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Female Figure Holding Infant. Cyprus. Late Cypriot II, 1450 â 1200 BCE. Terracotta, 7.6 Ã 1.7 Ã 2.4 in., 19.20 Ã 4.20 Ã 6.20 cm. British Museum, London, England.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Commonality of Humans Through Art, created and edited by Stuart Handler (Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 575 pages $78.00), is a trailblazing volume that delves into the captivating intersection of art and human behavior, revealing how tribal and ancient art has shaped and reflected our existence across millennia. This extraordinary booknow available on amazon.combrings together ten esteemed scholars to explore the impact of art on human life from birth to death, offering a fresh perspective on art history and cultural anthropology. In a departure from traditional approaches, this book eschews geographical and chronological constraints in favor of thematic exploration. It presents an innovative framework where art is examined through the lens of universal human experiencesfamily, motherhood, conflict, sickness, healing, religion, and death. Each thematic chapter, penned by a leading expert, illuminates the pro ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Turner Prize 2024 has been awarded to Jasleen Kaur. The winner of the £25,000 prize was announced this evening at a ceremony presented by actor James Norton at Tate Britain, and broadcast live on the BBC News channel. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the prize.
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| Morphy's Dec. 10-13 auction series combines famed military history collection with important firearms | | Jasleen Kaur wins Turner Prize 2024 | | Christie's Old Masters Part I Sale led by Anthony van Dyck's 'two-sided' Andalusian Horse and A wooded landscape |
Attributed to Matthew Pratt (American, 1734-1805), Portrait of Captain John Barry, Continental Navy, c. 1776. Oil-on-canvas laid to mahogany panel, 26in x 20in, contemporary carved and gilded frame. Estimate: $20,000-$40,000
DENVER, PA.- History buffs and collectors of fine antique, vintage and modern firearms probably didnt find what they wanted at Black Friday sales, but that doesnt matter. The collectible-arms community will gather for holiday shopping December 10-13 at Morphys Pennsylvania gallery. The companys four-day series is packed with American, European and Japanese legacy firearms and militaria and opens with a very special December 10 session titled The Art of War in America, 1750-1850: The James L Kochan Study Collection. The December 11-13 lineup features one exciting highlight after another, including the Kenneth Smith-Christmas collection of Irish arms, and fresh selections from the Jim Cyr collection and Frank Brownell knife collection. In all, there are more than 2,100 lots. The opening session (Dec. 10) is devoted exclusively ... More | |
The Turner Prize 2024 has been awarded to Jasleen Kaur.
LONDON.- The Turner Prize 2024 has been awarded to Jasleen Kaur. The winner of the £25,000 prize was announced this evening at a ceremony presented by actor James Norton at Tate Britain, and broadcast live on the BBC News channel. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the prize. The jury congratulated all four nominated artists for each of their eloquent and distinctive presentations, representative of the high standard of British art at this present moment. Working variously with museum objects, sound and installation, personal mythologies and portraiture, the artists this year embed an intimate sense of self, family and community within the circulation of cultures, beliefs and ideas. They awarded the prize to Jasleen Kaur, whose recent practice reflects upon everyday objects, animating them through sound and music to summon community and cultural inheritance. The jury noted the considered way in which Kaur weaves together the ... More | |
Auctioneer Henry Pettifer, Christie's International Deputy Chairman, Old Master Paintings. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Marking the start of Classic Week at Christies in London, Old Masters Part I Sale realised £13,990,200 / $17,753,564 / 16,872,181, selling 156% over the low estimate. The auction was led by Anthony van Dycks Andalusian Horse and A wooded landscape which achieved £3,428,000 / $4,350,132/ 4,134,168. This two-sided work captivated the interest of collectors and enthusiasts globally, not only with the artists first grand-scale depiction of a lone horse, but with an additional element of rarity and significance: his only surviving landscape in oil on the reverse of the original canvas. Elsewhere, the sale set a new world auction record price for a work by Francesco Hayez. The breakdown of buyers by region was: 71% EMEA / 7% APAC / 21% Americas. This sale builds on the succeses of Old Masters in London in July 2024, which presented one of the strongest sales for the ... More |
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| From El Greco to Zuloaga: Spanish masterpieces on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville | | The Glyptotek returns Roman bronze portrait to Türkiye | | Exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay focuses on Gustave Caillebotte and his predilection for portraits of men |
Pantoja de la Cruz, Portrait of Prince Philip Emmanuel of Savoy.
