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"President Trump Becomes a Wonder Woman, Unifies the Country and Fights Rocket Man' by American artist Peter Saul on view during Art Basel Miami in Florida December 6, 2017. © Art Basel.
by Leila Macor
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- A painting of Donald Trump dressed as Wonder Woman and defeating "Rocket Man" -- North Korea's Kim Jong-Un -- is a star attraction at international art festival Art Basel, which opens Thursday in Miami Beach. Also on display at the fair -- which has become the Americas' main art dealing hub since its first event in 2002 -- are various works by Roy Lichtenstein and a painting by Willem de Kooning valued at $35 million. The painting featuring the US president, entitled "President Trump Becomes a Wonder Woman, Unifies the Country and Fights Rocket Man," was one of the top works at a private viewing on Wednesday. The parody piece by Peter Saul shows Trump in the iconic garb of the female superhero, punching caricatures of Kim Jong-Un. A 1979 painting by the Netherlands' de Kooning is likely the show's most expensive, valued at $35 million, according to Paul Gray of the Richard Grey Gallery, where it is being shown. ... More |
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| Saudi crown prince bought $450 mn Da Vinci: report | | The Oriental rug market viewed as a pyramid | | New species of 'marsupial lion' found in Australia |
Auctioneer and Global President Jussi Pylkkänen selling Leonardo da Vincis Salvator Mundi realizing $450,312,500. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the actual buyer of a painting by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci that sold for a record-breaking $450 million at auction last month, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The young and dynamic crown prince, known by his initials MBS, used an intermediary to buy the much-sought-after painting of Christ, "Salvator Mundi," the newspaper reported, citing US intelligence and other unnamed sources. The son of Saudi King Salman is seen to be progressively consolidating his power, and is the architect of a wide-ranging plan dubbed Vision 2030 to bring social and economic change to his country's oil-dependent economy. He is also seen as the mastermind of last month's rounding-up of more than 200 princes, ministers and ... More | |
Serapi, Northwest Persian, 9' 4" x 11' 11" 3rd Quarter, 19th Century (Connoisseur-Caliber)
OAKLAND, CA.- Jan David Winitz, eminent rug expert and president/founder of Claremont Rug Company, has developed the Oriental Rug Market Pyramid () as an educational tool to support those interested in purchasing Oriental rugs to determine the value and importance of any handwoven Near Eastern rug. The Pyramid is a graphic tool and a guide to the intricacies of determining the level of artistry and originality of older Oriental rugs. It evaluates which carpets demonstrate collectible artistic qualities and would be considered in the investment category of precious tangible assets as well as which pieces are considered decorative or high decorative home furnishings, but not coveted by collectors and connoisseurs. Rankings in the six-level rug Pyramid are based on artistry, craftsmanship, quality of materials, condition, age and provenance. As the tiers descend, ... More | |
Wakaleo schouteni skull.
SYDNEY.- A new species of "marsupial lion" extinct in Australia for 19 million years has been discovered at one of the most significant fossil deposits in the world, researchers said Thursday. The predator, with blade-like, flesh-cutting premolars used to tear up prey, stalked the country's rainforests during the late Oligocene to early Miocene era. "This meat-eating marsupial is estimated to have been about the size of a dog and weighed around 23 kilograms," said Anna Gillespie, lead author of a study on the find in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. It was found at the internationally-renowned Riversleigh World Heritage Area in remote north-western Queensland state, where the remains of a bevy of strange new small to medium-sized creatures have been discovered. Last year, a tiny "kitten-sized" marsupial lion was found at the site and named after veteran British naturalist David Attenborough. The latest find ... More |
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| Walker Art Gallery displays Lowry painting of the River Mersey and Three Graces | | Tim Van Laere Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Franz West | | Sotheby's to offer Italian, French, Spanish, German & British drawings spanning 500 years of Western art |
Lawrence Stephen Lowry, The Liver Buildings Liverpool, 1950 (detail). The estate of L.S. Lowry / DACS 2017 1.
