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Giant images of the real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his new wife, Patricia Landau, on the side of a luxury condominium building that he built in New York on March 9, 2019. Macklowe's divorce from Linda Macklowe is the latest rancorous breakup in the moneyed world of New York, but this one comes with the added twist of an impressive art collection that has been valued at as much as nearly $1 billion. Holly Pickett/The New York Times.
by James Barron
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- There is the $72 million apartment, so large it runs the full length of one side of the Plaza Hotel, with windows overlooking Central Park. A second Manhattan apartment is high up in one of the tallest buildings in the Western Hemisphere, along the so-called Billionaires Row. The $19 million house in the Hamptons on Long Island has neighbors with boldface names, including Martha Stewart and Steven Spielberg. The $23.5 million yacht is a 150-foot-long prizewinner. And then there is the art collection, an enormous trove of masterpieces that the judge presiding over the divorce described as extraordinary and internationally renowned and that has become the latest chapter in the exes rancorous unraveling. Among the more than 150 pieces are multiple works by Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In conversation with artworks from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' permanent collection, thirteen contemporary artists look at history to find new meaning in the present, in this collaborative exhibition from PAFA and the KADIST art foundation.
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| | Stanford acquires masterworks by Pollock and de Kooning | | Newly discovered Calder earrings lead Lark Mason Associates Fine Art Sale | | New blaze in Ventura County threatens Reagan Library |
Jackson Pollock, Totem Lesson I, 1944. Oil on canvas, 70 x 44 in. Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Gift of Mary Margaret Anderson © 2019 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
STANFORD, CA.- To mark its fifth anniversary, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University was gifted two major works of art, Jackson Pollocks 1944 Totem Lesson 1 and Willem de Koonings c. 1949 Gansevoort Street, by its eponymous supporter Mary Margaret Moo Anderson. Anderson donated the works in advance of her death on October 22 and in anticipation of the launch of a tandem effort to raise $10 million to enhance funding for the museums programs and exhibitions, which are free and open to the public. By donating two of the most sought-after New York School paintings in private hands to Stanford, Moo Anderson continued to exemplify her strong conviction that art is to be shared and to be lived, said Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne. This act of tremendous generosity ... More | |
Pair of earrings, circa 1930, made by Alexander Calder, 1898-1976. Est. $60,000-100,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bidding is now open for the Lark Mason Associates sale of fine art, which includes a recently discovered pair of earrings, circa 1930, made by Alexander Calder (1898-1976), the noted 20th century American sculptor. Though primarily recognized for his iconic large public works and mobiles, it is surmised that while he was on a three-month tour of Europe, he created the earrings- a simple, miniature version of his kinetic mobiles-which he gifted to a family friend (est.: $60,000-100,000). Other highlights include Live Oak Trees in Sunlight, by Robert Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922). The San Antonio native and student of William Meritt Chase created this rarely produced large-sized work, measuring 33 ½ x 38 ½ inches, in 1916. Consigned by the family of the original owner, the painting displays the artist's characteristic style and images of bluebonnets in a hill country landscape (est.: $300,000-500,000). Flowers form a sub-theme in t ... More | |
The Easy fire burns along Tierra Rejada Road in Simi Valley, Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Kyle Grillot/The New York Times.
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A fast-moving brush fire that was touched off early Wednesday burned its way to about 100 yards from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, forcing thousands to flee the area. Police and fire vehicles could be seen surrounding the library compound in the morning, and helicopters flew low overhead, dropping water and fire retardant on the flames. The blaze, named the Easy fire, began just after 6 a.m., which Mark Lorenzen, chief of the Ventura County Fire Department, said was about the worst time it could happen because of the strong winds and dry vegetation that was ripe and ready to carry fire. Between 8 and 10 a.m., the fire tripled in size to cover 1,300 acres, putting more than 26,000 residents in evacuation zones. California faced the worst kind of weather for wildfires Wednesday strong, gusty winds and very low humidity. Officials feared that the gusts ... More |
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| | Hudson River School landscapes from the New-York Historical Society on view at the Taft Museum of Art | | Haroon Mirza and Gaia Fugazza open exhibition at Häusler Contemporary Zurich | | Christie's announces the fall sales of American Art |
Asher B. Durand, Group of Trees, 18551857, oil on canvas, 24 Ã 18 in. New-York Historical Society, Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund, 1887.8.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Majestic mountains. Tranquil valleys. Enchanting forests. Shimmering lakes. Luminous skies. These inspiring images of America are hallmarks of the Hudson River School, our nations first major artistic movement. A stunning array of over 40 paintings from the New-York Historical Societys collection by renowned Hudson River School artists are on view at the Taft Museum of Art from October 5 January 12, 2020 in the exhibition, The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society. These artistss views of nature forged an essential part of Americas national identity as people sought respite from rapidly expanding cities during an age of industrial progress during the mid to late 19th century. Works by well-known painters including Thomas Cole, Asher ... More | |
Installation view.
ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary Zürich is presenting for the first time a double exhibition of native Italian artist Gaia Fugazza and Pakistani-British artist Haroon Mirza. In different ways both their works combine contemporary and primeval processes with natural and man-made materials, thus opening up a multi-layered space for reflection on humanity within the world. Electronic equipment and organic substances, geometric structures and archaic-figurative-looking imagery at first glance, the encounter of the works of Gaia Fugazza and Haroon Mirza seem contradictory and diverse. It is the first time that the artists, who are also a couple, are showing together in a two-person exhibition, and Häusler Contemporary Zürich provides the setting for this exclusive artistic dialogue. In doing so, we open up a space for the parallel consideration of these two very distinct oeuvres, both of which raise questions about the world we ... More | |
Newell Convers Wyeth, 1882-1945. "Oh, Morgan's men are out for you; and Blackbeard--buccaneer!...", oil on canvas, painted in 1917. Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the fall sales of American Art will feature an outstanding selection of the most important artists representing the category, ranging from American Modernism and Illustration to the Hudson River School and art of the American West. The sale is highlighted by several distinguished private collections that offer rare and fresh to the market works, including Andrew Wyeths Olivers Cap (estimate: $3,000,000 5,000,000) from the Collection of Ron and Diane Disney Miller, Norman Rockwells Harvest Moon (estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000) from The Collection of Richard L. Weisman, and Georgia O'Keeffe's Pink Spotted Lillies (estimate: $1,200,000-1,800,000) from The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. The ... More |
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| | Huxley-Parlour Gallery opens an exhibition of new oil paintings by Eileen Cooper RA | | Christie's announces highlights of the Exceptional Sale in Paris | | Ketterer Kunst announces highlights included in its anniversary auction of rare books in Hamburg |
Eileen Cooper, 'Take Five', 2019, oil on canvas, 48 Ã 36 in (122 Ã 92 cm).
LONDON.- Huxley-Parlour Gallery is presenting Personal Space, an exhibition of new oil paintings by the acclaimed British artist Eileen Cooper RA. The 15 new works presented fuse objective drawing from life, a new part of her practice, with the instantly recognisable, imaginative works she is known for. The focus of the exhibition is on the female figure in private and intimate spaces, expanding on themes Cooper has explored throughout her forty-year career, those of universal female experience, primarily fertility, sexuality and motherhood. The works depict woman engaged in intimate and sometimes simple acts, including brushing or washing hair or applying make-up.Through these works, Cooper investigates the rhythms and rituals of getting ready. Other paintings celebrate female friendship, sisterhood and sense of self. All of the subjects appear confident, gazing stridently out at the viewer or ... More | |
Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, Maurice Masson, Parisian banker and collector who directly ordered him this bronze. This sculpture is the first one of this size, 104,4 cm, cast in 1904 and sold the year. Indeed, Masson payed attention to the originality and exclusivity of the works he acquired from Rodin. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- Christies presents two auctions, The Exceptional Sale on the 27 November and The Collector Le Goût français on the 28 November, both dedicated to classical and decorative arts. They will include a many works coming from prestigious provenances and collections, from different periods highlighted by the creator Elie Top. I owe a lot to fashion. Because without Chanel, I wouldnt have known anything about Verdura, Iribe or Sert, without Karl Lagerfeld, nothing about Jean Fouquet, Riesener or Biedermeier, without Yves Saint Laurent nothing about Boivin, Dunand or Michel Frank So when I discovered the objects to offer by Christies, an imaginary round of yesterday's rivals, of ... More | |
Marc Chagall, Daphnis & Chloé, Paris, Tériade 1961. Estimate: 100,000.
