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ARTBnk Valuation for Blue Tondo by Ilya Bolotowsky, complete with fair market value, high-resolution image, auction history, and sales comparables.
NEW YORK, NY.- What is the biggest problem facing the art market today? For many, its the subjectivity, inconsistency and lack of transparency surrounding the valuation of works of art. From collectors and financial advisors needing to understand the value of a collection, to art dealers hoping to align expectations in a negotiation, the lack of a consistent valuation process is an ever-present concern. ARTBnk has reimagined the practice for valuing art to solve this problem. Until now, valuations have relied on art professionals manually combing through databases and identifying comparables. This process is time consuming, often expensive, and inherently biased, not to mention it depends on static sales data which does nothing to account for an artists market p ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Swedish warship Vasa, is pictured on April 24, 2020, at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, 59 years after Vasa broke the surface in 1961 after 333 years on the seabed. Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP
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 | | China to reopen Forbidden City after three-month closure | | Sotheby's to hold vintage barware auction commemorating the 100th anniversary of Prohibition | | Bonhams BLUE auction raises over £400,000 for NHS Covid-19 appeal | 
In this file photo colored lights play across the Gate of Heavenly Purity is bathed in light at the Forbidden City in Beijing. Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times.
BEIJING (AFP).- China's Forbidden City will reopen on Friday, three months after it closed due to the coronavirus crisis -- the latest signal that the country has brought the disease under control. The sprawling imperial palace sitting across Tiananmen Square was shut down on January 25 as authorities closed tourist attractions and took other extraordinary measures to contain the virus, including locking down an entire province. The Palace Museum, which manages the Forbidden City, announced Wednesday that it will reopen from May 1, with a daily limit of 5,000 visitors -- down from 80,000 before the pandemic. Authorities have implemented other measures to reduce risks of infections at the cultural site, which in normal times attracted huge crowds. Visitors will have to wear masks and show health codes on a special mobile phone app that indicates if they are an infection risk before entering. Temperatures will be taken at the ... More | | 
Two Matching English Silver-Mounted Cut-Glass Decanters. Hukin & Heath, Birmingham. Sterling silver and crystal, circa 1923-1928. Estimate $5/7,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present 100 Years Prohibition in America, an online auction celebrating the beauty, ingenuity and design of barware and fine silver that was inspired both practically and artistically by the era of Prohibition in the United States. Bidding will be open on Sothebys.com from 721 May 2020. Coinciding with the 100th anniversary year of the start of Prohibition in 1920, Sothebys has partnered with Alan Bedwell, owner of vintage accessories gallery Foundwell, to curate a selection of barware and fine silver essentials. The online sale will showcase pieces designed and manufactured before, during and after this monumental time in American history. Alan Bedwell, Founder & Owner of Foundwell, said: America experienced a great surge of interest in novelty barware towards the end of Prohibition ... More | | 
Antony Gormley R.A. A work on paper, FOLD I, 2018, signed, titled and dated. Raised £17,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams BLUE Auction has raised an impressive £405,300 in aid of the NHS Charities Covid-19 Urgent Appeal, with 100% of the 61 lots sold. The not-for-profit online auction, which ran for three weeks from 8th 29th April on bonhams.com, included pledges generously donated by the UKs leading actors, musicians, artists and sportspeople, all in aid of the NHS Charities Covid-19 Urgent Appeal. Lucky winners will be visiting Grayson Perrys Studio, having tea with the cast of the Crown, spending the day as an extra in Call the Midwife, and playing a game of University Challenge with Jeremy Paxman. Among the highlights were: An Invitation for Two from the Duke of Richmond to His Private Track Day at Goodwood. Raised £25,000. Grayson Perry offered a visit to his studio, which raised £22,000. Two Tickets to The EE British Academy Film Awards in 2021. Raised £22,000. A Williams Formula ... More |
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| | Tina Girouard, experimental artist in 1970s SoHo, dies at 73 | | Silver dealer Koopman Rare Art presents online catalogue of antique silver candlesticks and candelabra | | Globally acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan dies at 53: publicist | 
Gordon, Tina, Suzanne.
