Sotheby’s Spring 2008 Sale Of Contemporary Art Asia: On March 17, 2008

This spring Sotheby’s New York will hold its fifth sale of Contemporary Art Asia: China Korea Japan on March 17th, 2008. The sale, which will include 292 lots, will primarily feature works by seminal Chinese contemporary artists, including mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and overseas, such as Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Zeng Fanzhi, Ai Weiwei, Zhao Wuji (Zao Wou-Ki), Geng Jianyi, Yan Pei-Ming, Liu Ye and Wang Guangyi, among many others, with a smaller offering of works from Japan and Korea. Property from the sale will be on exhibition beginning March 13th and is estimated to bring $23.1 / 33.4 million.

MoMA Exhibit Of Lucian Freud - The Painter’s Etchings

 

Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings, on view at MoMA highlights the artist’s exceptional achievements in the medium of etching and explores the crucial relationship between these works on paper and his works on canvas. In a career spanning more than six decades, Freud (British, b. Germany, 1922), has redefined portraiture and the nude through his frank scrutiny of the human form. Although best known as a painter, Freud has made etching a constant part of his artistic practice since 1982.
 

Lora Schlesinger Gallery Presents Adonna Khare ~ By A Thread

Lora Schlesinger Gallery is proud to present Adonna Khare, By A Thread.  The show is the artist’s second solo exhibition with Lora Schlesinger Gallery.   Adonna Khare creates a world without humans, a natural paradise at first glance, but looking closer reveals a more entangled kingdom. The animals in her drawings are bound together and connected by thin ropelike threads and pulleys.  Many endure heavy burdens, such as entire castles. On exhibition 5 April through 10 may, 2008.

Museum Of Fine Arts Opens ‘Stunning Photos Of Antarctica’

Stunning photographs of Antarctica will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA) from March 25 through June 1 in the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey.  The exhibit features 50 dramatic color and black-and-white photographs of the world’s most hostile continent. Award-winning photographer Joan Myers spent October 2002 through January 2003 photographing the scientific activities and daily life at McMurdo research station in Antarctica. Large panoramas of Antarctica’s austere beauty are juxtaposed with wildlife, people, and the abandoned huts of early explorers Scott and Shackleton.

Sotheby’s London To Offer Its Most Important Greek Sale

Following the rise and growth of the Greek Art market in recent years, Sotheby’s forthcoming sale of Greek Art on Thursday, April 17, 2008 will be the most important sale of its kind ever staged. Sales of Greek Art at Sotheby’s in 2007 realised a record-breaking £15.6 million / €22.5 million, which represented a 97.5% increase on the same figure in 2006 and was the highest annual total ever achieved for sales of Greek Art at any auction house. The forthcoming sale is set to present 177 lots.

Gustav Klimt’s Reconstruction Of The Beethoven Frieze At Tate Liverpool In May

 

This summer, Tate Liverpool will present a full-scale reconstruction of The Beethoven Frieze (1901-2 / 1984) a monumental installation by Gustav Klimt. The Frieze is a major highlight of Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900, the first comprehensive exhibition of Klimt’s work ever staged in the UK and a key event in Liverpool’s programme for European Capital of Culture 2008.  On Exhibition 30 May through 31 August, 2008.

Tate Liverpool

Polly Verity’s Polypropylene Origami

Polly Verity (aka polyscene) has recently posted her newest intricately folded polypropylene creations (right side) on Flickr, in addition to her older but just as fabulous paper patterns (left side).

Via: ffffound!

LEGO-Touch For iPhone And iPod Touch

 

What if you could virtually build, imagine, share, and play with LEGOs right on your iPhone or iPod Touch? PlayNYC’s LEGO-touch application concept has been dreamed up just in time for Apple’s SDK.

While the functional usage of touch technology reflects the building essence of the Lego brick, social creativity is potentially limitless while running off a mobile network. Build, share, challenge others, create characters, personalization and more. The interactivity of Lego-touch is quite the lucrative creative experience on a smart phone for all ages.