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Group of Chinese Export Wallpaper Panels, Estimate $2,000-4,000 in The Collection of Mario Buatta - Day 2 Auction on March 14.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following on the huge success of Sothebys Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors auction, Stair of Hudson, New York, presents a series of three sales with online bidding on Bidsquare comprising of additional property from the Collection of Mario Buatta. Highlights include an extensive collection of porcelain, painted furniture, dog portraits, English furniture and botanical engravings among a myriad of decorative items all in Buattas iconic style. The first sale, The Collection of Mario Buatta will take place March 13-14. Bidsquare is anticipating high online bidding activity for the sale to compete with those attending the auction in person. Pre-registration was open exclusively on Bidsquare and registrations to bid online are already flowing in. With the digital catalogs, live bidders can browse the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Spanish artist Dora GarcÃa (b. Valladolid, 1965) focuses on her work of the recent years to open new platforms of analysis, reflection and visibility. Through a practice that prioritizes the use of performance in a participative manner, GarcÃa will transform the Lois Foster Gallery into a living platform to investigate the relationship between audience, architecture and artistic work.The exhibition is on view at the Rose Art Museum through May 17, 2020
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| | Exhibition focuses on a significant period in George Stubbs' career | | 'Body art' pioneer Ulay dies at 76 | | Jan Van Eyck's diamond-hard brilliance, as you'll never see it again |
The life-sized portrait of Whistlejacket is on view in the exhibition.
THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis is presenting an exhibition about Englands most celebrated horse painter: George Stubbs (1724-1806). This artist established his reputation with exceptional compositions of horses, which he painted in an lifelike fashion that was unprecedented. An in-depth study of the horses anatomy, for which the artist dissected the animals himself, laid the foundations for his success. The exhibition George Stubbs The man, the horse, the obsession brings together 13 paintings, 10 anatomical drawings and the skeleton of the most famous racehorse of all time: Eclipse. The extraordinary highlight of the exhibition is the enormous (2.92 x 2.46cm) portrait of the racehorse Whistlejacket of 1762: an iconic work in which Stubbs painted the horse against an entirely empty background. This is the first time that this masterpiece from The National Gallery in London has travelled to mainland Europe. The exhibition ... More | |
In this file photo taken on March 9, 2010 in New-York, German conceptual artist Ulay Ulay attends the "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present" exhibition opening night party at The Museum of Modern Art. Andrew H. Walker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LJUBLJANA (AFP).- German conceptual artist Ulay, a pioneer of "body art" performances, has died, the Ljubljana-based Ulay Foundation announced Monday on its Facebook page. He was 76. "It is with our immense sadness that we write to inform you of the passing of one of the greatest artists of our time, the pioneer of Polaroid photography, the father of performance art, the most radical, the one and only, ULAY, who has left for another journey," the announcement read. Ulay, whose full name was Frank Uwe Laysiepen, was born in 1943 in Germany and won international recognition in the early 70s experimenting with Polaroid pictures and later while collaborating for 12 years in performances with his then partner Marina Abramovic. They ... More | |
People at the unveiling ceremony of the The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent Altarpiece at St. Bavos Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. Gael Turine/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
GHENT (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- God is in the details, they assure you; but some art is so jam-packed with details, each hair so fine, each fold so painstaking, that it surpasses even the divine. Nearly six centuries ago here, the painter Jan van Eyck used a brand-new technology oil paint to pioneer an art of such precision that it almost negated its religious function, and went past inspiring prayer to become something eternal itself. Still today, for secular audiences, his diamond-hard paintings can appear to come from another world. Some artists inspire you. Van Eyck leaves you stupefied. And Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution, the largest exhibition ever of painting by this superman of the early Renaissance, which now fills the ... More |
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| | Jay Fisher to retire from Baltimore Museum of Art after 45 years in curatorial roles | | Paris's Louvre museum shuttered for second day over staff coronavirus fears | | Engaged visitors, high quality presentations defined 2020 edition of The Art Show |
Jay McKean Fisher. Photo: Howard Korn.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today that Jay McKean Fisher, one of the BMAs longest-serving curators and the inaugural director of the museums Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies, has decided to retire on March 31, 2020 after 45 years at the institution. As of April 1, he will be named the Emeritus Senior Curator for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. During his tenure at the BMA, Fisher shepherded numerous acquisitions for the museums collection, including the George A. Lucas Collection of 19th-century French art, the Gallagher/Dalsheimer collection of American photography, and hundreds of works on paper by Henri Matisse from the Marguerite Matisse Duthuit Collection and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Fisher has also organized many of the BMAs most important and celebrated exhibitions, including Matisse: Painter as Sculptor (2007); Photographs, Drawings, and Collages by ... More | |
