| Exhibition website by Guggenheim Museum highlights Picasso's artistic inspirations | | Sotheby's to offer ten secret love letters from Mick Jagger to Marsha Hunt from the summer of 1969 | | Collapse of Maya civilization tied to drought: study by international team of researchers | 
Study for Sculpture of a Head (Marie-Thérèse) (Étude pour sculpture d'une tête [Marie-Thérèse]) Boisgeloup, summer 1932. Charcoal on canvas, 92 x 73 cm. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Peter Schibli, Basel.
NEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with Picasso Black and White, the Guggenheim has produced a special exhibition site featuring a selection of 22 artworks from the exhibition. Many are presented alongside works Picasso drew inspiration from, with corresponding essays that detail his practice of looking back into art history, in perhaps an effort to establish his own indelible place within it. View Picasso's connection to old masters such as Francisco de Goya and Diego Velázquez, as evidenced in Mother with Dead Child II, Postscript to Guernica (Femme avec enfant mort II, Post-scriptum à Guernica) (1937) and The Maids of Honor (Las Meninas, after Velázquez) (1957). The latter is part of a large series of 58 paintings Picasso made in 1957, 44 of which were directly inspired by ... More | | 
American-born singer Marsha Hunt. AP Photo/Sotheby's/Courtsey of Justin de Villeneuve.
LONDON.- On 12th December 2012 Sotheby’s London will offer a remarkable series of passionate and articulate love letters written by Mick Jagger to his lover, the beautiful black American singer (and inspiration for Brown Sugar) Marsha Hunt, during the summer of 1969. The letters were written while Jagger, the frontman of the world’s most successful rock band was in Australia filming the movie Ned Kelly and their relationship was a closely guarded secret. Jagger was at the height of his creative powers and the symbol of rebellious youth: Hunt was the image of “Black is Beautiful” and the face of the landmark West End production of Hair. Beguilingly lyrical and displaying a wide range of cultural interests, Jagger’s letters, written at a time of great personal and professional turmoil, shed new light on the rock legend. Estimated to realise £70,000-100,000, the collection, which includes song lyrics a ... More | | 
Maya calendar. Photo: INAH.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- A long catastrophic drought led to the collapse of Maya culture, a new study said Thursday, confirming a controversial hypothesis linking its demise to climate change. The study, published in Friday's issue of the journal "Science," involved an international team of researchers. "The rise and fall of Mayan civilization is an example of a sophisticated civilization failing to adapt successfully to climate change," said James Baldini of Britain's Durham University. "Periods of high rainfall increased the productivity of Maya agricultural systems and led to a population boom and resource overexploitation." The progressively drier climate that followed led to the depletion of resources, which in turn sparked political destabilization and war, he noted in a statement. Then, "after years of hardship, a nearly century-long drought from 1020 sealed the fate of the Classic Maya," Baldini added. The researchers came to their conclusion after reconstructing a ... More |
| Celebrating with art's biggest names, Ketterer Kunst announces its 400th auction | | The Tansey Collection: Miniatures from the time of Marie Antoinette at Philip Mould & Co. | | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery re-opens Olafur Eliasson's "Volcanoes and shelters" | 
Alexej von Jawlensky, Wasserburg. Oil on board. Around 1906 (detail). 27,8 x 52 cm. (10.9 x 20.4 in). Estimate: € 200.000-300.000.
MUNICH.- Alexej von Jawlensky, Max Liebermann, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter and Zao Wou-Ki – to name but a few of the important artists represented with their masterpieces in the 400th auction at Ketterer Kunst on 8 December. The focal points will be on 1. Modern Art and 2. Post War/Contemporary Art. This section is led by Hermann Pechstein's impressive work “Die Quelle“. The oil painting, estimated at € 300.000-500.000, is one of the artist's earliest paintings known of today. Made around an extremely important point of time, that is in 1906, when Pechstein joined the artist group “Die Brücke“. The work, executed in Secessionist style, celebrates female beauty and its life-giving powers, its role as seducer, as goddess and as mother earth, as well as - and that is not least - as the artist's muse. Next to Heinrich Campendonk's 1913 oil painting “Zwei Pferde“, which masterly ... More | | 
Ignazio Pio Vittoriano Campana, Marie Antionette, Queen of France, c. 1780-5. Watercolour on ivory, Diameter 7.2 cm.
