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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Native American, Flathead Salish, b. 1940), Indian Country Today, 1996, acrylic and collage on canvas, 60 x 100 inches. Purchased with funds provided by James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2000.6 © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- Three exhibitions on view this fall and winter at the Palmer Museum of Art commemorate the Museums 50 years by exhibiting key works from the collection and renderings of its new building, set to open at the Penn State Arboretum in early 2024. Two exhibitions, Looking at Who We Are: The Palmer at Fifty (Sept. 23-Dec. 18) and The Art of Remembering: A Selection of Gifts (Aug. 26-Dec. 18) feature 87 works from the Palmers collection, while Designed for the Future: The New Palmer Museum of Art at the Arboretum (Oct. 15, 2022-May 8, 2023) includes sketches, models and an animated fly-through video of the new building. We are at a transformative moment in the history of the Palmer Museum of Art, said Museum Director Erin M. Coe. As we celebrate five decades of serving our communities as the largest academic art museum in Pennsylvania, we look toward a bright future in the new building that will double t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Antiquities | Ethnographica | Fine Art sale on Sep 29, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5/ The sale features classical antiquities, ancient, and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, more! Fossilized Saber Cat Skull - Amphimachairodus Giganteus. Estimate $15,000 - $22,500.
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| Rare Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Pablo Picasso works to be offered at Hindman | | 10 masterpieces from The Frick Collection on a once-only European visit to the Mauritshuis | | Christie's 3.0: Revolutionary platform established Christie's as first global auction house to host fully on-chain sales | 
Andy Warhol $ (Quadrant), 1981. Estimate: $80,000-120,000 (each).
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindmans September 29th Prints & Multiples auction will present an extraordinary offering of pop art and abstract expressionist works, highlighted by a rare selection of Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns prints. Innovative collages by Sam Gilliam, the groundbreaking artist who challenged the foundations of every medium he employed, will also be showcased in the contemporary and modern prints session. An impressive selection of six lots by M.C. Escher and a highly sought-after early etching by Pablo Picasso from the collection of James and Edythe Cloonan, Chicago, Illinois are also among works that are expected to see intense bidding competition.
A pair of quintessential Andy Warhol prints will be a focal point of the auction. $ (Quadrant), 1981 (lots 14-15; estimate: $80,000-120,000 each) are unique trial proofs that display Warhols fixation on wealth, consumerism and indulgence. Gifted by ... More | | 
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Self-Portrait, 1658. Canvas, 134 x 104 cm. The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Michael Bodycomb.
THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis will round off its bicentenary year with a very special exhibition, featuring ten paintings by Dutch masters from The Frick Collection in New York. For the first time in its existence, the American museum will loan these items to a European museum, while its own building is undergoing renovation. One of the paintings that will temporarily exchange New York for The Hague is Rembrandts acclaimed Self-portrait of 1658, a painting of exceptional quality. Rembrandt painted many self-portraits, but this one is acknowledged by experts to be one of the most impressive of all. In addition, the museum may welcome a Vermeer, Hals, Ruysdael and Cuyp, among others. Manhattan Masters will be on view to the public from 29 September. Of the ten paintings in the exhibition, Rembrandts 1658 Self-portrait will be the absolute highlight. This masterpiece will be the ... More | | 
I Want To Nurture The Earth. Estimate: 6 8 ETH. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Christies 3.0, a newly developed platform that will allow for fully on-chain NFT sales, demonstrating the auction houses commitment to both artists and collectors in the Web3 space. Just days following the success of the Ethereum Merge, Christie's in a first for an art auction house launches its own on-chain marketplace, built from the ground up together with three leading companies in the Web3 community, Manifold, Chainalysis, and Spatial. Christies 3.0 allows for auctions to be carried out on the Ethereum blockchain network from start to finish. All transactions, including post-sale, will be automatically recorded on the blockchain. In addition to offering the highest level of curation in the NFT art market, this innovative platform addresses fundamental needs of the market by including compliance and taxation tools, making it the first of its kind. Nicole Sales Gil ... More |
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| Ben Brown Fine Arts opens 'Ghosts of Empires ll' curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah | | AstaGuru's 'Modern Treasures' and 'Present Future' auctions realise impressive results | | Six-figure artworks, by a fifth grader | 
Livien Yin, Poppies, 2022.
