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Georgia OKeeffe (1887-1986), Ranchos Church, No. II, NM, 1929, Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1930.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- The Vero Beach Museum of Art announced From Homer to Hopper: American Art from The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, featuring a rich assembly of independent-minded artists including Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Winslow Homer, Arthur Dove and Georgia OKeeffe on view from February 1 through May 31, 2020. From Homer to Hopper: American Art from The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, presents some of the most influential American paintings and sculptures from The Phillips Collection, the first museum of modern art in the United States. With sixty-five works, the exhibition explores the history of American art from the birth of the modernist spirit at the end of the nineteenth century through post-war American painting in the mid-twentieth century. During these years, artists were establishing the artistic identity of the United States and setting the course for modern art in this country. The exhibition is arranged into a se ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors look at Jan Van Eyck's painting "Annunciation" during the exhibition "Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution" at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) in Ghent on February 4, 2020. Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP
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| | Wonders that blossomed in the desert | | Spain court doubles jail term for Picasso-smuggling banker | | Janet Borden, Inc. opens an exhibition of works by David Brandon Geeting |
A detail of Kneeling Dignitary, Middle Niger civilization, Mali, 12th-14th century, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Bucket lists form early. When I was, maybe, 10, flipping through books in my grandfathers house I came across a photograph of the Great Mosque at Djenné in Mali, West Africa, and thought, this is the strangest, most wonderful, most outer-space building Ive ever seen. Beige-color and turreted, it was as soft-edged as a sand castle, but huge, dwarfing people in the street. I wanted to go there. I eventually did stood, rapt, gazing at the Great Mosques walls in sunlight and moonlight. And on a visit last week to the exhibition Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I felt a little like I was there again, but now with other ... More | |
The yacht Adix, owned by Spanish Santander banking group and flying a British flag, sails off Testa beach on August 4, 2015, in Pianottoli Caldarello, Corsica, four days after French customs seized a Picasso on board considered a national treasure by Spain.
MADRID (AFP).- A Spanish court on Tuesday doubled the jail term handed to a former top banker for smuggling a 26-million-euro Picasso painting out of the country onboard a yacht. Former Bankinter boss Jaime Botin, who is 83, was found guilty last month with a Madrid court sentencing him to 18 months in prison and a 52.4-million-euro fine ($58.4 million) But in a rare turnaround two weeks later, the judge raised the sentence to three years and a 91.7-million-euro fine following what she said was an "error in the imposition of the penalty", court documents released on Tuesday showed. Under the initial ruling, Botin -- who also served as a top executive at Santander Bank -- had not been expected to spend time behind bars as first-time offenders are usually ... More | |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting Neighborhood Stroll by David Brandon Geeting. The exhibition runs from 30 January 7 March 2020. This show accompanies Geetings long-awaited book of the same title. The work comes out of several years of literal walks around his neighborhood, Brooklyns Greenpoint section. Neighborhood Stroll is a collection of somewhat cryptic documentary photographs, created as Geeting wanders the real world with the same bemusement and enthusiasm he brings to the still life. Like all documentary photographers, Geeting photographs what is there, in real life, in front of him. The resulting photographs are palimpsests of signage, nature, and detritus. Succulent Selection, as an example, is a complex layering of a box of cacti, a wall with drawings of plants, an angled pole, and a garishly illuminated branch of flowers, all in various yellow/orange/green. ... More |
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| | Casa Museo of the Fondazione Paolo e Carolina Zani opens in Brescia | | Li Qing's first solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in London | | The Campaign for the New Bruce completes $1 million fundraising match |
Canaletto, Il molo dal bacino di San Marco, 1733-1734 (detail), olio su tela, 66 x 113 cm, inv. 31. Photo: Fotostudio Rapuzzi, Brescia.
