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A photo provided by Sotheby's shows the auctioneer Oliver Barker "conducting" a Sothebys sale of contemporary, modern and Impressionist artworks from a control room in London. New tools, born of necessity, may be part of a lasting change in how art auctions are conducted. Sotheby's via The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Its no surprise that art auctions arent what they were before March. Whats unexpected, though, is the pace and scope of the pandemic transformation, in terms not only of how sales are conducted but also in every facet of the process and how technology has enabled these changes. Its been an opportunity to transform the industry, said Bruno Vinciguerra, the chief executive of Bonhams auction house. It was bound to happen over years, and it only took a few months. He added: Never let a good crisis go to waste. Online auctions have been a growing part of the business for years, and potential buyers have long been able to send in a bid online or by phone, but in-person live sales had remained de rigueur for the most valuable items. A live event held in front of a crowd had an element of theatricality. Our business model is very particular, said Guillaume Cerutti, the chief executive of Christies. It ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Join Artemis Gallery on Mon, Oct 26, 2020 10:00 AM CST for their October Timed Marketplace Auction, featuring fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. Shop the Marketplace at the end of the month - you never know what you'll find next! In this image: 17th C. Indian Pink Sandstone Fragment - Narasimha. Estimate $2,500 - $3,750.
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| | Sotheby's to present largest private collection of Ansel Adams photographs this December | | Artsy announces partnership with Artlogic to benefit both organizations' gallery networks | | Cindy Sherman presents ten new photographs at Metro Pictures |
Ansel Adams, Gravel Bars, American River, California. Mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted to Homasote board, framed, 1950, probably printed in the 1950s, image: 106¾ by 82¾ in. (271.1 by 210.2 cm.) frame: 109 by 85 in. (276.9 by 215.9 cm.). Estimate $50/70,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks will be offered in a live auction at Sothebys New York on 14 December. A comprehensive survey that spans six decades of the beloved artists unparalleled career, from 1915 to 1975, the David H. Arrington Collection is among the most significant collections of Adams photography in private hands. This curated selection of more than 100 of Adamss most iconic photographs features dozens of early prints, murals, and portfolios, and is led by Adamss most legendary work, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (estimate $700,000/$1 million), the earliest print of the image to come to market. The auction is a watershed moment for collectors of Adams photographs, as well as collectors of American masters. ... More | |
New partnership enables galleries to effortlessly share artworks from the Artlogic database to the Artsy content management system, providing them enhanced access to Artsys marketplace.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artsy announced a formal partnership with Artlogic, the leading inventory management system for galleries. Following a successful year-long pilot, this partnership enables galleries to effortlessly share artworks from Artlogic to Artsy. Discussing the partnership, Mike Steib, CEO of Artsy, commented: Our partnership with Artlogic will benefit the art world by saving time for our shared network of galleries and bringing more in-demand art to online collectors through Artsys marketplace. Dustyn Kim, Artsys Chief Revenue Officer, said: The goal of this partnership is to save time and increase sales for our gallery partners. Galleries need and want to focus their time on building relationships and driving sales. By creating a seamless way to migrate works from Artlogics database to Artsys marketplace, were providing our partners with easier access to our 1.9 million international collectors a ... More | |
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #614, 2019. Dye sublimation print, 91 x 91 inches, 231.1 x 231.1 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- For her latest body of work, Cindy Sherman has transformed herself into an extraordinary cast of androgynous characters, expanding her career-long investigation into the construction of identity and the nature of representation. The enigmatic figures pictured in the ten new photographs on view are dressed primarily in mens designer clothing and are posed gallantly in front of digitally manipulated backgrounds composed from photographs Sherman took while traveling through Bavaria, Shanghai, and Sissinghurst (England). Each character draws the viewer in with their unique style, immediate eye contact and steely gaze. Renowned for her depictions of female stereotypes, Sherman has played with masculinity and gender expression before. In a series referred to as "Doctor and Nurse, Sherman became both a male and female character, embodying stereotypical mid-century professional archetypes. In the ... More |
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| | Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain presents an immersive installation created by Sarah Sze | | Putting pencil to paper, in galleries and in the voting booth | | Pandemic-forced isolation opens new artistic pathways |
Sarah Sze, Twice Twilight. Photo: © Luc-Boegly.
