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Claude Monet's Coin du bassin aux nymphéas. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the wake of the exceptional $70.4m result achieved at Sothebys last May for Monets Le Bassin aux nymphéas (1917-19), Sothebys will now bring to auction another late masterpiece by the artist, Coin du bassin aux nymphéas from 1918, which comes to the market later this month for the first time in nearly 25 years. The painting will be another star highlight of Sothebys newly-conceived Modern Evening Auction, alongside Frida Kahlos Diego y yo (Diego and I). Monets large, color-drenched canvas characteristically paves the way towards 20th-century abstraction, providing a critical bridge between the various components of the sale, which ranges from Alfred Sisley to Alexander Calder to Lee Krasner. Monets late works have long been acknowledged as critical to the evolution of Modern art, and their appreciation by the market ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages Auction on Thu, Nov 04, 2021 8:00 AM GMT-6. Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! In this image: 1938 American Folk Art Whirligig of Dust Bowl Era. Estimate $4,500 - $6,750.
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| Exhibition at Gladstone Gallery presents a selection of Elizabeth Murray's monumental canvases | | As Earth warms, human history is melting away | | Bonhams Pop x Culture sale bursts into London this November |
Elizabeth Murray, Back in Town, 1999. Oil on canvas, 97 x 92 inches (246.4 x 233.7 cm) © 2021 The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of The Murray-Holman Family Trust and Gladstone Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition with the Estate of Elizabeth Murray after announcing representation in the summer of 2020. This show presents a selection of the artists monumental canvases that helped define her career and singular place in art history. Murray was born in Chicago in 1940 and had an early interest in making and studying art. While attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she was deeply influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne, which inspired her to pursue a degree in painting. Following her education, Murray moved to New York, where she developed a unique approach to artmaking and honed her intuitive ability to masterfully combine shapes and colors in both two- and three-dimensional realms. With a fascination for the plastic qualities of paint, she spent the decade of the 1960s experimenting with soft sculpture. Her compositions from ... More | |
A 280-million-year-old forest fossil discovered in Antarctica. Climate change reveals long-frozen artifacts but also causes them to decay rapidly. JJ Akin/Gustavus Adolphus College via The New York Times.
by Franz Lidz
NEW YORK, NY.- For the past few centuries, the Yupik peoples of Alaska have told gruesome tales of a massacre that occurred during the Bow and Arrow War Days, a series of long and often brutal battles across the Bering Sea coast and the Yukon. According to one account, the carnage started when one village sent a war party to raid another. But the residents had been tipped off and set an ambush, wiping out the marauders. The victors then attacked the undefended town, burning it and slaughtering its inhabitants. No one was spared. For the past 12 years, Rick Knecht has led an excavation at a site called Nunalleq, about 400 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska. When we began, the hope was to learn something about Yupik prehistory by digging in an average village, said Knecht, an archaeologist at the University ... More | |
Camille Walala (born 1975), Putting Things in Perspective - Window, 2021. 89.5 x 72.5 x 9cm. Estimate: £ 4,000 - 6,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- From Lichtenstein to Banksy, Louis Vuitton to Supreme, Peter Blake to Damien Hirst, Bonhams Pop x Culture sale returns to New Bond Street, London on Thursday 11 November, exploring the intersections of art and popular culture. The cross-departmental sale will feature an array of contemporary art, prints, entertainment memorabilia and fashion pieces, all relating to the theme of 'pop'. Leading the sale will be the print Girl with Balloon, 2004 by Banksy, which has an estimate of £100,000 - 150,000. Laetitia Guillotin, Co-Head of Sale, commented: Pop x Culture is such a fun and exciting sale, exploring the crossover of high art and street culture, both before and far beyond the pop art movement which exploded across the world in the 1960s. Central to the pop philosophy is that art should be accessible for everyone, and so it is wonderful to be able to offer such a variety of pieces in the sale, with something for all collectors from Punk fans, via Warhol enthusiasts to Supre ... More |
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| Female power at Rijksmuseum Schiphol | | Stunning studio furniture & ceramics to be among Hindman's Modern Design Auction Highlights | | Shutting down historical debate, China makes it a crime to mock heroes |
Salomé with the head of Saint John the Baptist, Jan Adam Kruseman, c. 1861.
