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Gwen Wells, U.S. COO, Yann Guyon de Chemilly, U.S. Managing Director, and Brook Hazelton, Chairman of the Advisory Board (Credit: Stephen Smith/Anniewatt.com)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Following the companys successful launch in 2019 and exclusive partnership with Frances online auction leader Drouot Digital since 2020, ThePackengers, a fast-growing European-based company that offers instant pricing, e-logistics and shipping of art, design, collectibles, and luxury goods, officially announces its expansion into the United States. With a warehouse space in New York, serving the tri-state area, ThePackengers recently opened their new facility in Los Angeles to handle the West Coast. Integrated directly with each Partners e-commerce site, ThePackengers applications are the first ever 100% digital solution for one-click, instantly priced transport to any destination worldwide. Given the high demand from the U.S. market, as well as the start-ups ambition to become a disruptive and strong player in the States, the company has developed a unique algorithm that instantly generates packaging a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kamel Mennour is presenting 'Jours blancs ' [White Days], a group show bringing together the works of Jean Arp, James Bishop, Marie Bovo, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dadamaino, Jean Degottex, Jean Dubuffet, Latifa Echakhch, Michel François, Douglas Gordon, Petrit Halilaj, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anish Kapoor, Tadashi Kawamata, Bertrand Lavier, Lee Ufan, Piero Manzoni, François Morellet, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Robert Ryman and Antoni Tàpies. The exhibition extends from the gallery at number 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, in Paris' 6th arrondissement, to the gallery at number 28 avenue Matignon, in the 8th arrondissement.
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| New Heard Museum exhibition traces the progression of the Native American fine art movement | | Cambodia says the Met Museum has dozens of its looted antiquities | | National Gallery of Art examines aquatint as a cross-cultural phenomenon in landmark American exhibition |
Patrick DesJarlait (Ojibwa, 1921-1973), Chippewa Fishing Camp, 1970. Watercolor on board, 14 x 11 ¼ inches. Heard Museum Collection, 3675-1.
PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museums new exhibition tells the story of an artistic movement that is often left out of the broader story of American art. Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art reflects 100 years of Indigenous creative expression and elevates the artists who have been central to the Native American Fine Art Movement. Opening on Oct. 26, 2021, Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art showcases paintings, photography, sculpture and digital works of art produced by leading American Indian artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition includes 75 works of art drawn from the Heards permanent collection that illustrate a progression of ideas and aesthetic expressions defining a major artistic movement that began in the early 20th century. Early works featured in the exhibition are by artists including Fred Kabotie (Hopi), Tonita Peña (San Ildefonso Pueblo) and Carl Sweezy (Southern Arapaho). The most re ... More | |
A stone statue, known as a Standing Female Deity, one of 45 ancient artifacts that Cambodian officials say were looted before being donated or sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Cambodia has begun to press the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan to document how it acquired dozens of Khmer Empire antiquities that Cambodian officials, citing new evidence, believe were looted during the countrys decades of war and tumult. Although Cambodia has pushed the Met and other museums in recent years for the return of individual statues and sculptures it says were pillaged between 1970 and 2000, this effort is far broader. Cambodian officials said they have developed a spreadsheet of 45 highly significant items at the Met that the evidence suggests were stolen before being donated or sold to the museum. Officials with the U.S. Attorneys Office, which has previously assisted Cambodia in recovering illicit antiquities, met with museum staff ... More | |
