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Pre-Columbian Aztec (Mexico) volcanic-stone sculpture replicating a coiled snake, 13.5 x 9.5 x 13 inches, similar to an example in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Est. $20,000-$30,000.
BOULDER, COLO.- It is obvious when a collection of any type has been amassed with passion and perseverance. That is the case with the extensive and exceptionally fine collection of antiquities, Asian and ethnographic artworks at the heart of Artemis Gallerys December 5-6 auction. The couple who consigned their remarkable collection to us never wavered in their quest to locate the most culturally significant pieces, said Artemis Gallery Managing Director Teresa Dodge. Their dedication and ability to identify objects of historical importance will now benefit many other collectors, including those who may be new to the pursuit, because all items will open at a low price, with no reserve. In addition to the featured collection, the 521-lot auction includes a number of select pieces from other consignors. All purchases convey with Artemis Gallerys unconditional guarantee that they are authentic and legal to purc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery announces Day 1 of an important 2-day auction featuring ancient and ethnographic art from around the world. The sale will be held on Wed, Dec 5, 2018 9:00 AM CST. In this image: Egyptian New Kingdom Limestone Relief Panel Fragment. Estimate $2,500 - $3,500.
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| | | Exhibition explores the role of monuments and monumental art, featuring works from antiquity to present day | | Christie's announces highlights of the sale of Catherine Deneuve's wardrobe | | Iraq's ancient pottery struggles to outlive modern plastic |
Bruno Braquehais (French, 18231875), The Toppling of the Vendôme Column, 1871. Albumen prints. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (95.R.102).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- As the role and meaning of monuments in contemporary culture takes on new urgency, the Getty Research Institute is presenting an exhibition that connects these contemporary concerns to the past. MONUMENTality, on view at the Getty Center from December 4, 2018 through April 21, 2019, invites viewers to consider how the meanings of monuments can change over time and why some monuments endure while others fall. In organizing both this extraordinary exhibition and the current scholar year theme, the Getty Research Institute has focused on an especially timely subject monuments and monumentality. Here, art history has very contemporary implications as many people, especially in the U.S., are passionately debating and re-examining the roles that monuments play in our communities and cities, said Andrew Perchuk, acting director of the Getty Research Institute. The GRIs special collections are a rich ... More | |
Catherine Deneuve wears this dress at a ceremony where she met Alfred Hitchcock in 1969 with Philippe Noiret and François Truffaut. Estimate: 3,000-5,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
PARIS.- Christies France announced the sale of Catherine Deneuves wardrobe, to be held on 24 January 2019. The dresses, suits and accessories are a moving testimony of the friendship between Catherine Deneuve and Yves Saint Laurent, a relationship which lasted for several decades. Nearly 300 lots will be presented in total to the numerous connoisseurs and international collectors in Paris during Haute Couture Fashion Week. Christies will offer approaching 120 lots during a live auction, in addition to an online sale accessible to digital bidders from 23 to 30 January 2019. Catherine Deneuve: In 1965, I was invited to be presented to Queen Elizabeth II and my husband David Bailey, a fashion photographer, suggested that I ask Yves Saint Laurent for an evening dress. I arrived at Rue Spontini with a photo from the Russian Collection from the previous year which he agreed to create for me. A long ... More | |
Iraqis making clay pots in Najaf on November 11, 2018. Pottery has deep roots in Iraq, where ancient civilisations turned to clay to build their homes, shape their cooking utensils, and even make their ovens. Haidar HAMDANI / AFP.
NAJAF (AFP).- Adel al-Kawwaz expertly spins the potter's wheel, shaping the wet clay into a smooth jug. His family is famous for this millennia-old Iraqi craft, but Kawwaz is struggling to keep it alive. For thousands of years, clay utensils for storing food and cooking were found in virtually every home in Sumer, the earliest known civilisation in modern-day southern Iraq. Kawwaz's own family drew their name from the jug, or "kawz" in Arabic, which they have produced for more than 200 years from clay found at a lake by Najaf, a holy Shiite Muslim city. "Making clay vases is a craft that my family had become famous for," says 45-year-old Kawwaz wistfully. Pottery has deep roots in Iraq, where ancient civilisations turned to clay to build their homes, shape their cooking utensils, and even make their ovens. Cuneiform, one of the earliest forms of writing invented by the ... More |
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| | | Finland's 'ode' to a new era in libraries | | Richard P. Feynman's Nobel Prize medal leads Sotheby's $7.4 million 'Geek Week' auctions in NY | | Kennedy Center gala honors best in arts -- and George H.W. Bush |
Bookshelves are seen during a preview at Helsinki's new Central Library Oodi on November 30, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. The new library will open its doors to the public on December 5, 2018, a day before Finland's 101st birthday. Markku Ulander / Lehtikuva / AFP.
