| Guggenheim opens last exhibition in Berlin; Shows masterpieces of Impressionism and Classic Modernism | | First comprehensive retrospective of artist George Bellows in nearly half a century on view at Metropolitan | | New York's Chelsea: The hub of the global contemporary art market flooded - literally | 
Juan Gris, Newspaper and Fruit Dish, March 1916. Oil on canvas, 46 x 37.8 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, Estate of Katherine S. Dreier 53.1341.
BERLIN.- From November 15, 2012 through February 17, 2013, the Deutsche Guggenheim presents 37 masterpieces of Impressionism and Classic Modernism in its exhibition Visions of Modernity: Impressionist and Modern Collections from the Guggenheim Foundation. Works by Paul Cézanne, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Vasily Kandinsky, Jean Miró, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and 21 additional artists illuminate the history of the collections of the Guggenheim Foundation and its transformation from a private collection into a public museum. This process began in 1937, when Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861–1949) established a foundation in New York with the goal of opening a museum to exhibit his holdings of modern art. The institution’s collection has since expanded through major gifts and purchases from pioneering contemporaries who also sought radical experimentation and innovation i ... More | | 
George Bellows, The Studio, 1919. Oil on canvas, 48 x 38 in. (121.9 x 96.5 cm). Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photo: Dwight Primiano.
NEW YORK, NY.- George Bellows (1882–1925) was regarded as one of America’s greatest artists when he died, at the age of 42, from a ruptured appendix. His early fame rested on his powerful depictions of boxing matches and gritty scenes of New York City’s tenement life, but he also painted city-scapes, seascapes, war scenes, and portraits, and made illustrations and lithographs that addressed many of the social, political, and cultural issues of the day. Opening November 15 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and featuring some 120 works from his extensive oeuvre, the landmark loan exhibition George Bellows is the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s career since 1966. It invites the viewer to experience the dynamic and challenging decades of the early 20th century through the eyes of a brilliant observer. Bellows had close ties to the Metropolitan Museum. He was inspired by paintings in its coll ... More | | 
Crews work on cleaning and repairing damage at the Sonnabend art gallery in the Chelsea section of New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA.
By: Veronique Dupont
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York's Chelsea, a hub of the global contemporary art market, became the world's most glamorous disaster zone during superstorm Sandy, suffering millions of dollars in flooding damages. Even two weeks later, many of the 400 or so galleries crammed into the small neighborhood are struggling to get back on their feet. Like all of lower Manhattan, Chelsea was blasted by hurricane-strength winds and stripped of electricity during Sandy, but most damage came from flooding. A neighborhood famous for its minimalist lofts and chic residents now resembles a construction site. Windows that are cracked or lined with safety tape remain a common sight, and shards of glass crunch underfoot. At the Jim Kempner gallery, large-scale photographs have been laid out to dry. At the influential Larry Gagosian gallery, stylish young women employees greet visitors in protective face masks. Near 11th Avenue, the high-water mark left by ... More |
| New Banksy book from St. Martin’s Press offers an eye-opening glimpse of the enigmatic figure | | Sotheby's to sell three views of Constantinople by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky | | Images of People: Figurative works from the collection on view at Museum Frieder Burda | 
As famous as Banksy is, he is also utterly unknown.
