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Pre-Columbian sculptural redware vessel in form of conjoined dogs, Colima (West Mexico), circa 300 BCE to 300 CE. Ex Bruce Rogers collection, San Francisco. Estimate $6,500-$9,750.
BOULDER, COLO.- World history is a subject of endless fascination to collectors of antiquities and ethnographic art. Volumes have been written about how and why ancient cultures lived as they did, but no words can present the story of an early civilization quite as vividly as the art and relics they left behind. At the pinnacle of auction houses known for their expertise in antiquities is Artemis Gallery, owned and operated by internationally respected authorities Bob and Teresa Dodge. On many occasions in the past, the Dodges have been enlisted by eminent members of the antiques trade to authenticate important pieces. Artemis Gallerys sales are followed by every level of collector, from curious beginners to prestigious institutions with major collections. The next Artemis event, which will take place on Thursday, May 10, is a fully curated auction with fine-quality pieces available ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kim Kardashian arrives for the 2018 Met Gala on May 7, 2018, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2018 theme is "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination." Angela WEISS / AFP
| 'Day to remember' for art-loving nudists in Paris | | Sotheby's to offer works by Howard Hodgkin encompassing the years 1966 - 2017 | | China's cultural monopoly denies Tibetan and Uyghur rights |
People take part in a nudist visit of the 'Discorde, Fille de la Nuit' season exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris on May 5, 2018. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- No shoes, no shirt, no problem: A Paris gallery gave nearly 200 people a rare chance for a clothes-free visit this weekend, the latest opportunity for the city's flourishing nudist scene. The Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art museum in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, offered the guided tour before opening to the general public on Saturday. "What a day to remember. A new chapter in naturism is opening," the Paris Naturists' Association said on Twitter after the visit, which the museum called the first of its kind in France. The participants, who snapped up the tickets in just two days after the event was announced last March, were able to take it all off for the show "Discordia, Daughter of the Night". They were then treated to a private cocktail party on the museum's roof. "An incredible moment, what a success! ... More | |
Howard Hodgkin, The Road to Rio, screenprint, 2016 (est. £2,000-3,000)
LONDON.- Hodgkin created prints for just over half a century and every time he put his hand to a series it set a new standard for the medium.2 With a deep understanding of the sophisticated techniques required to bring out the desired colours and textures, Hodgkins printmaking methods were ambitious, spontaneous and hugely experimental. Hodgkin employed an enormous variety of printmaking techniques, from lithography, to screenprinting, to intaglio works with additional carborundum and hand-colouring. He also experimented in scale, creating prints that vary from just over 10cm tall and 15cm wide, to works as large as two and a half metres tall and six metres wide. His method of layering three or even four different printmaking techniques gave new potential to the medium. The result was a painterly fusion of rich printed colour with the more immediate and luminous hand-colouring. He also enjoyed the collaborative ... More | |
Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy 2014. Photo: BODHICITTA.
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 2, 2018, the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee at the State Departments Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs held a one hour virtual meeting to take public input on the proposed renewal until 2024 of an already ten-year-long ban on the importation of Chinese art into the U.S. The ban covers virtually all items through the Tang Dynasty and wall decoration and monumental sculpture more than 250 years old. Several public speakers noted that U.S. museum and public access to the art and culture of China and Tibet are harmed by the ban. At the same time, they said, the situation in China does not merit imposition of a U.S. ban. Such bans are generally applied in cases where the requesting country has sites being pillaged and weak law enforcement that cannot punish wrongdoers. Kate Fitz Gibbon, of the Committee for Cultural Policy, said the opposite was true, and that China could ... More |
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| Temporary exhibition at Musée de lHomme dives into the tale of the prehistoric age to discover Neanderthals | | Sotheby's and Morton & Eden to offer Royal Orders and Medals from the collection of George, Duke of Cambridge | | Italian cinema 'giant' Ermanno Olmi dies aged 86 |
The Man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, Middle Palaeolithic, France. © M.N.H.N. / JC Domenech.
