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Tobin, often called a "visual philosopher" by art critics, has long explored the natural world in glass, clay, bronze, and steel.
BOOTHBAY, ME.- Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) recently installed a solo exhibition of artist Steve Tobin's Steelroots and bronze Walking Roots sculptures throughout the grounds as part of the Parks "Roots: The Other Half of the Story" thematic show. Titled "Steve Tobin: Unearthed" the sculptures will be on view through spring of 2020. Tobin gave an artist lecture and signed copies of his recently published monograph, "Mind Over Matter" (Rizzoli International) on August 20, 2019. Tobin, often called a "visual philosopher" by art critics, has long explored the natural world in glass, clay, bronze, and steel. His oeuvre ranges from bronze castings of trees vast root systems to towering termite mounds cast on-site in West Africa, to waterfalls and rivers that spring from ceilings and snake rock formations made of millions of glass capillary tubes or slender steel rods. Hi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will offer Ancient / Ethnographic From Around The World on Thursday, Sep 05, 2019 9:00 AM CDT. The sale features ncient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more. In this image: Egyptian Late Dynastic Bronze / Marble Eyes. Estimate $2,400 - $4,800.
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| | 20th and 21st century masters lead Phillips' first New York sale of the season | | Banksy work stolen from outside Pompidou Centre in Paris | | Portrait by Anders Zorn returns for a day to Sweden after more than 25 years |
Nicolas Party, Portrait, 2014. Estimate: $40,000-60,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from its first New York auction of the season. Featuring over 220 lots, the New Now sale on 24 September will offer works of art by 20th century masters and contemporary market leaders, alongside auction newcomers. Leading the auction are examples by Keith Haring, Sam Francis, Louise Nevelson, Yinka Shonibare, and Yayoi Kusama. Phillips will feature property from several prominent private collections, including works by Frank Stella and Alexander Calder from The Miles And Shirley Fiterman Collection, following the collections success at Phillips this past Spring. The September New Now sale marks an exciting moment for Phillips, as we kick off the fall season, said Sam Mansour, Head of New Now, New York. On 24 September, we will offer works from both blue-chip artists whose markets are time-tested and those whose works are just being sold on the secondary market for the first time ... More | |
A picture taken on September 3, 2019,in Paris shows an empty wall where a recent artwork by British street-artist Banksy was stolen. Works by the mysterious British street-artist are regularly stolen. Aurélie MAYEMBO / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A stencilled work by the elusive British street artist Banksy has been stolen from outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the modern art museum announced Tuesday. The image, which appeared in June 2018 on the back of a sign for the museum's car park, features a masked rat -- Banksy's avatar, symbolising the downtrodden -- brandishing a utility knife, the instrument he uses to cut out his stencils. The Pompidou Centre said it suspected the thieves of using a saw to cut the sign, which had been fitted with a plexiglass cover to prevent it being pilfered. It said its the museum's security guards had already caught thieves trying to snatch the work a year ago. The Pompidou, which houses Europe's biggest collection of contemporary art but does not own the Banksy ... More | |
Anders Zorn, Cécile, Mathilde and Pierre May in their Apartment on the Avenue Hoche, Paris (detail). Watercolor and gouache on paper, 26 ½ x 39 7/8 in. Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
STOCKHOLM.- Christies announces a portrait by Anders Zorn, Cecile, Mathilde and Pierre May in their Apartment on the Avenue Hoche, Paris, will be on public display at Christies Stockholm on 16 September 2019. It will then travel to New York, where the painting will be one of the highlights of the European Art auction, taking place on 28 October. The work has previously only been once shown in Sweden, when it was lent to the exhibition Porträtt av Anders Zorn which took place at the Zorn Museum in Mora, during the summer of 1990. In the same year, Christies established the world auction record price for the artist at US$2.8 million, which stood until 2010, when surpassed for the first and only time. Though formally trained at the Academy, Zorn became the foremost Impressionist in 19th ... More |
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| | Blockbuster King Tut show breaks French attendance record | | New acquisitions at the Snite Museum of Art expand holdings in the 18th and 19th centuries | | New permanent gallery at Wellcome Collection explores trust, identity and health in a changing world |
This file photo shows a detail of the golden sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in his burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A major show of artefacts found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in Paris has smashed visitor records for a French exhibition, after being extended to cope with huge crowds. The La Villette hall in northeast Paris has sold more than 1.3 million tickets for "Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh", organisers said Tuesday. The largest number of Tutankhamun artefacts ever to have left Cairo are on display in the show, which has been described as a "once in a generation" event about the young Egyptian monarch. The exhibition, which opened on March 23, is set to close on September 22 after a one-week extension. King Tut was also the subject of the previous attendance record for a French art exhibition, a 1967 show at the Petit Palais in Paris that attracted 1.2 million visitors. After Paris, the show travels to the Saatchi Gallery in London in November, and then ... More | |
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Portrait of Ella Monier-Williams, May-July 1866. Albumen print from wet collodion negative, 11.5 x 14.0 cm (sheet). Acquired with funds provided by Tthe Milly and Fritz Kaeser Endowment for Photography 2019.013.