A view of the deserted court yard outside the closed Pyramid, the main entrance to the Louvre museum which was once a royal residence, located in central in Paris on March 2, 2020. Ludovic Marin / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum, was closed for a second day running on Monday after staff again refused to work due to coronavirus fears, a union said. The Paris museum insisted that closure was not necessary in response to fears over the virus, which has spread to over 60 countries after first emerging in China late last year. Staff voted Monday at a meeting, as they had on Sunday, to exercise their legal right not to work due a threat to their life or health, Christian Galani, a staff representative at the Louvre and member of the CGT union, told AFP. A committee on working conditions at the Louvre will meet this afternoon to decide the further course of action. In a statement on its official Twitter account, the Louvre said: "The museum cannot open at the moment." It offered a refund for tickets bought in ... More | |
James Welling, Kusama, 2014 (detail), Inkjet print, 42 x 63 inches. Edition 1 of 5, 2 AP, Signed, titled, dated, and numbered verso, © James Welling. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to benefit Henry Street Settlement, closed its 2020 edition on Sunday with an outstanding response from ADAA members, collectors, museum leaders, and visitors, who expressed enthusiasm for the fairs high quality, curated presentations, and distinctly intimate and accessible scale. Mounted annually at the Park Avenue Armory by the ADAA, a nonprofit membership organization of the leading art dealers from around the country, The Art Show saw strong attendance in 2020, including major collectors, museum leadership, and patron groups every day of the fair. Kicking off the spring art season in New York, The Art Show opened with the annual Gala Preview on Wednesday, February 26, welcoming some of the nations top collectors, museum ... More |
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| | Simon Lee Gallery opens a solo exhibition of new works by Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca | | Swann Galleries celebrate Belle Epoque beauties immortalised by artist who inspired Coco Chanel | | Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet and revolutionary, dies at 95 |
Installation view of WET SLIT at Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting WET SLIT, a solo exhibition of new works by Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca. This is Huancas debut exhibition with the gallery and her first solo show in London since SCAR CYMBALS, her 2016 commission at the Zabludowicz Collection. Incorporating painting, sculpture, sound and scent, Huancas site-specific installation immerses viewers in a total environment which synthesises her unique aesthetic with a politics of the body as it relates to space and temporality. Huancas practice draws particular attention to the skin as the complex interface via which we experience the world around us. Her skin paintings layered on magnified cross-sections of her models painted figures photographed during performance refer directly to the body. During the artistic process, she layers colours and forms with paint on her models, ... More | |
Paul César Helleus society portraits, which captured the spirit of the times with his delicate and detailed portrayals, come to auction. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries celebrates the Belle Epoque on March 5 with a series of exquisite portraits of society women and girls by a master of the genre, the French artist Paul César Helleu. The half-dozen colour drypoint etchings, which include one of the artists daughter Paulette, all date to around 1900 and are expected to fetch prices ranging from $1,800 to $3,500 each in the 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings auction. Helleu was a close friend of the American Society portrait painter John Singer Sargent and an acquaintance of Whistler; Sargents swagger portraits of society figures were the talk of the Edwardian era and clearly influenced his French friend, who mastered the drypoint etching technique before going on to capture figures as distinguished as the ... More | |
Ernesto Cardenal at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Dec. 13, 2014. Cardenal, one of Latin Americas most admired poets and priests, who defied the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s by serving in the revolutionary Sandinista government of Nicaragua, died on March 1, 2020, in Managua, Nicaragua. He was 95. Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Rev. Ernesto Cardenal, one of Latin Americas most admired poets and priests, who defied the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s by serving in the revolutionary Sandinista government of Nicaragua, died Sunday in Managua, Nicaragua. He was 95. His personal assistant, Luz Marina Acosta, confirmed his death to The Associated Press. Born to a wealthy Nicaraguan family, Cardenal became a prominent intellectual voice of the Nicaraguan revolution and an ardent proponent of liberation theology, a Christian movement rooted in Marxist principles and committed to social justice and uplifting the ... More |
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| | Casino Luxembourg opens exhibitions of works by Rachel Maclean, Ben Wheele, and Sophie Jung | | 'Inside the Actors Studio' host James Lipton dies aged 93 | | Norton Museum of Art awards Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers to Kristin-Lee Moolman |
Deep | Dark | Dank is an immersive installation by artist Ben Wheele. © Ben Wheele.