HELSINKI (AFP).- What do you give the world's most literate country for its 100th birthday? For Finland's politicians and public, the answer was simple: a vast, state-of-the-art library, a new "living room for the nation". Twenty years in the planning, Helsinki's central library officially opens on December 5 at the end of a year of festivities marking the centenary of Finland's independence after breaking with Russia in 1917 following six centuries under Swedish rule. It is a huge, flowing structure of wood and glass sitting on a prime spot in the city centre, directly opposite the Finnish parliament. But whereas the parliament building is an austere and imposing hunk of granite, the new library was designed by Finnish firm ALA Architects as a welcoming, undulating structure, clad in 160 kilometres' worth (99 miles) of Finnish spruce, ... More | |
1965 Nobel Prize Medal in Physics, Awarded to Richard Phillips Feynman for his Fundamental Work in Quantum Electrodynamics. Estimate: $800,000/1.2 million. Sold for $975,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys Geek Week auctions concluded Friday in New York with a total of $7.4 million, featuring sales dedicated to Space Exploration and The History of Science & Technology. Cassandra Hatton, Vice President & Senior Specialist in Sothebys Books & Manuscripts Department commented: It was so exciting to see such enthusiasm for our first ever Geek Week auctions. I am incredibly honored to have been entrusted with the sale of the Nobel Prize, papers, and books of Richard P. Feynman, one of my personal heroes, and I am thrilled with the outstanding results. The depth of bidding and impressive prices achieved are a clear indicator that Feynmans work and legacy continue to resonate with collectors today, and in particular, the prices achieved for the manuscripts would indicate that Feynmans scientific work is more precious than gold. It was also especially exciting to become one of only ... More | |
US composer Philip Glass arrives at the 41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC, on December 2, 2018. ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Hollywood A-listers and Washington politicos celebrated the best in performing arts Sunday at the Kennedy Center Honors gala, which opened with a standing ovation for late president George H.W. Bush. The posh annual awards program -- a rare night of red-carpet glamour in the US capital, now in its 41st year -- honored an eclectic class of artists: actress and pop superstar Cher, radical composer Philip Glass, country singer Reba McEntire and jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter. In a first, the Kennedy Center -- the performing arts complex that serves as a living monument to slain president John F. Kennedy -- also paid tribute to a work of art, the musical sensation "Hamilton." Show host Gloria Estefan, a member of last year's class of honorees, opened the festivities with a somber tribute to Bush, who died over the weekend at age 94. "I think its appropriate to recognize the passing of a wonderful man who dedicated his life to service and who graciously attended ... More |
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| | | New Director to steward the Corita Collection in Los Angeles | | Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation unveils designs for Miami art space | | Exhibition at White Cube Hong Kong features rare, early works by Park Seo-Bo |
Scott is joining an all-female team with plans to elevate the legacy of an influential and celebrated female artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Corita Art Center welcomes a new Director, Nellie Scott to the organization. After an extensive search to build capacity for the next 100 years of the Corita collection, Scott brings the needed blend of collection, museum, gallery and academic experience to move the organization into the next 100 years of engagement, visibility and growth. We are thrilled to have Nellie joining us at a very exciting and pivotal time for the Corita Art Center. There is new generation interested in uncovering the history of trailblazing female artists and who are drawing inspiration from Coritas distinct and vibrant artwork. said Linda Alexander, the Executive Director of the Immaculate Heart Community, which holds the collection and launched the CAC. Scott is joining an all-female team with plans to elevate the legacy of an ... More | |
3D Rendering by Azeez Bakare Studios / courtesy Rene Gonzalez Architects.
MIAMI, FLA.- Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation, a non-profit foundation formerly known as Fairholme Unlimited, has announced the designs for its innovative new art space in Miami. Designed by Miami-based firm Rene Gonzalez Architects (RGA), the 45,000 square-foot building will serve as the permanent home for the Foundations growing art collection, which features thought-provoking, experiential works of art by world-renowned contemporary artists. Along with bringing an impactful architectural structure to the city, BCF will further enrich Miamis vibrant art scene by providing free public access to the Foundations collection. In 2017, Berkowitz Contemporary Foundationspearheaded by President and founder Chloe Berkowitzappointed Rene Gonzalez to design a new home for its collection. Since the appointment, the Foundation and architect ... More | |
Park Seo-Bo 2018 © the artist.
