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The Couleur gallery is pictured behind a police tape after exhibited Salvador Dali sculptures have been stolen by, according to the Police, at least two thieves who smashed the entrance window setting the alarm off at 4 a.m. on January 30, 2020, in Stockholm, Sweden. ALI LORESTANI / TT News Agency / AFP.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- Ten sculptures by surrealist artist Salvador Dali were stolen from a Stockholm gallery in a dawn break in on Thursday, the gallery's owner told AFP. The thieves smashed the glass door of the Couleur gallery in the upscale neighbourhood of Ostermalm in Stockholm and nabbed the sculptures, valued at between 20,000 and 50,000 euros ($22,000 to $55,000) each, before fleeing the scene in a car according to witnesses. The stolen sculptures include bronze models of the artist's recognisable molten clocks, of which there are about 350 around the world. They were on loan and came from a Swiss collection. Peder Enstrom, the owner of the gallery thought there must have been several thieves because of the mess they left behind, adding that "they were probably working together". Despite the value of the works, Enstrom said the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Lucas Samaras: Me, Myself and... 540 West 25th Street, New York January 17 - February 22, 2020 Photography courtesy Pace Gallery
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| | Another clue for a CIA sculpture that holds a decades-old mystery | | Major donation of $1 million for new education fund announced by the Boca Raton Museum of Art | | The Super Bowl is the biggest art show in Miami right now |
Kryptos, a sculpture in a courtyard at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va., is pictured on Nov. 19, 2010. Drew Angerer/The New York Times.
by John Schwartz and Jonathan Corum
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The creator of one of the worlds most famous mysteries is giving obsessive fans a new clue. Kryptos, a sculpture in a courtyard at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, holds an encrypted message that has not fully yielded to attempts to crack it. Its been nearly 30 years since its tall scroll of copper with thousands of punched-through letters was set in place. Three of the four passages of the sculpture have been decrypted (the first, though unacknowledged at the time, was solved by a team from the National Security Agency). But after nearly three decades, one brief passage remains uncracked. And that has been a source of delight and consternation to thousands of people around the world. The ... More | |
Donation of $1 Million to Benefit the Museums Education Fund, contributed by Jody Harrison Grass and Martin Grass.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- The Boca Raton Museum of Arts Executive Director, Irvin Lippman, announced two major philanthropic milestones at the Museums 70th anniversary Gala on Saturday, January 25th. The first announcement was the $1 million contribution by the Galas Honorary Chairs, Jody Harrison Grass and her husband Martin Grass, to benefit the Museums education initiatives. Jody is the Chair of the Museums Board of Trustees. The second announcement was that more than $630,000 was raised during the Gala, the highest amount the Museum has ever raised in its 70-year history at a Gala event. The event was also Co-Chaired by Stacey and Evan Packer, Carrie Rubin, and John Tolbert. The funds raised during the Gala were thanks to record-setting sponsorships and a live auction. This years event also featured a special Gift from the Heart call-to-action that encouraged guests to donate in ... More | |
Kelsey Montague works on a mural at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Jan. 21, 2020. Rose Marie Cromwell/The New York Times.
by Joseph B. Treaster
MIAMI (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The Super Bowl is back in Miami this year, and the organizers are giving a bear hug to the bold, exuberant street art that is a hallmark of the host city. Some of the brightest stars of street art former skateboarders, surfers, break dancers and survivors of midnight raids on subway cars have created fanciful murals to celebrate Super Bowl LIV. One nearly covers a side of a 34-story bank building. A painted, two-story bouquet of 32 balloons one for each team in the league commands a wall in the Miami Beach Convention Center. The game tickets and the Super Bowl program cover are an explosion of tropical colors, with a sparkling silver Vince Lombardi Trophy rising in the path of a galloping ball carrier. This explosion of art is, in part, thanks to Jessica Goldman Srebnick, the chief executive of the real estate ... More |
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| | kaufmann repetto now represents the work of Corita Kent | | LiveAuctioneers reports record-setting year with 31% growth in online sales, 76% more traffic than competitors | | Hindman ends 2019 with 11 auction records and unprecedented growth |
Corita Kent. Courtesy of Corita Art Center and Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles.