NEW YORK, NY.- Banksy is perhaps the best known living artist. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at the world's most prestigious auction houses, and he was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Once viewed as vandalism, his work is now venerated; fans have gone so far as to dismantle the walls that he has painted on and tried to sell them for thousands of dollars. But for as famous as Banksy is, he is also utterly unknown. His identity is a mystery, he never shows his face in public, never gives interviews except by email. Who is this man? And how has someone who goes to such great lengths to keep himself hidden achieved such great notoriety? In BANKSY (St. Martin’s Press; February 12, 2013), the first ever full-scale treatment of the artist, reporter Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together the story of Banksy, building up a picture of the man and the world in which he operates. ... More | | 
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Shipping on the Bosphorus, Constantinople, signed with initial l.l.; further signed in Cyrillic and dated 1900 on the reverse, oil on panel, 27 by 20cm, 10½ by 7¾in. Est: 80,000 -120,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s presents for sale three views of Constantinople by Ivan Aivazovsky in the Important Russian Art Evening sale on 26th November, 2012. The Galata Tower by Moonlight (est. £500,000-700,000); Moonrise over the Golden Horn (est. £700,000-900,000) and Shipping on the Bosphorus, Constantinople (est. £80,000-120,000) all depict the city which so inspired Aivazovsky. The artist visited the Ottoman capital several times throughout his life and returned to the subject often. Aivazovsky’s talents were recognised by Sultan Abdülaziz (1830-1876) who commissioned a series of views of Constantinople in 1874 to decorate the Dolmabahçe Palace. Sotheby’s London achieved the record price for a ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, Frau Baker, 1965. Oil on canvas, 46 x 40 cm. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden© Gerhard Richter, 2012.
BADEN-BADEN.- The exhibition "Images of people“ at the Museum Frieder Burda offers from november 15, 2012 until january 6, 2013 a new, exciting look at the Sammlung Frieder Burda, in which images of people is a recurring motif. All of the selected works take up the theme of figuration and illuminate the rich variety with which the various artists examine it in terms of content and style. The motif “people” runs like a common thread through the exhibition. The combination and comparison of the paintings leads to extraordinary dialogues and surprising points of contact. Besides paintings by Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, works will also be presented by a younger generation of artists, such Tim Eitel, Susanne Kühn, or Simon Pasieka, some of which have never been shown before. Human ... More |
| Exhibition at the Getty Center includes late Renaissance drawings by Italian, Dutch, and French masters | | Retrospective spanning the length of Wayne Thiebaud's career on view at Acquavella Galleries | | Archduke Joseph Diamond fetches record $21.5 million at Christie's sale in Geneva | 
Cornelis Ketel, Design for the central section of The Mirror of Virtue, about 1594. Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, 25.8 x 21.7 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The late Renaissance was marked by a new artistic style that featured contorted, elongated forms and complex, animated compositions. Fundamental to this style is the Italian concept of disegno, which embraces the physical act of drawing and creative design. Disegno: Drawing in Europe, 1520-1600, an exhibition on view November 13, 2012–February 3, 2013 at the Getty Center, features drawings and sculpture from the Getty’s permanent collection, including major new acquisitions, works on loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and one loan and one gift from a local collector. “The exhibition highlights the significant shifts in artistic approach and in courtly and popular taste during this seminal period in the history of art,” explains Dr. Timothy Potts, Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. “It is a rare privilege to be able to view together such a rich display of the Museum’ ... More | | 
Wayne Thiebaud, "Yo Yos," 1963, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1963 (K1963:24) Art © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Acquavella Galleries is presenting Wayne Thiebaud: A Retrospective, through November 30th 2012. Curated by John Wilmerding, the exhibition includes paintings, works on paper and prints spanning the length of the artist’s career from the mid 1950s to today. The exhibition includes all of the artist’s major subjects: confections and diner foods, figures and portraits, San Francisco cityscapes, Sacramento Delta panoramas and his California mountain series. In addition to significant loans from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; and Phoenix Art Musuem, the exhibition also includes multiple work from the artist’s personal holdings. “Like many artists, he’s held on to some of the best examples of his ... More | | 
A model holds the Archduke Joseph Diamond, a historical diamond, during a Christie's auction preview. AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron.
By: John Heilprin, Associated Press
GENEVA (AP).- Christie's auctioned off the Archduke Joseph Diamond for nearly $21.5 million Tuesday night, a world auction record price per carat for a colorless diamond. The Archduke Joseph Diamond was the first of two out-of-this world diamonds being auctioned off this week in Geneva. Sotheby's on Wednesday will auction what it calls an exceptionally rare fancy deep blue briolette diamond of 10.48 carats expected to get up to $4.5 million. Christie's kicked off Geneva's jewelry auctions, held in five-star hotels along the Swiss city's elegant lakefront, that seem a continent if not a world away from the grim austerity gripping much of Europe. The Archduke Joseph Diamond went for $21,474,525 including commission at Christie's auction. That was well above the expected $15 million and more than triple the price paid for it at auction almost two decades ago. The 76.02-carat diamond, with perfect color and internally flawless clarity, ... More |
| Collection from the New Britain Museum of American Art on view at Nassau County Museum of Art | | Baltimore Museum of Art launches innovative new mobile art guide on more than 100 objects | | Photographic and free-writing installation by Cig Harvey on view at The Robin Rice Gallery | 
Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Beach at Selsey Bill, ca 1881. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 3 4 in. Harriet Russell Stanley Fund.
