| The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Saturday, October 31, 2020 |
| Exhibition commemorates the 250th anniversary of Giambattista Tiepolo's death | |
|
|
Installation view. Photo: Luca Rossi. MILAN.- From 30 October 2020 to 21 March 2021, the Gallerie dItalia Piazza Scala (the Intesa Sanpaolo museum complex in Milan) hosts the exhibition Tiepolo. Venice, Milan, Europe, curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Alessandro Morandotti with general coordination by Gianfranco Brunelli. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Giambattista Tiepolos death (Venice 1696 - Madrid 1770), the first exhibition of the artists work is being shown in Milan. In the logical and concise exhibition path designed by the curators to help track Tiepolos international success - from his years of apprenticeship in Venice to his consecration within the major European courts - extraordinary masterpieces are revealed. These range from the youthful mythological creations of the Gallerie dellAccademia of Venice to the Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, painted in 1722 for the San Stae church in Venice (a true museum of early ei ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors look on at various coffins at the Funeral Museum in Vienna, Austria on October 20, 2020. Even in midst of a deadly pandemic, the Viennese seek to look death straight in the eye -- an attitude on display at a morbidly humorous museum devoted to death and burial. JOE KLAMAR / AFP
|
|
|
|
|
| Remarkable records of Joni Mitchell's changes | | Geta Brătescu is celebrated in two special presentations in Zurich this autumn | | Christie's unveils the collection of Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski, muse to Andy Warhol | A young Mitchell halted piano lessons when she realized, I didnt have any masters I wanted to follow. Photo: Joni Mitchell Archives via The New York Times. by Lindsay Zoladz NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The story of why Joni Mitchell quit piano lessons is also the story of how Joni Mitchell wrote her first song. She was around 7, and the tune was called Robin Walk it was real bouncy, she remembers in a spirited interview with Cameron Crowe for the liner notes of her new archival collection, Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967). I played it for my piano teacher, who slapped me across the wrist with a ruler for playing by ear, Mitchell, now 76, continues. She said, Why would you play by ear when you can have the masters under your fingers? The young Joan Anderson retorted, Well, the masters had to play by ear to come up with that stuff. That was her last piano lesson. She realized, I didnt have any masters I wanted to follow. It would be more than a decade before she wrote her ... More | | Geta Brătescu, Untitled (Form), 2014. Collaged paper and pencil on paper, 42 x 29 cm / 16 1/2 x 11 3/8 in. Photo: Alex Delfanne. © The Estate of Geta Brătescu. Courtesy the Estate of Geta Brătescu, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest and Hauser & Wirth. ZURICH.- The continuing influence of the work of Geta Brătescu is celebrated in two special presentations in Zurich this autumn. Hauser & Wirth Publishers have collaborated with the Swiss fashion house Akris and its Creative Director Albert Kriemler to create a unique display of materials from their archive specially selected by Kriemler. Kriemler has long been inspired by the work of Brătescu and collaborated with the artist and Marian Ivan of Ivan Gallery for Akris Spring/Summer 2019 collection. In addition, the presentation celebrates the book conceived by Brătescu and Hauser & Wirth Publishers in 2019, Game of Forms, which launches publicly on occasion of the opening of Geta Brătescu x Albert Kriemler. A Collaboration. Complementing this display is Geta Brătescu. The Gesture, The Drawing at Hauser & Wirth ... More | | Andy Warhol, Mao, painted in 1973. Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020. NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced that it has been entrusted with The Collection of Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski, which will be offered across eight sales, beginning in New York this December with Post-War & Contemporary Art (December 3), Impressionist and Modern Art (December 4), Magnificent Jewels (December 8), Jewels Online (November 18 to December 1), Design (December 11), Old Master Paintings Online (November 13 to December 4) followed by the April 2021 sales of The Collector (April 8) and Prints & Multiples (April 21). Known throughout international circles by an affectionately abbreviated name, Babs deK was a figure synonymous with style and glamor. Muse and close friend to Andy Warhol, she was part owner, cover star, and contributor to his renowned Interview magazine. Babs Warhol years are well documented in editorials, Polaroids and drawings. She and Andy were the undisputed disco balls of Studio 54, and in their lives outsi ... More |
|
|
|
| |
