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Red jacket screen-worn by James Dean in the 1955 film classic Rebel Without A Cause (Palm Beach Modern Auctions image); Right: black & white photo issued by Warner Bros. to publicize the film (public domain image). Auction estimate: $400,000-$600,000. Image courtesy of Palm Beach Modern Auctions.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- If ever there were a reason to book a flight to south Florida, this is it, said auctioneer Rico Baca, referencing the March 3rd auction being hosted by the company he co-owns, Palm Beach Modern Auctions. The 565-lot auction features the finest selection of modern and contemporary art, furniture, decorative accessories and jewelry PBMA has ever offered. The sale also launches the firms new Urban Culture division with a sensational selection led by a now-iconic red jacket James Dean wore in the 1955 film Rebel Without A Cause. The fun begins with a Palm Beach private collection of Pablo Picasso ceramics. The coveted, quirky wares were designed by Picasso during the postwar years at the Madoura pottery studio in Vallauris, France. There are far more collectors of this pottery than there are sellers, Baca noted. Eleven pieces have been consigned, including a Cruchon Hibou pitcher, est. $9,000-$12,000; ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photo taken on February 27, 2018 shows a magazine cover featuring late French singer Claude Francois on a bed in his house-museum at the Moulin de Dannemois (water mill of Dannemois) in Dannemois, south of Paris, where he lived from 1964 to 1978. March 11, 2018 will mark the 40th anniversary of Francois' death. GERARD JULIEN / AFP
| Catholic 'fashion' items to be displayed in New York | | Missing Monet returns home to Japan | | Sotheby's to offer masterworks of Aboriginal art in London |
Editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour arrives on February 26, 2018 at Rome's Palazzo Colonna for a press conference to present the exhibition "Fashion and the Catholic Imagination". Tiziana FABI / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- The Vatican will lend around 40 ecclesiastical works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for an exhibition focusing on the Catholic religion's impact on fashion, organisers said on Monday. Items such as papal rings and crowns worn by various popes from the 18th and 19th centuries will go on display, including precious treasures from the famous Sistine Chapel "never seen outside of the Vatican," organisers said. The exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" will feature items spanning a period of more than 15 papacies. Andrew Bolton, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, said fashion and religion have always inspired and influenced each other. Designer Donatella Versace and Vogue's Anna Wintour were among those ... More | |
The painting -- entitled "Water Lilies: Reflections of a Willow Tree" -- is dated 1916 and depicts bright flowers floating on a lake. AFP PHOTO.
TOKYO (AFP).- A painting by French Impressionist master Claude Monet that belonged to a Japanese collector but was lost for decades after WWII is now back in Tokyo, a museum official said Tuesday. The oil painting, around two metres long and 4.2 metres wide, was unearthed in the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2016 but the discovery had not been made public until now. "The painting was recently returned" to the National Museum of Western Art in the Japanese capital, a spokeswoman told AFP. The painting -- entitled "Water Lilies: Reflections of a Willow Tree" -- is dated 1916 and depicts bright flowers floating on a lake. The museum said it was a study painting for his famous series "Water Lilies" but the work is severely damaged with half of it destroyed. It will be necessary to restore the canvas "with extreme care", the museum said ... More | |
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Fertile Desert, 1992. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Estimate: £60,000-80,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- This March, Sothebys ground-breaking sale of Aboriginal Art will return to London for its third consecutive season. Following strong results in 2015 and 2016, the sale will feature magnificent works which transcend the material and spiritual realms: rare artefacts including shields and ceremonial figures dating from the 18th century onwards will be shown alongside the works of Indigenous masters including Warlimpirringa Tjapaltjarri, Australias best-known Aboriginal artist, and Janangoo Butcher Cherel, who was proclaimed a Living Treasure by the state government of Western Australia in 2004. These will stand alongside seven monumental canvases from Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who shattered the world record for a work by an Australian female artist just last year. Sothebys is the only international auction house outside ... More |
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| German village votes to keep 'Hitler bell' as memorial | | Exhibition of large-scale photographs by Taryn Simon opens at Gagosian Gallery | | D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. opens exhibition of works by Paul Reed |
Picture taken on May 19, 2017 shows a Nazi-era church bell that bears a swastika and the words "All for the Fatherland Adolf Hitler". Uwe Anspach / dpa / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- A German village has decided to keep a contentious Nazi-era church bell that bears a swastika and the words "All for the Fatherland Adolf Hitler", arguing it serves as a reminder of the country's dark past. The parish council of Herxheim voted 10-3 on Monday that the bronze bell from 1934 should remain as "an impetus for reconciliation and a memorial against violence and injustice". The council rejected an offer by the regional Protestant Church to pay for taking down the 240 kilogramme (530 pound) bell and replacing it. A memorial pointing to the bell's history will now be fixed on the heritage-listed church, the Jakobskirche. The village of just 700 people has repeatedly caught national attention for the controversial "Hitler bell" since a former church organist complained about the inscription. Some church-goers were dismayed ... More | |
Taryn Simon, Finance package for the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Baku, Azerbaijan, February 3, 2004, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015. Archival inkjet print & text on archival herbarium paper in mahogany frame, 85 x 73 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches, (215.9 x 186.1 x 7 cm) Edition of 3 + 2APs. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.
