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The ramparts will be recovered from the earth and the wood dried in an operation that will take two years.
MONTREAL (AFP).- Archeologists in Canada's Quebec City have found a well-preserved relic of the settlement's first fortifications built by French settlers more than 300 years ago, they said on Tuesday. The foundations of the palisaded ramparts date from 1693 and are about 20 meters long (22 yards). They were uncovered during initial construction work at a residential project in the city, whose old quarter is a World Heritage site. "We found a small piece of wood driven into dark soil. We got out our trowels and scraped the dirt very delicately, and realized that we had found a hugely important relic, very well preserved," said Jean-Yves Pintal, head of the archeological team. The relic was part of an enclosure erected according to the plans of French military engineer Josue Dubois Berthelot de Beaucours between 1693 and 1694 to replace a temporary system built in 1690 to defend the city against possible English artillery fire. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient / Ethnographic From Around The World Sale on Thursday, Nov 8, 2018 9:00 AM CST, In this image: Egyptian Gilded / Painted Wood Mummy Mask. Estimate $3,000 - $4,000.
| Blum & Poe exhibits works by two influential artists in the history of Korean painting since the 1960s | | Groundbreaking exhibition examines the role of science in mid-century art | | Billionaire owner of Monaco soccer club in custody, home searched |
Chung Sang-hwa, Work 69-A-6, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 64 1/4 x 51 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches framed. © Chung Sang-hwa, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles / New York / Tokyo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting an exhibition of Chung Sang-hwa and Shin Sung-hy, two influential artists in the history of Korean painting since the 1960s. This is the first major presentation in Los Angeles to focus on either artists work. Chung Sang-hwas early paintings from the 1960s were made in the style of Art Informel, then prevalent in the Korean art scene and a local movement in its own right. This exhibition presents several very rare examples from this periodcolorful compositions with gestural mark-making that engage the negative space of the exposed canvasa prelude of work to come in future decades. In contrast to these works in the exhibition, a suite of monochromatic grid paintings hangs nearby, examples from a body of work now renowned and iconic of Chungs oeuvre. Between 1967 and 1992, Chung lived in Paris and Kobe, where he developed ... More | |
Anton Prinner, Colonne, 1932. Mead Art museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Purchase with Charles H. Morgan Fine Arts Fund.
BERKELEY, CA.- This fall, the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents the premiere of a nationally touring exhibition that explores the influence of scientific discovery on some of the twentieth centurys most celebrated artists. Organized by the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein is the first exhibition to highlight the untold story of the Dimensionist Manifestoa proclamation authored by Hungarian poet Charles Sirató in 1936 and endorsed by such artistic luminaries as Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, László Moholy-Nagy, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and otherswhich called for an artistic response to the eras groundbreaking scientific discoveries. Featuring nearly seventy artworks by the Manifestos signatories and their contemporaries, the exhibition illuminates remarkable connections between the scientific and artistic re ... More | |
AS Monaco President Dmitry Rybolovlev looks on during the French League Cup final football match between Monaco (ASM) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP.
MONACO (AFP).- The Russian billionaire owner of Monaco football club was in custody Tuesday, his lawyer confirmed, the latest twist in his legal battle with a Swiss art dealer who he claims cheated him of up to one billion dollars and Sotheby's auctioneers. Police officers also carried out a search Tuesday morning of Dmitry Rybolovlev's luxury penthouse apartment in the principality, said a source close to the case. Rybolovlev's lawyer Herve Temine confirmed the latest developments, while stressing the principle of the presumption of innocence. Temine's colleague Thomas Giaccardi said the latest move came after the seizure and analysis of a mobile phone belonging to one of Rybolovlev's lawyers, Tetiana Bersheda. Since 2015, Rybolovlev has been locked in a legal battle with Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier, who he accuses of having swindled him out of up to a billion dollars, by charging inflated ... More |
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| First solo exhibition in the UK of paintings by Ilse D'Hollander opens at Victoria Miro | | Lavish Holy Roman Emperor porcelain bowl offered at Bonhams Fine European Ceramics sale | | Perrotin New York opens an exhibition of works by South Korean artist Park Seo-Bo |
Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1996. Oil on canvas, 47 x 40 cm, 18 1/2 x 15 3/4 in © The Estate of Ilse DHollander. Courtesy The Estate of Ilse DHollander and Victoria Miro, London/Venice.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of paintings by Ilse DHollander. In her short life, Ilse DHollander (19681997) created an intelligent, sensual and highly resonant body of work that continues to find receptive new audiences in the decades since her death. This exhibition, the gallerys first solo presentation of DHollanders work since announcing its representation of the artists estate, focuses on the rich dialogue between abstraction and representation in her work, giving special attention to the ways in which she coaxed evocations of place, light and weather into her modestly-scaled canvases and works on cardboard. Born in Sint Niklaas, a city between Ghent and Antwerp in the province of East Flanders, DHollander drew upon her impressions and experience of place throughout her career, particularly ... More | |
A highly important gold-mounted Du Paquier tureen, cover and stand, 1735-40. Estimate: £150,000-200,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A lavish, and very rare gold-mounted du Paquier porcelain bowl, with its cover and stand, from the reign of The Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI leads Bonhams Fine European Ceramics Sale in London on Thursday 6 December. It is estimated at £150,000-200,000. The Du Paquier porcelain factory was founded in 1718 in Vienna under special privilege granted by The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI. It was intended to rival the Meissen factory at Dresden established in 1710 by the Elector of Saxony, and the pieces were so valuable that the Emperor mainly used them as gifts to family and foreign rulers. Very rarely, these were mounted in gold by the Court goldsmiths and some of these pieces were presented to members of the Russian Court. Only a handful of gold-mounted Du Paquier porcelain has survived to the present day. Bonhams Director of European Ceramics, Sebastian Kuhn, said: "This bowl, ... More | |
Park Seo-Bo, Ecriture No.090930, 2009. Mixed Media with Korean hanji paper on canvas, h. 130 Ã L. 195 cm | h. 51 3/16 Ã l. 76 3/4 in. Photo by Dario Lasagni. Courtesy the artist and Perrotin.