NOTRE DAME IN.- The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame announced the acquisition of several important works which enrich the Museums eighteenth- and nineteenth-century permanent collections. Our holdings in this period are among the many strengths of the permanent collection of the Museum, said Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Director of the Snite Museum of Art. Such carefully selected acquisitions will make a further and lasting contribution, individually and collectively. Chief among them is the life-size marble sculpture Laocoön and His Sons that depicts a scene from the Roman poet Virgil's Aeneid (29-19 BCE) in which Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Apollo, and his two sons are killed. Dated to between 1650 and 1780, the Snite Museums version is modeled after the ancient sculpture on view at the Vatican Museums in Italy. The slightly ... More | |
Refugee Astronaut III, Yinka Shonibare CBE, 2019, © Yinka Shonibare CBE. Image Courtesy Wellcome Collection.
LONDON.- Being Human, the new permanent gallery at Wellcome Collection will explore what it means to be human in the 21st century. Divided into four sections Genetics, Minds & Bodies, Infection, and Environmental Breakdown the new display will present around 50 artworks and objects that reflect our hopes and fears about new forms of medical knowledge, and our changing relationships with ourselves, each other and the world. Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), Deborah Kelly, Kia LaBeija, Onaman Collective, Cassils, Tamsin van Essen and Heather Dewey-Hagborg are some of the artists whose works have been acquired by Wellcome Collection for display, accompanied by pieces by Superflex, Katherine Araniello, Tasha Marks | AVM Curiosities, and objects such as a gene-editing kit, the Zimbabwe Friendship Bench and the Accessible Icon Project. The first section of the exhibition will discuss genetic knowledge and how much we know about our ge ... More |
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| | Phillips to offer works from Japan's esteemed Quico Collection of Nordic Design | | Marc Chagall portfolio leads at $180k in Prints & Drawings Sale at Swann | | Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams becomes most visited exhibition in the V&A's history |
Ilmari Tapiovaara, Crinolette armchair, 1961. Estimate: $500-700. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- This month, Phillips will host its first ever online-only design auction a sale dedicated to works from the Quico Collection of Harajuku, Tokyo, which is mostly comprised of Nordic and Scandinavian Design. The Quico founders curated their own personal collection with the same discerning eye that has been responsible for their brands success. An affinity for the Nordic and Scandinavian aesthetic is encapsulated within their personal collection, which includes works by such greats as Alvar Aalto, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Tapio Wirkkala, Paavo Tynell, Björn Weckström, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, and Hans J. Wegner. Bidding will be open From 16-25 September the entire collection will be on view at Phillips Park Ave galleries in New York from 16-22 September. Marcus McDonald, International Specialist, Design, said, Quicos founders have built a lovely and discerning collection, with Nordic and Scandinavian ... More | |
Marc Chagall, Cirque, portfolio with complete text, 23 color lithographs and 15 lithographs, 1967. Estimate $120,000 to $180,000. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will open their fall 2019 season on Thursday, September 19 with a sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings. Replete with exceptional pieces by European and American visionaries, the auction features work from nineteenth-century harbingers of modernism through the major Modern art movements of the twentieth century. Marc Chagall, who held an avid interest in the circus throughout his career, leads the sale with one of his most widely-appreciated livres dartiste, Cirquea 1967 portfolio with complete text, 38 lithographs. The lively work is expected to bring $120,000 to $180,000. Additional portfolios by Chagall include Ls Sept Péchés Capitaux, a 1926 bound volume with complete text and 17 etchings, two signed in pencil ($8,000-12,000); and Regards sur Paris, 1963, with complete text and three ... More | |
Christian Dior Designer of Dreams exhibition. Diorama section © Adrien Dirand.
