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The British Library in London, which has a collection of about 170 million items, Nov. 29, 2019. The library was hit by what it is calling a cyber incident, and ever since, its website has been down, scholars have been unable to access its online catalog, its Wi-Fi has stopped working, and staff members havent been allowed to turn on their computers. (Andy Haslam/The New York Times)
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- The British Library in London is normally a place of quiet study, its reading rooms filled with authors, academics and students often surrounded by piles of books from the librarys collection of about 170 million items. Now, its been shushed almost entirely. On Saturday, the library was hit by what it is calling a cyber incident. Ever since, its website has been down and scholars have been unable to access its online catalog. The librarys Wi-Fi has also stopped working, and staff members havent been allowed to turn on their computers. Its gift shop is open for business, but only for anyone with cash to buy trinkets such as British Library-branded pencils. Library users, many of whom include writers with pressing deadlines, are beginning to be affected. In interviews this week, seven regul ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Friedman Benda presents Ettore Sottsass 1947-1974, the ninth solo show in an ongoing series dedicated to the expansive oeuvre of the groundbreaking Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007). Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Ettore Sottsass. Photography by Daniel Kukla.
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| Will the art market need to discount its masterpieces? | | Morphy's Nov. 15-16 Advertising auction includes 1925 German carousel, 2 huge railroadiana collections | | A 500-year-old Inca mummy in Peru now has a face |
File photo of phone bidding during the auction of the collection of S.I. Newhouse at Christies in New York, on Thursday, May 11, 2023. (Hiriko Masuike/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Major auction houses are hedging their bets in the fall season of sales that begins Monday, offering fat guarantees to sellers to secure their works and pricing some of their top items more conservatively after the spring season demonstrated weakness in the blazing-hot $60 billion art market. And now, sellers are trying to anticipate how the uncertainty of a new war in the Middle East will affect them. Auctioneers at the three rival companies Christies, Sothebys and Phillips have been digging deeper into private collections for one-off paintings that might spice up their modern and contemporary art sales, given the thinning availability of estates to draw from (typically driven by deaths and divorces). We have built the sale in a very old-school way, said Alex Rotter, chair of Christies departments overseeing 20th- and 21st-century art, who said ... More | |
Extremely rare round Erie Railroad cast bronze number plate from number 2547, a K-1 6-2 Pacific passenger engine built by Rogers Locomotive Works in 1906. Applied bronze numbers, appears to retain original paint and patina. Size: 18in diameter. Condition 8.0. Estimate: $1,000-$4,000.
DENVER, PA.- Morphys Antique Advertising department will conclude its 2023 schedule on a high note with a November 15-16 auction that combines coveted antique advertising and country store items with rare railroad memorabilia. The lineup of 1,415 expertly-cataloged lots includes several premier collections that are absolutely fresh to the market, including two advertising and country store collections, and a bonus assemblage of more than two dozen complete late-18th-century cast-iron stoves. With the addition of two top-notch railroadiana collections and even a glorious 1925 German carousel, Morphys sale has all the essentials for an entertaining two-day event that collectors will find hard to resist. Over 400 advertising signs are in the mix, touting a huge array of products such as alcoholic beverages, tobacco, candy, Coca-Cola and other soda pop ... More | |
File photo of MUSA - Museo Santuarios Andinos.
by Johnny Diaz
NEW YORK, NY.- A famous mummy of a young Inca girl who was sacrificed in a religious ritual more than 500 years ago on a mountaintop in Peru now has a face. A silicone bust depicts the Inca teenager, who has been called Juanita and the Maiden of Ampato, after the snowy mountain where she was found, with dark eyes, high cheekbones and tanned skin. The model was revealed last week at a ceremony at the Andean Sanctuaries Museum of the Catholic University of Santa Maria in Arequipa, Peru, where it is on display to the public. A team of Polish and Peruvian scientists worked with a Swedish archaeologist who specializes in facial reconstructions to create the bust, based on the frozen Inca girls body. Its a reconstruction, muscle by muscle, Franz Grupp Castelo, a coordinator of Andean sanctuaries for the museum, said at a news conference, describing the finished product as an impressive work. In 1995, a team of archaeologists led by Johan Reinhard ascended about 20,000 fe ... More |
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| Tate Edit x Guerrilla Girls | | Prada stores in Shanghai and Tokyo open two exhibitions curated by Nicholas Cullinan | | Exceptional performance of Cyriax Collection, surpassing high estimates at Stanley Gibbons |
Guerrilla Girls, Women In The World 2016, Photo by Katie Booth.
