Artist Anish Kapoor via Billslater

Indian-born artist, Anish Kapoor, has been commissioned to design a large-scale public sculpture for a new residential tower in Tribeca. In addition to Kapoor, the New York-based real estate company, Alexico Group, has chosen the world-renowned Pritzker Prize winning architectural firm, Herzog & de Meuron to design the building. Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias, principals of the Alexico Group, have announced that the Kapoor sculpture will be installed at ground level and be fully incorporated into the architectural design. The designs for the building and sculpture that will sit at the intersection of Leonard and Church Streets, will be released in the fall, and construction is projected to be completed in Spring 2010 .

New Tribeca Tower to Include Kapoor Sculpture [Artinfo]
A New Tower For Tribeca [VanityFair]
Alexico Group Announces Manhattan Commission to Architects Herzog & De Meuron and Artist Anish Kapoor [Artdaily]
Swiss Firm to Design New TriBeCa Tower [NYTimes]
Alexico Group inked a deal with architects Herzog & de Meuron [NYDailynews]
Herzog & de Meuron and Anish Kapoor to Collaborate on New York Tower [InteriorDesign]
Tribeca Skyscraper to get Sculpture [TheRealDeal]

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Cy Twombly, Quattro Stagioni: Autunno, (1993-5) via Tate Modern

From June 19 – September 14, the Tate Modern presents the first solo retrospecitve of Cy Twombly in 15 years.  Twombly, an abstract expressionist painter, is regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time.

Cy Twombly at Tate UK [Tate Modern]
Cy Twombly at Tate Modern, London [Gagosian Gallery]
Cy Twombly – Cycles and Seasons [Digital Arts]
Tate Unites London, New York Versions Of Cy Twombly’s Great Painting Cycle [HulIQ]
Cy Twombly is the only graffiti artist I care about [Guardian UK]

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Image via World’s Best Ever

today:
First look street art exhibit at the Tate [World’s Best Ever]
Studio visit interview with Ernesto Neto [ArtInfo via C-Monster]
Former Met Director de Montebello as NYU Professor [NY Times]
Art charity raises to buy Rubens for Tate where British state failed [Bloomberg]
French billionaires battle at Sotheby’s last week [Art Info]

“Study for Head of George Dyer” by Francis Bacon via Bloomberg

Sotheby’s to sell $15.6M Bacon portrait of suicidal boyfriend [Bloomberg]
IMPei’s new Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar [Financial Times]
Turner Prize announces 2008 Short List [Artforum]
Was Spring NY auction bidding “eerily thin?” [Wall Street Journal]
Update: Tate Street art exhibition includes only non-British [Financial Times]

Image via Overspray

This Friday, London’s Tate Modern will open an exhibition of six internationally recognized street artists. The show is the first major museum exhibition in London to display the work of street artists and it will use the riverside exterior façade of the Tate to display their work.  After the success of last weekend’s Banksy-organized Cans Festival, and with the current popularity of street art in London, the exhibition is expected to be well-received.

Street Art to Adorn Tate [The Overspray Magazine Fishbowl]
Tate Modern [Tate Modern]
Graffiti on the Gallery [Times Online]
How the Tate Got Streetwise [guardian.co.uk]
Street Art Comes to the Tate Modern [Artinfo]
The art market: Riding the street art wave [Financial Times]
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Marquise Casati by Man Ray via Tate Modern

The exhibition “Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia”, featuring the three artists often cited as responsible for launching Dadaism through their exhibitions in New York, is on view at the Tate Modern until May 26. 

Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Man Ray at the Tate Modern [Times Online]
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia at Tate Modern [24 hour Museum]
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia’s show at the Tate Modern [AFP]
Tate Modern [Tate Modern]

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Leonardo’s Annunciation via the Art Newspaper

For the first year, a survey has been made regarding the attendance figures in the museums for the year 2007. Unsurprisingly, the Musée the Louvre comes first with 8.3 million visitors in 2007. Of note is that the Tokyo National Museum had the highest daily average last year (regarding “Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation”) for any exhibition since the survey began in 1997.

After the jump, the Top 10 museums attendance in 2007… (more…)

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Wallpaper Video Screenshot via Archinect

Earlier we told you about hotelier Andre Balazs’ loan of his Jean Prouve Flat-Pack Home, La Maison Tropicale, to the Tate Modern in London. Today, Wallpaper Magazine has a time-lapse video detailing the assembly of the famous design, originally intentioned for Niger and the Congo in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
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Video of Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale assembly [Archinect]
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La Maison Tropicale, Jeane Prouve [Wallpaper]

Maison Tropicale via Trend Hunter

Jean Prouvé’s flat-pack home, Maison Tropicale, owned by hotelier Andre Balazs is going on display at Tate Modern in London. It was originally designed to house those from the Congo and Niger in the 40’s and 50’s.

Maison Tropicale [Trend Hunter]
Tropical House at Tate [Guardian]
Maison Tropicale Exhibition [Tate Modern]

Spider via Guggenheim Museum

Louise Bourgeois and anonymous benefactor donated Louise Bourgeois’ spider sculpture, entitled Maman, to the Tate Modern Museum. This is the largest of Bourgeois’ spiders at 9 meters. This is a significant addition to Tate’s collection of works by living sculptors.

Spider Sculpture Donated to Tate [BBC News]
Giant steel-and-marble spider makes return to Tate Modern [The Independent]