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Police show a picture of a calligraphy scroll written by Mao Zedong worth about 300 million USD, that had been recovered but found chopped in half following a robbery that included antique stamps and revolutionary items from mainland China worth an estimated 645 million USD, at a press conference in Hong Kong on October 7, 2020. ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP.
by Tiffany May
HONG KONG (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The thieves left by taxi, hauling away $645 million in artifacts they had stolen from a Hong Kong apartment while the owner was in mainland China. They took 24,000 vintage stamps, 10 bronze coins and seven calligraphy scrolls that the owner, Fu Chunxiao, said had been written by Mao Zedong. The majority of the stolen items remain missing, but the scroll, measuring 3 yards, found its way to a buyer before it was recovered by police. He found the calligraphy piece too long and difficult to display for viewers, so he cut it in two, Ho Chun-tung, a police superintendent, told reporters this week, referring to the man who allegedly bought the stolen scroll. Whether he knows the authenticity and value of the calligraphy is something we have to continue investigating. On Thursday, police charged a 44-year-old suspect identified only as Wu with burglary. He was arrested in Hong Kong, along with another man identified as Tan, 47, who was accused of harboring an off ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor walks by a poster during a press visit of the exhibition "Le rire de Cabu" at the City Hall in Paris on October 8, 2020, about French cartoonist Jean Cabut aka Cabu who was killed in the terrorist attack at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
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| | Fabergé family archive bequeathed and handed to the Moscow Kremlin Museums | | At a reduced Frieze Week, a focus on Black art | | Return looted art to former colonies, Dutch committee tells government |
The museum received the bulk of the familys archival documents for the purposes of research and study.
MOSCOW.- The Moscow Kremlin Museums became the recipient of the Fabergé family archive bequeathed to the museum earlier this year by its former owner and direct descendant the great-granddaughter of the court jeweller himself, Tatiana Fabergé. She died in France in February 2020, and according to her will, the museum received the bulk of the familys archival documents for the purposes of research and study. The specialists of the Moscow Kremlin Museums had known Tatyana Fabergé since 1992 the year when the "World of Fabergé" a landmark project, among the first ones in Russia to pay the exclusive tribute to the heritage of the master, took place. The family archive itself entered the Kremlin Museums collection in September 2020. The documents and family memorabilia contained there correspond to the period, stretching over 100 years and witness the life of the Fabergé family t ... More | |
Visitors sit near a work by Georg Baselitz, at the Frieze art fair in London, Oct. 10, 2012. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the same way that Voltaire described the Holy Roman Empire as neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, this years Frieze Week here didnt really live up to its title. For starters, Frieze London, Britains most important contemporary art fair, and its sister event, Frieze Masters, were canceled because of the pandemic and converted into mainly online offerings. Then, what did take place wasnt the usual event-packed week. There were no gala evening auctions, no groundbreaking exhibition at Tate Modern, no must-be-seen-at parties or dinners. Coronavirus restrictions make it impracticable to hold large-scale destination art events, particularly after reports in the German news media of infections at last months Gallery Weekend Berlin. The events director, ... More | |
The Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza in Paris, Sept. 4, 2020. Elliott Verdier/The New York Times.
by Claire Moses
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Netherlands should return looted art to its former colonies: Thats the official recommendation of an advisory committee to the Dutch government. After a year of research, including interviews with people in former Dutch colonies such as Indonesia, Suriname and several Caribbean islands, the committee released its report in Amsterdam on Wednesday. The decision on whether to return an object, however, would ultimately rest with the Dutch government, and after a similar recommendation was made in France in 2018, only a single object has since been given back. The principle is fantastic, said Jos van Beurden, an independent researcher who has specialized in restitution since the 1990s, of the Dutch decision. But Im worried about the execution. Lawyer and human ... More |
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| | The Helmut Newton Foundation opens 'America 1970s/80s: Hofer, Metzner, Meyerowitz, Newton' | | New book offers an original and vivid portrait of David Hockney | | Hermann Historica to offer works of art & antiquities in the 83rd Auction |
Evelyn Hofer, Policeman, 59th St. New York, 1964. © Estate Evelyn Hofer, courtesy Galerie m, Bochum.
