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| First Exhibition to Focus on Van Gogh's Twilight and Nocturnal Scenes Opens Today |
The starry night over the Rhône, 1888, Vincent van Gogh, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
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AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will be staging the exhibition Van Gogh and the colours of the night, from 13 February to 7 June 2009. This is the first show to be devoted exclusively to the evening and nighttime scenes by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), with the Van Gogh Museum being the only European venue for this unique exhibition concept. Van Gogh imbued his twilight and nocturnal scenes with a wealth of associations, heartfelt emotions and a poetic sense of ambience. The works on show are both magnificent and intimate, and the presentation as a whole will aim to convey these two facets as well. Many of the ‘night works’ included in the exhibition have long acquired iconic status -- such as the famous canvas The starry night from New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which will be on show in the Van Gogh Museum for the first time since 1990. The painting represents one...More
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| Modernists in New Mexico : Works from a Private Collector at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum |
SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum presents an exhibition that includes a number of paintings designated as partial gifts to the Museum by an anonymous New Mexico collector. Since moving to Santa Fe eleven years ago and acquiring his first New Mexico picture at a local gallery, the owner of this collection has passionately pursued his love of American Modernism by collecting works that ...More
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| Kunsthaus Zürich Presents 'Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milan - Turin / Los Angeles, 1956 - 1969' |
ZURICH.- Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milan – Turin / Los Angeles, 1956 – 1969’, on view through May 3, 2009. The exhibition is devoted to the artistic avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Milan and Turin, and Los Angeles. The show features outstanding works of art, photography, architecture and design by such...More
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| Alfons Mucha - Lower Belvedere Opens at The Belvedere |
VIENNA.- Today the Belvedere is going to stage the first large exhibition in Vienna dedicated to Alfons Mucha (1860–1939). The oeuvre of Mucha, who became known as a commercial and decorative artist, will be presented with all of its different aspects. Large-scale paintings, pastels, drawings, and photographs served the Czech artist as media, attesting to the impressive skills he had acquired in Vienna,...More
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| Unearthing the Truth: Egypt's Pagan and Coptic Opens Today at Brooklyn Museum |
BROOKLYN, NY.- An exhibition of thirty works from the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection of Late Antique Egyptian stone sculptures (395–642 A.D.) that includes several examples of reworked or repainted works and some that appear to be modern forgeries, opens today, February 13, 2008. These ancient sculptures were carved from a soft Egyptian limestone and feature both pagan and Christian scenes and symbols. Some were tomb portraits of the deceased, other carvings decorated the tomb and were used in pagan and Christian cemeteries and in Christian churches and monasteries. The term Coptic, which describes some of the pieces, denotes the main and original branch of Christianity in Egypt....More
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| Kutlug Atamam: Mesopotamian Dramaturgies Opens at Lentos Art Museum |
LINZ.- The Lentos Art Museum presents today Kutlug Atamam: Mesopotamian Dramaturgies, on view through April 19, 2009. Mesopotamian Dramaturgies brings together a new series of work by the internationally successful Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman. In his film, video and photography work he explores the breaks between "the own" and "the other" - with traditions and conventions, beliefs and convictions that can trigger conflicts within a society or in a clash of different cultures. The exhibition focuses on the upheavals in Turkey in recent decades, political, cultural and economic changes, struggles between religious and secular world views,...More
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| Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art Opens at Frist Center for the Visual Arts |
NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will open Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. The traveling exhibition provides an extraordinary opportunity to see more than 100 rare works of art from the Middle Ages. The wide array of objects includes ivories, enamels, metalwork, jewelry, sculptures, paintings and illuminated manuscripts produced in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) possesses one of the finest collections of Early Christian, Byzantine, and European Medieval art in the United States. Medieval Treasures will be on view through Sunday, June 7, 2009. ...More
