US Military Veterans Working on Archaeological Project

ST. LOUIS, MO.- U.S. military veterans are sorting through a massive government archaeological collection that has been neglected for decades, with the hope of archiving the stone tools, arrows and American Indian beads that were found beneath major public works projects. The collection dates to the 1930s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started building dozens of locks, dams and reservoirs, and the ground beneath them was excavated for archaeological treasures. Prehistoric and historic pottery, stone tools, arrowheads, Indian [...]

Mayor Bloomberg Unveils New Design for Sidewalk Sheds (New York)

NEW YORK, NY.- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Department of Buildings Commissioner Robert D. LiMandri and President of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Anthony Schirripa, AIA, unveiled a new design for sidewalk sheds – the wood and steel structures built to protect pedestrians walking alongside buildings under construction. The design of the City’s sidewalk sheds has remained primarily unchanged since the 1950s and the new design will improve quality of life, reduce construction impacts on businesses, [...]

New Mixed Media Paintings by Bay Area Artist Freddy Chandra at Walter Maciel Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Walter Maciel Gallery presents an exhibition of new mixed media paintings entitled Verge by Bay Area artist Freddy Chandra. This is Chandra’s first solo show in Los Angeles and his second exhibition with the gallery having been introduced in a group show entitled Pattern re-Defined in 2008. In his new body of work, Chandra presents formal compositions made of multi-colored cast resin, graphite and plexiglass that are arranged in precise sequences. The rhythmic repeating, pairing and overlapping [...]

Artist Daniel Arsham to Take Paris by Storm with Solo Exhibition

PARIS.- Artist Daniel Arsham is taking Paris by storm in March 2010. Animal Architecture, a solo exhibition of new work at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Paris that will include three bodies of work— gouache animal drawings, Push Puppets and Pixel Clouds—will open on March 20. In addition, the Paris premiere of Arsham’s performance collaboration, REPLICA, with choreographers Jonah Bokaer and Judith Sánchez Ruíz will open at the festival “Avalanche” at Theatre de Vanves on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010. Arsham will also [...]

Manchester’s Cornerhouse Features a Selection of Recent Work by David Mackintosh

MANCHESTER.- The Edge of Things is a major solo exhibition by artist David Mackintosh featuring a selection of new and recent work. Mackintosh’s practice centres around drawing; for more than a decade Mackintosh has been creating deceptively simple drawings that reveal a world that is both mundane and macabre exploring ideas of dislocation, isolation and indecision. Images of sex and death – a dismembered head, a warship, a naked torso sit alongside depictions of everyday life – a man walking [...]

Print Portfolios from Four Biennials on View at International Centre of Graphic Arts

LJUBLJANA.- The exhibition presents print portfolios from four biennials (Hamburg 1985, Sydney 1990, Istanbul 1995, and Cetinje 2005) containing more than eighty graphic works by sixty well-known and established artists from all over the world; thus it mirrors the development of art in the past twenty years. These print portfolios represent a unique artistic and art-historical achievement, for they show the development of printmaking techniques and their involvement in the context of contemporary art. They present artists from different generations [...]

Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp Presents Works on Paper by Koen van den Broek

ANTWERP.- Almost concurrently with Curbs & Cracks, a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Koen van den Broek (°1973, Bree) at S.M.A.K, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent , the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) is displaying in it’s Print Room a unique selection of some twenty works on paper by the same artist. Never before has van den Broek’s oeuvre on paper been shown to the public. Moreover, this is very recent work, created in [...]

Everson Presents Jen Pepper: That Which Cannot be Held as Part of Artist Series

SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art presents the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held January 30 – April 4, 2010. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012. “We are excited to present Jen Pepper’s work in the first installment of this new series,” said Debora Ryan, Everson Museum of Art Senior Curator. “She is using [...]

Rubin Museum of Art to Show Exhibition of Tibetan Landscapes by Tom Wool

NEW YORK, NY.- In May 2001 photographer Tom Wool spent four weeks photographing life in the villages of Tibet ’s Rongbuk Valley , an expanse of rugged terrain which stretches roughly fifty miles from the base of Mount Everest on the north side. Home to some 3,000 Tibetans, this area is of distinct importance to the indigenous population for its sacred geography and religious history. Believed to be the place where earth touches the heav­ens, Mount Everest is called “Chomolungma” [...]

Gaudi and Dali in Catalonia: Even Teens are Wowed

FIGUERES.- “That is a bit exaggerated, no,” wondered Corneel wide-eyed, as he walked through Salvador Dali’s magic kingdom, also known as Teatre-Museu Dali. Unbound imagination is supposed to be the realm of tender teenagers like my son. So when even they cannot quite fathom the folly of an aging artist, it must be something to behold. Golden eggs on top of a claret-colored wedding cake palace were one thing. Add diamond-studded rings with a beating heart and an oversized statue [...]

Lawyer Says Disputed Van Gogh Worth Up to $150 Million

NEW HAVEN, CT.- A Van Gogh painting at the center of a dispute between Yale University and a man who believes the artwork was stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution is worth $120 million to $150 million, the man’s attorney told The Associated Press on Friday. The evaluation is the first public estimate of the painting’s value, and the lawyer, Allan Gerson, said it comes from a top auction firm. Gerson represents Pierre Konowaloff, the purported great-grandson of [...]

Major Exhibition of the Work of Renowned Sculptor Ron Mueck Opens in Melbourne

MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria presents a major exhibition of the work of internationally renowned sculptor Ron Mueck. Known for his extraordinarily life-like creations, this exhibition features twelve sculptures by Mueck including four new works. This is the largest and most comprehensive Mueck exhibition ever to be held in Australia. Frances Lindsay, NGV Deputy Director, said: “Since his dramatic entry onto the international art stage, Mueck has continued to astound audiences with his realistic, figurative sculptures and now occupies [...]

Paris and the Avant-Garde: Masters from the Guggenheim Collection Opens

NEW YORK, NY.- As one of the final exhibitions of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection presents thirty-four works by eighteen artists from the Guggenheim Museum’s collection, including significant groups of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator, and is on view from January 23 through May 12, 2010. Paris and the [...]

Three Architects Selected to Receive the 2010 AIA Thomas Jefferson Award

WASHINGTON, DC.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected, Curtis Fentress, FAIA, a designer, Les Shepherd, AIA, a government agency head, and Ken Greenberg, Assoc. AIA, an urban planner to receive the 2010 Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. This year’s award recipients will be honored and receive their awards at the 2010 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Miami. The Thomas Jefferson Award recognizes excellence in architectural advocacy and achievement in three categories: Private-sector architects who have [...]

Sotheby’s Sets a Record for American Silver at Auction – Bowl Sells for $5.9 M

NEW YORK, NY.- A new auction record for American silver was set this afternoon at Sotheby’s when a Silver Punch Bowl by Cornelius Kierstede, made in New York between 1700 and 1710, sold for an astonishing $5,906,500. With a pre-sale estimate of $400/800,000 auctioneer David Redden opened the bidding at $275,000 and almost instantly a bid of $500,000 was called out by Ian Irving of Ian Irving Ltd. As many as six different bidders raised their paddles, but at around [...]