BERLIN.- The Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin announces its new exhibition America 1970s/80s with works by Evelyn Hofer, Sheila Metzner, Joel Meyerowitz, and Helmut Newton. After taking a full-time position with the French edition of Vogue in 1961, Helmut Newton worked in parallel for the fashion magazines American edition as well. During this time, he produced images in both Europe and the USA. In New York, Newton delivered his photographs directly to Alexander Liberman, who was the editorial director of American Vogue from the 1960s to the 1990s not to mention a successful painter, sculptor, and photographer himself. Newton liked the United States and the sense of freedom it offered, and he regularly commuted between the Old and New Worlds. In the 1970s, most of Newtons American fashion and nude photographs were shot in New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Los Angeles for various magazines; Newton included s ... More | |
Upon reading the book, Hockney said he could recognise himself in Cussets touching work.
LONDON.- Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving home for the Royal College of Art in London his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalised, and because of his inclination for a figurative style of art, not sufficiently contemporary to be valued. Trips to New York and Californiawhere he would live for many years and paint his iconic swimming poolsintroduced him to new scenes and new loves, beginning a journey that would take him through the fraught years of the AIDS epidemic. Catherine Cusset wrote her book before actually meeting Hockney, drawing inspiration from published biographies and interviews of the artist. Fascinated by Hockneys work, his uncompromising freedom, and his double life between Europe and the United States, Cusset transformed ... More | |
A minimum bid of 12,000 euros will secure this figure, which most likely represents the mother goddess Uma, wife of the supreme god Shiva, from the 11th century.
MUNICH.- This September, with its castle auction in Greding, Hermann Historica presented an extra highlight that took Munich's autumn of art to a new level and added a new auction format to its portfolio. A format that managing director Dr. Bernhard Pacher lauded as a "High-end, triple A format for antique arms and armour, antiques and art" and which proved to be a resounding success at the very first event. Once again, as part of this year's Autumn Auction, which is divided into two thematic blocks, beginning on 22 October and ending on 4 November, a wide selection of exceptional artefacts from antiquity, works of art and craftsmanship are being offered for auction on 2 November 2020. This segment alone comprises 712 lots, all of which may be acquired by interested buyers at the auction house's headquarters in Grasbrunn, ... More |
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| | Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe present COLONY SOUND at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum | | First ever copy of The Who's 1965 My Generation album to go up for auction | | A famed horror director mines Japan's real-life atrocities |
Installation view. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
AARHUS.- ARoS Aarhus Art Museum presents the American artist duo Freeman & Lowe with a comprehensive exhibition in terms of both set design and content. COLONY SOUND is a unique and sensory total experience, staging the transition to a post-apocalyptic and dystopian future. From 10 October, visitors to ARoS Aarhus Art Museum can walk through fifteen all-enveloping spaces with changing scenographic installations. As a whole, these spaces make up the exhibition COLONY SOUND by the New York-based artist duo Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe. - COLONY SOUND is an appealing and relevant art experience, sure to capture the attention of children and adults alike. The exhibition grapples with some of the potential disasters and dystopias of our times and it therefore engages directly with the present zeitgeist, says Erlend G. Høyersten, museum director, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. With its thousands of elements, COLONY SOUND forms a gigantic labyrinthine tota ... More | |
Rare first pressing of The Whos 1965 album My Generation signed by all band members to go up for auction.
LONDON.- A rare first pressing of The Whos 1965 album My Generation signed by all four of its band members, is to go under the hammer in a sale of Music Memorabilia, Posters and Autographs at Excalibur auctions on Saturday 17th October 2020. This is the first time that the British bands debut album has come to auction and the first pressing, which means it is a record that was pressed from the 1st original masters. Even more excitingly is that it is being offered by someone with a direct link to the band and bears all four signatures of the band members (whereas most items relating to the band tend to have only one or two). The Who, comprising Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon made the album just after their chart success with several singles. It was released by Brunswick record label in the UK in December 1965 and while it reached number five ... More | |
Japanese film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa in Tokyo, Sept. 30, 2020. The latest movie, Wife of a Spy, from Kurosawa best known for horror movies depicting the dark undercurrents of life in modern Japan is likely to cause a stir in the country, where wartime atrocities remain the subject of intense controversy and are seldom seen on the big screen. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times.
