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Exhibition of paintings at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. Photo: Iris van den Broek.
ROTTERDAM.- Normally museums exhibit only a small proportion of their collections, but the Boijmans Van Beuningen gallery in Rotterdam will this week become the first in the world to show off the lot. Housed in a huge mirrored, bowl-shaped depot attached to the museum in the Dutch port city, its collection of 151,000 artworks by artists including Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet will be accessible to visitors from Saturday. Dutch King Willem-Alexander will formally open the depot on Friday. "It is the only fully accessible depot, public depot that is open in the world," museum director Sjarel Ex told AFP as media toured the building on Tuesday ahead of the opening. "What happens here is that you do not follow the script that was written by a curator... you see things by coincidence, and you feel that you are discovering things and that you connect things." ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Both a mantra and a quip, the title of Ella Kruglyanskaya's first exhibition with Bortolami Gallery, Keep Walking, arms her trademark protagonists as they confront their audience with unabashed femininity. Drawing attention to the heightened plots of female sexuality and its mundanity alike, Kruglyanskaya's painted bodies reenact and subvert the womanhood canonized in traditions of western painting and in visual culture, infusing gendered tropes with her brash and comedic approach to representation.
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| Eli Wilner releases the Price Guide for American and European Period Frames as a free download | | Collection of nationally known Civil War collector James C. Frasca to be presented at Hindman Auctions | | British Museum announces largest ever find of gold coins from Anglo-Saxon England |
Cover page of Eli Wilner's Price Guide for American and European Period Frames, 2020, featuring a tabernacle frame, carved, painted and gilded, 14751500, Italy. Museum no. 5893-1859. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company just announced that the Price Guide for American and European Period Frames will be made available as a free download. The decision was reached in response to tremendous interest being shown by collectors in donating their antique frames to nonprofit cultural institutions, and in response to requests from numerous art insurance brokers for the Price Guide to be more widely available. The book is a unique reference tool, with particular value to collectors, museum professionals, academic scholars, and appraisers. Formerly priced at $795, the current edition of the Price Guide for American and European Period Frames was released in late 2020, and constitutes a completely updated and revised version of Wilner's first edition published in 1995 by Avon Books. The book includes a new ... More | |
Civil War painted military snare drum featuring four drummers and officer Manufactured by W.G. Metzerott & Co., Washington City, DC. Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- On November 12, Hindman Auctions will present The Civil War Collection of James C. Frasca, an incredibly distinguished collector and dealer of Civil War memorabilia. This carefully curated and meticulously researched collection contains relics, weaponry, uniforms, accoutrements, corps badges, photographs, documents and personal items used by soldiers on and off the battlefield. As a nationally known Civil War collector, Frasca spent 50 years of his life developing his collection, and he often credited his mother Ann Carmen Frasca for igniting in him the passion to search for and acquire historical objects. Frasca was recognized as an expert in the field, specializing in Civil War Federal uniforms, headgear, corps badges and other insignia. He also loved Civil War soldiers personal stories. As a collector, he contributed both editorially and pictorially to doz ... More | |
Buried shortly after AD 600, the West Norfolk hoard contains a total of 131 gold coins, most of which are Frankish tremisses, as there coins were not yet produced in East Anglia at this date.
LONDON.- A find of 131 gold coins along with four other gold objects dating to 1,400 years ago stands to be the largest find to date of gold coins from the Anglo-Saxon period in England. Currently, HM Coroner for Norfolk is holding an inquest to determine whether an important find of gold coins and other objects from West Norfolk constitutes Treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996). To qualify as Treasure, any two or more coins which contain more than 10% of precious metal and which are more than 300 years old are defined as Treasure and are property of the Crown. Typically, the Crown only claims the find if an accredited museum wishes to acquire the find, and is in a position to pay a reward equivalent to the full market value of the find. Buried shortly after AD 600, the West Norfolk hoard contains a total of 131 gold coins, most of which are Frankish tremisses, ... More |
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| For Stella McCartney, fashion must ditch leather or die trying | | South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for 'The Promise' | | Joan B Mirviss LTD presents over thirty-five works by Kawase Shinobu |
Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (R) speaks with British designer and sustainability advocate Stella McCartney as he views a fashion installation by the designer, at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. Owen Humphreys / POOL / AFP.