SEVILLE.- The Museum of Fine Arts in Seville will host the exhibition "From El Greco to Zuloaga: Spanish Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao" from December 3, 2024, to March 16, 2025. The exhibition features 26 paintings and two sculptures that showcase the exceptional quality of the Spanish art collection held by the Bilbao museum. Curated by José Luis Merino Gorospe, conservator of Ancient Art at the Bilbao Museum, the exhibition traces the evolution of Spanish art from the late 16th to the early 20th century. Divided into three thematic sections, it highlights a range of artistic styles and cultural influences: From the Table to the Horizon This section presents artists who moved beyond religious themes and human figures to focus on still lifes and landscapes, mastering these genres with unparalleled skill. ... More | |
Septimius. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
A portrait of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus is about to embark on a long journey. The Glyptotek has decided in favour of Türkiyes request to return the ancient bronze portrait. In May 2023, the Turkish ambassador contacted the Glyptotek with a request for the return of an ancient bronze portrait of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. The request was based on an assumption that the portrait originated from Boubon in southwest Türkiye, from which it had been illegally excavated and traded. In August 2023, the Glyptotek initiated archival and archaeological studies and technical analyses of the portrait. The purpose was to investigate whether the portrait originates from the Boubon site in Türkiye, as previous research had assumed, and to provide a more recent scientific basis for processing the request. It is partly this research that has been the basis for the museums application to the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces to ret ... More | |
Gustave Caillebotte, Au café, 1880. Collection Musée d'Orsay - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen. Achat, 1943 © Musée dOrsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais.
PARIS.- The exhibition on show at the Musée d'Orsay focuses on Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and his predilection for masculine forms and portraits of men, and seeks to examine this artist's profoundly radical modernity through the lens of art history's changing perspective on 19th-century forms of masculinity. In a desire to produce a new, authentic form of art, Caillebotte took his subjects from his surroundings (Haussmann's Paris, the country houses around the capital), his male acquaintances (his brothers, the workers employed by his family, his boating friends), and ultimately from his own life. In response to the realist movement, he introduced new figures into his paintings: an urban worker, a man on a balcony, a sportsman, and even an intimate portrait of a male nude at his 'toilette'. In an era when virility and republican fraternity prevailed, ... More |
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| Belvedere announces 2025 program highlights and outlook | | The Design auction totals $20.4M | | 'Fresh Window: The Art of Display & Display of Art' opens at Museum Tinguely |
Ivana Kobilca, Summer, 1889-90. Photo: National Gallery of Slovenia.
VIENNA.- In 2025, visitors can look forward to 21 exhibitions at three locations, as well as numerous publications and projects in the fields of education, mediation, inclusion and research. General Director Stella Rollig: Our program invites visitors to engage with a rich array of artistic experiences. The multifaceted exhibition program makes art tangible as a bridge between cultures and as a mirror of our times. In 2025, visitors can look forward to exhibitions that showcase historical, modern, and contemporary perspectives, complemented by a vibrant program that meets the interests of various audiences and communities to encourage active participation and inclusion. Highlights will include The World in Colors: Slovenian Painting 1848-1918, which will explore the dynamic artistic exchange between Vienna and Ljubljana. Joining forces with the National Gallery of Slovenia, the Belvedere will showcase Slovenian painting ... More | |
A new world record was set for a Diego Giacometti work (lot 68), Console Promenade des Amis, reaching 9.5M. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
PARIS.- Todays Design auction achieved solid results, totaling 19.4M / $20.4M, further strengthening Christies position as a leader in the design market. The Shaping Colors collection, featuring 250 ceramics by Jacques and Dani Ruelland, made a significant impact at the opening of the auction, drawing considerable attention. Curated with passion over a decade by the collector duo Frédéric Cassin, a businessman in Singapore, and Cristina Córdula, a prominent fashion and TV personality, the collection harmoniously combined colors and shapes, striking a chord with a dynamic Asian clientele. Stunningly displayed by the stylist at Christies, the exhibition attracted nearly 2,000 visitors within just a few days. Among the most remarkable pieces, a set of five bottles and three vases from the 1960s-1970s (lot 40) achieved the highest bid, reaching ... More | |
Installation view.