HAMBURG.- Mankind has been fascinated by the Word of God for millennia. Next to the Fust-Schöffer-Bible from Johann Gutenbergs printing press (estimate: 1,000,000, see separate press release) an important bible edition by Marc Chagall will be called up in the Rare Book Auction in Hamburg on November 25 in context of the 65th anniversary of Ketterer Kunst. IRRETRIEVABLE: Marc Chagalls acclaimed series of etchings with bible scenes is inimitable both in terms of completeness and its artistic significance. The artist himself saw it as his most important contri-bution to graphic art. The two-volume work was made over a period of 25 years and the printing plates were destroyed after it had been completed. It will enter the bidding race with an estimate of 35,000. COLORFUL: Another magnum opus among Marc Chagalls book illustrations is the famous lithographic cycle Daphnis & Chloé. Apart ... More |
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| | Sotheby's now has a wine label of its own | | A panel discussion with leading design and style influencers at the AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show | | Jacqueline Kennedy letters lead Heritage Auctions' Estate of John and Elaine Steinbeck Manuscripts Sale |
2018 Sothebys Sancerre Rosé. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's Wine today announced their latest brand expansion with the roll out of Sothebys Own Label Collection wines. The retail brand that grew from the storied auction house has tapped into its decades of expertise and a rich network of relationships with respected growers to curate this 12-bottle assortment, with prices ranging from $16.95 to $39.95. Now available for sale exclusively at the brands flagship retail store in New York and on their e-commerce platform, this collection continues the brands expansion into the fine wine retail business. Jamie Ritchie, Chairman of Sothebys Wine, remarked: We are excited to launch our initial range of Sothebys Own Label wines, each of which offers great value for money. Buying wine can be intimidating and finding wines that are typical of their region, at attractive prices, can be challenging. Our team has the passion, knowledge and winemaker ... More | |
Caleb Anderson, Drake/Anderson Design. Photo: Brittany Ambridge.
NEW YORK, NY.- When the AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show opens its doors for its five-day run on Thursday, October 31, visitors will have the opportunity to cast their eyes on an alluring bounty of fine and decorative arts treasures. On Saturday, November 2, at 1:00 p.m. they will be treated to a panel discussion, The New Connoisseurs: Collecting With Personal Style, that considers how those treasures might be collectedand coveted. Moderated by noted design historian and author Emily Eerdmans and antiques expert Michael Diaz-Griffith, the panel includes Caleb Anderson, co-founder of the innovative multi-disciplinary interior design partnership Drake/Anderson, Hadley Keller, senior editor of House Beautiful, and Adam Lippes, the renowned fashion designer. When the AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show opens its doors for its five-day run on Thursday, October 31, visitors will have the opportunity ... More | |
Jacqueline Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed "Jacqueline Kennedy." Six pages on yellow legal paper, 8" x 12.5", No place; March 22, 1964. Imaged by Heritage Auctions.
