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| | | "Korean Fashion: From Royal Court to Runway" Offers Full Spectrum of Fashion Through December 22 at The Textile Museum | |
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Exhibition tour. Photo by Cara Taylor/the George Washington University.
WASHINGTON, DC.- As the first exhibition in the United States to offer the full spectrum of fashion from Korea's last royal dynasty to today's Hallyu (Korean wave), Korean Fashion: From Royal Court to Runway has been attracting a wide range of visitors since it opened on August 20 at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. Lee Talbot, the museum's curator who organized the exhibition, is not surprised: "In recent years, South Korea has experienced an extraordinary outpouring of innovation and imagination in fashion, music, cinema, and other arts. Contemporary South Korean artists and designers have deftly combined the historical and avant-garde, local and cosmopolitan, high culture and popular to create a distinctive and widely acclaimed Korean voice on the worlds creative stage." In this so-called Hallyu, Koreas venerable cultural heritage often serves as a spri ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Exceptional Antiquities Ethnographic Fine Art sale on Starts on: Nov 10, 2022 9:00 AM CST. The sale includes museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Viking, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Nautical, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine / Visual Arts, so much more! Qi Baishi Handscroll Painting - Shrimp, Crabs, Frogs. Estimate $130,000 - $250,000.
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| Bellmans to sell part of the Cass Collection in November | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Anna Weyant in New York | | Discover the natural wonders of the world & its ancient civilizations: Hindman to present a cabinet of curiosities |
David Hockney, Pool Made with Paper and Blue Ink for Book (1980) signed, dated and numbered in pencil David Hockney 80 425/1000 (in lower margin) lithograph in colours, published by Tyler Graphics Ltd. New York, with their blindstamp (lower right), and workshop number in pencil 'DH80-460' (verso).
LONDON.- Bellmans is offering a selection of paintings, prints and sculpture from the Estate of the late Wilfred and Jeannette Cass in the forthcoming sale of Modern British & 20th Century Art at Bellmans Sussex on 15th November 2022. The works were displayed at their stunning Bauhaus-style home, Hathill Copse on the North-Eastern edge of the Goodwood estate. The superb modernist house, designed in 1975 by architects John and Heather Lomax, to plans inspired by Serge Chermayeff, provided precisely the setting that Wilfred and Jeannette were searching for. Wilfred said about the house: As my wife and I headed towards our seventies together, we knew it was time for a dramati ... More | |
Anna Weyant, Sophie, 2022. Oil on canvas, 113 x 76 3/4 in. © Anna Weyant. Photo: Rob McKeever.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Anna Weyant in New York. This is her first exhibition with the gallery, which announced its representation of the artist in May. Baby, It Aint Over Till Its Over features seven new paintings along with ten new drawings. The exhibition, which sees Weyant further develop the aesthetics and themes of her previous work, takes its title from a song by Lenny Kravitzwhich in turn repeats Yogi Berras aphorismand riffs in self-aware fashion on popular expectations of a young artists career trajectory. Many of the exhibited portraits depict the same figure in two slightly different poses, suggesting subtly divergent aspects of the same persona and making reference to the biblical doubled image. The paintings hang on a lush green velvet backdrop, supplied by design house F. Schumacher ... More | |
Hindman, Ancient Art & Natural History, A Cabinet of Curiosities.
