The High Museum of Art is focusing on the civil rights era in two new exhibits timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The exhibits that opened Saturday were built over three years and include more than 200 photographs, many that have never been publicly displayed. (..more)
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Museum News ARCHIVES II
The
winner of 2008
Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art
Record price highlights need for specialist fine art cover
As the latest Claude Monet
to be offered at auction reached a record for the artist’s work, a
leading Lloyd’s broker has said the need for specialist fine art and
specie cover has never been more acute. A mystery buyer has paid a
record £40.9m for Monet’s Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, which shattered the
expected sale price of £24m, and was double the cost of the artist’s
most expensive previous work which had sold in May for £20.9m. (...more)
Couture collectibles: Auctioning off fashion history
Savvy fashionistas
on the prowl for a great deal might consider a trip to Christie's
auction house in New York next week, where the fashions of such runway
stalwarts as Versace, Halston, Roberto Capucci and the recently deceased
Yves Saint Laurent will be on sale. (...more)
Hewitt collection
at Wright a must-see
Glass art is
attracting more collectors and they're paying more 200 classic cars
from Astor collection up for sale
Britain's great
collection of Baroque buildings are just divine
The
High Museum of Art,
in Atlanta, is host to a pair of complementary exhibitions that
celebrate the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Road to Freedom:
Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement to Freedom visually
narrates the exulting and turbulent years between 1955 and 1968. One hundred
and thirty photographs create a dramatic narrative of historic events
such as the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Birmingham hosings of 1963 and
the Selma-Montgomery March of 1965. Archival documents, newspapers,
magazines and posters supplement this era in modern American history.
The second part of this
event, After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights
Legacy marks that transformative year as its departure; the ten
participating artists were born in or after 1968. Referencing
archival and historical material from that period, the works comprise
either recently created pieces or ones commissioned for this exhibition.
The show examines the ways in which each artist had been influenced by
“the freedom engendered by the Civil Rights movement.”
Is
Bacon in more demand than Picasso?
AS Sotheby’s and Christie’s gear up for their
famously extravagant summer contemporary art sales, the mood is mixed.
Last October’s evening sales at Christie’s saw
earnings of £34.87m for the auction house and the art world was paddling
about in a Frieze-Week sea of champagne; last June the credit crunch was
a distant rumour and the sales at Sotheby’s made £72.43m. (...more)
New
art buyers fire up the top end
Fanning the flames of
the Asian art market
The art market:
Contemporary art’s brand new bag
ARTnews Names Top 200
Collectors
Solar Collector:
interactive modern art with an eco twist
New Sean Scully Work
Acquired by Irish Museum of
Modern Art
Indonesian court jails museum curator
over theft
Cleveland Museum of Art shows first part of historic renovation
Art dealer
finds his Faberge is a fake
Boston's Museum of Science cutting staff
The Museum of Science, dealing with a drop in the
number of visitors and a potential budget deficit, has laid off 10
percent of its staff of 400. Museum president Ioannis Miaoulis says the
layoffs were driven in part by the budget, but also by a reorganization
of management and the way the museum is run. (...more)
Christie's affair with Orientalist art
Christie’s, the world’s leading
art business and auction house, has underlined its ongoing commitment to
the Arab and Iranian art market by introducing a selection of artists
from around the Middle East and North African region at its Orientalist
sale in Paris, staged for June 3. Among the works for sale are pieces
by Iranian artist Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, who created three of the
top ten lots sold at Christie’s most recent art auction in Dubai last
month, as well as works by Lebanese artists Amine El Bacha and Hussein
Madi, Egyptian painters Georges Bahgoury and Ihab Shaker, and Iranian
artists Faramarz Pilaram, Sadegh Tabrizi, and Hossein Kashian. (...more)
Collectors from Russia, Europe, the Mideast and beyond kept the market for contemporary art bubbling at the 39th edition of Art Basel, dealers said after the world's largest art fair closed in Switzerland on June 8. "This was our best-ever Art Basel,'' said London-based dealer Sadie Coles in a telephone interview. ``There were 20 to 50 percent fewer Americans at the fair, but that didn't seem to matter." (...more)
Kubus Project is a sound-machine-musical-sculpture that was first exhibited more than three decades ago, in 1974. The result of a collaborative effort between composer Ton Bruynèl (1934-1998) and sculptor Carel Visser (1928), the work is an environmentally accoustic piece of poetry. At the end of 2007, Bruynèl's sound tapes and Visser's steel cubes entered the permanent collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum. Located in the centre of National Park the Hoge Veluwe, the Netherlands, the KM holds one of the world's greatest collections of modern art and sculpture, including works by Visser who is regarded as the father of Dutch modern sculpture.
Chinese art may face bubble trouble as prices soar When Chinese artist Yue Minjun sold his painting "Gweong Gweong", inspired by the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, he received $5,000. That was in 1994. Fourteen years later, the painting of toothy men dropping like missiles from war planes over Tiananmen, fetched $6.9 million at an auction last month. Feverish bidding at Christie's spring sale in Hong Kong did not stop with the human missiles. Wild applause erupted when Zeng Fanzhi's painting of youths wearing absurd masks and Red Guard scarves went for $9.7 million, a new auction high for any Asian contemporary artwork. (...more)
Civil rights photos on display at Atlanta museum
Contemporary Jewish Museum opens "We're not a history museum and we're not a Holocaust museum," [Connie] Wolf said. "And we're not a JCC (Jewish Community Center). We get to be a hybrid and integrate, to pose questions and start a conversation about Jewish culture, art, history and ideas in the broadest way we can." Hired in 1999 to lead what was then called the Jewish Museum San Francisco into its future home and identity as the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Wolf offered an extensive resume that included stints at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She'd worked at the Rockefeller Foundation and Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She was also an accomplished photographer. She makes a great first impression with her mobile, expressive face, ready smile and gregariousness. (...more)
Art sales: big spenders dispel gloom Roman Abramovich and Brad Pitt were among the better-known big spenders spotted in Switzerland for the opening of the world's biggest modern and contemporary art fair. Art Basel is not just big - three times the size of Frieze - it's important. Every dealer in the world wants to be in it because all the major collectors and curators congregate there: it's the the art world's equivalent of the Cannes film festival. (...more )
After his death in July, mourners of Dmitry Prigov held a wake in a metro carriage. Fans of his poetry read verses out loud while crowding around a makeshift table with food and vodka. Friends commented on how unexpected his death was, saying that a performance featuring Prigov reading poetry from a cupboard while being carried up 22 flights of stairs had been scheduled for the following week. (...more)
Art and artifacts of black experience come to Norton For almost four decades, the Kinseys, who live near Los Angeles, have collected African American art, absorbing its intrinsic ability to tell stories and keep secrets and preserve traditions. Now, a huge chunk of the Kinsey collection has traveled 2,700 miles to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach (...more )
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