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Home   Helmut Newton Foundation Exhibits 394 Photographs Included in Newton's Book Sumo June Newton, widow of Helmut Newton and president of the Helmut Newton Foundation, with the founder and owner of Taschen, Benedikt Taschen, pose at the Photography Museum in Berlin. Photo: EFE/David Ebener. BERLIN.- With SUMO, the Helmut Newton Foundation presents what might just be the most spectacular and expensive photography book project ever. Ten years ago, publisher Benedikt Taschen persuaded Helmut Newton to agree to produce a gigantic book with a print run of 10,000 copies, all signed by the photographer. Accompanied by a custom-made book holder by Philippe Starck, the book found its way into the homes of well-heeled buyers. Now, for the first time, its 394 photographs will go on display to mark the 10th anniversary of a photography publication that today is a much sought-after collector’s item. To accompany this presentation, Taschen will publish a smaller and revised version of the book for the regular book market....More Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture on View at the Saatchi Gallery LONDON.- In October 2008, the Saatchi Gallery re-opened in the 70,000 sq. ft. Duke of York’s HQ building on King’s Road in the heart of London. With free admission to all shows, the Saatchi Gallery aims to bring contemporary art to the widest possible audience. Its first show, The Revolution Continues: New Art from China attracted over 400,000 visitors breaking the record previously held by Sensation at The Royal Academy, and the second show Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East has attracted over 350,000 visitors to date....More Prince and Princess of Asturias Inaugurate Festival with Visit to Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel Exhibition MADRID.- For the fist time in Spain, images of the mythical book Evidence, that have served as pieces of evidence to crime, scientific and legal investigations are being presented as part of the PHotoEspaña 2009 festival. The exhibition will be on view at the Royal Botanical Garden. Created in 1977 by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, this project was the first one to gather documentary photographs and reveals how difficult is to reach pure objectivity....More The Prado is Temporarily Enriching its El Greco Collection with the Artist's View and Plan of Toledo MADRID.- Starting yesterday, until the autumn of next year when it is envisaged that work will be completed on the Museo del Greco in Toledo, visitors to the Prado will have the chance to appreciate the artist’s unique work, View and Plan of Toledo. In contrast to the partial views of the city that appear in other works by the artist, this canvas offers a multiple viewpoint; in addition to a perspectival presentation it includes a detailed plan of the city, held up by the figure of a young man and ...More Art Basel 40 Celebrates the First Art Basel Weekend with Special Presentations BASEL.- On the Weekend of June 12 to June 14, 2009, Art 40 Basel celebrates the first Art Basel Weekend, highlighting activities at the booths of the participating galleries, specially conceived for museum professionals, curators, artists, academics, art collectors, art dealers, critics and also for the general public. Art Basel Weekend features solo shows in the booths of the galleries, special presentations of works, film programs, performances, book signings and special ...More Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces it will Show Vermeer's Masterpiece The Milkmaid NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage from Amsterdam to New York, the Rijksmuseum is sending The Milkmaid, perhaps the most admired painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632—1675), to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. To celebrate this extraordinary loan, the Metropolitan Museum will present Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, a special exhibition beginning on September 9, which will bring ...More Getty Museum Displays Two Exceptional Rembrandt Loans LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum has put on view this week Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn’s Saint Bavo in its East Pavilion paintings galleries at the Getty Center . The work, on loan from the Göteborgs Konstmuseum in Sweden , will be the first time it has been publicly displayed since its restoration at the Getty....More Win the Ultimate Frank Lloyd Wright Weekend, Spend Two Nights at Wright's Gardener's Cottage BUFFALO, NY.- The Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau is giving Frank Lloyd Wright fans around the world the opportunity to “Win the Ultimate Frank Lloyd Wright Weekend in Buffalo.” The winner of the contest will receive the ...More First Large-scale Presentation of Philippe Parreno's Work in France Since 2002 at Centre Pompidou PARIS.- Offered a retrospective by the Centre Pompidou, Philippe Parreno has come up with a “journey through time,” a re-reading of the artist’s work by the artist himself that is articulated through three elements: the exhibition proper, the accompanying series of special events for young people, and the substantial catalogue....More The Seductiveness of the Interval at the Romanian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia VENICE.