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The sale, which runs from March 14th through 30th, consists of more than 65 Chinese silk robes.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Asia Week New York opens on March 16, Lark Mason Associates will offer up a trio of sales on iGavelAuctions.com, the likes of which are certain to attract competitive bidding from museum curators, collectors, and connoisseurs of all persuasions. Though all three sales offer significant lots, the pièce de résistance is Property from an American Collector, Part II. A private single owner collection of this magnitude and importance has not appeared at auction in many years, says Lark Mason. The sale includes magnificent traditional Chinese court robes and rare examples from many other cultures. The sale, which runs from March 14th through 30th, consists of more than 65 Chinese silk robes, including an 18th century Chinese Imperial Brown Embroidered Silk Semi-formal Dragon Robe Jifu, (Estimate: $30,000-50,000); a 19th century Chinese Dark Blue Daoist Brocade Theater Robe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day USC Fisher Museum of Art is presenting Mulyana: Modular Utopia, the Indonesian artistâs first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition is an introduction to Mulyanaâs large kinetic environments composed of intricately constructed, knit modules of marine life sculptures that vividly portray an unadulterated underwater world. Through the beauty and wonder of his artworks, Mulyana hopes to instill a new consciousness of shared responsibility to protect the environment.
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| The quality of content at ARCOmadrid 2023 seduces collectors and professionals | | Sotheby's to present 'The World of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman' | | Almine Rech Paris opens Ha Chong-Hyun's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery |
ARCOmadrid 2023 estimates over 95,000 visitors in total.
MADRID.- ARCOmadrid 2023 closed the doors on its 42nd edition with a positive balance sheet and strong commercial pace. The quality and relevance of the galleries and art programmes at this years edition drew quality national and international collectors. A climate of optimism exuded at this years fair cementing confidence in the market, translating into sales and acquisitions by collectors and various public institutions who have incorporated new pieces into their museums and collections. ARCOmadrid, which enjoyed the commitment of the Royal Family again this year with their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain presiding the inauguration on 23rd February, estimates over 95,000 visitors in total, surpassing the pre-pandemic figures. Similarly, there was a high standard of the professional attendance which mobilised around 38,000 professionals from all over the world. This year the International ... More | |
1958: American actor Joanne Woodward holds her Oscar statuette while sitting next to husband, American actor Paul Newman, during the Governors Ball, an Academy Awards party held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California. Woodward won the Best Actress Oscar for director Nunnally Johnsons, The Three Faces of Eve. (Photo by Darlene Hammond/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the early 1950s, two young aspiring actors arrived in New York to fulfill lifelong dreams of taking center stage. Shortly thereafter in 1953, Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman were cast in the Broadway production of William Inges Picnic, sparking what would become a decades-long romance and cementing the stars as Hollywoods golden couple. The two would team up again four years later to film The Long, Hot Summer a time which Paul fondly recounted in his recently published memoir, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, in which Joanne and I could do what we longed for years to do in public, as well as put on screen what had ... More | |
Ha Chong-Hyun, Conjunction 21-18, 2021. Oil on hemp cloth, 59 x 29 1/2 in.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris, Matignon, is presenting Ha Chong-Hyun's forth solo exhibition with the gallery, which opened on February 23, 2023 and run through April 1, 2023. Ha Chong-Hyuns name as it is known in English is emblematic of his place within modern Korean history. The consonant ㅈ in his given name that follows his surname Ha (하) is far closer to the j sound rather than the ch. Under the current revised romanization of Korean that went into effect in the year 2000, his name would have been spelled Ha Jong-Hyun. But with McCune-Reischauer, which was used in Korea since 1937, becoming the official system from 1984 until 2000, Ha would have adopted the spelling as we know him by today. It is not that I have any interest in proposing a new spelling for Has name, but for those who do not speak Korean, I wonder if we could, in the space of this text, get to know the sound, tone, and te ... More |
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| National Museum of Women in the Arts to reopen October 21, 2023, after transformative renovation | | Olafur Eliasson and Robert Macfarlane selected for major landmark artwork for Cumbrian coast | | Mississippi Museum of Art announces acquisition of major collection of quilts from Kohler Foundation |
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, 1937; Oil on Masonite, 30 x 24 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of the Honorable Clare Boothe Luce; © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Image by Google.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in Arts, the worlds first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists, reopens its extensively renovated building on October 21, 2023. The transformed museum will feature new exhibition spaces, re-envisioned public programming areas, improved amenities and increased accessibility for visitors at its historic home at 1250 New York Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C. In addition to an expansive reinstallation of the collection, NMWA will present an inaugural exhibition, The Skys the Limit, featuring powerful monumental sculpture and immersive installations by a dozen contemporary women artists, in an innovative presentation not possible prior to the renovation. NMWA has a distinctive role in the art world. As both a museum ... More | |
Portrait of Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Brigitte Lacombe, 2016. © 2016 Olafur Eliasson Studio.
