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Chinese Cloisonné Fang Ding, 18th Century. Height: 13 1/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- An impressive array of rare Chinese 18th century cloisonné huanghuali furniture, ancient bronzes and archaic jades headline the Lark Mason Associates sale of Asian, Ancient and Ethnographic Works of Art on the iGavelAuctions.com platform. Were delighted to offer a broad range of objects and furniture which represent Chinas important contribution to the field of decorative arts, says Lark Mason, who founded iGavel, one of the earliest online auction platforms. Many of our items are from private collectors who purchased the very best in each of the categories from a variety of international galleries such as C.T. Loo and Sydney L. Moss, Ltd. and from estates of the Christian R. Holmes Collection and Sothebys from the 1960s-1990s. Among the highlights are an 18th century Cloisonné Fangding form censer (Estimate: $5,000-8,000), a pair ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Petzel Gallery is presenting Frail Juice, a solo exhibition of new paintings and their corresponding drawings by Berlin-based artist Stefanie Heinze. On view from October 7 to November 7, on the parlor floor of Petzel's Upper East Side gallery, the show marks Heinze's debut exhibition at Petzel and second solo show in New York.
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| | Exhibition of photographs by Lionel Delevingne opens at the Stockbridge Station Gallery | | William Shakespeare's 'First Folio' sets world auction record for any work of literature - $9.9M at Christie's | | Simone Leigh is first Black woman to represent U.S. at Venice Biennale |
Lionel Delevingne.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Stockbridge Station Gallery is presenting From Paris to Stockbridge, via Fukushima, Photographs by Lionel Delevingne. Lionel Delevingne was born in Paris, France but has lived in Western Massachusetts most of his life, having come to the US in 1971 to attend Mayday demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Much of Delevingnes career has focused on environmental issues. Starting in 1975, he began to document the insidious and ever-present threat of nuclear power as seen in Montague, MA, Three Mile Island, PA, and in the devastating nuclear accidents of Chernobyl, Ukraine and Fukushima, Japan. The images on display represent a selection of this body of work that culminated in the publication, To the Village Square: from Montague to Fukushima 1975-2014. The Drylands series, presents photographs from a collaborative project with journalist Steve Turner which resulted in ... More | |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published According to the True Originall Copies. London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623. Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. Price realized: $9,978,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, often referred to as the First Folio, sold for $9,978,000 and established a new world auction record for any work of literature. The First Folio was included in The Exceptional Sale at Christies New York on 14 October 2020 and exceeded its estimate of $4,000,000-6,000,000. The First Folio, bringing together for the first time the collected plays of Shakespeare, ranks as the greatest work of the English language and, indeed, of world literature. Already celebrated on its first publication, it has remained a highly sought-after masterpiece over four centuries. Only six complete copies are known in private hands. Margaret Ford, International ... More | |
In a photo provided by Shaniqwa Jarvis, Simone Leigh, selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, at Stratton Sculpture Studios in Philadelphia, where she fabricates and casts her large-scale bronzes and other works. Shaniqwa Jarvis; Simone Leigh and Hauser & Wirth via The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Simone Leigh, a Brooklyn-based sculptor whose large-scale works address the social histories and subjective experiences of Black women, will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale in April 2022. The first African American woman to receive this honor, among the art worlds most prestigious, Leigh was selected by the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on the recommendation of museum professionals and artists convened by the National Endowment for the Arts. I feel like Im a part of a larger group of artists and thinkers who have reached critical mass, Leigh, ... More |
