| Major Islamic art exhibition builds understanding between Western and Islamic cultures | | British artist Keith Coventry presents "Junk Paintings" at Pace Gallery in London | | Highlights from Sotheby's upcoming Old Master Paintings and Drawings Sales on view in New York | 
Bowl with Animals. Earthenware with underglaze. Iran (Kashan), 13th century, 10.8 x 25.4 cm. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Emma Harter Sweetser Fund.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- An exhibition offering comprehensive access to the arts of Islamic culture will open at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on November 2, 2012. Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture brings to life the story of art created in the societies fostered by Islam, including objects from the seventh century to present day. Beauty and Belief features more than 250 objects—including calligraphy, ceramics, paintings, woodcarvings and textiles—that will not only address what defines Islamic art, but will also offer an overview of Islamic culture throughout history. Beauty and Belief will be on view November 2, 2012, through January 13, 2013, in the Allen Whitehill Clowes Special Exhibition Gallery. “I hope that as visitors interact with the displays and discover different ways of seeing, they will leave with a new understanding of Islamic culture,” said Dr. Sabiha Al Khem ... More | | 
Untitled (Junk Painting), 2012. Oil on linen, glass and wood, 177.5 x 146.5 cm x 8 cm.© 2012, Keith Coventry, courtesy Pace London.
LONDON.- Pace London presents Junk Paintings, an exhibition by the British artist Keith Coventry at the gallery’s space at 6-10 Lexington Street. The exhibition, on view from 2 November to 21 December, features ten new paintings that reinterpret details of the iconic McDonald’s logo. For more than two decades, Coventry has created paintings and sculptures that manipulate legacies of Modernism while addressing conditions of contemporary urban life. The artist's work conveys an enduring interest in the dark side of idealism: urban decay, drug abuse, and alienation. Coventry creates direct references to the utopian ideals of Modernism, which originally strived to refashion the world. He plays with these beliefs, revealing them to be misplaced or even misconceived; the gulf between belief and reality stimulates a series of troubling undercurrents in his work. In Junk Paintings, Coventry proposes a new visual ... More | | 
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Portrait of Mariano Goya (est. $6/8 million) to be sold in New York on 31 January 2013. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- From 3 – 5 November 2012, Sotheby’s New York is exhibiting highlights from the upcoming London and New York sales of Old Master Paintings and Drawings at its York Avenue headquarters. The exhibition includes works by many of the key artists in the field, spanning the 14th through 19th century including Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, Jan Steen, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Joseph Mallord William Turner and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, among others. Select highlights will also travel to Chicago, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong throughout the autumn season. The New York exhibition also features three Renaissance masterworks from the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth - one of the greatest drawings by Raphael remaining in private hands, and two 15th-century illuminated manuscripts which rank among the finest examples of their kind ever to come to auction. Executed in black chalk, Raphael’s H ... More |
| Louvre denies Turkish tiles, highlights of a new wing of Islamic art, 'stolen' from historic mosque | | Abraham Cruzvillegas' first exhibition with Regen Projects opens in Los Angeles | | Museum to open balcony where U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King was shot | 
People arrive to visit the new Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum. AFP PHOTO / MEHDI FEDOUACH.
