The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center showcases the work of the artists, curators, and community activists whose contributions enhanced the culture of our city and helped to define Los Angeles as an international artistic center. Included in the exhibition, which spans close to a century of art history, are more than 130 works by artists who shaped Southern California’s destiny as an art capital. Traced through painting, drawing, sculpture, [...]

Artist, writer and editor Joe Simon, who co-created Captain America, dies at age 98 in New York City

PHILADELPHIA, PA (AP).- Joe Simon, who along with Jack Kirby co-created Captain America and was one of the comic book industry’s most revered writers, artists and editors, has died. He was 98. Simon’s family relayed word of his death Thursday, posting a short statement on Facebook and telling The Associated Press through a spokesman that the 98-year-old Simon died Wednesday night in New York City after a brief illness. “Joe was one of a kind,” said Steve Saffel of Titan Books, [...]

Cabinet exhibition of colourful landscapes by the Swiss painter Albert Welti at Kunsthaus Zürich

ZURICH.- The Kunsthaus Zürich is staging a cabinet exhibition of colourful landscapes by the Swiss painter, graphic artist and draughtsman Albert Welti (1862-1912). A pupil of Arnold Böcklin and a native of Zurich, Welti received numerous national commissions and is known both in Switzerland and abroad for his painting of the citizens’ assembly in the chamber of the Swiss Council of States. His works express the turn-of-thecentury mood: a time of transitions, as with the motif of the bridge, the cycle of ageing [...]

Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool uncovers a statue of a priest vandalised by Banksy

LIVERPOOL.- The Walker Art Gallery is set to unveil a new addition to its collection this week – a statue of a priest vandalised by Banksy. The renowned graffiti artist has sawn off the face of an 18th Century replica stone bust and glued on a selection of bathroom tiles. The resulting ‘pixellated’ portrait is entitled Cardinal Sin and is believed to be a comment on the abuse scandal in the Church and its subsequent cover- up. “I’m never sure who deserves to [...]

De Hallen Haarlem presents three solo exhibitions by Dutch artists who share a strong intrinsic relation

HAARLEM.- This winter De Hallen Haarlem is presenting solo exhibitions by three Dutch artists who share a strong intrinsic relation: Daan van Golden, Marijn van Kreij and Annesas Appel. A predilection for graphic patterns and the use of repetition as a stylistic device are corresponding features in their work. These are the first large solo museum exhibitions for Van Kreij and Appel in the Netherlands. On the occasion of Daan van Golden’s solo exhibition the project En/Of will release an LP with music [...]

Valencian Institute of Modern Art exhibits Claudio Zirotti: Without Time

VALENCIA.- The IVAM’s exhibition comprising twenty one pieces by the Italian artist Claudio Zirotti in an intelligent reflection about the meaning of time, remembrance and memory. Claudio Zirotti’s pieces portray the instant. That subtle instant when the human being turns his eyes on his life and – like Camus’s Sisyphus –”returning to his rock, contemplates that series of disconnected acts that become his destiny, created by himself, united under the gaze of his memory and soon sealed with his death”. So speaking about [...]

Most Powerful Photos Of 2011

It’s time for selections of moments that marked the entire year. This is a selection of photographs that summarizes the year 2011. They are impressive captures in several themes but all very powerful and emotional. Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in 9/11, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial. (Getty Images / Justin Lane) 2. A whirpool forms off the Japanese coast after the tsunami on March 11. (Reuters / [...]

Reopening of the “Old Masters” collection in the refurbished old Stadel Museum building

FRANKFURT.- The reopening of the Main River wing with the new presentation of the Städel’s“Old Masters” (1300–1800) collection on December 15, 2011 marks the conclusion of the comprehensive refurbishment measures in the old museum building. Developed by Prof. Dr. Jochen Sander, chief curator of the “Old Masters” collection and Deputy Director of the Städel, the new presentation benefits essentially from the recovery of the historical main axis of the Main River wing, which, starting from the central Rotunda, connects the large skylight [...]

Vintage and Modern launches collection of photographs by Stanley Kubrick

NEW YORK, N.Y.- VandM.com introduces an exclusive sale of photographs by the late director Stanley Kubrick. These 25 dramatic black and white limited-edition images, available to the public for the first time, represent the iconic director’s first job as staff photographer for LOOK Magazine from 1945 to 1950. Stanley Kubrick’s New York has been made available to the public through an exclusive partnership with the Museum of the City of New York, which archived the negatives. VandM will offer these fine art [...]

Landmark public art collection premieres in Sacramento’s new Terminal B

SACRAMENTO, CA.- Twelve major public artworks are premiering in Sacramento with the opening of the new Terminal B at the Sacramento International Airport. The first commercial flight embarked from the new Terminal on October 6th. Airport passengers from everywhere are now able to view the collection, and the general public is invited to attend guided tours that will run through the end of 2011. The Terminal is the largest construction project in the history of Sacramento County, and the artworks there [...]

Boston Cyberarts at Atlantic Wharf presents Vast Vistas: Landscape in New Media

BOSTON, MA.- Boston Cyberarts presents its second exhibition in Atlantic Wharf’s new dedicated art gallery – Vast Vistas: Landscape in New Media, an exhibition of work by four artists – Julia Hechtman, Georgie Friedman, Jane Marsching and Luke Strosnider. On view at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Boston, from December 12 through February 10, 2012. Landscapes are more the product of culture than nature. When artists try to reproduce the world in its natural state, they create a vision of how they [...]

Sotheby’s New York to offer schoolgirl embroidery from the Betty Ring Collection

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s New York announces that it will offer schoolgirl embroidery from the collection of Betty Ring in a dedicated sale on 22 January 2012. Mrs. Ring is the foremost scholar and collector of American schoolgirl embroidery – superb needlework samplers, elegant pictorial embroideries and mourning pictures made in the earliest American cities and towns by the daughters of the prosperous ‘entrepreneurial’ elite. Important American Schoolgirl Embroideries: The Landmark Collection of Betty Ring consists of a comprehensive group of approximately [...]

Diamonds attracted a crowd at the Bonhams Fine Jewelry auction

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Outstanding colored and colorless diamonds highlighted the Fine Jewelry sale on December 13 at the New York headquarters of Bonhams. Due to trimulcasting to San Francisco and Los Angeles, large in-house participation, active international online and phone bidding, this holiday jewelry auction realized $4.83 million with 80% sold by lot. Matthew Girling, the Group Jewelry Director at Bonhams, states about the sale, “The sale showed the underlying strength in the jewelry market. We exhibited the sale in Hong Kong, [...]

Christie’s to conclude 2011 in New York with two exhilarating photographs sales

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s to conclude the year of sales in New York with Photographs including Crossing America: Photographs from The Consolidated Freightways Collection, Part II, taking place on December 19th. The Various Owners sale incorporates a wide range of 145 enticing works, which include a robust selection of fashion photography, a rare set from the highly coveted artist Miroslav Tichý, a unique group of Polaroids by Ansel Adams and an excellent representation of contemporary and modern photography. The Various Owners sale [...]

You have been there: Departures, bifurcations – A proposition by Marie Muracciole at Marian Goodman Gallery

Marian Goodman Gallery announces a group exhibition curated by Marie Muracciole which opened on Tuesday, December 13th and will be on view through Saturday, January 21st. This exhibition began in Paris last summer. This second iteration assembles a renewed selection of works organized around the idea of departure. Here some works relate to the passage from one place to another, from one time to another. Some refer to changes in life, to the end of a story or a belief. Each [...]