Maria Catharina Prestel, after Jacopo Ligozzi, The Triumph of Truth over Envy, 1781. Etching and aquatint printed in brown and gold leaf. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Aquatint is a printmaking technique that first gained popularity in 18th-century Europe for its unique ability to evoke the subtle tonalities of ink and wash drawings. The first exhibition of its type in the United States, Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya explores the medium as a cross-cultural and cosmopolitan phenomenon that contributed to the rise of art publishing, connoisseurship, leisure travel, and drawing instruction, as well as the spread of neoclassicism. This landmark exhibition features some 100 early and exceptional impressions of erupting volcanoes, amorous couples, mysterious tombs, biting caricatures, and moonlit vistasmany of which have recently been acquired by the National Gallery. A lavishly illustrated book of rare works from the museums collection of early aquatints accompanies this presentation. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya will be on ... More |
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| Everard Auctions & Appraisals announces highlights included in diverse Oct. 26-28 Fall Southern Estates Auction | | Iconic Southampton antiques/art dealer Jay Waldmann's collection offered at Roland Auctions NY | | Researchers of ancient DNA set ethics guidelines for their work |
Austrian ivory, enamel and semiprecious stone-mounted table clock with multiple hidden drawers, 19th century. Estimate $2,500-$5,000.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Considered by many to be the Souths finest online auction house, Everard Auctions & Appraisals combines traditional values and caring personal service with the latest Internet technology, making it a trusted choice within the art community worldwide. Everards next event, an October 26-28 Fall Southern Estates Auction, offers more than 900 lots of fine and decorative art from select sources in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and beyond. Absentee bidding is now in progress, with live online bidding slated to begin at 10 am EDT on all three days of the auction series. The memory of Everards exciting October 2020 sale of a Stephen Scott Young painting titled Tenth Son is still fresh in the minds of Southern regional art collectors. Youngs captivating watercolor depiction of an African American boy in summer attire a signed first study charmed bidders and had no trouble reaching a winning ... More | |
American Whalebone Ship Model c.1850, Monumental carved bone ship model. 2nd half of 19th century. estimate $30,000-50,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY is presenting a very special two-day auction event featuring the Collection of prominent Southampton, NY antiques dealer Jay Waldmann, whose shop Waldmann Jewelry and Antiques graced Main Street in Southampton Village for over twenty years, on Friday, November 5th and Saturday, November 6th at 10am (ET). Previews for this auction event, offering over 1,000 lots, will be held Wednesday November 3rd & Thursday November 4th from 10:00AM to 6:00PM at Roland Auctions NY. As many are aware, Waldmanns was the premiere dealer in the Hamptons, specializing in 18th & 19th Century fine paintings, decorative arts, silver and estate quality jewelry. After being a Hamptons mainstay since 1998, Jay Waldmann just recently sold the building in Southampton and is now offering his exquisite collection for the first time in auction. Mr. Waldmann ... More | |
A technician in the lab of David Reich, a paleogeneticist at Harvard, sandblasts a bone several thousand years old to isolate and extract DNA in Boston on March 15, 2018. Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times.
by Sabrina Imbler
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2017, a team of scientists successfully extracted the DNA of members of a Pueblo community who were buried starting around 1,300 years ago in what is now Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The DNA suggested that these people had lived in a matrilineal society, with power passed down through generations of mothers. The paper was a powerful example of how ancient DNA could illuminate the lives of people who died long ago. It was also a case study in poor ethics, some researchers contended at the time. They alleged that the scientists had failed to consult with local tribes and used culturally insensitive terms, such as referring to a tribal ancestor as cranium 14. Such criticisms have grown more numerous in the past ... More |
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| University of Pennsylvania Libraries receives major gift of photographic plates by Edward S. Curtis | | Bang! exhibitions open in Leuven | | Exhibition re-examines narratives of westward diaspora through works spanning five centuries |
Edward S. Curtis, Plate 379: "A Hesquiat Maiden" (1915). Edward S. Curtis Photography Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has received a rare collection of 151 interpositive glass plates by photographer Edward S. Curtis (18681952) from collector William H. Miller III. Appraised at $4.2 million, the gift to the Penn Libraries complements holdings across the University, making Penn a major center for research and work on Curtis, one of the most prolific American photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Curtis photographed Native Americans from more than 80 tribes over three decades. Selecting from among the 40,000 photographs he took, he produced a 20-volume work titled The North American Indian, published between 1907 and 1930. The Penn Libraries has made it a strategic priority to build, preserve, and steward collections with a focus on ... More | |
