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Honore Daumier, Les Buveurs (detail). 8 x 9 1/2 in. (20 1/2 x 24 3/5 cm.).
ALEXANDRIA, VA.- A newly discovered work by 19th century French artist Honore Daumier is heading for auction at The Potomack Company on Feb. 8. This is a really important find and adds to his relatively small body of watercolors, said Anne Craner, Potomacks Director of Fine Art. Les Buveurs, a wash, pen and ink, watercolor and conte crayon on wove paper, has been authenticated by The Comite Daumier in Paris, which will also include the work in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonne de L'Oeuvre de Daumier by K.E. Maison, now in preparation by the Comite Daumier. It measures 8 x 9 1/2 in. (20 1/2 x 24 3/5 cm.). In 1832-33, Daumier was imprisoned for satiric images against the government. He painted watercolors sporadically during that time and again in the 1860s. These constitute a small fraction of the approximately 800 works on paper remaining and are some of the most complex images the artist ever made ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery is holding a Pre-Columbian | Tribal | Ethnographic auction on Thu, Jan 30, 2020 9:00 AM CST. Featuring ancient and ethnographic art from around the world, including Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Ethnographic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine Art, much more. In this image: Early Cretaceous Psittacosaurus Juvenile Dinosaur. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
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| | An exhibition of New York City paintings by Mark Laguë opens at Rehs Contemporary | | The Met acquires rare inscribed vessel by David Drake | | Victoria Miro presents the first UK solo exhibition of works by Hedda Sterne |
Mark Laguë, Big Apple Store (detail). 31 x 40 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mark Laguë paints sprawling cities built by a brush, inhabited by the slightest flecks of paint. His approach borders on abstract, constructing vast panoramas that seemingly fall into place as he lays down the final strokes. Hes challenged himself with an array of metropolitan areas including London, Rome, Paris, Venice, San Francisco and so many others but one regularly presses Laguë for another visit New York City. New York gallery Rehs Contemporary is presenting new works that explore this favored locale of Laguë as he takes us on A Big Apple Adventure! Laguë investigates his subjects on multiple fronts there are compositions, like New York City Skyline and Brooklyn Bridge Afternoon, that reach far into the distance, seemingly challenging our perception as the vista becomes one with the sky. Other times he takes a more intimate approach, bringing us down to street level, fully immersing us in the concrete ... More | |
David Drake (ca. 18011870s). Stony Bluff Manufactory (Edgefield District, South Carolina). Storage jar, 1858. Alkaline-glazed stoneware. H: 22 5/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Ronald S. Kane Bequest, in memory of Berry B. Tracy, 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has purchased a rare stoneware storage jar by the enslaved African American potter and poet David Drake (ca. 18011870s), it was announced today. Made at the Stony Bluff Manufactory pottery site in Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, in 1858, the alkaline-glazed vessel is signed, dated, and inscribed by Drake. There are currently approximately 40 known "poem vessels" signed or attributed to him. "This acquisition celebrates the importance of David Drake and his creation of extraordinary, impressive, poetic objects. This vessel is truly transformative for our collection, as it will enable us to present a more nuanced and complex narrative not only of the Edgefield stoneware industry and the contributions of the enslaved potters, but of slavery ... More | |
Horizon #3, 1963-65 (Angus Mill).
LONDON.- An active member of the New York School, Hedda Sterne, who was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1910 and fled to the US in 1941, created an extensive body of work that intersected with some of the most important movements and figures of the twentieth century. A bridge between European Modernism, in particular Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism, Sternes work stands as a testament to her independence of thought, moving freely between figuration and abstraction throughout her career. Her work has enjoyed increased critical visibility in recent years, featuring in major exhibitions such as Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, held at MoMA in 2017, and the ongoing display Epic Abstraction at The Met Fifth Avenue. Paintings by Sterne were included in Surface Work at Victoria Miro in 2018, which celebrated a century of abstract painting by women. Sternes 1954 painting New York VIII ... More |
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| | A way to rethink urban housing | | $1 million John Hancock letter leads Sotheby's $20.1 million Americana Week Auctions in New York | | One of the largest Ming porcelains from the British Museum will go on loan outside of London for the first time |
A visitor looks at models on display during the Housing Density exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in New York on Jan. 22, 2020. Kyle Johnson/The New York Times.
