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Installation view of James Tissot: Fashion & Faith at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, October 2019. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- James Tissot (18361902) was one of the most celebrated French artists during the 19th century, yet he is less known than many of his contemporaries today. Presenting new scholarship on the artists oeuvre, technique, and remarkable life, James Tissot: Fashion & Faith provides a critical reassessment of Tissot through a 21st-century lens. The exhibition, co-organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Musées dOrsay et de lOrangerie, Paris, includes approximately 60 paintings in addition to drawings, prints, photographs, and cloisonné enamels, demonstrating the breadth of the artists skills. The presentation at the Legion of Honor is the first major international exhibition on Tissot in two decades and the first ever on the West Coast of the United States. The work of James Tissot provides a fascinating lens onto society at the dawn of the modern era. Long recognized as a keen observer of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery's Halloween Day auction features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe, plus fine art. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fine Art, so much more. In this image: Roman / Byzantine Stone Casket w/ Cherubs. Estimate $6,000 - $9,000.
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| | Russia's richest man unveils new Moscow arts centre | | Humanity's homeland found in ancient Botswana | | Phillips' Evening Sale to bring together works by Modern, Post-War, Latin American, American, and Contemporary masters |
A picture taken on October 28, 2019 shows Italian architect Renzo Piano (L) and Russia's privately owned gas producer Novatek CEO and VAC Foundation founder Leonid Mikhelson inspecting construction works transforming a historical power station on the banks of the Moskva river into a new contemporary art space, GES 2, in downtown Moscow. Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Gas tycoon Leonid Mikhelson is normally seen inking deals and meeting President Vladimir Putin, but on Tuesday Russia's richest man rubbed elbows with the cultural crowd as he showcased a new Moscow arts centre. The GES-2 venue in central Moscow, financed by Mikhelson's VAC foundation, is located in a century-old power-plant that is being redesigned with great pomp by Italian 'starchitect' Renzo Piano. The enormous space is set to house galleries, cafes and art residencies, and is to open its doors in September 2020, Mikhelson told a press-conference. The billionaire toured the cathedral-like site Monday, ... More | |
Professor Vanessa Hayes learning how to make fire with Juǀhoansi hunters in the now dried homeland of the greater Kalahari of Namibia. © Chris Bennett, Evolving Picture.
PARIS (AFP).- Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind's "ancestral homeland" yet discovered. While it has long been known anatomically modern humans -- homo sapiens sapiens -- originated in Africa, scientists have until now been unable to pinpoint the precise location of our species' birthplace. An international team of researchers took DNA samples from 200 Khoesan people, an ethnic group known to carry a high proportion of a branch of DNA known as L0, living in modern day South Africa and Namibia. They then combined the DNA samples with geographic distribution, archeological and climate change data to come up with a genomic timeline that suggested a sustained lineage ... More | |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Ring, 1981. Estimate: $10-15 million. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Taking place on 13-14 November, Phillips New York auctions of 20th Century and Contemporary Art will encompass works by the past centurys leading artists, spanning a variety of collecting genres. Led by Jean-Michel Basquiats The Ring, the Evening Sale on 14 November will offer 42 lots, featuring an extraordinary group of Modern works, alongside lots by Latin American, Post-War, and Contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, Carmen Herrera, and Philip Guston. Nearly 80% of the lots in the Evening Sale have never before been sold at auction, presenting collectors with the opportunity to acquire these rare-to-market works. The Day Sale on 13 November will be comprised of 346 lots and, estimated to sell in excess of $33.7 million, it is poised to break the auction houses record for the highest Day Sale total in company history. The sale will include works by Larry Poons, ... More |
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| | E.A. Carmean,who forsook a life in art for the church, dies at 74 | | Christie's to offer The Dr. Jeffrey Sherwin Collection | | Risk-taking gallerist retires after nearly 50 years |
In a photo provided by the National Gallery of Arts shows E.A. Carmean Jr., right, with the sculptor Alexander Calder during the construction of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1978. Carmean, a museum curator and director and modern art expert who, responding to a higher calling midway through his career, entered a seminary and became an Episcopal canon, died on Oct. 12, 2019 at his home in Washington. He was 74. National Gallery of Art via the New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- E.A. Carmean Jr., a museum curator and director and modern art expert who, responding to a higher calling midway through his career, entered a seminary and became an Episcopal canon, died Oct. 12 at his home in Washington. He was 74. His family said the cause was cancer. Carmean, whose primary area of expertise was European and American modernism, worked at several national museums. Most prominently, he was the founding curator of the department of 20th-century art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. He joined the gallery in 1974, after only three years at another museum. At the time, the National Gallery was ... More | |