PARIS.- For its new grand temporary exhibition, Musée de lHomme dives into the tale of the prehistoric age to discover Neanderthals: a species that for a long time was considered to be primitive and bestial, is now recognized as full-fledged human beings. Between contemplation, questioning, and amusement, Musée de lHomme invites its visitors to discover Neanderthals Neanderthals are much more than a fossil category in the Homo genus. The discovery, in 1856, of a Neanderthal skull in the valley (Thal) of Neander (hence their name) in Germany, aroused the scientific world. This major discovery sparked numerous interpretations and fed the scientific imagination of the 19th century. However, Neanderthals were labeled as an other that had no ties to modern man. Thus, as a continuation of the reflection on otherness in the exhibition Nous et les autres -Des préjugés au racisme ... More | |
Russia, Order of St. Andrew, Badge in gold and enamels by Keibel, St Petersburg, from the full set of insignia bestowed upon George, Duke of Cambridge in 1874 Estimate £30,000-40,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- This July, Sothebys will offer at auction Royal Orders and medals from the collection of George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), King George IIIs grandson. This exceptional group of objects has been passed down by direct descent, and their appearance on the market represents a unique opportunity to acquire treasures which until now have been held privately. The Orders and medals are primarily from the 2nd Dukes collection, spanning the 19th century and the opening years of the 20th century, complemented by several pieces which were originally owned by the 1st Duke of Cambridge, the 2nd Dukes father. Comprising approximately 80 lots with a combined pre-sale estimate in the region of £800,000, the auction will take place on 3 July 2018 at Sothebys London, in association with Morton & Eden, specialist auctioneers ... More | |
In this file photo taken on September 5, 2008 Italy's director Ermanno Olmi poses with his Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in Venice Lido. Damien MEYER / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Palme d'Or winning director Ermanno Olmi has died at the age of 86 after a long battle with illness, the Italian Culture Ministry announced on Monday. The Italian director, most famous for his film "The Tree of Wooden Clogs" which won at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978, passed away in Asiago, near Venice. He had long suffered from GuillainBarre syndrome, a muscle-weakening condition that can immobilise people for extended periods of time. "The death of Ermanno Olmi deprives us of a giant, one of the great maestros of Italian cinema," Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said. "He was a deep intellectual who explored the mysteries of man and recounted, with the poetry that characterises his work, the relationship between man and nature." Born in Bergamo in northern Italy in 1931, Olmi was a ... More |
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| The Huntington acquires two Italian Renaissance paintings to complement its "Madonna and Child in Glory" | | Rare Escher print to be offered at Bonhams New York | | Freeman's announces highlights from its American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Auction |
Cosimo Rosselli (14391507), Madonna and Child in Glory, ca. 1470, tempera and gold on poplar wood panel, 36 x 28 in. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Art Collectors Council of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has purchased two panel paintings by Italian Renaissance master Cosimo Rosselli (14391507). Saint Ansanus and Saint Anthony Abbot, made in about 1470, originally formed the lower third of an altarpiece, the centerpiece of which was The Huntingtons own Madonna and Child in Glory, one of the core works in its Renaissance paintings collection. Later this year, the panels will be reunited with the Madonna in the Huntington Art Gallery, among Rogier van der Weydens Virgin and Child and Domenico Ghirlandaios pair of portraits of a man and woman. All of these works, along with the Rosselli Madonna, were acquired by Arabella Huntington, wife of Huntington founder Henry Edwards ... More | |
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972), Relativity (Relativteit) (L. 389), 1953 (detail). Estimate: $15,000-20,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 22, Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Prints & Multiples Sale will offer a rare impression of M.C. Eschers most famous print, Relativity, 1953 (estimate: $15,000-20,000). Relativity is one of Eschers most popular examples of his "impossible constructions" where faceless inhabitants ascend and descend seven stairways, apparently oblivious to the scientific impossibility of their activities. Relativity, as well as an earlier woodcut Sky and Water I, 1938 (estimate: $15,000-20,000) come from the collection of Robert and Wilcke Smith. Both commercial artists, they recognized early on the exceptional quality of Escher's graphic works. In June 1959, Robert wrote to Escher in his home in Baarn, Netherlands, to tell him he would be "extremely proud to own" two of Escher's prints, Light and Water I and Relativity. In July 1959, the artist ... More | |
