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Style of Fredrik Kayser; Lounge Chairs. Estimate: $700 - 900.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Friday, April 7 through Saturday, April 8, Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold unreserved auctions of Early 20th C. Art and Design, Modern Art and Design and Scandinavian Furniture. "Our upcoming Unreserved Auction promises to be a large and varied sale packed with interesting and unique treasures," says Michael Inghman, Director of Rago's Unreserved Department. "On offer will be property ranging across all of Rago's auction departments, from the 18th century through contemporary designs." Early 20th century American and European art pottery and ceramics by Merrimac, Saturday Evening Girls, Rookwood, Ernst Wahliss, Paul Daschel and Zsolnay. Early 20th century furniture by Gustav and L. & J.G. Stickley and Roycroft,as well as a selection of Arts and Crafts style furnishings. Arts and Crafts lighting by Handel, Tiffany, Loetz and more. Early 20th century European and American glass by Charles Schneider, Legras, DeVez and Steuben. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Bernard Picasso, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's grandson, poses outside the castle of Boisgeloup, the Picasso family's house, in Gisors, northwestern France, on March 30, 2017. The "La Saison Picasso" (The Picasso Season) runs in various places in Rouen, including the castle of Boisgeloup, from April 1 to September 11, 2017 CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP
| Kim Kardashian joins Rembrandt in selfie exhibit | | Geneva magnificent jewels on international highlight tour | | Warhol Mao portrait fetches $12.7m in Hong Kong auction | 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait with Two Circles, c. 1665-69. Oil on canvas, 114.3 cm à 94 cm. Courtesy Kenwood House, Iveagh Bequest/English Heritage.
LONDON (AFP).- Rembrandt, Kim Kardashian and Andy Warhol make unlikely bedfellows at a photographic exhibition that opened in London this week of the history of the selfie -- from the Old Masters to the current day. "From Selfie to Self-Expression" at London's Saatchi Gallery celebrates "the creative potential of the selfie," Nigel Hurst, the gallery's CEO, told AFP. He said selfies were the "epitome" of the digital age and the show is billed as the first of its kind. The exhibition examines how self-portraiture in painting evolved as mirrors gave an increasingly life-like image, particularly after the invention of silver-glassed mirrors in the early 19th century. It draws a parallel with the growing sophistication and popularity of smartphones, setting out to "celebrate the truly creative potential of a form of expression often derided for its inanity". Works by the likes of Renoir, Cezanne and Monet are projected on TV screens ... More | | 
La Vie Bohème A pair of diamond and coulored diamond chandelier earrings, by Boehmer et Bassenge, 10.07 and 10.05 carats, D, Flawless (One pictured above). Estimate: US$ 2000000 3000000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
GENEVA.- Christies upcoming auction of Magnificent Jewels will take place on 17 May at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues, where approximately 250 exceptional jewels await collectors from around the globe. Ahead of the auction, highlights will tour to London from 10-12 April. The jewels will be exhibited for a long stretch in New York, from 21-25 April and from 5-8 May alongside the 20th Century Art preview, before they return to Geneva. The highlights on view will include a fantastic 92 carat D Flawless heart shaped diamond pendant, signed by Boehmer et Bassenge. The Maison de Haute Joaillerie was launched last year and named in honour of Charles Boehmer and Paul Bassenge, Parisian jewelers of the 18th century. Working exclusively with a handful of large, D colour, Flawless clarity diamonds of perfect polish and ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Mao, 1973, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 127 x 106.6cm. Estimate: HK$90million 120million/ US$12million 15million. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- A classic Andy Warhol portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong fetched US$12.7 million at auction in Hong Kong on Sunday, Sotheby's said -- well short of the top estimate of more than $15 million. The sale of the 1973 screen print by the legendary US pop artist attracted plenty of attention before going under the hammer in the semi-autonomous city owing to sensitivity about any use of Mao's image in China. The top sale price estimate of more than $15 million was the highest the auction house had ever seen for a painting in Asia. The identity of the buyer was not released. Sotheby's had describe the event as the first "significant" sale of Western contemporary art in Hong Kong, which was handed back to China by Britain in 1997. But while buyers from mainland China have developed massive market clout, Warhol's images of Mao have drawn ... More |
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| Art 'blue helmets' rescue Italy's treasures from rubble | | Dance iconoclast Michael Clark curates Sotheby's exhibition | | A century later, plans underway for WWI memorial in Washington | 
Volunteers part of the UN task force "Blue Helmets for Culture" clean ancient statues recovered along with religious artifacts in the seriously damaged church of San Francesco in the village of Visso on March 27, 2017, central Italy. FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP.
