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Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller, 670 / 671 lounge chair and ottoman, leather, rosewood, aluminum, rubber. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Sunday, October 6, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will hold its fall Interiors auction with almost 700 lots of fine and decorative artworks, sculpture, early 20th century and modern furniture, art pottery, lighting, and more. While the range of material available will be similar to Toomey & Co.s signature Art & Design auction, Interiors is distinguished by generally lower estimate ranges, which allow collectors and decorators of any experience level greater access to desirable items. During the Interiors auction, some of the notable works up for bid in Fine Art will be (with estimates): an Aaron Bohrod gouache ($1,500-2,500); a Bert Stern photograph of Marilyn Monroe ($700-900); a LeRoy Neiman drawing ($300-500); an After Alexander Calder lithograph ($200-300); a Roy Lichtenstein triptych panel ($300-500); an After Andy Warhol color screenprint ($2,000-3,000); a Fernand Léger lithograph ($100-200); a Rembrandt etching on laid pap ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Contemporary British artist Lucy Sparrow poses with items from her latest art installation titled 'Lucy Sparrow's Delicatessen on 6th' at Rockefeller Center on September 30, 2019 in New York City. This is Sparrow's sixth installation in her felt shop series, which resembles a New York City upscale deli, with every single one of the items, from cheese to fish, chocolate to fruit handmade out of felt. Angela Weiss / AFP
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| | Pace presents Song Dong At 6 Burlington Gardens | | Exhibition brings to light new, ground-breaking research into the work of Paul Cezanne | | M&L Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Max Ernst |
Installation view. Photo: Damian Griffiths.
LONDON.- Conceived as a survey exhibition, this is the artists first opportunity to present significant works from 1995 to the present day in the UK. The exhibition will be on view at 6 Burlington Gardens from 1 October to 5 November and will coincide with both Frieze Art Fair and Asian Art in London. The opening week of the exhibition will feature a site-specific installation and interactive performance of Eating the City (2019), in which visitors are invited to consume the installation itself. "The purpose of my work is for the city I build to be destroyed As cities in Asia grow, old quarter and buildings are knocked down and new ones built, almost every day. Some cities have even been built from scratch in twenty years My sweet city will be built of biscuits and candies, making it tempting and delicious. I call these candies gorgeous poisons. Being pleasurably tasty but harmful of overeating, their features correspond to some of the ... More | |
Paul Cezanne, Route avec arbres sur une pente, c. 1904. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 18 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (47.8 x 31.7 cm.) Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Beyeler Collection. Photo: Robert Bayer.
LONDON.- Luxembourg & Dayan, London, announced Reconstructing Cezanne: Sequence and Process in Paul Cezannes Works on Paper, opening 2 October 2019. The exhibition brings to light new, ground-breaking research into the work of one of Modernisms greatest masters, based on close examination of the DNA makeup that constitutes the papers he used for his watercolours and drawings. Reconstructing Cezanne is organised in collaboration with scholar and curator Fabienne Ruppen from the University of Zurich. Ruppens innovative research methods into paper affinities paint a new picture of Cezannes working process, his choice of subjects, the development of his style and the distribution of his oeuvre into genres. Cezanne produced approximately 2,100 ... More | |
Floral, 1968. Oil, watercolor and collage on paper, 33,5 x 25,7 cm (13 3/16 x 10 1/8 in.) signed »max ernst« lower right.
LONDON.- M&L Fine Art presents 'Max Ernst: An Invitation to Look', a survey exhibition dedicated to Max Ernst (1891 1976), a giant of twentieth-century art and leading Surrealist artist. The show features fifteen works from an exceptional private collection, covering Ernsts entire career and spanning from 1925 to 1971. The works were acquired largely in the1950s and 1960s by a prominent Italian collector and close friend of the artist. Characterized by its personal, domestic and intimate character, this body of works exemplifies Ernsts belief that the artist should be a diver into subterranean depths, probing the mysteries of the unconscious and the imagination. Unseen in public for two decades, the works on display come from key periods of Max Ernsts career and have appeared in the some of the most important exhibitions of the artists ... More |
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| | Tornabuoni Art London opens an exhibition of works by Alighiero Boetti | | Sotheby's announces highlights included in the Sale of 20th Century Art / Middle East | | Jeff Koons 'saddened' by French resistance to his giant tulips |
Senza titolo (Tuffatori). Mixed media and spray paint on paper laid on canvas, 77 x 56 cm. 30,31 x 22,04 inches.
