“One Person Crying: Women and War – Photography by Marissa Roth” opens at Willy-Brandt-Haus

BERLIN.- In conjunction with the International Women’s Day, the Freundeskreis Willy-Brand-Haus will present the exhibition One Person Crying- Women and War – Photographs by Marissa Roth. Over a time-span of 28 years, the project led the photographer to numerous countries. It all began unintentionally with her family’s journey to the home of her grandparents in the former Yugoslavia – they were killed in 1942 by Hungarian Fascists – and continued in 1988 with a request by the LA Times to photograph Afghan women [...]

Exhibition at Timothy Taylor Gallery features 11 major paintings by Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies

LONDON.- Timothy Taylor Gallery presents an exhibition by the late Catalan artist, Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012), featuring 11 major paintings created between 1992 and 2009, obtained directly from the estate of the artist. Tàpies was a towering presence in 20th century art, coming to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, exhibiting regularly in the artistic crucibles of New York, Paris and Barcelona alongside peers such as Alberto Burri, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein and Robert Rauschenberg. Tàpies pioneered the use of sand or earth [...]

Christie’s to offer private collections from St Tropez, Cap d’Antibes & a Swiss Villa

LONDON.- Presenting the essence of Haute Elegance, three private collections from St. Tropez, Antibes and a private villa in Switzerland will be offered at Christie’s London this Spring. The three collections – united by their beauty and vibrancy – comprise over 370 lots and encompass a wide array of objects spanning many collecting fields – from Impressionist & Modern works, Modern British and Old Master Pictures, to French, Italian and Scandinavian Furniture, 20th Century Decorative Art, Chinese Ceramics and Carpets. With estimates ranging [...]

New-York Historical Society showcases stunning collection of John James Audubon’s original watercolors

NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the New-York Historical Society will launch the first exhibition in a sweeping three-part series that celebrate the sesquicentennial of the acquisition of its unparalleled collection of John James Audubon’s preparatory watercolors for the sumptuous double-elephant-folio print edition of The Birds of America (1827–38), engraved by Robert Havell Jr. Over three years, Audubon’s Aviary: The Complete Flock (Parts I–III) will feature all of its 474 original avian watercolors by Audubon, including all 435 watercolor models for The Birds of [...]

Gagosian Gallery shows a portion of Neil Jenney’s retained efforts, and the works of friends

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Works of the Jenney Archive.” Neil Jenney’s distinctive art emerged in the late 1960s in direct response to the dominance of Minimalism and Photorealism. Working first as an abstract painter, then as a sculptor evincing form through the use of attenuated line, he developed a purposefully rough, gestural painting style in works that came to be known as “bad painting,” inspiring the polemical group exhibition “Bad Painting” at the New Museum in 1978. Considering himself to [...]

Mel Bochner’s first solo exhibition in Germany in more than 15 years opens at Haus der Kunst

MUNICH.- Mel Bochner (born in 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is considered one of the founders of Conceptual Art, which, in the early 1960s, surpassed painting as the primary art form. Bochner achieved this feat in part by using language in his works. In his more recent work, he has increasingly re-examined this oncedespised medium of painting, whereby his own conceptual visual language contributes insights of its possibilities. The artist’s first solo exhibition in Germany in more than 15 years (Lenbachhaus 1996), [...]

First online-only Andy Warhol sale at Christie’s doubles pre-sale estimate achieving $2.4 million

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced an enthusiastic turnout for the first Andy Warhol @ Christie’s online-only sale, achieving $2,297,375—twice the overall pre-sale estimate—to benefit The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Proceeds from this multi-year, multi-platform partnership enable the foundation to continue to develop its long term support of the visual arts. The auction selling rate was 99% by lot and 99% by value. “The excellent results of the first Warhol online-only sale demonstrate the international enthusiasm from both new and [...]

