Kristina Wilson is Awarded the 23nd Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book “The Modern Eye”

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kristina Wilson for her book The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA and the Art of Exhibition, 1925-1934 (Yale University Press, 2009). It is recognized as a “new and excellent interpretation of the success of modern art in America.” “I am delighted that the jurors have chosen to honor Kristina Wilson, whose examination of exhibitions in the 1920s and 1930s [...]

A Superb Selection of Important Antiques to Be Presented at the Newport Antiques Show

NEWPORT, RI.- The Newport Antiques Show celebrates its fifth year at St. George’s School in Middletown, RI, August 12 through August 14, 2011. One of the nation’s premier antiques venues, the annual show presents a superb selection of important antiques. William Vareika Fine Arts, Ltd. returns as Presenting Sponsor, and Preview Party Sponsor Brown Brothers Harriman of Boston returns for a second year. Forty-two of the country’s top dealers will present paintings, furniture, folk art, jewelry, and fine and decorative [...]

Marvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel at the Legion of Honor

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- First unearthed in 1996 in a rescue excavation in Lod, ancient Diospolis, Israel, a large and extraordinarily detailed floor mosaic was recently lifted from its site and conserved. Found in a large villa believed to belong to a wealthy Roman, the exquisitely preserved floor dates to about AD 300. This glorious mosaic is in the United States for a limited time before it returns to Israel to become the focus of the Shelby White and Leon Levy [...]

Exhibition ‘The Dutch East Indies at Home’ Opens at Amsterdam’s Museum Geelvinck

AMSTERDAM.- Amsterdam’s Museum Geelvinck presents the third exhibition in the series Asia from the Heart. ‘The Dutch East Indies at Home – traces of a colonial past’ will run from April 21 to October 10, 2011. The exhibition focuses on those traces of the former Dutch East Indies colony, which still linger in Dutch homes; remnants discernible in many aspects of Dutch culture. This exhibition consists for a large part of objects kindly provided on loan from the private collections of [...]

Major Pieces from the Hotz Collection of African Art to Be Sold at Christie’s in Paris

PARIS.- Christie’s African Art department announced the sale of major pieces from the Dennis Hotz Collection. The 25 works of art are expected to fetch together between € 1.5 and 2.2 million euros. Amongst the highlights, the collection includes the iconic Ratton Kota-Ndassa figure, a Dan mask formerly in the collection of Hubert Goldet, a Songye Kifwebe mask, a Dogon female figure, of the Tomo-ka style, formerly in the Solvit Collection (published Leloup, Dogon [1994]). Over the past 30 years [...]

Moments of Our Time: Photography that Define Modern History at Atlas Gallery

LONDON.- As a sequel to the gallery’s exhibition of May 2010, ‘Faces of our Times’, Atlas presents an exhibition of rare photographs capturing key historical events of the last one hundred years. Many of the photographs featured in this exhibition not only moved the public at the time of their publication, and continue to have an impact today, but set social and political changes in motion, transforming the way we live and think. These photographs have become icons of photojournalism. Among [...]

Exhibition of Works by Jean Arp and Constantin Brancusi at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting Arp/Brancusi, an exhibition of sculpture and painted relief works on view at 1018 Madison Avenue, New York, March 29 – May 6, 2011. The exhibition includes a focused selection of works by Arp along with two small sculptures by Brancusi, offering a rare opportunity to view these two 20th Century masters side by side. Sculptures in wood, bronze and marble spanning a 50-year period are exhibited. The Arp Stiftung, Germany, and museums [...]

Jeu de Paume Organizes Jessica Warboys Exhibition “À l’étage” at Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz

PARIS.- Mountain, sun, galaxy, people from the past, poetry; are all collaborators. Shadows and curtains are characters. Heart has language; rhythm moves ink. Something is certain; something is deeply precarious. Imagine this coming together to form a story, and you will enter the practice of Jessica Warboys. Capturing the movements of elemental cycles, painting and performance are intertwined with an aspect of the “artiste en plein air”. For example, in realising her large format canvases, Jessica has been collaborating with [...]