LIVERPOOL.- The Walker Art Gallery is set to receive an early Christmas present in the form of Lawrence Stephen Lowrys painting The Liver Buildings, Liverpool, which will be displayed at the Gallery on long term loan from Friday 8 December. The painting depicts vessels on the River Mersey, with three of Liverpools most famous buildings dominating the skyline. Fondly referred to as the Three Graces, these iconic buildings comprise the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building. The easily recognisable scene evokes the bustle of river life on the Mersey in the 1950s. Using a broad colour palette ranging from whites and greys through to blues, greens and ochre, the painting provides an exciting demonstration of Lowrys artistic skills. Ann Bukantas, Head of Fine Art at National Museums Liverpool, said: The Gallery has been interested ... More | |
Franz West, Lemur, 2009. Papier-mâché, styrofoam, metal, acrylic paint, 176 x 136 x 63 cm. © Archiv Franz West.
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents its third solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed Austrian artist Franz West (1947, Vienna - 2012, Vienna). West is without doubt one of the most important sculptors and environment artists of contemporary art. His oeuvre is characterized not only by the forms he invents, but also for the communicative quality with which he directly addresses the viewer, urging him/ her to participate. The exhibition brings together various aspects from the broad oeuvre of Franz West. Both collages, sculptures from papier-mâché, plaster and polyester, furniture and installations from different periods of his career are shown. In the mid-1970s, West made his so-called PaÃstücke (Adaptives), movable sculptures made of plaster and metal that were intended to be moved, touched, and handledtransforming viewers into participants. For ... More | |
Lucian Freud, Portrait of Balthus. Charcoal on paper; dated in pencil in the upper left: 8 10 89, 327 by 248 mm; 12⅞by 9 ¾ in. Estimate: 70,000 USD - 90,000 USD. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present The Line of Beauty: Drawings from the Collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet in a dedicated auction on 31 January 2018 in New York, highlighting Sothebys annual Masters Week sales. The superb collection of 28 drawings, formed over a period of some 40 years by the New York couple Howard and Saretta Barnet, is unique for its combination of small overall size, great chronological span and exceptionally high quality. Making their selections with razor-sharp aesthetic judgement, the Barnets very carefully assembled a group of drawings that tells the story of five centuries of the art of drawing in Western Europe, each of the very highest quality and beauty. Spanning from an early Renaissance landscape, drawn around 1500 by Fra Bartolommeo, to the rare and penetrating portrait of fellow-artist ... More |
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| $18M Alloy Ferrari LWB Cal Spider Competizione Leads RM Sotheby's ICONS Sale | | Ancient Mediterranean Collection given new gallery space, visibility at Newark Museum | | Naples pizza-making wins UNESCO heritage status |
A 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione is viewed during the media preview November 30, 2017, for Sothebys inaugural Life of Luxury sales series. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Iconic motor cars from pre-War Classics through todays most sought-after hypercars drove RM Sothebys third Manhattan sale, entitled ICONS, to a $45.5 million total last night at Sothebys York Ave headquarters, with 84 percent of all lots sold. The total was led by 11 individual million-dollar-plus results and saw strong prices for exceptional historic racers and high performance models of the 1990s, 2000s, and today. Following a persistent competition between multiple bidders in the room and on the phones lasting nearly ten minutes, the star of the sale, an open-headlight 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione, chassis no. 1451 GT sold for a final $17,990,000 to exceed its pre-sale estimate (est. $14/17m). The second of just eight aluminium-bodied California Spiders to come out of the factory, 1451 GT secured ... More | |
Coffin lid of Henet-Mer (detail), 21st Dynasty, 1075-945 B.C.E. Thebes, Egypt. Sycamore fig wood, gesso, paint. Purchase 1965 John J. O'Neill Bequest Fund. Photo: Richard Goodbody 65.65.
NEWARK, NJ.- After 28 years, Newark Museums Ancient Mediterranean collection is getting a new home. The Newark Museums classical collection of art from Egypt, Greece and Roman is comprised of nearly 4,500 objects dating from 3000 BC to 600 AD. It was relocated from its original gallery space as part of the Museums renovation project that includes the relocation and reinstallation of the Arts of Global Africa galleries to flagship space on the first floor. Art of the Ancient Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece and Rome will open on December 8. We made the decision to move the collection to the South gallery, which will not only afford it greater visibility, but will make it the starting point for the Museums permanent collection galleries, said Steven Kern, the Museums Director and CEO. Telling the story of art in everyday life in the ancient world, the Art of the Ancient ... More | |
Members of the Pizzaioli Acrobats Coldiretti perform "twirling" pizza to celebrate the Unesco decision to make the art of Neapolitan "Pizzaiuolo" an "intangible heritage". Tiziana FABI / AFP.
