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Gauntlets of Maximilian I, circa 1490, in the exhibition ÂThe Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian IÂ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Oct. 18, 2019. The largest exhibition of arms and armor at the Met in decades is armed to the teeth with flashy military gear, but also includes paintings, illustrated books and celebratory images made with the hottest new technology of the late 15th century: printmaking. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- War is a force that gives us meaning, wrote the veteran foreign correspondent Chris Hedges an adage he delivered with vicious irony. War can pick up the dull, lousy clay of your little human life, and refashion you into a hero or martyr. War muffles brute inequities of power and capital, and entrances you with blandishments of honor. War is a storyteller, with a tale so grand and corrupt that even death becomes beautiful. Five hundred years ago, at a moment of political rebellion and economic anxiety, a leader arose who understood the public allure of the martial imagination, and how war could turn a noble into something like a superman. He was Emperor Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire, and out of an iffy inheritance in Austria he emerged as one of the most powerful leaders in Renaissance Europe, presiding over territories from the modern-day Netherlands all the way to Croatia. He had some successes on the battlefield, yet it was not principally his military prow ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this photograph taken on October 25, 2019, technicians install a canvas by painter Jean-Auguste Bard (1812-1862) "La bénédiction pontificale à St-Pierre-de-Rome" in the chapel of The Ingres-Bourdelle Museum in Montauban, southern France. The museum, which is housed in the former episcopal palace of the Bishops of Montauban, built in the 17th century, is expected to reopen in December 2019, after a major renovation and modernization project. ERIC CABANIS / AFP
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| | Everard Auctions Fine and Decorative Art Sale still open for bidding on iGavelAuctions.com | | Technical research sheds new light on the work of Pieter de Hooch | | Sotheby's names Charles F. Stewart Chief Executive Officer |
Follower of Sir Thomas Lawrence (UK, 1769-1830), Portrait of a Gentleman, Oil on Panel, $1,000-1,500.
SAVANNAH, GA.- With a few days remaining, bidding is still open for Everard Auctions fine and decorative arts sale through October 31st. Drawn from 3 large regional collections, the sale includes Old and modern masters, as well as over 200 decorative artswith estimates totaling between $200,000- to $300,000. One of the most interesting collections was assembled by an American living in London during the post-World War II period who frequented London salesrooms, picking up works attributed to Sir Thomas Lawrence and others. This collection is complemented with a selection of English furniture and decorative works of art and paintings by American regional artists, including Lamar Dodd and early Modernist artists who worked with the WPA. Other works represented are marine scenes and views of Venice by artists working in the 18th through 20th century. A highlight of the sale is large folio Volume II of Goulds Birds of Great Britain, ... More | |
This is the first ever extensive technical research into the work of Pieter de Hooch.
AMSTERDAM.- In collaboration with the Museum Prinsenhof Delft, the Rijksmuseum has conducted the first ever extensive technical research into the work of Pieter de Hooch (1629-in or after 1679), in the run-up to the 'Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the shadow of Vermeer' exhibition at the Museum Prinsenhof Delft (11 October 2019 through 16 February 2020). This study has deepened our understanding of Pieter de Hoochs working method, his search for the right composition, his growth as an artist, and his palette. Janelle Moerman, director of the Museum Prinsenhof Delft: In 2017, the Museum Prinsenhof Delft initiated a major multidisciplinary research project on Pieter de Hooch. Such an extensive study of this Delft master had never before been undertaken. The Rijksmuseum was our most important research partner in this project and also the most important source of works on loan for this exhibition, with as many as four paintings. Thanks to t ... More | |
Mr. Stewart joins Sothebys from Altice USA, where he has served as Co-President and Chief Financial Officer since 2016. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys today announced the appointment of Charles F. Stewart as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Stewart joins Sothebys from Altice USA, where he has served as Co-President and Chief Financial Officer since 2016. He assumed the role at Altice USA following more than two decades of operations, financial and corporate leadership experience in the U.S., Latin America and Europe, most recently as CEO of Itau BBA International plc. Prior to that, he spent 19 years at Morgan Stanley as an investment banker in various leadership and client-facing roles, based in New York, Brazil and London. Mr. Stewart succeeds Tad Smith, who served as CEO of Sothebys since 2015. Underscoring his confidence in Sothebys long-term success, Mr. Smith will become a shareholder of the company and act as a senior advisor to Mr. Stewart. Patrick Drahi, owner ... More |
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| | Exhibition with iconic artworks shows for the first time Millet's impact on modern art across the world | | Recently discovered sketch by the artist Lucian Freud to go up for auction in London | | Gallery acquires spectacular Takashi Murakami painting |
Jean-François Millet, Shearing Sheep, 1852-1853, Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton.
