ArtDaily Newsletter: Monday, October 5, 2009

The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Monday, October 5, 2009   Severin Wunderman's Collection Stands The Test Of Time At Bonhams Two Bonhams employees move at 16th century English school painting entitled 'Painting of Death', on view at Bonhams auction house in London. The painting forms part of the sale of the estate of Severin Wunderman who built up the Gucci watch franchise and owned the Swiss watch brand Corum and whose London home was a cornucopia of items ranging from walking sticks to clocks and skulls. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) LONDON.- The sale of the Chelsea Collection of Severin Wunderman raised a remarkable £881,940 in total, with 90% of all lots selling. The extraordinary furniture and fittings of the home of 'Time Lord', Severin Wunderman, who built up the Gucci watch franchise and owned the Swiss watch brand Corum, excited bidders on a national and international level at a packed New Bond Street sale. This sale is the latest in a string of successful single owner collections, following on from the Savoy and Café Royal sales of recent years. Bonhams have continually demonstrated their expertise and prowess in this field and, as a result, have produced some spectacular results. One of the many highlights of the Wunderman sale was a matched pair of late 19th/early 20th Century carved marble skulls, both crowned with laurel wreaths, which sold for a spectacular £21,600 (against an estimate of £700-1,000). Elsewhere, an extensive collection of glass ... More The Spirit of Jazz Arrives at the Getty Images Gallery on London American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917 - 1982), born in Carolina. Photo: Erich Auerbach/Getty Images. LONDON.- A swinging new photographic exhibition, presented by the Getty Images Gallery in association with the 50th Anniversary of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, captures the heat, the beat and the spirit of jazz. Curated by UK jazz artist Jamie Cullum, 'The Spirit of Jazz', will be on display at the Getty Images Gallery in central London from Friday 9th October to Saturday 28th November. Spanning over 80 glorious years from 1927 to 2009, the exhibition includes a selection of rare and previously unseen images featuring some of the finest, most infamous jazz men and women performing at the peak of their heady careers. ... More   Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Opens Modernism as a Ruin: An Archaeology of the Present Exhibition view, Generali Foundation, 2009. VADUZ.- The key project of modernism as of the early 20th century was the achievement of a society that would be more humane and contemporary. New residential forms were to be created and cities were to be totally different in appearance. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein asks what became of that utopia. The exhibition extends an invitation to explore the theme of a better society in terms of its sustainability both at the technical-practical and the intellectual-artistic level. In the early 1970s, the American artists Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark were already addressing themes such as the impact of capitalism on the ... More   Exhibition at the School of Visual Arts Showcases Iconic Advertising and Graphic Design Keith Richards by Hanoch Piven. NEW YORK, NY.- School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture," an exhibition that celebrates designers, art directors and other creative professionals who have graduated from the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department at SVA. Organized in recognition of Department Chair Richard Wilde's 40th anniversary at the College, the show will feature iconic and culturally significant works by select alumni from all four decades of Wilde's tenure. The exhibition will be on view at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street 15th floor, New York City, from October 9 – November 7, 2009. ... More Comprehensive Survey of German Impressionism to Open at Kunsthalle Bielefeld Max Slevogt, Dame am Meer (Lady at the seaside), 1907. Oil on canvas, 75 x 58 cm. Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg. BIELEFELD.- The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is presenting about one hundred and eighty works as part of a comprehensive survey of German Impressionism, an art movement that spread throughout the entire country. Starting with the major Berlin artists Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt, and Lovis Corinth, the show ranges over the many northern, eastern, southern, and southwestern variations of German Impressionist painting. Distinctions will be drawn between German and French Impressionism, and viewers will come to see that German Impressionism was an independent modern movement and a forerunner of Expressionism. The Bielefeld show will feature works on loan from such museums as the Musée d'Orsay ... More   BMA Celebrates Edgar Allan Poe's Bicentennial with Spooky Art and Illustrations Édouard Manet. Open Here I Flung the Shutter (The Window). 