| Topography: An exhibition of new work by Michal Rovner on view at The Pace Gallery | | Ed Ruscha's richly diverse investigations of the book as a subject explored in new exhibition at Gagosian | | Rosso Fiorentino's captivating Holy Family is the centerpiece of new exhibition at The Morgan | 
Michal Rovner, Edom, 2012. LCD screens, paper and video, 40.5 x 46.4 x 2.3 inches 103 x 118 x 6 cm. Edition of 3 + 1AP. © 2012 Michal Rovner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace presents Topography, an exhibition of new work by Michal Rovner. This is the artist’s first show since her solo exhibition at Musée du Louvre, Paris in 2011. Topography is on view at 508 West 25th Street from Thursday, November 8 through Saturday, December 22. Rovner’s work in video, sculpture, and installation creates a chain of associations, from the poetic to the political. Addressing issues of time and the human condition, she also touches on processes of archeology and science. In the new body of work presented in this exhibition, landscape replaces abstracted human figures as the building blocks for the artist’s work. The main images in the exhibition are cypress trees, stony hilltops, and bare, arid, harsh, and desolate landscapes where, from time to time, as in a scene following a cataclysm, groups of people wander in the void. Many ... More | | 
Ed Ruscha, Stock Market Technique, Numbers 1&2, 2002. Acrylic on raw linen, 30 7/8 x 30 3/8 x 1 1/4 inches. © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ed Ruscha’s oeuvre has never been confined to established categories of style or media; for instance, books, drawings, prints, photography, and painting are used in parallel, together with materials as unconventional as gunpowder, fruit juice, bleach, coffee, and syrup. But throughout his restrained yet daring experimentation, writing as act and subject, in print form or painted on canvas, has remained a constant inspiration for his iconic images of the American vernacular. His singular, sometimes oblique use of words allows for the exploration of the role of signifiers in language and thought, while his range of artistic means allow the act of reading to be literally manipulated as a process by which to generate meaning. This exhibition follows the recent exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz "Reading Ed Ruscha,” which fully explored Ruscha's obsession with books and language from the outset of his career. In New York the focus is his richly diverse investiga ... More | | 
Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540), Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1520. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
NEW YORK, NY.- The emergence of Mannerism in Florentine Renaissance art as exemplified by the brilliant painter Rosso Fiorentino is the subject of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, opened on November 16, 2012. The show includes the artist’s extraordinary painting, Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, as well a selection of drawings, printed books, letters, and manuscripts by other Florentine masters. The Holy Family, on loan from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, is one of only three paintings by Rosso in the United States. Fantasy and Invention: Rosso Fiorentino and Sixteenth-Century Florentine Drawing will remain on view at the Morgan through February 3, 2013. Born Giovanni Battista di Jacopo di Guaspare in Florence, Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540)—so known because of his distinctive red hair—was one of the foremost exponents of the late ... More |
| Collection of maps of China, Japan and Asia featured in Swann Galleries' December 6 auction | | MoMA exhibition focuses on the transformation of Japan's capital into a center of the Avant-Garde | | Donations arrive from all sectors of the art community to support hurricane recovery efforts for art galleries | 
Eduard Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehorig, with 95 hand-colored natural history plates, Frankfurt am Main, 1835-40 (estimate: $3,00 to $5,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints, Ephemera on Thursday, December 6 opens with nearly 150 lots from The collection of Dr. Stephen and Michiko Levine of River Edge, NJ. The Levines have assembled one of the largest collections of European and Western printed Japan-related maps in private hands. Amassed over a 40-year period, the collection represents the history of Japan as seen through Western eyes, and also includes important maps of Japanese origin. In addition to maps of Japan proper, this vast collection also contains mappings of Asia and the Pacific showing Japan in numerous and sometimes bizarre configurations. These depictions evolved from discoveries by the earliest explorers into later, more accurate delineations that put Japan in its proper place and configuration on the Globe. Highlights of the Levine collection include the first printed map of ... More | | 
Akasegawa Genpei. Sheets of Vagina (Second Present) (Vagina no shītsu [Nibanme no purezento]). 1961/1994. Vacuum tube, car-tire tube, car wheel, and wood. 71 5/8 x 35 13/16″ (182 x 91 cm). Collection of the artist (long-term loan to Nagoya City Art Museum), courtesy SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo. © Akasegawa Genpei, courtesy SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo.
NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA presents Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, the first museum exhibition to focus on the city of Tokyo during the remarkable period from the mid-1950s through the 1960s, when the city transformed itself from the capital of a war-torn nation into an international center for arts, culture, and commerce. The exhibition is on view from November 18, 2012, to February 25, 2013. Following past MoMA exhibitions focused on artmaking in Japan—including The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture (1965) and New Japanese Photography (1974)—Tokyo 1955–1970 draws from MoMA’s collection of Japanese works across curatorial departments in addition to over 100 works on loan from important public and private ... More | | 
A sign on the door of the closed Pavel Zoubok Gallery November 12, 2012 in the Chelsea section of New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the week following the launch of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Relief Fund, donations from all sectors of the arts community have more than doubled the grant monies available to galleries and non-profit organizations affected by Hurricane Sandy. Pledges have come from galleries, private collectors, publications, and other non-profits and industry supporters to bring the total funds available to over $500,000. Following a walk through and visit to some of the impacted galleries with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ADAA President, Lucy Mitchell-Innes reflects on the contributions of her colleagues, noting, “This has been an extraordinary time for the art community to come together. Galleries uptown and out of town, and even galleries that have been impacted themselves have joined forces to support those galleries in need that mean so much to the art world’s overall wellbeing. Along with ... More |
| Allentown Art Museum exhibits works by Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline | | Autumn auctions at Koller Geneva: Design, Art Déco and Art Nouveau still strong | | The ICA Boston presents the first major U.S. museum retrospective devoted to the art of the 1980s | 
Franz Kline (1910–1962), Black and White, 1949, oil on paper. Collection of Juliet and Michael Rubenstein. © 2012 The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
ALLENTOWN, PA.- The Allentown Art Museum (Pennsylvania) has brought the art of world-renowned Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline back to the area where he grew up with the special exhibition Franz Kline: Coal and Steel. Curated by Dr. Robert S. Mattison, professor of art history at Lafayette College in Easton, the exhibit assembles sixty-four early and later works by the artist, many of which have rarely or never before been viewed by the public. The exhibition runs through January 13, 2013. Kline (1910–1962) was born in NE Pennsylvania, and his early representational works depict coal-region imagery such as locomotives powered by anthracite, trestle bridges, and raw industrial scenes. Throughout his life, even as his reputation as an Abstract Expressionist grew, Kline returned to the coal region, which greatly inspired him, as is evidenced in the titles of his works: Luzerne (1956), Hazelton (1957, [s ... More | | 
Emile Gallé (1846-1904), Vase, ca. 1890. Red glass with black and golden enamel. Signed: Gallé. H 26 cm. Sold for CHF 14 000.
GENEVA.- In a wide-ranging auction, Art Déco and Art Nouveau in particular set the tone with results reaching five figures for Gallé and Tiffany. The Design section provided the highlight of the auction with the “Fauteuil à double coque” by Ron Arad at CHF 48 800. The most popular works at auction amongst the Art Déco and Art Nouveau were by Emile Gallé and Tiffany. Of the 15 Gallé pieces, 11 were sold. A vase in a striking red with dragon motif from 1890 made the best result at CHF 14 000 (Lot 61). Somewhat lower in price at CHF 10 400 was the mushroom-shaped lamp in brown tones with foliate decoration made circa 1900 by the same house (Lot 12). Also successful were the two table lamps by Tiffany Studios NY: the artichoke model “4-Light” with patinated bronze and glass, circa 1900, went to a new owner for CHF 11000 (Lot 38); the smaller model “Tenlight lily”, circa 1910, made from the same materials, rose to CHF 24 400 (Lot 37). Examples of success ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, Said, 1983. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Lufthansa German Airlines. Photo: Imaging Department, © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
BOSTON, MASS.- The 1980s—from the election of Ronald Reagan to the fall of the Berlin Wall—were a transformative decade for culture and society. This November, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents a monumental new exhibition, This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, the first major U.S. museum retrospective devoted to the art of this period. Featuring over 100 works by some 90 artists—including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the Guerilla Girls, Jeff Koons, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Doris Salcedo, Cindy Sherman, and Tseng Kwong Chi with Keith Haring—the exhibition offers an overview of the artistic production in the 1980s while situating our contemporary moment within the history of the recent past. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s is curated by Helen Molesworth, ... More |
| New Possibilities: Abstract paintings from the seventies on view at The Piper Gallery | | Exhibition of new work by Josiah McElheny opens at White Cube Mason's Yard | | New series of minimalist sculptural configurations that play with colour by Amy Stephens at Poppy Sebire | 
Graham Boyd, Descender,1976 (detail). Photo: Courtesy of artist and The Piper Gallery.
