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Today at Sotheby?s in Hong Kong, a new world auction record for Chinese Ceramics was set when a highly important and extremely rare Ru guanyao brush washer sold for HK$294.3 million / US$37.7 million after a 20 minute bidding battle. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG (AFP).- A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold for US$37.7 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese ceramics, auction house Sotheby's said. The small piece -- which dates from 960-1127 -- stole the previous record of $36.05 million set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was snapped up by a Shanghai tycoon famous for making eye-watering bids. The person behind Tuesday's winning offer wished to remain anonymous, Sotheby's said, with the auction house declining to say whether the buyer hailed from the Chinese mainland or not. "It's a totally new benchmark for Chinese ceramics and we've made history with this piece today," Nicolas Chow, deputy chairman of Sotheby's Asia, told reporters. Bidding started at around US$10.2 million with the suspense-filled auction lasting some 20 minutes as a handful of phone bidders and one person in the room itself competed with each other. The winning offer eventually came from one of the phone bidders and was received b ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman explains to boys how to pose for pictures in front of an artwork depicting a Soviet cosmonaut at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (or Memorial Museum of Space Exploration) in Moscow on October 3, 2017. Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP
| Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art celebrates second anniversary with works on paper group exhibition | | Exhibition at British Museum endeavours to show prints as an object of trade | | The New 'Ashmolean Story Gallery: Telling the tale of the world's first public museum | 
James Rosenquist, Time Stream, Hommage aux Prix Nobel, 1975. Lithograph, 29 9/10 Ã 22 2/5 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating its two year anniversary, Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art announces the exhibition, Works on Paper: 1960s - 80s, a group show exploring American and European creativity with works on paper spanning three decades. This exhibit showcases thirteen acclaimed artists including: Larry Rivers, Pat Steir, James Rosenquist, Jake Berthot, Mary Frank, Budd Hopkins, Joan Snyder, Michael David, Dieter Roth, Jonathan Borofsky, David Storey, Nino Longobardi, and Markus Lüpertz. These artists created works on paper with the use of many different mediums to achieve their unique creative goal including, graphite drawing, etching, oil paint, collage, crayon, lithography, and watercolor. In this exhibit the gallery explores the use of these different mediums, styles and concepts. For example the mixed media work on paper, by widely admired artist Pat Steir, whose simple drawing resembles a worksheet, showcasing the bui ... More | | 
Antoine Masson (16361700), Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt, Engraving, 1667, 1864,0714.41 © The Trustees of The British Museum.
LONDON.- The British Museum has one of the greatest collections of prints in the world, and holds the UKs national collection. The majority of this collection, which totals more than two million prints, was made in the years before the invention of photography. Due to the sheer volume of the collection it can become difficult to grasp its contents, and many of the prints are today very unfamiliar and puzzling. For the past century, prints have usually been discussed either as finished works of art or as illustrations of a particular subject. This exhibition reverses the perspective in a way that has not been attempted before, and endeavours to show prints as an object of trade. The exhibition The business of prints is in part based on the book The Print before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 15501820 by Antony Griffiths, published last year by British Museum Press. This won the Apollo prize for the best ... More | | 
John Riley (164691), Portrait of Elias Ashmole (161792). Oil on canvas, 124 x 101 cm © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
OXFORD.- The worlds first public museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, is celebrating a new permanent gallery called the Ashmolean Story which opened today. The gallery marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of the museums founder, Elias Ashmole (161792) who gave his collection to the University of Oxford in 1677 and founded the Ashmolean in 1683. On display are many of the original artefacts, specimens and curiosities that fascinated museum visitors of the seventeenth century. Elias Ashmole was a leading intellectual of his day who studied at Oxford and was elected a founding Fellow of the Royal Society in London in 1661. A true Enlightenment polymath, he was interested in everything from natural history, medicine and mathematics, to alchemy, astrology and magic - all popular disciplines in the seventeenth-century. In founding a new public museum Ashmoles vision was to create a centre for practical research ... More |
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| Tom Petty, heartland rocker with dark streak, dead at 66 | | Dan Colen solo exhibition 'Sweet Liberty' opens at Newport Street Gallery | | Dorotheum to offer Old Master paintings, 19th century paintings, works of art and jewellery | 
This file photo taken on March 15, 2004 shows Tom Petty. Timothy A. CLARY / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Tom Petty, the Southern-accented rocker whose classic melodies and dark storytelling created 40 years of hit songs, died Monday of cardiac arrest, his family said. He was 66. Petty, who sold 80 million records, passed away Monday evening surrounded by loved ones after a confusing day in which several media outlets reported and then retracted premature news of his death. "On behalf of the Tom Petty family we are devastated to announce the untimely death of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend Tom Petty," a family statement said. Early on Monday, Petty suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, exactly a week after he triumphantly put on what would be his career-capping concert. The rocker had wrapped up a tour celebrating 40 years of his band The Heartbreakers with three sold-out shows at the iconic Hollywood Bowl. He closed the encore with one of his earliest and best- ... More | | 
Dan Colen, Haiku. Photo: Prudence Cumings Associates © Dan Colen and Victor Mara Ltd.