BRESCIA.- More than eight hundred works of art, including important paintings by Canaletto, Longhi, Tiepolo, Guardi, Boucher, sculptures by Filippo Parodi, from Genoa and by Della Porta from Rome beside precious baroque and rococo furnishings mostly French and Venetian and extraordinary applied art from XVII and XVIII Century. Everything will be exhibited from next February 5th when the Casa Museo of the Fondazione Paolo e Carolina Zani per larte e la cultura will open in Cellatica (Brescia, Italy), Via Fantasina 8. Young people and adult, thanks to guided tours, will discover this exceptional Collection of sculptures, paintings, furnishings and applied arts collected in more than thirty years of intensive search by the businessman Paolo Zani from Brescia. Conservation, preservation and promotion of the Casa Museo is the main purpose of the Foundation recently established ... More | |
Li Qing, Tetris Window Amber Building, 2019 Wood, metal, Plexiglass, oil color, clothes, printed materials, aluminum-plastic panel. 212 x 106 x 9.5 cm; 83 ½ x 41 ¾ x 3 ¾ inches. Courtesy the Artist and Almine Rech.
LONDON.- Almine Rech is presenting Li Qings first solo exhibition with the gallery in London, organized with Jérôme Sans. This exhibition will be on view from February 5 to March 7, 2020. Overrun with mysteries, fake news, innuendos and double meanings, Blow-Up is a visual wandering in which Li Qing, a leading figure of the new generation of Chinese artists born in the 80s, confronts us with different ways of understanding, reading, decoding and interpreting the appearances of reality. From painting to installation, sound pieces to video and photography, his work is a verse of contemporary urban poetry engaging in a new logic of visuality. After his Hitchcockian exhibition Rear Windows at Fondazione Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai (2019), Blow-Up is a new drift inspired by Michelangelo ... More | |
Under the Skin Exhibition.Bruce Museum.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Leaders of the Campaign for the New Bruce announced continuing widespread community support for the $45 million renovation and expansion project that will transform the Greenwich museum of art and science. In July 2019, two exceptional friends of the Bruce Museum agreed to match all new gifts of $10,000 or more and to bring the next $1 million raised to $2 million. The challenge was met by close to 20 generous donors, completing the match in early 2020 and bringing the Campaign to 85% of its fundraising goal for the renovation and construction project. The $1 million challenge was launched by Rebecca Gillan, a member of the Bruce Museum Board of Trustees, and by a second Campaign leader who wishes to remain anonymous. Its wonderful to see such a positive response to this challenge, especially as this support comes from members of the community who have not previously given to the Campaign, says Gillan. I b ... More |
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| | Freeman's to sell notable works by Wharton Esherick from historic Hedgerow Theatre Collection | | Sotheby's presents Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage | | Phillips' overall sales total $908 million in 2019 |
Esherick began designing pieces for the Hedgerow Theatre in exchange for his daughters acting lessons.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Notable works from the historic Hedgerow Theatre by renowned American artist and woodworker Wharton Esherick will come to auction for the first time on March 31 in Philadelphia. Representing decades of creative exchange between the master woodworker and the Theatre, this significant collection leads Freemans forthcoming Design auction. The collectionwhich includes eight of Eshericks earliest Hammer-Handle chairs and the important Thunder Table from 1929celebrates Eshericks lengthy and seminal relationship with the Theatre and demonstrates its considerable influence on his evolution as an artist and craftsman. Freemans will present these exemplary pieces of Pennsylvanias cultural history at auction. Proceeds from the sale will benefit future preservation of Hedgerow Theatre and will assist them in fulfilling their mission as ... More | |