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| | Städel Museum announces acquisition of Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait with Champagne Glass" | | How a Medusa sculpture from a decade ago became #MeToo art | | Major Thomas Cole painting gifted to the Thomas Cole National Historic Site |
Philipp Demandt presenting the painting at a press conference. Photo: Städel Museum - Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- It is one of the most prominent acquisitions in the more than two hundred years of the Städel Museums history. Support from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Städelscher Museums-Verein, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Kulturstiftung der Länder and five private patrons has made the acquisition of Max Beckmanns Self-Portrait with Champagne Glass for the Städel Museum possible. Executed in 1919, the painting is one of the artists most well-known and important works. It has been on loan to the museum since 2011. Thanks to the acquisition, it will now remain in the Städel permanently. The Self-Portrait with Champagne Glass is among the artists most striking self-likenesses. What is more, within a small group of self-portraits meanwhile considered iconic, it is the only one to have remained in private German ownership until now. The artwork was in the ... More | |
Luciano Garbatis sculpture Medusa With the Head of Perseus on display in Collect Pond Park in New York, Oct. 13, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When artist Luciano Garbati made his sculpture of Medusa holding Perseus severed head an inversion of the centuries-old myth feminism was not what he had in mind. He wasnt thinking of the #MeToo movement either: Garbati had created the work in 2008, nearly a decade before the movement went mainstream. Garbati, an Argentine artist with Italian roots, was inspired by a 16th-century bronze: Benvenuto Cellinis Perseus With the Head of Medusa. In that work, a nude Perseus holds up Medusas head by her snaky mane. Garbati conceived of a sculpture that could reverse that story, imagining it from Medusas perspective and revealing the woman behind the monster. On Tuesday, Garbatis sculpture Medusa With the Head ... More | |
The painting, Hunters in a Landscape, 1824-25, is a gift from Dr. Warner's personal collection and is one of Thomas Coles earliest works. The painting dates to the launch of the artist's career and his first visits to the Hudson River Valley and Catskill Mountains.
CATSKILL, NY.- The Thomas Cole National Historic Site announced the gift of a Thomas Cole masterpiece from Susan Warner, Chairman of the Board of the Warner Foundation, founded by the late, legendary art collector Jack Warner. The painting, Hunters in a Landscape, 1824-25, is a gift from her personal collection and is one of Thomas Coles earliest works. The painting dates from the period of time when his paintings were first displayed on Lower Broadway in Manhattan, launching his career and the style of painting now known as the Hudson River School, which became the nations first major art movement. The Warner Foundation and Susan Warner have loaned two additional Thomas Cole paintings to the historic site: Autumn Landscape (View of Chocorua ... More |
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| | Nationalmuseum acquires portraits of women painters | | Pace Gallery announces David Byrne online charity exhibition to promote unity in lead-up to US election | | Exhibition at Nailya Alexander Gallery focuses on artistic representations of early Soviet aviation |
Maria Wiik, Self-Portrait, circa 1886. Oil on canvas. NM 7559. Photo: Viktor Fordell/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum in Sweden has recently acquired a self-portrait of the artist Maria Wiik and a portrait of Sigrid Lindberg by Hildegard Thorell. Both Wiik and Thorell studied in Paris at the end of the 19th century and specialised in portraiture. The acquisitions complement the works of women artists that are already in the museums collections. Maria Wiik (1853-1928) was a Finnish artist, best known for her fine strong portraits and interior images. Wiik studied at the Académie Julian, a private art school in Paris that allowed women students to enrol. While in Paris, Wiik spent time with the Swedish artists Anna Nordlander, Anna Nordgren and Amanda Sidwall. Her breakthrough came at the Finnish Art Societys autumn exhibition in 1880. Wiik began painting self-portraits very early on and continued with this her entire life, just like her close dear Helene Schjerfbeck with whom she shared a studio in Helsinki and also i ... More | |
