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Two Francois-Xavier Lalanne (French 1927-2008) Mouton sculptures to be auctioned separately and consecutively. Epoxy stone and patinated bronze. 1990 edition of 250, signed in the concrete and in the bronze. Provenance: the artist, Ariz Gasiunasen Fine Art Inc., Palm Beach, Florida; private collector. Copy of 1993 Letter of Guarantee from Gasiunasen accompanies each of the sculptures. Estimate $150,000-$200,000 (each).
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Vibrant paintings and imaginative forms by the most celebrated artists and designers of the 20th century are waiting in the wings for Palm Beach Modern Auctions November 9 Modern Art & Design sale. The live gallery auction will be presented in three consecutive sessions: Important Art & Design, followed by Important Prints, and finally a Modern Art & Design session with attractive price points. All remote forms of bidding will be available, including live online through LiveAuctioneers. It would be impossible to single out just one item as the sales headliner, but the Francois-Xavier Lalanne Moutons, David Hockney lithograph, and Diego Giacometti bird sculpture are sure to be among the most previewed artworks, said Palm Beach Modern Auctions co-owner and auctioneer Rico Baca. There are some exciting pieces in the furniture section as well, including a rare Ado Chale bronze coffee table ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day At the AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show, in New York, Clinton Howell, of his eponymous gallery, showing the attributes of this rare mahogany secretaire bookcase, a documented piece by Thomas Chippendale, circa 1775, which stood in Paxton House, a private residence in Berwickshire, Scottish borders. Chippendale had a large commission there.
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| | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens a mid-career survey of Julie Mehretu's work | | Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago exhibits Dutch and Flemish drawings | | Raphael paintings reunited at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
Julie Mehretu, Six Bardos: Transmigration, 2018, 31-color, 2-panel aquatint, 98 à 74 in., courtesy of Gemini G.E.L., LLC, © Julie Mehretu and Gemini G.E.L., LLC, photograph © White Cube, Ollie Hammick.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Julie Mehretu, a mid-career survey co-organized with the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition unites nearly 40 works on paper with 35 paintings dating from 1996 to the present by Julie Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia); along with a print by Rembrandt and a film on Mehretu by the artist Tacita Dean. The first-ever comprehensive survey of Mehretus career, the exhibition covers over two decades of her artistic evolution, revealing her early focus on drawing, mapping, and iconography and her more recent introduction of bold gestures, sweeps of saturated color, and figurative elements. Mehretus examination of the histories of art, architecture, and past civilizations intermingle with her interrogations into themes of migration, revolution, climate change, global capitalism, and ... More | |
Godfried Maes. Head of Medusa, 1680. The Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago presents Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, on view from until January 5, 2020. This exhibition reflects a unique and comprehensive effort by the Art Institute to study and interpret its holdings of Dutch and Flemish drawings. The project is a culmination of a multi-year collaborative interdisciplinary initiative between conservation and curatorial departments within the museum. The exhibition has approximately 120 works on view and includes several new acquisitions that enhance a collection which was developed over nearly one hundred years. Drawing reached one of its pinnacles in the Netherlands during the 17th centurya period commonly known as the Golden Age. While early modern Dutch and Flemish art typically focus on the paintings created during this time, this exhibition constructs an alternative narrative, casting drawings not in supporting roles but as the main characters. Featuri ... More | |
Attributed to Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520), Ex-voto of Tommaso Inghirami Fallen under an Ox-Cart in Rome, about 1508. Oil on panel, 64 x 88 cm (25 3/16 x 34 5/8 in.) Museo del Tesoro, Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City.