MILAN.- kaufmann repetto announced the representation of the Work of Corita Kent, in partnership with the Corita Art Center. Corita Kents work will be jointly represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in the United States. Corita Kent (19181986) was an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice. At age 18, she entered the religious order Immaculate Heart of Mary. After teaching art at Immaculate Heart College for many years, she became the chair of the art department in 1964. While her first prints consisted of dense, figurative compositions with religious themes and iconography, by 1962 her work evolved into a singular mode of Pop art. Reflecting a wide breadth of disciplinary interests, her bright compositions were not limited to the staple imagery and language of consumer and mass culture but also integrated philosophy, literature, street signage, scripture, and song lyrics in bold text and abstract ... More | |
Year-over-year comparisons also indicate 39% growth in bidders on LiveAuctioneers and 31% increase in bids submitted through the companys industry-leading mobile apps.
NEW YORK, NY.- LiveAuctioneers, the worlds leading online marketplace for exceptional fine art, antiques and vintage collectibles, has released its 2019 Annual Report confirming not only another year of record results that outperformed competitors, but also a continued year-over-year pattern of growth that remains unrivaled in the industry. Phil Michaelson, CEO of LiveAuctioneers, commented: LiveAuctioneers empowers auction-house partners to realize the highest hammer prices on arts and collectibles with the least amount of pre-auction and post-auction effort. In 2019, LiveAuctioneers delivered the winners on more than 800,000 lots as well as the valuable underbidders on millions more lots. Our industry-leading mobile apps -- with personalized algorithms and nearly 5 of 5 stars on the App Store -- attracted ... More | |
Miyoko Ito (American, 1918-1983), Sea Changes, 1977. Oil on canvas 45 x 36 inches. Property from a Corporate Art Collection Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000. Sold for: $212,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman set new company and industry high-water marks in 2019. The year, which included over 90 auctions and $69 million in sales, began with the acquisition of Cowans, another widely respected auction firm based in Ohio that has focused on fine and historic collections for over 3 decades. Through this acquisition Hindman has further expanded their expertise into nearly all significant collecting categories. Hindmans large network of departments broke 11 auction records in 2019, a record for the firm. With a long tradition of success offering works by Chicago Imagists, the Post War and Contemporary Art Department broke 8 records in the last half of the year, achieving outstanding results for artists Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Art Green, Ray Yoshida, Karl Wirsum, Miyoko Ito, Roger Brown, and ... More |
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| | Kunsthaus Zürich presents masterpieces of Italian drawing | | Bonhams launches a new Post-War & Contemporary art sale in Los Angeles on February 15 | | Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte by Marie-Victoire Lemoine highlights Doyle's February 5 auction |
Giuseppe Cesari (known as Cavalier dArpino), Adam and Eve Banished from Paradise, 1602/1603. Red chalk on paper, 17.3 x 12.8 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich.
