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Richard Diebenkorn, Blue from The Ocean Park Series, 1984. Estimate $20,000-30,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Sunday, March 8, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will begin its 2020 schedule with Art & Design, featuring over 600 lots of fine and decorative artworks, sculpture, early 20th century and modern furniture, art pottery, lighting, silver, jewelry, and more. On Sunday, March 8, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will begin its 2020 schedule with Art & Design, featuring over 600 lots of fine and decorative artworks, sculpture, early 20th century and modern furniture, art pottery, lighting, silver, jewelry, and more. The public auction on March 8 will start at 10:00 a.m. CDT. Bidders may participate in person (Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, 818 North Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois), by phone (708-383-5234), and via two live digital platforms (LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable). Art & Design on March 8 will offer works by several important contemporary ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Through the Ages: Animals in Art auction on Thu, Mar 05, 2020 12:00 PM CST. From beloved pets to dedicated servants and vital livestock to symbolic imagery from many religions, animals frequently show up in the art of all cultures, ancient times to the present. In this image: Greek Mycenaean Terracotta Bull, ex-Arte Primitivo. Estimate $3,000 - $4,000.
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| | Rare Isaac Newton manuscript discovered in Corsican library | | London Book Fair shelved because of virus fears | | Louvre in Paris reopens after staff end coronavirus protest |
Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727).This a copy of a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1689). Photo: wikipedia.org
AJACCIO (AFP).- A first-edition copy of Isaac Newton's groundbreaking book laying out his three laws of motion, which became the foundation for modern physics, has been found at a library on the French island of Corsica. Vannina Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff, director of conservation at the Fesch public heritage library in Ajaccio, said she discovered the copy of the 17th-century work while studying an index from the library's founder Lucien Bonaparte -- one of Napoleon's brothers. "I found the Holy Grail in the main room, hidden in the upper shelves," she told AFP this week. "The cover has a little damage but inside it's in excellent condition -- this is the cornerstone of modern mathematics," she said. The Latin text, "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) was first published by Newton in 1687. The renowned physicist was famously inspired by seeing an apple fall from a tree in his garden in Grantham, England, which sparked his elaborations of the cla ... More | |
Some 25,000 people had been due to attend the fair at the Olympia London exhibition and conference centre in west London.
LONDON (AFP).- One of the world's biggest publishing trade fairs, the London Book Fair, has been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak in Europe, its organisers said on Wednesday. Reed Exhibitions said many international exhibitors and visitors to the fair, which was scheduled to take place from March 10 to 12, were facing travel restrictions as the effects of the virus took hold. "We have been following UK government guidelines and working with the rolling advice from the public health authorities and other organisations, and so it is with reluctance that we have taken the decision not to go ahead with this year's event," it said. Next year's event is scheduled to go ahead as planned, the organisers said. Some 25,000 people had been due to attend the fair at the Olympia London exhibition and conference centre in west London. Trade magazine The Bookseller reported last week that a number of major UK publishers had pulled out of the event, including Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and ... More | |
A visitor wearing a mask and a scarf around her face queue outside the main entrance to the Louvre museum in Paris on March 4, 2020. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Louvre museum in Paris reopened to the public Wednesday after management took steps to allay staff fears over the coronavirus spread which had sparked a two-day work stoppage. In a statement, the world's most visited museum said that faced with the "legitimate concerns" of staff over COVID-19, it had agreed to take "extra measures" to ensure the safety of employees and visitors alike. Staff had refused to work on Sunday and Monday, citing a threat to health. The museum is closed to the public on Tuesdays. The health ministry had argued there was no evidence of the "grave and imminent threat" to life or health that French employees can cite as a valid reason to refuse to work. Visitors applauded as the doors opened Wednesday, an AFP reporter at the former royal palace reported. The closure of the Louvre, which received 9.6 million visitors last year, had caused bitter disappointment among the thousands of tourists ... More |
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| | Galleria Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art announces TEFAF Maastricht 2020 highlights | | Reynolda House acquires masterwork by Gilbert Stuart | | Sotheby's to offer a collection of works from the gallery of London art dealer Rafael Valls |
Giovanni Battista Camuccini (Roma, 1819 1904), Sentiero nel bosco, c.1840 45. Oil on paper, 38x29,2 cm.
