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Since 1768, the Royal Academys founding principle has been to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts and architecture, which the RA has achieved through a rich public programme of discussion and debate as well as exhibitions. Photo: James Harris.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts, the worlds foremost artist and architect-led institution, will open its new campus to the public on Saturday 19 May 2018 as part of the celebrations of its 250th anniversary year. Following a transformational redevelopment, designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Sir David Chipperfield CBE RA and supported by the National Lottery, the new Royal Academy will open up and reveal more of the elements that make the RA unique sharing with the public historic treasures from its Collection, the work of its Royal Academicians and the Royal Academy Schools, and its role as a centre for debate about art and architecture alongside its world-class exhibitions programme. One of the key features of the redevelopment is the new Weston Bridge between Burlington House and Burlington Gardens, uniting the two-acre campus and creating a new route between Piccadilly and Mayfair. The unified ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Passengers have a meal aboard the Presidential Train during its trip to Douro, north of Portugal, on April 8, 2018. Built in 1890, it once carried Portugal's kings and presidents, and VIP guests like Queen Elizabeth II or Pope Paul VI, before being taken off the rails in 1970. Now, after a one-million-euro ($1.2 million) restoration, the luxury, electric blue "presidential train" is taking passengers again, though only 25 days a year when it leaves its home at the National Railway Museum and criss-crosses the Douro valley for a 500-euro gourmet trip. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP
| Prince's Yellow Cloud guitar sells for $225,000 | | Original Tintin art by Hergé may bring $720,000 in Heritage's first European Comic Art Auction | | Exhibition focuses on vital role of literature in Frank Stella's innovative printmaking |
Prince's Yellow Cloud guitar is displayed during a media preview May 14, 2018 in New York. Don EMMERT / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Juliens Auctions held its highly anticipated music auction, Property from the Life and Career of Prince May 18, 2018 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York in front of a packed crowd of music collectors and the Purple Ones super fans bidding live on the floor, online and on the phone across the globe. Top selling items was Princes custom made played yellow Cloud guitar which sold for an astounding $225,000 well over its original $60,000-$80,000 estimate. Highlights from the late seven-time, Grammy-winning singer/songwriters personal collection of signature wardrobe, guitars and memorabilia that rocked the auction block included his electric blue stage and photo shoot worn ensemble in his Rave Un2 the Year 2000 New Years Eve performance as well with Lenny Kravitz on the MTV Video Music Awards in 1999 that sold for an incredible $108,797 (estimate: $50,000-$70,000); his diamond ... More | |
Hergé Tintin, Coke en Stock Planche 58 Journal Tintin du 4 décembre 1957 (Casterman - 1958).
DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinary, 12-panel page of Original Tintin Art by Belgian cartoonist Hergé may sell for as much as $720,000 in Heritage Auctions' first European Comic Art Auction June 2. The sale offers nearly 300 lots, including vintage artworks by giants of Franco-Belgian comics such as Peyo, François Schuiten and Jean-Claude Mézières. The auction will be held at Heritage's headquarters in Dallas, Texas, and simulcast to Heritage Auctions Europe in IJsselstein, the Netherlands. Highlights will be on preview in Paris, Brussels and IJsselstein. "Our team at Heritage Auctions Europe has procured an offering of exceptional depth and breadth," said Jim Halperin, Co-founder of Heritage Auctions. "This is just the start of what we expect will be regular auctions devoted to this growing and powerful category." On offer are several pieces of original art by Georges Remi (known by the pen name "Hergé"), who is considered one of the most popular European ... More | |
Frank Stella, Juam, 1997. Relief, etching, aquatint, lithograph, screenprint, woodcut, and engraving on white TGL handmade, handcolored paper. Two sheets (irregularly shaped and overlapping): 201.9 à 156.2 cm. Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Class of 1960 / © 2017 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PRINCETON, NJ.- Between 1984 and 1999, the acclaimed American artist Frank Stella executed four groundbreaking print series each taking its inspiration from a literary text: Had Gadya, Italian Folktales, Moby-Dick and the Dictionary of Imaginary Places. In the process, Stellas creative practice evolved to create prints of unprecedented scale and complexity, through which he both achieved a technical and expressive milestone in fine-art printmaking and transformed his visual language in all media. Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking presents 41 prints from Stellas four literary print series, alongside historical editions of their literary catalysts. This exhibition focuses on the critical role that world literature played in Stellas powerful ... More |
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| Gelatin's first major solo exhibition in the Netherlands opens at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | | Exhibition examines the relationship between the forms of pre-Columbian monuments and the art of Josef Albers | | The Georgia Museum of Art opens exhibition of works from the Collection of Deen Day Sanders |
Rabbit, 2005. © Gelatin.
