Opposition leader Narendra Modi launched the construction of the world's tallest statue on Thursday, a $338 million project in honour of one of the country's founding fathers, that he is using to undermine the ruling Nehru-Gandhi political family.Read the story here
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| Mark Jenkins, Pubic Hair, Photograph, circa 2005 |
Tax authorities in Munich were searching the home of Cornelius Gurlitt, a suspected tax cheat. They surely hoped to find something implicating him in chiseling the tax system. Since Gurlitt is the reclusive son of a Munich art dealer, perhaps the tax authorities thought they might find some art in addition to evidence of tax evasion.Read the whole thing here.
However, they surely didn’t expect to stumble across an astounding 1,500 paintings by masters like Matisse, Picasso and Chagall. The treasure trove of priceless art vanished during the Nazi regime and is valued at $1 billion.
WPA, a 38-year-old nonprofit organization presenting contemporary art and supporting artists in the Greater Washington region, invited Mrs. Rubell to serve as one of eight curators for its 33rd Annual Art Auction Exhibition, SELECT 2014. Each year, WPA invites prestigious curators from renowned institutions to select works which are exhibited for approximately one month and then auctioned to benefit the organization and artists. As an artist service organization, WPA is proud of its long history of equally sharing proceeds of the auction art sales with the artists (a 50/50 split).The selected artists are:
Beginning at 6am on Saturday, October 26, 2013, Mrs. Rubell set out on a 36-hour studio visit marathon throughout the city of Baltimore accompanied by Lisa Gold, WPA Executive Director, and a constantly changing entourage of reporters, photographers, collectors, gallerists, curators, and other arts professionals. From School 33 to the Creative Alliance and at many studios in between, Ms. Rubell listened to, questioned, prodded, and bonded with the 36 artists who were selected through the 36 Studios /36 Hours lottery.
The marathon ended Sunday, October 27 at 6pm and culminated in a reception for all of the artists who applied for a studio visit as well as people in the Baltimore art community. The party, held at Rubell's Lord Baltimore Hotel, was attended by over 200 people and brought together the community in a veritable "love fest" of Baltimore art.
Mrs. Rubell was initially tasked with selecting approximately 10-15 works by 10-12 artists. She ended up selecting 25 works by 19 artists. "There were so many amazing artists," exclaimed Mrs. Rubell. "People should know what's happening in Baltimore." As the visits were made in her role as a curator for WPA's Art Auction Exhibition, many considerations went into Mrs. Rubell's decision-making process, such as scale of the work and availability for exhibition. "The choices were very difficult," Rubell professed. "All of the work I saw was of high quality and the artists were extremely professional and talented."
In a surprise announcement, Mrs. Rubell has arranged for the works she selected to be previewed in New York before the WPA SELECT 2014 exhibition. From January 11 through January 18, 2014, Marianne Boesky Gallery's uptown space (118 E 64th Street) will host Baltimore Artists + WPA + Mera Rubell = LOVE, an exhibition featuring the 25 works chosen through the 36 Studios/36 Hours adventure. The New York preview is a first for WPA and the SELECT auction. "I'm thrilled to be able to offer this incredible opportunity to these talented artists, the majority of whom have no gallery representation, and to be able to bring together the Washington, Baltimore, and New York art communities through our inspired adventure and this wonderful exhibition," said Lisa Gold.
| Name | Ward | Official Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Abdul Ali | 6 | $5,000 |
| Adam Davies | 3 | $10,000 |
| Alexis Gillespie | 4 | $10,000 |
| Anna Edholm Davis | 4 | $7,500 |
| Anne Marchand | 2 | $10,000 |
| Anu Yadav | 4 | $10,000 |
| Armando Lopez-Bircann | 1 | $5,000 |
| Assane Konte | 5 | $7,500 |
| Ayanna Gregory | 4 | $10,000 |
| Brian Settles | 5 | $10,000 |
| Carmen Wong | 2 | $10,000 |
| Carolyn Joyner | 1 | $5,000 |
| Cecilia Cackley | 6 | $10,000 |
| Christylez Bacon | 1 | $5,000 |
| Dan Steinhilber | 6 | $10,000 |
| Dana Burgess | 3 | $5,000 |
| Dana Ellyn | 2 | $5,000 |
| Daniel Flint | 6 | $5,000 |
| David Keplinger | 2 | $10,000 |
| Dean Kessmann | 3 | $10,000 |
| Elizabeth Acevedo | 6 | $10,000 |
| Ellie Walton | 1 | $10,000 |
| Emiliano Ruprah | 4 | $5,000 |
| Eric Gottesman | 1 | $5,000 |
| Fawna Xiao | 6 | $5,000 |
| Fred Joiner | 6 | $7,500 |
| Gregory Ferrand | 4 | $10,000 |
| Holly Bass | 1 | $10,000 |
| James Byers | 7 | $10,000 |
| Joey Manlapaz | 6 | $7,500 |
| Jonathan Tucker | 6 | $10,000 |
| Juan Gaddis | 4 | $5,000 |
| Julia Bloom | 3 | $10,000 |
| Karen Baker | 5 | $5,000 |
| Karen Evans | 5 | $7,500 |
| Karen Zacarias | 1 | $10,000 |
| Kate MacDonnell | 1 | $10,000 |
| Kim Roberts | 1 | $5,000 |
| Krys Kornmeier | 3 | $5,000 |
| Linn meyers | 4 | $7,500 |
| Lisa Farrell | 5 | $5,000 |
| Liz Maestri | 1 | $5,000 |
| Maggie Michael | 2 | $7,500 |
| Marjuan Canady | 4 | $5,000 |
| Mark Parascandola | 1 | $10,000 |
| Matt Sesow | 1 | $7,500 |
| Matthew Mann | 6 | $7,500 |
| Maureen Andary | 4 | $7,500 |
| Maurice Saylor | 5 | $10,000 |
| Michael Janis | 5 | $10,000 |
| Michael Sirvet | 2 | $10,000 |
| Michelle Herman | 4 | $7,500 |
| Mickey Terry | 7 | $10,000 |
| Miya Hisaka | 3 | $5,000 |
| Molly Springfield | 1 | $5,000 |
| Naomi Ayala | 1 | $10,000 |