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LEUVEN.- Three huge world-class exhibitions opened to the public at M Leuven and KU Leuven University Library on Friday, 22 October. What ties it all together is a shared sense of wonder for the cosmos and its origins. Did the Universe have a beginning? Will it ever come to an end? Where do humans fit in the grand scheme of things? For thousands of years, we have projected these fundamental questions onto the starry sky, turning to mythology, religion, art, and the sciences to help us unravel the mysteries of our origins and far future. The main BANG! City Festival exhibitions offer myriad perspectives on this theme that has captured imaginations throughout the ages. From the ancient figurines created 5,000 years before Christ to newly commissioned immersive contemporary artworks that respond to the most radical cosmological theories BANG! has something for everyone. The exhibition, To the Edge of Time, blends scientific insights and m ... More | |
Elizabeth Catlett, Standing Mother and Child, 1978, bronze with copper alloy on wood base, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the African American Art Advisory Association. © 2021 Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, debuted the U.S. tour of Afro-Atlantic Histories, an unprecedented exhibition that visually explores the history and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. Initially organized and presented in 2018 by the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), the exhibition comprises more than 130 artworks and documents made in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe from the 17th to the 21st centuries. In collaboration with MASP and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the MFAH presents Afro-Atlantic Histories at its Caroline Wiess Law Building from Sunday, October 24, 2021, through Monday, January 17, 2022. The exhibition will then travel to the National Gallery of Art to be on view in its West ... More |
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| Whistler's Audain Art Museum immerses West Coast audiences in the world of Jean Paul Riopelle | | A transporting and cozy biography of a pottery pioneer | | A solo show of young documentary photographer Sophie Green opens at Messums Wiltshire |
Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002), Paysage dautrefois, 1977, oil on canvas, 131 x 97 cm. Private Collection. © Estate of Jean Paul Riopelle / SOCAN (2021).
The Audain Art Museum presents Riopelle: The Call of Northern Landscapes and Indigenous Cultures, a major exhibition dedicated to Quebecs Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002). This ambitious exhibition for the Audain Art Museum envelops viewers in Riopelles approach to artistic production, providing an opportunity to become steeped in the inspiration behind the work of one of Canadas most internationally recognized artists of the 20th century. During the 1950s and 1960s, Jean Paul Riopelle established himself in Paris as one of the leading Western artists of the post-World War II cultural avant-garde. This exhibition brings together rarely seen paintings, prints and sculptures from the 1970s, a lesser known period of Riopelles artistic career. These works represent a fascinating development in Riopelles oeuvre as he begins to delve into subject matter from a distinctly North American perspective, with ... More | |
"The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood" by Tristram Hunt. Illustrated. 323 pages. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co. $29.99.
by Alexandra Jacobs
NEW YORK, NY.- During this pandemic, the upper-middle class went bonkers over pots. They clanged them nightly on the street in homage to health care workers, and as soon as they were loosed from quarantine they marched into studios like eager kindergartners to create their own ceramics. Perhaps these hobbyists, whose uneven, sometimes Seussian efforts fill Instagram shelfies Seth Rogen, Im talking to you could find #inspo in a new biography of 18th-century potter Josiah Wedgwood. It encourages the rest of us to look at our crockery more critically. Josiah Wedg-wha? one might ask and understandably, because the brand once synonymous with fine china has in the 21st century lost much of its luster. Indeed so has fine china generally, with most young moderns now preferring rough-hewed mismatches they can fling ... More | |
Sophie Green, Girl & Lipliner. Giclee Print. Edition of 8, 20.32 x 30.55 cm (S).
