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In this file photo Lucian Simmons speaks with guests about Chagall's artistic legacy. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A Chagall oil painting shining with love for his first wife and adopted home Paris sold for $28.5 million in New York on Tuesday, almost doubling the artist's previous auction record, Sotheby's said. Considered one of the greatest works by Marc Chagall to come onto the open market, "Les Amoureux" had previously remained in the same family for nearly 90 years since 1928, the year it was painted. Sotheby's said the painting unites the French-Russian artist's two greatest loves -- Bella, his childhood sweetheart, muse and first wife, and the French capital, his adopted home. The painting was chased by three determined bidders, with interest from Asia and Russia, in a more than 10-minute bidding war that soared well above its pre-sale estimate of $12 to 18 million. "That was, as you all know, a record for Marc Chagall," said Sotheby's auctioneer Helena Newman after bringing down the hammer to applause. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A bible is seen in the History of the Bible exhibit during a media preview of the new Museum of the Bible, a museum dedicated to the history, narrative and impact of the Bible, in Washington, DC, November 14, 2017. SAUL LOEB / AFP
| Hauser & Wirth opens first New York solo presentation devoted to Geta Brătescu | | Olga Viso steps down as Executive Director of the Walker Art Center | | Berkshire Museum seeks expedited trial |
Geta Brătescu in her studio, 2015. Photo: Ștefan Sava. © Geta Brătescu. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Geta Brătescu. The Leaps of Aesop is the first New York solo presentation devoted to the 91 year-old forerunner in the field of Romanian Conceptualism. Her diverse oeuvre comprising drawing, collage, engraving, textiles, and photography, as well as experimental film, video, and performance mines themes of identity, gender, and dematerialization, often drawing from the stories of literary figures and addressing the symbiotic relationship between art making and working environments. Aesop, the ancient Greek fabulist, serves as a point of departure for this exhibition, which features more than fifty works that span Brătescus career. In many ways a fitting avatar for Brătescu, Aesop manifests in the works on view as a symbol of antic irreverence, mocking authority and status. A spirited believer in the ... More | |
Visos ambitious vision for an integrated master plan was realized in June 2017 and supported by a successful $75-million fundraising effort.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Today, the Walker Art Center Board of Trustees and Olga Viso announced that she will step down as Executive Director at the end of the year. Following the successful completion of the Walkers $75-million capital campaign and an eight-year effort to transform the Walkers entrance and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden into a unified art destination, the Board and Viso agreed that now is an ideal time for a transition. The Board will form a search committee to hire a new Executive Director. During the interim period, the Board has established an Office of the Executive Director which includes Christopher Stevens, Chief Advancement Officer; Mary Polta, Chief Financial Officer; Siri Engberg, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions Management; and Rishi Donat, Director of Human Resources. We are grateful for Olgas leadership and celebrate her ... More | |
Berkshire Museum Facade. Courtesy the Berkshire Museum.
PITTSFIELD, MASS.- After an Appeals Court Judge granted the state Attorney Generals request for a preliminary injunction, lawyers for the Berkshire Museum are asking the Superior Court for an expedited trial to reach a final judgment on the merits of this case as quickly as possible to allow the Museums Board of Trustees to pursue plans critical to securing the museums future. The temporary injunction was granted Friday (11/10) to continue through December 11 by an Appeals Court Judge after a Superior Court Judge had denied a similar request. The injunction prevented the museum from selling some of its collection through a Sothebys auction scheduled for Monday, November 13th. Lawyers for the Museum are asking the Superior Court to take up these issues in a full trial as soon as possible. The delay in the sale prompted by the Attorney Generals action has already put the Museum at risk, ... More |
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| Exhibition of works on paper from 1961 through 2009 by David Hockney on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery | | Getty presents J. Paul Getty Medal to Anselm Kiefer and Mario Vargas Llosa | | Kröller-Müller Museum acquires work by Félix Vallotton |