by Randy Kennedy
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Tina Girouard, an avant-garde artist from rural Louisiana who played a catalytic role in the 1970s SoHo art scene in New York, helping to found the experimental gallery 112 Greene St. and the artist-run restaurant Food, died April 21 at her home in Cecilia, Louisiana. She was 73. Amy Bonwell, a niece, said the cause was a stroke. Arriving in New York City fresh out of college in 1969, Girouard plugged almost immediately into the performance, dance and conceptual-art circles that, fueled by their tumultuous times, were reshaping the art world. In 1971, for a group show organized by curator Alanna Heiss on a condemned pier beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, Girouard presented Swept House, a spartan performance and ephemeral sculpture in which she used a broom to shuffle dust into lines depicting the floor plan of a house. The work dovetailed with that of other artists at the time among them Gordon Matta-Clark, Joan Jonas, Vito ... More | | 
A Pair of George III Candlesticks. Silver
London 1763
. Makers mark of Elizabeth Godfrey. Height 24.5cm
Weight 57oz. £ 18,000.
LONDON.- Koopman Rare Art announced its latest on line catalogue entitled Illumination in Isolation a curated collection of antique silver candlesticks and candelabra selected from the companys current stock. The collection covers two centuries with examples dating from 1706 through to the 1930s. Lewis Smith, Director of Koopman Rare Art, said: More than ever before people are focusing on their homes and feel the need to be surrounded by beautiful items, which give them pleasure. Silver candlesticks and candelabra do exactly that. For centuries candlesticks and candelabra in domestic interiors have fulfilled one of the most important tasks: to bring light to tables and to the daily activities of a family home. Along with this practical purpose, candles have also often been associated with symbolism and magic. Nowadays at home we light candles for special occasions and to create a warm, comforting, romantic ambiance. Significant antique examples ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on February 23, 2009 actor Irrfan Khan arrives at the 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California. Jewel SAMAD / AFP.
by Udita Jhunjhunwala
MUMBAI (AFP).- Acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan, whose international movie career included hits such as "Slumdog Millionaire", "Life of Pi" and "The Amazing Spider-Man", has died aged 53, his publicist said Wednesday. The Bollywood star, who was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour in 2018, was admitted to a Mumbai hospital earlier this week with a colon infection. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the award-winning actor, tweeting "Irrfan Khan's demise is a loss to the world of cinema and theatre." Funeral rites for the actor were under way at a graveyard in Mumbai, with only immediate family allowed to attend in keeping with India's strict lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. Born in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan on January 7, 1967, Khan discovered an early passion for acting and studied at the elite ... More |
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| | Vietnam draws on propaganda artists in battle against virus | | Milena Jelinek, screenwriter and educator, dies at 84 | | UNC Greensboro announces new Director for Weatherspoon Art Museum | 
A propaganda poster on preventing the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus is seen on a wall as a woman walks by along a street in Hanoi on April 29, 2020. Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP.
by Quy Le Bui
HANOI (AFP).- A 76-year-old Vietnamese painter who has spent his life making propaganda art for the Communist government has turned his brush to the coronavirus, designing posters that have popped up across Hanoi. Tran Duy Truc was picked to create the COVID-19-themed work after a contest run by Vietnamese authorities. "Artists can be seen as fighters," he told AFP. "They have to draw their best pictures to make people understand and help them win against this enemy." The colourful, graphic lines of propaganda art were a common sight in Vietnam during the war against the US in the 1960s and 1970s, pushing messages of encouragement to frontline soldiers and urging the development of socialism. Even now, posters with a similar aesthetic can be seen throughout the country during major anniversaries or the ... More | | 
Milena Jelinek in the 1980s. Roberta Hershenson via The New York Times.