TOKYO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is best known for horror movies depicting the dark undercurrents of life in modern Japan and the vengeful ghosts that haunt it. But the evil spirits lurking in the background of his latest film are a real-life horror from the countrys past the Imperial Armys testing of biological and chemical weapons on human subjects in Manchuria before and during World War II. The movie, Wife of a Spy, garnered Kurosawa the award for best director at the Venice Film Festival last month. When the film is released in Japan this month, it is likely to cause a stir in the country, where wartime atrocities remain the subject of intense controversy and are seldom ... More |
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| | Banksy bonanza at Bonhams | | Kapwani Kiwanga presents a site-specific installation at Haus der Kunst | | Phillips partners with Hall Art Foundation to offer works to benefit the Dreyfoos School of the Arts |
Banksy, Girl with Balloon, 2004, sold for £350,062. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Works by Banksy ignited a bidding frenzy at Bonhams' inaugural Pop x Culture sale on Thursday 8 October in London with the top lot, Heavy Weaponry, 2000, achieving an impressive £471,062. Another work by Banksy, a screenprint of Girl with Balloon, 2004 (signed), sold for £350,062, almost double the pre-sale estimate. Three Banksy prints achieved world auction records in the sale: Girl with Balloon, 2004 (unsigned), sold for £212,562 (estimate: £60,000-80,000). Laugh Now, 2003 (unsigned), sold for £68,812 (estimate: £15,000-20,000). Banksy, Gold Flag, 2007 (signed). sold for £72,562 (estimate: £18,000-22,000). The thematic, cross-departmental auction featured Modern & Contemporary art, prints, entertainment memorabilia and fashion pieces, exploring Street Art, youth culture and all things Pop. The sale made £2,004,935 with 63% sold by lot and 84% sold by value. Head of Sale, Cassi Young, said: W ... More | |
Kapwani Kiwanga. Plot. Installation view Haus der Kunst, 2020. Photo: Jens Weber, München.
MUNICH.- Over the course of the next five months, visitors to Haus der Kunst will encounter Plot, a series of site-specific installations and events devised by the Franco-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Staggered across three acts, Plot commenced on October 9 with a site-specific installation in the museums famous Middle Hall. The first thing viewers encounter are three bright, semi-transparent tableaus suspended from the high ceiling; altering the perception of the spaces volume and encouraging visitors to discover new circulation paths. With their colour gradients in green, orange, blue and violet tones, these hanging elements immediately recall the chromatic qualities of the neighbouring English Garden, once again pointing to Haus der Kunsts unique position as a gateway between the Munichs urban and idyllic spaces. Nestled in amongst this somewhat bucolic environment are three large inflatable sculptures, conta ... More | |
Georg Baselitz, Gestern und heute, 2020. Estimate: $300,000-500,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- This season, Phillips has partnered with the Hall Art Foundation to offer a group of works in the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale on 8 December that will directly benefit Black students at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. With an enrollment of over 1,400 students, this magnet public high school provides a tuition-free, arts-centered education for Palm Beach Countrys most talented and disciplined students in the arts. Proceeds from the sale of these lots will be used to implement scholarships specifically for low-income Black students who wish to pursue a career in the visual and performing arts. Some 20 contemporary artists, including Georg Baselitz, Katherine Bradford, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Longo, Peter Saul, Kenny Scharf and Julian Schnabel, have generously agreed to donate works to the Hall Art Foundation for the benefit. The Hal ... More |
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by Yan Pei-Ming
SALZBURG.- Yan Pei-Mings new series of works explore the complexities of current global developments and their multilayered impact, on a societal as well as a personal and emotional level. While in recent years Yan Pei-Mings practice has been characterised by his engagement with the works and legacies of other painters, including Gustave Courbet, this exhibition marks the artists return to the self. Created during the last few months, the self-portraits and still-lifes of this exhibition are pervaded by feelings of constriction and solitude experienced during the artist's confinement. In these diverse paintings, Yan Pei-Ming examines the unprecedented inner conflicts of the present moment in an intimate and piercingly direct way. Deeply rooted in the tradition of European painting, Yan Pei-Mings works are interrelated by their shared preoccupation ... More
