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Curator Caroline de Guitaut at the Russia: Royalty & the Romanovs exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Photo: Royal Collection Trust/ © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018.
LONDON.- A fashionable Russian-style dress worn by Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV; three of Fabergés celebrated Imperial Easter eggs; and some of the earliest-known photographs of Moscow and St Petersburg are among almost 300 works in the new exhibition Russia: Royalty & the Romanovs, on view now at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. The exhibition examines familial and diplomatic links between Britain and Russia and their royal houses over a period of 300 years, beginning with Peter the Greats visit to Britain in 1698. Russia: Royalty & the Romanovs is the first exhibition from the Royal Collection to explore these historic links through decorative arts, paintings, jewellery, costume, books, letters and photographs, many of which are on public display for the first time. Emperor Alexander I visited London in 1814, and his presence may have influenced a fashion for Russian cl ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor walks towards an interactive installation of the "Illusions" exhibition displayed at the Palais de la Decouverte in Paris on November 6, 2018. The exhibition which runs from November 6, 2018 to August 25, 2019 features various sound, visual and tactile installations of mechanisms aimed at tricking the brain. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
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| | | Sam Jury refugee film wins prestigious UK award | | Extraordinary decorative items and fine jewelry to be offered at Andrew Jones | | British Museum opens the first ever major exhibition to explore the life of Ashurbanipal |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Sam Jurys film To Be Here, illuminating a critical aspect of the global refugee crisis, wins the UKs prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Councils 2018 Research in Film Award in the Move Award: Stories of New Beginnings category. The awards were announced in a ceremony at BAFTA London on Nov 8th. Sam Jury is currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina where the award-winning film To Be Here is being presented as part of the Bienal De La Imagen Movimiento (BIM). To Be Here focuses on Sahrawi refugees living in the Boujdour Camp near Tindouf Algeria and is based on material gathered during the artists Artifariti-sponsored residency at the camp in the Western Sahara. It explores the prolonged displacement endured by Sahrawi refugees who fled their homeland during the Western Saharan War. To Be Here brings attention to one of the longest running refugee crises in the modern world. The story which is told through the words of a young female Sahrawi translator an ... More | |
A pair of French first standard silver five light candelabra designed by Jean E. Puiforcat, Paris. Estimate: $8,000-12,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Continuing the momentum of the successful Design for the Home and Garden and DTLA Collections and Estates auctions, Andrew Jones Auctions will hold its Holiday edition of Design for the Home and Garden featuring fine art, design, furnishings, accessories and fine jewelry on Sunday, Nov. 18, online and at their spacious gallery at 2221 S. Main Street, Los Angeles. Andrew Jones, President & CEO commented, We enjoyed such a remarkable reception and fantastic results with our inaugural auction, we have had clients contacting us looking to sell collections and buyers clamoring for more. Our Holiday Design for the Home and Garden auction will not disappoint. The Holiday edition of Design for the Home and Garden presents a selection of nearly 350 lots of decorative and fine art, furniture, silver, modern design, fine jewelry, Asian works of art and garden furnishings. The sale notably ... More | |
Furniture fitting topped by a recumbent lion, bronze, Toprakkale, 9th century BC © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- This autumn, discover the world of ancient Assyria through the life and legacy of its last great ruler, King Ashurbanipal. The BP exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria will transport you back to ancient Iraq in the 7th century BC, when Ashurbanipal became the most powerful person on earth. From his capital at Nineveh, he ruled a vast and diverse empire, shaping the lives of peoples from the shores of the eastern Mediterranean to the mountains of western Iran. How did one man negotiate family politics, the pressures of kingship, and the will of the gods? Ashurbanipal, proud of his scholarship, assembled the greatest library in existence during his reign. Guided by this arsenal of knowledge, he defined the course of the empire and boldly asserted his claim to be king of the world, king of Assyria. This is the first ever major exhibition to explore the life of Ashurbanipal in such depth. The ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at The Saint Louis Art Museum explores the continuing story of contemporary printmaking | | Papers of the exiled Stuart kings published online for the first time | | Julien's Auctions announces results of its Icons & Idols: Rock-N-Roll sale |
Roy Lichtenstein, Head, 1980. Woodcut with embossing; sheet: 40 à 33 5/8 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Julian and Hope Edison 87:2012.6 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The incredible explosion of printmaking activity that began in the United States in the 1960s continues to this day. It stands out for the radical spirit of exploration and experimentation that helped to expand the possibilities of contemporary art. The Saint Louis Art Museum celebrates this reimagining of a centuries-old art form in the exhibition Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now, which opened Nov. 11 and will run through Feb. 3, 2019. Graphic Revolution presents this continuing story of contemporary printmaking through more than 110 prints and artists editions by a diverse group of artists whose visual imagery helped define the spirit of their time. These include major works in the museums collection by Louise Bourgeois, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. The exhibiti ... More | |
John Pettie, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie Entering the Ballroom at Holyroodhouse', before 30 April 1892. Photo: Royal Archives / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018.
