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Vallien is known as a pioneer in the use of the sand-casting technique in glass, which he originally learned in an industrial capacity before developing it for use in fine art.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Through November 3, Schantz Galleries in Stockbridge presents a stunning collection of Swedish artist Bertil Valliens signature sand-cast glass sculptures and installations. The exhibition of unique glass sculptures reveals the artists thoughtful exploration of the multi-faceted relationship of the human journey. Bertil Vallien loves stories, from local folklore and international news to history and religion. He consumes stories, churns them around in his imagination, layers in personal influences and interpretations, then releases this amalgam of inspiration in glass form. Vallien is a builder, thoughtfully constructing both the physical materials and the narrative content of each piece of art. Different themes, symbols, and characters populate his work, but one common thread is Valliens interest in the innate dualities of lifehot and cold, light and dark, internal and external, life and death, to ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A Koran dating from the start of the 20th century, is displayed during the exhibition ÂAlUla: Wonder of Arabia at the l'Institut du monde arabe (IMA) in the French capital Paris on October 7, 2019. ÂAlUla: Wonder of Arabia is the worldÂs first major exhibition dedicated to exploring the 7,000 years of multilayered history highlighting a pre-Islamic civilization of which very little had been known, and which today archeologists believe had been very prosperous. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP
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 | | With a $450 million expansion, MoMA is nigger. Is that better? | | Online map leads archaeologist to Maya discovery | | Monet's 'Charing Cross Bridge' to lead sale at Sotheby's New York | 
An interior staircase, visible from West 53rd Street, at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, Oct. 2, 2019. Only 15 years after its last growth spurt, MoMA has now completed its latest metamorphosis, adding another 47,000 square feet of gallery space. (Winnie Au for The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In 1939, the Museum of Modern Art opened its first purpose-built home on West 53rd Street, a rectangular, six-story International Style palazzo clad in Thermolux glass and panels of milky white marble. Stylish and surprisingly homey, the building, designed by Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, replaced four old brownstones. The neighborhood was mostly low-rise and residential back then, full of limestone row houses and Beaux-Arts town houses. The Goodwin-Stone building landed on prewar 53rd Street like a UFO, planting the flag for modernism. Ever since, the museum has ballooned on site. Thats never an easy thing to do in the middle of a busy block in the middle of Midtown. The story of the Modern, art aside, is one of those classic, ruthless New York real estate tales. ... More | | 
In an undated image provided by Mexicos National Institute of Statistics and Geography, a map made with lidar technology. Takeshi Inomata, an archaeologist at the University of Arizona, has used public-domain lidar maps to identify the ruins of 27 previously unknown Maya ceremonial centers. (Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica y GeografÃa/Nacional Center for Airborne Laser Mapping via The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Until recently, archaeology was limited by what a researcher could see while standing on the ground. But light detection and ranging, or lidar, technology has transformed the field, providing a way to scan entire regions for archaeological sites. With an array of airborne lasers, researchers can peer down through dense forest canopies or pick out the shapes of ancient buildings to discover and map ancient sites across thousands of square miles. A process that once required decadeslong mapping expeditions, and slogging through jungles with surveying equipment, can now be done in a matter of days from the relative comfort of an airplane. But lidar maps are expensive. ... More | | 
Claude Monet, Charing Cross Bridge (detail). Estimate: $20/30 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present a remarkable private collection of Impressionist & Modern masterworks this November in New York, led by Claude Monets Charing Cross Bridge a sumptuous example of the artists beloved London pictures, which is estimated to achieve $20/30 million in Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 12 November 2019. The collection was assembled primarily in the 1970s and 1980s by Andrea Klepetar-Fallek and her then-husband Fred Fallek. Ms. Klepetar-Falleks extraordinary life story is one of incomparable resilience, independence and optimism including her flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna, escape from an Italian concentration camp, and departure from Peronist Argentina. Acquired in 1977 through Galerie Beyeler, the present Charing Cross Bridge painting has remained in the Klepetar-Fallek Collection for more than 40 years. Monets paintings of Charing Cross Bridge ra ... More |
