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Jeff Koons (b. 1955), Rabbit. Stainless steel, 41 x 19 x 12 in. (104.1 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm.). Executed in 1986. This work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. Estimate: USD 50,000,000 - USD 70,000,000. Price Realized: USD 91,075,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million at an auction organized by Christie's in New York -- a record price for a living artist. "Rabbit", a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, overtook the previous record set by British painter David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)", which sold last November at Christie's for $90.3 million. It was a return to the top for Koons, whose "Balloon Dog (Orange)" for five years held the record for highest price reached at auction for a living artist after its 2013 sale for $58.4 million. The selling price of "Rabbit" was only $80 million, but once commissions and fees were added, the final total rose to $91.075 million. In an unusual turn for an art auction at this price range, the buyer of "Rabbit" was actually in the room during the sale. Produced by Koons in 1986, "Rabbit" is among the best-known works by the artist, who built a reputation for challenging art world conventions. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day German electrical engineer Rainer Mallebrein holds a ball-based computer mouse invented by him for Telefunken on May 14, 2019 in Paderborn, northwestern Germany. Mallebrein gave the rare object that can be considered as the world's first computer mouse on permanent loan to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum computer museum in Paderborn. Dieter Menne / dpa / AFP
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| | | New Orleans Museum of Art's Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden expansion opens to the public | | Modern humans split from Neanderthals far earlier than thought: study | | New York's Met says no to Sackler money amid opioid scandal |
Sean Scully, Colored Stacked Frames, 2017.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art announced the opening of the newly expanded Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden after 18 months in construction. The six-acre addition builds on the existing five-acre garden within New Orleans City Park and includes innovative architectural elements and showcases 27 new, recent, and commissioned large-scale sculptures. The sculpture garden is free and open to the public, seven days a week. Congratulations to the New Orleans Museum of Art on the expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, said Mayor LaToya Cantrell. This project makes the site more environmentally sustainable going forward, and it will help ensure equitable access to beautiful outdoor art for generations to come. Sydney and Walda Besthoff, along with the NOMA Board of Trustees and museum staff, view this breathtaking garden as a gift to the city of New Orleans, said ... More | |
A model representing a Neanderthal man on display at the National Museum of Prehistory. AFP PHOTO PIERRE ANDRIEU.
WASHINGTON.- Scientists seeking to unlock the mysteries of human evolution have in recent years relied on increasingly sophisticated DNA techniques that provide "molecular clocks" to date the remains of our ancient ancestors. But a new analysis that instead examines fossil teeth provides an alternative approach -- and one which yields a significantly earlier date for the divergence between modern humans and Neanderthals. The study by Aida Gomez-Robles from University College London proposes that the two species' last common ancestor may have lived 800,000 years ago, entering a debate that is hotly contested among anthropologists. The new timeline is between 200,000 to 400,000 years earlier than current estimates, and if correct would rule out Homo heidelbergensis, another extinct human species, as the last common ancestor ... More | |
In this file photo taken on December 04, 2018 The Metropolitan Museum of Art is seen before the Chanel Show in New York City. Angela Weiss / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York's Metropolitan Museum announced on Wednesday that it will cease accepting gifts from the billionaire Sackler family, amid allegations that it profited off the sale of the opioid OxyContin that is blamed for tens of thousands of deaths. The move came after similar rejections by the Guggenheim museum in New York and the Tate in London as legal troubles mount for the Sacklers and their company Purdue Pharma, which manufactures the drug. "The Sackler family has graciously supported The Met for 50 years and has not proposed any new contributions," the Met's president and CEO Daniel Weiss said in a statement. "Nonetheless, in consideration of the ongoing litigation, the prudent course of action at this time is to suspend acceptance of gifts from individuals associated with this public health crisis." The announcement came ... More |
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| | | Most Notre-Dame pledges not yet honoured: archbishop | | Inca artefacts returned to Peru from US, Argentina | | Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Sales series rises to $394.6 million in New York |
A picture shows a protective net in the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral during preliminary work one month after it sustained major fire damage on May 15, 2019, in Paris. Philippe LOPEZ / POOL / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Most of the money pledged towards the reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral has yet to be collected, the Archbishop of Paris said in a statement Wednesday. Donors had pledged about a billion euros ($1.12 billion) but so far "the greater part of these donations have not yet materialised", said the Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit in a statement. Notre-Dame Cathedral, in the historic heart of Paris, lost its spire and most of its roof in a spectacular fire on April 15, prompting an outpouring of support. One of the four bodies tasked with collecting money to restore Notre Dame, La Fondation du Patrimoine, last weekend announced it had stopped collecting. It said it had received 218 million euros and that the total received towards restoring the cathedral came to 900 million. But Culture Minister Franck Riester said Monday: "It ... More | |
View of one of the 130 textile and ceramic archeological pieces belonging to the Moche, Chimu, Nazca, Chancay, Huari, Vicus, Inca and other cultures, after being successfully repatriated from the US and Argentina. Cris BOURONCLE / AFP.