1875. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community, BMA 1996.48.18052 BALTIMORE, MD.- In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth, The Baltimore Museum of Art presents a dramatic exhibition of prints, drawings and illustrated books inspired by the master of the macabre. Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon, on view October 4, 2009-January 17, 2010, features the works of renowned French artists Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, and Odilon Redon, as well as surrealist René Magritte and abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell all paying tribute to Poe's genius. Curated by BMA Director Doreen Bolger, the exhibition ... More   Former Director of the Royal Academy of Arts Launches New Company David Gordon announced the launch of a new consulting company to assist leaders of cultural institutions. NEW YORK, NY.- David Gordon has announced the launch of his new firm, Gordon Advisory LLC, which will assist leaders of cultural institutions nationally and internationally in the areas of governance, planning, organization and finance. He is formerly the Director and CEO of the Milwaukee Art Museum and Secretary (Director) of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Gordon Advisory will offer a number of services including institutional audits, strategic planning, and organizational review and guidance on building extensions or building new institutions. Projects include working with the Tate in London on aspects of revenue enhancement, strategic planning for the National Library of Israel ... More Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU to Show European Artifacts Anthropomorphic Figure, Gold, Bodrogkeresztúr Culture, Moigrad, 4000–3500 BC. National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest. Photo: Marius Amarie. NEW YORK, NY.- This unprecedented exhibition brings to the United States for the first time more than 250 objects recovered by archaeologists from the graves, towns, and villages of Old Europe, a cycle of related prehistoric cultures that achieved a precocious peak of sophistication and creativity in what is now southeastern Europe between 5000 and 4000 BC, and then mysteriously collapsed by 3500 BC. Long before Egypt or Mesopotamia rose to an equivalent level of achievement, Old Europe was among the most sophisticated places that humans inhabited. Some of its towns grew to city-like sizes. Potters developed ... More   Installations by Michel Francois to be Shown at S.M.A.K. Michel François 2007 Pavillon Galerie Carlier-Gebauer FIAC Paris GHENT.- The exhibition in the S.M.A.K. originates in an ambitious plan of Michel François (b. 1956 Sint-Truiden, BE), along the lines of his project "Faux Jumeaux" ("False Twins"), shown at S.M.A.K. between October 18, 2008 and January 3, 2010. For the past 25 years he has been developing an artistic concept in the form of a 'rhizome'. His installations are assemblages of elements from diverse technical and conceptual layers of meaning. These assembled works were presented in various exhibitions such as the Biennale of Sao Paulo in 1994, the Documenta in 1992 or in the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2002. He shows photographic work as well as videos and sculptural work, relating all this to heterogeneous material. ... More   Frick Art Museum Opens Exhibition of Photographs by Esther Bubley Esther Bubley (American, 1921-1998), Patients and Mother Come to Clinic, 1951. Gelatin silver print, 8 1/2 x 8 15/16 in. Courtesy of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. PITTSBURGH, PA.- As a complement to Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art The Frick Art Museum will present Children's Hospital 1951: Photographs by Esther Bubley, a selection of nearly 30 photographs by Esther Bubley (1921–1998), taken while on assignment at Children's Hospital. On May 2, 2009, Children's Hospital opened a new 10-acre campus in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. This exhibition documents and celebrates Children's Hospital's long leadership in the field of child healthcare, as seen through the superb photographs of Esther Bubley. In 1951, Bubley, a master of artistic composition and storytelling, was hired by the Pittsburgh Photographic Library to live ... More Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks Wolfgang Paalen, Combat des princes Saturniens III, oil and fumage on canvas, 39 x 29 in. (100 x73 cm.), 1939. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Echo is the first exhibition at Frey Norris Gallery to simultaneously exhibit the Surrealist masterworks in the gallery's Annex alongside artwork from the contemporary gallery. We have suggested a painting or sculpture by eight important Surrealists to eight of our Bay Area artists and asked them to respond or invent around the resonances between their own interests and the content and ideas in the historical piece. The result will be pairings, one historical with one new piece, that synthesize art from 1939 to 2009. This project highlights the often misunderstood or overlooked ideas of the historical artists, ... More   Poland Street Underground, an Annual Two-Day Event in London During November Radical video artist Zmijewski will show his film Repetition (2005). LONDON.