by Damien Cave
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Milena Jelinek spent her youth in Czechoslovakia learning to write under the tutelage of novelists like Milan Kundera and protesting Communism with friends like Vaclav Havel. She was thrown out of film school in Prague for a movie she wrote called An Easy Life, which was deemed subversive. After fleeing to New York, she became a tough-love screenwriting professor at Columbia University, where she was known to warn that becoming a writer makes you fat and a drunk. That mix of piercing critique, zestful living and an unflinching dedication to story defined Jelineks life. She died of complications of the coronavirus April 15 in Manhattan, her son, William Jelinek, said. She was 84. As a screenwriter, Milena Jelinek was best known for Forgotten Light, directed by Vladimir Michalek and released in 1996. The story of a young Roman Catholic priests effort ... More | | 
Juliette Bianco comes to UNCG from the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Photo: Eli BurakianDartmouth College.
GREENSBORO, NC.- UNC Greensboro today announced the appointment of Juliette Bianco as Director of the Weatherspoon Art Museum and adjunct faculty in the College of Visual and Performing Arts as of September 1. Juliette will succeed Nancy Doll, who steps down on July 31 after 22 years of dedicated and successful service. Ann Grimaldi, Weatherspoons Curator for Education, will serve as acting director for August, and Nancy will be available to Juliette during her transition later this year. Bianco has 25 years of experience as an art museum professional. She comes to UNCG from the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, her undergraduate alma mater, where she has served in various leadership capacities, including Deputy Director since 2013. The American Alliance of Museums calls the Hood Museum a "national model" for college and university museums. She oversaw the museums operations and a recent $50M museum renovation ... More |
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| | 'Nordic Noir' pioneer Maj Sjowall dead at 84 | | Australia marks 250th anniversary of Cook landing in muted fashion | | National Museum of Women in the Arts nominated for Best Social Media Account in 24th Annual Webby Awards | 
This picture taken on September 15, 2015, shows Swedish crime author Maj Sjowall in Malmo, Sweden. Maj Sjowall, one half of a Swedish crime-writing couple credited with inventing "Nordic Noir", has died aged 84, her publisher said on Wednesday. Johan NILSSON / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- Maj Sjowall, one half of a Swedish crime-writing couple credited with inventing "Nordic Noir", has died aged 84, her publisher said on Wednesday. Sjowall, a pioneer of gritty realism and an inspiration to modern crime writers, "passed away today after an extended period of illness," Ann-Marie Skarp, head of publisher Piratforlaget, told AFP. With her partner Per Wahloo, who died in 1975, Sjowall penned a 10-book series centred on the dour, middle-aged and decidedly unheroic Martin Beck and his team of detectives in Stockholm's National Homicide Bureau. Books like "Roseanna", "The Laughing Policeman" and "The Abominable Man," featured tightly structured plots packed with realistic details, charting the unglamourous slog and grind of police work. ... More | | 
A worker cleans the Captain Cook memorial at Kurnell on the shore of Botany Bay in Sydney on April 29, 2020. The 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's contentious landing in Australia went largely unmarked on April 29 as the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of long-planned commemorative events. PETER PARKS / AFP.
