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In a photo provided by Flora Yukhnovich; via Victoria Miro; Eva Herzog shows, British artist Flora Yukhnovich, 31, in her London studio. Yukhnovich is one of the most sought-after young rising stars in the art world, and her works are attracting voracious demand internationally from collectors and speculators. Flora Yukhnovich; via Victoria Miro; Eva Herzog via The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
LONDON.- Three years ago, her large paintings were selling at a little-known gallery for about $40,000 each. In 2021, one of them was resold at a Sothebys auction for a record $3.1 million. Another hangs in the Downing Street home of Britains finance minister, Rishi Sunak. Flora Yukhnovich, 31, a British painter whose first solo exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery in London opens Tuesday, is one of the most sought-after young rising stars in the art world, and her works are attracting voracious demand internationally from collectors and speculators. The number of very interested, serious collectors who have inquired after the work runs in the hundreds, said Matt Carey-Williams, Victoria Miros head of sales. The heat in the market for Yukhnovichs exuberant semiabstract paintings is symptomatic of the phenomenon known as flipping. When demand for certain artists significantly outstrips supply, those fortunate enough to have acquired their works ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages Auction on Mar 03, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-6. Featuring antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian Art, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African/Tribal / Oceanic, Fine / Visual art, and much more!. In this image: Beautiful Roman Marble Capital Architectural Feature. Estimate $6,500 - $9,750.
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| They want to break T. Rex into 3 species. Paleontologists aren't pleased. | | Kandinsky painting returned to Jewish heirs by Amsterdam museum | | Christie's historic Shanghai to London sale series realises a total of $334,003,078 |
The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Feb. 28, 2019. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Asher Elbein
NEW YORK, NY.- Tyrannosaurus rex is the most iconic dinosaur. Its skeletons hold pride of place in museums around the world and sell for millions of dollars at auction and a bounty of relatively complete specimens have made it the most thoroughly studied dinosaur in the world. But in a new paper published Tuesday in Evolutionary Biology, three researchers argue that the animal we call Tyrannosaurus rex should be split into three species, with T. rex being joined by two cousins they name Tyrannosaurus imperator, or the emperor, and Tyrannosaurus regina, the queen. This paper is likely to rock the paleo community and the public that is so used to good old T. rex, said Gregory Paul, an independent paleontologist and paleoartist and author on the paper. Tyrannosaur experts largely disagree. Thomas Carr, a paleontologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, calls ... More | |
Wassily Kandinsky, Bild mit Häusern, 1909. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam c/o Pictoright, Amsterdam 2004.
NEW YORK, NY.- The city of Amsterdam on Monday handed over a painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky to heirs of a Jewish couple who had sold it as they tried to escape the Netherlands after the Nazi invasion during World War II. The 1909 work, Painting With Houses, had been held since 1940 by the Stedelijk Museum, which is responsible for the city of Amsterdams 95,000-item art collection. In a statement, the city said it had reached an agreement with the heirs of the couple, Robert Lewenstein and Irma Klein, on the basis of mutual respect and settled an ownership dispute that began years ago. As a city, we bear a great responsibility for dealing with the indescribable suffering and injustice inflicted on the Jewish population in the Second World War, Touria Meliani, a deputy mayor, said in the statement. To the extent that anything can be restored, we as a society have a moral duty to act accordingly. The issue of whether to return the work ... More | |
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968), La Femme Au Collier. Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81 cm. Painted in 1908. Estimate: RMB 19,500,000 32,000,000 / USD 2,925,000 4,800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies historic Shanghai to London sale series established a pioneering cultural dialogue between two of the art markets major hubs, achieving a total of £249,070,155 / RMB 2,087,955,108 / $334,003,078 / 297,389,765. Sell-through rates of 90% by lot and 93% by value demonstrate the confidence of the market, building on the successes we witnessed in 2021. Across the three sales, registered bidders from 34 countries and 5 continents reflect the strength of global demand, with 21% of buyers from Americas, 31% APAC and 49% EMEA. Millennial collectors accounted for 28% of registrants. Shanghai to London led with museum quality paintings by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Franz Marc, and Pablo Picasso: Franz Marcs The Foxes (Die Füchse) sold for £42,654,500, setting a new world auction record for the artist and the highest price ever achieved in Europe for a restituted ... More |
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| Christie's presents 'Stewards of the West: The Knobloch Collection' | | Film producer & creative director Alice Koh dies | | David Webb Jewelry shines at Roland Auctions NY final auction of winter |
Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon, Colorado River, signed with initials in monogram and dated 'TMoran. 1915' with artists thumbprint device (lower right) oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.) Painted in 1915. Estimate: $700,000-1,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents present Stewards of the West: The Knobloch Collection, a dedicated live auction of Western American Art on May 18th at the galleries at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The late entrepreneur and conservationist Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. built a striking private assemblage of Western American painting and sculpture that reflects his deep commitment to the region, while developing a reputation as a leading connoisseur and collector in the field. Off the walls of the familys Wyoming residence, the collection is notable for its exceptional quality and features the leading artists of the genre such as Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington and Henry F. Farny, among others. Proceeds of the auction will benefit The Knobloch Family Foundation which is committed to grant making that ensures the conservation of natural ... More | |
She was the Executive Director of Kusama: Infinity which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for Grand Jury Prize.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Alice Koh was a documentary film producer and creative director. She was an executive producer of Kusama: Infinity, that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, that won an award at SXSW Film Festival. She was partnered with her brother, award-winning film producer David Koh, in a film production company and was working with him on several projects. Together they co-hosted a film salon at the Roxy Hotel Cinema for several years. Alice Koh was born in Los Angeles, California on December 9, 1970. After graduating from Marlborourgh School, she enrolled at Barnard College in New York City, then transferred to Parsons School of Design and the New School for Social Research, where she received her BFA in Communication Design and BA in Art History in 1994. From 1994 to 2011, she worked in the beauty and fashion industries, first as a designer for Aramis and Prescriptives of Estee Lauder Companies, ... More | |
David Webb 18K, Kunzite & Diamond Ring, David Webb large octagonal 18K hammered yellow gold ring set with a kunzite stone and diamonds. Sold or $10,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Following their highly successful series of Winter auctions, Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY presented their final winter auction on February 26th, with David Webb jewels taking the spotlight, along with antique furniture pieces and other top sellers of the day. Roland NY curated over 750 lots of one-of-a-kind and fresh-to-market Art, Prints, Furniture, Porcelain, Textiles, Silver, Gold and Silver Jewelry, Rugs, Collectibles, Asian Art and Lighting from estates and collectors from all over the Northeast for this sale. In the impressive jewelry arena, highlights were two stunning David Webb pieces: the David Webb 18K & Diamond Earrings, 18K yellow gold and white gold earrings, set with pave diamonds weighing 6.88 cts., E-F color. Purchased at Neiman Marcus in 2017 (purchase receipt provided). 4.9 dwt. inclusive. [Each earring: 1 5/8" x 5/8"],selling for $15,000 and the David Webb 18K, Kunzite & Diamond Ring, large octagonal ... More |
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| Neil Diamond sells entire catalog to Universal Music | | Recreating a family's lost Holocaust history, step by step | | The best-kept vintage secret in Paris |
The musician behind ubiquitous hits like Sweet Caroline sold his songwriting rights and recordings in another major deal. Rahav Segev/The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK, NY.- Bob Dylan. Bruce Springsteen. Paul Simon. Neil Young. Stevie Nicks. All have sold their music catalogs over the past year and a half for huge sums, part of a broad transference of the ownership of a generations music from artists to corporations and investors. But is there any big game left? One giant was hiding in plain sight: Neil Diamond, 81, the singer and songwriter of ubiquitous hits like Sweet Caroline, Song Sung Blue and Cracklin Rosie. The Universal Music Group announced Monday that it had acquired the stars entire songwriting catalog, as well as the rights to his recordings. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Diamonds work as a songwriter is particularly valuable, not only for his own recordings but for the many cover versions of his songs that have become hits by other artists, like Im a Believer by the Monkees, ... More | |
An undated photo of Josef and Henri Szajbowicz. During the pandemic lockdown, when solitude dredged up the regret of missed opportunities, one writer hiked over the Pyrenees Mountains to better understand her father. Via The New York Times.
by Jessica Shaw
NEW YORK, NY.- His legs were scratched and bloody, but Henri never complained. That is all I was told about my fathers escape from the Germans over the Pyrenees Mountains some time in the second half of 1940. He was 5 years old, his sister, Cecile, was 3, and the day they walked out of their apartment in Paris 17th Arrondissement, my grandmother left pots of unfinished food on the stove lest any neighbors, nosy or Nazi, became dangerously curious. They would reunite with my grandfather, who had already crossed the French border with Spain, and journey through Spain, Portugal and Cuba, eventually settling in the United States. As a child, I thought to ask nothing else of this epic voyage, my mind satisfied with an underexposed snapshot of this barely school-aged boy climbing over mountains to freedom, as if he ... More | |
A tiny Hermes bag at Les 3 Marches de Catherine B boutique in Paris, Feb. 14, 2022. Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times.
