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Auction Records Set – Christie’s recent Post-War and Contemporary Art auctions in New York set a new benchmark for the art market, raising a staggering total of $638.6 million and setting 37 new records.  Artist world auction records were set for Jackson Pollock ($58.4 million), Roy Lichtenstein ($56.1 million), Jean-Michel Basquiat ($48.8 million), Philip Guston ($25.8 million) and Piero Manzoni ($14.1 million).  New artist records by medium were set for Cy Twombly (sculpture), Jean-Michel Basquiat (work on paper), Bruce Nauman (work on paper), Urs Fischer (painting) and Christopher Wood (work on paper).

 Works Acquired – The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, has acquired two exceptional European paintings—a recently discovered self-portrait by one of the most celebrated painters in history, Rembrandt, and a light-filled view of the Grand Canal by Canaletto, Venice’s most influential painter.  Painted in oil on copper and measuring 8-3/4 x 6-5/8”, Rembrandt Laughing, circa 1628, is an early self-portrait depicting the artist about age 22 dressed as a soldier.  The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola, circa 1738, is one of Canaletto’s finest achievements in his signature style and is in such pristine condition that the sunlit scene positively glistens.

 Illustrators Elected – Since 1958 the Society of Illustrators has elected to its Hall of Fame artists recognized for their “distinguished achievement in the art of illustration.”  This year’s honorees, chosen based on their body of work and the impact it has made on the field of illustration are Ted CoConis, Sandy Kossin, Murray Tinkelman, George Herriman, Charles M. Schulz and Arthur Rackham.

 Sculptures Acquired – The National Gallery of art has acquired Piano/Piano by Richard Artschwager, a major example of the wooden sculptures that employ Formica as a laminate, for which he is known; Plaster Surrogates by Allan McCollum, the last large grouping available of the artist’s signature works in this series; and Condensation Wall by Hans Haacke, a breakthrough kinetic work from the artist’s early career.

 Director Honored -- Award-winning theatre, opera and film director Julie Tamor will be honored at the 2013 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art First Awards at the Brooklyn Museum on June 13.  The award honors women who have broken gender barriers to make remarkable contributions in their fields.

 Gift Announced – The capital campaign for Miami Art Museum’s new art facility, opening as Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) this December, has reached 85% of its total goal, following a gift of $15 million in cash and art.  An anonymous donor pledged $12 million to the capital campaign as well as an additional $3 million in art, selected by the Museum’s curatorial staff.  This gift will support the endowment for expanded exhibitions and educational programming in the Museum’s new, 200,000 square foot campus designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron.

 NEA News – The National Endowment for the Arts has announced $350,000 in NEA support for 17 new research grants that measure different characteristics and contributions for the arts.  This is the second annual round of Arts Works:  Research grants, which encourage the public to propose research studies using new or existing data sets to measure the value and/or impact of the arts in the U. S.

– Four grants have been awarded for Arts Journalism Projects:  Community Television of Southern California (Burbank), KQED (San Francisco), Macon Arts Alliance (GA) and Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission (St. Louis, MO).  Arts and cultural organizations will have another opportunity to apply for funding to support arts journalism projects with the August 8^th Art Works deadline.  www.nea.gov.

 Save the Date – ART SANTA FE:  Art, the Heart of the Matter will be held July 11-14 at the Santa Fe Convention Center in NM.  This 13^th year will again offer an all-encompassing experience that includes a high-class mix of excellent contemporary galleries from all over the globe, cutting-edge art installations and emerging artists and dealers.  The popular “How Things are Made” art exposition will feature a lithography demonstration and paper making.  www.artsantafe.com. 

Art Opportunities & Events

Schedules sometimes change, so call ahead

2013 Design Talks Series
Cooper-Hewitt Design Center
New York, NY
Design Talks, a vibrant conversation and presentation series organized by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will run through May at the Center in Harlem.  This year’s series will feature winners from the 2012 National Design Awards and focus on collaborative aspects of design.  All programs will be webcast live.  Advance registration is required at http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/panels-talks .
Admission.  Members and students are admitted free with registration.  212.849.8353.

 Fellowships/Internships
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
The 2013/14 call for applications for internships is now available on the Gallery’s Web site, with each having different projects, eligibility requirements and terms:  Internships in the Museum Profession, Graduate Curatorial Internships and Summer 2013 Internships.  202-842-6257;  www,nga.gov/education/interned.htm .

 Art in Embassies
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
The Dept. of State is continually looking for new artists and artwork to be a part of exhibitions.  A registry offers an artist the exposure to their internal curators, who have the responsibility of researching and selecting the artwork for all exhibitions and collections.  Registration is done online only.  For more information, visit http://aiep.artistroster.org/artists/join.cfm .

