Holland America Line's New ms Eurodam Blends Traditional Dutch Art
From the Dutch Golden Age to dramatic sculpture, the new ms Eurodam will showcase a stunning range of artistic works. The 2,104-guest liner - Holland America Line's first Signature-class ship - honors the traditional Dutch art and artifacts integral to the Holland America brand while extending the theme with contemporary works.
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Sotheby's To Offer Portrait Of John McEnroe And Tatum O'Neal By Warhol
Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that it will offer Portrait of John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) in its Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008. The work is estimated at £250,000 – 300,000, and its proceeds will benefit the philanthropic organisation Habitat for Humanity, which provides not-for-profit housing through the help of volunteers.
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Dynamic Tower, The World's First Building In Motion
Visionary Italian architect Dr. David Fisher announced the launch of the revolutionary Dynamic Tower, the world's first building in motion, to be constructed in Dubai and Moscow with other locations planned worldwide. Rotating Tower Dubai Development Ltd headed by the Dynamic Group, announced the opening on June 24 of the reservations list for the first Dynamic Tower in Dubai. The company has also revealed the design and floor plans of the rotating building which will have 80 floors and be 420 meters (1,380 feet) tall. Apartments will range in size from 124 square meters (1,334 SF), to Villas of 1,200 SM (12,916 SF) complete with a parking space inside the apartment.
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The Courtauld Cézannes
The Courtauld Gallery holds the finest group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain. As the culmination of The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th anniversary, the Gallery is showing the entire collection together for the first time. The importance of the collection lies not only in its exceptionally high quality but also in its wide range, with seminal paintings, drawings and watercolours from the major periods of the artist’s long career. The Courtauld also holds an important group of nine hand-written letters in which Cézanne reflects upon the fundamental principles of his art. The Courtauld Cézannes, on view from 26 June to 5 October 2008, will be the first opportunity to enjoy this extraordinary collection in its entirety.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Remembered: Seventy Years After His Death
Provocative, lively, and colorful images became a trademark of the Expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who was born in Aschaffenburg on May 6, 1880. The artist’s sensibility and physical and psychological disposition are reflected not only in his numerous paintings and drawings but also in his woodcuts and sculptures.
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Whitney And Pompidou To Present Alexander Calder Exhibition
"Alexander Calder: The Paris Years" is the first comprehensive, critical look at the formative seven-year period between 1926 and 1933, when Calder, on his way to becoming one of the greatest American sculptors, discovered his own singular artistic vocabulary. A partnership between the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, this exhibition presents a fresh perspective on one of the most well-loved and critically esteemed artists of the 20th century, focusing on the period during which Calder came into his own.
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Credit Suisse "Art & Entrepreneurship" Exhibition Unveiled In New York
The Credit Suisse international "Art & Entrepreneurship" exhibition will be on display at the Chelsea Art Museum from June 23 to 29. The exhibition features a new generation of 19 successful artists from around the globe and contains unique pieces of art, all based on the theme of entrepreneurship; a spirit which has fuelled important breakthroughs in science, business and culture.
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art Hosts Roman Art From The Louvre
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will be the final North American venue for Roman Art from the Louvre, June 19 through October 12, 2008. The sixteen-week exhibition, so large it will occupy the Museum’s ground floor special exhibition gallery and the eight second floor galleries of the Museum, will feature 184 works, some weighing more than 6,000 pounds. An unprecedented exhibition of ancient masterworks, drawn from the Louvre’s unparalleled collection, it provides a rare and historic opportunity for Oklahoma audiences to view these magnificent works, many of which have not been seen by the public in decades and most of which have never traveled to the United States. Furthermore, many of the objects in the exhibition have recently been restored, bringing to light their original beauty and strength of expression.
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Sotheby's To Auction Damien Hirst Works In September
Sotheby’s London will present "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", a major auction of new works by Damien Hirst, on 15 and 16 September 2008. "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" is an historic sale which incorporates an extraordinary range of works by Mr. Hirst, all created over the past two years. From monumental formaldehyde sculptures to new paintings which expand on the artist’s classic themes such as butterflies, cancer cells and pills; from exquisite new cabinets to insightful preparatory drawings, the works in the sale document the full breadth of the artist’s creative output.