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia OKeeffe, Hand and Wheel. Estimate $300/500,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that they will present property from the collection of artist Juan Hamilton in a dedicated auction in New York on 5 March 2020, which features artworks and personal effects from the estates of Georgia OKeeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as Hamiltons own work. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia OKeeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage will offer 100+ works of art and personal ephemera illuminating the lives and decades-long careers of these celebrated artists from rare paintings, sculpture and photographs, to books, manuscripts, artifacts and memorabilia. Underscoring the importance of this unique collection, many of the works on offer will be shown together for the very first time this spring, having never-before been exhibited publicly or offered at auction. A selection of highlights from across the sale is below. In addition to the items on offer this spring, select works and personal effects ... More | |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Ring. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- In 2019 Phillips overall sales totaled $908 million. Auction sales realized $736 million, with private sales ending the year at $171.8 million and marking a 34% gain from the previous year. Our overall sales total maintains the significant headway Phillips made in 2018, despite a challenging global environment, commented Edward Dolman, Chief Executive Officer. This annual result is a testament to our strategy of assembling sales that reflect current international collecting trends, an uncompromising focus on quality, and increasingly sophisticated digital offerings. The contemporary art market is entering a new territory, due to the significant growth and vibrancy of the middle market, an area in which Phillips continues to be a leading force. It is no longer about focusing in on a small pool of collectors, but rather encouraging a broader range of global clients. Cheyenne Westphal, Global Chairwoman, ... More |
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| | The Snite Museum of Art offers an intimate look at the work of Chinese artist Chao Shao-an | | Koman Fine Art in Vero Beach announces solo exhibition of works by Jeffery C. Becton | | Unique Saxon coin found that has rewritten history of London to be sold at Dix Noonan Webb |
Chao Shao-an, (Chinese, 1905 - 1998), Pomegrante: Seeds of an Open Pomegranate (detail). Ink and pigment on paper. Courtesy of the Artists family.
NOTRE DAME IN.- Chao Shao-an (趙少昂, 1905-1998) lived a momentous life vividly expressed through brush and ink over a nearly eighty-year career as an artist. This intimate exhibition of seventeen works is drawn from the collection of Chao Shao-ans family and feature detailed yet poetic images of the natural world for which the artist developed an international reputation. These album leaf paintings highlight Chao Shao-ans remarkable ability to capture the essence of subtle moments in nature through vibrant brushwork and coloration. The artist came of age in the southern Chinese province of Guangzhou in the early years following the collapse of Chinas last imperial dynasty. During this period of rapid change, Chao began his first apprenticeship in ink painting under one of the three masters of the Lingnan School of painting -- famous for creatively blending international painting methods and materials onto a foundation of traditional Chinese technique. ... More | |
Opening Events Will Benefit The Gifford Youth Achievement Center, Featuring Talks By Museum Curator And Art Advisor Chris Crosman.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- Steve Koman, proprietor of Koman Fine Art in Vero Beach for the past four decades, opened a solo exhibition of the works of Deer Isle, Maine digital montage photographer Jeffery C. Becton, on Tuesday, February 4th. The show will be celebrated with two special events that will benefit the Gifford Youth Achievement Center, including lectures by former Director, Curator, and Museum Educator Chris Crosman at the gallery (2905 Cardinal Drive) on Wednesday, February 5th at 5:30pm; and Saturday, February 8th, at 2:00pm. The Becton show will run through February 15th. Becton, whose traveling retrospective was featured at the Vero Beach Museum of Art in 2017, is widely regarded as a pioneer in the digital revolution, going back to his time as a student in the Graphic Design masters program at Yale University in the 1970s. He has made Deer Isle, Maine his permanent year round residence and studio base since 1983. In addition ... More | |
The coin has on the obverse a diademed bust of Ludica facing right with the legend LUDICA REX MER, while the reverse features the inscription LUN/DONIA/CIVIT in three lines. Ludica reigned for just over a year in 826-7 AD.
