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Several rare and elaborate, 17th century cabinets, representing the pinnacle of Flemish cabinetmaking craftsmanship, are certain to meet with collectors' approval. The undisputed pièce de résistance of this fabulously elegant furniture is a large, museum-quality ebony cabinet from Antwerp, crafted with captivating finesse and artistic skill. Opening at 25,000 euros, this courtly cabinet, in immaculate condition and with its remarkably well-preserved interior of perishable, embroidered silk, would take pride of place in any collection.
MUNICH.- Collectors on the lookout for rare, outstanding and unique objects from antiquity to Art Déco are advised to watch this space for news of the wide range of objects offered by Hermann Historica. For collectors of rare, outstanding and unique objects from antiquity to Art Déco, all roads lead not to Rome, but to Hermann Historica, International Auctions. Following the move to new, spacious premises in Grasbrunn, the staff in the departments for works of art and antiquities have succeeded in gathering a plethora of exquisite pieces from all over the world for the large Autumn Auction. The 1,050 lots of the live auction will be sold on 13 and 14 November, while the 353 lots of the online auction are to come under the hammer on 21 November 2019. Moreover, the special catalogue entitled "Cabinet des curiosités", comprising 417 lots from a private wunderkammer, which were amassed in tireless dedication ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "Redoubt" by Matthew Barney, showing until January 12, 2020 at Beijing's UCCA, fascinates Calgary-based YPO forum facilitator Lesley Hayes and Singapore-based YPO Bonne Vie forum member Guillaume Levy-Lambert following a retreat where they discovered that they are both born on the date depicted on Roy Lichtenstein's "Desk Calendar".
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| | Gillian Jagger, sculptor whose medium was nature, dies at 88 | | £1 charity shop vase sells for £484,000 | | Denmark and Iceland clash over priceless mediaeval manuscripts |
An undated photo provided by Russell Panczenko of sculptor Gillian Jagger, an artist guided by a deep-seated connection to nature and best known for imposing sculptures and installations that often incorporated tree trunks and animal carcasses. Jagger died on Oct. 21, 2019, in Ellenville, in upstate New York. She was 88. Russell Panczenko via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Gillian Jagger, an artist guided by a deep-seated connection to nature and best known for imposing sculptures and installations that often incorporated tree trunks and animal carcasses, died Oct. 21 in Ellenville, in upstate New York. She was 88. Her death was confirmed by her wife and only survivor, Connie Mander. Mander did not specify a cause but said Jagger had had difficulty breathing at their home and was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died. Jagger was a fiercely independent creator who adhered to her own instincts and vision; though her work has affinities with feminist art, land art and post-minimalism, she never aligned ... More | |
The unnamed buyer spotted it on sale for £1 in a charity shop in Hertfordshire and picked it up as 'he liked the look of it'.
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- A Chinese vase bought for just £1 in a charity shop has sold for a staggering £484,000 after it emerged it was made for an 18th century emperor. The lucky shopper, unaware of its significance, listed the small yellow vase on eBay - only to be inundated with messages and bids. Realising it must be valuable, he removed it from the site and took it to specialists at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers' in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex. They studied the 8ins tall vase and identified it as being Chinese imperial and made for the Qianlong Emperor, who reigned from 1735 to 1796. The Qianlong famille rose vase is marked with a symbol that meant it wasn't for export, but for one of the emperor's palaces. It is inscribed with an imperial poem that 'praises incense' and two iron-red seal marks that read 'Qianlong chen han' or 'the Qianlong Emperor's own mark'. It also reads 'Weijing ... More | |
In this file photo taken on January 25, 2017, Iceland's President Gudni Johannesson (R) looks at historic documents as he visits the collection of Arnamagnaean Manuscript items at the University of Copenhagen, during his trip to Denmark. Martin Sylvest / Scanpix Denmark / AFP.
