On 7 March 2008, the Prince Claus Fund will present its Cultural Emergency Response program at TEFAF Maastricht. Cultural Emergency Response provides global “first aid” for cultural heritage that have been damaged or destroyed by man-made or natural disasters. The program will consist of a speech by H.R.H. Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, Honorary Chairman of the Prince Claus Fund, on the importance of cultural emergency relief. Chair of the CER Steering Committee and Rector of the Institute of Social Studies, Louk de la Rive Box, will give a presentation on the work of the CER program. Omara Khan Massoudi, the Director of the National Museum in Kabul and a 2004 Prince Claus Laureate, will describe the rescuing of the Museum's collection during the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. By invitation only.
This landmark exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts presents modern masterpieces drawn from Russia’s principal collections: the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. For the first time, works from these museums have been gathered for a single exhibition. Over 120 paintings by Russian and French artists working between 1870 and 1925 will be displayed together in an exhibition which surveys the main directions of modern art from Realism and Impressionism to Non-Objective painting. Works will include paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse together with those by Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich.
Three Korean galleries set up in New York By Sunhee Choi | Posted 04 October 2007 NEW YORK. Three Korean galleries are opening branches in New York, reflecting the increasing popularity of Korean contemporary art. Arario Gallery, which is owned by businessman and collector C.I. Kim, already has spaces in Cheonan and Seoul in Korea, and in Beijing. It is opening its fourth branch, Arario New York, on 25th Street in Chelsea next month, with an exhibition of work by contemporary Chinese artists such as Wang Guangyi. Arario will use the gallery, designed by British architect David Adjaye, to show works by Korean, Chinese and Indian artists such as Yang Shaobin, Zeng Hao and sculptor Tallur L.N. “We hope to give the western public more of a chance to appreciate these works, and to overcome the prejudice sometimes associated with the Asian contemporary art scene [that the work is of an inferior quality],” says Jeeah Choi, the director of Arario Seoul. Gana Art Gallery is also planning to open its first US space, in Chelsea. It recently signed a ten-year lease for 9,800 sq. ft on 11th Avenue, between West 24th and 25th Streets. The gallery became the first Korean dealership with a branch overseas when it opened a space in Paris in 1995. It aims to stage its first exhibition in New York next March. Tina Kim Fine Art is also set to relocate its gallery, which is currently closed, next to Arario and near the Gana Art Gallery. For the past five years it has been located on 57th Street in Manhattan. The gallery owner, Tina Kim, is the daughter of Lee Hyun Sook, director of one of the leading Korean galleries, Kukje, based in Seoul. In co-operation with Kukje, Ms Kim aims to promote established Korean and western artists in her Chelsea gallery.
McEnroe, Caxton's Lennox Sue Gallery Amid `Liquidity Crisis' By Lindsay Pollock and Philip Boroff Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Housed in a 25,000-square-foot palazzo off Madison Avenue, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries bills itself as a top-flight New York dealer that offers unprecedented access outside of a museum to Titians, Michelangelos and other masterpieces. Roy Lennox, a senior managing director of hedge-fund company Caxton Associates, which manages more than $14 billion, puts it differently. During four years dealing with proprietor Lawrence B. Salander, Lennox claims he was a victim of ``what has emerged as nothing more than an illegal Ponzi scheme,'' according to a lawsuit he filed in August in New York State Supreme Court. Lennox seeks to recover at least $4.6 million and $10 million in punitive damages. John McEnroe says in a May suit that Salander didn't make good on a promise to double the tennis star's $162,500 investment in five months. Former New York Observer Publisher Arthur Carter filed an August suit seeking more than $1.2 million for funds he says he's owed. Anthony Doniger, a Salander lawyer, said in an April court appearance regarding one suit that the dealer ``has a liquidity crisis, there's no question about it.'' At least 15 lawsuits have been filed against the 31-year- old gallery in the past year, many of them naming Salander himself as a defendant. The maelstrom is the talk of dealers who are concerned the accusations could erode confidence in the art market, inspire new legislation that crimps the lightly regulated industry and send collectors to trade at auction houses instead of with galleries. Roland Augustine, president of the Art Dealers Association of America, said if the allegations are proven, it will be a problem ``of monumental proportions.''