John Cecil Stephensom, 1889-1965. Bright Triangles, signed and inscribed 'Cecil/Stephenson, oil and Egg Tempera', on the backboard; signed again, inscribed and dated 'J.C. Stephenson/ Tempera/1938/Damaged in war. Restored by/Cecil Stephenson 1959', on the backboard, oil and tempera on canvas, 102 x 76 cm. Painted in 1938. Estimate: £10,000-15,000 | US$13,000-19,000 | 12,000-17,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies will present a dedicated auction of the collection of Dr. Jeffrey Sherwin on 21 November 2019, with four further works being offered in the Modern British Art Evening Auction in January 2020. Sherwin was a GP in Harehills, an inner-city area of Leeds. In 1971 he began a parallel career, standing in the local council elections to become Councillor for the Talbot ward. One of his official roles was that of Shadow Chairman of Leeds Leisure Services. Jeffreys role on the Council saw him champion the arts with his greatest legacy being The Henry Moore Sculpture Gallery, a dedicated space within Leeds Art Gallery. He then persuaded Henry Moore that his Foundation in Hertfordshire should endow the gallery, eventually resulting in a ... More | |
Peggy Jarrell Kaplan, Ronald Feldman, 1995. Silver gelatin print © Peggy Jarrell Kaplan. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Gallery New York.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Ronald Feldman, the pioneering contemporary art dealer, has stepped down from his role of director at the Ronald Feldman Gallery after nearly 50 years at the helm, for health reasons. Feldman, 82, founded the gallery with his wife, Frayda Feldman, in 1971 on East 74th Street in New York. In 1982, the gallery moved to SoHo, establishing an early beachhead in Lower Manhattan that seemed to suit an institution that broke boundaries and championed a wide range of risk-taking artists and their (often political) works. Some of his early partnerships included German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, performance artist Chris Burden, feminist artist Hannah Wilke, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the longtime unpaid artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation. He and Feldman also developed a friendship with Andy Warhol in the 1980s, and Feldman commissioned Warhol to do portfolios of paintings and prints. He is so passionate about championing ideas-based ... More |
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| | Sotheby's to sell Modern & Contemporary Art from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation & Family Collections | | One of the finest watercolors by Pablo Picasso to highlight Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | | Steal this archive? Abbie Hoffman's papers become a college collection |
William Louis-Dreyfus, courtesy of Gloria Baker Photography. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announces that works from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections will highlight Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art and Contemporary Art Day Auctions in New York this November, and will continue to feature across Sothebys global auctions through 2020 and beyond. Amassed over a period of more than 50 years and spanning time periods and continents, The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections are a testament to Louis-Dreyfuss aesthetic intuition, curiosity and passion for collecting on a personal level. The Foundation Collection alone contains more than 3,500 works of art and is housed in a museum-quality space in Mount Kisco, New York. The Louis-Dreyfus Collections showcase artists with an interest in political commentary and social comedy, such as George Grosz, Honoré Daumier and Raymond Mason, as well as those working in the realm of amorphous and ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Nature morte à la tête classique et au bouquet de fleurs (detail). Estimate: $5/7 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that they will present Pablo Picassos Nature morte à la tête classique et au bouquet de fleurs as a highlight of their Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 12 November 2019 in New York. Having remained in the same family collection for more than 35 years, this lyrical work on paper from 1933 is among the finest of a small group of highly-worked watercolors and gouaches on this subject that the artist created while on holiday in Cannes with his wife Olga and his young son Paolo. Held for decades in the collection of the famed Surrealist poet and patron Edward James, the present work eloquently speaks to James keen eye for the most ethereal and dreamlike compositions of the avant garde, and beautifully illustrates this tumultuous yet highly prolific period in Picassos oeuvre. Sothebys had the privilege of offering the present work in December 1982, when it sold for $179,135 during ... More | |
In an undated image provided by the University of Texas at Austin, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. Thousands of letters and other artifacts that memorialize Abbie Hoffman and his contentious role in American history have been sold to the University of Texas at Austin by Johanna Hoffman Lawrenson, his third wife and companion for the last 15 years of his life. The University of Texas at Austin via The New York Times.
AUSTIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- There are notes and letters from other icons of the 1960s. Cards from John and Yoko. A letter from Allen Ginsberg, the poet, offering to help him raise defense money. A plea by Norman Mailer to the governor of New York, seeking executive leniency on his behalf. The papers of Abbie Hoffman, the puckish activist who gained a national reputation as a radical hippie, make clear the extent to which the tumult of that era regularly swirled around him: the showering of the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, the nomination of a pig as a presidential candidate, the turbulent demonstrations that rattled the 1968 Democratic National ... More |
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| | Auction of Impressionist, Modern, Post-War & Contemporary Art at Doyle | | Incas valley, Yazidi shrine: Foundation warns of threatened sites | | He sailed the longest ocean voyage in history and turned it into art |
Frederick Carl Frieseke, 1874-1939, Spring Blossoms, circa 1921. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 32 in. The Marian Sulzberger Heiskell and Andrew Heiskell Collection. Est. $80,000-120,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyles auction on Wednesday, November 6 offers a wide array of works by American, European, Asian and Latin American artists of the late 19th century to the present day. Session I at 11am presents Impressionist & Modern Art spanning Academic and Barbizon art through Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to German Expressionism and early Modernism. Session II at 2pm presents Post-War & Contemporary Art with examples of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimalism, moving through Fluxus and Mail Art to Street Art and works by emerging artists. Featured in the sale is property from The Marian Sulzberger Heiskell & Andrew Heiskell Collection, comprising works by Helen Frankenthaler, Carl Frederick Frieseke, Pierre Eugene Montezin, Arnoldo Pomodoro and Auguste Rodin. Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Arts Students League in New York, and with James Abbott McNeill Whistler at the Academie Ca ... More | |
The near-loss of a beloved cathedral and global icon reminds us of the depth of human connection to heritage places and the personal trauma that their destruction can bring.
NEW YORK (AFP).- From the Sacred Valley of the Incas, threatened by a proposed airport, to a Yazidi shrine in Iraq, a foundation warned Tuesday of 25 sites in urgent need of protection. Unveiling its watch list for 2020, the World Monuments Fund highlighted locations in 21 countries, including Chile's Easter Island, which is home to renowned rock carvings created by indigenous people. WMF said in a statement that the sites "are facing daunting threats such as encroaching urbanization, political turmoil, natural disaster, and violent conflicts, or present compelling conservation opportunities." It referenced Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral, which was badly damaged in a fire this year, and the San Antonio Woolworth Building in Texas, significant in the African-American civil rights movement but threatened by a redevelopment plan. The non-governmental organization said Peru's Sacred Valley near Machu Picchu was in danger because of plans to build a new airport and noted that rebuilding a destroyed ... More | |
The artist Reid Stowe with his works made from the sails used during his 1,152-day voyage, in Chelsea, New York, on Oct. 19, 2019. Stowe once hobnobbed with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, but the sea was his true passion. Roshni Khatri/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Along a Hudson River pier in 2010, a sailor docked his battered schooner as a crowd watched in quiet anticipation. When he wearily stepped onto land, he had finished a remarkable human journey: Reid Stowe had been at sea for 1,152 days, the longest nonstop ocean voyage in recorded history. A decade later, Stowe is raising a family in suburban North Carolina and driving a 2005 Chevy Malibu. But he has also obsessively been making giant abstract paintings, most of them using the weather-beaten sails that carried his schooner across the globe. He was recently back in New York to visit the Chelsea gallery that is showing his art. All this time later, Im still trying to tell the world the story of what I went through, said Stowe, 67, during his recent stay in Manhattan. Ive departed the touch of earth longer than anyone else. All my paintings carry the vibrations and ... More |
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Seething or subtle, Donald Moffett's art is always political
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Donald Moffett first gained renown as an artist in the 1980s, when he was responding to a crisis that was frustrating researchers, polarizing lawmakers and threatening lives around the world. More than three decades later, he is still doing exactly that. The causes, however, have changed. Fiercely dedicated to fighting the AIDS epidemic then, Moffett is battling climate change now. The activisms of both rely on science as ally and protagonist in the struggle, Moffett wrote in an email after a recent interview at his studio in Staten Island. And both activisms faced or face a similar political resistance of knuckleheads as the prime antagonists. Moffett, 64, has never been shy about letting you know who he thinks those knuckleheads are. What may be his most famous creation, the 1987 lithograph He Kills Me, features an ... More