LONDON.- World-renowned art collective Guerrilla Girls present a new takeover of the Tate Edit shop at Tate Modern. Featuring a range of products curated and designed in partnership with the US-based group, it marks the third year of artist takeovers for Tate Edit - a space dedicated to experimental shopping experiences - following collaborations with Chila Kumari Singh Burman in 2021 and Bob & Roberta Smith in 2022. Bringing together art and activism, Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of women artists formed in New York in 1985 to fight discrimination and corruption in the art world, using facts, humour, and outrageous visuals. They have produced hundreds of posters, billboards, books, stickers, animations, and actions not just about art, but also covering politics, film, war, and more. The collective has a long history with Tate, with the gallery having collected and shown their work for over 20 years. The specially designed rang ... More | |
Keiichi Tanaami, Journey of Light, 2023. Projection mapping on styrofoam, 17 x 290 x 120 cm. Courtesy of NANZUKA, Tokyo.
SHANGHAI.- Prada presents the exhibition Paraventi:屏 with the support of Fondazione Prada, on view from 3 November 2023 to 21 January 2024 at Prada Rong Zhai, a 1918 historic residence in Shanghai restored by Prada and reopened in 2017. Curated by Nicholas Cullinan, this group show is unveiled in conjunction with the extensive exhibition Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries on view at Fondazione Prada in Milan from 26 October 2023 to 22 February 2024. The Milan exhibition explores the histories and semantics of these objects by tracing trajectories of cross-pollination between East and West, hybridization processes between different art forms and functions, collaborative relationships between designers and artists, and the emergence of newly created works. The folding screens embody liminality and the idea of being on the threshold of two conditions, literally ... More | |
Astonishing £8,400 reached against high estimate of £400 for 1841 1d Red-brown pair.
LONDON.- Stanley Gibbons, the renowned name in philately and collectibles, announced the remarkable success of "The Cyriax Collection of Great Britain" stamp auction held 1 November 2023. This exceptional Great Britain Auction witnessed an impressive turnout of stamp enthusiasts and collectors, with nearly 90% of the items finding new homes. The results reflect the enduring popularity of Stanley Gibbons as the premier destination for selling Great Britain stamps. High demand, bolstered by robust internet and pre-bidding activity, led to higher-than-anticipated realisations for Great Britain material. It is clear that Stanley Gibbons continues to set the standard for those looking to buy and sell exceptional philatelic pieces. One of the standout highlights of the auction was Lot 250, a spectacular example of the rare 10d red-brown plate 2 abnormal on dated piece, which garnered significant attention. The estimated sale pr ... More |
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| New photo book: Salt of the Earth: A Visual Odyssey of a Transforming Landscape by Barbara Boissevain | | Bonhams achieves more than £7 million for London Asian Art sales | | Garrett Bradley wins Eye Art & Film Prize 2023 |
Ravenswood XIII. Image © Barbara Boissevain from the book Salt of the Earth published by Kehrer.
