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Stunning 5-inch-tall glazed faience ushabti, inscribed hieroglyphics read For the instruction of Osiris, An-mose, Egyptian, 21st Dynasty, circa 1070 to 943 BCE. Provenance: Acquired in Egypt in late 19th century, passed by descent through Toronto, Canada family. Estimate $16,000-$24,000.
BOULDER, CO.- Authenticity and provenance have always formed the bedrock of Artemis Gallerys auction business. In their lavishly illustrated catalogs, Artemis provides bidders with a virtual history lesson in each of its expertly researched catalog descriptions. A record of former ownership and previous auction appearances is included in all cases where such information is available. This level of provenance is especially important to bidders who participate in Artemis Gallerys premium-level Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic & Fine Art auctions, the next of which is slated for Thursday, October 7, 2021. In this series of upscale auctions, Artemis Gallery presents its very finest offerings of the year, from private and institutional collections. The October 7 lineup shines a spotlight on many of the worlds great cultures by means of the art and objec ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Workers remove the silver-blue fabric that wrapped the Arc de Triomphe, a design by the late artist Christo, as part of the 38th European Heritage Days and the launch of the Cultural Olympiad in Paris, on October 4, 2021. The 50-metre-high Arc de Triomphe in Paris has been wrapped in silvery-blue fabric as a posthumous tribute to Christo, who had dreamt of the project for decades. Bulgarian-born Christo, a longtime Paris resident, had plans for sheathing the imposing war memorial at the top of the Champs-Elysees while renting an apartment near it in the 1960s. Ludovic MARIN / AFP.
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| Art sales rebound to record $2.7 billion | | Warhol's portrait of Basquiat from the collection of Peter Brant highlights Christie's sale | | Discovery at the National Museum of Norway reveals unknown underdrawings in Edvard Munch's Madonna |
A woman looks at an NFT titled "CURIO CARDS (EST. 2017)," a full set of 30 cards plus 17 billion non-fungible tokens, during a press preview September 28, 2021, at Christie's auction house in New York. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
PARIS.- Contemporary art auctions rebounded to an all-time high of $2.7 billion over the last year, boosted by online sales and the arrival of digital art in the form of "NFTs", according to the annual report by Artprice released on Monday. Having seen sales collapse by a third in the previous year because of the initial crisis caused by the pandemic, sales soared between June 2020 and June 2021 as auctioneers quickly adopted a more online approach. "Photography and prints have been particularly successful in this new online environment and in 2021, we have seen the sensational arrival of completely dematerialised artworks, the famous NFTs," said Artprice CEO Thierry Ehrmann in a foreword to the report. NFTs, or "non-fungible tokens", allow people to buy the rights ... More | |
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982 (detail). Estimate upon request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- This November, Christies New York will present Andy Warhols seminal portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat as a leading highlight of its 20th Century Evening Sale (estimate on request; in excess of $20 million). In this 40 x 40 inch painting, Warhol elevates the young Basquiat to his pantheon of cultural icons which includes Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. It also celebrates the remarkable friendship between the two artists, Warhol the established master of Pop Art, and Basquiat, the brash wunderkind of the New York art scene. Thought to be the only example in private hands, this rare and deeply personal work dates from 1982, a period which marked the highpoint of Basquiats painterly authority, and which also saw a bold new inventiveness appear in Warhols work. Both artists, in their own unique ways, redefined the very framework of 20th and 21st century art, and have done much to shape the current cultural l ... More | |
Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1894-95. Photo: Borre Hostland National Museum.
OSLO.- Previously unknown underdrawings have been uncovered in one of Edvard Munchs most famous paintings, Madonna. The discovery was made by conservator Thierry Ford and photographer Børre Høstland at the National Museum of Norway using infrared reflectography, a technique that allows conservators to see underlayers beneath the surface of paintings. Madonna has undergone research and conservation in preparation of going on display in the Munch Room in the National Museums new building, which opens in Oslo 11 June 2022. The painting depicts a woman arching her back, with one arm behind her head and the other behind her back. The underdrawings reveal that Munch attempted a different composition before finally settling with the position of the arms that he used for later Madonna paintings. Edvard Munch painted five similar-sized versions of Madonna between 1894 and 1897. None of the paintings ... More |
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| 'Secret masterpiece' by Claude Lalanne sold in Paris | | Exhibition of Sky Pape's recent work on view at June Kelly Gallery | | Exhibition exposes damage done to the American landscape and environment by the U.S. military and related industries |
Rape of Europa sold yesterday © osenat.
