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Robert Rauschenberg, The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece (detail), 198198, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, installation view, Rauschenberg: The 1/4 Mile, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 28, 2018June 9, 2019, © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting Rauschenberg: The 1/4 Mile, an expansive installation featuring pioneering American artist Robert Rauschenbergs magnum opus The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece (198198). Completed over a period of 17 years, The 1/4 Mile is composed of 190 panels that, combined, measure approximately 1,000 feetor nearly a quarter milein length. Signifying the distance between Rauschenbergs studio and his home on Captiva Island, Florida, the quarter-mile span is representative of the artists central belief in working in the gap between art and life. Cross-cultural exchange was a driving force of Rauschenbergs art practice. He traveled extensively throughout his career, and he sourced the wide range of materials and imagery included in The 1/4 Mile from Asia, Europe, Latin America, northern Africa, and the United States. The piece comprises an eclectic arr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French-Greek photographer, journalist, TV and radio host Nikos Aliagas poses with his photographs during a photo session at his exhibition in Paris on October 25, 2018. JOEL SAGET / AFP
| Ancient Greek beliefs about the afterlife are explored in major exhibition at the Getty Villa | | McNay Art Museum announces major acquisitions of contemporary art | | Thomas P. Campbell to lead the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | 
Unknown, Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet and Sirens (2) with unjoined fragmentary curls (304), 350 - 300 B.C. Terracotta with white slip of calcium carbonate and polychromy (orangegold, black, red, gold-yellow, brown, pink) Accession No. 76.AD.11. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- What did ancient Greeks believe would happen to them after they died? For most, the Underworld was bleak and somber, characterized by the absence of lifes pleasures, leading many individuals to seek ways to secure a more blessed afterlife. Organized around a monumental funerary vessel (krater) from Altamura, on loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples and recently conserved by the J. Paul Getty Museums Antiquities Conservation department, Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife explores depictions of the Underworld in the art of ancient Greece and southern Italy. The exhibition will be on view at the Getty Villa from October 31, 2018, through March 18, 2019. Some of the richest evidence for ancient beliefs about the afterlife comes from southern Italy in the fourth century BC, and the magnificent Altamura krater ... More | | 
Yasumasa Morimura, Dedicated to La Duquesa de Alba/Black Alba, 2004. Chromogenic print, mounted on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum, 2018.33. © Yasumasa Morimura.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Richard Aste, Director of the McNay Art Museum, announced today the acquisition of two major works that broaden the McNays permanent collection of contemporary art: Dedicated to La Duquesa de Alba/Black Alba, by Yasumasa Morimura; and Robert, by James Gobel. Funds for these newly acquired works of art were generated by the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum. The McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum (MCCF) supports contemporary art at the McNay and builds bridges between the Museum and San Antonio's vibrant art community. In addition to other programs, MCCF initiated the Artists Looking at Art series, which features four artists each year and displays their work in the Museum for three months. MCCF also hosts an annual fundraising event each fall that directly supports the McNays art acquisition fund. We are thrilled to include the vision of Morimura and Gobel in the collection of the first modern art museum in Texa ... More | | 
As head of FAMSF, which comprise the de Young museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, Mr. Campbell will oversee a wide-ranging curatorial program and education programs and will manage a staff of more than 500.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (COFAM) today appointed Thomas P. Campbell as the new director and CEO of the largest public arts institution in Northern California, effective November 1, 2018. As head of FAMSF, which comprise the de Young museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, Mr. Campbell will oversee a wide-ranging curatorial program and education programs and will manage a staff of more than 500. "I am deeply gratified to take up the responsibility of leading the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Campbell said. It is a great privilege to become part of an institution with such outstanding curatorial expertise and famously loyal audiences and supporters, and I am especially pleased to have the opportunity to continue the great work done by my friend and predecessor Max Hollein. I am eager to begin ... More |
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| Sotheby's to offer the only known documented moon rocks in private hands this November in NY | | Project funded by IMLS enhances online access to world-renowned Asian art collection | | Christie's announces highlights from the fall season of Latin American Art | 
Three lunar samples returned to Earth by the unmanned Soviet Luna-16 Mission in 1970. Estimate: $700,000/1 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This November in New York, Sothebys will auction the only known lunar samples with clear and documented provenance to be available for private ownership: three moon rocks returned to earth from the unmanned Soviet Luna-16 Mission in 1970, which were ceremonially presented to Mme. Nina Ivanovna Koroleva, widow of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the former Chief Designer and director of the Soviet space program. The lunar samples will headline our auction dedicated to Space Exploration on 29 November in New York, with a public exhibition opening on 25 November. The present lunar samples have remained in the same private American collection since Sothebys iconic Russian Space History auction in 1993, when they sold for $442,500 marking the first time that a piece of another world had ever been offered for sale to the public. Estimated to sell at the time for $30/50,000, the samples were consigned by Mme. Nina ... More | | 
Japanese, Kamakura period, 11851333, Japan, Standing Jizō Bosatsu (Skt: K itigarbha Bodhisattva), 13th century. Wood and metal with color and gold. Princeton University Art Musuem, Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund.
