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Chinese strand of jade and turquoise beads, Liangzhu Culture, 3rd Millennium BC that fetched $150,000 over its $1,200-1,800 estimate.
NEW YORK, NY.- With a very strong collection of archaic Chinese jades and Japanese weaponsâtwo categories that rarely appear in large quantities at auctionâ Lark Mason Associates Asian Art sale, on igavelauctions.com, achieved $2,605,619 including buyerâs premium. Says Lark Mason, âThe items uniformly had provenances from esteemed collectors or dealers and the results bore out the importance with the top lot, a Chinese Archaic Jade and Bronze Dagger, from the Shang/Early Western Zhou Dynasty, which sky-rocketed to $450,000 from its original estimate of $5,000-8,000. According to Mason, there was a 98% sell-through of Japanese swords from the collection of Dr. Bob Clemons including the Wakizashi Katana Set, which sold for $18,125, double the original estimate. Among the other pieces that soared above their estimates were: a Chinese strand of jade and turquoise beads, Liangzhu Culture, 3rd Millennium BC that fetched $150,000 over its $1,200 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (R) speaks with British designer and sustainability advocate Stella McCartney as he views a fashion installation by the designer, at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland on November 3, 2021, during the COP26 Climate Conference. Focus at the COP26 summit turned to how the world will pay for its ambitions to quit fossil fuels and help vulnerable nations survive climate change, as campaigners urge caution over promises of billions from financiers and governments Wednesday. Owen Humphreys / POOL / AFP.
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| Recently rediscovered works by Donatello, Tintoretto, and Antonio Lombardo on view at Colnaghi New York | | Hindman Auctions to offer one of the earliest photographic portraits taken in America | | Unseen René Magritte masterpiece unveiled at Bonhams New York |
Jacopo Tintoretto, Portrait of Tommaso Rangone, c. 1555-6. Oil on canvas, 108 x 94.6 cm (42 ½ x 37 ¼ in.) Courtesy of Colnaghi.
NEW YORK, NY.- Starting this month at Colnaghi, audiences will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience rare and newly discovered masterworks by some of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, including Donatello, Tintoretto, Antonio Lombardo, and Benedetto da Rovezzano, in a special exhibition at the gallerys New York space. Featuring five exquisite sculptures- including a recently rediscovered terracotta bust by Donatello-alongside a newly attributed portrait painting by the great Venetian master Jacopo Tintoretto, the exhibition marks a rare occasion in which such a significant number of museum-quality works from the Italian Renaissance will come to the market at one time. On view in New York from November 5, 2021, through February 2022, Renaissance builds on Colnaghis longstanding history of bringing great masterworks from the Italian Renaissance to the United ... More | |
Daguerreotype portrait of Henry Fitz Jr. Taken some time during January, 1840. One of the earliest surviving photographic portraits taken in America.
CINCINNATI, OH.- On November 15, Hindman Auctions will offer The Henry Fitz Jr. Archive of Photographic History. Forgotten since the 1930s, a cache of some of the earliest photographic portraits taken in America was recently discovered in an unheated shed near Peconic, Long Island. It has been heralded as a national, if not international treasure by Grant Romer, a photo historian and Curator Emeritus of the George Eastman Museum, the worlds recognized home of photographic history. The archive consists of 22 daguerreotype portraits of Henry Fitz Jr. (1808-1863) and his family taken between 1840 and 1842. The daguerreotype, a process used to capture an image on a silver-plated sheet of copper made sensitive to light, was introduced to the United States from France in the spring of 1839. A complete description of the process became available later that fall, and entrep ... More | |
René Magritte (1898 1967), Torse nu dans les nuages. Oil on canvas, signed Magritte (lower left), 28 1⁄2 x 24 in (71.4 x 61 cm). Painted circa 1937. Estimate: $6,000,000 9,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- René Magrittes Torse nu dans les nuages (circa. 1937) leads Bonhams sale of The Collection of Amalia de Schulthess on Tuesday, December 7, in New York. The work, which has remained unseen for the last 70 years and has never before been offered at auction has an estimate of $6,000,000 - 9,000,000. Combining the classical and the deeply surreal, Torse nu dans les nuages includes two of René Magrittes signature motifs: clouds and a female torso. The work dates from circa 1937, during the height of the Surrealist movement. It comes to Bonhams from the distinguished private collection of Amalia de Schulthess (1918-2021) and leads the dedicated single-owner sale of selected works from her impressive collection. Torse nu dans les nuages was notably included in the 1948 Magritte exhibition at the Copley Galleries in Los Angeles. Molly Ott Ambler, ... More |
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| Vancouver Art Gallery receives historic $100 million gift from Audain Foundation to support new vision and building | | Christie's announces highlights included in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | | First North American retrospective of Gillian Wearing opens at the Guggenheim Museum |
Rendering of the exterior of the new Vancouver Art Gallery building by Herzog & de Meuron.
