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William Kentridge, NY, South Africa, b 1955, sculpture for return (Commendatore Naso), bronze, 2008.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Everard Auctions inaugural sale of Mid-Century Modern and Contemporary Art and Design is open for bidding through June 30 on www.iGavelAuctions.com. Says Amanda Everard, Were delighted to present our first auction of mid-twentieth century furniture and decorative arts which features 150 outstanding lots furniture, ceramics and lighting and fine art from a Whos Who of design luminaries and artists. Headlining the sale are two works by South African artist William Kentridge titled Horse (Universal Archive), Linocut on Dictionary Pages, with an estimate of $20,000-30,000, and a bronze titled Sculpture for Return (Commendatore Naso), that rotates to form a nose at a specific angle, estimated at $40,000-60,000. Other works from the collection include a rare Wendell Castle stump-form fiberglass stool produced in 1969 estimated at $10,000-15,000 as well as a pair of bronze and wood candlesticks by the artist (Est. $ ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Serge Lasvignes, president of the Centre Georges Pompidou modern art museum, currently closed to the public, poses at the museum on June 15, 2020 in Paris, before its reopening scheduled on July 1, following the easing of the lockdown measures taken in France to curb the spread of COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus. Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP
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| | Masterwork Basquiat 'Head' joins Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction | | Museums embrace art therapy techniques for unsettled times | | Trustees approve proposal to name new art museum |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Heads on paper (estimate $9/12 million). Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys debuts the full contents of the New York Contemporary Art Evening Auction, to be held live on 29 June. The digital catalogue is now live on sothebys.com, featuring enhanced visual storytelling through video, interactive media, and more rich content. Sothebys three New York evening sales on 29 June will be presided-over remotely by Chairman and auctioneer Oliver Barker from London, and will be live-streamed to the world. Bidders can take part live via Sothebys state-of-the-art proprietary bidding platform, or on the phone with Sothebys specialists on phone banks around the globe in New York, Hong Kong and London. The auctioneer will see and accept bids via zero-latency video streams, broadcast to giant screens in an impressive control center studio setup. All works on offer are now on exhibition in Sothebys York Avenue galleries, which are open by ... More | |
In an undated image provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Honoré Daumiers The Laundress (1863). The Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When the instructor asked him to describe his life in two words, Walter Enriquez chose carefully: fear and violence. He had spent decades as a policeman in Peru during the bloodiest days of armed conflict between government forces and guerrilla fighters that killed nearly 70,000 people. But he said that nothing could have prepared him for the extreme isolation and loneliness that come with quarantine. Having lost a handful of his friends and neighbors to the coronavirus pandemic, the 75-year-old retiree has turned toward art therapy programs offered by the Queens Museum in New York to improve his mental health. We cannot go outside and enjoy our lives like before, Enriquez said ... More | |
Jerome Witkin, Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. James Palmer, 1983, oil on canvas, 44 x 40 inches. Palmer Museum of Art, Bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019.120. © Jerome Witkin.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- A proposal to name a planned new art museum at University Park in honor of the late Barbara and James Palmer was approved by the Penn State Board of Trustees. Penn State President Eric J. Barron said the landmark new building will be named to honor the original donors whose unparalleled support laid the foundation for the Universitys leadership in the arts. When the existing Palmer Museum of Art moves into its new facility in the Arboretum at Penn State, it will continue to bear the name of the late Barbara and James Palmer, whose cumulative gifts to the museum are valued at more than $50 million. Barbara and Jim believed deeply in the role that the arts can play in the lives of students, families and citizens of our region, said Barron. Over 45 years, they invested their philanthropy and their service ... More |
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| | Masterwork by Henry Moore at Bonhams New York Impressionist & Modern Art Auction | | The statues were toppled. What happens to them now? | | Contemporary Chinese photography has become a significant part of permanent collections at major international museums |
