Author: Darko Topalski

HONG
KONG.- Back for its third year, ART HK 10 – Hong Kong International
Art Fair will take place from 27 – 30 May 2010 at the Hong Kong Convention and
Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Sponsored by Deutsche Bank, ART HK
10 is delighted to present the strongest exhibitor line-up for an art fair in
Asia to date, affirming its position as the leading art fair in Asia.
The Fair will feature diverse solo presentations from a number of the world’s
most respected contemporary artists. Highlights so far include Chinese artist
Liu Ye for Sperone Westwater, Japanese artists Yoshitomo Nara for Marianne
Boesky, Aya Takano for Emmanuel Perrotin and the acclaimed Glasgow artist Jim
Lambie for The Modern Institute.

JERUSALEM – British and American architects were
named winners of Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize. The Wolf Foundation said
Wednesday that British architect David Chipperfield is being recognized for
overseeing the reconstruction of Berlin’s Neues Museum in a building that had
been abandoned since World War II. His new building incorporated
bricks, stairs and bullet holes from the original museum, which opened in 1855.

LONDON.- Thomas
Dane Gallery presents the first London exhibition of Irish artist John
Gerrard. Extending from Animated Scene, his critically acclaimed
presentation at the 53rd Venice Biennale, the artist will exhibit
two new works, Sow Farm (near Libby, Oklahoma) 2009, which depicts a
sprawling, unmanned, computer-controlled agricultural complex on the
American Great Plains, and Lufkin (near Hugo, Colorado) 2009, a portrait
of an oil derrick in the same region. On view through 6 March,
2010.

LONDON.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, Alberto Giacometti’s
L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) sold for £65,001,250 / $104,327,006
/€74,185,983 becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at
auction. The sale of that work was swiftly followed by that of
Gustav Klimt’s Kirche in Cassone, which made £26,921,250 / $43,208,606/
€30,725,246 – a new record price for a landscape by the artist. These
two works headlined a sale that realised a record-breaking total of £146,828,350
/ $235,659,502 / €167,575,324 – making it the highest value sale ever staged in
London. (Pre-sale estimate for the sale was £69,060,000-102,130,000).

NEW
YORK, NY.- In the 1860s and 1870s, long before the embrace of
collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century,
aristocratic Victorian women were experimenting with photocollage.
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, on view at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 9, 2010, is the first exhibition to
comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon. Whimsical and
fantastical Victorian photocollages, created using a combination of watercolor
drawings and cut-and-pasted photographs, reveal the educated minds as well as
accomplished hands of their makers.

LONDON (AP).- Marika Rivera,
a daughter of the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, has died in England, her son said
Tuesday. She was 90. She died Jan. 14, 2010 of advanced dementia at
Chestnut House nursing home in Charlton Down, England, said David Phillips, her
son by her second marriage. Marika Rivera was born Nov. 13, 1919. Marika
Rivera, a film and stage actress who had little contact with or support from her
father, was born from his tempestuous affair with the Russian-born artist
Marevna Vorobieff.