AMSTERDAM.- Female Power opens at Rijksmuseum Schiphol on 3 November 2021. This exhibition foregrounds the portrayal of strong and individual women in paintings from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and the work of female artists. Each of the women has a unique story testifying to their willpower, vision and courage. The exhibition will run for a full year, and entrance is free to travellers at Schiphol Airport. The works on display include paintings by the female artists Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) and Cornelia van der Mijn (1709-1782), as well as portrayals of strong women such as Salome and Maria Magdalen. A particularly interesting story lies behind the double portrait of the two close friends Josina Clara van Citters and Anna Maria Gool, who are exemplary of women in Dutch history who dared to go off the beaten path; they lived together for a large part of their lives. The Rijksmuseum is keen to devote greater attention to the under-ackn ... More | |
Set of Five Zephyr Chairs and Game Table, c. 1976. Wendell Castle. Estimate for set: $50,000-60,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On November 16, Hindman Auctions will present its biannual Modern Design sale, which will offer outstanding studio craft furniture and other 20th and 21st century design. The auction will spotlight top American designers such as Wendell Castle, Dale Chihuly, Frank Gehry, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Sam Maloof, Peter Voulkos and Vladimir Kagan. American design standouts include pieces from the studio craft furniture movement. An exceptional set of five Zephyr chairs and a game table by Wendell Castle (lot 26; estimate: $50,000 - $60,000) is expected to be one of the top lots in the auction. Known as the leader of the studio furniture movement, Wendell Castles set demonstrates his meticulous craftmanship and innovation. Another item representing the studio craft movement is a Sam Maloof rocking chair made of maple and ebony (lot 18; estimate: $25,000-35,000). Other highlights by Maloof include an im ... More | |
A painting showing Mao with Red Army soldiers and officers at the National Art Museum in Beijing during the exhibition 100 Years Toward Greatness on June 30, 2021. Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times.
by Steven Lee Myers
NEW YORK, NY.- The young woman in Beijing began her post complaining about mobs gathering online, where recluses vent misogynistic insecurities from the safety of desk chairs. As provocative as it was, it might have passed unnoticed except that she added another beat. She mocked the toxic masculinity of users imagining themselves as Dong Cunrui, a textbook war hero who, according to Chinese Communist Party lore, died valiantly during the civil war that brought the party to power in 1949. For that passing reference, the woman, 27 and identified in court only by her last name, Xu, was sentenced last month to seven months in prison. Her crime: violating a newly amended criminal code that punishes the slander of Chinas martyrs and heroes. Since it went into effect in March, the statute has ... More |
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| Jill Newhouse Gallery opens an exhibition on Pointillism and its influence on art of the 20th and 21st centuries | | How Royal Flying Corps watch consigned for auction brings WW1 pilot's tragic end to light 103 years later | | Mudam exhibits a selection of pieces by nine designers from Europe and Asia |
Terry Winters, Ghost #9, 2018. Monoprint with engraving and embossment on Twinrocker handmade paper, 30 3/8 x 23 in. (77.2 x 58.7 cm) Signed recto in graphite. Courtesy Two Palms, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jill Newhouse Gallery presents an exhibition on Pointillism and its influence on art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The show brings together late 19th century French works by artists in Seurats circle together with the work of later artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Roy Lichtenstein, Terry Winters, and Barry Le Va to show how the lessons of Pointillism were carried forward in important ways. The name Pointillism originated with the French Art critic, Félix Fénéon, who in the mid 1880s used the expression peinture au point (painting by dots) to describe a painting he had seen by Georges Seurat. Seurats technique was based on a scientific methodology of applying precise dots of different color side by side in order to create a composition. "From a couple of steps away, the eye no longer perceives the ... More | |
A Royal Flying Corps pocket watch with the case back marked C49011 E. D.Asbury. RFC, for Captain Edward Dannett Asbury, who was killed in action aged 19 on September 24 1918. The estimate is £120-160 at Ewbanks Jewellery, Watches and Coins sale on December 1. Image courtesy of Ewbanks.