LONDON.- Newport Street Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Dan Colen (b.1979, New Jersey), opening on 4th October 2017 and running until 21st January 2018. Sweet Liberty, Colens first major solo show in London, surveys the entirety of the artists career to date and also features new paintings and large-scale installations. Colen came to prominence in New York in the early 2000s alongside a group of young artists that was informally labelled the Bowery School. The group included Hannah Liden, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Agathe Snow and Dash Snow among others. Playful and nihilistic, Colens work examines notions of identity and individuality, set against a portrait of contemporary America. Sweet Liberty spans a period of seismic change in US history: the earliest painting in the show, Me, Jesus and the Children (20012003), was begun days after the 9/11 attacks, whil ... More | | 
Jusepe de Ribera (1591 - 1652) Heraclitus, signed and dated Jusepe de Ribera es/spanol. F. 1634, oil on canvas, 125 x 94,5 cm, estimate 200,000 - 300,000.
VIENNA.- Old Master paintings are always in season, some literally so. The four seasons are depicted side by side in Allegories of Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter by Giovanni Paolo Castelli, known also as Lo Spadino. In a style similar to Archimboldo's famous and bizarre fruit and vegetable figures, the four seasons are depicted as humanlike - not static but rather in motion. Autumn, for example, is eating from a big bunch of grapes, and is contorted in self-indulgent delight. The series of four paintings appears extremely modern. Each of the four paintings has been estimated at 80,000-120,000 and the series is one of the highlights of Dorotheum's Old Master paintings auction on October 17, 2017. One of the most exceptional artworks for sale in the upcoming auction week is a painting by the Florentine painter Felice Ficherelli. It served as inspiration for one of art history's giants. ... More |
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| Colosseum to open up highest level, the view of the lowly plebs | | New book presents research into the provenance of works by Van Gogh that were sold through the Thannhauser Gallery | | Alison Jacques Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Sheila Hicks | 
Completed in 80 AD, the Colosseum was the biggest amphitheatre built during the Roman empire. AFP PHOTO / FILES / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE.
ROME (AFP).- The highest level of Rome's ancient Colosseum will be opened to the public for the first time in 40 years on November 1, Italy's culture minister said Tuesday. Seats on the fifth level of the amphitheatre were once reserved for ancient Roman society's lowest commoner: the plebeian. But the seats boasted a breathtaking view -- not only of the gladiator battles far below, but of the heart of the empire. "It is an incredible view of the Colosseum and Rome, which the visitor will remember as one of the most beautiful things he has seen in his life," Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said at a media presentation on Tuesday. Far below, tourists peering down into the maze of galleries in the monument's belly appear as tiny specks, showing just how far away the commoners were from the arena floor, where terrified prisoners were forced to fight wild beasts. Those squeezed together ... More | | 
The book explores how a German gallery traded dozens of Van Goghs works in the opening decades of the twentieth century.