David Hockney, Mo, Paris, 1973. Ink on paper, 16 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches. © David Hockney.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery announces David Hockney: Works on Paper, 1961 2009, the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery on view from November 9 to January 13 at 297 Tenth Avenue. The exhibition presents a selection of Hockneys recent East Yorkshire landscapes, as well as intimate portraits and set designs from as early as 1961 during his time as a student at the Royal College of Art. Hockneys interest in landscape and natures cycles was ignited in recent years after returning in 1999 to East Yorkshire, England, a lush area near his hometown of Bradford. In composing his landscapes, Hockney would continuously return to the same location in order to capture the gradual changes of seasons across a range of media. The exhibition features four charcoal on paper works including Hockneys Autumn Thixendale, October 19t, 2008, ... More | |
Getty Medal Award Recipients Mario Vargas Llosa and Anselm Kiefer pose for a photo during the Getty Medal Dinner 2017 at The Morgan Library & Museum. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for J. Paul Getty Trust/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- The J. Paul Getty Trust presented the annual J. Paul Getty Medal to artist Anselm Kiefer and writer Mario Vargas Llosa at a dinner at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City on November 13, 2017. Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik gave the introduction of Mr. Vargas Llosa, who was honored for his commitment to the moral and intellectual value of the arts. Historian Simon Schama presented Mr. Kiefer, who was honored for his powerful work and complex subject matter, dealing with controversial issues from recent history.More than 200 guests from the worlds of art, literature, and philanthropy attended the dinner, including Kwame Anthony Appiah, Tina Barney, Eli Broad, Peter Chernin, Larry Gagosian, Agnes Gund, Christo Javacheff, Karl Ove ... More | |
Félix Vallotton, Les Filets, Honfleur, 1912 (detail).
OTTERLO.- The Kröller-Müller Museum announced the recent acquisition of Les filets, Honfleur, 1912 (73 x 100 cm, oil on canvas) by Félix Vallotton. The museum was able to purchase this painting from a private individual for the sum of 750,000. The majority of Vallottons landscapes remain in Swiss private collections and are rarely put up for sale. The acquisition was made possible thanks in part to the participants in the BankGiro Lottery. The painting is a wonderful addition to the landscapes already in the collection by Camille Corot, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, among others. Félix Vallotton (Lausanne 1865Paris 1925) is known mainly for his extensive graphic oeuvre. However, he also painted a large number of landscapes, the themes for which he found during long walks and bicycle rides. The works themselves were created in the studio. I dream of a kind of pai ... More |
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| UAE says Swiss reporters 'stopped for questioning' after Louvre launch | | University of Michigan Museum of Art reopens Asian Art Conservation Lab | | Museum of Russian Icons receives major gift of more than 100 works |
Visitors tour the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum during the opening ceremony on November 11, 2017 on Saadiyat island in the Emirati capital. KARIM SAHIB / AFP.
ABU DHABI (AFP).- The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday said two Swiss journalists had been "stopped for questioning" after the opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi last week but declined to confirm their arrest. The statement comes after Swiss public broadcaster RTS said two of its journalists, accredited to cover the opening, were arrested on Thursday while shooting images in an outdoor market and held for two days. The National Media Council, the UAE's media regulatory body, on Tuesday released a statement saying reporter Serge Enderlin and cameraman Jon Bjorgvinsson had been "stopped for questioning" in an industrial area of Abu Dhabi and later released without charge. "After the official opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, police witnessed the journalists trespassing at a secured location in Mussaffah and stopped them for questioning," the council said, without providing a date or further details. "Police later transported the reporters ... More | |
The University of Michigan Museum of Art recently re-opened the Robert B. Jacobs Asian Art Conservation Laboratory under the direction of Qian He (pictured), a fourth-generation art conservator trained in orthodox Chinese Su-style craftsmanship. Photo by Dave Lawrence.
ANN ARBOR, MICH.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art has reopened its Robert B. Jacobs Asian Art Conservation Laboratory under the direction of conservator Qian He. The lab provides conservation services and mounting or remounting of East Asian paintings and Asian and Western works on paper for institutions and individuals worldwide, in addition to caring for UMMA's comprehensive collections of Asian art. Qian He is a fourth-generation art conservator, trained in orthodox Chinese Su-style craftsmanship. He has worked as a conservator of Chinese painting and as an instructor at the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage in Beijing. He also managed the Department of Chinese Painting at the Beijing Googut Auction Company and was responsible ... More | |
Saint Nicholas, 19th c., The Edward and Joan Simpson Collection. Courtesy Museum of Russian Icons.