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting Ghosts of Empires ll, an exhibition curated by Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic Larry Ossei-Mensah. Taking place at Ben Brown Fine Arts London (16 September 22 October 2022), the exhibition seeks to explore the intersections, overlaps, and dissonance between the Black Atlantic and Asia Imperialist Trade routes and brings together an extraordinary group of contemporary artists hailing from African and Asian diasporas. This seminal exhibition features the work of Hurvin Anderson, Alvaro Barrington, Adam de Boer, Delphine Desane, Theaster Gates, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Tidawhitney Lek, Chris Ofili, Fadekemi Ogunsanya, Maia Cruz Palileo, Miguel Ãngel Payano Jr., Paul Anthony Smith, Zao Wou-Ki and Livien Yin. Inspired by the formative text by British-Ghanaian author and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World, the exhibition at its cru ... More | | 
Leading the auction were two works by famed British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor. Lot no. 81, belonging to the artists large series of stainless steel discs, was acquired at INR 6,95,58,792 (USD 891,779). His other work, lot no.17, an example of his reflective smaller scale pieces, sold at INR 79,69,500 (USD 102,173).
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru Auction House concluded two of their recent auctions Modern Treasures and Present Future with resounding success. The contemporary art auction titled Present Future held on September 22-23, 2022, garnered total sales of INR 14,61,30,835 (USD 1,873,435). This was followed by the highly anticipated Modern Indian Art auction Modern Treasures, held on September 25-26, 2022, which witnessed competitive bidding for rare works by eminent modernists. The auction generated an impressive sales value of INR 70,34,88,536 (USD 9,019,056). Sneha Gautam, Vice President, Client Relations, AstaGuru Auction House states, We are extremely proud of the stellar results that both the auctions ... More | | 
Andres Valencia sketches a piece in a basement studio of the Chase Contemporary Gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York, where his art was exhibited this summer, Aug. 1, 2022. Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times.
by Alex Hawgood
NEW YORK, NY.- The contemporary art world has had more than its share of young talent, but its tough to recall an artist who has generated as much early-career recognition as Andres Valencia. In the last year, he has gone from a relative unknown to a bona fide art phenomenon. His surrealist-style paintings were acquired by deep-pocketed collectors like Tommy Mottola and Jessica Goldman Srebnick during Art Basel Miami Beach. In June, he had a solo exhibition at the Chase Contemporary gallery in SoHo, where all 35 works were sold, the gallery said, fetching $50,000 to $125,000. One of his paintings went for $159,000 (with fees) at a Phillips de Pury auction in Hong Kong, and another hit $230,000 ... More |
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| Auction features items from Neil Armstrong to the Wright Brothers | | Exhibition re-examines the American West through modern and contemporary art | | Children's book illustrations spotlighting 10 mighty women opens | 
Amelia Earhart 2 inch square piece of fabric from the Lockheed Vega 5B she flew in 1932, making her the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic (est. $2,000-$2,500).
DANVERS, MASS.- Bidders will look to the skies during JG.Limiteds online-only Frontiers of Flight auction, online now (at www.JG.Limited) and ending on Tuesday, October 18th. Subtitled Celebrating Over 100 Years of Space & Aviation History, the auction is packed with 400 lots of many of the most famous names in air travel from Neil Armstrong to the Wright Brothers. Categories in the sale include aviation, beta cloth patches, astronauts, cosmonauts, international space figures, flown artifacts, flown Soviet covers, National Chicle Sky Birds cards and official NASA support crew and ephemera. JG.Limited is the auction arm of collectibles powerhouse JG Autographs, Inc. It held several other auctions this year, all of which were highly successful. Several items figure to finish in the top 10-selling lots. One is an actual fabric swatch from the Wright Flyer, flown by the Wright Brothers on its maiden ... More | | 
Kaila Farrell-Smith, Native American, Klamath-Modoc, Enrollment, 2014, Oil on canvas 72-1/8 x 36 x 1-1/2 inches General Acquisition Fund purchase made possible with support from Native American Studies.