ATHENS.- Gagosian is presenting large-scale photographs from the series Paperwork and the Will of Capital by Taryn Simon. Simon is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose work spans photography, sculpture, and performance. Her research-driven approach has produced such impactful bodies of work as The Innocents (2002); An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007); Contraband (2010); and the web-based Image Atlas (2012); as well as The Picture Collection (2013); Birds of the West Indies (201314); and Black Square (2006), an ongoing project about the consequences of human inventions. For Simon, photography has always been a vehicle for larger conceptual ideas. Paired ... More | |
Paul Reed, Intersection VII, 1966, 56 x 45 inches. Acrylic on canvas.
NEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition of 17 works from 1962 to 1967 shows Paul Reed's exploration of color and transparency to achieve movement in evolving series. The earliest works in the exhibition use biomorphic shapes to provide circular movement (1962 to 1964). The forms are then simplified to large geometric forms to explore transparency and color (1964 to 1965). In 1966 grids and bands act as neutral forms to hold color and emphasize the interaction of overlapped colors. These grids then twist and stretch into shaped canvases in 1967. Paul Reed (1919-2015) is one of the six original members of the Washington Color School, which also included Morris Louis (1912-1962), Kenneth Noland (1924-2010), Gene Davis (1920-1985), Thomas Downing (1928-1985), and Howard Mehring (1931-1978). The artists were defined as a school by the 1965 landmark exhibition Washington Color Painters, curated ... More |
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| Krannert Art Museum publishes World on the Horizon catalogue | | Archive of photographer Fritz Henle comes to Texas | | Exhibition of works by Bjarne Melgaard on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac |
World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean, Prita Meier and Allyson Purpura, eds., 2018. © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on behalf of Krannert Art Museum.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Krannert Art Museum has recently published an edited, multi-authored catalogue in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean at the University of Illinois (illinois.edu). The 384-page volume is edited by the co-curators of the exhibitionAllyson Purpura, senior curator and curator of global African art at KAM, and Prita Meier, assistant professor of Art History at New York University. Focusing on eastern and central Africa and the western Indian Ocean world, the catalogues eighteen essays offer compelling new perspectives on the mobile and deeply networked social lives of Swahili objects. The exhibition and catalogue are made possible in part by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The catalogue is distributed through the University of Washington Press. ... More | |
Fritz Henle (American, b. Germany, 19091993), [Nieves Orozco], 1943. Gelatin silver print (contact sheet). Fritz Henle Papers and Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center © The Fritz Henle Estate.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Fritz Henle archive, containing about 180,000 black-and-white negatives, 10,000 color transparencies, 150 contact sheet books, 11 books of magazine clippings and tear sheets and thousands of work prints spanning the photographers six-decade career. The materials were donated by the Henle Archive Trust. Henle (19091993) was one of the most productive and best-known magazine and editorial photographers of the post-war era. Born in Germany, he immigrated to the United States in September 1936, and between 1937 and 1941 his work was featured on the cover of five issues of Life magazine and in more than 50 stories in its pages. Henles photographs were widely published in magazines such as Harpers Bazaar, The Saturday Evening Post, Holiday, Colliers, Look, Town and ... More | |
Installation view of Bjarne Melgaard's Bodyparty (Substance Paintings) at Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac. Photo: Tom Carter.
