March 5, 2008

Gustav
Klimt’s monumental installation The Beethoven Frieze, a masterwork
painting 100 feet in length, will be reconstructed at the Tate
Liverpool in Britain’s first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the
artist, reports Reuters. Klimt created the frieze, which celebrates the
unification of all the arts, for the Vienna Secession’s 14th
exhibition, in 1902. It was to be destroyed after the show, but a
patron of the Secession had it removed and stored, and the Austrian
government eventually acquired and restored it for exhibition in the
Secession building in Vienna. The Liverpool exhibition, set for May 30
to August 31, will examine Klimt’s role in the Secession movement. (Artinfo, March 4)
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Farhad
Moshiri became the first artist from the Middle East to sell a work of
art at auction for more than $1 million yesterday when “Love” sold
for $1,048,000 at Bonhams’s first Dubai auction. The Bonhams sale
fetched over $13 million, more than double the high estimate of $6
million, and 94 percent of the lots sold. Iranian artists dominated the
sale, with an untitled work by Charles Zenderoudi taking the
second-highest price at $504,000. (Bloomberg News, March 4)
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New York:

— The Global Graphic Novel: Straight out of Angoulême @ Housing Works UBC, New York City
— Bill Phelps @ Robin Rice Gallery, New York City
— Angelo Filomeno: "Betrayed Witches" @ Galerie LeLong, New York City

National:

— Charles Bukowski Films @7 Dudley Cinema at Sponto Gallery, Los Angeles
— Tom Atwood: "Kings in their Castles" @ Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles
International:

International:

— Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art @ Barbican Centre, London
— ARTfutures @ Bloomberg SPACE, London
— "’Please Sit Down’ – Experiencing Art Comfortably" Talk @ Ottomainzheim Gallery, Tokyo