LIMA (AFP).- More than a hundred pre-Columbian treasures including clay idols and textiles from the Inca Empire have been returned to Peru from the United States and Argentina. The 130 artefacts, many of which were voluntarily returned after being illegally smuggled out of Peru, were displayed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in the capital Lima on Tuesday. The objects included decorated bowls and vases, embroidered cloths, carved wooden sculptures and painted figurines. "Argentina (returned) a lot of 92 cultural goods and another from the United States is made up of 38 cultural assets," said a foreign ministry statement. The US lot was repatriated with the help of an anthropology museum at the University of California, Berkeley, while 77 other objects belonged to Argentine individual collectors. ... More | |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jeune Fille En Rose. Signed Renoir (lower right). Oil on canvas, 16 1/8 by 12 1/4 in. 50 by 31 cm. Painted circa 1890. Estimate: $700/900,000 Sold for $956,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scott Niichel, Head of Day Sales and Deputy Co-Head of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sothebys, New York. said The Impressionist and Modern Art Day sale results reaffirmed the health and depth of this market following yesterdays stellar Evening auction. Almost a third of the lots offered came from the same long-established private collections that formed the core of last nights auction, and they included many of sales standout pieces - not least Ãmile Bernards idyllic countryside scene which established a new world auction record for the French artist, and Modiglianis charcoal which achieved one of the highest prices for a drawing by the artist. Private collectors in particular responded to quality, rarity and provenance across the wide spectrum of categories this sale has to offer, and we very much look forward to presenting our next sales in London in June. ... More |
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| | | Exhibition explores the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence | | Leonardo Drew's first solo exhibition with Galerie Lelong & Co. on view in New York | | Renaissance masterpiece comes to the Wadsworth Atheneum |
Totem by Chris Salter. Photo: Agustina Isadori, 2019.
LONDON.- The Barbican presents a major new exhibition: AI: More than Human an unprecedented survey of creative and scientific developments in artificial intelligence, exploring the evolution of the relationship between humans and technology. Part of Life Rewired, the Barbicans 2019 season exploring what it means to be human when technology is changing everything, AI: More than Human tells the rapidly developing story of AI, from its extraordinary ancient roots in Japanese Shintoism and Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbages early experiments in computing, to AIs major developmental leaps from the 1940s to the present day to show how an age-old dream of creating intelligence has already become todays reality. Told through some of the most prominent and cutting-edge research projects, from DeepMind, Jigsaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL), IBM, ... More | |
Installation view, Leonardo Drew, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co. is presenting Brooklyn-based artist Leonardo Drews first solo exhibition with the gallery. For the past 30 years, Drew has transformed varied new materials into expressive assemblage, often distressing raw ingredients to evoke the passage of time. With this exhibition, Drew expands his practice to incorporate a wider spectrum of color and to explore new aspects of his materials. The main gallery features Number 215 (2019), an energetic wood installation that is both sweeping in scale and intimate in detail, creating the appearance of an enveloping explosion that is frozen in time and space. The exhibition coincides with Drews first major outdoor public artwork, City in the Grass, an over one-hundred feet long by thirty-feet wide project commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York. City in the Grass will be on view from June 3, 2019, through December 15, 2019. An ... More | |
Giorgione (c. 1477/78-c. 1510), La Vecchia, 1502-08. Oil on canvas, 26 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (68 x 59 cm), Gallerie dell'Accademia, cat. 272, © G.A. VE Photo Archive, Courtesy of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities-Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.