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty years ago, in the South Bay region of San Francisco, the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project was established to address the impact of human activity on the diminished marshes of the Bay and the role wetlands play in protecting vulnerable communities from sea level rise. This expansive environmental project is the largest tidal wetland restoration project on the West Coast and is dedicated to converting over 15,000 acres of commercial salt ponds at the south end of San Francisco Bay to a mix of tidal marsh, mudflat, and other wetland habitats. Since the 1800s, the ecosystems of the tidal marshes have been replaced by salt ponds, and in her new book, Salt of the Earth: A Visual Odyssey of a Transforming Landscape (Kehrer), California-based photographer Barbara Boissevain documents the efforts being made to return these spaces to their natural state. She thinks ... More | |
Fine Chinese Art Sale Wu Wing lacquered and Zitan Guqin. Estimate 180,000-240,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Following on from the success of the live and online sale of Chinese Art from a German Family Collection in Paris which made 3.6 million, Bonhams Asia Week sales in London achieved a total of over £7.2 million. Leading the way was an extremely rare and important Wu Wing lacquered and zitan Guqin, the most prestigious and ancient musical instrument in China from the late Ming Dynasty, (1573-1644) that sold for £698,900 at the Fine Chinese Art Sale on Thursday 2 November. It had been estimated at £180,000-240,000. The guqin was acquired in Beijing by the famous Dutch diplomat, musician, writer and sinologist, R.H. van Gulik in 1936 and was played by him at many diplomatic events. Among other highlights in The Fine Chinese Art Sale were: A rare Crane-Cry Autumn Moon style lacquered Hundred-patch Guqin, Ming Dynasty. Sold for £368,700 (estimate: ... More | |
Garrett Bradley, winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize 2023. Photo: blvxmth.
AMSTERDAM.- US artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley is the winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize 2023. Bradley receives the prize for her trailblazing work, in which she combines a personal visual style with research and social commitment. The jury were impressed by Bradleys engagement, unique, contemporary aesthetics and adventurous attitude. The Eye Prize will be presented to the winner on Friday 10 November in Eye Filmmuseum, during the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). eyefilm.nl/eyeprize2023. Garrett Bradley was chosen as the prize-winner by an international jury, and receives the sum of 30,000 and an exhibition in Eye Filmmuseum. The cash prize enables the winner to create new work, and is generously supported by Ammodo. Jury chair Bregtje van der Haak, director of Eye Filmmuseum: We are delighted that Garrett Bradley is the ninth winner of the Eye Art & ... More |
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| Jane Jin Kaisen announced as the winner of the Beckett Prize 2023 | | "The Outwin: American Portraiture Today" opens at the Ackland Art Museum | | Lone gem-mint Luke Skywalker sticker from Topps' 1977 'Star Wars' series expected to sell for more than $100,000 |
Jane Jin Kaisen, Portrait, 2023. Photo: Daniel Zox.
COPENHAGEN.- The Beckett Foundation and Copenhagen Contemporary announced the winner of the Beckett Prize 2023: the Danish artist Jane Jin Kaisen. The award is a recognition of her ground-breaking artistic work which, through filmic works, navigates the intersection between lived experience, embodied knowledge and political narratives. The prize comes with a grant of DKK 250,000. In collaboration with CC, the Beckett Prize is given annually to a visual artist working in Denmark who has made an original contribution to the arts. An essential criterion for the award is that the artist, over a significant number of years, has developed a personal artistic language distinguished by qualities such as humanism, conceptual precision, skilled execution and immersion in materials and effects. CC's director Marie Laurberg states on behalf of the jury: "Over the course of two decades Jane Jin Kaisen has created a unique oeuvre characterized by ... More | |
Alison Elizabeth Taylor (Brooklyn, New York), Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning, 2020, marquetry hybrid (wood veneers, oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, shellac, and sawdust on wood), 73 1/16 x 53 3/8 in. (185.6 x 135.6 cm), collection of the artist. © Alison Elizabeth Taylor.
CHAPEL HILL, NC.- The Ackland Art Museum presents The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, a major exhibition from the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery featuring the finalists of its sixth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The exhibition will be on view from Nov. 3, 2023, through Jan. 21, 2024. Every three years, artists living and working in the United States are invited to submit one of their recent portraits to a panel of experts chosen by the Portrait Gallery. In 2022, 42 works were selected from over 2,700 entries in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, time-based media, textiles and performance art. The resulting presentation reflects the compelling and diverse approaches ... More | |
1977 Topps Star Wars "Luke Skywalker" Sticker #1 - MBA Gold - PSA 10 (Only 1 at this Grade!) .
DALLAS, TX.- He was a scrappy young farmboy from a rock in the middle of nowhere when Luke Skywalker got called up to the big leagues. And by the time he retired from public life, the hard-swinging righty with the robot hand spent his entire career with the Rebel Alliance, establishing himself as one of the universes greatest Jedis alongside teammates Han Solo, Leia Organa, a hirsute slugger named Chewbacca and two wisecracking utility droids as they downed the Galactic Empire after decades of hard-fought battles. Heritage offers one of the few finest-known examples of Skywalkers rookie cards for the first time ever: a 1977 Topps Star Wars Series 1 graded Gem Mint 10 by PSA. Only nine examples exist and this ones perhaps the most coveted in this galaxy or any other, as it bears an added MBA Gold Diamond certifying that its virtually perfect. Lukes card, No. 1 in the series, isnt even the rarest in Heritage ... More |
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At Paul Taylor, the music calls for a dance. The men respond.
