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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Friday, December 6, 2024 Eli Wilner Frames an Important Childe Hassam Painting for The White House The Oval Office, with Childe Hassam’s "Avenue in the Rain," framed by Eli Wilner & Company, installed to the left of The Resolute Desk. WASHINGTON, DC.- Eli Wilner & Company has announced new funding to support framing projects for museums and nonprofit institutions of all sizes. The funding can be used for frame restoration, historic frame replication, or mirror replication projects. Interested institutions can apply by emailing the details of their reframing or frame restoration needs to info@eliwilner.com. No project is too large. The White House has been a beneficiary of the Eli Wilner Frame Funding Program, with 28 framing projects completed to date. These include reframing or restoring works by renowned artists such as John Singer Sargent, Frederic Church, and Norman Rockwell. These framing projects can be viewed here. One notable project was the reframing of Childe Hassam's Avenue in the Rain (1917), which is currently hanging i ... More The Best Photos of the Day Regen Projects. Courtesy of Art Basel Neue Auctions announces Back-to-Back Online Auctions, Dec. 12 & 13 Personal collection of prominent New York philanthropic family at Roland Auctions on December 14th Props and costumes from famous movies & TV shows to be offered by Premiere Props Oil on canvas by Alberta Binford McCloskey (American, 1863-1911), titled Eleanor in a Field of Daisies (1890), 16 inches by 10 inches (canvas, minus frame), signed (est. $10,000-$15,000). BEACHWOOD, OHIO.- Neue Auctions will bid farewell to 2024 with a tantalizing pair of online-only auctions on Thursday and Friday, December 12th and 13th, starting both days at 12 o’clock noon Eastern time. The December 12th auction is titled Got Gifts? The Holiday Auction, while the December 13th auction will showcase American and European Fine Art and Antiques. “On December 12th we will be hosting a curated event for exceptional gift-giving,” said Cynthia Maciejewski of Neue Auctions. “The catalog isn’t huge – just 164 lots – but up for bid are luxury bags and scarves, bullion stocking stuffers, antique and contemporary jewelry, watches and coins, all reasonably estimated and just a few items have reserves. They’d make perfect gifts.” The December 13th sale will have a broader offering of 345 lots. “We’re bringing fresh to the market fine art and antiques from p ... More Pair of Regence Giltwood Fauteuils A La Reine. Estimate $3,000-$5,000. GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY will present their new Multi-Estates Auction on Saturday, December 14th at 10am featuring hundreds of lots from the Upper East Side NYC apartment of a very important NY philanthropic family. This collection includes fine art, decorative arts, rare silver pieces, antique furniture, women’s furs, designer bags, Hermes scarves & neckties and more. In addition, a fresh collection of Fine Art & Sculpture, Decorative Art, 20th Century Modern, Antique & Vintage Furniture, Textiles, Silver, Gold and Silver Jewelry, Rugs, Collectibles, Asian Art and Decorative Arts, and Lighting, from multiple estates and private collectors will be offered. Previews are set for Thursday, December 12th & Friday, December 13th from 10am – 6pm. Very unique decorative items from this NY philanthropic family collection include a Faberge Silver, Gold & Lapis Lazuli Cigarette Box, Moscow, accented with the Russian Imperial doubled h ... More Cream-colored tuxedo suit worn by Adam Sandler as Sonny Koufax in the 1999 comedy Big Daddy including matching vest, dress shirt, bow tie, suit jacket, and pants (est. $5,000-$7,000). EL SEGUNDO, CALIF.- Premiere Props and Hollywood Live Auctions will host a major one-day live auction event on Saturday, December 14th, featuring hundreds of major props and costumes from Aliens, Team America, What Dreams May Come, Big Daddy, Hawaii Five-0, Ted, Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Jingle All the Way, Terminator, Crocodile Dundee II and many others. The online-only event’s official title is a Hollywood VIP Famous Movie Prop & Costumes auction. The catalog with all lots is up for viewing, registering and bidding now, on the platforms iCollector.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Many of the items in the auction were produced by AnimatedFX, Inc., a Los Angeles based company specializing in the design, creation, rental, and puppeteering of animatronics, sophisticated puppets, and suits for commercials, film, and TV. Bidders will compete for the actual costume ... More Exhibition explores art and the economy of language in times of crisis Galería Elvira González exhibits a selection of drawings, prints and furniture by Donald Judd The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn - Part Il totals $7,059,978 Protecting Myself the Best I Can (Weapons by the Door), 1994, Lonnie Holley, Terra-cotta pipe, golf club, baseball bats, metal pipe, clothespins, and tape, 35 × 16 × 16 inches (88.9 × 40.6 × 40.6 cm), Purchased with the African American Art fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2017, 2017-229-24 PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting What Times are These?, an exhibition exploring art and the economy of language in times of crisis. Bringing together sculptures, installations, films, paintings and prints, this show is entirely comprised of works from the PMA’s collection, several of which are presented for the first time. The artists included each use poetic ways to probe the state of our nations without asserting a fixed political view; among them, Nick Cassway, Lonnie Holley, Jenny Holzer, Glenn Ligon, and Steve McQueen. Borrowing its title from Paul Celan’s 1971 poem, ‘A Leaf, Treeless’, the exhibition questions ... More Donald Judd. Untitled, 1961-1969. MADRID.