Edward Willis Redfield (American 1869-1965), New Center Bridge (detail). Estimate: $100,000-150,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Sunday, June 3, Freemans will host the first of its bi-annual American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auctions. The 145 lot sale features works of art by renowned American painters John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941) and Childe Hassam (1859-1935), as well as Pennsylvania artists Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951), Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965) and Daniel Garber (1880-1958). Works by two generations of Wyeths (Andrew, 1917-2009, and Jamie, b. 1946) will also be offered, along with over a dozen paintings by Arthur Beecher Carles (1882-1952), which come from the collection of June and Perry Ottenberg, Philadelphians and patrons of many of the citys most important fine artists. A highlight of the sale is Interior with Two Nudes by William McGregor Paxton (Lot 54, estimate $100,000-150,000). A leading member of the Boston School during the first ... More |
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| Petzel Gallery opens exhibition of works by Dirk Skreber | | Exhibition at Hales Gallery features photographs by Rotimi Fani-Kayode from the mid-to-late 1980s | | Full-scale Jean Prouvé house highlights Sotheby's Private Sales exhibition in New York |
Untitled (days before 5), 2018 (detail). Oil paint, aluminum, aluminum honeycomb, fluorescent pigment, oil based enamel, 72 x 48 inches 182.9 x 121 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery announces the sixth solo-exhibitionhis first at their Upper East Side locationof New York-based artist Dirk Skreber. May 1st, 1986: a brand new amusement park featuring a Ferris wheel and bumper cars is set to open in Pripyat, a town in the northern Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, close to Chernobyl. It never does. Five days prior, the core of Chernobyls nuclear reactor erupts. Despite contamination, the amusement park opens for a few hours on April 27thto distract panicked residents. The city is evacuated and to this day the abandoned amusement park sits in the 30km perimeter known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Anticipated by Andrei Tarkovskys movie Stalker (1979) the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has come to epitomize isolation in which time is an incomprehensible void. Deserted wastelands resonate with Skreber, ... More | |
Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Abiku (Born to Die), 1988, Gelatin silver print, 12 x 16 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales Gallery announces Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Rage & Desire, an exhibition being presented at the Hales Project Room, New York, and organized in conjunction with Autograph ABP, London. The show features photographs from the mid-to-late 1980s, some of which have never before been seen in New York. Rotimi Fani-Kayode (19551989) was born into a prominent Yoruba family in Lagos before moving to England following the 1966 outbreak of civil war in Nigeria. After a period of study in the United Stateswhere he completed a BA and MFA in Fine Art at Georgetown University in Washington DC and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn respectivelyFani-Kayode returned to London in 1983, where he continued to live and work until the end of the decade. During his tragically brief six-year career, Fani-Kayode produced a complex body of photographic work, exploring themes of race, sexuality, spirituality, and the self. His ... More | |
Originally developed in the 1940s as emergency housing for bomb-devastated villages in postwar France, the house measures over 20 x 30 ft and is made entirely of wood and metal. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Coinciding with our marquee May auctions of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art, as well as the spring seasons of TEFAF and Frieze art fairs, Sothebys is presenting an exhibition of fine art and design spanning the 19th and 20th centuries in our New York galleries, with all works available for private sale. The exhibition is now open to the public, and will remain on view through 20 May. More than 140 works by artists and designers including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell and Charlotte Perriand are on view in our 5th floor galleries, together valued in excess of $150 million. Works available privately include a variety of text works by Ed Ruscha, paintings by Yayoi Kusama featuring her iconic Infinity Net and Pumpkin imagery, stabiles by Alexander Calder and works on paper by Pablo Picasso. The show ... More |
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The Ringling installs large-scale sculpture by Beverly Pepper