WOKING.- When RAF pilot Captain Edward Dannett Asbury was killed in France on September 24, 1918, he was 19 years old and had been in post on active service for just 17 days. His Observer, Second Lieutenant B.T. Gilman, had been in post for just six days. Their tragic story has come to light after more than 100 years thanks to the consignment of Asburys Royal Flying Corps pocket watch for auction at Ewbanks in Surrey. Asbury was the epitome of gilded youth; born in June 1899 the son of a P&O ships captain, he had attended Malvern School from 1913-16, where he had paraded with the Officers Training Corps (OTC) before signing up for service with the Royal Flying Corps two weeks after his 18th birthday in 1917. In less than two ... More | |
Installation view.
LUXEMBOURG.- This new collection display showcases the diversity of artistic disciplines that has defined Mudams collection since its inception. Curated by design consultant Sarah Zigrand, the exhibition focuses on the museums holdings in fashion, offering an insightful take on the collection. Zigrand made a selection of pieces by nine designers from Europe and Asia. Most of these creations are being exhibited at the museum for the first time. Predominantly dating from the turn of the 21st century, they represent a pivotal period in which fashion echoed the critical changes taking place in society. These include shifts in both ideas and behaviour: the growth of the Internet and digitalisation, accelerating globalisation, the challenging of gender stereotypes that emerged at that time. The multiple references deployed by these designers and the way in which they are combined with and contrasted against one another can be seen to link the ... More |
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| Trophy-level lots boost Heritage Auctions' video games event beyond $8.1 million | | Ingram Prize 2021 finalists announced | | India jumps on NFT craze with Bollywood star Bachchan's auction |
A rare copy of The Legend of Zelda - Wata 8.0 A Sealed [NES TM, No Rev-A, First Production], NES Nintendo 1987 USA drew more than two dozen bids before finishing at $705,000 to lead the events top lots.
DALLAS, TX.- More than 1,700 bidders seeking centerpiece additions to their collections drove 17 lots to six-figure results, leading Heritage Auctions Video Games Signature® Auction to $8,179,434 in total sales Oct. 29-31. We offered a trove of incredible trophy pieces in this auction, and the overall results of this auction speak to the strength of the market for collectible Video Games. Heritage Auctions Video Games Managing Director Valarie McLeckie said. Its safe to say that the exceptional results indicate the recognition among serious collectors that Heritage Auctions Video Games sales continue to be cant-miss events. A rare copy of The Legend of Zelda - Wata 8.0 A Sealed ... More | |
Liam Mertens, Often we can't see.
LONDON.- The Ingram Collection today announced the finalists for Ingram Prize 2021, the leading annual prize for contemporary artists in the UK. The finalists, who can be viewed here, include visual artists from the University of Oxford, Slade School of Fine Art, Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins. The official trailer for this years Ingram Prize can be viewed here. The winners will be announced on 18 November 2021 at an award ceremony in London. An exhibition of the finalists work will be held at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop from Friday 19 - Friday 26 November 2021. Previous winners include Sin Wai Kin (FKA Victoria Sin) who went on to appear at Venice Biennale, Serpentine Pavilion, Hayward Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Their visual art uses speculative fiction within drag performance, moving image, wri ... More | |
File photo of the Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan in a hotel room in New York. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
MUMBAI.- Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan became the first Indian celebrity to join the global NFT craze by launching an auction of his digital memorabilia on Monday. Non-fungible tokens -- unique digital objects such as drawings or animations -- have soared in popularity in recent months. Investors and wealthy collectors have clamoured to get involved in the latest digital craze, which relies on the same blockchain technology that powers cryptocurrencies and cannot be forged or otherwise manipulated. On Bachchan's virtual auction block will be audio and art by the star including poetry recitals, movie posters and digital portraits. "The NFTs will offer the audience a chance to own an original piece of rare and cherished moments of ... More |
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Freida Mitchell appointed events manager for Reynolda House and Reynolda Gardens