LONDON.- Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams has officially become the V&As most visited exhibition. The blockbuster show reached a staggering 594,994 visitors by the time it closed on 1 September, surpassing the former record set by Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty in 2015 by over 100,000 visitors. The most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the House of Dior, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams traced the history and impact of the brand from 1947 to the present day examining one of the 20th centurys most influential couturiers, and the six artistic directors who have succeeded him. Drawn from the extensive Dior Archives and the V&As world-class Couture collections, the exhibition presented over 500 objects, with over 200 rare Haute Couture garments shown alongside accessories, fashion photography, film, vintage perfume, original make-up, illustrations, magazines, and ... More |
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| | Atwood, Rushdie shortlisted for Booker Prize | | Doyle to auction Asian works of art on September 9 | | Christie's to show the Matthys=Colle Collection in Brussels |
In this file photo taken on October 14, 2018 Canadian writer and honoree Margaret Atwood attends the Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden 2018 in Los Angeles, California, on October 14, 2018. LISA O'CONNOR / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Two previous winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, were shortlisted on Tuesday for the Booker Prize for the best English-language fiction to be awarded in October. Canadian author Atwood has been nominated to the six-person list for "The Testaments", her hotly anticipated sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale" due out later this month. Judge Peter Florence said the book was "a savage and beautiful novel that speaks to us today with conviction and power. The bar is set unusually high for Atwood. She soars." "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985) became an award-winning TV series in 2017, and sales of the English-language edition have topped eight million copies worldwide. Rushdie, who is nominated for "Quichotte", won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his book "Midnight's ... More | |
Chinese Gilt-Bronze Figure of Vajrabhairava and Vajra Vetali, Qianlong Six-Character Mark on Base, Height 7 1/2 inches. Est. $20,000-30,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scheduled during the week of Asian sales in New York, Doyles Asian Works of Art auction on Monday, September 9 at 10am presents the arts of China, Japan and Southeast Asia dating from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. Showcased will be bronzes, jades, snuff bottles, porcelains, pottery, scholars objects and paintings from prominent collections and estates. Highlighting the sale is a group of fine Chinese and Tibetan bronzes. A dramatic Chinese gilt-bronze figure of Vajrabhairava and Vajra Vetali with the Qianlong six-character mark on base depicts the wrathful deity striding in alidhasana on animals and prostrate figures, height 7 1/2 inches (est. $20,000-30,000). A colorful Chinese 19th century cloisonné covered censer is supported by dragon-fish legs and decorated with fearsome taotie masks. In ancient Chinese mythology, the taotie ... More | |
Installation view. © Phillipe D. Photography.
