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From left: Constantin Pion, Art Historian at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA); Charles Picque, Mayor of the municipality of Saint-Gilles, Brussels; and Joost Vander Auwera, Senior Curator Old Masters department at the RMFAB and co-founder of the Jordaens Van Dyck Paintings Project.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- A painting that hung for decades in a municipal building in Brussels has been authenticated as the work of Flemish master Jacob Jordaens, Belgian conservators said Tuesday. After analysis including dendrochronology -- dating works from the wood panels they are painted on -- experts determined that it is the oldest known version of "The Holy Family" by Jordaens, painted in the early 17th century. The "incredible discovery" was made by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage with the help of international experts as part of an inventory of cultural property in the Brussels district of Saint-Gilles. The painting had hung high in an office in the Saint-Gilles municipal hall since the 1960s. Jordaens, a leading Flemish Baroque painter along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, created the work in 1617 or 1618 when he was just 25, the institute said in a statement. The analysis found that the wood used in the panel depicting the baby Jesus with Joseph, Mary and her mother Saint Ann ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery announced its All That Glitters | Ancient & Ethnographic sale on Thu, Dec 10, 2020 11:00 AM CST. Think glass, silver, gold, bronze, brass, wearable, decorative, worth owning! Unique finds from Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Near East. Asian art from east to west. Pre-Columbian. Spanish Colonial. Fabulous Russian Icons with silver oklads. Ancient / Ethnographic jewelry, and more. In this image: 1877 Russian Enameled Silver Travel Icon Madonna. Estimate $400 - $600.
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| Man who found hidden treasure in the Rocky Mountains is revealed | | Phillips' Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art realizes $134.6 million | | Supreme Court hears Holocaust survivors' cases against Hungary and Germany |
Forrest Fenn at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., June 17, 2016. Nick Cote/The New York Times.
by Neil Vigdor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The man who found a hidden treasure chest said to be worth about $2 million last summer in the Rocky Mountains one that had tantalized fortune seekers for a decade, led to at least two deaths and spawned lawsuits against the art dealer who stashed it there was identified Monday as a medical student from Michigan. The student, Jack Stuef, 32, discovered the stash of gold nuggets, gemstones and pre-Columbian artifacts June 6 in Wyoming, the grandson of the now-deceased antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn wrote on a website dedicated to the treasure. Fenn, who died in September at 90, wrote about the hidden treasure chest in a self-published memoir, The Thrill of the Chase, in 2010 and provided clues to the location in 24 cryptic verses of a poem. It set off a modern-day treasure ... More | |
Georg Baselitz, Gestern und heute, 2020. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Out of the gate, Amy Sheralds The Bathers shattered previous auction records more than tenfold to achieve a remarkable $4,265,00, nearly 30 times the presale estimate with nearly 15 minutes of bidding. Titus Kaphars Veil achieved $365,400, five times its presale estimate, and Matthew Wongs Before Night Falls achieved $1,252,100, more than tripling the presale estimate; demonstrating Phillips continuing strength in emerging artists markets. Hockneys Nichols Canyon sold for a ground-breaking $41,067,500, setting a record for a landscape by the artist -- this price calibre is typically reserved for his figurative works but the rarity and truly exceptional nature of this landscape has shattered that notion. Clyfford Stills remarkable PH-407, which achieved $18,442,500, is a rare monumental work from his Maryland period, and its one of only a few dozen works by the artist to ... More | |
Items from the Guelph Treasure, a trove of medieval religious art, displayed at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, July 8, 2020. Gordon Welters/The New York Times.
