 | | Sotheby's To Sell Rediscovered Masterwork By Lucio Fontana - Concetto spaziale, 1961 | 
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) Concetto spaziale of 1961. Estimated at £5-7 million ($7,650,000-10,700,000). © Sotheby’s London.
| LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale the recently rediscovered, museum-quality painting Concetto spaziale of 1961, by Italy’s foremost Contemporary artist Lucio Fontana** (1899-1968). From the artist’s celebrated Venezia Series, Concetto spaziale is completely fresh to the market and has been hidden from public view for almost 50 years. The oil on canvas will be included in the London Contemporary Art Evening auction on Thursday, February 5, 2009 and is estimated at £5-7 million ($7,650,000-10,700,000). Commenting on this masterwork, Cheyenne Westphal, Chairman Contemporary Art Europe and Oliver Barker, Senior International Specialist, Contemporary Art, said: “We are thrilled to be offering for sale such a remarkable work by Italy’s most important Contemporary artist, Lucio Fontana, from his most sought after series. Concetto spaziale is not only stunningly beautiful, it is one...More
| | Experience Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Projects at the Asheville Art Museum | ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum invites you to experience the innovative works of internationally acclaimed artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the exhibition titled Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Projects opening Friday, January 16, 2009 with an opening reception from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. that evening. This event is free with Museum Membership or admission. Held in conjunction with the Asheville Art Museum’s smArt speak: Distinguished Artist Series, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Projects offers audiences the chance to see the artistic process behind many of the monumental public art projects undertaken by Christo and Jeanne-Claude during the past five decades....More
| | Artists Making Photographs Opens Today at the Whitney Museum of American Art | NEW YORK, NY.- Artists Making Photographs focuses on five major artists from the Whitney's collection – John Chamberlain, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Samaras, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol – all of whom are best known for their work in sculpture and painting, although they have each made significant works with a camera as well. The exhibition, in the Sondra Gilman Gallery, opens January 16, 2009; it is organized by Elisabeth Sussman, Whitney curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography....More
| | Czech-Born Architect Jan Kaplicky, Dies Just Hours After Daughter Is Born | PRAGUE.- CTK news reported that Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky died in Prague this past Wednesday. His wife gave birth to a daughter just hours before Jan Kaplicky passed away. Jan Kaplicky was the author of the controversial National Library project for Prague. The octopus shape of the building divided Czech residents and politicians. Jan Kaplicky was born on April 18, 1937. In 1968 he went to live to Britain and cooperated with architects such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo ...More
| | Bookmarks - Worlds of Knowledge from Cuneiform to YouTube | HANNOVER.-In cooperation with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek (GWLB) (library) and the Leibniz Universität Hannover (university), the kestnergesellschaft presents the exhibition project bookmarks | worlds of knowledge from cuneiform to YouTube. It will be the first of its kind to spotlight the worldwide aesthetic phenomenon of YouTube. Framed with some of the most valuable books and manuscripts from the Leibniz Bibliothek, the exhibition will also present these texts to the public for the first time. The contrast between...More
| | Monumental New Work From James Turrell Unveiled at Phoenix Art Museum | PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum announced the acquisition of a monumental new light installation by internationally renowned artist James Turrell – known as the sculptor of light. This compelling new work, Mohl ip, purchased with funds provided by the Museum’s Contemporary Forum, is the largest of the artist’s Tall Glass series, the only neon Tall Glass in the United States and the first to be permanently on view in a public museum. ...More
| | Portland Museum of Art Announces New Director - Mark Bessire | PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art announced today that Mark Bessire has been hired as the new Director of the Museum. Since 2003, Bessire has been Director of the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine, best known for its Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection. Bessire will begin his new position at the Portland Museum of Art on March 2, 2009. Among his many accomplishments at the Bates College Museum of Art, Bessire initiated...More
| | Antonio Riello - B.SQUARE! Opens at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art | GATESHEAD, UK.- Italian artist Antonio Riello created for Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art a series of unique outfits to be worn by the gallery staff from Friday 16 January until the end of March 2009. This artistic intervention goes beyond the mere exhibition space of the gallery, moving into places not usually seen by the public with front of house, office staff and directors all taking part. The outfits at first glance appear to be a uniform created from a unique tartan however this choice of cloth is being used as a symbol or device to examine the ideas of belonging and identity. The work is also free from the restraints of locality ...More
| | Kunstmuseum Basel Presents Today David - How Do You Love Dzzzzt by Mammy? | BASEL.-Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum presents today Enrico David - How Do You Love Dzzzzt by Mammy?, on view through May 3, 2009. The sculptures, gouaches, embroideries, photographs and installations by Enrico David (*1966 in Ancona, lives and works in London) feature a broad spectrum of cultural reference systems. Among others, these include Arte Povera, assemblage, set design and graphic art motifs from the 1920s and 30s, as well as numerous literary sources and elements from craft tradition. The works are characterised by enigmatic representations of the body, which are distorted or broken down into fragments, ...More