Henry Moore, 1898-1986, Two Piece Sculpture No. 7: Pipe, conceived in 1966. 37 in 94 cm. length. Estimate: $550,000-800,000. © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020 / www.henry-moore.org. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- The British sculptor Henry Moore was always a shrewd interpreter of his own work. After a career spent mastering technically complex expressions of the human form, he moved in his mature years towards a more purist, stylized idiom. As Moore once said, it was a change in approach enabled him to present the human psychological context of my work with the greatest clearness and intensity. Two Piece Sculpture No. 7: Pipe is a perfect example of what the artist meant. It leads Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale in New York on Tuesday 7 July. Sculpted in 1966, is estimated at $550,000-800,000. Bonhams Director of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York, Molly Ott Ambler, said: With its nuanced surface and near-abstract manner, Two Piece Sculpture No. 7: Pipe brilliantly exemplifies the shift in Henry Moores development towards abstraction. The pointed, almost piercing element stands in sharp contrast to the ... More | |
The plinth of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, England, now surrounded by messages of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, June 11, 2020. James Beck/The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Guido Gryseels has been getting calls for a week, asking if hed give some statues a new home. Hes the director of the Africa Museum in Tervuren, Belgium, and his institution, originally founded by Leopold II, might seem like a logical place to house monuments to the 19th-century king whose reign in Congo saw the murder and mutilation of at least 10 million Africans. He is pretty tentative about the offers. After protesters dumped paint on a statue of Leopold II in the city of Antwerp and then set it afire two weeks ago, other Leopold statues have been vandalized and more than 78,000 signatures have been added to a petition to remove all of the monuments to the king in Belgium. Gryseels estimates that there are somewhere between 300 to 400 of them, and he is worried about turning his museum, which has tried to work through its ... More | |
Installation view of the exhibition Mapping Space: Recent Acquisitions in Focus, featuring the work of Wang Jinsong at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
February 26 July 14, 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the early 1990s, contemporary Chinese photography has become an increasingly vital visual record of Chinese history that is now widely appreciated by museum audiences around the world, and museums are now focused on acquiring works of contemporary Chinese photography like never before. Contemporary Chinese photography has entered into a new era of recognition as international institutions and museums have made this work a top priority for acquisition and exhibition, paving the way for its enduring place in art history. The growing list of museums that now possess rare works of contemporary Chinese photography in their permanent collections includes (date indicates year(s) the museum received works of contemporary Chinese photography). These landmark acquisition efforts and the decisive increase in the permanent holdings of contemporary Chinese photography ... More |
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| | Design Trust Charity Auction to be offered as part of Phillips' Hong Kong 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Sale | | Construction of the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen - the world's first publicly accessible art depot - is almost complete | | 'Gone with the Wind' removed from HBO Max after racism protests |
Mak Ying Tung 2, (Donated by de Sarthe Gallery and Mak Ying Tung 2), Home Sweet Home: Rosy Drone, 2019, acrylic on canvas, triptych. Estimate: HKD 80,000-120,000.
HONG KONG.- Design Trust and Phillips present DESIGN TRUST Charity Auction as part of Phillips Hong Kong 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale. Design Trust is a non-profit grant-funding platform founded by a group of individuals from Hong Kongs design community. This section of the sale will feature 14 works generously donated by international artists, collectors, galleries and designers, including Michael Lau, anothermountainman, Cao Fei and Vitamin Creative Space, MAP Office, Studio Swine, Michael Young, Debbie Lo Creativity Foundation, Zaha Hadid Design, Enrico Marone Cinzano and Pearl Lam Galleries, Nils Neckel / Designlink, The Haas Brothers and R & Company, Mak Ying Tung 2 and de Sarthe Gallery, Adrian Wong, and Michael Anastassiades. All proceeds will go towards supporting Design Trusts core ... More | |
The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is designed by Rotterdam-based architecture firm MVRDV, led by Winy Maas.