by Adam Liptak
WASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Supreme Court, wary in the past of cases concerning conduct by and against foreigners that took place abroad, heard arguments Monday over whether U.S. courts have a role in deciding whether Hungary and Germany must pay for property said to have been stolen from Jews before and during World War II. But the gravity of the human rights violations described in the two lawsuits persuaded a federal appeals court in Washington to let the two cases move forward. The Trump administration took issue with the rulings, filing briefs and presenting arguments supporting efforts to limit review in U.S. courts. The Hungarian case, Republic of Hungary v. Simon, No. 18-1447, was brought by 14 Holocaust survivors, four ... More |
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| Freeman's best Fine Art sale since 2004 achieves $5.2 million | | Christie's announces December Design Auction in New York | | Hindman once again exceeds estimates in second Antiquities, Islamic & Indian Art Auction |
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), The Melody Stilled by Cold (detail). Sold for $519,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the results of its December 6 American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction, which realized over $5.2Mthe best result for a sale of American Art that Freemans has ever recorded and the highest selling Fine Art auction at the house since 2004. With highly competitive bidding throughout the sale from bidders both online and on the phone, the highly-curated auction, comprising 114 lots, achieved an impressive 93% sell-through rate overall as well as a 96% sell-through recorded for the Pennsylvania Impressionists section. With at least three works selling to museums, exceptional prices were established for works by Daniel Garber, Rockwell Kent, and Mary Elizabeth Price. The undoubted highlight of the sale was the strong result achieved for Norman Rockwells The Melody Stilled by Cold (Lot 48). The work sold for $519,000, exceeding its pre-sale high estimate. Also of ... More | |
Eileen Gray, 'Bibendum' Armchair, 1926-1928. Estimate: $600,000-800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 11, Christie's Design auction in New York will present important works by the 20th and 21st centurys leading innovators of French Art Deco, American Craft, Danish Modernism, and Austrian Wiener Werkstätte. A dedicated auction of Important Tiffany Studios from the Collection of Important Tiffany from the Collection of Mary M. and Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. will be offered in a dedicated auction immediately proceeding the Design Sale. The live auction will feature compelling examples of works executed by exceptional architects including, Marcel Breuer, Josef Hoffmann, Jean Prouvé, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Donald Judd. Highlights will also include a survey of rare objects and designs by Isamu Noguchi, an important dining table and set of ten chairs by Wendell Castle from a special private commission and a ... More | |
An Egyptian Portrait Bust of a Woman. Middle Kingdom, 13th Dynasty, 1773-1650 B.C. Height 10 1/4 inches. Estimate: $20,000 - $25,000. Price Realized: $45,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman announced the success of its second Antiquities auction. Bidders participating by phone, absentee bid, and four online bidding platforms, sent the November 23 Antiquities, Islamic and Indian Art auction well past its low estimate to a total of $482,456. Hindmans Antiquities category is continuing to develop and this auction illustrated the company as a strong contender in the market for Ancient Art. The auction featured works of art including bronzes, marble sculpture, pottery, and more from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East and India. The 147-lot auction featured items from the Estate of Joan Conway Crancer, the Collection of Michael Minick, and other notable collectors. We are excited to see the continuous growth of the category and how Hindman is making its mark within the Ancient Art market, ... More |
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| Yoko Ono urges gun control on 40th anniversary of John Lennon's death | | First exhibition in Russia dedicated to Cecil Beaton opens at the State Hermitage Museum | | The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana once again exceeds estimates at Cowan's Auctions |
In this file photo taken on May 17, 1971 Music legend John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono pose for photographers in Cannes 17 May 1971 where they presented their movies 'Apotheosis' and 'The Flu'. John Lennon's career was cut short 40 years ago, on December 8, 1980, when he was shot dead in New York.
NEW YORK (AFP).- John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the legendary musician's shock murder with a call for gun control. "The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience," tweeted the 87-year-old artist, who still lives in the Dakota building in Manhattan outside of which her husband was shot four decades ago. "After 40 years, Sean, Julian and I still miss him. 'Imagine all the people living life in peace,'" she wrote, quoting the 1971 song she co-wrote with Lennon that became the best-selling single of his solo career. Ono, who witnessed her husband's murder at close range, also tweeted an image of the former Beatle's shattered and bloodied spectacles, which ... More | |
Audrey Hepburn for film My Fair Lady in a costume by Cecil Beaton, 1963 © Conde Nast.
