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An Emirati man, wearing a protective mask due to the COVID-19 pandemic, visits Sharjah Art Museum on August 24, 2020. From creations depicting the killing of Palestinians to the daily lives of those who lived in Yemen's old city of Sanaa, paintings by Arab artists come to life in the Gulf emirate of Sharjah. Sharjah is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, whose capital Abu Dhabi and freewheeling Dubai are better known for ultra-luxurious hotels, mega malls and global events. In recent years the UAE has poured huge sums into culture, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a branch of the Paris museum which opened in 2017. Karim SAHIB / AFP.
by Aziz El Massassi
SHARJAH (AFP).- It doesn't have the malls of Dubai or the mega-projects of Abu Dhabi, but the conservative Gulf emirate of Sharjah has carved out a role for itself as a cultural capital. The unassuming emirate, often overlooked by visitors in favour of its glitzier neighbours, is ruled by Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi, known for his keen interest in art and history. Its cultural calendar has evolved to feature book fairs, exhibitions at more than a dozen museums and festivals that celebrate photography, theatre, poetry and calligraphy. At the Museum of Sharjah, works on display showcase everything from daily life in the Old City of Yemen's capital Sanaa to a massacre of Palestinian refugees by Israel-allied Christian militia during Lebanon's civil war. "We are providing an artistic service for the Arab world," said Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi, a well-known Emirati ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery announced its sale of Ancient & Ethnographic From Around the World on Thu, Nov 05, 2020 9:00 AM CST. The sale features ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more! In this image: 2 Islamic Pottery Tiles w/ Kufic Text from Quran w/ TL. Estimate $12,000 - $18,000.
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| | Hindman's Fine Books and Manuscripts Auction offers broad range of printed material | | Christie's announces the sale of Alexandra Tolstoy: An Interior by Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler | | Prints & Multiples from a Park Avenue Collection highlight November 11 auction at Doyle |
Paul Eluard, Un poeme dans chaque livre. Paris: Louis Broder, 1956. Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Hindman Books and Manuscripts department will conclude another strong year of sales with a two-day auction, Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Americana, on November 12 and 13. The 476-lot auction features books and manuscripts from a broad range of collecting categories and a number of notable private collections. Session I, to be held November 12th, features fine selections of incunabula, Renaissance printing, literature, and printed and manuscript Americana including American prints. Session II, to be held the following day, includes a fine selection of livres dartiste, and features the exceptional Edward Gorey collection of Thomas J. Barrett. Among the highlights in the auction is a copy of Niccolò Machiavellis The Prince (Lot 131), the first edition in English of Machiavellis political treatise, estimated to sell for $25,000 - $35,000. Other notable lots from the auction include a first editi ... More | |
An English grey-painted pine dolls house, second half 20th century. Estimate £1,000-2,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies announces the sale of Alexandra Tolstoy: An Interior by Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler online from 4 25 November. To view the sale please click here The collection comprises approximately 130 lots from Alexandras former London townhouse in Chelsea, London where she lived for eleven years. Alexandra worked closely with the London-based interior designers and decorators Emma Burns and Daniel Slowik of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler Interiors from 2008 onwards to create her family home. The property in historic Chelsea was an inspired choice; comprising two former artists studios with high ceilings and large windows, it previously housed the modern British artists Walter Sickert and Sir William Rothenstein. Alexandra recognised the space as a blank canvas to create a welcoming and warm family home in the heart of London. ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline au Chapeau de Paille, Color linocut, 1962. Property from a Park Avenue Collection. Est. $40,000-60,000. Lot 35.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyles auction of Prints and Multiples on Wednesday, November 11 at 10am will showcase a fine selection of works spanning 17th through the 21st centuries. Opportunities abound for seasoned buyers and new collectors alike! The public is invited to the exhibition on view Saturday, November 7 thru Monday, November 9 from Noon - 5pm and by appointment at other times. Safety protocols will be in place. Doyle is located at 175 East 87th Street in Manhattan. View the catalogue and place bids at Doyle.com Highlighting the sale is Property from a Park Avenue Collection. Comprising lots 1 through 37 in the sale, this exceptional collection offers examples by such prominent artists as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Braque and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, among others. The genesis of this collection was one of passion and artistic endeavor. ... More |
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| | Treasure trove of ancient Asian and European artefacts to hit the market from remote Yorkshire Farmhouse | | Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi delayed until 2021 | | All-women shortlist announced for Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2020 |
A Chinese stone Buddhist stele, perhaps from the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 386 534), which is set to sell for between £3,000 - £5,000.