VISSO (AFP).- Inside the crumbling medieval church of San Francesco di Visso, the "blue helmets" of the art world are racing to save a masterpiece damaged in Italy's devastating earthquake last year. The crucifixion scene attributed to 15th-century master Paolo da Visso was found in the rubble-strewn church behind a huge wooden wardrobe which miraculously stayed standing in the sacristy. The pale ochre and violet fresco is now in the hands of Italy's art police, who collect and catalogue fragments, battered crucifixes and cracked candlesticks and hand them to a team of restorers, archaeologists and historians. A cultural version of the UN's peacekeepers, they have been dubbed the "blue helmets", an elite task force dedicated to protecting and salvaging historic artworks and ... More | | 
Sarah Lucas- Ones Knob, 2006. Estimate: £10,000 - 15,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This spring, Sothebys in London will open up its New Bond Street galleries to the revolutionary British dancer and choreographer Michael Clark. Memorably described as the most brilliant and worst behaved alumni of the Royal Ballet School, Clarks performances have been marked by a mixture of technical rigour and experimentation; combining intense and fine-tuned choreography with elements of punk, Dada and popular culture. Clark has broken new ground for dance through collaborations with artists including Sarah Lucas, Leigh Bowery, Peter Doig and Alexander McQueen, and reached new audiences through his companys electrifying performances at venues including the Tate Moderns Turbine Hall and the Venice Biennale. For Contemporary Curated, Clark curates a selection of works which explore the ongoing dance between art and choreography, including pieces by Sarah Lucas, Rebecca Warren, Günther ... More | | 
This file photo taken on October 6, 2008 shows Frank Buckles, 107, meeting with reporters following an award ceremony at the French Embassy in Washington, DC. KAREN BLEIER / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- How should the United States honor the wishes of the last American World War I soldier, who asked for a national monument to the country's role in the conflict? The answer is more complicated than it seems. Frank Buckles, who was a teenage ambulance driver in the Great War, was dismayed to discover on a 2008 visit to Washington's sprawling National Mall that there was nothing to commemorate the pivotal role Americans played in the final two years of the 1914-1918 conflict. The wheelchair-bound 107-year-old found memorials to wars in Vietnam and Korea, and a grand monument to the US victory in World War II. But for World War I, the best he and his entourage could find was an abandoned marble bandstand honoring Washington residents who died in the conflict. "'Can you do something so that my ... More |
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| Dalà exhibition opens at Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia | | Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma opens survey of contemporary art | | Sketch aquarium now open at the new Children's Museum in San Diego | 
Untitled. Giuliano de Medici after Michelangelos Tomb of Giuliano de Medici, 1982 © Salvador DalÃ, Fundació Gala- Salvador DalÃ/VEGAP, Figueres, 2017.
SAINT PETERSBURG.- The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalà announced that a new Dalà temporary exhibition opened at Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg (Russia). Its devoted to his Surrealist and his Classical production. The show is on view from 1st April until 2nd July. It was previously seen at Palazzo Blu in Pisa, Italy, from 1st October 2016 until 19th February in a version adapted to the Italian audience. The exhibition emphasizes the different periods of the artistic career of Salvador DalÃ, from Surrealism and Classicism to the importance of the Italian Renaissance in his work. It includes 145 works ranging from 1934 to 1982: 142 from the Dalà Foundation, one from the Tate Modern in London and two works from Russian private collections. The Foundation loans 22 paintings, 100 photogravures of The Divine Comedy and 20 original illustrations for The ... More | | 
Rachel Rossin, Alembic Cache Passes (Time-snark), 2016. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen.