Big gems cap Heritage's $7.36 million fall jewelry auction
DALLAS, TX.- A stunning, yellow diamond ring and an important private collection drove Heritage Auctions' Fall Jewelry Auction to $7,361,395 Oct. 4-5, as a 25-carat Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring took top lot honors at $975,000. Nearly 2,000 bidders from every corner of the world participated in the sale, quickly driving high bids past expectations. A special offering titled "Property of a Lady" proved popular with collectors; by auction's end, the group totaled more than $3 million. "We were honored to present 'Property of a Lady' and its rare jewels from Tiffany & Co.'s Blue Book," said Jill Burgum, Senior Director of Fine Jewelry at Heritage Auctions. "The sensational pieces were a form of wearable art. Interest was amazing! We were also excited to see competition for other designer brands, and large diamonds lead to higher ... More
Christie's to offer a selection of works from a beautiful property in the heart of Seville
LONDON.- Christies London announced the sale of a single-owner collection A Townhouse in Seville, comprising a selection of works from a beautiful property in the heart of Seville, Andalusia, southern Spain. The sale comprises 54 lots and represents a small part of a larger private collection, which was formed over the course of 40 years with a traditional, yet eclectic eye by its owners. Their own flair and iconic personal style is reflected in the fantastical, yet rich and elegant interiors which together they installed in this historic property. The works of art collected by these two connoisseurs are predominantly classical in flavour the strong themes of Catholicism sat happily alongside Roman antiquities and paintings of mythological subjects and in their choice of gilded finishes, rich furnishings and luxurious fabrics they paid homage to their ... More
Louise Glück, a Nobel winner whose poems have abundant intellect and deep feeling
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1976, he commented: The child in me is delighted. The adult in me is skeptical. Bellow saw a secret humiliation in the fact that some of the very great writers of the century didnt get it. Louise Glück, who won the prize on Thursday, has long been skeptical of praise as well. In a 2009 interview, she said: When Im told I have a large readership, I think, Oh great, Im going to turn out to be Longfellow: someone easy to understand, easy to like, the kind of diluted experience available to many. And I dont want to be Longfellow. Sorry, Henry, but I dont. To the degree that I apprehend acclaim, I think, Ah, its a flaw in the work. Glück her surname rhymes with click, not cluck is not the new Longfellow. Yet its part of her greatness that her poems are relatively easy of access while impo ... More
A YouTuber hangs his own shingle with an auction website
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Making the most important pitch of his career, Doug DeMuro stood in cargo shorts in front of a camera, unwavering in his giddy demeanor. He was about to unveil his new car auction website to his 3.7 million YouTube subscribers. The site would feature cars that I like most, he said. DeMuro had dreamed up his perfect car auction website during a flight without Wi-Fi in spring last year. It would feature cars from the 1980s on up, like a pristine 1984 Honda CRX or a manual transmission 1991 BMW 325i. And it would have integrated chat. Leading up to the introduction in June, DeMuro, 32, from San Diego, was hoping for 100 submissions from sellers in the first week. He played down his optimism, telling his team that they might see around 30 cars. Cars & Bids received 720 submissions on the first day. Theres two ... More
MacDougall's auction of Russian art features 200 lots ranging from icons to contemporary art
LONDON.- A MacDougalls auction of Russian art on 15 October 2020 will present an exquisite collection, featuring 200 lots ranging from icons to contemporary art. The sale is led by two masterpieces by Ivan Shishkin Summer Afternoon by the River (1870) and Pine Forest (1892), each estimated at £400,000600,000. These encompass the whole range of Shishkins oeuvre and provide a splendid illustration of how the artists career evolved. Pine Forest (lot 8) is a classic Shishkin, a monumental canvas, over a metre wide, belonging to the masters heyday. It shows a Shishkin familiar to Russians from their school textbook Rodnaya Rech, depicting a sunlit summers day, a pine forest with pinkish tree trunks, a radiant blue sky and vivid emerald greenery. All this is portrayed with consummate skill by the worlds greatest 19th-century landscape painter. ... More
Burchard Galleries offers lifelong collections of important treasures