AMSTERDAM.- The Thannhauser Gallery: Marketing Van Gogh tells the story of one of the pre-eminent art dealerships in Germany in the decades before and after the Second World War. The book focuses on the significant role played by the Thannhauser Gallery in the trade of works by Van Gogh in the first half of the twentieth century, and outlines the marketing strategies of an art dealership that managed to hold its ground in a rapidly globalizing world. In this publication, the Van Gogh Museum presents the results of years of research into the provenance of the paintings and drawings by Van Gogh that were sold through the Thannhauser Gallery, and into the sophisticated approach adopted by the dealership. Many of these works are now part of the collections of renowned museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and ... More | | 
Sheila Hicks, Langue d'oiseau II, 2016-2017. Linen. 200 x 150 cm, 78 3/4 x 59 1/8 ins © Sheila Hicks. Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Alison Jacques Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Sheila Hicks: Stones of Peace. This is the artists second exhibition at the gallery following Pêcher dans la Rivière (2013). Other significant UK presentations include Foray into Chromatic Zones curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Hayward Gallery (2015), and Mighty Mathilde and her Consort curated by Sarah McCrory, Glasgow International (2016). Sheila Hicks work is currently on show as part of the permanent collection display Beyond Craft, Materials and Objects at Tate Modern, London. Outside of the UK, Sheila Hicks' installation Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands is currently included in the 57th Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel (until November 26, 2017). On view until March 2018, is Hicks new site-specific work Hop, Skip, Jump, and Fly: Escape from Gravity, for The High Line, New York, ... More |
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| Artist Louise Blair Daura gets her due | | New-York Historical Society opens unprecedented exhibition on the history of the Vietnam War | | Alex Dordoy develops a new body of work for exhibition at Blain/Southern | 
Louise Blair Daura (American, 19051972), Untitled (Louise and baby at Altafulla), 1929. Oil on board, 16 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches (framed). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. GMOA 2013.201.
ATHENS, GA.- When Louise Blairs Virginia family sent her to Paris in the 1920s to study art, they didnt expect her to marry her art teacher. The young woman traveled to the City of Lights to learn painting, see the sights and become a more cultured person, not to pursue a career as a professional artist. Shortly after arriving there, she met and fell for the Barcelona-born painter Pierre Daura, who ended up giving her art lessons. Her family disapproved, but she married Daura anyway and painted alongside him. Blair met with some success at the time, with a painting accepted by the annual Salon dAutomne, but she gradually minimized her career. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris from September ... More | | 
Tropical boonie hat. Courtesy of Penni Evans, Donut Dollies, Vietnam, March 197071.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the major turning points of the 20th century, the Vietnam War will be the subject of an unprecedented exhibition presented by the New-York Historical Society from October 4, 2017 April 22, 2018. Bringing the hotly contested history of this struggle into the realm of public display as never before, the exhibition will offer a chronological and thematic narrative of the conflict from 1945 through 1975 as told through more than 300 artifacts, photographs, artworks, documents, and interactive digital media. Objects on display will range from a Jeep used at Tan Son Nhut Air Base to a copy of the Pentagon Papers; from posters and bumper stickers both opposing and supporting the U.S. war effort to personal items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC; from indelible news photographs (such as Eddie Adams Execution) to specially commissioned murals by contemporary artist Matt Huynh. ... More | | 
Alex Dordoy, Honey, 2017, Courtesy the artist and The Modern Institute Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, Photo Prudence Cuming Associates.