ZURICH.- From 31 January to 26 April 2020 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents The Poetry of Line. Masterpieces of Italian drawing, a selection from its small but prestigious collection of Italian drawings covering the period between Renaissance and Baroque, which have now been examined by students from the University of Zurich. The cabinet exhibition displays around thirty of the most important works from the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the Kunsthaus Zürich. From the sight of the lines skilfully drawn on the paper it is but a short intellectual leap to the genesis of an artwork. Many of the works have long been classics of the Prints and Drawings Collection: they include a preliminary drawing by Raphael for the Vatican stanze and the graceful depiction of Lucretia by Palma Vecchio. Others have never even been published before, despite being the work of equally celebrated ... More | |
Alex Israel (B. 1982), Untitled (Flat), 2013, Estimate: $50,000 - 70,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams will launch its inaugural sale of Post-War & Contemporary Art in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 15. The sale is timed to coincide with Frieze Los Angeles and is highlighted by one of the largest collections of full-sized Supreme skateboard decks, as well as important works by Jonas Wood, Alex Israel, Richard Prince, Billy Al Bengston, Viola Frey, Andreas Gursky, Richard Hambleton, and George Segal. The free and public exhibition opens February 8. Muys Snijders, Head of Post War & Contemporary, Americas, comments: We are excited to present this compelling new sale of Post War & Contemporary Art in Los Angeles at a time when the city plays host to international contemporary art collectors visiting the Frieze Art Fair. This auction offers a dynamic selection of cutting-edge Contemporary Art, along with established Post-War artists and the West Coast masters that Bonhams has long championed. Included in the sale is ... More | |
Marie-Victoire Lemoine (French, 1754-1820), Madame Leclerc, nee Pauline Bonaparte, circa 1798-99, Signed, Oil on canvas, 77 x 54 1/8 inches. Est. $40,000-70,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle's auction on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 10am will present Old Master Paintings & Drawings and English & Continental Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts. The sale showcases a wide range of landscapes, still lifes, portraits and religious subjects by European artists from the Renaissance to the 19th century. Highlighting the sale is a circa 1798-99 portrait of Madame Leclerc, née Pauline Bonaparte, by Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754-1820) (est. $40,000-070,000). Lemoine, one of a family of artists, lived her professional life at the center of the French art world, specializing in portraits and genre subjects. This lovely portrait by her of Pauline Bonaparte, younger sister of Napoleon I, was submitted anonymously to the Paris Salon of 1799 (Revolutionary year VII), where it was described as "Une jeune femme appuyee sur le bord d 'une ... More |
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| | Everard Auctions announces Fine and Decorative Arts Sale now open for bidding on iGavelauctions.com | | Pace presents more than seventy new works by Lucas Samaras | | Guggenheim Museum appoints Cyra Levenson and Gail Engelberg to new positions |
Federal Inlaid Mahogany Breakfront Secretary, Salem, Massachusetts, in the manner of Edmund Johnson.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Everard Auctions Fine and Decorative Arts Sale is now open for bidding on iGavelauctions.com, through February 12th. Drawn from regional collections, the sale includes modern and contemporary art, American furniture and folk art, as well as over 200 decorative arts with estimates totaling between $200,000-300,000. The auction features an important Salem Federal Gentlemans Secretary, circa 1810, originally from the collection of Henry D. Green who established the Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts at the Georgia Museum, University of Georgia (Estimate: $15,000-25,000). The secretary shares the same form as well as similar bellflower and ebony dot inlays on the pilasters as a labeled Edmund Johnson secretary at Winterthur Museum Other highlights include an interesting group of American Folk Art with works by Clementine Hunter, Ulysses ... More | |
Lucas Samaras, Untitled, 2019. Pure pigment on paper print, 13" à 13" (33 cm à 33 cm), image 14" à 14" (35.6 cm à 35.6 cm), paper. No. 74234 © Lucas Samaras, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition of more than seventy new works by Lucas Samaras, marking the artists thirty-fifth solo exhibition at Pace since joining the gallery in 1965. In his new body of work, Samaras appropriates and transforms imagery from his personal archive of family photos using commercial software, producing alternately haunting and humorous compositions that meditate on the role of mythology, mortality and fantasy in our inner lives. Samarass exhibition of recent photographic works is being presented alongside a selection of his pioneering sculptural objects from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as iconic works from later decades, and is accompanied by a catalogue containing a new text by the artist. Me, Myself and... is on view from through February 22 ... More | |