| Hindman's Western Paintings and Sculpture auction sets multiple new world auction records | | Explore the incredible breadth of The Met's photography collection through three exhibitions now on view | | Exhibition presents works made by Francesca Woodman in New York from 1979-80 | Fritz Scholder (American, 1937-2005), Indian Messiah. Oil on canvas, signed Scholder (lower right), 80 x 68 inches. Property from a Corporate Art Collection. Estimate: $20,000.00 - $40,000.00. Price Realized: $192,000
DENVER, CO.- Hindmans Western Paintings and Sculpture auction was held yesterday, October 29, and posted outstanding results. The auction exceeded its presale estimate and set numerous new global auction records. The sale sold 93% of the lots offered and closed out the day at $1.6M. The Western & Wildlife Art category has seen a considerable increase in demand as of late, with Hindmans Western Paintings and Sculpture auctions consistently surpassing expectations. The works offered in yesterdays sale were truly exceptional and we are delighted with the results. The Western art market continues to flourish as more and more collectors turn their attention and resources to this category. We are so pleased to be able to continually offer such outstanding material and we look forward to our upcoming Western Paintings & Sculpture auction ... More | | Unknown American, active 1850s. Studio Photographer at Work, ca. 1855. Salted paper print from paper negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection, Promised Gift of Jennifer and Philip Maritz, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary. NEW YORK, NY.- The Met's rich collection of photography can be explored through three exhibitions now on view: the recently opened Pictures, Revisited; the major 150th anniversary exhibition Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection, and the focused installation 2020 Vision: Photographs, 1840s1860s. In celebration of the Museum's 150th anniversary, these three exhibitions showcase the breadth and depth of The Met's Department of Photographs, featuring new and recent gifts and promised gifts, many offered in celebration of the anniversary and presented here for the first time. Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection (on view through Nov. 30) includes masterpieces by Paul Strand, Dora Maar, Man Ray, and László Moholy-Nagy; Edward Weston, ... More | | Francesca Woodman, Untitled, New York, 1979 (detail). Estate digital c-print, 20.3 x 25.4 cm. 8 x 10 in © Woodman Family Foundation. Courtesy Woodman Family Foundation and Victoria Miro. VENICE.- Victoria Miro is presenting an exhibition of works made in New York from 197980, focusing on a rare series of colour photographs by Francesca Woodman staged in her New York apartment. In her short career Francesca Woodman (19581981) produced an extraordinary body of work acclaimed for its singularity of style and range of innovative techniques. From the beginning, her focus was on the relationship with her body as both the object of the gaze and the active subject behind the camera. Following the gallerys 2018 exhibition of works made in Italy in 19771978, the works in this exhibition centre on a rare series of colour photographs that Woodman staged in her New York apartment in 1979. In these images, and black-and- white photographs also made in New York during the same period, Woodman contorts and inserts her body into space and architecture, at times even performing classical ... More |
|
|
|
| |
| Enzo Mari, industrial designer who kept things simple, dies at 88 | | Heritage Auctions announces the first-ever sale of 'Game of Thrones' storyboards and conceptual paintings | | Rijksmuseum opens major exhibition of leading Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken | The Italian architect and designer Enzo Mari posing in his studio in front of some models of his projects. Milan, 1974. NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Enzo Mari, an irascible industrial designer, artist and polemicist who made simple, beautiful objects, including toys and traffic bollards, that delighted generations of Italians and design buffs all over the world, died Oct. 19 at a hospital in Milan. He was 88. The cause was complications of the coronavirus, said Hans Ulrich Obrist, who, with Francesca Giacomelli, curated a major retrospective of his work at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, which opened two days before his death. Maris wife, Lea Vergine, an art critic, theoretician and performance artist, also died from the coronavirus on Oct. 20, at 82. Mari was known as much for his grumpy pronouncements on the state of design which he disdained as mostly unnecessary and a waste of labor and material as for his own designs. His most beloved works include an elegant platter made from a slightly bent I-beam (a ... More | | Game of Thrones Jon Snow Awakens Storyboards by William Simpson Group of 2 (HBO, 2011). DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced the first-ever auction of Game of Thrones preliminary conceptual paintings and storyboards from the collection of their creator, acclaimed artist William Simpson. More than 40 pieces will be spread across 18 lots in the Dallas-based auction house's Nov. 14 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia event, each one a singular keepsake from the acclaimed HBO series based on the novels of George R.R. Martin. These are the rough drafts of entertainment history, the black-and-white sketches and vibrant paintings eventually brought to life by armies of actors, directors, producers, makeup artists, prosthetics makers and special-effects technicians (for starters). In these works, Simpson bridged the gulf between the writers' boundless imaginations, in which anything was possible and everything was doable, and the real world's limitations. "You're interpreting almost the idea of what a director might see in their head, sa ... More | | Ed van der Elsken Portrait of Karel Appel 1958-1963 Scratched gelatin silver print Collection Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ©Ed van der Elsken. AMSTERDAM.