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Lot 748: Ib Kofod-Larsen for Christensen & Larsen Elizabeth lounge chairs, pair, and ottoman. Estimate $30,000-50,000
OAK PARK, IL.- On Thursday, August 26, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will conduct its third Modern Design + Post-War & Contemporary Art sale of 2021, with well over 400 lots of art and design by leading figures from the mid-20th century to the present. The auction includes a wide range of prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, ceramics, art glass, furniture, lighting, and more. Items up for bid are by individuals who have made a significant impact on their chosen fields both within America and abroad. Logistical details for the sale and bidding instructions are provided below the highlights. Among the important prints to be offered on August 12, the auction will feature French-American conceptual artist Marcel Duchamps Coeurs Volant (Fluttering Hearts), 1961 (estimate $6,000-8,000). The sale also has four conceptual works from Sol LeWitt, including two four-color drawings (higher $2,000-3,000). In American Pop art, two works will be available by ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ad Minoliti Biosfera, Peluche / Biosphere Plush installation view, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Photo: Rob Harris © 2021 BALTIC.
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| Major new exhibition of Chatsworth's world-class collection of Old Master drawings on view at The Lightbox | | Christie's announces Asian Art Week sales in New York | | Graft and security issues feed the trade in Iraq's past |
Annibale Carracci, Portrait of a youth, 16th century.
WOKING.- A major new exhibition featuring more than 60 Old Master Drawings from Chatsworths extraordinary collection, second only to the Queens in its remarkable scope and quality, opened in Woking in August 2021. Featuring works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck and more, Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth is the largest exhibition of these rare wonders for more than twenty years. On display at The Lightbox, Woking from 21 August 2021 as part of a new exhibition partnership between Chatsworth, The Lightbox, Woking, and Sheffield Museums, the exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience the vibrancy and emotional power of the works up close. Curated by The Lightbox and Sheffield Museums in partnership with Chatsworth, this new exhibition at The Lightbox brings together 64 drawings from the Devonshire ... More | |
A Large and Rare Gilt-Bronze Figure of Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini, 12¼ in. (31.3 cm.) high. Central Tibet, Densatil Monastery, Second Half 14th-First Half 15th Century. Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Asian Art Week, a series of auctions, viewings, and events, from September 17-29. This season presents six auctions featuring over 1,000 objects from 5,000 years of art spanning all epochs and categories of Asian art comprising Chinese archaic bronzes through Japanese art to modern Indian and Pakistani painting. From a Tang-dynasty parcel-gilt silver rhinoceros dish to huanghuali furniture and Japanese metalwork, the six distinct sales of Asian Art Week bring together innumerous eclectic works and objects from across the vast continent. Other highlights include paintings by South Asian modernist Narayan Shridhar Bendre and 16th-century Tibetan masters, rare woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai and a Qianlong- ... More | |
In this file photo taken on March 6, 2017, a member of the Iraqi military inspects archeological findings discovered in an underground tunnel dug by the Islamic State (IS) group to carry out archaeological excavations in the heart of the hill that houses the tomb of the Prophet Jonah (Nabi Younes) in east Mosul. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP.
by Laure Al Khoury
BAGHDAD (AFP).- Do you want to buy a more than 5,000-year-old Sumerian tablet, listed as the property of a gentleman from Sussex in England and passed down as a family heirloom? On auction site liveauctioneers.com, bidding for the Sumerian clay tablet starts at 550 pounds ($750). The item weighs just 70 grams (2.5 ounces) but bears traces of cuneiform writing -- the oldest recorded in the world -- and is listed as "Property of a West Sussex, UK, gentleman". This example comes with letters of provenance by experts. But the ownership history of some such objects can be harder to ... More |
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| Far Again is American artist John Zurier's first solo exhibition at a museum outside the USA | | Cow Parade returns to NYC, but please don't steal them this time | | The Phillips Collection announces a major centennial acquisition: Daniel Canogar's Amalgama Phillips |
John Zurier, Reykjavik-Berkeley, 2020. Photo: Nina Zurier.
