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Andrew Litten at his studio in Cornwall. (Artwork details) Ventriloquist, 2021, Oil on canvas, 74 3/4 x 66 7/8 in. (170 x 210 cm).
LONDON.- In 2020 Gallery Founder Jean-David Malat organised an open call exhibition entitled Isolation Mastered specifically to support emerging artists across the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. Cornish painter Andrew Litten was one of the first artists chosen for the exhibition. The selection committee was unanimously impressed with his paintings. The members - key figures in the art world - felt that through his work Litten had captured the physical and emotional fragility exposed by the pandemic in a raw and visceral way. During the exhibition last July, Littens work clearly struck a chord with the visitors as well, so consequently the gallery offered him a solo show. Entitled Fragile Together, the exhibition brings together Littens recent large-scale figurative paintings, sculptures, and mixed media works on paper presenting a multi-faceted body of work that reflects our shared human vulnerability. Author, critic and curator An ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Spring Art Auction | Fine, Folk, Fun sale on Thu, May 13, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features visual treats from around the world, and back in time to present day - fine art, folk art, and fun artsy objects. Paintings. Sculptures. Textiles. In this image: 10th C. Viking Silver Bracelet Orupgard-Type. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
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| Egypt discovers 250 tombs, 4,200 years old | | Eli Wilner uses crowdfunding for museum frame restoration program | | The Embassy of Libya, the British Museum and HMRC collaborate to return a rare, ancient funerary statue |
Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said one tomb dating back to the Old Kingdom had faint remains of hieroglyphic inscriptions and a chamber for "sacrifices".
CAIRO (AFP).- Egyptian archaeologists have discovered around 250 tombs in the country's southern province of Sohag, dating back about 4,200 years, the antiquities ministry said Tuesday. The graves "include some with a well or several burial wells and other cemeteries with a sloping corridor that ends with a burial room," the ministry said in a statement. They range in age "from the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Ptolemaic period," it added. The Old Kingdom, spanning around 500 years, ended in 2200 BC, while Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty lasted for 300 years an ended with the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC. Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said one tomb dating back to the Old Kingdom had faint remains of hieroglyphic inscriptions and a chamber for "sacrifices". Mohamed Abdel-Badie, a senior antiquities official who led the excavation, said pottery and ... More | |
Eli Wilner & Company craftsman restoring an American period frame, circa 1850s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company is using the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to raise money to support their ongoing grant programs that assist museums across the country with frame restoration projects. Over the past decade Eli Wilner & Company has worked with private donors to provide fully-funded and partially-funded grants to dozens of American museums and nonprofit cultural institutions. Using crowdfunding technology they will be able to expand this program even further. Frame restoration projects are often among the last initiatives considered for inclusion in limited conservation budgets, especially during the past year with Covid-related revenue losses. This funding will allow the recipient museums to address frame restoration needs that might otherwise linger for years to come. Eli Wilner & Company is raising $100,000 which will be awarded to American museums or non-profit cultural institutions by a panel of ... More | |
The statue has now been transferred to the Libyan Embassy.
LONDON.- The British Museum and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have collaborated with the Embassy of Libya to assist in the return of a rare and striking 2nd century BC funerary statue from Cyrene. The statue was seized by Border Force officials at Heathrow airport several years ago having been illicitly imported into the United Kingdom to be offered for sale. In 2013 specialists at the British Museum were asked to assist in the identification of the statue. Museum staff instantly alerted HMRC to the importance of the statue noting that only a handful of these sculptural types are found in museum or private collections outside of Libya. The fresh surface of the statue was characteristic of marble that had only been out of the soil for a few years. This suggested that the statue had only recently been illegally excavated and exported from its country of origin, possibly following the upheavals of 2011. The Museum gave evidence for the pro ... More |
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| MSU Broad Art Museum presents world premiere musical performances in "Songs From the Deep" virtual event | | Hindman to present biannual Antiquities & Ancient Art Auction this May | | Partygoers on the art circuit end their hibernation |
Jenny Kendler: The Long Goodbye installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Eat Pomegranate Photography.