SARASOTA, FLA.- On April 25, 2018, Beverly Peppers monumental sculpture, Curvae in Curvae (2012) was installed in front of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Curvae in Curvae is part of the promised gift of works by philanthropists Keith and Linda Monda. In March of this year, the Ringling announced the couples $5 million investment in the Museums Art of Our Time program, ensuring that contemporary art has a permanent place at The Ringling. This prominent location underscores our dedication to showing important works of contemporary art and how they can integrate seamlessly with John Ringlings original collection, said Steven High, executive director of the Ringling. Curvae in Curvae is a continuation of Beverly Peppers examination of monumentality and lyrical forms, which are recurrent themes in her sculpture. This work appears ... More
Neighbors Project comes to New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of his quest to restore Americas shattered national unity one photograph at a time, artist John Raymond Mireles is exhibiting portraits from his Neighbors Project on the perimeter fence of New York's First Street Green Art Park. Mireles installed 86 of his larger-than-life portraits along 300 feet of the park fence where they are visible to pedestrians and drivers as they traverse Houston and Second Streets in the Lower East Side. In addition to serving as a compelling visual document of Americans in the 21st century, the Neighbors Project encourages Americans to remember that, despite their increasingly bitter political and ideological divisions, they are one people with shared values and concerns. By engaging with individuals from varied ethnicities, ideologies, and socioeconomic levels, Mireles goal is to encourage empathic connections ... More
Meleko Mokgosi rethinks European compositions for new suite of paintings at The Baltimore Museum of Art
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art is presenting Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance, an exhibition that includes a suite of new paintings by the artist that examines the idea of resistance, defined by Mokgosi as any instance in which a subject refuses to give in to the oppression of her or his spirit. On view May 2 through August 12, 2018, these large-scale figurative paintings rethink the tradition of historical European compositions by depicting daily life in southern African nation-states and post-colonial ideals of democracy. The exhibition is presented in the museums galleries of European art. Meleko Mokgosi asks us to consider images of black men and women as embodiments of love, intimacy, and strength in a post-colonial world, said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford. The placement of his virtuosic paintings ... More
Solo presentation of recent landscape paintings by Alex Katz on view at Richard Gray Gallery
CHICAGO, IL.- Richard Gray Gallery is presenting Grass and Trees, a solo presentation of recent landscape paintings by Alex Katz. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by poet and critic John Yau. Grass and Trees is the artists sixth exhibition with Richard Gray Gallery. Alex Katz was approaching his 90th birthday when he began a new series of landscapes radically different from his earlier work. More loosely painted and expressively realized than any work to date, Grass and Trees debuts large-scale paintings which draw inspiration from three motifs grasses, roads, and trees. Prompted by the immediacy of nature outside his studio in Maine, these landscapes, like vignettes, are swift, evocative, and specific. While the Road and Trees paintings veer toward his signature graphic style, Katzs Grass compositions ... More
New Museum's cultural incubator opens "Only Human" at Mana Contemporary
JERSEY CITY.- NEW INC, the New Museums cultural incubator, announces Only Human, an exhibition on view at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, which showcases the work of the first cohort of NEW INC artists participating in the artist-in-residency program at Nokia Bell Labs. Three former NEW INC membersSougwen Chung, Lisa Park, and HAMMERSTEP (Jason Oremus and Garrett Coleman)collaborated with Nokia Bell Labs researchers to produce new artistic projects inspired or enabled by Bell Labs technologies. As the culmination of this residency program, the exhibition brings together three projects that the artists created over the past year. Nokia Bell Labs has a long and distinguished history of supporting the creation of new art by leveraging innovative technologies, beginning with the pioneering Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) program ... More
Studio Museum's latest presentations off-site but in-the-neighborhood
NEW YORK, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem announced the opening of two projects in its inHarlem initiative: a series of off-site but in-the-neighborhood collaborations designed to deepen the Studio Museums roots in the community through exhibitions, conversations, art-making workshops, and more at a variety of partner and satellite locations. The inHarlem series was inaugurated in 2016 and will ramp up as the Studio Museum proceeds to construct its new building, designed by Adjaye Associates in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. The inHarlem exhibition Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire is on view from May 1 through November 24 in the Latimer/Edison Gallery at the New York Public Librarys Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Outdoor sculptural installations organized through inHarlem in Marcus Garvey Park, titled Maren Hassinger: ... More