CLINTON, MASS.- The Museum of Russian Icons has announced that Boston area collectors Edward and Joan Simpson have donated their exceptional collection of 18th and 19th century Russian icons and sacred artifacts to the Museuma donation that will be the largest and most valuable single gift since founder Gordon B. Lankton established the Museum in 2006. The only museum in the US dedicated to Russian icons, the Museum of Russian Icons has the largest collection of icons outside of Russia; and is a center for the study and enjoyment of Russian culture. We are extremely grateful to the Simpsons for their support of the mission of the Museum in such a generous way, said Kent Russell, curator and CEO of the Museum. The Edward and Joan Simpson Collection, as it will be known, joins the close to 1000 icons the museum presently owns. The gift fills in some of the missing pieces in the chronological history ... More |
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| 100 years of American Art totals $19.4 million at Sotheby's New York | | Puma accused of defacing Indian heritage for shoe commercial | | César Dezfuli wins tenth anniversary Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize |
Frederick Carl Frieseke, Gray Day on the River, signed F.C. Frieseke (lower right). Oil on canvas, 26 by 32 inches (66 by 81.3 cm). Painted by 1908. Estimate $1.5/2.5 million. Sold for $1,695,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yesterdays auction of American Art achieved $19.4 million, with notable prices fetched by Western and Modern American masters. Spanning over a century of artistic creativity, the sale represented the diversity of works in this category. Kayla Carlsen, Head of the American Art Department at Sothebys New York, noted: Yesterdays auction demonstrated that there is strength in American Art across genres. We were delighted to see robust results for a number of lots, from Western to Impressionist, Modern to sculpture, with healthy competition for works fresh to the market and with stellar provenance. Cherished by a distinguished American collection for over 40 years since its acquisition in the 1970s, Albert Bierstadts majestic Indians Crossing the Columbia River led the sale. A panoramic view ... More | |
Puma in a statement said it was unaware that the building had heritage value, and has promised to restore the facades to their original condition.
NEW DELHI (AFP).- Global sportswear giant Puma was accused Tuesday of irreversibly damaging 17th-century architecture in Delhi's historic quarter as part of an advertising stunt to promote a new line of shoes. The facades of several buildings in Old Delhi have been spraypainted with large colourful murals for the shoe campaign that Puma said "captures the grit of Indian streets" on its website. But the stunt -- dubbed "Suede Gully" after the shoe material and the Hindi word for street -- had infuriated conservationists who accused Puma of defacing the centuries-old quarter built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. "It's a heritage area. You can't just go and paint what you like," Swapna Liddle from the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage told AFP. "Permanent damage has been done to the carved sandstone, limestone plaster and Lahori bricks. "Those who made and ... More | |
Amadou Sumaila by César Dezfuli © César Dezfuli.
LONDON.- César Dezfuli has won the Tenth Anniversary Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 for his portrait of a migrant rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the National Portrait Gallery has announced. The £15,000 award was presented to the Spanish photographer at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 14 November 2017. His sitter Amadou Sumaila, a sixteen-year-old from Mali, was photographed in the Mediterranean Sea, in international Waters 20 nautical miles off the Libyan coast. He has since been transferred from a rescue vessel to a temporary reception centre for migrants in Italy. The portrait was taken as part of Dezfulis work as a freelancer, documenting the search and rescue of migrants on board an NGO vessel in the Central Mediterranean Route. Dezfuli, who was born in Madrid of Persian descent (10.01.1991), works as journalist and documentary photographer, and focuses on issues of migration, identity and human ... More |
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Museo Jumex opens first major survey of John Baldessari's work in Latin America
MEXICO CITY.- Museo Jumex presents the exhibition Learning to Read with John Baldessari, the first major survey of the artists work in Latin America, on view through April 8, 2018. One of the most influential artists of the past five decades, Baldessari has continually investigated how image and language collide and collude, and how art itself is made and understood. Using devices such as visual puns, word games, quotations and instructions, the artist employs a wry humor that, beneath the surface, touches on deeper truths regarding how we communicate through culture, and how art might reinvent itself. Learning to Read with John Baldessari features more than 80 works including early instruction paintings and his iconic photo-collages, as well as videos, sculptures, text-based works and editions from a career spanning more than half a century. The survey ... More
Group exhibition spotlights new explorations in figurative painting by four emerging artists