EAST LANSING, MI.- Artists Jenny Kendler and Andrew Bearnot join forces with musicians and composers Lyn Goeringer (Assistant Professor, MSU College of Music) and David Rothenberg (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Music, New Jersey Institute of Technology) for the virtual event Songs From the Deep on Friday, May 14 from 78:30pm. The event, which will take place on zoom, explores communication between humans and other species through music, and features two world premiere performances of new compositions from Goeringer and Rothenberg. This program underscores the power of interdisciplinary research and collaboration, especially in its capacity to stir wonder, curiosity, and engagement with the world around us, said Steven L. Bridges, MSU Broad senior curator and director of curatorial affairs. I am grateful to all of the artists ... More | |
A Roman Marble Portrait Head of the Young Caracalla. Height 9 1/4 inches. Circa Late 2nd Century. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On May 27, Hindman Auctions will present its biannual Antiquities and Ancient Art auction, offering collectors an opportunity to acquire objects from the worlds earliest civilizations. Comprised of more than 180 lots, the sale spans nearly four millennia and includes Roman mosaics, Greek pottery, Byzantine jewelry, and Egyptian stone and faience amulets. Most noteworthy is an impressive selection of marble portrait heads from the Greco-Roman world. Collections include the Property from an Important Midwest Private Collection, the Estate of Lewis B. Cullman, and a New York Trust. The sale will start with early European stone tools and ancient jewelry. Stone tools such as these show sculpture in their most essential forms, while intricate jewelry illustrates the use of tools in their creation and the significance of gemstones early on. Royal portraiture will also be showcase ... More | |
Antwaun Sargent, center, a director at Gagosian, co-hosts a dinner with Cultureworks in New York, April 5, 2021. New Yorks art party circuit has come roaring back. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nouriel Roubini, the economist who in 2007 became known as Dr. Doom after predicting the collapse of the housing market, actually sounded ebullient about the future of New York City on Tuesday night. Im reasonably optimistic, he said, standing in the cavernous living room of his East Village triplex. I was walking around my neighborhood this weekend. Every restaurant was open, I hadnt seen so many people since before COVID. It was the evening before Frieze New York opened (the first in-person art fair in Manhattan since the start of the pandemic), and Roubini was hosting a party was for his best friend, Shai Baitel, who in January was named artistic director of the Modern Art Museum Shanghai. Guests were greeted downstairs by young publicists in masks. Upstairs, Baitel could be heard talking about the strange dynamics ... More |
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| Maya Lin's new installation confronts climate change at Mad Sq Park | | Lyon & Turnbull's spring Design series: Four auctions - two cities - thousands of bidders | | Painter and printmaker Peri Schwartz passes away at age 69 |
Maya Lin within Ghost Forest, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy. Photo: Andy Romer.
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of its public art commissioning program, Madison Square Park Conservancy opened a major, site-specific installation by Maya Lin that brings into focus the ravages of climate change on woodlands around the world. Ghost Forest takes the form of a towering grove of spectral cedar trees, all sourced from the region and presented in sharp contrast to the parks lush tree line. The installation builds on Lins practice of addressing species loss, habitat loss, and climate change within her work and serves as a call to action to the thousands of visitors who pass through the park daily. Originally planned for summer 2020, the exhibition is on view through November 14, 2021. A series of virtual public events as well as in-person, socially distanced programs at the park complement the installation. These include a new soundscape composed by Lin in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ... More | |
Toots Zynsky (B.1951-) Vessel, circa 1994. Photo: Lyon & Turnbull.
LONDON.- Two locations, four sales, 1145 lots. The spring Design series presented by international auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull offered a smorgasbord of objects celebrating the best in progressive design from 1860 to the present day. Bidders responded in kind. Across the four April sales - one in Edinburgh, three in London, all conducted live online - there were 3746 registered participants ensuring a remarkable total of £2,427,437 (inc premium) and an average selling rate of 88%. The Design since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on April 21-22 was first out of the blocks. Important pieces by greats of the Victorian design movement from William Morris to Christopher Dresser were topped by an ebonised wood and cloisonné mirrored wall cabinet designed by EW Godwin (1833-86). It was probably made by art furniture manufacturers William Watt & Co (1834-85), the firm that produced and sold some of the finest furniture of the Aesthet ... More | |
Peri Schwartzs early career concentrated on painting and drawing traditional self-portraits, portraits, and still lifes.