PRINCETON, NJ.- A dynamic new look at the world-renowned Asian art collection at the Princeton University Art Museum has been made possible through a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The two-year project, which began in 2016, is a part of the Museums ongoing Collections Discovery Initiative and was designed to ensure that Princetons Asian art collection widely considered among the premier collections of Asian art in the United States can be shared with the broadest possible audiences, especially with scholars and researchers. The grant allowed the Museum to restructure its award-winning Asian art microsite into an in-depth sustainable resource with dynamic object information, 3D imagery and close-looking features. The project also enhanced and standardized the cataloguing of a percentage ... More | | 
Diego Rivera, Retrato de Inesita MartÃnez, 1939. Oil on canvas. Estimate: $500,000-700,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the fall season of Latin American Art with the live auction taking place November 20-21 and an online auction running November 17-28. Combined, the sales include over 250 lots, offering a comprehensive selection from 18th-century colonial painting through modern and contemporary masterpieces, and together the sales expect to realize in excess of $18 million. Featured are works from private collections including Property to Benefit Art for Access at Bennington College, The Collection of A. Jerrold Perenchio, Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cooper and The Estate of Martha Hanes and Calder Willingham Womble. Works from the live and online auctions will be on view November 17-20 at Christies Rockefeller Plaza. Leading the sale is the stunning canvas, Hombre feliz by Oaxacan artist Rufino Tamayo (estimate: $2-3 million). Painted in 1947, a year when Tamayo was actively challenging the so ... More |
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| Could 'Exorcist' steps in Washington soon be a historic landmark? | | Hake's plans 'accessible' Nov. 13-15 pop culture auction with price points to please collectors at all levels | | The Van Gogh Museum releases limited edition facsimiles of Vincent van Gogh's sketchbooks | 
A man exercises on the stairs made famous by the 1973 movie "The Exorcist" in Georgetown in Washington, DC, on October 29, 2018. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The steep, narrow flight of 75 stone steps in the US capital's Georgetown area are part of Hollywood legend -- in "The Exorcist," a priest falls to his death in one of the film's most memorable scenes. Now, Washington's so-called "Exorcist Steps" could soon achieve historic landmark status. Andrew Huff, a self-proclaimed "student of the horror genre," is a huge fan of "The Exorcist," which was released in 1973, two years after the best-seller of the same name by William Peter Blatty. In 2015, he organized a small ceremony attended by Blatty, a graduate of Georgetown University, and film director William Friedkin when a plaque noting the spooky staircase's role in movie history was mounted. Blatty wrote the screenplay for the film, which tells the tale of efforts to rid a young girl of the demons that possess her via an exorcism conducted by two priests. Now, 45 years after the ... More | | 
Donald Duck Shelby Bicycle store display with rare Donald Duck rider figure with light-up eyes and quack sound in place of a horn. Est. $5,000-$10,000. Image courtesy of Hakes Americana.
YORK, PA.- Hakes Auctions founded 51 years ago as Hakes Americana knows how antsy collectors can be when waiting for the gift-giving and receiving season. Thats why they always plan one of their biggest sales of the year for mid-November, so collectors can get the pick of the crop before the holiday auction frenzy takes hold. This years fall classic, a fully curated 2,518-lot auction to be held Nov. 13-15, follows Hakes tried-and-true formula of giving collectors what they want: the finest-quality examples of toys, comic books and vintage collectibles of their youth, as well as premier historical and political items from long-held collections. This time weve taken a broader approach, with an outstanding cross-selection thats accessible to everyone, said Hakes president, Alex Winter. Maybe a person cant afford a rare original artwork created for the cover of a Go ... More | | 
The facsimiles are presented in a walnut wood cube based on the Rietveld size of 35 x 35 x 35 cm. Photo: Gerrit Schreurs.