BOTANY BAY (AFP).- The 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's contentious landing in Australia went largely unmarked Wednesday as the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of long-planned commemorative events. On April 29, 1770, Captain Cook sailed the Endeavour into Botany Bay -- called Kamay in the local indigenous language -- an event that is increasingly being seen through the eyes of the Aboriginal Australians who were on the shore. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the anniversary represented "a merging of histories", calling Cook an "extraordinary individual". "The day Cook and the local indigenous community at Kamay first made contact 250 years ago changed ... More | | 
2019 Women's March on Washington Free Community Day, 2019/01/19. Photo: Kevin Allen.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts has been nominated in the 24th Annual Webby Awards for Best Social Media account in the Art and Culture category. Hailed by The New York Times as the Internets highest honor, The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), is the leading international awards organization honoring excellence on the Internet. IADAS, which nominates and selects The Webby Award winners, is comprised of internet industry experts, including Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom, Mozilla chairwoman Mitchell Baker, 23andMe co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki, PBS CEO Paula Kerger, Headspace founder Andy Puddicombe, The dtx Company founder Tim Armstrong, News Not Noise founder Jessica Yellin, R/GA US chief creative officer Tiffany Rolfe, The Ringer founder Bill Simmons, Target CMO Rick Gomez, Girls Who Code founder & CEO Reshma Saujani and Pineapple Street Media c ... More |
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 Gardner Museum launches new blog, Inside the Collection, to share hidden treasures, storiesBOSTON, MASS.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announces the launch of an exciting new blog, Inside the Collection, bringing visitors illuminating stories of hidden treasures from the Museums archives and collection. The blogs launch comes during the Museums temporary closure to the public in response to COVID-19 concerns, and will be a welcomed resource for visitors looking to learn more and experience the beauty of the Museums artwork and history while its doors are closed. New entries written by the Museums curators, conservators, and experts are posted every week. In the spirit of continuing to share ways to experience the Museum from home, Im thrilled to announce the launch of Inside the Collection, said Peggy Fogelman, the Museums Norma Jean Calderwood Director. The Gardner Museum is a treasure trove of so many ... More Massive circus side show collection brings $37,500 in Holabird's Big Tent auctionRENO, NEV.- A massive collection of circus side show original photographs and ephemera around 50,000 pieces in all and spanning over a century, from 1850-1960 sold for $37,500 at a four-day, online-only Big Tent Auction held April 16th-19th by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. The auction was packed with around 3,200 lots in many collecting categories. The John Reynolds circus side show collection was the sales top lot and had three main parts: The midget collection, nearly 3,000 pieces, a photographic history of how PT Barnum got the world to love midgets like the world-famous Nicu de Barcsy and Tom Thumb, and how circus and entertainment entities promoted the odd and curious to the world. The circus freaks side show collection, about 2,000 pieces, including cartes de visite of every sort of human ... More Costumes, masks and props from acclaimed Amazon Prime series 'The Tick' offered by Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- On the list of Greatest TV Series Canceled Way Too Soon, Amazon Primes The Tick sits near the very top, alongside only a few other could-have-been, should-have-been classics cut down in their, well, primes. Now, fans of the series will have to settle for not just the next best thing but the very best thing: a chance to own significant items from the original series in the May 27 THE TICK PRIME ORIGINAL exclusive auction, presented by ScreenBid and Heritage Auctions. Online bidding is now open, and the auction will be held online on HA.com. Sweet, sincere, sardonic Tick creator Ben Edlunds third (and many believe best) on-screen iteration of the nigh-indestructible blue naïf without a past should have lasted well into the future. Instead, the show set in The City where superheroes are real (and often really funny) lasted but two seasons ... More Now playing: The South by Southwest Film Festival, sort ofNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When the South by Southwest Film Festival announced it would screen a selection of its movies on Amazon Prime Video, we asked two critics who are veterans of the event to recommend some highlights and reflect on their past SXSW experience. Here are excerpts from their conversation. AMY NICHOLSON: We film critics use festivals to mark time. Sundance hails a fresh year of movies, Cannes ignites controversies that burn all summer, and Torontos autumnal red carpets usher in Oscar season. Its paganesque, particularly the spring migration to Austin, Texas for SXSW, the puckish fest thats as apt to premiere an indie upstart (its where Greta Gerwig, Lena Dunham and Joe Swanberg made major debuts) as it is a risky studio flick that needs exuberant buzz, like Bridesmaids, Sausage Party and Us. Dazed and ... More Eavan Boland, 'disruptive' Irish poet, is dead at 75NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Eavan Boland, who began publishing poetry in the mid-1960s in Ireland and soon became one of the most prominent women in the male-dominated literary landscape of that country, died Monday at her home in Dublin. She was 75. Stanford University, where Boland had taught since 1995, said in a statement that the cause was a stroke. Stanford, where Boland had directed the creative writing program for 21 years, said she returned to Dublin this spring to be close to her family during the coronavirus crisis and had been teaching a seminar on 20th-century Irish literature remotely. Boland acknowledged that the emergence of her and other women on the Irish literary landscape was unsettling in a land where poet generally meant William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney and other men. In my generation ... More UK plans mass singalong for locked-down VE DayLONDON (AFP).