Frank Stella arrives at Boston Seaport
BOSTON, MASS.- Seaport announced its newest contemporary public art installation: a large-scale mural by artist Frank Stella, widely renowned as one of the most important American living art makers and a native of Massachusetts. In partnership with Marianne Boesky Gallery, Seaport has commissioned Stella to create one of the largest public art installations of his 60-year career, a mural reproduction of his seminal painting, Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation I), 1970. Global creative house Justkids oversaw the production of the mural, which is visible on the façade of One Seaport (60 Seaport Boulevard Boston MA). A native of Malden, Massachusetts, Frank Stella is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker celebrated for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. His vast contribution to American art began in 1959 with his minimalist ... More
Gray's Auctioneers will offer Cedar Point's Town Hall Museum collection
CLEVELAND, OH.- On Monday, November 18th, a uniquely American collection of historical amusement park artifacts will come up for auction at Grays Auctioneers in Cleveland. The venerable amusement park Cedar Point has deaccessioned several pieces from the museums collection to make way for a new collection that will debut next year, 2020, one of the many events which will mark the parks 150th anniversary. The auction features 160 lots of vintage arcade games, antique trains and fairground amusements as well as locally relevant historical artifacts. Highlights include an American-LaFrance steam fire pumper built for the Greensboro, North Carolina Fire Department in 1904. It is a horse drawn steam pumping engine built shortly after the merger of the American Fire Engine Company of Cincinnati, Ohio and the LaFrance Fire Engine Company ... More
On a Greek island, a bookstore with some mythology of its own
SANTORINI (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- On a wall above rare first editions, old maps of this volcanic island and a stained linen lampshade, a painted timeline traces the evolution of Atlantis Books from a wine-drenched notion in 2002 into one of Europes most enchanting bookstores. A terrace overlooks the Aegean Sea. Bookshelves swing back to reveal hidden, lofted beds where the shops workers can sleep. Somewhere along the way, word spread that visiting writers too could spend summer nights scribbling and snoozing there, and the owner began receiving emails requesting a bunk at earths most stunning writers colony, on an island Plato believed was the lost Atlantis. But the writer-in-residence program was also a Greek myth. The idea was not to come here to write the great American novel, it was to sling books, Craig Walzer, the stores owner, ... More
Kasmin announces NY representation of Alma Allen and first solo exhibition in January 2020
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announces the representation of sculptor Alma Allen (b. 1970, USA) in New York. The artists first solo exhibition with the gallery will open on January 23, 2020, at 509 West 27th Street. A career spanning monograph published by Rizzoli Electa, organized by Kasmin and Blum & Poe with text from Douglas Fogle and Glenn Adamson is due for publication in Spring 2020. Psychologically charged and compulsively expressive, Alma Allens works evoke a curiosity regarding the life of objects and the ways in which form and material can circumnavigate the utility of language. Known for his distillation of diverse organic references, the artists works simultaneously invite and resist classification. Often realized in stone, wood, or bronzematerials hand-selected from quarries or foraged from landscapes in the area surrounding ... More
Tokyo unveils 2020 venue inspired by traditional Japanese techniques
TOKYO (AFP).- A custom-built $188 million gymnastics venue inspired by traditional Japanese building techniques and using wood from around the country was unveiled by organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Tuesday. The futuristic-looking Ariake Gymnastics Centre in central Tokyo uses 2,300 cubic metres of wood and is intended to hark back to methods that predate the use of modern construction materials in Japan. The structure features a gently undulating roof, with external walls constructed from lengths of cedar wood. Supporting rods allow the building to look from a distance as though it is suspended in the air. Organisers said it was intended to look like a "a wooden bowl, floating in the bay area". The building, one of a handful custom-built for the Games, "symbolises Japan's wood culture and viewers can feel its simp ... More
Giant skeletons come alive in Mexico for Day of the Dead