| Norman Allen | 4 | $10,000 |
| Paul Bishow | 1 | $7,500 |
| Paul Reuther | 2 | $7,500 |
| Paul Thornley | 6 | $7,500 |
| Rania Hassan | 5 | $7,500 |
| Regie Cabico | 1 | $10,000 |
| Renee Stout | 5 | $7,500 |
| Rik Freeman | 7 | $7,500 |
| Ruth Forman | 5 | $7,500 |
| Sam McCormally | 5 | $5,000 |
| Sandra Beasley | 1 | $10,000 |
| Sara Curtin | 1 | $7,500 |
| Sean Hennessey | 5 | $7,500 |
| Siobhan Rigg | 5 | $7,500 |
| Sondra Arkin | 2 | $10,000 |
| Stanley Squirewell | 5 | $5,000 |
| Stephon Senegal | 4 | $7,500 |
| Thomas Colohan | 1 | $10,000 |
| Tim Tate | 2 | $7,500 |
| Trevor Young | 2 | $7,500 |
| Valerie Theberge | 3 | $10,000 |
| Yi Chen | 3 | $10,000 |
No Chinese painting had ever fetched so much at auction, and, by the end of the year, the sale appeared to have global implications, helping China surpass the United States as the world’s biggest art and auction market.Read the NYT story here. And chances are that if you think that you own a real Wifredo Lam, you're in the same boat... cough, cough...
But two years after the auction, Qi Baishi’s masterpiece is still languishing in a warehouse in Beijing. The winning bidder has refused to pay for the piece since doubts were raised about its authenticity.
Just ordered the largest frame to date for my most ambitious electronics-embedded project yet... not my largest work of art ever - that monster is in a private NYC collection - but my largest work with embedded electronics.Over 150 artists entered the lottery to have the opportunity to have Mera Rubell visit their studio and these are a few of the lucky 36 selected. Ms. Rubell and Ms. Gold, Director of the WPA, were joined at points throughout their tour with notable arts professionals from local museums and galleries as well as members of the press from Baltimore and Washington, DC. After the 36 hour marathon Ms. Rubell has invited participants and all applicants to 36 Studios: Part Two to join her for an after party at the Lord Baltimore Hotel on Sunday, October 27 from 6-8:00pm.
"Im still processing that Native Americans are one-third European," says geneticist Connie Mulligan of the University of Florida in Gainesville. "It's jaw-dropping." At the very least, says geneticist Dennis O'Rourke of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, "this is going to stimulate a lot of discussion."Details http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6157/409.full
November 1 - December 21, 2013
Artist Opening Reception: First Friday, November 1st, 6-9 pm
Projects Gallery Philadelphia is pleased to present Alex Queral’s “Face | Book – Phonebook Portraits”. In his third solo exhibition with the gallery, Alex explores the duality of the recognizable and the anonymous in modern society. Works being featured include his signature hand-carved telephone books, as well as large-scale digital prints.
Born in Cuba with a migration to Mexico before landing in the U.S., the artist has experienced first hand the sense of invisibility. Taking, until now, an easily discarded object like a residential telephone book with its lists of thousands of faceless names and numbers, Alex transforms them into three-dimensional portraits of the famous and no-so famous of today’s mass media. Using the simple tools of an X-ACTO® knife and a little acrylic paint, his talented hands dissect, eviscerate and reconstruct these pages of soft material into incredible art objects. Utilizing classical carving techniques on an unexpected material, Queral brings forth the individual from the faceless masses. The artist crafts recognizable visages, vaguely familiar but elusively foreign, as well as evoking his own cast of characters from the found sheets of paper.
What happens to these images when you enlarge them five fold, returning them to the cinematic context from which they came? The graphic details become surprising clear. The object transcends the material and becomes the focal point of discovery and serendipitous moments appear. John Wayne’s given name (in the female) appears on his forehead; Clint Eastwood has a listing of funeral homes, perhaps a reference to the many men shot by Dirty Harry; Zimmerman is hidden behind the head of Bob Dylan. However, with either media, the distinctly iconic work of Alex Queral cannot be denied.
Mr. Queral received a B.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle and a M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. His works have been exhibited around the world and throughout U.S.; most recently at the Philadelphia International Airport and in Hong Kong. They are in the collections of Ripley's Believe It or Not!®, Sasktel Canada, Jerry Speyer and numerous private collections. His images have appeared in numerous books, including Art Made from Books; 500 Paper Objects: New Directions in Paper Art – A Preview; Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Enter If you Dare!; Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing and Reimaging the Book. Queral's work has gained International acclaim through numerous internet bloggers. His carved telephone books and prints are exclusively represented by Projects Gallery.
Face | Book – Phonebook Portraits will run November 1 – December 21, 2013 with an artist reception on First Friday, November 1st from 6-9. The reception is free and open to the public. Projects Gallery is located at 629 N. 2nd St. in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties section. A preview of works may be viewed on the gallery’s website at www.projectsgallery.com. For more information and images, please contact Projects Gallery at 267-303-9652 or info@projectsgallery.com