EMIN LIBRARY IN UGANDA British art star Tracey Emin, who shot to fame in 1995 with an embroidered tent inscribed with the names of "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995," has embarked on an architectural adventure of a different sort. On Feb. 18, 2008, she is inaugurating the Tracey Emin Library outside of the capital of Kampala in the African nation of Uganda. The library is run as part of Forest High School, and will function as a center for adult literacy and computer skills as well as a library serving 800 students, ages 12 to 18. Emin worked with the charity Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS), which she met a scant six months ago, and an investment company to bring the dream alive.
Visual art: The focus is on the new, the trendy, the hip, the cool Amid all the exhibits of modern and contemporary art, a display of ancient Chinese artifacts will come to Orange County. By RICHARD CHANG - The Orange County Register - Friday, September 21, 2007 It's going to be another busy season – and busy new year – in visual art. The bigger institutions are preparing their hallmark exhibitions, while the smaller art centers are aiming to present works that stimulate thought, pleasure, dialogue and, hopefully, repeat visits. Modern and contemporary art seem to be favorites, with a "Birth of the Cool" exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art, a "Dalí: Paintings & Film" show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a big "California Video" survey next year at the Getty. Move over "Star Trek": Seven artists will explore the "vinyl frontier" at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, while 14 international artists will incorporate animation concepts and technologies at the San Diego Museum of Art.
‘Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design’ - 29 September 2007 – 13 January 2008 In the first major exhibition of its kind, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen reveals the bizarre and shocking world of Surrealism in all its extravagant variety. No art movement has had a greater impact on our culture than Surrealism, launched in 1924 by André Breton. The exhibition ‘Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design’ designed by Walter Van Beirendonck and Dirk Van Saene shows how from the 1920s this movement infiltrated fashion, theatre design, architecture and the interior. World-famous paintings by Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Max Ernst are combined with some of the most eccentric objects of the twentieth century.
Social networking Web site launched for artists LONDON (Reuters) - A Canadian publisher and philanthropist has launched a new social networking site for artists, underlining the growing influence of the Internet in showcasing and selling art. Louise MacBain said the site, www.myartinfo.com, could be compared to popular networking site www.facebook.com, and allowed artists to showcase their work, chat with each other online and blog. "The idea is that it becomes a global platform for people to go and show their art," said MacBain, a wealthy businesswoman who has invested heavily in the arts in Britain in recent years. "With myartinfo people can post for free their art -- not only visual art, but performing arts, film, poetry, sculpture, fashion, architecture and design." MacBain's company LTB Media has also re-launched www.artinfo.com, an online guide to art and culture, and a new Art Sales Index allowing users to access auction prices and other records for more than 200,000 artists.
Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art 13 October, 2007 – 14 January, 20 - Mori Art Museum “Roppongi Crossing” is a series of exhibitions produced by the Mori Art Museum to introduce Japanese creative talent working in a wide range of genres. The first in the series was held in 2004 – and is to this day used as a reference point for contemporary Japanese visual culture. For “Roppongi Crossing 2007” four curators focused on the idea of 'intersection,' selecting 36 artists whose work has an energy and sphere of influence that spreads beyond the confines of conventional artistic categories. Their art takes a variety of forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, manga, games, and even unlikely genres such as dollmaking and bathhouse mural painting. In addition to artists who are emerging on the scene right now, the list also includes others who drove the scene in its formative period in the 1960s and 1970s, and whose feverish output continues unabated today.
A Kingdom in the Mountains Shares Its Secrets By SUSAN EMERLING Published: February 24, 2008 Rounding up artifacts and traditions from the remote country of Bhutan for an exhibition took a years-long effort from a team of experts.