BRUSSELS.- The renowned Belgian Collection of Post War and Contemporary art compiled by Roger and Hilda Matthys-Colle will be sold at Christies this Autumn. A total of 41 works will be offered in a series of auctions across three sale rooms: 4 and 5 October in London, followed by Amsterdam on 25 and 26 November, and finally Paris on 4 and 5 December. 36 out of the 41 works will be part of a public preview exhibition during Brussels Gallery Weekend, taking place on 6-7 September at the Huberty & Breyne Gallery in Brussels. Many of these works have yet to be discovered by the public, with limited loans to exhibitions having been made in the past. In 1957 Roger co-founded the Friends of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, whose acquisitions would later form the basis of the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.). The Friends transformed the Belgian cultural scene, championing living artists, many of whom were not ... More |
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Eva Langret appointed Artistic Director of Frieze London
LONDON.- Frieze announced today the appointment of Eva Langret as the new Artistic Director of Frieze London. Starting in November 2019, Eva will lead the strategic development and artistic programme of the London art fair and act as a liaison for galleries, collectors and curators in collaboration with Global Director Victoria Siddall. Victoria Siddall said: Evas passion and intelligence, as well as her insightful understanding of how art fairs work, not only for galleries but also for the wider art world ecology, made her a clear choice for the role of Artistic Director, Frieze London. Throughout our conversations she has shown a deep understanding of and commitment to galleries, whose strength and success are at the heart of our fairs. The breadth and depth of her international network also make her a strong match for such a global platform. ... More
Catholic school priest bans 'Harry Potter' books on exorcist advice
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Exorcists advised a Nashville school priest to ban the Harry Potter books, over fears the popular children's novels could be used to summon spirits. Reverend Dan Reehil contacted exorcists in Rome and the US, who recommended removing the fantasy novels from St. Edward Catholic School's library in Tennessee. Launched in 1997, the series of books spins an epic tale of good and evil focused on the adventures of the eponymous bespectacled young wizard as he struggles against the dark wizard Lord Voldemort. "The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text," the reverend said in an email obtained by local media. Rebecca Hammel, the superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese ... More
Crescent City Auctions Gallery announces highlights included in the September Estates Catalog Auction
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- An oil on board painting by Arkansas artist Donald Roller Wilson, an early 20th century Tiffany Studios Art Nouveau leaded glass table lamp, a circa 1900 patinated bronze by Frederic Remington, a 19th century Patek Philippe gold pocket watch and a Chinese wedding canopy bed are just part of Crescent City Auction Gallerys September 14th-15th auction. The two-day, 1,033-lot Important September Estates Catalog Auction is being held online as well as in Crescent Citys gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, at 1 pm on Saturday, September 14th (lots 1-650), and 10 am on Sunday (lots 651-1,033). All times quoted are Central. Internet bidding is provided by the popular platforms LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The auction is packed with the broad mix of merchandise people have come to expect from ... More
The Art Museum at the University of Toronto and Hart House showcase recent acquisitions
TORONTO.- To celebrate the Hart House Centennial, the Art Museum will display a new selection of art works recently acquired by Hart House for its permanent collection. Presented throughout publicly accessible spaces of the historic building, the Hart House Collection: Works on View will launch on Wednesday, September 4, with an opening reception from 6-8pm. The artists whose works are featured in this presentation of the collection include Meryl McMaster, Jon Sasaki, Divya Mehra, Jalani Morgan, Jérôme Havre, Shelley Niro, Deanna Bowen, Laurel Woodcock and Erika DeFeritas. These will be displayed alongside artists works acquired over the previous decade, such as Norval Morrisseau, Scott McFarland, Stan Douglas, Lynne Cohen, Joanne Tod, Kent Monkman, Greg Curnoe, Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge, Micah Lexier, and Monica Tap, among others ... More
Following a year-long residency at the Gropius Bau, Wu Tsang presents a survey of her filmmaking practice
BERLIN.- With its hybrid cinematic language, Wu Tsangs new film One emerging from a point of view examines the present and the political, dealing especially with the experience of migration. Filmed on the Greek island of Lesbos, it addresses the current situation that the landscape and islanders have been confronted with: the trauma of forced displacement. In 2015 alone, over 850,000 refugees reached Greece, many arriving at the shores of the island Lesbos, having travelled over the sea to flee war and untenable political circumstances. Documenting within this context, Wu Tsang employs a magical realist approach, allowing the boundaries between fact, fiction and surreal narrative to be intentionally fluid. What has commonly been referred to as a refugee crisis is structurally encountered in the film as a crisis of representation. In the face of the impossibility of creating ... More
Maureen Paley opens a solo exhibition of works by David Thorpe
