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Celebrated British actress and 'National Treasure', Joanna Lumley will unveil the new Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square by Elmgreen & Dragset, tomorrow at 9.30am. Savvy art collectors of Art Kabinett network will be sure to attend this fun event.
Commissioned by the Mayor of London and supported by Arts Council England, AlixPartners and Louis Vuitton, the 4.1m high golden bronze sculpture portrays a boy astride his rocking horse.
The child is elevated to the status of a historical hero in line with the existing iconography of the other statues in the square. Instead of acknowledging the heroism of the powerful, however, the work celebrates the heroism of growing up. In Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 there is not yet a history to commemorate – only a future to hope for.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The famous Ruby Slippers Judy Garland wore in the 1939 MGM film "The Wizard of Oz" are showing their age and need to be removed from display in February in order to prepare them for a new exhibition called “American Stories,” opening April 5. Art collectors of Art Kabinett network can catch a final glimpse before tomorrow.
The slippers are currently on view in “1939” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History through February 22nd. The Wizard of Oz is a fantasy tale about a journey to a magical land and was based on the 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919).
LOS ANGELES, CA - The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Sicilian cultural ministry will collaborate to conserve art objects, stage exhibitions and conduct scholarly research. Soon, art collectors of Art Kabinett social network, and other visitors as shown here, will view even more amazing antiquities at this institute.
The agreement with the Sicilian Ministry of Culture and Sicilian Identity was announced Wednesday in Palermo and Los Angeles.Sicilian museums will lend marble statues and ancient vases to the Getty Museum and the museum's preservation staff will use their expertise in creating displays that protect the artwork from earthquakes, said Getty spokeswoman Rebecca Taylor.
Hannover, Germany - The Kunstverein Hannover presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Europe by the American painter Hernan Bas (born 1978 in Miami, lives in Detroit). Art collectors of ArtKabinett social network have been uploading and sharing his artworks for some time.
The son of Cuban parents, he grew up in Miami and developed in part large-format paintings depicting fantastic, dreamlike landscapes whose protagonists convey a melancholic romanticism.
Hernan Bas, whose work is already represented in numerous public and private collections in the United States and Europe, has evolved a wide-ranging oeuvre within the course of only a few years.
Performance artist Marina Abramovic and iconic architect Rem Koolhaus have paired up to design and build her a huge installation theater in Hudson, New York. The independent art collectors of ArtKabinett network will dedicate lots of time toward an exhibition visit.
That is because this will be a museum dedicated to performance art pieces, with the condition that they must go on for ‘six hours minimum’!
For this purpose, Abramovic bought a massive ex-tennis sports centre within two hours from NYC four years ago. But the project was put on hold since she has been extremely busy – most notably with her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 2010, ‘Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present’.
Miami collector Ella Fontanals-Cisneros was 14 years old when she and her family fled the political upheaval of Cuba's revolution, but now she—and part of her acclaimed collection of contemporary art—are headed home.
This week, Ms. Fontanals-Cisneros said she's planning to send around 85 pieces from her vast art collection to be exhibited in Havana's National Museum of Fine Arts in May.
The exhibit, "Multiple Views: Selections from the Ella Cisneros-Fontanals Collection," will open May 12 to coincide with the 11th Havana Biennial, a citywide survey of new art trends.
Málaga, Spain.- The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga presents "William Kentridge: Won’t you join the dance?", on view at the museum until May 13th. Art collectors of Art Kabinett network avidly collect his artworks, to upload and share on our website.
This is the first exhibition of this South African artist’s tapestries to be held in Spain. Mosaics, sculptures, preliminary studies, collages, videos and Kentridge’s unique drawings will also be included in this exhibition, which is curated by Fernando Francés.
The central work is a tapestry based on a 19th century map of Malaga, which will be shown to the public for the first time at the CAC Málaga.
In an effort to better equip art students with the skills needed for the creative industries, a Philadelphian college – Moore College of Art & Design – have teamed up with Apple so that that everyone will now be given their own iPad 2. Tech savvy art collectors of ArtKbinett network already make heavy use of our website's iPad version.