- Poland Street Underground is an annual two-day event organized by the Polish Cultural Institute that attracts thousands of visitors. This year's edition of Poland Street Underground is part of Polska! Year – a celebration of Polish Culture, marked by a series of events and exhibitions bringing the best of Polish art, film, design, architecture and music to the United Kingdom; Surrealist filmmaker Wojciech Has is the subject of a Barbican retrospective; Tomasz Stanko performs at the London Jazz Festival, and Miroslaw Balka is the first Polish Artist to take on Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Significantly, 2009 is the 20th anniversary ... More   Sims Reed Gallery Acquires Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's Estate of Print Editions The exhibition reflects the strong influence of America upon Paolozzi. LONDON.- Sims Reed Gallery announced their recent acquisition of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's highly revered estate of print editions. In Paolozzi's first show solely devoted to his screenprints, his iconic 1960s Pop Art prints will be showcased alongside his later works, from 21st October – 13th November 2009. Paolozzi (1924-2005) was active in producing sculpture, drawings, textiles, ceramics, jewellery and even the first architectural transformation of a London tube station (Tottenham Court Road), and his reputation as a Master of the screenprint is just as renowned. Since childhood he collected disparate cuttings ... More More News 'Sooners' Exhibit Explores Oklahoma, New Mexico Art NORMAN, OK.- Deep within the history of Oklahoma art lies a connection with New Mexico, an enchanted land and home to Western and Native American artists who inspired Sooner artists for decades and beyond. A new exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art examines this influence of New Mexican artists in the early 20th century and the landscape and cultures that changed the way Oklahomans approached art. Sooners in the Land of Enchantment: Oklahoma Artists and New Mexico opens Friday, Oct. 9, with a special reception from 7 to 9 p.m. A guest lecture by Eugene B. Adkins Curator Mark White will accompany this exhibition's free opening at 6 p.m. The opening reception also doubles as the Museum Association's 2010 membership party. Association members and the public are invited. The exhibition will remain on display through Jan. 3, 2010. Artists such as Oscar Jacobson, Nan Sheets and the painters and dancers who eventua ... More Exhibition Critically Examines the Unusual and Absurd in Art SANTA BARBARA, CA.- Look…if you dare! This November, CAF debuts Unusual Behavior, an exhibition that critically examines the unusual and absurd in art! Featuring 11 internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, this exhibition offers a diverse range of performances captured on video–such as Marie Losier's musical, which stars ballerinas, boxers, and a drag queen; Julie Lequin's humorous knock-off of NPR's Car Talk characters Click and Clack; to Kalup Linzy's outrageous, one-man rendition of a melodramatic "soap opera." This exhibition of performance-based video pushes artistic, class, and political boundaries using off-the-wall comedy and extreme absurdity to examine our societal conventions. The results are hilarious, dark, and oftentimes ironic, all of which subtly reveal the underlying brutalities, dehumanization, fears, and taboos that lurk in the every-day. Because the exhibition i ... More National Portrait Gallery Explores New Forms of Portraiture in Exhibition LONDON.- Chasing Mirrors is an exhibition of new work exploring alternative forms of self-representation and portraiture by contemporary artist Faisal Abdu'Allah and the Chasing Mirrors Collective, a group of young people from Arabic-speaking communities in Brent, Barnet and Ealing. As a response to the National Portrait Gallery's Collection the artists set about creating a reflection of their own identity, age and ethnicity, to be displayed at the Gallery. Avoiding conventional portraiture, the finished works show differences and similarities between members of the Chasing Mirrors Collective and the audience in these multi-dimensional portraits. The exhibition marks the start of a three-year project at the Gallery made possible through funding from John Lyon's Charity. The exhibition is comprised of large-scale composite photographs, three constantly changing plasma screens, still-lives of personal objects and textual ... More KGB Studio & Gallery Refocuses Time with Exhibition of Photographs by Luis C. Garza LOS ANGELES, CA.