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Freida Lynn Mitchell has been appointed events manager for Reynolda House Museum of American Art and Reynolda Gardens. Mitchell will work as a key external-facing member of the Reynolda team who creates and oversees events as part of the Museums advancement department in support of strategic institutional goals. Reynolda offers a robust slate of in-person and virtual mission-driven events throughout the year, including programs for adults, families and children of all ages, in addition to sponsorship, fundraising and other educational events centered around art and nature and the 170-acre historic estate of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds. A native of North Carolina, Mitchell is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a Bachelor of Arts in advertising and ... More
National Gallery of Victoria reopens with Indigenous contemporary art, queer art, speculative design and more
MELBOURNE.- On 3 November 2021, the National Gallery of Victoria will re-open NGV International on St Kilda Road and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Fed Square. On display upon re-opening, there will be the extended seasons of the world-premiere exhibitions Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories, Big Weather and Naomi Hobson's newly acquired painting and photographic series at NGV Australia and Camille Henrot: Is Today Tomorrow and Reko Rennie's newest work Initiation OA_RR at NGV International. In November, visitors will soon be able to experience newly opened exhibitions, including: Sampling the Future opening on 5 November at NGV Australia Found and Gathered: Rosalie Gascoigne | Lorraine Connelly- ... More
Vancouver Art Gallery announces appointment of Dr. Richard W. Hill as Smith Jarislowsky Senior Curator of Canadian Art
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced today the appointment of Dr. Richard William Hill to the new position of the Smith Jarislowsky Senior Curator of Canadian Art. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Hill, says Anthony Kiendl, Vancouver Art Gallery CEO & Director. Richard will be an incredible addition to the Gallerys curatorial team. With extensive academic and curatorial experience, he will offer innovative perspectives on the collection and programs. He brings a special passion forand thoughtful consideration ofaudiences and the understanding of art in society. We are grateful to the Gordon and Marion Smith estate and the Stephen and Gail Jarislowsky foundation for their generous gifts to enable ... More
H&H Classics to offer 1957 Mercedes-Benz 190SL
LONDON.- There are some cars that just speak to your heart because of their beauty, history, lines, classiness, and aura of something special. Such is this 1957 Mercedes-Benz 190SL that has had a meticulous top to bottom restoration and is now for sale with H&H Classics at Duxford for an estimate of £150,000 to £200,000. It is one of just 562 such models built across all right-hand drive markets and one of just 3,332 190SLs made during 1957. Albeit the Mercedes-Benz was not UK road registered until April 1958. Damian Jones of H&H Classics, comments: It has been the subject of an exhaustive two and a half year, photographically documented, rotisserie restoration and is as good underneath as it is on top and the nicest example we have encountered. It is potentially Mille Miglia eligible. He adds: This is a wonderful example and very ... More
Changing of the guard at Williamstown Theater Festival
NEW YORK, NY.- The artistic director of the prestigious Williamstown Theater Festival has stepped down after complaints by some employees about working conditions there. The festival said Monday that Mandy Greenfield, who has been the artistic director since 2014, had resigned late last month. Jenny Gersten, who had led the festival from 2010-14, will return as interim artistic director during the search for a new leader. The summer festival, which runs in the Berkshires region of Western Massachusetts and has traditionally relied in part on a pool of young seasonal workers, did not offer a reason for the change of leadership. But it follows a pair of reports in The Los Angeles Times detailing concerns by employees sound crew members who objected to working outdoors, on a show set in a reflecting pool, during rainy weather, and former ... More
Pat Martino, jazz guitarist who overcame amnesia, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- Pat Martino, whose trailblazing career as a jazz guitarist seemed to end prematurely in 1980 when brain surgery left him with no memory, but who then painstakingly relearned the instrument, and his own past, and went on to three more decades of innovative musicianship, died Monday at his home in South Philadelphia. He was 77. Joseph Donofrio, his longtime manager, said the cause was chronic respiratory disorder, which had forced Martino to stop performing after a tour of Italy in November 2018. Martinos playing began drawing attention when he was still a teenager. Having been expelled from a Roman Catholic high school in 10th grade (Something took place between me and one of the priests there, he wrote years later. If I remember correctly, it had something to do with bubble gum.), he became ... More
Iconic Syrian singer Sabah Fakhri dies in Damascus