BOSTON, MASS.- To mark the 500th anniversary of the legendary painter Raphaels death, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum brings together - for the first time Raphaels portrait of papal librarian, Tommaso Inghirami, from its collection and a painting depicting an episode in his life from the Musei Vaticani in Vatican City. This special exhibition called Raphael and the Popes Librarian is part of the Museums Close Up series and is on view through Jan. 26, 2020. Nearly five centuries after his death in 1520, Raphaels fame remains undiminished. Crowned prince of painters by Giorgio Vasari, he inspired both artists of his own time and others for centuries afterward. According to the celebrated writer Henry James, Raphaels work was semi-sacred. The exhibition and its accompanying publication tell the story of the ... More |
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| | Ogden Museum acquires works by William Christenberry, RaMell Ross, and others | | A new biography of Janis Joplin captures the pain and soul of an adventurous life | | Olivia Newton-John's Grease leather jacket and pants sold at Julien's Auctions for $405,700 |
RaMell Ross, iHome, 2012. Archival pigment print.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The Ogden Museum of Southern Art announced that it has acquired a suite of dye-transfer photographs by renowned artist William Christenberry, titled Ten Southern Photographs. Taken between 1978 and 1981 in Hale County, Alabama, the suite represents Christenberrys first substantive photography series produced in large-scale. While his work with three-square-inch Brownie prints brought him initial acclaim, his larger format photographs fully encapsulated his innate ability to imbue his images with emotion and meaning through a rich use of color and an incredible attention to detail. The suite, which was made in an edition of 21, includes views from across the small towns of Hale County, a critical subject of Christenberrys work throughout his life. The acquisition of the suite coincides with the Ogden Museums survey of the artists work, Memory is a Strange Bell, which features more than ... More | |
This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Had she not died at 27 of an accidental heroin overdose, Janis Joplin would be 76 two years younger than Paul Simon and four years younger than Mavis Staples. Singers with scorched voices sometimes settle more deeply into them. (Have you heard the most recent Marianne Faithfull album?) One wonders at the body of recordings Joplin might have made. A new biography, Janis, by music writer Holly George-Warren, performs a service by stripping away a lot of the noise around Joplin cackling and bawdy, she was Americas first female rock star and Haight-Ashburys self-destructive pinup girl and telling her story simply and well, with some of the tone and flavor of a good novel. This is fundamentally an Eisenhower-era misfit story, and there ... More | |
Olivia Newton-John attends the VIP reception for upcoming "Property of Olivia Newton-John Auction Event at Julien's Auctions on October 29, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images/AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions held its highly anticipated event Property from the Collection of Olivia Newton-John in Beverly Hills, CA in front of a packed audience of collectors, bidders and fans of the four-time Grammy award-winning singer and pop culture icon, live on the floor, online and on the phone. The top moment of the event was the headline making sale of two of the most iconic items worn by one of the best-selling musical artists of all time and Hollywood film star, in her star making role as Sandy, in the blockbuster musical filmGrease (Paramount, 1978). In the films finale number of Youre the One that I Want, Sandy (Newton-John) surprises Danny (John Travolta) with her transformation as a demure cheerleader to a sexy ... More |
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| | Elisa Sednaoui Dellal and Alia Al-Senussi bring a fresh perspective to this autumn's edition of Contemporary Curated | | Tate Modern to open major Andy Warhol exhibition in 2020 | | The secret shop of forgotten New York treasures |
Elisa Sednaoui Dellal and Alia Al-Senussi. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Model and social entrepreneur Elisa Sednaoui Dellal and academic and patron Alia Al-Senussi both passionate advocates of arts ability to empower are set to bring a fresh perspective to this autumns edition of Contemporary Curated at Sothebys in London. The duo are prominent members of the Contemporary Art world across multiple continents and, as guest curators of Sothebys forthcoming sale, have together hand-picked a personal edit of compelling artworks that resonate with them. Artists featured include Antony Gormley, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Georg Baselitz and Basim Magdy, to name a few. Philanthropy runs through all that Elisa and Alia do, and elsewhere in the sale, ten works will be offered to benefit the Elisa Sednaoui Foundations Funtasia project. The non-profit organisation provides access to innovative, hands-on creative learning experiences, offering a variety of programs to chil ... More | |
Andy Warhol (1928 1987), Debbie Harry 1980. Private Collection of Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport 1961 © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc / Artists Right Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London.