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Poised on a cliff above First Avenue, Tudor City was conceived during the 1920s by the storied developer Fred F. French as a high-rise community for thousands of middle-class residents. A century later, it remains a throwback to the early glamour days of skyscraper living: a dozen brick towers fancifully decorated with half-timbered lobbies, stone crests and other mock-Tudor details. I gather from Housing Density, a timely and thought-provoking show at the Skyscraper Museum in New York, that the density of Tudor City is 463 people an acre. What does the number mean? The answer gets to the heart of some of the biggest problems facing American cities today. Density is a concept that may dredge up memories of middle-school science class. In an urban context it is simply ... More | |
John Hancock, Manuscript Letter Signed, Announcing the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence, 6 July 1776. Estimate $600/800,000/ Sold for $1,040,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday in New York, Sothebys annual Americana Week auctions concluded with a strong total of $20.1 million, surpassing the series' high estimate of $18.5 million and with more than 1,620 lots sold across five auctions and six days. Below is an overview of the highlights that led to these outstanding results: The week closed with a selection of exceptional historical materials from our sale of Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana, led by a manuscript letter signed by John Hancock, announcing the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, 6 July 1776 which achieved $1 million surpassing its $800,000 high estimate and achieving the highest price of the week. The text of the Declaration of Independence was first printed on the evening of 4 July 1776, by John Dunlap, with finished copies delivered to Congress the morning of 5 July. The number of copies printed is unknown, but were ... More | |
Side view, large hollow blue and white porcelain garden seat, Jingdezhen, 15731620 © The Trustees of the British Museum lent by kind permission of the Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation.
LONDON.- One of the largest porcelains in the Sir Percival David Collection held at the British Museum, a beautiful glazed blue and white garden seat dating from the Ming dynasty (13681644), is set to tour the UK in 2020. This marks the first time that the seat has been lent to an external venue in the UK, presenting a rare opportunity to view the object outside of London as part of the British Museums National Programmes. Travelling to museums in Manchester, Newcastle and Exeter, a variety of programming will be on offer at each venue to coincide with the British Museum Spotlight Loan, ranging from bespoke workshops to community engagement and lectures for university students. Each venue will display A Ming Emperors seat in a different context, ranging from the seats botanical connections to other cultures from around the world, utilising each museums own collections. The garden seat was made for the court ... More |
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| | The stories their skateboards could tell | | Mario Buatta auction shatters estimates for chintz | | Budapest's Banksy disciple sparks treasure hunts and nostalgia |
The photographer Yoshio Higai with some of his photographs of skateboarders, at the Nike Dojo in Tokyo. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times.
by John Branch
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Skateboardings history and culture in Japan is an echo of the United States imported a generation ago, through rebellious teens skating in the dim corners of polite Japanese society. One big difference from America? Skateboarding, with all its noise and commotion, has never been welcomed on the streets and sidewalks of Japan. But that has not hindered its growth. Skate parks are popping up everywhere, skateboardings countercultural vibe has hit the mainstream, and Japan is expected to dominate its competitors when skateboarding makes its Olympic debut at this years Summer Games in Tokyo. This new popularity is met with ambivalence, though, by some of those who were there in the early days. They were part of Japans first generation of skateboarders, and they still make a living from it through photography, art, magazines and skate shops. Their hope is that the Olympics will make skateboarding even bigger, while somehow keeping it cool. Yoshiro Higai ... More | |
A visitor walks through a recreation of the late Mario Buatta's living room, set up at Sothebys in New York, Jan. 18, 2020. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- After 22 hours of bidding on 922 lots, the auction of late decorator Mario Buattas belongings a giddy assortment of dog paintings, porcelain fruits and vegetables, needlepoint pillows, gilded door knockers, Chinese jardinieres and a thousand other pieces delivered in 19 trucks fetched $7.6 million, more than 2 1/2 times its estimate. The last item was a festive watercolor sketch of Buatta in bed, in a typical swirl of fabric, newspapers, magazines and books, along with two rotary phones, made by Konstantin Kakanias for The New York Times in 1988. Within minutes, the cost of the illustration, which had an estimate of $2,000 to $3,000, rose to $11,250. While the highest purchase was $212,500 for a spare and lovely Russian painting of two houses (an atypical object for the very maximalist Buatta), perhaps the most startling to observers was the sale of 107 pieces of porcelain lettuce ware. It went for $60,000. (A chipped tureen shaped like a bunch of asparagus that wen ... More | |
Ukrainian-Hungarian parents' child, sculptor Mihajlo (Mihaly) Kolodko prepares his new small-size, 15 centimeter tall sculpture, the 'Cicciolina Madonna'. Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP.
