Sotheby’s to Offer a Selection of Magnificent Imperial Porcelain from ‘The Meiyintang Collection’

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’’s announced that it will offer in Hong Kong on the 7th April 2011 selections from one of the grandest collections of Chinese Art formed in the last century, The Meiyintang Collection. Assembled over a period of more than 50 years, The Meiyintang Collection is world-renowned for having brought together magnificent examples of Imperial Porcelain and the sale will bring to market iconic pieces from each of the main reigns from the 14th to the 18th centuries. A [...]

Vettriano Self-Portrait to Go on Show in New Scottish National Portrait Gallery

EDINBURGH.- A self-portrait by Jack Vettriano will go on show in the new Scottish National Portrait Gallery when it reopens in the autumn of 2011. Jack Vettriano’s painting, The Weight, which has been offered on long-term loan to the national collection from a UK private collector, will be included within the opening displays. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery will reopen in November after a £17.6 million capital project to renovate and rejuvenate the building. James Holloway, Director of the SNPG [...]

New Museum to Spotlight Four Decades of Works by Lynda Benglis in Major Retrospective

NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum presents a major exhibition of works by Lynda Benglis, the renowned American artist’s first museum retrospective in over twenty years. Benglis is an artist whose work continues to challenge artistic norms and exceed easy definition. Initially developed in the 1960s, her singular practice did not fit clearly within the sharp aesthetics of Minimalism or in the overtly political gestures of feminist art. Unlike Minimalist sculpture, Benglis’s works are steeped in the organic, with rivers [...]

Recent Paintings by Artist Laurie Fendrich at Gary Snyder Project Space in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Gary Snyder Project Space presents the exhibition, Laurie Fendrich: Recent Paintings, opening February 10th, 2011, and continuing through April 2nd, 2011. Fendrich’s work is the subject of a retrospective exhibition, Sense and Sensation: Laurie Fendrich, Paintings and Drawings 1990-2010, which was organized and presented by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, in Claremont, CA, October – December, 2010. The exhibition—which will travel to the Montana Museum of Art and Culture at The University of Montana [...]

Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali Works Boost Bumper Sotheby’s “Looking Closely” Sale

LONDON.- A triptych of British painter Lucian Freud by his friend Francis Bacon fetched 23 million pounds ($37 million) on Thursday at a Sotheby’s auction in London, more than double its high estimate. Combined with a new auction record for any surrealist work of art — Salvador Dali’s “Portrait de Paul Eluard” sold for 13.5 million pounds — the sale of works from a private collection titled “Looking Closely” raised 93.5 million pounds. Artist Francis Bacon’s oil on canvas “Studies [...]

Fashion Photography by Justin Maller

Justin Maller is a freelance illustrator and art director based in Melbourne, Australia. He has been creating digital art for over eight years, and has produced professionally in both a private and studio based capacity for the last three. He is represented by Jeremy Wortsman of the Jacky Winter Group. Justin has had the pleasure of producing illustrations and concept art for a diverse array of companies and publications worldwide, and enjoys a cordial collaborative relationship with several prestigious international [...]

Louise Nevelson Work of Art Cleaned in Nelson-Atkins Gallery While Visitors Watch

KANSAS CITY, MO.- It’s not often that museum visitors actually see a pair of hands working on a work of art, but that’s what will be on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art beginning Feb. 9 through Feb. 25. Louise Nevelson’s End of Day Nightscape IV will receive a thorough cleaning, paint consolidation and replacement of lost paint in the gallery in the Bloch Building, and visitors can watch the careful process. “This work is always done behind the scenes,” [...]

Henrik Olesen Presents New Works at MoMA for His First U.S. Solo Museum Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- For Projects 94: Henrik Olesen, on view February 9 through May 23, 2011, The Museum of Modern Artpresents new works by Berlin-based artist Henrik Olesen (Danish, b. 1967) made specifically for this presentation. Olesen’s past projects have addressed a range of subjects, including legal codes, the natural sciences, distribution of capital, and art history. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the artist has gathered disassembled electronic devices mounted on large Plexiglas panels, found-object sculptures, [...]

The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Opens at Brown University

PROVIDENCE, RI.- Brown University will officially open the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Feb. 10, 2011. The interdisciplinary arts center will foster innovation, research, collaboration, creativity, and education among the arts, humanities, and sciences and will be a focal point of the University’s College Hill campus. The 38,815-square-foot, three-story building is designed by the New York-based architecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The $40-million Granoff Center is a revolutionary new building dedicated to encouraging faculty and [...]

Paris to Be Sotheby’s European Centre for Decorative Art and Photographs Sales

PARIS.- Sotheby’s announced that Paris will become the company’s European centre for sales of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design and Photographs. Biannual sales in each category will be held at the Galerie Charpentier in May and November. From 2011, 20th Century Decorative Art & Design sales will be held exclusively in Paris. Cécile Verdier, European director of the 20th Century Decorative Art & Design department, will head sales and manage a European team of specialists. Hajek-Halke, Die Prinzessin der [...]

Thousands of Historical Mexican Photographs Now Part of an Electronic Catalogue

MEXICO CITY.- More than half of the 900,000 historical images safeguarded by the INAH National Photographic Library are available to general public worldwide thanks to a new electronic catalogue available on the Internet. Images from the most important Mexican photographic collections can be consulted and acquired without having to travel to the facilities at Pachuca, Hidalgo. After several months of hard work creating the catalogue cards, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) integrated the virtual catalogue available at http://fototeca.inah.gob.mx [...]

Sotheby’s to Auction 106 Monumental Early Works by Contemporary Chinese Artists

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong announces the sale of an important private collection of contemporary Chinese Art on 3 April: The Ullens Collection – The Nascence of Avant Garde China, offering 106 masterpieces from the legendary Collection, which are expected to bring a total of HK$100 million to HK$130 million / US$12.7 million to 16.7 million. One of the most important and comprehensive assemblages of contemporary Chinese art created to date, this encyclopaedic Collection signifies not only the birth and [...]

Exhibition at Fundació Suñol of 27 Works, Dating from 1924-1998, Reflect the Visions of 18 Artists

BARCELONA.- The Fundació Suñol has put together an exhibition of 27 pieces from the Josep Suñol Collection to help expand visitors’ knowledge of 20th-century art. It comprises work by 18 artists who played a key role in the field of visual arts in recent years, marked by a shift away from previous conventions of representation. The 27 pieces – which date from 1924 to 1998 – reflect the visions of 18 artists who use different interpretations, intensities and media to [...]

A New Antony Gormley Sculpture “Transport” Unveiled at Canterbury Cathedral

KENT.- TRANSPORT a new sculpture created by the artist Antony Gormley was unveiled at Canterbury Cathedral. Antony Gormley is credited with a radical re-investigation of the body as a zone of memory and transformation. The two metre long work uses hand made antique iron nails from the Cathedral’s repaired south east transept roof to construct a delicate filter-like membrane outlining the space of a floating body. The membrane is pierced with nails passing through it from inside to outside and vice [...]

Paul Gauguin’s “Nature Morte a ‘L’Esperance,” Fails to Sell at Christie’s Auction in London

LONDON (REUTERS).- A painting by Paul Gauguin, billed as the top lot at Christie’s auction of modern and impressionist works in London, failed to find a buyer on Wednesday. The tribute to the artist’s friend Vincent Van Gogh, in the form of a still life with sunflowers called “Nature morte a ‘L’Esperance,” had been expected to fetch up to 10 million pounds ($16 million). A Christie’s employee poses with Paul Gauguin’s “Nature morte a ‘L’esperence’” at Christie’s auction house in London [...]