This initiative will affect all students enrolling in fall 2012 on a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) course, with the tablet being pre-equipped with a number of applications for use in their art and design classes.
‘The iPad 2 will be a pivotal learning tool in the new Foundation curriculum where the integration of digital media and tools will be taught and used in tandem with traditional drawing and design media’, the college explained.
LONDON.- Daniel Crouch Rare Books, leading specialist in rare maps and atlases, exhibited two fine and rare cartographic works at the Miami International Map Fair; by Ptolemy, and Jesuit monk Ferdinand Verbiest. Art collectors of ArtKabinett network would certainly prefer owning of these these historic source documents to downloading the latest iPhone GPS app.
Verbiest, (known as Nan Huairen in Chinese) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China, who became a close friend and aid to the Kangxi Emperor.
Verbiest was highly skilled in astronomy, mathematics, and geometry, and successfully introduced European astronomy to China. Daniel Crouch exhibited his ‘Wall Map of the Western Hemisphere’ (1674) ($130,000) – one of the largest maps of the western hemisphere ever printed.
Boca Raton, Florida.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art announces its season highlight, "American Treasures: Masterworks from the Butler Institute of American Art", featuring 35 works created by renowned American artists.
We recommend this exhibition to any South Florida visiting collector of ArtKabinett network.
The exhibition will run through March 18, 2012. What characterizes a “treasure” and what defines “greatness” in art?
The criteria of a “treasure” – whether historical or contemporary – is decided by history. In these revisionist times, artworks, no matter how important they may have been at the time of their creation, are subject to reassessment of how we view the past.
Christie's has broken the auction record for the most expensive work of British sculpture sold. The work of art, by Modernist Henry Moore depicts a reclining female figure resting on her elbow. Art collectors of ArtKabinett network were enthralled by this stunning auction.
The abstract bronze,titled Reclining Figure was created for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and was commissioned by the Arts Council. It had been valued at £5.5 million with a guide estimate of £5 - £7 million.
The 6ft long artwork was sold for £19.1million ($30 million) after a fierce bidding war at Christie’s in New York. It is thought that the sculpture was purchased by the Cologne dealer Alexander Lachmann, who battled with two telephone bidders to win the auction.
Three paintings from the Hollywood star Liz Taylor’s collection have sold for nearly £14million at auction this week. The savvy art collector of ArtKabinett network anticipated this huge price premium, given these paintings' extraordinary provenance.
The three works, by some of the biggest names in art history - Van Gogh, Edgar Degas and Claude Pissarro – fetched an incredible £13,787,750 at a Christie’s sale – smashing the paltry pre-sale estimate of £6.2million.
Unsurprising, the highest-selling artwork of the three was the Vue de l’Asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Remy by Vincent Van Gogh, shwon here, selling to an anonymous telephone bidder for £10,121,250 – over two thirds of the overall total.
The press view for Lucian Freud’s exhibition of Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery was infused with all the mania one would expect from such a blockbuster. Art collectors of Art Kabinett network will be touring this collection, as part of our visit to the Olympics.
Including over 130 works – from a 1940 portrait of his tutor, to the painting left on the easel at his death in 2011 – this was an exhibition conceived with the living artist back in 2006, to be staged in the year of the Olympics as a cornerstone cultural event.
The exhibition kicks off with his sharp, angular modernist-style portraits, not yet structurally ‘realistic’ in the vein of his later works, but nonetheless rendered with eye-wateringly crystal-clear intensity.
Antoni Tàpies, the Spanish abstractionist has died in Barcelona. He was 88. Tapies was one of the last surviving European first generation abstract painters. The art collector of ArtKabinett network admires his long life of artistic achievement.
He was also a political artist working against the fascist government of General Franco, in his native Catalan region.
Tapis was known for his sprawling works that sometimes featured discarded everyday materials. His adolescence was disrupted by the Spanish Civil War and a serious illness that lasted two years. Tàpies began to study law in Barcelona in 1944 but two years later decided instead to devote himself exclusively to art.
It may appear bizarre that, in the midst of such turbulent economic times, business at auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's is booming. Indeed, art collectors of ArtKabinett network are finding ever-rising price tags on their favorite artists' works.
