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Japanese wooden lion and guardian dog. Dated 1315. Height: 56 cm and 60 cm. Photo: Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art (Kyoto, Japan).
NEW YORK, NY.- Spring is just around the corner, and for Asian art lovers that conveys a very special sign: Time for Asia Week New York 2018! Celebrating its 9th anniversary, the spectacular ten-day event launches on March 15 and showcases 45 individually curated exhibitions spread throughout some of New Yorks most illustrious galleries. Says Christina Prescott-Walker, Chairman of Asia Week New York 2018 and Senior Vice President, Division Director Asian Art and Decorative Arts at Sothebys: The radiant treasures of Asia Week New York always bring an energy and fission to the art scene, making it one of this great citys revered traditions. From around the globe, Asia Week New York pulls together a top-drawer whos who of international Asian art specialists. Also participating are five major auction houses Bonhams, Christies, Doyle, Sothebys and iGavelplus 19 world-class museums and Asian ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day During Asia Week New York 2018, Joan B Mirviss LTD. will be showing Utagawa Hiroshige's woodblock print 100 Famous Views of Edo Mitsumata. Wakarenofuchi, 1857. Photo by Richard Goodbody.
| World mourns British scientist and cultural icon Hawking | | Mike Solomon: Native Shore opens at Alfstad& Contemporary | | Picasso painting star of Rockefeller art 'sale of the century' |
In this file photo taken on October 19, 2016, British scientist Stephen Hawking attends the launch of The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- World dignitaries, celebrities and academics on Wednesday mourned Stephen Hawking, the British physicist who died aged 76 after a cosmic career in which his mental genius transcended his physical disability to probe the secrets of the universe. Propelled to stardom by his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time", an unlikely worldwide bestseller, Hawking's genius and wit won over fans from far beyond the rarefied world of astrophysics. As a scientist he earned comparisons with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. Hawking died peacefully at his home in the British university city of Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A university source told AFP that his health deteriorated around Christmas time. "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today," Hawking's children, Lucy, Robert, and Tim said in a statement. ... More | |
Mike Solomon, (Native Shore I), 2017 (detail). Acrylic on polyester films on panel, 48 x 52 in.
SARASOTA, FLA.- Mike Solomon's exhibition "Native Shore" focuses on the artist's return to his "native shore" and hometown of Sarasota. Opening on March 15 at Alfstad& Contemporary, the exhibition runs through April 14, 2018. Solomon's newest work celebrates his return to Sarasota after almost forty years living away. "In my youth the shoreline was my point of orientation, my home. I became a 'water person' and my subsequent work has always - in one way or another - referred to the element of water. The shore is where I go almost every day and where I feel most at peace." Sarasota is flat and encompassed by water, and looking out from the shore the water and sky meet in a fusion of color and light. "The horizontal line is the perfect icon for this place, so I chose to make paintings using only horizontal stripes," says Solomon. "Each colored stripe indicates both what I have outwardly observed and inwardly felt." The resplendent light of the neot ... More | |
A man looks at paintings at Christie's France, as part of a presentation of the collection Rockefeller in Paris on March 13, 2018, before the sale at Christie's New York. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- One of Picasso's most unsettling paintings returns to Paris on Friday more than a century after he painted it here, as a taster for what is being billed the art "sale of the century". With the art market surging, the nude "Young Girl With a Flower Basket" is expected to make at least $100 million (81 million euros) when it goes under the hammer in New York in May along with works by Monet, Renoir and Gauguin from the private collection of US billionaires Peggy and David Rockefeller. Auction house Christie's expects the sale of the 1,600 works of art amassed by the couple to top $600 million -- easily beating the world record set in Paris in 2009 when the collection put together by the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge made $484 million. They include one of Monet's waterlily paintings as a well as one of his famously smoky views of St Lazare ... More |