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not a race, but Lauren Lovette seems to be running, not walking, to create a body of work for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Last year, after becoming Taylors resident choreographer, she presented two new works; this week, as part of the Taylor season at Lincoln Center, she added two more, including the world premiere of Echo on Thursday. Its her finest offering yet. Before any dancing began, the orchestra pit rose to eye level and the members of the Time for Three string trio began to vocalize; soon, the harmony and quiet strength of their voices cast a spell over the David H. Koch Theater. Dancers, all men, mainly bare chested, began a gliding procession toward the stage, migrating along all the pathways of the theater the sides, the aisles. This kind of offbeat entrance isnt exactly new to dance, but ... More
Rare American colonial manuscript collection goes to auction
NEW YORK, NY.- A curated collection of 17th- and 18th- century manuscripts documenting life in colonial New England will be featured at Doyle Auctions November 7th sale of rare books, autographs, and maps. Handwritten material originating from first- and second-generation settlers at Plymouth and the nearby Massachusetts Bay Colonies is the focus of the collection, which was amassed over a period of a decade by Boston-area collector and literary publicist Victor Gulotta. The documents within this collection offer interesting, inspiring, and unusual episodes of 17th-century New England using the 1692 Salem witch trials as their lens, Peter Costanzo, Doyle senior vice president/executive director, books, autographs, and photographs, writes. This disturbing event provided a bookend to the Pilgrim Century that had begun ... More
Several notable collections come together during fall auction to highlight major moments in early American numismatics
DALLAS, TX.- If, as often has been said, it is true that "good things come in threes," a trio of exceptional coins from an important collection could fare exceedingly well when they are sold in Heritage's US Coins Signature® Auction November 16-19. The three coins, each of which will be offered in the event's Premier Session, come from the Bayfield Collection and include: A 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar B-1, BB-1, R.4, XF45 PCGS. CAC It has been suggested that no coin in the U.S. series defines the quality of a collection more immediately than the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar, which was the nation's first silver dollar and the premier showpiece denomination among U.S. silver issues since the first 1794 dollar was struck. ... More
Tate Britain to host edible artwork by Bobby Baker
LONDON.- From 8 November 2023, Tate Britain will present a restaging of a major feminist artwork which has not been seen for almost 50 years: Bobby Baker's radical sculptural installation An Edible Family in a Mobile Home. The installation accompanies Tate Britains autumn exhibition exploring art and activism in the 1970s and 80s, Women in Revolt!, which opens on the same day. Originally staged in 1976, a replica of Bakers prefabricated East London house will be sited outside Tate Britain on the South Lawn. The installation will contain five life-size sculptures of family members made from cake, biscuits and meringues, which will be steadily eaten by the public. Visitors to Tate Britain will be invited into the house to sample these edible sculptures and talk to hosts - trained by Baker herself. This installation is made possible thanks to public ... More
What the suburbs did for Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen
NEW YORK, NY.- It was the 25th anniversary concert celebrating the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Madison Square Garden in 2009 when Bruce Springsteen bellowed to the crowd: Are you ready for the bridge-and-tunnel summit meeting right here, right now? Because Long Island is about to meet New Jersey on the neutral ground of New York City! Out came Billy Joel, and the two performed a set together of their greatest hits. Springsteen crooned on Joels New York State of Mind, while Joel returned the favor on Springsteens Born to Run. The two had crossed paths occasionally in their hit-making careers, but never in such a high profile way. In retrospect, it was surprising it had taken so long. Author Jim Cullen argues in his new book, Bridge and Tunnel Boys: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of the American ... More
Bierstadt, N.C. Wyeth, Tooker and Parrish lead Heritage's American Art auction