- Galería Elvira González opened the sixth solo exhibition of Donald Judd at the gallery, one of the foremost sculptors, artists and theorists of XXth century American art. The exhibition includes a selection of drawings, prints and furniture since Judd (Missouri 1928 – New York 1994) was a prolific artist as well as a draftsman and printmaker who designed nearly a hundred pieces of furniture for everyday use. Being one of the main sculptors of our time, he refused any attempt to label his art. His revolutionary approach to form, materials, working methods and display of art, broke from the prevailing modes of artmaking at the time. His work, in turn, changed the language of modern sculpture and today he remains a leading exponent of minimal art and the most important theorist for writings such as Specific Objects (1964). As expressed by the artist: “The configuration and the scale of art cannot be transposed into furniture and ... More Associate Director, Client Advisor and Auctioneer Yü-Ge Wang auctioning Rembrandt van Rijn’s Christ crucified between the two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses'. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024. LONDON.- The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn – Part II realised a total of £5,554,664 / $7,059,978 / €6,698,925, with sell-through rates of 100% by lot and by value, selling 156% over the low estimate. 80% of the works sold above high estimate, and 40% of new registrants to the sale were millennials or younger. The auction was led by Christ crucified between the two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses' (1653) which achieved £1,250,000, a world auction record for the fourth state of 'The Three Crosses'. Many other world auction records were achieved during the sale. Among these are: The Entombment (circa 1654) (price realised: £428,400), Woman with the Arrow (1661) (price realised: £302,400), Christ and the Woman from Samaria: ... More Captivating exhibition explores the profound connection between art and mathematics Christie's announces its upcoming Design and Tiffany live sales Sotheby's unveils the legendary Joachim-Ma Stradivarius, estimated at $12-18M Betty Gold, The Apex of Being from The Arrows portfolio, c. 1970, serigraph, ed. 43/75, 26 x 20 in. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Carey. NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, NY.- This holiday season, Castellani Art Museum invites you to experience Beyond Numbers: Mathematical Patterns, Shapes, and Flow, a captivating exhibition that explores the profound connection between art and mathematics. Curated by Niagara University students from Dr. Maritza M. Branker’s Foundations of Mathematics (MAT 227) and Senior Mathematics Seminar (MAT 499) classes, the exhibition opened on December 5, 2024, and will remain on view through March 30, 2025. Featuring selections from the Museum’s permanent collection, including works by renowned artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Frank Stella, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sol LeWitt, Beyond Numbers reveals the beauty, creativity, and wonder embedded in mathematical principles. Often seen as abstract or intimidating, math is reimagined ... More Diego Giacometti’s Rare Dining Table for Marc Barbezat, Paris, circa 1967-1969 (Estimate: $1,000,000–1,500,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present its upcoming Design and Tiffany live sales, taking place on 11 December at Christie’s New York. Showcasing over 160 lots, Design explores 180 years of historical design, from early innovators like Josef Hoffmann and William Hunt Diederich to the culture-defining Art Deco works of Armand-Albert Rateau, Jean-Michel Frank, and Gaston Suisse. Featured highlights include rare functional design by Alberto and Diego Giacometti including important commissions, as well as mid-century French masters such as Jean Royère, Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, and Georges Jouve, alongside late 20th-century craft by George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, José Zanine Caldas, and Frank Gehry. François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne are represented by a unique ‘Williamsburg’ commission and celebrated bestiary in the ‘Chouette Perchée’, amongst more. The auction also presents works ... More One of the most important musical instruments ever to appear at auction. Courtesy Sotheby's. NEW YORK, NY.- At the crossroads of artistry, history, and philanthropy, Sotheby’s will offer the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius—an instrument of extraordinary historical significance—in a one-of-a-kind auction during Masters Week in New York this February. Crafted in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari during his renowned “Golden Period,” this important violin is being offered by New England Conservatory (NEC), with all proceeds dedicated to student scholarships. With an estimated value of $12–18 million, this sale offers a rare opportunity to acquire one of the world’s finest violins—while directly supporting the next generation of musicians. The Joachim-Ma Stradivarius, with its timeless beauty and extraordinary legacy, not only transcends its storied past but also creates a living link to history, inspiring the future of classical music. "Offered during Masters Week, the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius is a rare and extraordinary masterpiece, joining a select pantheon of historic ... More Exhibition presents the larger part of the donation of over 400 works by the Carlo Moretti company Aztlán exhibition showcases the Garcia Collection Two groundbreaking artists on display at the National Gallery this summer Installation view. @ Michela Scibilia. MURANO.