GLASGOW.- The fashion industry must prepare to eliminate waste and take radical stances such as ditching animal leather altogether, said British designer Stella McCartney. In an interview with AFP on the sidelines of the UN climate summit in Glasgow Wednesday, McCartney said that fashion houses must "swap out bad business with good business" for the sake of the planet. "Sadly we are one of the most harmful industries to the environment," she said. "And I'm here to really kind of showcase the future of fashion and show everyone that basically there is another way and we have some solutions." As the vegetarian daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney, she got a green head start in life, transferring her eco-friendly upbringing to fashion. Despite initial scepticism from peers, McCartney has never used leather products since entering the industry ... More | |
South African author Damon Galgut poses with his book 'The Promise' during the photo call for authors shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction at Southbank Centre in London on October 31, 2021. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
by Joe Jackson
LONDON.- South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut on Wednesday won the 2021 Booker Prize for "The Promise", his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma's presidency. Spanning several decades, the book shows the family's growing disintegration as the country emerges into democracy. "I am really profoundly, humbly grateful for this," the 57-year-old said as he accepted the prestigious British award at a televised ceremony in London. "It's taken a long while to get here and now that I have, I kind of feel that I shouldn't be here," added the author, who wrote his first novel aged 17. "The Promise", about a white family with a farm outside Pretoria -- where Galgut grew up -- was tipped to land the prize ahead ... More | |
Kawase Shinobu (b. 1950), Kakuji chawan (fire-red celadon teabowl), 2019 Glazed porcelaneous stoneware, 3 x 4 5/8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- After a half century in the field, Kawase Shinobu is now regarded as Japans most outstanding artist working within the ancient tradition of celadon. In this latest dazzling body of work, Kawase moves beyond the ancient Song Dynasty models and showcases his brilliance on the wheel, paired with an unrivaled command of celadon glazes in a range of luscious and delightfully surprising colors. Having represented Kawase for decades, and witnessed his development and artistic growth, Joan B Mirviss LTD presents over thirty-five works that he created for his latest show that irrefutably declares his mastery of celadon. Known as seiji-sensei or "Master of Celadon" in Japan, and with a comparably devoted international following, Kawase Shinobu (b. 1950) stands apart as an artist honoring the historic precedents of celadon while pushing its limits beyond any other living artist in the medium. Flawlessly elegant, his works have an easy per ... More |
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| From BTS to 'Squid Game': How South Korea became a cultural juggernaut | | Renowned illustrator Barry Moser to be spotlighted by Hindman Auctions this November | | Brazilian indigenous artist Jaider Esbell dead at 41 |
Kim Young-kyu, chief executive of Studio Dragon, which makes dozens of South Korean TV shows a year, in Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 27, 2021. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times.
by Choe Sang-Hun
PAJU.- In a new Korean drama being filmed inside a cavernous studio building outside of Seoul, a detective chases down a man cursed to live for 600 years. Pistol shots crack. A hush follows. Then, a woman pierces the silence, screaming: I told you not to shoot him in the heart! The scene was filmed several times for more than an hour as part of Bulgasal: Immortal Souls, a new show scheduled to be released on Netflix in December. Jang Young-woo, the director, hopes it will be the latest South Korean phenomenon to captivate an international audience. South Korea has long chafed at its lack of groundbreaking cultural exports. For decades the countrys reputation was defined by its cars and cellphones from companies like Hyundai and LG, while its movies, TV shows and music ... More | |
[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. The Holy Bible. Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments. North Hatfield, MA and New York City: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999. Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On November 10, Hindman Auctions will present Selections from the Studio and Personal Archive of Barry Moser. Moser, a renowned artist and illustrator, is the owner, operator and proprietor of the Pennyroyal Press, which is recognized for its finely printed and illustrated editions of legendary works of literature noted for their artful combination of Mosers striking imagery and letterpress text. This selection from his collection comprises the most comprehensive group of Moser material ever offered at auction, and represents the full range of Mosers creative processfrom his own annotated source material and preliminary drawings, through trial designs and proof impressions to the final productions of many of his most celebrated works. It also reflects his close relationships with numerous poets, authors, scholars and colleagues with whom he collaborated with on ... More | |
File photo taken on September 02, 2021 of a work by Brazilian artist Jaider Esbell during the press day ahead of the opening of the 34th Biennale of Sao Paulo, at Ibirapuera park, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP.