HELSINKI.- ARS17 Hello World!, is a survey of contemporary art focusing on the global digital revolution and its impact on our culture and economy, as well as human identity and behaviour. The exhibition in Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki brings together 35 artists from 13 countries representing three generations, from the 60s to the 80s. The ARS17+ Online Art website at arsplus.fi showcases a selection of new net art as part of the ARS17 exhibition at Kiasma. Many of the artists featured in the exhibition are post-internet millennials, who are digital natives more or less from the moment they are born. For them, the physical and virtual worlds are inseparable components of the same merged reality. In their world, digital technology is not an end itself, but a tool for creating, sharing and experiencing. What can art tell us about life in the digital age? This question ... More | | 
The Tokyo-based creative group teamLAB has launched similar installations in Japan.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The New Childrens Museum, an arts-based childrens museum known for its full scale, immersive art installations, recently launched Sketch Aquarium through a partnership with Tokyo-based teamLAB. Opened earlier this week after weeks of testing, the installation has been extremely well received by children (and adults). Visitors are able to design a sea creature, scan it in and watch it swimming and interacting within minutes in the 20 x 10 wall-sized digital aquarium. Visitors can also interact with the sea creatures and their own creations by touching the screen to feed the fish or direct them throughout the aquarium. Sketch Aquarium allows children to express their creativity in an open and highly collaborative environment, said Tomoko Kuta, Deputy Museum Director. Children are not only looking at and enjoying the artwork - they are a critical part of creating it. ... More |
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| Sperone Westwater opens exhibition of twelve paintings by Andrew Sendor | | Exhibition featuring three series of works by Elizabeth McAlpine on view at Laura Bartlett | | Exhibition at Contemporary Fine Arts presents a new body of work by Marianne Vitale | 
Andrew Sendor, Two portraits of Rallis Royce on the northwest wall of Saturday's living room, 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting Andrew Sendor: Saturdays Ascent, an exhibition of twelve paintings accompanied by an audio narration. This is the artists third solo show with the gallery. Sendors work is characterized by a meticulous draftsmanship that serves to illuminate his ongoing engagement with the interrelation of photorealism and invented narrative structures. The artist introduces us to a group of fictional characters in a storyline whose genesis derives from a unique creative process: Sendor scripted, produced, directed, and documented a series of performances recounting the life and times of his eccentric cast. These performances ultimately become the basis for the paintings and audio component. The continuously looped audio narration envelops the viewer and offers clarifying details inextricably linked to the paintings subject matter. Sendors story revolves ... More | | 
Elizabeth McAlpine, Ends (Spra yed Sound), 2014-2017. C- Type print 128 x 85 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Laura Bartlett Gallery. © Elizabeth McAlpine.
LONDON.- Laura Bartlett is pleased to presenting Light Reading, a solo exhibition by Elizabeth McAlpine, featuring three series of works, including a new video projection, on view for the first time. United by the artists interest in the limits of representation, these works offer an alternative viewing experience by prioritising medium over narrative, emphasising, at all times, the sheer materiality of film. Well versed in the tradition of expanded cinema and the structuralist filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s, McAlpine counters the common language of cinema, combining notions of kinesis and plasticity to present a kind of kinematic cineplastics, with her projections - in particular - manifesting as events. McAlpines recent series, Ends (Sprayed Sound) consists of a number of synaesthetic C-Type prints made from the terminal ends of a film reel, layered, ... More | | 
Installation view. Courtesy CFA Berlin. Photo: Matthias Kolb.