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| | Christie's results: The Alfred Cortot Collection and the Book sales realised a combined total of €2.5 million | | Rehs Contemporary now representing Mitsuru Watanabe | | National Gallery to lend its Crivelli masterpieces to Birmingham's Ikon Gallery for award-winning exhibition | 
Friedrich von Amerling, Portrait de Franz Liszt. Sold for: 137,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- The Books department was pleased with Mondays results totaling 2,5 million. After the Books sale, which top lot was a deluxe edition of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde inscribed to Pierre Louÿs sold for 100,000 (against a presale estimate of 30,000-40,000), international collectors payed a last tribute to Alfred Cortot whose collection sold for 1,839,000 selling 93% by lots and 95% by value. The top lot of this sale was a portrait of Franz Liszt by Friedrich von Amerling which was sold for 137,500 (estimate: 12,000-18,000). Frédéric Chopin admirers were also very active during the sale. Amongst the top lots, his portrait by Teofil Kwiatkowski sold for 132,000 against a presale estimate of 6,000-8,000, the lock of Chopins hair sold for 40,000 previously estimated at 1,000-1,500 and the cast of his hand sold for 6,000. Marcel Proust was ... More | | 
Naoko Walking in Rousseaus Forest.
NEW YORK, NY.- This Fall, New York art gallery Rehs Contemporary will present new work by Japanese artist Mitsuru Watanabe. On public view for the first time in the United States, Watanabes compositions are both a tribute to and modernization of 16th Century Renaissance masterworks, while also blending those Western inspirations with his Eastern culture. Watanabes subjects routinely explore the landscapes that inspired Henri Rousseau, sometimes cross paths with creatures from Hieronymus Boschs imagination, and occasionally captivate mythological beings as if they were Venus themselves. Stylistically, Watanabes realistic approach boarders on Surrealism, particularly in the depiction of his subjects oftentimes his daughters Naoko and Yukiko. The stoic expression they exude gives an intriguing sense of indifference to their grandiose surroundings, and yet while so out of place, they appear ... More | | 
Carlo Crivelli, The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius, 1486, Egg and oil on canvas, 207 x 146.7 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is the winner of the inaugural £125,000 Ampersand Foundation Award which will enable the gallery to realise its dream of staging an exhibition of works by the 15th century master, Carlo Crivelli. The Trustees of the National Gallery in London have agreed to lend four masterpieces by Crivelli for the exhibition. The exhibition Carlo Crivelli. Radical Illusionism in the 15th Century will be presented at Ikon during summer 2021. The Ikons exhibition proposal fought off strong competition from four other shortlisted galleries across the UK. Jonathan Watkins, Ikons Director said: An exhibition of work by the 15th century painter Carlo Crivelli is not only a dream come true for Ikon, but also something that I have always really wanted to do. Since being an undergraduate I have been fascinated by ... More |
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| | Napoleon Chagnon, 81, controversial anthropologist, is dead | | First ever travel guide to go on rare public display at the British Museum this week | | Beck & Eggeling opens an exhibition of works by Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | 
In an undated photo via the Chagnon family, Napoleon Chagnon. Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon rain forest made them famous but whose methods provoked intense disputes among other anthropologists, died on Sept. 21 in Traverse City, Mich. He was 81. (Via Chagnon family via The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon rainforest made them famous but whose methods provoked intense disputes among other anthropologists, died Sept. 21 in Traverse City, Michigan. He was 81. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his granddaughter Caitlin Machak. No specific cause was given. Chagnon proved controversial over his use of genetics and evolutionary theory to explain the behavior of the Yamomani, whose ways Westerners found exotic, to say the least. In his paper Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare in a Tribal Population ... More | | 
The first ever travel guide made 500 years ago. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- An illustrated travel guide that was made over half a millennium ago is to go on rare display at the British Museum this week. It is the earliest example of a travel book and caused a sensation in Europe when it was first produced. The book - 'Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam' by Bernhard von Breydenbach - was made in 1486 and features the first ever accurate printed illustrations of some of the most important European and Middle Eastern cities such as Venice and Jerusalem. It goes on public display in the exhibition Inspired by the east: how the Islamic world influenced western art which opens on Thursday. The exhibition charts Europes interest and fascination with the Middle East which began through increased travel to the region from the 15th century and in part was driven by this book. The illustrations it contained were the first time many people in western Europe ever saw realistic depictions of these famous cities ... More | | 
Emil Nolde, Phantasie (Drei Köpfe), watercolour, crayon and ink on Japan paper, 1931 1935.