ROTTERDAM.- This September 25 - 27 the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen will open to the public. This will be the only chance for visitors to fully explore this unique building - including the roof garden with its view over Rotterdam - before it closes once more to enable the move of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museums collection of over 151,000 artworks into the building. The fully furnished and functioning building will open to the public in Autumn 2021. The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is designed by Rotterdam-based architecture firm MVRDV, led by Winy Maas. Once complete it be a major architectural icon for the city of Rotterdam and also for The Netherlands. The Depot will demonstrate a new model for the exploration, discovery and interaction with museum collections. It will be the first museum storage facility in the world to offer public access to the largest part of the 151,000 artworks from the Museum ... More | |
A copy of the book "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, signed by producer, director, and most of speaking cast of the 1939 Hollywood film. Gabriel BOUYS / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- "Gone with the Wind" was removed from the HBO Max streaming platform Tuesday, as mass protests against racism and police brutality prompt television networks to reassess their offerings. The multiple Oscar-winning US Civil War epic released in 1939 remains the highest-grossing movie of all time adjusted for inflation, but its depiction of contented slaves and heroic slaveholders has garnered criticism. "'Gone With The Wind' is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society," an HBO Max spokesperson said in a statement to AFP. "These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible." Demonstrations have ... More |
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| | Lockdown effect sees spirited bidding for home grown artists | | Massimo De Carlo announces the exclusive representation of Dennis Kardon | | Gagosian exhibits new editions of furniture pieces from the legendary Casa Malaparte |
The sale included a broad selection of British and Continental paintings and sculptures, with bidding from the US to Sri Lanka.
LONDON.- Specialist Jane Oakley was delighted with the results at Sworders Modern British and 20th Century Art Live Online auction on June 10. Overall, it was a hugely encouraging day for the market, showing that despite the uncertainties, people still want to buy art. I think you might call it the lockdown effect. Having a captive audience of buyers cooped up at home worked in our favour. Prices were off the register for many pieces." The sale included a broad selection of British and Continental paintings and sculptures, with bidding from the US to Sri Lanka. As always, there was a particularly strong selection of East Anglian works a vibrant collecting area in which Sworders continue to enjoy great success. In the wake of an auction record of £204,160 bid in Stansted Mountfitchet last year for Foxglove by Cedric Morris, another fine painting by the Suffolk artist-plantsman came for sale from an Oxfordshi ... More | |
Dennis Kardon, When Habits Become Rituals, 2018. Oil on linen, 76.2 Ã 91.5 cm / 30 Ã 36 inches. Photo by Pierre Le Hors. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan / London / Hong Kong.
MILAN.- Massimo De Carlo announced that the gallery is now exclusively representing the artist. Dennis Kardon (USA, 1950 lives and works in New York) is a graduate of Yale University, took part in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and was a student of Chuck Close and Al Held. For several decades, Dennis Kardon has been experimenting with paintings ability to encompass the spectrum between abstraction and hyperreal representation. With an almost hallucinatory power, Kardon treats the surface of his canvases as a field with various properties of reflection or distortion, resulting in a narrative that seems to have been disrupted by an unexpected event. Kardons examination of the human figure digs into the psyche contradicting stereotypes and preformed ideas. The artists whimsical tone serves to pervade his paintings with a discomforting ... More | |
Production of the editions of the Malaparte furniture. Photo: Dariusz Jasak. Courtesy of Gagosian. Copyright © the Artists.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting new editions of furniture pieces from the legendary Casa Malaparte in Capri, Italy. In 1937, renowned author Curzio Malaparteborn as Kurt Erich Suckert in 1898purchased a plot of land overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. There, he supervised the construction of Casa Malaparte, his residence and architectural brainchild, to which he referred affectionately as casa come me (house like me). Designed in its entirety by Malaparte, from floor plan to furniture, the house blends classical and modernist influences, united under one roof with inimitable poetic drama. From the curving white windbreak that arcs across its roof terrace to its deliberately secluded location atop a jutting promontory, Casa Malaparte embodies its makers renegade streak. Notorious for vacillating between religious and political ideological extremes, ... More |