SILECROFT.- A new landmark artwork by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson in collaboration with British writer Robert Macfarlane has been selected for the Cumbrian coastline in North West England. The artwork - which would be Eliassons first permanent outdoor artwork in the UK - was chosen from designs by four internationally acclaimed creative teams. Provisionally named Your daylight destination, the winning artwork was developed by Studio Olafur Eliasson (SOE) in close collaboration with Macfarlane after a series of exploratory visits in 2021/2022. The design, which is proposed for a site near Silecroft, uses the beach as a stage for an expansive artwork utilising the daily tides, sea water and light. The proposal was commissioned as part of a new area wide art programme for Copeland entitled Deep Time: Commissions for the Lake District Coast. Deep Time launches in summer 2023 and features seven new permanent artworks, a series of new pieces of writing, an artist residency ... More | |
Willie White (1910 2000), Dinosaur Eating Alligator by a Planet and a Rocket Ship, ca. 1987. Marker ink on posterboard. Collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS. 2022.6.1
JACKSON, MS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art today announced its 2022 acquisitions which include a significant collection of quilts by crafters from Mississippi and beyond, along with works by Randy Hayes, Shani Peters, Edgar Praus, and Willie White. The 131 quilts generously gifted through the Kohler Foundation, Inc. greatly enhance MMAs holdings of quilts by African Americans. MMA Director Betsy Bradley said, We are thrilled to be the beneficiary of the Kohler Foundation, Inc.s extraordinary generosityreceiving this major gift of works assembled by Roland Freeman puts MMA at the national forefront of African American quilt collections. This expands and enriches our already important collection of quilts from Port Gibson and Gwendolyn Magee, among others. Known as one of the 20th centurys most important documentarians of Black American culture, Roland L. Freeman (b.1936) worked as a stringer ... More |
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| Unrecorded Anglo-Chinese treasure comes to auction | | Red 1951 Ford Convertible and 1940s Ford Monarch dealer sign to headline Miller & Miller's upcoming auction | | Public Art Fund opens Ethiopian photographer Aïda Muluneh's international, multi-city exhibition |
This particular vessel, standing 13cm high combines a Kraak blue and white porcelain tea bowl from the reign of the Wanli emperor (15731620) with a strapwork and openwork silver mount of a type that was fashionable from c.1580-1600.
LONDON.- A very rare Elizabethan silver and porcelain goblet fashioned by an English goldsmith using a tea bowl imported from Ming China comes for sale at auction in London next month. The previously unrecorded piece is expected to sell for £6000-8000 at Chiswick Auctions on March 23. Chiswicks silver specialist John Rogers had been excited when sent an image of the tiny goblet via email. He had visited the sellers home in Hammersmith the next day and was happy to confirm the discovery of an important and valuable piece. At a time when Europeans poured and drank from relatively crude stonewares and earthenwares, snow white porcelain imported from China was hugely expensive in 16th century Europe. The handful of pieces that made the journey to England ... More | |
Ford Monarch sign: Scarce 1940s Canadian Ford Monarch porcelain dealer sign with bullnose ends, quite rare, 45 ¼ inches by 74 ½ inches and boasting exceptional color and gloss (est. CA$12,000-$15,000).