Cyra Levenson is the new Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education and Public Engagement.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation announced the appointment of Cyra Levenson to the position of Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education and Public Engagement. Levenson will be responsible for the development and implementation of learning and engagement opportunities for modern and contemporary art and architecture at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and will have a significant role in partnering across the foundations international network. She comes to the Guggenheim Museum from the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she was Deputy Director and Head of Public and Academic Engagement. Levenson will begin her new position on March 3, 2020. For more than two decades, Cyra has built a distinguished career in museums ... More |
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Pérez Art Museum Miami announces new senior appointments & changes to museum staff
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami announced the new senior appointments of Emma Heald as Director of Development and René Morales as Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator, and changes to the museum staff, including Marie Vickles as Director of Education and Mark B. Rosenblum as Chief Operating Officer. Each member of PAMMs staff plays a vital role in the museums success. As Miamis flagship art museum, we are always diversifying our programming to meet our audiences needs and growing the collection at an astounding pace, with works of art that should provide the backdrop to many meaningful dialogues with audiences here in the museum and via the internet in the future, said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. Our development team is on track for a significant year of fundraising as we further implement the Impact Fund ... More
These people really care about fonts
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- At TypeThursday, a monthly meetup in several cities, including Los Angeles, London and Bucharest, Romania, font designers critique one anothers letterforms over wine. They hold forth about negative space, consistent strokes and serif experimentation. The groups website bills the gathering as three hours of fontastic fun. But when dozens of professionals congregate to talk about their craft, things can get heated. Are those Cs exactly the same? asked Evan Sult, an art director in Brooklyn, during a TypeThursday event in December in New York. He was examining a designers sketches for a Cuban restaurants logo. They dont look exactly the same. And why should they be? said Paul Shaw, a type historian who lives in Manhattan. Hey, hey, hey! Dont make me ask the volunteers to get physical ... More
Franz Mazura, opera singer who relished villains, dies at 95
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Franz Mazura, an Austrian bass-baritone best known for his compelling portrayals of operatic villains in a late-starting but long-lasting career that brought him to many of the worlds major houses, died Jan. 23 in a hospital in Mannheim, Germany. He was 95. His death was announced by his management company, Boris Orlob. He had lived in the nearby town of Edingen-Neckarhausen. Mazuras earthy, deep-set voice was ideal for the dark, menacing characters he specialized in. During his prime years he excelled as Klingsor, the evil sorcerer in Wagners Parsifal, and Don Pizarro, the corrupt governor of a state prison in Beethovens Fidelio. He helped make opera history in 1979 when the first production of Bergs Lulu in its three-act version was presented in Paris. (The unfinished third act was completed ... More
Moss Arts Center opens a suite of exhibitions by women artists
BLACKSBURG, VA .- A range of formidable and thought-provoking works give voice to critical issues in Fierce Women, a suite of exhibitions by women artists presented by the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech. Spanning the latter part of the 20th century to the present, the work presented includes sculpture, prints, painting on paper, digital prints, and video, and is on view in all the centers galleries. Beginning with the historical precedent of the Guerrilla Girls, the exhibition continues with works by Jenny Holzer, then proceeds up to the present with a large-scale video installation by Marilyn Minter. Ranging from Holzers iconic LED signs to Chakaia Bookers brazen rubber tire compositions and Rozeals cross-cultural mashups, these artists take on gender and racial inequality, the politics of identity, and address some of the many injustices surrounding ... More
Sotheby's Masters Week kicks off with record-setting sales for Tiepolo, Mantegna & more
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys annual Masters Week sale series kicked off yesterday in New York, with 142 paintings and drawings sold across two auctions for an overall total of $76.2 million. The day began with Andrea Mantegnas drawing of The Triumph of Alexandria selling for $11.7 million a new world auction record for a drawing by the artist. This result helped propel the Old Master Drawings sale to a total of $15.1 million, which marks a new record for an Old Master Drawings sale at Sothebys worldwidethe second year in a row the auction house established a new benchmark during Masters Week in New York. Yesterdays Master Paintings Evening Sale further celebrated Italian artists, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolos monumental altarpiece of the Madonna of the Rosary with Angels sold for a record $17.3 million, nearly 3x the artists previous ... More
Two new Catalan Modernist paintings join the Meadows Museum's collection