LONDON.- Many of the visual art works made during the 1970s found themselves neglected as attention focused on the rise of conceptual and performance art. In this exhibition, The Piper Gallery demonstrates that, even as modernist certainties were challenged, new possibilities in abstract art continued to emerge, with a vitality that may even have sprung from the precarious position in which seventies’ abstraction found itself. New Possibilities, curated by Megan Piper and Sandra Higgins, presents works by 14 artists from the 1970s: Frank Bowling RA, Graham Boyd, Barrie Cook, William Henderson, Albert Irvin RA, Tess Jaray RA, Jeanne Masoero, C. Morey de Morand, Mali Morris RA, Patricia Poullain, Desmond Rayner, Alice Sielle, Trevor Sutton and Gary Wragg. All these artists were born between 1922 and 1950 and are still working today. The choice of works here does not restrict itself to a particular approach, nor does ... More | | 
Josiah McElheny, The Constructivist Body (after Delaunay) 2012. Hand blown and carved grey moiré glass, wood, low iron glass and steel, 64 3/4 x 39 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. © Josiah McElheny. Photo: Ben Westoby. Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube Mason’s Yard presents an exhibition of new work by Josiah McElheny, his third with the gallery. If the human body has scarcely changed since we started walking upright, the history of fashion shows that we have always sought new and extraordinary ways to transform it. Through exhibitions and performances such as ‘An Historical Anecdote About Fashion’ (1999) and ‘The Metal Party’ (2001), McElheny has explored how the constantly shifting forms of fashion can often reveal the core beliefs and assumptions of any given era. With ‘Interactions of the Abstract Body’ McElheny pushes these ideas further, creating a large and varied body of work that looks at how fashion and modernism have intersected and influenced each other, especially through the common ... More | | 
Amy Stephens, Spectator and Unicorn.
LONDON.- For her first exhibition with Poppy Sebire, Amy Stephens presents a new series of minimalist sculptural configurations that play with colour, surface and form. Forms moving through space have an inherent relationship to drawing and this is how Stephens understands sculpture - as having a fundamentally spatial conception. Tall assemblages transform the gallery and engage directly with the architecture – their dimensions are in part determined with the gallery drawings to hand. The scale and height of Stephens’ configurations feels all the more tense for their self-supporting structures that teeter on the edge of collapse. A very striking element in Stephens work lies in the materials and methods of production; her bold and confident aesthetic makes subtle reference to process. Angled lines of flocked wood, both sculptural and structural, produce an arresting visual impression as they cut through space. Great ... More |
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 Indian royal carriage comes to auction: Maharaja of Mysore's 1825 State Carriage to be sold LONDON.- Horsepower takes on a very literal meaning at the forthcoming sale in Surrey, UK, by specialist classic vehicle auctioneers, Historics at Brooklands, on Saturday 24 November, when an extremely rare Indian artifact – a magnificent horse-drawn State Carriage owned by the Maharaja of Mysore, Southern India - comes to auction. The coach, which dates back to 1825 and is believed to be of British origin, was used for engagements by the Maharaja to transport European royalty - including His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. Given the elegant design and sumptuous detailing, the coach can appropriately be described as a work of art, as indeed can be seen in a wall painting of it at the Mysore Palace Museum in the state of Kamataka, some 90 miles from Bangalore. The imposing carriage features an ornately finished cruciform body with a vaulted, domed roof, ... More Milwaukee Art Museum acquires Taryn Simon photograph symbolic art thanks to community benefactor MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum announced a new acquisition, purchased with funds from the Johnson and Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund at the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, given by Milwaukee philanthropist and community advocate Joseph R. Pabst. The acquisition is in recognition of World AIDS Day and will be on view December 1 through December 9. “Live