NEW YORK, NY.- American painter and printmaker Peri Schwartz, whose work is collected in major museums worldwide, died in White Plains, NY on May 7, age 69, from pancreatic cancer. As a remarkably talented artist and dear friend to many, Peris death is a devastating and profound loss to both her family and to the art world that so valued her work. Her paintings, prints and drawings focused on composition and the interplay of color, light and space. Her work is spare but rich, recalled Page Bond, of the Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia who, with the Gallery Naga in Boston, represented Schwartz. Something about all the grid lines she left in each painting, not hiding them, made her work, thoughtful and smart. Schwartzs early career concentrated on painting and drawing traditional self-portraits, portraits, and still lifes. In the early 2000s, she began to focus more on her studio as her subject. ... More |
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| Christie's Amsterdam announces highlights included in the Post War and Contemporary online sale | | Australasia's premier art fair Sydney Contemporary announces 2021 gallery list | | Hindman's May Western & Native American Art Auction realizes over $1.6 million & sets new records |
Otto Piene, La Force Pure (Gelbes Rasterbild), 1959. Estimate: 200,000-300,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
AMSTERDAM.- Christies Amsterdam presents two auctions this Spring, the already announced online sale The Curators Eye: The Collection of Prof Dr Karin von Maur, running from 11 -25 May The Curator's Eye: The Collection of Prof Dr Karin von Maur and the traditional Post-War & Contemporary Art, an online-only auction live for bidding from 13-27 May. This sale comprises lots across the entire post-war era, including works on paper, paintings, sculpture and a charity section benefitting tinyBE . living in a sculpture. tinyBE offers the unique opportunity to spend a night experience in a sculpture. Eight international artists Thomas Schütte, Christian Jankowski, collective MY-CO-X, Laure Prouvost, the duo Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte, Terence Koh, Onur Gökmen and Alison Knowles have created habitable works for tinyBE a global platform devoted to artistic ideas about sustainable living ... More | |
Kate Newby, YES, 2020. Porcelain, silk thread, rope, 4 pieces: 14 x 3 x 2cm, 16 x 4 x 2cm, 21 x 4 x 2cm, 18 x 4 x 2cm, rope position variable. Unique. Courtesy of the artist and Fine Arts, Sydney.
SYDNEY.- Sydney Contemporary today announced a strong line-up of more than 85 Australian and New Zealand galleries that will participate in the sixth edition of Australasias largest and most diverse art fair. Presented at multi-arts precinct Carriageworks from Thursday 9th until Sunday 12th September 2021, Sydney Contemporary will be the first major art fair presented in Australia since 2019 and will feature works by more than 400 artists hailing from countries including Australia, China, England, France, Ghana, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and Thailand. The past five editions of Sydney Contemporary have attracted more than 112,000 visitors and recorded more than AU$80million in art sales, with 2021 set to continue to build on those figures. Sydney Contemporary Founder Tim Etchells said: We are delighted to present a stellar line-up ... More | |
Fritz Scholder (Luiseño, 1937-2005), Indians on Horseback (detail). Price realized: $100,000.
