Comprehensive exhibition of photographs by Helmut Newton’s wife at Kestnergesellschaft

HANNOVER.- In a comprehensive show entitled »people«, the kestnergesellschaft presents around 150 works taken over the past 40 years by the photographer Alice Springs (b. 1923 in Melbourne, proper name June Newton, née June Brown). Using the pseudonym Alice Springs, Helmut Newton’s wife began to develop her own photographic oeuvre in 1970. Although international stars take centre stage in the kestnergesellschaft show, Alice Springs’ friends and acquaintances also feature centrally. The exhibition is a joint venture in conjunction with the Helmut Newton Foundation, [...]

New unit of the Moderna galerija, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova opens in Ljubljana

LJUBLJANA.- More than 15 years after the time Moderna galerija was allotted the use of one of the buildings in the former Yugoslav People’s Army barracks in Metelkova Street, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, the new unit of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, is finally opening. The MSUM will house the collection of contemporary art (the national and the international Arteast 2000+ collections) and stage a related exhibitions program. Located in MSUM there are also some of the expanded institution’s professional services: [...]

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Mines and Mills-Industrial Landscape at the Fotomuseum in Winterthru

ZURICH.- For more than forty years, the photographer couple Bernd (1931-2007 and Hilla Becher (*1934) worked on creating an inventory of industrial architecture. Warehouses, shaft towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces as well as half-timbered houses are among the subjects they photographed throughout Germany, England, France, Central Europe, and the USA. Calling these buildings “anonymous sculptures,” they refer to the artistic quality of the constructions, which played no role for the buildings’ largely unknown builders and users. Their photographs attempt to draw [...]

German artist Sabine Hornig’s “Through the Window” at Pinakothek der Modern

MUNICH.- Sabine Hornig, born in 1964, is one of the most internationally celebrated German artists of her generation. Her photographic and sculptural work, created at the crossroads between photography, sculpture and site-specific installation, is both artistically independent and artistically unconventional at once and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of photography as a contemporary art form. Sabine Hornig, Window with No Back Wall, 2006. 120 x 140 x 3 cm (glass), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. At the heart of [...]

After visiting Ai Weiwei exhibition, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou calls for artistic freedom in China

TAIPEI (AP).- Taiwan’s president urged China on Friday to respect the artistic freedom of outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was detained for nearly three months earlier this year and is currently confined to Beijing. “He’s an artist and should have the freedom to express his artistic views,” President Ma Ying-jeou said after viewing Ai’s exhibition at a Taipei museum. “This is also the core value of Taiwan.” Ma said he deplored that Chinese police detained Ai at the Beijing airport [...]

The BMW Guggenheim Lab and BMW i will be present at Art Basel Miami Beach

MIAMI, FL.- The 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the most prestigious art show in the Americas, takes place from December 1st to 4th. More than 260 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will showcase works by more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. This year, BMW will be in the show and also be in attendance as a guest with the BMW Guggenheim Lab. In addition, the carmaker will provide the VIP [...]

Autum sales at Koller Geneva: Auctions with solid values for sought-after works

GENEVA.- At the autumn auctions at Koller Geneva on 18 November over 70 % of the objects found new owners. The top lots were successfully auctioned. Good results were achieved especially for the 20th century painters from the West of Switzerland, large format sculptures and design objects made of gold and silver. As ever, classic Art Deco pieces by Gallé and Bugatti were sought after. The wine sale proved a good auction with only a few unsold items. Art Nouveau and Art Deco [...]

A rich offering of rare and rediscovered Russian works of art at Christie’s in London

LONDON.- On 28 November, Christie’s will present an exceptional auction, offering the strongest selection of Russian paintings and works of art on the market this season. The sale will offer rediscovered treasures by many of the most celebrated artists in the field, including Natalia Goncharova, Vasily Vereshchagin, Boris Grigoriev, Filipp Maliavin and Alexander Volkov. This selection is led by Vasily Vereshchagin‟s undisputed masterpiece Crucifixion by the Romans offered on behalf of the Brooklyn Museum and by two pairs of exquisite vases produced by [...]

