Haute Living / Zaha Hadid: The World’s Brightest Architecture Star Lights Up Miami - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Zaha Hadid

In the "City of Towers" at the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery in London

Zaha Hadid: The World’s Brightest Architecture Star Lights Up Miami 
Haute Living / by Hadley Henriette

From the article - One Thousand Museum condominium tower in downtown Miami.  The tower will stand out in Miami’s skyline and is ZHA’s first residential tower in the Western Hemisphere. With a maximum of two units per floor, beginning at 4,600 square feet and going up to 10,000, the flow-through units with sunrise and sunset views will be spectacular and spacious.
The building’s design will push Miamians’ concept of modernity to the limit, but they appear to be an eager audience to explore their edges. In addition to smart home technology, high-speed elevators and a bank-style vault, residents will enjoy custom kitchens by Gatto Cucine, closets by Molteni & C and touches like Zaha Hadid Design doorknobs.

The building and its common spaces, which include a spa, wellness center, indoor pool and lobby, will feature ZHA’s classic undulating lines and lack of right angles as well as a signature scent which will be created by 12.29. Any number of Hadid’s designs, including the vases she made for Allesi or furniture for B&B Italia will be right at home here. “I think it’s quite flexible,” she says of the spaces. “Of course, it would be very nice if you could incorporate some of these pieces, which are more fluid, but it’s not actually necessary.” 

The One Thousand Museum project is setting the city abuzz with the prospect of getting it’s own ZHA oeuvre. “We simply haven’t yet had a residential tower designed by an architect of Hadid’s caliber in Miami, nor have we seen the level of amenities that this extraordinary building will provide,” says Mayi de la Vega, CEO and Founder of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty in South Florida.

 One Thousand Museum

Despite all the praise, Hadid has her feet firmly planted on the ground. She’ll do any kind of building as long as she feels it is a boon to society. “At the end of the day, space is supposed to enrich your life. Those of us who are lucky, have a home,” she says. “The public domain is very important [to me] because not everybody has luxurious places to live. That’s why schools libraries, theaters and museums should be very interesting.”

Please read the whole article found here 

Downtown Miami is quickly becoming the most modern downtown with the most compelling public and private projects in the US.  My wife Christine and I were able to see some of Zaha Hadid's newest models at the convention center during Art Basel week a few years ago.  Christine feels Zaha is the most courageous architect working today. The fact that Christine is currently working on a small project two blocks away from Zaha's new project in downtown Miami is very exciting for her.
The article by Haute Living has some good bio information as well as fantastic photographs of some of Zaha's latest projects. GL

In 1913, A New York Armory Filled With Art Stunned The Nation - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Marcel Duchamp's Cubist-inspired Nude Descending a Staircase was famously 

described by one critic as "an explosion in a shingle factory." Philadelphia Museum of Art

In 1913, A New York Armory Filled With Art Stunned The Nation 

NPR News

The 1,400-work exhibition gave many Americans their first look at what avant-garde artists in Europe were up to. It was the biggest art show New York had ever seen and challenged ideas about artistic "progress."

One hundred years ago in New York City, nearly 90,000 people came to see the future of art. The 1913 Armory Show gave America its first look at what avant-garde artists in Europe were doing. Today these artists are in major museums around the world, but in 1913, they were mostly unknown in America.

Boasting 1,400 works — from artists such as George Braque, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, and many, many more — it was the biggest art show New York had ever seen. Today, the New York Historical Society is celebrating the Armory centennial with artworks from the original exhibition.

Normally used to store arms and train troops, the 69th Regiment Armory on East 25th Street was an odd venue, but it was big enough to hold it all. "There were lots of comparisons in 1913 of the Armory Show being a bomb from the blue, so the Armory is not inappropriate," says curator Kimberly Orcutt.

The avant-garde show raised hackles. The most controversial work was Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. Everyone had an opinion about it, including former President Theodore Roosevelt, who compared it to a Navajo rug he had in his bathroom.

Americans were not used to looking at abstract art. And the Duchamp — painted in ochres and browns a year before the Armory Show, was Cubist — splintering a profile figure so it seems to be in motion. The painting provoked critiques of all sorts, including cartoons and poems.