LONDON.- Maureen Paley presents the fifth solo exhibition at the gallery by David Thorpe. In the ground floor space, Thorpe displays a series of rendered mud pipelines intermittently placed, as if in waiting, around the gallery walls. Using base materials; dried earth, sand, chalk, coal, pigment and bone glue, the surfaces are worked while still wet into intricate forestry patterns that encircle and shroud the pipes. The surface becomes a meticulous camouflage protecting the congealed labour within. The works celebrate their own complexity of making as loved objects that are slowly nurtured into being. They create an atmosphere that lingers somewhere between a historical lament and a utopian ideal where labour, material and form combine in quiet revelry. With no obvious beginning or end, the pipelines suggest the possibility for new systems of ... More
The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal opens Francis Alÿs: Children's Games
MONTREAL.- The Musée dart contemporain de Montréal is once again partnering with MOMENTA | Biennale de limage to present to the public, for the first time in North America, Francis Alÿs: Childrens Games. The exhibition is presented as part of the 16th edition of the Biennale titled The Life of Things. In Childrens Games, Alÿs presents his eponymous series of scenes of children at play around the world. Ongoing since 1999 and now comprising nearly 20 videos, this inventory of childhood activities offers a fresh perspective on real-life moments that are both banal and remarkable. By exploring public space and the everyday through the playful imagination of children, Alÿs presents an intimate yet political view of the universal and unifying nature of games. The images he has captured in Mexico, Afghanistan, Nepal, Belgium, Iraq, Venezuela, France, ... More
Companies announce the first lightweight 3D printed FRP pedestrian bridge
AMSTERDAM.- Royal HaskoningDHV, CEAD and DSM today announced that they have designed the first lightweight 3D printed FRP pedestrian bridge prototype using a composite material. It consists of a glass filled thermoplastic PET (Arnite®) and is combined with continuous glass fibres which are added in the 3D printing process. This unique combination offers high strength with extreme versatility and sustainability. Together, the three companies are leading a revolution in bridge construction and design. To build a 3D printed bridge Royal HaskoningDHV, an international engineering and project management consultancy, wanted and partnered with DSM, a global science-based company in nutrition, health and sustainable living and pioneer in 3D printing materials, and CEAD, supplier of 3D printing equipment on the frontier of large scale composite additive ... More
Fall exhibit at Bell Gallery explores the relationship between women and land
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University kicked off the 2019-20 school year with Fertile Ground, an exhibition of works by three female artists whose work portrays women in nature. The exhibition opened on Saturday, Aug. 31 and runs through Sunday, Nov. 3, with an opening reception and artist talk on Friday, Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m. Exhibit curator Heather Bhandari, who has been an adjunct instructor of visual art at Brown for eight years, said she believes the three artists work will resonate not only with the general public but also with students at Brown. Each of the artists MarÃa BerrÃo, Zoë Charlton and Joiri Minaya explore topics such as land ownership, immigration and tourism as they relate to women of color. I was trying to conceive of a show at Brown that related to some of the topics Ive seen students dealing with in thei ... More
Masterpieces by Japan's most celebrated lacquer artist from a royal collection offered at Bonhams
LONDON.- Bonhams announced the sale Masterpieces of Japanese art from a Royal collection that will take place on Thursday 7 November at Bonhams New Bond Street saleroom. The works of art from this outstanding private collection were created by some of the most acclaimed artists to emerge in Japan during the Edo and Meiji Periods. Highlights of the collection will also be on exhibition at Bonhams New York from the 5-11 September 2019, before going to Bonhams Hong Kong saleroom from the 9-11 October 2019. Among the highlights are a strong selection of masterpieces produced during the lifetime of Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891), one of Japans most revered Lacquer artists. Leading the sale is a wood panel depicting a scene based of the Noh play Hachi no ki shows a farmhouse in the snow at Sano. The panel from the Meiji era,1883, has an estimate ... More
Very rare print by M.C. Escher and significant Old Masters star at Clars sale
OAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallery will present an exceptional selection of fine art from several renowned American and international artists at their September 15th, 2019 sale of Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry and Asian Art. The important fine art will be complemented with investment level property spanning all the categories. The property to be offered at this sale comes from prominent California estates as well as museums, private institutions and special collections. The highlight of the print category and one of five works by M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) to be offered and is Eschers most ambitious project, Metamorphosis II, 1939/1940. This 13-foot woodblock print is an elaboration of his work, Metamorphosis I, from 1937. From November 1939 to March 1940 Escher worked on the thirteen-foot-long woodcut ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Oskar Schlemmer was born September 04, 1888. Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 - 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical representations of the human body in what he described as a "party of form and colour". In this image: Costumes from Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett (1922).
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