DENVER, CO.- On May 6, Hindman Auctions achieved outstanding prices and set new auction records in its $1.6 million Western Paintings and Sculpture including Contemporary Native American Art auction. The sale showcased celebrated Western artists from the 18th to 20th centuries alongside modern and contemporary Native American artists, and saw strong interest in works by Fritz Scholder, Eve Van Ek Drewelowe, Louis McElwain, and Ed Mell. Featured in the auction was a selection of 22 works sold to benefit The Couse Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, and the construction of The Lunder Research Center. The offering raised over $114,000. We were thrilled with the fantastic engagement from bidders, said Hindmans Vice-Chair, Maron Hindman. The auction featured works that are truly special and meaningful for both historic and contemporary Western art as a whole, and we are so pleased to see that buyers agreed. Records were ... More |
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The FLAG Art Foundation opens a group exhibition of contemporary paintings and textiles
NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting and I will wear you in my heart of heart, a group exhibition of contemporary paintings and textiles on view May 1-August 14, 2021, on its 9th floor. Centering on a gesture of care, the exhibition explores the myriad ways in which 35 artists evoke tenderness though depictions of lovers and friends, familial exchanges, moments of solitude, and even a cowboy and his pastel pink unicorn. Heart of heart includes recent and new works created for the exhibition that embody the cross-generational resurgence in figuration as a mode of exploring identity, cultural histories, and personal experience. Heart of heart nods to a line from, and spoken by, Hamlet and addresses that which we hold closest, be it a relationship, a feeling, ones well-being, an object, or a dream. Illustratively, the heart of heart is akin to a castles keep, an innermost ... More
A rare Tiffany building owned by a nonprofit may be sold
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A granite-faced town house in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston was designed more than 100 years ago by artist Louis Comfort Tiffany and is seen today as the most comprehensive surviving example of his residential vision. Its pale facade, with mosaic panels set in limestone and a stained-glass window over copper-clad double doors, is one of only two exteriors known to have been designed by Tiffany and the only one that remains intact. The interior, featuring an oval staircase and an entrance with white marble wainscoting and mosaic stair risers, is equally striking. For decades, the building, known as the Ayer Mansion, has been owned by nonprofit organizations connected to the Roman Catholic group Opus Dei and has functioned as part of a cultural center and a residence for women attending nearby colleges. During that time, its doors ... More
A piece of music will speak once more. For 26 hours.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was a snowy night in March 1970 in Middletown, Connecticut. But composer Alvin Lucier turned off the heat, wanting it quiet in his apartment. He sat in his living room with two tape recorders, a microphone, a single loudspeaker and an amplifier. Lucier, then 38, with a strong New England accent and a periodic stutter, pressed record and began to speak. I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now, he said. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice, and I am going to play it back into the room again and again, until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. He then did exactly that, and the result called I am sitting in a room has become one of the classic works of sound art. Lucier repeatedly played and rerecorded his ... More
Parrasch Heijnen opens an exhibition of new work by Maysha Mohamedi
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting Sacred Witness Sacred Menace, the gallerys first exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Maysha Mohamedi. Maysha Mohamedis large-scale abstract paintings energetically fill the gallery with chromatic boldness. Each piece operates using a record of precious symbols and lyrical markings. The discovery of moments imparted by the artists personal language presents time and place intertwined with identity. In this new body of work, Mohamedi gestures color in a nuanced way, using paint as a trail that tumbles down the canvas. Mohamedi applies paint directly to the canvas with her hands, establishing both shapes and amorphic stamps repeatedly in her paintings. The gestural images are spontaneously generated by the process of their creation. The artist releases herself to the vulnerability of the present, providing space ... More
Pink pond to invite visitors to ponder our future
MELBOURNE.- A beautiful architectural installation, replete with a pink pond evocative of Australias inland salt lakes, has been revealed as the winner of the NGVs 2021 Architecture Commission in the Grollo Equiset Garden at NGV International. Designed by a Melbourne-based team comprising architecture firm Taylor Knights in collaboration with artist James Carey, the installation, entitled pond[er], offers a space for visitors to cool off during the summer months and reflect on their relationship with the environment. Referencing Sir Roy Groundss open-air courtyards in the original design of NGV International, this architecture and landscape installation comprises two key design elements: a body of indigenous plants and a body of water. The body of water is coloured pink, making direct reference to the many inland salt lakes in Victoria and highlighting the scarcity, importance and ... More
Lyon & Turnbull to offer a porcelain breakfast service made to welcome Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
