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The new M+ Museum is seen in Hong Kong on November 11, 2021. ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP.
by Yan Zhao / Xinqi Su
HONG KONG.- Hong Kong's multimillion-dollar art museum M+ will open Friday without dissident artist Ai Weiwei's "middle finger series", highlighting concerns over creative freedom as authorities censor criticism in the city. The 65,000-square-metre (700,000-square-foot) venue on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour waterfront aims to rival Western leaders in contemporary art curation, such as London's Tate Modern and New York's Museum of Modern Art. After years of delay, senior officials from both the Hong Kong and Chinese governments cut the ribbon on Thursday. But a photo series by Chinese artist Ai in one of the museum's collections will not be on display. In the series, Ai is showing his middle finger to institutions around the world, including the White House, Germany's Reichstag -- and Beijing's Tiananmen Square. "Artistic expression is not above the law," said Henry Tang, t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Specialists work around ancient vessels found by a crew laying a natural gas pipe under a street in Lima, on November 04, 2021. Ernesto BENAVIDES / AFP.
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| Sotheby's announces live bidding in Ether cryptocurrency for two Banksy works | | Roland Auctions NY announces top sellers in Jay Waldmann collection two-day event | | Exhibition presents William Hogarth's work in a fresh light |
Banksy, Love is in the Art (detail). Est. 4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- In an auction world first, Sothebys auctioneer Oliver Barker is set to field bids live from the New York saleroom in Ether (ETH) cryptocurrency for Banksys Trolley Hunters and Love Is In The Air (2006), when the artists works make their auction debuts as part of the newly-conceived The Now Evening Auction on November 18. The paradigm-shifting move marks the first time that a cryptocurrency will be used as the standard currency for bidding on physical artworks in real-time during a live auction. Viewers from across the globe will be able to follow the livestreamed broadcast of the auction across Sothebys social media channels, including the companys dedicated Discord channel, and via Sothebys.com. Todays announcement comes just months after Sothebys became the first auction house to accept cryptocurrency as a payment option for a physical work of art, when a separate painting by B ... More | |
Suit of Armor, Nuremberg, Germany Circa 1570, Complete suit of armor. Sold for $21,250.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY presented a very special two-day auction event on November 5th & 6th, featuring the collection of prominent Southampton, NY antiques dealer Jay Waldmann, whose shop Waldmann Jewelry and Antiques graced Main Street in Southampton Village for over twenty years. The highly anticipated two-day auction offered over 1,000 lots, including 18th & 19th Century fine paintings, decorative arts, silver, bronze, porcelain and more, all curated over the years by Jay Waldmann, known as the premiere dealer in the Hamptons. As recently reported, Waldmann sold his building on Main Street in Southampton after opening his doors 23 years ago, and was now offering pieces from his exquisite collection for the first time in auction. As Roland Auctions Bill Roland recently stated I would honestly call this a very well, especially curated collection because it consists of so many objects which were select ... More | |
Hogarth and Europe installation view. Photo: Tate Photography / Jaiwana Monaghan.
LONDON.- Few artists have defined an era as much as William Hogarth (1697-1764), whose vivid, satirical depictions of 18th century England continue to capture the imagination today. Tate Britains major exhibition Hogarth and Europe presents his work in a fresh light, seen for the first time alongside works by his continental contemporaries. It explores the parallels and exchanges that crossed borders and the cosmopolitan character of Hogarths art. Hogarths best-known paintings and prints, such as Marriage A-la-Mode 1743, The Gate of Calais 1748 and Gin Lane 1751, are shown alongside works by famed European artists, including Jean-Siméon Chardin in Paris, Pietro Longhi in Venice, and Cornelis Troost in Amsterdam. Together they reveal how changes in society took art in new directions, both in Britain and abroad. Featuring over 60 of Hogarths works, brought together from private and public collections around Europe and No ... More |
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| Barbara Kruger: Infinitely copied, still unmatched | | Smuggled Russian royal jewels rake in nearly $900,000 at auction | | Exhibition celebrates 20th anniversary of the founding of Neue Galerie New York |
Barbara Kruger. Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., 2019. Digital image courtesy of the artist.