CHICAGO, IL.- Step into a cabinet of curiosities this November 10th with Hindmans Ancient Art & Natural History: A Cabinet of Curiosities auction. Highlighting the auction is a rare and completely preserved iridescent ammonite fossil from 75 million years ago. Fast forwarding in history to another monumental moment, the auction concludes with the manual used by NASA to put a man on the moon in 1966. Presented alongside these items are works from ancient civilizations that reveal a better understanding of our shared history through material culture. This 200-lot auction is the ideal opportunity for collectors to develop their own cabinet of curiosities. A lunar meteorite slice, circa 4.6 billion years ago (lot 1; estimate: $5,000-8,000) will lead the sale and natural history offering. Lunar meteorites are considered the rarest substance on Earth and date back t ... More |
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| Skarstedt opens an exhibition of new works by Cristina BanBan | | Now open: Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | | Shannon's Fall Fine Art Auction was lead by contemporary art and Pennsylvania Impressionism |
Cristina BanBan, Cabeza I. Paris, 2022. Oil, oil stick on linen, 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches, 40 x 50.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Skarstedt is presenting the exhibition, Cristina BanBan: Mujeres. Featuring a suite of new work, the exhibition marks BanBans first show with the gallery since the announcement of her representation with Skarstedt in April 2022. Each of the paintings on view are titled either Mujer or Mujeres, Spanish for woman or women. This word gets to the heart of BanBans practice, which remains consistent in its subject matter even as she continues to mature and evolve as a painter. Womentheir bodies and contradictory emotionsare BanBans core subject. Through their forms, she is able to filter her daily experiences and vast array of influences onto the canvas. The result is a series of works that are at once personal and universal. The various women in BanBans universe do not meet the viewers gaze, nor do they necessarily ... More | |
Julia Gutman, All Adults Here, 2021, donated textiles and embroidery metal chain, 205 x 262 cm, © the artist, photograph: Simon Hewson.
TALLAWOLADAH, AUSTRALIA.- Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists is the Museum of Contemporary Art Australias annual exhibition showcasing the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and under. The exhibition was initiated in 1992 by the MCA in collaboration with Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM, in memory of their talented and creative daughter Belinda, and will continue through February 12, 2023. Since its inception, the exhibition has celebrated the achievements of Australian artists in the early stages of their careers and fulfilled an important role in bringing younger artists to the attention of a wide audience. Each year the Primavera curator undertakes extensive research, travelling across the country to meet young artists. In its 31st year, Primavera 2022 ... More | |
Lynne Mapp Drexler: Oil on canvas by Lynne Mapp Drexler (American, 1928-1999), Untitled, 33 ½ inches by 29 inches. Sold for $450,000.
MILFORD, CONN.- Quality, fresh-to-market offerings achieved notable results in Shannons October 27th Fall Auction. The 179-lot sale sold over 85 percent and grossed over $3.75 million, continuing a trend of strong results and high sell-through rates at Shannons. Leading the sale was a 1963 painting by Monhegan artist Lynne Mapp Drexler. Drexlers prices have skyrocketed in recent years and the team at Shannons had the knowledge to offer this painting at the most advantageous time for their client. Untitled from 1963 sold for $450,000 after lively online and phone participation. A painting by Scott Kahn who, like Drexler, has recently benefited from market enthusiasm, sold for $212,500. Shannons reports global bidding on the painting titled The Woods from over six countries and multiple states. ... More |
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| Louis Armstrong's last laugh | | Nye & Company's "Property from a Private Collection: A 20th Century Machinal Delight" to be held November 16th | | Kadhim Hayder masterpiece offered at Bonhams Middle Eastern sale |
Private recordings, heard in the new documentary Louis Armstrongs Black & Blues, add a further dimension to the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- The tapes are thrilling, revelatory, wrenching: the warm-gravel voice of Louis Armstrong, perhaps the most famous voice of the 20th century, speaking harsh truths about American racism, about the dehumanizing hatred he and millions of others endured in a world he still, to the end, insisted was wonderful. He tells the stories of a fan declaring I dont like Negroes to his face; of a gofer on a film set treating him with disrespect no white star would face with fresh outrage and can-you-believe-this? weariness. He also tells them with his full humor and showmanship, his musicality clear in the rhythm of his swearing. The public can hear these stories, privately recorded by Armstrong as part of his own lifelong project of self-documentation, in the Sacha Jenkins documentary Louis Armstrongs Black & Blues (streaming on Apple TV+). Often, Armstrong recalls getting the last laugh on those who disrespected him he harangues that gofer, a ... More | |
Seven-Way slot machine: Multi-Bell Seven Way Slot Machine (Lot#130) by Caille A C Novelty, circa 1936, seven ways to win. The label states, Select one or more numbers. Automatic odds 2 to 20 paid. This amazing collection the lifetime vision of a single collector is comprised of all manner of mechanical and musical devices, games and associated ephemera one could ever hope to find.