NEW YORK, NY.- South Korean artist Park Seo-Bo is credited with creating Korean modernism by embodying East Asian views of nature and art in his monochrome paintings. He delves into questions of what painting is, such as Why paint? and How to paint? in connection with contemporary society, often modifying his technique and presenting a new model of Korean painting. In his Ecriture series, French for writing or inscribing, he takes up a way of painting that is akin to the exercise of writing. Over the course of his long career, Park has experimented with different materials and techniques. While the initial works from the Ecriture series in the early 1970s largely featured lines drawn repeatedly in pencil on a painted surface, those presented in this exhibition maintain the formal elements that appear in his works since the 1980s, when he began using hanji, the traditional ... More |
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| Solo exhibition surveys a pivotal decade of bold and experimental work by Sadamasa Motonaga | | Charles Dickens letter from key moment in his career expected to sell for thousands at auction | | Morrison Hotel Gallery opens an exhibition featuring photographs of Freddy Mercury and Queen |
Sadamasa Motonaga, Sakuhin 66-2, 1966. Oil paint and synthetic resin on canvas, 108 1/4 x 80 3/4 inches (275 x 205 cm). © The Estate of Sadamasa Motonaga.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fergus McCaffrey is presenting a solo exhibition surveying a pivotal decade of bold and experimental work by Sadamasa Motonaga (19222011). This exhibition, on view at the gallerys New York location from November 1 to December 21, 2018, focuses on Motonagas 196667 visit to New York, and the influence that experience had on his life and work. In the late 1960s and early 70s, Motonaga both participated in and broke free of Gutai activities, traveling to New York for a year in 196667 with his wife, artist Nakatsuji Etsuko; there Motonaga radically altered key philosophical and material components of his practice. Fergus McCaffreys presentation shows Motonaga at the crux of Japanese arts postwar trajectory, transitioning from existential and modernist concerns, embodied in Gutai, ... More | |
An autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens. Images courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- An autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens, dating to the month in 1843 that he completed A Christmas Carol, is expected to fetch thousands of dollars at Swann Auction Galleries Autographs sale on November 8 in New York. Dickens, who was just 31 years old, had already completed five of his major novels and undertaken a tour of America by the time he set about writing A Christmas Carol, which he completed in a frenzy of activity over a period of less than two months. He steeped himself in the characters, relating to a friend how he composed the novella while walking the black streets of London many a night when all the sober folks had gone to bed. The 15 to 20 mile walks would start at the home he then shared in Devonshire Terrace with his wife Catherine and her sister Georgina Hogarth and, as this letter reveals, he was already considering the characters for ... More | |
Queen album cover. © Mick Rock 1974/2018.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Morrison Hotel Gallery is presenting Killer Queen, a special exhibition and sale featuring legendary rock band Queen just in time for the release of the highly-anticipated Bohemian Rhapsody biopic that documents how the champions of rock and roll rose to earth-shattering stardom. On view now at the Los Angeles gallery inside the Sunset Marquis Hotel and also at the NYC gallery in SoHo is Killer Queen, an exhibition featuring never before seen images of the band captured by legendary rock photographers Neal Preston, Mick Rock, Richard E. Aaron, Lynn Goldsmith, Patrick Harbron, Steve Joester, and Paul McAlpine who all worked with one of the world's most iconic bands throughout their meteoric career. Marcelle Murdock, gallery directory in NYC said, "Killer Queen will be a celebration of Freddie Mercury's legacy, and with the occasion of Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody release in theaters ... More |
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| Egypt struggles to restore Cairo's historic heart | | Sotheby's to offer a unique IWC Big Pilot's watch in support of the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation | | Significant and rare works by Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt and Warhol to be presented at Clars |
A picture taken on October 16, 2018, shows workers standing on scaffolding during renovation work on the 13th century al-Zahir Baybars mosque in the capital Cairo. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Workers perched on scaffolding delicately repair Cairo's 13th-century al-Zahir Baybars mosque, a vital restoration project in the Egyptian capital's neglected Islamic quarter. Halted by the popular protests that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and the ensuing political and economic turmoil which enveloped the country, restorative work on the Mamluk-era mosque picked back up last month. On the other side of the quarter, similar work on the 14th century al-Maridani mosque has just begun. The capital's Islamic quarter, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979 often referred to as historic Cairo, boasts some 600 listed monuments. But the task to patch up decades of dilapidation is immense, and Egyptian authorities are struggling to come up with the cash after unrest and jihadist attacks have driven ... More | |
IWC Schaffhausen - Big Pilot's Watch Antoine de Saint Exupéry Unique Piece. Courtesy Sotheby's.