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Embodiment, a group exhibition spotlighting new explorations in figurative painting by four emerging artists: Louis Fratino, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Danielle Orchard, and Michael Stamm. The exhibition is on view from November 9th through December 22nd. The way we conceive of the body has dramatically shifted since the turn of the new millennium. Gender, sexuality, and personal identityall subjects that pertain to the corporeal and have long been considered taboo in certain public forums are now a growing part of an ever more candid national conversation on human rights. These artists, all raised in the 1980s and 1990s, are at the forefront of this discussion, questioning common tropes of figurative art and exploring what it means to embody a human vessel. ... More
Phillips announces 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Phillips opens the Fall season in Hong Kong with a selected group of works by an array of the worlds most sought-after artists, ranging from Richard Prince and Roy Lichtenstein, to Yayoi Kusama and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Star lots from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale include Richard Princes Nurse Kathy from his celebrated Nurse series, and Roy Lichtensteins Landscape with Poet (Study). As forerunners in the contemporary art and digital space, Phillips will offer a digital work by teamLab, the first time a work by the artist collective will be presented on the international auction market. Design highlights include important works by Finn Juhl, Hans J. Wegner and Gio Ponti. The Evening Sale will be held on 26 November in Hong Kong and is expected to realise in excess of HKD120 million. Jonathan Crockett, ... More
David Adamo's second solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen opens in Brussels
BRUSSELS.- Fried eggs are comfort food. They resist interpretation. Sometimes things really are as simple as they seem to be. And then sometimes thingsfried eggs, flippers, orange peelsperform their simplicity. Central to David Adamos second solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen is a series of works on raw canvas depicting swirling compositions of trompe loeil fried eggs. Its the multi-faceted coagulation of fried eggs that we are asked to focus in on here; Adamo worked layer by layer to build up their milky translucency. Each egg is a unique being, collectively forming a rhythm by which to see theand ultimately the entire exhibitionas a whole. This silent rhythm is in turn punctuated by another in absentia: the inner workings of a metronome housed in a soundproof box ticks away, barely audible. In past works, Adamo removed the devices inner mechanism, leaving ... More
Exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg presents paintings by Roy Dowell and Richard Kalina
NEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition presents a dialogue between the paintings of Roy Dowell and Richard Kalina. Both painters are represented by Lennon, Weinberg, and their most recent solo exhibitions here took place in 2014 and 2016 respectively. In 2012, the Brooklyn Rail published The Four Corners of Painting, a look at the general state of painting by Richard Kalina. In the article, he made the point that the contours of painting are known and that all forms of paintings are being practiced in roughly equal measure. Kalina identified four categories in which paintings operate: the Mimetic, the Stylized Mimetic, the Abstract-Mimetic Hybrid and the Fully Abstract, a category he breaks down into four areas, one of which, the Organized Organic, is characterized by what might be called a grammatical approach. This is the space in which the work of both Kalina and Dowell ... More
One Gray Hair: Frye Art Museum opens exhibition of works by Alison Marks
SEATTLE, WA.- The Tlingit people thrived for millennia until multiple waves of colonialism swept over their homelands. Before Russian and American settlement, the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples of present-day southeast Alaska had already developed complex knowledge systems, from cosmology to medicine, expressed through their languages, ceremonies, and art. Alison Marks, a Tlingit artist, draws from these traditions while directly challenging our perceptions of them, particularly the expectation that Native artists must perform exoticized markers of Native identity to be considered legitimate. Her work fuses the seamless, flowing lines, trigons, and ovoids that create formlinethe distinctive aesthetic of the Native peoples of the northern Northwest Coastwith nontraditional materials, tools, and techniques. The resulting objects and ... More
Christopher Grimes opens exhibitions of works by Miguel Rio Branco and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Christopher Grimes Gallery announces two solo exhibitions in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LAs participating gallery program. In the main gallery, Miguel Rio Branco is presenting a selection of photographs from the Out of Nowhere series. Rio Branco is renowned for his dramatic use of color and the intimacy and complexity of his subject matter: direct, often brutal photographs of marginalized communities in Brazil. His photo-essay, Out of Nowhere, delves inside the Santa Rosa Boxing Academy in Rio de Janeiro, where former prostitutes, street youths, and people of all backgrounds would flock to train. The photographs, which were originally captured in the early 1990s and were first exhibited under the title Out of Nowhere at the 1994 Havana Bienal, depict the boxers at the academy while focusing on the ... More