SAO PAULO.- Brazilian artist Jaider Esbell, one of the leading figures in contemporary indigenous art, was found dead at age 41 in his home in Sao Paulo, authorities said Wednesday. Officials did not say what killed Esbell, a member of the Macuxi indigenous group from northeastern Brazil who rose to international fame with politically charged works on climate change, indigenous issues and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Esbell, who won Brazil's prestigious PIPA prize for the visual arts in 2016, had recently sold two works to the renowned Pompidou Centre in Paris. His work currently features prominently in the Sao Paulo Biennial of Contemporary Art, including two inflatable, multi-colored snake-shaped sculptures on a lake that welcome visitors to the expo. "With clarity and generosity, he became one of the leading ... More |
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| Perrotin opens Xavier Veilhan's exhibition Autofocus | | Exhibition spotlights Outsider art by self-taught Florida artists | | AIPAD announces new dates for 2022 Photography Show |
Xavier Veilhan, David n°1.
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York is presenting Autofocus, a solo exhibition by French artist Xavier Veilhan, on view through December 23, 2021. For Autofocus, Veilhan continues his experiments into movement and memory by conceiving a new scenario on Perrotin's third floor, composed of a field of new figurative and architectural sculptures. Entering the exhibition, we encounter a scene frozen in time. Largescale mobiles hang from the gallery's skylight, consuming the surrounding sculptures. Below, geometric shapes have attached onto blurred human forms and lifelike animals. However, the forms are softened; silhouettes hovering around the edges of our field of vision. The artist reduces body and form down to their most essential vocabularies, making them barely legible. Beneath, the artist has situated his sculptures onto a perfect cube, leaving our vision unimpeded and unaltered. Inspired by Sol Lewitt's 'Open Cube' or Robert Morris's mirror cubes, ... More | |
Brain Dowdall (American, 1948-2018), Untitled, n.d. Corrugated cardboard. 32 ½ x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Monroe Family Collection.
TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art presents An Irresistible Urge to Create: Florida Outsider Art from the Monroe Family Collection, an exhibition organized by the Boa Raton Museum of Art, from November 4 through May 22, 2022. The exhibition includes 86 works and features objects by several self-taught artists from Floridas West Coast and Central region. During the last several decades, the work of the Outsider artists has come to the forefront of our thinking about the nature of art as their paintings and sculptures have made their way into fine art museums hanging alongside new and time-tested paintings and sculptures. The exhibition shows part of the personal collection of Gary Monroe, who has collected nearly one thousand pieces of Outsider Art, including the works of Ruby Williams, Eddy Mumma, Frank Ritchie, and Jessie Aaron. In talking about what inspired him to start the Monroe ... More | |
The highly anticipated 41st edition will be held from May 19 through 22, 2022, at Center415 located on Fifth Avenue between 37th and 38th streets in New York City.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has announced new dates and a new midtown Manhattan location for The Photography Show presented by AIPAD. The highly anticipated 41st edition will be held from May 19 through 22, 2022, at Center415 located on Fifth Avenue between 37th and 38th streets in New York City. More than 45 of the worlds leading galleries of fine art photography will present museum-quality work including cutting-edge contemporary, modern, and exemplary 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media, at the premier fine art photography fair. After an absence of almost three years due to COVID-19, we cant wait to reunite the global photography community in New York City for The Photography Show presented ... More |
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Anne Truitt 'Spring Dryad' | New York | November 2021
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Bortolami Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Ella Kruglyanskaya
NEW YORK, NY.- Both a mantra and a quip, the title of Ella Kruglyanskayas first exhibition with Bortolami Gallery, Keep Walking, arms her trademark protagonists as they confront their audience with unabashed femininity. Drawing attention to the heightened plots of female sexuality and its mundanity alike, Kruglyanskayas painted bodies reenact and subvert the womanhood canonized in traditions of western painting and in visual culture, infusing gendered tropes with her brash and comedic approach to representation. Kruglyanskaya works non-hierarchically and seamlessly between painting and drawing mediums. Drawing becomes a site of experimentation, a refuge from the permanence of a brush stroke and as personal as ones own handwriting. Quick graphite gestures reveal the way her mercurial mind decodes and augments the manifold ... More