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| Stewart Art Collection At BYU MOA Highlights Bold Colors, Vivid Hues of Southwest |
PROVO, UT.- In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, artists flocked to the American Southwest captivated by its rugged, unspoiled landscape and the native people who had been there for hundreds of years. The artistic visions of this land and its people captured in vivid hues and bold colors on the canvases of these painters continue to resonate today as museums and collectors compete with increasing enthusiasm to build collections of Southwest art. “Visions of the Southwest from the Diane and Sam Stewart Art Collection,” a new exhibition at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art opening Friday, Feb. 13...More
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| Maria Lassnig - The Ninth Decade Opens at MUMOK in Vienna |
VIENNA.-Maria Lassnig is among the most important artists living today. An individual exhibition at the MUMOK celebrating her 90th birthday will concentrate on works made during the past 10 years. All of the more than 60 paintings testify to the sensitivity and diversity of her late work full of life and radiant colors. Recent large-format paintings will be shown for the first time within her show at the MUMOK. Over the course of her long career, Lassnig has been an important example for many artists, influencing an entire generation of painters. One of the most important aspects of her work throughout her sixty-year career has been to...More
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| Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) Announces the Appointment of Executive Director |
PASADENA, CA.- The Board of Directors of the Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) announced today the appointment of Jenkins Shannon as Executive Director of the museum. Ms. Shannon will start in this position immediately. She joined the PMCA in 2004 as the Director of Corporate and Foundation Affairs and over the past three years served as the museum’s Associate Director and Acting Director. The Board of Directors could not be more thrilled about having Jenkins as the Executive Director; she is a remarkable leader and has been absolutely instrumental in the success,...More
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| Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization Opens in Chicago |
CHICAGO.- The Field Museum presents Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization, on view through July 5, 2009. A rich array of jewelry from the ancient Near East, Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization, will be featured in The Field Museum’s new T. Kimball and Nancy N. Brooker Gallery this spring. Since ancient times, jewelry has been worn as adornment, memento, and a sign of status. The exquisite artifacts presented in this exhibition, some more than 7,000 years old, illuminate the culture and customs of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant, Persia and the Islamic Middle East....More
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| Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems |
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Matisse’s Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard’s Love Poems, an exhibition featuring a selection of lithographs from Henri Matisse’s exceptional but rarely considered livre d’artiste, titled Florilège des Amours de Ronsard or Anthology of Ronsard’s Love Poems. Some twenty-five pages, spreads and folios appear in the exhibition, most of which have never been on view at the Museum. These selections are from a rare copy of the volume, number eighteen of the twenty Hors Commerce (not for sale/out of sale) editions reserved for the artist, the publisher and others who collaborated on the project....More
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| CMoG Appoints Florian Knothe New Curator of European Glass |
CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass has appointed Florian Knothe as its new curator of European glass. Knothe, who comes to the Corning Museum from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is responsible for curating current and changing exhibitions, conducting research, and managing acquisitions for the Museum's extensive European glass collection. "Florian brings to The Corning Museum of Glass an extensive knowledge of European sculpture, furniture, and the decorative arts from the Renaissance to the 19th century. This knowledge will enable him to interpret the Museum's outstanding collection of European glass in the broader context of the decorative arts of Europe," said Dr. David Whitehouse, executive director of the Museum. ...More
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| German Artist Georg Baselitz at White Cube Mason's Yard |