"It was called a bundle of slats, an explosion in a shingle factory," says curator Marilyn Kushner.

Viewers were puzzled; with all those fragments, where was the nude? But they lined up to see it, and the other avant-garde works. Some 87,000 people came to the Armory show. Rich collectors and dealers had seen such art in Europe, but this was the first time the masses got to see — and react to — the new ideas.

Article and Audio file found here 


Work that the general public now deems a masterpiece was misunderstood and rejected 100 years ago when first seen.  Today walking around the fairs during Art Basel week in Miami it seems the instillation pieces get the most negative reaction from the public. The negativity comes from a lack of understanding of the new form.  Any time an artist or art movement breaks new ground fear of the unknown is common. But given time and context and the art becomes revered for all the reasons it was first rejected.   

February 2014 the Armory show will celebrate 100 years with an exhibit of the old and the new. GL

 

Auction Record Results - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Artist Francis Bacon's 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' is seen during a 

press preview at Christie's Auction House in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

Global art market sizzles with $142 million Bacon sale

Patricia Reaney / Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The record breaking $142.4 million sale of Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" shows confidence in the art market and that the very wealthy see it as a safe haven for their money, experts said on Wednesday.

Bacon's 1969 three-panel painting, the most valuable ever sold at auction, was one of 10 world record prices set at Christie's Tuesday evening sale of post-war and contemporary art. The New York event achieved the highest auction total in art market history with $691 million in sales.

Jeff Koons' sculpture, "Balloon Dog (Orange)" fetched $58.4 million, the highest auction price for a work by a living artist.

Read Full Reuters article here

 

This file photo provided by Sotheby's shows "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" by Andy Warhol. 

A Warhol Sells for $105 Million at Auction

Denver Nicks / Time

A 1963 painting by iconic pop artist Andy Warhol was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $105 million Wednesday, breaking the previous record for a Warhol painting set at $71.7 million  in 2007.

Read more from Time here

 

Nice NY Times article by Roberta Smith about the new record prices found here

 

Art museum visits help doctors understand feelings - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

 Mariah Quinn (right), assistant professor of medicine and associate program director for the 

residency in internal medicine, leads her class of medical residents in an exercise at the Chazen Museum of Art.

Art museum visits help doctors understand feelings
by Susannah Brooks





Though often perceived as omnipotent healers, doctors are merely — and importantly — human. At the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Mariah Quinn uses art to help medical residents reflect on their professional identities, emotions and cognitive processes.

"Medical education is evolving to help physicians understand how to listen to and manage their own thoughts and feelings," says Quinn, director of humanism in medicine for the Department of Medicine. "I like to utilize art and the museum environment to provoke medical residents to approach thoughts and feelings that might be difficult to access otherwise."

Art in a hospital helps humanize a clinical environment during a time of uncertainty and fear. Some studies show how it can help patients heal faster.

In Quinn's course "Communication and Humanism in Medicine," bringing medical residents to UW-Madison's Chazen Museum of Art helps them develop skills and explore the emotional side of their work. They'll take these skills back to a patient's bedside.

"The art objects and the museum environment contribute to our ability to look at themes like vulnerability, uncertainty, caring for dying patients, and bias with more courage," says Quinn. "In this environment, they don't have to fear making mistakes; they can take risks. We discuss topics that can be very uncomfortable and provocative for many people."

Read the full article here

Donate Today to US Veteran Artists Going to Art Basel Week - posted by Forida Fine Art Blog

Please Donate Today!

From my friend/artist/gallery owner/foundation director David Mcleish; 

I am actively trying to raise funds to get these two - gentlemen to Miami from Jacksonville, for the MiMO Basel art exhibition on December 5th, so it is time sensitive. You have no idea what this means to them. You will be donating hope - and healing. They have worked very hard to overcome so much and deserve a chance. Please forward this to anyone who might be in a position to be of assistance. You will not regret giving to these to men. As some of you know they have given so much they have fought very hard for our country and are currently fighting to maintain their life back home, and a few bucks will make their dreams come true. Please click link below and forward this off to anyone to whom you feel might be in a position to assist. Thank you for your time and donation. Grateful, David

 

Link to Donate here

Contact David Mcleish at

david@piniongallery.com

386-679-0924

 

 

Art Talk with Martin Z. Margulies - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

RSVP for Art Talk here

Margulies Collection website here

Boca Raton Museum of Art - Dulce Pinzón: The Real Story of the Superheroes - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Maria Luisa Romero from the state of Puebla works in a 

laundromat in Brooklyn. She sends home $150 a week.