PARIS.- For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain, the internationally acclaimed artist Sarah Sze created an immersive installation that transforms the visitors perception and experience of Jean Nouvels iconic building. Sarah Sze is best known for her intricate assemblages of everyday objects that blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture. For her exhibition, the artist explores the way in which the proliferation of imagesprinted in magazines, gleaned from the Web, intercepted from outer spacefundamentally changes our relationship to objects, time and memory. Confusing the boundaries between inside and outside, mirage and reality, past and present, her new installation brings together for the first time in her work the architectural, the sculptural and the filmic, altering the visitors perception of space and time. Playing with t ... More | |
Walter Price, Scarecrow, 2020. Graphite, gel pen, Scotch tape, burned paper, color pencil and Sharpie on manila tagboard paper, 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
by Laurel Graeber
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Drawing may be the most ancient art, dating to when early humans first scrawled images on cave walls. But this adaptable, affordable and accessible practice is also experiencing a resurgence in this turbulent year. Drawings capacity to chronicle events in real time has made it a powerful means to reflect on volatile election campaigns, a deadly pandemic and economic and racial inequality. Drawing allows for the most freedom, its easily accepted, it doesnt require such a critical eye, said Walter Price, one of 105 contributors to the show 100 Drawings From Now, running through Jan. 17 at the Drawing Center in New York. Theres more openness in drawing, more ... More | |
Artist Daniel Arsham in his studio in New York, Sept. 24, 2020. Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times.
by Laura van Straaten
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For New York-based art and design star Daniel Arsham whose sculpture, design and fashion projects often involve extensive teamwork and collaborations with fellow boldface names the isolation necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic has meant a pivot to a medium he had pretty much abandoned. Ive touched the canvas here and there, but I havent completed any major work, Arsham said of the 17 years since he graduated from art school. But the pandemic gave me this amazing opportunity to really go back to painting. The isolation in which Arsham has worked during the pandemic is in marked contrast to his typical, highly collaborative M.O., like the new body of work he has created for his solo exhibition at the Musée Guimet in Paris, which opened ... More |
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| | British Museum welcomes the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and a 100-year research project concludes | | Hindman's Sports Memorabilia auction sells 91% of lots offered | | Iconic UK arts institutions get £ 75m virus funding |
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LONDON.- The British Museum welcomed His Excellency Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, to the British Museum yesterday morning (23rd October 2020). Mr Al-Kadhimi toured the ancient Mesopotamia galleries with British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer and Minister of State for Media and Data John Whittingdale. He also saw the display of a Sumerian plaque which had been illegally removed from Iraq and offered for sale on a UK auction site in 2019. It was brought to the attention of the Metropolitan Police Service (Art and Antiques Unit) who seized the plaque and brought it for closer examination to the British Museum as part of their role as the expert advisory body to UK law enforcement on potentially stolen or illicitly trafficked antiquities. The limestone plaque, dating to around 2400BC was taken from an ancient Sumerian temple and depicts a large seated male figure. The Minister of Culture in Baghdad has gen ... More | |
A 1994 Michael Jordan United Center Bronze Maquette, "The Spirit". Height of sculpture: 26 inches. Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000. Price Realized: Sold for $27,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman announced the success of its October 20, 2020 Sports Memorabilia auction. The sale exceeded its presale estimate of $127,600, selling 91% of lots offered and finishing the day at $180,263. Bidders from across the globe vied for almost 200 lots of fresh-to-hobby artifacts from Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan, among other rare and exciting lots spanning the history of sports. We are honored to connect so many valued clients with treasures that speak to their sense of history, pride and sentiment, says Hindman Sports Memorabilia Specialist James Smith. Sports unites people across all boundaries and dedicated collectors are seeking unique artifacts more than ever before particularly Michael Jordan memorabilia as we saw today. As a Chicago-based auction house, it is only fitting that such strong prices ... More | |
The Old Vic theatre in London.