Christie's, for instance, has announced sales of £3.6bn - up 9% overall on the previous year, and up an incredible 22% on contemporary art sales!
And – while the rest of us are stashing cash under the mattress – this is all thanks to ‘ultra high net worth’ individuals, rich enough to absorb the economic buffeting and remain super-rich. In fact, Sotheby's and Christie's 10 highest-spending families may be responsible for as much as 10% of their revenue.
The nation of Qatar which is better known for its oil than its European art collection has purchased a painting by the post Impressionist, Paul Cézanne for what is thought to be the highest price ever paid for a work of art.
Art collectors of Art Kabinett network have been impressed in a previous AK File by the Qatari royal family's restoration of Paris' Hotel Lambert, located on Île St. Louis. Today's AK Files offers you a glimpse of this stunning collection.
The Card Players was purchased for more than £158.4 ($250m). There are four other versions of the painting located in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d'Orsay, the Courtauld, and the Barnes Foundation.
Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” will forever transform cinema time into real time as museums in the U.K., Israel and France jointly acquired the 24-hour film. The art collector of Art Kabinett network is invited to view an excerpt of this stunning work on today's homepage AK Featured Video.
Israel Museum in Jerusalem spent a low six-figure sum to jointly acquire the video collage with the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Tate in London.
“The Clock,” which is composed of thousands of film images that include clocks, watches or announcements that illuminate the passage of time, premiered in London in October 2010. The work drew about 3,500 visitors in the two days it ran for a full 24 hours in Jerusalem and overall it attracted 50,000 visitors.
It’s time to get excited for The VIP Art Fair, the world’s only exclusively-online art fair, opened this weekend -- continuing through today --, hoping to ‘translate the experience of a traditional bricks-and-mortar fair to an online environment’.
Art collectors of ArtKabinett network have already been provided the free access code via our Kabinett Calendar link.
This year, the virtual fair it boasts 115 galleries including Gagosian, Zwirner, Pace, Max Hetzler, and Hauser & Wirth.
VIP Art Fair represents the culmination of two artworld trends. Firstly, it is situated at the forefront of that frenzied race to unlock the full art-selling potential of the internet, with 2011 seeing the unveiling of numerous internet-based schemes.
Our understanding of the Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa – arguably the most famous painting of all time – is to be radically transformed by the discovery of a contemporary copy. Curious art collectors of ArtKabinett network are sure to want a glimpse of this important art discovery.
Owned by Madrid’s Prado museum, the newly-discovered painting was initially believed it to be an inferior copy from a much later date – until it underwent routine restoration, that revealed it to be the earliest copy of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, being created alongside, and simultaneous to, the original by a pupil!
The significance of this discovery is that it gives a remarkable insight into what Leonardo’s work would have originally looked like.
CHICAGO - One marker in hand and one in his mouth, Lou Chukman glances up and down from a sketchpad to a reputed Chicago mobster across the courtroom — drawing feverishly to capture the drama of the judge's verdict before the moment passes.
Sketch artists have been the public's eyes at high-profile trials for decades — a remnant of an age when drawings in broadsheet papers, school books or travel chronicles were how people glimpsed the world beyond their own.
Savvy art collectors of Art Kabinett network have their eyes on this increasingly rarified genre.
New York City.- VIP Art Fair, the world’s first contemporary art fair held exclusively online, will return with its second fair between February 3rd and February 8th 2012. Many galleries are participating. Art collectors of ArtKabinett network will be jogging their iPads in virtual attendance.
Top international galleries will offer artworks starting from around $500 to over $1 million. Hundreds of works such as Richard Jackson's "Duck in a bucket, 2007", shown here, will be exhibited in the online booth of gallery Hauser and Wirth.
Launched in January 2011, VIP Art Fair leverages international technology to create a live, online marketplace to view, learn about and purchase artworks by leading artists from around the world.
Chicago auctioneers Leslie Hindman has announced a sale of the Property of the popular American songwriter Cole Porter. It will be included in a February 12-14, 2012 Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts auction. The is a fun opportunity for the art collector of Art Kabinett network to acquire some important memorabilia.