TISBURY.- Sophie Greens photographs celebrate the creativity, uniqueness and eccentricities of under- represented subcultures in Britain, often in playful and light ways. Her camera is a way to access people and sceneries she is drawn to, immortalising fashion styles, poses and accessories deployed in social gatherings. Merging portraiture and still life images, Greens photographs are imbued with a feeling of surprise and a love for the theatrical and the unexpected. Her work pushes the boundaries of traditional social documentary with a balance of spontaneity and styled constructions. Her images cleverly enhance the colours, shapes and textures that characterise the environments she encounters. Combining works from the series Gypsy Gold, A Day at the Races and Dented Pride in a unique display, the exhibition Showtime offers a glimpse into the joyful and tender photographic practice of Sophie Green. I ... More |
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After 24 years, a conductor returns to the Met Opera
NEW YORK, NY.- Among the ample attractions of the Metropolitan Operas forthcoming performances of Richard Wagners Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which runs Tuesday through Nov. 14 with a cast including Michael Volle as Hans Sachs and Lise Davidsen as Eva, is the long-awaited return of conductor Antonio Pappano. There are few more reliably inspired conductors at work today than Pappano, who has been music director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London since 2002 and of the Orchestra dell Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome since 2005. Yet Meistersinger will be Pappanos first appearance at the Met since his debut leading Eugene Onegin in 1997. The run comes at a turning point in his career. Pappano, 61, will leave Covent Garden in 2024, a year after he does the same in Rome. But he wont be ... More
Christie's appoints Deidrea Miller as Head of Communications, Americas
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the appointment of Deidrea Miller as Head of Communications for Christies Americas, based in New York. Deidrea will oversee strategic communications for Christies Americas as a member of Christies Americas Executive Committee. Deidrea will report to Bonnie Brennan, President of Christies Americas and Natasha Le Bel, Global Head of Communications. Deidrea brings to Christies 15 years of experience providing strategic counsel and issues management to leaders in the arts and culture, energy, higher education, and public sectors. Previously she was a Director with Brunswick Arts in New York, where she advised cultural organizations, art institutions, and luxury brands. Her client experience included the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and its museums in New York and Abu Dhabi, and The ... More
Fearsome dinosaur that stalked Australia was a timid plant eater
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than 50 years, the giant fossilized footprints have been one of the most tantalizing finds in Australian paleontology. At the time of their discovery, scientists believed the three birdlike tracks had been made 200 million to 250 million years ago by a two-legged predator. The tracks were the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed Australia in the Triassic, when the creatures first appeared on the planet. By 2003, some paleontologists even suspected that the footprints represented the worlds earliest evidence of a giant carnivorous dinosaur, one that may have stood up to 6 1/2 feet high at the hip. But new analysis has brought down this Australian idol. The tracks belonged to a smaller, meeker herbivore no taller than a person, not a ferocious giant carnivore, scientists said in a paper published Thursday in the journal Historical ... More
Dee Pop, drummer and downtown New York fixture, dies at 65
NEW YORK, NY.- Dee Pop, a drummer who first found grimy rock stardom as a founding member of underground New York band Bush Tetras during the no wave and post-punk scene of the late 1970s, and who later became an elder statesman of the citys alternative music scene, died Oct. 9 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 65. His brother, Tom Papadopoulos, said the cause was heart failure. Some 40 years ago, an avant-garde punk movement was rumbling from the underground scene below 14th Street. Bands like the Contortions, Liquid Liquid, DNA and 8 Eyed Spy led the charge, playing nightly at venues like the Mudd Club, Tier 3 and CBGB. Amid the fray emerged the moments must-see band, Bush Tetras, who disbanded just four years later but left a profound impact on the scene. The female-fronted quartet, often clad in headbands and leopard-print ... More
Imperial 'dragon' throne carpet to be sold by Christie's in Paris
PARIS.- A rare survivor from the original carpets woven to adorn the halls of the Imperial Palace within the Forbidden City, will be offered at auction by Christies in Paris for 3,500,000-4,500,000. The carpet, woven in the 16th Century during the Ming dynasty, will be on exhibition in London at Christies King Street from October 23rd to 7th November. Adorned with two five-clawed dragons and with a seed pearl at its centre, it would have been placed on a raised platform upon which the throne of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven would have been positioned, signifying his connection between the earth and the celestial heavens, it is in pristine condition. The carpet, which would have originally been woven in rich Ming Imperial red, now faded to a golden yellow, measures 5 x 4 meters approximately and is one of the highlights of the Exceptional Sale ... More