LONDON.- Alighiero Boettis works on paper provide illuminating glimpses into the secret world of the artist. From the playful to the provocative, doodle to drawing, Boettis graphic work takes the viewer to the heart of the artists obsession with creating codes, games and rules. For him, art was a game for everyone to play and the role of the artist was to set the rules. The first Post-War Italian artist to be given a solo show at Tate Modern, London (Game Plan in 2012, which travelled to MoMA New York), Boettis playful conceptualism, humour and wordplay resonates with London audiences. Paper is the constant thread that ties much of Boettis work together, from his sketches to his museum-quality pieces. Alighiero Boetti: Decoding His Universe, at Tornabuoni Art London, presents over 30 works on paper by the artist that span his entire career and range in scale ... More | |
Ali Banisadr, Stardust, oil on linen, 2011 (est. £280,000-350,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Painted in 1936 by Mahmoud Saïd, Après la Pluie is set to make its auction debut the most impressive example of Saïds landscapes ever to appear at auction. An erudite, travelled artist, Saïd brought together elements from the European art movements from sixteenth-century Venetian Old Masters to Cézannes radical post-Impressionist explorations of geometry while remaining anchored in an authentic understanding of Egypt, capturing the Egyptian spirit during a time of intellectual renaissance. The late 1930s marked the pinnacle of Saïds accomplished output, named the Amarna period as he moved to a style that embodied Ancient Egypt. This enchanting scene depicts a sleepy countryside village, which became the ever-present background to all the paintings of this period. The canvas is at once both light and dark, capturing the complexities of light to illustrate the depth of a sky as ... More | |
This file photo taken on November 06, 2012 shows the artist Jeff Koons poses with his sculpture "Tulips, 1995-2004" in New York City. Jamie McCarthy / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- American pop artist Jeff Koons said Tuesday he was "saddened" by the negative reaction in France to a controversial sculpture he had gifted to Paris after the 2015 terror attacks on the city. Koons' 12-metre (39-foot) tall "Bouquet of Tulips" will be inaugurated Friday at a site near the Petit Palais museum that is partly obscured from view by trees, ending a four-year row over its location. It features a hand holding a huge bunch of multicoloured tulips, a gesture intended to mimic how the figure in the Statue of Liberty grasps her torch. Koons created the monumental bouquet after being asked to come up with a work symbolising America's solidarity with France in the wake of the Paris attacks, which left 130 people dead. But the proposed site of the work -- outside the Palais de Tokyo contemporary art ... More |
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| | Doyle announces sale of American Paintings, Furniture & Decorative Arts | | Mark Bradford's first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth opens in London | | Global opera legend Jessye Norman dies at 74: family |
Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Scene in the Catskills, circa 1830-40s (detail). Est. $30,000-50,000
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle's auction on Tuesday, October 8 at 10am will showcase American paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries, including fine examples of portraiture; Hudson River, Western and regional landscapes; marine paintings and still lifes. Also featured are furniture, silver, ceramics, mirrors and folk art and rugs, as well as Audubon, Currier & Ives and topographical prints. Property from the Metropolitan Museum of Art features a circa 1806 portrait by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) of William Eustis (1753-1825), the Massachusetts surgeon, politician and statesman (est. $12,000-18,000). Also from the collection of the Met is an 1891 landscape of the Catskills by John Casilear (1811-1893), a late work and the subject for which he is best known (est. $15,000-25,000). From a different consignor is circa 1830/40s view of the Catskills by Thomas Cole (1801-1848), who is recognized ... More | |
Mark Bradford, Dancing in the Street, 2019. Video, 2 mins, 50 sec. © Mark Bradford. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- Cerberus is Mark Bradfords first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London and extends across the entirety of the gallerys spaces. The exhibition of new work, including the film Dancing in the Street (2019), sees Bradford return to ancient mythology, a consistent source of inspiration for the artist. Specifically, he now engages the many headed dog guarding the entryway to Hades, Cerberus. It is a particularly resonant metaphor for Bradford, who has always been fascinated by interstitial spaces and figures. In fact, of the relationship between his art and his community engagement, Bradford has often declared his imperative to have one foot firmly planted in each. Cerberus is an exhibition dedicated to places difficult and in-between, where conflicts arise, but also where the hope of resolution is to be found. Fundamental to these works is a process of layering. Just as the ... More | |
