| Architect Oscar Niemeyer, who recreated Brazil's sensuous curves in reinforced concrete, dead at 104 | | The J. Paul Getty Museum announces acquisition of Northern Renaissance masterpiece | | Norton Simon Museum presents an installation of Vincent van Gogh's "Self-Portrait," 1889 | 
World famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, designer of Brasilia, makes a pause before answering a question during an interview at his office. AFP PHOTO VANDERLEI ALMEIDA.
By: Aldo Gamboa
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed much of the country's futuristic capital Brasilia, died Wednesday, his doctors said. He was 104. A pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete to produce soaring, curvaceous forms, Niemeyer has designed 600 works around the world and has some 20 other projects under way. The Brazilian icon, who won architecture's top award, the Pritzker Prize, in 1988, started his career in the 1930s and went on working well into the 21st century, after turning 100. "I am not attracted by the angles or the hard and inflexible straight lines created by man," Niemeyer once told the Spanish newspaper ABC. "What attracts me is the free and sensual curve, the curve which I find in the mountains of my country, in the flow of its rivers, ... More | | 
The Author Hears the Story of Gillion de Trazegnies; Antwerp (detail view), after 1464, from the Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies, fol. 9. Lieven van Lathem (1430–1493).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition at auction of the Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies, an illuminated manuscript from Flanders by Lieven van Lathem (1430–1493). The work is considered one of the finest productions by Van Lathem, the most accomplished and sophisticated painter of secular scenes in the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination. The Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies contains eight brilliantly painted half-page miniatures and forty-four historiated initials. The text of the book was rarely copied after its composition: the romance appears in only three other manuscripts. The work was on loan for the Getty Museum’s 2003 landmark exhibition Illuminating the Renaissance, where it was one of the highlights. “The acquisition of this richly illustrated manuscript by the greatest illuminator of the Flemish High ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 – 1890), Self-Portrait, 1889. Oil on canvas. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents an installation of Vincent van Gogh’s electrifying “Self-Portrait” from 1889, a highlight of the National Gallery of Art’s 19th-century collection. One of 36 self-portraits by Van Gogh, and among the last he painted, the work was executed as he recovered from a severe breakdown in Saint-Rémy in the summer of 1889. Its installation at the Norton Simon Museum is the first time the painting has been on view on the West Coast, and while Southern California is home to several outstanding works by Van Gogh, none of his self-portraits are in collections here. The loan is part of a special exchange program between the Norton Simon foundations and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., that brought Vermeer’s “A Lady Writing” and Raphael’s “Small Cowper Madonna” to the Simon in recent years. Says Norton Simon Museum President W ... More |
| Exciting new finds highlight the ongoing success of the Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme | | Tate Modern's Turbine Hall to present electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk The Catalogue 12345678 live | | Cleveland Museum of Art announces several recent acquisitions across all departments | 
The Roman gold coin hoard from near St Albans, Hertfordshire © Courtesy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
LONDON.- The launch on Monday of the Portable Antiquities and Treasure annual reports show that 97,509 finds were recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in 2011 (an 8% rise on the previous year) and 970 Treasure cases were reported in the same period (up by 12%). The PAS website www.finds.org.uk now features 820,000 finds with nearly 400,000 images from across England and Wales contributing enormously to the archaeological record. Last year 463,160 people used the website and database, and it also won best research/online collection at the Best of the Web awards 2011 at the Museums and the Web conference. Increasingly more and more people are becoming aware of the PAS. In July this year Britain’s Secret Treasures, which highlighted 50 finds recorded through the PAS, was screened primetime on ITV1 from 16-22 July. The series was watched by an average of 3.5M viewers, the ... More | | 
KRAFTWERK (MoMA 2012). PHOTO + WORLDWIDE 2012 © Peter Boettcher / Kraftwerk.