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA involved nearly 2.8 million participants, generated $430.3 million
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) released its analysis today of the economic impact of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a collaborative initiative led by the Getty that explored Latin American and Latino art over a four-month period from September 2017 through January 2018. The initiative, which included more than 70 cultural institutions from Palm Springs to Santa Barbara to San Diego, added $430.3 million in economic output and supported 4,080 jobs, with total labor income of nearly $188 million. This activity added an estimated $24.3 million in tax revenue for state and local government across Southern California. An investment in the arts is an investment in our future, said Mayor Eric Garcetti. Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA attracted millions of visitors, supported thousands of good- paying jobs, and helped drive another ... More
New paintings by artist Eliza Douglas on view at the Jewish Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents new paintings by artist Eliza Douglas on view in the Museums Lobby from May 4 through October 21, 2018. Eliza Douglas (b. 1984, New York) lives and works in Berlin and New York. She creates precariously balanced compositions that teeter between realism and abstraction, balletic grace and slapstick humor. The new works created for the Jewish Museum lobby, Shadow and Light and Blood and Bones (both 2018, oil on canvas), are part of a series begun in 2016, and titled with lines from the poems of Dorothea Lasky. In each canvas, expertly rendered hands are connected by a network of outlandishly long, gesturally painted shirtsleeves. Douglas typically serves as the model for these body parts and clothing, creating an oblique form of self-portrait. Her slippery approach to depicting herself suggests that there ... More
Shin Gallery opens its first solo exhibition of artist J. PARK
NEW YORK, NY.- Shin Gallery is presenting its first solo exhibition of artist J. PARK (Jong-Kyu Park, b.1966). Over three years he has divided his concept into themes: Encoding (2015), Maze of Onlookers (2016), and his latest, Embodiment (2017). He utilizes these concepts with the array of media, such as paintings, installations, photographs, and videos to showcase his artistic and visionary experiments to the audience. This exhibition displays a body of his recent paintings and video installations within the framework of omnipresent technology. PARKs unique incorporation of digital forms using the coded computing system is his signature style. PARK begins his work with an impression taken from the real world which he then digitally deconstructs into pixels and planes. This process allows for him to create multidimensional virtual layers which, while ... More
Anna Laudel Contemporary presents a solo exhibition of works by Belkis Balpinar
ISTANBUL.- Anna Laudel Contemporary presents a solo exhibition entitled Un-Weave by the acclaimed artist Belkıs Balpınar who has pioneered the art of weaving in Turkey and considered to be one of the most inventive practitioners of the art-kilim medium within and beyond Turkeys borders. Belkıs Balpınar is known to be the first name in Turkey to produce contemporary art works by using traditional weaving techniques. She has been producing works using the traditional rug texture inspired by scientific themes including different spatial planes; microcosm - macrocosm; quantum physics and galaxies. These themes are also her subject of study, she expresses that the books she has been reading in the field of physics and astronomy have been the main sources of her inspiration. Balpınar also investigates the theoretical and practical aspects ... More
Nationalmuseum publishes a catalogue of drawings by the Dutch masters
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum houses Sweden's largest collection of drawings by the Dutch masters. The collection includes important works by Rembrandt and his pupils, as well as drawings by Abraham Bloemaert, Jan van Goyen, Herman Saftleven, Willem van de Velde, and many others. This richly illustrated catalogue of Dutch master drawings in Swedish public collections, now published, is the result of extensive research work. The 600 drawings in the catalogue include approximately 530 from the collection of Nationalmuseum. The remaining 70 works are housed at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the National Library of Sweden, the Swedish National Archives, and other institutions. The vast majority of these small-scale masterpieces date from the 1600s. 130 of the drawings have never been published before. The author of the catalogue is Börje Magnusson, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Finnish illustrator Tom of Finland was born May 08, 1920. Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 - 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic fetish art, and for his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. In this image: Tom of Finland, Untitled, c.1978. Graphite on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm; 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 ins. Copyright Tom of Finland Foundation
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