by Peter Murphy
BUDAPEST (AFP).- Drawing inspiration from enigmatic British artist Banksy, a sculptor of tiny bronze statues has gained a cult following in the Hungarian capital Budapest by placing his quirky works around the city for the public to discover. "I look for places which are a little hidden but still easy to find if you know where to look," Mihaly Kolodko, 41, told AFP in his workshop in Vac, north of Budapest. "I never tell anyone in advance where I have put them," he grinned while working on a new figure, bearded beneath a beanie-hat. While his statues don't have the biting satire of Banksy's work, they have been provoking some heated debate -- as well as nostalgia. Kolodko, whose grandmother was Hungarian, grew up in western Ukraine where he could watch TV from nearby Hungary. Many of his works depict 1970s and 1980s Hungarian cartoon figures. Since moving to Hungary in 2016 he has peppered Budapest with over 20 cast metal sculptures measuring just 10-15 centimetres (4-6 inches) tall. A cheeky talking ... More |
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| | Unit London opens exhibition of Tom French's last series of works | | Rago/Wright announce "Structure & Ornament: Studio Jewelry 1900 to the Present" | | Fondazione Prada, Milan opens two new exhibitions |
These pieces were created in the knowledge that they would most likely be the artists last.
LONDON.- Unit London are presenting Tom Frenchs major retrospective, Transcend. These pieces were created in the knowledge that they would most likely be the artists last. In his final months Tom French poured every morsel of hope, determination and strength into this body of work. He spoke of the tranquility it instilled in him, the therapeutic nature of executing a skill that you have been honing your entire life and the joy that can be gained by continuing to find variation in something so familiar, to find foreign pleasures in native spaces. In some ways the chaotic mess that is premature illness was brought to heel by Tom through his work. To transcend is to go beyond the range of limits of a field of activity or conceptual sphere; Toms work flows over these boundaries on both sides, it is at once elusive and illusory, thoughtful and innovative. Transcend brings together two of Toms most prominent bodies of work: ... More | |
William Harper, Shiva's Night Sword II brooch, 1989. Tooled gold with cloisonné inlay, shell and aquamarine. 75 h x 5.75 w inches. Signed, titled and dated to reverse Shiva's Night Sword II 1989 William Harper. Estimate: $10,000-15,0000.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago/Wright is excited to announce a follow up to the landmark 1984 exhibition at Fifty/50 Gallery of American modernist studio jewelry, Structure and Ornament, curated by Mark McDonald, who organized the original show at Fifty/50. This auction expands the narrative of jewelry in the twentieth centuryits evolution away from precious metals and stones that adorned the body in beautifying ways, and toward an experimental, boisterous and conceptual medium that reflected and contended with the rapid changes in culture, the arts, technology and society. This auction is the first of its kind in the United States to solely focus on studio jewelry. Mark McDonald, owner of the renowned Fifty/50 Gallery, has been involved with these works since the early ... More | |
Liu Ye, Prelude, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 cm. Private Collection, Beijing.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada presents two new exhibitions opening to the public in Milan on January 30, 2020: Liu Ye: Storytelling, curated by Udo Kittelmann and The Porcelain Room Chinese Export Porcelain, curated by Jorge Welsh and LuÃsa Vinhais. Storytelling is a solo show by Chinese painter Liu Ye curated by Udo Kittelmann. Following the first iteration held in 2018 at Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai, the exhibition travels to Milan for a new presentation, featuring a selection of 35 paintings realized from 1992 onwards. In Shanghai Liu Ye's works related harmoniously with the 1918 historical residences original furnishings, decorations and colours, creating a symbiotic relationship with the intimate spaces and small rooms of Prada Rong Zhai. In Milan the paintings will generate a chromatic and material contrast with the concrete walls and the industrial environment of Fondazione Pradas venue, in order to activate a ne ... More |
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The 25th edition of Communicating the Arts will take place in Lausanne
LAUSANNE.- This year, Lausanne will host Agendas leading conference Communicating the Arts in partnership with PLATEFORME 10 to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Lausanne and the creation of the new arts district in the city. Located just next to the train station, PLATEFORME 10 will unite three museums, each with their own distinct identities: the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (fine arts), the Musée de lElysée (photography) and the mudac (design and applied arts). Taking place over three days, more than 250 of the worlds leading professionals from museums, historical monuments, heritage, as well as the visual and performing arts will gather at CTA in June to discuss the latest trends, learnings and best practices in the cultural sector. This is a unique opportunity to meet the key decision makers and ... More