AMSTERDAM.- Vincent van Gogh is best known for his colourful paintings, but he was also an accomplished draughtsman. Of the many sketchbooks that Van Gogh must have owned, only four from his years as an artist have stood the test of time. These sketchbooks are all part of the Van Gogh Museum collection, and are very rarely put on public display due to their vulnerability. The Van Gogh Museum therefore decided to collaborate with Uitgeverij Komma to publish limited edition facsimiles of the four sketchbooks, which were used in the period 1884-1890, together with two cahiers, several loose sketches and a letter. Axel Rüger (Director of the Van Gogh Museum): We are extremely proud of this unique and comprehensive facsimile edition of the sketchbooks, which even contain Vincents earliest drawings. We hope that these sketchbooks will introduce a host of Van Gogh fans and collectors to his unique ... More |
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| Christie's to offer works of art from a private collection in Eaton Square | | Dorotheum announces highlights from the Jugendstil & 20th Century Arts and Crafts auction | | Exquisite treasures of nature brought to life by master jewellers | 
Galloping racehorse and jockey by John Rattenbury Skeaping. Estimate: £8001,200. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Encapsulating a quintessentially British taste for the arts, A London Season: Works of Art from a Private Collection in Eaton Square will be offered for sale at Christies on 21 November 2018. This charming private collection includes Sporting Art, Old Master Paintings, Impressionist and Modern Art, Decorative Arts and Chinese Works of Art, from a magnificent residence in Thomas Cubitts stucco terrace overlooking Eaton Square. Highlights are led by an exceptionally fine Ben Marshall portrait (estimate: £200,000-300,000), a William III silver-gilt casket (estimate: £150,000-250,000) and a set of 12 George III mahogany gothick dining chairs (estimate: £50,000-80,000). With estimates ranging from £300 to £300,000, the collection is expected to realise in excess of £1.5 million. Orlando Rock, Christies Co-Chairman Decorative Arts and UK Chairman: This magnificent flat in Thomas Cubitts stucco t ... More | | 
Josef Hoffmann, brooch in original leather case, Wiener Werkstätte, 1908, silver, gilt, 15 original gemstones, round, gemstone garlands, à 3.6 cm, unique brooch, estimate 60,000 80,000.
VIENNA.- The Jugendstil & 20th century arts and crafts auction will be held on 12 December 2018, at Dorotheum Vienna. It not only presents a selection of international objects but also a number of fine examples from the Wiener Werkstätte. Founded by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser in 1903, the Wiener Werkstätte was intended to revolutionise applied art. Distinguished by exquisite craftsmanship, Vienna became an international centre for applied arts, as well as producing jewellery, furniture and everyday objects of the highest quality. A number of renowned artists earnt their fame in fin de siècle Vienna. Alongside Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, were Dagobert Peche and the ceramic artists Gudrun Baudisch and Vally Wieselthier. Their development of geometric-abstract design also spearheaded their transition into the modern ... More | | 
The superb stones adorning these earrings weigh 2.61 and 3.06 carats respectively. Estimate $ 8 10 million / CHF 7,940,000 9,920,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
GENEVA.- Sothebys upcoming auction of Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels on 15 November 2018 will bring together a highly impressive selection of world-class diamonds and gemstones, alongside signed pieces from the worlds most prestigious jewellery houses. Led by a group of extraordinarily rare blue diamonds, the auction highlights also include stunning white diamonds and diamond jewels and exceptional coloured gemstones. Signatures in the sale range from Harry Winston to Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari and Pederzani. Speaking ahead of the sale, David Bennett, Worldwide Chairman of Sothebys International Jewellery Division, commented, Our autumn sale offers a carefully curated selection of jewels which have resonated with jewellery lovers and connoisseurs the world over. We are thrilled to be presenting sensational ... More |
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 Collaborative works celebrated in Lady Lever Art Gallery exhibitionLIVERPOOL.- Quentin Blake and John Yeoman: 50 Years of Childrens Books is the first exhibition to celebrate illustrator Blakes decades-long partnership with the author. It opened at the Lady Lever Art Gallery this autumn, running from 19 October until 3 March 2019, and features more than 40 works, including illustrations and books by the two. Quentin Blake has had a number of extended collaborations with writers such as Roald Dahl, but the longest of all has been with John Yeoman. Quentin first asked Yeoman to write a book for him to illustrate in 1960. The result A Drink of Water sparked their artistic relationship that has lasted for more than half a century, delivering almost 50 projects in that time. Their most recent, All The Year Round, was published by Andersen Press in 2017. The original drawings for these and a further 10 projects Blake and ... More 2018 TARNANTHI Art Fair breaks all recordsADELAIDE.