LONDON.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, is presenting an exhibition in two parts, by Bjarne Melgaard. The physical gallery exhibition, Bodyparty (Substance Paintings) is being displayed in tandem with a pioneering virtual extension, Life Killed My Chihuahua. Bodyparty (Substance Paintings) is an installation of 14 new paintings in the London gallerys Ely Room. This intimate, introspective body of work, straight from the artist's Oslo studio, reflects on his complex relationship with past and present. The series, shown here for the first time, began when the artist returned to Norway from the US in summer 2017. The works were revisited and completed in the winter of 2017 with a second layer that challenges the first. This incorporation of a change in stylistic approach embodies both the effects of passing time and the duality present in the title. Bodyparty, is what Melgaard sees as a sexy allusion to the body and ... More |
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| Kunsthalle Wien opens first comprehensive retrospective in Europe dedicated to Ydessa Hendeles | | Burning in Water presents works by Louise Bourgeois and Günther Förg | | Lévy Gorvy opens exhibition of portraits by French artist Martial Raysse |
Installation view: Ydessa Hendeles. Death to Pigs, Kunsthalle Wien 2018, Photo: Stephan Wyckoff: Detail from THE BIRD THAT MADE THE BREEZE TO BLOW, 20062011, © Ydessa Hendeles, Courtesy the artist.
VIENNA.- Death to Pigs is the first comprehensive retrospective in Europe dedicated to Canadian artist Ydessa Hendeles. Her practice is characterised by the fusion of experiences, accounts, and interpretations. Her compositions develop independent narratives and convey reflections on belonging, otherness, and exclusion. Her work tells a history of the 20th century that reflects on how personal as well as national identities have been established over time. Hendeless work is closely linked to her own biography as the daughter of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Canada in the early 1950s. The narratives she develops in her artworks are both universal and specificthey deal with subjects such as loss and alienation, and invite viewers to find or forge a connection. In her artistic practice, Hendeles not ... More | |
What is the Shape of this Problem by Louise Bourgeois. ©Burning in Water.
NEW YORK, NY.- Burning in Water - New York presents Louise Bourgeois x Günther Förg: To Unravel A Torment. The exhibition includes Louise Bourgeois What Is The Shape of This Problem? portfolio, composed of nine diptychs, installed in accordance with the artists original instructions. Additional works by Louise Bourgeois include a unique self-portrait of the artist on vintage linen, while the rear gallery is devoted to Günther Förgs WWM suite of large-scale prints. Produced in 1999, What Is The Shape of This Problem? - exhibited here in its entirety - reflects a transitional moment in Louise Bourgeois career and life. The series has precedents stretching back to Bourgeois earliest bodies of work, but also portends the trajectory of her artistic output in the final decade of her life. Louise Bourgeois interest in the print medium was lifelong. She inherited an early appreciation for the medium from her f ... More | |
Martial Raysse, QUOI ! VAN RINJ NON NON VAN DER ECKHOUT 2017 Acrylic on canvas mounted to wood. © Martial Raysse, 2018. Image courtesy of Lévy Gorvy.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy, cofounders of Lévy Gorvy, recently announced that the gallery will represent French artist Martial Raysse in the United States. A key figure within the European neoavant-garde, Raysse is a self-taught artist who first achieved recognition as a painter in the late 1950s in Nice, collaborating with such peers as Arman, Yves Klein, and Ben Vautier. Acclaimed as an antecedent to Pop, the bold work of Raysse is often exhibited alongside that of such American and British artists as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Richard Hamilton, among others. Portraiture has been an important aspect of Raysses practice throughout his career, and has been central to the relevance of his work through the decades, even after his departure from the art world in the 1970s. In 1960, Raysse became one of the founding members of Nouveau ... More |
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Ader Nordmann auction house will offer five rare drawings by Outsider artist Marcel Storr
PARIS.- On March 23, Ader-Nordmann auction house will offer five rare drawings by Marcel STORR (1911-1976). Unknown to the public when he was alive, his work came to light in the 2000s when Storr was recognised as a genius among the Outsider Art community. His work was publicly exhibited for the first time in Paris at the Halle Saint-Pierre in 2001, in Metzs Centre Pompidou and at the Hayward Gallery of London in 2013. From December 2011 to March 2012, a solo exhibition was organised at the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin in Paris, which was welcomed by the media: One of the biggest cultural successes Paris has ever known, French newspaper Libération had reported. Storrs difficult life began at the age of three when he was abandoned by his mother. He went from foster home to foster home, mostly in farms where he was regularly mistreated. However ... More