- Curated by Chiara Squarcina, Mauro Stocco and Marta Moretti, the exhibition will make it possible for the first time for the public to admire the larger part of the important and notable donation of over 400 works by the Carlo Moretti company, which was received by the Museo del Vetro in 2020 and which provides a rich, precise and exhaustive overview of the historical events of the company created by Carlo and Giovanni Moretti in 1958 and the evolution of its successful production, up to 2013, when the company changed hands. The adventure began, as per tradition, with the creation of transparent glassware and coloured glasses, characterised by the constant striving for clean and essential lines, combined with technical innovation and the fin ... More Much of the Garcia Collection is rooted in the Chicano movement of East Los Angeles in the late 1960s, which spawned groundbreaking activist art and a renewed pride in Hispanic culture and heritage. CLAREMONT, CA.- The Claremont Lewis Museum of Art exhibition Home in Aztlán: The Garcia Collection of Chicanx Art will showcase artwork by some of the most important Chicanx artists of the last 50 years. The Garcias’ Claremont home is filled with a diverse range of works that reflect their commitment to supporting artists and building community. Home in Aztlán celebrates the beauty and power of Chicanx creativity in Southern California, despite the challenges posed by exclusionary forces that have sought to deny Chicanx people their rightful place in art history and in this land. The exhibition will open with a reception on Saturday, December 7 ... More Installation view, Dr Deborah Hart, Henry Dalrymple Head Curator, Australian Art, Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra 2024. CANBERRA.- Opening this weekend, Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar tell the stories of two women artists who deserve to be better known. From Ethel Carrick’s colourful crowds to Anne Dangar’s cubist ceramics – these free major exhibitions transport audiences to another time and place. Presented as parallel exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia from 7 December 2024, Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar offer audiences the chance to experience the diversity of early 20th century art. Working during the same period – Carrick (1872-1952) as a painter and Dangar (1885-1951) primarily as a potter – both artists pushed against convention, ... More Convergence: Fusing Arts and Sciences at MSU More News Art Gallery of New South Wales unveils 2025 exhibition program SYDNEY.- Australian artists take centre stage at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2025 with a program featuring a major First Nations winter blockbuster that offers a deep exploration of the celebrated artists of Yirrkala. The year also includes a landmark exhibition showcasing the lives and work of 50 pioneering Australian women modernists, alongside a summer blockbuster of the internationally acclaimed artist Ron Mueck. Opening on 21 June, Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala will platform the extraordinary artists of Yirrkala, a small Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land that is recognised around the world for the power of its creativity across multiple art forms. Inextricably intertwined with cultural, political and social history, the exhibition is presented in partnership with the Indigenous art centre in Yirrkala, Buku- ... More Talbot Rice Gallery celebrates 50th anniversary in 2025 with Wael Shawky EDINBURGH.- On the occasion of Talbot Rice Gallery’s 50th anniversary, TRG announced its 2025 programme of exhibitions. Following on from the Festivals 2024 exhibition of El Anatsui, TRG will present a major solo exhibition in Scotland of Wael Shawky. Wael Shawky’s solo exhibition in 2025 will expand across all of Talbot Rice Gallery’s contemporary and neoclassical galleries. Shawky’s penetrating historical analysis will be explored through dramatic retellings of the past, including Drama 1882, which was created for the Egyptian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. This operatic film tells the story of the nationalist Urabi revolution, a dramatic café-fight in Alexandria in the summer of 1882, and the resulting conflict that led to Britain’s occupation of Egypt until 1956. Shawky’s piercing film will premiere in the UK at a time ... More A arte Invernizzi gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by Niele Toroni MILAN.- A arte Invernizzi gallery opened a solo exhibition of works by Niele Toroni, a pivotal figure on the international art scene. From 1967, Toroni stood out for his unique approach with his repeated application of brushstrokes using a no. 50 brush, placed precisely 30 cm apart. For Toroni, painting was always a means of conversing with space - neither occupying it, nor asserting dominance over it, but instead, tracing and revealing possible trajectories through the progression of his brush marks, always different but spaced at regular and orderly intervals. The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Niele Toroni’s artistic career, with 25 works in various formats and using different materials - including canvas, paper, newspaper, oilcloth, and wood. Beginning with Omaggio a Paolo Uccello (1965) through to the recent album Impronte di ... More Kunsthalle Basel presents its program for 2025 BASEL.