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Hong Kong Stirs From Slumber
Sotheby’s kicks off its Modern and Contemporary Asian Art sales in Hong Kong on 6 October 2009. The day will be divided into three sessions: 20th Century Chinese Art, Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings and Contemporary Asian Art. The catalogues are ambitious with more than 380 works by Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Indonesian and Korean artists, and a total revenue estimate of close to $25m.
Eagerly awaited, these sales will inevitably give some indication of the kind of results that can be expected at the November sales, particularly the Contemporary Art sales in New York and the Asian Art sales in Honk Kong (Christie’s, 29 and 30 November). Remember that the first consequences of the global financial crisis on the art market became apparent in Hong Kong in October 2008 before spreading to the rest of the world. (Copyrighted by artprice.com)
Eagerly awaited, these sales will inevitably give some indication of the kind of results that can be expected at the November sales, particularly the Contemporary Art sales in New York and the Asian Art sales in Honk Kong (Christie’s, 29 and 30 November). Remember that the first consequences of the global financial crisis on the art market became apparent in Hong Kong in October 2008 before spreading to the rest of the world. (Copyrighted by artprice.com)
Living Green: The Missing Manual
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Living Green: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner published by O’Reilly in 2009. Climate change is making the seas rise and the weather change, and threatening biodiversity. There isn’t enough clean water in many parts of the world. Earth is home to an interconnected series of ecosystems that maintain an astonishing variety of life, but the planet faces some major changes. This title tells you specific things you can do every day to live a green life and save this planet one step at a time. This important book gives plenty of reasons to think about impact on the planet, its real focus is practical suggestions for making your impact a positive one. Author Nancy Conner holds a Ph.D. from Brown University and is the author of numerous books.
Inspired by the newly created Center for Sustainable Design Studies and Research (CSDS) led by Deb Johnson, this exhibition in two parts will document both theoretical and creative approaches to the design and interpretation of urban streets as well as document the process of a local realized urban design project. In August of 2009 the Pratt Manhattan Gallery was transformed into a design studio where three invited guests met and worked. The cross-disciplinary design trio of Amy Guggenheim, artist, writer, filmmaker and professor; Mitchell Joachim, architect, designer and co-founder Terreform ONE; and Leon Reid IV, street artist, teacher, and Pratt alumnus met to discuss, and theorize the design of the “street” for our contemporary culture, for sustaining communities, and to add to the exploration of contemporary critical design theory. Pratt Falls: A cabaret produced by Larry Litt that celebrates our urban environment with music, comedy and performance.
Fridays, October 9, 16, and election night Tuesday, November 3, 7 pm
A Touch More Rare
A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Arts of Interpretation, edited by Nina Levine and David Lee Miller,
Beard Books: Law & Business
The Beard Group offers a comprehensive range of leading-edge products and services to legal and business professionals, including traditional and electronic publishing, databank document search and delivery, and conferences.
Beard Books is a law and business publisher, for years. Its high rate of activity is evinced by the more than 300 titles in its library. As a small publishing company, Beard Books are able to keep personal contacts flourishing and to supply friendly, efficient service for customers and authors. Admiralty and Maritime Law, Abridged Edition by Robert Force, A. N. Yiannopoulos, and Martin Davies published by Beard Books in 2009. The admiralty law of the USA has grown out of the statement in Article lll, Section 2 of the Constitution. Article lll is not self-executing, it does not establish an admiralty judicial system. It just confers the judicial power. The Maritime Law Center was created in 1982 and functioned under the Directorship of Professor Robert Force until 1986, when the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund formally approved a resolution establishing the Center as a division of the Law School.... This volume is a comprehensive account of U.S. admiralty and maritime laws provided in a 2-volume Practitioner's Edition. The Abridged Edition presents, used for the instruction of maritime law at Tulane Law School, presents the sometimes bewildering array of maritime law doctrines in a comprehensible form, and is a great resource for student of maritime law.
Robert Force is Niels F. Johnsen Professor of Maritime Law at Tulane Law School. He is also Director Emeritus of the Tulane Maritime Law Center and holds the degree of B.S. and LL.B. from Temple University and LL.M. from New York University.
A.N. Yiannopoulos is retired as Eason-Weinmann Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and Chair of the Eason-Weinmann Center for Comparative Law. He holds an LL.D. degree from the University of Thessaloniki. There he first received his Diploma in Law and the degree of M.C.L. and LL.M. from the University of Chicago, J.S.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and Dr. Jur. from the University of Cologne.