Michael Werner Gallery opens an exhibition of works from the 1980s by Per Kirkeby
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of works from the 1980s by Per Kirkeby. With a selection of more than twenty paintings and bronze sculptures, this exhibition explores an important period in Kirkebys oeuvre, one which has not previously been shown in such depth. The foundational importance of the natural sciences to Kirkebys painting is well established: the artist traveled extensively in the Arctic and Greenland in the early 1960s while working towards his masters degree in geology. Equally important to his development as a painter are the many experiments with architecture and performance Kirkeby carried out during his student days and into the 1970s. At Copenhagens Experimental Art School, several of Kirkebys Fluxus-inspired activities seized upon notions of shelter ... More
Hammersely's "Home run" among several new world auction records set at LAMA
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions set a new world auction record for a painting by Frederick Hammersley on Sunday, February 25, 2018, after the artists 1967-68 oil on canvas, aptly named Home run, soared to sell for $200,000. The continued popularity of Hammersley and his peers from the California Hard Edge school of abstract painters reveals that the market appeal has broadened to an international following. The top three bidders on Home run were all from outside California. The new record is exactly double the previous world auction record of $100,000, which had been set in 2015 (also at LAMA). As interest in California painters continues to attract worldwide attention, LAMA is quickly becoming the center of attention for these artists. Peter Loughrey, founder of LAMA, states "we have always maintained that local sellers don't need to send ... More
Lobby Gallery of 499 Park Avenue exhibits paintings by New York artist Tadasky
NEW YORK, NY.- An important exhibition of optical-geometric paintings by New York artist Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama) opened in the Lobby Gallery at 499 Park Avenue in cooperation with D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. Tadasky: Series D is on view February 27 through July 28, 2018, as part of the ongoing series of exhibitions focused on significant contemporary painters of the late 20th and early 21st century. The Lobby Gallery is open to the public from 10am - 6pm, weekdays. 499 Park Avenue, originally designed by Pei, Cobb Freed & Partners Architects (PCF), is owned by American Realty Advisors, and managed by Hines, the international real estate firm. Through their support of this exhibition program, the owners and managers of 499 Park actively contribute to the cultural community as an expression of ongoing commitment to excellence in the visual ... More
34 visual artists chosen for major crime prevention program
SYDNEY.- 34 visual artists, including two indigenous artists, an artist from Mexico, interstate and local and emerging artists will be involved in one of the largest street art projects in Sydney when they paint 23 walls - around 1,500 square metres - in Sydneys Caringbah as part of one of Sydneys largest crime prevention programs to stop graffiti, tagging and vandalism. The project is also being keenly watched by four other councils in Sydney. The project called Walk the Walls (March 2 4, 2018) will be a three day festival where people are encouraged to view the artists at work as they begin their large-scale murals. Walk the Walls is curated by Phibs the nom de plume of Tim De Haan, a notable street artist. This is a joint project between the NSW Department of Justice and Sutherland Shire Council. Hazelhurst Art Centre is supporting this festival with its own Walk the Walls ... More
Tribal and Native American artifacts in Helm Auction's internet-only sale, April 14th
EL CAJON, CA.- More than 450 quality lots of tribal and Native American artifacts, spanning multiple categories and continents, will come up for bid in a Spring Fling online auction slated for Saturday, April 14th by Helm Auction, Inc. All lots may be viewed and bid on now, via the platforms LiveAuctioneers.com and iCollector.com, plus on Helms site, live.helmauction.com. The auction features American Indian art, prints and paintings, prehistoric and pre-Colombian antiquities from North, Central and South America and Europe, to include arrowheads, axes, discoidals, birdstones, pipes, celts, masks, carved figures and other stone tools, plus a collection of stone artifacts from the midwestern United States and California, and Western collectibles. Also offered are Native American and Mexican crafts, such as baskets, Navajo weavings, Pueblo pottery, beadwork, kachina ... More
Atlantic Center for the Arts Executive Director announced