SEOUL (AFP).- The art of Naples' dough-twirling pizza makers joined UNESCO's list of "intangible heritage" Thursday, securing the coveted status alongside a host of cultural treasures including a Saudi art form traditionally practised only by women. The art of the 'pizzaiuolo' -- handed down for generations in the southern Italian city -- was given the nod by the UN cultural body's World Heritage Committee, who met on the South Korean island of Jeju. Two million people had signed a petition to support Naples' application, according to Sergio Miccu, head of the Association of Neapolitan Pizzaiuoli -- no doubt buoyed by his offer of complimentary pizza if the age-old culinary tradition joined the prestigious list. "We'll be giving out free pizza in the streets," Miccu earlier told AFP. Proud pizza-makers in Naples celebrated even before the distinction was announced ... More |
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| Illustrator Quentin Blake holds auction for 'overlooked' art | | Exhibition examines the uses of photography to document, record, and identify individuals | | In greying east Germany, a community for sale |
British illustrator and artist Quentin Blake poses at Sotheby's action house in London on December 7, 2017 during a exhibition to promote the First Editions Re-Covered auction sale. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- British illustrator Quentin Blake presented Thursday the 33 first editions of classic books, with jackets specially created by leading artists, which will be auctioned to benefit London's House of Illustration museum, which he founded. Blake, who has created art for more than 250 books, including all of Roald Dahl's work, told AFP at a preview for the Sotheby's auction on Monday that illustration was "an aspect of art which is overlooked". The books include an original edition of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll illustrated by Peter Blake, a pioneer of the Pop Art movement who created the cover of the Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Other artists involved in the project are Axel Scheffler, who is best known for illustrations of "The Gruffalo", and British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, who worked for 50 years for The Sunday Times. ... More | |
Santu Mofokeng, Black Photo Album: Look at Me (1890Â1950), 1997. Courtesy The Walther Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Walther Collection presents The Shadow Archive: An Investigation into Vernacular Portrait Photography, an exhibition that examines the uses of photography to document, record, and identify individuals from the 1850s to the present. The Shadow Archive inaugurates The Walther Collections multi-year series of exhibitions focused on the history of vernacular photographyutilitarian imagery made primarily for commercial or personal purposes, rather than aesthetic ones. Entitled Imagining Everyday Life: Aspects of Vernacular Photography, the series considers the social and historical significance of non-fine-art photography in a wide range of applications. Imagining Everyday Life: Aspects of Vernacular Photography includes five exhibitions in New York and an international scholarly symposium in Fall 2018, culminating in May 2019 with a comprehensive exhibition organized by Brian Wallis at T ... More | |
Resident Paul Urbanek is pictured in Alwine, a splinter settlement of the town Uebigau-Wahrenbrueck, eastern Germany, on November 30, 2017. Tobias Schwarz / AFP.