Woody Auction announces the results of the sale of The Jochimsen collection
DOUGLASS, KAN.- A 9 ¾-inch-tall blown mold French cameo glass vase signed Galle and a Fenton mosaic art glass pedestal vase each knocked down for $6,600 to share top lot honors at the sale of the private collection of Dr. Peter and Grace Jochimsen, held October 23rd by Woody Auction, online (via LiveAuctioneers.com) and live in the Woody Auction hall located at 130 East Third Street in Douglass. The Galle vase was of the highest quality and featured white, yellow and green tones, with a green cameo carved vine and blossom décor. The Fenton pedestal vase, unmarked, was made from mosaic art glass and boasted beautiful colors. Made circa 1925, the vase featured most of the original Fenton label. Other makers in the sale included Tiffany & Company, Royal Flemish, Daum Nancy and others. The Jochimsen collection was a bountiful selection ... More
Phillips announces highlights from the New York sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced further highlights from the Evening and Day Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Comprised of some of the finest work by masters of Impressionism, Post-War, and Contemporary Art, these auctions will include works by Francis Bacon, Georgia OKeeffe, Pierre Bonnard, Joan Mitchell, and Amy Sherald, among others. The Evening Sale will include 48 lots and take place on 17 November at 7pm EST, followed by the Day Sale of 277 lots on 18 November at 10am and 2pm EST. Jean-Paul Engelen and Robert Manley, Deputy Chairmen and Worldwide Co-Heads of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, Were thrilled to welcome our community back into the auction room for the first Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art to feature in-person bidding at our new headquarters. Following on the heels of our ... More
Allie Card joins as Senior Director at Lehmann Maupin
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin welcomes Allie Card as Senior Director, focusing on artist management and sales. Card joins Lehmann Maupin from Metro Pictures, where she has worked since 2001, most recently holding the position of Senior Director. She brings over 20 years of experience managing and advancing the careers of leading artists, including Trevor Paglen, Louise Lawler, Sara VanDerBeek, André Butzer, Olaf Breuning, and Jim Shaw, among others. Lehmann Maupin is committed to carefully developing its artists careers over time, seeking out the next generation of artists, and amplifying their voices on a global scale. I recognize the strong emphasis the gallery places on the nurture and care of its artists. This is a core tenet that I carry over from my time at Metro Pictures. In her new position, Card will work alongside the gallerys ... More
Michaan's auction calendar includes specialty sales of coins and historic costumes and textiles
ALAMEDA, CA.- Fine estate property and investment-quality art, antiques and collectibles will be offered in four separate auction events at Michaans Auctions in November. As a full-service auction house in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michaans has access to auction property of exceptional diversity, which is reflected in the November auction calendar. The monthly Gallery Auction on November 13 is preceded by two specialty sales on the 12th: the Coin Auction (live at 10 am, PST) and the auction of Historic Costumes and Textiles (1 pm). The popular Annex Auction, where incredible deals are found month after month, is set for Monday through Wednesday of the same week, November 8-10. Michaans app and website bring these fun and exciting auctions to a global audience, and the live events are open to the public in beautiful Alameda, ... More
Brilliant Tiffany Lamps dazzle at October auction
DALLAS, TX.- Two stunning Tiffany Studios lamps took top billing in Heritage Auctions Oct. 28 Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass: Including Art Nouveau & Art Deco Signature® Auction. Lighting the way was a leaded glass and patinated bronze Dragonfly table lamp, circa 1910. Designed by Clara Driscoll, head of Tiffany Studios Womens Glass Cutting Department, the exquisite lamp which sold for $150,000 features a swarm of blue dragonflies with red eyes, their delicate wings streaked with periwinkle. When I secured the Dragonfly lamp, I knew we had something special on our hands, and unsurprisingly our bidders agreed, said Heritage Auctions Consignment Director of Decorative Arts & Design Samantha Robinson. The high hammer price says as much about the merits of this individual lamp as it does the robust market for Tiffany ... More
Young Senegalese author wins top French literature prize