- Kunsthalle Basel pushes boundaries once more in 2025, with a program curated by Mohamed Almusibli. Highlights include Switzerland’s largest solo exhibitions to date for Marie Matusz and Ser Serpas, the much-anticipated finale of Valentin Noujaïm’s trilogy La Défense, and Dala Nasser’s Swiss institutional debut. On the European stage, Bagus Pandega and Troy Montes Michie present their first institutional solos. For this year’s back wall project, Kunsthalle Basel partners with London’s project space Galerina to co-curate a new commission by Coumba Samba. Marie Matusz’s practice spans sculptural installations, sound, writing, and film, exploring the intricate relationships between materiality, memory, and narrative. Drawing from various theories, her works evoke a cinematic sensibility—merging stillness and motion to create ... More IMMA opens the first retrospective exhibition of the work of ground-breaking artist Hamad Butt DUBLIN.- IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) is presenting the first retrospective exhibition of the work of ground-breaking artist Hamad Butt (1962-1994). Born in Lahore, Pakistan and raised in London, Butt was British South Asian, Muslim, and queer. A contemporary of the Young British Artists, critics described him as epitomizing the new ‘hazardism’ in art; his poignant and severe work is emotive yet austere. Before his AIDS-related death in 1994, aged 32, Butt completed and showed four major sculptural installations, which forged new encounters between art and science in the time of AIDS. He also left behind videos, writings, drawings, paintings and plans for new installations; and was a pioneer of intermedia art, sculptural installation, sci-art and queer diasporic art. Butt belongs to a group of British artists - most famously Derek ... More Mattress Factory welcomes REIFICATION, a new exhibition by Eugene Macki PITTSBURGH, PA.- Mattress Factory announced the opening of REIFICATION, a new exhibition by Eugene Macki, a multi-disciplinary artist from Hackney, East London. In their largest and most ambitious project to date, Macki continues their decade-long exploration of making the intangible, tangible. Through performance, sculpture, and installation, their work acts as a transformation and a reification. In a room with walls covered in thick, viscous rubber, visitors encounter a sloped wooden walkway cutting through the middle of the gallery, extending the full length of the space. Surrounding this walkway are hundreds of rubber-coated sculptures, buried amidst a landscape of thousands of meticulously cut cardboard pieces. Evoking the Terracotta Army of China as well as archaeological sites in Greece, REIFICATION references these ancient monuments ... More S.M.A.K. announces exhibition programme in 2025 GHENT.- Painting After Painting showcases the work of over seventy contemporary painters living and working in Belgium. Without striving for completeness, S.M.A.K. attempts to outline the recent developments and trends in the medium. Despite the many claims of its death, painting remains a thriving art form. Artists today draw on the motifs and techniques of the past, but equally explore and push the boundaries of the discipline. Some create narrative works addressing their daily lives, political and social issues, or questions of identity, gender and representation. Others adopt a more abstract or formalist language and explore the relationship with other contemporary image-making forms. Painting After Painting aims to celebrate the depth and complexity of the medium painting. The exhibition is complemented by a richly illustrated catalogue, featuring ... More Fine photographs at Swann featuring works from the collection of Neil Robert Berzak NEW YORK, NY.- The winter Fine Photographs auction will feature more than 100 lots from the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak, alongside a selection of works from various owners. The sale will be a timed, online auction open for bidding now through Tuesday, December 17. Lots will begin closing at 12 PM ET. Bidding is available on the Swann Galleries App and on live.swanngalleries.com. Exhibition hours are 12 PM to 5 PM on Friday, December 12, Saturday, December 14, and Monday, December 16. Rich in twentieth-century masters, the collection of Neil Robert Berzak features rare and important photographs at accessible entry points from new and seasoned collectors. Highlights include Ansel Adams’ Portfolio Four: What Majestic Word, In Memory of Russell Varian, 1963 ($50,000-75,000), Julia Margaret Cameron’s signed portrait Alfred, Lord ... More PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt was born December 06, 1898. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid photographs, frequently made using various models of a 35mm Leica rangefinder camera. He is best known for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day. In this image: 86 year-old Edith Shain and 78 year-0ld Carl Muscarello recreate the Famous 'Kiss Picture', Sunday 14 August 2005. The original couple in the iconic image, Edith Shain the nurse and Carl Muscarello the sailor was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt 60 years ago to the day in Times Square on Victory Japan Day in 1945 to signify the end of World War Two. The Artist Seward Johnson created a life-sized sculpture of the kiss Unconditional Surrender for the event. © 1996 - 2024 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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