 | | The Temple of Jupiter Panellenius By JMW Turner Sells for $12.9 Million at Sotheby's N.Y. | 
Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Temple of Jupiter Panellenius. It sold for $12.9 million / £9.1 million at Sotheby's New York. © Sotheby’s.
| NEW YORK.-Today at Sotheby’s New York, a magnificent work by Joseph Mallord William Turner - entitled The Temple of Jupiter Panellenius - has sold for $12.9 million / £9.1 million, a figure which represents the second highest price ever realised for a work by Turner at auction. Two bidders competed for the painting but the winning bid came from an anonymous buyer on the telephone. The Temple of Jupiter Panellenius had been in the private collection of the prominent fine art dealer Richard L. Feigen for over 25 years and it was one of the most important oil paintings by Turner to have remained in private hands. The painting was a highlight of the retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work, JMW Turner RA, presented in 2008 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Dallas Museum of Art....More
| | Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris - The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the VMFA and UVAM | CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The University of Virginia Art Museum presents Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Virginia Art Museum. This exhibition reunites works of art that were given in 1947 as bequests to two...More
| | Gerhard Richter. Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings Opens at The Albertina | VIENNA.- The German artist Gerhard Richter is a superstar in the international art world. His extensive and highly influential body of work ranges from quasi-photorealistic paintings to abstract compositions in brilliant colors. Today, through May 10, 2009, the Albertina presents over 80 oil paintings, around 80 watercolors and a selection of drawings in a major retrospective covering the many different phases of Richter’s career between 1963 and 2007....More
| | Polaroids and Portraits Opens at The Krannert Art Museum | CHAMPAIGN, IL.- The Krannert Art Museum presents Polaroids and Portraits: A Photographic Legacy of Andy Warhol, on view through May 24, 2009. Polaroids and Portraits presents a selection of the 152 photographs that Krannert Art Museum graciously received from the Andy Warhol Photographic...More
| | On the Riverfront: St. Louis and the Gateway Arch Opens at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | ST. LOUIS, MO.- By Liam Otten The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial — popularly known as the St. Louis Gateway Arch — is the tallest monument in the United States and an icon of modern architecture, its great stainless steel arc embodying strength, elegance and simplicity. Yet creation...More
| | Maryland Institute College of Art Organizes First Large-Scale Retrospective of Laure Drogoul | BALTIMORE.- Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) presents Follies, Predicaments, and Other Conundrums: The Works of Laure Drogoul, the first large-scale retrospective of Rinehart School of Sculpture graduate Laure Drogoul ’81, Friday, Jan. 30-Sunday, March 15 in the College’s Decker and Meyerhoff galleries in Fox Building, 1303 Mount Royal Ave....More
| | Dateline 09: Adi Nes: Bible Stories and Yael Bartana: Short Memory Opens | SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From today, January 30 through March 17, 2009, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) presents Dateline 09, featuring the two shows Adi Nes: Bible Stories and Yael Bartana: Short Memory. Dateline 09 inaugurates a new series of annual exhibitions at the Museum. Each year, the curators at the Museum will select a series of projects that reflect new trends...More
| | New York-Based Installation Artist Explores 1960's at The Galleries at Moore | PHILADELPHIA, PA.- InSights: Devon Dikeou - Marilyn Monroe Wanted to be Buried in Pucci is a mixed-media installation by New York-based artist, Devon Dikeou opens January 30, 2009 and runs through March 14, 2009 at the Galleries at Moore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The artist will be present for an opening reception will be held Thursday, January 29 from 6 to 8 pm. Tiffany & Co. will ...More
| | The Asheville Art Museum Proudly Presents the Landmark Designs of Eva Zeisel | ASHEVILLE, NC.- The designs that introduced mid-century modern to daily life in the 1950s and have remained important today await visitors to the Asheville Art Museum’s exhibition Eva Zeisel: The Shape of Life opening January 30, 2009. An Opening...More
| | The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise Photography Exhibition Opens | WASHINGTON, DC.-Nearly a century’s worth of photographs from the renowned Scurlock Studio form the backbone of a new exhibition designed to celebrate the legacy of a noted family of photographers and to present a vivid portrait of black Washington, D.C., in all its guises—its challenges and its victories...More
| | Calder Sculpture In Context At Sheldon Museum of Art | LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.- With the assistance of a generous loan from the Fisher Collection in San Francisco, Sheldon's Great Hall has been transformed into a Calder corridor with mobiles and stabiles. Five Calder works on paper from our collection also hang in the adjacent Boardroom. The three Fisher works lent are best described as stabiles, a term artist Jean Arp coined to describe Calder's abstract stationary sculptures....More