LONDON.- A major new digitisation programme will provide unparalleled insight into the social, military and personal worlds of the exiled Stuart dynasty and their Jacobite followers, as they fought to regain the thrones of Scotland, England and Ireland between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. The Stuart and Cumberland Papers project has made accessible online a total of 245,000 documents from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. The project has been undertaken in partnership with Gale, a Cengage Company, a leading provider of educational technology for libraries. Digitised over a period of 18 months, the papers are now available as part of Gales State Papers Online programme and can be acquired by academic institutions and libraries worldwide to offer researchers and students a unique window into this turbulent period of European history. The Stuart claimants to the throne were the descendants ... More | |
Prince's last stage performance guitar is displayed during the Icons & Idols: Rock-N-Roll press preview at Julien's Auctions at Hard Rock Cafe Times Square on November 5, 2018 in New York City. Angela Weiss / AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, held its two-day music extravaganza Icons & Idols: ROCK-N-ROLL on Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10 live in Hard Rock Café Times Square in front of a pumped up crowd of collectors and music fans bidding live on the floor, online and on the phone across the globe. The mega-star lineup featured over 800 historical items of music legends Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Aretha Franklin, Bernie Taupin, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and more. Michael Jacksons signed and worn Bad world tour jacket electrified the auction stage with a bidding frenzy from collectors and fans across the globe vying for the iconic item that sold for an astounding $298,000. The item is considered the one of the most recognized ... More |
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| Vermont is seen from above in Shelburne Museum's new exhibition | | Hyde Collection exhibits rare early texts | | SFMOMA opens one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary art from China presented in North America |
Unidentified maker, View of Burlington, Vermont, 1852-1860 (detail). Pastel on paper, 19 13/16 x 28 13 /16 in. Collection of Shelburne Museum, museum purchase, 1964. 1964-174.
SHELBURNE, VT.- Mapping an Uneven Country: Birds Eye Views of Vermont is on view in the Colgate Gallery of the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education at Shelburne Museum from November 10, 2018 through March 3, 2019. The exhibition investigates the popular phenomenon of perspective or birds eye views that sprang up during the second half of the 19th century through more than three dozen drawn, painted, and printed views of the Green Mountain State. Often created by itinerant painters or roaming Map Men, these depictions presented orderly visions of growing towns and highlighted civic development, industry, and technological advancements. Mingling facts with a measure of imagination, these stunning panoramas were frequently displayed in homes and businesses and intended to boost commercial and investment interest while also stimulating civic pride. Vermonts commercial development ... More | |
Michael Wolgemut (German, 1434/37 1519) and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (ca. 1460 - ca. 1494), The Creation of Eve, woodcuts, hand-colored, 18¾ x 12¼ in., in Dr. Hartmann Schedel (German, 1440 - 1514), The Nuremberg Chronicle (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493). The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, Bequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, 1971.110.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection has a vast collection of first edition and rare books lining the walls of the library in the historic home of Museum founders Louis and Charlotte Hyde. Mr. Hyde, a lawyer, loved reading and sought refuge among his hundreds of carefully collected books law texts, encyclopedias, novels, and more. But among the most precious of the collection is one not exhibited on the shelves in Hyde House, but safely stored in the Museums vault. The Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world that dates to the late-fifteenth century, is being exhibited in Making History: The Nuremberg and Augsburg Chronicles, which runs November 10 to December 30 in Whitney-Renz and Hoopes Galleries. Commissioned by Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, the 600-page book ... More | |