PARIS.- A young Senegalese writer unknown to the general public was on Wednesday awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literature prize, with a novel exploring the destiny of a cursed African author. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is only 31 years old, but was the critics' favourite among the nominees. He becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win the most prestigious French award. "I feel so much joy," he said at the upscale Parisian restaurant where the awards are traditionally announced. "I haven't yet found the words to say," he added. The winning novel "La plus secrète mémoire des hommes" (The most secret memory of men), is his fifth, lauded for mysterious characters, quality of style and writing. "With this young author, we have returned to the fundamentals of the Goncourt will," Goncourt secretary Philippe Claudel said, ... More
Massive French 'King Kong' four-panel among highlights in Nov. 20-21 Movie Posters event
DALLAS, TX.- An extremely rare Italian movie poster for a film noir classic, along with artwork for a one-off James Bond spoof and a poster for horror movie classic will vie for their shares of the spotlight in Heritage Auctions Movie Posters Signature auction November 20-21. First up, the big one. Known to be the most prized and coveted Italian movie poster in existence, The Maltese Falcon first post-war Italian foglio featuring Sergio Gargiulo artwork (estimate: $30,000-60,000) is one of only a couple of copies to appear. Made for the 1941 remake directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, it features text in Italian, the title being Mistero del Falco un film Warner Bros con Humphrey Bogart (and) Mary Astore (and) Peter Lorre. Measuring 39 by 27 inches, the poster was made in an unusual orientation: horizontal instead of the standard vertical. ... More
Stevens Auction announces highlights included in their annual Thanksgiving Antique auction
ABERDEEN, MISS.- Eager bidders will be giving thanks at Stevens Auctions Thanksgiving Antique Auction set for Saturday, November 13th, live in the gallery at 609 North Meridian Street in Aberdeen, and online via LiveAuctioneers.com. Offered will be items from a 9,000-square-foot home in Gulf Port, Miss., plus estates from Eutaw, Ala., and Centerville, Miss. Expected top lots include a heavily carved oak dining room suite attributed to the renowned 19th century American furnituremaker R. J. Horner, a beautiful palace-size Aubusson rug that cost $40,000 when purchased new, and a magnificent pair of early 19th century Old Paris vases that was museum deaccessioned 50 years ago. The auction will start promptly at 10 am Central time. The Horner dining room suite is the sales headliner, with an estimate of $15,000-$45,000. It consists ... More
Shara Hughes joins David Kordansky Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced their representation of Shara Hughes in partnership with Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich and New York, and Pilar Corrias, London. New work by Hughes will be featured in the gallery's presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, which will take place November 30 December 4, 2021. Hughes uses dizzying brushwork, vibrant colors, and shifting perspectives to make paintings that defy many of the existing conventions associated with the landscape genre. Natural motifs and patterned elements recur throughout Hughess pictures: snake-like trees, floating moons, distorted reflections in bodies of water, and stippled night skies appear in various permutations, synchronized with harder-to-define forms in which abstract and representational impulses co-exist in unorthodox harmony. Hughess process ... More
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne reopens presenting the first retrospective of Margel Hinder
MELBOURNE.- Heide Museum of Modern Art reopened on Saturday 30 October with the first retrospective of Margel Hinder (19051995), one of Australias most important and dynamic, yet underrated, modernist sculptors. The exhibition Margel Hinder: Modern in Motion is being displayed in Heides main galleries from Saturday 30 October until 6 February 2022 and is a tribute to her great, and ever-expanding, creative vision. Heide Artistic Director, Lesley Harding commented: We are delighted to welcome the public back to Heide after more than two months of closure. While it has been a difficult eighteen months for our sector, we are reopening with confidence about the future and a very exciting program ahead including this stunning survey of the work of one of Australias most significant female artists. Developed in collaboration with the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Guido Reni was born November 04, 1575. Guido Reni (4 November 1575 - 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. He painted primarily religious works, as well as mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in the Bolognese School, and his eclectic classicism was widely influential.
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