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| Sotheby's to present photographs from haircolor legend Leland Hirsch's Collection | | The Cleveland Museum of Art announces new acquisitions | | Keith Coventry's 'Junk & Pure Junk' series on view at Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam |
Diane Arbus, 'Child with a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, N. Y. C.' signed, titled, dated, and editioned '72/75' by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter, in ink and with the 'A Diane Arbus Photograph' and reproduction rights stamp on the reverse, framed, exhibition labels on the reverse, 1962, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk, 14 3/4 by 15 in. (27.5 by 38 cm.) Estimate $70/100,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present A Beautiful Life: Photographs from the Collection of Leland Hirsch in a dedicated auction on 10 April 2018, highlighting Sothebys spring sales of Photographs in New York. Assembled with passion over the course of nearly two decades by the godfather of haircolor, this photographs collection contains some of the most recognizable images of the 20th and 21st centuries, including works by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Man Ray and Diane Arbus, among others. The collection will be on public view in Sotheby's York Avenue galleries beginning 4 April, alongside the seasonal presale ... More | |
Portrait of Francesca Gommi Maratti, c. 1701. Carlo Maratti (Italian, 16251715). Oil on canvas; 98.5 x 74.5 cm. Cleveland Museum of Art.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include a magnificent portrait in oil on canvas by Carlo Maratti, the leading painter in Rome at the end of the 17th century; two key works by American photographer Edward Weston that indicate his transition from pictorialism to modernism; and two large-scale contemporary African sculptures by South African artist Kendell Geers and Cameroonian artist Hervé Youmbi. Carlo Maratti (1625Â1715) is often regarded as the last major exponent of a classical tradition that began with Raphael nearly two centuries earlier. Maratti was the leading painter in Rome in the mid to late seventeenth century. Favored by wealthy patrons, Marattis primary achievement lay in his ability to synthesize the light and movement characteristic of the Roman Baroque with classical ideals of beauty. This portrait was painted shortly after ... More | |
Keith Coventry, Junk Painting IV, 2012. Courtesy Reflex Gallery Amsterdam and Pace London.
AMSTERDAM.- Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam is presenting the first Benelux exhibition by internationally acclaimed British artist Keith Coventry. The show consists of Coventrys 'Junk & Pure Junk' series - a collection of white monochrome objects, as well as work in gold and colour. The gallery is also displaying three of his famed council estate drawings. All the work is being exhibited for the first time. The exhibition runs until 4 April 2018. Widely admired for his work which takes aspects of modernism and grafting them on to socio-political issues, Coventry appropriates global symbols of junk culture the golden McDonalds arch, in particular and recontextualises them, inviting the viewer to consider these logos afresh in a gallery context. Working in white monochrome, or colour, he hones in on the curves of the infamous 'M', cropping, recasting and framing, to striking minimalist effect. In ... More |
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| Largest survey of Joan Jonas's work ever held in the UK opens at Tate Modern | | A selection of iconic 20th century images to be featured in Phillips' Spring Photographs Auction | | The Colburn School selects Frank Gehry to design campus expansion |
Installation shot © Tate photography (Seraphina Neville).
