Lehman Eyes $10 Million at Sotheby’s Modern Art Auction

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Bankrupt financial group Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is selling off part of its art collection, including works by Gerhard Richter and Maya Lin, in the hopes of returning millions to creditors. Despite a lukewarm modern art market, Sotheby’s estimates the auction of 160 works in New York on Saturday will yield $10 million. Proceeds of the sale will be used to pay creditors owed hundreds of billions following its 2008 bankruptcy, the largest ever in the United [...]

Portraits by Odwin Rensen

Odwin Rensen, a young Dutchman who offers us his digital masterpieces created as supreme artistic works. Inspired by the old, classical painters, he offers something new, different, modern …He is certainly one of the most important representatives of this era, the era of great progress and development of technology. Portraits of children, celebrities and ordinary people, illustrations of animals, game of lights and shadow, shades, textures…

Aperture Publishes “Kodachromes: Photographs by William Christenberry”

NEW YORK, NY.- Although best known for his large-format color photographs made with vintage Kodak Brownie cameras, William Christenberry has also consistently produced work with 35 mm Kodachrome slide film ever since he took up photography. William Christenberry: Kodachromes (Aperture, October 2010) is the first publication to showcase this stunning and previously unknown body of work, spanning from 1964 to 2007, of which only a small number of images have ever been published or exhibited. William Christenberry, all, memphis, tennessee, [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell Paintings Depicting Tipu Sultan’s Victory Over the British at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that on the 230th anniversary of the renowned Battle of Pollilur in India, which took place on 10th September 1780, Sotheby’s London, in its biannual Arts of the Islamic World Sale on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, will offer for sale 24 rare and rediscovered preparatory paintings depicting the conflict. The paintings, which have remained in private hands since 1802 and were last exhibited in the 1990 Tigers round the Throne, The Court of Tipu Sultan exhibition at [...]

Americana Sale at Sotheby’s Features the Collection of Frank and June Barsalona

NEW YORK, NY.- On 30 September, Sotheby’s will hold an auction of Important Americana including furniture, folk art and silver. The sale features the Collection of Frank and June Barsalona, a superb group of American folk art including paintings, weathervanes, furniture and other decorative objects. The sale will be on exhibition at Sotheby’s New York galleries from 25 – 29 September, and is estimated at $3,805,000 – 7,568,100. The Collection of Frank and June Barsalona The Collection of Frank and [...]

Photographer Mario Testino Exhibits His Works at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

MADRID.- From 21 September the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting for the first time in Spain the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The exhibition Todo o Nada brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts to be found in his work, fashion and the nude. These concepts are present both in his better known activities as a fashion photographer, including the images that he has created for Vogue, Vanity Fair, V Magazine, Allure and The Face, as [...]

125 YouTube Videos Shortlisted for Guggenheim’s YouTube Play

NEW YORK (AP).- Among the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, surely a work of art is in there somewhere. Such is the premise behind “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the first curated search for videos of a higher brow on the popular Google Inc.-owned website. From among more than 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, 125 videos were shortlisted for the inaugural biennial. A curatorial team from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York [...]

Get It Louder: China’s Most Influential and Closely-Watched Exhibition of Emerging, Young Talent

BEIJING.- Launched in 2005, Get It Louder is China’s most influential and closely-watched exhibition of emerging, young talent across creative disciplines. Following the 2005 and 2007 editions, this year’s multi-venue event will bring together more than 100 of the most promising Chinese and international participants from fields spanning art and design to music, film and, for the first time, literature. 2010 Get It Louder opens in Beijing on September 19 (through October 10), before traveling to Shanghai (October 22-November 7). [...]

Museum of Fine Arts Receives $10 Million Gift from Bank of America

BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announces today that it has received a commitment of $10 million from Bank of America, a longtime supporter of the MFA and one of the world’s largest financial institutions. This donation comprises $5 million in funding and $5 million in gifts of art. The funding supports Museum exhibitions, programs, operating expenses, and capital improvements, in addition to special events surrounding the opening in November of the Museum’s new wing for the [...]

Christie’s New York Announces Highlights of Dennis Hopper Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s presents The Dennis Hopper Collection. A veritable master within a range of categories, Dennis Hopper was at once an artist, a filmmaker, an actor, and a passionate art collector. Amassing more than 250 works of art throughout his lifetime, Hopper’s collection includes prime examples of the world’s foremost Post-War & Contemporary artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner. Thirty-five works from The Dennis Hopper Collection will be offered at the [...]

New Exhibition Peels Back Layers of Georgia O’Keeffe

SANTA FE, NM (AP).- Beneath layers of paint, wrapped in bundles of brushes, hidden in sketch books and packed away among boxes of paints and pencils are clues that shed light on how Georgia O’Keeffe went about creating her colorful landscapes and iconic flower paintings. Like forensic investigators, curators at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe have spent months combing through their collection and now they’re ready to share the many bits of evidence they have collected as part [...]

Center for Cuban Studies Art Space Shows Rare Photographs

NEW YORK, NY.- Constantino Arias (1920‐1991) was a free‐lance photographer whose photos provide a rare and what is probably the most complete black and white picture of Havana society in the 1940s and 50s. On September 16, the Center for Cuban Studies opened a month‐long exhibit of 38 Arias images at 231 West 29th Street in Chelsea. Arias struggled to make a living in pre‐revolutionary Cuba where his only regular job was as house photographer for Havana’s Hotel Nacional from [...]

Archaeologists in Israel Find a 1,500 Year Old Samaritan Synagogue

JERUSALEM.- The remains of a synagogue and farmstead that operated in the Late Byzantine period, which were unknown until now, were exposed in an archaeological excavation conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and underwritten by the Ministry of Construction and Housing, prior to enlarging a residential quarter south of Bet Sheʽan, c. one half kilometer west of the Jordan Valley highway (Route 90). According to Dr. Walid Atrash and Mr. Ya’aqov Harel, directors of the excavation for the [...]

NYC Artist Carrie Sunday Donates Major Artwork to Animal Shelter Benefit Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Carrie Sunday, a dynamic young star on New York’s art scene, has created a buzz practically from day one with her colorful abstract works created from paint chip samples and glue. Strikingly original with their manipulated bas-relief shapes enhanced with painted and razored numbers, letters, tactile Braille dots and whatever else strikes the artist’s fancy, Sunday’s works ordinarily are available through only two sources: her permanent installation at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York; or the Scape Gallery [...]

Korean Pop Art Explosion at SBin Art Plus

Singapore – Riding on the wave of rising interest in Korean Art, a K Pop-Art explosion will hit SBin Art Plus this October. Korean Pop Art will feature the works of 6 Korean contemporary artists in a myriad of art mediums that show the creative depth of expressions of each artist. The line-up includes Bahk Seon Ghi, Goh Geun Ho, Lee Jae Hoon, Lee Jae Sam, Lee Sung O and Park Insane each of whom has enjoyed international success having [...]