Bacardi Celebrates Ties to Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

BERLIN.- Bacardi Limited, the largest privately held spirits company in the world, today celebrates the opening of a joint event with Neue Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (New National Gallery in Berlin) in honor of famed German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The collection titled “There is a Reason” features the acclaimed works, drawings, plans and photographs of Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe and his unique relationship with Bacardi and Neue Nationalgalerie. The event kicks off today [...]

Marlborough in London Presents the Work of Caroline Walker

LONDON.- Marlborough presents the work of Caroline Walker, winner of The Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Prize 2009. The charity was established in 2006 to support artists at the beginning of their careers. Miss Beston, a former Director of the gallery, provided help to many artists during the course of her work. The charity is collaborating with the Royal College of Art to award an annual prize to a postgraduate student on graduating. This comprises a studio for a year at [...]

Egypt Culture Chief, Farouk Hosni, Sleepless Over Van Gogh Theft

CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s culture minister blamed “incompetent” security staff for the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum and said worries for the safety of the country’s art treasures are depriving him of sleep. “I feel like I am working alone and that I alone spend time thinking of how to manage cultural affairs,” the minister Farouk Hosni told daily paper al-Masry al-Youm on Tuesday. “I can’t work with these incompetent employees,” he said. “I’m [...]

Group Representing Ansel Adams Sues Over Garage Sale Negatives

SAN JOSE, CA (AP).- A group representing Ansel Adams sued a Fresno man Monday for selling prints and posters under the name of the famed nature photographer, the latest salvo in a dispute over glass negatives bought at a garage sale and purported to be Adams’ lost work. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in San Francisco by The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, seeks to stop Rick Norsigian and consulting firm PRS Media Partners from using Adams’ name, [...]

Haus Konstruktiv Celebrates Concrete, Constructivist and Conceptual Art

ZURICH.- The exhibition project “complete concrete” shows the development of the more than 100-year-long history of concrete, constructivist and conceptual art. In two exhibition instalments and with over 400 works on four storeys, Haus Konstruktiv is setting off an explosion of completely concrete approaches. We are exhibiting numerous key works from our own collection, as well as first-class loaned works, with fascinating solo and group presentations on historically relevant artists and young artists alike. The basis of the exhibition “complete [...]

Sculptures and Paintings Lead Christie’s Sale of Indian and Southeast Asian Art

NEW YORK, NY.- On September 14th, The Christie’s Asian Art Week will commence with the sale of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, offering over 200 selected works including exceptional bronzes, sculpture, and paintings from Gandhara, the Himalayas, India and Indonesia. The sale not only offers treasures at many different price levels, but also offers works that spans a wide time and geographical range from the bejeweled or remarkably simple, to monumental and miniature. An important Gandharan Silver Collection will highlight [...]

Leonardo’s Last Supper by Peter Greenaway at Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- Visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway will premiere an epic and immersive multimedia work based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper this December at Park Avenue Armory, marking the first U.S. presentation of the artist’s installation work. Through his incisive manipulation of light, sound, and theatrical illusion, Greenaway creates a series of dynamic audio-visual environments that provoke new ways of seeing Leonardo’s masterpiece. The installation includes a meticulously detailed “clone” of the painting set within a [...]

Egypt Deputy Minister, Mohsen Shalaan, Detained Over Van Gogh Theft

CAIRO.- Egypt’s state news agency reports the country’s top prosecutor has ordered a four-day detention of the deputy culture minister over the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting. Thieves made off with the canvas, known by the titles of “Poppy Flowers” and “Vase with Flowers,” on Saturday from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo. None of the museum’s alarms and only seven of 43 surveillance cameras were working at the time of the robbery. On Monday, General Prosecutor Abdel-Meguid [...]

Painting by Egon Schiele Stolen by Nazis Back in Austrian Museum

VIENNA (AP).- A painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele has been rehung at a Vienna museum after a 12-year possession battle over the artwork stolen by the Nazis. The painting was returned over the weekend after the Leopold Museum agreed to pay $19 million (euro15 million) as part of the settlement. U.S. authorities had refused to return the painting after it was exhibited in New York because heirs of the owners laid a claim to it. The painting was put [...]

San Jose Museum Opens First Museum Survey Devoted to Work of Leo Villareal

SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Museum of Art presents the first-ever museum survey of the work of the prominent sculptor Leo Villareal, a pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven imagery. Leo Villareal, on view at SJMA from August 21, 2010, through January 9, 2011, features approximately 20 sculptures and expansive installations by Villareal on loan from public and private collections, as well as video documentation of his architectural, site-specific works. The exhibition traces the artist’s work over [...]

The Whitney to Present Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time

NEW YORK, NY.- As American artists rebelled against the academic art and aristocratic portraiture that predominated at the turn of the twentieth century, they began looking to modern life for their subject matter. One of central figures in this dramatic shift was Edward Hopper, whose work is exhibited in relation to his most important contemporaries in Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on October 28, 2010. Placing Hopper beside such artists [...]

Asian Art Dealers New York Announce Exciting Fall Schedule of Exhibitions

NEW YORK, NY.- Fourteen members of the Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) will present an exciting Fall schedule of exhibitions, focusing on a wide range of subject matter, throughout the month of September. The specialists in Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian works of art include: Art of the Past, Leiko Coyle, Arnold Lieberman, Kapoor Galleries, Theresa McCullough, Nancy Wiener, and Doris Wiener. Chinese art, ancient through contemporary, will be shown at the Ralph M. Chait Galleries, China 2000 Fine [...]

Eli Broad Picks Downtown Los Angeles Site for Art Museum to Showcase His Collection

LOS ANGELES (AP).- Billionaire Eli Broad said Monday he had chosen an expanding downtown cultural district for a new museum to showcase his collection of art that includes works by Salvador Dali and Joan Miro. The developer-turned-philanthropist made his announcement minutes after a committee of state and local officials voted to let him lease county-owned land along Grand Avenue for the structure that could cost as much as $100 million. The 35,000 square feet of gallery space will feature paintings, [...]

Trial Date Set in Associated Press-Shepard Fairey Dispute in NYC

NEW YORK (AP).- A March trial date was set Monday to decide whether the artist who created the Barack Obama “HOPE” image violated The Associated Press’ copyright when he based the image on one of the news agency’s pictures. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said Monday that the selection of eight jurors for a three-week trial will start March 21 in New York. Artist Shepard Fairey appeared in court with his lawyers Monday but declined to comment afterward. Fairey [...]

Large Scale Etchings by Richard Serra at Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie

ZURICH.- On Thursday, 26 August 2010, the art galleries to the left of the river Limmat celebrate the opening of the season with big names and big works. Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie start off with the American artist Richard Serra (b. 1939 San Francisco). In the rooms of g27, six large-format prints from a rarely available edition will be presented to a Zurich audience for the first time. Though his prints are less well known than his steel sculptures, [...]