LONDON.- Tate Modern presents the largest survey of Joan Jonass work ever held in the UK. Jonas (b.1936, New York) is regarded as a pre-eminent figure in contemporary performance who continues to influence a younger generation of artists. Reflecting the way Jonas works across many different disciplines, this groundbreaking survey is the first of its kind at Tate, combining a gallery exhibition, a ten day live programme in the Tanks with performances by Jonas herself, and a film retrospective in the Starr Cinema. It reveals her powerful impact on contemporary art and her dedication to pushing boundaries to this day. This immersive exhibition at Tate Modern celebrates Joan Jonass outstanding contribution to art over the last five decades, uniting some of the most important pieces from throughout her career. Early and late works are displayed alongside one another, reflecting Jonass practice of revisiting ... More | |
Edward Steichen, Gloria Swanson, New York, 1924. Estimate: $400,000-600,000. Image courtesy Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced that its first New York Photographs auction of the year will feature The Enduring Image: Photographs from the Dr. Saul Unter Collection. This impressive private collection of 29 works will be offered in the Photographs sale on 9 April at 450 Park Avenue. Spanning the 20th century, the group includes works by Edward Steichen, Rudolf Koppitz, Man Ray, Robert Capa, and Alfred Eisenstaedt, among other masters of the photographic medium. Rachel Peart, Photographs Specialist, said, Dr. Unters collection brings together a remarkable group of works from over six decades, which encompass the range of the human spirit. His discerning eye in acquiring photographs with the connecting thread of humanist influence has led to the formation of a truly impressive and cohesive collection, underscoring his personal belief that the act of photographing is an expression of the human will ... More | |
The Colburn School will be expanding beyond its current campus between Grand Avenue and Olive Street. Frank Gehry will design the new facilities, along Second Street between Olive and Hill Streets.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sel Kardan, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Colburn School, today announced that this leading institution for music and dance has selected Frank Gehry to design a campus expansion adjacent to its existing facilities in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. Andrew Millstein, Chairman of the Colburn School, and Carol Colburn Grigor, Life Chairman Emeritus, joined Kardan in announcing the project, which will heighten the Schools presence in a cultural corridor that includes Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Music Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Broad, and will make this area of Downtown one of the largest concentrations in the world of performing and visual arts organizations. Gehry, the world-renowned Founder and Principal of Gehry Partners, joins an all-star, all- ... More |
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| Tacita Dean's new film portraits go on display for the first time in National Portrait Gallery exhibition | | NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale announces new acquisitions | | New auction record for Belle Epoque artist leads bumper Fine Interiors sale at Sworders |
His Picture in Little, 2017 by Tacita Dean. 35mm anamorphic colour film, silent, reduced to spherical 16mm for exhibition as a miniature, 15 ½ minutes, continuous loop. Film stills. Courtesy the artist; Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris.
LONDON.- Two new film portraits depicting actors Stephen Dillane, David Warner and Ben Whishaw by artist Tacita Dean have gone on public display for the first time in a major new exhibition Tacita Dean: PORTRAIT at the National Portrait Gallery, London opening on Thursday 15 March. The exhibition is part of an unprecedented collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts and the National Gallery: LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE. The three exhibitions are shaped by Deans response to the individual character of each institution and explore genres traditionally associated with painting. Borrowing its title from a line in Shakespeares Hamlet, His Picture in Little (2017) depicts three actors of different generations, David Warner, Stephen Dillane and Ben Whishaw, all of ... More | |
Glenn Lignon, Untitled (I live on my shadow), 2009, Neon, glass, paint, ed.3/5. 1AP, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; purchased with funds provided by Michael and Diane Bienes by exchange.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.- In celebration of its 60th anniversary, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale announces that artworks by Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Glenn Ligon, Zanele Muholi and Serge Vandercam have been acquired for its permanent collection. These new additions expand upon the museums strengths in contemporary art and European art of the post-World War II period, and will go on view to the public during 2018 and 2019 as part of a series of 60th anniversary exhibitions showcasing highlights of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdales 7,000-work collection. The museums expansive early holdings in traditional African, Native and Oceanic art formed the core from which its collection developed. Today, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale holds the largest U.S. collection of the post-World War II experimental Cobra group, an extensive collection of Latin American art and Modern and ... More | |
Count Albert de Belleroche (1864-1944), A Woman Standing in the Doorway of an Interior, signed and dated 90, oil on canvas.