DAMASCUS.- Syrian singer Sabah Fakhri, considered one of the most famous in the Arab world, died in Damascus on Tuesday at the age of 88, his son told AFP. "He died a natural death in Damascus. His heart stopped beating," said Anas Fakhri, lamenting his father's passing as a "huge loss for Syrian art." Born in the northern province of Aleppo and hailed as one of Syria's greats, Fakhri was known for his masterful delivery of traditional Syrian songs that combined Arabic poetry with music. The short stout man modified and popularised the Qudud Halabiya -- a traditional form of Aleppine music that combines lyrics based on the poetry of Al-Andalus with old religious melodies collected mostly by musicians from the northern Syrian city. "He was a living legend and legends do not die," his son said. "He will continue to be the legend of Syria and Aleppo." A ... More
Salon des Refusés, the alternative Archibald, comes to Adelaide for the first time in its 30 year history
NORTH ADELAIDE.- The David Roche Foundation in Adelaide hosts the often controversial Salon des Refusés for the first time in its 30 year history. The Salon des Refusés the alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection has run each year at Sydneys National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery since 1992. The exhibition showcases over 40 portraits and landscape works by some of Australias best contemporary artists. Jane Watters, Director of the S.H. Ervin Gallery, said, The Salon is one of Sydneys much anticipated exhibitions for artists and audiences alike as it provides an alternative selection from the hundreds of works entered in the Archibald & Wynne Prizes each year at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Salon des Refusés exhibition follows in the renegade spirit and tradition of an alternative salon and allows debate on the evolving ... More
ProjectArt appoints Claire Breukel as new Executive Director
NEW YORK, NY.- ProjectArt, a 501c3 nonprofit founded by CNN Hero, Adarsh Alphons, with a mission to provide arts education to children and support local creatives, has just announced its latest impressive hire. Starting November 1st, Claire Breukel, an industry leader in nonprofit and art partnership strategies, will join the New York-based company as Executive Director. ProjectArt works with libraries across America to offer free art classes to thousands of children in underserved communities. With the pandemic, the need for after-school education programs sky-rocketed and ProjectArts mission and scope has grown immensely as a result. With this increased demand and changing educational environment, Claires arrival comes at an opportune moment for the necessary growth of the organization. I founded ProjectArt 10 years ago to make ... More
Clark Art Institute opens 'Anne Thompson: Trail Signs'
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute opens a new exhibition on its campus trails today. Anne Thompson: Trail Signs, offers visitors to the Clarks campus an unexpected viewing experience that can be encountered along the walking paths that traverse the Clarks 140-acre site. On view through December 31, 2021, the exhibition features a rotating installation of unique prints displayed on seven kiosks across the Clarks trail system. Anne Thompson has long explored the shifting meaning of signs and symbols in relation to their social setting, whether making paintings, prints, or outdoor projections. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she began designing posters featuring bold, black-and-white symbols and installed them on trail kiosks throughout Berkshire County. Thompsons unsanctioned project sought to engage ... More
Tupac Shakur touring exhibition opens in January
NEW YORK, NY.- A major touring exhibition centered on Tupac Shakur and spearheaded by his estate will arrive in Los Angeles in January. The exhibition, Tupac Shakur. Wake Me When Im Free, opens on Jan. 21, in a newly built, temporary 20,000-square-foot space in the entertainment complex L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. Shakur, a hip-hop artist, poet, actor and activist who released his first album in 1991 and went on to become one of the top-selling rappers in the 1990s, was killed in Las Vegas in 1996, at age 25. The case was never solved. He also acted in films including John Singletons Poetic Justice, in which he starred opposite Janet Jackson. In the decades since his death, he has inspired dozens of albums, books, movies, theater productions and even a hologram. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The exhibition, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Annibale Carracci was born November 03, 1560. Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 - July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter. In this image: Eugenio Riccomini, curator of the exhibition of Italian painter Annibale Carracci, stands next to the painting "I macellai" (The butchers) during the exhibit opening in Bologna, Italy, Thursday Sept. 21, 2006. Carracci, who lived from 1560 to 1609 was underpaid in his lifetime and undervalued for centuries after his death and at last is having a renaissance in his native Bologna. Carracci's mastery ranged from sympathetic and realistic portraits of common folk like butchers, to magnificent frescoes adorning palatial residences in Rome.
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