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BMA Announces Ambitious US$65M Campaign
The Trustees of The Baltimore Museum of Art announced a US$65 million philanthropic campaign—the most ambitious in the Museum’s 95-year history. To date, $40 million has been raised during the silent phase, placing the campaign more than halfway to its goal. In "A New Light: The Campaign for The Baltimore Museum of Art" was announced at the Museum’s annual meeting by Campaign Chair and former BMA Board Chair Charles W. Newhall III. Funds raised by the campaign will increase the Museum’s endowment and support physical transformations such as reopening the BMA’s grand front entrance.
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Solar-Powered "Modern Stonehenge" To Be Launched on June 21st
Twelve shimmering metal shafts rise at surprising angles from a grassy hill. They hang over the landscape, creating a graceful curve that appears to unfold for passing motorists. The shafts are part of Solar Collector, a sculpture created by artists Matt Gorbet, Rob Gorbet, and Susan LK Gorbet as a commission for the Region of Waterloo. Set in front of the Regional Operations Centre in Cambridge, Ontario, the sculpture is solar-powered and interactive, inviting the community to choreograph its nightly performance via the web.
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Texas Tech Museum Hosts Exhibition Of Actor And Artist Anthony Quinn
From bits of wood and seashells to world-renowned artists such as Renoir and Matisse, Anthony Quinn’s art and the works he collected demonstrate that art is found everywhere. Quinn, who is best known as an actor, also was a skilled artist and avid art collector. Of the more than 3,000 pieces in his collection, 100 have been assembled to form the traveling exhibition "Anthony Quinn: A Lifetime of Creating and Collecting Art," on display June 22 to Nov. 30 at the Museum of Texas Tech University.
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Christie's Offers Outstanding Impressionist And Modern Art In London
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place on 24 June 2008 at 7pm and will offer an outstanding selection of paintings and sculptures, led by Claude Monet’s "Le bassin aux nymphéas", the most significant work from the artist’s water-lily series to be offered at auction in Europe. The sale will be on public view from 20 to 24 June at Christie’s King Street salerooms, and is expected to realise in excess of £90 million.
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On The Road Exhbition Opens June 26 At The Indianapolis Museum Of Art
The Indianapolis Museum of Art reunites two of the iconic members of the American anti-establishment "Beat Generation" of the 1950s—novelist Jack Kerouac and photographer Robert Frank—in the exhibition, On the Road Again with Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank. The show includes the original typescript for Kerouac’s 1957 classic novel, "On the Road", and 83 photographs taken by Robert Frank during his own two-year cross-country pilgrimage in the 1950s. "On the Road" will be on display at the IMA from June 26 through September 21, 2008.
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Carnegie Museum Of Art Painting Chosen For National Endowment Program
Picturing America, a new education program from the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association, has been designed to help teach American History to students in grades K–12 through the study and understanding of masterpiece works by American artists. Included in the 40 works chosen for the initiative is Carnegie Museum of Art’s "Portrait of a Boy", 1890, by John Singer Sargent, on view in the museum’s Scaife Galleries.
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Western Australian Premier's Indigenous Art Awards Launched
Australia’s richest indigenous contemporary art awards have been launched by Premier Alan Carpenter. The Premier said the inaugural Western Australian Premier's Indigenous Art Awards, worth $1.1million over four years, recognised the significant contribution of indigenous artists to our community.
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Goncharova Painting Sells For £1.7 Million at Bonhams Sale
An exceptional oil painting, "The Sailboat", by the world’s most expensive female artist, Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) sold for £1.7m at Bonhams Russian Sale in New Bond Street, London, on 9 June. The sale which featured 241 lots made a total of £5.5million with strong bidding in the saleroom and on the phone.