LONDON.- German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk will play eight live performances in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall from 6 - 14 February 2013, their first London dates since 2004. KRAFTWERK - THE CATALOGUE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 will be a chronological exploration of the group’s sonic and visual experiments and will present eight classic masterworks from across their celebrated repertoire with spectacular 3D visualisations and effects. Combining sound and images, the performances will showcase nearly 40 years of musical and technical innovation, including new improvisations, 3D projections and animation. Commencing with Autobahn, each night will cover one of Kraftwerk’s groundbreaking studio albums in full and appear in order of their release — Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991) and Tour de France (20 ... More | | 
Portrait of Philip II, King of Spain, mid-1550s. Alessandro Cesati (Cypriot, active Italy, before 1538 – after 1564). Citrine, mounted in a gold and enamel pendant; cameo 3.2×2.5 cm; pendant 4.3×2.8 cm.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art continues to collect artworks of exceptional aesthetic and historical significance across all departments. Some of the most recent acquisitions include a mid 16th-century citrine cameo of Philip II, King of Spain and a rare 12th-century French sculpture, Virgin and Child in Majesty (Sedes Sapientiae). These objects will be incorporated into newly reinstalled Renaissance and Gothic galleries that open to the public on December 26, 2012 as part of the final phase of the museum’s transformational building campaign, scheduled for completion at the end of 2013. Other noteworthy additions reflect the museum’s continued commitment to collecting contemporary art, including Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 590A and a video installation by the Japanese artist, Tabaimo. “These latest acquisitions reflect the museum’s ... More |
| Art Miami LLC to acquire vibrant Aqua Art Miami Fair in Miami Beach, now in its 8th year | | "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Prints and Objects" on view at the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum | | Exhibition of Jonas Mekas' film, video and photographic works opens at the Serpentine Gallery | 
Event photo: Galerie SAS, Montreal. Photo: © Saya Moriyasu & Aqua Art Miami.
MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami LLC, parent company of Florida's longest running premier contemporary and modern art fair Art Miami, announced today that it will add another gem to its crown, the vibrant Aqua Art Miami in Miami Beach, now in its 8th year. Art Miami LLC will take over the operation of the fair at the conclusion of this year's 2012 edition. "We are extremely excited to have the opportunity to take Aqua Art Miami to the next level. We look forward to carrying on the great atmosphere and tradition that founders Jaq Chartier and Dirk Park have created for emerging and cutting edge galleries and their artists and collectors over the last eight years. In addition, having a location close to the beach during Miami Art Week will help develop a larger scope of services and programming for all of our participating exhibitors and attendees associated with Art Miami, CONTEXT, and now Aqua Art Miami," said Nick Korniloff, Art Miami ... More | | 
Lower Manhattan wrapped Building, Project for #2 Broadway, New York, 1984. Color lithograph with collage of fabric, twine and thread. © Christo 1984.
CORAL GABLES, FL.- Wrapped islands in Biscayne Bay – the Sydney Opera House – Central Park – Everyone has seen the pictures; now art enthusiasts can see the drawings and sketches that helped create those famous works from Christo and Jeanne-Claude, as well as photos of the finished product. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Prints and Objects, an exhibition of more than 130 original numbered editions of prints and objects by Christo and photographic editions by Wolfgang Volz of works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, is on view through January 13, 2013 at the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum. Varied in content and technique, the collection represents more than 40 years of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s versatile artistic career, and it includes works of art that date from as early as 1962 through 2004. The exhibition is being toured in the ... More | | 
Jonas Mekas, Happy Birthday to John 1996. John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Museum of Syracuse, 1971, 16mm film frame© 2012 Jonas Mekas.
LONDON.- Film-maker, artist and poet Jonas Mekas (b.1922, Lithuania) is a leading figure in modern avant-garde and independent cinema. The Serpentine Gallery presents an exhibition of the artist’s film, video and photographic works from throughout his remarkable and prolific sixty-year career. Coinciding with the Serpentine exhibition, BFI Southbank, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris, are presenting a season of film and video work celebrating Mekas’s contribution to cinema. This exhibition surveys Mekas’s work with moving images, poetry and sound, presenting a selection of film and video dating from the 1950s through to the present day. The show includes the world premiere of Mekas’s new feature-length film, presented as an immersive installation. Stills, film portraits of friends and family and ephemera also punctuate the Serpentine’s spaces, offering a fascinating insight ... More |
| 240 works by Honoré Daumier being shown to the public for the first time | | 'Peanuts' creator Charles Schulz' love letters going to auction at Sotheby's in New York | | Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to unveil largest aquamarine gem | 
Serie "Bal de la Cour" Lithographie Royer-Collard en Marquise, 1833 291 x 217 mm. Mr. Royer-Collard en vieille Marquise de l'ancienne cour. Herr Royer Colas verkleidet als ältere Marquise am ehemaligen Hof.© Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Museumsstiftung.
