Sotheby’s Announces Sale of Works from the Collection of Eurythmics Legend Dave Stewart

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale a group of works by Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George and Angus Fairhurst from the collection of Eurythmics legend, Grammy and BRIT Award winning musician, songwriter, record producer, and a friend of Damien Hirst, Dave Stewart. The offering of seven artworks, which combined are estimated to realise in excess of £1.3 million, will be included for sale in the forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening and Day Auctions on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 [...]

Portrait of Blondie Bombshell Debbie Harry to Star in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction

LONDON.- Blondie’s Lead Singer Debbie Harry by Andy Warhol to spearhead Sotheby’s forthcoming Contemporary Art Auction this June. The artist’s 1980 acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas of Debbie Harry, the renowned lead singer of the new wave and punk rock band Blondie, is estimated at £3.5-5.5 million and will be offered for sale on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, coinciding with the release of Blondie’s new album Panic of Girls. This iconic work comes from a private European collection. Commenting [...]

Christie’s Sets Ilya Repin Record at the Start of Russian Art Week Sales in London

LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s claimed a new auction record for Russian artist Ilya Repin on Monday when his 1875 canvas “A Parisian Cafe” fetched 4.5 million pounds at the start of Russian art week in London. The large-scale canvas, depicting a bustling cafe crowded with well-heeled customers, had been expected to fetch 3-5 million pounds and fetched one of the highest prices of any painting at a specialist Russian sale. President of Christie’s Europe Jussi Pylkkanen delivers a speech beside a [...]

Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg Explores J.M.W. Turner as a Painter of Elements

HAMBURG.- JMW Turner was known to his contemporaries as a painter of the elements. In his landscape paintings, he created new and unusual combinations of earth, water, air and fire and closely examined their interactions. Turner’s vision of the elements as a singular power fused together by the forces of nature was linked to contemporary research in the natural sciences. New discoveries and insights replaced the traditional teachings of the four classical elements and freed them to be used by [...]

Canadian Artist Kathleen Munn Receives Homecoming Exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario

TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) opened a unique exhibition featuring Canadian artist Kathleen Munn, on view until August 28. The Passion of Kathleen Munn features nearly 40 works by Munn, including her highly regarded Passion Series drawings, as well as paintings and prints. In addition, the exhibition is supported by archival material from the AGO’s collection, including sketches, notebooks, diagrams, collages and a custom-made light box. Born in 1887 in Toronto, Kathleen Munn was one of the first [...]

Edward Cella Art + Architecture Shows a Solo Exhibition by Contemporary Artist Brad Miller

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture is presenting a solo exhibition of a trilogy of new works by contemporary artist and sculptor Brad Miller. Using the elements of clay, wood and fire, Miller creates three interconnected yet discrete bodies of work that suggest the life generating systems found in nature. His installation of branching porcelain sculptures, burned wood panels inscribed with bisymmetric forms, and carved clay vessels evoke the cellular patterns that are the very genesis of life. [...]

First Major Exhibition of the Work of Canadian Artist Evan Penny Opens at Kunsthalle Tübingen

TUEBINGEN.- Evan Penny’s sculptures portray human bodies in their true colors and down to the last hair, with all of their wrinkles and characteristic features. His figures, to which he skillfully applies layers of silicone and pigments and implants with real hair, have an extremely sensuous presence. And yet their artificiality is obvious. Alienation techniques such as compressions, stretching, distortions, or color errors cause them to be reminiscent of features of photography, television, or digital image editing. What evolves are [...]

Mike and Doug Starn’s Big Bambú on View in the Courtyard of Casa Artom on the Grand Canal

VENICE.- Mike and Doug Starn‘s Big Bambú is being presented as an official collateral exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale, a special project of GLASSTRESS. The first exhibition of the Starns’ Big Bambú series was on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last year and ranked 4th in the world for total attendance of a contemporary art exhibition in 2010 and was the 9th highest attended exhibit in the entire history of the Metropolitan. Big [...]

Exceptional Complete Prints Portfolio, Unité, by Le Corbusier Offered for Sale on artnet

NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions is pleased to announce an offering of Le Corbusier’s complete prints portfolio, Unité, 1953 (with additional black and white set) from the collection of renowned architect Mohinda N. Kawlra. Only the first 30 prints portfolios of this edition of 130 contain the full 37 prints—17 color prints and 20 black and white prints on Rives BFK paper. This Le Corbusier prints portfolio offered on artnet Auctions is part of these complete sets, which rarely appear [...]

ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia

VENICE.- ArtSway, the innovative contemporary art gallery based in England’s New Forest, in collaboration with the Arts University College at Bournemouth, presents the fourth iteration of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion. Featuring a number of new commissions, each artist explores, in different approaches, ideas relating to nationhood, ecology and landscape as seen within a modern global context. Gayle Chong Kwan, Tait Tower (The Obsidian Isle series), 2011. C-type photographic print, 183 cm x 132 cm. Courtesy of: Gayle Chong Kwan & [...]

Julian Schnabel: Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of Seeing at the Museo Correr

VENICE.- The Museo Correr in Venice presents a major exhibition dedicated to Julian Schnabel, the famed New York artist and eclectic creative spirit. The exhibition is on view from 4 June to 27 November 2011. The show “Julian Schnabel. Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of seeing” is produced and organised by Arthemisia Group in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and staged thanks to the key contribution of Maybach, the event’s main sponsor, and BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas. Curated [...]

LACMA Presents Groundbreaking International Exhibition of Islamic Art, Gifts of the Sultan

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, a major international loan exhibition, which explores Islamic art through the universal tradition of gift giving. Many of the most spectacular and historically significant examples of Islamic art can be classified as gifts, a number of which have been brought together for the unique purpose of this exhibition to demonstrate the integral and complex nature of [...]

Britain Unveils Historic and Hip Government Art in Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery

LONDON (REUTERS).- Lowry’s lonely people, Tracey Emin’s scrawlings and a mysterious portrait of Elizabeth I are just a few of the gems from the British government’s art collection unveiled to the public for the first time this week. The exhibition, at London’s Whitechapel Gallery and picked by top government officials old and new from offices scattered across the globe, brings together a mix from five centuries of art and diplomacy. L.S. Lowry’s masterpiece ‘Lancashire Fair: Good Friday, Daisy Nook’, chosen [...]

Rare Tapestry to Highlight Pablo Picasso Editions Auction at Bonhams in Knightsbridge

LONDON.- Bonhams announces that the 2011 sale of Picasso Editions featuring prints, ceramics and tapestries by the famed master will take place on Tuesday 27th September in the company’s Knightsbridge auction rooms. One of the current highlights of the sale is Le Baiser, a large wool tapestry estimated to fetch £6,000-8,000. It was executed in an edition of just 20 in 1979-80 by Marigold Enterprises Ltd. Picasso, along with Leger, Miro and Dufy, was among the first modern artists to [...]

Marilyn Monroe’s 85th Birthday Celebrated at Hotel with Rare Photos by Murray Garrett

NEW YORK, NY.- On Wednesday, June 1st, what would have been screen goddess Marilyn Monroe’s 85th birthday, the Washington Square Hotel showcased an exhibition of rare, never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe from the personal archives of legendary Hollywood photographer Murray Garrett. Murray Garrett was one of Hollywood’s most sought-after photographers from the early 1950′s to the late 1970′s, the “go-to” photographer for stars, movie studios and personal publicists. Garrett filled a very special niche — covering personal, off-screen events, both [...]