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A picture taken on October 1, 2019, shows the Golden Coffin of Nedjemankh, on display at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, following its repatriation from the US. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Looted amidst the tumult of Egypt's 2011 revolution, the golden coffin of priest Nedjemankh was unveiled on Tuesday in Cairo after its return from New York. Standing at 1.8 metres (six foot), the fine gilded sarcophagus has gained notoriety, apart from for its historical value, for its role at the centre of an international trafficking ring Dating back to the Ptolemaic period (1st-2nd century BC), the ornate wooden coffin was designed for Nedjemankh, a high priest of the ram-headed god Heryshef. The shimmering artefact adorned with gesso reliefs had been housed since 2017 in New York's Metropolitan Museum, which purchased it from a Paris art dealer for around 3.5 million euros ($3.8 million). But in February, a Met exhibition which named the high priest had to shut down after being informed the sarcophagus had been plundered by a multi-national trafficking ring. It had been smuggled out of Minya in southern E ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On Thursday, Oct 03, 2019 9:00 AM CDT, Artemis Gallery will hold Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. In this image: Maya Stone Jaguar - Carved in the Round. Estimate: Estimate $6,000 - $9,000.
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| | August the Strong's Royal State Apartments reopen in Dresden | | Sotheby's announces highlights of the Arts of the Islamic & Indian World sale | | New visual identity for Kunstmuseum Den Haag |
Coronation figure of Augustus II of Poland. © SKD, Photo: Oliver Killig.
DRESDEN.- August the Strongs Royal State Apartments (Paraderäume) and the Porcelain Cabinet in the Turmzimmer (Tower Room) were opened on Saturday, 28 Saturday 2019, marking the culmination of the restoration of Dresdens Residenzschloss, which started in 1986. The prestigious suite of rooms in the west wing conceived by the Elector-King personally as a ceremonial centrepiece of his residence takes visitors to the pinnacle of ostentatious princely splendour on their tour of the museum palace. Together with original artworks from several of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresdens museums, the painstakingly restored rooms form a unique ensemble of museum-grade rooms. The harmonious interplay of wall textiles, paintings, precious ornamental furniture and porcelains, magnificent robes of state and August the Strongs royal insignia let visitors ... More | |
Akbar and his entourage journey by boat, illustrated page from the First (Victoria and Albert Museum) Akbarnama, India, Mughal, circa 1590-95 (est. £20,000-30,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Spanning several continents and centuries with the earliest pieces stretching back to the seventh century the selection showcases masterpieces of calligraphy, painting, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery and furniture. Viewed together, it is an undeniable testament to the sophisticated, inventive and diverse output of the Islamic world. Alongside our biannual sale, we are also thrilled to be presenting a stand-alone single-owner auction of just under a hundred manuscripts put together by a distinguished collector with an expert eye and eclectic taste. --Benedict Carter, Sothebys Islamic Art specialist and Head of Sale A large Quran leaf in gold Kufic script on blue vellum, Near East, North Africa or Southern Spain, 9th-10th century AD (est. £400,000-600,000) ... More | |
New identity Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Photo: Jurriaan Brobbel.
THE HAGUE.- As of today, the museum will officially be known as Kunstmuseum Den Haag. The new name makes it clear to the public what the museum is, and what it stands for: a diverse museum of art (Kunstmuseum) with firm ties to the city of The Hague (Den Haag) and its residents. The first exhibition that the museum will present under its new name is Monet The Garden Paintings. The museums new logo has just been revealed, ahead of the opening on 12 October. Kunstmuseum Den Haags logo is part of a new visual identity that is based on the museums building, designed by Berlage, and on its collection. It pays homage to Berlages distinctive yellow brick that has defined the look of the museum since 1935 distinctive not only for its colour, but also its elongated shape. The proportions match the eleven-centimetre unit that architect H.P. Berlage used throughout the building. The concept for the new ... More |
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| | 4th edition of October Art Week announces stellar line-up of blue-chip galleries | | A responsible way to transport art: ROKBOX | | Collection from celebrated American author John Steinbeck offered through Heritage Auctions |
Juan Simón Gutiérrez (Medina-Sidonia 1643 1718 Seville), The Child Virgin Spinning (La Virgen niña hilando). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Robert Simon Fine Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- Coinciding with TEFAF New York, the AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show and Christies Classic Art Week of auctions and selling exhibitions, the fourth edition of October Art Week will kick off on Thursday, October 30th. On that evening, from 5 to 9 p.m .fifteen blue-chip galleries along with the AADLA Show will be hosting open houses and gallery receptions on Manhattans Upper East Side. Open to the public and within walking distance from one another, the art galleries of October Art Week (which runs through November 5) take on a festive and convivial atmospherewelcoming art lovers of all stripes to the Upper East Side and contributing to the overall excitement of autumn in New York City. Participating galleries, several of which are also exhibiting at TEFAF, include: Didier ... More | |
ROKBOX was founded in 2014 by Andrew Stramentov.