| | Cyprien Gaillard - Pruitt-Igoe Falls Opens at Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel | KASSEL.- Kunsthalle Fridericianum presents Cyprien Gaillard - Pruitt-Igoe Falls, on view through March 15, 2009. Huge clouds of white smoke, which explode out of tunnels or grow exuberantly in the afforested background of a French Château or a stony lighthouse; morbid housing complexes from the 60ies and 80ies with their crumbling facades or the ruins of high apartment buildings in the precarious outskirts, left for the demolition squad, originally built for social Utopia and now mutating to hot spots of violence. These are the places and motifs Cyprien Gaillard deals with in his artwork....More
| | Goshka Macuga - I Am Become Death Opens at Kunsthalle Basel | BASEL.- Kunsthalle Basel presents today Goshka Macuga – I Am Become Death, on view through March 8, 2009. Goshka Macuga (b. 1967), a Polish-born artist based in London, tests and transcends the boundaries of sculpture, installation, exhibition design and photography. She ventures into a variety of disciplines, including art making, curating, art history, ethnology, psychology and esoteric science. Macuga’s many exhibition projects and publications converge in a multi-faceted oeuvre that cannot be squeezed into such pigeonholes as “politically committed” or “formalist.” In short, her work is rigorous in form and anarchistic in content. ...More
| | Paper Exhibition Opens at Artists Space in New York | NEW YORK.- Artists Space presents today Paper Exhibition, on view through March 7, 2009. What does the line between reality and fiction look like? Can an exhibition be a life-sized paper model of itself? Whose name didn't make the press release? And if it sounds good on paper, where is the paper? These enigmatic questions locate Paper Exhibition at the periphery of the known—between paper architecture and new pages of old books. The exhibition renders the open space of the gallery as a labyrinth of folds, holes and gaps through which an exchange between the literal and the literary can happen....More
| | From Kabul to Kandahar: 1833-1933 at The Royal Geographic Society | LONDON.- The Royal Geographic Society presents From Kabul to Kandahar: 1833-1933, on view through February 26, 2009. The Society's Afghanistan collection includes hundreds of rare images dating back to the mid 1800s. A selection of the Society's photographs, drawings and lithographs – accompanied by extracts from historic travel journals and maps – feature in this engaging and informative exhibition....More
| | The World of Madelon Vriesendorp - Paintings, Postcards, Objects, Games, 1967 - today Opens | BASEL.-The Swiss Architecture Museum presents today The World of Madelon Vriesendorp - Paintings, Postcards, Objects, Games, 1967 - today, on view through March 22, 2009. Skyscrapers have sex and are caught in flagrant dèlit. Between a pink torso and a buffed-up American GI, a nun is spitting fire. Synchronised swimmers, prize-winning vegetables, and the mythic 'making of' Manhattan are all celebrated on countless postcards, alongside a home-diagnosis kit that combines the veneer of Freudian insight with the depth of Trivial Pursuit. Welcome to the The World of Madelon Vriesendorp, an exhibition that for the first time ever, brings together the London based, Dutch-born artist's wildly diverse practices from the past forty ...More
| | Ephemerality Opens at The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education | PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education presents Ephemerality, on view through April 12, 2009. Ephemerality is an experimental gallery exhibition curated by Art Program Manager Zoë Cohen, that explores ways in which art, communication, and technology can be used to create a greater sense of connection and meaning within reclaimed wild spaces, natural time, weather, and seasons. In this exhibition, artists present works that directly reflect the impact that 24 hours on the land of the Schuylkill Center had on their own awareness, creative process, and use of visual material. ...More
| | Rosalyn Engelmann - Dry Tears at National Arts Club | NEW YORK.-What do the Golden Globe nominated films Defiance, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire have in common with the mixed-media art installation Dry Tears? Like the newspaper headlines that denounce human rights violations in Guantanamo, Iraq and Africa, they are forcing us to examine man’s inhumanity to man. Dry Tears, in the Grand Gallery of the National Arts Club, by multi awarding-...More
| | Over Spilt Milk: The Fight for Fair Price & Fair Profit in Depression Era New York | NEW YORK.- The history of the Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative officially started on a damp November Sunday in Foley Square, Manhattan with a Holstein cow, a farmer, and 150 resolute women. It was chilly that day in 1937 – 35 degrees to be exact – and the forecast for freezing rain threatened plans to protest recent milk price increases. The group stood in eyeshot of City Hall, where, had the sun been shining, 4,000 strong would have continued onward to present the petition of the League of Mothers Clubs of the United Neighborhood Houses to New York City's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Mr. E. Claude Jones officiated the gathering of shivering, diminished numbers from the back of his truck under a sign that read: "I have signed up with Dairy Farmer's Union – "Bossy". I am a union cow, my milk is for babies, not for the milk trust."...More
| | Safle Graduate Award 2009 Announced in Cardiff | CARDIFF.- Safle announced the launch of the first annual Safle Graduate Award. Ten art colleges throughout Wales were asked to nominate up to three visual art BA students who are due to graduate in 2009 to initiate, research, develop and implement a temporary site-specific artwork in the public realm within Wales with guidance and support from Safle. The £10,000 Award will be a rare boost to the early career of the appointed artist and aims to offer an opportunity to progress personal creative practice through ...More
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