21c Museum Hotel to Open New Property in Downtown Bentonville, Arkansas

BENTONVILLE, ARK.- 21c Museum Hotels will build a new combination boutique hotel and contemporary art museum in downtown Bentonville, announced Steve Wilson, Founder and Chairman of 21c Museum Hotels. The new hotel is being developed by 21c Museum Hotels and will be modeled on the award-winning 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, which was voted the #1 hotel in the U.S. and #6 in the world in the Condé Nast Traveler’s 2009 Readers’ Choice awards. The estimated cost of the project [...]

DC Moore Gallery Celebrates Charles Burchfield’s Fifty Years as a Painter

NEW YORK, NY.- Rarely does the opportunity arise to see a wide range of work by Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), one of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century. This summer, viewers will be able to see his art in abundance in two concurrent exhibitions. On June 10, 2010, DC Moore Gallery is opening Charles Burchfield: Fifty Years as a Painter, an exceptional group of watercolors and drawings that span his fifty-year career. Many are from private collections and have [...]

Architect Charles Gwathmey’s Last Major Museum Completed

SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum has completed construction of a 125,000-square-foot expansion designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (GSAA). Opening to the public on October 10, 2010, the Teel Family Pavilion will more than triple the Museum’s current size and enhance its role as a cultural resource for California and the state’s many visitors. One of GSAA co-founder Charles Gwathmey’s last major public projects, the Crocker Art Museum expansion complements the 125-year-old Museum’s historic structures, which include one [...]

Economy Could Take Toll on Commissioned US Artwork

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Economic woes have pinched the pockets of wealthy art patrons, but artists who rely on those commissions say they are surviving, albeit with more specialized works and smaller payoffs. In a time of tight budgets, commissioning a work of art for commercial or corporate spaces like Rockefeller Center must dovetail with a company’s marketing strategy and promote its public image, not just soothe charitable urges. “They’re still doing it, but the commissions are smaller. There’s no question,” [...]

Senator Christopher Dodd Says Artifacts Held by Yale Belong to Peru

NEW HAVEN (AP).- Incan artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago and held by Yale University belong to the people of Peru, U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd said Wednesday. Peru has had a lawsuit pending in federal court in Connecticut since 2008 demanding Yale return artifacts taken by scholar Hiram Bingham III between 1911 and 1915. Yale says it returned dozens of boxes of artifacts in 1921 and that Peru knew it would retain some. Dodd, a member of [...]

Sotheby’s Sale of The Collection of Patricia Kluge Held On-Site in Charlottesville, Virginia Totals $15.2 Million

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- Sotheby’s two-day auction of The Collection of Patricia Kluge concluded this evening bringing $15,158,227, exceeding pre-sale expectations (est. $9/14 million). The historic sale was the first on-site house sale conducted by Sotheby’s in North America in over 20 years, and more than 2,000 people attended the week-long public exhibition at Albemarle House, Mrs. Kluge’s 45-room English country manor. Collectors, interior designers, and dealers from all over the globe participated in the two-day auction, which comprised the contents of [...]

Largest Festival of Disabled Artists Opens in DC

WASHINGTON, DC (AP).- Jesse Higman’s paintbrush isn’t a brush at all. With limited mobility in his hands because of a car crash 27 years ago, this Seattle-based artist created a method all his own. To control his colors, Higman built intricate tables with weights that bend his wooden canvas. Then he carefully pours pigment and water on the surface and watches them swirl to a small hole. The paint is like light being sucked into a black hole in space, [...]

Codices Guarded in France to be Digitalized

MEXICO CITY.- After several requests to the National Library of France, Mexican specialists obtained facsimile copies of 80 codices and manuscripts guarded at the European precinct, which will allow deepening in their research, interpretation and analysis, as well as making possible their publication in a DVD. This work is part of Amoxcalli Project, launched 6 years ago by the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) with collaboration of experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and [...]

Exhibition of New Paintings by James White at Max Wigram Gallery

LONDON.- Max Wigram Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by James White. The works continue White’s archiving of the minutiae of modern life. His black and white oil paintings on plywood panels are composed from the snapshots the artist takes of the objects that surround him. Like the cinematic ‘cutaway shot’, White’s images are deliberately emptied of any dramatic content of their own; our focus momentarily rests on an intimate group of objects that silently resonate within a grander [...]

Work by Marguerite and William Zorach at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents its first solo exhibition featuring the work of Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) and William Zorach (1887-1966). On view from June 4 to August 13, this exhibition consists of a selection of watercolors by each. The six 1915 watercolors by Marguerite Zorach were completed during a summer excursion in 1915 to the White Mountains hamlet of Randolph, New Hampshire. A noticeable feature in these works is the attention to detail, everything from the furniture in [...]