DUSSELDORF.- Three artists who stand in a singular manner for Expressionism: Edvard Munch as forerunner and pioneer, Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner as expressive "superstars" each of them groundbreaking for the artistic development in the 20th century. They knew each other: Nolde became a member of the "Brücke" group in 1906, in which Kirchner was one of the leading minds. But after only a few months, Nolde separated from the younger artists again in 1907. In the same year he met Munch in Berlin, about whose work he had been enthusiastic before. The "Brücke" artists were also fascinated by Munch's work and they tried in vain to win the Norwegian artist for joint projects. It was not until 1912, when the end of the "Brücke" was already in sight, that Kirchner met Munch at the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where they exchanged their views on the exhibition. The personal contact ... More |
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| | Beverly Watkins, fiery Blues guitarist, is dead at 80 | | Ex-president Bush's paintings tell of toll on those he sent to war | | Installation of outdoor sculpture delayed by Medieval graves discovery | 
A photo provided by Music Maker Relief Foundation, shows blues guitarist Beverly Watkins during a 1999 performance in Phoenix. Watkins died on Oct. 1, 2019 in Atlanta. She was 80. (Paul Markow/Music Maker Relief Foundation via The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Beverly Watkins, a rare woman among blues guitarists, who cleaned homes when music did not pay her enough and did not record her first solo album until she was 60, died Oct. 1 in Atlanta. She was 80. Her son and only immediate survivor, Stanley Watkins, said the cause was a heart attack that had been preceded by a stroke. Watkins called her music lowdown, stomping blues and complemented it with crowd-pleasing antics into her 70s playing her electric guitar on her back and behind her head, sliding across the stage. When she sang, it was often with a growl. Shed been doing all that since the late 1950s, but she wasnt a star because shed been a sideman most of her career, playing with bands that didnt have hits, Brett J. Bonner, editor of Living Blues magazine ... More | | 
Sergeant First Class Michael Rodriguez poses next to his painting made by former US President George W. Bush at the "Portraits of Courage" exhibit at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on October 7, 2019. Olivier Douliery / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- In some paintings, the wounds are plain to see: an arm or leg lost to war. In others, the injuries that US veterans suffered are hidden from view. But all of the works by former president George W. Bush -- painted as a tribute to the men and women he sent to war -- reflect the human toll of his decisions as commander-in-chief. Command Sergeant Major Brian Flom was wounded in the face by a rocket attack in Iraq in 2007. "That was the easy part," he told AFP, standing beside a painting in which he appears with fellow military personnel, one of dozens of works on display at Washington's Kennedy Center. "The challenging part was the TBI (traumatic brain injury) and the post-traumatic stress that accompanied a lot of time spent in a combat zone." Recovery is "still going on -- it's an everyday process ... More | | 
The archaeological remains were unearthed as the foundations were being dug to support the sculpture, and progress had to be halted to allow for archaeologists to excavate the site.