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL.- The Board of Trustees of Atlantic Center for the Arts announced the appointment of Nancy Lowden Norman as Executive Director. A 22-year veteran of the organization, she leads the vision of one of the top nonprofit artists' communities in the world, with input from stakeholders including Trustees, its national artistic advisory board, members and the community at large. Nancys leadership and history with Atlantic Center for the Arts are the perfect combination to expand our vision and programming in our local community and beyond, said Mark Beckwith, Chair of the Board of Trustees. Lowden Norman oversees daily operations and artistic and fiscal management, and is responsible for a premier residency program, management of Arts on Douglas Fine Arts & Collectibles Gallery and diverse and quality community programs offered ... More
A tribute to German Modern paintings and design is highlighted by Jason Jacques Gallery, at TEFAF, 2018
NEW YORK, NY.- A captivating presentation of modern paintings, important design, and ceramic art will be front and center with the Jason Jacques Gallery at this years The European Fine Art Fair, TEFAF, in Maastricht, Netherlands, from March 10th to 18th. In addition to Young Eagle, a rare 1936 painting by Josef Albers, the gallery will display a selection of Op Art paintings by Richard Anuszkiewicz and Victor Vasarely. A rare and engaging dining suite of Anthroposophical furniture from the 1920s - which remained in the family of the original owners until 2016 - will be exhibited alongside selection of sculptures spanning 50 years by Beate Kuhn and contemporary ceramics by Anne Marie Laureys and Gerald Weigel. The paintings will explore the legacy of the Bauhaus movement and modern German art. Josef Albers, a German-born artist, taught at the Weimar ... More
Phillips to open a landmark exhibition of Lauren Adriana's jewels
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announces Lauren Adriana, Jewels Now, a landmark exhibition of Lauren Adrianas work, taking place in New York and London. Lauren Adriana is a leading voice in a new generation of fine jewellers, creating unique, bold, abstract jewels in a dazzling array of gemstones. Her commitment to abstraction over naturalism sets her jewels apart from others and creates the graphic and sculptural quality that is becoming Lauren Adrianas signature. Phillips exhibition will open to the public in New York from 8-14 March at 450 Park Avenue, before travelling to London, where it will be on view from 20-25 March at 30 Berkeley Square. This immersive, selling exhibition of 50 jewels is the culmination of two years planning and spans five years of work. It comprises new jewels created specifically for the show, but also past work, with jewels privately ... More
The Noguchi Museum opens two exhibitions devoted to Isamu Noguchi's Akari light sculptures
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- The Noguchi Museum presents two exhibitions devoted to Isamu Noguchis iconic Akari light sculptures, the lightweight, collapsible paper lanterns with which the artist remained deeply engaged from 1951 until the end of his life. Akari: Sculpture by Other Means will include over 100 lamps, representing about forty individual models, as well as a substantial selection of archival materials; Akari Unfolded: A Collection by YMER&MALTA will present a selection of 26 Akari-inspired lamp designs created by this innovative French design studio. On view at the Museum from February 28, 2018, through January 27, 2019, the two exhibitions will give life to Noguchis almost limitless ambitions for these luminous paper lanterns, which expand the boundaries and definitions of sculpture. Noguchi Museum Acting Director Jennifer Lorch states, ... More
Mayfair dealers Charles Ede to unveil rare 2nd-3rd century AD Roman ivory relief at TEFAF Maastricht
LONDON.- Charles Ede will unveil this rare Roman carved ivory relief dating to the 2nd-3rd century AD as the centrepiece of their TEFAF Maastricht display from March 10-18. I dont recall such an ivory piece of this quality and size being on the market for a long while, says the firms managing director Martin Clist. Depicting a drunken Papa Silenos supported by two naked satyrs accompanied by a torch-lit procession before the temple with the palm tree in the background, the scene is complete with figures in a frenzied dance, while a woman sleeps to the left of the view. Describing the 9.5 x 15.5cm piece as a scene of extraordinary intensity, Clist believes it could have come from a piece of furniture or a casket. The preservation of ancient ivory is uncommon, as an organic material it can easily decay. The material ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator John Tenniel was born February 28, 1820. Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 - 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).In this image: John Tenniel, A Conspiracy, oil on panel, August 1850. Private collection, UK.
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