A Selection of Works from the 1960s and 70s by American Artist Michael Heizer at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents a selection of works from the 1960s and 70s by American artist Michael Heizer (b. 1944) at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space.  As a pioneer of the 1960s Land Art movement, Heizer has created a prolific and ambitious practice encompassing painting, sculpture, and large-scale earthworks. His paintings and sculptures, which he has produced intermittently throughout his career—manifest many of the ideas explored in his monumental works—which use land as a material form. Bringing together [...]

A New Auction Record for Amedeo Modigliani at Sotheby’s Evening Sale in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art is currently underway in New York and a number of exceptional prices have already been achieved:  · A new auction record for Amedeo Modigliani was set tonight when the artist’s iconic Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine) sold for a remarkable $68,962,500. Five different bidders competed for the stunning nude, driving the price well past the more than $40 million* that had been expected. La Belle <Romaine is from [...]

Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin’s Premier Contemporary Art Center, Reopened to the Public

AUSTIN, TX.- Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin’s premier contemporary art center, reopened to the public October 24, 2010, after an extensive renovation and expansion project designed by award-winning New York architectural firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects.  Exhibitions for the reopening include commissions of new work by Jason Middlebrook, Tony Feher, and Ryan Hennessee, along with solo presentations of work by Mequitta Ahuja, Cyprien Gaillard, and James Sham.  Arthouse’s new architecturally significant facility, along with its ambitious exhibitions and programming, position the contemporary art [...]

The Art Auction at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Raises $2.8 Million

CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, celebrated its highest grossing benefit event in the history of the museum at The Art Auction on Saturday, October 30, 2010, that raised $2,800,000 for MCA programming. The highest winning bid of the night was $640,000 for a new painting by Luc Tuymans, who currently has a feature exhibition on view at the MCA. The event took place at the MCA with the artwork hanging in the museum’s galleries. The 550 guests [...]

Norman Foster Designs Bodegas Portia: A New Winery for the Faustino Group

BURGOS.- Bodegas Portia is a new winery for the Faustino Group in the Ribera del Duero, one of Spain’s foremost wine-producing regions. The project is Foster + Partners first winery and was an opportunity to look afresh at the building type, using the natural topography of the site to aid the winemaking process and create the optimum working conditions, while reducing the building’s energy demands and its visual impact on the landscape.  The 12,500 square-metre facility has a production capacity of [...]

Portraits of First World War Veterans Presented to The Queen Go on Display at Windsor Castle

LONDON.- First World War veterans will be remembered at Windsor Castle in portraits by the artist Dan Llywelyn Hall. Two of the longest-surviving veterans, Henry Allingham (1896-2009) and Harry Patch (1898-2009), whose lives spanned three centuries and six monarchs, will be the subject of a small display in the Castle’s Drawings Gallery from 3 November (until 6 February 2011). The two studies for oil paintings and a limited-edition print will be shown alongside the poem Last Post by the Poet Laureate, [...]

The Remarkable Journey of the Stansted Park Suite to be Offered at Christie’s in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- On November 23, Christie’s 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, including Oriental Carpets will include pieces from the historic Stansted Park suite of giltwood seat furniture, comprising three pairs of armchairs and a settee (estimate: $70,000-110,000 per pair of chairs and $50,000-80,000 for the settee). This sale marks the third time that Christie’s will have offered the suite in the past 100 years since it left Stansted.  This elegant suite was almost certainly commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Halifax (the [...]

Exhibition at the British Museum Brings Ancient Book of the Dead to Life

LONDON (AP).- As self-help manuals go, the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead has certainly stood the test of time.  For centuries, the 3,500-year-old guidebook offered Egyptians a step-by-step guide to the journey from this life to the next. It remains famous, if poorly understood — a spooky collection of arcane symbols, crocodile-jawed monsters and jackal-headed gods.  A major new exhibition at the British Museum hopes to shed new light on the book, which was not a single volume, but a series [...]

A Collection of New Works by Pierre Marie Brisson at Franklin Bowles Galleries

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Franklin Bowles Galleries presents an important collection of new works by Pierre Marie Brisson. The idea for the show came about when André Liatard, the curator of the Musée Faure in Aix-les-Bains, France, asked Pierre Marie to select 20 pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection and do his own interpretation of them. The Musée Faure is considered to have one of the most important collections of Impressionist works outside of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The museum is the [...]

Wallpapers by Contemporary Artists and Designers at Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains

LAUSANNE.- The mudac and the Musée de Pully have joined forces to present an exceptional exhibition devoted to wallpapers by contemporary artists and designers. Redoubling the available display wall space, these two institutions invite viewers to make highly innovative discoveries among recent creations by today’s artists and designers. An ethereal scenographic frame devoid of all furnishings or additions to the wallpapers assigns its true status and function to the medium.  Over the last ten years, following upon wallpaper’s gradual loss of popularity in [...]

New Collectors from Russia, India, China and Hong Kong Invigorating Art Auctions

NEW YORK, NY.- Less than two years after a precipitous fall, the art market is flexing its muscles again, emboldened by recent auction records and an influx of determined international collectors rich with cash.  With two works breaking the $100 million mark this year, auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s have convinced such owners of rare and never-auctioned fine art as Steve Wynn that it is a good time to sell — and reap tremendous profits.  Hordes of wealthy new buyers, ready [...]

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Opens Nicky Nodjoumi’s Second Solo Show at the Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents Invitation to Change Your Metaphor, Nicky Nodjoumi’s second solo show at the gallery, an exhibition of paintings and drawings through the looking glass of Nodjoumi’s critical response to the political events in Iran, impacting the international community in the summer and fall of 2009. Nodjoumi conveys his personal discontent, deliberately and universally, enabling his audience to engage in a profoundly layered discourse beyond a specific historical context or location.  Divisions and lines through [...]

Recently Created Body of Work Titled “Year Two” by Fabian Miller at Danziger Projects

NEW YORK, NY.- Garry Fabian Miller was born in Bristol, England in 1957. His works are in the collections of major art museums internationally, and he is currently featured in the Victoria and Albert’s much anticipated show on contemporary cameraless photography, “Shadow Catchers” (along with Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Pierre Cordier, and Floris Neususs). One of Britain’s best known contemporary photographers, Fabian Miller’s work has been the subject of several monographs, including Illumine (2005), Year One (2007), and The Colour of [...]

The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875 at the National Gallery of Art

WASHINGTON, DC.- The first exhibition to explore the rich dialogue between Victorian-era British photography and Pre-Raphaelite painting showcases how these parallel artistic phenomena informed and inspired one another. The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875 includes some 100 photographs and 20 paintings and watercolors by leading artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. On view at theNational Gallery of Art, Washington, West Building, from October 31, 2010 through January 30, 2011, the [...]

LACMA Presents Most Comprehensive U.S. Retrospective of Photographer William Eggleston

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents William Eggleston: Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961–2008, the most comprehensive U.S. retrospective of the Memphis-based contemporary photographer. The exhibition traces the artist’s evolution over a five-decade-period and brings together more than 200 photographs, including his iconic images of familiar, everyday subjects in addition to lesser-known, early black-and-white prints and provocative video recordings. A key figure in American photography, Eggleston is credited with nearly single-handedly ushering in the era of color [...]