David Roche Foundation House Museum opens a new exhibition of western floral art
ADELAIDE.- A new exhibition of more than 80 works at the David Roche Foundation House Museum, Flowers: Passion. Pain. Nation. offers a glimpse into the vast depth of Western floral art in the last 400 years and explores the major narratives of life religion, marriage, death, belonging, love and eroticism. The exhibition surveys flowers through the work of Dutch still life artists, Henri Fantin-Lantour, Hans and Nora Heysen, Arthur Boyd, Australian Modernists Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Horace Trenerry and Kathleen Sauerbier and contemporary artists including Michael Zavros, Christian Thompson, Del Kathryn Barton, Robyn Stacey and Ah Xian. Growing flowers and displaying them was a source of endless joy for David Roche, who enjoyed visiting famous gardens of the world said Robert Reason, Museum Director of The ... More
Farah Al Qasimi presents new suite of photographs for 100-site exhibition citywide
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund debuted Back and Forth Disco, a 100-site photography exhibition by artist Farah Al Qasimi. For this new body of work, Al Qasimi, who works between Brooklyn and Dubai, has created 17 photographs that explore the beauty of ephemeral moments amidst a citys visual and audible noise. For the first time, Al Qasimi has taken New York City as her subject matter. Focusing primarily on immigrant neighborhoods that resonate with her own experience, she photographs local communities where small businesses thrive. Al Qasimi captures vibrant instances of self-expression that break through the chaos and anonymity of the city: a woman dressed in a bright yellow jacket and elaborate hair accessory talking on the phone, or the decorative chandelier installed in a bodega by its owner demonstrate the embellishment of the everyday. ... More
Harvard Art Museums appoint Sarah Laursen as new Curator of Chinese Art
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Martha Tedeschi, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, announced today the appointment of Sarah Laursen as the new Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, effective June 15, 2020. Laursen is currently the Robert P. Youngman Curator of Asian Art at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, in Middlebury, Vermont; she is also assistant professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury, where she leads courses for undergraduate students on Asian art and art history and museum studies. Her expertise is in the art of early medieval China, and she has extensive curatorial, teaching, and research experience encompassing topics ranging from ancient India and Korea to contemporary China. Laursen, who has substantial experience in the digital humanities, ... More
Harriet Frank Jr., a screenwriter for 'Hud' and 'Norma Rae,' dies at 96
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Harriet Frank Jr., who collaborated with her husband, Irving Ravetch, on provocative screenplays that explored the social conflicts and moral questions of postwar American life in movies like Hud and Norma Rae, died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96. Her death was announced by Michael Frank, her nephew. To film industry peers and moviegoers who paid attention to the credits, the wife-and-husband team of Harriet Frank and Ravetch, who died in 2010, stood out among Hollywoods most successful and literate script writers. The two generated 16 screenplays from 1958 to 1990, many inspired by the works of William Faulkner, William Inge, Larry McMurtry, Elmore Leonard and other best-selling authors. Frank and Ravetch dramatized the charms of a brawling, arrogant Texas rogue (Paul ... More
Fondation Cartier opens the largest exhibition to date dedicated to the work of Claudia Andujar
PARIS.- Based on four years of research in the photographers archive, this new exhibition curated by Thyago Nogueira for the Instituto Moreira Salles in Brazil, focuses on her work from this period, bringing together over three hundred photographs, her audiovisual installation as well as a series of Yanomami drawings. The exhibition explores Claudia Andujars extraordinary contribution to the art of photography as well as her major role as a human rights activist in the defense of the Yanomami. It is divided into two sections reflecting the dual nature of a career committed to both art and activism. The first section presents the photographs from her first seven years living with the Yanomami, showing how she grappled with the challenges of visually interpreting a complex culture. The second features the work she produced during ... More
The Perth Centre for Photography opens an exhibition of photographs by Massimiliano Camellini
PERTH.- The title of the project derives from the phrase "Lòt Bò Dlo", a Kreyòl expression of the Haitian inhabitants, which stands for promise (of a better future) and peril (of Black Atlantic Ocean), hope and despair, seeking different answers on the other side of the water. This is the starting point of the project of Massimiliano Camellini, a four-year period spent in the exploration of cargo vessels of different nationalities; he started also from the literary inspiration of the novel "Novecento" by Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. The novel tells the story of a sailor who decides that a life entirely spent on board, although far from the earth and from its "guarantees", will be the best choice, always and forever .... He boards ships that will be at sea for months, he gets into work areas, he looks for the captains headquarter, he observes the rest rooms, the places of leisure ... More