In this file photo taken on October 03, 2002 la soprano américaine Jessye Norman se produit au théâtre du Châtelet à Paris. Opera singer Jessye Norman has died at 74, family announces on September 30, 2019. Pierre-Franck COLOMBIER / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Superstar singer Jessye Norman, an American soprano who showcased her majestic yet intimate voice at opera houses and orchestras around the world, died Monday, her family said. She was 74 years old. One of the contemporary era's most revered opera singers, the Grammy-winner died "surrounded by loved ones" at a New York hospital due to septic shock and multi-organ failure, the result of complications from a spinal cord injury sustained in 2015, according to a statement obtained by AFP via a spokeswoman. "We are so proud of Jessye's musical achievements and the inspiration that she provided to audiences around the world that will continue to be a source of joy," said her family. Born September 15, 1945 in Augusta, Georgia, Norman grew up surrounded by music as one of five ... More |
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| | The Walker Art Center names Henriette Huldisch as Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs | | Renia Spiegel, 'Poland's Anne Frank', gets her due | | New approach to the Aberdeen Art Gallery permanent collection revealed |
Huldisch is currently Director of Exhibitions and Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where she has worked since 2014. Photo: Liz Larner.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center announced today that Henriette Huldisch will be its next Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. Huldisch is currently Director of Exhibitions and Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where she has worked since 2014. Walker Executive Director Mary Ceruti stated, "Henriette has an interdisciplinary perspective, deep knowledge and experience working with living artists. She will provide excellent leadership for our curators as we develop creative, experimental programming that both builds on the Walker's collection and is responsive to our communities." At the List Center, Huldisch organized the group exhibitions Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 (2018) and An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art ... More | |
An archival photograph handed by relatives shows Renia Spiegel smiling in her southern Polish town of Przemysl at the age of 18 in 1942. FAMILY HANDOUT / ARCHIVE ELIZABETH BELLAK / AFP.
WARSAW (AFP).- Barely a year after celebrating her first kiss, wartime Jewish teenager Renia Spiegel took to her diary in June 1942 to pray for her life. The Nazi Germans had just killed all the Jews in one district of her southern Polish town of Przemysl, requiring many to dig their own graves. "Wherever I look, there is bloodshed. Such terrible pogroms. There is killing, murdering," Spiegel wrote on June 7. "God Almighty, for the umpteenth time I humble myself in front of You, help us, save us! Lord God, let us live, I beg You, I want to live!" A month and a half later, the 18-year-old's boyfriend Zygmunt Schwarzer, who although Jewish too had a work permit saving him from immediate deportation, hid her and his parents in an attic outside the Jewish ghetto. But an informant gave them away. Schwarzer reported her ... More | |
The new Gallery 19 changing exhibition space, part of the BP Galleries on the stunning new second floor. Image: Grant Anderson on behalf of Abzolutely
ABERDEEN.- With less than five weeks to go until the re-opening, a dynamic new approach to Aberdeen Art Gallerys permanent collection galleries has been revealed. Aberdeen Art Gallery is home to one of the finest collections in the UK, including works by important Scottish artists, designers and makers such as Henry Raeburn, Joan Eardley, Samuel Peploe, Rachel McLean, Bill Gibb and James Cromar Watt, as well as nationally and internationally-acclaimed artists including Barbara Hepworth, Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin and Claude Monet. The redevelopment has dramatically increased the amount of display space for the Nationally-Recognised Collection, with the number of galleries increasing from 11 to 19, with a further three galleries presenting a programme of regularly-changing special exhibitions. The number of items from the permanent collection on display has increased from ... More |
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The Korean Cultural Centre UK opens a new exhibition from the Real DMZ Project
