| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art celebrates 15 years of the Logan Collection | | Industrial history brings new life to Parisian suburb just a 20-minute metro ride from the city centre | | The Heckscher Museum of Art presents "Modernizing America: Artists of the Armory Show" | 
Damien Hirst, Pretty Vacant, 1989; drug bottles and cabinet; 54 x 40 x 9 in. (137.16 x 101.6 x 22.86 cm); Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, fractional and promised gift to the SFMOMA; © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS, NY.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On view from December 8, 2012 through June 02, 2013, Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back: The Logan Collection at SFMOMA celebrates the 15th anniversary of a gift of contemporary art from renowned collectors Vicki and Kent Logan that took SFMOMA's collection in bold new directions. Showcasing nearly 40 major works from the 1960s to the 2000s, the presentation spotlights iconic artists like Marlene Dumas, Philip Guston, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, and Zhang Xiaogang. The exhibition is organized by Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA. In 1997, the Logans made a gift to SFMOMA of more than 250 contemporary works, at the time one of the largest numbers of works to be given to the museum by a single donor. Addi- ... More | | 
Installation view of Anselm Kiefer's exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Pantin. Photo: Charles Duprat.
By: Rachel Rogers
PARIS (AFP).- The newly-opened Ropac Gallery, housed in a refurbished early 20th-century boiler works, symbolises the transformation under way in Pantin and other gritty, working class suburbs to the north and east of Paris. Paris is a compact city and as it deals with increasing demands on space, many residents and businesses are looking to the surrounding suburbs, which are home to the bulk of the 12 million people in the French capital's agglomeration. Pantin, just a 20-minute metro ride from the city centre, is one of the places that arty and business types like the owner of the Ropac gallery have singled out and their arrival is slowly changing what was once a small agricultural town. The construction of a canal and a railroad in the 1800s brought industry to Pantin, and factories producing anything from textiles to chemical products became part of the land- ... More | | 
Joseph Stella, Water Lily. n.d. Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection.
HUNTINGTON, NY.- The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Modernizing America: Artists of the Armory Show. On view from December 8 through April 14, 2013 this Museum Permanent Collection exhibition celebrates the centennial of the Armory Show featuring works by American artists who participated in the legendary exhibition that introduced modernist art to America. In 1913, the American public was introduced to avant-garde European art styles at the International Exhibition of Modern Art, held at the Lexington Avenue Armory and known as the Armory Show. Organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the Armory Show created a sensation; the controversial and radical art displayed there proved to be a watershed in the development of 20th-century American art. Modernizing America: Artists of the Armory Show focuses on American artists who participated in the exhibition. In talking about the significance of the Museum ... More |
| Tortoiseshell craftsmen adapt to new century turning out only 100 pairs of hand made glasses per year | | Head of the Institute of Archeology of Belize sues over Indiana Jones crystal skull | | Six and seven figure sales dominate the first three days of contemporary and modern art fair Art Miami | 
Franck, the son of Christian Bonnet uses a thermoforming technic on a pair of tortoiseshell spectacles frames. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET.
PARIS (AFP).- What did Yves Saint Laurent, Jackie Kennedy and the architect Le Corbusier have in common? Their eyewear, for one, as clients of the luxury French tortoiseshell artisan, Bonnet. Four decades after the trade in tortoiseshell was banned under the 1973 CITES convention, the fourth-generation family firm sees itself as custodian of a rare craft, fashioning made-to-measure spectacles from stocks amassed before the ban. Bonnet describes its customers -- among them Audrey Hepburn, Maria Callas or presidents Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac -- as "aesthetes" more concerned about style, the timeless kind, than fashion. Christian Bonnet, who learned the trade from his father and grandfather, holds the rank of "maitre d'art", an honorific title granted by France's culture ministry and currently held by just over 100 craftsmen nationwide. Today jointly headed by Christian and his sons Franck and Steven, Bonnet turns out around 100 pairs of hand made tortoiseshell glasses ... More | | 
File photo of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. PRNewsFoto/ Paramount Home Entertainment.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- A Belize archeologist is suing the makers of a blockbuster "Indiana Jones" film for using a likeness of a so-called Crystal Skull, which he says is a stolen national treasure. Dr. Jaime Awe claims the skull was stolen from Belize 88 years ago, and that filmmakers had no right to use a model of it in 2008's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," according to the Hollywood Reporter. In a lawsuit filed in Illinois this week, Awe is demanding the return of the Crystal Skull, which he says is a national treasure, from a treasure-hunting family who allegedly stole it, said the industry journal Friday. But the legal action also targets Lucasfilm, its new owner the Walt Disney Co. and Paramount Pictures which released the film by Steven Spielberg, for allegedly using a replica "likeness" of the skull. Awe, head of the Institute of Archeology of Belize, claims that the skull was found by the daughter of an adventurer named F.A. Mitchell-Hedges under a c ... More | | 
Elizabeth Billings, "Phragmites and Raspberry", 2010. Installation (phragmite reeds, red raspberry stalks and poplar), 8.5 x 12 x 18 Feet. Photo: Courtesy Cynthia-Reeves Projects.