- "Like a message in a bottle cast off many years ago, these images re-emerge in 2009. They may recall, re-educate or simply evoke nostalgia over an era fleeing at an ever faster rate. It is hoped that much more is gained through the experience of seeing, experiencing and recalling that far away time. With this first exhibition, Garza has resurfaced, perhaps to begin anew where he left off. Recovering the message from the bottle, writing new messages, tossing the bottle back." Luis C. Garza is the photographer whose images serve as the core of the exhibition and as the catalyst for its origin. While studying film and theater arts at UCLA, he began his career as a photojournalist recording the tumultuous social events of the 1960s and 1970s. His images captured the attention of television executives, launching a new career as a writer, producer and director of an Emmy award-winning series and over 50 documentary projects and primetime shows for Los Angeles affilia ... More Meijer Gardens Premiere Major U.S. Retrospective Exhibition of British Sculptor Lynn Chadwick GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, one of world's most comprehensive sculpture and botanic experiences, is the premier location of the first U.S. retrospective exhibition of British sculptor Lynn Chadwick, since the artist's death in 2003. "Lynn Chadwick: In Contact" is on view October 9, 2009, through January 3, 2010. More than 40 sculptures and five lithographs trace five decades of Chadwick's career as one of the most important British sculptors of the 20th century. Chadwick's sculptures display a fascinating evolution of personal images through a powerful series of abstracted human figures, animals, birds and imaginary beasts. Chadwick continued developing his critically acclaimed body of work into the late 20th century. "We are honored to have the opportunity to present this important survey of Chadwick's sculpture," said Joseph Becherer, Chief Cur ... More Celebrate Sustainable Living at the 2009 Danks Street Festival SYDNEY.- City of Sydney is celebrating sustainable food and living in Redfern and Waterloo this October with the fifth annual Danks Street Festival. New in 2009 is the Live Green Kitchen featuring sustainable cooking demonstrations from leading local chefs including 2009 Festival Ambassador Jared Ingersoll (Waterloo's own Danks Street Depot), Kylie Kwong (Billy Kwong), Alex Herbert (Bird Cow Fish), Dave Campbell (The Book Kitchen) and Ashley Hughes (Alio Restaurant). The kitchen will be hosted by Lyndey Milan. The Festival will also feature the new "Handmade" market, selling handcrafts, sweet treats and more to support local artists and charities, children's "Arty Pants" craft workshop area and festival bar. "Now in its fifth year, the Danks Street Festival is a fantastic opportunity for Sydneysiders to get to know Redfern and Waterloo, one of our City's most diverse and vibrant arts and food hubs," said Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP. Festival vi ... More Access Awareness Honour for Royal Ontario Museum TORONTO, ON.- The Ministry of Community and Social Services has honoured the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in a new video for its leading implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians Disability Act. The video follows the steps the ROM has taken to ensure its accessibility to all visitors and employees, shot during Minister Madeline Meilleur's visit to the ROM during Access Awareness Week. The honor bestowed upon the ROM by the Ministry of Community and Social Services is a positive recognition of the Museum's dedication to accessibility. The ROM is committed to making the Museum accessible for all visitors and has developed a comprehensive accessibility policy. To ensure that all visitors can experience its history and treasures, the ROM has developed audio guides, tactile displays, and digital access to collections. The main entrance of the Museum is stair-free, while the main foyer has a two percent slope allowing v ... More The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Announces David R. Brigham as New President and CEO PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Dr. David R. Brigham, the Edna S. Tuttleman Museum Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), will succeed President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Edward T. Lewis, who will step down on December 31, 2009, it was announced today by Donald R. Caldwell, Chair of the Board of Trustees. Brigham will be appointed PAFA's President and Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2010. In 2007, Lewis was selected to serve the Academy as its President and CEO. During his tenure, PAFA saw the implementation of re-branding initiatives; the establishment of the Academy BFA; the launch of the performance series, PAFA Presents; and new community collaborations including several with the School District of Philadelphia. Additionally, under Lewis' direction, there has been a nearly fifteen percent increase in student applications, as well as an increase in annual giving by 40 percent, and capital gifts m ... More This is not unsolicited email. You were sent this ezine because you entered your email in our list at http://www.artdaily.org To unsubscribe from this Newsletter please send us an e-mail from the address you want to cancel to newsletter-request@list.artdaily.com with subject Unsubscribe.