David Byrne, A Balanced Life, 2020. Fadeproof waterproof ink on archival paper, 12" à 9" (30.5 cm à 22.9 cm), paper 14" à 11" (35.6 cm à 27.9 cm), frame © David Byrne, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced dingbats, an online exhibition of fifty unique hand drawn illustrations by interdisciplinary artist and musician David Byrne, made this year while he was solitarily isolating in his Manhattan apartment. The dingbats drawings explore themes and preoccupations associated with daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic, from uncanny scenes of domestic life to surreal figurative illustrations, seeped in metaphor of a mind plagued by loneliness, boredom, and anxiety brought on by quarantine. While some drawings are entirely literal, others are a subtle evocation of the longstanding inequities and injustices exposed by the pandemic. The dingbats are Byrnes responsean imaginative way of expressing hope, a desire for connection, and the power of community. The drawings, each priced at $3,000, ... More | |
Ivan Shagin (19041982), In Flight, 1936. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1960s, 11 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (30.2 x 35.2 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery is presenting The Powerful Wings: Soviet Aviation 1920s1930s, on view online Wednesday 14 October through Saturday 14 November. This exhibition focuses on artistic representations of early Soviet aviation, from avant-garde compositions to Socialist Realist photomontage. Leading artists of the period, including Boris Ignatovich (18991976), Boris Kudoyarov (18981973), El Lissitzky (18901941), Aleksandr Rodchenko (18911956), Nikolai Sedelnikov (19051994), Ivan Shagin (19041982), Arkady Shaikhet (18981959), and Georgy Zelma (19061984) translated the countrys ambitious plans for air travel and transport into striking new visual forms. Propelled by incredible leaps in technology, photography advanced to the forefront of both the visual arts ... More |
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| | Congo activist fined for snatching 'looted' Paris museum artefact | | Sydney Modern Project, expansion by SANAA, to transform Art Gallery of New South Wales | | Siberia's treasured wooden houses face uncertain future |
The Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza in Paris, Sept. 4, 2020. Elliott Verdier/The New York Times.
PARIS (AFP).- A Congolese activist who snatched an African artefact from a French museum to protest the looting of art during colonial times received a 1,000-euro fine for theft from a Paris court on Wednesday. Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza grabbed a 19th century Chadian funerary post during a tour of the Quai Branly museum in Paris on June 12 Shouting "we're bringing it home" he then made for the exit with four other members of an association that campaigns for the return of stolen African art before being stopped by guards. The protest, which one of the activists filmed and live-streamed on Facebook, was the first in a series by Diyabanza who has since snatched African artefacts in museums in the Netherlands and in the French port of Marseille. He faces court cases in those cities too. Wednesday's hearing came a week after French lawmakers voted to return prized artefacts to Benin and Senegal more than a century after they ... More | |
Image of the Sydney Modern Project as produced by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA © Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2018.
SYDNEY.- As it approaches its 150th anniversary in 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is undertaking a major expansion the Sydney Modern Project which will transform one of Australias flagship art museums. With construction underway and scheduled for completion in late 2022, the $344 million (AUD) transformation includes the development of a new standalone building designed by the Japanese Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA. It will be connected to the existing Gallery building via an outdoor public art garden accessible 24/7, creating a civic campus on its magnificent site overlooking Sydney Harbour. The Sydney Modern Project will also give prominence to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, as well as revitalising the Gallerys much-loved existing building with its signature collection of Australian art. AGNSW is located in the heart of Sydneys eastern cultural precinct, adjacent to ... More | |
A woman walks past former house of Russian architect Stanislav Khomich, 1904, a traditional wooden house in the Siberian city of Tomsk, on September 8, 2020. Alexander NEMENOV / AFP.