LONDON.- A Silver penny of Ludica, a virtually unknown Saxon king of Mercia has been discovered by Andy Hall, while metal detecting in Wiltshire. Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists will offer the coin in a sale of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 10am at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. It is estimated to fetch £10,000-15,000. The coin has on the obverse a diademed bust of Ludica facing right with the legend LUDICA REX MER, while the reverse features the inscription LUN/DONIA/CIVIT in three lines. Ludica reigned for just over a year in 826-7 AD. Found at Coombe Bissett, in Wiltshire in January 2016 during a one off organised visit on farmland, the coin was buried 3-4 inches deep in a rotted down stubble field using an XP Deus ... More |
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Exhibition at SALT Beyoğlu offers a new interpretation of the Bauhaus
ISTANBUL.- One hundred years after its foundation, bauhaus imaginista offers a new interpretation of the Bauhaus as a globally connected institution and as a proposition of modernity, of the kind that drew its impulse from encounters and exchanges with various cultures. Consisting of an exhibition in four chapters along with a series of publications, panel discussions and symposiums, bauhaus imaginista is represented by the chapter Moving Away at SALT Beyoğlu in Istanbul. Moving Away, which details the diverse approaches to Bauhaus in separate sociopolitical contexts, is accompanied by the Collected Research on the projects international explorations and the Pedagogical Adaptations in Turkey, an archival display and a workshop program by SALT for further introduction of local cases to this final edition. The Bauhaus was founded in Weimar ... More
Andréhn-Schiptjenko exhibits a series of new works by Annika von Hausswolff
PARIS.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko is presenting Oh Mother, What Have You Done, a series of new works by Annika von Hausswolff. Annika von Hausswolff (b.1967) is one of the most influential photographic artists in Sweden and will be the subject of a large solo-exhibition at the Moderna Museet in a few months. She is well known for her carefully arranged images with documentary visual expression. Her images are often based on themes such as power structures, spatiality, psychoanalysis and the absence of human presence, though with traces of human activity. Several of her series of works have been inspired by crime-photography and in this most recent body of work her sources are mainly press and police archives. As of late, von Hausswolff has also been interested in the transition from analogue and digital photography and has worked with the very medium ... More
Solo exhibition of large-scale sculptures by Karyn Olivier explores the emotional weight of monuments
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania presents Karyn Olivier: Everything That's Alive Moves, a solo exhibition of six large-scale sculptures by Philadelphia-based artist Karyn Olivier. Everything Thats Alive Moves offers the rare opportunity to examine the recent trajectories of Oliviers investigation into memorials and monuments, and their relation to issues of citizenship and individual responsibility. The exhibition, on view January 24 through May 10, 2020, builds on several public projects and commissions created by the artist in recent years and continues to revise, rework, and expand on key works from her past. We are thrilled to present the work of local artist Karyn Olivier. Oliviers ability to connect with the community and people through her work is profound, said John McInerney, Interim Director at ICA. ... More
Kehrer Verlag publishes 'Doug's Gym: The Last of Its Kind' by Norm Diamond
DALLAS, TX.- As a physician for almost forty years, Norm Diamond was accustomed to facing death and loss, themes that followed him into his second career as a fine art photographer. In his first book What Is Left Behind (Daylight, 2017), Diamond photographed poignant objects he found at estate sales in Dallas, Texas. In Doug's Gym (Kehrer Verlag, February 25, 2020), Diamond trained his camera on a legendary "no frills" gym that was one of the landmarks of downtown Dallas for 55 years. Owned and operated by the grizzled, cigar smoking Doug Eidd, the gym evoked a bygone era that captivated Diamond. In his artist statement, Diamond writes: "On my first trip to Doug's Gym in downtown Dallas, I climbed a sagging wooden staircase to find a rundown old gym with peeling paint, sagging tin ceiling, and ancient equipment. It was ... More
India Art Fair 2020 closes successful 12th edition
NEW DELHI.- India Art Fair, the leading platform for contemporary and modern art from South Asia, closed its 12th edition on 2 February 2020, amidst strong sales and continued growing confidence in the South Asian art market. The fair was attended by leading gallerists, collectors, artists, museum professionals, philanthropists and students, with exhibitors reporting sales to new collectors entering both the contemporary and modern markets. India Art Fair featured 81 modern, contemporary and institutional exhibitors, an inaugural performance art programme, outdoor projects, artist talks, workshops, book signings and the launch of the second issue of the annual India Art Fair magazine. The fairs commitment to the art ecosystem in South Asia was made prominent through a curated programme throughout the fair duration which highlights audience ... More