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Companys upcoming online auction, titled Property from a Private Collection: A 20th Century Machinal Delight, is slated for Wednesday, November 16th, starting promptly at 10 am. This amazing collection all of it the lifetime vision of a single collector is comprised of all manner of mechanical and musical devices, games and all the associated ephemera one could ever hope to find to accompany them. There is a superb collection of mechanical and still cast-iron banks, tin toys and books with a Black Americana theme, and a fine collection of early Berliner, Victor and Edison cylinder and disc players and accessories. All of them many of them rare or unusual examples are in operating condition and ... More | |
Jewad Selim (Iraq, 1919-1961), The Wedding Chest. Estimate: £70,000 - 100,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A striking work by Kadhim Hayder (Iraq, 1932-1985) leads the 91-lot Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale in New Bond Street on 23 November. This will be the final instalment of the Baghdadiyat trilogy, a series of sales focused on Iraqi works from prestigious private collections. A Love Deeper than All Love (Wa hawa aemaq min kuli hawa), which has an estimate of £100,000 - 120,000, is offered to the market for the first time. It will contribute to an exciting selection of work by major artists from the Middle East, including Jewad Selim and Mahmoud Saïd. A seminal work by Kadhim Hayder (Iraq, 1932-1985), A Love Deeper than All Love (Wa hawa aemaq min kuli hawa) is part of his Epic of the Martyr series, which focuses on the Battle of Karbala and death of Imam Hussein. A Love Deeper than All Love is exceptional within the Martyr series, a peaceful moment of intimacy within a dramatic and occasionally bloody narrative. Hussein and his wife, Shahbanu, appear as horses, he with a ... More |
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| Change at the helm of Art Basel: Noah Horowitz appointed CEO | | Phillips announces highlights ahead of the London photographs auction | | Taiwan's bomb shelters: 'A space for life. and a space for death.' |
Art Basel in Basel 2022. Courtesy Art Basel.
BASEL.- Noah Horowitz has been appointed CEO of Art Basel, succeeding Marc Spiegler, Global Director Art Basel, who has taken the decision to leave MCH Group and explore the next phase of his artworld career. The Board of Directors and Group Management Team would like to thank Marc Spiegler for his longstanding commitment as head of the leading global platform for contemporary and modern art with shows in Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong and now also Paris. At the same time, the MCH Group Board of Directors and Group CEO Florian Faber are pleased to announce the appointment of Noah Horowitz, who held the post of Director Americas from 2015 to 2021. Noah Horowitz is returning to Art Basel as CEO on November 7, 2022. He joins from Sothebys where he served as Worldwide Head of Gallery & Private Dealer Services since September 2021. As the outgoing Global Director, Marc Spiegler will hand over the running of the business to Noah Horowitz at ... More | |
Peter Hujar, Christopher Street Pier #2, Cross Legs, 1976 Estimate: £12,000 - 18,000.
LONDON.- Phillips announced highlights ahead of the London Photographs auction on 22 November. Comprising 139 lots, the sale is led by Richard Avedons career-defining work The Beatles Portfolio of 1967. Opening the sale is the single-owner offering A View from the Garden: Photographs from a Private Cotswolds Collection, featuring works by 20th-century masters Peter Hujar, Imogen Cunningham, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. This seasons ULTIMATE showcases sold-out works by Zhang Huan, Sohei Nishino and Bastiaan Woudt as well as works by auction newcomers Prince Gyasi, Ilona Langbroek, Alice Mann, Susan Gamble, and Jeremy Cowart. Other sale highlights include works by Man Ray, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Nick Brandt. Closing the sale is ULTIMATE ELLEN VON UNWERTH, a selection of 20 Polaroids premiering at Phillips. The auction is online now with ... More | |
A narrow path in a bunker converted into a temple in Keelung, Taiwan, on Oct. 21, 2022. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times).