NEW HAMBURG.- The Ford brand will take center stage in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online-only Petroliana & Advertising auction planned for Saturday, March 11th, beginning at 9 am Eastern time. The top two expected lots are a 1951 Ford convertible, Carnival Red, an excellent survivor car; and a scarce 1940s Canadian Ford Monarch porcelain dealer sign. The 1951 Ford convertible retains the original 239 cubic inch flathead V8 engine with two-barrel carburetor and a three-speed manual transmission, with a Borg-Warner overdrive. Features include a deluxe radio and heater, rocker moldings, factory signals and spotlight, front bumper guard and backup light. Its a mostly original low-mileage survivor with a straight-fitting body. Professionally repainted in Carnival Red, the car also ... More | |
Aïda Muluneh, To speak in silence, 2022 Artwork by Aïda Muluneh.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 1, 2023, Public Art Fund will debut This is where I am, an exhibition of twelve new photographs by Aïda Muluneh on over 330 JCDecaux bus shelters across New York, Boston, and Chicago in the United States, and Abidjan in Côte dIvoire. The exhibition will mark the first time that Public Art Fund presents artwork on the African continent, simultaneously expanding the organization's partnership with JCDecaux beyond the United States. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mulunehs practice focuses on her cultural heritage as a way to explore themes of history, politics, sense of place, and other pressing issues such as the climate crisis. For this new series, Muluneh drew inspiration from Ethiopian poet Tsegaye Gabre-Medhins This is where I am. Written in 1974the year that marked both Mulunehs birth and the start of the Ethiopian Revolutionthe poem and the resulting body of photograp ... More |
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| Compass once owned by Daniel Boone navigates to top of $1.46 million at Heritage Auctions | | Howard Finster's rarely seen early wood creations now shown at Paradise Garden | | Paintings of Titanic disaster site, Mark Twain's typewriter headline Heritage auction |
Daniel Boone: Personally-Owned Compass with Provenance. Imaged by Heritage Auctions, HA.com.
DALLAS, TX.- A Compass Personally Owned by Daniel Boone, with provenance sold for $109,375, more than five times its pre-auction estimate, to lead Heritage Auctions Americana & Political Signature® Auction to $1,465,666 Feb. 25-26. This compass is an exceedingly significant piece of American history, says Curtis Lindner, Americana & Political Director at Heritage Auctions. Daniel Boone was a pioneer, a frontiersman, whose accomplishments included exploration and settling of Kentucky, which at the time was beyond the borders of the 13 Colonies. His curiosity and courage and at times, this compass allowed him to explore the world around him. Included among the provenance that accompanies the compass are two newspaper articles from the 1930s that tell the story of the transfer of the compass from Boone to a young friend named Abraham Miller, who was taught to shoot by Boone. When Miller, at just 12 years old, ... More | |
A toy car created by Howard Finster in the exhibit "Howard Finster Before He Painted: Wood Creations from the 50s to 70s," on view at Paradise Garden through May 7.
SUMMERVILLE, GA.- "Howard Finster Before He Painted: Wood Creations from the 50s to 70s, showcasing a little-known side of this creative powerhouse long before he became one of the 20th centurys best-known folk artists, has gone on view at Paradise Garden through May 7. The exhibit in the Museum & Visitor Center that welcomes guests to Rev. Finsters 4-acre folk art environment in Northwest Georgia includes wooden mantel clocks, toys, dollhouse furniture and more pieces handcrafted by Finster. Finster created an astounding 46,991 numbered artworks, most of them paintings, between 1976 and his death in 2001. Though many familiar with his bigger-than-life story assume that a fully formed artist was born the day in 1976 when a God-like voice commanded that he should paint sacred art, Finster was then already an accomplished woodworker. ... More | |
[Mark Twain]. Samuel L. Clemens's Personally Owned Williams No. 6 Typewriter.