ROTTERDAM.- 'Welcome to Gelatin and have a nice day!' Gelatin is taking over Museum Boijmans Van Beuningens large Bodon Galleries in May. Tobias Urban, Wolfgang Gantner, Florian Reither and Ali Janka are known for creating sensational situations that create interactions between people. The work of these internationally celebrated artists is known for its humour, disorder, absurdity and the active participation of the public. A fully functioning rollercoaster made from wood and plastic tubing, a lift that replaces electricity with manpower, a 50-metre-long toy rabbit in the mountains of Italy, and a rowing lake on the roof of a building: in their works, they attempt to get visitors actively involved, to stimulate their senses and to interrupt their daily routines in a radical fashion. In the sculpture exhibition Vorm Fellows Attitude, Gelatin explores the human condition in an overtly playful manner. Their point of departure ... More | |
Installation view.
VENICE.- From May 19 through September 3, 2018, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Josef Albers in Mexico, an exhibition illuminating the relationship between the forms and design of pre-Columbian monuments and the art of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976). The presentation features a selection of rarely shown early paintings, iconic canvases from Alberss Homage to the Square and Variant/Adobe series, and works on paper. The exhibition also includes a rich selection of photographs and photocollages, many of which have never before been on view and were created by Albers in response to frequent visits to Mexican archaeological sites beginning in the 1930s. With letters, studies, and unseen personal photographs alongside works drawn from the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Josef Albers in Mexico presents an opportunity to learn about the least known aspect of his prac ... More | |
John Singer Sargent (American, b. Italy, 1856-1925), Portrait of Jeanne Kieffer, 1879. Oil on canvas, 25 x 22 inches. Collection of Deen Day Sanders.
ATHENS, GA.- The exhibition Bloom Where Youre Planted: The Collection of Deen Day Sanders features a vibrant and highly varied collection of American works of art, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from May 19 to July 29, 2018. The collector has a number of impressive distinctions, especially in relation to her philanthropy to the University of Georgia and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. She has served as president of the Garden Club of Georgia, National Garden Clubs Inc. and, most recently, as vice president of the World Association of Floral Artists, as well as on the boards of the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, the US Botanic Garden and the Diplomatic Reception Rooms in Washington, D.C. She has also spent a significant portion of her life building one of the most notable art collections in the state of Georgia, at Bellmere ... More |
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| Grand Rapids Art Museum organizes first solo exhibition in U.S. by leading South American modernist | | 'Exploring the Chesapeake: Mapping the Bay' exhibition opens at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum | | Jenkins Johnson Gallery opens a solo exhibition of Ben Aronson's paintings |
Oswaldo Vigas (Venezuelan, 19232014). Asmodé, 1970. Oil on canvas, 39.37 x 31.49 inches. Courtesy of Oswaldo Vigas Foundation.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- The Grand Rapids Art Museum announced today the opening of Oswaldo Vigas: Transformations, an exhibition celebrating one of South Americas most ambitious and independent modern artists. Organized by GRAM, the exhibition will be on view at the Museum from May 19 through September 2, 2018. This exhibition is Oswaldo Vigas first solo North American museum exhibition and includes works spanning 40 years. The paintings and drawings on view show how Vigas regularly transformed the look and style of his work while consistently focusing on spiritual and emotional issues, as well as his firm belief that art can connect people across time and distance. Though he took part in more than one hundred museum exhibitions in South America and France, Vigas also sought to be recognized in the United States, commented GRAM Chief Curator, ... More | |
Fielding Lucas of Baltimore was the only Maryland chart maker for several decades, and published several editions of this Chesapeake Bay chart that guided Bay sailors for a generation.