DALLAS, TX.- A letter signed by former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy inspired two dozen bidders before closing at $18,750 to lead Heritage Auctions 35-lot Estate of John and Elaine Steinbeck Manuscripts Internet Auction to $154,216. The final price for Jacqueline Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed "Jacqueline Kennedy" was 7.5 times the pre-auction estimate of $2,500+. The six-page handwritten later, dated March 22, 1964, was written by Kennedy to Steinbeck. In it, she answered questions about her late husband, former president John F. Kennedy. The questions are believed to have been meant for inclusion in a JFK biography that Steinbeck never ended up writing. Another Jacqueline Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed raced past its pre-auction estimate of $2,000+ when it drew ... More |
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Frederick Fisher and Partners design USC's newest building for innovation and entrepreneurship,
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Arts and tech entrepreneurs Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young (Dr. Dre) established the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy (Academy) in 2013, with the vision to launch a daring educational startup that offered a new form of education that focuses on the intersection of four essential disciplines identified by the Academy as New Literacies for the 21st century: art and design, engineering and computer science, business and venture management, and communication. The Academys innovative program has earned widespread academic and industry recognition, and in 2016, USC engaged Frederick Fisher and Partners (FF&P) to design a purpose-built, permanent home for the Academy, which will be formally dedicated on October 2, 2019. The vision for the 40,000-square-foot Iovine and Young Hall was to act ... More
Trains take the spotlight as Swann celebrates 20 years of travel poster auctions
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries Thursday, November 14 sale of Rare & Important Travel Posters marks the houses twentieth annual sale in the category. A private collection of railway posters forms the cornerstone of the sale; also included are destination and resort advertisements, ocean liners, aviation and rarely seen designs. The extraordinary private collection of American railway postersthe best the house has offeredincludes a visual history from the early years of the New York Central Lines to the Streamliner trains of the 1930s and 40s. Highlights include Leslie Ragans Art Deco image of one of the last centurys most famous American trains, The New 20th Century Limited, 1939, estimated at $8,000 to $12,000 and Ragans first poster for the New York Central Lines, Chicago / New York Central Lines, 1929, at $5,000 to $7,500. Further rail ... More
This rainforest trills, burbles and booms
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Since the Museum of Modern Art reopened this month, it has devoted its fourth-floor Studio space to a strangely wonderful, interactive installation: David Tudors Rainforest V (variation 1). Throughout the room hang about 20 mundane objects, including a metal barrel, a wooden box, a lampshade, a reflective disc, a glass jar, a vintage computers hard drive and more. Collectively they become a kind of urban jungle, suspended like Calder mobiles with the anti-utilitarian aesthetic of Duchamp readymades. Then, as you wander around them, you realize: This jungle emits noises, and they alter according to your proximity. You may also notice that every object is fitted with a sound transducer, giving each its own resonance. The box, the can, the jar theyre all acoustic sources, as if they were seashells. A window ... More
The National Gallery of Canada names Kitty Scott as Deputy Director and Chief Curator
OTTAWA.- Dr. Sasha Suda, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, announced today the appointment of Kitty Scott as its new Deputy Director and Chief Curator, effective January 6, 2020. With 25 years of major museum and gallery experience across Canada and internationally, Ms. Scott brings her expertise and a global network of artists, scholars, collectors and museum professionals to the Gallery. It is always a great honour to work with art and artists, said Ms. Scott. I look forward to my first day at the gallery and to engaging with the remarkable collection. I am excited to lead a team that thinks about significant treasures from the past alongside important contemporary works of art from around the world, as a way to imagine our future. Most recently the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario ... More
Art Gallery of Ontario celebrates twenty years of Art Toronto and acquires three new works
TORONTO.- Art Toronto 2019 launched its twentieth anniversary edition with the Opening Night Preview Gala to benefit the Art Gallery of Ontario. The AGO acquired new and recent work by Duane Linklater, Celia Perrin Sidarous and Rajni Perera. The three works were purchased with funds from the Dr. Michael Braudo Canadian Contemporary Art Fund and the Art Toronto 2019 Opening Night. This is the fourteenth consecutive year that the AGO has purchased artwork at Art Toronto Opening Night. Over $600,000 CAD was raised by the Gala to support these acquisitions as well as the museums ongoing exhibitions and public access programs. Kitty Scott, the AGOs Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, led the museums selection committee, which included Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art; Sophie Hackett, ... More
At Kabul's public library, using verse to make sense of a world of conflict