 New MoMA (NYC) Art Lab App  The Museum of Modern Art’s new app for iPad features exciting art-making activities and imaginative ways for kids ages 7 and up to engage with art and connect with MoMA’s collection. Activities feature fun facts about artists. Cut out shapes with virtual scissors to create a collage inspired by Matisse, shake digital scraps of paper across the screen in homage to Arp’s chance collages, create a sound composition based on art by Elizabeth Murray and much more. Art Lab’s drawing pad includes shapes that can be stretched, rotated and shrunk using zoom and pinch motions, tools to create straight or freeform lines in different widths and a palette with hundreds of vibrant colors. Save art to your gallery within the app and to the iPad’s Camera Roll. Info: www.MoMA.org/artlabapp; 212.708.9805.

Contemporary Journeys Art Lab
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
Last Wed. of each month, 10 – 11:30 a.m. Contemporary art becomes the catalyst for community building, self-expression and appreciating the present in this program designed for individuals with early- to middle-stage Alzheimers and other dementias, their care partners, family and friends. Each lab is designed specifically for participants and uses a variety of materials and approaches to art-making. No experience is necessary! Pre-registration, at least one week in advance of the date, is required. $5/seniors and adults. Care partners and additional family and friends are free. E-mail education.resources@walkerart.org or call 612.375.7609.

Exhibitions

The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Through Nov. 3 (weather permitting)
This large-scale, site-specific work represents the artist’s emotional response to violence occurring across the globe in recent decades and his earnest hope for regeneration and lasting peace in the aftermath of manmade disasters. Using the nearly 8,000 square feet of open-air space as his canvas, Qureshi is the first artist to create a work that is painted directly onto the roof’s surface, which visitors are encouraged to walk on as they view it.

The Playground Project
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA
June 10 – Aug. 16
Part of the upcoming 2013 Carnegie International, this richly illustrated exhibition explores the history of postwar playground design and highlights important examples of playgrounds from the 20th century. More than 130 photographs prints, plans, models and books, along with 11 films and slideshows illustrate the exciting and inspiring history of playgrounds.

Busted
The High Line
Manhattan
Through April 2014
This exhibition includes figurative sculptures, celebratory portraits and commemorative monuments installed on and around the High Line. Nine acclaimed international artists touch upon – at times with levity and sense of humor – issues of democracy, taste and representation of the self in the public space.

Also, see Untitled, a pickup truck transformed into a sculpture in a vertical parking lot by Virginia Overton; Broken Bridge II, a monumental wall sculpture made of pressed tin and mirrors by El Anatsui; A sound installation by Uri Aran, Untitled (Good & Bad); and The River That Flows Both Ways, a glass installation inspired by a 700-minute journey along the Hudson River by Spencer Finch.

Inside|Out
Detroit, MI
Through June 23
Now in its fourth year, this project brings nearly 80 reproductions of masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection to the streets and parks of metro Detroit, pleasantly surprising and delighting residents of the participating communities. Educational opportunities and other fun activities are also planned. http://www.dia.org/calendar/special-event.aspx?id=3755&iid=)
 

--Daring Methods:  The Prints of Mary Cassatt is at The New York Public Library (Manhattan) through June 23.  Spanning 20 years of Cassatt’s career as a printmaker (1878-1898), this exhibition documents her first tentative steps in the medium and culminates with her highly accomplished and technically dazzling color prints.

--Rembrandt’s Century, at the de Young, San Francisco, through June 2, examines a wide range of artworks from the 17^th century.  At its core is a generous selection of etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn.  Virtuosic engravings, ambient etchings, exquisite ink drawing, fanciful watercolors and more illustrate the enormous range and appeal of printmaking and drawing techniques in the time of Rembrandt.

--The featured March tour at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, is Extraordinary Women, where extraordinary women are celebrated in works of art from Ancient Egypt to 21st Century Brooklyn. This tour is offered at least once a week on various days and at varied times to meet your schedule and is also available for private groups. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/index.php?event_type=Talks%20and%20Tours
 

 --The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT - 10:00 – 5:00 - How can art change the world?  Join in this day of artful celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other peaceful activists.  Free family-friendly activities including interactive performances, tours, hands-on art making and a self-guided activity focusing on artists in the Medieval to Monet exhibition.  www.thewadsworth.org.

Because events are subject to change, please call ahead or confirm whenever possible.

Art Competitions/Call for Entries

2 Minute Film Festival
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA
July 18 – 7:30 p.m.
Deadline: June 21
Filmmakers 18 and older: Submit your finest and shortest video-- live-action or animated, documentary, mockumentary, fictional or non-narrative--engaging in some way with the notion of play, and your work could be featured in “At Play,” the third installment of the 2-Minute Film Festival at the museum. Each selected entry will be eligible for People’s Choice and Juror’s Choice prizes. http://2mff.cmoa.org

Paperworks 2013
BJ Spoke Gallery
Huntington, NY
Deadline: July 20
U. S. artists who use paper as their primary medium, as a substrate or as the subject of a video are eligible. Acceptable media are works made of, on or about paper: cut, folded, woven or glued paper; drawings, paintings, pastels, prints, photos, paper sculpture, 3D, bound books, collage, mixed media and video. http://www.bjspokegallery.com/juried-competitions/paperworks/