Martin Davies is Admiralty Law Institute Professor of Maritime Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Maritime Law Center. Martin holds the degree of M.A. and B.C.L. from the University of Oxford and LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
Sleeping Naked Is Green
Sleeping Naked Is Green by Vanessa Farquharson published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009. This is the story how an eco-cynic unplugged her fridge, sold her car, and found love in 366 days. When it comes to a green movement, everyone from musicians to politicians should not talk about what all this doing actually entails, but started doing something..It is important to buy local or organic food, build more bike lines... This relevant title will teach you what to do to save this world and go green: switch to recycle paper towels, no more electric heating pad, no more bottled water, switch to organic conditioner, switch to electronic billing, don't buy a microwave, switch to phosphate-free dish detergent, forgo electronic gym equipment, use tote bags, cancel cable, no more aerosol cans, no more disposable cultery and plates, and much more. Author writes in this book about her foray into the green world with accessible and humorous insight, it is her honest look at what happens when girl goes green. Vanessa is an arts reporter and film critic at the national Post in Toronto. She also writes a weekly columns on the environment.
NYSID Will Launch Three New Degree Programs
Over the next year, NYSID will launch three new degree programs, the first new programs to be created at the college since 1996. "To be a leader in interior design education requires that we look beyond how and what we teach as part of our design curricula toward something more expansive and inclusive of the gamut of design disciplines," said NYSID President Christopher J. Cyphers. "The college has evolved to the point where we can add new programs that are a logical extension of our mission."
A three-year, 90-credit Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design
NYSID will also be offering a one-year Master of Professional Studies in Sustainable Interior Environments launched this fall. This unique program—designed for students possessing a baccalaureate degree in an unrelated field—provides the professional-level education necessary to become licensed interior design practitioners. The curriculum combines seminar and studio courses in art and design history, graphic communication, technical skills and knowledge, and professional practice.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Amidst the cultural and political ferment of the 1960s, avant-garde artists and architects began embracing biological and scientific models as well as the potentials of emerging technologies to explore radical new directions in urban design, developing projects that were at once fanciful, complex and conceptually serious.
This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Metabolic City, an exhibition surveying work by the British collective Archigram; the Japanese Metabolists (whose members include Fumihiko Maki, architect of the Kemper Art Museum); and the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, an early member of the Situationist International.
Curated and designed by Heather Woofter, assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Metabolic City will feature approximately 70 drawings, plans, models and conceptual projects, including rarely seen materials drawn from private archives and a sampling of work by influential predecessors.
Organized thematically, the exhibition explores theoretical and conceptual overlaps between these groups, all of which came to view the city as a kind of living organism, in which civil infrastructure forms the basis for social interaction and individual liberty. At the same time, though they articulated their views in explicitly political terms, each pioneered distinctive — and remarkably prescient — means of architectural representation, often employing techniques and processes that are only now entering mainstream practice.
Public Opening September 18, 7-9 pm.
This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Metabolic City, an exhibition surveying work by the British collective Archigram; the Japanese Metabolists (whose members include Fumihiko Maki, architect of the Kemper Art Museum); and the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, an early member of the Situationist International.
Curated and designed by Heather Woofter, assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Metabolic City will feature approximately 70 drawings, plans, models and conceptual projects, including rarely seen materials drawn from private archives and a sampling of work by influential predecessors.
Organized thematically, the exhibition explores theoretical and conceptual overlaps between these groups, all of which came to view the city as a kind of living organism, in which civil infrastructure forms the basis for social interaction and individual liberty. At the same time, though they articulated their views in explicitly political terms, each pioneered distinctive — and remarkably prescient — means of architectural representation, often employing techniques and processes that are only now entering mainstream practice.
Public Opening September 18, 7-9 pm.
The Kemper Art Museum features cutting-edge special exhibitions, exceptional educational resources, and an outstanding collection of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century European and American art. A stimulating and unique site to experience art, culture, and education in St. Louis, located on Washington University's Danforth campus. FREE and open to the public . http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu.
Sept. 18, 2009, to Jan. 4, 2010
Major Loan Exhibition to Explore Use of Chance, Randomness And Probability in Modern Art
Dripping or flinging paint; flipping coins to compose musical scores; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition — since the early 20th century avant-garde artists have used these processes and many others to explore the creative possibilities of chance and its attendant release of authorial intent. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Chance Aesthetics, a major loan exhibition investigating the use of chance as a key compositional principle in modern art.
Organized by Meredith Malone, assistant curator for the Kemper Art Museum, Chance Aesthetics will feature more than 60 artworks by more than 40 avant-garde artists from Europe and the United States, including Jean Arp, George Brecht, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Alison Knowles, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Tanguy, among many others.At the exhibition's heart is a central paradox involving the tension between chance and choice. While many artists have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental — both as an attack on reason and logic and as a counterpoint to officially sanctioned aesthetic tastes — artistic subjectivity is never entirely ceded. The controlled and the arbitrary variously interplayed throughout the 20th century, stimulating new forms of creative invention that challenged longstanding assumptions about what might constitute a work of art and the role of the artist as autonomous creator.