Ukraine filmmaker Sentsov meets Trudeau
OTTAWA (AFP).- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a show of support Tuesday for Ukraine by welcoming Oleg Sentsov, a filmmaker and outspoken critic of Russia's annexation of his native Crimea. Trudeau said their sit-down at his parliamentary office aimed to "reiterate our support for Ukraine, our condemnation of Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, its disruptive actions in the region, and its illegal arrests of political prisoners." Sentsov had been held in a Russian jail for the first five years of a 20-year sentence for allegedly planning attacks in Moscow-occupied Crimea. But he was released in a prisoner swap in September and is now based in Kiev and still a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's actions against Ukraine. "It is a true pleasure, an honor to welcome Oleg Sentsov here to Ottawa," Trudeau said, thanking ... More
Major exhibition surveys new directions in figurative painting
LONDON.- Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium brings together a new generation of artists who represent the body in radical ways to tell stories and explore vital social concerns. Presenting for the first time this new direction in painting, the exhibition features ten painters at the heart of this zeitgeist: Michael Armitage, Cecily Brown, Nicole Eisenman, Sanya Kantarovsky, Tala Madani, Ryan Mosley, Christina Quarles, Daniel Richter, Dana Schutz and Tschabalala Self. Painting had its last big hurrah in the 1980s when the stock market boom fuelled the brash brushwork and swagger of Neo-Expressionism. Leading critics were quick to pronounce its death. Through 40 canvases created over the last two decades, Whitechapel Gallerys spring 2020 exhibition surveys the renewed interest in expressive and experimental modes of figuration among painters ... More
World & Ancient Coins January 2020 sales surpass $17 million at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A 1839 5 Pound Victoria Gold Proof from Great Britain, PR64 Deep Cameo PCGS, popularly referred to as the "Una and the Lion, set a world auction record for the type when it sold for $690,000, capping total January sales of World & Ancient Coins at $17,041,022. The results were realized during the Florida United Numismatic Convention (FUN) and the New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC). Heritage realized more than $68.8 million during the two conventions. The sale of the 5 pound Una and the Lion bested the previous world record by more than $100,000, said Cristiano Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics. We are extremely pleased with the sale results across both world and ancient offerings and many exceeded high expectations. The truly stellar example of one of Britain's ... More
Weaver Family Foundation Fund gift supports Cummer Museum leadership
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens announces that long-time supporters J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver have made a $3 million gift through the Weaver Family Foundation Fund to endow the chief curator position. The newly endowed position will be known as the Cummer Museums J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Chief Curator. The position ensures that the Museum will attract top talent into this role in perpetuity, but it also acknowledges the major contributions that Holly Keris, chief curator, has made to the institution over her 17 years with the Museum. The core of an art museum is its artistic program it is this content that engages diverse audiences, that provides the stimulus for educational programming, and, at our institution, that connects gardens and galleries, said Pam D. Paul, chair of the Cummer ... More
Dr. Carol R. Angle creates second endowment at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has received a gift of nearly $1.6 million from Dr. Carol R. Angle. In creating this endowment, the University of Virginia matched this gift by adding additional funds totaling nearly $800,000, through the Universitys Bicentennial Professors Fund. The endowment supports and names the museums academic curator position, the Carol R. Angle Academic Curator. Since its inception in 2012 through funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, M. Jordan Love has held this position. This is the second endowment created by Angle for the Fralin. Now retired in Charlottesville, Angle has made it her mission to address many of the worlds greatest challenges. After spending 45 years at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as a pediatrician, nephrologist and toxicologist, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni died February 05, 1579. Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520/24 - February 5, 1579) was an Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of sixteenth century Italy. In this image: Giovanni Battista Moroni - Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Contessa Lucia Albani Avogadro ('La Dama in Rosso')
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