HIV, HIV Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts” by Taryn Simon was exhibited last year as part of the exhibition Taryn Simon: Photographs and Texts and is a photograph of a vial containing the live HIV virus, taken at an HIV research laboratory at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. The image was included in the series An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), which comprises photographs and texts revealing objects and sites that are integral to America’s ... More David Kordansky Gallery opens first exhibition of new paintings by Jon Pestoni LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced its first exhibition of new paintings by Jon Pestoni. The exhibition opens on November 17, 2012 and continues through January 12, 2013. Pestoni's work is an investigation of painting's ongoing ability to accommodate the widest possible variety of ideas on emotional, psychological, and philosophical levels. His practice is predicated on the experience of abstract painting's basic elements: color, gesture, scale, and surface. Each work is comprised of a number of procedural 'moves', many of which are designed to partially cancel or obscure prior attempts to arrive at a harmonious composition. The paintings' dry-brushed surfaces contain what would otherwise function as disparate information, allowing for each to be read as a single image even though they include broad swaths, active brushwork, and drips and splatters. The new paintings, ... More New world records set for Weisse, Rosati and an Italian bronze at Clars November 2012 Fine Art Sale OAKLAND, CA.- On Sunday, November 11th, Clars Auction Gallery featured an exceptional fine art sale which drew highly competitive offers from collectors and galleries around the world. Impressive works from American and European artists, contemporary to old masters, drove record bidding resulting in three new world records. Rick Unruh, Vice President and Director of Fine Art commented after the event, “We were very pleased with numerous lots far exceeding their estimates in Sunday’s sale. In particular, the painting, “A Moment of Prayer” by Rudolf Johann Weisse (Swiss, 1846-1933), sold to a winning phone bidder in Europe for $82,950. This was a new world record for the artist and just one example of our ever increasing global presence.” This striking Orientalist painting came to the sale with a presale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. The second new record ... More The Circle Gallery presents the latest works of photographer, producer and painter, Dik Nicolai AMSTERDAM.- The Circle Gallery is presenting the latest works of photographer, producer and painter, Dik Nicolai. With a background in interior design, web design and photography, Nicolai’s practise has from the start been informed by his fascination with the workings of light and composition and their effect upon, and interpretation by, the viewer. A recent decision to live and work in an old monastery on the waterside close to Leiden had a profound effect upon his thinking, which in turn also transformed his work. The meditative atmosphere of these new surroundings have instilled his photography with a far more classical and personal quality. These latest works have become what Nicolai interprets as ‘still-life-moments’, filled with historic objects and symbolic elements. While the objects within his works might at first appear arbitrary, they are in fact vessels carrying subtle ... More Babe Ruth baseball and important collection of baseball cards to feature at Kaminski Auctions BEVERLY, MASS.- Kaminski Auctions announces their Annual Thanksgiving Auction, a holiday tradition and their largest sale of the year to be held Saturday and Sunday, November 24th, and 25th starting at 10AM ET, at their auction gallery at 117 Elliot Street, Beverly, Massachusetts. Day two of the sale highlights Americana, and an important collection of baseball cards and memorabilia, and a single owner collection of folk art from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Top lot of the sale is a 1939 Babe Ruth signed baseball, an official American League ball, awarded to James Wenman, of the Brunswick School, Greenwich CT. The baseball was awarded for the highest fielding average, by Brewster King, coach of the Brunswick School baseball team. This ball has never been used and is valued at $40,000-$60,000. There is also an exciting collection of 305 tobacco/cigarette baseball cards including ... More |
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