ST MICHAELS, MD.- Exploring the ChesapeakeMapping the Bay, a new exhibition opening Saturday, May 19 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., will look at the different ways the Chesapeake Bay has been portrayed over time through mapping and charting. The exhibition continues in CBMMs Steamboat Building through March 17, 2019. The exhibition will view changes in maps over time as an expression of what people were seeking in the Chesapeakefor natural resources, for safe passage, or for commercial opportunities. The exploration begins with European exploration in the 16th century, and continues with the growth of settlement in the region in the 17th and 18th centuries. Scientific surveying methods brought improved accuracy in the 19th century, and special purpose maps showing ... More | |
Ben Aronson, West Side Afternoon, 2018 (detail). Oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery San Francisco is presenting Distilled Realities, a solo exhibition of Ben Aronsons vibrant, atmospheric cityscape paintings of San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Paris, and Rome. Synthesizing the gestural energy of emotionally charged abstract expressionist brushwork, influenced by Richard Diebenkorn, with the observational precision of contemporary realism, Aronsons new, psychologically arresting paintings land for a dynamic fifth solo show at the gallery. Ben Aronson states, The making of successfully expressive art requires some sort of visual distillation of priorities excerpted from reality. In order to create a heightened reality, rather than simply recreating visual scenes with a collection of carefully rendered details, the goal is not only physical likeness, but more importantly, the prioritization and selection of certain key visual elements. ... More |
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| Alan Cristea Gallery presents sculptures, prints and animations by Julian Opie | | Traveling exhibition spotlights one of the planet's most important resources: Trees | | National Museums Liverpool announce new Director |
Installation view. Courtesy Julian Opie and Alan Cristea Gallery, London. Photo Jack Hems.
LONDON.- Julian Opie (b.1958), one of Britains most important contemporary artists, unveiled sculptures, prints and animations made over the past few years in a major exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London, from 26 April - 16 June 2018. Opie is an artist of contemporary life, using urban and rural landscapes, as well as moving figures, to bring time-honoured artistic genres into the twenty-first century. Working in a variety of media, Opie draws inspiration from both high art, design and the vernacular; lightbox advertising, billboard signs, Japanese Manga, seventeenth and eighteenth-century portraiture, nineteenth-century silhouettes, Roman busts and ancient Egyptian art. A new edition of five screenprinted wooden skyscrapers, Modern Towers 1 - 3, 2017, which reference a series of works that Opie made in the 1990s, are being shown together with prints of office windows. Scenes of the Cornish coastline, ... More | |
Margaret Best, Screw-Pine (2017), Pandanus utilis, Bermuda Arboretum, Devonshire, Bermuda. Watercolor on paper, 18 ½ x 14 ¼ inches. © Margaret Best. Courtesy of the American Society of Botanical Artists and the New York Botanical Garden.
SAN MARINO, CA.- One of the planets most important and beautiful resourcesits treeswill be spotlighted in a traveling exhibition of contemporary botanical artworks, on view May 19Aug. 27, 2018, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens is organized by The New York Botanical Garden and the American Society of Botanical Artists. It is their third triennial exhibition. Out of the Woods highlights the role public gardens and arboreta play in engaging visitors with trees and their ecological and utilitarian roles. It also underscores the conservation, research, and scholarship being undertaken by these public institutions. The juried show includes 43 artworks, selected from a field ... More | |
Laura Pye - new Director of National Museums Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL.- Laura Pye, current Head of Culture for Bristol City Council, will be joining National Museums Liverpool as its new Director, in August 2018. Born and bred in Liverpool, Laura will be returning to the city to take up the post at the North Wests largest cultural organisation, which boasts eight museums and galleries. National Museums Liverpool recently reached its highest ever visitor figure to date, attracting more than 3.3million people in 2017/18. Laura will join National Museums Liverpool part-way through the successful run of the major Chinas First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors exhibition at World Museum, and will also take responsibility for internationally renowned venues; the Museum of Liverpool, International Slavery Museum, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Walker Art Gallery, Lady Lever Art Gallery and Sudley House. Chair of National Museums Liverpool, Sir ... More |
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Mark Sweeney named Principal Deputy Librarian of Congress