HONG KONG.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Park Seo-Bo. Featuring rare, early works from the artists best-known Ecriture series, the show marks his formal representation by the gallery. Credited as one of the originators of the Korean Dansaekhwa movement (also known as the Korean monochrome movement), Parks rigorous conceptual work is inextricably linked to notions of time, space and material. Rooted in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, in particular the writings of Lao-Tzu and Chuang Tzu, this lineage is manifest in the process of repetitive action and a highly physical manipulation of paint and materials. Dansaekhwa consisted of a loosely affiliated group of artists whose work centred on a minimalist pictorial language. While making visual parallels with Western modernist abstraction, especially Minimalism, Dansaekhwa differed in that it remained firmly rooted in Korean cultural traditions. ... More |
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| | | Folk Art gifted to Mississippi Museum of Art by artists Claudia DeMonte and William "Bill" Traylor | | Bonhams appoints Muys Snijders as Head of Americas for Post-War & Contemporary Art in America | | How engineers are straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
Lucy Estrin, Madame Pompador, 1982-86. mixed media on textile, 17.125 x 18.5 x 8.6875 in.
JACKSON, MISS.- Artists Claudia DeMonte and Ed McGowin donated more than 100 works by self-taught artists to the Mississippi Museum of Art. They were subsequently honored at the Museums annual Rembrandt Society Dinner held on November 1. The works represent part of their personal collection of sculptures, paintings, and assemblages. The objects from the DeMonte/McGowin collection add to a growing body of self-taught Southern artists represented in the Museums permanent collection. Of Mississippi-born artists, works by O.W. Pappy Kitchens, Mary T. Smith, James Son Ford Thomas, and Luster Willis are now strongly represented, offering varied richness and depth to the arts of 20th-century Mississippi. Other notable artists from across the South include Howard Finster, Lonnie Holley, James Harold Jennings, and Mose Tolliver. Particularly exciting is the gift of a pristine watercolor, Untitled ... More | |
Muys Snijders, Bonhams new Head of Americas for Post-War & Contemporary Art. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- The international auction house Bonhams announced that Muys Snijders will join the company as the Head of Americas of the Post-War & Contemporary Art Department. Based in Madison Avenue in New York, Ms Snijders will take up this new position with immediate effect. She will be responsible for leading all Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art business in America, furthering Bonhams relationships with consignors and buyers, and expanding the business into new services and capabilities in this highly competitive area of the art market. Ms. Snijders joins Bonhams from Christies, where she worked in a great variety of roles, including most recently as the Managing Director of Christies Americas. Prior to this role, she worked in the New York Post War & Contemporary Art Department where, as Global Client Strategy Director she oversaw the sourcing and sales management ... More | |
A picture taken on November 28, 2018 shows the Pisa Tower in Pisa. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is now stable and has even straightened slightly thanks to engineering work to save the world-renowned tourist attraction, experts said on November 21, 2018. Tiziana FABI / AFP.