VANCOUVER.- Today, the Vancouver Art Gallery announced it will be the recipient of a $100 million transformational gift from the Audain Foundation, to support the creation of a new building in downtown Vancouver. This gift comes at a time when the Vancouver Art Gallery celebrates its 90th anniversary. This is the largest single cash gift to an art gallery in Canadian history. Michael Audain, Chairman of the Audain Foundation, states, Important art has been created on this coast for thousands of years, while today Vancouvers visual artists are recognized for their accomplishments around the world. Yoshi and I are happy to help build a new Vancouver Art Gallery because we love British Columbia and our artists. We hope the splendid new building will work well to exhibit the work of our leading artists as well as introduce youngsters to the wonders of art. Vancouver has been good to our family, so we are thrilled to have this opp ... More | |
Gerhard Richter (B. 1932), Abstraktes Bild, signed, inscribed and dated '"715-6" Richter 1990' (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 33 x 27 1/8 in. (84 x 68.9 cm.) Painted in 1990. $2,200,000 $2,800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 12, Christies New York will hold its two session Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale featuring 286 works from masters spanning the 20th and 21st century. Among the highlights are works by post-war icons including Mark Rothko, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler and Andy Warhol as well as a strong selection by cutting-edge contemporary visionaries including Harold Ancart, Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Condo, Keith Haring and Rashid Johnson. In total, the sale is expected to realize $52,607,000 $76,026,000. The auction begins on Friday, November 12 at 10am, with the second session resuming at 2pm.Viewing is by appointment only from October 30 November 11. Leading the sale is Rothkos Untitled, ... More | |
Gillian Wearing, Me as Mona Lisa, 2020. Framed chromogenic print, 24 1/4 x 19 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. (61.6 x 48.6 x 3.2 cm). © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- From November 5, 2021 through April 4, 2022, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, the first retrospective of Wearings work in North America. Featuring more than a hundred pieces, the exhibition traces the development of the British conceptual artists practice from her earliest photographs and videos to her latest paintings and sculptures, all of which explore the performative nature of identity. Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks is organized by Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator, Photography, and Nat Trotman, Curator, Performance and Media, with X Zhu-Nowell, Assistant Curator, and Ksenia Soboleva, former Marica and Jan Vilcek Curatorial Fellow. Gillian Wearings profoundly empathetic and psychologically ... More |
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| Museum of Anthropology recentres Black perspectives in world premiere of "Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots" | | Paul Newman will tell his own story, 14 years after his death | | Exhibition shares Oscar Bluemner's career and accomplishments through his art, writings, and theories |
Sankofa figure, maker unrecorded (Asante). MOA Collection K2.368. Photo by Skooker Broome.
VANCOUVER.- The Museum of Anthropology at UBC opened the exhibition Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots, on display from November 4, 2021March 27, 2022. The vital exhibition shines a light on the different ways of understanding the world through the lenses of African and Black communities by exploring the relationships between traditional and contemporary African art and Black Canadian contemporary art. The exhibition is a celebration of these diverse practices and the lasting legacy of African and Black Canadian artists. Sankofa is jointly curated by Nya Lewis, founder and director of BlackArt Gastown; Nuno Porto, MOA Curator, Africa and South America; and Titilope Salami, a PhD candidate at UBCs Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. It also features one installation curated by Oluwasayo Olowo-Oke, MA candidate at UBCs Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Sankofa addresses the uncertain moment ... More | |
Paul Newman. Knopf plans to publish a book next year based on hours of recordings the movie star left behind, as well as interviews with family, friends and associates. Via Knopf via The New York Times.