CAMBRIDGE.- A treasure trove of over 350 Asian and European artefacts, artworks and collectors items, owned by the well-known Yorkshire-based businessman and anthropologist C. Roger Moss OBE, will be offered at the Cheffins Fine Sale on 9th and 10th December. Adam Schoon, Consultant at Cheffins says: Considered, outside a museum, to be one of the largest private collections of the genre to come on to the market in many years, the Roger Moss items reflect a lifetime of travel, study and passion for artistic expression. Completely fresh to the market, this significant sale is bound to draw interest from collectors, dealers and interior designers on an impressive scale. Many of the items on offer are Chinese in origin, along with others from cultures including Tibet, Nepal, Africa, India, Thailand and Indonesia. From ancient and powerful Chinese dynasties to more recent times, there is a vast breadth ... More | |
Primary and early secondary school students from across greater Sydney and regional NSW, including some of the areas worst affected by the bushfires, will have artists visit their classrooms to host sculpture making workshops as part of a new Sculptors to Your School Outreach Program.
SYDNEY.- Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi has officially been postponed until 2021 due to Covid-19 restrictions, despite hopes the popular outdoor art exhibition could be staged later this spring. The exhibition was not granted an exemption by NSW Health and will be postponed and hopefully open for the viewing public in early 2021. Over 100 international and Australian artists were selected to exhibit at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2020, collectively spending around $1.5M - $1.8M to create and freight their sculptures from around the world. All of the artists will remain in the line-up for the delayed exhibition. In the meantime, exhibition organisers have foreshadowed a yet to be announced large sculpture will be placed on the end of the south Bondi headland in mid-November ... More | |
Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama by Yolanda Y. Liou © Yolanda Y.
LONDON.- Three photographers have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2020, the international photography award organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London. Judged anonymously by a panel of judges including Edward Enninful, Editor-in-chief of British Vogue and photographer Mark Neville, for the first time all the prize-winning photographers are women. The shortlisted photographs include a portrait of model, plus size advocate and Instagram influencer, Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama; an image of an artists three year old-daughter in her garden during lockdown, and a series of black and white portraits of London school leavers dressed up for their cancelled end of year prom. The annual Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, now celebrating thirteen years under Taylor Wessings sponsorship, is one of the most prestigious photography awards in the world and showcases new work submitted ... More |
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| | Visitors' and exhibitors' enthusiasm make 10th edition of Art Market Budapest a success | | 14a opens an exhibition of works by Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann & Emanuel Mauthe | | 'Jean-Pierre Laffont: Twenty Five icons of America' opens at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery |
The fact that over 70 exhibitors from nearly 20 countries arrived to participate, despite unprecedentedly difficult conditions in travelling and shipping, is a clear sign of trust in and recognition for Art Market Budapest.
BUDAPEST.- Budapest joined last week a very short list of European cities hosting major international art fairs in 2020 when Art Market Budapest, one of Europes popular shows successfully completed its 10th edition welcoming exhibitors and visitors in its exhibition halls between October 21 and 25. Art Market Budapest has hosted hundreds of galleries from nearly 50 countries spanning 5 continents over the past decade, in the shadow of COVID-19 in 2020, the main aim of the organizers was to create an opportunity and a safe environment for art lovers to express their support and sympathy to artists and their galleries with their interest and their purchases. With exhibitors arriving from nearly 20 countries and the fair location as packed with visitors as possible under pandemic regulations, the event was not ... More | |
Chainmail, 2020. Cardboard and spray paint, 140 Ã 45 cm. 55.1 Ã 17.7 in.