LONDON.- ROKBOX is launching the first reusable art crate made from recycled and recyclable materials. Four years in the making, ROKBOX provides a secure, versatile, robust and weatherproof solution for safely transporting priceless artworks, without adding to landfill. With ambitions to become the industrys go-to-solution for packaging and transporting art, this experienced team of artworld insiders and specialists has produced a clever engineering solution that is not only more environmentally conscious, but more secure and waterproof than the traditionally wasteful wooden crate. This October, ROKBOX officially launches after beta testing by many of the worlds leading galleries, museums and fine art shippers. Its founders are on a path to bring about a major cultural shift in how the art world takes responsibility for protecting both our fragile environment and precious artworks in equal measure. The innovative ... More | |
One of the most intriguing lots in the sale is the John Steinbeck 1946-1947 Warm Up Journal (estimate: $20,000+), which he described as "one of those interminable notebooks that serves no purpose but to warm me up and sometimes to cool me down."
DALLAS, TX.- A collection from one of the most celebrated American authors of all time will cross the block Oct. 24 in Heritage Auctions Estate of John and Elaine Steinbeck Manuscripts Internet Auction. The collection is from the family of Elaine Steinbeck Johns third wife and has been housed in a storage unit that held the contents of their apartment on New Yorks Upper East Side. Called a giant of American letters, John Steinbeck authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books and two collections of short stories. The Grapes of Wrath is considered his masterpiece, and earned him a Pulitzer Prize. He also won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic ... More |
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| | One of world's largest poster collections showcased in new book by Assouline | | Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is the namesake of a recently established international landscape architecture prize | | Eskenazi Museum of Art acquires drawings by Saul Steinberg |
Blonde Crazy (1931) U.S. Trolley Card 21 X 27 © Dwight M. Cleveland.
CHICAGO, IL.- This fall, Assouline Publishing releases a new book that highlights one of the largest and most comprehensive movie poster collections ever privately assembled. Cinema on Paper: The Graphic Genius of Movie Posters marks the first time that the collection of Dwight M. Clevelandwidely recognized as one of the worlds most significant private holdings of movie posters, spanning more than a century of film historyhas ever been the focus of a major monographic book publication. The release of Cinema on Paper follows the recent opening of a widely acclaimed exhibition of the collection at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, which is on view through October 29, 2019. A real estate developer and historic preservationist based in Chicago, Dwight Cleveland has been collecting movie posters for more than forty yearsduring which he assembled what is believed to be the largest privately held and fully ... More | |
Based in Vancouver, B.C., the 98-year-old Oberlander has been in practice for more that 70 years. Photo © Charles A. Birnbaum, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation
NEW YORK, NY.- Today The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a non-profit, Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy organization, announced that the influential, widely respected, and award-winning Canadian landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is the namesake of a recently established international landscape architecture prize. The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize (Oberlander Prize), which will be conferred biennially beginning in 2021, is the first and only international landscape architecture prize that includes a US$100,000 award, along with two years of public engagement activities. The naming announcement was made at an event at the Consulate General of Canada in New York City. Based in Vancouver, B.C., the ... More | |
Steinberg, who produced numerous drawings and covers for The New Yorker magazine, is widely recognized for his thought-provoking and often humorous depictions of life during the postWorld War II era.