MUNICH.- 240 works by Honoré Daumier (1808–79), the most important French caricaturist of the 19th century, are being shown to the public for the first time since being donated by the collectors Brigitte and Walter Kames. Since 3,085 lithographs and 30 woodcuts by the French artist were transferred to the Museum Foundation to Assist Bavarian State Museums in 2011, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München now has the most extensive holdings of prints by Daumier anywhere in Germany. The Foundation complements the some 650 lithographs and 60 woodcuts already in the prints collection. A major part of the Kames Collection comprises early sheets as well as a large number of complete series in which Daumier dealt with one subject in several different images. The selection of works shown in the exhibition includes some of these series in their entirety, providing a compelling and compre- ... More | | 
Some of the romantic letters and drawings the late Peanuts creator Charles Schulz sent to a young woman 23 years his junior. AP Photo/Sotheby's.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- The late "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz was once so infatuated with a young woman 23 years his junior he sent her dozens of romantic letters and drawings of his beloved cartoon characters. Many of the themes of that correspondence made it into his daily comic strips at the time. Now those love notes from 1970-1971 are being offered for sale at Sotheby's in New York by the family of Tracey Claudius, who the auction house says is ill at her home near Philadelphia. It's estimated the notes will fetch $250,000 to $350,000 at the Dec. 14 auction. Claudius met the cartoonist on March 16, 1970, while accompanying a friend on an interview assignment. She ostensibly came along as a photographer but afterward admitted in a letter to Schulz that it was a chance for her to meet her idol and thank him "for all the enjoyment Charlie Brown and that 'stupid beagle' provide me." She was 25. The married Schulz was 48. His comic strip ran for nearly half a century. Schulz died in ... More | | 
The obelisk-shaped Dom Pedro gem. AP Photo/Don Hurlbert, Smithsonian Institution.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The world's largest cut aquamarine gem will soon go on display in its new home at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The museum will unveil the obelisk-shaped Dom Pedro gem Thursday for long-term display. The blue-green crystal was mined in Brazil in the late 1980s and is named for Brazil's first two emperors. The gem was designed and cut by gem artist Bernd Munsteiner. It stands 14 inches tall and weighs 10,363 carats — or nearly 5 pounds. Cuts in the reverse faces serve to reflect light within the gem. National Gem Collection Curator Jeffrey Post said museum visitors will be drawn to it because of its color and large size as it joins the Hope Diamond and Marie Antoinette earrings on display. It's difficult to place a value on the gem, though it was offered to the Smithsonian in the late 1990s for $7 million to $10 million, Post said. In 2011, Jane Mitchell and Jeffery Bland of Palm Beach, Fla., donated the gem to the Smithsonian so it ... More |
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 Beatles trove offered in Heritage December event to celebrate 50 years of 'Beatlemania' DALLAS, TX.- Fans of the Fab Four will find much to cheer when they get a look at the 100 lot trove of Beatles and Beatles-related autographs, albums, memorabilia, awards and more featured in Heritage Auctions' Dec. 14 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature® Auction, led by a rare circa 1963 complete set of autographs (estimate: $5,000+) and a John Lennon "Bag One" leather case and original Erotic #2 lithograph #181/300 (1970), one of John's controversial set of 14 issued in 1970 (estimate: $7,000+). A Beatles Yesterday And Today very rare First State "Butcher Cover" LP (Capitol T2553, 1966) is estimated at $4,000+ and a Beatles "The White Album" LP (Apple 101, 1968)with a very low number, A0000023, once belonging to Paul McCartney's 1960s girlfriend, Jane Asher, should bring more than $2,500. "There is no doubt that the popularity of the Beatles is as high now as it ... More "A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker" opens at The Bluecoat in Liverpool LIVERPOOL.- A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker, a Hayward Touring exhibition opening at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, will be the first UK exhibition to focus solely on the internationally renowned South African artist’s prints. This major exhibition will include 100 prints in all media dating from 1988 to the present, ranging in scale from intimate etchings and drypoints to linocuts measuring 2.5 metres high. New works from Kentridge’s ongoing series Universal Archive, including Cat Assemblage (2012) and 12 Coffee Pots (2012), will be shown in Britain for the first time. With a stress on experimental and serial works, this exhibition will highlight Kentridge’s distinctive use of light and shadow and silhouettes, his concern with memory and perspective, and his absorption in literary texts. Highlights of the exhibition include Art in a State of Hope and Art in a State of Siege ... More Record set at Kaminski Auctions for pair of rare English glass decanters BEVERLY, MASS.