- This autumn the Rijksmuseum presents Ed van der Elsken: Crazy World, an exhibition focusing on the personal archive that sheds new light on the most celebrated 20th century photographer in the Netherlands. The recent acquisition of Ed van der Elskens artistic estate has provided the ideal opportunity to shed light on the working practice of the Dutch photographer. The display of more than a hundred objects including photographs, photobook designs and contact sheets invites the viewer to look over the shoulder of the artist at work. Ed van der Elsken: Crazy World runs from 30 October 2020 to 10 January 2021. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Rijksmuseum and the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. Photographers generally take more pictures than they publish or exhibit, and that was certainly true in the case of Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990). A large quantity ... More |
|
|
|
| |
| Galerie Max Hetzler exhibits new and recent paintings, drawings and sculptures by Glenn Brown | | Aperture announces Zora J Murff as the recipient of the inaugural Next Step Award | | Jan Van Imschoot presents a new series of restyled still lifes at Galerie Templon | Glenn Brown, Black Ships Ate the Skys, 2020. © Glenn Brown. Photo: def image. BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler will open the solo exhibition And thus we existed with paintings, drawings and sculptures by Glenn Brown at BleibtreustraÃe 45 and the gallery's new space at BleibtreustraÃe 15/16. One of Britains most revered contemporary artists, Brown works across painting, drawing and sculpture, taking as his source material reproduced imagery from art history and popular culture. At the core of his practice is the blending of artistic periods and stylistic genres. Transcending time and pictorial conventions, Browns work disarms common distinctions between beauty and abjection, heightening the emotive tension present within. The sources for Browns practice are found in the works of Old Masters, Surrealists or artists such as Karel Appel, Frank Auerbach or Georg Baselitz, as well as sci-fi painters like Chris Foss. Starting with published or downloaded versions of his sources, he ... More | | Zora J Murff, Two in the hand (Affirmation #2), 2019, from the series American Mother, American Father, courtesy Webber Gallery and the artist. NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York have joined forces, with the generous support of 7|G Foundation, to launch the inaugural Next Step Award and announce photographer Zora J Murff as its recipient. Murff will receive a $10,000 artists grant, the publication of a photobook with Aperture, and an accompanying exhibition at Baxter St at CCNY. At a pivotal time in reconsidering equity across the country and in arts institutions, the Next Step Award aims to identify strong emerging or evolving voices whose work deserves greater recognition. The annual award will support underrepresented US-based artists at a critical juncture in their artistic development. It will also support the presentation of diverse opinions, as well as timely lens-based work thats relevant to todays visual culture ... More | | Jan Van Imschoot, Le malentendu, 2020. Oil on canvas, 75 x 65 cm 29 1/2 x 25 5/8 in. Photo: © Courtesy Templon, Paris Brussels. BRUSSELS.- Two years after his last exhibition at Galerie Templon, Belgian artist Jan Van Imschoot, the self-proclaimed master of anarcho-baroque, is returning to his native country to present a new series of restyled still lifes. In Le bouillon de onze heures (the 11 oclock broth), Van Imschoot explores the art of the 17th-century Northern School. The artist looked for inspiration to the silent universe of one of its masters: Willem Claesz Heda. Following in the footsteps of the one of the most illustrious of Flemish painters, Van Imschoot reworks the still life form to reflect his distinctive universe, restoring its noble status thanks to his virtuosity and mastery of the subject. Against dark backgrounds lit up by flashes of flamboyant colour, he immerses us in 17th-century Flemish bourgeois life, a gleaming world of luxury tableware, sophisticated dishes and precious silk tablecloths. ... More |
|
Art Bytes: Henry Fuseli
|
|
| |