by Jon Caramanica
CHICAGO, IL.- At the entrance of Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. the striking, flag-planting new Barbara Kruger retrospective (and elaboration) at the Art Institute of Chicago, youre greeted with one of the artists videos, installed like a blockade. Its of an image being assembled like a jigsaw puzzle, clacking loudly with each new added piece. You stand before it, as if staring into a Las Vegas slot machine a tractor beam of tsk-tsk propaganda. When complete, the message is delivered with a thump: I shop therefore I am. Thats familiar Kruger wisdom, deploying the tools of mass communication shepherding to make the sheep think. On the walls on either side of this work are slates of Kruger copycats derivative works combining text and found material from media by mostly anonymous ... More | |
Historically important sapphire and diamond brooch and a pair ear clips, circa 1900. Courtesy Sotheby's.
GENEVA.- A sapphire-and-diamond brooch and matching ear clips which once belonged to Russia's Romanov imperial dynasty were snapped up at a Sotheby's auction Wednesday for nearly $900,000. The jewels, which belonged to grand duchess Maria Pavlovna the Elder (1854-1920), the aunt of the last tsar, Nicholas II, were smuggled out of Russia for safekeeping during the 1917 revolution in which the tsar, his wife and their children were massacred. "The storied history of the Romanov jewels undoubtedly proved the power of provenance, with collectors from around the world vying for the winning bid," Sotheby's head of sale Olivier Wagner said in a statement. They went for 806,500 Swiss francs ($885,000, 765,000 euros) including premiums at the Geneva auction -- far more than their estimated value of between $300,000 and $500,000. Dating from around 1900, the brooch ... More | |
Max Beckmann (18841950), Self-Portrait with Horn, 1938, oil on canvas. Neue Galerie New York and Private Collection. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Copyright © 2021 Neue Galerie New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Neue Galerie New York opened "Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890-1940," an exhibition of major works of Austrian and German fine art and design from the permanent collection. The presentation, organized in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Neue Galerie New York, fills the entirety of its landmark Museum Mile building. The opening of this exhibition will offer visitors access to all of the galleries for the first time since March 2020, when the Neue Galerie, along with museums in New York and around the world, shuttered in response to the pandemic. On view through March 13, 2022, "Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890-1940 underscores the Neue Galeries unique mission to bring a sense of perspective back to Germanic ... More |
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| Know how the Beatles ended? Peter Jackson may change your mind. | | Salon Fair, still focused on decor, now back at the Armory | | Calder BMW Art Car to make US museum debut at Norton Museum |
The directors three-part documentary Get Back explores the most contested period in the bands history and reveals theres still plenty to debate.
NEW YORK, NY.- It is a cold January morning in 1969, and three of the four Beatles are assembled in a cavernous film studio in London, with cameras rolling and microphones everywhere. Lennons late again, Paul McCartney says matter-of-factly as he plugs in his bass guitar. With Ringo Starr and George Harrison sitting groggily before him, a tray of toast and jam by their side, McCartney starts to strum and sing, searching for inspiration. Within minutes, a midtempo groove takes shape, and a familiar vocal melody emerges. Get back, he sings in a faint howl. Get back to where you once belonged. Almost like magic, a Beatles classic begins to form out of nothing. Later that same day, after John Lennon arrives, the four rock deities gather in a circle and bicker. They have loose plans for a concert TV special featuring brand-new songs, but most of the men appear to be dreading it and ... More | |
Lily Pad Marquetry and Brass Side Table.