Huang Yong Ping, Statement on Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, 2017; Artists Gesture, 2017: created in response to the controversy surrounding the Guggenheims presentation of the artists Theater of the World (1993). Ink on airplane sick bag, signed and dated September 30, 2017. Courtesy the artist.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bracketed by the student protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the spectacular pageantry of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents an extensive survey of an historical period of Chinese contemporary art. It looks at the bold movements that anticipated, chronicled and agitated for the sweeping social transformation that brought China to the center of the global conversation. The exhibition was previously presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The shows West Coast debut examines how Chinese artists have been both critical observers and agents of Chinas emergence as a global presence through a concentration on the conceptual and performative practices and social ... More |
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| Palais de la Découverte lifts the veil on the amazing world of illusions | | Heather Gaudio Fine Art exhibits works by Ellen Carey, Deborah Kass, Robert Sagerman and Andrés Schiavo | | Ponti Art Gallery to offer a remarkable oil painting by 17th century Italian artist Giovan Battista Gaulli |
A staff (R) explains one of the interactive installation of the "Illusions" exhibition displayed at the Palais de la Decouverte in Paris on November 6, 2018. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS.- On show at the Palais de la Découverte from 6 November 2018 to 25 August 2019, the exhibition Illusions lifts the veil on the amazing world of illusions. Whether apparent paradoxes or other distortions of our senses, natural or manmade illusions have always fascinated us. Designed for adults and children from age 7, this exhibition features around forty fun experiences introducing these phenomena and explaining the tricks they play on our minds. It is sure to amaze and surprise! Magic, kinetic art, installations... illusions are regularly used to amaze and surprise, to impressive effect and the amusement of all. But why is the brain susceptible to this trickery? And how do these stratagems play on the way we think? In reality, there is nothing magic about them; it is all a question of interpretation. Perception is a dynamic cerebral ... More | |
Ellen Carey, Caesura, 2017, unique color photogram C-print, 40 x 30 inches.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- On November 3rd, Heather Gaudio Fine Art opened Room for Play, a group exhibition featuring works by Ellen Carey, Deborah Kass, Robert Sagerman and Andrés Schiavo. The show will run through January 5th, and a public reception will be held on November 30th, 5-7pm, to coincide with the New Canaan Holiday Stroll. The artists in this exhibition are working with imaginative and distinct processes to create colorful and engaging visual experiences. Ellen Carey has been a groundbreaking experimental photographer for several decades, producing abstract images through the use of lens-based and camera-less methods. The show will feature her innovative one-of-a-kind Caesura photograms from the Dings and Shadows series created in light-tight rooms, a technique that harks back to the 19th Century when photography was in its nascent stages. Carey propels this medium to the 21st ... More | |
Giovan Battista Gaulli known as Baciccio (Genoa 1639 Rome 1709), Portrait of a woman in turquoise dress. Oil on canvas cm 60 x 44 datable to 1690 © Ottocento Art Gallery.
ROME.- Among latest acquisitions, Ponti Art Gallery offers a masterpiece by Giovan Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccio, one of the most important Baroque painters active in Rome along the 17th century. The Genoese painter, as the biographer Leone Pascoli recalls, had in his portraits singular mastery, being able to count himself among the most famous, and experts that have never been known, for the vastness of his production and success obtained at the commission of the mature years of the seventeenth century. Compared to the conspicuous group of known male portraits, those with a female subject appear rare, showing themselves as episodes of mastery and pictorial virtuosity. Among these we note the magnificent Portrait of Giulia Massimo as Cleopatra (Genoa, Coll. Zerbone) and the Portrait of Lady as Cleopatra ... More |
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Unseen launches digital platform making new, contemporary photography available 24/7
AMSTERDAM.- Unseen, the leading platform dedicated to contemporary photography and emerging artists, launches a disruptive digital platform committed to introducing brand new, unseen, bodies of work by todays most exciting artists working with the medium of photography. Collaborating with galleries and an ecosystem of photography professionals, Unseen aims to break new ground by creating a dynamic environment that connects its artists to its audience and vice versa. Simply titled Unseen Platform, the new and engaging medium amplifies the careers of boundary-pushing artists, by sharing their stories, and providing fresh perspectives and insights into the world around us and the future(s) of tomorrow. For the past seven years Unseen has been working with a network of leading international advisors from across the art world to connect artists to audiences as part ... More