COMPTON VERNEY.- The installation of a new, outdoor sculpture by Israeli artist Ariel Schlesinger at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, has been delayed due to the discovery of three medieval burials. The archaeological remains were unearthed as the foundations were being dug to support the sculpture, and progress had to be halted to allow for archaeologists to excavate the site. Ways To Say Goodbye a 6-metre tall aluminium tree with shards of glass nested in its upper branches - was due to open to the public on 11 October, but this has now been pushed back until 22 October. Archaeology Warwickshire was on site when the discovery was made. They say In accordance with the planning permission, Compton Verney asked Archaeology Warwickshire to carry out a watching brief while the works were taking place. Just at the ... More |
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 Honolulu Museum of Art opens an exhibition of contemporary landscapes by Li HuayiHONOLULU.- Li Huayi is one of the leading innovators in Chinese ink painting, at a time when this field is experiencing a remarkable transformation. His intricate landscapes immerse the viewer in breathtaking environments that present a bold new vision of contemporary aesthetics. Lis identity as an artist was forged in the intense crucible of Chinas emergence as a world superpower in the second half of the 20th century. Navigating the dramatic political and artistic upheavals of this time, his story is one of constant searching for a personal voice that could both fulfill the great synthesis of Chinese art sought by centuries of artists, as well as reorient ink painting within a contemporary international context. This search led him from early training in the traditions of his native Shanghai ... More The Shed opens the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition to date of the work of Agnes Denes NEW YORK, NY.- The Shed is presenting the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition to date of the work of Agnes Denes (b. 1931), a leading figure in Conceptual and environmental art. On view October 9, 2019 to March 22, 2020 across both of The Sheds expansive galleries, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates brings together more than 150 works in a broad range of media spanning Deness 50-year career, including three new works commissioned by The Shed. Denes rose to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s, creating work influenced by science, mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, ecology, and psychology to analyze, document, and ultimately aid humanity. Her theories about climate change and life in an ever-changing, technologically-driven ... More Sworders to offer works by two respected Suffolk artistsSTANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Pictures and sculptures by two respected Suffolk artists will be sold at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet next month with the proceeds used to support the local artistic community. Fred Dubery (1926-2011) and Joanne Brogden (1929-2013), both inspirational teachers and artists, left a cash bequest and the contents of their studios for the benefit of the East Anglian Art Fund. The studio sale of over 500 original works forms part of the sale of Modern British and 20th Century Art on October 22. Fred Dubery (1926-2011), who trained at Croydon School of Art from 1949-50 and then at the Royal College of Art, was lifelong member of the New English Art Club from 1956. In addition to painting he loved to teach. He was professor of Perspective at the Royal ... More Six important works by Dia Azzawi offered at Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art saleLONDON.- A group of six rare and important works by one of the pioneers of modern Arab art, Dia Azzawi (Iraq, born 1939) will be offered as part of Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale on 23 October in London. The collection, which includes painting, works on paper, sculpture and tapestry, covers important stages of Azzawis career. One of the highlights is the painting Rajul Fil-Sahraa (Man in Desert), which has an estimate of £40,000 - £60,000. Rajul Fil-Sahraa (Man in Desert) is one of a number of Azzawis works inspired by the 7th century poet Waddah Al-Yaman - said to have been buried alive for falling in love with the caliphs wife. The work focuses on the relationship between Waddah and his beloved and reflects on the poets mysterious disappearance. With its ... More The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens a solo exhibition of the artist Mika RottenbergCHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is presenting Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces, a solo exhibition of the artist Mika Rottenberg featuring her newest video installation, Spaghetti Blockchain. Rottenberg creates immersive installations that invite audiences to step inside the absurdist environments that appear in her films, where nonsensical machines and assembly lines turn human output, such as a sneeze, into consumer goods ranging from cultured pearls to the brightly colored plastic items sold in Chinese superstores. Using satire to address current issues and aspects of production, consumption, and labor, Rottenberg explores human attempts to control and explain the material world. Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces is on view at the MCA from October 2, 2019 to March 8 ... More The founder of one of the largest prison arts programs in the world dies at 80ANN ARBOR, MICH.