Best of America NOAPS
2013 National Oil & Acrylic Painters’
Society Annual Juried Art Exhibition
Oct. 13-27 – Dunnegan Gallery of Fine Art Bolivar, MO
Nov. 2 – 20 – The Vine Wine Bar & Gallery, Osage Beach/Lake of the Ozarks, MO
Deadline: August 16
Eligible are all living artists 18 years of age or older with a U. S. return shipping address who create original art in oil and/or acrylic mediums. Artwork must be original and completed Jan. 2010 or later. Awards in cash and art materials. http://www.noaps.org/html/news-events.html

American Artists Abroad
The Bennington Center for the Arts
Bennington, VT
Sept. 28 – Dec. 22
Deadline: August 18
Landscapes, figurative and other representational subjects found outside of the U. S. and created by American artists will be included in a show that will be seen by many visitors this fall. The JPEG file image should be 8 x 10 inches, 300 dpi.
http://www.thebennington.org/index.php/american-artists-abroad

Workshop: Painting the Living Landscapes
Of Federic Church
Olana State Historic Site
Hudson, NY
Sept. 17 – 19
Attend a unique two-day en plein air watercolor workshop with internationally respected watercolor artist Evelyn Dunphy at the home and artist-designed landscape of renowned Hudson River School artist Frederic E. Church. Participants will learn to simplify the complexity of the autumnal landscape, compose a strong design and value pattern and more. 518.828.1872 x 109; shasbrook@olana.org.

Fourth Annual St. Augustine Art Assoc.
Nature & Wildlife Art Exhibition 
Aesthetics of Nature
St. Augustine, FL
July 27 – August 31
Deadline:  June 3

This exhibit explores nature in all of its beautiful forms, from plant life and vast landscapes to the diversity of species that inhabit the oceans and great outdoors.  Artists over 18 years of age are eligible and may enter up to three original 2D or 3D pieces of original works of art. $5,000 in cash awards.  www.staaa.org. 

41^st Open Juried Exhibition
Enduring Brilliance
The Pastel Society of America
The National Arts Club
New York, NY  Sept. 3 – 28
Deadline:  July 1

A primary mandate of the PSA is to provide a forum for the exhibition of works by the most accomplished of pastel artists in the U.S. and abroad, so all pastel artists may apply.  Prizes total over $25,000 in cash and pastel materials.

 117^th Annual Open Juried Exhibition
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
New York, NY  Oct. 1-25
Deadline:  July 8

Any woman artist may submit for jurying one original work executed within the last three years.  Eligible media include oil, acrylic watercolor, pastel, graphics and mixed media.  Not eligible are photography, computer-generated images, crafts, and work done under instruction, derived from published photos or previously shown in a CLWAC Annual Open Juried Exhibition.  Awards total more than $10,000.  http://www.clwac.org/

 2013 Unpaid Internships
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
Current opportunities include the following:

--Department of Audio Visual Services – The intern will assist in the production and post-production of video projects that occur on or around the campus of the National Gallery and include live event capture for lecture programs and editing for podcasts

--Gallery Shops Division – The intern will have experience in photography, imaging and website graphic design to participate in the re-launch of its web store, which is scheduled to occur in October.

For details visit www.nga.gov/education/internvol.htm.

National Small Works Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery

Silver Spring, MD, July 31 - Aug. 25

Deadline - Discounted Early Bird Entries (online only):  April 17

Deadline - All Entries:  May 18

This exhibition is open to any artist 18 years of age or older residing in the U.S.  Works must be original hand-pulled prints completed within the past two years and no larger than 170 square inches (H x W).  Digital prints and photographs are not eligible.  Grand Prize is a solo show at the gallery in August 2014 and there is a $200 purchase prize and $300 in merchandise awards.  http://washingtonprintmakers.com/

31^st Annual New Legacies:  Contemporary Art Quilts

The Lincoln Center Art Galleries, Fort Collins, CO

July 9 – Sept. 2

Deadline:  May 17

This juried exhibition features the current work of the finest national and international contemporary quilt artists.  Art quilts accepted for exhibition will exemplify innovation in quilting and surface design techniques as well as excellence in artistic composition and craftsmanship.  The goal is to recognize the world’s finest contemporary quilt artists and to advance the art form.  Entries must be of the artist’s original design, completed after August 1, 2011.  Awards.

http://www.surfacedesign.org/events/31st-annual-new-legacies-contemporary-art-quilts

 --Save the date!  The Brilliance of Louis Comfort Tiffany:  Painter and Craftsman will open on May 24 at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Hartford, CT.  This exhibition will be a major exploration of the artistic genius of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1837–1933).  Featured will be approximately 100 of his best paintings from the Nassau County Museum in New York, complemented by large stained glass windows, metal and glass objects, furniture and other decorative objects. Additional examples of exquisite jewelry designed by Tiffany will be on loan from Tiffany & Co. Archives.  On view through Sept. 29.

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