DALLAS, TX.- This fall, Heritage presents another leap forward in its special relationship with classic American art significant works by the most notable artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. The most American of auction houses' connection to this history is built on its dedication to scholarship, connoisseurship, and emphasis on provenance: Heritage understands and loves these works and is proud to share them with collectors who appreciate their place in not only the canon, but in America's conception of itself. The story of America is still young but has been ever-dynamic, aesthetically and socially innovative, and sensitive to its multiple unfolding histories and the artwork produced by its sharpest artists reflects a nation in all of its complexity. Heritage's Views and Visions: Important Works by American Masters Signature® Auction ... More
'Pal Joey' review: Bewitched, bothered and bewildering
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not often that the standout star of a show is its music supervisor, arranger or orchestrator, but in the gala presentation of Pal Joey at New York City Center through Sunday, all three are one man, Daryl Waters. More than the authors of the ambitious, bewildering revivals new book, Waters, who has served similar roles on musicals as varied as Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk, After Midnight, The Cher Show and New York, New York, makes a clear case in beautiful sound for its investigation into the melting pot of American music. That the rest of the revival (really a new creature, made from spare parts) is more suggestive than convincing is no crime; there has never been a satisfactory Pal Joey. Though the 1940 original featured some soon-to-be standards by Rodgers and Hart Bewitched, ... More
'I'm Still Alive': Sean Young takes the stage in 'Ode to the Wasp Woman'
NEW YORK, NY.- Manhattan has dressing rooms dingier than the one in the basement of the Actors Temple Theater. But not many. Sean Young, curled into a folding chair atop peeling linoleum tiles with a smudged mirror behind her, claimed not to mind. I dont have the disease of snobbery, she said on a late October morning. I have an incredibly high tolerance for dirty dressing rooms, you know what I mean? I like slumming it. Young was in rehearsal blacks leggings, a muscle tee, sneakers her hair half up. She was two weeks out from the first preview of Ode to the Wasp Woman, which is scheduled to open Thursday and run through Jan. 31. Written and directed by Rider McDowell, the play details the lurid, untimely deaths of four Hollywood has-beens and barely-weres. Young, in her New York stage debut, plays Susan ... More
SJ Auctioneers announces online only Happy Hour of Fine Collectibles auction
BROOKLYN, NY.- The temperature may be dropping outside, but things are heating up at SJ Auctioneers, which will hold an online-only Happy Hour of Fine Collectibles auction on Sunday, November 12th, beginning at 5 pm Eastern time. The catalog is packed with a fine selection of jewelry, silverware, trains, toys and collectibles from noted artists, designers and silversmiths. They include names such as Cartier, Tiffany & Co. Dominick & Haff, Jose Hess, Emile Delaire, Gorham, Movito, Reed & Barton, Watson, Wallace, WM B Kerr, Sackermann Hessenberg & Co., Italian Vetreria Murano, Arte, American Flyer, Lionel, Nintendo, Tootsie Toy, Buddy L, Matchbox and Lesney. Altogether, 218 lots will come up for bid. The silver selection is primed for gift-giving. The auctions expected top lot is an S. Kirk & Son sterling silver repousse footed ... More
'Sabbath's Theater' review: John Turturro embodies a life and a libido
NEW YORK, NY.- John Turturro begins the New Groups Sabbaths Theater with his pants down. He ends it with his pants off. In between, he masturbates on his lovers grave, wears a pair of pink panties on his head and lingers on an oncology ward discussing outré sexual practices. This suggests a work meant to shock or at the very least goose the viewer. But excepting the performances of Turturro and Elizabeth Marvel as Sabbaths wives and lovers, the show, for all its full-frontal nudity, is strangely inert. Flaccid? Sure. Sabbaths Theater, now playing at the Signature Center, is an adaptation of Philip Roths 1995 novel, which won the National Book Award. Its the story of Mickey Sabbath (Turturro), a former avant-garde puppeteer who devotes his later decades to adultery and complaint. When his mistress, Drenka (Marvel), dies, Sabbath, suddenly ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Maurice Utrillo died November 05, 1955. Maurice Utrillo (born Maurice Valadon (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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