PARIS.- A monumental sculpture by the late French artist Claude Lalanne that sat on the grounds of a school for decades unknown to art lovers has fetched 1.24 million euros ($1.44 million) at auction, blowing past estimates. The sale of "The Rape of Europa" on Sunday was the latest to underscore growing demand for the whimsical yet meticulous works by the French artist who died in 2019, after decades of creations with her artistic partner and husband Francois-Xavier. A two-metre tall work cast in bronze, it depicts the Greek mythology legend of Zeus transformed into a bull to carry off the princess Europa to the island of Crete. Lalanne designed it for the garden at the European Centre for Executive Development (CEDEP), a management school in Fontainebleau south of Paris, not far from her studio in the village of Ury. "It is a rare and major work by Claude Lalanne, of which another cast, owned by the family, is currently shown in the Trianon Parc of the Chateau de Versailles," the couple's lon ... More | |
Sky Pape, When We Collide, 2019. Ink & acrylic gouache on paper, 24" h x 24-1/8" w. Photo: Jean Vong.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anomalies, an exhibition of Sky Papes recent intricate, linear works of ink and paint on paper, is on view at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, New York. Geometry and patterns figure largely in interpretations of the universe through our senses, science, and cultures. Drawing upon such material, Sky Papes Anomalies series features repeating geometric motifs, while holding room for surprises to slip in. Regarding the variations within her organized patterns, Pape notes, Anomalies appear in both natural and constructed systems, and indeed, the tenacity of much life may be credited to the aberrations that some might label flaws. Intentional and serendipitous irregularities in my structured compositions reveal tolerance thresholds for difference or corruption, balancing acts between stability and collapse, and the dance between continuity and uncertainty that pervades our existence. Papes n ... More | |
Alex Webb, American (b. San Francisco 1952), Mine shaft on northside of Treece (Kansas) filled with water and garbage, 2012. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2020.165. © Alex Webb; image courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This fall, the Harvard Art Museums present the special exhibition Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970, a groundbreaking photographic exploration of the impacts of militarism on the American landscape. Featuring approximately 160 photographs by 60 artists, the exhibition reveals the nationwide footprint of the U.S. military, the wide network of industries that support and supply its work, and the consequences ofand responses tothis activity. The photographs on display bear witness to a vast geography of environmental damage: millions of acres of land contaminated by nuclear power plants and weapons manufacturing and testing facilities, locations where military waste is actively ... More |
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| 'I've always been a feminist': Jean-Paul Gaultier becomes curator | | Five emerging Black artists explore their inner lives in INWARD: Reflections on Interiority | | Artcurial to offer a version of the portrait of Mona Lisa in its Old Masters & 19th Century Art |
A view shows creations during the exhibition "CineMode par Jean-Paul" by French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier at the French Cinematheque in Paris on September 30, 2021. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
by Olga Nedbaeva
PARIS.- Having achieved pretty much everything there was to achieve in the fashion world, Jean Paul Gaultier is opening himself up to new horizons since retiring from the business last year. The former "enfant terrible" of French fashion has curated an exhibition in Paris on the power of women, taking in screen icons from Marilyn Monroe to this year's shocking Palme d'Or winner "Titane". "I've always been a feminist," the 69-year-old told AFP on a tour of the exhibition. "I wanted to show the evolution of women and men in cinema and fashion. Men becoming more feminine and women taking on more and more power and freedom." "Cinemode", which opens at the Cinematheque Francaise this Wednesday, brings together hand-picked film clips, photos and costumes. Gaultier has himself ... More | |
Brad Ogbonna, Stella Ngozi & Brad Ogbonna, 2021. © Brad Ogbonna.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the International Center of Photography presents a new exhibition focusing on the work of five emerging Black artists who have turned the lens inward to explore and capture the unseen moments of their lives during a time of unprecedented change. INWARD: Reflections on Interiority features newly commissioned photographs by Djeneba Aduayom, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Quil Lemons, Brad Ogbonna, and Isaac West. On view September 24, 2021 through January 10, 2022, INWARD is curated by Isolde Brielmaier, PhD, ICPs curator-at-large, and newlyappointed Deputy Director, the New Museum. Although a number of the photographers have worked on assignment for major publications such as the New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair and Time, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see their artistic and personal work in their first museum exhibition. The photographers showcased in INWARD use a range of manual and digital image-making ... More | |
French school circa 1600 after Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Lisa Gherardini known as La Joconde or Mona Lisa. Oil on oak panel - 74 x 52 cm Estimate: 150 000 - 200 000 .