HAMBURG.- Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann and Emanuel Mauthes recent collaboration addresses questions of friendship, incorporating the aesthetics of medieval mosaics and chain mails. Through the imitation of historical craftsmanship, romanticised ideas of social cohesion are brought together through design and production media from the realms of hobby and leisure . At first glance, the series Fragments of Friendship, is reminiscent of remnants taken from mosaic floors extensive concatenations of minuscule multicoloured stones and glass pieces. However, upon closer inspection, the works reveal themselves to be imitations, made from solid lime wood. The total impression contradicts the materials and techniques used. The mosaics on view are not made from countless parts, but rather are technologically sophisticated, carved out of a single piece of wood using CNC milling and subsequently coloured in a hobbyist manner. ... More | |
Andy Warhol in his office on Union Square, March 1st, 1974, New York City. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 16 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2020, French-American photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont received The Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism and The Visa DOr Award of the Figaro Magazine for Lifetime Achievement. To celebrate those achievements, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is presenting a collection of photographs that represent the twenty five icons of his long carrier as a photo journalist in United States from November 3rd to December 12th, 2020. For more than three decades, starting in 1964, Jean-Pierre Laffont travelled all fifty states seeking to document as wide of a range of compelling American stories, and he also photographed celebrities both French and American along with all the politicians of the times. He spent eight years at the White House as a foreign correspondent and photographed several presidents. He produced in-depth photo essays of the rise of the World Trade Center, the gangs in the Bronx, and the violence on 42nd S ... More |
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| | Job whale done as Dutch train lifted to safety | | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens the fourth exhibition in The Architect's Studio series | | From fashion to a fantasia in stone |
The overhanging section of a subway car is lifted off a sculpture in the shape of a whale's tail where it ended up the day before in Spijkenisse, near the port city of Rotterdam on November 3, 2020. Marco de Swart / ANP / AFP.
SPIJKENISSE (AFP).- Cranes safely lifted a Dutch metro carriage off a huge sculpture of a whale's tail on Tuesday, a day after the artwork stopped the runaway train from crashing to the ground. The train smashed through buffers at the end of the line at Spijkenisse near Rotterdam early on Monday and was left suspended 10 metres above the ground, propped up only by the huge silver monument. In a painstaking, dawn-to-dusk operation, emergency services cut the 22-tonne front carriage from the rest of the train on Tuesday before two enormous yellow cranes lifted it to the ground. "It took some more time than we actually wanted to," Carly Gorter, spokesperson for the Rotterdam-Rijnmond safety region, told AFP at the scene. "It is because we couldn't really see what was under there (the carriage) and we ... More | |
Anupama Kundoo, Creativity, An Urban Eco-Community, 2003. Auroville, India. Photo: Javier Callejas.
HUMLEBÃK.- Anupama Kundoo Taking Time is the fourth exhibition in the series The ArchiÂtects Studio at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. It opens the door to the workshop, the archives and the field where the architect Anupama Kundoo lives out her message of taking time. Kundoo is a unique example of an archiÂtect who practices what she preaches. When she talks about sustainable architecture, you believe her. Anupama Kundoo (born in India in 1967) is a keen advocate of the idea that the architect contrary to mantras about optimization and timesaving processes should invest more time in thinking, researching, sharing knowledge and building, because this provides a deeper understanding of context, mateÂriÂality, function and sustainability. And consequently in better architecture. We cannot make time, but we can take time, according to Kundoo, and this is a practice she lives by. At close quarters, Anupama ... More | |
Priscilla Rattazzi, a photographer in SoHo, Oct. 7, 2020. Rattazzi brings to life the amazing, endangered Hoodoo rock sculptures of southern Utah. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Priscilla Rattazzi sealed her reputation as a fashion photographer in the 1980s. By the end of that decade, Rattazzi, a Roman living in New York, had turned from fashion to portraiture, capturing the likenesses of Diana Vreeland, Loulou de la Falaise, Gianni Agnelli (her uncle) and other contemporaries with an unexpected combination of astringency and warmth. The seemingly incompatible mix is part of what distinguishes Hoodooland, Rattazzis exhibition at the Staley-Wise Gallery in SoHo, Manhattan, through Nov. 14. The shows title is a reference to Hoodoos, the majestic rock sculptures formed across millenniums in the region of Lake Powell and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. In her improbably portraitlike photographs, Rattazzi brings to life the areas mushroom-capped towers of sandstone, ... More |
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When a dance collective was like a rock band