AMSTERDAM.- To me, [...] Millet is that essential modern painter who opened the horizon to many. So wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in February 1884. Now, for the first time ever, this exhibition explicitly focuses on how the work by the French painter Jean-François Millet was an inspiration to numerous painters worldwide. The exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum reveals the ground-breaking nature of his work and the impact the painter had on a large number of well-known modern artists including Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Kazimir Malevich and Salvador DalÃ. The French artist Jean-François Millet (4 October 1814 20 January 1875) had a turbulent but successful career. Millet was often criticized for his work, for his radical painting technique as well as for the social criticism that his portrayal of peasant life seemed to imply. Artists and ... More | |
Sketch of Goldie, by Lucian Freud, circa 2003. Estimate: £40,000-60,000.
LONDON.- Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is widely regarded as one of the most important figurative painters of the 20th century and not many of his canvases have remained unknown that is until now. Chiswick Auctions announces the discovery of a new work by the artist, titled Sketch of Goldie. Executed in charcoal on canvas, the work is the preliminary workings out of a composition that he left incomplete dating from circa 2003. It is estimated to fetch between £40,000-60,000 in Chiswick Auctions Modern & Post-War British Art sale on Tuesday 3rd December, 2019. Never before seen in public, the study offers a rare insight into Freuds practice and his life-time interest in horses. In 2003 Freud embarked on the work at the Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre in West London, established and run by Sister Mary-Joy Langdon. He had been introduced to the stables by his studio assistant, the renowned artist David Dawson, who had ... More | |
Takashi Murakami Japan Supernatural: Vertiginous After Staring at the Empty World Too Intensely, I Found Myself Trapped in the Realm of Lurking Ghosts and Monsters, 2019, acrylic resin paint, gold leaf, glitter, 300 x 1000 cm. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Foundation Purchase 2019. ©︎ 2019 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Photo: courtesy Kaikai Kiki.
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales has commissioned a major painting by world-renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami for its collection. The Gallerys Foundation has funded the acquisition of the work, which will be unveiled in the Gallerys Japan supernatural exhibition, part of the Sydney International Art Series. Exploring imagery of monsters, spirits, ghosts and demons in Japanese art from the 1700s to now, the exhibition opens on 2 November 2019. Murakami has titled his new work Japan Supernatural: Vertiginous After Staring at the Empty World Too Intensely, I Found Myself Trapped in the Realm of Lurking Ghosts and Monsters. The title pays tribute ... More |
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| | Christie's New York Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts Sale achieves $3,367,250 | | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announces acquisition of Bela Lugosi's iconic cape from Dracula | | Gladstone Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Matthew Barney |
Maria Sibylla Merians Dissertatio De Generatione Et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1719) & De Europische Insecten (1730), sold for $225,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Friday, 25 October Christies New York Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts sale realized $3,367,250. This sale marked the first time the category was presented during Christies Classic Week , which runs until 29 October. The top lots of the sale were the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to John Forbes Nash, Jr. for his contributions to Game Theory, which sold for $735,000, Maria Sibylla Merians Dissertatio De Generatione Et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1719) & De Europische Insecten (1730), which sold for $225,000, and the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Reinhard Selten for his contributions to Game Theory, namely as the first person to "refine the Nash equilibrium concept for analyzing dynamic strategic interaction," which sold for $225,000. Another highlight from John ... More | |