New works by Paul Lee in second exhibition at maccarone

NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Lee’s vocabulary possesses quiet force. His unspoken narratives investigate the meaning and conquest of desire, using a language that is and on the verge of absence—a mark via the form of a trace, a trace that wipes away any particular subjective resonance, appointing it in another form. In Emerald, Lee’s second solo exhibition at maccarone, new works evidence his ritualistic studio practice. With washcloths and towels cut up, hand sewn together and dyed with ink, the materials absorbing [...]

German museum Staatsgalerie Stuttgart returns painting of the Virgin and Child looted by Nazis

MONTREAL (AFP).- A German museum for the first time on Tuesday returned a painting despoiled by the Nazis to the estate of a late German Jewish art dealer. Concordia University in Montreal, acting on behalf of the executors of the estate of Max Stern (1904-1987), announced Staatsgalerie Stuttgart’s restitution of an early Northern Renaissance painting belonging to Stern. Clarence Epstein, who leads the restitution project, received the painting at a ceremony at the Canadian embassy in Berlin. He was accompanied by Canadian [...]

Erwin Olaf’s most recent series of work on view at Hamiltons Gallery

LONDON.- Hamiltons Gallery presents Erwin Olaf’s most recent series of work, ‘Berlin’. In a significant departure from his previous projects, ‘Berlin’ is set and shot on location at six different historical locations throughout the grand city, rather than in imagined settings, constructed in Olaf’s Amsterdam studio. Following the recent awarding of the Vermeer Prize to Olaf (the most important cultural recognition conferred by the Dutch government), this latest series further reiterates his status as one of the world’s most talented, prolific and [...]

Potomack Company finds rare Andy Warhol “Marilyn” print, set for auction March 16

ALEXANDRIA, VA.- The Potomack Company has identified a rare lettered and signed color screenprint of Marilyn Monroe by artist Andy Warhol and will sell the iconic print of the legendary blond actress on March 16 at its Spring Catalogue Auction. The “Marilyn Monroe” print portrays the movie star with a red face on hot pink background and remains in its original steel Kulicke frame. It is lettered “A,” from an edition of 250 and 26 AP signed and lettered prints (FS II.22). [...]

Museum of Modern Art presents a major reevaluation of photographer Bill Brandt’s career

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light, a major critical reevaluation of the heralded career of Bill Brandt (British, b. Germany, 1904-83) from March 6 to August 12, 2013. A founding figure in photography’s modernist traditions, Brandt ranks among the visionaries who, in the diversity of their approach, established the creative potential of photography based on observation of the world around them. Brandt’s distinctive vision—his ability to present the mundane world as fresh and strange—emerged [...]

Extremely rare collection of Man Ray contact prints on view at Atlas Gallery in London

LONDON.- An extremely rare collection of Man Ray contact prints from a private collection is on display at ATLAS Gallery, including some of the artist’s most celebrated images alongside rarely seen portraits of Hemingway, Picasso, Braque and James Joyce. Scheduled in tandem with the Man Ray retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, this extensive collection of approximately 150 prints gives an unedited view of the Man Ray archive. Many prints are printed full frame, showing untouched versions of more recognisable works, giving [...]

Philadelphia Museum of Art acquires major European, Latin American and American works of art

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced a number of important gifts that will further enrich its world-renowned holdings. The new acquisitions include a major watercolor by Pierre Joseph Redouté, four masterworks of colonial Latin American art, a painting by N. C. Wyeth, a rare Tiffany chandelier, and more than two hundred works by the modern photographer Paul Strand. Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Museum, said: “Since its founding in 1876, more than 90 percent [...]

Suitcase used by one of the suspects in Dutch art heist found during a search in Romania: police

BUCHAREST (AFP).- Romanian investigators have found a suitcase allegedly used to hide seven masterpieces by artists such as Gauguin, Monet and Picasso stolen in October from a Dutch museum, judicial sources said Tuesday. “An empty suitcase allegedly belonging to one of the Romanian suspects, Radu Dogaru, was found during a search in Romania,” a police source told AFP. Judicial sources cited by the Mediafax news agency said “the paintings were apparently stored in the suitcase” that was found buried in a yard [...]