by Elizabeth A. Harris
NEW YORK, NY.- Decades ago, actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, frustrated by all the unauthorized biographies and coverage of his life, recorded his own oral history, leaving behind transcripts that for years were forgotten in the basement laundry room of his house in Connecticut. Now his family has decided to turn those transcripts into a memoir, which will be published by Knopf next fall. What he recorded, and in essence what he wrote, was so honest and revealing, said Peter Gethers, an editor-at-large at Knopf who will edit the book, which does not yet have a title. It showed this extraordinary arc, a guy who was very, very flawed at the beginning of his life and as a young man, but who, as he got older, turned into the Paul Newman we want him to be. Newman known for his ... More | |
Oscar Bluemner, Red Town (Montclair, N.J.), 1917. Signed with conjoined letters at center left: OBLÃMNER; signed, inscribed and stamped on the backing: Oscar Bluemner / "Red Town" (Montclair, N.J.) / COLLECTION AS. Oil on board, 20 x 15 inches. 50.8 x 38.1 cm. Photo: Roz Akin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Menconi + Schoelkopf, a leading gallery in the field of American art, presents Bluemner and the Critics, an exhibition of works composed of Bluemner's paintings, drawings and watercolors, along with the artist's extensive writings about his art in his diaries and notebooks. The extraordinary show will run first from November 4th through November 7th at the ADAA Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory, followed by a showing from November 9th through December 17th at the Menconi + Schoelkopf gallery located at 22 East 80th Street in New York City. Oscar Bluemners impact and legacy over the past century is analogous to the experience of other leading modernists: embraced in the years leading up to and following 1913s Armory Show and the 1916 Forum ... More |
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| Exhibition of new paintings by German artist Neo Rauch opens at David Zwirner | | Lee Harvey Oswald's US Marine Corps rifle score book among fine autographs and artifacts up for auction | | Christie's American art sale features 'Modern Icons: Property from an Important Private Collection' |
Neo Rauch, Wegweiser, 2021. Photo: Uwe Walter. © Neo Rauch / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy the artist, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting The Signpost, an exhibition of new paintings by German artist Neo Rauch. On view at the gallerys 533 West 19th Street location, the presentation follows the artists 2019 exhibition Propaganda at David Zwirner Hong Kong, and marks Rauchs first solo show at the New York gallery since his 2014 exhibition At the Well. Widely celebrated as one of the most influential figurative painters working today, Rauch is known for richly colored and elaborate paintings that contain a repertoire of invented characters, settings, objects, and motifs. At once realistic and familiar, enigmatic and inscrutable, his paintings often hint at broader narratives and historiesseemingly reconnecting with the artistic traditions of realismyet they are dreamlike and frequently contain disparate and overlapping spaces and forms. As writer Thomas Meaney notes, Rauch is known for huge, dense ... More | |
Lee Harvey Oswalds US Marine Corps Rifle Score Book. Now At: $28,963 (12 bids)Estimate: $100,000+Ends on 11/10.
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction brings 1,100+ items to the auction block in our massive November Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale. Dominated by dozens of animation cels and production drawings, important John F. Kennedy manuscripts and memorabilia, and historic autographs from around the world, this is an impressive auction in its depth and breadth. Highlights include; Lee Harvey Oswald's US Marine Corps Rifle Score Book (Warren Commission Exhibit No. 239). The 80-page softcover workbook issued on December 3, 1956, was filled out by Oswald. For the past 57 years many have claimed Oswald was a lousy shot and could not have killed Kennedy. These three test scores show otherwise. His above-expert level in three of five tests shows he was capable of assassinating President Kennedy either alone or had the appropriate background and capabilities if chosen by conspirators as a 'patsy'. The ... More | |
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), Dingleton Farm (detail), oil on gessoed masonite, 11 ½ x 15 ½ in. Painted in 1956. $600,000-800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Modern Icons: Property from an Important Private Collection will highlight the American Art auction on November 18 in New York. Representing the leading American Modernist artists of the 20th Century, featured highlights include Arthur Doves Sunset and Thomas Hart Bentons Keith Farm, Chilmark (each estimated at $2,000,000 - 3,000,000). The collection of 24 lots also includes works by Edward Hopper, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Walt Kuhn, Charles Burchfield, Oscar Bluemner, Maxfield Parrish and John Marin. Viewing is by appointment only 13-17 November at Christies Rockefeller Center Galleries. Thomas Hart Bentons Keith Farm, Chilmark represents the culmination of the great Regionalist masters craft and is emblematic of the everyday American subject matter he sought to champion ... More |