LONDON.- Andy Warhol (192887) was one of the most recognisable artists of the late 20th century, yet his life and work continue to fascinate and be interpreted anew. A shy, gay man from a religious, migrant, low income household, he forged his own distinct path to emerge as the epitome of the pop art movement. Launching next spring, this major new exhibition at Tate Modern the first at the gallery for almost 20 years offers visitors a rare personal insight into how Warhol and his work marked a period of cultural transformation. Drawing upon recent scholarship, it will provide a new lens through which to view this American icon. Featuring over 100 works from across his remarkable career, the show will shed light on how Warhols experiences helped shape his unique ... More | |
Steve Hecht, sewing-machine repairman, who also has a thing for collecting, in the Garment District in New York, on Oct. 15, 2019. Steve Hecht is the third-generation owner of Hecht Sewing Machine and Motor Company, a more than century old sewing-machine repair shop that has also become, as the neighborhoods garment factories and small businesses have died off, a repository of old New York. Brittainy Newman/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A bell rang as a man came through the door, hands deep in his pockets. Steve Hecht looked up. It was a clean-out guy he knows. He stops in when he finds something Hecht might like to buy. This time it was a dress form, a big one. You want a size 20? the man asked. It was nearby, he said. Nope, said Hecht, crossing thick arms over a suede apron. Its a little too much woman for me. As the man left, Hecht said, I have three or four 20s. You have to have your limits. Hecht has a lot of old dress forms in his meticulously crammed storefront on West 38th Street in what is ... More |
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| | A 'Stabat Mater' colored by a composer's faith | | World renowned artwork by Ai Weiwei returns to New York City as part of Sotheby's Contemporary Sale | | 303 Gallery opens a solo exhibition of the work of Karen Kilimnik |
James MacMillan, a prolific composer of choral music, with his score for the Stabat Mater, at his home in Largs, Scotland on Oct. 26, 2019. MacMillans setting of the centuries-old poem will have its American premiere at Lincoln Centers White Light Festival on Nov. 7, 2019. Liam Henderson/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- For centuries, Franciscan monks have led pilgrims along the Via Dolorosa, or path of sorrows, that Christ is believed to have walked to his crucifixion. This devotional practice, mirrored in churches worldwide in the Lenten Stations of the Cross, encourages reflection and penitence. And for centuries, composers from Palestrina to Arvo Pärt have trod this path musically, through settings of the Passion narratives, Christs final words and the anonymous 13th-century poem Stabat mater dolorosa, which meditates on the suffering of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as she stands at the cross. James MacMillan has undertaken this musical pilgrimage several times: a pair of Passions (St. John and St. Luke); multiple Masses; a richly expressive Seven ... More | |
Created in 2010, Ai Weiweis Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads collection consists of two sets. The installation on view at the Portland Art Museum is one of eight smaller gold-plated editions with four artists proofs, intended for interior display and between 20 and 30 inches in height. Photo: Courtesy of Heather James Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- After being exhibited at 47 locations around the globe, Ai Weiweis celebrated Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010) series has returned to the city where it was first launchedNew Yorkand will hit the auction block. The Zodiac Heads: Gold will be on exhibition and display at Sothebys headquarters until it goes up for auction on November 15, 2019 as part of the Sothebys Contemporary Art Day Sale. Prices for the Zodiac Heads: Gold have ranged between $3,500,000 to $4,500,000 USD. One recent collector who purchased Ai Weiweis Zodiac Heads: Gold series at auction was the American tech billionaire Sean Parker, the Founding President of Facebook. Parker bought the work for a record- ... More | |
Karen Kilimnik, the scallop shell island at dusk, 2018. Water soluble oil color on canvas, 10 inches (25.4 cm) diameter. Signed, titled, dated verso KK 4407.
NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery is presenting their twelfth solo exhibition of the work of Karen Kilimnik. Throughout the gallery, works of painting, photography, collage, sculpture and video, are displayed in the Petersburger style. Included in the exhibition is a new video of excerpts from the 19th century ballets, The Awakening of Flora by Marius Petipa, Reconstruction by Sergei Vikharev, music by Riccardo Drigo, with additional excerpts (Le Talisman, Pas DEsclave and Animated Frescoes), as performed by the graduate students of The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, on the occasion of Opening Day of the 57th Carnegie International, and the 200th anniversary of Petipas birth. The video, The World at War, (2018) brings together clips from color and black and white films primarily set during World War II, selected for their music and their depictions of camaraderie between troops and officers singing, seen ... More |
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New exhibition highlights the art of the great depression
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- Renewing the American Spirit: The Art of the Great Depression explores the physical and social landscape of the United States during the Great Depression through paintings, prints, photographs and other media. The original exhibition includes a selection of works from the Museums excellent collection of WPA art, a recently acquired monumental mural by Gardner Hale, which has not been exhibited publicly since the First President's bicentennial exhibition in 1932, and several loans from regional institutions. Renewing the American Spirit examines the diverse responses of artists to the social upheaval and economic distress that characterized American life in the 1930s. Together, the aesthetically and politically varied works produced in the 1930s paint a revealing portrait of the nations evolving psyche as it sought to move ... More
Historic Columbia receives National Parks Service grant to preserve Modjeska Monteith Simkins home
COLUMBIA, SC.- The National Park Service has awarded a $49,500 grant to Historic Columbia to turn Modjeska Monteith Simkins home into a museum honoring the life and legacy of the woman known as the matriarch of civil rights activists in South Carolina. With this second grant from the National Parks Service, we are able to provide access to the unique and inspirational story of Modjeska Monteith Simkins, said Historic Columbia Executive Director Robin Waites. This house was once a center for engagement around key issues from access to health education to civil rights to environmental advocacy. We look forward to returning it to that dynamic state. Until her death in 1992, Modjeska Monteith Simkins was unrelenting in the fight for racial and social equality in Jim Crow South Carolina, and her tenacity and leadership helped dismantle ... More
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design features the work of Antonius-TÃn Bui and Cupid Ojala
LANCASTER, PA.- The Gallery at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design presents Art & You, exhibiting the work of Antonius-TÃn Bui and Cupid Ojala, on display through November 17, 2019. Antonius-TÃn Bui and Cupid Ojala expand the boundaries of portraiture by applying innovative methods to otherwise traditional mediums. Both artists use an intricate delicacy and interplay of negative space to present work that is a celebratory reflection on personal identity and the LGBTQ+ community. Buis bold, life-size, hand-cut paper portraits are a powerful tribute to the Queer community, while Ojalas quite cumulation of fine lines meticulously captures the likeness of his subjects and questions ideas of traditional masculinity. A Brooklyn-based artist, Ojala earned his MFA from Parsons, The New School for Design. His work deals with the concepts of transformation ... More
Rare depictions of early America by pioneering woman artist on view at New-York Historical Society
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the New-York Historical Society introduces visitors to a little-known artist whose work documented the people and scenes of early America. Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville, on view November 1, 2019 January 26, 2020 in the Joyce B. Cowin Womens History Gallery of the Center for Womens History, presents 114 watercolors and drawings by Anne Marguérite Joséphine Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (17711849). Self-taught and ahead of her time, Neuvilles art celebrates the young countrys history, culture, and diverse population, ranging from Indigenous Americans to political leaders. Curated by Dr. Roberta J.M. Olson, curator of drawings at New-York Historical Society, this exhibition is the first serious exploration of Neuvilles life and artshowcasing many recently discovered ... More
Galerie Parisa Kind opens an exhibition of works by Nina Tobien
FRANKFURT.- As poetic dream images, absurd pictorial commentaries, mysterious encounters and provocative questions, we see notations in which a specific atmosphere is captured and expressed through color choice, motif and composition. In the exhibition "Behind the Scenes", artist Nina Tobien literally lets visitors look behind the façade, into what has hitherto been her hidden artistic creations. On small to middle-sized formats which are covered with colorful textiles, the artist uses painterly means to capture scenes that seem from mysterious and sometimes disconcerting moments with diffuse spatial situations and strange bodies and figures. The artist emphasizes the personal character of each work. The process of the "écriture automatique" is carried by Nina Tobien into contemporary painting. Tobien uses vintage fabrics that she finds on her ... More
Saatchi Gallery welcomes artists-in-residence to respond to 'Tutankhamun'
