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| | Shock art fails to sell in Rotterdam (Source The Art Newspaper)
Stuffed, reversible animal was the talk of the fair
ROTTERDAM. Most of the discussion surrounding the ninth edition of Art Rotterdam in the Netherlands last month (7-10 February) centred around a single work of art: a taxidermied dog, which, when turned inside out, became a cat.
The piece, titled Popple after stuffed toys sold in the 1980s, is by Katinka Simonse, a Dutch artist who goes by the name “Tinkebell”. It was on offer at Amsterdam-based Torch Gallery for e4,500 ($6,500). Tinkebell has in the past angered animal rights groups in the Netherlands with works such as a “fashionable purse” she claims she made out of her pet cat and a project that involved putting (dead) baby chicks into a paper shredder.
In general, the displays by the 75 galleries at this year’s fair were “more daring” than in previous years, said Art Rotterdam director Fons Hof, co-owner of the Hof & Huyser contemporary art gallery in Amsterdam. He did not mention Tinkebell’s reversible dog, and when asked about it, he said: “I didn’t mean that piece,” adding that he had not seen it.
The small contemporary fair, which took place at the Rotterdam Cruise Terminal on the banks of the Maas River, aims to display emerging talent. The bulk of the works for sale were priced below e10,000 ($14,500), with only a handful of items in the five-figure range. “Pieces for E800 to e1,000 ($1,200-$1,500) sold very quickly and easily,” said Aeneas Bastian, owner of Upstairs Berlin, a German gallery that was making its third appearance at the fair.
There were some notable exceptions. Among the highest priced works were large gold-leaf paintings by contemporary Indian artist Anant Joshi at the Amsterdam gallery, Willem Baars Project. Single paintings went for e38,500 ($56,000) and triptychs sold for e96,000 ($140,000): Mr Baars said he sold out before opening night. | From News: The Art Newspaper
Disproven: Thyssen claims to be innocent of Nazi crimes
By Anna Somers Cocks | Posted 01 March 2007
LONDON. A new book published by Quartet about the German family of industrialists, the Thyssens, reveals that their involvement in the Nazi war machine was much greater than has been divulged, involving extensive use of slave labour. A massacre of Jews also took place at the end of the war in the grounds of the family castle. | The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, under the patronage of His Majesty Don Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, is a non-profit organisation founded with the purpose of conserving, studying, exhibiting and publicising the collections of art displayed at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. | Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love
through May 4 - The Getty Center
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) is associated with the lighthearted Rococo art of prerevolutionary France. It is often assumed that he fell out of favor as tastes shifted toward the more severe, Neoclassical art of the 1770s and 1780s. However, Fragonard created many marketable works during this time that reached a wide audience through engravings and prints.
This exhibition focuses on the most popular compositions of Fragonard's later career: a series of allegories on the theme of love. These share a riveting sense of drama, heightened contrasts of light and shadow, and a restricted palette redolent of nocturnal mystery—characteristics that indicate a new Romantic sensibility. Fragonard's intimate allegories are among the earliest and most eloquent expressions of a new vision of romantic love as an all-consuming experience of near-mystical communion—a vision that was worlds apart from the blithe, libertine spirit of the Rococo era. | Ultrahigh-speed Internet2 gets 10x boost in anticipation of particle collider for physicists
By Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- The ultrahigh-speed Internet2 network just got 10 times faster, partly in anticipation of rising demand for capacity after the world's largest particle collider opens near Geneva next year.
Until recently, the Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, which is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections. By sending data using 10 different colors, or wavelengths, of light over a single cable, operators are boosting the network's capacity to 100 Gbps.
That means a high-quality version of the movie ''The Matrix'' could be sent in a few seconds rather than half a minute over the old Internet2 and several hours over a typical home broadband line | THE BRITISH ROYAL COLLECTION - FROM BRUEGEL TO RUBENS - 16.05.2008 - 21.09.2008
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium will host some fifty paintings from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The exhibition will previously have been shown at The Queen’s Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse and then subsequently at Buckingham Palace in London. The selection, centred on the paintings produced in our region comprises major works by Memling, Metsys, Gossaert, Bruegel the Elder, Paul Bril, Rubens and Van Dyck. These works will be displayed alongside relevant masterpieces from our own collections. The Massacre of the Innocents by Bruegel the Elder from the British Royal Collection will for the first time take its place beside The Numbering at Bethlehem from the Museum of Fine Arts collection, thus providing a opportunity to see the way in which Bruegel depicted biblical scenes in the snowy Brabant landscape in these two paintings. | Building and Leveraging Social Networks: How Artists Can Prosper - Clicking on the title will bring you over to the article. It covers not only the benefits of an online social network, but how to construct one on myartspace.com. Click here to view "Building and Leveraging Social Networks " in PDF format. | | |
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