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Artists in America: Highlights of the Collection from the New Britain Museum of American Art is on view at Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York, from November 17, 2012, through February 24, 2013. The exhibition surveys 300 years of great American painting rarely seen on Long Island. Its 79 works dating from the early 1700s to the present include history painting, landscape, portraits, still life, and modernist abstraction with significant examples of photography, collage and other media. Major artists from every era of American art are on view, including John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Robert Motherwell and Sol LeWitt. All works in the exhibition are selected from the ... More | | 
BMA Go Mobile showed on an iPhone. Photo by Mitro Hood.
BALTIMORE, MD.- Beginning on Wednesday, November 14, The Baltimore Museum of Art launches an exciting new way to explore its newly renovated contemporary wing with BMA Go Mobile (www.artbma.org/gomobile), an innovative personalized mobile art guide with rich information and fresh perspectives on more than 100 objects. Like having the BMA in your pocket, BMA Go Mobile is a mobile website that is available anywhere, anytime, and on any device—including iPhones, Android, and Blackberry smartphones. Using the latest technologies, BMA Go Mobile expands upon the museum experience with content about every artwork on view in the contemporary wing, plus 33 exclusive video and audio interviews with artists, curators, and Baltimore-area experts. What makes the guide distinctive is that users are able to search by artwork, artist, or gallery, and can create their own connections ... More | | 
Cig Harvey, White Witch Moth, 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robin Rice Gallery announces, “You Look at Me Like an Emergency,” Cig Harvey’s photographic and free-writing installation inspired by her best selling book. This is Harvey's third solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery. The show runs through December 30th, 2012. When the viewer steps into the Robin Rice Gallery they are transported to a different medium. The room is set up to mimic the book, inviting the viewer to walk through its pages. The phrase, “You Look at Me Like an Emergency,” shouts in white hand written script against the back red wall, replicating the cover. Photographs of varying scale line the walls salon style and free-writing excerpts run along the chair rails, telling of Harvey’s universally poignant story: One of relationship failures, falling in love and adjusting to motherhood. Through vivid color and perfect composition of family, friends, found obje ... More |
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 Associated Press photographer Walt Zeboski dies at age 83 By: Judy Lin, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP).- Walt Zeboski, who chronicled Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign and a succession of California governors as a photographer for The Associated Press, has died. He was 83. Zeboski died Monday at his home in Sacramento after battling pneumonia. His death was confirmed Tuesday to the AP by his wife, Virginia Zeboski. She said the family brought her husband home Friday from Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento and provided hospice care for him over the weekend. Colleagues remembered Zeboski for his journalistic integrity and dedication to the wire service. "He had a newsman's instinct," said Sacramento-based AP photographer Rich Pedroncelli, who described Zeboski as a mentor. "He knew where to be when ... More Iconic film car, 'Rain Man' 1949 Buick Roadmaster Convertible, may bring six figures at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- One of two iconic 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible car used in the acclaimed 1988 United Artists film “Rain Man,” starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, and directed by Barry Levinson, is expected to bring more than $80,000+ when it comes across the block at Heritage Auctions on Dec. 14 as part of an Entertainment & Music Memorabilia auction. “This car is a crucial character in the film,” said Margaret Barrett, Director of Entertainment & Music Memorabilia at Heritage. “The plot essentially revolves around this beautiful vehicle, making it more than just a piece of screen-used memorabilia. It’s the catalyst for the entire movie – a movie for which Hoffman also won and Academy Award®.” Rain Man famously tells the story of Charlie Babbitt, a selfish yuppie of questionable ethics played expertly by Cruise, who learns that his estranged father has died, bequeathing ... More Rare Yongzheng blue and white vase to be sold at Bonhams in December SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A fine and rare blue and white porcelain