LONDON.- For the first in Blain|Southerns new series of exhibitions, collectively titled Lodger, its curator Tom Morton has invited the young, London-based artist Alex Dordoy to develop a new body of work exploring a central characteristic of twenty-first century visual culture: the restlessness of the image, and the instability of the surfaces on which it manifests. While Dordoys sculptures, paintings, and silicon skins are preoccupied with their own materiality their unique and bounded thingliness they are also deeply porous. Poised between representation and abstraction, the organic and the digital, his work appears to have been pollinated, or perhaps infected, by stray data. The broken Moebius strips of his sculptures employ wet jesmonite to absorb gestural passages of paint, the impress of corrugated card, and printed imagery including kimono ... More |
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 New floor and wall based sculptures and quilts by Hank Willis Thomas on view at Ben Brown Fine ArtsLONDON.- In his first solo exhibition in the UK at Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hank Willis Thomas presents The Beautiful Game comprising new floor and wall based sculptures and quilts. Thomas's conceptually-based practice spans photography, installation, sculpture and performance. The Beautiful Game will explore the intersection of art, sports and geopolitics. These arenas are often thought of as discrete and unrelated, but in fact they have significant overlap and resonance, particularly in relation to modernism, nationalism, colonialism, and human nature across time and culture. Containing sculptures referencing both Brancusi and football, and quilts made from football jerseys that reproduce iconic works of art by Matisse and Picasso as well as Ghanaian Asafo flags, The Beautiful Game alludes to skirmishes on the ... More Trish Wylie opens solo exhibition at John McAslan + Partners LONDON.- Trish Wylie presents a solo exhibition of new work examining female stereotypes and the perception of ageing in Western society, by reimagining the traditional hero of iconic Cowboy movies and putting her own image into the frame. At a time in history when women around the world have risen up to take control of their own destinies, culminating in the Womens March on Washington in January 2017, which drew bigger crowds than the inauguration of U.S. President Trump, and was echoed in cities all over the globe, many artists including Wylie are channeling this post-feminist energy into their practice. Wylies exhibition I Rose Madder, takes its name from a self-portrait of the artist as a Cowboy, with sensual drips of oil paint softening the hard outline of the hero figure. The dominant pigment in the painting is Rose Madder, a fugitive colour that changes ... More Magazzino Italian Art presents "Marco Anelli: Building Magazzino" at the Italian Cultural Institute NEW YORK, NY.- Magazzino Italian Art, the new art warehouse space in the Hudson Valley dedicated to Post-war and Contemporary Italian Art, announces Marco Anelli: Building Magazzino, a multi-year photographic portfolio by Italian photographer Marco Anelli, commissioned by Magazzino founders Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu. A curated selection of Marco Anellis photographs will be presented at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York (ICI), inaugurating the Institutes fall season. Anellis portfolio documents Magazzino Italian Arts construction process in its entiretyfrom its conceptualization in 2014 to its transformation from an industrial building into a warehouse dedicated to an extraordinary collection of Italian Art. The exhibition, co-organized by the ICI and Magazzino Italian Art, is curated by Magazzinos Director Vittorio Calabrese and will feature ... More Exhibition celebrates centennial of woman suffrage in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York opened Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics, a groundbreaking exhibition that traces womens political activism in New York from the struggle to win the vote, through the 20th century, and into the fight for womens rights in our own time. Beginning with the long battle for womens voting rights that successfully culminated in 1917 statewide and 1920 nationally (though many women nationwide, particularly women of color, still faced challenges to casting their ballots), the exhibition highlights the remarkable women at the center of New Yorks politics over the course of a century. It features a diverse range of activists, both familiar and lesser known, the battles they fought, and the many critical issues they championed. New York has always been at the epicenter of the fight for ... More 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair opens fifth London editionLONDON.- 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary African art, has announced the galleries exhibiting in its fifth London edition, taking place at Somerset House, 5 8 October, with a VIP & Press preview on 4 October 2017. Floreat is 1:54 London Main Sponsor for the second consecutive year while Nandos returns as Silver Sponsor. 1:54 strives to promote a diverse set of African perspectives from around the world and has carefully selected 42 leading galleries specialising in contemporary African art from 17 countries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America: Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Among the exhibitors this year ... More Exhibition brings together some of Franco Angeli's most important pieces from the 1960's for the first timeLONDON.- Ronchini Gallery and the Franco Angeli Archive present the first UK solo exhibition of works by the world-renowned Italian artist Franco Angeli, bringing together some of his most important pieces from the 1960s for this first time. For the occasion, the Franco Angeli Archive will present the first monograph by Luca Massimo Barbero, with a text by Laura Cherubini. The book will feature more than one hundred artworks and unpublished photographs, documenting his astounding career thirty years after his death. Angelis self-taught practice began at the end of the 1950s with his first paintings taking the same approach as Alberto Burri. He notes: Matter for me is just a fragment of the enormous tear that overwhelmed Europe; my first paintings looked just like that, like a wound after you have removed the bandage