ROME.- Rome-based Galleria Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art will once again be showing, for the tenth year running, in the Paintings Section of TEFAF Maastricht 2020, the world's most important art and antiques fair. The stand will be hosting a selection of fifty works of painting and sculpture, masterpieces by international artists covering a range of over two centuries from the Neoclassical era to the first half of the 20th century. Italy, France, Switzerland, America, Germany and Belgium are all represented by works with different histories and cultural backgrounds, interacting in a harmonious dialogue forged by their common denominator as works of museum standard. The goal of addressing a select audience of curators, collectors and art enthusiasts has prompted Francesca Antonacci's and Damiano Lapiccirella's Gallery to present a prestigious selection whose highlights include, in chronological ... More | |
Gilbert Stuart, Anna Dorothea Foster and Charlotte Anna Dick, 1790-1791 (detail), oil on canvas, Gift of Charlotte Hanes in honor of Philip and Joan Hanes, who had the vision of Winston-Salem being the City of the Arts.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art has acquired Gilbert Stuarts double portrait Anna Dorothea Foster and Charlotte Anna Dick, (1790-1791), an early and important painting by one of America's foremost portraitists. The work will be on view in the library of the historic house beginning today. Reynolda was generously given the work by Charlotte Metz Hanes, wife of the late R. Philip Hanes (Feb. 25, 1926 Jan. 16, 2011), who said she is committed to supporting the arts in Winston-Salem and to continuing her husbands legacy. Anna Dorothea Foster and Charlotte Anna Dick was the first painting acquired by the industrialist and arts leader Phil Hanes. Charlotte Hanes explains her decision to donate the masterwork: "Phil was so committed to Winston-Salem's legacy of the arts, and painting ... More | |
Dutch School, A portrait of a young boy, full-length, wearing a green hat and a white frill collar and holding a baton and a hobby horse, circa 1630, Est. £8,000 12,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This April, Sothebys will host its first ever Old Masters online sale devoted to a single dealer by offering works from the gallery of Rafael Valls. Presenting exceptional examples from the major schools of painting in Western Europe from the 16th to the 20th centuries amassed over the dealers 30 years in the art world, the selection includes a variety of works, from portraits and still lifes, to trompe loeils and genre paintings, reflecting the discerning eye for which Rafael Valls is known. Featuring over 100 paintings carefully selected for their intriguing themes and quality, the online-only sale, open from 1 8 April, offers a unique opportunity for both new and established buyers to discover the virtues of collecting, with accessible estimates ranging from less than £1,000 to £30,000. The sale will be on view in Sothebys New Bond Street Galleries from 4 8 April 2020. ... More |
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| | The Phillips Collection opens 'Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition' | | David Richard Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Leo Valledor | | MFA Boston is the only U.S. venue for first-ever exhibition of self-portraits by Lucian Freud |
Moe Brooker, The Eyes have it, 1991. Pastel, watercolor, and spray paint on paper 41 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. The Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African American Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection opened Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, a pioneering exhibition expanding the narrative of modern art in America by exploring the rich and complex history of 20th and 21stcentury African American artists and their responses to European modernism. Organized by guest curator Dr. Adrienne L. Childs and The Phillips Collection, Riffs and Relations is on view exclusively at The Phillips Collection from February 29May 24, 2020. We are proud to feature this groundbreaking exhibition at The Phillips Collection, the first museum of modern art in America. Through his support of living artists, our founder Duncan Phillips helped to broaden and shape discussions on modern art by displaying works from various ... More | |
Leo Valledor, Zam, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 66 x 120 x 2 (Two panels). Copyright © Leo Valledor Estate.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery presents its fourth solo exhibition of paintings by Leo Valledor. The current presentation, Dimensional Space, focuses on rectilinear forms with slanted and angled perimeters at the intersection of vector geometry, reductive planar shapes, minimal palettes and shaped canvases to create illusions of extreme perspectival and three-dimensional space in a two-dimensional picture plane. The exhibition is on view from March 4 through March 27, 2020 at David Richard Gallery located at 211 East 121 Street, New York, New York 10035, P: 212-882-1705. This presentation, together with the Gallerys previous solo exhibition for Valledor in 2018, Curved, that focused on the curvilinear and circular shapes as well as multi-component canvases from the 1950s through the 80s, make clear the importance of Valledors paintings as the channel for his life-long pursuit of geometry and ... More | |
