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£80 million plans unveiled today to create world’s leading design museum in London £80 million plans unveiled today to create world’s leading design museum in London

January 25, 2012 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


LONDON.- The Design Museum today unveiled plans to create the world’s leading museum of design and architecture at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, London. Designs for the site have been produced by two of the world’s most innovative architectural practices: John Pawson has redesigned the interior of the Grade 2* listed building and OMA has planned the surrounding residential development. The move will allow the new Design Museum to become a word class centre for design, nurturing British talent and its international influence on design... [Full Article]

Lucian Freud My Father-A personal portrayal: Sculpture by Jane McAdam Freud Lucian Freud My Father-A personal portrayal: Sculpture by Jane McAdam Freud

January 25, 2012 by   - Filed under Sculpture


LONDON.- This January, artist Jane McAdam Freud presents a large scale sculpture portraying her father Lucian Freud. It will be unveiled and exhibited for the first time in London’s Freud Museum – once home to her great grandfather, Sigmund Freud. Jane spent many hours with her father in the months before his death in July 2011 making sketches for this new work. It will be shown at the Freud Museum alongside other smaller scale work and preparatory sketches, from 25 January – 4 March 2012. Although a great inspiration to her and a regular presence in her childhood,... [Full Article]

Elizabeth Taylor-owned Dutch master Frans Hals painting coming to New York auction Elizabeth Taylor-owned Dutch master Frans Hals painting coming to New York auction

January 25, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Market


NEW YORK (AP).- A 17th century portrait that once hung over the fireplace of Elizabeth Taylor’s Bel Air home — and only recently reattributed to the Dutch master Frans Hals — is expected to fetch up to $1 million at auction. “Portrait of a Man,” painted in the early 1630s, is being offered at Christie’s sale of Old Masters on Wednesday. A Hals scholar, Seymour Slive, had listed the painting as a “doubtful” Hals in a 1974 catalog, based on a black and white photo of the work. After Taylor hung it in her home in the 1950s, “It... [Full Article]

Paul Klee and Cobra in international exhibition at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen Paul Klee and Cobra in international exhibition at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen

January 25, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured


AMSTELVEEN.- From 28 January through 22 April 2012, the Cobra Museum will present Klee and Cobra: A Child’s Play. The exhibition reveals the influence that Paul Klee (1879-1940) had on the Cobra movement (1948-1951), seen from the perspective of their shared fascination for the wondrous world of children’s imagination. This theme has never before been so thoroughly investigated in an exhibition. In all, 120 masterpieces by Paul Klee (oil paintings, works on paper, mixed media works and sculptures) and about 100 highlights by the Cobra artists (Karel... [Full Article]

“Rockwell’s America” named London’s best art exhibition for 2011 by American Spectator magazine “Rockwell’s America” named London’s best art exhibition for 2011 by American Spectator magazine

January 24, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


LONDON.- The American Spectator magazine’s December/January 2012 issue named theNational Museum of American Illustration‘s Norman Rockwell’s America – at London’s oldest art museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery for their Bicentennial Celebration last year- to be London’s best art exhibition of 2011. The exhibition drew record-setting attendance numbers as the first ever showing of Rockwell’s original artworks in the UK, and is now on display at the NMAI in Newport, Rhode Island under the title Norman Rockwell: American Imagist. Rockwell... [Full Article]

Tatsuo Miyajima: Three Time Train / Counter Voice on the Wall Lokremise at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen Tatsuo Miyajima: Three Time Train / Counter Voice on the Wall Lokremise at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen

January 24, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


ST. GALLEN.- Time and space are recurring themes in the work of the Japanese artist, Tatsuo Miyajima. The basis for the art of Tatsuo Miyajima (born 1957 in Tokyo, lives in Ibaraki) are illuminated LED displays in color. In various tempos, these displays count relentlessly from 1 to 9, only to start again from the beginning. The electronic look of the LED digits is, however, less the expression of a positivist technological understanding and more a symbol of ongoing life: an existential number. Only the zero is left out, since, to the artist, it is synonymous with... [Full Article]

From Manhattan to the Bauhaus: First Lyonel Feininger retrospective in North America is exclusive to Montreal From Manhattan to the Bauhaus: First Lyonel Feininger retrospective in North America is exclusive to Montreal

January 24, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


MONTREAL.- Through May 13, 2012, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the first posthumous retrospective in North America on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Lyonel Feininger: from Manhattan to the Bauhaus offers the first comprehensive panorama of the oeuvre of this American artist, who has been strangely forgotten since he spent most of his life in Germany. A celebrated cartoonist, a leading figure of Expressionism alongside Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, a professor at the avant-garde Bauhaus School, from its founding in Weimar until it was closed in... [Full Article]

Bonhams to sell beautiful JMW Turner painting of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard Bonhams to sell beautiful JMW Turner painting of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard

