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The King of Afghanistan Zaman Shah Durrani leaving Lahor, Lucknow, Northern India, circa 1820; Opaque pigments with gold on paper, inscribed above the kingâs head in nastaâliq script: Zaman Shah; 13 1/8 by 16 5/8 in.; 33.3 by 42.2 cm. painting; 14 1/8 by 17 ¾ in.; 36 by 45 cm. folio (Credit Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, Ltd.)
NEW YORK, NY.- The 15th edition of Asia Week New York which concluded its nine- day run on March 22nd rang up $100,870,195M in combined sales between the twenty-one galleries and five auction houses. At press time, this figure includes twenty-one out of twenty-eight galleries (two were non-selling) reporting and five out of six auction housesâBonhams, Christieâs, Doyle, Heritage, and Sothebyâs. iGavelAuctions has three sales still running online. âFor our milestone fifteenth anniversary year, exhibitors have had an exhilarating week of visiting private collectors and museum curators from across the U.S., Europe and Asia,â said Brendan Lynch, chairman of Asia Week New York. âSales were reported to be solid at both the auction houses and galleries." To celebrate this great week of exhibitions, auctions and events, a gala reception co-hosted by Asia Week New York and the Asian Art Departm ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 7 through June 11, 2024, The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection presents more than 40 highlights from the Museumâs outstanding collection of some 500 works, developed over four decades through the vision and support of Leonard A. Lauder.
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| Long before Amsterdam's coffee shops, there were hallucinogenic seeds | | Two paintings by women artists of the Boston School acquired by National Gallery of Art | | A rare and important manuscript of the Khamsas of Nizami leads Christie's sale |
In an image provided by BIAX Consult, a stash of black henbane seeds and the hollow animal-bone container that had kept them safe for some 1,900 years before their discovery near Utrecht, Netherlands in 2011. The find provides the first evidence of the intentional use of a powerful psychedelic plant in Western Europe during the Roman Era. (BIAX Consult via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2011, archaeologists in the Netherlands discovered an ancient pit filled with 86,000 animal bones at a Roman era farmstead near the city of Utrecht. It fell to Martijn van Haasteren, an ... More | |
Mary Bradish Titcomb, The Writer, c. 1912. Oil on canvas. Overall: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Funds from James and Christiane Valone in honor of Nancy K. Anderson 2023.135.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired two works by women painters of the Boston School: The Writer (c. 1912), by Mary Bradish Titcomb (18581927), and The Breakfast Tray (c. 1910), by Elizabeth Okie Paxton (18771971). These two paintingsalong with Gretchen Rogerss Five OClock ... More | |
An Important Shirazi copy of the Khamsas of Nizami and Amir Khusraw Dihlavi prepared for the Master Illuminator Lutfallah Shirazi. Shiraz, Iran. (Estimate £500,000-700,000 / US$640,000-890,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Christies announces the bi-annual Spring sale of Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets, a live auction at Christies London headquarters on 25 April. This season the sale offers a curated selection of 261 lots including four unique collections. Works ... More |
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| A rock fell from space into Sweden. Who owns it on Earth? | | Haines announces representation of Deborah Butterfield | | PIASA auction: La Joconde by Marcel Duchamp for sale |
The National Museum of Natural History works for increased understanding of the development of the Earth and the life on it, and it's diversity. Photo: Martin Stenmark.
STOCKHOLM.- The iron rocks journey from the depths of space ended with a thud in a dense pine forest, about an hour north of Stockholm, around 10 on a November night four years ago. Unusually, ... More | |
Deborah Butterfield in her studio. Photo: Hector Valdivia, courtesy the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines announced their representation of celebrated sculptor Deborah Butterfield. To honor this new collaboration, the gallery will present Butterfield's work in a solo exhibition opening this fall. Since the ... More | |
Marcel Duchamp (1887 1968), L.H.O.O.Q., 1964. Estimate : 200 000 / 300 000 © Fabrice Gousset.