LONDON.- A Vestal Virgin, the Holy Roman Emperor, a baby in a basket, a man with a harp and even the grand, decadent, indisputable “Reine” herself, Queen Mary Antoinette can all be found at; Miniatures from the Time of Marie Antoinette at Philip Mould & Co Gallery, 7-13th November 2012. This exhibition displays the most eminent and indulgent characters of the eighteenth-century French aristocracy. Highlights include an image of Marie Antoinette by court painter Ignazio Pio Vittoriano Campana and Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, by Adam Ludwug d’Argent. This internationally celebrated collection is kept under lock and key in Germany for most of the time; this exhibition presents an extremely rare opportunity to view it in London. Coinciding with the launch of the volume “The Tansey Collection: Miniatures from the Time of Marie Antoinette”, the portraits selected for the exhibition were all made to ref ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Volcanoes and shelters, an exhibition of remarkable new landscape photography and installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Throughout the past two decades, Eliasson has used installation, painting, photography, film and projects in public spaces as tools to explore the cognitive and cultural conditions that inform our perception. From immersive environments of color, light and movement to installations that recontextualize natural phenomena, his work defies notions of art as an autonomous object, and instead positions itself as part of an exchange with the actively engaged viewer and his or her sensorial and individualized experience. Described by the artist as “devices for the experience of reality,” his works and public projects prompt a greater sense of awareness among their users regarding the ways in which they both interpret and e ... More |
| Exhibition of new work by San Diego based artist Kelsey Brookes opens at Quint Contemporary Art | | Eisenstaedt's Children at a Puppet Theater, private collection of Weegees, at Heritage Auctions sale | | Corcoran is the only East Coast venue to show full photographic project by Taryn Simon | 
Kelsey Brookes, LSD, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 183cm x 152cm unframed© Kelsey Brookes. Photo: Courtesy Quint Contemporary Art.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Quint Contemporary Art announces a solo exhibition of new work by San Diego based artist Kelsey Brookes. This is the second solo show of the artist?s work at QCA. Coming from a background in molecular biology, Brookes? newest series of work has taken his knowledge of scientific drawings and expanded them into candy colored and monochrome paintings that explore molecular structure. Presented here is a small portion of Brookes? scientific abstract pertaining to the artworks: Summary; A survey study of the psychedelic visual landscape and an interpretation of the molecular world of neurotransmitters that generate and mediate both native consciousness and psychedelic experience. Methods; These Neurotransmitters are visualized through the effects they have on the Human Central Nervous System (CNS). By bending the molecules own effects back onto themselves and rendering their structure by way of their effects on ... More | | 
Horst P. Horst, Corset, Paris, 1939. Gelatin silver, printed later, 11-7/8 x 9-1/4 in. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Images by the giants of 20th century photography, including Children at a Puppet Theater by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Panamint’s Death Valley by Edward Weston, and Horst’s Corset, Paris, 1939, are expected to lead Heritage Auction’s Nov. 17 Photographs Signature® Auction, scheduled to take place at The Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America), located at 2 E. 79th Street (at 5th Ave.). Highlights include a private collection of photographs by Weegee, aka Arthur Fellig, the gumshoe photojournalist who captured the lower East Side during the 1930s and 40s. The collection, curated across 10 lots, was given to his close friend Rose Schubert – a fellow member of the Photo League – and is being offered by her family. This is the largest selection ever offered by Heritage. The works by Weegee (American, 1899-1968) represent some of the photographer’s most iconic images, according th ... More | | 
Excerpt from Chapter XVII, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I?XVIII. Wilson Centre for Photography. ©2012 Taryn Simon.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This fall, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design presents the first complete East Coast exhibition of Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I?XVIII, a photographic project by the artist Taryn Simon (American, b. 1975). Simon produced the work over a four-year period (2008?11), during which she traveled around the world researching and recording the living ascendants and descendants of a single individual, or ?bloodlines,? and their related stories. ?In each of the 18 chapters,? the artist has explained, ?you see the external forces of territory, governance, power, and religion, colliding with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance.? The subjects Simon documents include feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein's son Uday, and the so-called living dead in India. The exhibition is organized by Philip ... More |
| Enigmatic artist Ian Fairweather's Bribie Island work on show at Queensland Art Gallery | | Legend of American art: Norman Rockwell comes to the Crocker Art Museum | | A rare masterpiece by Diego Rivera to be offered at Christie's Latin American Sale | 
Ian Fairweather, Epiphany 1962 (detail). Collection: Queensland Art Gallery.