LONDON.- The Korean Cultural Centre UK, London presents Negotiating Borders, a new exhibition from the Real DMZ Project. Founded in 2012 by curator Sunjung Kim, the Real DMZ Project is an ongoing contemporary art project centred around research conducted on the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea. Confronting the sensitivities, perceptions and realities of a divided peninsula, the exhibition features new commissions and recent works by artists, architects and academics including: Dongsei Kim, Heinkuhn OH, Joung-Ki Min, Jung Heun Kim, Kyong Park, Kyungah Ham, Lee Bul, Minouk Lim, Seung Woo Back, Seung H-Sang, Soyoung Chung, Suntag Noh, Zoh Kyung Jin & Cho Hye Ryeong. Since its establishment in 1953, the DMZ has paradoxically been regarded as one of the world's most heavily militarised areas. With border ... More
El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, the largest ever survey mounted of the work of the acclaimed artist El Anatsui
DOHA.- As the exhibition title suggests, the survey, curated by the late Okwui Enwezor, former Director of Haus der Kunst and Chika Okeke-Agulu, Professor of Art History at the Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University, focuses on the triumphant and monumental quality of Anatsuis sculptures. The exhibition encompasses every medium in the artists prodigious fifty-year career, including the signature bottle-cap series developed over the last two decades, wood sculptures and wall reliefs spanning the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, ceramic sculptures of the late 1970s, as well as drawings, prints and books. Abdellah Karroum, Director, Mathaf, said today: I am proud that Mathaf is hosting this important exhibition, the first major show in the Middle East for El Anatsui, now regarded as one of Africas greatest living artists. This ... More
Tiny Art Show opens its first exhibit in Southern Utah at Southern Utah Museum of Art
CEDAR CITY, UT.- Southern Utah Museum of Art is temporarily known as Southern Utah Museum of Miniature Art as it opens A Very Big Tiny Art Show, in partnership with Tiny Art Show. A Very Big Tiny Art Show is a two-week long pop-up exhibition put on by SUMA and Tiny Art Show, based in Provo, UT. The show features 26 artists from across Utah, showcasing various styles and media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, letterpress and more. All artwork featured in the show is 3-by-3 inches or smaller, encouraging visitors to immerse themselves in a more intimate exploration of art. We are always looking to introduce our visitors to new ways of thinking about art, and we are thrilled to provide them with a different and engaging experience, said Mallory Sanders, head of collections and exhibitions at SUMA. This is the first time SUMA has ... More
Appearance Stripped Bare breaks attendance record at Museo Jumex
MEXICO CITY.- Museo Jumex announced today that the recent exhibition Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and The Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even on view from May 19 through September 29, 2019 attracted more than 440,240 visitors, making it the most well attended show in the museums history and one of the most visited exhibitions of contemporary art in Mexico. Appearance Stripped Bare was the first major exhibition to bring together the work of two legendary artists, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons. Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare featured more than 80 works by Koons and Duchamp drawn from more than 30 collections in Europe and the Americas. The exhibition, one of the most visited shows of contemporary art in Mexico of the was only presented at Museo Jumex. The exhibition's ... More
Powder that wig: Paris fashion goes all 18th century
PARIS (AFP).- Dries Van Noten and Christian Lacroix channelled "Barry Lyndon", Andreas Kronthaler and Vivienne Westwood Mozart, and on Sunday US designer Thom Browne went potty for Madame de Pompadour. With designers' falling out of love with streetwear, Paris fashion week has gone nuts for the 18th century. Even streetwear's main man, the American Virgil Abloh, rolled his clock back this week putting Gigi Hadid in a trailing pink puffball gown and another model in a zipped raincoat worn like a cape. He was not alone. Crinolines and feather-light side hoops turned up in Jonathan Anderson's Loewe show almost as if they were leisurewear. "If I had a perfumed handkerchief, I would be waving it right now," quipped one adoring critic at the end of the Thom Browne show, as a posse of Pompidours in veiled skyscraper Versailles wigs promenaded ... More
In Syria's Aleppo, reconstruction makes slow start