LONDON (AFP).- The British government on Saturday announced a £75 million (82 million euros) rescue package to save 35 cultural institutions hit by the coronavirus pandemic, including London's iconic Globe Theatre. Grants of between £1 million and £3 million will be distributed to each of the organisations, and will be drawn from the £1.57 billion culture rescue fund announced in July to safeguard the arts. The Old Vic theatre in London, founded in 1818, and the Globe, a life-size replica of the 1599 Shakespeare theatre, built on the south bank of the Thames near its original site, will both receive support. More than a million people annually visit the Globe, which also includes a library, archives and a candlelit replica of a 17th century Jacobean theatre. But 70 percent of the funds are earmarked for cultural venues outside the British capital, such as the Crucible in Sheffield and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, the Ministry of Culture ... More |
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| | Reimagining Lady Liberty's torch to meet this moment | | High Museum opens tirst-ever comprehensive survey of Julie Mehretu's career | | Inspired by miniature paintings, Shahzia Sikander goes big |
Artist Abigail DeVille at Madison Square Park in New York, Oct. 20, 2020. In her first New York solo exhibition at Madison Square Park, DeVille conjures a long line of freedom fighters. Tonje Thilesen/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Abigail DeVille began site research for her public art project in Manhattans Madison Square Park, she stumbled on a wild 1876 photograph of the Statue of Libertys detached hand and flaming torch in the park. For six years, the surreal fragment was on view there to generate excitement and raise funds for the pedestal to hold the colossal statue coming to New York from France. History had already done it for me, said DeVille, who knew instantly that the giant torch was the perfect form to contain materials and metaphors conjuring the struggle for liberty in America, past and present. The installation titled Light of Freedom, the 39-year-old Bronx artists first solo exhibition in her hometown, opens Oct. 27 in the park just north of East 23rd Street. There, a 13-foot-tall, rusted lattice ... More | |
Julie Mehretu, Six Bardos: Transmigration, 2018, 31-color, 2-panel aquatint, 98 à 74 inches, courtesy of Gemini G.E.L., LLC. © Julie Mehretu and Gemini G.E.L., LLC, photograph © White Cube, Ollie Hammick.
ATLANTA, GA.- This fall, the High Museum presents Julie Mehretu (Oct. 24, 2020-Jan. 31, 2021), a major traveling exhibition of work by Julie Mehretu (born 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art. This is the first comprehensive survey of the artists career, covering more than two decades of her work, from 1996 to the present, and uniting nearly 40 drawings and prints and 35 paintings predominantly monumental in size and scale. Mehretus work bears witness to the shaping of human consciousness through the combination and reconfiguration of sources and images that address history and its intersection with the present. Her process involves compiling a vast and diverse archive of sources, including diagrams and maps, cave markings, Chinese calligraphy, architectural renderings, graffiti, photojournalism and texts. ... More | |
The artist Shahzia Sikander in a room projecting her work "Reckoning," at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, Sept. 28, 2020. Farah Al Qasimi/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Shahzia Sikander, who was raised in Pakistan and moved to the United States in 1993, has long used the language of traditional Indian and Persian miniature painting as a departure point to make contemporary work exploring colonialism, migration, gender and hyphenated identities. Her art, which moves fluidly across boundaries of geography, culture and time, is enjoying particular attention this fall, viewed against a backdrop of polarization in this country and around the world. Ive always seen myself as participating in and broadening that scope of what American art can be seeing America from within and also seeing it from the outside, said Sikander, 51. She noted that in a country where the conversations are often black and white, she has navigated a zone in between. In Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues, a solo show opening at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York on Nov. 5, Sikander ... More |
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Exhibition at Smack Mellon celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment
BROOKLYN, NY.- Smack Mellon is presenting Bound up Together, a group exhibition and programs organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The exhibition title borrows from a speech by abolitionist, suffragist, writer and teacher Frances Ellen Watkins Harper delivered in 1866 at the 11th National Womens Rights Convention in New York. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, she said, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. Organized in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests across the country, Bound up Together centers on the achievements that granted some women the right to vote and the pervasive and enduring ... More
Petersen Automotive Museum named 2020 Museum Of The Year
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Petersen Automotive Museum has been named the 2020 Museum of the Year by The Historic Motoring Awards in a virtual ceremony. The museum earned the title by virtue of its world-class exhibits, dedication to preserving automotive history, global education initiatives, and successful pivot to digital engagement during the worldwide pandemic. The Historic Motoring Awards honor people, cars, and institutions that best exemplify the classic car hobby. The awards are given based on nominations from the automotive industry and enthusiast public. An esteemed panel of 25 automotive luminaries selected the winners. Although closed for the majority of 2020, the Petersen has created new and innovative programs to engage and educate a global audience of all ages, from the comfort and safety of home. Under these difficult ... More
Exceptional works by Richter and Calder lead Bonhams Post War & Contemporary Art sale in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Signature works by two titans of contemporary art, Gerhard Richter and Alexander Calder, lead Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on November 18 in New York. Created during the peak of Richters implementation of a pioneering new form of abstraction, Abstraktes Bild (Untitled) 679-3 is a seminal work by the artist and is estimated at $1,500,000- 2,500,000. In the Abstraktes Bild series, Richter mixes relatively common techniques such as troweling, scraping, and brushing, with his signature squeegee technique in which he applies and re-applies layers of paint, dragging them across the canvas to produce shimmering planes of color. Calders Little Red and Blue, a trademark monumental mobile by the innovative 20th century master of sculptural abstraction, has an estimate of $1,000,000- 1,500,000. It was created ... More
Major works added to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art's permanent collection
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art announced today the acquisitions of four major works of art by Polly Apfelbaum, Betty Blayton, Angel Otero, and Summer Wheatall have been presented in exhibitions at the Museum over the past three years. Betty Blaytons (American, 1937 2016) Dream Forms #3 (1984) was presented for the first time in 2017 alongside forty-one works by twenty-one women artists of color in the groundbreaking traveling exhibition Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today. A longtime New York artist, activist, and educator, Blaytons brightly colorful monoprint was selected for the exhibition from a larger series she made at the prestigious Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York. Blayton described her inspiration for this work as having stemmed from an art ... More
Success for Frank Auerbach at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale in London
LONDON.- Frank Auerbachs J.Y.M. Seated in the Studio VI was one of the highlights of Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale today (Thursday 22 October) in London, achieving £687,062. The work which dated from 1988 and was personally selected by Auerbach to be included in his landmark Tate Britain retrospective in 2015 had an estimate of £380,000 - 450,000. The top lot of the sale was Oh My God, 2006 by Banksy, which sold for £855,062. The unique work was first exhibited at Banksy's landmark Barely Legal exhibition in Los Angeles in 2006. The sale made a total of £5,188,063 with 92% sold by value. Ralph Taylor, Bonhams Global Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, commented: We are incredibly pleased with the results of this sale. There were several stand-out lots, including J.Y.M. Seated in the Studio VI, which was one ... More
Sotheby's Wine announces first offering of Japanese Sake
HONG KONG.- This autumn, Sothebys Wine will present a collection of Japanese sake for the very first time. Newly launched today and sourced directly from the brewery, six bottles of Dassai Sake from the limited Beyond the Beyond collection (est. HK$32,000-50,000 / US$4,000-6,000 per bottle) will be offered in the online auction, Vine | The Scholarly Cellar of Dr. Gordon Ku Part II + Dassai Beyond the Beyond , open for bidding from 30 October to 10 November 2020. Made from the award-winning Yamada Nishiki sake rice harvested in 2019, only 23 bottles are available worldwide. The six bottles offered in the Sothebys auction are numbered 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 out of 23. Each bottle includes a wooden case, which will be personalised with the buyers name in calligraphy. A renowned Japanese sake brand, Dassai is located deep in the mountains ... More