QUEENSLAND.- Thirty-five paintings created by enigmatic artist Ian Fairweather on Queensland's Bribie Island during the final 21 years of his life are being featured in an intimate exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery from 3 November 2012 to 3 March 2013. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Acting Director Suhanya Raffel said Scotland-born Fairweather (1891-1974) was arguably the most important artist working in Australia in the mid-twentieth century, and 'Ian Fairweather: Late Works 1953-1974' would be the first exhibition to focus on this final crucial stage of his career. Ms Raffel said the Queensland Art Gallery had the largest single collection of Fairweather's paintings. 'Many of these are featured in the exhibition, including eight from a group of recent gifts from benefactor Win Schubert that have further boosted the Gallery's holdings of this important artist's work,' she said. 'Also ... More | | 
Triple Self-Portrait. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 13, 1960. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections©1960: SEPS.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum presents a collection by one of America’s most iconic and beloved artists, Norman Rockwell, from November 10, 2012 through February 3, 2013. “American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell” offers a rare look at nostalgic and historic works from the Norman Rockwell Museum collection that explores the artist, his images, and their impact and influence on American culture. This exhibition features 50 paintings and 323 original “Saturday Evening Post” covers. “Rockwell’s images have become icons of the American experience and continue to resonate with each generation,” says Scott A. Shields, the Crocker Art Museum’s Associate Director and Chief Curator. “This exhibition includes numerous paintings that have helped define who we are.” The timelessness and emotion of Rockwell’s work draws every generation. This exhibition e ... More | | 
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Linda Christian. Oil on canvas, 44 x 35 ⅝ in. (111.7 x 90.5 cm.). Painted in 1947. Estimate: $250,000-350,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 20, Christie's Latin American evening sale will offer one of the most provocative and beautiful portraits ever painted by Diego Rivera— the Portrait of Linda Christian, executed in 1947, (estimate: $250,000-350,000), never before exhibited and virtually unknown to the general public and scholars alike. Originally painted fully topless, Christian’s mother purportedly expressed concerns prompting Rivera to add the delicate and translucent off the shoulder top that now adorns the actress’s torso. Featured on the cover of her 1962 autobiography, Linda My Own Story, the painting demonstrates Rivera’s skills as a portraitist, expressing his brilliant use of light and color as well as his astute use of allegorical references. Rivera met actress Linda Christian in the 1940s and painted her at least twice in two portraits that survive ... More |
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 Dana Schutz's inventive, contemporary paintings on view at the Denver Art Museum DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum announced today that the 10-year career survey of renowned contemporary artist Dana Schutz will be exhibited at the museum November 11, 2012, through January 13, 2013. One of the most influential young artists to emerge in the past decade, Schutz is recognized for her voracious imagination, strong subject matter and vibrant color palette. Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels will be on view in the Gallagher Family Gallery and included with general museum admission. Schutz will give a Logan Lecture at the museum on November 7, 2012. The artist is also connecting to the community. She will present a works-on-paper exhibition at MCA Denver (September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013) and will participate as a Hamilton Visiting Artist at the University of Denver. “Dana Schutz brings witty, bizarre humor to the grotesque in inventive figures ... More The Phillips Collection joins Google Art Project extending intimate experience with art across the globe WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection has joined the Google Art Project, extending access to high-resolution images of works from its world-renowned collection of modern and contemporary art to audiences around the world. From beloved