| More News | Fontaine's Auction Gallery to be across-the-board sale Nov. 14 PITTSFIELD, MASS.- Fontaines Auction Gallery will offer an across-the-board auction comprising fine items from estates throughout New England on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 11 am. The auction will feature 400 lots of fine furniture, decorative arts and clocks, including American Victorian and figural carved furniture, a large clock collection, music boxes and automatons, paintings, Royal Vienna and KPM porcelains, fine silver, leaded glass windows, art glass and cameo glass, bronze and marble statuary, Black Forest items plus related accessories. This fall auction season has been racing along at high-speed with three big auctions, one after another since September, and it shows no signs of slowing down, said John Fontaine, owner of Fontaines Auction Gallery. This auction is jam-packed with a really diverse selection of items that will appeal ... More Yes, we liked the Berkshires shows. Here's $2 million. NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The calls came in late August. A couple who had moved up to the Berkshires during the pandemic had seen the first two union-approved theatrical productions of the summer and were impressed. Now they had a question: What would it cost to keep those theaters intact for another six months? The couple introduced themselves to the leaders of one theater over Zoom and to the others under a tent. And now those conversations have borne fruit: a little more than $1 million for each Western Massachusetts theater, enough to preserve their staffs and facilities through the winter. I was like, What? recalled Julianne Boyd, artistic director of one of the theaters, the Barrington Stage Company. My development director almost passed out. The gifts, to Barrington Stage and the Berkshire Theater Group, have ... More Center for Maine Contemporary Art appoints new Executive Director + Chief Curator ROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art today announced the appointment of Timothy Peterson as the museums next Executive Director & Chief Curator, effective January 18, 2021. Peterson will succeed Suzette McAvoy, who will retire at the end of December after more than 10 years at the helm of CMCA. We are confident that Tim will not only elevate our mission of advancing Maine contemporary art but also ensure that CMCA evolves its vision, exhibitions, and programs to continue to be vital and relevant in changing times, stated Martha Jones, Chair of the Board of Trustees. With deep roots in contemporary art, Tim possesses the right combination of operational and curatorial expertise necessary to build upon Suzettes exceptional legacy. Chosen after a national search, Peterson currently serves as the Executive ... More With morbid humour, Viennese look death in the eye VIENNA (AFP).- Even in midst of a deadly pandemic, the Viennese seek to look death straight in the eye -- an attitude on display at a morbidly humorous museum devoted to death and burial. Right below the funeral parlour of the Austrian capital's famous Central Cemetery, burial shrouds and coffins have been on display since 1967, making the Vienna Funeral Museum the first museum to trace how we mourn the dead. It is perhaps fitting, given the local expression: "Death must be a Viennese". "A lot of people are probably afraid of death, but it's inevitable - along with taxes! - so it's a good idea to show that things haven't changed that much," says visitor Jack Curtin, a Vienna resident of American origin in his 70s. After a day spent touring the graves of the great and the good, he has taken in the museum collection together with a friend, ... More Socially distanced samba seeks to revive lost bliss in Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Few things say Rio de Janeiro like a "roda de samba" legendary jam session where musicians sit in a circle gushing out Brazil's most beloved music and a tight crowd of beer-guzzling revelers surrounds them. But the coronavirus pandemic has forced the performers who keep this tradition alive to adapt. "We don't sit in a circle anymore. We play on a stage in front of the audience," said Moacyr Luz, 62, founder of the Samba do Trabalhador (Worker's Samba), which held a Monday evening roda de samba (samba circle) for 15 years until the pandemic hit. Luz, a giant of Brazilian music who is up for a Latin Grammy this year, said playing samba without a crowd was like a footballer scoring a goal without celebrating. "It doesn't feel natural. But at least the samba is flowing. We're living in a time of transformation, so everybody has ... More The San Francisco Symphony plunges into a new world NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Esa-Pekka Salonen didnt expect to make his entrance at the San Francisco Symphony with a virtual premiere. But its fitting. Salonen, a conductor and composer who has branded himself an industry innovator an eager adopter of apps and virtual reality is taking the helm of the orchestra of the worlds tech capital. And the first thing it will play under his leadership as music director, Nico Muhlys Throughline, is a bellwether in the emerging genre of works created for the constraints, and possibilities, of music-making in our moment. Orchestra performances, in the traditional sense, are rare these days. The coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of concert halls across the United States in March; few are open now, and none are operating at anything approaching capacity. The industry has been ravaged, ... More Taft Museum of Art announces $10.7 million capital campaign CINCINNATI, OH.