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1970, the Grand Union came into being, and the dance world has never been the same. An improvisatory, leaderless group of artists, the Grand Union hung around for six years a pretty thrilling six years by most accounts during which discomfort, wit, boredom, chaos and excitement were all ingredients for creation. These performers were dance rebels who inspired the kind of adoration that rock bands did. They even had groupies. The Grand Union emerged out of a work by choreographer Yvonne Rainer, Continuous Project Altered Daily. Along with her, the group included Trisha Brown, Barbara Dilley, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Nancy Lewis, Steve Paxton, Becky Arnold and Lincoln Scott. Its predecessor was another collective: Judson Dance Theater, the 1960s group of experimental ... More
Ian Bostridge on Schubert's hidden depths
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- I first got to know the 20 songs of Franz Schuberts Die Schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Miller Girl) as an impressionable teenager, some 40 years ago. It might seem at first sight and hearing to be very much a teenage story. Young man goes traveling for work, falls in love with girl, obsesses about her in that oh-so-teenage way; she remains heartlessly indifferent. Along comes a butch hunter to steal the maidens heart, and the young mans fantasy dissolves into jealousy, anger and tears. He kills himself in the mill stream that led him to the girl in the first place. I was introduced to the cycle through a famous recording by German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and English pianist Gerald Moore. Classical in tone, restrained and beautifully sung and played, this is a version that any impressionable listener ... More
Joan Bingham, catalyst in a publishing merger, dies at 85
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Joan Bingham, who played a key role in a merger that created the Grove Atlantic publishing house, then served almost three decades as its executive editor, acquiring and producing numerous prestigious titles, including Kiran Desais The Inheritance of Loss and collections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kay Ryan, died Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 85. Her son-in-law, Joseph G. Finnerty III, said the cause was pneumonia. Bingham had already experienced glamour, accomplishment and tragedy when she helped create Grove Atlantic, which was formed in 1993 by the merger of Grove Weidenfeld and the Atlantic Monthly Press. She had married into the wealthy Bingham family, whose media holdings included the Kentucky newspapers The Louisville Times and The Courier- ... More
Dancing on grass and concrete at New York City Ballet
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When it comes to digital site-specific work, theres a thin line between a dance on film and a perfume ad. Its dispiriting to say that in New York City Ballets New Works Festival we get plenty of eau de ballet. That the company could present new work at all during a pandemic, as it did last week, with five short films that use the Lincoln Center campus as a set, is admirable. (Recently City Ballet called off its winter and spring seasons.) But theres only so much whipping hair and water splashing, grassy knolls and dreamy overhead shots I can take. The company did branch out of its usual bubble, commissioning choreography by Sidra Bell, Andrea Miller and Jamar Roberts, who were working with the dancers for the first time; as well as by Pam Tanowitz and Justin Peck, City Ballets resident choreographer ... More
'Mao's last dancer' glides through pandemic
BRISBANE (AFP).- Since Li Cunxin was plucked from rural China to join Madame Mao's elite ballet school, through his exile in the US and now the pandemic, his life has been a reluctant pas de deux with politics. The 59-year-old artistic director of the Queensland Ballet -- one of Australia's premier dance companies -- prefers to focus discussion on his art. But his ascent from humble beginnings has been punctuated by political turmoil -- from the horrors of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward to life in exile, to the anti-Chinese backlash of today's coronavirus pandemic. Li was born in 1961 as Mao's flawed development plan led to raging famine across China. Every day was "a struggle for survival" for Li's poverty-stricken farming family, he told AFP. Things began to change when recruiters from Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy visited ... More
Tourists return to misty Machu Picchu after months of isolation
LIMA (AFP).- Mists hung low over Machu Picchu, adding an eerie, otherworldly atmosphere as delighted tourists entered the iconic Inca citadel for the first time after eight months of lockdown due to the coronavirus. Two couples from France and Chile were the lucky first visitors on Monday to the UNESCO World Heritage site. They were brought to the ruins by bus from the tiny Machu Picchu Pueblo village at the foot of the 2,400-meter (7,874 feet) mountain atop which the ruins sit. "We're really happy to be here today," Frenchwoman Veronique, who declined to give her surname, told AFP. She was left stranded in Peru with her husband and two children by the pandemic. Peru ordered a total lockdown and closed its borders in March. It has since become one of the worst-affected countries in Latin America, with the highest mortality rate in the world, ... More
Review: 'What a Carve Up!' is wonderful. But is it theater?