EUGENE, ORE.- Ideas about the American West, both in popular culture and in commonly accepted historical narratives, are often based on an idealized past that never was, and fail to take into account important events that actually occurred. The award-winning exhibition Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea, examines the perspectives of 48 modern and contemporary artists who offer a broader and more inclusive view of this region. The show will be on view at the University of Oregons Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art from September 28 to December 18, 2022. This exhibition presents an opportunity to examine previous misconceptions, question racist clichés and highlight the multiple communities and histories that continue to form this iconic region of the United States. Working in various media, from painting and sculpture to photography and mixed media, the artists featured in the exhibition bring a nuanced and ... More | | 
Cathy Ann Johnson, Youre going to change the world, illustration for Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and digital, 2022. © Scholastic from STAND UP! Ten Mighty Women Who Made a Change By Brittney Cooper with illustrations by Cathy Ann Johnson.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick announced the opening of Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change on Sept. 28. The exhibition celebrates the debut picture book of the same title by Brittney Cooper, professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies and Africana studies at Rutgers, with illustrations by Cathy Ann Johnson. The exhibition features illustrations of all the images in the book, as well as preparatory materials, by Johnson, on public view for the first time. The author and illustrator stop by the Zimmerli on Sept. 29, from 5 to 7 p.m., to present a reading, discussion and signing for the book Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, available from Orchard Books. Picture books are an important resource for introducing children to revolutionary figures ... More |
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| Phillips Collection opens new exhibition of American artist Jonathan Monaghan | | £35,000 bid for top four lots in Ewbank's fine art auction | | Film Academy's Museum connects with visitors in first year | 
Jonathan Monaghan, Move the Way you Want (still), 2022, Vertical video (color, sound), media player, projector, 8-minute seamless loop, Courtesy of bitforms gallery, New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection presents Move the Way You Want by Jonathan Monaghan, the latest project in the museums ongoing Intersections contemporary art series, on view from September 22 to December 31, 2022. The multipart, site-specific installation and video projection will entirely transform the architectural environment of the historic Phillips House. Drawing on a wide range of sources including historical artworks, ancient mythology, science fiction, videogames, and virtual reality, Monaghans work points to the living anxieties of contemporary culture where consumerism and technology co-depend, and utopia and dystopia co-exist. Occupying the former Dining Room in the Phillips House, Monaghans digitally created imagery on adhesive canvas covers all walls, turning the gallery into a trompe-lil architectural environment that overlays elements of Gothic ... More | | 
Still life of a vase and flowers by George Clausen. It sold for £12,500 including premium.
LONDON.- Ewbanks took a double-estimate £25,000 for the top three lots in their September 22 Fine Art auction. All four pictures were by celebrated British artists, led by a still life of a vase and flowers by George Clausen (1852-1944). Dating to 1902, the signed and dated oil on canvas measured 34 x 29cm and took £12,500 including premium. Of Danish descent, London-born Clausen was a leading landscape painter who also produced a series of captivating studies of peasants. He was also a founding member of the New English Art Club and Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy, as well as an Official War Artist in the First World War. Frederick Jackson (1859-1918) was a Manchester School artist and a member of the Staithes Group alongside Laura Knight. Inspired by the light and colour of the Mediterranean landscape while touring Italy during a sojourn in Paris, he brought a painterly style to his contemporary subjects, many of t ... More | | 
Costumes on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, including one at right worn by Taron Egerton in Rocketman, in Los Angeles, Oct. 7, 2021. The Academy Museum attracted about 20% more people than it expected since opening in September 2021. Rozette Rago/The New York Times.