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- Giant skeletons springing forth from asphalt roads are taking over streets in the Mexican capital as the city gets ready to celebrate the festive and deeply spiritual Day of the Dead. The sculptures -- built out of cardboard and rocks salvaged from a construction site in Mexico City's southern Tlahuac neighborhood -- were built by a group of artists ahead of the festival's climax later this week. Day of the Dead celebrations began on Saturday with a parade of women dressed as "Catrina", a famous skeletal representation of death created by cartoonist Jose Guadalupe Posada in 1912. The Day of the Dead festival, celebrated in Mexico on the first two days of November, is believed to be when the gateway separating the living and the deceased opens, allowing people to pay their respects to those who have died. Mexicans visit cemeteries ... More
In Mexico City, a blossoming of all things Japanese
MEXICO CITY (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- On a summer afternoon in Mexico Citys leafy Roma Norte neighborhood, a steady stream of customers filled the tiny coffee shop Raku, which means joy in Japanese. While they were drawn by the coffee, I was in the new spot to learn how the owner Mauricio Zubirats makes a cup of matcha tea. The fine green powder from Kyoto was measured, mixed with hot water and using a brush made from a single piece of bamboo whisked exactly 30 times. The moss-colored result was earthy and bitter, and for a second, I was transported from this cafe tucked between two parking garages to Japan. Despite being oceans apart, Mexico and Japan have long been connected, ever since 1614, when samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga arrived in Acapulco as the first Japanese ambassador to New Spain. In ... More
Chrysler Museum acquires rare daguerreotype of Greenbrier resort
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art recently acquired a rare daguerreotype attributed to James Presley Ball, an African American, Virginia-born artist. The small, silver-coated plate depicts The Greenbrier, a historic resort in what is now West Virginia. It is possibly the earliest photographic image of the property and one of just two known daguerreotypes that illustrate the resort. Ball was among only a few known African American daguerreotypists working at the time. The Museum purchase of his work directly aligns with the Chryslers collecting priorities. As we continue to grow our collection, we aim to build diversity in our holdings by adding photographs by people of color, women and artists working in Virginia. We also strive to give special attention to objects that reflect on the history of the medium, said Seth Feman, Ph.D., the Chrysler Museums Deputy ... More
Christie's announces Magnificent Jewels sale in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces the December 11 auction of Magnificent Jewels and the concurrent Jewels Online auction from December 2 to 12/13, which together present over 1,000 lots. The live Âauction will offer over 450 lots featuring a notable selection of colored diamonds, colorless diamonds, and gemstones, alongside important signed pieces by Suzanne Belperron, René Boivin, Bulgari, Cartier, Harry Winston, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels. Leading the auction are two lots offered from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions including The duPont Ruby, Burmese ruby, emerald, diamond, and natural pearl brooch of 11.20 carats ($3,500,000-5,500,000); and The duPont Emerald, Belle Ãpoque Colombian emerald and diamond ring of 9.11 carats, Tiffany & Co. ($500,000-700,000), ... More
Female artists command spotlight in Heritage Auctions' European Art Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Continuing a recent noteworthy trend, Heritage Auctions Fine European Art Auction Dec. 6 in Dallas, Texas, once again will feature an outstanding selection of works by woman artists. Leading the group is Anne Redpaths highly expressive Still life with daffodils and tulips (estimate: $30,000-40,000). Redpath was a major figure of the Edinburgh School who forged a successful career painting intimate interior spaces, depictions of rural life that have a primitive quality and floral arrangements. Following study at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1913, Redpath exhibited her work regionally, eventually gaining an associate professorship at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1947, becoming the first female academician there in 1952. Her paintings frequently teeter on the brink of abstraction, Heritage Auctions Senior Fine Art Expert ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Anglo-French artist Alfred Sisley was born October 30, 1839. Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 - 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. In this image: French businessman Pierre de Gunzbourg, flanked by his son Vivien, left, looks at the painting, "Soleil de Printemps, Le Loing, " (Spring Sun, Le Loing) by impressionist Alfred Sisley at the Paris courthouse, Friday, June 18, 2004.
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