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts is presenting Fat City, featuring a new body of work by Marianne Vitale. For her second exhibition at CFA, Vitale presents a series of sculptures: steel Common Crossings and painted wooden Boxers. The Boxers shape has been appropriated from an antique handheld American toy. Arranged in a narrative order, the five sculptures enact a boxing match from first punch to knockout. The steel works continue Vitales engagement with a history of American infrastructure, exploring notions of cultural degeneration and subsequent nostalgia. The exhibition takes its title from the 1969 Leonard Gardner novel, which was adapted into a film by John Huston in 1972. Gardner employs the term Fat Cityoutdated slang describing a state of comfortable prosperityironically. He tells the story of Billy Tully, a dejected alcoholic and semi-retired boxer, for whom the are ... More |
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 First solo exhibition by London and Beirut-based artist Maeve Brennan on view at Chisenhale Gallery LONDON.- Chisenhale Gallery presents the first institutional solo exhibition by London and Beirut-based artist Maeve Brennan and the premiere of a major new film commission The Drift (2017). The film is produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol and commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery; Spike Island; The Whitworth, The University of Manchester; and Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore. In The Drift, Brennan traces the shifting economies of objects in contemporary Lebanon. The film moves between three main characters: the gatekeeper of the Roman temples of Niha in the Beqaa Valley; a young mechanic from Britel, a village known for trading automobile parts; and an archaeological conservator working at the American University of Beirut. Combining documentary footage, gathered through fieldwork, with staged scenes, the work depicts ... More Exhibition of photographs by Nancy Baron and Pamela Littky opens at Kehrer galleryBERLIN.- Kehrer gallery is presenting two female American artists who are dealing with different lifestyles in the American desert in their works. Nancy Baronʼs series, »The Good Life Palm Springs« (2010 2015) guides us through this storied American resort town and its mid century modern lifestyle from the vantage point of a part-time resident. Her spare, jewel-toned impressions document the homes, cars, and clothes of these modernists, paying homage to the carefree post-World War II time in US history that glows warmly in rear view mirrors. The towns Pamela Littky deals with in her series »Vacancy« are located in the Mojave Desert. Baker (California) and Beatty (Nevada) are the opposite of tidy Palm Springs. These towns, tha most people will only visit passing through, really show the inhospitality of the desert and seem vacant on first glance. But nevertheless ... More Edinburgh Art Festival announces 2017 exhibition programmeEDINBURGH.- Edinburgh Art Festival, the largest annual festival of visual art in the UK, announced details of its 14th edition, including partner exhibitions and pop-up events by contemporary and modern artists from the UK and beyond. This year, as Edinburgh celebrates its 70th anniversary as a Festival City, EAF and partners will present over 45 exhibitions across more than 35 venues, combining ambitious presentations of Scottish and international contemporary art with important survey shows, across the capitals leading galleries and museums as well as site-specific pop-ups and artist-run spaces. Highlights of the 2017 programme include: Exhibitions of work by internationally recognised artists, including Jac Leirner at The Fruitmarket Gallery; Pablo Bronstein at Jupiter Artland; Ed Ruscha at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; and Patrick Staff at Collective. ... More Bertoia's announces new online-auction division 'Bertoia Basics,' with inaugural sale slated for April 15VINELAND, NJ.- Bertoia Auctions is branching out with a new series of sales designed expressly for live-online and absentee bidding. Known as Bertoia Basics, the auctions will offer collectors at all levels an additional way to buy fine toys, trains, banks and doorstops using only real-time Internet and absentee-bidding methods. The auctions will be held during the months that fall between our major sales. That way our customers can add to their collections year round and be assured they will still receive the same level of quality service theyve come to count on when buying from us, said Bertoias owner, Jeanne Bertoia. Each Bertoia Basics auction will be a one-day event in which registered bidders can participate either absentee or live online in an otherwise traditionally structured auction. Absentee bids may be lodged anytime before the auction, either by calling ... More New works by the Berlin-based artist Frank Maier on view at the Drawing Room in HamburgHAMBURG.- The Drawing Room is presenting new works by the Berlin-based artist Frank Maier (born 1966 in Stuttgart). For his first solo exhibition at the Drawing Room, Maier has created wall paintings reminiscent of colour fields, which form the background for his graphically well-defined, yet intricate works, painted in pastose acrylic on canvas in a retro-modernist style. He draws his material from the repertoire of forms used in concrete art and by the Russian Constructivist artists, in order to create his own self-referencing architecture of images. Within the borders of the inner pictorial space, marked with colour, the artist uses geometrical vocabulary in a stringent and consistent manner. For Maier, the paintings do not portray life or reality but are themselves part of this life and this reality living beings. The line plays an important role in his painting ... More Lehmann Maupin opens exhibition of new work by Do Ho SuhHONG KONG.