references. Thus powwow regalia, 19th parfleche containers, and drums are seamlessly merged with elements of Modernist geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Pattern and Deco- ... More |
| Jade hardstone carvings and Chinese ceramics, paintings and calligraphy on offer at Bonhams | | Solo exhibition by artist and designer Mark Hearld opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park | | Parrish Art Museum opens new building in Water Mill with Malcolm Morley exhibition | 
A powder blue ground porcelain covered jar with famille verte and gilt enamel decoration, Late Qing/Republic period. 16 1/2in (42cm) high. Est. $2,000-3,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announced its fall Asian Decorative Arts sale in San Francisco, December 11. The auction, in conjunction with the important biannual sale of Fine Asian Works of Art, to be offered December 10, is designed to meet a wide range of collecting tastes and budgets. The more than 600 pieces of Chinese, Japanese and other Asian Works of art are obtained from various sources, including private collectors, estates and institutions from throughout the United States. All of the traditionally popular categories will be well-represented. Jade lovers shall not be disappointed. A noteworthy lot among the nearly 100 jade and hardstone carvings is a large jade censer with dragon decoration of the 20th century (est. $6,000-8,000). A group of Chinese ceramics from a focused private Cleveland collector ... More | | 
Mark Hearld, Feste Bag. Photo Jonty Wilde.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents Birds and Beasts, an exhibition by artist and designer Mark Hearld featuring his trademark brightly coloured collages and lithographic prints. The exhibition opened at the Park near Wakefield on 17 November 2012 and runs until 17 February 2013. Birds and Beasts showcases Hearld’s practice which stems from a love of the British countryside, curiosity for objects and a magpie approach to collecting. Hearld has taken inspiration from YSP’s 500-acre historic estate and its inhabitant wildlife to create new work, all of which is available to buy. The Park’s visitor centre and Upper Space gallery are decorated with Hearld’s hand-painted wooden animals; three-dimensional, hand-decorated ceramic hares; collages in hand-painted frames, lino-cuts, and limited edition litho prints. A flock of hand-decorated wooden pigeons hang in the concourse and found objects chosen by th ... More | | 
Malcolm Morley, Ring of Fire, 2009. Oil paint on paper, metal, 113 x 77 ½ x 87. Collection of the artist.
WATER MILL, NY.- Malcolm Morley: Painting, Paper, Process, an exhibition of some 50 works from the 1980s to the present, inaugurated the temporary exhibition galleries of the new Parrish Art Museum when it opened to the public Saturday, November 10, 2012, in Water Mill, NY. Organized by Alicia G. Longwell, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, the exhibition will remain on view through January 13, 2013. At the same time, the Museum unveiled an installation of works from its outstanding permanent collection for the first time in its 115-year history. Ranging in date from the 19th century to the present, the Parrish’s holdings include more than 2,600 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by many of America’s most influential artists. Selections have been installed in the 7,600 square-foot collection galleries. For more than 40 years, the art of Malcolm Morley ... More |
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 Jonathan Yeo's first portfolio of prints, featuring some of his most iconic sitters, on view at Eleven LONDON.- Eleven in association with Paragon Press presents Jonathan Yeo’s first portfolio of prints. Featuring some of his most iconic sitters including Nicole Kidman, Sienna Miller, Dennis Hopper and Erin O’Connor, Yeo creates a dynamic collection of portraiture. The portfolio features new unseen images alongside reworked versions of his most renowned personalities. Utilising a variety of media and printing techniques his works are as visually varied as his sitters. Some People is a return to Yeo’s figurative roots and is the first serious body of portraits he has created in a number of years. His last few exhibitions have explored the possibilities of paint and collage to examine contemporary perceptions of beauty, pornography and plastic surgery. In revisiting some of his most intriguing sitters, he realises this portfolio through his expressive marks and acute realism. Often ... More Exhibition of installation, sculpture and collage by Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw at Allegra LaViola Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Super