PARIS.- Not long after Rihanna wore a vintage pink Chanel puffer for her pregnancy announcement, another example of the very same coat appeared at an auction in Paris, where it was sold for 2,500 euros ($2,830), beating its high estimate by 66%. Not that it came from Rihannas closet, though the actual owner has her own level of fame. That piece was one of several hundred put on the block by a single collector known as Catherine B: a flame-haired, age-indeterminate, extravagantly accessorized pioneer of the luxury resale game. For almost 30 years, Catherine Benier has been buying and selling the crème de la crème of pre-owned Hermès and Chanel handbags, jewelry, scarves and other accessories out of her Left Bank boutique, a listed landmark that, at slightly less than 100 square feet, makes shopping a one-to-one experience by default. But though doll sized, Les 3 Marches de Catherine B (named for the storefronts three steps), is a leading destination for a wealthy, and often f ... More |
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| Sworders appoints James Pickup to its Board of Directors | | Six Sydney cultural institutions join forces to launch new advertising campaign 'Find Yourself' | | 'She/Her/Hers' exhibition at the Harn Museum of Art examines roles of women in Chinese art |
James joined the business in 2015, running the fortnightly Homes & Interiors sales for three years before moving up to take the reins of the Fine Interiors department.
LONDON.- Sworders announced that James Pickup has been appointed to the Sworders Board of Directors, stepping up to his new role on the 1st January 2022. James appointment brings the total number of Board Directors up to five. James joined the business in 2015, running the fortnightly Homes & Interiors sales for three years before moving up to take the reins of the Fine Interiors department. He has since overseen the transformation of this quarterly flagship sale, developing it, and shaping it into a curated, interior design led operation. His passion for presentation has seen him enhance Sworders industry-leading catalogues, and many of the new initiatives that he and his team have rolled out have filtered through to other departments. James breadth of experience places him in good stead to excel in his new role. Speaking with him, he states having been with Sworders for a number of years, tasked with growing and ... More | |
The vibrant online campaign launches today across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and partner channels of all six institutions.
SYDNEY.- Youve never seen Sydneys iconic art, history and culture like this before. Launching today, Find Yourself is an uplifting new advertising campaign promoting Sydneys iconic cultural institutions, created by Sydney agency Chisel in collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Powerhouse Museum, State Library of New South Wales, and Sydney Living Museums. The first creative collaboration between the six cultural institutions and Chisel, Find Yourself encourages Sydneysiders and tourists to again explore the citys art galleries, museums, libraries and historic sites to discover immersive, reflective and surprising experiences. Art Gallery of NSW Director of Public Engagement Miranda Carroll said: The new campaign is an exciting first for the institutions, which are rebounding after temporary closures in 2021 and are united in their aim to inspire audiences ... More | |
Kang Tao, (c. 1693 c. 1763), "Ladies with Children in a Garden," 1721 (detail), ink and color on silk, Museum purchase, funds provided by the Robert H. and Kathleen M. Axline Acquisition Endowment, photography by Randy Batista.