von ammon co opens an exhibition of works by Timur Si-Qin
WASHINGTON, DC.- von ammon co is presenting the solo show, Take Me, I Love You, by New York based German artist Timur Si-Qin. This full-scale show is the first of its kind in the United States, and features eleven new works by the artist, a combination of 3d printed sculptures, computer-generated landscapes and branded graphics from the artists meta project: New Peace. Concurrent with the exhibition, Si-Qin will release parts 1 and 2 of his new essay titled Heaven is Sick. New Peace is a proposal for a new form of spirituality in the face of global pandemics, climate change, and biodiversity collapse. The legacy of agricultural religions of the West have led the world to an ecological precipice. The farming eschatology, particularly, of Christianity have promoted an extractive attitude towards nature. Westerners are raised to regard Nature as a ... More
Translating lost languages using machine learning
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be lost, or undeciphered that is, we dont know enough about their grammar, vocabulary, or syntax to be able to actually understand their texts. Lost languages are more than a mere academic curiosity; without them, we miss an entire body of knowledge about the people who spoke them. Unfortunately, most of them have such minimal records that scientists cant decipher them by using machine-translation algorithms like Google Translate. Some dont have a well-researched relative language to be compared to, and often lack traditional dividers like white space and punctuation. However, researchers at MITs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently ... More
Scientific pioneers, including Louis Pasteur, make their mark on Heritage Auctions' manuscripts event
DALLAS, TX.- A note written in 1636 by the man who solved the riddle of human circulation and reproduction while serving as personal physician to King Charles I. A missive from 1880 by the father of microbiology to a colleague about cholera and the hot virulence caused by the flight of pigeons. A letter from the doctor who pioneered modern abdominal surgery. And a dispatch from the professor who, in 1839, gave tuberculosis its name. Heritage Auctions Manuscripts event, to be held online Nov. 12, is rife with circular letters, correspondence, documents and ephemera signed by men and women about whom libraries worth of histories have been written. They range from Mary Queen of Scots to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln to Bugsy Siegel, Steve Jobs to Nelson Mandela. Princes and princesses, presidents and Supreme Court justices, generals ... More
Dawit L. Petros now represented by Bradley Ertaskiran
MONTREAL.- Bradley Ertaskiran announced representation of Dawit L. Petros. The work of Dawit L. Petros is informed by studies of global modernisms, theories of diaspora, and postcolonial studies. Throughout the past decade, he has focused on a critical re-reading of the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. These concerns derive from lived experiences: Petros is the child of Eritrean emigrants, and spent formative years in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya before settling in central Canada. The overlapping cultures, voices, and tenets of this constellation produced a dispersed consciousness, global and transnational in stance and outlook. His works aim for an introspective and textured analysis of the historical factors that produced these migratory conditions. Petros installs photographs, moving images, sculptural objects, and sound work ... More
Steidl publishes 'Harmony Korine, Juergen Teller: William Eggleston 414'
NEW YORK, NY.- William Eggleston 414 is Harmony Korine and Juergen Teller's visual memoir of a road trip they took ten years ago with William Eggleston and his son, Winston, from Memphis to Mississippi. Featuring photos and short introductions by Korine and Teller, this record of their spontaneous, intimate journey captures their love for each other through the shared experience of the American road, and combines images of gas stations, abandoned trucks, evangelical households, banal landscapes and hotel rooms with candid portraits. Certain photos cleverly re-visit Egglestons own famous motifsstrings of colored electric lights, road signs, people in carsand yet the star of the show is without doubt Eggleston himself, always impeccably groomed, whether seated at the kitchen table, holding the hand of cousin Maude Schuyler Clay, or playing ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In this image: Pablo Picasso watches the filming of his life story in Nice, France, on July 26, 1955. Henri Georges Clouzot, seated, is producing the picture. Picasso's daughter Maya is at left.
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