LUXEMBOURG.- Im Terribly Sorry is a virtual reality video set in a dystopian British urban landscape filled with oversized Union Jack-emblazoned tourist merchandise. Several privileged city dwellers approach the user, each of whom has a large smartphone for a head. Initially benign and apologetic, they tell convoluted stories and attempt to elicit money, with their protestations soon becoming more sinister, finally leading to a bloody tragedy... or not. Apology or criticism of the gratuitous violence of video games? The artists deadpan cynicism towards Brexit? The interpretations will not fail to sprout. Curator: Kevin Muhlen Im Terribly Sorry, 2018 / Produced in collaboration with Werkflow / Commissioned by Zabludowiz collection in partnership with Arsenal Contemporary. Exhibition realised with the support of VIVE. Alongside of the exhibition Im Terribly Sorry, Rachel Maclean invites the artist Ben Wheele for a presentation of Deep | Dark | Dank. Deep | Dark | Dank is an im ... More | |
In this file photo taken on September 8, 2017, James Lipton attends day 1 of the 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 9, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. James Lipton, died on March 2, 2020 at his home in Manhattan, he was 93. Neilson Barnard / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- James Lipton, the US actor-turned-academic who for decades interviewed Hollywood's biggest A-listers as host of "Inside the Actors Studio," has died at 93, the show's network said Monday. Lipton hosted the influential show for nearly 25 years, conducting hour-long interviews with silver-screen legends from Paul Newman and Dennis Hopper to Julia Roberts and Scarlett Johansson. "Beloved Inside the #ActorsStudio host James Lipton has died at 93," tweeted Ovation TV, an arts network that acquired the show last year when Lipton retired. Lipton passed away Monday at his New York home following a battle with bladder cancer, his wife Kedakai Mercedes Lipton told The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times. The show was conceived as part of a program ... More | |
Headshot of Kristin-Lee Moolman. Courtesy of the artist.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art has announced that Kristin-Lee Moolman has been awarded the Museums biennial Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers. Launched in 2012 by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Tim B. Wride, the museums William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography, the Rudin Prize celebrates under-recognized photographers who are creating work that pushes the boundaries of the medium. Nominees are proposed by a panel of internationally renowned artists, and the winner is selected by members of the Museum staff and Photography Committee. The $20,000 prize is sponsored by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation. Moolman was nominated by Cindy Sherman, and received the honor on Saturday, February 29 at a private luncheon at the Museum. Moolman is the fourth artist to win; she was preceded by Elizabeth Bick, nominated by Shirin Neshat (2016); Rami ... More |
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The W.E. Berry auction at Ewbank's took three times its highest estimate of £55,000
LONDON.- The W.E. Berry auction at Ewbanks took three times its highest estimate of £55,000 when the 396 lots sold for £165,000 on February 28. Top lot was the artwork for the 1950s horror film, Creature From the Black Lagoon, which sold for £22,000 against a £2,000-4,000 estimate guide way behind to sell at £22,000. The sale saw original artwork for films and well-known circuses dispersed. Bertram Mills, Billy Smarts and Chipperfields all featured. Such was the competition for lots that the sale last for seven hours. Other highlights included artwork for the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers, which sold for £8,000 against hopes of £1,000-1,500 and The Titfield Thunderbolt, another Ealing comedy, which took £1,900 against an estimate of £800-1,200. The 1922 silent film, Travelin On, a Western with artwork pitched at £150-250, saw it rise ... More
Union official resigns over handling of Plácido Domingo inquiry
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- An officer of the union representing American opera performers resigned on Monday, citing concerns that the union had kept details of its sexual harassment investigation of opera star Plácido Domingo confidential as part of negotiations for a $500,000 settlement from him. This is a quid pro quo silence in exchange for money, Samuel Schultz, the fifth vice president of the union, the American Guild of Musical Artists, wrote in his resignation letter. Leonard Egert, the unions national executive director, denied the allegation. We at AGMA never were going to publicly release the details of the investigators report, he said. And the reason for that is important: The witnesses who came forward expressly conditioned their participation in the investigation on keeping their anonymity. But Egert acknowledged that the public ... More
Rachel Parikh appointed Asian Art Curator at Worcester Art Museum
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum today announced the appointment of Rachel Parikh as its new Assistant Curator of Asian Art. Parikh comes to WAM from the Harvard Art Museums where she served as the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian art from 2016 until 2019. She has also held curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of Arms and Armor and the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Asian Art. As Assistant Curator of Asian Art at WAM, Parikhs responsibilities include developing a vibrant exhibition program, building on the Museums holdings with new acquisitions, and rethinking the narrative of WAMs permanent collection galleries. Parikhs appointment was effective February 18, 2020. Parikh ... More
Modern Art opens a solo exhibition of new paintings by Tim Stoner
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings by Tim Stoner entitled Al-Andalus. This is his third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition consists of new large-scale paintings made in reference to the environment and history of Ronda, a village in AndalucÃa, southern Spain, where Stoner lives and works. Al-Andalus was the name given to the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. The terrain around the city of Ronda reflects the layered and disparate history of cultural and religious influences exerted on the region over centuries, echoed in the style of the architecture and ruins of the area, with villages perched on the edge of dramatic cliffs, amid wide plateaus and arid countryside. Conceived from a multitude of drawings and works on paper, Stoner approaches his paintings as palimpsests, with some of the scenes ... More