January 24, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Market, Featured


LONDON.- A beautiful painting of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard by Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851) is to be offered for auction as part of the 19th Century Paintings sale on Wednesday 25th January 2012, at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. The watercolour of a lyrical English landscape has not been seen at auction since 1884 and is estimated to fetch £200,000-300,000. In this work Turner has painted the scene of the River Lune from the churchyard of St Mary’s Church in Kirkby Lonsdale, with a group of children playing in the foreground. The influential... [Full Article]

Second Israeli art sale at Bonhams celebrates European view of the Holy Land Second Israeli art sale at Bonhams celebrates European view of the Holy Land

January 24, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Market, Featured


LONDON.- Many of the works of art in Bonhams sale of Israeli Art on Feb 29th was made by new arrivals from Europe. A work by Reuven Rubin (Israeli, 1893-1974), a Rumanian émigré who became Israel’s first ambassador to Rumania, leads the sale. Titled ‘Les Oliviers’ and dated ‘Rubin Les Oliviers 1958′ , it is an oil on canvas estimated to sell for £75,000-100,000.The picture is from the collection of Joseph and Mabel Ottenstein, Washington D.C. and thence by descent to its current owner. Commenting on his new country Rubin said: “Here... [Full Article]

University of Richmond Museums opens Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010 University of Richmond Museums opens Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010

January 24, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


RICHMOND, VA.- On view in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, from January 24 to April 22, 2012, Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010 features a selection of more than sixty works created between 1963 and 2010 by Joan Snyder (American, born 1940), and the exhibition is the first retrospective of the artist’s prints. A nationally noted painter and 2007 MacArthur Fellow, Snyder has developed a powerful body of work that explores aspects of nature, humanity, and identity. A pioneering feminist artist, she has infused... [Full Article]

Exceptional ensemble of nearly 200 works from the Library of R. & B. L. for sale at Sotheby’s Exceptional ensemble of nearly 200 works from the Library of R. & B. L. for sale at Sotheby’s

January 24, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Market


PARIS.- Paris auctioneers Binoche & Giquello, in association with Sotheby’s, announced the sale of Part II of the Library of R. & B. L. in Paris on 28 March 2012. Expert Yves Lebouc (Bouquinerie de l’Institut) will team up with Sotheby’s specialists for the sale – to be held at the Galerie Charpentier – with the gavel wielded jointly by both firms. The sale features an exceptional ensemble of nearly 200 works, with an overall estimate of €3-4 million ($3,9-5,2 million), and abounds in illustrations by a host of 20th century masters... [Full Article]

Istanbul’s Pera Museum exhibition sheds light into the beginning of Turkish-Dutch relations Istanbul’s Pera Museum exhibition sheds light into the beginning of Turkish-Dutch relations

January 24, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured


ISTANBUL.- As one of the first key exhibitions of the year 2012, the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is presenting Sultans, Merchants, Painters: The Early Years of Turkish-Dutch Relations; an exhibition commemorating four hundred years of cultural, diplomatic and trade relations between Turkey and the Netherlands. Organized in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum and with the support of several other partners, including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Nationaal Archief in The Hague both in the Netherlands, the exhibition includes 81 works comprised... [Full Article]

Italy returns 2,000 year-old statue to Libya Italy returns 2,000 year-old statue to Libya

January 23, 2012 by   - Filed under Arts Policy


TRIPOLI (AP).- Italy has returned to Libya the head of a 2,000 year-old statue that was smuggled out of the country in the 1960s. Prime Minister Mario Monti gave the sculpted head of Domitilla Minor, the daughter of Roman emperor Vespasian, to Libyan authorities during his trip to Tripoli on Saturday. An artifact returned by Italy to Libya, known as the Head Domitilla, which was stolen from Sabratha, Libya in 1990, is seen on display during Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s visit to Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany. The... [Full Article]

Exhibition of new work by Dublin-born artist Richard Gorman at Kerlin Gallery in Ireland Exhibition of new work by Dublin-born artist Richard Gorman at Kerlin Gallery in Ireland

January 23, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Richard Gorman. Kozo is an exhibition of works on handmade Japanese echizen kozo washi paper using techniques including dyed paper pulp poured into moulds and gouache paint on paper made by the artist. Richard Gorman made the paperworks at Iwano Heyzabouro paper mill in Imadate Fukui in West Japan over a period of ten years, 1999 – 2009. The gouaches, 63 x 49 cm, have grown out of a personal research to find an authentic non-narrative means of pictorial expression. This enquiry has led Gorman to look... [Full Article]

Americana Week totals $17.9 million at Sotheby’s New York; highest total since 2007 Americana Week totals $17.9 million at Sotheby’s New York; highest total since 2007

January 23, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Market


NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Americana Week auctions concluded today in New York with a combined total of $17,900,261 – Sotheby’s highest total for this annual week of sales since 2007. The Important Americana auction on Friday and Saturday was led by two record-setting results: the previously undocumented Exceptional Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Arnold Shell-Carved and Figured Mahogany High Chest of Drawers with Open Talons made by John Townsend in 1756, which set an auction record for any high chest of drawers in selling for $3,554,500 (est. $2/3 million), and An... [Full Article]