PISA (AFP).- "It's still straightening," said engineer Roberto Cela, gazing at the Leaning Tower of Pisa gleaming in the autumn sunshine of northern Italy. "And many years will have to pass before it stops." The gravitationally-challenged landmark is leaning less after years of ambitious engineering work. Fortunately for the millions of tourists who come here every year, the 57-metre (186-feet) tower remains beautifully askance. The medieval bell tower, a symbol of the power of the maritime republic of Pisa in the Middle Ages, has leaned to one side ever since building started in 1173 on ground that proved a little too soft. The tower was closed to the public in January 1990 for 11 years over safety fears, as its tilt reached 4.5 meters (15 feet) from the vertical, ... More |
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Jerwood Charitable Foundation announces 12 new artists to watch in 2019
LONDON.- Today, Monday 3 December 2018, Jerwood Charitable Foundation announced the 12 recipients of awards and commissions that will form the 2019 visual arts development and exhibition programme at Jerwood Space, London and on tour nationally. The total value of grants directly awarded to artists is over £100k. The 12 new artists are Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Kitty Clark and Sofia Mitsola (Jerwood Solo Presentations); Webb-Ellis and Richard Whitby (Jerwood/FVU Awards); Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth (Forest + Found), Mark Corfield-Moore, Lucie Gledhill, Bethan Lloyd Worthington and Tana West (Jerwood Makers Open); and Silvia Rosi and Theo Simpson (Jerwood/Photoworks Awards). Selected through national call for entry processes and guided by distinguished selection panels, the awardees represent some of the most promising ... More
Cadogan Contemporary opens an exhibition of new works by Janette Kerr
LONDON.- Cadogan Contemporary is presenting North, an exhibition of new works by the acclaimed seascape artist Janette Kerr. The show is formed of two bodies of work one recording a three-week period Kerr spent on board a three masted schooner sailing up the coast of Svalbard in Norway up to the Arctic Circle; the second deriving from the Shetland Islands, where the artist lives half of the year. Kerr is a painter of the northern landscape a foul-weather artist who enjoys being out in, and working from, the landscape at its extremes. The influence of the Romantic tradition in landscape painting is evident, particularly the philosophy of the Sublime, however Kerrs practice is contemporary and experimental. She does not seek to create meticulous studies of the landscape, preferring instead to respond to what is sensed rather than what is seen. Her paintings ... More
Platinum ring with an 11-carat diamond center stone climbs to six figures at Miller & Miller
NEW HAMBURG.- A platinum ring with 11-carat diamond center stone sold for $103,250, a circa 1960s Rodania Geometer gentlemans wristwatch in remarkable condition brought $25,960 and an actual World War II-era Omega Weems Royal Air Force pilots watch soared to $8,260 at Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s Jewellery & Watches auction held Nov. 24. The 311-lot auction featured a curated assortment of antique and modern jewelry and watches, to include a generous selection of fine gold estate jewelry by makers such as Tiffany, Cartier and Bvlgari, plus vintage and modern wristwatches by Rolex, Tudor, Omega, Piaget and others. By the time the gavel fell on the last and final lot, the sale grossed $446,269, with buyers premium. Prices were strong and continually exceeded expectations, especially on untouched, unrestored wristwatches with historical ... More
Rodin's Ãternel Printemps ratchets up the romance in Heritage Auctions' European Art Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Leading Heritage Auctions Dec. 7 Fine European Art Auction is Auguste Rodins monumental Ãternel printemps (est. $400,000-$600,000). Depicting two lovers in a passionate embrace, this magnificent bronze is a star within a constellation of masterworks from the likes of William Adolphe Bouguereau, Gerald Brockhurst, and Louis Valtat. Cast between 1899 and 1901, Ãternel printemps is one of just 58-recorded Ferdinand Barbedienne casts of the celebrated sculpture in its second state, first reduction. The dazzling play of light on the lovers limbs accentuates the effect of movement, which was of paramount importance to Rodin, Heritages European art specialist Marianne Berardi said. It would be no exaggeration to say this bronze is a page out of Rodins own biography. At the time he conceived it, the sculptor had fallen head over heels ... More
14-18 NOW brings WW1 centenary to 35 million people as five-year programme comes to an end
LONDON.- 14-18 NOW, the organisation set up to bring a creative response to the centenary of the First World War, has completed its final season after five years of arts events. Through a pioneering approach to commemoration, 14-18 NOW has brought new audiences to contemporary arts and heritage. 14-18 NOW has created a new way of marking major national moments through the arts, commissioning artists to create works that respond to different aspects of the war. · 35 million people around the UK (over half of the population) have engaged with the 14-18 NOW programme, including 8 million young people · 125 projects have been commissioned by 14-18 NOW to bring history to life, including works by Rachel Whiteread, John Akomfrah, Gillian Wearing, Peter Jackson, Danny Boyle, Vivienne Westwood, Jeremy Deller, Shobana Jeyasingh, ... More
CONTEXT Art Miami celebrates seventh edition with 96 international galleries