Publicity photo of Bela Lugosi for Dracula (1931), Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC and Margaret Herrick Library.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced numerous iconic movie costumes it has acquired over the last year through generous donations, partial gifts, and purchase. Costume design will be one of the many motion-picture arts explored in the Museums inaugural exhibitions. Among these exceptional additions to the fast-growing collection is the cape that Bela Lugosi wore in his legendary performance as the title character in Dracula (1931). A partial gift from the Lugosi Family, the famed Dracula cape was personally owned by Bela Lugosi after filming the classic. Following the runaway success of the 1931 movie, Lugosi continued to wear the cape on stage and in personal appearances. The cape remained in his possession until his death, and then in the possession of his ex-wife, Lillian Lugosi. Lillian later presented it to her and Bela Lugosis son, Bela G. Lugosi. My fathers screen-worn cape has ... More | |
Matthew Barney, Fascia, 2019. Graphite on paper in ultra high molecular weight plastic frame, 21 1/8 x 17 7/8 x 1 3/8 inches (53.7 x 45.4 x 3.5 cm) framed © Matthew Barney. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting Embrasure, an exhibition of new drawings, etchings, and sculpture by Matthew Barney. The works in Embrasure draw from the narratives, processes, and imagery introduced in Barneys latest project Redoubt, while expanding on its allegorical and cosmological themes. Barneys 2018 film Redoubt is set on a wolf hunt in Idahos rugged Sawtooth Mountains, continuing the artists long-standing preoccupation with landscape as both setting and subject. Redoubt adopts the ancient myth of Diana, goddess of the hunt, and Actaeon, a hunter who trespasses on her, as its narrative framework. In Redoubt, an Engraver, played by Barney, creates a series of plein-air drawings on copper plates as he stalks Diana and her attendants. An Electroplater in a remote laboratory subjects them to a ... More |
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| | Staring into the soul of the Catskills through a pinhole | | Seeing the past from the future | | Hollywood mogul Robert Evans dies at 89 |
The artist Shi Guorui builds his camera obscura, or pinhole camera, in a forest near Kaaterskill Falls, in the Hudson River Valley in New York, July, 24, 2019. Shi has been traveling the world for more than 15 years transforming large spaces box trucks, hotel rooms, weather stations, and even a watchtower at the Great Wall of China into large pinhole cameras. Nathan Bajar/The New York Times.
PALENVILLE, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Sometime last summer, a rectangular tent appeared in the woods off a trail in the Catskills. Sheathed in plastic and cordoned off with yellow caution tape, it looked more like a crime scene than a campsite. But if anyone dared approach it, one small clue gave away its real function: a hole smaller than a pencil eraser facing Kaaterskill Falls, whose perilous double cascade is one of the regions most cherished attractions. The tent was, in fact, a camera obscura, or pinhole camera, built by Catskills-based Chinese artist Shi Guorui. The tiny hole was to allow light in, and with it, an image of the falls that would gradually ripen on a large sheet of photographic paper ... More | |
General Idea, Great AIDS (Ultramarine Blue), 1990/2019. Acrylic on linen in four panels, each 59 x 59 inches; dimensions total 118 1/8 x 118 1/8 inches. Courtesy of General Idea and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Installation view: Ancient History of the Distant Future, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, September 26, 2019 February 2, 2020. Photo by Barbara Katus, courtesy Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, PA (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- At first glance, the placid seascape might blend in with the paintings around it, were it not for the tarlike substance clinging to the panel. The neon sculpture could be mistaken for a similar piece just down the road at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In fact, Minerva Cuevas chapapote-dipped paintings found works she sources at flea markets or on the internet and dips in tar offer commentary on the vulnerability of the waterways to oil spills. Mungo Thomsons glowing spiral, which reads Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, is a response ... More | |
Robert Evans attends the Dedication of The Sumner M. Redstone Production Building at USC on February 5, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Valerie Macon/Getty Images/AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Legendary Hollywood movie mogul Robert Evans, who oversaw 1970s classics "The Godfather" and "Chinatown," has died aged 89. A larger-than-life figure, Evans was known in Tinseltown both for saving Paramount Pictures by greenlighting a string of hits, and for his tabloid lifestyle including cocaine addiction and seven marriages. Evans' death was confirmed to AFP Monday by his publicist, and by a second person close to the producer. No details were immediately available. Evans took over as Paramount's head of production in 1966 aged just 36, ushering in a highly successful era for the studio including "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) with director Roman Polanski, followed by Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" (1972). Coppola paid tribute Monday to Evans' "charm, good looks, enthusiasm, style, and sense of humor." "He had strong ... More |