MALMO.- At first glance, John Zuriers paintings give the impression of being monochrome, but on closer examination they reveal rich nuances and modulations in colour and treatment. This is a subtle, finely tuned and consistent abstract painting where nothing is superfluous. Zuriers painting leads us into an enchanting world of dreams and memories - and then back to a here and now, says Iris Müller-Westermann. The paintings can evoke a sense of summer, a soft breeze, a scent or a mood by the ocean. We are very happy to introduce our visitors to colour magician John Zuriers elusive worlds. John Zurier paints on different types of grounds. In the dialogue between canvas and paint, the artist accentuates marks in the fabric or makes lines that relate to and enhance the picture format. The paintings emerge in a meditative process that demands the artists attention and takes time. Worlds and moods that ... More | |
Tartan Patchwork Cow, by Jeffrey Banks, on display at Hudson Yards in New York, Aug. 19, 2021. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The cows are back. Twenty-one years ago, about 500 fiberglass cows decorated by artists, celebrities and schoolchildren were placed across New York City. The vibrantly colorful cows grazed in parks and on sidewalks, where tourists snapped photos, children clamored to climb up on them and thieves plotted attention-getting heists. Now, though, the cows are less like a wild herd drumming up chaos across the five boroughs and more like an elite pack of pampered show cows being trotted out at the county fair. Last week, 78 fiberglass cows were settled in eight locations in the city, mostly where they can be watched by security guards or cameras. At Hudson Yards, 22 cows stand inside and outside the luxury shopping mall, posing under the escalators or ... More | |
Daniel Canogar. Photo: Alberto Feijoo.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection has announced a new major acquisition undertaken during its centennial year: a generative digital piece Amalgama Phillips by Madrid-based artist Daniel Canogar that uses images of artworks from the museums permanent collection to create a seamless blend of ever-changing, fluidly morphing imagery. The work was created in celebration of the museums 100th anniversary and purchased through The Dreier Fund for Acquisitions. The artwork will be presented as the Phillipss second digital Intersections project, premiering on the Phillipss YouTube channel (September 8, 2021), followed by a site-specific projection (September 14, 2021January 2, 2022) at the museum and occupying the three-story high spiral staircase in the Goh Annex. The Phillips Collection is pleased to acquire during our 100th anniversary an artwork that so innovatively celebrates our collection, while also ... More |
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| Ex-Sex Pistols win court battle to use songs in Disney series | | 'Robert Longo: A History of the Present' opens at Guild Hall | | Wentrup am Feenteich opens in Hamburg this August: A new concept and destination for international art collectors |
Judge Anthony Mann ruled at the High Court that the band's former drummer Paul Cook and guitarist Steve Jones were entitled to invoke majority voting rules against Lydon to license their 1970s-era back catalogue.
LONDON (AFP).- Two former members of the Sex Pistols on Monday won a London court battle against ex-frontman John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, who opposed the use of the groundbreaking punk band's music in an upcoming Disney series. Judge Anthony Mann ruled at the High Court that the band's former drummer Paul Cook and guitarist Steve Jones were entitled to invoke majority voting rules against Lydon to license their 1970s-era back catalogue. Lydon -- known to the world as the band's sneering, ginger-haired singer Johnny Rotten -- had opposed approving the licences for "Pistol", a six-part Disney drama about the band directed by Oscar-winning British director Danny Boyle, claiming they could not be granted without his consent. ... More | |
Installation view.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Guild Hall (158 Main Street, East Hampton) has announced their summer exhibition, Robert Longo: A History of the Present, opened on Saturday, August 7 and runs through October 17. A History of the Present is a celebration of and a critical investigation into the span of American history bookended by Abstract Expressionism and the current moment in which we live. In two adjacent galleries, Longo juxtaposes America's past with its present through 19 monumental, highly labor-intensive charcoal drawings that act as mirrors into history. A documentary film, featuring Longo and other art world luminaries discussing the show, produced by The Artist Profile Archive, accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition begins with Longos Gang of Cosmos series exquisitely rendered, highly sensitized black and white translations in charcoal based on prominent paintings from the American Abstract Expressionist ... More | |
Wentrup am Feenteich, Hamburg - interior. Photo: Patricia Parinejad.
HAMBURG.- Tina and Jan Wentrup, co-owners of Berlins Wentrup Gallery, opened a new space in Hamburg, Germany, on 22 August 2021. Housed in a three-storey mansion with an outdoor sculpture garden, Wentrup am Feenteich is a unique destination for art collectors, professionals and enthusiasts from across the world that fosters interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue in a sophisticated yet welcoming setting. Situated in an Art Nouveau villa set on a serene lakeside, Wentrup am Feenteich is a new concept in the art world that aims to move beyond the conventional white cube environment. In addition to being a space for collectors to experience contemporary art of the highest calibre, it also facilitates encounters between visual art and other creative, cultural and academic fields. The inaugural presentation in Wentrup am ... More |
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| BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art opens Ad Minoliti's first solo show in the UK | | MASS MoCA expands outdoor art offerings with Taryn Simon's The Pipes | | Watershed Center receives $3 million endowmen |
Ad Minoliti Biosfera, Peluche / Biosphere Plush installation view, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Photo: Rob Harris © 2021 BALTIC.
