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| World Record For Juan Gris at Christie's New York - $20.8 Million For " Livre, pipe et verre" |
Juan Gris, Livre, pipe et verres, oil on canvas, 1915. World Auction Record for Artist. © Christie’s Images Ltd. 2008.
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NEW YORK.- In its second Evening Sale of the week, Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, achieved $147 million for paintings and sculpture with top lots from Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Wassily Kandinsky commanding the highest prices. The sale follows Wednesday’s Evening Sale of two single-owner collections, The Modern Age: The Hillman Family Collection and The Collection of Alice Lawrence. New world auction records were set for Cubist master Juan Gris, American artist Alice Neel, and for works on paper by Georges Seurat and René Magritte. The two Evening Sales at Christie's New York this week achieved a combined total of $194 million....More
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| Statens Museum for Kunst Presents Jordaens. The Making of a Masterpiece |
COPENHAGEN.- Statens Museum for Kunst presents today Jordaens. The Making of a Masterpiece, on view through February 1, 2009. This exclusive exhibition of the Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens at Statens Museum for Kunst is the result of a piece of real detective work. The focus of the exhibition is completely original and starts actually under the surface of two of Jordaens’ ...More
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| Taubman Museum of Art Opens New Building To The Public Today |
ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art, located in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, will open its new building to the public on November 8. The 81,000 square foot structure is the first purpose-built art museum ever constructed in the city and a significant step in the further development of the region as an arts destination of national and international stature....More
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| Major Collection of Modern and Contemporary German Art Donated to Harvard Art Museum |
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museum today announced a major gift of German art primarily since 1960 donated by the Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The gift comprises...More
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| Corning Museum of Glass Unveils 2008 Rakow Commission by Zora Palová |
CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass has unveiled its 2008 Rakow Commission: North Sea Waves by Slovak artist Zora Palová. The large, cast glass sculpture, now on display in the Museum’s Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family Gallery of Contemporary Glass, evokes the mystery and power of the North Sea, which Palová observed while teaching at the University of Sunderland in England....More
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| To The Ends of the Earth, Painting The Polar Landscape |
SALEM, MA.- At the limits of geography and physical endurance, artist-explorers found the ultimate inspiration in polar vistas they encountered in the 19th- and early 20th centuries. Featuring more than 50 works depicting the drama and magnificence of setting out to sea in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, To the Ends of the Earth, Painting the Polar Landscape opens November 8, 2008, at the ...More
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| Northern Stars and Southern Lights: The Golden Age of Finnish Art 1870-1920 |
DUBLIN, IRELAND.- The National Gallery of Ireland presents an exhibition on one of the treasures of Northern European art – Finnish painting and printmaking of the turn of the nineteenth century. Celebrating the highpoint of Finnish art, when the country was still a Grand Duchy of Russia, the exhibition will feature some 75 works which show a mix of native influences with international...More
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| Demuth Museum to Mount Two-Part David Brumbach Exhibition |
LANCASTER, PA.- The Demuth Museum will present David Brumbach Unbound: Pages from his Book from November 8, 2008 – January 4, 2009. This two-part exhibition will explore the work of Lancaster artist David Brumbach (1948-1992). Like Charles Demuth, David Brumbach had diabetes and suffered from the ravaging effects of the disease. In 1985, Brumbach was a patient at Lancaster ...More
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| San Jose ICA Presents Manuel Neri Sculpture Exhibition |
SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) announces the exclusive California presentation of Manuel Neri's The Figure in Relief, a comprehensive exhibition of painted sculptures, maquettes and works on paper by this preeminent Bay Area-based sculptor. The show includes work from the past 25 years that focuses on Neri’s use of the fragmentary and partial figure. ...More
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| Russian Photography Exhibition Opens Nov. 8 at OU Art Museum |
NORMAN, OK.- In 1992, just months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a handful of Russian photographers began documenting life after communism for a new independent newspaper, the Moscow Times. Their photographs come to life in a new exhibition opening Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. A Museum Association ...More
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| Museum Ludwig Presents First Solo Exhibiton in Germany For Jonas Mekas |
COLOGNE.- Museum Ludwig will be presenting the first solo exhibition in Germany by the film maker, poet and film critic Jonas Mekas. After an odyssey lasting almost five years as a forced labourer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war, Jonas Mekas arrived in 1949 in New York. Here he dedicated himself in a whole host of ways to film, not least as an event manager who opened ...More
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| Design Museum Gent Presents 100 Years of Demeyere, Made in Belgium: the Art of Cooking |