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Sworders have set a new auction record for a painting by Belle Epoque artist Count Albert de Belleroche (1864-1944). The 1890 oil on canvas view of A Woman Standing In A Doorway Of An Interior, shot way above its £1500-2000 estimate to sell for £30,000 at the auctioneers bumper Fine Interiors sale at Stansted Mountfitchet on March 13. The Welsh-born Belleroche was a close friend and studio mate of John Singer Sargent and, like him, made a name depicting women. The painting came to Sworders via a valuation day at their Hertford office in December and the price was just one of a number of outstanding sales, with Sworders chairman Guy Schooling calling out lots to the largest gathering of bidders in the saleroom and online in the history of Sworders Fine Art. We had 20% more registered bidders than ever before and 50% more viewings of lots prior to the sale, said Schooling. The result? A sale total across the 6 ... More |
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Tacita Dean, on Film. Interview at ACCA
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Star photographer Leibovitz turns lens on France's Macron
PARIS (AFP).- Emmanuel Macron is being tailed this week by US celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, his office said Wednesday, as the French president pursues a tightly controlled media strategy criticised by some journalists. Leibovitz, who has photographed everyone from John Lennon to the Obama family, arrived at the Elysee Palace Tuesday to start snapping the president for Vanity Fair magazine. "It's the first time since the start of his term that the Elysee has let a photographer in like this, except for the official photographer," said an Elysee source. "We have accepted this project for Vanity Fair US because she is an artist renowned for her photographic work," the source said, confirming a report by Le Monde newspaper. The photoshoot is the latest carefully chosen media appearance by the 40-year-old president, who has made no secret ... More
Solo exhibition of new photographs by Deana Lawson on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting a solo exhibition of new photographs by Deana Lawson, the artists first with the gallery. Deana Lawson's photographic portraits are the product of a prolonged and singular journey. The images document studied and methodically staged interactions that blur the desires and intentions of the photographer and the individual in front of her camera. Lawson's intentions are situated in an I AM space insisting that her subjects' identities supersede material limitations and interface with higher planes of value systems. The large-scale photographs presented here are the result of travels to South Carolina, Swaziland, Jamaica, and Soweto, South Africa; as well as around the artists own Brooklyn neighborhood. Presented together, they represent a fragmented account of the African diaspora and African-American identities, ... More
On March 31, modern & historical books go up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to offer modern and historical books from the 16th to 20th centuries on March 31, 2018. Offering over 170 lots from several collections and estates, the online sale features renowned modern books, some signed and/or with photographs; large multiple-volume leather-bound sets; literary collections of famous authors; a Thesaurus Sacrarum in Latin printed in 1585, with Old and New Testament Biblical stories; military works, including a map of Washington, D.C. from 1861; groupings of assorted books; and more. Many books are first or early editions; others include engravings, illustrations, photographs, and/or maps. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday, March 31, 2018, at 10:30 am PDT; items in the sale are available for preview and bidding now. The online ... More
Newark Museum Asian art exhibition showcase textile techniques
NEWARK, NJ.- Objects ranging from theatrical and political costumes to architectural textiles and presentation cloths are being featured in an exhibition at the Newark Museum. The exhibition showcases a wide range of construction techniques used throughout the Asian continent. Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia opened March 14 and is on view through February 2019. Dating from the 19th to the early 20th centuries, most of these textiles are on view to the public for the first time. Curated by Katherine Anne Paul, Ph.D., Curator of the Arts of Asia, world-renowned embroidery scholar Young Yang Chung, Ph.D., also generously contributed her expertise and distinct voice. Dr. Chungs insights are shared with visitors to deepen understanding of how amazing visual effects were created through threads. Works featured in Dramatic Threads can be found ... More
Exhibition at mudac focuses on the world of firearms
LUXEMBOURG.- With ligne de mire, mudac focuses on the world of firearms, examining it through the lens of design and contemporary creation. The first exhibition of its kind in Switzerland, it addresses in a critical and targeted way our paradoxical relationship with these ambiguous objects that are both fascinating and repulsive, visceral and murderous. As a design museum, mudac regularly features theme-based exhibitions focusing on social issues, some of which may be sensitive. Thus, several exhibitions so far have aimed to appeal to, surprise and especially stimulate audiences. These include Cache-cache camouflage (2002), Would You Like A Bag with That? Plastic bags in art and design (2013), NirvanaStrange forms of pleasure (2015) and Safe and SoundSurveillance and Protection in the 21st Century (2016). The ligne de mire p ... More