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Magnum Square Print Sale brings together a selection of over 100 images
NEW YORK, NY.- Hidden, the October 2019 Magnum Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture, brings together a selection of over 100 images by international photographic artists. The Autumn 2019 theme explores the idea of what the photographer sees that is otherwise hidden. Since its beginnings, photography has functioned in part as a vehicle for showing what is neither accessible nor visible to the majority of us, as well as shedding light on the things around us that are otherwise overlooked. From remote societies to elite fraternities, isolated places to objects so common we dont stop to look at them, photographs reveals hidden things, places and lives. Artists, too, often describe their own private spaces and inner lives as integral to their work. Each participating photographer offers their own interpretation of the theme. In some cases ... More
The Baltimore Museum of Art expands curatorial department for Contemporary Art
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced the appointment of Jessica Bell Brown and Leila Grothe as Associate Curators for Contemporary Art, expanding the museums contemporary department. Brown most recently served as the Consulting Curator at Gracie Mansion Conservancy, where she spearheaded the organization of the much-acclaimed show, She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York, 1919-2019. Grothe joins the BMA after having held the position of Associate Curator at the Wattis Institute at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where she focused on commissioning new work by emerging and mid-career artists whose practices have yet to receive significant attention, including Rosha Yaghmai, Yuki Kimura, and Melanie Gilligan. Brown and Grothe will both assume their responsibilities at the BMA ... More
Stumbling upon art in the darkness
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- For the last five weeks, British actress and playwright Zawe Ashton has been zipping back and forth between West 45th Street and Lower Manhattan. She has gone from speaking the words of her character Emma in an acclaimed Broadway revival of Harold Pinters Betrayal to watching her own words brought to life by a cast of others in her play for all the women who thought they were Mad at Soho Rep. Its like doing a boxing match and then swimming the Channel, she joked recently. Everything seems to be falling into place for Ashton, who also released her first book this year and starred with Jake Gyllenhaal in the dark art-world satire Velvet Buzzsaw. Her play, which began previews the same day it opened at the Hackney Showroom in London, has its New York premiere Oct. 27 and has already been extended. ... More
Ellen DeGeneres just bought a vintage Rolex. It only cost around $750,000
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In the vintage watch market, few timepieces are more coveted than a late-1960s gold Rolex Daytona. So how much was obtaining one worth to Ellen DeGeneres, the watch-collecting chat show host and comedian? About $750,000, a watch expert familiar with the deal said this week after an image of DeGeneres appeared on Instagram, sitting in her Modernist Beverly Hills home beside dealer Jasper Lijfering, the watch in her hand. Two months ago, DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, went to the Netherlands and visited Lijferings store, Amsterdam Vintage Watches, for the first time. DeGeneres entered wearing a new gold Rolex Daytona with a sunburst green dial, a current production model of the watch that has soared in value over the last year. She exited carrying two stainless-steel Big Red Daytonas (one ... More
Martin Parr Foundation opens an exhibition of works by Tony Ray-Jones
BRISTOL.- A new exhibition and book mark the important contribution that Tony Ray-Jones (1941 1972) and his legacy, have made to British documentary photography. Both focus on photographs taken between 1966 1969 as Ray-Jones, driven by curiousity, travelled across the country to document English social customs and what he saw as a disappearing way of life. This small but distinctive body of photographs was part of an evolutionary shift in British photography, placing artistic vision above commercial success. In this short period of time, Ray-Jones managed to establish an individual personal style. He constructed complex images against a uniquely English backdrop, where the spaces between the components of the image were as important as the main subject matter itself. I have tried to show the sadness and humour in a gentle ... More
Illuminating the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women