NEW YORK, NY.- After a year off because of the pandemic, Salon Art + Design is back at the Park Avenue Armory with a display of fine art and designer furniture shown in themed booths alongside splashy decorative arts and ancient sculpture. The work spans millenniums and dozens of cultural traditions. Forty-eight exhibitors from 11 countries are here, many of whom made it just under the wire as the United States lifted travel restrictions this week and opened its doors to international travelers (and their art wares). Now in its 10th year, this fair may not be the showiest mounted by Salon Art + Design and its producer, Sanford L. Smith + Associates, but it is solid and, more important, open. Here are some highlights from the aisles and the Tiffany-designed Library Room inside the Armory. A specialist in early-20th-century American art and a stalwart of the fair, New York gallerist Bernard Goldberg is stationed, as usual, just inside its entrance. He has brought with him a discovery: American artist R ... More | |
Alexander Calder, Calder BMW Art Car (Artists Proof), 1975 / 2021. Automotive paints on 1974 BMW 3.0 CSL, 54 x 181 x 74 ½ in. (137.2 x 459.7 x 189.2 cm) Calder Foundation, New York © 2021 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: BMW AG.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art announced today that it will present Special Guest: Calder BMW Art Car beginning Saturday, November 13. The exhibition will spotlight the American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) as part of the Norton's "Special Guest" temporary exhibition series featuring notable loans to the institution. On view from November 13, 2021 through April 24, 2022, the piece will be installed in the Gilbert and Ann Maurer Lobby alongside a tapestry by Calder and archival film footage. "Our 'Special Guest' exhibition series at the Norton provides visitors with the opportunity to see extraordinary works of art that often are not accessible to the public," said Ghislain d'Humières, Director and CEO ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of works by painter Anna Conway opens at Fergus McCaffrey | | £2 million expected for the most valuable Irish painting ever offered at auction | | Beatles and Hank Williams now share the title of world's most expensive concert poster |
Steady As She Goes 2018. © the Artist; courtesy the Artist and Fergus McCaffrey, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fergus McCaffrey is presenting a solo exhibition of works by American painter Anna Conway. This presentation marks the artists most expansive to date, with nearly a dozen paintings tracing the development of her subjects and her stylistic and extraordinary technical experimentation over the past two decades. Conways process of conceiving and fully realizing her paintings without preparatory studies necessitates continual additions and erasures, and the tracks and traces of meticulous revision present in each work render visible the same exacting labor that limits the artist's production, making an exhibition of this scope all the more impressive. The results are capable of producing in the viewer the same states of transitory, emancipatory awe experienced by many of the paintings subjects ... More | |
Jack Butler Yeats, Shouting, 1950 (detail).
DUBLIN.- Whytes winter auction of Important Irish art promises to deliver another exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire rare artworks of outstanding quality and enduring value. On Monday 29 November 2021, at the RDS Dublin, 155 lots of Irish art will be offered for auction. Whytes set new world records for Jack Yeats in an historic auction - held in association with Christies in 2019 - of the Ernie OMalley Collection. Now Whytes is out to break their own records with what is billed as the most valuable Irish picture ever to come to auction. Entitled Shouting the very large 1951 canvas [lot 37] could make 2 million, or possibly more. At over 100 by 150cm it is the largest size canvas that Yeats ever painted. He created six of these, of which only two - of which this is one - are in private hands. Ian Whyte says this truly magnificent masterpiece by Irelands greatest artist is c ... More | |
The Beatles 1966 Genuine Shea Stadium NY Concert Poster, Newly Discovered Specimen.