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- A pair of handsome, centuries-old chambers that served for a time as executive dining rooms for Schenley Imports Company, the former New York City-based liquor company in the Empire State Building, and then later exhibited at the St. Petersburg Museum in Florida, will be part of a massive, 600-lot auction slated for October 18th by Burchard Galleries. The Sunday auction event, starting promptly at 12 oclock noon, will be held live in the gallery (with social distancing and other protocols in place), at 2528 30th Avenue North, St. Petersburg. Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will be accepted. Many photos can be viewed now, at www.burchardgalleries.com. This is the best auction in the 35-year history of Burchard Galleries, said Jeffrey Burchard, owner of Burchard ... More
Newly commissioned project from St. Louis artist brings Augmented Reality to Laumeier Sculpture Park
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park presents the newly commissioned project Van McElwee: Time Fork. McElwee, a local St. Louis multi-media artist, creates an Augmented Reality environment offering visitors an alternative Laumeier experience. Created from a topographical drone mapping of Laumeier, imagined structures will be placed virtually within the physical landscape at Laumeier and accessed through a free mobile app. McElwees interactive application will allow visitors to use a phone or tablet to navigate the physical space of the Park while simultaneously exploring a virtual world. The project, organized as a walking tour of the Park viewed through the lens of technology, entertains a playful fiction: roughly a thousand years ago, time branched to create a parallel world. In McElwees installation, he uses Augmented Reality to reveal ... More
Gene Cernan's notes for his speech delivered during his final moonwalk of Apollo 17 up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- On December 14, 1972, Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan The last man on the Moon delivered his parting words from the lunar surface. The Apollo program was over, and mankind knew not when it would return to another celestial body. Standing before the American flag, he delivered these words: "I think probably one of the most significant things we can think about when we think about Apollo is that it has opened for us'for us' being the worlda challenge of the future. The door is now cracked, but the promise of the future lies in the young people, not just in America, but the young people all over the world learning to live and learning to work together. On his wrist was his EVA-3 cuff checklist, and on the bottom of the last page he had written some crib notes to jog his memory for this speech: "Chall[enge] of Apollo. Door ... More
Fiona Banner and Greenpeace complete underwater barrier to trawling with installation at sea
LONDON.- Artist Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press and Greenpeace have today deployed two Full Stop sculptures in the North Sea from the Greenpeace ship the Esperanza, as part of an action against illegal and destructive industrial fishing. The art action completes a new area of almost 50 square miles developed by Greenpeace to be off-limits to destructive bottom trawling. The sculptures will live on the seabed in the Dogger Bank marine protected area, where Greenpeace investigators documented extensive illegal bottom trawling activity. Campaigners and the artist have pledged to remove the artworks if the UK Government makes a credible commitment to immediately ban industrial fishing from the Dogger Bank and all of the UKs offshore MPAs. The sculptures are given to the natural environment. Their currency is not found ... More
Exhibition of works by Philippe Favier opens at the Art and Archaeology Museum of Valence
VALENCE.- The Art and Archaeology Museum of Valence is hosting an exhibition of works by Philippe Favier. Working closely with curator Thierry Raspail, the artist has devised an exhibition in the former episcopal palace that ranges through 45 rooms, over an area of 4,000 m2. 45 eye-catching moments 45 unexpected places to stop and contemplate. Everywhere in the museum. All over. This tour of works by Philippe Favier takes us on a journey that winds its way through natural history, archaeology, fine art, landscapes and the latest displays at the Musée de Valence. It is a vast anthology with a touch of unassuming cosmogony. Every aspect of Philippe Faviers oeuvre is covered in the show, from the first Battles to his most recent drawings, engravings and boxes, from the work on glass to the photos and collages, with the Albatrosses, the Amazons, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Scottish sculptor Benno Schotz died October 11, 1984. Benno Schotz (28 August 1891 Arensburg - 11 October 1984 Glasgow) was a Scottish artist. During his career, Schotz produced several hundred portraits and compositions including figure compositions, religious sculptures, semi-abstracts and modelled portraits. His bust of James Maxton is on public display at the Maxton remembrance garden in Barrhead near Paisley. In this image: The Psalmist (1974). Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, Scotland.
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