PARIS.- 2024 celebrates the 100th anniversary of surrealism, in reference to the first publication of the Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton in 1924. On Wednesday June 5, 2024, PIASA will be auctioning a selection of major Surrealist works from ... More |
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| Haus der Kunst: Xue Tan to become Chief Curator of Haus der Kunst | | Jon Nicholson to release MACCHINA photographic book, London exhibition and Ayrton Senna print | | For one Afghan potter, home is in his work |
Xue Tan is a curator, producer and writer from Hong Kong. Photo: Wing Shya.
MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst welcomes Xue Tan as its new Head of Programme and Exhibitions. In this role she will be Chief Curator of Haus der Kunst starting from June 2024. The position is a vital part of the senior management team, and will be instrumental in further shaping and implementing Haus der Kunsts ongoing transformation. ... More | |
First published by Fyshe Limited, late April 2024.
LONDON.- British photographer Jon Nicholson was embedded with some of motorsports legendary teams including Ferrari, McLaren, Stewart and Williams. His archive includes photographs from the tragic weekend at Imola in May 1994 including his haunting image of Ayrton Senna taken at the San Marino Grand Prix just hours before his passing, plus previously unpublished ... More | |
The artist Matin Malikzada in his studio in New Milford, Conn., on June 11, 2023. (Adrian Martinez Chavez/The New York Times)
NEW MILFORD, CONN.- Before leaving Afghanistan in 2021, artist Matin Malikzada took pride in making pottery with the traditional materials and tools his family cherished for generations. He used to mix his own clay dug from a mountainside near Istalif, a village north of Kabul that is known for ... More |
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| The encounter that put pianist Kelly Moran on an unexpected path | | What 'KateGate' says about royalty, celebrity and internet culture | | How do you become the U.K.'s hottest new band? The old-fashioned way. |
The pianist Kelly Moran in Brooklyn on March 1, 2024. The 36-year-old musician helped introduce the prepared piano to fresh audiences. Amid personal upheaval, she abandoned it and found a new voice. (Brian Karlsson/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- As spring 2022 bloomed, Irena Wang emailed pianist Kelly Moran to ask for a mixtape. They had briefly met just days before at the funeral of Wangs partner of seven years and Morans high school sweetheart in the little Long Island town where they grew up. He had died ... More | |
In an undated image she provided, Heidi Agan, a 43-year-old British brunette who has earned her living partly from her uncanny resemblance to Catherine, Princess of Wales. Agan says she has been harassed online since the conspiracy theories around Catherine have picked up steam. (Heidi Agan via The New York Times)
LONDON.- Once upon a time, the British monarchy exerted a unique hold over the imaginations of millions of Americans, an interest that elevated its crown-bearing figureheads above the ... More | |
Clockwise from left: Lizzie Mayland, Abigail Morris, Georgia Davies, Aurora Nishevci and Emily Roberts of the Last Dinner Party in London, March 6, 2024. (Ellie Smith/The New York Times)
LONDON.- One drunken evening in 2019, Abigail Morris and Georgia Davies rushed into a discount store in Brixton, south London, and bought a cheap notepad to write down their bands manifesto. At that point, the rock group, then called the Dinner Party, only had three members, and had never ... More |
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NEW YORK, NY.- John Galliano, High & Low, the feature-length documentary about the former Dior designers fall from grace after a drunken antisemitic rant in a Paris bar in 2011, and his long climb back, is interesting for a number of reasons. It is a chance to hear from Galliano himself about his struggles, for one, and to look back at the fashion world of the 1990s. But just as striking is the number of think pieces it has spawned meditating on Gallianos transgressions, repentance and, it seems, current state of forgiveness. Indeed, the films greatest significance may have less to do with the story it tells than with what it seems to represent: the official end of Gallianos time in the wilderness. It serves as a coda to a period that began with his firing from Dior and subsequent conviction for hate crimes and that lasted through a ... More
A second act for ballet in Iran?
NEW YORK, NY.- As the ballet dancers moved through the familiar rituals of their daily class, they tried to ignore the gunshots and explosions outside. It was 1979, and Iran was in the midst of a revolution that would overthrow the ruling shah and turn the country into an Islamic republic. The dancers were the last few members of the Iranian National Ballet. Bahareh Sardari was among them. On a recent video call from her home in Herndon, Virginia, she recalled what happened next: The National Ballet, which had been founded in 1958 and had grown and flourished, ended. All of the foreign dancers in the company had already left, she said. Then one of the ayatollahs decided that ballet which he probably knew nothing about was incompatible with the Islamic Republic. What would happen to the art to which Sardari, then ... More
States have spent $25 billion to Woo Hollywood. Is it worth it?