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida is exploring the intersecting roles of women in the arts of premodern, modern and contemporary China in a new exhibition titled She/Her/Hers: Women in the Arts of China. More than 50 works of painting, calligraphy, embroidery, photography, ceramic, bronze, jade, lacquer and silver, spanning the 7th century to the present, showcase work by women, women as pictorial subjects, and women as consumers of art. The exhibition is on view from March 1, 2022 to March 24, 2024. Throughout time, women in China have engaged with the art world in diverse and inspirational ways, said Dr. Tongyun Yin, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art. However, for centuries in Chinese visual arts, women were often represented either as the object of desire for the male gaze or as exemplary models of female ... More |
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Heritage Auctions' $25.5 million sports event sets multiple world records
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions two-day Winter Platinum Night Sports Auction, which wrapped early Monday morning, was a newsmaker many times over. And not just because nearly 2,600 bidders from around the world participated in an auction that realized $25,518,284. Nearly 75 records were set during the Feb. 26-27 auction, from sporting-event tickets to jerseys to cards to Ted Williams Triple Crown-season bat to Michael Jordans game-worn Air Jordans. Even a presidential basketball slam-dunked early estimates, when a ball autographed by President Obama, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Magic Johnson and Carmelo Anthony sold for $99,000 more than eight times its pre-auction estimate. And Amelia Earharts flight cap, worn when she made her famous first flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, sold for $825,000. Thats more ... More
UTA Artist Space announces upcoming Atlanta location team
ATLANTA, GA.- UTA Artist Space announced the team for its upcoming second gallery location. Opening in Atlanta in early January 2023, UTA Artist Spaces three-story exhibition venue in Georgias capital will aim to build upon the citys growing arts and entertainment scene and UTAs mission of accelerating the careers of exceptional artists. Virgil "Tony" Parker, former basketball player for the NBAs G League Iowa Wolves and UCLA Bruins, will serve as UTA Artist Space Atlanta Sales Director. He is a specialist in contemporary art. He has built a career in the fine arts space. By leveraging relationships built through basketball, Tony has worked with collectors and corporations such as Kevin Durant, Nike, Arthur Lewis, James Whitner, and A Ma Maniére. Bridgette Baldo, long time executive for UTA Fine Arts, will manage the gallery. In her new role as UTA ... More
Valery Gergiev, a Putin ally, fired as chief conductor in Munich
NEW YORK, NY.- Valery Gergiev, the star Russian maestro and prominent supporter of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, was removed Tuesday from his post as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic after he refused to denounce Putins invasion of Ukraine. And Anna Netrebko, the Russian diva who is one of operas biggest international stars and also has ties to Putin, saw her upcoming engagements with the Bavarian State Opera canceled, and the Zurich Opera House announced that she had withdrawn from her next performances there. Gergievs abrupt dismissal, three years before his contract was set to expire, was the biggest setback yet for the conductor, who has been the target of widespread anger and condemnation in recent days for his long record of support for Putin, whom he has known for three decades. Dieter Reiter, the mayor of Munich, ... More
Hake's Mar. 15-16 sale features pop culture 'unicorns' from Star Wars, baseball & political arenas
YORK, PA.- Pop culture fans reacted with stunned disbelief, then excitement, last November when Hakes sold a Captain American hero-prop shield used by Chris Evans in the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame. The pristine star-emblazoned shield commanded $259,540, the highest price ever paid at auction for a Marvel movie prop and the top price recorded in any sale of Hakes record-setting $10 million year. However, Americas oldest collectibles auction house is not one to rest on its laurels, as the jaw-dropping lineup just announced for their March 15-16 auction clearly shows. There are pieces in this auction that may never appear for public sale again in some bidders lifetimes, said Alex Winter, president of Hakes Auctions. Theyre items that are either unique in the dictionary sense of the word or so rare that they would likely become the prized ... More
Bonhams appoints Joe Baratta as Senior Vice-President and Head of Trusts & Estates for the West Coast
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The international auction house Bonhams has appointed Joe Baratta as Senior Vice- President, Head of Trusts & Estates for the West Coast, effective immediately. As the largest auction house in California, Baratta will support the regions expansive market and pursue new areas of opportunity. With years of experience in the area, and a licensed appraiser and auctioneer, Baratta has become a leading authority on topics including estate planning around tangible personal property speaking at major conferences, both nationally and locally. Before joining Bonhams, Baratta spent 20 years at Abell Auctions as Senior Vice President, Business Development & Valuations, where he brought to market numerous private collections and multi-million-dollar estate sales including David Copley, Sam Simon, Ed Limato, Gore Vidal, Robert ... More
Summers Place Auctions to sell an impressive set of marble figures of the four seasons
