Henry Moore’s Butterfly Moved to a Factory for Restoration

BERLIN.- Henry Moore’s sculpture located in front of the Mirror Pond at the House of World Cultures will get a shine. Through a collaboration between three partners the sculpture will be restored this year. The loading of the sculpture for transport was made by a crane on Monday. “There is a right physical size for every idea,” the British artist Henry Moore would say. In 1984, Henry Moore created his last public work, ” Butterfly”, on the occasion of the [...]

Painting by Paul Klee Stolen from NYC in 1989 is Found by Montreal Gallery Owner

NEW YORK, NY.- A painting by Swiss artist Paul Klee that was stolen from a New York gallery in 1989 been recovered after a Montreal gallery owner became suspicious and turned it over to U.S. authorities. Robert Landau turned the 1930 painting, “Portrait in the Garden,” by the neo-impressionist artist over to U.S. authorities after a Florida art dealer tried to sell it to him. It had been stolen from the Marlborough Gallery. “Once we found out it was stolen, [...]

Spectacular Sale of Photographs from Various Owners at Christie’s

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced its three Photographs sales this spring season will be held in New York on April 14 and 15, 2010. The three separate sales include two single owner collections, Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia McCabe, and Selections from the Baio Collection of Photographs as well as a Photographs (Various Owners) sale. Combined, the auctions will present the finest offerings in the category with a selection of works that range from [...]

Monumental Commission for MoMA on View at the 53rd Street Entrance

NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin announced Mickalene Thomas’ completion of a monumental commission for the Museum of Modern Art entitled Le dejeuner sur l’herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires, which will remain on view in the window of the Museum’s 53rd Street entrance through December 2010. Mickalene Thomas creates works that introduce a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expand common definitions of beauty. She has chosen her subjects for this body of work with an [...]

Christian Boltanski to Create Monumental Installation at Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- French artist Christian Boltanski will create a monumental new work for Park Avenue Armory’s soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, filling the space with thousands of pieces of discarded clothing and a soundtrack of reverberating heartbeats. This installation will be Boltanski’s largest and most ambitious project ever staged in the United States—an affecting and poetic spectacle that explores concepts of human identity, memory, and loss. On view from May 14 – June 13, 2010, Boltanski’s No Man’s [...]

Christie’s to Offer Valuable Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts

LONDON.- Christie’s announce that they will offer the first part of an extensive selection of exceptional medieval and renaissance masterpieces on 7 July 2010 in London. The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula Part I is an outstanding private collection which has been assembled over the past 3 decades and which includes personal prayer books made for Royals, Bishops, Aristocracy and other important patrons from the 13th century to the 16th century. These include King François I of France, [...]

First Major Exhibition in the U.S. for Tatiana Trouvé at Gagosian

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition by Tatiana Trouvé. Acclaimed in France and Europe, this is Trouvé’s first major exhibition in the U.S. In her disquieting, dystopic installations, Trouvé limns the boundaries between mental and physical where time, space and memory converge. Her most recent work unites her interest in sculpture, architecture, and drawing in site-specific situations that combine scenographic wall drawings; sculptures in the form of linear abstractions worked in steel, rubber, and leather, or found objects [...]

Thomas P. Campbell Welcomed to AFA Board of Trustees

NEW YORK, NY.- At the March 16, 2010, meeting of the Board of Trustees of the American Federation of Arts (AFA), Thomas P. Campbell was elected a trustee. “The AFA has enjoyed a long and extremely fruitful relationship with The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” said AFA Director George G. King, “and we are delighted that Tom will be carrying on the tradition of representing the Metropolitan on the AFA Board. I know that with his talent and wisdom he will [...]

New Exhibition Gives an Insight into the Collection Frieder Burda

BADEN-BADEN.- From March 25, 2010 to June 20, 2010, a selection of works from the Collection Frieder Burda will be on display at the Museum Frieder Burda, making for an inspiring encounter with important works from its inventory, as well as with recently acquired paintings. The exhibition, entitled “There is something about these pictures…”, will comprise more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and art installations by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Isa Genzken, Neo Rauch, Robert [...]

Dallas Museum Announces Results of Groundbreaking Visitor Study

DALLAS, TX.- A groundbreaking, seven-year study that provides unprecedented understanding of the preferences and behaviors of museum visitors has been released by the Dallas Museum of Art. The study and its findings have catalyzed fundamental changes in all aspects of the DMA’s practices and programs—from exhibition and programming development to new marketing strategies and interpretation tools—leading to a 100% increase in attendance and motivating more than 50% of the museum’s visitors to participate in its educational and public programs. Spearheaded [...]

Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2010 Winner Announced

LONDON.- Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director Whitechapel Gallery and Chairwoman of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has announced artist Andrea Büttner as the winner of the third Prize. Büttner, who lives and works in London and Frankfurt, was honoured at the prize giving ceremony at London’s Whitechapel Gallery on 23 March. Shortlisted artists Becky Beasley and Elizabeth Price were also in attendance. The Max Mara Art Prize for Women celebrates the diversity and dynamics that female artists brings to [...]

Barbara Thumm Gallery Announces Representation of Anna Oppermann’s Estate

BERLIN.- Barbara Thumm Gallery announced the representation of Anna Oppermann’s estate. In September/October 2010 the gallery will exhibit a comprehensive solo-show. From April 2nd to May 24th, 2010 an impressive ensemble by Anna Oppermann will be presented in the group show “squatting. erinnern, vergessen, besetzen” at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. As a part of the programme of the exhibition Prof. Dr. Ute Vorkoeper, art educator, curator and author, will hold a talk on Anna Oppermann’s works on Monday April, 19th, 2010 [...]

Raskols and Sing-Sing by Stephen Dupont at Jack Bell Gallery

LONDON.- Over the past six years, Stephen Dupont has traveled to Papua New Guinea, photographically documenting its changing face and the powerful impact of globalisation on the fabric of its traditional Melanesian society. From the recasting of tribal society into an urban proletariat and the effects of violence and lawlessness in Port Moresby to the westernization of traditional society in the Highlands, Raskols and Sing-Sing is an in-depth study of cultural erosion as well as a celebration of an ancient [...]

Weston’s Nautilus Shell Leads Sotheby’s Spring Photographs Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Sotheby’s will offer at auction a remarkable selection of Photographs that ranges from examples of some of the earliest photographs made in America, to masterpieces of the modernist aesthetic in photography and beyond. The 244 lot sale is estimated to fetch $3.4/5.1 million. The auction’s top lot is Edward Weston’s iconic study of a single Nautilus Shell ($300/500,000). This print was purchased in 1927, the year the picture was taken, at San [...]

City Organizations Partner with AGO and No.9 to Bring Contemporary Art to Inner-City Students

TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario and No. 9: Contemporary Art and the Environment are partnering with the Toronto District School Board, the Toronto Public Library, and the World Wildlife Fund to bring contemporary art and environmental education to 10,000 inner city elementary students across the GTA. In collaboration with internationally-recognized Canadian artist IAIN BAXTER&, the IAIN BAXTER& ECOARTVAN hits the streets of Toronto from April 1 through May 31, and will visit 25 of the TDSB’s Model Schools for [...]