PARIS.- In the upcoming Old Masters & 19th Century sale, Artcurial will present its version of the portrait of Mona Lisa. While there are plenty of copies and interpretations, past and present, of the Mona Lisa, including some that appear on the art market, the rare version to be offered at Artcurial on 9 November has many special qualities: it is an early piece, painted on a panel and is meticulously executed in a distinct style. It is an important and historic testimony providing an insight into the importance of the acquisition made by the King of France, François I at the start of the 16th century thus well before the revival in interest following its theft at the start of the 20th century - and the fascination exerted by the immortal smile on painters of her adopted kingdom. This oil was painted on an oak panel circa 1600 and is estimated to fetch between 150 000 and 200 000 . The painting will be on display from 5 ... More |
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| 22 museums, galleries and networks secure Art Fund Reimagine Grants | | Alvaro Barrington's first solo presentation in a UK institution opens at South London Gallery | | Christie's 20th / 21st Century Evening Sale Including Thinking Italian, London is now online for browsing |
Ely Museum. © Ely Museum.
LONDON.- Art Fund, the national charity for art, announced today that it has awarded £658,331 in the first round of £2 million Reimagine grants for 2021. The support will go to 22 UK museums, galleries, historic houses, trusts and professional networks. Recipients are located across Britain - from the Isle of Bute in Scotland, to Caernarfon in Wales, to Launceston in Cornwall and to Ushaw Moor in County Durham. Among the projects to be supported are: an exploration of the human history of The Clifton Suspension Bridge with couples from all over the world whove chosen the bridge as the ideal spot to get engaged; community quilt-making at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute; and an exhibition of 70 years of ceramics by women of colour from West Africa through the diaspora to the UK at Two Temple Place in London. Art Funds director Jenny Waldman said, Art Funds new Reimagine grants will allow many more museums to understand ... More | |
Alvaro Barrington, ICU, September 2021. Acrylic and concrete on canvas in steel artists frame City Life Series, X Freedom Tower, Spider Pig, September, 2021. Acrylic on carpet behind printed photograph and spraypainted acrylic sheet in concrete and aluminium frame, photograph on paper.
LONDON.- Alvaro Barringtons South London Gallery exhibition is his first solo presentation in a UK institution. Extending his exploration into blending multiple cultural and visual references, he presents new works characterised by his adept use of a broad range of techniques and materials. In a bespoke installation for the SLGs main exhibition space, the wall colours are inspired by an abstracted idea of the sun rising and setting, with the left and right-hand walls of the gallery representing the global North and South respectively. Paintings made of concrete smeared onto exquisitely dyed Hermès blankets in the North and on burlap in the South, are hung high on the walls to prompt associations ... More | |
Emily Mae Smith, Paint While Screaming, signed and dated 'Emily M Smith 2017' (on the reverse), oil on linen, 14 x 11in. (35.6 x 27.9cm.). Painted in 2017. Estimate: GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Christies 20th / 21st Century: Evening Sale Including Thinking Italian, London, coinciding with Frieze Week, brings together iconic works by artists from the 20th century whose defining influence can be seen on the artists and artistic movements that subsequently followed in the 21st Century. Together, across the two centuries, these artists radicalised artistic practice, challenging what had come before to continually diversify the trajectory of art throughout the last 140 years. Katharine Arnold, Co-Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christies, Europe: Frieze week is a time when London celebrates the best of 20th and 21st century art and we are delighted to be welcoming collectors back in person to the city and to Christies. In our galleries, ... More |
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Clark Art Institute names Daphne Birdsey to lead advancement efforts
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute announced today that Daphne B. Birdsey has been selected to serve as its Chief Advancement Officer, leading the Institutes philanthropy and membership programs. Birdsey is currently the Deputy Chief Development Officer for the Directors Office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She will assume her role at the Clark on November 1, 2021. Daphne Birdsey is an important addition to the Clarks leadership team, bringing extensive experience, and great energy and enthusiasm for deepening our connections with our members, our neighbors, and our supporters, said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. She joins our team at an exciting moment as we are beginning to envision a new generation of programs and initiatives that will enable us to enrich and extend the ways in which the Clark ... More
New immersive iinstallation transforms Rowan University Art Gallery into a microcosmic forest