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Outstanding Results For Art 39 Basel
The 39th edition of the international art show closed on a very high note. The 300 exhibiting galleries considered this year’s Art Basel a great success. The 60,000 visitors to Art 39 Basel included not only art collectors, museum professionals, and art enthusiasts from all over the world. A great many artists were also drawn to the event, among them Ellsworth Kelly, Thomas Ruff, Takashi Murakawi, Tony Oursler, Pipilotti Rist, Ernesto Neto, Andrea Zittel, Isa Genzken, and Dan Graham, to name only a few. Some 2,300 media representatives from all continents came to see what the international art market has to offer.
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David Starkey Joins Campaign To Save Rubens For The Nation
The historian David Starkey has lent his support to Tate Britain’s campaign, backed by The Art Fund, to acquire for the nation Rubens’s oil sketch "The Apotheosis of James I: Multiple Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling" (1628-30). Tate has today united the sketch with the ceiling paintings at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for probably the first time since their completion in 1634. The works are brought together on the same day, 5 June, that Rubens first arrived in London in preparation for his meeting with Charles I about the Banqueting House commission on 6 June 1629.
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The Grand Tour 2008: National Gallery Paintings Hit The Streets Of York
Life-size reproductions of paintings from the National Gallery have been unveiled in York for the latest stage of the Grand Tour. For the next 17 weeks, 45 reproductions of some of the Gallery’s most major works are hanging in unexpected and unusual places around the city. The Grand Tour in York follows on from success in London last summer, when reproductions of National Gallery paintings appeared in the streets of Soho, Piccadilly and Covent Garden.
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Contemporary Jewish Museum Grand Opening
The new 63,000-square-foot, Daniel Libeskind-designed Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM), in San Francisco's Yerba Buena cultural district celebrates its Grand Opening on Sunday, June 8, 2008. The ribbon cutting ceremony begins at 10am, followed by a full day of activities for all ages. Visitors will enjoy admission-free access to the Museum from 11am - 5:30pm.
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Renowned Artist Andrea Zac At Piasa Auction in Paris
On June 20, assisted by Elisabeth Marechaux-Laurentin, Thierry Picard and François Lorenceau, PIASA will offer an important ensemble of 19th & 20th Century Drawings, Paintings & Sculpture. Highlights include Renoir's "Path Through the Fields" (oil on canvas, signed bottom right), exhibited at the Max Kaganovitch Gallery in Paris in 1950, then at the Gemeente Museeum in Amsterdam, and again at Kaganovitch in 1966 as part of the gallery's 30th anniversary exhibition Les Trente Ans de la Galerie Kaganovitch.
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B.O.A. Fair: The Only International Asian Art Fair In Europe
The fourth international Brussels Oriental Art Fair, unparalleled in Continental Europe, meeting point par excellence for art lovers, collectors, directors, experts and conservators of museums, foundations and art market professionals, will be held in Brussels between Wednesday 4 and Sunday 8 June 2008 under the aegis of the non profit organisation B.O.A. Fair.
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Art 39 Basel: El Dorado of the International Art World
The 39th edition of Art Basel takes place in the museumrich city of Basel (Switzerland) from June 4 through June 8, 2008. As the world’s premier art show, Art Basel is the annual meeting place of the international art world. This year’s 300 exhibiting galleries from all over the world were selected out of a record number of over 1,000 applications and will be showing works by over 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Art Unlimited hall, with its 60 largescale projects, and Art Basel Conversations, featuring internationally respected panelists, represent further highlights. The Art on Stage platform (presented in association with the Theater Basel) will provide the framework for the performance Drama Queens by artists Michael Elmgreen (Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (Norway). The local museums also have fascinating exhibitions (including Chaim Soutine, Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska, and Fernand Léger) and a broad range of events in store.
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Freud Masterpiece And Unseen Bacon Triptych At Christie's London
Christie’s announce two exceptional highlights to be offered at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 30 June 2008 in London; "Naked Portrait with Reflection" by Lucian Freud, one of the most important works by the artist to be offered at auction and "Three Studies for a Self Portrait" by Francis Bacon, which has never before been seen in public. The London sale follows the strong results seen at Christie’s recent auctions of Post- War and Contemporary Art in New York, which realised $431 million/£221 million and saw Lucian Freud’s "Benefit Supervisor Sleeping" sell for $33 million/£17.3 million, a world record price for a work by a living artist sold at auction.
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