- A pair of rare English glass decanters brought in on a Tuesday free appraisal day at Kaminski Auctions soared to a stunning $ 46,215, a record price for a pair of decanters. The consignor knew little of the history of the decanters, only that they belonged to his grandmother and had been in the family, sitting on the sideboard for years. Harry Morgan, Senior Appraiser for Kaminski, and glass expert, determined they were almost certainly 19th century, due to the sunburst stoppers and possibly Baccarat as they were one of the few companies producing glass of that quality at the time. They also featured a very a very large ground pontil, characteristic of Baccarat. The most unusual feature of the decanters was the transparent enameling depicting classical woman on each, later determined to represent the continents of Europe and America. Suspecting they were ... More Julian Lennon launches photo exhibit in Miami MIAMI (AFP).- Julian Lennon -- the oldest son of the voice of the Beatles -- will exhibit a new collection of his melancholy photographs, called "Alone", at a prestigious art show to raise money for his charity. In his second visit to Miami to promote his photography, Lennon is selling about a dozen prints with prices ranging from $3,500 to $5,500, modest by the standards of the popular international Art Basel Miami Beach show. "I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and ... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues," Lennon, 49, told AFP, referring to his WhiteFeather Foundation. "Whatever work I do, I've always put at least ten percent aside (for) my foundation," he said ahead of the show, which runs from December 6-9. "What we're trying to do here, and that's why I'm so happy to be part of this, is we're trying to make everybody else see that. Because ... More American paintings, scarce contemporary works bring high prices at Swann Galleries' auction NEW YORK, NY.- American Art made a strong showing at Swann Galleries’ November 15 auction of American Art & Contemporary Art, as did scarce examples by contemporary artists. Two lots sold for $60,000* apiece, making them the highest priced items in the auction: Andrew Wyeth’s The Mill House at Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania, watercolor, circa 1962, which had been a wedding gift to the consigner, and depicts the newlywed couple’s first residence; and Guy Wiggins’s The Avenue, oil on canvas, 1934, a lovely view of New York City in the snow. Another snowy city view by Wiggins was Winter on the Avenue at 42nd Street, oil on canvas, which brought $50,400. Interest in artwork by philosopher poet Kahlil Gibran remains high. On the heels of last spring’s record-setting prices for his watercolors, this sale saw a new record for his work, with Portrait of a Woman, watercolor and pencil, 1916, ... More Analia Saban wins Norton Museum of Art's inaugural Rudin Prize WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art announced the winner of the $20,000 Rudin Prize, a new international award for emerging photographers on the leading edge of their field, but who have not yet had a solo museum exhibition. The Museum’s Photography Committee, along with Executive Director Hope Alswang and Curator of Photography Tim B. Wride, selected Los Angeles-based artist Analia Saban. Saban was nominated by John Baldessari. “Analia Saban is leading the field in inventive, engaging new work” said Wride. “Her work is characterized by combining photographic imagery with other art forms with stunning results.” “The Photography Committee is delighted to have selected such a special emerging photographer,” said committee member Beth Rudin DeWoody, founder of the prize and daughter of the Rudin Prize’s namesake—the late Lewis Rudin. ... More Evolve the Gallery loans Ali: The Greatest Collection to Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville SACRAMENTO, CA.- A remarkable collection of 22 works by 19 artists from Evolve the Gallery’s Ali: The Greatest collection will be on loan to the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) in Louisville, Kentucky. The highly anticipated exhibition will open with a private reception on Ali’s birthday, Thursday, January 17, 3013 and run through March 30, 2013. Ali: The Greatest debuted at Evolve the Gallery in January of 2012 and was heavily attended and viewed. The selected works comprised in the collection were chosen for their aesthetic power in conveying the intense emotions conjured by the image of Muhammad Ali. The exhibit includes works in various mediums by prominent artists like David P. Flores, Frank Robinson, Charly Palmer, DL Warfield, Joe Iurato, James Gayles and features local artists: Gerry GOS” Simpson, Lisa Alonzo, and Kinzie Davis. Works by Jason Robichau and Joseph ... More |
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