DALLAS, TX.- A pair of paintings by an artist who was aboard a ship that tried to rescue survivors from the Titanic sold for $112,500, and a typewriter that belonged to one of the most popular and successful authors reached $106,250 to lead Heritage Auctions Historical Manuscripts Signature® Auction to $1,926,019 Feb. 22. A Set of Two Colin Campbell Cooper Paintings Created While Onboard the Carpathia During the Rescue of Titanic Survivors is by the artist who, along with his wife Emma, left New York aboard the RMS Carpathia, headed for Flume Austria-Hungary. In the early morning of April 15, 1912, the Carpathia received a signal indicating that Titanic had struck an iceberg and was in need of assistance. The Carpathia changed course to offer assistance, arriving two hours after the Titanic sunk. As crew from the Carpathia rescued survivors from the frigid Atlantic, Cooper watched from the deck, where he created these paintings ... More |
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Joel Mesler: âUntitled (Play the Hits)â | London | March 2023
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First private contemporary art foundation in Madagascar to open in April
ANTANANARIVO.- The first private contemporary art foundation in Madagascar and the first cultural institution of this scale in the country, Fondation H will inaugurate its new, entirely free, 2,200 m2 venue on April 28, 2023, in the city center of the capital of Madagascar. Fondation H was founded in Antananarivo in 2017 on the initiative of entrepreneur and patron Hassanein Hiridjee, who is convinced that art and culture have a strong social impact and enable a critical opening to the world. For the last 6 years Fondation H has been running programs to support artists from Africa and its diasporas in their careers, facilitate public access to art and actively participated in the development and structuring of the art scene in the Indian Ocean. In a historic building in downtown Antananarivo, built a century ago and completely renovated and ... More
"Charles Arnoldi: Deep Cuts" now on view at Praz-Delavallade in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since his acclaimed four decade retrospective at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in 2019, Praz-Delavallade has opened Deep Cuts, an exhibition of monumental new chainsaw paintings and sculptures by the Venice legend Charles Arnoldi. Charles Arnoldis fascination with wood and sculpting raw materials began in the early 1970s when he would gather truckloads of branches from large ranches in Santa Barbara to build his first Stick Paintings, three-dimensional wall works forming sculptural line drawings in positive space to challenge the notion of what a painting could be from a material and spatial perspective. Those works, which were featured in the historic Documenta V exhibition, curated by Harald Szeemann, led Arnoldi into other experiments with material and perspective. ... More
Dieter Durinck's exhibition "Bootleg Paintings" now on view at Kunsthal Gent
GENT.- Kunsthal Gent presents Bootleg Paintings, an exhibition by Ghent artist Dieter Durinck. With a series of some 40 green works from recent years, Durinck pays critical homage to different eras and movements within 20th-century painting. Works by well-known and lesser-known masters were reinterpreted on new formats and overlaid with a green colour, a reference to the green computer screens of the 1980s and to the typical American night scenes of the First Gulf War. It also unwittingly echoes Thomas Ruffs famous series of night shots that refer to that same war. The series is also a personal exercise into different possibilities within the act of painting. It functions both as a tribute to the history of painting, and as a veiled critique of how knowledge of this history is acquired mainly through reproductions. Bootleg Paintings contains ... More
Noonans to sell the medals of one of the highest scoring British aces of the Great War who wanted to fight another day
LONDON.- An outstanding group of 11 medals that were awarded to Air Commodore P. F. Fullard of the Royal Air Force and Royal Flying Corps, who at only 20-years-old, had 40 confirmed aerial victories in just eight months during 1917 and is likely to have had many more if he hadnt broken his leg in a football match will be offered at Noonans in a sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. They are being sold by a collector and are estimated to fetch £40,000-60,000. As Christopher Mellor-Hill, Head of Client Liaison at Noonans commented: We are very pleased to be selling the prestigious medals of Philip Fletcher Fullard, who by the end of the Great War was the seventh ... More
Harry Philbrick to lead The Fabric Workshop and Museum as Interim Executive Director