ALEPPO.- Among the destroyed buildings of Syria's Aleppo, a battered sign between two army checkpoints welcomes visitors to an area earmarked to become a beacon of post-war reconstruction. "The industrial city of Aleppo thanks you for your visit," it reads. Once the country's powerhouse, Aleppo was devastated by Syria's ongoing civil war before Russia-backed government forces expelled the last rebels in late 2016 after a devastating siege. As some of the city is slowly rebuilt, the Russian army this week showed reporters around, as Moscow seeks to highlight its role in reconstruction of the war-torn country. Several factories have reopened in the almost three years since the fighting ended in Aleppo, large parts of which were flattened. At Katerji Engineering and Mechanical Industries, 1,000 people are employed in metalworking jobs. About a fifth ... More
Rubell Museum announces inaugural installation for its new campus
MIAMI, FLA.- The Rubell Museum today announced that its new campus will open on December 4, 2019 with a museum-wide installation of works that chronicle key artists, moments, and movements in vital arts centers over the past 50 years, from the East Village to Beijing, Los Angeles to Leipzig, and São Paulo to Tokyo. The inaugural exhibition encompasses more than 300 works by 100 artists, providing one of the most far-ranging museum exhibitions of contemporary art ever presented. Drawn entirely from their expansive collection of over 7,200 works by more than 1,000 artists, the exhibition features defining and seminal works by artists whom the Rubells championed as they were first emerging (often becoming the first collectors to acquire their work) and those who had been overlooked. The new Rubell Museum is located in the Allapattah neighborhood ... More
Director and President of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History, Edward L. Deci, announces retirement
MONHEGAN ISLAND, ME.- Edward L. Deci, the Director and President of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History, announces his retirement after 36 years in key leadership roles at the museum. Today will be Decis last day as Director, but he will continue to play an integral role at the museum as the President of the Board of Trustees. The museums Chief Curator, Jennifer Pye, and Robert Stahl, Associate Director and Director of the James Fitzgerald Legacy, will take over as co-Directors of the museum. In 1983, Edward L. Deci became a trustee of the Monhegan Associates, the islands land trust, which at the time owned the Monhegan Museum, which had an annual budget of $200. Deci was instrumental in leading the formation of the museum as a separate new nonprofit organization, which later became the Monhegan Museum of Art & History. Deci was then elected both Director ... More
Princeton University Art Museum appoints Sally Bickerton as Associate Director for Museum Development
PRINCETON, NJ.- Sally Bickerton has been named associate director for development at the Princeton University Art Museum. A seasoned fundraising professional, Bickerton has more than 20 years of non-profit arts management experience in museums, higher education institutions and community arts organizations. Bickerton joins the Museum from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, California, where she has served for the last five years as director of leadership gifts. She begins her new position at Princeton Nov. 1, 2019. Bickerton joins the Museum at an exceptional time of growth, including a new facility being designed by Sir David Adjaye which is slated to begin construction in 2021. The new building will provide dramatically enhanced spaces for collections display, temporary exhibitions, collections study, education and public ... More
Ben Brown Fine Arts opens its first exhibition with Puerto Rican-American artist Enoc Perez
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts presents Enoc Perez: The Cinematic Self, the gallerys first exhibition with Puerto Rican-American artist Enoc Perez. This is Perezs first exhibition in the UK in over ten years and features new and recent artworks from his evocative series of interiors paintings. Born in 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Perez moved to New York in the 1980s to start his studies at the prestigious Pratt Institute. Fascinated by the city and its quintessential artists, Perez developed a distinct artistic vocabulary using architecture and spaces as a lens through which to examine symbols of power, identity, and aesthetics, both national and personal. He became known for his paintings of iconic utopian architecture, including those of American embassies around the world, and post-war American landmarks, his most celebrated work to date. The Cinematic Self ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Richard Avedon died October 01, 2004. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century." IN this image: Amon Carter Museum Senior Curator of Photographs John Rohrbach points to a Richard Avedon photograph of Boyd Fortin, Friday, Sept. 9, 2005, in Fort Worth, Texas. The photo is part of the "In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon" exhibit.
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