| | Along Water Street: New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Opens at Akron Art Museum | AKRON, OH.- Columbus, Ohio artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson has been creating elaborate mixed media paintings and sculptures for more than 50 years. Her most recent series, Along Water Street, produced between 2000 and 2007, will be on view at the Akron Art Museum January 31 – April 5, 2009. Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art, this exhibition reflects the landscape and culture of Columbus and the Ohio Valley, and, at the same time, presents universal themes about migration and settlement. The Akron Art Museum is honored to be the premiere tour venue for the exhibition, as it was the site of ...More
| | Des Moines Art Center Presents After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest | DES MOINES.- The Des Moines Art Center presents After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest, on view through May 17, 2009. After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest is the first exhibition to address the artistic battles that were waged simultaneously in New York and the Midwest during the 1930s and the early 1940s. In the midst of the Great Depression, one of the most contentious and fractious artistic debates emerged, one that pitted progressive modernist figures such as Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, and Philip Guston, against artists who sought a revival of tradition. Thomas Hart Benton, ...More
| | Japanese American Experiences Highlighted in Three Exhibitions at Palos Verdes Art Center | PALOS VERDES, CA.- Recollections of a childhood in a World War II Japanese American concentration camp, current visual impressions of the Manzanar camp site and documentation of the Japanese American experience on the Palos Verdes Peninsula during the first half of the 20th century are the themes of three exhibitions to run from January 30 - March 8, 2009, in the Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504. W. Crestridge Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes. The galleries will be open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays (except for Presidents' Day) and 1-4 p.m. Sundays. There is no admission charge. There also will be a free public reception honoring the artists from 5-8 p.m. Friday, ...More
| | The Taft Museum of Art Presents Today Fashion in Film | CINCINNATI, OH.-The Taft Museum of Art presents today Fashion in Film, on view through April 26, 2009. Oscar season will be in full swing at the Taft Museum of Art this year when Fashion in Film: Period Costumes for the Screen opens. This will be the only regional showing of this exhibition, which has been setting records and charming visitors around the country. The sumptuous costumes span four centuries of clothing design and four decades of filmmaking, with the represented films, including Titanic, Evita, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Ever After. This exhibition, organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., in cooperation with Cosprop, Ltd., London, England, features costumes worn by Cate Blanchett, Julie Christie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and many others....More
| | Master Printmaker Aldo Crommelynck, 77, Dies in Paris | PARIS.- The New York Times reported that master printmaker Aldo Crommelynck, 77, died at his home in Paris. He collaborated with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Jim Dine, and Jasper Johns. According to Pace Prints in Manhattan, he died of pneumonia. He produced all of Picasso’s prints done after 1961. Aldo Crommelynck partnered with Pace Prints in 1986 and worked with Chuck Close, Alex Katz, Jim Dine, and Ed Ruscha. The Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris featured a solo show on him titled “Aldo et Moi” in 2007....More
| | Pulsing 12-Foot Sculpture Will Be On Display at The Crossroads of The World | NEW YORK.- The Times Square celebrates Valentine's Day by unveiling "Valentine To Times Square," a 12-foot high, 2-ton steel and luminescent acrylic, pulsing sculpture. Friday, February 13 from 11:00am – 1:00pm on Broadway and 47th Street. "Valentine to Times Square" was designed by the world-renowned Gage/Clemenceau Architects, and consists of sustainable LED light bulbs that will flicker between vibrant shades of reds, pinks and purples and is decorated with a heart-trimmed metal latticework that will absorb and reflect the surrounding colors of the bustling neighborhood....More
| | FJJMA Debuts Friday Night Art Loop Program in February | NORMAN.- The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is teaming up with the Norman Arts Council to prove that art is more than what can be hung on a gallery wall. As part of the NAC's new Second Friday Circuit of Art, the FJJMA is unveiling a new monthly series, Art "à la CART," which combines hands-on art activities, live music and short films. The new monthly program opens at the museum from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at the FJJMA on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus....More
| | Exhibition Explores Impact of Asian Art and Thought on American Artists from the Late 19th Through 20th Centuries | NEW YORK, NY.- From today, January 30 to April 19, 2009, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, an exhibition that illuminates the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literature, music, and philosophical concepts on American art. The exhibition features approximately 250 works by more than 100 artists across a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, video art, installations, works on paper, film, live performance, literary works, and ephemera—and draws from over 100 major museum and private collections in North America, Europe, and Japan....More
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