Shapero Modern opens exhibition of paintings by Nancy Cadogan and sculptures by Martin Jennings
LONDON.- Shapero Modern in conjunction with Sladmore Contemporary is presenting Still Reading, an exhibition of paintings by Nancy Cadogan and sculptures by Martin Jennings. Cadogans oil paintings of books are shown alongside bronze maquettes and busts from Jennings's statues of literary figures. Cadogans paintings engage with ideas of time and a private dialogue with literature. The genesis for the series originates from 2011, when she made her first book paintings for the London Antiquarian Book Fair. They capture the immense potential and excitement of reading and the possibilities of language within their diminutive scale. In one sense, the works are typical of the still life genre and record a sense of time passing. In another, they reflect on the concept of stillness more widely, as a rare condition within our hyper-networked contemporary reality, and ... More
Hella Jongerius and Louise Schouwenberg develop an installation for the Pinakothek der Moderne
MUNICH.- Dutch product designer Hella Jongerius and design theorist Louise Schouwenberg have been invited to develop a site-specific installation in the Paternoster Hall at the Pinakothek der Moderne. Since 2015 Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum has drawn attention to the architectural highlights of this two-storey space, largely defined by the constant movement of its two elevators, by using it to stage a series of exhibitions on a contemporary design position. Hella Jongerius has acquired an international reputation thanks to the unique way she combines a craft-led practice with contemporary industrial processes, and thanks to her distinct textile and colour designs. Louise Schouwenberg is an art and design theorist and leads the Master department Contextual Design at the renowned Design Academy, Eindhoven. ... More
Whyte's announces highlights from its Important Irish Art auction
DUBLIN.- Whytes Important Irish Art auction goes on view Saturday to Monday 25-27 November at the RDS Ballsbridge and includes a stellar selection by Irelands most sought-after artists. Among the highlights of the winter sale is a significant collection of 8 works by the late Basil Blackshaw. Varying in guide price from 2,000-3,000 [lot 74, Jet] to 50,000-70,000 [lot 69, Grey Horse in a Stable] this body of work offers all budgets an opportunity to acquire an example by the County Antrim native. Included in the catalogue is an insightful essay on the collection by author and dramatist Brian McAvera whose musings on the paintings, coupled with his knowledge of the artist and his place in the history of art, presents bidders with a greater understanding of the pictures that catch their eye. The dynamic Horses Exercising [lot 68, 30,000-40,000] graces the cover of the auction ... More
Belvedere opens exhibition of works by Eva KoťÃ¡tková
VIENNA.- For Eva KoťÃ¡tková (born in Prague in 1982), the evolution of the self is a tightrope walk between internal and external pressures. Featuring a multitude of objects generating an expansive installation, her exhibition on the lower level of the 21er Haus revolves around the film Stomach of the World (2017), which forms the fulcrum of this thought. The 46-minute film is shown in a loop in the exhibition, starting every hour anew. In a surreal and almost humorous way, Stomach of the World shows the world from the perspective of children who perform various exercises. Eva KoťÃ¡tková has developed a distinctive visual language for the subject of social constraints on individual escape movements. Formally, she borrows from the theatre, thereby satisfying the current interest in the transfer from performing to fine arts. Her subjects and her artistic strength make KoťÃ¡tková one ... More
Solo exhibition of photographs by Jonathas de Andrade on view at Alexander and Bonin
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander and Bonin announced the opening of a solo exhibition of photographs by Jonathas de Andrade. A new series of photographic prints by Jonathas de Andrade are on view in the lower level gallery. Drawing from image stills of his acclaimed film O Peixe (2016), de Andrade has created a series of seven photographic prints, titled O espirito das águas/ The water spirits. Shot in the State of Alagoas in northeast Brazil, the photographs present fishermen as they enact a form of ritual, in which, after catching their prey, they embrace the fish in their arms until its death. To the uninformed viewer, these photographs could very well depict a true animistic rite. This sensually loaded action, however, is one that the artist himself has invented in order to highlight the frequent exoticizing style of ethnographic reportage. The photographs soft focus, their ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Georgia O'Keeffe was born November 15, 1887. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America?s colleges and universities. In this image: Jennifer Shapira views three of Georgia O'Keeffe's works, from left, "No. 7 Special, 1915," "Second, Out of My Head, 1915," and "No. 2-Special, 1915" on display at Washington's National Gallery of Art during a press preview of the "O'Keeffe on Paper" exhibit Friday, April 7, 2000.
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