Dulce Pinzón: The Real Story of the Superheroes
Boca Raton Museum of Art
October 8, 2013 - December 29, 2013

 
What is a hero? What is a superhero? In a series of oversized photographs, Dulce Pinzón seeks to shine a light on the quiet heroes who make sacrifices for the good of others. For the artist, the countless Mexican and Latino immigrant workers in New York City, who every week send a portion of their modest income back to family members in Mexico, seemed like the perfect example of the unnoticed hero.

In her words: "The principle objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper."

 NOE REYES from the State of Puebla works as a delivery boy in 

Brooklyn New York. He sends 500 dollars a week

For the exhibition, Pinzón selected 20 workers, dressed them in costumes of popular American and Mexican superheroes that corresponded to their employment, and photographed them going about their usual work day. She identifies each by name along with their hometown, the number of years they have been working in New York City, and the amount of money they send back to their families each week.

Boca Raton Museum of Art Website found here
Dulce Pinzón website found here

I really enjoyed this show and the idea behind the artists work.  We all know superheros they just don't wear a cape everyday. For me its my wife.  She is the bravest, strongest and most dedicated person I know.  The images helped me see how superhero stories are just allegories meant to show us how we should behave.  We should all act with a sense of selflessness like our favorite superheros. GL

ELIZABETH and ENRIQUE ALONSO from the State of Puebla work as food servers

in New York. They send 400 dollars a week

 

Warhol at the Dali - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

  David McCabe's shot of Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí.

Warhol: Art. Fame. Mortality.
January 18, 2014 - April 27, 2014  

In January, 2014 The Dali will launch a fresh exhibit featuring an important selection of Andy Warhol's work on loan from The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. "Warhol: Art. Fame. Mortality." explores how Warhol learned from Dali's public visibility and was equally attuned to the images derived from mass culture. This exhibit considers Warhol's little commented on engagement with other artists through his own painting, how he constructed an approach to the image in terms of celebrity and fame, and finally his treatment of painting and image in terms of human mortality.

“What is unusual is the mix of materials including archival photographs depicting  Warhol in the 1950s. You will see both photos of and by Warhol. There are portraits of dozens of artists and celebrities that Warhol worked with, ”explained The Dalí’s Special Exhibitions Curator Dr. William Jeffett. “Visitors will find nine acrylic and silk screen paintings of Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, amongst many other works."

In addition to the variety of paintings, prints, photography and films, a special film installation provides visitors their “15 minutes of fame.” A simulated Warhol screen-test is set to film visitors as they sit in front of the camera for about a minute. The installation harkens back to the film style Andy Warhol experimented with in his days at The Factory. Visitors will be able to capture, save ,and share their “movie” online.

Press release found here
Dali Museum website here
Warhol museum website found here

Both the Dali museum in St Petersburg and the Warhol in Pittsburgh are must see museums.  Both are perfect examples of how to build a modern art museum/organization.  They should also be examples to cities that are looking for ways to attract cultural tourists.  The museums are big draws and that translates to more hotel rooms and rental cars booked, restaurants visited and shops explored.  I can tell you from personal experience when given a choice  of destinations in the North East I have flown into Pittsburgh specifically because I could fit in a side trip to the Warhol museum. GL

WPBT2 Television series Collector to Collector - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

 

 

Tune in to the new WPBT2 (Channel 2) television series Collector to Collector, 

premiering on Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 pm.  The series features NSU Museum of Art Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater in conversation with eight prominent art collectors who share their personal stories of building prestigious collections of contemporary and modern art, and the passions and rewards that motivate them.  The series airs as part of WPBT's Art Loft, and provides fascinating insight into how each collection evolved.  Featured are collectors Irma Braman, Estelle and Paul Berg, Ella Cisneros, Andrew Hall, Boris Hirmas, Rosalind Jacobs and Martin Margulies.  Bonnie Clearwater is the former Director and Chief Curator of MOCA, North Miami, and these conversations were filmed in March 2013 on the occasion of MOCA's 15th anniversary.