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Board of Directors of The Fabric Workshop and Museum announced that Harry Philbrick has been appointed Interim Executive Director, effective March 1, 2023. Philbrick will replace Christina Vassallo, who will be leading Cincinnatis Contemporary Arts Center moving forward after three impactful years at FWM. Philbrick joins FWM after founding Philadelphia Contemporary in 2016 and serving as its Founding Director and CEO. Harry Philbricks diverse arts background and leadership in the Philadelphia arts community make him an excellent choice to guide FWM as we complete our strategic planning process and begin the process of searching for a permanent Executive Director, says FWM Board President Maja Paumgarten Parker. We are thrilled to have him join our team and are eager to see ... More
University Archives announces Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia sale
WILTON, CONN.- An eclectic sale featuring items signed by historical luminaries as diverse as theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, Frances King Louis VII and Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere is scheduled for Wednesday, March 15th, by University Archives. The online-only Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia auction will begin promptly at 11 am Eastern time. All 418 lots in the catalog are up for viewing and bidding now (on the University Archives website: www.UniversityArchives.com), plus LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will be taken, but theres no live gallery bidding. Included is an exceptional array of U.S. presidential material from George Washington to Barack Obama. This auction also features unique science material from Einstein, Hooke, Feynman and others, as well as a marvelous ... More
'Elyria' review: The past catches up to them, outside Cleveland
NEW YORK, NY.- Watching an actor steal a show is one of the absolute thrills of live performance but the purest method of that thievery has nothing to do with scenery-chewing, grand solo moments or sparkly razzmatazz. Its nimble and cat-burglar quiet, not demanding attention, not meaning to upstage. As a doctor named Charu in Deepa Purohits new play Elyria, set in 1982 Ohio, Bhavesh Patel has the element of surprise very much in his favor. Charu is a mild, conformist, ordinary man and in his muted earth tones, outfitted for obscurity. In his first scene, he arrives home from the hospital, pours himself a bowl of cornflakes, takes the last of the milk, has an unremarkable conversation with his homemaker wife. Hes a remote presence, lost in his own thoughts. Yet every beat and pulse of him has, for the audience, a subdued magnetism. ... More
Review: In Hansberry's prescient 'sign,' the sin of apathy
NEW YORK, NY.- Its hard to imagine how someone dying of cancer could write, as Lorraine Hansberry did in a hospital journal, that comfort has come to be its own corruption. Despite her condition, she thought she should be on the front lines again, resisting decline and fighting injustice. But actually, she had never stopped doing those things. The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window, which opened on Broadway in October 1964 and closed the following January, two days before her death at 34, is proof. An indictment of what one of its characters calls ostrich-ism the great sad withdrawal from the affairs of men the play was, and remains, as brilliant and pugnacious a punch against liberal inertia as any thrown in real life. What it isnt, quite, is coherent, as the revival that opened Monday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music makes clear in making ... More
Review: A blunt new 'Lohengrin' at the Met stars a shining knight
NEW YORK, NY.- Directors love Richard Wagners operas, which infuse the suggestive sketchiness of parables into clearly conceived plots and characters. They offer both strong bones and flexibility. Lohengrin, about an anxious and divided society into which arrives a figure with magical powers and secrets, has recently been placed in settings as varied as a laboratory, a classroom and a neo-fascist town square. And, on Sunday at the Metropolitan Opera, in a dark, blunt mixture of pre-modern and post-apocalyptic elements. Directed by François Girard, the production suffers from a facile childrens-theater color scheme, but boasts a shining musical performance from the orchestra and the two leading singers. At the Met in 1998, Robert Wilson distilled Lohengrin into a vision of hovering bars of light and glacially shifting gestures. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian-Swiss painter Oskar Kokoschka was born March 01, 1886. Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 - 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this image: Installation view "Oskar Kokoschka. Humanist and Rebel"© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014. Photo: Marek Kruszewski.
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