COPENHAGEN (AFP).- They recount tales of Viking raids, Norse history, kings and gods: a priceless collection of mediaeval manuscripts, bequeathed by an Icelandic scholar to the University of Copenhagen in the 18th century, that Iceland now wants back. The UN cultural organisation UNESCO has called them "the single most important collection of early Scandinavian manuscripts in existence", with the earliest one dating from the 12th century. Some of the texts -- known as the Arnamagnaean Collection -- have already been returned to Reykjavik, but 1,400 documents are still locked away in Copenhagen. The jewel of the collection is an almost complete early 15th century copy of "Heimskringla" -- the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas, originally written in the 13th century by ... More |
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| | Gagosian opens an exhibition featuring works by H. R. Giger and Mark Prent | | Marciano Art Foundation is accused of unfair labor practices | | Shock in Russia as Napoleon expert confesses to chopping up lover |
H. R. Giger, Birth Machine Baby, 1998 (detail). Aluminum, 20 7/8 x 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. 53 x 22 x 22 cm © H. R. Giger Museum, Gruyères, Switzerland. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Birth Machine Baby, an exhibition curated by Harmony Korine, featuring works by H. R. Giger and Mark Prent. In this exhibition, Korine pairs eerie humanoid figures by Gigerwhose name has been cemented in Hollywood history for his visual effects and design work on the Alien film franchisewith sculptures by Prent, a Canadian artist whose grotesque and provocative depictions of the human body were greatly admired by Giger himself. Despite the divergences in Gigers and Prents chosen styles and mediums, both artists interests lie in coaxing out latent fantastical forms from the contours of the human body. Depicting subject matter gleaned from the depths of his psychic anxieties, Gigers stylized sculptures merge writhing, skeletal organisms with elegant metallic features, coalescing in his signature biomechanical style. Although Giger was best known for designing the ... More | |
The Marciano Art Foundation, a private museum in Los Angeles, May 10, 2017. The foundation is being accused by labor organizers of violating federal law by dismissing employees after they declared their interest in forming a union. Emily Berl/The New York Times.
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Labor organizers in Los Angeles have accused the Marciano Art Foundation, a private museum, of violating federal law by dismissing dozens of employees after they announced that they wanted to form a union. In a charge filed on Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board, the organizers wrote that the foundation has illegally discriminated against its employees by laying off employees en masse and/or closing its facility. The charge, filed by District Council 36 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, asked that the foundation be required to reinstate the employees, recognize and bargain with the union and reopen the museum, which was closed this week. A spokesman for the foundation did not immediately respond to a request ... More | |
Oleg Sokolov (C), one of Russia's foremost specialists on the 19th-century European history, takes part in the re-enactment of the 1812 battle between Napoleon's army and Russian troops. DENIS SINYAKOV / AFP.
SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP).- A prominent Saint Petersburg-based Napoleon expert has confessed to murdering his young lover and former student and dismembering her body in a grisly crime that sent shock waves across Russia. Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history lecturer who received France's Legion d'Honneur from Jacques Chirac in 2003, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder after he was hauled out of the icy Moika River with a backpack containing a woman's arms. "He has admitted his guilt," Sokolov's lawyer Alexander Pochuev told AFP, adding he regretted what he had done and was cooperating. A court on Monday will decide whether to arrest the historian, who was being treated for hypothermia in a hospital. Sokolov was reportedly drunk and fell into the Moika, a tributary of the Neva, in central Saint Petersburg as he tried to dispose of body parts near the offices of investigators. ... More |
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| | Like roads, many genetic lineages led to ancient Rome | | Barbara Hepworth's first monographic exhibition in Paris on view at The Musée Rodin | | Nationalmuseum acquires two self-portraits by Joseph Ducreux |
A view of Rome's ancient Colosseum.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- At the height of its empire, the inhabitants of ancient Rome genetically resembled the populations of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, according to a DNA study published Thursday. The paper is based on genome data of 127 individuals from 29 archaeological sites in and around the city, spanning nearly 12,000 years of Roman prehistory and history. Rome and central Italy's antiquity is well-documented in the rich archaeological and historical record, but relatively little genetic work had been carried out until now. Writing in the journal Science, researchers from Stanford and Italian universities said people from the city's earliest eras and from after the Western empire's decline in the 4th Century CE genetically resembled other Western Europeans. But during the imperial period, Romans had more in common with populations from Greece, Syria and Lebanon. The earliest sequenced genomes, from three individuals living 9,000 to 12,000 years ago, resembled ... More | |
Barbara Hepworth, Two Figures (Menhirs) [Deux figures (Menhirs)], 1964. Ardoise. H. 82,5 ; L. 63,8 ; P. 32cm. Tate / Barbara Hepworth © Bowness Photo © Tate.