LONDON.- White Cube Mason's Yard presents an exhibition of major new paintings by the distinguished German artist Georg Baselitz. 'Mrs Lenin and the Nightingale' is Baselitz's first show with the gallery and will be curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal. Baselitz has created a series of sixteen large-scale canvases, subdivided into two groups of eight: one of white and grey paintings on a black ground; the other polychromatic on a white ground. The starting point for each work is a constructed photograph of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in an entirely fictitious meeting. The seated pose of the two notorious Soviet leaders is fused with that of ...More
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| Christie's 2008 Global Art Sales Total $5.1 Billion |
LONDON/NEW YORK/HONG KONG.- Christie's International, the world's leading art business, today announced 2008 art sales totals of £2.8 billion/$5.1 billion. The results reflect an 11% decrease in £ (19% decrease in $) over 2007 sales against the difficult global economic backdrop. The results were achieved through more than 600 sales in 14 saleroom locations worldwide and include auction premiums as well as private sales of £267.6 million/$487.0 million. For the year, Christie's sold a total of 629 works of art at auction for over $1 million each. "Despite the economic turmoil in the second half of 2008, Christie's completed the year with £2.8 billion in sales, continued profitability, and a record of offering great quality works to clients around the world", said Edward Dolman, Chief Executive Officer of Christie's International. "Christie's continues to lead in key markets across the globe and in the high-end auction sales of Impressionist and Modern ...More
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| Sotheby's Consolidated Sales for 2008 Were $5.3 Billion |
NEW YORK.- Consolidated sales for Sotheby's for 2008 were $5.3 billion. Auction sales were $4.9 billion. Sotheby's sold the top lot of the year, Bacon's Triptych 1976 ( $86.3 million). The world record price for Contemporary Art, Bacon's Triptych 1976, was set at Sotheby's in 2008. Sotheby's sold the top lot of the autumn season, Malevich's Suprematist Composition ($60 million). Sotheby's sold the top Contemporary lot of the autumn season, Klein's Archisponge ($21.4 million). Sotheby's sold six out of the top ten lots in 2008. Sotheby's sold 726 lots for over $1 million. Sotheby's sold 114 lots for over $5 million. Sotheby's sold 41 lots for over $10 million. Sotheby's sold 14 lots for over $20 million. Sotheby's further reduced lot volume by 38% in 2008....More
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| Sotheby's Opens An Office in Turkey And appoints Oya Delahaye as Head |
ISTANBUL, TURKEY.- Today at a press conference at The Marmara Esma Sultan in Istanbul, Turkey, Henry Wyndham, Chairman Sotheby's Europe, announced that the company has opened an office in Istanbul and appointed Oya Delahaye as Head of the office to direct the company's operations in the region. The move, which will make Sotheby's the first international auction house to have an incorporated office in Turkey, demonstrates the company's commitment to providing a greater level of service to its clients based in the country. The announcement coincides with the company's exhibition, sponsored by Akbank, of highlights from a sale of Turkish Contemporary Art at The Marmara Esma Sultan, which will be sold at Sotheby's London on 4 March 2009....More
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| The Art Market Becomes Truly Global Reveals New Tefaf Report |
HELVOIRT.- The art market has become a global marketplace with new collectors in emerging economies who may contribute towards protecting it from the current international economic situation. This fundamental shift in the geography of art buying is revealed in a new report commissioned by The European Fine Art Foundation which organises The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) to be held in the Dutch city of Maastricht in the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) from 13-22 March 2009....More
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| Time and Time Again: An Evening of Performance Art - The East Wing Collection VIII Re-Launch Party |
LONDON.-Following the highly acclaimed East Wing opening night in January 2008, the collection celebrates its first anniversary with a re-launch party on 13th February 2009 presenting a rich and varied performance programme. This exclusive and innovative evening offers visitors the opportunity to interact with the exhibition at a new level and enjoy performances in often unconventional ways. The event opens to the public from 6-8pm followed by an ...More
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| Westraven Office Complex Recieves Dutch Construction Award 2009 |
UTRECHT.- The cepezed-designed Westraven Office Complex in Utrecht, the Netherlands, has once again been enthusiastically acclaimed. During the festive Dutch Construction Gala this Wednesday, the project brought cepezed-architect Ronald Schleurholts and the commissioning Government Buildings Agency the Dutch Construction Award 2009 for its excellence in different aspects. The jury, amongst others comprised by professors in sustainable housing and architectural engineering and presided by former secretary of state Karla Peijs, judged Westraven to be a fascinating building with all comfort for the user. The adjudicators’ observations...More
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