- Award-winning educator and founder of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), William Buzz Alexander, died September 19, at home, surrounded by his family. He was 80 years old. A legendary figure in the field of arts in corrections, Alexander, then an English professor at the University of Michigan, started working with state prisoners in 1990. He led his first prison theatre workshop at the Florence Crane Correctional Facility (Coldwater,MI). A student named Liz Boner in his Theatre for Social Change course asked if she could facilitate her off-campus weekly theatre workshop for the class inside the states only womens prison. Alexander agreed and decided to go with her. "I knew I had to go there with whatever talent I had," Alexander said during an interview in January ... More Exhibition explores development of Abstract art through the work of black artistsBALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art, an exhibition that captures the significant contributions that black artists have made to the development of abstraction from the 1940s to the present. On view September 29, 2019, through January 19, 2020, Generations explores the multifaceted power of abstract art as experimental practice, personal exploration, and profound political choice for decades of black artists. The exhibition features more than 70 paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media installations by such notable artists as Kevin Beasley, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Jennie C. Jones, Norman Lewis, Lorna Simpson, and Alma W. Thomas. The exhibition is curated by Christopher Bedford, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director ... More The complete series of The Prophecy makes U.S. debut at the Chazen MADISON, WIS.- Combining haute couture with full-color depictions of ecological crises, Belgian-Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiros The Prophecy is a multiyear project created to raise awareness about the environment and consequences of mass consumption. The series of 13 large-scale photographs, set mostly in Africa, is on view at the Chazen Museum of Art from Oct. 5, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020. This exhibition is the first time the entire series is being shown in the United States. Confronted with threats of ecological destruction in Senegal, West Africa, photographer Fabrice Monteiro combined storytelling, fashion photography and photojournalism in order to highlight site-specific environmental issues within the context of West African culture and traditional beliefs. The Prophecy depicts ... More Phoenix Art Museum announces new interim curator of fashion designPHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum has appointed costume historian, designer, and lecturer Helen Jean to serve as the interim curator of fashion design. Jean, who serves as a college representative at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), previously served for five years at the Museum as the curatorial assistant for Dennita Sewell, who was recently named the Museums Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design Emerita. Over the next year, she will curate exhibitions presented in the Kelly Ellman Fashion Design Gallery as the Museum continues its search for its next Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design. We are thrilled to welcome Helen Jean back to Phoenix Art Museum as our interim curator of fashion design, said Gilbert Vicario, the Museums Deputy Director ... More Frieze London 2019: Most international edition to date closes with outstanding sales and critical acclaimLONDON.- The 17th edition of Frieze London closed on Sunday 6 October, having brought together more than 160 galleries from 35 countries, representing the fairs most international edition to date and driving excellent sales across the fair. Frieze London 2019 saw record numbers of museum groups and curators from Europe, the US and beyond. Presented 3-6 October 2019 in The Regents Park, Frieze London continued to expand on its position as a vital platform for international contemporary art. Frieze London coincides with Frieze Masters and is supported for the 16th consecutive year by global lead partner Deutsche Bank. This year also saw the return of two major acquisition initiatives, the Frieze Tate Fund supported by Endeavor and the Contemporary Art Societys Collections Fund at Frieze ... More Single-owner, Civil War rarities collection features finest period photographs ever offered at one timeDALLAS, TX.- A signed carte de visite from legendary American frontiersman Kit Carson is just one of dozens scarcely seen period photographs highlighting the Bret J. Formichi American Civil War Rarities Collection, offered Oct. 23 by Heritage Auctions. The Formichi collection features fine examples of cartes de visite, many signed, as well as letters and documents from strong as well as little known personalities behind the bloody conflict. Of the nearly 500 lots in the auction, 179 make up Bret Formichis extraordinary collection that he curated over a period of four decades, Heritage Auctions Historical Manuscripts Director Sandra Palomino said. His collection features an exceptional array of images, manuscripts and printed ephemera, including several significant cartes de visite ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau was born October 10, 1684. Jean-Antoine Watteau (baptised October 10, 1684 - died July 18, 1721), better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. In this image: Exhibition view "Watteau. The Draughtsman". Photo: Städel Museum
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