Supra Diluvian, an exhibition of performance, installation, sculpture and collage by Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw. As performers and sculptors, Catron and Outlaw are known for creating altered and displaced environments while they take on various roles, such as Jen n' Outlaws Fish Fry Truck and Crawfish Boil, in which the artists created a hydraulically unfolding American Flag food truck serving Southern style fare in the middle of New York City. In Coming Soon, the duo acted as pilots of a hot air balloon, flying guests over New York. In Imeday Imeday Ollarday Icklenay, Catron and Outlaw’s bold constructions and outrageous performances resulted in the transformation of Allegra LaViola Gallery into an elaborate dinner extravaganza. Guests were seated at a crystal clear table, and served decadent courses as the table ... More Indianapolis Museum of Art open solo exhibition of commissioned works by local artist Lauren Zoll INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents the work of Indianapolis-based artist Lauren Zoll in an exhibition titled Something is, which is on display in the Carmen & Mark Holeman Gallery November 16, 2012, through April 14, 2013. A multidisciplinary conceptual artist, Zoll’s past work includes video, photography, sculpture, painting and performance as well as collections of found objects that explore the cultural associations and material limits of non-art items. “The IMA is excited to feature the work of Lauren Zoll, who is a shining example of Indianapolis-based talent,” said Amanda York, curatorial assistant for the IMA’s department of contemporary art. “This exhibition showcases Zoll’s multidisciplinary and experimental practice, while offering visitors a way to engage the variable artworks that comprise Something is.” Something is features a newly commissioned body of ... More Art goes on tour during Sweden's Nationalmuseum renovations STOCKHOLM.- Last spring, the Swedish government gave the go-ahead for planning work to start on the renovation of Nationalmuseum. Next year, the collections and museum operations will temporarily vacate the building. Members of the public, both in Sweden and abroad, will still have the opportunity to experience the art thanks to collaborations, touring exhibitions and temporary venues. Until 3 February 2013, visitors can still enjoy an extensive range of programming and exhibitions in the Nationalmuseum building, culminating in a spectacular final weekend on 2–3 February. The building will then close to prepare for renovations.- An exciting time lies ahead. We’ll have a little more freedom during the renovation period, and we’ll be partnering with other museums and galleries in Sweden and abroad. We now have the opportunity to increase the number of venues ... More Cooper-Hewitt launches Object of the Day to expand collection access NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the launch of Object of the Day, a new section of the website designed to foster ongoing engagement with Cooper-Hewitt’s collection while the museum is undergoing renovation. Object of the Day features a new collection work daily and draws from more than 217,000 objects spanning 30 centuries in four curatorial departments—Drawings, Prints and Graphic Design, Product Design and Decorative Arts, Textiles and Wallcoverings—and the National Design Library. “Object of the Day is critical to Cooper-Hewitt’s mission of advancing the public understanding of design and is integral to an institutional campaign to inspire and encourage participation with the museum’s resources leading up to and beyond the reopening,” said Caroline Baumann, acting director of Cooper-Hewitt. “Object ... More Rare Parker Brothers A1 Special shotgun tops Bonhams fall arms sale in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The 330-lot Antique Arms & Armor and Sporting Guns auction at Bonhams, November 12, brought a successful $634,280, led by the $70,200 sale of a rare Parker Brothers A1 Special shotgun two barrel set, whose pre-sale estimate was $60,000-80,000. Leading lots of the auction continued with a fine cased Gustave Young engraved Colt Model 1851 Navy revolver, sold for $35,100 (est. $30,000-40,000). Factory engraved Colt Model percussion revolvers sold well in the sale, exampled by a cased 1860 Army revolver, sold for $12,870 (est. $10,000-15,000); an 1861 Navy revolver, sold for $9,360 (est. $3,000-5,000); an 1851 Navy revolver, sold for $7,605 (est. $4,000-6,000); and an 1860 Army revolver, sold for $5,616 (est. $3,000-5,000). Of particular interest in the auction was an important, previously undocumented, American full stock flintlock ... More |
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