vase, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735), will be a star attraction at the Bonhams auction of Fine Asian Works of Art to be held December 10 in San Francisco. This superb vase, of tianshouping form, is part of a small group of Qing dynasty porcelains from the collection of former First Lady Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944) to be sold on behalf of a California Institution (est. $500,000-700,000). Mrs. Hoover started collecting Chinese porcelain while living in London in the early 1900s after returning from two years in China where her husband Herbert, a trained geologist, served as Director General for the Office of Chinese Mines for the Chinese government. The Hoover porcelains will be a choice group among the Ming and Qing blue and white, monochromes and enameled wares to be offered in this auction ... More Works of art using a single color is focus of exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago CHICAGO, IL.- Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White is the first collection-based exhibition curated by Naomi Beckwith, whose new title is Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago. Works of art using a single color has been a major strategy for artists throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, from Ad Reinhardt’s mid-century black paintings to Imi Knoebel’s contemporary forms that attempt to imagine infinitude. Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White, which runs from November 10, 2012 to April 28, 2013, investigates the museum’s rich collection through one of art history’s basic formal lenses: the use of the colors black and white. Color Bind looks broadly at the MCA Collection to show how color can be used literally, formally, and metaphorically in art, and to reveal how formal considerations are often rooted in social ... More Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs: 19th-Century Photographs from Paris to Petra on view at Paris Photo PARIS.- Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, New York, will present a selection of important works—ranging from rare images by Louis-Emile Durandelle of the Paris Opéra under construction to views of Petra and Egypt by Leavitt Hunt and Nathan Baker—at Paris Photo, 15-18 November 2012 at the Grand Palais. Selected photographs by predominantly French and British masters will be on view, including a number of works by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the photographic negative, and some of the earliest photographs of Burma by Captain Linnaeus Tripe, as well as work by Anna Atkins, Edouard Baldus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Rev. Calvert Richard Jones, Heinrich Kühn, and Joseph, vicomte Vigier. Among the highlights will be La Mare aux Cygnes, a striking 1858 waterscape by Camille Silvy, depicting swans and boaters.The albumen print presents an early ... More Rare Salvador Dali jewelry to be offered at Clars in December OAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallery will offer a rare exquisite group of four pieces of Salvador Dali jewelry for sale in their important December 9, 2012 fine estate jewelry auction in Oakland, California. Between the years of 1941 and 1970, Salvador Dali, best known for his surrealistic paintings, created designs for 39 pieces of intricately crafted fine jewelry. Before producing his own jewelry designs, Dali had first designed jewelry for Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel, spurring his own interest in the medium. One of Dali’s first individual works of jewelry created was a pair of “telephone” earrings, meant to represent the futility of Neville Chamberlain’s telephone conversations with Adolph Hitler in an attempt to avoid war. Dali first commissioned Carlos Alemany of Alemany and Ertman, an Argentinean jeweler with a studio in New York City’s St. Regis Hotel to transform his 2 ... More Howard Terpning's Plunder from Sonora brings $962,500 to lead Heritage Auctions' sale DALLAS, TX.- Plunder from Sonora by Howard Terpning brought $962,500 to lead Heritage’s $8.78 million Western & California Art Signature® Auction. The Nov. 10 event is Heritage’s largest Western art auction to date and the largest fine arts auction in house history. Top lots include a second work by Terpning, Crow Country, which sold for $662,500. Albert Bierstadt’s Mount Brewer from King's River Canyon brought $602,500, Kickover of Morning Coffee Pot by Charles Marion Russell sold for $482,500 and The War Bonnet by E. Martin Hennings brought $386,500. “This auction firmly establishes Heritage as a leader in Western art, showcasing the finest art and drawing established and emerging new buyers,” said Ed Beardsley, Vice President of Fine & Decorative Arts at Heritage. “Not only did we offer some of the most recognizable names in Western art, it was arguably some of their ... More |
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