TORONTO (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Sequoia Miller, chief curator at the Gardiner Museum, has it all planned. On a warm August morning, the piece that he intended to display in the lobby of this 35-year-old ceramics museum had not yet arrived, but he could already envision how it would be lit, and where the piece about 15 feet wide and 15 feet high would be hung for maximum visibility. He gestured across the museums 1,450-square-foot lobby to the glass doors of the main entrance from Queens Park, a busy thoroughfare in Torontos Yorkville neighborhood. Youll be able to see it from the street, he said. This is a way to make her presence visible. The her he referred to was a tintype image of an indigenous woman who stares at the camera with an expression that Miller called serene, but resolved. A little mournful, but also resilient. ... More
Colombian artist seeks justice for the natural world
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In Carolina Caycedos images, rivers and streams seem to rear up on hind legs. Waterfalls flow backward and sideways, or fan out into kaleidoscopic formations. Her water portraits, as she calls them, come with an aesthetic agenda: to reject the convention of the horizontal landscape format as a way to represent nature, a format that she believes has placed humans in a superior position outside of our natural ecosystems. By giving water sources a multidimensional presence in her videos and images printed onto fabric, the Colombian artist hopes to reorient our relationship to the natural world and the Earths water supply. Its not just a mineral, or a renewable resource, as some people still call water; its actually a political agent, a living entity with a soul, with a cobra grande, she said, invoking the communities ... More
Displaying, not hiding, the reality of slave labor in art
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- One of the plainest, yet also most poignant items at the Chrysler Museum of Arts exhibition highlighting Thomas Jefferson as an architect is a worn, reddish-brown brick with a handprint. The handprint very likely belonged to one of the many enslaved craftsmen who helped bring to life so many of Jeffersons designs, said Erik H. Neil, director of the museum. While it might not have been included in such a show in the past, now items that prominently display, rather than hide, the reality of slave labor play an important role. The exhibition at the Chrysler Museum, in Norfolk, Virginia, is one example of how some museums are working to incorporate the impact of slavery in exhibitions and permanent collections in a way not commonly done even a decade ago. The Chrysler Museum exhibition Thomas Jefferson, ... More
Exhibition presents works by the two great 19th-century masters of the "Floating World"
TURIN.- Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin is presenting the exhibition Hokusai Hiroshige Hasui. Journey Through A Changing Japan. The exhibition presents works by the two great 19th-century Masters of the Floating World, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), alongside modern prints by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), a key member of the shin hanga (new prints) movement. Hasui developed new subjects and themes in woodblock colour print through the Meiji (1868-1912), Taishō (1912-1926) and Shōwa periods, up to the mid-1950s when he was named a Living national treasure in 1956. The exhibition is curated by Rossella Menegazzo, professor of East Asian Art History at the University of Milan, and Sarah E. Thompson, curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It is organised by Pinacoteca Agnelli in collaboration ... More
In San Francisco, wielding influence (gently) through art
SAN FRANCISCO (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Museums are culturally influential, but the space inside them is tight. Not everything fits, so choices must be made. In the old days, the stories that museums picked to tell werent questioned too much. Lately doors have been opened to different kinds of stories, changing our perceptions of the types of material that fit into the citadel of high culture. When done right, it makes the institutions feel roomier than ever, not cramped. Soft Power, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through mid-February, epitomizes its era in that it looks self-consciously at the ways in which cultural influence is exerted, with special attention to previously hidden voices. The title is a twist on the Reagan-era phrase, said Eungie Joo, the museums curator of contemporary art, who conceived the show. In the late 1980s, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle was born October 29, 1930. Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (29 October 1930 - 21 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker. In this image: French-born artist Niki de Saint Phalle presents her sculpture "L'Ange Protecteur," 'Guardian Angel' in the main hall of the central train station in Zurich, Switzerland on Nov. 14, 1997.
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