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has received a major gift of 65 drawings by the world-renowned artist Saul Steinberg (19141999) from the New York Citybased Saul Steinberg Foundation. The broad selection includes works ranging in date from 1944 to 1990, representing a survey of one of the most respected and beloved graphic artists of the twentieth century. These 65 works join six drawings already in the Eskenazi Museum of Arts collection, including one of his most seminal works, View of the World from Ninth Avenue (1975), a brilliant perspective on New York City egoism and send-up of the American Midwest as flyover country. Steinberg, who produced numerous drawings and covers for The New Yorker magazine, is ... More |
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| | V&A to mark 500th anniversary of Raphael's death with refreshed gallery | | Portrait of Van Gogh's governess discovered | | A complete sheet of 1980 "Golden Monkey" stamps achieves over HK$1 million at Zurich Asia autumn sale in Hong Kong |
Raphael Cartoon, Paul Preaching at Athens (Acts 17: 16-34), by Raphael, 1515 16, Italy (detail). Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019. Photo: Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- In 2020, the V&A will mark the 500th anniversary of Raphaels death by transforming the way museum visitors experience the iconic Raphael Cartoons, loaned to the V&A from the Royal Collection by Her Majesty The Queen. The Raphael Court home to the Cartoons will be refurbished from 27 January 2020 until late 2020 when it will reopen as a revitalised space. The V&A has appointed award-winning practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios as the 3D designers for the refurbishment, and lighting designers ZNA who will create an innovative new lighting scheme. State-of-the-art LED lighting will reduce reflections on the glass and produce a marked increase in visibility of the works. Following an extensive photography project, enhanced gallery interpretation will also reveal in-depth stories about the production ... More | |
Anna Birnie, approx. 1862, photograph, private collection.
ZUNDERT.- From 21 September 2019 to 12 January 2020 the Van Gogh Huis is exhibiting an album containing portrait photographs of Vincents governess Anna Birnie (1844-1917). Following the recent discovery of photographs in the Birnie family archive, we can now put a face to Van Goghs governess. Anna Birnie taught Vincent van Gogh at home in Zundert for two and a half years. The daughter of a drawing tutor and artist, she presumably helped Vincent create his first drawings. The role of Van Goghs governess is largely overlooked in Van Goghs biography. It was generally assumed that his parents educated him at home after taking him out of Zundert primary school at the age of eight. There are, however, sufficient indications that Anna Birnie played an important role in his education. She entered his parents employment shortly after they had decided to take care of Vincents education themselves. It would seem ob ... More | |
Complete sheet of 80 stamps of 8 fen from the 1980 Year of the Monkey, Golden Monkey, in very fresh condition and shiny gold colour which realized HK$1,058,000 / US$135,641, Lot 2344.