KABUL (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- For more than 50 years now, a mystic poet has kept a quiet window desk at the Kabul Public Library. His seat overlooks the hustle and bustle of the Afghan capital city, all but unrecognizable from the day he arrived as a young library clerk one with a dreamy mind and stammering speech but fine calligraphic handwriting that helped land him his day job. As governments toppled around him, Afghanistan sank deeper into flames of war that still burn. But Haidari Wujodi, 80, maintained his daily routine, switching his shoes for comfortable sandals that he wears with socks as he arrives at his desk behind stacks of fraying periodicals. His flask of tea fills and empties. Until his official retirement a few years ago, Wujodi was in charge of the periodicals section. But his life is so intertwined with the third floor corner of the library ... More
Karla Black exhibits new works in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt's Rotunda
FRANKFURT.- Karla Blacks extensive sculptures possess an ambiguous, fragile beauty. Delicate pastel shades and plastic film, light and reflections lend them a weightless quality despite their often large formats. Her works move within the bounds of installation, painting, and performance and ultimately aspire to be self-contained sculptures. From October 25, 2019, to January 19, 2020, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting new works by the Scottish artist developed specifically for the Schirn Rotunda. The large-format, transparent sculpture Conditions (2019) occupies the center of the circular building and thus the direct passage through the publicly accessible space. Shards of colored glass injure the soft surface of a Vaseline landscape, on which colored particles and traces of its fabrication are visible. The material is held by cellophane; sticky ... More
Chou Wen-Chung, composer and calligrapher in sound, dies at 96
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Chou Wen-Chung, a composer, teacher and cultural diplomat who taught a coterie of celebrated and award-winning Chinese composers and who tended to the legacy of Edgard Varèse, the linchpin of American modernism, died Friday at his home in New York City. He was 96. His son Sumin Chou confirmed the death. Chou left a relatively small body of compositions, but his fastidious and elegant works are filled with emotional eddies. He wrote mostly for Western instruments, but made them bend single notes to accommodate the microtonal flexibility of Chinese music. In Yu Ko (1965), for mixed ensemble, he drew lilting sounds from brass instruments that create a sense of haunting melancholy. In the Larghetto of his String Quartet No. 1 (Clouds), a keening cello solo evokes the sounds of the Chinese bowed ... More
Toledo Museum of Art's Halona Norton-Westbrook to lead Honolulu Museum of Art
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art announces that Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Halona Norton-Westbrook has been named the director of the Honolulu Museum of Art in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her last day at TMA will be Dec. 5, 2019. She begins her new post in Honolulu Jan. 6, 2020. Diane C. Wright, the Museums senior curator of glass and decorative arts, will serve as interim director of curatorial affairs while a search is conducted for Norton-Westbrooks replacement. In her current role as Director of Curatorial Affairs, Norton-Westbrook leads the Museum's curatorial initiatives and has shepherded the 2020 gallery plan in concert with TMAs Master Site Plan. In addition, Norton-Westbrook provides strategic direction to the curatorial, exhibitions, conservation and publication teams, ... More
Classic & Contemporary Photographs brings $1.5M at Swann
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries Thursday, October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs featured a broad range of photographic material. The sale cast a wide net with icons of popular culture, important historical images and classic masterpieces of fine art photography, noted Daile Kaplan, the houses Director of Photographs & Photobooks. Edward S. Curtiss portfolios and orotones attracted robust bidding. Highlights included Prayer to the Stars, orotone plate, 1904, that earned a record for the image $21,250; The North American Indian, Portfolio II, with 33 photogravures, 1908, which reached $27,500; and The North American Indian, Portfolio IX, 25 photogravures, 1913, which brought $13,750. Irving Penns sumptuous platinum-palladium print Cuzco Children, Peru, December, 1948, printed 1978, led the sale at $93,750. Also by ... More
P·P·O·W presents an exhibition of works by Sanam Khatibi
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W presents An hour before the Devil fell, Sanam Khatibis first solo show in the United States. Featuring new paintings by the self-taught Belgian artist, this exhibition both captivates and repels in its interrogation of personal and political power structures within its entirely ambiguous, impartial, and sometimes cruel setting. Reframing allegorical scenes in alluring, exotic and incredibly detailed landscapes, Khatibi creates worlds where primal impulses and unrestrained judgement rein. Here nymph-like figures conquer and are conquered in equal measure by the flora and fauna around them. Adorned with waves of unpainted hair, these women are ambiguous in their relationship to power, violence, ritual, sexuality, and each other. In addition to her painting and drawing, Khatibi intuitively utilizes multiple mediums such as sculpture, ceramics, and embroidery ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was born October 31, 1632. Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (October 1632 - December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings. In this image: Participants of a press conference look at a painting, entitled Holding a Balance, by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany, 16 March 2011.
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