by Romain Colas
TOMSK (AFP).- The ornate wooden homes dotting the Siberian city of Tomsk are cherished landmarks, but that hasn't prevented many from falling into disrepair following years of neglect, with some now facing demolition. A scattering of the iconic buildings still boast brightly-coloured and cared-for exteriors with intricate wood carvings adorning window frames and roofs. A large number, however, look as if they have been abandoned. The townhouses represent some of the finest examples of wooden architecture in the country. Yet historians in the city say their future is uncertain, with government support too slow to respond to the urgent need to save them and commercial interests spying prime real estate. Many of the homes have only survived this long because ... More |
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Building a personal smell museum of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Deep breath. In my office, Im getting the muted smell of old cookbooks like a loaf of slightly sour bread or a package of extra thin and crisp chocolate chip cookies along with something earthier and soggier underneath it all, which I associate exclusively with public libraries on rainy days. Science writer Harold McGee calls our sense of smell the bridge between our experience of foods and our experience of the larger world. His new book, Nose Dive, is a deeply researched guide to the worlds smells, down to their volatile molecules (in the case of books, a range of wood pulp and paper fibers). Reading McGee, mostly in isolation, I started to pay more attention to the information in the air, to jot down notes about the mundane fragments floating around me as I whiffed them in. Smells informed every ... More
Magical masterpiece leads Bonhams Orientalist art sale in London
LONDON.- The 19th century American painter Edwin Lord Weeks was an inveterate traveller. Although based in Paris for most of his career, he made long painting trips abroad visiting Egypt, Persia, Morocco, among other countries. An extensive working tour of India in 1882-3 produced one of his masterpieces, The Arrival of Prince Humbert, the Rajah, at the Palace of Amber which leads Bonhams Orientalist Art sale in London on Monday 26 October. It is estimated at £500,000-700,000. Bonhams Director of 19th Century Paintings, Charles OBrien said, This is a truly remarkable painting. In his book From the Black Sea through Persia and India, Weeks wrote of the gateway of the Amber Palace having the rich tone of a cashmere shawl an observation he brilliantly captured in The Arrival of Prince Humbert, the Rajah, at the Palace of Amber. Everything ... More
PM/AM opens an exhibition of works by Anthony Miler
LONDON.- PM/AM is presenting a selection of works produced by New York artist Anthony Miler. The Brooklyn based contemporary artist produces works which contrast in approach and form. In the process of conceptualising his pieces he visits a number of personal experiences of the sensory and existential, allowing carefully considered expressions to emerge through various artistic techniques. In spring 2020 Anthony arrived in west London to begin what became a two month residency with the Fores Project in the north west of the city. During this period he was able to apply significant focus to various artistic processes, each displaying a different aspect of the interior insight that guides his hand. In this solo show PM/AM presents a selection of work produced during this period; his graphite worka highly charged yet materially reductionist ... More
The Old Windermere Fire Station transformed into a Museum of... anything you can imagine!
WINDERMERE.- A collection of miniature museums, made entirely of paper by community groups across Cumbria, went on display in a new gallery space at Windermere Jetty Museum on Friday 9 October. Museum of is an immersive display and a celebration of creativity from local community groups, schools, emerging artists at Kendal College and the University of Cumbria, and local artist Hannah Fox. Under the timbers of the beautifully restored Old Windermere Fire Station, visitors will find the most imaginative and diverse collection of museums; from a Museum of Lunches, of Leaves, of Poison, and Pork Pies to a Museum of Migrants, of Music, of Feet, of Fungi and more. Built in 1890, the Old Windermere Fire Station is of a similar design and construction to the pier houses at Bowness and Waterhead. It was moved ... More
Pirelli HangarBicocca opens a retrospective exhibition devoted to Chen Zhen
MILAN.- From 15 October 2020 to 21 February 2021, Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Short-circuits a retrospective exhibition curated by Vicente TodolÃ, devoted to Chen Zhen, one of the leading figures of contemporary art. Celebrated by the worlds most important museums, the artist managed to bridge the gap between the art of the East and that of the West, with works of great visual impact that anticipated the socio-political complexities of today, addressing themes such as globalisation and consumerism, and their relationship with tradition. The display includes more than twenty large-scale installations created by the artist in the last ten years of his life, until 2000, with numerous loans from major Italian and international institutions and collections. The exhibition is a journey through some of the artists most important works, which convey the ... More
Is it streetwear or is it art?