ST. PETERSBURG.- The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, is presenting 'Cecil Beaton: Celebrating Celebrity', the first exhibition in Russia dedicated to one of the greatest master-photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition is organised by the State Hermitage Museum in collaboration with Cecil Beatons Studio Archive and the Hermitage Foundation UK. Presenting approximately one hundred images from throughout Cecil Beaton's career, the exhibition will feature some of his most celebrated works while also exploring his creative methods through a selection of rare and previously unseen photographs, including archival prints, contact sheets and scrapbooks. Cecil Beatons (1904 1980) career spanned five decades, starting with his friendship with the bright young things of the 1920s, moving on to serious images of fashion, theatre, ballet and the social scene in the 1930s. ... More | |
The highlight of Part II of the collection was a full-length carte de visite studio portrait photograph of Major Martin Delany (Lot 9). Delanys portrait sold for $59,375 against a presale estimate of $6,000-$8,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- For the second time in as many auctions, the Steve Turner Collection of African Americana once again surpassed its presale estimate at Cowans Auctions. The December 3 auction featured the second and final part of one of the most remarkable collections of African Americana to come to market in recent years. It was not lost on bidders that this could be the last opportunity to own a piece of the collection, as evidenced by the $377,196 price realized which totaled more than $100,000 above the sales $269,350 presale estimate. When combined with the total of Part I, which was offered in February 2020, the collection sold for a combined total of $989,887. The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana illustrated the history of African Americans and their role in settling the western frontier ... More |
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| A quarantine project is a thank-you to nurses | | Al Held's first solo presentation in London since 2008 on view at White Cube | | Milwaukee Art Museum names Robert Stein as Deputy Director and Chief Experience Officer |
Portraits of Mount Sinai nurses by Rebecca Moses. The designer Rebecca Moses has turned a quarantine art project into a gift of thanks and tribute. Rebecca Moses via The New York Times.
by Jessica Iredale
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Theres nothing fashionable ever about being in a hospital, said Linda Valentino, vice president and chief nursing officer at Mount Sinai Health System. But as of Dec. 1, Mount Sinais soaring 11-story Guggenheim Pavilion (designed by I.M. Pei) on upper Fifth Avenue in Manhattan has been bedecked with large-scale portraits of 46 of the hospitals nurses, painted by Rebecca Moses, fashion designer and artist. Its an exhibition titled simply Thank You, Mount Sinai Nurses. Like many stories of 2020, this one begins in March, when New York City went into lockdown and all of Moses projects, including a campaign for the Fragrance Foundation that had been a year in the works, ground to a halt. Moses is a fashion industry veteran with a long ... More | |
Al Held: The Sixties, White Cube Bermondsey, 20 November 2020 - 27 February 2021 © the artist. Photo © White Cube / Theo Christelis.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition by Al Held (1928−2005), the first solo presentation of his work in London since 2008. Focusing on paintings made in New York during the 1960s, the selection includes key works which exemplify Helds unique exploration of hard-edge geometric abstraction. Featuring large-scale paintings and works on paper, the exhibition reveals the artists dedication to developing his own distinctive graphic language. As the poet Frank OHara saw it, Held was one of the most controversial and powerful painters working in New York at that time. The Sixties were a decade synonymous with an explosion of new styles and ideas aimed at expanding consciousness and bridging the gap between aesthetics and technology. During this period, Held became widely recognised for his individual approach to abstraction, leading fellow painter Alex Katz to comment of his 1960s works: Some of ... More | |
Stein joins the Museum with strong expertise in a number of areas related to the visitor experience.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced that Robert Stein has been hired as Deputy Director and Chief Experience Officer for the organization. Stein will be responsible for overseeing key departments of the Museums operations carrying out goals integral to the institutions Strategic Direction. His appointment is a key outcome of the Museums knowledge management infrastructure initiative, which he will lead, and for which the Museum received a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Stein joins the Museum with strong expertise in a number of areas related to the visitor experience. In his new role, he will lead the Collections, Conservation, Design, IT, and Marketing areas including the Museums Retail, Food, and Visitor Services departments. He will be a member of the Museums Senior Leadership Team and report directly to the Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director. He is charged with work ... More |
