The Alexander Calder you have (likely) never heard of - Weekly Newsletter

March 30, 2011 Dear mike, In this week's newsletter, we explore Alexander Calder's unique three-dimensional portraits - a relatively unknown aspect of his work - featuring an interview with the curator of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Also, watch a video about how political turmoil in the Middle East is affecting the Sharjah Biennial and browse artists participating in the event. Enjoy! What's new with your favorite artists and venues?  - Modify your preferences here. Your Artists (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred artists Your Venues (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred Venues Your Categories (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred categories

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The Alexander Calder you have (likely) never heard of The American artist, best known for his abstract mobiles, was also a prolific portraitist who created figures from the worlds of entertainment, sports and art, including Jimmy Durante and Babe Ruth, as well as colleagues Fernand Léger and Saul Steinberg, to name a few. We spoke with the curator of the first such exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, who describes this largely overlooked aspect of the artist's career.    more...

Things to See, Places to Be

Mar 5, 2011-Apr 5, 2011 Exhibition Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation: The Israeli Art Prize 2010 Shortlisted Artists Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel / Tel Aviv		Mar 19, 2011-May 19, 2011 Exhibition Avi Ganor: RealityTrauma Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel / Tel Aviv
Mar 22, 2011-Apr 30, 2011 Exhibition Oren Eliav: The 2010 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter: Two-Thousand and Eleven Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel / Tel Aviv		Apr 15, 2011-May 31, 2011 Exhibition Uri Nir: Accelerator Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel / Tel Aviv

State of the Art - New and Newsworthy in the World of Art

This Week's Major Exhibition Openings (March 28-April 4) Leibovitz, Tomaselli, Karsh, Rana, Atlas, Abrahams, Patterson, Villareal and many more.

News & Market Round-Up of the Week that Was (March 21-29) Warhol's Elizabeth Taylor work could fetch $30m.; Tokyo art scene struggles to get back on track and much more.

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Revolution in the Arab Art Scene? The Biennial in Sharjah in the UAE is the most important exhibition of contemporary art in the Gulf region. The upheavals in the Arab World can be felt here, too.   More About the Event

Also exhibiting at the Sharjah Biennial 2011

Emily Jacir		Yto Barrada		Ziad Antar		Alfredo Jaar

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	Painter's progress Spectator Published: Mar 1, 2011 Andrew Lambirth talks to Alan Reynolds, who abandoned a lucrative career as a landscape painter to follow his instincts towards abstraction    more...
	Art Galleries Online: Everything Except the White Wine and Snooty Talk TechNewsWorld Published: Mar 24, 2011 It's easier than ever to buy and sell original artwork online, thanks to a proliferation of virtual art galleries, auctions and microstock sites.    more...

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Selected Auction Results

Ida Bagus Made Togog Ramayana Episode: Jatayu Rescuing Sinta Sold for 150,000,000 IDR Borobudur Auction, Jakarta Mar 27, 2011		Akbar Padamsee Untitled (Reclining Nude) Sold for 1,426,500 USD Sotheby's New York Mar 25, 2011
Frederic Remington Broncho Buster Sold for 205,625 USD Cowan's Mar 25, 2011		Alfred Eisenstaedt Children at Puppet Theatre, Paris Sold for 48,000 USD Swann Auction Galleries Mar 24, 2011

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Art world headlines

Rescheduled Dates for ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 (PR) MutualArt / March 2011		Getty museum returns 370 year-old painting looted by Nazis Telegraph / March 2011
Arts Council England funding cuts - the great axe falls The Guardian / March 2011		Attendance at L.A. museums lags behind Los Angeles Times / March 2011
China's Ai Weiwei plans studio abroad amid repression AFP / March 2011		Portuguese architect de Moura wins Pritzker prize Reuters / March 2011
Liz Taylor Portrait to Go on Block for $20 Million The Wall Street Journal / March 2011		Heiress Vivien Duffield Gives $13.3 Million to U.K. Arts Bodies Bloomberg / March 2011