- The 2018 TARNANTHI Art Fair closed on Sunday, breaking all previous records. Over the weekend at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, the TARNANTHI Art Fair attracted 5,682 visitors, an increase of 81% from 2017, and generated over $900,000 in art sales. Art production is a key source of income for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Marking its third year of operation, the TARNANTHI Art Fair provides a unique opportunity to view and purchase works of art direct from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and art centres. This year, the Art Fair welcomed 10 new participant art centres and showcased over 200 artists from 30 art centres from across the country. Director, Art Gallery of South Australia, Rhana Devenport says, The extraordinary success of 2018 TARNANTHI reflects the excitement and vitality ... More Solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev on view at Fondazione GiulianiROME.- Fondazione Giuliani is presenting Tan Lines, a solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev. Værslevs practice is a reflection on the act of painting as the result of a creative process dominated by the tension between careful planning and randomness. Interested in upending definitions, convictions and the limits of the pictorial medium, the genesis of his paintings is largely the result of a perpetual encounter/clash between control and chance. After having conceived an artwork with absolute rigour, Værslev often alters it through the intervention of fortuitous circumstances (exposing it to the weather, leaving it in nature or public places), or asking friends to freely modify and complete it, pushing the idea of appropriation to an extreme. Thanks to these processes, reality is physically deposited on the surface of the canvas, becoming part of an ... More Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert opens a long-overdue show of rare early works by Richard SmithLONDON.- The British painter Richard Smith (1931-2016) might well be regarded as the artist who kickstarted the 1960s. From his debut New York show in 1961 at the Green Gallery, he pioneered a highly distinctive form of Pop Art with lush, textured paintings that evoke the sleek American Madmen consumerism, while nodding to the gestural Abstract Expressionism of the preceding decade. Entitled Uptown/Downtown, this loan exhibition explores how Smith, an Englishman in New York, explored the visual languages of uptown glitz, while living a life of downtown bohemianism, in exuberant canvases that combine the different cultural currents of his adopted city. As the exhibition curator Marco Livingstone writes:
these paintings are infused with the scent of luxury and with the aura of popular culture, commerce and the spectacle of modern ... More Almine Rech Gallery reconstructs and reinterprets exhibition at Royal Academy of ArtsNEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech Gallery is presenting A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now, 1981-2018. Curated by Norman Rosenthal, this exhibition reconstructs and reinterprets A New Spirit in Painting, a seminal presentation of 20th-century painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in London co-curated by Rosenthal with Christos Joachimides and Nicholas Serota in 1981. The original exhibition embraced paintings capacity for representation, playfulness, and experimentation, showcasing several generations of artists who largely operated outside the New York art worlds sphere of influence. With A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now, 1981 - 2018, Rosenthal revisits this conversation in a contemporary setting, featuring works by artists included in his original presentation, with the addition of Maria Lassnig. In the early 1980s, the relevance of painting was in question. ... More India deploys huge security for inauguration of world's biggest statueSARDAR SAROVAR DAM (AFP).- Thousands of police officers guarded the world's biggest statue ahead of its inauguration by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, anticipating protests by angry locals displaced by the enormous figure. Indian authorities have planned a spectacular opening of the 182-metre (600-foot) tall tribute to Indian independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, with Air Force jets and helicopters to shower flowers on the statue during a flypast. But officials in Gujarat state are worried that community groups could stage protests to demand compensation for land taken to erect the Statue of Unity, which cost 29.9 billion rupees ($400 million) and has taken nearly four years to build. "More than 5,000 police personnel have been deployed at various points in the 10 kilometre radius of the statue site," said Narmada district ... More A record $9.3 million raised at 20th anniversary TWO x TWO for AIDS and ART 2018DALLAS, TX.