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Two Fancy Vivid heart-shaped rings to lead Sotheby's HK Magnificent Jewels live auction
HONG KONG.- Hot on the heels of its three consecutive 100%-sold online jewellery sales over the past two months, Sothebys Hong Kong will present Magnificent Jewels on 10 July 2020 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which marks the return of live jewellery auctions in Asia. Featuring over 200 lots, Magnificent Jewels will present a sophisticated curation of world class gemstones and statement signed jewels, led by a pair of exceptionally rare Fancy Vivid colored diamond rings (to be offered separately) - a Fancy Vivid Pink and a Fancy Vivid Blue weighing 4.49 carat and 5.04 carat respectively, both cut into charming heart shapes. Iconic creations from luxury houses include a glamorous pair of Colombian Emerald and Diamond Earrings from Harry Winston (HK$12,000,000 15,000,000 / US$1,550,000 1,940,000), the famed Zip ... More
Bangkok Art Biennale confirms 2020 opening with a selection of artists for its second edition
BANGKOK.- Bangkok Art Biennale 2020, curated under the theme, Escape Routes, will take place from 29 October 2020 until 31 January 2021. Today, 56 out of 82 selected artists are revealed, among them include: Anish Kapoor, Marina Abramović, Bill Viola, Andres Serrano, Yoko Ono, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Leandro Erlich, Dinh Q. Lê, Lu Yang, Rachel Maclean, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsuk, Choy Ka Fai, Christian Jankowski, Elina Brotherus, Massimo Bartolini, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, and New-Territories. The international advisory committee includes David Stuart Elliott, Alexandra Munroe, Nanjo Fumio, Marina Abramović and Wang Chen. The biennale welcomes 51 artists from 34 nations, alongside 31 Thai artists and will be showcased across nine venues including Bangkoks contemporary arts centre, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and Museum Siam, which ... More
Machu Picchu to sharply limit visits after July reopening in Peru
LIMA (AFP).- The ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a jewel of Peruvian tourism, will sharply reduce the number of daily visitors once it reopens from a virus-imposed closure in July, officials said. Given the need for social distancing and other measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, only 675 visitors will be allowed in each day -- one-quarter the usual number, Jean Paul Benavente, governor of the Cusco region, told AFP. Guides will lead tours of only seven visitors, and people will be required to wear masks. The July reopening is linked to a lifting of national confinement measures in place since March 16, the governor said. Airports in Peru remain closed for now and many shops are shuttered. But despite some of Latin America's earliest and most stringent measures, the country has logged the second-highest number of cases ... More
Mexican 'Three Amigos' try to help amid virus
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- A trio of Oscar-winning Mexican film directors known as "The Three Amigos" launched a fund on Thursday to help workers in their industry hit hard by COVID-19. Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron said their Audiovisual Emergency Fund ("Sifonoforo") was for anyone in movies in need of financial help amid the chaos caused by the coronavirus. "This is finding a way, as an industry, as colleagues, as human beings, to hold hands... It is the power of the union without asking anyone for help," Inarritu said in a videoconference from Mexico City. The fund, backed by the Mexican Film Academy and more than 40 production companies plus actress and businesswoman Salma Hayek, has raised 10 million pesos (about $455,000). It will be distributed in payments of 20,000 pesos among technical ... More
Paris museum marks its act of poetic resistance to Nazis
PARIS (AFP).- On the day Paris fell to the Germans in 1940, the director of the city's anthropological museum Paul Rivet hung Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" from its front door. The quiet defiance of a man who had warned of the rise of fascism and Nazi racial theories throughout the 1930s, was one of the first acts of intellectual resistance to the occupation of France. On the 80th anniversary of Rivet's gesture on Sunday, a day after a Black Lives Matter rally in the French capital, the current director of the Musee de l'Homme Andre Delpuech again posted the poem on its door. Invoking Kipling's rousing 1885 verse that "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you/ If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it" was a daring and very dangerous thing to do, Delpuech ... More