Gilbert & George's first significant exhibition held in the Nordic countries on view in Helsinki
HELSINKI.- HAM Helsinki Art Museum continues its focus of exhibiting internationally renowned contemporary artists with Gilbert & George: THE MAJOR EXHIBITION. It is their first significant exhibition held in the Nordic countries during the last two decades and showcases pictures exhibited for the first time in Finland. THE MAJOR EXHIBITION consists over 50 pictures created between 1991 and 2016, consisting pictures from 10 major groups of pictures including "NEW DEMOCRATIC PICTURES," "NAKED SHIT PICTURES," "JACK FREAK PICTURES," "SCAPEGOATING PICTURES" and "UTOPIAN PICTURES." The most represented pictures in this exhibition series are from their most recent "THE BEARD PICTURES," which includes the extraordinary triptych OLD BEARD RUIN (2016) of over 20 metres in length. The exhibition has both been curated and the installation ... More
Unique creations by Gilbert Albert brought together to form the largest collection to be sold at auction
GENEVA.- Historic sale at Piguet Auction House. Over 400 pieces of jewellery, watches, clocks and objets de vertu by Gilbert Albert will be united together for the first time and sold at auction on 10th December next month in Geneva. It is the largest sale ever organised in the world of creations by this incomparable artistic jeweller who seems to be the last of this calibre underlines Bernard Piguet, Director and Chief Auctioneer at Piguet Auction House. The sale brings together 300 pieces of exceptional quality, many of which are in perfect condition. It has been a real pleasure preparing this sale, as the diversity of the pieces reflects Gilbert Alberts creative mastery and technique. He is a multi-talented artist who has left his mark on the history of Fine Jewellery and Watch making adds Nathalie Combe, Head of this department. His creations are now ... More
Towner Art Gallery showcases a new body of work by Hannah Perry
EASTBOURNE.- Towner Art Gallery is showcasing a new body of large-scale dynamic sound sculpture, film, wall-based works and a specially commissioned performance by British artist Hannah Perry. GUSH is a candid and personal exploration of mental and emotional health in our contemporary, hyper-networked society, and is Perrys first major solo exhibition in the UK outside London, following the launch of GUSH at Somerset House earlier this month. Central to the exhibition is an immersive 360° film that surrounds viewers with the contorted, continuously shifting movement of bodies. With a soundtrack combining spoken word, an instrumental score written in collaboration with composers Mica Levy and Coby Sey, and the London Contemporary Orchestra, the film reflects on the altered states of the self, including the impact trauma and grief can have on ... More
Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Alex Kanevsky
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery is presenting Alex Kanevskys new show Fin de Siécle. Kanevsky is adamant that paintings can never be described by words because their language is fundamentally visual and not verbal. To him, paintings are not expressions of pre-conceived notions, ideas, or even thought processes; in fact, he believes that they resist any conceptualizationbut what then is Kanevskys work about? If it is neither representational nor narrative nor symbolic, what is it that drives his vision? In Kanevskys paintings the subject and the background often blur and melt into each other; bodies appear fractured, partially formed, either obscured by a flurry of colors or dissolving into darkness; the landscapes expand limitless and even in scenes that seem to take place inside, the visual field is undivided, open-ended ... More
Gost Books publishes a retrospective monograph of work by British documentary photographer Paul Reas
LONDON.- Fables of Faubus is a retrospective monograph of work by British documentary photographer Paul Reas, spanning 30 years and featuring previously unpublished works. Reas is part of the pioneering generation of photographers, that included Paul Graham, Martin Parr and Anna Fox, who revealed and critiqued British class and culture in the 1980s and 90s. Strongly influenced by his working-class upbringing in Bradford, he used humour and sharp observation to comment on a new corporate and commercial world epitomised by heritage industry sites, retail parks, and supermarkets. The book opens with Industry (1982), an early series of work made whilst Reas was studying at Newport College of Art and Design, Wales, focusing mainly Desmonds mine and its all male workforce, near Pontypool in South Wales. This project was quickly followed ... More
In storm-hit Dominica, Creole music offers uplift