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As the number of abandoned storefronts and closed retail outlets continues to mount, the once unremarkable activity of shopping at brick-and-mortar stores can feel like reality askew like a stroll through the Twilight Zone. As this glum new normal becomes, well, the norm, signs of life can be almost as jarring. Take, for instance, a pair of storefront windows on Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood. Just recently they were lifeless reminders of an upscale furniture store, now defunct. Then, in August, they began to fill with seemingly unconnected objects: bluejeans piled in a chest-high mound, a lounge chair upholstered in denim, a mannequin in a jumpsuit with an eyeball for a head standing amid a sea of paint-splattered drop cloths. Hand-painted signage in the other window offered only ... More
Exhibition brings together paintings by Enoc Perez and photographs by Brigitte Schindler and Carlo Mollino
REGGIO EMILIA .- Drawing inspiration from the Fotografia Europea 2020 theme Fantasies: Narratives, Rules, Inventions, * Collezione Maramotti, in collaboration with Museo Casa Mollino, is presenting Mollino/Insides, an exhibition that brings together paintings by Enoc Perez and photographs by Brigitte Schindler and Carlo Mollino. The show begins with glimpses of Mollinos last, mysterious residence in Via Napione, Turin now a museum as transformed by Perezs brush and Schindlers lens, and end with Mollinos own photographs of models, which blur into the enigmatic essence of the imaginary they inhabit. Since the late 1990s, NYC-based Puerto Rican artist Enoc Perez has been investigating iconic buildings of the twentieth century and the role they have taken on in the popular imagination, as social metaphors of fascination and beauty. ... More
Exhibition of new works by Richard Tuttle on view at Modern Art
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting an exhibition of new works by Richard Tuttle. This is his fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. A book published for this occasion including Tuttles new work alongside a series of his corresponding poems accompanies the exhibition. Titled TheStars, Tuttles new body of sculptures for Modern Art were made during the summer of 2019 at his home and studio in Mount Desert, Maine. The works are small in scale, each sculptures spontaneous construction belying an unparalleled potency and elegance. As such, TheStars bears a clear resemblance to some of Tuttles early work from the 1970s, such as his iconic Rope Piece (1974), which came to typify his bold approach to scale. As well as in their size, the modest, simple materials employed in TheStars share the same essence characteristic of the sculptural ... More
The Winter Visual Arts Building opens at Franklin & Marshall College
LANCASTER, PA.- On the historic campus of Franklin & Marshall College, the new Winter Visual Arts Building takes shape as a raised pavilion formed by the sites 200-year old trees, the oldest elements of the campus. A new campus destination for all students, the buildings spaces aim to evoke the creative energy involved in teaching and making art. A first reflection of the new Winter Visual Arts Building for Franklin & Marshall College led Steven Holl to remember Benjamin Franklin's kite on the rainy and thunderstruck night when he first harnessed electricity. Steven Holl's initial sketches of a building like a kite stuck in the trees were a playful beginning. The college's fifty-two-acre campus is an arboretum of more than one thousand trees. On further study SHA realized that these great trees are the oldest and most prominent geometric force ... More
Socrates Director to step down in coming year
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- John Hatfield, Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park since 2012, has announced his plans to step down after nine years leading the outdoor sculpture park. His departure will occur when a successor is chosen. A transition committee has been appointed by the Board to conduct this important search and expects a new Executive Director to begin by mid-2021. Hatfields tenure at Socrates has been marked by the celebration the Parks 30th Anniversary; the initiation of important commissions in the Park by acclaimed artists such as Agnes Denes and Nari Ward; a significantly expanded digital presence and publication program; dramatic improvements to the facilities; and greatly enhanced social and education programming all of which has made Socrates a cultural anchor to the Queens community and a nationally ... More
Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist for 'Les Misérables,' dies at 95
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Herbert Kretzmer, a London theater critic who wrote the English lyrics to an all-but-forgotten French musical called Les Misérables in 1985, giving new life to what has become one of the worlds most successful theater productions, died Wednesday at his home in London. He was 95. Marc Berlin, Kretzmers agent, confirmed the death. A South African journalist who sold his accordion to buy passage to Europe, Kretzmer failed as a novelist in Paris, playing piano in a brasserie for meals. A thief stole all of his money on his first day in London. He wrote features and columns for London newspapers and became a theater critic for The Daily Express for 16 years and then a television critic for The Daily Mail for eight more. But he loved music, and starting in 1960, while still writing for newspapers, he began ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist James Tissot was born October 15, 1836. James Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 - 8 August 1902) was a French painter, who spent much of his career in Britain. Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time in 1859, where he showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp in 1859, over his work. In this image: Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale (The Circle of the Rue Royale), 1868.
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