School of Paris Leads Bi-Coastal Sale of Modern and Contemporary Arts at Bonhams

NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announced the November 9, 2010 bi-coastal auction of Modern and Contemporary Art. Held in New York and simulcast to Los Angeles, the sale features significant examples paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries by artists such as Bernard Buffet, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Fernand Léger, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Tom Wesselmann, Aaron Young, and Rachel Howard. Also featured is a Property from the Estates of Molly and Leon Lyon, Daniel Melnick, Myriam Schasseur and [...]

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 at the Royal Academy of Arts

LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first exhibition in London for over 40 years to celebrate the achievement of the Glasgow Boys, the loosely knit group of young painters who created a stir at home and abroad in the final decades of the nineteenth century. The exhibition will feature over 80 oil paintings, watercolours and pastels from public and private collections by such artists as Guthrie, Lavery, Melville, Crawhall, Walton, Henry and Hornel. Together they presented a new art, which [...]

A New Public Gallery: The Royal Parks and the Serpentine Gallery Agree to New Venue

LONDON.- The Royal Parks, as part of an initiative to make better use of its buildings, has awarded a contract to theSerpentine Gallery to establish a new gallery in The Magazine building in Kensington Gardens. The Grade II listed building is situated on West Carriage Drive, on the north side of the Serpentine Bridge.  The project, to be known as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, has been made possible by The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation which has given the largest single [...]

Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection on View in Valencia

VALENCIA.- The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary works on paper. Through a selection of more than three hundred works, this first comprehensive presentation of the gift surveys the various methods and materials within the styles of gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, and systems-based and conceptual drawings. The exhibition at IVAM brings together historical works by Lee Bontecou and Joseph Beuys; Minimalist and Conceptual [...]

Tel Aviv Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings Presents Cabinet Secrets: Prints by Jim Dine

TEL AVIV.- The scope of Jim Dine’s extended work in print attests to the pivotal place of this medium in his oeuvre at large. The concentration on the medium’s unique qualities, the attentiveness to the options revealed during the work process, the centrality of workshop practice—all these characterize Dine as a quintessential print artist.  Dine took up printmaking in the early 1960s. He was not drawn to screenprint and the photo-mechanical techniques, with their anonymous pop art look. From the very [...]

Carsten Höller Develops New Work “Reindeer Red-Green” for Ernst Schering Foundation

BERLIN.- Carsten Höller’s exhibition “Rentier im Zöllnerstreifenwald,” on display at the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, is a cooperation with the Berlin National Gallery. In the context of his extensive solo exhibition, SOMA, at the National Gallery’s Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, the artist developed his new work Rentier rot-grün (Reindeer red-green) for the Ernst Schering Foundation, continuing his artistic exploration of the phi-phenomenon, which he began in 2001.  The phi-phenomenon was first described by Gestalt psychologist [...]

Fortnight of Sales at Christie’s Expected to Yield a Combined Total in Excess of $500 Million

NEW YORK, NY.- This November, Christie’s presents a spectacular line-up of fine art auctions, featuring the best examples of Impressionist & Modern and Post-War & Contemporary Art available on the auction market. Over the course of a fortnight, Christie’s will offer over 850 works of art, beginning with its major Evening Sale of 85 works of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 3 and continuing with its Works on Paper and Day sales on November 4. The following Wednesday, November 10, Christie’s will [...]

Iconic Cycladic Marble Reclining Female Figure to Be Offered for the First Time Ever at Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of a Cycladic marble reclining female figure, the most important Cycladic idol ever to come to auction on December 9. Estimated at $3-5 million, the folded-arm female figure is one of the most iconic sculptural types to have survived from antiquity.  A Cycladic marble reclining female figure. Name-piece of the Schuster Master, Early Cycladic II, circa 2400 B.C. 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm) high. Estimate: $3-5 million. Photo: Christie´s Images Ltd 2010 To date, there [...]

From Panini to Zandomeneghi in the Milan Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Sales

MILAN.- 82 lots devoted to Old Master works on sale at Sotheby’s Milan on 16th November 2010.  The selection shows among first lots a big oil on canvas of the Florentine painter Matteo Rosselli which figures the Sacrificio di Isacco.  Rosselli during his youth was the right hand of the Tuscan Gregorio Pagani, of the Mannerism School; the painting is estimated 80/120.000 euro.  Cristo davanti a Pilato is the subject of the work by Leonello Spada, the artist from Bologna had spent sometime [...]

Antik A.S. Auction in Istanbul Features Masterpieces from Modern Turkish Art

ISTANBUL.- On 7 November, The leading Turkish auction house, Antik A.S. will offer masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art. The sale consisting of selected 180 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. galleries during the dates 27 October – 7 November.  Olgac Artam, auctioneer of the sale, said “the sale is giving art lovers an opportunity to own extraordinary masterpieces that were hitherto only [...]

Major Exhibition of Video-Animation, Painting, and Sculpture by Federico Solmi at Conner Contemporary

WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art presents “Douche Bag City”, a major exhibition of video-animation, painting, and sculpture by Federico Solmi. Solmi shocked Europe last year by exhibiting “The Evil Empire” (2008), the video portrait of a future Pope whose violent sex addiction leads to widespread ruin. Because of the work’s controversial content, the video was censored in France and Spain. Solmi, who lives in New York, was put on trial in his native Italy for obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion. Later [...]

Drift 10: London’s Biennial Art Exhibition to Transform the River Thames

LONDON.- A stretch of the Thames in central London and Canary Wharf is set to be transformed this winter by a series of contemporary art works placed directly in the water and along its banks.  Now in its second year, the groundbreaking art show, DRIFT, gets fully underway on Thursday, 4 November, and continues into early January next year.  Canary Wharf by Julius Popp Staged by leading London arts company, ILLUMINATE PRODUCTIONS, the installations include breathtaking waterfalls at two locations on the [...]

Exhibition of Photographs by William Eggleston at Edward Cella Art + Architecture

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents an exhibition of photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston. Entitled William Eggleston: American Photographer, the exhibition presents a rich offering of unique and historic prints dating from 1965 through 1985 including several of Eggleston’s most iconic images. Designed to present insights into the photographer’s working methods and philosophy, the exhibition is especially timely as it runs concurrently with William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 presented by the Los Angeles County Museum [...]

SFMOMA to Present Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and The Camera Since 1870

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From October 30, 2010, through April 17, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art(SFMOMA) will present the U.S. debut of a major survey that examines photography’s role in invasive looking. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 is co-organized by SFMOMA and Tate Modern, and gathers more than 200 pictures that together form a timely inquiry into the ways in which artists and everyday people alike have probed the camera’s powerful voyeuristic capacity.  Works by major artists, [...]

Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery Exhibit at Borusan Müzik Evi

ISTANBUL.- Lehmann Maupin present Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, on view at Borusan Müzik Evi in Istanbul, Turkey, 27 October – 20 November 2010. Five in Istanbul, Lehmann Maupin’s debut exhibition in Turkey, curated by Isabella Icoz, features works by a selection of Lehmann Maupin’s internationally acclaimed artists including Hernan Bas, Teresita Fernández, Tracey Emin, Tony Oursler, and Jennifer Steinkamp.  The Miami-based artist Hernan Bas explores the codes of dandyism and its subculture as a means [...]