Exhibition of new site specific and situated works by Daniel Buren at Lisson Gallery

LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents an exhibition of new site specific and situated works by Daniel Buren, France’s most influential living artist. His first solo show in the UK since 2009 will include a large scale installation and outdoor work. For over forty years Buren has examined the role of the gallery as a supposedly neutral space. He creates works “in situ”, by working within the context of existing architectural, spatial and social elements. Since the 1960s Buren’s critical analysis of painting -attempting [...]

Stunning restoration reveals beautiful seventeenth-century masterpiece at Dulwich Picture Gallery

LONDON.- Yesterday, on the feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, Dulwich Picture Gallery unveiled its newly restored painting: Saint Cecilia. The campaign to restore this seventeenth-century masterpiece to its original appearance began in 2009. The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, with support from The Pilgrim Trust, adopted the painting and its frame, enabling conservation work to begin. Rips were repaired, the painting was cleaned and its frame was adjusted to fit. The results of this painstaking work will be [...]

Paula Cooper Gallery presents new works by American artist Mark di Suvero

NEW YORK. N.Y.- The Paula Cooper Gallery presents new works, including a painting and a monumental steel sculpture, by the preeminent American artist Mark di Suvero, at its 534 West 21st Street space. Mark di Suvero continues to test the limits of large-scale sculpture, engaging space through seemingly weightless compositions of colossal steel beams, torqued metal and kinetic elements. The never-before-seen Paula’s Pleasure, a soaring construction measuring approximately twenty feet in height, is an assemblage of intersecting I-beams tied around a central steel [...]

Fresh to the market works announced at Sotheby’s Paris sale of Contemporary art

PARIS.- The next Sotheby’s sales of Contemporary Art in Paris will welcome connoisseurs and collectors to the Galerie Charpentier for two auction sessions, on 7 December (Evening Sale) and 8 December 2011 (Day Sale). Some of the 141 works to be offered for auction are fresh to the market and come from prestigious collections – notably the Art Institute of Chicago, with Jean Dubuffet’s Tête d’Homme (Theatre Mask XX, est. €70,000-90,000 / $96,500-125,000) and Jean-Michel Atlan’s Agrigente (est. €120,000-180,000 / $166,000-249,000), to be [...]

Sotheby’s London presents its forthcoming important Russian art sales series

LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s Russian Art Auction in New York this November, which established the highest price for a painting in any Russian Art sale at Sotheby’s worldwide, with the $6.3 million achieved for Natalia Goncharova’s Street in Moscow, Sotheby’s to present highlights from the forthcoming Russian Art Sales Series in London. The Important Russian Art Evening Auction on Monday, 28 November 2011 will comprise exceptional paintings by artists including Konstantin Makovsky, Petr Konchalovsky, Konstantin Korovin, Natalia Goncharova and Niko Pirosmani, as well as [...]

World record at auction expected for a Turkish work of art at Antik A.S. in Istanbul

ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S. is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an exceptional auction. The leading auction house of Turkey will offer exceptional paintings by the most important classic Turkish masters. The auction will take place on November 27, 2011 at the Swissotel the Bosphorus and will present selected 200 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. exhibition rooms until 27th of November. One of the highlights [...]

Puerto Rico: See Matthias Weischer’s exhibition at Museo de Arte de Ponce before or after Art Basel

PONCE, P.R.- Visitors to Art Basel Miami will have to add a stop on their itinerary to complete the feast of contemporary art, because in its tireless efforts to remain one of the trailblazing art institutions of the hemisphere, the Museo de Arte de Ponce announces the opening of the exhibition “Matthias Weischer: New Work” on Saturday, November 26, at 2:00 pm. This is the first individual exhibition in the Americas of one of the principal representatives of the New Leipzig School, which [...]