HARTFORD, CONN.- Giorgione's startling allegory La Vecchia (known as The Old Woman) is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from May 15 to August 4, 2019. Despite the mystery of his biography and the few paintings that can be attributed to him, Giorgione (1474/6-1510) is considered one of the greatest artists of the Venetian Renaissance. With this empathetic painting of an old woman, Giorgione created a portrayal of aging and a reminder of human vanity and the fleeting nature of life. The Wadsworth presents this singular work in conjunction with the Cincinnati Art Museum, due to the initiative of the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture (FIAC), which has facilitated its loan from the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy. "La Vecchia is Giorgione's poetic ... More |
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| | | Exhibition celebrates 25 years of expanding the collecting field at International Poster Gallery | | British Council unveils new exhibition by Cathy Wilkes at La Biennale di Venezia | | Luci Creative designs immersive art museum experience featuring historic perfume artifacts |
Modiano by Robert Bereny, c. 1932. Art Deco meets Hungarian Avant-Garde in this masterpiece of Machine Age design.
BOSTON, MASS.- Winning Posters!, a new exhibition May 10 June 21, 2019 celebrates the 25th anniversary of International Poster Gallery, one of the worlds leading vintage poster galleries. The exhibition includes a selection of fifty posters that represent the gallerys diverse specialties. IPG is located in SoWa, Bostons art and design district, at 460C Harrison Avenue, Suite C20. Winning Posters! is free and open to the public. Jim Lapides, founder and president of IPG is today internationally-known as a pioneer in the poster collecting field. Lapides has brought to light a vast array of vintage poster design from numerous countries through talks, research, publications, a content-rich expansive website and gallery and museum shows. While expanding the poster field, Lapides has also helped cement the reputation of the advertising poster as an art form worthy of ... More | |
Cathy Wilkes Untitled, 2019 (detail) Mixed Media Dimensions variable Installation view, Cathy Wilkes, British Pavilion, Biennale Arte, Venice, 2019. Photo: Cristiano Corte © British Council. Courtesy of the Artist, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
VENICE.- The British Council unveiled a brand-new body of work by artist Cathy Wilkes for the British Pavilion at this years 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Wilkes exhibition for the Biennale Arte 2019 is bathed in natural Venetian daylight. The unadorned architecture of the British Pavilion provides the setting for an interconnected series of floor-bound sculptural installations, paintings and prints. Through the measured process of creating her works, Wilkes experiments with all kinds of media and materials, and collects treasures and ingredients. Production - or what we see in the end - is the accumulation of all of these constituent parts. Her work recalls inchoate visions of interiors and places ... More | |
Private Perfume Passage Museum, located in Barrington, IL, is now open for private tours.