EDINBURGH.- An extensive porcelain breakfast service made to welcome Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their first visit to Scotland in 1842 comes for sale at international auction house Lyon & Turnbull this month. The historic Worcester service of more than 280 pieces, each painted with sprigs of heather and the family coronet, is among 43 lots of property from the Earls of Breadalbane & Holland that go under the hammer on May 18. All were previously among the furnishings of Taymouth Castle. The service was part of a massive upgrading project at Taymouth that preceded the royal visit on 7th-10th September, 1842. John Campbell, 6th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1824-71) hired some of the finest craftsmen of the era to complete his renovation plans and commissioned the Worcester porcelain factory to add numerous pieces to the family dinner service. During the ... More
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique auction
CRANSTON, RI.- A monumental Rookwood tile mural salvaged from a historic theater in Washington, D.C. and a nude figural drawing by the Indian artist Jehangir Sabavala (1922-2011) are expected top lots in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique auction planned for Thursday, May 20th, at 6 pm Eastern time. Over 400 lots will be offered. Hopefully soon, as society begins to open up, well be able to bring a live audience back to the gallery, said Kevin Bruneau, the president and owner of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Until then, we offer our in-house buyers premium with check discount through our website, so there is no disadvantage or extra cost. Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. auctioneer and Director of Pop Culture, added, Another month, another estate auction, offering a good mix of antiques, paintings, jewelry and Asian objects. Its going to be interesting to ... More
Currently on exhibition: A selection of Alice Neel and David Hockney prints to be offered at Bonhams
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 26, Bonhams sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints & Multiples will offer prints from renowned artists like Alice Neel and David Hockney, who are currently enjoying retrospectives in museums in New York. Highlighting the sale are seven prints by Alice Neel, whose works are on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with People Come First, through August 1st. The auction features several portraits of the late artists family including Ginny, 1976 (estimate: $1,500-2,500), a languid portrayal of Neels daughter-in-law. At the Morgan Library, David Hockneys retrospective, Drawing from Life, closing May 30th, examines works on paper by the artists small group of intimates including his muse and confidante, Celia Birtwell. The London designer is featured in two prints in the auction, Celia Seated on an Office Chair (Black State) 1974 (estimate: $5,000-7,000); and Celia ... More
Christie's Paris announces highlights included in its Old Masters sale
PARIS.- Christie's announced its Old Masters sale, which will feature a selection of European paintings and sculptures - for a global estimate of 3.4M. - compiled with great variety to meet the taste of a wide range of collectors. Such prominent Flemish artists as The Master of the Female Half-Lengths, Joos de Momper or Roelandt Savery will be represented alongside quality artworks by French and Italian masters among which Alexandre-François Desportes, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Claude-Joseph Vernet, Achille Etna Michallon or Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. The highlight of the sale is a work by Alexandre-François Desportes, one of the greatest still life and animal painters of the 18th century. The Nature morte au ara, bas-relief, instruments de musique et chocolatière (pictured above) is an exceptional testimony to his talent as a still life painter. This majestic, elegant composition has a rich ... More
London launches tourism campaign as Covid restrictions ease
LONDON (AFP).- London Mayor Sadiq Khan launched a campaign on Monday to bring tourists back to the British capital, ahead of a planned easing of government coronavirus restrictions across England. The £6 million ($8.4 million, 7 million euro) campaign by Khan's office with the capital's tourism and transport bodies will look to drive domestic tourism to hospitality, culture, nightlife and retail venues in the city. The plans are designed to boost the sectors, which have been badly hit by months of closures and lockdown curbs during the pandemic. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected on Monday to confirm the next stage of his government's roadmap out of lockdown from next week, including a return to indoors mixing, and the reopening of cinemas and theatres. Khan, who on Saturday was re-elected for a second term as mayor, called the initiative "the biggest domestic ... More
The rarest issue in the Irish unofficial farthing sells for almost £3,000 at Dix Noonan Webb
LONDON.- An extremely fine and extremely rare; arguably the rarest issue in the Irish unofficial farthing series sold for a world record price of £2,976 10 times its pre-sale estimate - in sale of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals on Tuesday & Wednesday, May 4 & 5, 2021 by international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb. Engraved James Mabbs, Albion Bakery, 27 Patrick Street, Cork, the copper token dated from 1840-1870 and was part of the Collection of Irish Tokens of the late Barry Woodside, who was born in Belfast. It was estimated at £300-400, however after much competition, it was bought by an Irish Collector [lot 835]. Also from the Woodside Collection, which comprised 40 lots which sold for a total of £20,795, was a group of three tokens from Belfast which fetched £4,464 after very fierce competition, it was bought by a UK collector for almost 30 ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born May 12, 1828. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. In this image: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mnemosyne, 1876. © Private collection c/o Christie's Images Ltd., 2010.
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