Anna Laudel opens an exhibition of works by sculptor Bilal Hakan Karakaya
ISTANBUL.- Anna Laudel presents Earthly Realm (Alem-iMülk) by acclaimed sculptor Bilal Hakan Karakaya between 30 January - 8 March 2020. Karakaya is renowned for his unique technique of using different materials, pushing the boundaries of traditional sculpture production. Working with resin, industrial and natural waste, Karakaya reflects the impressions of individuals trapped in the chaos of modern city life on his works. The artist reinterprets the complex structure of daily life and reestablishes it by applying a symbolic approach. The figures of the artist reflect the alienation of the oppressed human beings under the weight of the capitalist world. His sculptures are inspired by the reality of life and establish relationships with the past and the present. Karakayas unique way of using different kinds of materials, and how he incorporates them i ... More
Cristina VerÃssimo and Diogo Burnay appointed curators of Lisbon Triennale 2022
LISBON.- The Lisbon Architecture Triennale announces Cristina VerÃssimo and Diogo Burnay as the chief curators of its 6th edition, to be held in the fall of 2022. The choice of the curatorial team three years in advance has become an established practice of Lisbon Triennale, which allows for an extended reflection around the themes the curators will explore during the event. Cristina VerÃssimo (b.1964, Porto, Portugal) and Diogo Burnay (b.1965, Oeiras, Portugal) founded their architectural studio CVDB in 1999. The studio has earned several international awards for projects developed in varied global contexts. Combining architectural practice with teaching and research, they are frequent lecturers in Portugal and abroad. Cristina VerÃssimo earned her Master in Architecture at Harvard University and has taught in countries such as Hong ... More
Babe Ruth-signed baseball sells for world-record $183,500; ball was signed night before Ruth died
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.- Grey Flannel Auctions has added a new world record to its long list of achievements with the six-figure sale of a baseball signed by Babe Ruth the night before he died. A prized highlight of Grey Flannels January 22 auction, the PSA/DNA-authenticated ball opened for bidding at $5,000. Twenty-four bids later it had a new owner, who prevailed over the field of competitors at a heart-stopping $183,500. PSA subsequently confirmed the winning bid to be the highest price ever paid for single-signature personalized baseball. The team at Grey Flannel has handled many historically important signed baseballs but felt strongly that the Ruth ball consigned to the January sale might be destined for the record books. We were excited about it from the first moment we set eyes on it, said Grey Flannels Director of Operations, Michael ... More
Frank Carter will stage a one-night happening at a secret East London location
LONDON.- The British artist Frank Carter will stage a one-night happening at a secret East London location on Thursday 30 January, at which his latest paintings and sculptures will be previewed. Operating across a range of mediums, the artists work explores chaos as a universal vector that unites humanity. The viewer is invited into what Carter describes as a kaleidoscopic pandemonic landscape, in which he says, everything you have ever known, each emotion felt, every memory hidden, each buried secret floats aimlessly in a fluid state of purpose and hopelessness. Entitled 900 Days of Chaos, the exhibition is comprised of more than 10 paintings. It also features a single sculptural work the artists first. Entitled Pegasus, this work will be shown alongside a performance called Heaven and Hell. During the course of the evening, ... More
L.A. Louver opens an exhibition of prints by Los Angeles artist Alison Saar
VENICE, CA.- L.A. Louver is presenting an exhibition of prints by Los Angeles artist Alison Saar. For the past 30 years, Saar has maintained a robust printmaking practice, creating more than 90 prints over the course of her career. Addressing issues of race, gender and spirituality, Saars lithographs, etchings and woodblock prints are evocations of her sculptures, powerful depictions of figures carved from wood or cast in bronze, that are articulated with found objects material artifacts enriched with a narrative all their own. As such, a focused selection of sculptures in dialogue with Saars prints, are on view in L.A. Louvers second floor gallery and open-air Skyroom. As an activity maintained in connection to and in tandem with her sculpture making, Saar undertakes printmaking with the same tangible approach to unconventional materials and methods. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Patrick Heron was born January 30, 1920. Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 - 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Throughout his career, Heron worked in a variety of media, from the silk scarves he designed for his fatherÂs company Cresta from the age of 14, to a stained-glass window for Tate St Ives, but he was foremost a painter working in oils and gouache. In this image: Susanna Heron poses with Patrick HeronÂs Nude in Wicker Chair, 1951.
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