PARIS (AFP).- The Louvre museum in Paris on Friday said there had been no official demand from Ankara to return tiles that a Turkish daily claims were stolen from a historic mosque, adding they had been acquired legally. The tiles are part of a 12-metre- (40-foot-) long mosaic put together by the museum and one of the highlights of a new wing of Islamic art which was launched at the end of October. Turkey's Radikal newspaper said they were "stolen" from the Piyale Pasha mosque designed by Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan for the vizier and grand admiral Piyale Mehmed Pasha and built between 1565 and 1573. Its interior walls were originally decorated with tiles but are now whitewashed. Louvre authorities on Friday told AFP they had not "received any formal demand from Turkish authorities," to return the tiles and said the pieces used in the mosaic were either donated and bought between 1871 and 1940 "In conditions that were perfectly legal and in line with the rules of the ... More | | 
Abraham Cruzvillegas, Chicas Patas Boogie (sweaty & needy), 2012. Rebar, fabric, feathers, chain, and meat, 100 x 80 x 93 inches. Photo: Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles © Abraham Cruzvillegas.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects announced the gallery's representation of artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. Cruzvillegas was born in Mexico City in 1968, where he lives and works. Cruzvillegas' practice deals with history and the construction of the self in reference to economic, social, political, and historical conditions. Employing various means to create open-ended strategies of production and reception, Cruzvillegas gives objects a new life and context, generating shifts in meaning and interpretation, meanwhile demonstrating how concepts and relationships can be constantly inverted and transformed. He explores economies of the makeshift, hand-made, and the recycled, and often incorporates site and elements of a particular location within the context of a work, exhibition, or project, creating a connection between Mexico City and the location in which the artist is working. His practice examines the way in which ... More | | 
People stand in front of the National Civil Rights Museum, the site where Martin Luther King was assassinated. AFP PHOTO/FILES/Andrew CUTRARO.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee where US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 is being opened to the public, a spokeswoman said Friday. It is the first time that visitors to the erstwhile Lorraine Motel, now the National Civil Rights Museum, will be able to stand on the very spot outside Room 306 where King was gunned down by sniper James Earl Ray. Connie Dyson, the museum's communications coordinator, said the upper-floor balcony will be open from November 19 as the historic landmark in downtown Memphis undergoes a $27 million facelift due to finish in early 2014. "It is our most unique artifact, the balcony," Dyson told AFP by telephone. "But with the entire Lorraine building being closed during renovations, we wanted to offer the public an access to the balcony and the room where Dr King stayed, since that was one of the highlights of the (pre-renovation) tour." ... More |
| SFMOMA presents U.S. premiere of "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Frequency and Volume" | | Early works spanning from 1954 through 1978 by Frank Auerbach on view at Offer Waterman & Co. | | Eighty-six year-old Honolulu Museum of Art unveils ten newly reinstalled galleries | 
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Frequency and Volume, Relational Architecture9 (2003); installation view of Trackers exhibition at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France, 2011; photo: Maxime Dufour, courtesy Galería OMR and bitforms gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from November 3, 2012, through February 3, 2013, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Frequency and Volume invites visitors to tune in and listen to different radio frequencies by using their own bodies in an interactive video and sound installation. One of the most important international media artists to emerge in the 1990s, Mexican-born, Montreal-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer explores the intersection of architecture, media, and performance. Inspired by 1920s radio poetry experiments by the Mexican estridentista artists who championed action and social reform in their art, Frequency and Volume: Relational Architecture 9 (2003) was originally ... More | | 
Frank Auerbach, Studio with Figure on Bed II, 1966. Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 69.8 cm. Private Collection
LONDON.- An exhibition of early portraits by the artist Frank Auerbach has gone on display in a special loan show at Offer Waterman Gallery in London from 2 November – 1 December 2012. Frank Auerbach, Early Works 1954 – 1978, selected by Offer Waterman and installed by independent curator and art historian Catherine Lampert, features eighteen works from private collections, oil paintings and charcoal drawings, some not seen for over thirty years, including portraits of some of the artist’s principle sitters, such as close friend and fellow artist Leon Kossoff, the model Juliet Yardley Mills (J.Y.M.), and Estella Olivia West (E.O.W.) Born in Berlin in 1931, Frank Auerbach was sent to England to escape Nazism in 1939. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1948 to 1952, the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955 and also attended night classes run by David Bomberg at Borough Polytechnic. I ... More | | 
Papanikolas not only reorganized the artwork, but also put into storage items that did not reflect the best of the museum’s collection.