GENEVA.- Sothebys renews its collaboration with the prestigious watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen, and will present a stunning unique wristwatch at auction, to benefit the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation. The IWC Big Pilots Watch Annual Calendar Edition, Antoine de Saint Exupéry Unique Piece (Ref. IW502709) will be offered during the sale of Important Watches in Geneva on 13 November. This beautiful piece in white gold features an elegant tobacco-brown dial and its rotor takes the form of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning plane the model of airplane which Antoine de Saint-Exupéry piloted on his last flight, a fateful reconnaissance mission in 1944. This Unique Piece embodies the spirit of the famous pilot and beloved author of The Little Prince. IWC Schaffhausen will donate their full proceeds from the sale to the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Foundation, helping it to support the association Arrimage. Amon ... More | |
This beautiful black chalk drawing, one of Gustav Klimts (Austrian, 1862-1918) studies of Adele ,will be offered for $50,000-$70,000.
OAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallery will host a very important sale on November 18th that will feature impressive and rare works by both American and European artists. Also to be presented will be exceptional works in sterling, art glass and a number of special collections. Clars November 2018 Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry and Asian Art Auction will bring to the market investment level property across all categories from prominent California estates, museums, private institutions and special collections. Following are highlights to be presented. Late 19th and early 20th century American paintings will be well represented at the November 18th Auction. Frederick Kensett (American, 1816-1872) is one of the most respected painters of the Hudson River School, a 19th century American art movement by a group of landscape artists whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism ... More |
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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 shortlist announced
LONDON.- The four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 are Laia Abril, Susan Meiselas, Arwed Messmer and Mark Ruwedel. Now in its twenty-second year, this highly regarded annual prize, originated by The Photographers Gallery and subsequently awarded in collaboration with the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, recognises artists and projects deemed to have made a significant contribution to photography over the previous 12 months in Europe. This years nominees survey a vast range of topical issues through the lens and language of photography. Collectively their projects explore state and gender politics, social injustice, human rights and conceptual approaches to image making. An exhibition of the shortlisted projects will be on show at The Photographers Gallery from 8 March to 2 June ... More
Crescent City Auction Gallery announces major fall estates auction
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A 1956 oil painting by Japanese artist Kumi Sugai (1919-1996), an early 20th century Gustav Stickley American Mission oak double costumer rack and a 1980 color relief multiple from Israeli artist Yaacov Agam (b. 1928) are a few expected highlights in Crescent City Auction Gallerys Major Fall Estates Auction, slated for the weekend of November 16th-17th-18th. The auction will be held online and in the firms gallery located at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. Start times will be 10 am on Friday, November 16th (lots 1-600); 9 am on Saturday, November 17th (lots 601-1350); and 9 am on Sunday, November 18th (lots 1351-1788). All times are Central. Internet bidding is via LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. With a pre-sale estimate of $10,000-$20,000, the oil on canvas painting by Kumi Sugai titled Hiver (Winter) ... More
Spelman announces Will Power as Distinguished Professor of the Arts
ATLANTA, GA.- Award-winning playwright and performer Will Power has joined the Spelman College faculty as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Theatre & Performance. Known as an innovator and dramatic explorer of new theatrical forms, Power is considered one of the pioneers and co-creators of hip hop theater. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence with the Dallas Theater Center and joins Spelman from Southern Methodist University where he was a member of the faculty at The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Power said he could not resist the opportunity to come to Spelman and wants to help students find their voices in dealing with the issues of the times. I felt this was the right moment, he said. Im excited to help support how we inspire and provoke, in a good way, in these crazy ... More
Rarely shown photographs by Asian artists explore the many facets of time
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents an exhibition of more than 40 modern and contemporary photographs by artists mostly born in China, Japan, South Korea, or Vietnam who delve into various concepts of time. Their images could be focused on a time of day, a past legend or history, or an imagined future. Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography is on view at the BMA from November 4, 2018, to March 24, 2019. Time Frames showcases recent important gifts to the BMAs outstanding photography collection as well as rarely shown works by East Asian artists working in this medium, said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford. The extraordinary range of these works extends from hyperbolic and contemplative images to personal experiences and collective histories. ... More
Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens a show of work by Dutch designers The Verhoeven Twins
NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery | New York is presenting Vanitas of Life, a show of work by Dutch designers The Verhoeven Twins, formerly of the design collective Demakersvan. The exhibition which is their first US solo show with the gallery, will be on view at Carpenters Workshop Gallerys New York location from November 7th through December 22nd. The show foregrounds the pairs borosilicate glass Bubble works and also features two iterations of their Lectori Salutem Desk in addition to their iconic Cinderella table. Jeroen and Joep Verhoevens Shape of Water collection fuses time-honored symbolism and cutting-edge technology to create a sculpture of startling beauty. The bubble appears throughout art history as an image of transience, most famously in Chardins Soap Bubbles (c. 1733-34), which depicts a boy blowing a bubble ... More
The Robin Rice Gallery opens a new exhibit by José Picayo
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robin Rice Gallery announces, 25 Years of Polaroids, a new exhibit by José Picayo. The exhibit will run through January 6, 2019. In this exhibition, Picayo seeks to revive the concept of unadulterated beauty captured as a single moment in time. An unapologetic user of film, Picayo prides himself on his avoidance of digital processing for personal work. When asked why it remains his preferred medium, Picayo answers, Digital is so overpoweringly real; photography is more magical to me. For Picayo, Polaroid film is a medium where he can capture something as is a moment in time. Just to hold the photograph in his hands is enough. 25 Years of Polaroids showcases Picayos most iconic work. This exhibit includes personal photographs of Cuba from 1994, Polaroid image transfers showcasing his impressive use of visual texture and his ... More
MAAT's Video Room series opens with Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe
LISBON.- The last round of exhibition openings at MAAT in 2018 coincides with the Lisbon Web Summit and includes three major shows and a pop-up event, as well as the launch of MAATs Video Room exhibition series on expanded video. In the first exhibition featured in the MAATs Video Room program, American duo Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe present Scenario in the Shade, a surprising multi-environment installation that culminates in a monumental 75-minute-long video piece. In the Main Gallery, the group show Haus Wittgenstein gathers artists and architects that revisit philosophical issues surrounding the house built by the famous Viennese philosopher. Finally, the Project Room series of new solo proposals by Portuguese artists will host João Louro, who represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale in 2015. New York-based duo Jonah Freeman ... More
The Winnipeg Art Gallery creates two new Indigenous positions
WINNIPEG.- The Winnipeg Art Gallery has launched a search for a Manager of Indigenous Initiatives and an Assistant Curator of Inuit Art. The two new full-time positions are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), under which the Council is providing $100,000 a year for three years via its Creating Knowing and Sharing, The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples program. The initiative responds to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action by ensuring Indigenous representation on the management team at the WAG and within the curatorial department. In the lead-up to the opening of the Inuit Art Centre in 2020, the creation of these new roles increases Indigenous leadership and agency as the WAG continues on its Indigenization journey. The deadline to ... More
New format Winter Olympia well received
As the Chancellor announced the end of austerity on Monday 29 October, the collectors preview got underway at Olympia with brisk early trade. Philip Carrol was busy wrapping porcelain within the first hour and Steve Sly Japanese Art sold a pair of Japanese gilt bronze Okimonos, Meiji Period with a ticket price of £78,500. These went to an important UK-based collector. He also sold a monumental Imari vase which had come from Philadelphia and was off to a new customer in India. Fair Director, Mary Claire Boyd, said of the fair, 'We are delighted that the new format has worked so well - feedback from both dealers and visitors has been very positive. It appears that a number of dealers have benefitted from the location within Olympia, making sales to neighbouring Spirit of Christmas visitors'. Mayfair-based jewellery dealer, Anthea AG Antiques said of her week ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán was baptized November 07, 1598. Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7, 1598 - August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. In this image: Francisco de Zurbarán Agnus dei ca. 1635-1640 Oil on canvas, 35,56 x 52, 07cm Inv. 1947.36 The San Diego Museum of Art, gift of Anne R. and Amy Putnam.
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