Lucian Freud, Man's Head (Self-Portrait I), 1963. Oil on canvas. The Whitworth, The University of Manchester © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- Over the course of almost seven decades, Lucian Freud (19222011) returned repeatedly to self-portraiture, creating a body of work that stands as one of the most sustained achievements of his career. Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits, presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, London, is the first exhibition dedicated to the celebrated British painter in Boston and the first anywhere to focus on his visceral and unflinching depictions of himself. Freuds self-portraits trace the evolution of his artistic development: from his linear and graphic early works to the fleshier, painterly style that became the hallmark of his later output. They also chart a lifes journey, from young boy to old man, in what was effectively an ongoing study of the aging process and the changes ... More |
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| | Adriana Marmorek opens her second exhibition with Nohra Haime Gallery | | Everyone's a curator now | | New gallery space dedicated to modern and contemporary art opens in West Sussex |
RENDEZVOUS FEMENINE, 2020. Carved wood, gold leaf, blown glass, 20.87 diam. x 4.72 in. 53 diam. x 12 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- For her fourth solo exhibition in New York and her second with Nohra Haime Gallery, Adriana Marmorek presents us with the clues for deciphering the enigmas of love, sexuality and desire. Her decades long enquiry into what she herself has called the architecture of desire began with questions around media and how the female body is wielded as a sexualized marketing tool. This path led her to then wonder about love and loss, which in turn led to her current investigation into the nature of love and how we have come to loose its proximity to the spiritual, the sublime, and the highly mysterious. Marmoreks search has transformed her into a researcher, an avid reader of post-modern philosophy and poetry, a seeker of meanings concealed behind layers of paint in classical works of art. Her serendipitous ... More | |
When everything is curated, what does the word even mean? The words overuse has left it almost devoid of meaning, and curators themselves, the traditional, museum-dwelling kind, are up in arms. K.L. Ricks/The New York Times.
by Lou Stoppard
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Recently, Maryellen Stewart, a freelance copywriter for luxury brands, was window-shopping in SoHo when she noticed a large sign in a restaurant window advertising a curated menu. I hate the word, she said. Its everywhere. In midtown, designer Christian Siriano has opened The Curated NYC, a boutique selling womenswear and decorative objects. Michigan residents can buy their wedding dresses at The Curated Bride. Fashion fans keen to slim-line their wardrobe can consult The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe by Anuschka Rees. Those looking ... More | |
Simon de Pury, Artistic Director, Newlands House.
PETWORTH.- Newlands House, a new gallery space dedicated to modern and contemporary art, photography and design, will open to the public on 6th March 2020, in Petworth, West Sussex. As Artistic Director, leading art auctioneer and curator Simon de Pury will be at the helm of the programme, which will include events, educational activities and talks with prolific artists, curators and thought leaders. Newlands House will occupy a remarkable 18th century townhouse in the centre of Petworth, a beautifully preserved town in the heart of the South Downs, noted for Petworth House a glorious stately home that houses the National Trusts most important art collection. Comprising 12 rooms, as well as an arts café due to open this year, the gallerys ambition is to stage world-class exhibitions focused on the great artists of the 20th century. The gallery also plans to develop a community-focused programme that builds on the heri ... More |
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Marlborough opens a solo exhibition of large-scale assemblages by Puerto Rican artist Daniel Lind-Ramos
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough presents Armario de la Memoria (Storage of Memory) a solo exhibition of large-scale assemblages by the celebrated Puerto Rican artist Daniel Lind-Ramos. Lind-Ramos has always told powerful stories through his works of art. Its no wonder as oral, culinary, musical and visual storytelling are part of his Afro-descendent history and fundamental to his philosophy of being. As evident in the seven pieces exhibited here, Lind-Ramos sculptures have a powerful spirit-like presence portraying strength, potency, and depth. Each piece conveys a very particular story through the careful selection and use of materials. The stories Lind-Ramos tells through his work are rooted with his ancestors, rooted in nature, rooted in the work performed by his people, rooted to their pastimes and pleasuresparticularly music ... More