by Damien Cave and Amy Chang Chien
KEELUNG.- Visitors to Keelung, a mountainous port city on Taiwans northern coast, might reasonably think that the white wall at the back of Shi Hui-huas breakfast shop is, well, a wall. Only a few air vents suggest that there might be something on the other side. Its a bomb shelter, said Shi, 53, as she waited for the morning rush. Because were Keelung people, we know these kinds of places. Its a space for life, she added. And a space for death. All over her street and many more in Keelung which suffered its first foreign attack, by the Dutch, in 1642 the landscape has been carved up for protection. Kitchens connect to underground passageways that tunnel into the sandstone. Rusty gates at the ends of alleys lead to dark maws that are filled with memories of war ... More |
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Myra Melford builds anew with an all-star, all-woman quintet
NEW YORK, NY.- Draft up a list of todays most inventive and respected players in the realm of what tends to be called improvised music (or creative music or free jazz) and youll inevitably name the players in pianist Myra Melfords Fire and Water Quintet: saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, guitarist Mary Halvorson, cellist Tomeka Reid and percussionist Lesley Mok. These are restless artists, mostly a generation or so younger than Melford, who have built a collaborative scene and individual legacies in the fertile cracks between improvisation and composition, between jazz and other musics, between the club and the academy cracks that Melford has spent her 30-plus-year career widening. Its wonderful to play with them, Melford, 65, said in late October in a video interview from her home ... More
John David Washington gets an education in 'The Piano Lesson'
NEW YORK, NY.- You cannot show up more prepared than John David Washington, cannot outmaneuver him and cannot get ahead of him. If you think you have arrived on time for your lunch appointment with him, you will find he has already been waiting for you he has, in fact, been sitting quietly at a table at Bubbys for 15 minutes, in his perennially prompt, unapologetically eager manner. And now he is not just ready to eat; he is practically vibrating in his chair so he can tear through a bowl of matzo ball soup and get back to the Ethel Barrymore Theater, where he has been performing in The Piano Lesson. Washington is by no means a novice actor. At 38, he has already starred in films like Spike Lees true-crime drama BlacKkKlansman and Christopher Nolans mind-bending, time-twisting adv ... More
1788 New Jersey copper leads Mike Coltrane Collection above $2.4 million at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TEXAS.- A 1788 New Jersey Copper, MS63 Brown sold for $192,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Estate of Mike Coltrane Collection of U.S. Coins Signature® Auction to $2,445,498 Nov. 2. The events top lot is the finest known Maris 50-f and the only Mint State Head Left Copper. Mike Coltrane was a long-time student of numismatics, and a delightful person, a true gentleman of the highest ethics, says Jim Halperin, Co-Founder of Heritage Auctions. His father was a banker, and Mikes interest in collecting coins and currency dates all the way back to his childhood.A 1793 C-3, B-3 Half Cent, MS64+ Brown, CAC drew 43 bids before selling for $180,000. Once a part of the Donald G. Patrick Collection, it is one of seven lots in the auction that reached six figures. Achieving the same $180,000 res ... More
Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai presents works by Mamta Malhotra in 'Wonders of Benaras'
MUMBAI.- "Kashi Yatra" by Mamta Malhotra brings the Wonders of Benaras to life, 15th to 21st November 2022 at Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai. Born in Mumbai, Mamta Malhotra, grew up amid beautiful valleys, mountains and gardens in Kashmir, Poona, Gangtok and Bhutan. Summer family vacations were always accompanied by oil paints and easels and included painting the beautiful landscape with her father, an avid painter. Surrounded by tree lined avenues of flaming Gulmohur, Amaltas and Jacaranda trees, she earned a degree in Architecture from the Corbusier designed Chandigarh College of Architecture, graduating with a silver medal. Next, in Delhi, she painted and learnt sculpture with Rameshwar Broota, Shobha Broota and Pradip Saxena, at the Triveni Kala Sangam. Mamta has l ... More
More than £21M in eight days for Bonhams Ancient Art sales