A fully illustrated color catalog — distributed by the University of Chicago Press — accompanies the exhibition. Essays by Susan Laxton, Meredith Malone and Janine Mileaf draw connections across media and disciplines while linking the genesis and meaning of artistic production through chance to larger socio-cultural, historical and theoretical contexts. The catalog also features extended entries on all works in the exhibition, focusing on the processes employed and the rhetoric used to describe and theorize them
Public Opening Celebration Friday, September 18, 7-9 pm
MaHKU Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design
MaHKU presents Dutch Artistic Research Event # 4: Urban Knowledge Dutch Artistic Research Event # 4, Urban Knowledge,
Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 4 - September 13.
MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design), Expodium, Aorta, Academiegalerie, Dutch Design Centre, Centraal Museum, Studio Hoograven:
Research Presentations, Research Screenings, Parallel Discussions and International Symposium:
Urban Knowledge.Since 2004 the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (MaHKU)* has been the sole master program in the Netherlands to offer one-year, interdisciplinary graduation courses in research. Through an intensive seminar program with artists, designers, architects, curators, and theorists, two main research themes are addressed. Departing from the question of intermediality, the department of MA Fine Art focuses on the position of the artistic image in a culture of visual information, whereas the department of MA Design focuses on topical forms of engagement from a transdisciplinary attitude. These research trajectories are developed and realized in close collaboration (Utrecht Consortium) with global and local partners. number of auction sales and the volume of lots proposed has remained stable compared with 2008. Moreover, for the first quarter of 2009, the French capital posted a better overall revenue figure than either London or New York on the back of the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint-Laurent sale at the Grand Palais in February. In fact, at the end of a first quarter in which the crisis was felt particularly hard in New York, art prices in France posted a contraction of only 5% and they have remained at that level since then. There are two main reasons for this resistance: firstly Paris (and France in general) is essentially a less high-end market and therefore less speculative by nature and secondly, the Paris branch of Christie’s has had a number of particularly fruitful sales. One figure which particularly bears out this Parisian exception is a bought-in rate that has diminished from close to 50% in the autumn of 2008 to below 40%. On 28 May 2009, Sotheby's Contemporary Art sale in Paris found buyers for 95.2% of the lots on offer. However, the best Parisian results over recent months have been generated by Sotheby’s rival Christie’s which had substantial success with its sales of private collections (part or whole) in February and then in May. The sale of the Bergé-YSL collection on 23 February 2009 was a veritable windfall. Remember that its revenue total of €373.5m (of which €255m for works of art) was equivalent to 53.2% of France’s total auction revenue in 2008! An oasis in an otherwise barren landscape for global art sales, that auction produced 22 sales above the $1m line (vs. 19 in 2008 for the whole of France) including four of the five best sales in France over the last 20 years! (Henri MATISSE, Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose: €32m, Constantin BRANCUSI, Madame L.R.: €26m, Piet MONDRIAAN, Composition avec bleu, rouge, jaune et noir: €19.2m, and Composition avec grille 2: €12.8m). At the end of May, Paris had another strong moment although relatively modest by comparison with the February results. Sotheby’s posted only two sales above the $1m line (Nicolas STAëL de, Bouteilles, €1.1m on 27 May and Georges Pierre SEURAT’s drawing Femme avec deux fillettes, €1.3m on 28 May) while the best result from Christie’s Impressionist & Modern sale was €460,000 (for Auguste RODIN’s Faunesse debout). The best result from the Contemporary Art sales was €620,000 for Andy WARHOL’s portrait of Yves Saint-Laurent on 27 May. Nevertheless, Christie’s pulled off a highly successful event by offering approximately 50 works by François-Xavier and his partner Claude Lalanne that generated €2.3m, lifting the final total for the sale to €6.7m. The French auctioneers have also produced some remarkably good results, including the large sum generated from the sale of Rodin’s Penseur that was presented at Drouot by the houses Mathias, Baron Ribeyre & Associates and Farrando-Lemoine. This emblematic sculpture adorns the centre of the tympanum of Rodin’s Portes de l’Enfer. Estimated at €400,000, the piece sold for no less than €2.56m on 17 June, beating the previous record of $2.7m (€1.86m) for the same subject (Sotheby’s NY, 7 November 2007). Immediately after this historic bid, a Petite Eve by the same artist completely dwarfed its price estimate of €300,000 when it fetched €2m. As the summer approaches, the French art market is entering a calmer phase. Among the upcoming summer auctions, Christie’s has yet another sale scheduled involving a private collection. The sale entitled L'oeil d'un sculpteur: Collection Mary Callery will take place on 2 July and will offer 63 modern works with signatures including Henri Laurens, Hans Arp, Henri Michaux and Fernand Léger. The star lots will include a small Concetto Spaziale, Attese , Attese by Lucio FONTANAWou-ki ZAO, dated 1959, including one large format that is estimated at between 400 and 600 thousand euros. In the same price range, the auctioneer will be offering a painting in acrylic by Frank Stella measuring 4-metres across. For budgets of one to three thousand euros, there will be two etchings by Pierre Soulages and various paintings by Jesse Reicheck (oil on canvas 1960, €1,500 - €2 000) and James Brown (Un être, €2,000 - €3,000).
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