James Michael Tyler, who played Gunther on 'Friends,' dies at 59
NEW YORK, NY.- James Michael Tyler, who played the deadpan, smitten barista Gunther on the TV show Friends, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 59. His manager, Toni Benson, said the cause was prostate cancer, which was diagnosed in September 2018. After his diagnosis, Tyler shared his story to encourage others to get screened for prostate cancer as early as 40. Friends helped launch the careers of its star-studded cast, which included Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. It debuted on NBC in the fall of 1994, ran for a decade and typically had around 25 million to 30 million viewers each week. Although Tyler was not a main character, he was widely considered to be the seventh friend and appeared in 150 episodes. He played the part of Gunther, a ... More
Review: In 'Fairycakes,' Disney and Shakespeare go camping
NEW YORK, NY.- Did you ever want to see a fairy-tale mashup, set amid the magic of nature, offering clever rhyme and delightful song, with a powerful theme to bring it all home? Well, this isnt that. Fairycakes, the laborious new comedy by Douglas Carter Beane that opened Sunday at the Greenwich House Theater, dares to enter the precincts of Into the Woods, upping the ante and losing the bet. Written mostly in ear-scraping doggerel, it throws characters from the fairy-world subplot of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream into the mixer with Cinderella, Peter Pan, Pinocchio and Sleeping Beauty, then presses the button marked beat to death. I say this with no glee; I went in needing and fully expecting an old-fashioned good time from the author of The Little Dog Laughed, As Bees in Honey Drown and many other hilarities. ... More
Jay Black, soaring lead singer of the Americans, dies at 82
NEW YORK, NY.- Jay Black, whose majestic voice on songs like Cara, Mia and Only in America made Jay and the Americans a potent force in pop music in the 1960s, died Friday in New York City. He was 82. His son Jason Blatt said the cause was pneumonia that led to cardiac arrest. He also had dementia, his family said. Jay and the Americans began to thrive before the arrival of the Beatles in the United States in 1964. With Black as their lead singer, the groups first major hit was Only in America, which peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963. That was followed the next year by Come a Little Bit Closer, which rose to No. 3, and Lets Lock the Door (and Throw Away the Key), which hit No. 11. In 1965, their version of Some Enchanted Evening, from the musical South Pacific, peaked at No. 13. Black whose original ... More
Michael Jordan sneakers sell for nearly $1.5 mn, an auction record
NEW YORK, NY.- A pair of sneakers worn by NBA superstar Michael Jordan early in his career sold for nearly $1.5 million on Sunday, setting a record price at auction for game-worn footwear, Sotheby's said. The white leather shoes with the red Nike swoosh and soles were worn by the iconic player in the fifth game of his rookie season with the Chicago Bulls, when Nike's Jordan-affiliated brand was only just taking off as a sensation both on and off the court. "The most valuable sneakers ever offered at auction -- Michael Jordan's regular season game-worn Nike Air Ships from 1984 -- have just sold at $1,472,000 in our luxury sale in Las Vegas," the auction house said in a statement on Twitter. The astronomical price easily beat the record held by a pair of Nike Air Jordans which sold for $615,000 in August 2020 at a Christie's auction. A ... More
Apollo-flown Robbins medallions from Buzz Aldrin Family ready to take off at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Gold and silver medallions, made specifically by the Robbins Company for flight missions in space, started all the way back on Apollo 7. Created as a commemorative gift for the astronauts, as well as for friends and family, somewhere between 255 and 450 were made for each Apollo mission. The finest Apollo 11 example ever offered by Heritage Auctions will cross the block in HAs Space Exploration Signature® Auction Nov. 12-13. Coming directly from the Potter-Aldrin Family Collection, this MS69 NGC Sterling Silver Robbins Medallion, Serial Number 52 (estimate: $40,000+) was aboard the famed Apollo 11 in mid-July 1969. This medal once belonged to Fay Ann Aldrin Potter, an older sister of astronaut Buzz Aldrin who gave her brother his iconic nickname (which he eventually legally changed from his given name, Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.) ... More
In 'Unedited,' the revisions are part of the tradition
NEW YORK, NY.- For a dancer to explain, mid-show, that she has never before performed with her accompanying musicians and that they have barely rehearsed might seem like an excuse or an apology for roughness. But in her solo performance at Dixon Place on Thursday, Rachna Nivas said those words with pride. The title of her show, after all, was Unedited. And such in-the-moment risk is part of the tradition of kathak, the Indian classical dance form to which she has devoted her life. She wasnt making excuses. She was educating. The show was a production of Leela Dance Collective, which Nivas helped found in 2016 with fellow disciples of kathak guru Chitresh Das. The collective, started in San Francisco, also runs a series of schools across the country. Nivas recently moved to New York to open an outpost here. At ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter William Hogarth died October 26, 1764. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian.". In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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