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Terra Foundation adds Huey Copeland and Clare Muñana to board of directors
CHICAGO, IL.- The Terra Foundation for American Art welcomed Huey Copeland and Clare Muñana to its board of directors. Copeland is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (202022); and Muñana is president of Ancora Associates, Inc., the international management consulting firm she founded in 1987, and the Blue Foundation, a family foundation. Huey Copeland and Clare Muñana are ambassadors for American art who bring deep experience to the Terra Foundations board of directors, said Joseph P. Gromacki, chair of the Terra Foundation for American Art board of directors. Dr. Copelands interdisciplinary art historical approach and Ms. Muñanas work in international collaborations and education make their perspectives integral to future deliberations to further the foundations mission ... More
A costly quip angers Chinese moviegoers, and a film gets yanked
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a film scene that has roiled a segment of the Chinese moviegoing public, two American soldiers share a strange bit of banter. Look at my knees! blurts a soldier played by Jin Au-Yeung, a Chinese American rapper known as MC Jin, as he rides in the open back of a military vehicle. What kind of knees are these? A moment later, he answers his own question: Chi-nese. The scene caused a stir in China, one of the worlds biggest movie markets and, in the wake of a pandemic that has closed theaters around the world, perhaps its most important. The movie, Monster Hunter, an action film based on a popular video game, was pulled from Chinese theaters by its distributor, which promised that the scene would be cut. Critics in China wrote online that the dialogue was insulting, reading it as a reference ... More
Leading photography gallery Higher Pictures Generation opens in DUMBO
BROOKLYN, NY.- Two Trees Management today announced that Higher Pictures Generation, a photography-focused contemporary art gallery, has opened at 16 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The gallery leased a jewel-box, street-level exhibition space adjacent to the entrance of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Higher Pictures Generations exhibition program will focus on artists first shows, both historical and contemporary. The inaugural exhibition showcases new works by Gina Osterloh, whose art explores selfhood, identity, and the perception of difference. The exhibition will remain on view until December 12, 2020. The upcoming exhibition is a group show titled We Wear the Mask, curated by DAngelo Lovell Williams, which will open on December 19, 2020 and run through February of 2021. We are thrilled that 16 Main Street in DUMBO ... More
Tiwani Contemporary now representing Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)
LONDON.- For the past seventeen years, artist Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) has documented the complex, historical and episodic saga of a fictional world superpower the Frenglish Empire. Across portraits, maps, flags, artefacts, vignettes and drawings and other visual remnants of an imagined empire and its multiple interactions, Rashid reveals pivotal events and the ever-changing fortunes of a lively array of protagonists, both elite and quotidian, all peculiar to a highly novel parallel universe. His iconographic work synthesises comic culture, African cosmology, Egyptology, Classical mythology, Native American ledger art, hip hop, Persian miniature, Afrofuturism, grand history paintings and Renaissance portraiture. His work challenges the legacies and linearities of imperial and colonial historiographies and their influence on the ... More
'A Suitable Boy' finally finds its perfect match: Mira Nair
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When A Suitable Boy was published in 1993, the 1,349-page tome about post-independence India, written by Vikram Seth, became one of the longest English-language novels in print. Superlative reviews around the world ensured its place in the door-stopping canon of modern literary classics. For many devoted readers, the book, set in the 1950s and featuring multiple interreligious friendships and relationships, has endured because of its myriad relatable family dramas and also for being a kind of guide to what it means to be a secular, independent citizen. Now, after several stalled attempts, the beloved novel has been adapted into a lavish new six-part series, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding). When it debuted on BBC One in July, it was ... More
New York Philharmonic musicians agree to years of pandemic pay cuts
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The New York Philharmonic, battered by a pandemic that will keep its concert hall dark for at least 15 months, announced Monday that its musicians had agreed to a four-year contract that includes substantial salary cuts. Under the new contract, the musicians will see 25% cuts to their base pay through August 2023. Pay will then gradually increase until the contract ends in September 2024, though at that point the players will still be paid less than they were before the coronavirus pandemic struck. The cuts will amount to more than $20 million in musicians wages over the course of the contract, the head of the players negotiating committee said in a news release. The deal makes it clear that performing arts institutions expect their financial pain to last, even if the pandemic subsides over the coming months. ... More