DALLAS, TX.- It has always been The Most Famous Concert Poster in the World. The Beatles. At Shea Stadium. On Aug. 23, 1966. But Saturday afternoon at Heritage Auctions, during the auction house's Nov. 6 Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters Signature® Auction, the bright yellow cardboard featuring the Fab Four tied the record for The World's Most Expensive Concert Poster, selling for $150,000. That equals the world record set in May 2021, when a poster for Hank Williams' two shows scheduled for New Year's Day 1953 at the Canton Memorial Auditorium in Ohio sold at Heritage Auctions for $150,000. Williams never made those concerts: He died en route. Another poster from that Williams concert sold during Saturday's auction for $137,500. One of only a handful known to exist, this one was discovered in an Ohio barn by the family ... More |
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The Morgan announces Elizabeth Abbarno as Director of Exhibition and Collection Management
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announced the appointment of Elizabeth Abbarno as Director of Exhibition and Collection Management. In this critical role, Abbarno will oversee the implementation of the Morgans ambitious exhibition program and take a lead role in stewarding a collection that ranges from ancient Western Asian seals and tablets and medieval manuscripts to contemporary drawings and photography. The addition of Elizabeth Abbarno to the Morgans Exhibitions team is crucial to the museums ecosystem, said Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum. We are delighted to bring her extensive experience to our ever-changing exhibition program and the management of our storied and growing collection. Abbarno comes to the Morgan with more than a decade of ... More
'Can't wait any longer': Revellers throng German carnival
COLOGNE.- Germany may be registering record coronavirus infections again but in Cologne, revellers shrugged off any virus fears to return in force on Thursday for their first carnival fair since the pandemic. "We are completely protected" by the the rules keeping unvaccinated people away from the event, said Marie-Louise, who had travelled in from the Netherlands for the street party. The Cologne Carnival, which begins at the 11th minute of the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, kicks off a months-long series of merrymaking events running through to Ash Wednesday the following year. The street festivities in the western city involving people dressed up in elaborate costumes, partying to big band music and enjoying comedy shows, were cancelled in 2020 over the pandemic, like elsewhere across German ... More
'Trevor' is a musical that dare not speak its theme
NEW YORK, NY.- There is no lack of cheese, God knows, in musicals. Worthiness is also plentiful and sometimes more off-putting. Still, until Trevor opened on Wednesday at Stage 42, Id seldom encountered, outside of after-school specials, the cheesy-but-worthy combo, a seemingly impossible platter thats almost as righteous in the world as it is wrong in the theater. The righteousness of Trevor comes from its pedigree and its mission. Based on a 23-minute film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 1995, its about a 13-year-old boy who can see only one solution suicide to the problem of being gay in a homophobic society. Told mostly in the form of voice-over diary entries, the film ably captures the desperate interiority of Trevors crisis, and the difficulty of relieving it with hope. Combating such hope ... More
Jane Lombard Gallery opens a group exhibition of works on paper
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery presents Drawn Together, a group exhibition of works on paper. Featuring artworks by Jane Bustin, Squeak Carnwath, Sarah Dwyer, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Teppei Kaneuji, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Lucy & Jorge Orta, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Dan Perjovschi, Lucas Reiner, Stefan Saffer, Elizabeth Schwaiger, Howard Smith and Courtney Tramposh, this exhibition highlights the relationship between artist, medium and surface, and the marks made in the process. Every artist has a unique relationship with surface, especially when it comes to the most humble and universal of mark-making chassis: paper. In our daily lives, ones experience with paper is often temporary - taking the form of convenient throwaways like napkins, newspapers, cups and containers. As a medium for art, papers ... More
Sealed Pokemon First Edition Booster Box lifts Heritage Trading Card Games auction above $4 million
DALLAS, TX.- Nearly three dozen bids boosted a sealed Pokémon First Edition Base Set Booster Box to $312,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Trading Card Games Signature® Auction Nov. 6-7. Nearly 1,200 bidders took part in this auction, which brought $4,055,742 in total sales and generated perfect sell-through rates of 100% by value and lots sold. "We had high hopes for this box and for the auction overall, and both exceeded our expectations," Heritage Auctions Trading Cards Games Consignment Director Jesus Garcia said. "But hitting a number like this is incredible. This result is further proof that Pokémon continues to be a great collectible, and that the most serious collectors know they will find what they're looking for in our auctions." This incredibly rare Booster Box originally was released in early 1999, and it includes the wid ... More