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead is presenting Biosfera Peluche / Biosphere Plush, Ad Minolitis first solo show in the UK. In their work, Minoliti uses geometry and colour as a tool for creating alternative universes and speculative pictorial fiction influenced by feminist and queer thought. Trained as a painter, they draw on the rich legacy of geometric abstraction in Latin America, such as Argentinas Arte Madà and the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención, both founded in 1945, which embraced playfulness in painting and painted on irregular shaped canvases, sometimes experimenting with three-dimensional objects. Minoliti approaches painting as an expanded field that meets design and functionality, whilst considering the space of the gallery as a tri-dimensional canvas in which to explore a dialogue between modernism, science-fiction, ... More | |
Installation view of Taryn Simon, The Pipes, 2016 | 2021. As installed at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. With Taryn Simon and curator Alexandra Foradas. Designed in collaboration with Shohei Shigematsu, OMA. Photo: Will McLaughlin.
NORTH ADAMS, MASS.- The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that a large-scale outdoor sculpture by Taryn Simon, titled The Pipes, will be on long-term view on the museums campus. What began as an oversized concrete instrument for a cacophony of global mourning in Simons work An Occupation of Loss has been populated by the sounds, collective call and response, and movements of a living public. The 11 structures that make up the installation which Simon originally designed in collaboration with Shohei Shigematsu of architecture firm OMA are modular, and have been adapted by Simon and Shigematsu for the MASS MoCA campus. The Pipes joins MASS MoCAs growing constellation of long-term outdoor artworks sited ... More | |
Watershed's resident artist cabins on the Center's 54-acre campus.
EDGECOMB, ME.- The Windgate Charitable Foundation has awarded Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts with a $3 million endowment to support the organizations programs and operations. Watershed serves artists working in clay via residencies, workshops, kiln firing facilities, and exhibition opportunities. The new endowment will provide a sustainable stream of income for years to come while enabling the nonprofit to expand and diversify its programs. The award caps a year of growth and change at Watershed. When the early days of the pandemic necessitated a break in residential programming, the Centers leadership saw an opportunity to expedite long-standing plans to construct a new studio that could function year-round. Windgate had already provided a lead gift for this capital project, and the beloved but dilapidated barn studio came down last fall. Contractors put the finishing touches on a dazzling new 7,500 square ... More |
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Nationalmuseum in Sweden exhibits works by international architects and designers
STOCKHOLM.- Snowcrash began in the final years of the 20th century as an exhibition by a group of virtually unknown Finnish architects and designers, with the aim of making an impact in the international design world. They attracted quite a lot of attention in 1997 during the Milan Design Week, also known as the Milan Furniture Fair, and ended up as an international design company based in Sweden worth over a hundred million Swedish kronor. The collection, which was established over the course of 1997 to 2003, is being exhibited now for the first time. Snowcrash (19972003) was founded by the Finnish architects and designers Teppo Asikainen, Ilkka Terho, Timo Salli and Ilkka Suppanen and was established with the help of a wide circle of friends who freely moved between different artistic fields. The year after the acclaimed exhibition in ... More
Review: 'Pass Over' comes to Broadway, in horror and hope
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Wednesday night, when a preshow announcement informed the 1,200 or so people at the August Wilson Theater that they were one of the first audiences back to see a real Broadway play, the response was the kind of roar youd expect for a beloved diva returning from rehab. And Pass Over, by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, does not disappoint in that regard. Having survived pandemic jitters (so far) and its own circuitous path to get there, it emerged like a star: in top shape, at full throttle and refreshed by some artful doctoring. If it seems strange to talk about a tragedy in such terms, keep in mind that though Pass Over is forthrightly centered on the plight of two young Black men in an urban police state, its ambition is so far-reaching that it embraces (and in Danya Taymors thriller of a production, succeeds ... More
Pioneering Congo band Benda Bilili yearn for comeback
KINSHASA (AFP).- Chickens strut and cluck around the courtyard of a house that resonates with the unmistakable urban African sound of a once-great rumba blues band in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A decade after their international peak, the group Staff Benda Bilili dream of returning to the stage and claiming the spoils of their success -- even if it means quarrelling with those who made them known. In the early 2010s, these penniless Congolese musicians, many stricken by polio, living in the street and getting around in ancient wheelchairs, turned rumba upside down. Their lives had been changed by a documentary film, "Benda Bilili!," which in 2010 wowed the Cannes Film Festival, showcasing a music as gritty and as unique as the people who played it. Audiences became enthralled by the tales of survival that swirled around band leader ... More
Jane'a Johnson appointed Artistic Director of Foam
AMSTERDAM.- Janea Johnson (US) will be the new Artistic Director at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Johnson will join the management of Foam with Nynke de Haan (Managing Director), per 1 October 2021. A native of Sacramento, CA, Janea Johnson currently is Assistant Professor of Theory of Art + Design and a research fellow at the Center for Social Equity and Inclusion (SEI) at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She received her PhD from Brown University in Modern Culture & Media, where her work focused on photographers and subjects from the African Diaspora. Furthermore, Johnson earned an MA in Cinema and Media Studies from University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in Philosophy from Spelman College. As a former undergraduate exchange student at the University of Amsterdam the city is not new to Johnson. Janea Johnson: ... More