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting Passage/s, an exhibition of new work by Do Ho Suh. The internationally renowned South Korean artist is best known for his installations, drawings, sculptures, and films, which often reflect on themes of home, displacement, memory, and individuality that evolve from his personal experiences and family history. For this Hong Kong exhibition, Suh will premiere a three-channel video installation, Passage/s: The Pram Project, as well as new drawings. Passage/s: The Pram Project captures the artist and his young daughters on outings together in their London neighborhood. Shot using GoPro cameras affixed to the sides and top of a pram, the video offers the childrens perspective of the city. The ambient noises of the street and the rattling of the pram punctuate the conversations and chatter between Suh and his daughters. The ... More Collection of over 60 ukiyo-e prints displayed at Maidstone MuseumMAIDSTONE.- A new exhibition at Maidstone Museum is providing visitors with the chance to experience a taste of the Land of the Rising Sun this spring. On view until June 10, Japan: A Floating World in Print showcases more than 60 ukiyo-e prints from the museums extensive Japanese collection. Dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries, the works on display have been drawn from the collection of museum benefactor, Sir Walter Samuel. Son of Lord and Lady Bearsted, Samuels collection was accumulated during his travels in the Far East at a time when his fathers company Shell Oil conducted business in the region. The works would eventually be donated to the museum in 1923 via the National Arts Collection Fund. The Japanese collection at Maidstone Museum is internationally renowned, said Evelyn Palmer, Public Programming Manager at Maidstone ... More Ellis King opens solo exhibition of work by Hanna TörnuddDUBLIN.- Casting a net yields greater bounty than fishing with a pole. In the Baltic sea surrounding Stockholms archipelago, where the once plentiful fish population has decreased significantly over the years, its not uncommon to haul in just a handful of fish, if any at all. It is more likely to accumulate a collection bits and pieces of the islands past, remnants of a former society that struggled more than it managed to survive. At the turn of the 20th century, Busk-Anette lived with her family in a hut among the remote islands of the outer archipelago. Life conditions were extreme and one by one she lost the members of her family to natures perils and suicide. Busk-Anette remained there in seclusion, making a living by selling flowers and berries on the more populated island of Sandhamn, close to the mainland. Everyday, she would row her boat there, regardless of the ... More Solo exhibition of new works by the Scottish artist Lilias Buchanan on view at Shapero ModernLONDON.- Shapero Modern is presenting a solo exhibition of new works by the Scottish artist and musician Lilias Buchanan. The show is directly inspired by American writer Richard Brautigans 1976 cult classic, Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel, and is comprised of nine small-scale paintings exquisitely rendered in pencil and watercolour and collage. The assembled works, which have been created over a two year period, channel the books two parallel narrative threads. The first focuses on a heartbroken American writer who has recently been left by his Japanese lover. His obsessive thoughts about her prevent him from concentrating on a story he is writing, in which a sombrero falls from the sky in a sleepy town in the American southwest. Eventually, and despairingly, the author throws what he has written into the ... More Exhibition of new photographs by American artist Jack Pierson opens at Galerie Thaddaeus RopacPARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announces Walking Around, an exhibition of new photographs by American artist Jack Pierson. Jack Piersons photographic work has often been compared to the imagery in road movies; this particular film genre has shaped our conception of the American landscape. In his most recent body of work, created on North Captiva Island, off Florida's Gulf Coast, the artist explores the emotional undercurrents of our daily lives, from the intimacy of romantic attachment to the distant idealization of escape. As he recently stated: Most of my work is very temporary, very provisional. You can take it with you or you can leave it. Although part of what art is supposed to do is make you immortal, either by making it or owning it.1 The title evokes the idea of Wanderlust (the strong desire to travel), a concept strongly influenced by German Romanticism. The landscapes ... More What's in a Chinese name? Ancient rites and growing businessBEIJING (AFP).- In a one-room shop tucked inside a Beijing alley, a bearded 74-year-old fortune-teller in crimson tunic offers what Chinese parents have sought for centuries: an auspicious name for their newborn. But business has been tough lately for Mao Shandong and others in his trade as tech-savvy entrepreneurs have turned the ancient naming tradition into a lucrative online business. "We can't make a living these days," lamented Mao. Chinese have for centuries believed that a well-chosen name can ensure a lifetime of good fortune. Unlike in English, where one draws from a lexicon of Josephs and Richards, a Chinese name can be created from any combination of two or three characters. And for many Chinese parents, making the right choice has become even more ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Bartolomé Estéban Murillo died April 03, 1682. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (December 31, 1617 (baptized) - April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive and appealing record of the everyday life of his times. In this image: Two workers put up the painting 'Santa Catalina de Alejandria', by Spanish painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo, at Fine Arts Museum in Seville, southern Spain, 02 February 2010. The exhibition 'The Young Murillo' features 42 artworks of the artist. The painting Santa Catalina de Alejandria belongs to a Japanese museum.
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