BASEL.- The histories of window dressing and fine art are closely intertwined. Besides Jean Tinguely, many other artists made significant contributions in the field of window display design. Conversely, window displays have often featured as a motif in artworks or served as a stage for performances and interventions. Shop display windows also reflect social and political developments, as they have shaped the face of inner cities in the western world since the late nineteenth century, mirroring changes in social conditions and the use of public space. Fresh Window. The Art of Display & Display of Art is the first museum exhibition to explore the intersection of art and window dressing, from the rise of the department store around 1900 to todays exclusive luxury boutiques. The richness of this topic will be on show at Museum Tinguely from December 4, 2024 until May 11, 2025 with works by around forty artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, offering a chance ... More |
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| 2024 Autumn Asian Art live auctions achieved US$109.3 million | | Discovery: Special Paul Gauguin loan reveals its secrets | | Exhibition traces the evolution of modern Korean ceramics |
16% increase in total buyers | 20% increase in new buyers at Christies | 29% increase in millennial buyers. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
HONG KONG.- Christies announced that its inaugural Hong Kong Asian art sale series at the new Asia Pacific headquarters in The Henderson, which included The Au Bak Ling Collection: The Inaugural Sale in September 2024 and six live auctions in November 2024 during the inaugural Asian Art Week, achieved a combined sale total of HK$846,424,360 / US$109,313,589. This remarkable result was led by exceptional single-owner collections across Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art and Chinese Paintings categories, from the classical to the modern era, including Chinese ceramics, archaic jades, and Chinese classical furniture reinforcing Christies as the auction house of reference for prestigious Asian art collections worldwide. The packed saleroom and online platforms witnessed spirited engagement from collectors driven by new and younger buyers, reflected by a 20% increase in new buyers, and a 29% increase in Millennial buyers across seven live ... More | |
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), The Little Cat (Le petit chat), 1888, oil on jute, 72 x 25 cm, on loan from a private collection, France (former Gustave Fayet Collection)
AMSTERDAM.- The painting The Little Cat (Le petit chat) (1888) by Paul Gauguin (18481903) recently came to the Van Gogh Museum for examination. Comprehensive technical investigation revealed that the painting was once part of a larger work. The painting The Little Cat is currently on display at the Van Gogh Museum, together with comparable works from the museum collection and the outcomes of the research. X-ray imaging conducted on the painting revealed that the threads of the fabric on the left, bottom and top sides are cusped (stretched into arched shapes). The deformation of the canvas was caused by its original attachment to the stretcher frame, but does not occur on the right-hand side. This indicates that the canvas was cut off at the right side, probably by Gauguin himself. Gauguin greatly admired Vincent van Goghs still lifes, especially his sunflowers on a yellow background. Van Gogh painte ... More | |
Korean Art Society, White Porcelain Ashtray with Bukdan Painted in Underglaze Blue, 19501960s. Cobalt painted on porcelain clay, 5.4 à 11.4 à 11.4cm. © Kansong Art and Culture Foundation.
GWACHEON.- The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea presents Unfolding the Dynamics of Modern Ceramics in Korea, an exhibition that traces the evolution of modern Korean ceramics. This exhibition showcases the story of Korean ceramic art from the 1950s to the present, exploring how ceramics have responded to Koreas dynamic societal changes while preserving and advancing traditional values includes a wide array of ceramic works including traditional pottery, painting on ceramics, architectural ceramics, ceramic sculpture, and installations. The Prologue: The Beginnings of Modernity highlights the emergence of modern Korean ceramics in the 1950s, a period during which the country was striving to overcome the shadow of Japanese colonial rule and the Korean War. This part introduces notable institutions from this era, such as the Korean Art Society, which was established ... More |
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Extraordinary impact of hip hop explored through painting, photography, sculpture, video and fashionTORONTO.- Endlessly inventive, hip hop culture was birthed in the Bronx, New York City among working class Black and Latinx youth and went on to dominate radio, dance floors, the runway and the artist studio. Making its only Canadian stop at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century tells the story of this multi-disciplinary and expressly creative culture, its philosophies and global impact. Opening December 4, 2024, The Culture features contemporary art by more than 65 artists among them, Stan Douglas, John Edmonds, Deana Lawson and Hank Willis Thomas. The title of the exhibition stems from a long-standing hip hop phrase (do it) for the culture which implies a commitment and service to hip hops roots, practices, ethics, viewpoints and values to ensure the cultures communal ... More Emerging artists rethink folk horror and curatorial practices at Ygrec Art CenterAUBERVILLIERS.