MIAMI, FL.- In its 23rd year as the anchor fair to the city of Miami, Art Miami, the premiere international contemporary and modern art fair - along with its new sister fair CONTEXT Art Miami, featuring emerging and cutting-edge artists - continue to respond to the interests of serious international collectors, museum curators, interior designers, artists and connoisseurs. Among the notable attendees acquiring and attending the first three days: Darlene and Jorge M. Pérez, developer and longtime trustee of the Miami Art Museum; Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, Google; Thom Collins, director, Miami Art Museum; James Rosenquist, acclaimed American pop artist; Lucien Clergue, world-renowned French photographer; Shepherd Fairey world renowned street artist; Lincoln Schatz acclaimed video artist; Arnold L. Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum; Holly Hotchner, director of the Museum ... More |
| Georgia Museum of Art exhibits works by American painter and printmaker Minna Citron | | Air de Paris exhibits works by Adriana Lara, Guy de Cointet, Trisha Donnelly and Allen Ruppersberg | | Franklin Bowles Gallery in New York opens exhibition by the Spanish artist Miquel Gelabert | 
Minna Citron, Mime, 1946. Etching and engraving, 5 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (image). Collection of Christiane H. Citron. ©Estate of Minna Citron/Licensed by VAGA, NY, NY/Est. Represented by the Susan Teller Gallery, NY.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is exhibiting 50 works by American painter and printmaker Minna Citron from Dec. 8, 2012, to March 21, 2013. This retrospective exhibition, organized by the Juniata College Museum of Art in Huntingdon, Pa., features paintings, prints, drawings and mixed-media constructions the artist created during her more-than-60-year career. This show sheds light on a historically important 20th-century American artist who is newly increasing in prominence. A lifelong, self-proclaimed feminist, Citron was a divorced mother and an artist who believed strongly in individual expression. “Her feminist perspective in her early works came about simply via applying a female viewpoint, as a mother and a housewife, to her American scene images of everyday life in New York City,” said ... More | | 
1 (one) from Numbers (Disambiguation), 2012, impression numérique sur bâche, tube, 2m, Ø 36.8 cm© photo Serge Hasenböhler, courtesy Air de Paris, Paris. Vue d’exposition S.S.O.R., Kunsthalle Basel, 2012.
PARIS.- In the final analysis, maybe, numbers, far from facilitating a purely scientific approach, actually contribute to the depth of the world. Like the letters in a novel, they could be seen as constituting not only its secret grammar, its skeleton – the dream of a mathesis universalis – but also its flesh. Not so much marking out time as filling it. With each layer of time a notch to be noted, a stratum of meaning to be read, a space in its own right: gone the distinction between the acts of reading, counting and contemplating a landscape. Maybe this is the experience that the sublime works in the 2012 exhibition – with its title borrowed from a work by Adriana Lara – share with us: when the ciphered and lettered arcana of the world are, like the horizon, its immediate form. As is the case in the hitherto unshown films ... More | | 
Miquel Gelabert has participated in numerous group and public exhibitions throughout Spain since 2005.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miquel Gelabert was one of three emerging artists selected to inaugurate the New Artists’ Space at the Fundació Arranz-Bravo (2009), and it is through this association that Franklin Bowles Gallery, along with a number of important collectors, have come to acknowledge and appreciate his work. Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York; has enjoyed a long and successful relationship with the Barcelona based artist, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, whose career has flourished remarkably over the last 15 years. Along with numerous Museum exhibitions in Spain, the Spanish government awarded Arranz-Bravo with his own Museum/Foundation which opened to the public in 2007. Both Arranz-Bravo and the Director of the Foundation, Albert Mercade (a published scholar of Spanish art) are dedicated to the support of emerging talent in Catalonia, and accordingly have devoted a portion of the Foundation site to the exhibition of im ... More |
| First major UK solo exhibition by Libyan Italian artist Adelita Husni-Bey opens at Gasworks | | Recent acquisitions and a new exhibition announced at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | | Liz Deschenes’s photographic works on view in new exhibition at Vienna's Secession | 
Adelita Husni-Bey, Flags from Postcards from the Desert Island workshop, mixed media, 2011. Courtesy Galleria Laveronica.