GLASSBORO, NJ .- Philadelphia-based artists Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, known for their fantastical moving images and alternate realities, have created a new immersive film and installation for Rowan University Art Gallery. Field Companion, set in a microcosmic forest is based loosely on the pine barrens that dot Southern New Jersey. Like many, the duo found refuge and solace throughout the COVID-19 pandemic hiking and foraging in these remote, natural landscapes. As America's social fabric frayed deeply over recent years, they considered forest ecosystems in terms of symbiotic and collaborative relationships that sustain coexistence and community. In Field Companion, the forest has been condensed and transplanted to a terrarium in the artists' studio. Twelve cubic feet of pines, shrubs, ferns, moss, fungus and carnivorous plants are reflected infinitely ... More
Rocky Nook publishes 'The Art & Science of Drawing: Learn to Observe, Analyze, and Draw Any Subject'
SAN RAFAEL, CA.- Drawing is not a talent, its a skill anyone can learn. Rocky Nook introduces The Art & Science of Drawing: Learn to Observe, Analyze, and Draw Any Subject [978-1681987750; $29.95; Rocky Nook, October 2021] by Brent Eviston, a new guidebook that will teach you the fundamentals of good drawing. Based on his more than 20 years of teaching, The Art & Science of Drawing shares author and drawing instructor Brent Evistons secrets that provide the most accessible, streamlined, and effective methods for learning to draw. It begins with the most basic skills like how to hold the pencil and how to draw basic shapes before moving on to more complex subjects like three-dimensional drawing, contour drawing, measuring, and shading, Eviston said. By working through this book, you will learn the skills and processes necessary for good drawing. The Ar ... More
Artcurial to offer works by Enki Bilal in Contemporary Drawing Sale
PARIS.- On 13 October Artcurial will present a sale dedicated entirely to Enki Bilal. This follows Oxymore, the previous sale of the artists work held by the auction house, as well as a host of exhibitions staged around the world that have been supported by Artcurial. This sale will offer around thirty plates and original drawings by the artist, hitherto unseen and taken from his most emblematic albums: Partie de Chasse, the Nikopol trilogy and also Tétralogie du Monstre. Estimates range from 10 000 to 150 000 . « Artcurial is honored to organize this sale dedicated to Enki Bilal. It represents a high quality selection of Enki Bilals historic work that collectors have been waiting for » Eric Leroy, Expert, Artcurial Enki Bilal was born in 1951 in Belgrade. His childhood and arrival in France at the age of 10 provided inspiration for the captivating world of his albums, animated by ... More
Review: In 'Six,' all the Tudor ladies got talent
NEW YORK, NY.- Are you an Elsa or an Anna? An Elphaba or a Glinda? Or, for those with more classic tastes, a Vera or a Mame? Musicals typically offer just two prototypes of dynamic womanhood: a twinsie set of dark and light. To hit a real Broadway sister lode you have to time travel further back than Frozen, Wicked or even Mame: half a millennium back, as it happens. In Six, the queenhood-is-powerful pageant about the wives of Henry VIII that took a bow finally! at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on Sunday evening, Tudor London is the place to be if youre looking for a sextet of truly empowered, empowering megastars. Of course, you do have to get past the little hitch of divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived. But so what if the shows view of the wives is counterfactual? Their power may have been limited during their lives by men, ... More
'Mad' Israeli quest to revive ancient dates bears fruit
KIBBUTZ KETURA.- When Sarah Sallon first thought of cultivating 2,000-year-old date palm seeds from a Roman-era fortress towering above the Dead Sea, she received a less than encouraging response. "The botanical archaeologists said 'you're completely mad. It will never work'," the 72-year-old British-Israeli expert on natural medicine told AFP. But Sallon's bet that the Dead Sea's unique, bone-dry environment could enable the seeds from the Masada fortress to flourish has been proven right. With lots of patience and care, she and project partner Elaine Solowey managed to grow date palms from seeds dating back to the Kingdom of Judah which emerged in the 11th century BC. The kingdom was "renowned for the quality and quantity of its dates", praised at the time for their "large size, sweet taste... and medicinal properties," the two wrote in an article for Science ... More
The 2021 Cordis Prize for Tapestry Shortlist revealed
EDINBURGH.- The worlds biggest prize for tapestry, The Cordis Prize has announced the shortlist of artists to be considered for the 2021 Cordis Prize. The shortlist of 20 artworks by 18 artists will be considered for the £8000 prize and exhibited to the public at Inverleith House Gallery in Edinburgh from 23 October to 12 December 2021. A worldwide open call attracted entries from as far afield as Australia, Canada and Russia, from artists working across the weaving spectrum, from traditional methods and fibres, to found materials and unorthodox applications of the Gobelin technique. Those chosen to be exhibited include renowned weavers from Japan, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Created to reward ambitious and skilled use of tapestry weaving techniques, the prize captures a snapshot of how this classic artform is being developed today. Artworks ... More
Review: In 'Upload,' do blockchains dream of electric lizards?