PARIS.- The Musée Rodin is holding the first monographic exhibition on the work of British sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) in Paris, in association with Tate. Though little known in France, Barbara Hepworth who frequented artists such as Henry Moore, Picasso and Mondrian evolutionised sculpture with her development of a new aesthetic sensibility. Her abstract works, imbued with poetic purity, aspire to an ideal, peaceful world. The Musée Rodins tribute exhibition to Hepworth presents these sculptures, with their combination of solid and void; visitors who see these compelling artworks will find them hard to forget. After Rodin (1840-1917), a different kind of sculpture came into being. Around 1905 in France, the sculptor Aristide Maillol restored density to his freestanding figures, and from 1909 onwards Constantin Brancusi ... More | |
Joseph Ducreux, Self-portrait, entitled La Surprise en terreur, 1790s, oil on canvas NM 7496. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired two physiognomic self-portraits painted by the French artist, Joseph Ducreux, one of the foremost artists at the court of Louis XVI. Ducreuxs portraiture exhibits strong influences of naturalism and is characterized by the artists ability to capture a specific facial expression or emotional state. He shares this ability with the Austrian artist, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. Joseph Ducreux (17351802)was likely a student of Maurice Quentin de la Tour (17041788). The real launch of Ducreuxs career came when he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Marie Antoinette (17551793). In order to discover how the future French crown princess looked, the artist was sent to Vienna in 1769 with a commission to depict her. The result was so successful that Ducreux was subsequently made a baron and was given the title of premier peintre de la ... More |
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| | Mitchell-Innes & Nash opens an exhibition of new works by Canadian-born artist Brent Wadden | | Most comprehensive exhibition to date of works by Helga Paris opens at Akademie der Künste | | A search for ancestors in the desert southwest |
Brent Wadden, Untitled, 2019. Hand woven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas in the artist's frame, 71 3/4 by 54 7/8 in. 182.2 by 139.4 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting Second Life, an exhibition of new works by Canadian-born artist Brent Wadden. This is the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery. Second Life features a series of colorful, large-scale woven panels created over the course of the last year on traditional floor looms with a mix of new and second-hand fibers. Drawing from a diverse range of influences, from the Quilts of Gees Bend to the precise geometric forms of Minimalism, Waddens labored work collapses the boundaries between physical process and aesthetic content. The pliable surfaces of Waddens paintings are void of markings, figures or ground. However, they exude the painterly qualities of dimension, tactility and movement. Slight variations in the colors of thread break up monolithic forms into delicate tonal cascades not unlike those found in the paintings of his much-esteemed predecessors, like Josef Albers or ... More | |
Helga Paris, No title, 1984. From the series Frauen im Bekleidungswerk VEB Treffmodelle Berlin (Women at the Clothing factory VEB Treffmodelle Berlin). Photo © Helga Paris. Source: ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).
BERLIN.- From 8 November 2019, the Akademie der Künste on Pariser Platz presents the photography of Helga Paris (born 1938) from the period of 1968 until 2011. Featuring approx. 275 works, including many individual images and series on view for the first time, it is her most comprehensive exhibition to date. Excerpts from the series Leipzig, Hauptbahnhof (1981/82), Moskau (1991/92) and Mein Alex (2011), among others, are being exhibited for the first time. The series Leipzig, Hauptbahnhof (1981/82) captures the microcosm of a train station in a city rich in tradition and frequented for its trade fairs; the result is a profound and multifaceted portrait of society. Helga Paris took photographs on the platforms, in the hall, in the restaurant and its kitchen, of travellers waiting and hurrying, and of the people who work at these places. They are silent, precise observations of everyday life, always ... More | |
Estaban del Rey Mission Church, in the Acoma Sky City, in New Mexico, on Aug. 22, 2019. In the red rock desert of the Southwest, an ancient culture was thought to have vanished but a new view connects it to pueblo dwellers of today. John Burcham/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- On a cool spring day, in the bewitching crystalline light for which New Mexico is famous, I stood in the middle of the Acoma Sky City and looked out into the ocean of desert at an island of pale red and dun colored rock called Enchanted Mesa. My tour guide, Marissa Chino, a young Acoma woman, said it isnt known if her people once lived there. There are tales, though, that say they did. One story holds they descended to the valley to tend their squash and corn and, while they were farming, a violent storm washed away a stone ladder that was their only access. With no way back up the monolith, they abandoned their home and moved to the 357-foot tall mesa where the village sits now. This is only one of the great many mysteries about the ancient Puebloan civilization that once flourished across the desert ... More |