LONDON.- Gasworks presents Playing Truant, the first major UK solo exhibition by Libyan Italian artist Adelita Husni-Bey. Husni-Bey’s practice is built upon research and collaboration and encompasses drawing, painting, collage, video and participatory workshops. Her work often looks at social relations under different political contexts, from late capitalism to communitarianism. Through existing and newly commissioned work, Playing Truant explores current controversies about the role of state education in England by comparing today’s neoliberal understanding of ‘free school’ with past and present models of self-run or ‘anarchist’ education. Setting the scene for the exhibition, the video Postcards from the Desert Island (2010–11) documents a 3-week workshop organised by the artist with students from the École Vitruve, a selfrun primary school in Paris. Borrowing scenarios from William Golding ... More | | 
Jolan Gross Bettelheim, Assembly Line (Home Front), 1942. Lithograph on paper, 15 7/8 x 11 7/8. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s inaugural exhibition of its collection featured more than 450 works of art, representing nearly half of its entire holdings at the time of the museum’s opening on Nov. 11, 2011. Now, one year later, the museum’s collection has grown to include a total of 2,040 artworks. Acquisitions over the past year have included five sculptures, eight paintings, one mixed media work, and 504 works on paper, which includes drawings, photographs, watercolors, and a collection of 468 prints made by American artists between 1925 and 1945. Crystal Bridges has an active acquisition program, guided by Executive Director Don Bacigalupi, museum curators and board leadership. Central to the consideration of any acquisition is the museum’s mission to tell the story of America through its great works of art, which include works by artists ... More | | 
Liz Deschenes, Installation view, Secession 2012. Photo: Jorit Aust.
VIENNA.- Liz Deschenes’s photographic oeuvre deals with the conditions of photography and its components, with perception and the correlation to other artistic media, and with the architecture within which her works are shown. Her works allow a self-referential look at the medium, liberated of its functions, taking its own conditions as its theme. For some years now, Deschenes has been working almost exclusively with photograms – pictures created without a camera, using a technique as old as photography itself. Traditionally, it has served to capture silhouettes: objects are placed on photosensitive paper and the paper is then exposed. Deschenes does without these external references: her works are made by exposing photographic paper for several hours, out of doors, mostly at night, before fixing it and treating it with toners. Depending on the choice of photographic chemicals and how they are used, this creates surfaces that are black, white, silver or golden, glossy ... More |
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 One-time refugee from punk and sometime band member Ted Riederer exhibits at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Masonic symbols, devotional paintings to Joan of Arc, Stations of the Cross, heavy metal album covers, Ted Riederer’s burning guitars reflect his ongoing investigation into the redemptive power of music. A bricolage of punk rock imagery from his youth, a quasi-Shinto belief that objects are conduits of the divine, and the existential cry that divinity is within ourselves, Riederer uses electric guitars, vinyl records, and drums to illustrate how music redeemed his adolescent angst, and how music and the visual arts continues to uplift and empower his personal growth. A month after Riederer’s Never Records New Orleans project, which radio station WWOZ described as “extraordinary”, Riederer returns to New Orleans to provide more clues to a body of work that spans several traditional art mediums, as well as performance art, and conceptual art. During his month long ... More Grosvenor Gallery presents works by one of the greatest masters of postwar Greek art LONDON.- Grosvenor Gallery presents its exhibition, Fassianos: Everyday Myths – Le Quotidien Mythique, opening on 6th December 2012. Fassianos is regarded as one of the greatest masters of postwar Greek art and this is his first solo exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery. Alekos Fassianos (b. 1935) studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1956 - 1960 where he was taught from Yannis Moralis. He then went to Paris on a French State scholarship (1962–1964) where he attended lessons on lithography along with Clairin and Caroline Chariot-Dayez. He lived and worked solely in Paris from 1966 and divided his time between Paris and Athens from 1974. His first real recognition came during a New York exhibition at the Facchetti Gallery in 1966. Since then Fassianos has had many exhibitions worldwide including ones in Athens, ... More Discovery in New England brings to light an obscure California-made motorcycle once thought 'extinct' LONDON.