- The Taft Museum of Arts Love This House Campaign will raise the critical funding needed to ensure the future stability of the Tafts 200-year-old historic house as part of the Museums Bicentennial Infrastructure Project. The Museum is seeking to raise $10.7 million by Spring 2022 and secure a 4:1 matching grant for $750,000 through the National Endowment for the Humanities. In advance of the Museums celebration of the historic houses bicentennial in 2020, the Taft embarked on an extensive review of the Museums operational and infrastructure needs in late 2015. Over the course of 36 months, key collaborators worked to create a master plan for the Museum campus to understand the needs of the collection and the visitors, complete a thorough analysis of the scope of capital projects needed to maintain ... More Norway's National Museum stores a copy of its entire collection in the permafrost in arctic Svalbard OSLO.- Deep inside a mountain in the arctic Svalbard archipelago, some of the most important items of the worlds memory are preserved in the permafrost. The Arctic World Archive is situated in a former coal mine outside Longyearbyen, in conditions that are optimal for long term data storage. In order to keep its invaluable artworks safe for the future, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway has deposited a copy of its entire collection of 400,000 objects in the Arctic World Archive's vault. The National Museums world class collection includes icons such as Edvard Munchs The Scream, as well as key works of Nordic and international art, architecture and design. Copies of the works are now safely stored on plastic film rolls that have a lifespan of at least 500 years. The National Museum made the deposit in Svalbard ... More The Western Wall, Salvador DalÃ's only rendition of a holy site, heads to auction DALLAS, TX.- The only known Salvador Dalà painting of the Western Wall in Jerusalem will find a new home when it crosses the block in Heritage Auctions' Modern & Contemporary Art Auction Nov. 19.DalÃ's Le Mur des Lamentations (estimate: $400,000-800,000) reflects the legendary Spanish artist's keen interest in people's different religious faiths. "Dalà was fascinated by religious ideas and subject matter, Heritage Auctions Vice President of Modern & Contemporary Art Leon Benrimon said. "He created many different series on religious ideas, but what makes this piece really special is that it is the only rendition of an actual holy site. It's a wonderful tie-in of the Western Wall, where all three monotheistic religions congregate. A leading proponent of Surrealism, Dalà is best known for his surrealist compositions like The Persistence ... More Six U.S. museums receive Art Dealers Association of America Foundation grants NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America Foundation announced the museums across the country selected as its 2020 grantees: Asia Society Texas Center (Houston, TX), Frost Art Museum, Florida International University (Miami, FL), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago, IL), The Rockwell Museum (Corning, NY), and Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). Marking a record number of grantees for 2020, the Foundation has awarded these six museums $10,000 each for the development and realization of exhibitions and virtual programs to be presented in the next two years. Established in 1970, the ADAA Foundation is generously funded by members of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the nations leading non-profit ... More London's Pax Romana presents fine antiquities, ancient art, jewellery and weaponry, Nov. 8 & 15 LONDON.- Pax Romana Auctions will host a no-reserve two-part online sale of antiquities, jewellery, ancient weaponry, Asian and classic art on successive Sundays, November 8 and 15. The first of the two auction sessions celebrates Masterpieces of Ancient Asia, while the second is titled Ancient Jewellery, Weaponry and Classical Art. Bidders are invited to participate absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers. Curated by the auction houses director Ivan Bonchev (PhD, University of Oxford), the sale spans over 5,000 years of history, with virtual journeys to the Indus Valley Civilization and Ancient Egypt, as well as the lands of Medieval Crusaders and Ming Dynasty China. Many of the pieces especially the breathtaking jewellery would make unique gifts worth considering in the run-up to Christmas. The Masterpieces of Ancient Asia sale ... More |
| PhotoGalleries Klaas Rommelaere Helen Muspratt Bruce Nauman Ron Arad Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was born October 31, 1632. Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (October 1632 - December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings. In this image: Participants of a press conference look at a painting, entitled Holding a Balance, by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany, 16 March 2011.
|
|
| |
|