The sophistication evident in Cole Porter's musical compositions carries over to his masterfully cultivated collection of furnishings.
The forty-one lots include Continental and Asian furniture, Chinese ceramics, English silver, Baccarat and Steuben stemware, and other fine table wares. A pair of Italian bergères come from Porter’s Manhattan library, which the decorator Billy Baldwin famously outfitted with brass étagères fabricated by P.E. Guerin.
A Camille Pissarro mono print valued at $80,000 is returning to France after being missing for over 30 years.
The valuable artwork was stolen from the Museum in Aix-la-Bains, France, in 1981 and smuggled into the United States. The art collector on ArtKabinett network read yesterday about the "top ten" most steal-able artists.
The French ambassador in Washington has attend a repatriation ceremony celebrating its successful return. In January 2010, a federal jury ruled that the monotype should return to France in accordance with the National Stolen Property Act.
The Art Loss Register has compiled a top ten list of the most stolen artists, and Pablo Picasso comes out as the clear leader, by a long shot. He is followed by the unknown American painter Nick Lawrence who had 557 works stolen in a raid in 2004. This list is useful for the independent collector of Art Kabinett network.
Other Artists to make the list are more obvious names including the vault worthy Marc Chagall and Rembrandt. Warhol is number seven with over 343 works lifted over the years.
LONDON - Passengers stepping out of London Bridge tube station cannot help but crane their necks to gaze at the jagged tower under construction: The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union and looks like a slice of glass balanced on the edge of the London's financial district.
Art collectors of ArtKabinett network are excited about visiting visual attractions like this to coincide with their trip to the Summer Olympics.
When the tower opens next year, visitors to the observation deck will see helicopters fly by at eye level and take in the metropolis all the way to the distant north Downs Hills.
London - Turner Prize nominated artist Artist Tracey Emin is working with British Airways on making-over their aircraft for the Olympics. The lucky art collector of ArtKabinett network may have the opportunity to fly on this plane when visiting London this summer.
Her design will be called ‘The Dove’ and will be emblazoned across BA planes to celebrate London 2012
Tracey Emin has already got here hands dirty for the Olympic lead-up, having created a poster for the Games which was exhibited at Tate Britain last year. Now she is working with the British artist Pascal Anson on the new design for BA aircraft.
Despite centuries of research and exploration to create a complete inventory of the world’s plant life, there may be as many as 100,000 plant species that are not yet known to science, waiting to be cataloged — if we can find and describe them in time. Art collectors of Art Kabinett network spend many hours perusing the Latin terms in their pricey botany litho's and drawings.
The requirement to use Latin — which has been in place, officially, since 1908, and in practice since the 18th century — doesn’t make this process any faster. It is also quite distressing to students learning their flora.
NEW YORK - St. Armand Ventures with Sergio Fernandez de Cordova and Jonathan R. Stein in collaboration with curcioprojects and Mayson Gallery are excited to present artist Fareen Butt’s unique series of crushed gems and semi precious stone “paintings” entitled MIRAGE MOUNTAINSCAPES: Landscapes of Creation.
Now the savvy art collector of ArtKabinett network can collect artwork and jewels all at the same time.
Dominique Nahas, well known writer, curator and educator, wrote an essay to accompany the works.
New York - A prominent art collector has sued the dealer Larry Gagosian, claiming that he sold a 1964 Roy Lichtenstein painting from her collection without her consent. The savvy art collector of Art Kabinett network must always be wary when depositing a painting with an art dealer for further transaction. Make sure you always obtain a receipt of ownership.
The suit, filed Wednesday in state court in Manhattan, is part of a tangle of art deals that led to two earlier lawsuits against the dealer in federal court, one of which Mr. Gagosian settled for $4.4 million last year, according to court papers.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, an exhibition of 37 of the extraordinary Mourners of the Dukes of Burgundy from the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, France, is being shown at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts January 21st through April 15th, on the final leg of a multi-city U.S. tour. This is an ideal art destination for the art collector of ArtKabinett network.
The elaborate tombs of the first Valois dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Bold and his son, John the Fearless, are among the masterpieces of late medieval sculpture in Europe.