HONOLULU.- The Honolulu Museum of Art has opened the last of 10 galleries that have been reinstalled over the past year. The project reimagines the 86-year-old museum’s collection of European and American art, against a backdrop of dramatic colors. “This is a project that a curator dreams of,” says Theresa Papanikolas, Curator of European and American Art. “I’ve been planning this since I arrived at the museum four years ago. It’s so rewarding to see it come to fruition.” Papanikolas’s reinstallation showcases the crème de la crème of the museum’s European and American art, telling the story of the history of art from antiquity to 1970 while presenting the works in engaging, arresting ways. For example, the museum’s Impressionist and post-Impressionist works, such as Claude Monet’s Water ... More |
| Sacha Jafri shows fifteen-year retrospective at Artspace London prior to 2013 world tour | | New sculptural sound installation by the Seattle-based artist Trimpin presented in Berkeley | | National Museum of American History continues transformation with west exhibition wing plans | 
Sacha Jafri, She Was Dressed in Music, We Stand Apart Together, 2004.
LONDON.- From 2 November 2012 - 20 December 2012, critically acclaimed artist Sacha Jafri is exclusively exhibiting a selection of works from his highly anticipated forthcoming 15-year retrospective at ARTSPACE LONDON. Sacha Jafri: 1997 – 2012 Retrospective Collection rotates some of the most poignant pieces from his seven collections - prior to the global retrospective tour that starts in 2013. The pieces exhibited are from the following collections and provide a fascinating story of the artist’s journey and life’s work to date: His Unconscious Adventure; Universe of the Child; Kubrick's Factory Floor; Seeing is believing; Disappearing Landscapes; and Kafka's Journey. Ruba Asfahani, Art Director of ARTSPACE LONDON, says: “We’re thrilled to have been chosen by Sacha as the only gallery to have the honour of showing these pieces before his retrospective in 2013. We are always looking for exci ... More | | 
Trimpin in his studio working on Nancarrow Percussion Orchestra. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
BERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents Trimpin: Nancarrow Percussion Orchestra / MATRIX 244, a new sculptural sound installation by the Seattle-based artist Trimpin. The work is created in honor of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the avant-garde expatriate American composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912–97), best known for his rhythmically complex and intensely layered compositions for the player and prepared piano. Trimpin’s performative installation results from several years of study and investigation and incorporates percussive instruments originally designed by Nancarrow, which Trimpin recovered from the composer’s Mexico City home and has carefully restored. For this new installation, commissioned by Other Minds in collaboration with BAM/PFA, Trimpin has drawn on his deep understanding of and admiration for Nancarrow’s music and creative ... More | | 
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Facing South. Photo: Jeff Tinsley, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The west wing exhibition spaces of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are about to undergo an extensive $37 million renovation beginning this month. The construction work on the 127,000-square-foot space will be completed by Grunley Construction Company Inc. of Rockville, Md. The Philadelphia-based architectural firm EwingCole prepared the design and engineering plans for the museum. During the estimated two-and-a-half-year construction project, the center core and east wing of the museum will remain open. The west wing plans feature new exhibition galleries, an education center, a new music hall, performance stages and public plazas. In addition, the renovation will update the entire area, providing Wi-Fi connections and upgraded electrical and HVAC ... More |
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 Smithsonian Institute scientists say humans alter animal distribution on the Appalachian Trail WASHINGTON, DC.- Every year more than 4 million people enjoy the popular Appalachian Trail, which extends from Maine to Georgia and is surrounded by forests as well as agricultural and residential development. However, just as humans depend on the land, so, too, does the native wildlife. With the help of citizen scientists and camera traps, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Colorado and volunteers from Appalachian Trail clubs, looked at the intersection between human use of the Appalachian region and the wildlife that lives there. The study, recently published in PLOS ONE, found that in most cases human activity had mixed effects on where various species live. “It is no surprise that animals are affected by what is going on around them,” said Bill McShea, a research ecologist at SCBI and co-author ... More Shuttle prototype Enterprise suffers storm damage CAPE CANAVERAL (AP).