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Sandro Botticelli in The Stadel Museum

artguru — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:09:00 +0000

Personnel from the Stadel Museum hang Sandro Botticelli’s “Minerva and the Centaur” a few days before the exhibition opens in Frankfurt. The Städel Museum will show the first monographic exhibition on Sandro Botticelli (1444/45–1510) in the German-speaking world from 13 November 2009 to 28 February 2010. Taking the artist’s monumental Idealized Portrait of a Lady, one [...]

Degas Pastel Is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale

artguru — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:28:26 +0000

French and Italian could be heard throughout Christie’s salesroom Tuesday night as the fall auction season began unsteadily: While there were some strong prices, there also expensive failures. It was a thin sale of Impressionist and modern art, with just 40 works on offer and prices that fell below estimates. The evening totaled $65.6 million but [...]

Tiny Caravaggio self-portrait revealed by technology

artguru — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:37:55 +0000

Caravaggio (Italian 1571-1610). Bacchus, 1595. Oil on canvas, 37 x 33 inches. The tiny image of the Renaissance master is hidden in a carafe of wine in his 1597 oil painting Bacchus, one of his most acclaimed works which hangs in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery. It shows a man, thought to be Caravaggio at the age of 25, [...]

Martin Westwood

artguru — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:31:34 +0000

It’s the business … Martin Westwood’s corporate collage, Sunset Clause (2004) Martin Westwood makes art from corporate culture. Literally: he builds sculptures using the paraphernalia of commerce, fabricating collages out of brochures, pie-charts, carpet tiles and paperclips. The resulting installations sit somewhere between the sterile world of the car showroom, with its promotional balloons and paperless [...]

Christie’s to Present an Important Auction of Orientalist Masterpieces in London

artguru — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:57:04 +0000

Jean-Leon Gerome, “Man with a Waterpipe and Dog”. Estimate: £800,000 to £1,200,000 Christie’s will offer a highly curated auction of 24 Orientalist masterpieces on November 25, 2009 in London. An important Private Collection of 9 works will form the core of the sale and includes four works by Jean-Léon Gérôme and three exceptional watercolors by John [...]

Bill Thompson

artguru — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:02:20 +0000

Bill Thompson, Toro, 2009, 24″ x 20″ x 7″ Urethane on polyurethane block. Thatcher Projects presents Shift an exhibition of new work by Bill Thompson. From curvilinear and cloud-like to pointedly flexed and bowing, Thompson’s colorful wall structures combine painting and sculpture into a unique minimalist art form. The sculptures included in Shift begin their lives as [...]

Friese Art Fair in London

artguru — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:24:14 +0000

Damien Hirst Presents New Paintings at the Wallace Collection

artguru — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:43:26 +0000

British artist Damien Hirst poses for photographers in front of his painting “White Roses and Butterflies,” 2008, in London. Photo: Reuters/Kieran Doherty (Britain Entertainment Society) British artist Damien Hirst has made a reputation, and sizeable fortune, from suspending animals in formaldehyde and filling medicine cabinets with pills. Now one of the world’s most successful living artists has [...]

Director’s Journal: Virgin of Guadalupe

artguru — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:47:38 +0000

Learn about current IMA events with Melvin and Bren Simon Director and CEO Maxwell Anderson. This episode features a conversation with senior curator Ronda Kasl and conservator Christina O’Connell about the painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe, for the IMA’s exhibition Sacred Spain, running through January 2010. Listen in as they discuss the painting, its [...]

Caravaggio’s “Adoration of the Shepherds” to be Restored in Public

artguru — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:29:57 +0000

A television crew shoots video of Caravaggio’s “Adoration of the Shepherds”, a 1609 masterpiece, the object of a very public restoration in Italy’s lower chamber of parliament, in Rome, Wednesday Oct 7, 2009. Starting next week, small groups of tourists, students and art aficionados will be allowed to watch restorers touch up the painting [...]