after the blood has dried and there is no longer ... More Artists announced for Liverpool Biennial 2018LIVERPOOL.- Liverpool Biennial, the UK biennial of contemporary art, today announced the first list of artists selected for its 10th edition in 2018, titled Beautiful world, where are you? The dates of the Biennial are 14 July 28 October 2018. Madiha Aijaz (Pakistan) Abbas Akhavan (Iranian, lives in Canada) Francis Alÿs (Belgian, lives in Mexico) Ei Arakawa (Japanese, lives in USA) Kevin Beasley (USA) Mohamed Bourouissa (Algerian, lives in France) Banu Cennetoğlu (Turkey) Roberto Cuoghi (Italy) Shannon Ebner (USA) Paul Elliman (UK) Inci Eviner (Turkey) Aslan Gaisumov (Chechnya) Ryan Gander (UK) Joseph Grigely (USA) Holly Hendry (UK) Lamia Joreige (Lebanon) Brian Jungen (Canada) Janice Kerbel (Canadian, lives in UK) Duane Linklater (Canada) Mae-ling Lokko (Saudi Arabian, lives in Ghana and USA) ... More Morris Museum announces appointment of Cleveland T. Johnson as Executive DirectorMORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Board of Trustees of the Morris Museum today announced that Cleveland T. Johnson has been named the institutions new Executive Director. Mr. Johnson will assume his post on November 1, 2017. Dr. Cleveland Johnson is the immediate past Director of the National Music Museum (NMM). He is Professor Emeritus and past Dean of the School of Music (DePauw University, Greencastle IN) and a former Executive Director of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship at the Thomas J. Watson Foundation (New York, NY). Mr. Johnson holds the B. Mus from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the D.Phil. from Oxford University. As an academic, he devoted himself to the advancement of music in general studies, in addition to his specialties in the keyboard music of the German Baroque and the music of South India. His scholarship was ... More Davis Museum acquires paintings from Ria Brodell's Butch HeroesWELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College recently acquired fourteen magnetic works from Ria Brodells series of portraits, Butch Heroes. These meticulously researched and beautifully rendered historical paintings depict transgender individuals throughout history. In these small portraits, Brodell addresses issues of gender, sexuality, and spirituality across centuries and geography through the depiction of queer individuals about whom generally little is known. I am delighted to mark this important milestone, and to welcome Brodell as the first openly trans artist in the Davis Museums collections, said Dr. Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro 37 Director of the Davis Museum. Students are enormously intrigued by the content of these paintings, by their painstaking detail, and by the historical research that has gone into their production, ... More New Art Dealers Alliance and Pérez Art Museum Miami announce acquisition gift MIAMI, FLA.- The New Art Dealers Alliance and Pérez Art Museum Miami announced the NADA Acquisition Gift for PAMM, an acquisition gift for the museums permanent collection that will be selected from the fifteenth edition of NADA Miami 2017, which will take place December 7-10, 2017 at Ice Palace Studios. For the acquisition gift, NADA provides a fund for PAMM curators, MarÃa Elena Ortiz and René Morales, to acquire an artwork for the museums permanent collection. They will make their selection from the artwork displayed by the 108 exhibitors at NADA Miami, who are representing work from 36 cities and 16 different countries. We could not be more proud to establish a partnership with PAMM, a progressive and venerable institution for contemporary art in Miami, as we continue to find ways to put down roots in Miami year round, said Heather Hubbs, NADA Executive Director. & ... More Thomas Dane Gallery opens first exhibition with American photographer Catherine OpieLONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery announces the gallerys first exhibition of American photographer Catherine Opie, with a presentation of new work from her ongoing series Portraits and Landscapes. This, her most recent body of work, draws inspiration from Old Master European portraiture and historical landscape photography, and is shown here for the first time in the UK. Catherine Opie is considered one of the leading photographers of her generation and one of the foremost documentarians of American life. Her practice, sometimes described as social portraiture spans studio portraits, seascapes, landscapes, scenes of American domestic life, freeways, malls and political rallies. Opie shot to prominence in the mid 1990s with a spectacular sequence of studio portraits of her close friends from within the West Coast leather community: transvestites, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Lucas Cranach the Younger was born October 04, 1515. Lucas Cranach the Younger (October 4, 1515 - January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance artist, known for his woodcuts and paintings.He was the youngest son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Barbara Brengebier, and began his career as an apprentice in his father's workshop alongside his brother Hans. Henceforth, his own reputation and fame grew. After his father's death, he assumed control over the workshop. They lived in the city of Kronach, in Franconia (in Germany). In this image: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery. Hermitage Museum, Russia
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