GHENT.- Design Museum Gent presents 100 years of Demeyere, Made in Belgium: the Art of Cooking. The start of this fascinating family story takes us back to the year 1904, when Emmanuel Demeyere (born in Heule in 1861) moves to Antwerp. The plumber and zinc worker from Kortrijk is invited by renowned biscuit company De Beuckelaer to produce tin cans for the company, using his ...More
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| GL Strand Presents Acid Anarchy and Systematic Order - Nils Erik Gjerdevik |
COPENHAGEN.- GL Strand presents Acid Anarchy and Systematic Order - Nils Erik Gjerdevik, on view through January 18, 2009. From the 8th of November the entire third floor in the exhibition hall GL STRAND will be taken over by an insistent installation by the renowned Danish artist Nils Erik Gjerdevik whose works of bright colours and ruptured forms challenge our perception of abstract ...More
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| Richter: Paintings from Private Collections at National Gallery of Scotland |
EDINBURGH.-One of the greatest and most influential European artists of the last fifty years will be the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh this autumn. Gerhard Richter: Paintings from Private Collections will be the second installment in the Bank of Scotland totalART series, the largest ever sponsorship of modern art in Scotland. This will ...More
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| Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn To Join Thirteen as Co-Hosts of SundayArts |
NEW YORK.- Thirteen today announced that Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Philippe de Montebello and network news veteran Paula Zahn will be co-hosts of SundayArts—Thirteen's weekly arts showcase. SundayArts presents the work of emerging and established artists and performers, and provides an insider's look at New York cultural news and events. De Montebello, who is retiring ...More
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| Ian Wallace - A Literature of Images |
ROTTERDAM.-Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art presents the first large scale exhibition trilogy of Vancouver-based artist Ian Wallace in Europe, in collaboration with Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf) and Kunsthalle Zurich. Along with Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham and Ken Lum, Ian Wallace is one of the main contributors to the development of conceptual art in ...More
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| Stattsgalerie Stuttgart Presents Fleischmann - Commemorating an Important Donation |
STUTTGART.- Stattsgalerie Stuttgart presents today Fleischmann - Commemorating an Important Donation, on view through February 22, 2009. In 1976, Elly Fleischmann donated eighteen works on paper (gouaches, collages, charcoal drawings, monotypes) by her husband Adolf Richard Fleischmann (1892–1968) to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart’s Department of Prints, Drawings and ...More
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| German Artist Kai Althoff Presents First Canadian Exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery |
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery will present the first Canadian exhibition of work by German artist Kai Althoff from November 8, 2008 to February 15, 2009. Kai Althoff focuses on the artist’s most recent artistic production, including new resin and iron sculptures, several collaborative projects and a re-envisioned environment from the 4th Berlin Biennale, along with a ...More
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| Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art |
HUMLEBAEK.- The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation, on view through February 15, 2009. The history of art takes on a new dimension with the artist Eve Sussman (b. 1961), when her film installations awakens classic paintings from their centuries of sleep. The Louisiana Contemporary exhibition is showing two of Sussman's most recent ...More
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| Emilie Pitoiset - Animals Can't Laugh at Casino Luxembourg |
LUXEMBOURG.-Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain presents Emilie Pitoiset - Animals can't laugh, on view through December 7, 2008. With a distinct predilection for fragile equilibriums, defacings or unnatural postures and movements (particularly as concerns animals), Emilie Pitoiset reconstitutes or invents situations replete with cruelty, which viewers cannot fully grasp through ...More
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| Downtown Print Fair Reports Strong Attendance & Pleased Exhibitors |
NEW YORK.- The 11th annual Editions | Artists' Book Fair (E|AB) – the oldest and longest running art fair that is free to the public – attracted over 6,000 visitors during Halloween weekend, surpassing last year's attendance and cementing E|AB's position as one of the nation's most popular contemporary print fairs. 64 contemporary dealers and publishers from 7 countries participated this year,...More
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| Nakashima Complex Listed on National Register of Historic Places |
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- One of Heritage Conservancy's recent projects was the completion a successful National Register of Historic Places nomination for a 20th century building complex—the Solebury Township property of the architect and acclaimed Modern furniture designer and woodworker, George Nakashima, who has been designated a "Living Treasure" by the American Craft Council. Mr....More
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| Carolee Schneemann Named 2008 Stan Brakhage Vision Award Winner |
DENVER, CO.- The Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF) announced that Carolee Schneemann, a preeminent multidisciplinary artist, will receive the 2008 Stan Brakhage Vision Award during the program "An Evening with Carolee Schneemann," sponsored by the Denver Art Museum, on Nov. 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the Denver Art Museum's Lewis I. Sharp Auditorium. The event will include a...More
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