AMSTERDAM.- Im here, thats for sure! the digital facsimile of a father tells his daughter early in Michel van der Aas new opera, Upload. What exactly it means to be here particularly when someone exists only as consciousness stored on blockchain data spread across thousands of servers is up for debate, and guides the drama in Upload, a masterly weaving of music, film and motion-capture technology that opened at the Dutch National Opera here Friday, before a run at the Park Avenue Armory in New York next spring. But that sci-fi premise is little more than a veneer. Not for nothing did Mary Shelley give Frankenstein the subtitle The Modern Prometheus; the finest genre fiction has always examined humanity through allegory. So, too, does van der Aas spare yet richly complicated work, which is preoccupied less with futuristic speculation than timeless ... More
Musicians flee Afghanistan, fearing Taliban rule
NEW YORK, NY.- More than 100 young artists, teachers and their relatives affiliated with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, a celebrated school that became a target of the Taliban in part for its efforts to promote the education of girls, fled the country Sunday, the schools leaders said. The musicians, many of whom have been trying to leave for more than a month, boarded a flight from Kabuls main airport and arrived in Doha, the capital of Qatar, around midday Eastern time, according to Ahmad Naser Sarmast, the head of the school, who is currently in Australia. In the coming days, they plan to resettle in Portugal, where the government has agreed to grant them visas. Its already a big step and a very, very big achievement on the way of rescuing Afghan musicians from the cruelty of the Taliban, Sarmast, who opened the school in 2010, said in a statement. ... More
Nora Brown, the banjo prodigy singing tales of Appalachia
NEW YORK, NY.- At an age when most teenagers are busy learning the latest TikTok dance craze, banjo virtuoso Nora Brown has just released her second album of old-time twang. When her parents gifted her a ukulele for Christmas at age six they never envisioned she would emerge as one of the bluegrass world's rising stars. The 16-year-old raised in Brooklyn first encountered the banjo while taking lessons with the late Shlomo Pestcoe, a local expert in traditional music. And now Brown is among the musicians carrying on traditions from the mountains of Appalachia, passed down from the genre's old masters. As a child "I wasn't aware of how unique and how special it was to be learning that, especially in Brooklyn," Brown said. Speaking to AFP at the tip of Brooklyn Bridge Park where she recently headlined the borough's Americana Music Festival, Brown said part of ... More
Silent disco helps South Africans beat virus blues
JOHANNESBURG.- Watching the sun go down on a warm spring day while listening to soundtracks playing on headphones, dozens of people on Sunday danced in a mountain top park in South Africa's economic capital of Johannesburg. It's a budding urban craze spawned by the coronavirus pandemic lockdown which shuttered night clubs in South Africa, the country hardest hit on the continent. President Cyril Ramaphosa last week eased national Covid-19 restrictions to the lowest level ever, allowing larger gatherings. "People are (still) very hesitant about going into clubs and indoor spaces, even though it's allowed now," said organiser Franck Leya, 27. "Being an open place like this, it's not a club... everybody is out, and there is a certain level of social distance automatically without obviously having to tell people," he said. One Sunday a month, revellers dance away ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Francesco Guardi was born October 05, 1712. Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (October 5, 1712 - January 1, 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting. In this image: Sotheby's employee Maria Sheremeteva studies Francesco Guardi's Venice, a view of the Rialto Bridge.
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