CHICAGO, IL.- Luci Creative, a full-service museum master-planning and exhibit design firm, worked hand-in-hand with Jeffrey Sanfilippo and Rusty Hernandez to develop a high-end, thematic private art museum displaying more than 2,500 artifacts. Luci Creative designed five major thematic galleries, each reflecting an era of history and evoking emotion and mystery through connecting art, stories, history, and the power of perfume. Each space, including the stairways and hallways, highlights various perfume-related artifacts. Visitors are transported to the Golden Age of Perfume as they stroll down this gallery inspired by the covered shopping arcades of Paris in the early 19th century. Artifacts are exhibited within elaborately themed window displays, each telling a story of the great perfume houses and their impact on the perfume industry. Visitors step back in time as they explore the full original ... More |
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Galerie Krinzinger opens an exhibition of works by Radhika Khimji
VIENNA.- Radhika Khimji, born 1979 in Oman playfully employs methods of construction on the surface of an image, intentionally destabilising the relationship between figure and ground to reassemble a fragmented body and make it abstract. Terms are set in flux placing painting, drawing, photography and sculpture up against each other to allow for a place between many polarities to emerge. Khimji has developed a collaged way of working informed by the physicality and materiality of the making process to deconstruct, evade and erase constructions of formulated identities. She borrows from a surrealistic language to shift cultural stereotypes and make visible a body screened by certain censorships. In 2017 Radhika Khimji participated in the artist-in-residence program of Galerie Krinzinger and presented her artistic results in the solo exhibition Becoming ... More
In Iraq, academics restock Mosul's barren bookshelves
MOSUL (AFP).- Watheq Mahmud is pursuing an advanced engineering degree but the textbooks he needs are often missing in his native Mosul, the Iraqi city where jihadists burned volumes and destroyed libraries. To track down the books, he has had to travel 400 kilometres (250 miles) south to Baghdad, and even a further 600 kilometres to Basra. "Everything is reversed today. Mosul used to be the hub for students and researchers from all across Iraq and the Arab world," said Mahmud, 33. "But today, Mosul's people are forced to leave their city in search of education, books, and resources," he added. For centuries, Mosul was known for its artists and writers, for libraries brimming with books in multiple languages, and for housing Iraq's first printing press. But when the Islamic State group seized the city in 2014, it banned any texts deemed un-Islamic ... More
Bellevue Arts Museum celebrates life of Northwest jeweler Ron Ho in new exhibition
BELLEVUE, WA.- Ron Ho: A Jeweler's Tale celebrates the life and legacy of renowned Northwest jeweler Ron Ho. When Ho passed away in 2017, he left a treasure trove of his own writings, letters, images, paintings, and objects. The exhibition, which opened at BAM May 10, collects many of these items, presenting them alongside works from his career and videos that offer a glimpse into Hos life and artistic practice. Building off of Ho's 2007 retrospective at BAM and the recent Northwest Designer Craftsmen Living Treasures film Ron Ho: Becoming Chinese, A Jeweler's Tale, the exhibition highlights Ho's creative explorations, the deep influence of his heritage, and his masterful ability to tell a story. Selected works from Ho's decades-long career, as well as artifacts from his personal collection, are being displayed alongside drawings and notes ... More
Exhibition spans three decades of work by Liz Johnson Artur
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum presents Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha, the first solo museum exhibition devoted to the work of the Russian Ghanaian artist, whose three-decade career has focused on photographing individuals and communities across the African diaspora. The exhibition presents an installation of photographic works, sketchbooks, films, and audio drawn from Johnson Artur's vast Black Balloon Archive, which she began after her first visit to Brooklyn in 1986. Curated by Drew Sawyer, the Museum's Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography, the exhibition is on view from May 3 to August 18, 2019. "This exhibition continues the Brooklyn Museum's commitment to presenting the work of artists who reflect the communities of our borough," says Drew Sawyer. "With Dusha, we're also excited to bring Johnson Artur back ... More
Scottish hydro scheme inspires climate change and consumerism exhibition
DUMFRIES.- The exhibition at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries from 11 May to 29 June comes after a series of community events, including artists walks and a tour of the Tongland hydroelectric power station, near Kirkcudbright. A centrepiece is a large image, created by Morag, showing the lochs and rivers of the hydro scheme catchment area. The system is so carefully designed that a single drop of rain can be used to generate low cost, clean energy up to five times before it final reaches the sea. She said:When the hydro scheme started some people thought of its as Pennies from Heaven because the rain on the Galloway hills was being turned into clean energy that could power thousands of homes. And it still powers around 79,000 homes today. Its hugely inspiring that this immense project, which faced resistance at the time, is still going strong after so many ... More