WASHINGTON, DC.- Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced that Mark Sweeney will serve as Principal Deputy Librarian of Congress. Sweeney has served as Acting Deputy Librarian of Congress since September 2017. Mark has been a dedicated public servant and leader at the Library for three decades, Hayden said. He brings an in-depth understanding of the institution and our staff to this office, and I am so pleased he has agreed to accept this permanent appointment. We have such exciting things in store for our users in the coming years and Mark will play a central role. The role of Principal Deputy Librarian is to assist with managing the Librarians priorities and function in a strategic role, working closely with senior leadership internally and high-level individuals externally. The Principal Deputy Librarian provides executive leadership and ... More
Galerie Urs Meile Beijing presents Michael Comte's Light III
BEIJING.- From 19 May 2018, Michel Comte presents Light III, in an exhibition featuring several works that explore the impact of environmental decline on glacial landscapes and our oceans. The Swiss artist and photographer continues a series of evocative exhibitions begun in 2017 at the MAXXI museum in Rome and the Triennale museum in Milan, where the shows Light and Black Light, White Light opened last November. The pieces for Light III are made in and made from China, both revealing and connecting to the effects of climate change in the country; Michel Comte has been in China for several months prior to the exhibition, sourcing materials and creating the works. At the heart of Light III is a 580-piece porcelain installation completely done by hand, with layers of salt and pigment used to create a immense horizon ... More
Solo exhibition of works by Aeneas Wilder opens at ARTCOURT Gallery
OSAKA.- ARTCOURT Gallery is presenting Until the End of Time, a solo exhibition of works by Aeneas Wilder. Born in 1967 in Edinburgh, Aeneas Wilder has been producing and exhibiting work since the late 1990s. He continues to expand his vibrant international career with sculptural installations, acclaimed around the world, that are born out of his unique perspective on gravity, time and space. Over many hours and without using afixings or adhesives, Wilder meticulously stacks thousands of wooden sticks, cut into uniform size and held in place only by the natural forces of balance, gravity, and friction. Using minimal elements and within set parameters, he continues to explore a creative world of possibilities, through which he has developed his body of work that spans over two decades. For his first solo exhibition at ARTCOURT Gallery in 10 years, Wilder ... More
Exceptionally fine baluster moriage cloisonné-enamel vase achieves £100,000 at Bonhams Japanese sale
LONDON.- An exceptionally fine baluster moriage cloisonné-enamel vase by Hattori Tadasaburo, Meiji era, sold for an impressive £100,000 at Bonhams Fine Japanese Sale in London yesterday (17 May). The lot far exceeded its estimate of £15,000-20,000. A kawari kabuto (helmet) from the Edo period also performed extremely well achieving £43,750, against an estimate of £6,000-8,000. Other highlights from the sale included: A totai jippo (partial plique-à -jour) cloisonné-enamel trumpet vase by Ando Jubei, Taisho sold for £37,500, estimated at £8,000-12,000 Possibly by Arai Seiho Tsunesato (d.1838), Edo period, sold for £35,000, estimated at £25,000-30,000 A Nabeshima polychrome saucer dish, Edo period (1615-1868) sold for £35,000, estimated at £10,000-15,000 A finely mounted Mino aikuchi (short sword), th ... More
Sci-Fi from the Stanley Simon Estate breaks records in Swann Literature Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Science fiction ruled on May 15 at Swann Galleries auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature. Selections from the Estate of Stanley Simon, featuring 84 rare and first editions of cornerstones of the genre, boasted a 98% sell-through rate. All of the offered titles by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick and Stephen King sold, with many achieving auction records. Leading the pack was a signed first edition of Dicks dystopian novel The Man in the High Castle, 1962, which was purchased by a collector for $10,400, above a high estimate of $6,000, a record for the work. Another record was achieved by a signed first edition of Ubik, 1969, at $5,500, while the auction debut of the rare galley proofs for Valis, 1981, reached $5,000. Simon had acquired several uncorrected proofs of important works, none of which had previously appeared at auction. ... More
Monumental gilt-bronze ritual butter lamp tops £1.3 million at Bonhams
LONDON.- A monumental Imperial exceptionally rare cast gilt-bronze ritual butter lamp, early Ming dynasty, circa first half 15th century, sold for £1,328,750 at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art sale in London. The week commenced with the Asian Art sale in Knightsbridge followed by the Fine Chinese Art sale in New Bond St, London, making a grand total of £8,400,000. The Asian Art sale made £1,570,800 and the Fine Chinese Art sale £6,829,075. The butter lamp was cast with the Imperial reign mark of the Jingtai Emperor (r.1449-1457). It weighed 335 kg, and measured an impressive 102.6cm high x 102cm diameter. It was a unique example and no other similar vessel of such proportions and bearing the Imperial Jingtai reign mark would appear to have survived. Other highlights of the sale included: A very rare pair of monumental fahua Buddhist lions ... More