Poster Auctions International's 80th Rare Posters Auction earns $1.9M
NEW YORK, NY.- Poster Auctions Internationals first sale of the year, on February 23rd, finished at $1.9 million in sales. Auction LXXX demonstrated fervent passion for posters of all eras and styles. Jack Rennert, President of PAI, was thrilled with bidders avid interest in a wide range of works. Works by Alphonse Mucha and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are always highly sought-after, as exhibited in this auctions record sales for designs by these artists, Mr. Rennert said. But we were pleasantly surprised to see a similarly impassioned interest in lesser known works, including posters that we have never had at auction before. Muchas enduring esteem reached a fever pitch with his incredibly rareand incredibly opulentPrecious Stones from 1902. The four decorative panels each personify a different gemstone, and this larger format version is exceedingly scarce: only three or four full ... More
Nye & Company Auctioneers' Pop-Up Fine Art Auction slated for March 11
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Following the success of Fashion Week in New York, London and Paris, Nye & Company is taking a page out of the fashion world and has created a Pop-Up Fine Art and Sculpture auction planned for Wednesday, March 11th, online and in the firms gallery at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. starting at 10 am Eastern time. The sale is officially titled a Pop-Up Fine Art Auction. The auction will begin promptly at 10 am Eastern time. Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The catalog has also been posted to the Nye & Company website. We are excited to take a page out of the fashion world and offer this unexpected pop-up auction said Andrew Holter of Nye & Company Auctioneers. Walking the streets of New York, London and Paris you will undoubtedly find a pop up shop of exciting and trend ... More
Leo Fitzmaurice's third solo show at The Sunday Painter opens in London
LONDON.- The Sunday Painter is presenting Autosuggestions, Leo Fitzmaurices third solo show at the gallery. Fitzmaurices practice is grounded in a process of roaming and observation, appropriating existing languages, focusing on the overlooked and the ubiquitous. Autosuggestions is part of the ongoing series of works tilted Autos, which as per many of Fitzmaurices sculptures take the form of a single transformation applied to a series of found objects. In this case Fitzmaurice scours his local Liverpool scrapyards to source a generational and global mix of cars, ranging from a 1956 Chevrolet to a 2011 Porsche. Once the cars have been selected, the bonnet, headlights and bumper are cleaved from the rest of the vehicle, followed by the final transformative act of Fitzmaurice removing the mid section of the bonnet and bringing the headlights ... More
The Met Opera's 'Dutchman' sails into port with a new star
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At a rehearsal one recent afternoon, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra was roaring out the final scene of Wagners Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), which opens Monday, the first new Met production of the work in more than 30 years. A mans shadow, projected onto a screen at the back of the stage, stood several stories high behind the action. Watching it, it was hard not to think of another giant looming over this production, even in absentia: the commanding Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who had been scheduled to return to the Met for the first time in eight years to sing the title role in Wagners early, torrid Romantic masterpiece. Then, late in January, while appearing as the Dutchman in Spain, Terfel fell and fractured his ankle. Unfortunately Ive been around long enough that Im ... More
You can tell a book by its cover in this exhibition at the Grolier Club
NEW YORK, NY.- A Design Binding is a singularly-considered and beautifully executed book coveringa unique work of art that both evokes the content of the book, and reveals the passion, design sense, and skill of the binder. By applying technique in order to uncover the essence of a book, the binder transforms the book through artistic interpretation. OPEN SET, on public view at the Grolier Club from February 19 to April 25, 2020, is an exhibition based on a competition, the title reflecting the two categories in which binders may competethe OPEN category, in which the artist chooses which book to bind, and the SET category, in which all participants bind the same book. The exhibition features a juried collection of 100 recently-created book covers submitted by artists from around the world, a definitive statement on excellence in fine ... More
MOCA Tucson announces the appointment of new Director and Curator Laura Copelin
TUCSON, AZ.- MOCA Tucson announced the appointment of Laura Copelin as Interim Executive Director and Chief Curator. Laura officially assumed her new role in February and will be responsible for carrying forward MOCAs mission to inspire new ways of thinking through the cultivation, exhibition, and interpretation of contemporary art. I could not be more excited about the addition of Laura Copelin to the MOCA team and Tucsons arts community. Coming from West Texas, Laura has the unique perspective of programming in desert lands along the United States-Mexico border, and her expertise and professionalism come to MOCA at exactly the right time, said Board President Kira Dixon-Weinstein. Lauras background uniquely positions her to expand on the contributions MOCA has made to southern Arizonas art community since the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish painter and sculptor Asger Jorn was born March 03, 1914. Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 - 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen. In this image: Untitled (Figures in a head), ca. 1960/1963. Oil on fiberboard, 19.69 x 27.56 inches 50 x 70 cm.
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