ALWINE (AFP).- One recent morning Paul Urbanek, 71, found a strange sign by the entrance to Alwine, a small and remote community of run-down houses in ex-communist eastern Germany. The entire place was up for sale. On Saturday, its dozen buildings, plus sheds and garages, are to go under the hammer at an auction in Berlin, with a starting price of 125,000 euros ($148,000). Whoever buys Alwine will get a small slice of German history -- a place whose empty homes and ageing residents mirror the wider fate of the east German hinterlands since the country's reunification 27 years ago. Only about 20 mostly retired people still live in the cluster of decaying homes in rural Brandenburg state, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Berlin. "We have been chucked into cold water!" Urbanek told AFP, standing in front of his dilapidated house, a common ... More |
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MFAH announces the Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Endowment for the Curator of American Painting and Sculpture
HOUSTON, TX.- Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced the establishment of a newly endowed position, The Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Curator of American Painting and Sculpture. Made possible by life trustee Jeanie Kilroy Wilsons generous gift to the Campaign for the MFAH, the position will be held by Kaylin Weber, a curator in the department of American painting and sculpture at the MFAH. In announcing the appointment, Tinterow commented, I am deeply grateful to Jeanie Kilroy Wilson, life trustee of the MFAH, for her substantial gift to the endowment campaign to secure this position in perpetuity. Her generosity supports the Museums efforts in the study and presentation of American painting and sculpture, ensuring the enrichment of the departments programming and collections. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson has served ... More
New exhibition at SMK delves into the relationship between artistic creation and institutional support
COPENHAGEN.- From 7 December 2017, the x-room venue at SMK The National Gallery of Denmark shows the exhibition SÃ LÃNGE DET VARER* by internationally renowned artist Nairy Baghramian. With an installation produced especially for the x-room, Baghramian reflects on the role of the institutional frame as an experimental space that is made available to contemporary art. In her multi-layered sculptural work, Nairy Baghramian implements an architectural reminiscence of the Renaissance Society in Chicago, thus referring to the history and meaning of this influential US institution. Through the transference of the grid-like ceiling structure from the Renaissance Society into the x-room at SMK, she creates a situation that calls attention to the general interdependence between artistic creation and institutional representation. Reflecting on the ceiling ... More
Exhibition at the India House Art Gallery in Pune, India features Alyssia Lazin, Pavel Kapic and Arti Kirloskar
PUNE.- The exhibition Rock & Ragas, Modernity Needs Tradition, will open at the India House Art Gallery in Pune on December 15, 2017 with the work of Alyssia Lazin, photographer, Pavel Kapic, painter and Arti Kirloskar, multi media artist. Alyssia (American born) and Pavel (Czech born) are looking at the culture, symbols and mythology of India from a western viewpoint. Arti (born in India) will be bringing her interpretation of traditional Indian culture. The three artists with their vibrant intensity of color are expressing their fascination with the Indian culture and translating it from each of perspectives to their own contemporary artistic styles. Maurizio Vanni: Art Critic, Curator wrote in the catalog about the exhibition: "Without a past there cannot be a future." This however is not a mere exhibition, we are not looking at paintings and photos which stick to documenting cultural differences ... More
Sotheby's Important Watches totals $7.6 million: Robust online buying drives results
NEW YORK, NY.- A fantastic combination of modern and vintage propelled yesterdays auction of Important Watches to a $7.6 million total, beating its high estimate of $7.3 million and with 86.1% of lots sold. With 20 wristwatches, pocket watches and clocks sold over $100,000, the top prices represented a diverse array of makers. Katharine Thomas, Head of Sothebys Watches Department in New York, commented: With top prices for a plethora of makers including Patek Philippe, F.P. Journe, Cartier, Rolex. Greubel Forsey, Audemars Piguet and more, todays auction showcased the depth of interest in the wonderful world of watches. We were delighted to have strong results driven by international bidding for established and independent watchmakers and their vintage and modern masterpieces, as symbolized by the top lots of the sale: a Patek Philippe Ref ... More
Christie's New York Magnificent Jewels totals $62,592,750
NEW YORK, NY.- The Christies New York December 6 auction of Magnificent Jewels achieved a total of $62,592,750. The sale sold 88% by Lot and 85% by Value, led by a Superb Twin-Stone Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond ring of approximately 3.36 and 2.71 carats, by Graff which achieved $12,575,500. Sale highlights included an impressive selection of exceptional mounted and unmounted diamonds, along with significant signed period and modern jewels by Buccellati, Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb, JAR, Van Cleef & Arpels, and more. Unique jewels by artists seldom sold at auction performed exceptionally well and sold above estimate including lots by Charles Loloma, Georges Fouquet and Raymond Templier. Noteworthy results were also achieved for private collections included Property From The Collection of Senator Jacob K. Javits and Marian B. Javits, ... More
Aaron Angell presents new ceramic sculpture, inflatables, and painting at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art