Independent musicians thrive as pandemic silences Bollywood
MUMBAI (AFP).- Bollywood movie songs normally dominate India's music charts. But when the coronavirus epidemic put paid to new film releases, it created a huge opportunity for independent musicians to make a name for themselves - sometimes from their bedrooms. Singer Carlton Braganza saw his popularity skyrocket when the country went into lockdown in March, and his phone is now ringing almost non-stop with offers from agents. For more than three months, the 48-year-old spent nights performing for an online audience from his small bedroom, gaining tens of thousands of new fans in the process. "I performed live every night for 70 days on Facebook, taking audience requests," the Bangalore-based musician told AFP. He has clocked up to 1.5 million views on Facebook, with around 125 online shows under his belt. His free performances ... More
Natalie Desselle, comedic heart of 'BAPS' and 'Eve,' dies at 53
(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Natalie Desselle, whose comedic talents helped make the 1997 movie BAPS a campy classic for a generation of fans, and who later starred in the ensemble cast of the early 2000s television show Eve, died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 53. The cause was colon cancer, said her former manager, Dolores Robinson. Known for her comedic timing on screen and upbeat attitude off screen, Desselle began her acting career in the 1990s when opportunities for nonwhite and plus size actors were limited but beginning to expand. In 1996, Desselle had a guest appearance in one episode of the family-friendly sitcom Family Matters, and a role in the women-led action movie Set It Off. The next year, Desselle appeared as Halle Berrys sidekick in the movie BAPS, a fish-out-of-water comedy that would help ... More
Prinseps break auction records for Bhanu Athaiya and Atul Bose
MUMBAI.- Prinsepss groundbreaking virtual auctions of the Bhanu Athaiya and Atul Bose Estates, that took place on 2nd and 3rd December, broke records for the highest value works sold for both artists. Hosted live on Zoom by auctioneer Brijeshwari Kumari Gohil, the two auctions saw bids from across India, Dubai, England and the US. The Bhanu Athaiya Estate Sale auction totaled ₹88 lakhs and the Atul Bose Evening Sale totaled ₹1.64 crores The Bhanu Athaiya Estate Sale saw strong interest across the board with a particularly excited flurry of bids for the watercolor paintings. Other notable sales include Lady in Repose and the cover lot Prayers which sold for ₹13,75,000 and ₹43,75,000 respectively - both works had previously been exhibited at the first ever, eponymously titled exhibition of the Progressive Artists Group at the Bombay ... More
Tatjana Pieters presents an exhibition of works by Indrikis Gelzis
GHENT.- This is an invitation to imagine the portal, an architecturally conceived corpus that results into a form flattened to it's far end. Here, all the details isolated, incubated, disrupted - mediates the space apart from what is contained within its own materiality. By directing attention and desire, literally bending it into a palpable stream of energy, Indriķis Ģelzis freeze a particular movement in a given moment. Still life of a still life is a porous entity made of fluid ideas and streams of narratives that suggest to be discovered and re-discovered, entered and re-entered. Born into the family of artists and architects, shortly before the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Ģelzis' new work seem to increasingly borrow and develop under the aegis of that very specific cultural time-space. Throughout his plane-sculptures Ģelzis gravitates towards a largely non-linguistic ... More
Gallery representing upcoming European talent opens in London's West End
LONDON.- Art Entrepreneur and Auctioneer David Kovats is launching a new gallery space in Londons West End this December. A Sothebys graduate and professional, David wishes to introduce a gallery model and space that focuses on month-long rotating solo exhibitions with an immersive and interactive character. The gallery will open to the public on the 9th December. It is is located at 80 Long Acre in Covent Garden. The gallery will present the work of young and established artists from Eastern Europe and more specifically Hungary, Davids country of origin. Davids vision is to promote and develop the cultural dialogue between Eastern Europe and the UK by introducing the work of local artists to an international audience. He has developed a diverse artist roster including emerging painter Pista Horror (István Máriás) who uses tiles as ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum opened December 09, 2011. NEW YORK, NY.- U.S. actress Claire Danes and Italian fashion designer Valentino arrive at a party to celebrate the opening of a virtual museum dedicated to him, in New York, December 7, 2011.
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