- On Saturday evening, October 27, the 20th annual TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art benefit dinner and contemporary art auction raised a record $9.3 million with funds benefiting amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Five hundred people attended the sold-out black-tie event, chaired by noted philanthropist, art patron and longtime TWO x TWO supporter Tim Headington, Founder and CEO, Headington Companies, and hosted annually by Cindy and Howard Rachofsky at their home, The Rachofsky House. TWO x TWO is extremely grateful to our friends far and near who have been part of this monumental and cherished 20-year history. The generosity and commitment of our artists, gallerists and supporters to this event is unparalleled in todays fundraising communities. Our donating artists and galleries around ... More Marc Straus opens first exhibition with Paul WaldmanNEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus is presenting its inaugural solo exhibition of Paul Waldman. The exhibition remains on view until December 16, 2018. Paul Waldman has been an artist for over sixty years and lives anew every day through his art. It is reifying and healing. It connects a difficult childhood seamlessly to the present, mythology to scientific fact, and the push and pull of sexuality to trees, crocodiles, and dancers. In the end his art is about truth; respectful of the inner clashes, wary of absolutes. Living is found in the interstices, open to the tug of every second going by, every breath a full and meaningful one. Why else paint all day at age eighty-one unless you love it from start to finish? Waldmans paintings are always a balancing of passions: the paint, the surface, the figure, the edges, the stretcher. Its a religious act, and an act of love. At ... More Polk Museum of Art pays tribute to Cuban-American art with new exhibitionLAKELAND, FLA.- The Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College is presenting an ode to exiled Cuban-American artists through an exhibition curated from works in the museums permanent collection. Exile: 50 Years of Cuban-American Art from the Permanent Collection is on view through Jan. 13 and was guest-curated by Olga Nodarse Chao, who left Cuba for the United States in 1961. Cuban or Cuban-American collections abound in Miami and New York, but having this collection of works in Central Florida is rare and worthy of emphasis, Chao said. It features 14 works from 11 artists who exhibit a broad tapestry of talents, styles and preoccupations. The works represent different stages of the Cuban exile and arrivals in the U.S. The exodus from Cuba started in 1959 and continued into the early 1960s. It was not until the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 that the ... More Yoko Ono announced as part of next year's Manchester International Festival programmeMANCHESTER.- Manchester International Festival today announced the first artists for its 2019 programme, with each commission set to offer a distinctive and very personal take on how we relate to todays world. MIF19 takes place from 4-21 July 2019, with artists from across the globe creating an enormous variety of new work in spaces throughout the city. BELLS FOR PEACE - Yoko Ono invites us to gather together in Cathedral Gardens for the opening event at MIF 19 and send a message of peace to the world. Thousands of diverse voices and a peoples orchestra of bells from home and abroad will ring and sing out for peace and welcome the world to Manchester. Yoko Ono has been among the worlds most renowned and respected artists for more than 50 years. This new commission is the first major work she has ... More Jackie Kennedy love letter to JFK up for auctionBOSTON, MASS.- A remarkable Jackie Kennedy letter to her husband, then Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy, concerning their relationship and family will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The three-page handwritten letter, signed All my love, Jackie, undated, but circa 1957-58. Away from Jack, Jackie writes that she is finding it hard to communicate and feels like being separate knocks a married couple off of the same wavelength. Still, she writes, I think it is usually good when we go away from each other as we both realize so much. We are so differentbut I was thinking this tripthat every other time Ive been away, you would write dont ponder our relationship too much etc. She inquires about how their new daughter Caroline is doing and expresses joy that they at last have a baby we both love. Closing the letter, Jacqueline ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was baptized October 31, 1632. Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 - December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings. in this image: Participants of a press conference look at a painting, entitled Holding a Balance, by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany, 16 March 2011. The 175th birthday of the Ate Pinakothek starts with a program of the Bavarian State Picture Collection in Munich. The Vermeer masterpiece once belonged to the private collection of the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph.
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