ROSEAU.- Amid the kaleidoscope of colors of Dominica's capital Roseau, the streets pulsated with the sounds of African drums and steelpans, bamboo "boom pipes" and accordions. Impromptu parties sprung up on roadsides and beaches for the weekend of revelry that is the World Creole Music Festival, a chance to showcase the origins of the now global but intrinsically Caribbean sound. The 20th edition of the festival brought thousands from across the Caribbean to the tiny island nation and sent a message that Dominica has moved on from Hurricane Maria, which last year claimed dozens of lives here as it obliterated homes and livelihoods. Creole music has its roots in Africa, from which most of the region's slave populations originated. Today, both feet are firmly in the Caribbean and the music comprises a rich potpourri of buoyant beats, catchy ... More
QUAD in Derby celebrates Virtual Reality with a season exploring a wide range of immersive worlds
DERBY.- QUAD presents new and existing work by Rebecca Allen a world-renowned USA based digital art pioneer. The exhibition, Sync(Emerge(Consciousness)) includes the premiere of a new VR commission for QUAD. The exhibition also features recent VR artworks featuring installations that stimulate the senses including smell, physical interaction, artists film, audio and immersive VR - 'Inside' and 'Tangle of Mind and Matter' as well as a selection of works drawn from her astounding career, including the interactive large screen installation 'Bush Soul (#3)' and the video 'Musique Non Stop' made for electronic music innovators Kraftwerk. Sync(Emerge(Consciousness)) is curated by Helen Starr, The Mechatronic Library and Peter Bonnell, Senior Curator, at QUAD. Rebecca Allen is also QUADs International Digital Fellow for ... More
Exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern approaches the runway as medium
BERN.- The origins of the fashion show reveal a constellation where the body, commerce and modernity converge. Described as a theatre without narrative, fashions runway illuminates the paradox of irrational mutability and mechanical standardisation. The first runway could be understood as the practice of couturiers sending living mannequins (what we now call models) into the public boulevard sporting new designs, eliciting shock and photographic dissemination. This animation of bodies performing novelty in urban life foregrounded the format we know today: models passing along a strip flanked by their consuming onlookers. Runways express the formaldehyde of a culture in flux. While technological treatments of the runway have modified since its emergence at the turn of the 19th century, its underlying edifice has remained largely intact. Despite this ongoing ... More
Miller & Miller's Jewellery & Watches Auction online now
NEW HAMBURG.- A curated assortment of antique and modern jewelry and watches, to include a generous selection of fine gold estate jewelry by makers such as Tiffany, Cartier and Bvlgari, plus vintage and modern wristwatches by Rolex, Tudor, Omega, Piaget and others are up for bid in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s 312-lot Jewellery & Watches auction. The auction will end on Saturday, November 24th, at 10 am Eastern time, in the Miller & Miller Auction gallery located at 59 Webster Street in New Hamburg, Ontario. Online bidding is open now, on LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, iCollector.com and the Miller & Miller website, at www.millerandmillerauctions.com. Phone (519-662-4800) and absentee bids will be accepted. There is a rare opportunity here. A dazzling offering of watches and jewelry have been unlocked from prominent estates across ... More
Michael Jackson's Swarovski glove up for auction
NEW YORK, NY.- KnaiszLive.Com presents the years last auction; an online-only auction of Michael Jackson memorabilia collection in honor of the King of Pops Diamond Birthday Celebration. This Michael Jackson Memorabilia Auction ending November 17, 2018 includes captivating items for every collector. The sale features stage worn items such as his black fedora hat (Estimate: $3,000-5,000), personally owned items, including a golden medal, worn by Jackson on his outfit for one of his court appearances at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse on February 28, 2005 (Estimate: $5,000-7,000) and a bomber style jacket, Jackson wore during a photoshoot with photographer Jonathan Exley (Estimate: $8,000-10,000). One of his stage worn single glove fully covered by Swarovski crystals, worn during the 90s on the HIStory World Tour will be presented at auction ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor Auguste Rodin was born November 12, 1840. François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 - 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. In this image: Auguste Rodin. Mignon (Rose Beuret). 1867?68.The Baltimore Museum of Art: Partial and promised gift of Therese and Richard Lansburgh, Baltimore, BMA 1998.532.
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