The Cape Ann Museum opens first public exhibition of mixed media artist Stephanie Cole's work
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- The Cape Ann Museum is presenting My Life in Pieces: Painting with Stuff, the first public exhibition of Rockport mixed media artist Stephanie Coles sculptural and eclectic collection. The works are on view from May 11 through July 7 with a meet-the-artist reception on May 18 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Born in Connecticut, Cole studied painting at California College of Arts and Crafts and later at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. By the mid-1960s, she and her husband, Jim, had settled in Rockport where they raised their children, and Cole taught art in the Rockport Elementary School. By the early 1980s, Cole was moving from painting into experimentation with elaborate mosaic-like sculptures that she calls her memory sculptures. Today, her sculptures which fill her Rockport home and studio ... More
Keith Haring masterwork achieves top lot at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- The top lot of the sale was Keith Harings Untitled (1983), one of the artists massive unabashed masterworks, sold for $4,220,075 at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on May 15. Offered at auction for the first time, this was the work's first public exhibition in over a decade. In addition, two world auction records were achieved for artists Jack Youngerman and Leo Villareal. Muys Snijders, Head of Americas for Post-War & Contemporary Art, commented: We were so pleased to see notable prices achieved across a variety of superb works by stellar artists, as seen with Harings extraordinary tarpaulin. The sale started with a fierce battle for a painting by Jack Youngerman, which made a new world auction record for the artist. We were also delighted by the strong prices achieved for works by Olga de Amaral, Wojciech Fangor, and François- ... More
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College appoints Dr. Galina Mardilovich Curator of Russian and European Art
AMHERST, MASS.- The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College announced today that it has appointed Dr. Galina Mardilovich to the position of curator of Russian and European art, effective July 1, 2019. Mardilovich, who has served as the acting curator at the Mead since August 2018, will oversee the museums program for Russian and European art, including researching the collection, developing exhibitions, and proposing new acquisitions. In addition, Mardilovich will collaborate with the Amherst Center for Russian Culture on the use of the Thomas P. Whitney 37 Collection of Russian Art, a unique art and rare book collection that includes more than 600 paintings, drawings, and sculptures produced by artists both in Russia and in exile beginning in the late 19th century. During her time at the Mead Art Museum, Mardilovich has already curated two exhibitions ... More
Marina Paulenka to join Unseen as new Artistic Director
LONDON.- Unseen announced that Marina Paulenka, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Organ Vida International Photography Festival (Zagreb, Croatia), has been appointed as its new Artistic Director. Paulenka will take over from Emilia van Lynden (who will become a member of the International Advisory Committee) and will continue to build on Unseens achievements over the past eight years, helping to reinforce its status as a pioneer in the photography world. Specifically, Paulenka will oversee all artistic activities around: Unseen Amsterdam; Unseen Platform; Unseen Foundation; Unseens not-for-profit organisation; and the newly bi-annual Unseen Magazine. Paulenka will also develop new projects that shed light on societal changes and push the boundaries of the photographic medium. Marina Paulenka brings with her a wealth ... More
Swann Auction Galleries to offer rare 1926 poster for $60,000 in Graphic Design sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Created by one of the leading poster artists of the early 20th century, this promotional advertisement for Peugeot is expected to fetch up to $60,000 at Swann Auction Galleries Graphic Design auction on May 23. Along with Cassandre, Jean Carlu and Paul Colin, Charles Loupot (1892-1962) inherited the mantle of the fin de siècle pioneers of poster design, creating a highly graphic look inspired by Cubism and Art Deco that was to dominate inter-war poster art in the 1920s and 30s. In this 1926 design, measuring more than 5ft across, Loupot captures the sense of dynamism and speed of the national brand Peugeot in the year that it separated its cycle and motor divisions as it moved its business into the modern era of the car. Two other posters in the sale by Loupot demonstrate his talent for arresting designs. Twining, from 1930, advertising ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Polish-American painterTamara de Lempicka was born May 16, 1898. Tamara Lempicka (born Maria Górska; 16 May 1898 - 18 March 1980), also known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter active in the 1920s and 1930s, who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art-Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes. In this image: A man stands beside the painting "M. Tadeusz Lempicki" during the exhibition of works of art made by Tamara de Lempicka which opened at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.
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