Asian Arts Sale at Freeman’s Boasts Great Results

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Domestic buyers and sellers of Chinese decorative arts, no matter how experienced in the trade, have come to face each major sale on the auction calendar expecting the unexpected. China’s dynamic economy and the subsequent explosion of that nation’s antique and decorative arts market has created surging, wave-like trends that suddenly, unexpectedly crash American auction house floors, often to the delight of auctioneers and their consignors. Such was the case on Saturday, March 20, 2010 when Freeman’s Asian [...]

First Exhibition for Peter Lemmens at Galerie van der Mieden

ANTWERP.- For the first time, Peter Lemmens (Mechelen 1975) shows his work in Galerie van der Mieden. Earlier, he already exhibited in Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer in Antwerp, MAC’s Museum in Grand Hornu, Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke, at Liste Basel and Frieze in London. This exhibition shows 3 video installations, photo work and an installation mounted on the wall. However, it’s not about multimedia art, photography or video. Peter Lemmens looks at these art forms purely [...]

Storm King Announces Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration

MOUNTAINVILLE, NY.- Storm King Art Center, widely recognized as one of the world’s greatest sculpture parks, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a diversity of offerings throughout its 2010 and 2011 seasons. Highlights include 5+5: New Perspectives, a special exhibition comprising twelve new and recent works, which will be loaned and sited in Storm King’s expansive landscape by ten artists. Six of the sculptures were specially created for the occasion. Inside the museum building, Storm King presents The View from Here: [...]

Zimbabwe Police Shut 2nd Art Exhibit on Violence

HARARE.- Police in Zimbabwe shut down an art exhibit exploring violence blamed on President Robert Mugabe, an attorney said Monday. Artist Owen Maseko collected family photos of missing people, images of mine shafts where bodies were believed dumped and reports on an armed uprising after independence in 1980 in the western Matabeleland district that was crushed by troops loyal to Mugabe. Thousands of civilians were massacred in the fighting. Attorney Kucaca Phulu said that Maseko, his client, spent the weekend [...]

Japanese Architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa Win 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, a duo of Japanese architects praised for using everyday building materials to create ethereal structures that shelter flowing, dreamlike spaces, have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize’s jury announced Sunday. Sejima, 54, and Nishizawa, 44, join Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and Renzo Piano in receiving the top honor in the field in recognition of the art museums, university buildings and designer-label fashion boutiques they have designed in Japan, the United [...]

Works of Art from the Estate of Nancy M. Daly Highlight Auction

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its Spring auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture on April 20, 2010. The Los Angeles-based sale will feature a wide variety of important California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works by established American artists including Joseph Kleitsch, Franz Bischoff, Edgar Payne, Granville Redmond and William Wendt as well as early, rare to market works by William Hahn, Thomas Moran and Thomas Hill. Undoubtedly, the highlight of [...]

Andy Warhol Photo Exhibition Explores His Public and Private Lives

NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will hold an opening reception for “Andy Warhol: Private and Public in 151 Photographs” at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 9, in the Sara Bedrick Gallery of The Dorsky Museum. The exhibition runs from April 10 – July 25 and August 18 – Sept. 26. This exhibition focuses on Andy Warhol’s exploration of the interconnections between private and public life as [...]

An Exhibition in Beijing at Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery for the Winner of the Prize FID 2010

PARIS.- The winner of the International Fair: 21st Century Drawings, among 55 students selected by a jury of professionals from the art world, will be invited to exhibit its work at Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery in Beijing. The Prize will be handed over to the winner on Friday, March 26th, during the fair’s late opening. The gallery Hadrien de Montferrand, China’s first gallery exclusively devoted to artworks on paper, is located in the heart of the Art District in Beijing. [...]

New Series of Paintings by Melanie Daniel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

TEL AVIV.- Evergreen, the new series of paintings by Melanie Daniel, reveals the culmination of the artist’s interest in how people assimilate and camouflage themselves in their environments, combining a sense of strangeness with a sense of belonging. Daniel began painting after immigrating to Israel in 1995. For her photographic series Pleasantvale (2003), which links her early works with her current interest in the painting medium, Daniel returned to her hometown, Kelowna in British Columbia, to photograph a seniors’ neighborhood [...]

The Beautiful Time in Lubumbashi: Photography by Sammy Baloji

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum for African Art, New York, presents an exhibition of recent photographs and large-scale photomontages by Sammy Baloji, whose work explores the history of copper mining and postcolonial architecture in Katanga province and its major city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Organized by the Museum, The Beautiful Time in Lubumbashi: Photography by Sammy Baloji initiates an important dialogue about postcolonial history, urbanization, and the aspirations of youth in twenty-first-century Africa. It will be [...]

L.A. Art Collector Caps Two Year Pursuit of Artist with Exhibition of New Work

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Two years ago, long before opening his Camden Drive gallery space in Beverly Hills, art collector Herair Garboushian became acquainted and enamored with artist John Seery’s work of the early 1970s—but it’s Seery’s most recent work that has had Garboushian courting the artist ever since. “The only other artist that has had the same powerful effect on me is Rothko,” says Garboushian. Seery is an oft-cited prime example of the Lyrical Abstraction movement in New York and [...]

Canon and Getty Images Gallery Celebrate 100 Years of Hollywood

LONDON.- Iconic images of Hollywood stars from the early days of the silver screen through to present-day box office heavyweights will be displayed in an exhibition to celebrate Hollywood’s 100th anniversary. Sponsored by Canon and running through 3rd April, ‘Hollywood through the lens – celebrating 100 years of Hollywood’ will take visitors on a journey from the 1920s, showing the evolution of Hollywood portraits through the golden age of cinema through to modern icons. The images featured in the exhibition [...]

Artbygeneve the New Platform for Contemporary and Modern Art

GENEVA.- Featuring cutting-edge and leading international galleries, the great masters of modern art to recent generations of emerging artists will be presented in this dynamic and exciting forum. artbygenève combines exclusivity, dynamism and originality in a refined and welcoming setting. artbygenève provides a venue for the discovery of emerging talents as well as internationally recognized artists in an informal ambiance. Open to the public, the fair is designed for collectors and professionals in the field and seeks to encourage encounters [...]

Thomas Heatherwick’s Spun Chair at Haunch of Venison in London

LONDON.- For his second solo exhibition at Haunch of Venison London, Thomas Heatherwick has produced a startling twist on conventional furniture design: a functional chair formed from a single profile rotated through 360 degrees. Aptly titled ‘Spun ’ it transforms the domestic seat into a beautifully rendered spinning top. The exhibition will include five versions of the Spun chair in copper and stainless steel. The different versions are: mirror polished stainless steel, brushed stainless steel, mirror polished copper, brushed copper [...]

Christie’s to Offer an Important Private Collection of Rhinoceros Horn Carvings

HONG KONG.- Following the success of Important Chinese Rhinoceros Horn Carvings from the Songzhutang Collection Part I sold in May 2008, Christie’s Hong Kong will offer a further selection of 30 magnificent rhinoceros horn carvings from Part II of the collection, ‘The Pine and Bamboo Studio’, on Monday, 31 May 2010. One of the finest known private collections, passionately assembled by a connoisseur over 30 years, this auction provides institutions and private collectors with a historic opportunity to obtain exceedingly [...]