Lebanese novelist, feminist Emily Nasrallah dies at 87
BEIRUT (AFP).- Prominent Lebanese novelist and lifelong women's rights activist Emily Nasrallah has died at the age of 87. A distinguished author of novels, children's books and short stories, Nasrallah focused her writing on themes of family, village life and emigration, as well identity and the lasting effects of Lebanon's 15-year civil war. A mother of four, Nasrallah grew up in the southern Lebanese town of Kfeir before moving to Beirut, where she took up journalism and gained quick acclaim for her literary talents. She published her first novel, "Birds of September", in 1962 shortly after graduating from the American University of Beirut with a degree in education and literature. The book earned her three Arabic literary prizes and kick-started an influential career that spanned decades of political tumult in Lebanon. Her latest book, published just this week and entitled "The ... More
Crescent City Auction Gallery announces important estates auction
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A portrait painting of George Washington done in the manner of Edward Savage (Am., 1761-1817), an oil painting titled Native American Bow Hunting by H. Irving Marlatt (Am., 1860-1925), and an American rococo carved mahogany half tester bed, circa 1850-1860, stamped C. Lee are star lots in Crescent City Auction Gallerys March 24th and 25th sale. The important two-day estates auction will be held in Crescent Citys showroom, located at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. Offered will be more than 1,000 quality lots, headlined by the estate of John Peter Eaves, plus numerous other prominent local and Southern estates. The Saturday, March 24th session will begin at 9 am and on Sunday at 10 am. Both times are Central. Featured will be period American, French and English furniture, original artwork (to include paintings ... More
Waddington Custot announces representation of Jedd Novatt
LONDON.- Waddington Custot announced that the gallery now represents American sculptor Jedd Novatt and will present a solo exhibition of new work in London, from 16 November 2018 to 2 February 2019. Stephane Custot, Chairman of Waddington Custot, explains: "I have long admired Jedd Novatt's powerful, instinctual works that seem to defy physics. He joins a number of important sculptors in our programme including David Annesley, John Chamberlain, Barry Flanagan and Robert Indiana, and we are delighted to have an opportunity to work closely with him on new work for his first exhibition with us." Novatt is renowned for his monumental sculptures constructed from linear, asymmetrical and quadratic shapes, which seek to investigate and challenge preconceived notions of space. His sculptures juxtapose the material solidity of heavy industrial metals against ... More
Paddle8 announces offers a visionary collection of modern and contemporary art from Cuba
NEW YORK, NY.- Paddle8, the leading online auction house, announces Los Cubanos: Icons of Cuban Art a sale showcasing a visionary collection of modern and contemporary art from Cuba. Included is the auction, is a selection of property from a prominent collection of Latin American Art, from the collection of Robert Borlenghi. An early collector of Cuban art, Robert Borlenghi made frequent trips to the island throughout the Castro regime. Paddle8 will showcase this collection live to bidders worldwide, March 14 March 27, 2018 . Ive been drawn to the vibrant art in Cuba for more than twenty years says Robert Borlenghi. Building my collection has been an intensely personal journey of discovery through travel and being immersed in the art of Cuba. Im thrilled to share it with the world. Cuban artworks from throughout the 20th century are featured in Los Cubanos: ... More
The third edition in Jaipur of the Jawahar Kala Kendra performing arts festival
JAIPUR.- Jawahar Kala Kendra announces the third edition of its annual performing arts festival, NAVRAS. From 17 - 25 March 2018, the festival will present a rich and diverse programme of theatre, classical and contemporary dance, sufi, classical and fusion music. The festival will open on 17 March with Dhamaal, a celebration of the drumming traditions from India, with a performance curated and directed by the renowned percussionist Aneesh Pradhan and will be followed by a week of outstanding performances including: Thari - The Loom by Padma Shri Malavika Sarukkai and Attakkalaris Bhina Vinyasa, which combines movement and digital art Ismat Apa Ke Naam directed and acted by Naseeruddin Shah with his wife, Ratna Pathak Shah and daughter Sheeba Shah; Khwab Sa directed by Atul Kumar, an adaptation of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream; ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Hungarian-French painter Victor Vasarely died March 15, 1997. Victor Vasarely (9 April 1906 - 15 March 1997), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of op art. In this image: Cheyt - Pyr, Serigraph, 68.5 X 66 cm.
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