NEW YORK, NY.- Michigan desperately wanted a Hollywood makeover. And for $500 million, studios were more than happy to help. When the state started writing checks in 2008 from one of the nations most generous film incentive programs, productions flocked there, making box-office hits such as Clint Eastwoods Gran Torino, Sam Raimis Oz the Great and Powerful and Zack Snyders Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Then Michigan did the math. After a state economist determined that the film incentives represent lost revenue and that their economic benefits were negligible, Michigan, which cut funding for police and schools while facing a severe budget deficit, eventually decided to end its incentives. As the program gradually unwound, The Avengers moved to Cleveland and Iron Man 3 went to Wilmington, North Carolina. Even Detroit was filmed in Boston. ... More
Vampire Weekend did not make a 'Doom and Gloom Record'
NEW YORK, NY.- From the first seconds of Vampire Weekends new album, Only God Was Above Us, its clear that something has changed. Ice Cream Piano starts with hiss, buzz, feedback and a hovering, distorted guitar note the opposite of the clean pop tones that have been the bands hallmark. Its the beginning of an album full of startling changes and wild sonic upheavals, all packed into 10 songs. The new album, like all of Vampire Weekends work, is meticulous, self-conscious and awash in musical and verbal allusions sometimes direct, sometimes cryptic. But its also a broad pendulum swing from its 2019 release, Father of the Bride, a leisurely, jam-band-influenced sprawl that ran nearly 58 minutes. Only God Was Above Us, the groups fifth ... More
A French-Malian singer is caught in an Olympic storm
PARIS.- In four months, France will host the Paris Olympics, but which France will show up? Torn between tradition and modernity, the country is in the midst of an identity crisis. The possible choice for the opening ceremony of Aya Nakamura, a superstar French-Malian singer whose slang-spiced lyrics stand at some distance from academic French, has ignited a furor tinged with issues of race and linguistic propriety and the politics of immigration. Right-wing critics say Nakamuras music does not represent France, and the prospect of her performing has led to a barrage of racist insults online against her. The Paris prosecutors office has opened an investigation. The outcry has compounded a fight over an official poster unveiled this month: a pastel rendering of the citys landmarks thronging with people in a busy style reminiscent ... More
National Portrait Gallery calls for entries to its annual Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize
LONDON.- Today, the National Portrait Gallery announces that entries are open to the 2024 edition its annual photography prize, the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. The international competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography, is inviting submissions from 9am on 26 March 2024 until 10pm on 7 May 2024. The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize is one of the most competitive photography awards in the world and showcases the work of some of the most exciting and cutting-edge contemporary photographers. The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world, whether a leading professional, a talented amateur or an exciting emerging artist. Photographers are encouraged to interpret portrait in its widest sense, with photography focused ... More
Asian & Indian art from "The Collection of Walter and Nesta Spink" highlight Moran's 2-day Traditional Collector sale
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Continuing their Spring line up, John Moran Auctioneers presents the highly-anticipated 2-day sale, The Traditional Collector: Featuring The Collection of Walter and Nesta Spink taking place Tuesday, April 9th & Wednesday, April 10th, 2024, at 12:00pm PDT. The entire auction will offer over 440 lots, including fine and decorative art, furnishings, tableware, lighting, clocks, and more. Featuring 176 lots of Asian and Southeast Asian works from remarkable private collections, the sale will begin with property from Walter and Nesta Spink, two highly respected figures in the world of art history, academia, and collecting. Walters scholarly focus on early Buddhist art and architecture, particularly ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, painter and photographer Edward Steichen was born March 27, 1879. Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 - March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. Steichen was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Together Stieglitz and Steichen opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which eventually became known as 291 after its address. In this image: Edward Steichen, White, 1935, Gelatin Silver Print. Courtesy Condé Nast Archive, New York. © 1935 Condé Nast Publications.
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