- In the period 7 June – 22 November 2009, the 53rd Venice Art Biennale will unfold, under the generic heading Making Worlds. The Seductiveness of the Interval, the project that will represent Romania this year at the Venice Art Biennale, was selected following the competition organised by the Ministry of Culture, Religions and National Heritage in late January....More Faulkner Family Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Acquiring Le Grand Cros with Canadian Art Exhibition COTES DE PROVENCE.- This July The Faulkner Family are celebrating their 20th anniversary since acquiring Le Grand Cros, they will celebrate it with a collection of Canadian art for this years ART & VINS exhibition which is appropriate as Hugh Faulkner as Secretary of State in Canada funded the Arts, he was also Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs so the main artist for this years exhibition is doubly appropriate a Dene First Nations Indian....More Artist Song Dong's Collaboration with His Mother to be Installed in MoMA's Marron Atrium NEW YORK, NY.- As part of its ongoing Elaine Dannheisser Projects series, The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects 90: Song Dong, featuring the large scale installation Waste Not (2005) by the Beijing-based artist, on view for the first time in the United States. Initially a collaboration with his mother, Zhao Xiang Yuan (1938-2009), the installation—which covers nearly 3,000 square feet of The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium—comprises all the contents of her home, ...More Portraits by Emmanouil Bitsakis, Winner of the BP Travel Award 2008, to be Shown at National Portrait Gallery LONDON.- Portraits of the minority Uigur people from north-west China will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery as part of this year's BP Portrait Award exhibition. The portraits are by Emmanouil Bitsakis, winner of the BP Travel Award 2008. Bistsakis won a £5000 bursary to travel and paint the Uigur following his winning proposal 'to record in portrait form the uniqueness of this minority culture to demonstrate a small part of the vastness of China.' ...More New Arts and Literary Publication Launched by Irish Museum of Modern Art DUBLIN.- A new arts and literary publication featuring contributions by Francesco Clemente, Seamus Heaney, Nalini Malani, David Mitchell, Sean Scully, Colm Tóibín and a host of other leading art world figures, will be launched by the Irish Museum of Modern Art at 6.00pm on Thursday 11 June 2009. Boulevard Magenta is the brain child of IMMA’s Director, Enrique Juncosa , himself a noted poet, who has brought together a collection of works ranging across the visual arts, prose, poetry, music, film and architecture for the first issue of the biannual magazine. The launch coincides with...More Continuous Rythm: Designs in Navajo Weaving and Children's Art on View at Utah Museum of Fine Arts SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- Discover the ingenuity and rhythm of Navajo design in Continuous Rhythm: Designs in Navajo Weaving and Children’s Art, on view in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building from June 4, 2009 – October 25, 2009. This installation of works from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’s permanent collection offers Museum visitors a deeper understanding of one of Utah’s native tribes. ...More Phillips de Pury & Company Announce Highlights of the Forthcoming London Contemporary Art Sales LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming Contemporary Art sales to take place in London on June 29 at the company’s Howick Place galleries. The Evening sale will offer 40 lots with a total pre-sale estimate between £5.4 – 7.8M and the day sale will offer 132 lots with a total pre-sale estimate between £1.9 – 2.8M....More Vancouver Art Gallery Presents Cinematic Masterpiece Set in British Columbia's Interior by Stan Douglas VANCOUVER.- Internationally acclaimed Vancouver artist Stan Douglas deconstructs the early history of British Columbia in his outstanding multi-media installation Stan Douglas: Klatsassin, on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery through November 8, 2009. This challenging exhibition brings together two major video and film-based installations, Klatsassin and Pursuit, Fear, Catastrophe: Ruskin B.C., presenting the divergent histories of inhabitation and settlement in Canada’s westernmost province. These provocative film and video-based ...More Five Female Artists Show their Works of Art in Perspectives: Women, Art and Islam BROOKLYN, NY.- The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and the Museum for African Art present Perspectives: Women, Art and Islam, an exhibition of five female artists whose major connection is their personal relationship with Islam. Perspectives, curated by Kimberli Gant and Lisa Binder, will be on view at MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from June 4 - September 13, 2009, and is ...More Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Young Friends Event June 19 SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the Young Friends Art and Architecture Tour, an evening of art and architecture on June 19 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The event will take place at the Phillip Slein Gallery, located at 1319 Washington Ave., where participants will meet with local artists and receive a crash course on collecting art....More