LONDON.- Following on from the tremendous success of The Rousset Collection sold in Paris, which made 14.5M, more than four times its pre-sale estimate, Bonhams Asia Week sales in London achieved a total of over £8.5M. Leading the way was an exceptionally rare blue and white 384 Shou brushpot, bitong, Kangxi six-character and of the period (1662-1722) that sold for £277,500 at The Marsh Collection: Art for the Literati sale on Thursday 3 November. It had been estimated at £80,000-120,000. The Marsh Collection: Art for the Literati offered an exceptional collection put together over decades of brushpots and other vessels and paraphernalia made for the scholars desk from the late Ming to the Qing dynasty. Among the other highlights of The Marsh Collection were: A rare blue and w ... More
Photo London collaborates with Creo for exciting new fair in New York
LONDON.- Photo Londons Founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad announced their collaboration with Creo for the launch of PHOTOFAIRS New York. Lending their expert knowledge and creative insights, Benson and Farshad have furthered their alliance with Creo since partnering last February for Photo London. Launched by Creo in partnership with Angus Montgomery Arts and in collaboration with Photo London, the inaugural edition of the PHOTOFAIRS New York will take place on September 8-10, 2023 at the Javits Center, Manhattans West side. Dedicated to presenting a state-of-the-art view of visual culture, the Fairs strong curatorial approach will create a new platform where photography and new technologies intersect. Strengthening the PHOTOFAIRS New Yorks cross-cultural collaborations and creative dialogue, Benson and Farshad exclaim their enthusiasm for the news: We are thrilled to be extending our partnership with Cr ... More
When technology makes music more accessible
NEW YORK, NY.- As the audience at Cafe OTO settled down to hear Neil Luck introduce his ambitious new piece, Whatever Weighs You Down, bemused smiles flickered across many faces. The evenings performances had already featured an intriguing selection of musical technologies, including sensor gloves, text-to-speech software and recordings of bird song processed by artificial intelligence. So when Luck launched into a low-tech étude, raucously inflating a balloon while gasping into a microphone, audience members couldnt help but laugh. A dark humor punctuated Whatever Weighs You Down, a bizarre, violent 40-minute work for piano, video, electronics and sensor gloves. It was the centerpiece of an evening that presented works made with Cyborg Soloists, a multiyear, 1.4 million-poun ... More
Bob Dylan breaks down 66 classic tunes in his new book
NEW YORK, NY.- Come with me, and lets stand in the rain of the clauses and subclauses in Bob Dylans devious new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song. Dylan has rounded up 66 songs, from Bobby Darins Mack the Knife and Webb Pierces There Stands the Glass to Nina Simones Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood and the Clashs London Calling, and he riffs on them. These riffs, which he flicks like tarot cards through a distant cactus, sound a lot like his own song lyrics, so much so that part of me wanted this to be a new record instead, wanted to hear these lines come croaking up from Dylans 81-year-old lungs and past his buckshot, barb-wired uvula. Here are two selections, chosen half at random: This song kicks you down, and before you can get up, it hits you again. This is the stuff to live for, and w ... More
'My Broken Language' review: Piecing together a life of many dialects
NEW YORK, NY.- English was playwright Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes first language. But her mothers house, in North Philadelphia, sheltered other tongues: Spanish, Spanglish, the brash gold-hoops-and-spandex sass of her older cousins. From piano teachers, she learned the language of classical music; from her paternal aunt, punk rock; from backyards and stoops, bachata. Her magnet school gave her Flannery OConnor and Arthur Miller. The free library gave her James Baldwin and Sandra Cisneros. There was Judaism from her father, Lukumà from her mother and the Quaker faith that she discovered later. Food was a language. Grief was a language. Some dialects she spoke easily. Others came harder. Her early life seems to have been a search for a vernacular that was all her own. My life required explica ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Charles Demuth was born November 08, 1883. Charles Henry Buckius Demuth (November 8, 1883 - October 23, 1935) was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism. Charles Demuth, Landscape with Windmill #1, 1896, watercolor and graphite on paper, 3 7/8 x 4 3/4 in., Collection of the Demuth Museum, Lancaster , PA.
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