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Masterpiece by a renown artist...or a 5-year old? - Weekly Newsletter

March 23, 2011 Dear mike, For this week's newsletter, we interviewed the author of a fascinating psychological research paper that explored the perceived quality of abstract expressionist paintings by well-known artists compared to drawings by children. Also, watch artists explain why they chose to participate in the upcoming Clear Air Auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong. Enjoy! What's new with your favorite artists and venues?  - Modify your preferences here. Your Artists (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred artists Your Venues (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred Venues Your Categories (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred categories

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Masterpiece by a renown artist...or a 5-year-old child? You be the judge How often have you heard people describe artworks by artists such as Jackson Pollock or Cy Twombly as drawings that a 5-year-old child could have made? But can children produce art whose perceived quality, as least by widespread artistic circles, matches that of renowned artists who sell art for millions of dollars? New research seeks to answer that question.   more...

Things to See, Places to Be

Mar 22, 2011-Apr 22, 2011 Exhibition Sharon Poliakine: Ignorant Field: The 2010 Rappaport Prize for an Established Israeli Painter Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel / Tel Aviv		Mar 24, 2011-May 7, 2011 Exhibition Gil Yefman: In Return Dvir Gallery Israel / Tel Aviv
April 5, 2011 Auction Israeli & International Art Montefiore Israel / Tel Aviv		Apr 5, 2011-Apr 9, 2011 Art Fair Fresh Paint Contemporary Art Fair 2011 Fresh Paint Contemporary Art Fair Israel / Tel Aviv

State of the Art - New and Newsworthy in the World of Art

This Week's Major Exhibition Openings (March 21-28) Picasso, Whiteread, Van Dongen, Creed, Giacometti, Séguin, Siena and many more.

News & Market Round-Up of the Week that Was (March 15-23) Bubble trouble spoils China's "art shares" party; strong sales at TEFAF and Art Dubai and much more.

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Hong Kong Artists Auction Works to Fight Air Pollution Four Hong Kong artists discuss their reasons for participating in the Clean Air Auction, the first environmental art exhibition and auction in Asia of its kind.   More About the Event

More artists included in the Clean Air sale

Chen Jiagang		Nick Brandt		Wilson Shieh		Jiang Zhi

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	What Andy Warhol Did The New York Review of Books Published: Apr 7, 2011 A look at the dispute between the Warhol Foundation and Joe Simon-Whelan, a case that has created enormous interest about the controversies over the attribution of works of art.    more...
	Artists are designing or adapting video games to comment on politics, art, and games themselves ARTnews Published: Apr 1, 2011 It's a rainy Sunday afternoon and I'm desperately trying to fend off a squirming space octopus armed with a ray gun.    more...

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Claude Venard Composition aux fraises ét feuille Sold for 4,636 USD Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco Mar 20, 2011		Sir William Beechey Portrait of a Gentleman Sold for 13,750 GBP Christie's South Kensington Mar 20, 2011
Sir Alfred James Munnings Ber Street, Horses and Figures 1897 Sold for 33,000 GBP Keys Fine Art Auctioneers Mar 18, 2011		Giovanni Giacometti Sotto il sambuco Sold for 1,920,000 CHF Christie's Zurich Mar 21, 2011

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Art world headlines

Mayan relic sold for $4 million is a fake, Mexico says Reuters / March 2011		ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 Postponed MutualArt / March 2011
Asia Week's $280 Million in Art Spotlights 500,000-Pearl Canopy Bloomberg / March 2011		Judge Rules Against Richard Prince in Copyright Case The Art Newspaper / March 2011
Museum refuses to return icons to Russia Telegram & Gazette / March 2011		De Niro Testifies Against Dealer Accused of Stealing Dad's Art Bloomberg / March 2011
Spanish experts discover rare Van Dyck AFP / March 2011		Artists protest at Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi due to poor labour conditions World Architecture News / March 2011

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