MIAMI, FLA.- CONTEXT Art Miami, presented by Art Miami, returning for its seventh edition December 4 9, 2018, has announced its 2018 exhibitor list featuring the works of emergent, mid-career and cutting-edge artists from 96 galleries, representing 21 countries and 63 cities. This years fair will kick off with a Platinum VIP Preview for top collectors, curators, and members of the press on Tuesday December 4th, from 4:30PM 5:30PM to benefit the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), sponsored by Christie's International Real Estate. The VIP Preview will open for all VIP Cardholders at 5:30PM and continue until 10PM. This is the eighth consecutive year that PAMM has been the fairs exclusive VIP Preview benefactor and Art Miami LLC has already donated more than $150,000 to further the museums collection and mission. The ... More
Iraq's Mohamed al-Daradji battles inner demons through film
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- The Iraq War may have ended in 2011, but for filmmaker Mohamed al-Daradji, the conflict that tore his country apart remains very much part of his everyday life. "You could say that my movies are a way of coping with the (aftermath) of the war," the 40-year-old told AFP in Los Angeles this week as he discussed his latest drama, "The Journey." "To me, the people of Iraq have not grieved, they have not come to terms with what happened... and I felt that maybe this is how my film can help and allow people to see themselves on the big screen." The film transports viewers to 2006 -- five minutes before Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein died by hanging at dawn, Daradji says -- and introduces a female suicide bomber planning an attack during the reopening of the Baghdad train station. Within the confines of the station, where the drama unfolds, Daradji ... More
Novelist Sir Kazuo Ishiguro to be awarded Bodley Medal
OXFORD.- The Bodleian Libraries will present novelist Sir Kazuo Ishiguro with the Bodley Medal, the Libraries highest honour. Sir Kazuo will receive the award at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival on 3 April 2019, when he will deliver the annual Bodley Lecture. Sir Kazuo is an award-winning British novelist, screenwriter, short story writer and songwriter. He is widely considered one of the greatest contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight works of fiction have earned him many awards and honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature (2017) and the Booker Prize (1989). His work has been translated into more than 50 languages. His novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were made into acclaimed films. Sir Kazuo ... More
David Shrigley creates print to help fund Brighton Dome Building
BRIGHTON.- The Turner Prize-nominated visual artist David Shrigley has created a personalised artwork to help raise funds for the Brighton Domes refurbishment project. The artwork, 'Certificate of Human Status', features Shrigleys distinctive satirical style and names the recipient as a human being and a member of the human race. The limited edition A4 prints have been screen printed by hand at The Private Press studio in Brighton and are available to buy online for £195 (plus delivery). Each print will be personalised, signed and numbered by the artist. David Shrigley explained how he got involved: As a Brighton resident, it was an honour to be the Guest Director at this years Brighton Festival and I had the opportunity to find out more about the exciting redevelopment of the Brighton Dome venues. I think its crucial that Brighton Dome is able to provide spaces to help supp ... More
Christie's announces highlights of the Design and Masterpieces in Glass sales
NEW YORK, NY.- This December Christies New York presents two sales, Masterpieces in Glass: The Nakamoto Collection and the various owner Design auction, both taking place on December 13. A major highlight of the season is a rare and important Tiffany Studios Pond Lily Table Lamp from 1903 ($1,800,000-2,500,000) offered in the Design sale. An exceedingly rare form with an elaborate and rich glass selection, this lamp is one of Tiffanys most impressive designs. A lamp of this caliber has not been on the market since 1997 when the Pink Lotus lamp achieved a world record price of $2.8 million at Christies. Other highlights include iconic works by important designers such as two rare and important Femmes Ailées sculptures by René Lalique (each $500,000-700,000) that were created for the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, a ... More
1912 Boston Red Sox World Series jewelry passed down for generations headlines Grey Flannel auction
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.- Sports memorabilia collectors know the season has changed as the weather begins to cool down and Grey Flannel Auctions announces their holiday auction. That time has come, with almost 850 generously illustrated, premium-quality lots now available to peruse and bid on through December 19 at www.GreyFlannelAuctions.com. All major sports are represented, as well as US presidential documents with an uncompromising emphasis on provenance, authenticity and rarity. Opening the sale is a beautiful, all-original 1954 flannel jersey worn by Yankee icon Mickey Mantle, with attribution to the 1953 World Series. Mantle first established his reputation for dominance in the 53 Fall Classic, hitting two home runs (including a grand slam) and posting seven RBI in the six-game series. The jersey offered by Grey Flannel is autographed by the Yankee ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter and photographer Alexander Rodchenko died December 04, 1956. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. In this image: A Tate Modern staff looks over the works of Aleksander Rodchenko's (1891-1956), 'Composition no.50, 1918, (L) and Liubov Popova's' (1889-1924), ' Painterly Architectonic' (R) at the Rodchenko and Popova - Defining Constructivism exhibit at the Tate Modern in London, Britain, 10 February 2009. Arguably two of Russia's most influential and important artists, Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Liubov Popova (1889-1924), Defining Constructivism explored the work of these two great artists from 1917 to 1925.
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