November 12, 7:30 pm

Conversation with Rosalind Jacobs , Boris Hirmas, Irma Braman and Marty Margulies

November 19, 7:30 pm

Conversation with Andrew Hall, Ella Cisneros, and Paul and Estelle Berg  

I'm excited to watch this series.  Some of the finest collections in the world are in Miami and the included panel of collectors are at the top of the list.  They are more than art buyers, they are passionate advocates and conservators of art and art history.  Many have already opened up their collections to the public with large exhibition spaces in Wynwood.  During Art Basel week most of the collections are available to view. What got them started, what keeps them going and what have they learned will be fascinating to hear.   Tune in to Channel 2 tonight!  GL  

 

Who should receive $20,000 for their arts project? You decide! - Knight Foundation Art Challenge

Vote today for one of five local finalists in the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award.

The People’s Choice Award is part of the Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest funding the best ideas for the arts. Winners of both the challenge and the People’s Choice will be announced in December.

The website below has more information about the challenge and the five finalists.  Included is a short video from each finalist.  Once you make your choice simple text into a number with your selection. I will not reveal my choice however I can say I thought all five finalists had worthwhile programs that deserve support. GL

Knight Arts Challenge Website

 

New York Fall Auctions Start Today - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Andy Warhol “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)”

Record Prices Expected at New York Auctions

The red-hot art market could yield $1.2 billion-plus in sales when New York’s two-week art-auction season kicks off Tuesday.

Andy Warhol’s “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” reportedly may fetch as much as $80 million at Sotheby’s postwar and contemporary art sale Nov. 13.

Francis Bacon "Three Studies of Lucian Freud"

And Warhol may be upstaged by the Nov. 12 Christie’s sale of a triptych by the British painter Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud.” Estimates say that may draw as much as $86 million in the sky-high market fueled by the influx of Russian, Chinese and Arab buyers. — it’s possible that the Warhol or the Bacon could set a record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.A huge oil by Gerhard Richter set the record of $37 million last spring at Sotheby’s.

The current champ is Edvard Munch’s iconic “The Scream,” which went for nearly $120 million at Sotheby’s in spring 2012.

 Jeff Koon “Balloon Dog (Orange)” 

History could be also made when a giant orange work, one of five colored 
 “Balloon Dogs” by Jeff Koons, goes under the hammer.
Christies estimates it will sell for $35 million to $55 million, setting a record for highest price for a living artist.

NY Post Article found here

Art Around the Web - National Veterans Museum - by Florida Fine Art Blog

Above and Beyond

The Above and Beyond Memorial 

National Veterans Art Museum

Chicago, IL 

by Rick Steinbock, Ned Broderick, Joe Fornelli and Mike Helbing.

Much more after the break; 

Imagining La Florida: Ponce de León and the Quest for the Fountain of Youth - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Imagining La Florida:
Ponce de León and the Quest for the Fountain of Youth

November 13, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

 

Travel 500 years back in time to explore Florida’s early colonial history in the new temporary exhibit at the Museum of Florida History.

Imagining La Florida: Ponce de León and the Quest for the Fountain of Youth is an interactive exhibit that recounts Florida history from the preparation of Ponce de León’s voyage from Spain to the establishment of Fort Mose in 1739. Organized by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) of Spain and the Spain-Florida Foundation and curated by Dr. J. Michael Francis, it is a collaboration of the Spanish Embassy in Washington D.C., and the Spanish Consulate in Miami.

The exhibit is divided into four distinct sections, each chronicling a different aspect of Florida’s colonial history. Begin your voyage aboard a replica Spanish galleon in Seville, Spain, and travel through the history of Florida, taking in such sights as the founding of St. Augustine, the rich culture of native populations, and the founding of Fort Mose, the first free black settlement in the United States. The exhibit concludes with an interactive floor display highlighting the truth about Ponce de León’s quest for the fountain of youth, one of the most enduring foundation myths in U.S. history.

 

The evening includes live music, hors d’oeuvres, and a presentation by Florida historian Dr. J. Michael Francis.
The program, admission, and parking are free!  