masterpieces to surprising, less-known treasures, the Phillips offers a virtual experience with nearly 450 images of artwork to students, teachers, artists, and international art lovers. The partnership is part of Google’s global expansion of its Art Project with 29 new art organizations in 14 countries. “We are energized and inspired by the vast reach we gain for works from our collection through this partnership,” says Phillips Director Dorothy Kosinski. “The Phillips Collection is committed to a global conversation about modern and contemporary art, and this platform brings that dialogue directly to desktops, tablets, or mobile devices anywhere ... More Largest collection of Lalique ever offered at Heritage Auctions' highlights two-day art glass event NEW YORK, NY.- A private collection of Tiffany lamps, a collection of Tiffany glass that had been bricked up in a secret Connecticut trove and the largest Lalique collection ever offered by Heritage Auctions highlight the company’s two-day Art Glass Signature® Auction, Nov. 16-17, at The Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America), 2 E. 79th Street (at 5th Ave.). The event features an evening session devoted to the work of Tiffany Studios, as well as a number of well-known glass collections, including that of Susan and Roy Bittan, keyboardist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, and Paul Bogart, the five-time Emmy winning director of “All in The Family.” “It’s rare to discover old collections of Rene Lalique, but this auction includes four great ones,” said Nicholas Dawes, Vice President of Special Collections at Heritage. “The Byron Collection from Maryland ... More Carnegie Museum of Art presents a survey of work by contemporary artist Cory Arcangel PITTSBURGH, PA.- For the 70th installment of its Forum series, Carnegie Museum of Art presents a survey of work by New York City–based contemporary artist Cory Arcangel, curated by Tina Kukielski, associate curator of the 2013 Carnegie International. Best known for his modified versions of obsolete video games, Arcangel employs ready-made digital technology as his primary medium, bringing a playful hacker’s sensibility to critical modifications of pervasive pop-culture phenomena such as websites, YouTube videos, Hollywood films, music, and various other internet platforms. Cory Arcangel: Masters provides a focused survey of Arcangel’s practice in the form of predominantly time-based works and performances, which live as witty interventions into contemporary culture that expose ephemeral moments of modern life. The exhibition reflects the artist’s work since 2002, ... More Huntington presents exhibition of works by contemporary artists Lesley Vance and Ricky Swallow SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens presents an exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculpture by Lesley Vance and Ricky Swallow in the Huntington Art Gallery, which displays the institution’s venerable collection of European art and once served as the residence of Henry E. Huntington and his wife, Arabella. “Lesley Vance & Ricky Swallow,” on view Nov. 10, 2012, through March 11, 2013, is an unprecedented project at The Huntington, placing the couple’s contemporary work in the context of Old Master paintings, Renaissance bronzes, and 18th-century French decorative arts and British portraiture. The approximately nine abstract paintings by Vance and 12 domestic-scale sculptures by Swallow have been installed in an upstairs room of the mansion that currently displays paintings and examples of decorative arts associated ... More Vets preserve memories of war with their own art By: Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
CHICAGO (AP).- The fallen Iraqi soldier's face is frozen in agony, his eyes and mouth wide open, his arms spread in surrender, his death in the Kuwaiti desert captured for posterity. The sculpture's title: "Angel in the Desert." Marcus Eriksen was a young Marine sergeant during the Gulf War, riding with a convoy to Kuwait City, when he encountered the Iraqi soldier. It was the first dead body he'd seen. The image was haunting, the experience unforgettable. But it took more than a decade before he started welding the memory into art. Using a mannequin, an old uniform and plaster cast of his face and hands, Eriksen produced a mold and lined it with 70,000 steel ball bearings. He meticulously recreated the scene: the soldier on his back, knees bent. His insides ... More |
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