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PAI's 79th Rare Posters Auction earns $1.7M in sales with resurgence of Art Nouveau
NEW YORK.- Poster Auctions Internationals (PAI) third sale of the yearAuction LXXIX, held October 27th, online and at the PAI gallery in Manhattanfinished at $1.707 million in sales. The auction provided enthusiastic acclaim for important works of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco eras. Jack Rennert, President of PAI, said, The most significant aspect of this sale was the return of Art Nouveau following declining interest in previous years. This renewed passion is evident in record sales of Orazis La Maison Moderne, Thiriets Absinthe Berthelot, and continued interest in Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec. The highest bid at auctionand perhaps the most unexpected triumphwas for Henri Thiriets ca. 1898 Absinthe Berthelot, a rare Belle Epoque design depicting a bustling outdoor café scene. Its estimate of $30,000-$40,000 was swiftly surpassed ... More
Exhibition offers compelling visual memoirs of four master illustrators' immigrant experiences
STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- Finding Home: Four Artists Journeys, a new exhibition open November 9, 2019 through Monday, May 25, 2020 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, documents the complex emotional realities of adapting to a new life thousands of miles away from where their stories began, through compelling visual memoirs inspired by the personal journeys of four master illustrators, Frances Jetter, David Macaulay, James McMullan, and Yuyi Morales. More than 200 original drawings, paintings, linoleum block prints, and digital mixed media works by the artists draw upon memories and family narratives, and on historical research that establishes meaningful contexts for their work. Personal mementos from photographs, travel documents, treasured toys, skates, and tea sets, to articles of clothing, books, as well as video commentary ... More
Exhibition at Pangolin London comprises a new body of sculpture by Ann Christopher
LONDON.- Pangolin London is presenting highly-respected sculptor Ann Christophers latest solo show If you stop asking questions - - - Aptly titled the exhibition explores the nature of making and what drives an artist to continue. The exhibition comprises a new body of sculpture inspired by Christophers peripatetic wanderings around the world where she collects all sorts of natural and man-made objects that catch her eye and may at some point spark a thought or shape that could lead to a sculpture or drawing. For this exhibition found stones collected over many years have inspired a new series of works that first began in Uganda. Elegantly pairing a beautiful found object with a shape created by Christopher to bring it to life, these remarkable works are at once intimately personal yet universally timeless. They all bear Christophers signature ... More
Elmhurst Art Museum presents 'What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978-98'
ELMHURST, IL.- Elmhurst Art Museum is presenting What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978-98 on view September 14, 2019 January 12, 2020. Organized by Chicago-based, internationally exhibited artist Phyllis Bramson, What Came After is a survey of diverse interests in the figure as a subject, the human condition, and an interest in personal iconography. According to Bramson, Many have struggled with understanding and processing the term Chicago Imagism since it was first used in the early 1970s, including artists that built on the ideas of their peers or sought to break free from expectations of that legacy. What Came After better defines and celebrates this later generation of artists, which have been called third generation Imagists, Post-Imagists, and the Chicago School. In addition to Bramson, artists represented ... More
Olympian Tommie Smith revisits protest legacy in new film and exhibition at the San José Museum of Art
SAN JOSE, CA.- The San José Museum of Art is presenting a major exhibition this fall that revisits the now-iconic moment in sports history when Tommie Smith, a young athlete from San José State College (now San José State University), stood on the center podium at the 1968 Olympic awards ceremony with one gloved hand raised. It was October 16 and Smith had just won the gold medal for the 200-meter dash at the Summer Olympics. Leveraging a rapt, global audience, his gesture issued an unsubtle yet silent call to action against international human rights abuses and expressed solidarity with the civil rights movement in the United States. Over fifty years later, Smith shares his story and its ongoing contemporary relevance through an unlikely partnership with Los Angeles-based artist Glenn Kaino in With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie ... More
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opens the first solo museum exhibition of Will Boone
HOUSTON, TX.- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is presenting Will Boone: The Highway Hex, the first solo museum exhibition of Houston-born and Los Angeles-based artist Will Boone (born 1982). The exhibition explores the space and time between California and Texas, the Los Angeles River, Interstate 10, why people leave Texas and why they come back. The Highway Hex features all new works created for this presentation, including a site-specific installation, paintings, and sculptures. The title of the exhibition refers to a bizarre medical condition called highway hypnosis, or white line fever, where a driver enters an altered mental state and can operate a car for great distances in a safe manner with no memory of doing so. Similary, the exhibition traverses the vast landscapeboth physical and psychologicalbetween Texas and ... More