George Medal awarded for defending Princess Anne during a kidnap attempt sells for £50,000
LONDON.- The important and well documented George Medal awarded to 28-year-old Ronnie Russell, a 6 foot, 2 inch, 17 stone former heavyweight boxer, for his spontaneous gallantry in defending the life of H.R.H. The Princess Anne during the kidnap attempt made on her on the Mall, central London, on 20 March 1974 sold for £50,000 - more than double its estimate at Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria today (Wednesday, March 4, 2020) at their auction rooms in central Mayfair (16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ). It was estimated to fetch £15,000-20,000 and was bought by UK Private Collector. After the Auction, Ronnie said: For something I thought that I would never sell, I never believed it would sell for this amount . I am absolutely blown away with this price and gives me opportunities to do things ... More
Caldecott and Newbery award-winning children's books on offer at Freeman's
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Wednesday, March 25th, Freemans will hold a single-owner auction, The Martin Magovsky Collection of Childrens Books, at its new 1600 West Girard Avenue location. The 156-lot sale will showcase childrens books from the 20th and 21st centuries, including more than 100 Caldecott and Newbery Award and Honor recipients. Mr. Magovsky built his collection with an eye for up and coming authors, pristine condition, and impressive signaturesmany accompanied by a handwritten line from the book or an original doodle. This auction will feature prominent authors and illustrators like Margaret Wise Brown, Maurice Sendak, Eric Carle, and Roald Dahl, among many others that have contributed to the development of modern childrens literature. One of the highlights of the sale will be a rare signed and doodled first printing of Last ... More
Bonhams to sell Richard Branson contemporary African art
LONDON.- Bonhams Modern and Contemporary African Art auction in London on Wednesday 18 March includes works from a collection that was assembled by Sir Richard Branson, Robert Devereux and others to showcase the best of Contemporary Art from Africa. The collection was curated by Ed Cross Fine Art. Put up for auction for the first time, the artworks are being sold to raise funds for Virgin Unite, Virgins non-profit foundation, and for the African Arts Trust. Virgin Unites share of the proceeds will support its charitable initiative Pride n Purpose in South Africa Mpumalanga Province. Originally established in 2003, Pride n Purpose is committed to supporting communities in the area surrounding the Sabi Sand Reserve in South Africa. The charity provides access to clean and safe water, education at all levels, extracurricular activities for children, ... More
MFAH presents 'Glory of Spain: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library'
HOUSTON, TX.- In March 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Glory of Spain: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. The international traveling exhibition marks the first time a comprehensive selection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Librarys collection has been exhibited. The MFAH presentation is on view from March 1 through May 25, 2020. Unparalleled outside of Spain, the collections of the New Yorkbased Hispanic Society Museum & Library focus on the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines, from antiquity up until the early 20th century. This exhibition presents some 200 objects paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, maps, textiles, porcelains and ceramics, and metalwork and jewelry spanning more than 4,000 years of Hispanic art and culture. The ... More
Solo exhibition of new work by Rachel Klinghoffer on view at Ortega Y Gasset Projects
NEW YORK, NY.- The Skirt at Ortega Y Gasset Projects is presenting Suspended in my Masquerade a solo exhibition of new work by multi-disciplinary artist Rachel Klinghoffer. Melding personal ephemera; used lingerie and designer footwear, costume jewelry, religious relics and Hanukkah decorations with old paint brushes, childrens toys, souvenirs and studio refuse, she creates prismatic, self-narrative vessels investigating nostalgia, ritual, memory, and the act of remembering. Suspended in my Masquerade, referencing a lyric from Springsteens Growin Up, investigates the complex rituals surrounding memory and sentimental objects. Driven by a strong emotional connection to her family, friends and community, Klinghoffer pays homage to the past by literally suspending those personal items in time and space, imploring viewers to excavate. ... More