Author Frances Cha on achieving the feminine ideal
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Frances Cha was a precocious child. She was 8 years old when she began writing novels while living in a province outside Seoul in South Korea. But the protagonists, she said, were usually white with blond hair and blue eyes a far cry from the little girl she saw in the mirror. It took Cha over 25 years to flip the script and write a novel about four young women navigating early adulthood in modern-day Seoul. The result is If I Had Your Face, an unflinching look at how a quartet of friends, who all live in the same apartment building, and do not come from wealth or status, pursue their dreams and ambitions in the fiercely competitive South Korean capital. In the novel, Cha confronts South Koreas social norms, including its impossibly high beauty standards, its rigid social hierarchies, and its old-boy culture where ... More
In an English city, an early benefactor is now 'a toxic brand'
BRISTOL (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Standing beneath an empty stone plinth, from which the statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston was toppled last week, Richard Saunders showed his son photos of three black Americans who had been killed by police an ocean away and 200 years after the end of Bristols slave trade. Saunders, a 51-year-old veterinarian, explained to his son, Dylan, 9, what had happened to the three victims: George Floyd, Eric Garner and Breonna Taylor. Connecting their deaths to Colston was harder not just because he is such a distant figure but also because his name is inscribed on a concert hall across the street, a school nearby, a pub up the hill and housing for the poor next to it. Hes almost on the syllabus as the local hero, said Saunders, who is white, as Dylan went off to inspect a half-dozen black ... More
Oscars postponed by two months due to pandemic
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Next year's Oscars have been postponed by eight weeks to April 25 after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered movie theaters and wreaked havoc on Hollywood's release calendar, the Academy said Monday. With many studio blockbusters and indie arthouse movies forced to push back their release dates until theaters reopen, the cut-off date for Oscar-eligible films has also been extended by two months, to the end of February. "Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone's control," said Academy president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson in a statement. The movie industry's biggest night was originally scheduled for February 28, 2021. Monday's move was prompted ... More
Christie's announces highlights included in the Modern Edition: Works on Paper and Prints sale
LONDON.- Uniting the mediums of paper and print, Modern Edition: Works on Papers and Prints showcases the breadth of artistic styles of modern masters from the 1890s to the 1990s. Christies online-only auction, which is open for bidding from 15 June to 1 July 2020, features over 100 lots by artists that represent the trajectory of art as it developed and diversified throughout the 20th century. Moving from intimate drawings to suites of artist prints, prices in Modern Edition will range from £800 to £150,000 providing price points for collectors of all stages. Highlights include Dorfartig, Häuser, 2 Rinder by Paul Klee (1917, estimate; £150,000-250,000), Hannah Höchs Stilleben mit Glasei (1922, estimate: £20,000-30,000), Miroir de la Tauromachie by Francis Bacon (1990, estimate: £30,000-50,000), Untitled (Jason, illustration pour Pantagruel) by Salvador Dalà (1973, estimate: ... More
Seattle Art Museum announces staffing changes
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum announced that staffing changes of varying levels will begin on July 5, 2020. These are the first reductions in hours for its full- and part-time staff members since the temporary closure of its three sitesthe Seattle Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the PACCAR Pavilion at the Olympic Sculpture Parkon March 12. "These are unprecedented and challenging times, and its heartbreaking to make this decision, says Amada Cruz, SAMs Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO. Through diligent efforts, weve been able to hold off on these decisions until nowbut now that time has come. Its our every intention that these reductions be temporary, as we continue to secure and reimagine the long-term future of the museum. Since the closure, the museum has focused on funding payroll ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. In this image: Irving Penn, Leontyne Price, New York, 1961, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © Condé Nast.
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