 

Museum of Florida History
500 South Bronough Street • Tallahassee, Florida
850.245.6400 • museumoffloridahistory.com 

 

NYC fall art auctions poised to set artist records - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Andy Warhol’s “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” could 

fetch $80 million at auction. Photo: AP Photo/Sotheby's

  

NYC fall art auctions poised to set artist records

Washington Post 

By Associated Press

 

NEW YORK — Potential buyers will have to dig deep as New York City’s frenzied fall auction season gets underway with blockbuster works of art poised to set records.

 Among the blue-chip offerings is Andy Warhol’s “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster),” a provocative double-panel painting that Sotheby’s estimates could bring as much as $80 million at its Nov. 13 postwar and contemporary sale. The current Warhol auction record is $71.7 million for “Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I),” set in 2007.

A day earlier, Christie’s is offering a 1969 triptych by Francis Bacon of his friend and artist Lucian Freud. The auction house says “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” could topple the $86 million auction record for the artist set in 2008 for his 1976 “Triptych.”

It remains to be seen if either can surpass the nearly $120 million paid at Sotheby’s in spring 2012 for Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” The painting is the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.

Warhol produced four paintings in the “Death and Disaster” series. The other three are in museums.

Measuring 8 feet by 13 feet, the 1963 silver work captures the immediate aftermath of a car crash, a twisted body sprawled across its mangled interior. It has been seen in public only once in the past 26 years.

Sotheby’s also is offering a portrait of Elizabeth Taylor by Warhol. “Liz #1 (Early Colored Liz)” is estimated to fetch between $20 million and $30 million.
Christie’s also has an iconic Warhol, “Coca-Cola (3),” at its Nov. 12 sale with a pre-sale estimate of $40 million to $60 million.

The two-week season begins this week with impressionist and modern works of art.

Article found here


 

Guy Harvey Named Florida House Distinguished Artists - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

(Left-to-Right) Patsy Woodroffe, Chairman of Education Committee; Dr. Guy Harvey, 2013 Florida House Distinguished Artist; Cindy O¹Connell, Chairman of the Florida House; Harvey Oyer, III, 2013 Florida House Distinguished Author.

Guy Harvey Named Florida House Distinguished Artists

Dr. Guy Harvey, widely recognized as one of the world’s finest marine wildlife artists, was presented the Florida House on Capitol Hill’s 2013 Distinguished Artist Award at a ceremony at Flagler College Thursday for his prolific works reflecting Florida’s culture and environment.

With his background as a marine biologist, diver, photographer and angler, Harvey has an extensive portfolio of marine wildlife art and is recognized as one of the world’s top marine wildlife artists as well as a conservationist. In collaboration with Nova Southeastern University in Dania Beach, Fla., he formed the Guy Harvey Research Institute, which helps manage and protect fishery resources around the world. The mission of the institute is to provide scientific information to understand, conserve and effectively manage the world’s marine fishes and their ecosystems.

“I am honored to be chosen for this award and to be included among other artists for whom Florida has been an inspiration,” said Harvey. “Florida has a rich history of abundant and diverse wildlife. However, some of the animals I love to paint are under pressure and need our support.”

Presented annually, The Distinguished Artist Award recognizes an artist who has achieved significant recognition from their peers and has created work reflecting Florida’s culture, environment, history, or people. Previous winners of the Distinguished Artist Award include The Highwaymen, Jackson Walker, Christopher M. Still, Clyde Butcher and A.E. “Beanie” Backus.

“Every award given marks progress toward our goal of preserving Florida’s culture,” said Bart Hudson, CEO and president of Florida House on Capitol Hill. “Florida House on Capitol Hill is proud to recognize Guy for the work he has done for Florida, from his floor-to-ceiling murals at the Ft. Lauderdale airport to his conservation efforts of Florida’s marine ecosystems.”

Florida House on Capitol Hill is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides cultural, social, educational and economic resources; showcases Florida’s culture and diversity; maintains and operates Florida House on Capitol Hill, Florida’s embassy in the nation’s capital; and provides for Florida’s citizens to enrich their appreciation and knowledge of our nation’sgovernment.
Established in 1973, Florida House on Capitol Hill is supported through private donations and the volunteer efforts of its 100+ member, statewide Board of Trustees. 

To learn more about Florida House, visit www.floridaembassy.com.
Guy Harvey website found here