HONG KONG.- Zurich Asia concluded its Hong Kong autumn auctions held on 28 and 29 September 2019 at Harbour Plaza North Point Hotel, offering over 2,400 lots of rare philatelic treasures, banknotes and coins. Stamps from the Liberated Areas of China and the Peoples Republic of China were highly sought-after in the sales. The star lot was a complete sheet of 80 stamps of 8 fen from the 1980 Year of the Monkey (Golden Monkey), in very fresh condition and shiny gold colour which realized HK$1,058,000 / US$135,641, selling to a private collector in the saleroom. Another highly coveted philatelic item was a 1922 surcharge in red on 1st Peking printing 2 cents on 3 cents blue-green, in mint condition with full original gum which fetched HK$460,000/ US$58,974. It is believed that there are fewer than 20 copies of this inverted ... More |
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Alison Jacques Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Betty Parsons
LONDON.- Alison Jacques Gallery opened an exhibition of works by Betty Parsons (1900 - 1982), one of the most influential and dynamic figures of the American avantgarde. As the first show of her work to be held in London for nearly forty years, following important exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery (1968) and Nigel Greenwood Gallery (1980), it offers a deeper understanding of Parsons unique career as an artist which has too often been overshadowed by the pioneering gallery she opened in New York in 1946. The paintings and sculptures Parsons produced during her six-decade career formed part of a rigorous and experimental artistic practice that centred on abstraction and drew on diverse sources, from natural phenomena and the cosmos, to Native American culture and Asian spiritual practices. Her adventurous character resulted in extensive ... More
London based artist and poet, Robert Montgomery opens solo exhibition at JD Malat Gallery
LONDON.- Scottish-born and London based artist and poet, Robert Montgomery, brings his solo exhibition, Shiny Colourful Amusements for the Walls of the Bourgeoisie, to JD Malat Gallery Tuesday 1st October Saturday 2nd November 2019. Coinciding with Frieze London, the highly anticipated exhibition is set to captivate Montgomerys worldwide following. Through Shiny Coloured Amusements for the Walls of the Bourgeoisie, Montgomery, renowned for his large, public light installations and distinctive black and white billboard works, presents a selection of lightworks made especially for the exhibition. The show also combines his illustrious light work technique that is well known to viewers, with new works that celebrate the artists return to other mediums such as painting and an electrifying exploration of colour. The globally acclaimed ... More
Group show features six artists working in Brazil
NAPLES.- Since opening in Naples in January 2018, Thomas Dane Gallery has aspired to reflect the dynamism of the city and to be a space for collaboration and exchange. The gallery hosts São Paulos Mendes Wood DM for Terra Tremaa group show featuring six artists working in Brazil: Paloma Bosquê, Anna Bella Geiger, Sonia Gomes, Patricia Leite, Solange Pessoa, and Leticia Ramos. Given its unique position, Naples becomes a fitting backdrop for the material richness of these artistswhose work includes painting, photography, sculpture, and film. By displacing a language of modernity in favour of sensorial practice, the legacy of Brazilian art is revisited in the framework of Naples. The title of the exhibition refers to La Terra TremaLuchino Viscontis 1948 film loosely adapted from Giovanni Vergas novel I Malavoglia (1881). Depicting a family of fishermen ... More
Yan Pei-Ming opens a show at the Orsay Museum
PARIS.- On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Gustave Courbets birth, French-Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming has drawn inspiration from A Burial at Ornans, the masterpiece of Realism, in order to create A Burial in Shanghai, a work conceived especially for the Musée dOrsay. Upon arriving in France in 1980, 20-year-old Yan Pei-Ming immediately went to Paris to discover the works of Gustave Courbet, then displayed at the Musée du Louvre. He contemplated A Burial at Ornans, a depiction of a funeral set in Gustave Courbets hometown. Courbet remained deeply attached to it, and he painted the landscapes of the region in numerous works. According to Yan Pei-Ming, "In A Burial at Ornans, Courbet depicts his landscape, his story, his people. At the time when I began working on this project, my mother passed. She lived in Shanghai, and all her friends ... More
Bob Marley awarded English Heritage blue plaque
LONDON.- Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley has been honoured with an English Heritage blue today (Tuesday 1 October), joining the likes of Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The plaque marks number 42 Oakley Street, the Chelsea house where Marley lived in 1977. It was while living here that he and the Wailers finished recording their album Exodus, which featured some of his biggest hits, including Jamming, Waiting in Vain, Three Little Birds and One Love. With this address as his Chelsea home, Marley said he regarded London as a second base, often playing football with his bandmates at the pitches in nearby Battersea Park. Poet, writer and actor Benjamin Zephaniah, said: Its very difficult to say what Bob Marley would have said about this plaque, but he did once say, Live for yourself, you ... More
PHOTOFAIRS │ Shanghai 2019 successfully concluded its sixth edition with high praise