John Moran Auctioneers brings coveted Contemporary works back into the public market
MONROVIA, CA.- Following a record setting sale in John Morans previous Contemporary Auction this past June, Morans is back again with more provocative and conversation-starting pieces. The Fall Contemporary Sale will take place on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 12:00pm PST. A vast majority of the sale originates from The Blake Byrne Collection. Byrne, an avid art collector for over three decades, shows a true appreciation for modern and contemporary art, as the works in his collection refuse to be contained to one style or medium. The artists in his collection are not only notable and world-renowned names, they consist of rule breakers and tastemakers that have made contemporary art the most sought after works in the market today. Most notably, the sale will include works from artists such as Jim Shaw, Iva Gueorguieva, Edward del Rosario, ... More
The Dr. Mead Shaffer Collection to be offered at Briggs Auction
GARNET VALLEY, PA.- Briggs Auction will offer the Dr. Mead Shaffer collection of early American antiques on Friday, September 24th. Bidding is online only, through Briggs Auction's Bid at Briggs platform and through Live Auctioneers.com. Pre-auction/absentee bids will be accepted until 10 am on the date of auction, September 24th, when real-time online bidding will begin on both platforms. Dr. Shaffer, a resident of Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania, is a noted preservationist, historian and collector. The auction will include Dr. Shaffers extensive collection of colonial and early American and regional antiques, colonial cookware, folk and decorative arts and much more. Briggs Auction has an app to make bidding easy and convenient; simply search Briggs Auction in the Apple App Store, or on Google Play. "Dr. Shaffer has been a staple in the antiques ... More
Broadway power brokers pledge diversity changes as theaters reopen
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Fifteen months after the George Floyd protests called renewed attention to racism in many areas of society, some of the most powerful players on Broadway have signed a pact pledging to strengthen the industrys diversity practices as theaters reopen following the lengthy shutdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. The agreement commits Broadway and its touring productions not only to the types of diversity training and mentorship programs that have become common in many industries, but also to a variety of sector-specific changes: The industry is pledging to forgo all-white creative teams, hire racial sensitivity coaches for some shows, rename theaters for Black artists and establish diversity rules for the Tony Awards. The document, called A New Deal for Broadway, was developed under the ... More
Staging 'The Glass Menagerie' on the fire escapes that inspired it
ST. LOUIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Theres a knowing twinkle in Tom Wingfields eye. Hes standing out on the second-floor fire escape, delivering the opening monologue of Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie like a magician who knows that his audience recognizes the trick. Wingfield, the plays narrator and a thinly veiled self-portrait of Williams himself, played here by Bradley James Tejeda, sets the scene: I take you back to an alley in St. Louis. And theres that twinkle, reminding us where we are. Were not just in St. Louis, where Williams grew up and where his semiautobiographical memory play unfolds. And not just in an alley in the parking lot behind a fire escape-covered apartment building much like the one where the Wingfield family might reside. We are on the corner of Westminster and Walton in the citys Central West End ... More
Spike Lee, exultant at the 'epicenter'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Spike Lee, like the city hes from, exudes a kind of brash resilience. His resting facial expression says Try me. In New York, it can feel as if trials await around every corner. Hardship here is a kind of birthright, whether of the quotidian variety (the gantlet of garbage smells in the summertime) or the catastrophic (the Sep. 11 attacks, the first spring of the COVID-19 pandemic). In his new eight-hour documentary series, New York Epicenters: 9/11-2021½ the first of its four installments premiered Sunday on HBO Lee memorializes the indefatigable spirit of New York. Dozens of New Yorkers, appearing ringed by a faint blue glow in front of a dark backdrop, testify in interviews that chronicle each phase of the two disasters. The first two installments focus on the pandemic; the latter two hark back to the World Trade ... More
Diamond Schmitt wins a 2021 International Architecture Award
TORONTO.- Diamond Schmitt in joint venture with KWC Architects has won a 2021 International Architecture Award® for its design of the Senate of Canada Building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The award will be presented on Friday, September 10 by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, at an awards ceremony near the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. On the same day, the presenting partners will open a special exhibition, The City and the World, at The Contemporary Space Athens. Diamond Schmitts winning project will be featured in this exhibition. The Senate of Canada Building received top honours in the Government Buildings category. It was among 130 projects chosen for the 2021 International Architecture Awards from the final shortlist ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-born photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died August 24, 1995. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photograph of the V-J Day celebration and for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica camera. In this image: Harold Gray, chairman of the board of United Technologies Corp., points to a print as he discusses the photo with photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt at Manhattan's International Center for Photography in New York in Jan. 22, 1981. The display of photographs titled "Eisenstaedt Germany" was organized by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington and made possible by United Technologies.
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