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If you had asked me, sometime before this past March, to define theater, I might have hazarded something like this: an art form including at least one actor and at least one audience member, inhabiting the same place at the same time. Even back then I would probably have thought of a few counterexamples, the Theater of the Oppressed, say, or some conceptual stuff. But the basic parameters held. Now Im not so sure. And Ive never felt more confused than while watching What a Carve Up! a mostly very enjoyable collaboration among three English companies, the Barn Theater, the Lawrence Batley Theater and the New Wolsey Theater. It is streaming through Nov. 29, and a deluxe ticket includes a program and recipe cards mailed to your home for a sumptuous Indian meal to accompany the show. Those ... More
100% sell-through rate of Hedgerow Theatre Collection in $1.3 million Pennsylvania sale
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the results of the newly reintroduced Pennsylvania Sale, which realized $1.314M total. With competitive bidding throughout the sale, the 20th Century Design section performed especially well, achieving a 90% sell-through rate. Impressive results were achieved for the single-owner collection of works by George Nakashima from the Estate of Sarabelle Salsburg including a Conoid Bench (Lot 147) which realized $46,875, well above its pre-sale high estimate. The sale included an exciting 100% sell-through rate for 12 lots by Wharton Esherick as part of the Hedgerow Theatre Collection. Said Head of Sale, Tim Andreadis: We were thrilled to achieve the highest-ever sale total at auction for a collection of Wharton Esherick's work. We are pleased that today's results will help the Hedgerow Theatre to fulfill ... More
Chris Claremont celebrates Dark Phoenix Saga's 40th anniversary with auction of two original pages
DALLAS, TX.- The Dark Phoenix Saga isn't merely the most popular X-Men story ever told. It's among the most significant, influential and, perhaps most important, heartbreaking epics ever told in the pages of a comic book the story of a woman, Jean Grey, so battered and betrayed she becomes the most dangerous force in the universe until she sacrifices herself to save it. Spread over nine issues 40 years ago, from The Uncanny X-Men Nos. 129-137, this is the story Hollywood tried to make (and remake) for the big-screen without success. Even an animated X-Men TV series could not do justice to the story told on paper by writer Chris Claremont, because his was a rich, thrilling and poignant marathon spread over 17 years. Jean Grey's transformation from Marvel Girl to Phoenix to Black Queen to Dark Phoenix consumed a few unforgettable ... More
Over 800 quality lots will come up for bid at Crescent City Auction Gallery November 14-15
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- An exceedingly rare New Orleans .900 silver firemans speaking trumpet from 1891, plus original paintings by Clementine Hunter, Sarah Ashley Longshore, Hovsep Pushman and Jose Puyet are just a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallerys live and online Important Fall Estates Auction slated for the weekend of Nov. 14-15. The gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, will be open for exhibitions beginning Thursday, November 5th, from 10-5 Central time, by appointment only (excluding Sunday). A live Saturday preview will be held November 7th, from 9am to 1pm, also by appointment only. To schedule an appointment, call or email. Start times both auction days are 10 am Central time. The auction is an eclectic one, with merchandise ranging from carved wooden santos (small statues ... More
New exhibition inspired in European architectural collections premieres in Lisbon
LISBON.- Invisible architecture is a conscious mode of being in space, of being in solitude, in the void; it is a way of life. Invisible architecture is a real force against the banal manifestations of visible architecture, against spiritless architecture. Being in space, one creates architecture. Leonhard Lapin, The Concept of Invisible Architecture, 1978. Handle with Care: Tales of the Invisible premiered on October 15th in Lisbon will be extended until December 12th. Commissioned by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, this showcase is the first iteration of the broader project of Future Architecture Collection, which aims to strengthen bridges between Future Architecture Platform member institutions across Europe. The exhibition takes the audience on a time-travel journey across different landscapes of care through several architectural experiments that ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Guido Reni was born November 04, 1575. Guido Reni (4 November 1575 - 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. He painted primarily religious works, as well as mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in the Bolognese School, and his eclectic classicism was widely influential.
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