- Following the recent news of Bonhams’ consignment of the remarkably original 1902 Rambler Model B from the Indian Motorcycle Museum, Bonhams is pleased to once again announce another headlining addition to their third annual Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction. Thought to be the sole surviving example of a marque lost to time is a recently discovered, complete and original, 1905 Leo Two-Cycle made by the L.A. Mitchell Motor Company of Oakland, California. This machine is historically significant for several reasons beyond its extreme rarity. Vehicles of California manufacture are exceedingly uncommon, Leo is thought to have been produced for just one year, 1905, and this now represents perhaps the earliest surviving example of an American two-cycle motorcycle. Unlike many manufacturers of the day, the Leo was a purpose-built motorcycle utilising ... More Galerie Michel Rein in Paris opens exhibition by Christian Hidaka PARIS.- The derivation of the title of Christian Hidaka’s exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein, Souvenir, is from the French, ‘to come to mind’. This cognitive inference, which is inspired by a physical memento or form is in common with Hidaka’s different depictions of space within the exhibition and the various notions of the competing representational values which accompany them. Drawn from distinct sets of representational language, Hidaka’s works mediate references to two periods which greatly informed the depiction of the pictorial plane. That of the 1480’s, of Piero della Francesca and the influence of Euclidean geometry, with composition dependant on and within the parameters of the frame; and a second group which infer a limitless unfolding of space, which either take the form of ancient Chinese calligraphic landscapes or of a limitless unfolding of digital space, which originated ... More New Museum announces limited-edition wearable MP3 player featuring fifteen live performances NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the New Museum’s monthly Get Weird music series, the Museum has produced a special limited-edition Playbutton—a wearable MP3 player button. Get Weird was established with the belief that contemporary art is a dialogue and music is an inextricable part of this conversation. Expanding on the rich music history of the Bowery neighborhood, the series has presented over forty programs since 2007. The Get Weird Playbutton compiles fifteen live performances from the first five years of the series. Engaging the New Museum’s mission statement of “new art, new ideas,” Get Weird invites both emerging and established artists to explore the far edges of their practice. From Andrew W.K.’s completely improvised set for piano and voice to No Age’s brooding live score for The Bear, the Museum’s Theater has proved ... More Great Dam of China opens the floodgates for artist Donald Wyland By: Dr. Thomas Slingsby
OXFORD.- Meller Merceux is presenting the art of Donald Wyland, the nom de pinceau chosen by two Oxfordshire artists to encompass an area of their collaborative work which draws inspiration from Chinese culture and society. Uniting that interest with the traditions of British landscape painting, Wyland presents a body of images which interweave the personal and the political to speak to the core of human existence. The specific prompt for Enveloping Sky was Wyland’s travels in China, where he saw the Three Gorges Dam, and its impact on the lives of working families in the surrounding area. With its brute elemental power, the Dam provides a route into both painterly abstraction, and the hot social and environmental topics which fascinate observers ... More Michaan's Tiffany Auction produces multimillion dollar sale ALAMEDA, CA.- What was billed as the grandest auction event in the history of Michaan’s Auctions proved to be just that, making over $4 million in sales in just under three hours. Anticipation for the Treasures of Louis C. Tiffany from the Garden Museum, Japan Auction had been building since August, as distinguished collectors from around the country came to learn of the event. Held on Saturday, November the 17th of 2012, the auction was composed of some of the finest works ever created by Tiffany Studios; works that brought Michaan’s Auctions its highest sales total to date. Private collectors as well as representatives from renowned institutions flew in from around the country to attend the auction live. International interest was largely represented online and via phone bids with sixteen people fielding calls. Interest for Tiffany items of extraordinary caliber remained strong in all ... More |
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