- Britons will be urged to join a national singalong from their doorsteps and hold 1940s-style tea parties to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, under a coronavirus-appropriate programme unveiled Wednesday. Queen Elizabeth II will make a televised address to the nation on May 8 to mark the day the Nazis surrendered, bringing an end to World War II in Europe. It will be followed by a national rendition of Vera Lynn's wartime classic "We'll Meet Again", in which the government said "the public will be encouraged to open their doors and join in". The original plans for street parties and veterans parades fell foul of stay-at-home orders imposed across Britain last month to try to slow the spread of COVID-19. Instead, senior royals and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will take part in a series of video calls with veterans, and the government ... More Reinvent the reel: Hollywood mulls new measures to restart shootingLOS ANGELES (AFP).- Movie moguls, directors and lawyers are searching for radical solutions to reopen Hollywood as soundstages gather dust and studio profits slide weeks after cameras stopped rolling due to coronavirus. The film industry has been on lockdown in California since mid-March following strict stay-at-home orders, with movie and television shoots particularly exposed to the pandemic because of the large casts and crews required. But even as politicians mull a gradual easing of restrictions, insiders say Tinseltown's sky-high costs -- and liabilities -- mean filmmaking could look very different to what came before, and be many months away. "It's impossible to make a 'Star Wars' or a Marvel movie tomorrow morning," said Nicolas Chartier, Oscar-winning producer of "The Hurt Locker." "Logically, there's too much liability ... More Royal Ontario Museum Senior Curator wins prestigious Costume Society of America awardTORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum announced that Dr. Alexandra Palmer, the ROMs Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator has won the Costume Society of Americas (CSA) prestigious Millia Davenport Publication Award 2020 for Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947-1957. The award recognizes excellence in scholarship in the study of costume in a published book or exhibition catalogue that makes a significant contribution to the study of costume. Dr. Palmer also won the award in 2009 for Dior: A New Look, A New Enterprise (1947-57), a feat only achieved by two other scholars in the CSAs 30-year history. Drawing from close analyses of the Royal Ontario Museums haute couture collection, Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947-1957 explores the style, cut, and feel of Christian Diors New Look in a lavishly detailed exploration of the ... More RIBOCA2 announces exhibition will transform into a feature movie, film set and online series of talksRIGA.- In light of our current situation, the 2nd edition of Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2), and suddenly it all blossoms, had to be reimagined. Initially planned to open on 16 May 2020 with a five-month duration, the project will now transform into a feature movie and the unfinished exhibition will become its film set, introduced through an online series of talks and conversations starting 21 May 2020. RIBOCA2: and suddenly it all blossoms, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, grew out of the urge to change our way of inhabiting the world through reaching out to other voices, sensibilities, and ways of making relationships. As an alternative to the deluge of hopeless narratives, the notion of re-enchantment became a frame for building desirable presents and futures, where the end of "a" world does not ... More Porch costumes provide cheer in troubled timesCLIFTON (AFP).- A colorful cast of characters appear day after day on a porch in the US state of Virginia, urging people to stay upbeat and stay home during the coronavirus shutdowns. It started as a way for Erin Kemble to entertain her young cousins, who she misses seeing, and to keep herself busy after the catering company where she works closed. But the project, which she has maintained for a month, has morphed into a way to make people laugh during a dark time, with messages coming from as far as Arizona and Tokyo. It started with a pig costume, and a sign saying "This little piggy stayed home," an echo of the popular nursery rhyme. When that image got 30,000 social media "likes" she thought she might be onto something -- besides just flaunting her new-found fame to her three college- and high school-age children. She now has a prop ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Ãdouard Manet died April 30, 1883. Ãdouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. In this image: Ms Vicky Hirsh, Mara Talbot and Dr Christopher Brown standing in front of Portrait of Mlle Claus by Manet.
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