DALLAS, TX.- The Meadows Museum, SMU, announced today that it has purchased works by two Catalan modernists: painters Josep de Togores i Llach (18931970) and Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (18611931). These works are important additions to the Museums collection and to increasing public and scholarly access to Catalan works from this early modern period, roughly the 1880s into the 1920s. Despite the fact that this was a period of significant artistic production and stylistic innovation, works by Catalan artists of this era are not well-represented in American museum holdings. This period is often considered a Golden Age of Catalan art, with many outstanding works produced at a time that coincides with the construction of GaudÃs great buildings in Barcelona, said Mark Roglán, the Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows ... More
Toledo Museum of Art names Adam M. Levine as 10th director of the Museum
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has appointed Adam M. Levine to be the next Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director of the Museum. Levine returns to TMA from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida, where he is currently the George W. and Kathleen I. Gibbs director and chief executive officer. Prior to his post at the Cummer Museum, which began in October 2018, Levine served in several roles at TMA since 2013, most recently as deputy director and curator of ancient art. Levine will begin his directorship at TMA on May 1, 2020. Leading the distinguished Toledo Museum of Art during this exciting next chapter of its rich and inspiring history is a dream come true, said Levine. It is particularly meaningful to rejoin the outstanding executive team, staff and board of directors at TMA, which have been ... More
Metro Pictures opens an exhibition of works by John Miller
NEW YORK, NY.- John Miller has been exploring notions of identity, economics, and social class throughout his forty-year practice. His latest exhibition at Metro Pictures concerns, among other things, a sense of everyday malaise and life's petty annoyances. It features a series of large-format photographs, two installations, and a video work titled Toll Free. Mannequins are an iconic theme in this show. Miller characterizes them as simple anthropomorphized clothing racks that can nonetheless prompt unnerving degrees of identification. Millers current photographs, installations, and videos insert these figures into familiar, even normalizing, scenarios that underscore their function as objects of desire onto which we, as both spectators and consumers, project a miasma of fleeting trends and fashions. These projections convey not only the sphere ... More
$50 million exhibit of rare, early American gold in Long Beach, Feb. 20-22
LONG BEACH, CA.- A never before seen, extensive exhibit of historic United States $10 denomination gold coins (Eagles) will be publicly displayed in Long Beach, California, Thursday-Saturday, February 20-22, 2020. Many of these gold coins, dating back to early America two centuries ago, are the finest known surviving examples of their kind. Insured for $50 million, the educational exhibit of more than 300 coins will showcase examples struck by the United States Mint of every type, date and mint mark of gold Eagles issued for circulation as well as specially made proof examples. It will include extremely rare specimens from the first U.S. gold coins minted in 1795 to the last circulating $10 gold piece in 1933 briefly issued during the height of the Great Depression. The display will be at the Long Beach Coin, Currency, Stamp & Sports Collectibles ... More
Susanin's online-only collections auction will feature nearly 600 quality lots in a host of categories
CHICAGO, IL.- An online-only auction featuring nearly 600 lots of fountain pens, watches and clocks, numismatics, paperweights, rugs and textiles, ethnographic art, trains and toys, books and collectibles is slated for Thursday, Feb. 20, by Susanins Auctions, at 10 am Central time. The sale is officially titled The Collections Auction. Online bidding is through LiveAuctioneers.com. This sale is an auctioneers dream, said Susanins founder and president Sean Susanin. Most everything came from one fabulous Chicago estate, and the sale has no reserves, meaning one hundred percent of lots will be sold. The consignors are a husband and wife retired flight attendants who spent years traveling, going to antique shows and collecting these great items. Rare and highly collectible fountain pens by many of the most recognizable names in the genre, such ... More
Jane Austen first editions lead Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, February 20 Swann Galleries will offer a sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts with a superb presentation of autographs, nineteenth and twentieth century literature, as well as art, press and illustrated books. Nineteenth-century literature leads the sale with rare offering of first editions of all six of Jane Austens major novels. The works come across the block in uncommon surviving period bindings with scarce half title pages. Highlights from the offering are Austens first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, 1811the rarest of the six with likely less than 1,000 first editions being printedpresent at $30,000 to $40,000; Pride & Prejudice, 1813, at $20,000 to $30,000; and Emma, 1816the only one of Austens novels to bear a dedication, to the Prince Regentexpected to bring $15,000 to $20,000. Additional works ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning died January 31, 2012. Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. In this image: Dorothea Tanning, Untitled (Set Design for The Night Shadow or an Unrealized Ballet), c. 1950. Graphite, ink, and gouache on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm, 10 x 14 ins © ADAGP. Courtesy of The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
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