A Toronto bookstore amplifies outsider voices
TORONTO (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Before you walk inside Another Story Bookshop, you will see a poster featuring the John Lennon lyric A Working Class Hero Is Something to Be in the window. During a visit in the spring, the books on display included Policing Indigenous Movements and Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights. The guiding principle of the bookstore, located in Torontos Roncesvalles Village neighborhood, is social justice, and it makes itself known right away. That was a goal of its founder, Sheila Koffman, who opened Another Story in 1987 in an effort to place, as she put it, diverse books into diverse hands. She wanted to give a platform for those voices, said Eric McCall, a longtime employee, to really champion new authors that were people of color and queer authors. The store was originally located in the basement ... More
Plácido Domingo withdraws from Tokyo Olympics performances
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The opera star Plácido Domingo announced Friday that he was withdrawing from a scheduled theatrical event for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, the latest cancellation after several women accused the singer of sexual harassment. Domingo was set to take part in a performance mixing Western-style opera with Kabuki, a classical Japanese form of drama. One of Japans most famous Kabuki actors, Ichikawa Ebizo XI, was also to take part. But on Friday the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee said Domingo had withdrawn from the initiative, which was scheduled for the pre-Olympics Tokyo 2020 Nippon Festival in April. After thoughtful consideration I have made the decision not to participate in the Kabuki-opera event due to the complexity of the project, Domingo said in the statement, issued by the Tokyo 2020 ... More
From comic book to the mat: chessboxing bout thrills French creator
PARIS (AFP).- French comic book writer Enki Bilal laps it up as he watches two proponents of his creation combine the cerebral nature of chess with the physicality of boxing in a "sporting" first. Bilal watched spellbound as Paris's Cabaret Sauvage hosted France's first "bout" of competitive chessboxing Saturday, nearly three decades after he first depicted the concept in his work. A sellout crowd turned up to watch as the competitors alternated brawn and brain, three-minute rounds of boxing giving way to mini-chess bouts across a maximum 11 rounds, the whole thing ending either with a knockout -- or a checkmate. A DJ whips up the audience before the bare-chested protagonists, sweatshirts slung over their shoulders, enter the ring, escorted by their respective entourages. To drown out the noise of the partisan crowd, the "fighters" put headphones ... More
A forgotten pioneer's art world is resurrected at the Jewish Museum
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Its not a good sign when you step into an art exhibition and immediately begin to reinstall it in your head. But dont hold that against Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art, a crowded, enthralling exhibition at the Jewish Museum with a fascinating back story that is rarely told on this scale. It recounts the life of a long-running influential art gallery and, by extension, of the person who willed it into existence. That person, Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970), was a formidable, feisty and sometimes manipulative self-starter with an ecumenical eye, a passion for art and an inborn instinct for sales and promotion. Halpert was central to establishing the market for between-the-wars American art and thought that everyone should own art. She liked to keep prices low, would sell on the installment plan and staged ... More
Rory Pilgrim wins 2019 Prix de Rome
AMSTERDAM.- Artist Rory Pilgrim (Bristol, 1988) received the Prix de Rome 2019, the oldest and most prestigious award in the Netherlands for artists under the age of 40, from the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen Máxima. Pilgrim received this award for his new film The Undercurrent (2019-ongoing). The award comes with a 40,000 EUR cash prize and a work period at the American Academy in Rome. The international jury unanimously selected Rory Pilgrim, an artist who has shown himself as a master in making films that combine cinematography, music, content, form and topicality. In the fifty-minute film The Undercurrent he transports the visitors to the world of a group of young people in the American city of Boise (Idaho). The film features beautiful cinematography, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Paul Signac was born November 11, 1863. Paul Signac (11 November 1863 - 15 August 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. In this image: Esther Lausek from Hungary takes a look at the painting "The Jetty at Cassis" by Paul Signac that is on display at the exhibition "The nicest Frenchmen come from New York City" in Berlin, Wednesday, May 30, 2007.
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