GLASGOW.- Aaron Angell (b. 1987, Kent) presents a series of new works including ceramic sculpture, inflatables, painting, Victorian furniture and plant life to create an anachronistic interior, which mines various points in history and unusual hobbyist cultures to develop a large scale, immersive exhibition. At the center of the exhibition is Glasgow Museums Wardian Case, this Victorian fern case will be displayed for the first time in over a quarter of a century. It was conserved especially for the exhibition and is to be fully planted with a range of ferns and mosses in a style reminiscent of its original display in the mid-nineteenth century. One of the very few surviving, original Wardian Cases, the piece was built a stones throw from GoMA and dates from around 1860. It is without doubt one of the finest ever made. Aaron Angell said: The centrepiece of this show ... More
Cortesi Gallery opens Serena Maisto's first solo show in London
LONDON.- After Serena Maistos brilliant and successful debut in Lugano with the exhibition Time Line, My Walk with Basquiat, Cortesi Gallery presents her first solo show in London, entitled Basquiat and I: into the present. The project on show is the development of the Lugano exhibition, born from the artists encounter with the oeuvre of Edo Bertoglio, the Swiss photographer and film director who portrayed the unique energy of the 1980s in New York. Maisto focuses on one of the central and most controversial personalities of that scene, Jean-Michel Basquiat (19601988), whose impressive career and anguished soul were masterfully captured by Bertoglio in a fascinating series of photographs and in Downtown 81, a movie featuring Basquiat himself as its leading character. Serena Maisto and Edo Bertoglio are both deeply connected with New York. ... More
Solo exhibition of Nikita Makarov opens at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
MOSCOW.- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents the solo exhibition of Nikita Makarov. A compelling and busy painter, he had graduated from the Surikov Art Institute and devoted himself since then to the exploration of the possibilities of landscape. He works in a very laborious technique, applying acrylic and tempera on specially primed wood panels, in a manner resembling icon painting. Equally, he employs the method of pointillé, which refers to the optical experiments of modernism. Among his works, large multi-part paintings coexist naturally with miniature-like pictures set within wide custom frames, designed to convey and enforce a sense of materiality. The exhibition at MMOMA at Tverskoy Boulevard is conceived to become a space for contemplation and reflection on the passage of time. It includes urban and coastal views of Italy and France, Spain ... More
National YoungArts Foundation announces Daniel Arsham Fellowship for Early Career Visual Artists
MIAMI, FLA.- National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) President and CEO Carolina GarcÃa Jayaram today announced the creation of the Daniel Arsham Fellowship, presented by the Ridinger-McLaughlin Family, a major new granting program for aspiring visual artists up to three years out of receiving their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Named in honor of acclaimed contemporary artist Daniel Arsham (1999 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts) and supported by SHOP.COM and DNA Atelier Co-Founders Duane McLaughlin and Amber Ridinger-McLaughlin, the Fellowship further expands the organizations support of YoungArts alumni as they pursue careers in the arts. For the next three years, one YoungArts alum a year will receive an unrestricted prize of $25,000 and year-long mentorship opportunities with Arsham. SHENEQUA, ... More
BMW Art Journey artist shortlist announced during Art Basel in Miami Beach
MIAMI, FLA.- Art Basel and BMW are delighted to present the next artist shortlist and to continue their joint initiative to recognize and support emerging artists worldwide. The BMW Art Journey can take artists almost anywhere in the world to develop new ideas and envision new creative projects. Today, an international expert jury announced A.K. Burns, Jamal Cyrus and Mariela Scafati as the shortlisted artists showing in Positions, the sector for emerging artists at Art Basel's show in Miami Beach. A.K. Burns (b. 1975) lives and works in Brooklyn, United States and received her Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2010. In her artistic practice, the artist views the body as a contentious domain wherein issues of gender, labor, ecology and sexuality are negotiated. At Art Basel in Miami Beach, she premiers 'Weather Report', an installation ... More
Cochrane gift endows painting conservatorship
RICHMOND, VA.- A final, long-planned gift from Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane has brought the couples support of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts full circle. As the result of a charitable annuity and trust benefiting the museum, $8.4 million was added to the VMFA endowment this year. During the past five decades, the Cochranes generously supported VMFA with more than $40 million, through an endowment funded with outright gifts, 220 parcels of real estate in Manchester, and their long-time family home and farm in Hanover County. Proceeds from the sales of the real estate were added to the Cochrane endowment principal. J. Harwood Cochrane founded Overnite Transportation, and Louise Cochrane, a painter, served as a docent and member of The Council of VMFA. Each served on the museums Board of Trustees at different times. A portion ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Diego Rivera was born December 8, 1886. Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929 - 1939 and 1940 - 1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In this image: A couple look at the painting 'Portrait of Gilda Blanca' (R) by Mexican Diego Rivera during an exhibition to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City, Mexico, 04 July 2011.
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