Pace Gallery features a single large-scale sculpture by multi-media artists DRIFT
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting a new exhibition in New York by multi-media artists DRIFT, featuring a single large-scale sculpture titled Ego. The work, taking the form of a shapeshifting block, is composed of hair-thin black nylon and handwoven in the Netherlands by DRIFT themselves. Tailored to the seventh-floor space, Ego transforms the gallery into a thought-provoking environment in constant flux. It will be accompanied by a Pace Live event with musician and singer-songwriter Lee Ranaldo, of Sonic Youth, on Thursday, March 12, at 7PM. Ego embodies a contradiction: it is at once a man-made rigid block and a pliable living entity. Each corner of the woven block is connected to a motor-pulley system guided by software, allowing the artists to animate and choreograph it as puppeteers. The intricate network of threads collectively rises, falls, ... More
Kelly Akashi's first solo exhibition with Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Kelly Akashis first solo exhibition with the gallery, Mood Organ, on view at our the gallery's York City location from February 27 April 18, 2020. In this exhibition of all new work, Akashi challenges the ideological underpinnings of Western structures of knowledge, history, and time in a series of sculptures that formalize alternative models of genealogy and emotional connective currents. The title of the exhibition makes tangible the emotional being in all people, giving it a substance, or an organ, of its own. It also draws from a fictional device, the Penfield Mood Organ, which questions what we would do if we could control, direct, or utilize our feelings. Rendered in the artist's evocative vocabulary, works in the exhibition include Weep, a human-sized bronze sphere that slowly emits water, as if softly shedding ... More
Two pianists test the meaning of virtuosity
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- What constitutes virtuosity? Its a commonplace, yet problematic, word in classical music. It generally refers to a performers technical prowess, the ability to dazzle with a sheer display of technique. But whats the threshold for virtuosity, and how do you even isolate it from depth and insight? Two studies were recently on offer in New York. On Friday, Yuja Wang played a program at Carnegie Hall that boldly mixed works spanning nearly three centuries. Then, on Tuesday at Alice Tully Hall, Daniil Trifonov performed, for him, a rare outing into Bach. These immensely gifted young artists have not only different musical orientations and personalities, but also different kinds of virtuosity. Wang is, perhaps, more overtly brilliant, though she is capable of probing musical sensitivity. Trifonov is the thinking-persons idea of a virtuoso ... More
The Courtauld Institute of Art announces the appointment of Francesca Hewitt as Director of Development
LONDON.- The Courtauld Institute of Art announces the appointment of Francesca Hewitt as its Director of Development, with a focus on leading the strategic fundraising campaign for The Courtaulds most significant development in its history. Francesca joins The Courtauld from her role as a Director of the Philanthropy Company where she was responsible for offering strategic fundraising advice and mentoring to a range of UK arts and heritage clients. Prior to this, she served as the Head of Development at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford where she led the Museums fundraising team through one of the most ambitious and successful arts endowment campaigns: the £50 m Ashmolean Fund, as well as fundraising for many other key projects including a £1.65 m acquisition campaign, numerous capital projects, education, ... More
Sandy Powell's suit to be auctioned for Derek Jarman cottage appeal
LONDON.- British costume designer and 3-time Oscar Winner Sandy Powell is to donate the cream calico suit she wore to the 2020 Critics Circle, Bafta and Oscar ceremonies to raise funds for Art Funds £3.5million campaign to save Derek Jarmans Prospect Cottage for the nation. Throughout the awards season Sandy asked nominees to sign the suit, gathering over 100 signatures including Scarlett Johansson, Brad Pitt, Renée Zellweger, Bong Joon Ho, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Elton John, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern and Saoirse Ronan. Jarman was a close friend and mentor to Powell, who started her career working as the costume designer on his 1986 film Caravaggio. The suit will be auctioned by Phillips to raise funds for Art Funds public appeal to save and preserve Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent, the home and garden ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born March 05, 1696. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. In this image: View of the ceiling of the Imperial Hall in the Wurzburg Residenz. After more than two years the frescoes painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo have been restored.
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