Lee Harvey Oswald's U. S. Marine Corps score book sold for $75,000 at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- Lee Harvey Oswald's U. S. Marine Corps Score Book sold for $75,000 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The 80-page softcover workbook issued on December 3, 1956, was filled out by Oswald. The first few pages of the workbook contain instructions for shooting and scoring, with Oswald's pencil notations. Accompanied by interesting correspondence from 1969 between Marguerite Oswald and Dr. John Lattimer, a notable researcher of the Kennedy assassination, who originally purchased the score book from her; this includes one handwritten letter from Dr. Lattimer to Marguerite Oswald and four letters and envelopes from Marguerite Oswald, the most fascinating being one dated in part: "My late son's Marine score book is in the same condition as when he left it with me Someday soon, it will be pro ... More
Atelier Ãditions to publish 'Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th Century Britain'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Atelier Ãditions announced the release of Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th Century Britain by Annebella Pollen, arriving in the UK/Europe on December 3, 2021 and the USA/Rest of World on January 11, 2022. Annebella Pollens richly illustrated study examines the idiosyncratic phenomenon of social nudism, or naturism, in 20th-century Britain, a place known for its lack of sunshine and conservative attitudes to sex. By bringing naturists own words and images to light, Nudism in a Cold Climate tells this little-known but fascinating history for the first time. From the 1930s, thousands of people appeared nude in books and magazines associated with th ... More
Lin-Manuel Miranda debuts 'tick, tick... Boom!' and eyes new projects
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Broadway sensation "Hamilton," said Wednesday he had returned to his first love of cinema with his directorial debut "tick tick... Boom!" -- but is itching to write musical theater again. The movie, which had its world premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, pays tribute to Jonathan Larson, the writer of "Rent" who was Broadway's wunderkind a generation before Miranda. "Film was my first love. I fell in love with movies, my grandfather owned a VHS video store when I was a kid -- Miranda Video," Miranda told AFP. "I spent my summers watching everything -- very little of it appropriate to a child of seven or eight years of age, but I watched it all! "And so I feel like I've come all the way back around to my first love." Miranda's "tick tick... Boom!" is an adaptation of Larson's stripped-dow ... More
'Chicago' pops the cork on 25 years of razzle dazzle
NEW YORK, NY.- When Chicago had its debut in 1975, no one expected it to become the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. The reviews were mixed. Walter Kerr wrote that it was altogether too heavy to let the slender, foolish story breathe. And although the show had a two-year run, it was dwarfed in impact by A Chorus Line. It seemed too chilly, in those days, to be truly loved, Ben Brantley wrote two decades later, reflecting on the shows themes of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery. But then came the Encores! production, in 1996 at City Center, a streamlined reworking that bubbled like vintage Champagne, Brantley wrote. The delirious reception to the concert staging was like ice cubes down your back, John Kander, the musicals composer, rec ... More
Jonathan Reynolds, playwright and food columnist, dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan Reynolds, who in a wide-ranging career wrote some successful plays, helped write a famously bad movie and turned out lively articles on how to cook the perfect turkey and all manner of other food-related subjects and who memorably combined his love of food and his way with words in an unusual stage show died on Oct. 27 at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 79. His family said in a statement that the cause was organ failure. After Reynolds tried but disliked acting (I had less influence than the stage manager and most of the stagehands, he once complained), he turned to playwriting and had quick success. A pair of his one-act comedies Rubbers, satirizing the New York state legislative process, and Yanks 3, Detroit 0, Top of the Seventh, about an ... More
Steven Mark Klein, fashion archivist and gadfly, dies at 70
NEW YORK, NY.- Elise By Olsen had made a name for herself at 15 as one of the worlds youngest magazine editors, having already produced runs of two print periodicals about culture and fashion from her bedroom in Oslo, Norway. One day in 2015 she received a challenging email: Who are you? She answered and then came a torrent of emails peppered with links to gallery and store websites, news articles about the fashion industry and warnings about its pitfalls. Her correspondent turned out to be Steven Mark Klein, a 64-year-old, New York-based hospitality brand consultant and fashion gadfly. For some years, he had run a blog called Not Vogue, which he used as a platform to take the fashion industry to task for being an exploiter of youth and a cynical expression of late-stage capitalism. At first, Olsen thought he was a troll. H ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog (Orange)" set a world auction record November 12, 2013. Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog (Orange)" at Christie's in New York. The mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating was part of Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale held on November 12, 2013. The sculpture sold for $58,405,000. The sum was the highest ever paid for a work by a living artist. AFP PHOTO/Don Emmert.
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