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'Tick, Tick ... Boom!': A musical based on a musical about writing a musical. We explain.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lin-Manuel Mirandas new film adaptation of Tick, Tick Boom! is the musical version of Rent creator Jonathan Larsons musical about writing a musical. To clarify, that musical is not Rent. (Yes, our brains hurt, too.) Tick, Tick ... Boom!, which premieres Nov. 12 in theaters and Nov. 19 on Netflix, portrays Larson (Andrew Garfield) and his efforts to find success in his late 20s. The audience watches him struggle to write Superbia, a retro-futuristic musical, while he frets about whether he should choose a more conventional career. To help you keep Superbia (Larsons never-produced musical) straight from Tick, Tick ... Boom! (Larsons autobiographical show about writing Superbia) straight from Tick, Tick Boom! (the new film that tells Larsons story), weve created this guide: Who was Jonathan Larson? The composer and playwright is best ... More
Alexis Assam named VMFA's Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the appointment of Alexis Assam to the position of Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art. Assam comes to VMFA from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she worked as the Constance E. Clayton Curatorial Fellow in the Contemporary Art department. It gives me tremendous pleasure to welcome Alexis to the department of Modern and Contemporary Art, said Valerie Cassel Oliver, VMFAs Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She will be an invaluable asset in upcoming acquisitions, exhibition developments and future projects for the museum. Alexis will have an important role in continuing to build the museums inclusive collections and in developing relevant, meaningful exhibitions that will resonate with our visitors, ... More
Nara Roesler New York opens a solo exhibition by artist Tomie Ohtake
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York opened Visible Persistence: Tomie Ohtake (1957-2014) a solo exhibition by artist Tomie Ohtake (b. 1913, in Kyoto, Japan-d. 2015, in São Paulo, Brazil), curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas. The show proposes a selection of key works, embracing over 50 years of production, which together punctuate the defining phases in the artist's career, offering a succinct retrospective of her oeuvre. With works pertaining to each of these fundamental periods, Visible Persistence: Tomie Ohtake (1957-2014) foregrounds the marked phases of the artist's career, celebrating every stage in its distinction, but also stressing Ohtake's drive to capture the density of space, color as a generative field, and the corporal experience of form. A paramount figure in Brazilian art during the second half of the 20th and the first decades ... More
Private collection of contemporary artists' books at Swann November 9
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, November 9 Swann Galleries will hold Contemporary Artists Books: The Property of a Texas Collectoran astonishing single owner auction of works, many known only via institutional copies. The sale includes an abundance of deluxe issues produced in small limitations often out of reach of even the most determined collector. Featured throughout the sale are considerable runs from artists including Kiki Smith, Sophie Calle, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Tuttle, Ed Ruscha and Sol LeWitt. Highlights include Ruschas Stains, Hollywood, 1969, which leads the sale at $50,000 to $70,000. Also by Ruscha is S, a unique found-object book sculpture from 1999 that utilizes Paul Hervieus Flirt ($20,000-25,000). From Kiki Smith is Touch, a complete group of six prints and a letterpress poem by Henri Cole ... More
North Carolina Museum of Art to unveil reimagined presentation of museum collection in fall 2022
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art announces a major reinstallation of the Peoples Collection. The reimagined presentation, the first complete reorganization since the opening of West Building in 2010, will showcase new thematic and interpretive galleries across East and West buildings. This exciting reinstallation of artworks connects the collection across place and time; features major loans from North Carolina and national and international museums; and showcases new, site-specific commissioned works, providing a more dynamic and accessible experience of the arts. 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of the North Carolina legislatures setting aside state funds to start the Peoples Collection, which belongs to the citizens of our state, said Valerie Hillings, Museum director. This transformative reinstallation expands upon ... More
ICA/Boston and MoMA PS1 co-organize first museum survey of Deana Lawson
