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Houston Museum of Natural Science doomsday exhibit to demystify Maya calendar
HOUSTON (AP).- Some might prepare for the end of the world by checking off items on their bucket list. But at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, curators are launching an exhibit designed to demystify the Maya and debunk the myth that the ancient culture predicted doomsday on Dec. 21, 2012. Visitors will walk darkened halls lined with pottery, jade... [Read full article]
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Revolution” publicly displayed for the first time at Museum Brandhorst
MUNICH.- Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of the best-known photographic artists of our time. His celebrated international reputation is based on his photography, although in recent years he has become engaged with other genres: architecture, furniture, objects, and fashion all play an increasingly important role in his work. It is primarily his photography... [Read full article]
Rare Gustav Klimt monograph sets auction record at Swann Galleries
NEW YORK, NY.- The star lot in Swann Galleries’ October 11 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books was Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, Einleitende Worte: Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg, a stunning volume containing 50 plates in the original case designed by Julius Dratva, Vienna and Leipzig, 1918—it is the only monograph of Klimt’s work published... [Read full article]
Sotheby’s London to sell Portrait of Kate Perugini, Daughter of Charles Dickens, by Sir John Everett Millais
LONDON.- Portrait of Kate Perugini, Daughter of Charles Dickens by Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) is to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in the bicentennial year of the author’s death. The famous and innovative portrait will headline the Victorian works in the company’s auction of British & Irish Art in London on Tuesday, 13 November,... [Read full article]
Exhibition of new works by the inimitable American artist Red Grooms opens at Marlborough
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery announced an exhibition of new works by the inimitable American artist Red Grooms. The exhibition, entitled Torn from the Pages, opened October 24 and continues through December 1, 2012. Since Ruckus Manhattan, his first widely acclaimed exhibition at Marlborough in 1976, Grooms has staked his claim as one of America’s... [Read full article]
Dallas Museum of Art discovers George Inness painting “In the Woods” in the Collection
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced today the reattribution of a painting to the artist George Inness, widely admired as one of America’s greatest landscape painters. The work of art has been in the Museum’s collection for eighty years, entering in 1931 as part of a bequest by Cecil A. Keating. At the time of the painting’s acquisition,... [Read full article]
Archaeologists in Guatemala excavate Mayan ruler’s tomb built between 700 and 400 B.C.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP).- Archaeologists announced Thursday they have uncovered the tomb of a very early Mayan ruler, complete with rich jade jewelry and decoration. Experts said the find at Guatemala’s Tak’alik Ab’aj temple site could help shed light on the formative years of the Mayan culture. Government archaeologist Miguel Orrego said... [Read full article]
“David Hockney: A Bigger Picture” at Museum Ludwig features more than 150 works
COLOGNE.- David Hockney’s swimming pool paintings are among the most popular images of the 1960s. He attained world fame as a flamboyant figure of “swinging London” and as a chronicler of the cool California way of life. His oeuvre also encompasses perceptive portraits, virtuoso still lifes, and landscapes, as well as photo collages, stage sets,... [Read full article]
French record for René Magritte with the sale of “La Grande Table” for $6.6 million
PARIS.- The sale of the Zaira & Marsel Mis Collection at Sotheby’s France attracted a packed saleroom, with 30 phone lines a-crackle with bids from around the world. Oliver Barker, Deputy Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and the renowned director of Sotheby’s contemporary art sales in London, was wielding the gavel in Paris for the first time. Thomas... [Read full article]
“1934: A New Deal for Artists” exhibition opens at the New York State Museum in Albany
ALBANY, NY.- A new exhibition — 1934: A New Deal for Artists — opened at the New York State Museum on October 19 showcasing paintings created against the backdrop of the Great Depression with the support of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first federal government program to support the arts nationally. Open until Jan. 20, 2013... [Read full article]
What is the grotesque in art? Museo Picasso Málaga takes a close look at the subject
MALAGA.- Artworks and literary works from all over Europe and America have been gathered together for The Grotesque Factor, an exhibition that has been devised as a journey through the complex areas of what is known, in terms of art and aesthetic taste, as the grotesque. The exhibition confronts the semantic and cultural ambiguity of the object examined... [Read full article]
Sotheby’s exhibits highlights in Moscow from its forthcoming New York and London sales
MOSCOW.- Sotheby’s is exhibiting 28 important and rare highlights from its forthcoming November auctions of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York and Russian Art in London, at the State Historical Museum in Moscow on the 24th and 25th October, 2012. Combined, the works are estimated at in excess of $31 million which represents among the highest... [Read full article]
Bank of America Merrill Lynch art conservation project helps restore 20 works of art across globe
LONDON.- At an event at London’s Courtauld Gallery last night (31 January), Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced this year’s conservation funding recipients through its unique Art Conservation Project. This year, participating institutions span the globe from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), to Asia, Australia, Latin America and... [Read full article]
Christie’s 2011 sales total US$5.7 billion; significant increase in private sales and via online
LONDON.- Christie’s announces 2011 sales of £3.6 billion / US$5.7 billion, up 9% by £ (14% by US$) compared with 2010 (figures include buyer’s premium). This includes private sales of £502 million / US$808.6 million, an increase of 44% by £ (50% by US$) on 2010. “Christie’s ability to curate and offer sales of art to a growing audience... [Read full article]
Restored Rubens masterpiece goes back on public view at The Courtauld Gallery
LONDON.- The newly-conserved masterpiece Cain Slaying Abel by Sir Peter Paul Rubens went back on public display at The Courtauld Gallery, today. The magnificent painting, widely considered to be one of the most important in the Gallery’s world-class collection of works by Rubens, has been restored as part of the Bank of America Art Conservation... [Read full article]