- The Ygrec Art Center is hosting a groundbreaking project where a group of students, recent graduates, and an alumnus from the Ãcole nationale supérieure darts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) take on dual roles as artists and curators. This initiative challenges participants to blur the lines between artistic creation and exhibition design, fostering a dynamic dialogue and collaborative experimentation within the gallery space. At the heart of the project lies a haunting question: Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? This infamous mystery from 1943, involving the discovery of a womans body in a tree in rural England, serves as a catalyst for an exploration of folk horror. The artists reinterpret this dark tradition through rituals, fire, and sacrificial imagery, crafting works that defy modern sensibilities and evoke the eerie return of pagan beliefs. ... More Tim Burton's earliest days at Disney kick off Heritage's sweeping Dec. 14-17 Animation Auction DALLAS, TX.- The real-life origin story of the endlessly creative Tim Burton is that he got his start in the 1980s in Disney's animation department, and the department could not Disneyfy' his wild aesthetic enough for its taste, so Burton eventually walked. He, of course, went on to become one of the most acclaimed feature film writer-directors of our time and a true stylist whose visual disposition is as distinctive as any output of any Disney era. The studio's loss of Burton as an animator turned out to be everyone's gain, including a future Disney, but Burton nonetheless left some marvelous work behind from his earliest days as a Disney artist, and some of that work as well as works from across Burton's explosive career are but one highlight of Heritage's sweeping, four-day auction extravaganza, The Art of All Things Disney and More! Signature® Auction. ... More Berkshire Museum takes its collection to the community in 2025PITTSFIELD, MASS.- Berkshire Museum announced that it will begin the major renovations of its first-floor spaces and galleries beginning Monday, January 6th, 2025. Starting with the construction kick-off in January, the museum will shift its activities outside of the four walls of its South Street home, partnering with community organizations to offer a variety of off-site events and educational programs, plus behind-the-scenes content, and digital conversations with museum staff featuring works from the collection. During this time, the museum will not be open for admission. Of note will be the museum's use of their Mobile Museum Units (MoMUs), the 11 STEAM-curated displays drawn from their collections. The beloved MoMU displays or mini-exhibitions feature science, technology, engineering, art and math components that complement ... More 'Driant Zeneli: The Valley of Uncanny Lovers' opens at Museum of Contemporary Art ZagrebZAGREB.- The project Driant Zeneli has created for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb centres around a wondrous and touching film about uncanny lovers, made in the midst of the lithium mining crisis and fight for environmental and ecological justice in the Western Balkans. The central protagonist of the narrative is a small leaf embodying the fragility and vulnerability of the modern man. Driant Zeneli uses the image of the love-obsessed leaf as a metaphor of complete openness and vulnerability, but also as, paradoxically, a daring hero who uncompromisingly follows his vision regardless of the loss of illusions during his mission. In other film stories, The Firefly Keeps Falling and the Snake Keeps Growing (2022) and How Deep Can a Dragonfly Swim under the Ocean? (2021), which jointly comprise the intervention in the Richter ... More Fundació Suñol highlights Andy Warhol's 1983 visit to Madrid with documentary and exhibitionBARCELONA.- The Suñol Soler Collection presents a groundbreaking exhibition and documentary exploring Andy Warhols iconic 1983 visit to Madrid, organized by renowned art dealer Fernando Vijande. This dual tribute unveils the cultural impact of their collaboration and Warhols enduring influence on contemporary art. From December 4, 2024, to February 28, 2025, the Fundació Suñol in Barcelona will host Warhol-Vijande: More than Altered Images, a celebrated exhibition first launched at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid. Accompanying the exhibition is a teaser for the upcoming documentary Warhol-Vijande: More than Guns, Knives, and Crosses, set for theatrical release in 2025. Through testimonies from Warhols circle in New York and witnesses to his Madrid visit, the documentary delves into the friendship between Warhol ... More Library appoints new Chief for National Audio-Visual Conservation CenterWASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has named Rachael Stoeltje as the new chief of the Librarys National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, which includes the Librarys Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, beginning in January 2025. Stoeltje will oversee the state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the worlds largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings. Before joining the Library of Congress, Stoeltje was the director of the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive since 2010 where she grew the archive and oversaw the universitys film Mass Digitization and Preservation Initiative. She also serves as president of the Association of Mo ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko died December 04, 1956. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. In this image: A Tate Modern staff looks over the works of Aleksander Rodchenko's (1891-1956), 'Composition no.50, 1918, (L) and Liubov Popova's' (1889-1924), ' Painterly Architectonic' (R) at the Rodchenko and Popova - Defining Constructivism exhibit at the Tate Modern in London, Britain, 10 February 2009. Arguably two of Russia's most influential and important artists, Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Liubov Popova (1889-1924), Defining Constructivism explored the work of these two great artists from 1917 to 1925.
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