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From Sunday 1, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto
From Sunday 1, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- Gretchen Dietrich, an innovative museum professional and a skilled administrator, has been selected as the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), effective August 1, 2010, pending notification of the Academic Senate and approval of the Board of Trustees. Following an extensive national search conducted by Management Consultants for the Arts in Stamford, Connecticut, the search committee, comprised of both University of Utah and Salt Lake community members, unanimously recommended Dietrich for the appointment based on her articulate and ardent vision for the UMFA in its dual role as both a university and a state art museum. Marcia Price, member of the search committee and benefactor of the UMFA, said she and her husband John are “elated with the choice of Gretchen
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ annual summer auction of Vintage Posters on Wednesday, August 4 offers fine selections of summer resort and beach posters, World War I and II and other propaganda posters, and Mather Work Incentive posters. There are also posters advertising tourism to Bermuda; ocean liner and airline posters; a run of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company posters; and some lovely Art Deco works. The sale opens with posters from World War I and II and other propaganda pieces. In addition to well-known recruitment images by James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy, this section features one of the rarest World War I Judaic posters, Alfred F. Burke’s Share / Jewish Relief Campaign, circa 1915 (estimate $3,000 to $4,000); Flagg’s Wake Up America Day, 1917 ($2,000 to $3,000); and Christy’s In Her Wheatless Kitchen, 1918, a rare large format poster issued by the United States Food
BERLIN.- The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts), Berlin, presents the Käthe Kollwitz Prize to Mona Hatoum. In awarding this prize to Mona Hatoum the Academy of Arts honours her for a multifaceted body of work, in which the human body, caught between violence, power and vulnerability, is a central preoccupation. The award carries 12,000 Euros in prize money. The jury included members of the Academy’s Fine Arts section – Lothar Böhme, Dieter Goltzsche and Robert Kudielka. A catalogue will be produced to accompany the exhibition. From the 31st of July to the 5th of September 2010 the Academy of Arts will be showing a selection of the artist’s works at the Pariser Platz premises. The exhibition includes Deep Throat (1996), a table set for one person and featuring a plate bearing not food but a video projection of the path into the abyss. Also on display
ISTANBUL (AP).- It was the last stop on the Orient Express, a grand hotel with Istanbul’s first electric elevator where artists and aristocrats sipped champagne beneath chandeliers as the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the world drifted toward war. Mata Hari, accused of spying and executed in France in 1917, stayed at the Pera Palace Hotel. So did Greta Garbo, who played the shadowy dancer in a 1931 movie. Ernest Hemingway checked in to report on war between Turks and Greeks. Agatha Christie is said to have crafted “Murder on the Orient Express” in Room 411. Then, like the empire it outlived, the hotel slid into decay. On Sept. 1, the state-owned Pera Palace will reopen after a two-year restoration that cost 23 million euros ($30 million), seeking to capture the lost sparkle of what was one of Istanbul’s most prominent landmarks. It is no longer the lone luxury hotel on a hill