Exhibition of New Paintings by New York City Artist Kay WalkingStick at the June Kelly Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Living in the City, Painting in the Wild, an exhibition of new paintings by Kay WalkingStick – haunting yet alluring landscapes that represent a significant departure from the mystical mountains, abstract shapes and patterns of her earlier work — opened at the June Kelly Gallery. The exhibition will remain on view through May 7. WalkingStick shows us in the new works how she relates abstraction to the more literal and how both depict a poignant and poetic sense [...]

Phillips de Pury & Co. Announces Highlights from New York Contemporary May Sales

NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced the highlights from the May Contemporary Art Part I and Contemporary Art Part II sales. The sales will feature important and iconic modern and contemporary works. Contemporary Art Part I includes 51 lots with a pre-sale estimate of $84,970,000 to $120,500,000. Contemporary Art Part II includes 308 lots with a pre-sale estimate of $8,467,000 to $12,153,000. Contemporary Art Part I “The quality selection of the May auction reflects the discerning standards [...]

The Myth of Narcissus in Surrealist and Contemporary Art at the Fruitmarket Gallery

EDINBURGH.- Narcissus Reflected is the latest in The Fruitmarket Gallery‘s series of group exhibitions made by invited scholars, writers and artists. Its prime mover and chief curator is David Lomas, an academic and exhibition-maker known for his work in the fields of surrealism and contemporary art. Artists in the exhibition include: Cecil Beaton, Bill Brandt, Claude Cahun, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, Charles Henri Ford, Florence Henri, Jess, Yayoi Kusama, George Minne, Pierre Molinier, George Platt Lynes, Willard Maas, Paul Nash and [...]

Torn Pieces of Ancient Chinese Painting Reunited at Taiwan National Palace Museum

TAIPEI, TAIWAN (AP).- Two pieces of a torn 660-year-old Chinese painting held by Taiwan and mainland China will be reunited for the first time in centuries at an exhibit at Taiwan’s national museum, in a sign of warming ties between the rivals. The main portion of “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” by revered Chinese landscape painter Huang Gongwang has been stored in Taipei’s Palace Museum since 1949, when the two sides separated during a civil war. The other part of the [...]

“Beautiful Darling”: Documentary Focuses on One of the Stars of Andy Warhol’s Factory

NEW YORK, NY.- Corinth Releasing presents the U.S. theatrical premiere and nationwide theatrical distribution of “Beautiful Darling”. After its World Premiere at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, and its U.S. Premiere in New York City at the prestigious New Directors/New Films, the film has continued to win accolades from audiences and critics at dozens of festivals and museum screenings around the world. It has also garnered first place wins at the 2010 Chicago International Festival and the Montenegro International Documentary [...]

Major Piece of Central Polynesian Art, the Very Rare Ohly Figure, to Be Sold by Christie’s

PARIS.- Christie’s African and Oceanic Art department announce the sale of a major piece of Central Polynesian art originating within the triangle formed by the Society, the Austral and the Cook Islands. The very rare Ohly figure is estimated between 600,000 and 800,000 euros. There is a small corpus of extant wood carvings from Central Polynesia which continue to be an intriguing enigma. We understand today that Polynesian figurative carving, in essence, are metaphors for human ancestry and origin. However, [...]

Previously Unseen Portraits of Susan Boyle and Tony Blair Go on Display at National Portrait Gallery

LONDON.- Previously unreleased portraits of singer Susan Boyle, former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and art historian and museum director Sir Roy Strong, form part of a new display at the National Portrait Gallery. The display highlights 16 portraits recently acquired for the Gallery’s Collection by acclaimed photographer John Swannell. The portraits on display range from previously unseen photographs taken in the last year, to portraits taken at the start of his career in the early 1970s. The display, Now and Then: [...]