New world records for holy grail of whisky set at Bonhams Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Bonhams Fine and Rare Wine and Whisky auction on 18 May in Hong Kong made history by setting new world auction records for any whisky sold at auction with the sale of two of the rarest vintage Macallan bottles. Unseen in public in over three decades, the Macallan Peter Blake-1926-60 Year Old (lot 381) went under the hammer first for HK$7,962,500 (US$1,014,422 / £751,703) to a phone bidder, and the record was further pushed when the Macallan Valerio Adami-1926-60 Year Old (lot 608) later sold for HK$8,636,250 (US$1,100,197 / £814,081) to a bidder in the room, surpassing the original estimate of HK$3,600,000 to HK$4,500,000 each. These two bottles are the most significant whiskies ever produced in 20th century and truly presented a once-in-a-generation opportunity for collectors to acquire the Holy Grail of Macallan, commented ... More
Major solo exhibition by Chantal Joffe premieres at The Lowry's cross-arts festival
SALFORD.- Personal Feeling is the Main Thing is a major solo exhibition by Chantal Joffe, one of the most distinctive and uncompromising figurative painters working in Britain today. Following recent exhibitions in Helsinki, New York and at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, this is Joffes first solo exhibition in the North of England. The exhibition features a new painting commissioned for Week 53, The Lowrys biennial, cross-arts festival, shown alongside a selection of works from Joffes career. The festivals theme Coming of Age is perfectly encapsulated through Joffes fearless images of women and girls, which share glimpses of her own relationship with her daughter, and explore transitions into adolescence and motherhood. They confront the physicality of the human body and the complexities of human emotions in a remarkable combination of detachment, ... More
Original artworks abound in Nye & Comany's June 6-7 Estate Treasures Auction
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- A two-day Estate Treasures Auction featuring numerous treasures pulled from prominent estates and collections, will be held Wednesday and Thursday, June 6th and 7th, by Nye & Company Auctioneers, online and in the firms gallery located at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. Start times both days will be 10 am Eastern. The Wednesday, June 6th session will be a live auction. The following day will be a timed online-only auction. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted. Public viewings will be held on the days leading up to sale, beginning on May 28th. Its extremely gratifying to have such a wonderfully diverse group of property in the June auction, some of which has never been offered for sale, descended in the Winan and McNeill families, of which the artist, James A. McNeill Whistler, hails from, said John Nye of Nye & Company Auctioneers. ... More
Crypto-wealthy become crypto-art collectors at smash May 12 digital art auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Anyone wondering where the art market is headed, or what the next big thing might be, witnessed a compelling preview on May 12 as Codex Protocol hosted a 10-lot charity auction of crypto-art. The live auction was part of a larger event, the Ethereal Summit, which took place at the Knockdown Center in New Yorks Queens borough, with online participation through LiveAuctioneers. Featuring donated pieces of art from organizations in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, the mini auction grossed an astonishing $192,350. Of that amount, $154,750 in winning bids came in via the Internet through Codex Protocol partner LiveAuctioneers, which also offered the option of payment with cryptocurrency via a partnership with Codex Protocol. No buyers premium applied. Works purchased online included the top lot of the evening: ... More
Exhibition of new and recent work by Laura Lancaster on view at Workplace Gallery
LONDON.- Workplace Gallery is presenting Shadows and Mirrors an exhibition of new and recent work by Laura Lancaster. Laura Lancasters recent portraits of women both in silhouette and reflected in mirrors are paintings of bad and accidental pre-digital snapshot photographs collected by the artist. Lancaster purposefully restages these throwaway images as powerful inversions of the male gaze. In the Shadow series her loose impasto brushwork pushes the figure towards abstraction. The figure and the surrounding scene begin to merge, whilst what remains of the subject stares down the viewer - the features of the face obscured by shadow. In her Mirror series Lancaster draws upon the historical theme of the Vanitas, and references the occult practice of Scrying - staring into a reflective surface in order to induce visions or revelation. In these paintings Lancaster depicts the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter and illustrator Jacob Jordaens was born May 19, 1593. Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. In this image: Jacob Jordaens, The Tribute Money - Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish, 1630-1645, Collection Rijksmuseum.
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