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and MoMA PS1 have co-organized the first museum survey dedicated to the work of Deana Lawson (b. 1979, Rochester, NY), a singular voice in photography today. Drawing on a wide spectrum of photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, and appropriated images, Lawsons posed photographs channel broader ideas about personal and social histories, sexuality, and spiritual beliefs. Featuring a selection of over fifty photographs from 2004 to the present, this exhibition features the full range of Lawsons career to date and establishes for the first time a narrative arc of her expansive vision. This nationally touring exhibition will be on view November 4, 2021February 27, 2022 at the ICA; April 14September 5, 2022 at MoMA PS1; and ... More
She was an organist for the ages
NEW YORK, NY.- Few musicians have faced a debut more intense than did organist Jeanne Demessieux. For years before her first concert one of six she gave at the Salle Pleyel in Paris early in 1946 her teacher Marcel Dupré had stoked rumors of her outlandish talent. Jeanne Demessieux is the greatest organist of all generations, Dupré, then practically the god of the French organ world, had declared in 1944. She would be, he predicted, one of the greatest glories of France. There was tremendous pressure, then, on this shy, workaholic, perfectionist prodigy, who had lived under what Dupré said was his artistic protection since 1936 winning first prize in his class at the Paris Conservatory in 1941 and remaining his student and assistant after that. Pressure, too, from the imposing program of the first of her six historic ... More
Reimagined Gibney Company makes a long-winded debut
NEW YORK, NY.- Just before the pandemic, in January 2020, Gina Gibney, a choreographer and entrepreneur, announced that she was reinventing her dance company. Why, she wondered at the time, did New York City not have a company on the same level as a Nederlands Dans Theater or a Ballet BC? To be honest, that never really struck me as a problem. The aesthetic direction of those groups choreography with slippery swirls and hollow gestures wasnt something I pined for. But Gibney has accomplished what she set out to do: She has established a contemporary repertory company of 12 dancers that made its debut at the Joyce Theater exactly when she planned for it to happen: now. On Tuesday, the Gibney Company presented three premieres, by Sonya Tayeh, the Tony Award-winning choreographer of Moulin Rouge! ... More
Edie Falco shines as an everywoman in 'Morning Sun'
NEW YORK, NY.- Making the best of the little youve got may or may not be the theme of Morning Sun, the pianissimo new play by Simon Stephens that opened off-Broadway on Wednesday. But its certainly the problem. Not for Stephens is the big statement. His characters, linked in a maternal chain, are everywomen or anywomen positioned equidistantly along a conveyor belt between birth and death. Claudette is the tough one in her 70s, Charley the practical one in her 50s, Tessa the disillusioned one in her 30s. That they are identified by number in the script suggests their merely prototypical status. But unlike the lettered characters (A, B and C) in Edward Albees Three Tall Women, of which Morning Sun sometimes seems a less glittering variation, 1, 2 and 3 have self-consciously ordinary lives. Instead of Albees Park Avenue-ish boudoir, ... More
Eiffel Tower visitor numbers climb to pre-Covid levels
PARIS.- The Eiffel Tower is clocking up visitor numbers not seen since Covid-19 kept most tourists away and ripped a deep hole in its finances, the attraction's operator said Thursday. A major paint job on the "Iron Lady" has resumed after an interruption during the pandemic due to high lead levels, it said, with the aim of having the landmark look its best in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Eiffel Tower had "a good month of October", operator Sete told AFP, thanks to tourists returning to Paris, a top destination. It received an average of more than 20,000 visitors per day in October, up from 13,000 during the summer when curbs kept down numbers allowed into the tower's lifts. October weekend numbers were better than in 2019, Sete said. One big factor was the return of American tourists, who accounted for 10 percent of overall visits, as well as tourists from nearby European countries. ... More
Art of trash: Feting South Africa's overlooked waste pickers
JOHANNESBURG.- To many they are just filthy-looking jumbo bags bursting at the seams with recyclable waste wheeled along the streets of South Africa's largest city. But now graffiti artists are giving them a makeover, spray-painting them with bold and bright designs to encourage bystanders to look up and notice the unsung work of the impoverished workers who pull them. "One of the biggest challenges is just for residents to make eye contact, to build some sort of relationship," said Tamzyn Botha, one of the artists behind the initiative. Painting the bags is a "fun way to create some sort dialogue," said the coordinator at Shade, a Johannesburg centre where artists buy recyclable material from the waste pickers. Across South Africa, thousands of "reclaimers" are helping the country recycle. Largely unemployed, they eke out a living by picking ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Maurice Utrillo died November 05, 1955. Maurice Utrillo (born Maurice Valadon (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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