SHANGHAI.- PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai 2019 has once again cemented its position as Asia Pacifics leading destination for discovering and collecting photography. The Fair impressed collectors with diverse gallery presentations and special exhibitions that illustrated the breadth and versatility of photography, enabling strong sales to local and international buyers and institutions. The sixth edition of the Fair, with Presenting Partner Porsche, welcomed more than 30,000 people including important collectors, curators and arts professionals from around the world. Recognizing photography as a changing and developing artform, the Fair emphasized the experimental features of photography, encouraging new approaches and ideas through history and today. On her experience of the Fair, Karen Smith, the Artistic Director, Shanghai Center of Photography ... More
Carbon 12 opens an exhibition of works by Sarah Almehairi
DUBAI.- In 2014 three scientists shared a Nobel Prize for discovering an inner GPS in brains. Their work showed that place cells create our internal maps, while grid cells generate co-ordinate systems that allow us to find our way in the world. It has since been shown that stories and ideas are coded by those place cells, while the grid cells map our temporal, social and conceptual relations. Thought arises from space, from location. Who we are is because of where we areand where weve come from. Grids. Identity. Systems. Stories. These are the centers of gravity in the debut solo show of Sarah Almehairi. Born in Abu Dhabi, her work is not just about what it means to be carving out an identity in a hyper-global world it is her identity, readable along the walls like the lines of a poem. Photographs, maps, and obscured memories from a summer visit ... More
National Portrait Gallery secures National Lottery funding for transformational Inspiring People project
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery, London has received a full grant of £9.4 million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for Inspiring People, the Gallerys biggest ever development since the building in St Martins Place opened in 1896. The Gallerys successful round two application for a grant of £8.5 million follows initial development funding of £900,000 awarded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in 2017 to enable the Gallery to develop detailed plans. Inspiring People will see a transformed National Portrait Gallery, including a comprehensive re-display of the Gallerys Collection from the Tudors to now across 40 refurbished galleries, combined with a significant refurbishment of the building, restoring historic features, creating a new and more welcoming visitor entrance and public forecourt on the buildings North Façade, and enhancing the ... More
With exhibit and selfies, Russians mark 100th birthday of Kalashnikov
MOSCOW (AFP).- Dozens of cadets and youngsters from Russia's Youth Army have been getting up close and personal with perhaps the world's most iconic firearm as their country prepares to mark the centenary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov, maker of the legendary rifle. At Victory Museum in western Moscow, visitors including the young cadets are invited to assemble Kalashnikovs and pose for selfies at the exhibition dedicated to the famous automatic weapon. Russia will next month celebrate the life of Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47, with a number of events, including the museum display and a biopic. Kalashnikov, who died in 2013 at the age of 94, is seen in Russia as a national hero and symbol of the country's proud military past. His AK-47 has become a weapon of choice for both guerrillas and governments the world over. It is also a staple ... More
Princeton University Art Museum appoints Juliana Ochs Dweck as Chief Curator
PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum has named Juliana Ochs Dweck to be chief curator, a new role occasioned by the Museums continuing growth. Dweck joined the Museum in 2010 and, prior to this appointment, served as the Museums Andrew W. Mellon curator of academic engagement. In her new role, effective immediately, she is responsible for providing intellectual and programmatic leadership for the Museums curatorial program, including guiding a team of 11 curators as well as curatorial and research assistants and interns. Under the leadership of the Museums director, and reporting to the associate director for collections and exhibitions, Dweck is tasked with building a culture of collaboration across diverse areas of curatorial expertise and collections and linking these to the Museums educational activities. ... More
John Gerrard joins Pace Gallery with debut presentation at Frieze London
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced its representation of Irish artist John Gerrard (b. 1974, North Tipperary). Widely regarded as a key figure in the development of simulation within contemporary art, Gerrard creates works that at first appear to be traditional films or videos but are actually virtual worlds. Made using real-time computer graphics, a technology developed by the military and now used extensively in the gaming industry, his works are created over the course of months and sometimes even years. The nature of contemporary power in the broadest sense is central to Gerrards conceptual motivation, and frequently his work refers to structures of control and networks of energy that have made possible the expansion of humanity in the past century. This week, Pace will inaugurate its presentation of Gerrards work at Frieze London ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Donna Karan was born October 02, 1948. Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. In this image: Designer Donna Karan appears during an event in celebration of her Urban Zen collection and foundation Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 in New York.
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