LONDON.- As part of its special Artist-In-Residency programme, Saatchi Gallery is presenting two new multi-media installations by Cyril de Commarque and Kate Daudy. Created as a response to Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, which will be displayed at Saatchi Gallery for six months from November to May 2020, both artists invite the viewer to contemplate notions of legacy and transition. Artificialis takes as its starting point the Anthropocene era - the period when man first had an impact on Earths geology and ecosystems - then looks towards the future, meditating on the effect technology and scientific advancement will have on humankind and the environment. Says Commarque: We are in essence no different to our earliest ancestors, but Artificial Intelligence has the power to shape us into a markedly different species. One consequence ... More
Galerie Karsten Greve opens an exhibition of works by French artist Loïc Le Groumellec
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting for the fifth time within twenty years a solo exhibition in Cologne featuring works by French artist Loïc Le Groumellec, whom the gallery has presented and represented since 1989. On display are about forty works from the series Ãcritures, which he has been working on since 2015, including new and never-before exhibited objects from the artists studio. Oil paintings and gouache works on paper converse with twelve Chapelles/Reposoirs, wooden constructions that house his works, such as Ãcritures, as one might shelter a sacred body: thus creating a mise-en-scene suffused with sensations of a mysterious spirituality. Born in 1957 in Vannes (Brittany), Loïc Le Groumellec graduated in 1980 from the Ãcole de BeauxArts in Rennes. Right from the beginning, his artistic endeavours moved away from figurative work: ... More
The Student Work Collection database showcases nearly a century of architecture pedagogy
NEW YORK, NY.- The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art launches its online Student Work Collection database, which represents over eight decades of The Cooper Unions experimental, influential approach to architectural education. This material provides valuable opportunities for enriching public understanding of American culture, history, and the democratic ideals that shape our built environment. As we examine Coopers legacy, we are reminded of the depth of focus that John Hejduk and a generation of professors put into the project of pedagogy, says Nader Tehrani, Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Some twenty years later, this project has produced exemplary individuals out there in the worldarchitects, professors, deans, ... More
Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents a series of new paintings by Andy Hope 1930
BERLIN.- The series of new paintings by Andy Hope 1930, exhibiting at Galerie Guido W. Baudach under the title HEEDRAHTROPHIA, stems from the artists first visit to Japan in the spring of 2018. In addition to the new impressions gained there, Hope found himself confronted by Japanese pop culture, face to face with the monsters and monster tales he had long been following. A dedicated collector of comics, films and figures from the areas of horror, supervillains and superheroes, dinosaurs and extraterrestrials, Hope attained his status and widespread international reception primarily by the manner in which he ploughed through the field of Americana, outmaneuvering the pitfalls of affirmation and anti-America criticism with an abundance of wit and a wealth of art-/historical allusion. Though a relatively late discovery, Japan must ... More
Art tech startup Artmyn raises $4M to deploy world's first artwork super scanners within auction houses
GENEVA.- Artmyn, the Swiss artech company reshaping the way art is experienced, promoted and secured online, today announces a $4 million fundraise in convertible notes co-led by online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectables Invaluable and original investors. The company will use the funds to deploy its unique scanners at Invaluables partner auction houses across the world by the end of the year. In addition to the existing scanning capacities, the devices are now also equipped with a new infrared feature, which allows to capture underlayers, sketches and markings underneath the visible surface of an artwork. Until today in the art world, infrared analysis was reserved to rare works, and upon request only - Artmyn not only automizes this procedure during the scanning process, but also makes it completely safe, and at no ... More
Wallach Art Gallery opens a survey of contemporary art from Algeria and its diaspora
NEW YORK.- Columbia Universitys Wallach Art Gallery is presenting Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora, on view through March 15, 2020. The exhibitionan expansive examination of Algerian decolonial visual aestheticsborrows its title from a 1979 publication on early Algerian film, edited by Wassyla Tamzali, which references Samuel Becketts play Waiting for Godot, and Merzak Allouaches 1976 cult classic film Omar Gatlato. The exhibition title combines two important conceptual clues for how contemporary Algerian visual artists and filmmakers approach and engage art as the decolonization process evolves. Both source works are portraits of anti-heroes trying to make sense of their day-to-day lives. The Waiting for Omar Gatlato exhibition advances diverse representations of everyday ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Guido Reni was born November 04, 1575. Guido Reni (4 November 1575 - 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. He painted primarily religious works, as well as mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in the Bolognese School, and his eclectic classicism was widely influential.
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