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| MACBA in Barcelona Presents An Exhibition That Brings Together Nearly 2,000 Documents |
A young woman looks at some of the images included in the exhibition Universal Archive, which gathers approximately 2,000 vintage photographs and other documents dated between 1851 and 2008 by about 250 artists, such as Lewis Hine, Atget, El Lissitzky, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Centelles, Martha Rosler and William Klein. EFE / XAVIER BERTRAL.
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BARCELONA.- The survey or photographic mission came into existence with a specific goal: to build the image of the emerging city in a time of huge but difficult to visualise transformation. It was the writer Prosper Merimée who, in 1851, sponsored the first major photographic campaign in history: the Mission Héliographique, intended to create a public photographic archive of French ...More
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| Sotheby's to offer Yves Klein's Archisponge (RE 11) in Sale of Contemporary Art |
NEW YORK, NY.- Yves Klein’s Archisponge RE 11 (est. in the region of $25 million) from 1960, measuring 78 ¾ x 65 in (200 x 165 cm), will be offered on November 11th, 2008 as the cornerstone of the Evening sale of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s New York. Klein’s Relief Eponges are the perfect encapsulation of the different strands of his art, combining his keen sense of aesthetics with his quest...More
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| Ephesos: Architecture, Monuments & Sculpture Opened at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna |
VIENNA.- The exhibition celebrates the 30 year anniversary of the Ephesos Museum in Vienna by offering visitors a unique experience of the World Heritage Site Ephesos: 25 large format visuals, created by Ahmet Ertu_, showing the antique city, its awesome monuments and sculptures in their entire splendor, are combined with invaluable pieces from the Ephesos Collection. The presentation...More
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| Masks, from Carpeaux to Picasso on View at Musée d'Orsay |
PARIS.- An agent of metamorphosis intended to conceal the face for religious, cosmogonical or dramatic ends in ancient societies, the mask saw a successful resurgence in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century, and particularly in France, both in sculpture and in the decorative arts. Whether part of the process of creating a portrait, reducing this to its basic elements, or as a ...More
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| Christie's Fall Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale to be Led by Picasso, Kandinsky and Giacometti |
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 6, Christie's New York Fall Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will follow the November 5 sale of The Modern Age, enticing the international collecting community with exceptional pictures and sculptures from seminal masters. Primarily from a number of private collections
and many never seen before at market, the sale of 85 lots is expected to realize ...More
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| A Painter Explores the Nature of Light and Color as a Metaphor for the Human Spirit |
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay surveys the last two decades of the four decade career of Joseph Marioni, a New York-based painter who explores color and light in minimalist abstract paintings of often heroic proportions. Organized by the McNay, ARTMATTERS 13: Joseph Marioni: Liquid Light opens October 22, 2008 and extends to January 18, 2009....More
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| France Looks Towards Japan: Japanism and Tableware in Paris at Musée d'Orsay |
PARIS.- To celebrate one hundred and fifty years of diplomatic relations between France and Japan, the Musée d'Orsay presents a collection of decorative pieces particularly representative of the artistic relationships that united the two countries during the second half of the 19th century. ...More
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| Musée de la Musique Opens Serge Gainsbourg Exhibition |
PARIS.- The Musée de la musique dedicates an exhibit to Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) at a time when his popularity is expanding internationally. While in London and New York, contemporary pop is discovering the poetic and melodic talents of this “French artist”, Tokyo is experiencing a veritable “Gainsbourgmania” through the mixing and sampling of his ...More
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| Blood, Sweat and Tears: Labour in Art on View at Art Gallery of Hamilton |
HAMILTON.- Blood, Sweat and Tears: Labour in Art presents a singular subject of late 19th-century and early 20th-century European, Canadian, and American art — labour and the labouring body, and their diverse artistic expression and meanings in a period of unprecedented change. Blood, Sweat and Tears embraces paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs created ...More
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| Christie's Latin American Sale Features Rare Masterpieces and Paintings New to the Market |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York Latin American Sale on November 19 and 20 will showcase extraordinary works by recognized masters spanning several major artistic movements in the Americas. The evening and day sales combined will highlight the unparalleled creative excellence of artists hailing from more than fifteen countries throughout the continent and the Caribbean....More
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| Sotheby's 20th Century Art Sale Triumphs, Realising 13,583,725 Pounds |
LONDON.- Sotheby’s annual October Sale of 20th Century Italian Art realised the second highest sale total ever of £13,583,725 for a sale in this category at Sotheby’s London. The results were within the estimate of £11,877,000-16,504,000 and the auction, which was very wellattended and concluded this afternoon to an extended round of applause, was 88.5% sold by lot...More
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| World Class Stone Sculpture Exhibition at Sileni |
HASTINGS.- The vines at one of this country's best known wineries will be sharing attention with one of the world's most collected sculpture forms during summer.
The third annual exhibition of the beautiful, tactile Shona African tribe stone...More
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| Fifty Rare Prints in Milwaukee Explore Audubon and his Predecessors |
MILWAUKEE.- A new world of American splendor is seen through the eyes of intrepid artist-explorers as never before in Catesby, Audubon, and the Discovery of a New World, on view December 18, 2008–March 22, 2009 in the Koss gallery at the Milwaukee Art Museum . Featuring a selection of prints from the impressive holdings of the Museum's Collection, the exhibition profiles both the...More
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| Zeng Fanzhi's Mao I: From the Masses to the Masses to Highlight Christie's Asian Contemporary Art Evening Sale |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's will offer Zeng Fanzhi's Mao I: From the Masses, To The Masses at the Asian Contemporary Art Evening Sale on November 30th at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. This pioneering work from the artist is expected to be among the most soughtafter offered this season....More
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| Celebrate Courage and Diversity at BAM with Susan Valiquette's Portraits of Courage |
BOISE.- Boise Art Museum (BAM) announces the first solo museum exhibition by Idaho photographer Susan Valiquette. Her work was last shown at BAM in the 2004 Idaho Triennial exhibition, which was juried by Arthur C. Danto, one of America's most inventive and influential art critics and philosophers. Valiquette's Portraits of Courage consists of 20 black and white portraits of Idaho...More
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| Sculpture by Don F. Wiegand to Honor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty |
NEW YORK, NY.- In a ceremony at the SLC's New York convention in October 2007, the bas-relief, representing Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was presented by club vice president Brian Snyder to the club's French representative, Laurent Ghesquière. And on October 31 a ceremony will be held in the city of Colmar at the office of the mayor of Colmar to present the Bartholdi bas-relief to ...More
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| Green Prefab Architect Michelle Kaufmann Debuts mkHeart |
OAKLAND, CA.- Michelle Kaufmann, award-winning green architect and sustainable living expert, today announced the debut of mkHearth™, her latest preconfigured home design. mkHearth™ is a sustainable, modular approach to the modern farmhouse inspired by the natural beauty found in rural structures across the American landscape. The new design is suitable for urban or rural settings in ...More
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