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ArtPourriNEA News — NEA Chairman Dan Gioia has received unanimous confirmation from the Senate for his reappointment as leader of the NEA, marking the beginning of his second four-year term. Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. — The U.S. Senate has also confirmed the appointment of six new members nominated by President Bush to serve on the National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the NEA. – The NEA has announced that it will award $19.4 million to fund 848 grants in its first major grant announcement of fiscal year 2007. Recipients of funding for Access to Artistic Excellence grants (including design, folk and traditional arts, media arts, museums, visual arts and more) will include nonprofit national, regional, state and local organizations across the country. Painting Recovered — A painting by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes has been recovered after being stolen recently enroute from the Toledo Museum of Art to the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Originally scheduled to be included in the exhibition Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth and History, the treasured painting Children with a Cart (1778) will be returned to the Toledo Museum, where it is part of the permanent collection. Winner Announced — Tate Britain has announced that German-born artist Tomma Abts won the Turner Prize 2006. Abts is the first woman painter to win since the Prize was founded 22 years ago. Getty News — An agreement has been reached between the Minister of Culture for the Hellenic Republic and the J. Paul Getty Museum for the return of two objects in the collection of the Getty—a gold funerary wreath and a statue of a kore (ancient Greek statue of a young woman). – The Board of Trustees has announced that James N. Wood has been named to serve as president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. An internationally recognized arts leader, Wood was previously director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago. Auction News — At Sotheby’s sale of Books & Manuscripts, a rare document by Michelangelo Buonarroti in reference to an important commission for a church in Rome has sold for $576,000. At the sale of American Paintings, Edward Hopper’s Hotel Window sold for $25.9 million, smashing the previous auction record for the artist, while Norman Rockwell’s Breaking Home Ties set a new gold standard for the artist at $15.4 million. – At Christie’s the record for a post-war work was broken when de Kooning’s Untitled XXV sold for over $27 million. In January, the last Peaceable Kingdom painted by Edward Hicks will lead the Americana sales. Reconstruction Accomplished — After three years of research, anthropologists at Italy’s Chieti University have reconstructed a fingerprint of Leonardo da Vinci. This may help attribute disputed paintings or manuscripts and provide other pertinent information. Milestones — Robert Volpe, a painter, sculptor and New York police detective, has died at the age of 63. Volpe was renowned as the “art cop” who was assigned full time to investigate stolen or forged artwork as well as fraud and vandalism in museums. — Rosie Lee Tompkins, internationally recognized quilter, has died in CA at age 70. Although her works hang in major museums and have appeared in major art publications with rave reviews by critics, Tompkins chose to remain “anonymous” behind the scenes.
Exhibitions: Houston, TX – The Museum of Fine Arts – The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890 – 1950 features approximately 110 paintings, watercolors and photographs by artists including Remington, O’Keeffe, Weston, Benton, Ansel Adams, Pollock and more. The exhibition addresses the strong, mystical attraction the region holds, while providing a meaningful context for the West’s influence on American modernism and the essential role of artists in shaping our views of it. Through Jan. 28. Travels to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in March. Washington, DC – National Gallery of Art – Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt’s Prints and Drawings features about 190 prints and drawings from its own extensive collection, combined with select loans from American private collections. The exhibition is especially rich in outstanding impressions of Rembrandt’s finest etchings, including multiple impressions of the same print to show his distinctive approach. Through March 18. New York, NY – Guggenheim Museum – Spanish Painting From El Greco to Picasso—Time, Truth and History brings together for the first time works by the great Spanish masters of the 16th through the 20th centuries: Velazquez, Murillo, de Goya, Gris, Dali, Miro and many others, as well as El Greco and Picasso. This exhibition is broken into 15 distinct sections, each based on a theme running through the past five centuries of Spanish culture that highlights affinities between the art of the old masters and that of the modern era. Through March 28.
Happy New Year!!
Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 17 No. 3 — January 2007 |
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