Summers Place Auctions has included an impressive and extremely rare set of four carved marble figures representing the seasons in the first sale this year on 22nd March 2022. Made in France in the late 17th/early 18th century and on later sandstone pedestals, the life-size figures are expected to sell for £120,000 - £180,000. They come from La Granja Vella de Marti Codolar in Barcelona, Spain. In 1798 the original Granja Vella house was sold to the Milà de la Roca family, from Barcelona, who transformed the old country house into a stately neoclassical house at the beginning of the 19th century. They then added some magnificent gardens and opened the first zoo in Barcelona. The residence is now a home for retired Salesian monks. The representation of the four seasons in figural form has maintained a remarkable degree of continuity ... More
Anglo-Saxon gold shilling with runic inscription discovered in a field in Cambridgeshire to be offered at auction
LONDON.- It was on Monday, January 3, 2022 that 55-year-old drainage engineer, Mark Pallett, decided to search a stubble field, which he has been to many times before, with his Minelab Equinox 800 at Haslingfield in South Cambridgeshire. After just 15 minutes of being on the field, Mark got a faint signal and digging down only four inches discovered what he thought was a small button with a cross in the centre. To start off with, he didnt think that the coin was real, but upon turning it over he saw the image of a helmeted male bust and realised this was something very special. He was shaking so much, he couldnt believe what he had found, showed it to his friends and put it safely in his pocket. Identified as a gold shilling ... More
Michele McNally, who elevated Times photography, dies at 66
NEW YORK, NY.- Michele McNally, who elevated photojournalism at The New York Times as its director of photography and later as a top newsroom manager in a 14-year tenure that brought the paper six Pulitzer Prizes for news and feature photography, died on Feb. 18 in a hospital in Yonkers, New York. She was 66. The cause was complications of pneumonia, her daughter Caitlin McNally said. Michele McNally was named The Times director of photography in 2004 by Bill Keller, the executive editor at the time. The next year, she was promoted to assistant managing editor, becoming the first photo editor to join the top echelon of newsroom management known as the masthead. She was a transformational figure in photojournalism, said Dean Baquet, The Times current executive editor. She walked into newsrooms where photography had taken ... More
In a tiny Appalachian village, a beloved festival returns
HELVETIA.- As the sun set below the ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains on Saturday evening, revelers donned fantastical papier-mâché masks a bright red creature with striped horns, a boar with a floral headdress, an autumn leaf and marched with gusto in an outdoor masquerade ball. The celebration included Swiss folk songs, tiny Swiss flags and paper lanterns. It culminated in a parade through the streets of the village, led by an effigy of Old Man Winter, which was then thrown atop a raging bonfire, in an effort to hasten the coming of spring. Helvetia, a community of just 85 people, has hosted Fasnacht for more than half a century. The coronavirus pandemic forced its cancellation last year the first since 1967 making this years celebration all the more sweet. Doug Davis, a longtime festival organizer and public-school teacher, ... More
Upended by global conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic plays on
NEW YORK, NY.- A week ago, the Vienna Philharmonics three-day stop at Carnegie Hall, which began Friday, was remarkable mostly for signifying a major step in the slow return of international orchestras to New York. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. The Viennese had been set to be conducted by Valery Gergiev, a frequent magnet for protests at Carnegie Hall over his close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Both Carnegie and the Philharmonic had previously been outspoken about separating Gergievs politics and his artistry, even though his artistry is inseparable from the government. Come Thursday, when phrases such as the whole world has changed started to surface, Gergievs relationship with Putin became untenable, as Clive Gillinson, Carnegies executive and artistic director, told The New York Times. Gergiev was dropped from ... More
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens welcomes Eric Birkle as Curator for the Cheekwood Museum
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Cheekwood Estate and Gardens announced its appointment of Eric Birkle as the new Curator. Birkle will begin his position on March 14. Originally from Lapeer, Mich., Birkle began his career at the Saginaw Art Museum, holding multiple positions before ultimately becoming Associate Curator. During his time there, Birkle organized small-scale and major exhibitions that ranged from 15th through 21st century graphic arts to installations of paintings, glasswork, and ceramic sculpture. He moved on to the Flint Institute of Arts in 2018, where he developed the notable exhibition Political and Personal: Images of Gay Identity. In 2020, he completed a placement in the Modern and Contemporary Department at the Art Gallery of Ontario. "I am honored to accept the Curator position at Cheekwood and excited to work within the context ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Berthe Morisot died March 02, 1895. Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. In this image: Berthe Morisot, Grain field, c.1875, Musée d'Orsay.
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