- The flying machine that ushered in NASA's space shuttle program has suffered storm damage in New York City. Shuttle prototype Enterprise weathered Superstorm Sandy this week at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, but it sustained minor damage to its vertical stabilizer, or tail. A small piece of foam came off, said a museum spokesman. The damage was confirmed Friday by both the museum and NASA as shuttle Atlantis concluded its journey to retirement at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Enterprise will be repaired at the earliest opportunity, the Intrepid museum said in a statement. The museum remains closed because of storm damage. "Enterprise remains safely in place and partially covered by the fabric of the damaged pavilion, which was left in place as a protective measure," said museum director Susan Marenoff-Zausner. Enterprise was used ... More Plan for Cuban landmark's rebirth sparks debate By: Peter Orsi, Associated Press
HAVANA (AP).- In a country where money is perennially tight, it might seem a fantastic gift: A celebrity ballet star pledges to raise millions of dollars to rescue the ruins of an architectural masterpiece abandoned in mid-construction five decades ago in his native Cuba. Instead, Carlos Acosta's plan to inject life into the island's hidebound ballet scene by refurbishing Havana's crumbling dance school and turning it into an international center for culture and dance has ignited controversy for daring to reimagine the original architect's vision. Acosta, who was in Havana this past week for meetings with Culture Ministry officials and to raise awareness about the project, was visibly frustrated by the flap over what he views as a way to give something back as he prepares ... More Fall 2012 exhibitions open at the Laguna Art Museum LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Laguna Art Museum presents Timothy J. Clark and ex·pose: macha suzuki, which is on display November 4, 2012 through January 20, 2013. Also on display are highlights from the museum's permanent collection of California art curated by new executive director Dr. Malcolm Warner, and a new exhibition in the museum’s Young Artists Society Gallery called Permission to Play and featuring sculptures by children with life-threatening illnesses. On the upper level of the museum is an exhibition of watercolors by Timothy J. Clark curated by Laguna Art Museum’s Curator of Early California Art, Janet Blake. Clark (b. 1951) is an internationally-recognized artist who has studios in Capistrano Beach, New York City, and West Bath, Maine. He is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and the Chouinard Art Institute, and has garnered a reputation as both a painter and ... More World's oldest Vauxhall among highlights in £1.5 million Bonhams Auction of Veteran Motor Cars LONDON.- The sale of the world’s oldest surviving Vauxhall motor car was among the highlights of the Bonhams Veteran Motor Car auction in New Bond Street, London, on Friday 2nd November. The 1903 Vauxhall two-seater beat its top estimate to sell for £94,460. Ordered new for Vauxhall managing director Percy Kidner on 6th November 1903, the car passed to its second owner in April the following year, in whose family ownership it has remained ever since. It remained in use as regular transport until about 1920 and then was laid up until 1948, when it was used again by the family before being loaned to The London Science Museum in 1955. Among other highlights of the £1.5 million auction was the £203,100 achieved for a 1904 Wilson-Pilcher built in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and thought to be the sole surviving example of its type. The extremely rare veteran car was built by Irish- ... More Baseball rarities lead the way in Heritage $5.8+ million sports auction DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Sports Collectibles’ $5.8 million Oct. 25-27 2012 Signature® Auction further established the company as the leading auctioneer in the industry, with a record 600 consignors supplying the event with nearly 3,000 lots for the largest bidding audience (2,393) yet to participate in a 2012 auction. “This event was a true testament to the breadth and depth of the Heritage bidding clientele,” said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports at Heritage Auctions. “It’s no small feat to achieve consistently strong prices for nearly 3,000 lots over a three day period, but the top collectors really turned out in force for this one and were quite enthusiastic about the material.” Early cardboard earned the top spots in this densely packed event, with the world famous “Black Swamp Find” of 1910 E98 candy cards making its second Heritage Auction appearance after debuting in the Baltimore Platinum N ... More |
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