by Brooks Barnes
NEW YORK, NY.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has been something that almost no one in Hollywood expected: an instant hit. After an almost comical series of setbacks, the Academy Museum opened in Los Angeles in September 2021 and has since attracted more than 700,000 visitors, about 20% more than its pandemic-adjusted goal, according to Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (For months, gallery capacity was limited.) Half of the museums visitors have been under 40, he added, citing attendee surveys, and half have self-identified as being from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities. ... More |
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 New exhibition explores the Japanese illustrated book through the lens of a photographer and collectorPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Opening September 29, 2022, at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, a new exhibition pairs highlights from the Arthur Tress collection of Japanese illustrated books with Tresss own photographs, offering insights into his artistic sensibilities and presenting moments of unexpected visual poetry that resonate across place and time. Co-curated by Julie Nelson Davis, Professor of Modern Asian Art in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduate students Eri Mizukane, Nicholas Purgett, and Maria Puzyreva, the exhibition draws from Penn students close study of Tresss collections over the course of two curatorial seminars led by Davis in 2019 and 2020. During the seminars, students engaged various aspects of Japanese history, art, print cultures, and bookmaking techniques ... More  Heritage's third Art of Anime and Everything Cool Auction tops $3.1 millionDALLAS, TX.- Heritages The Art of Anime and Everything Cool Signature® Auction keeps getting cooler and more popular with collectors of everything from original comic-strip and trading-card artwork to cels from beloved animated films and cartoons. The third installment of this sold-out four-day event, which closed late Monday night, outpaced its predecessors regarding final results and the number of bidders who participated. The sale realized $3,115,598 to shatter the record high set last December, with numerous lots far exceeding their initial estimates. And more than 4,700 bidders competed for their slices of history online, over the phone and in person, the largest turn-out yet. We were thrilled with the success of our December Animation Art auction, which brought more than $2.6 million, and this sold-out sale of more than 2,200 ... More  Phillips announces strategic collaboration with leading Chinese auction house YongleHONG KONG.- Phillips and Yongle announced a strategic partnership where the two leading auction houses will collaborate for the first time to host a series of auctions in Hong Kong and Beijing in Fall 2022, offering important works of 20th century and contemporary art and design to a global audience. The forthcoming 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day and Evening Sales in Hong Kong from 30 November to 1 December will be curated and organised by Phillips, providing a fresh opportunity for Yongles collectors to participate in Phillips sales of exceptional art from around the world. In early December, the Global Vision Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Beijing will be conducted and curated by Yongle, offering Phillips clients the opportunity to participate in an auction in mainland China. Stephen Brooks, Phillips ... More  L.A. Louver presents drawings, prints, and ceramics by Beatrice WoodLOS ANGELES, CA.- L.A. Louver is presenting drawings, prints, and ceramics by Beatrice Wood from the collection of scholar and curator Francis M. Naumann. This selection of works, dating from 1917 to 1996, represents the breadth and variety of Woods art and provides remarkable insight into her extraordinary life and creative process. Celebrated as the Mama of Dada, Beatrice Wood (18931998) was an iconoclastic figure. A creative polymath, Wood was involved in a range of artistic pursuits, particularly acting, drawing, and sculpting. She sat in on life-drawing classes at the famed Académie Julian in Paris when she was only 17-years old, her only formal artistic training. When World War I broke out in Europe in 1914, she returned to the United States where she would pursue a career as an actress for the French Repertory Company in New York. It was during these years in New York ... More  Robot band sells for $350,550 at Morphy's auction of Krijnen mechanical music collectionDENVER, PA.- A trio of robot musicians with a captivating, toe-tapping sound led the parade of mechanical music machines and automata at Morphys $2.3 million sale of the Henri Krijnen collection, and according to the buyer, the Space-Age combos next stop will be a museum or related attraction in Florida. The Sept. 9-10 auction featured 541 lots of dance organs, orchestrions, slot machines and a myriad of other antique coin-operated novelties amassed over 50 years by the late Mr Krijnen, a Dutch businessman who made his fortune in the gambling and entertainment industry. The robot dance organ, created by Gebroeders Decap (Antwerp, Belgium) in 1963, was known to be one of Krijnens great favorites. It is one of only three that were made in a 105-key configuration, and was originally installed at the Hotel Eemland in Soest, ... More  A new Queens College exhibition explores the evolution of Asian American identityFLUSHING, NY.- A new exhibition at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College, Understatements: Lost and Found in Asian America, on view from September 28, 2022 through January 6, 2023, will explore the evolving layers of identity represented by the term Asian American. Expressing themselves through such mediums as sculpture, painting, video, and paper, the eight artists in Understatements encourage intimate, yet impactful interpretations of their work. The exhibition is the inaugural presentation made possible by The Thomas Chen Family/Crystal Windows $1.1 million endowment to help establish the Queens College School of Arts and support Asian contemporary visual art at the college. We are deeply grateful to the Chen family for making this exhibition possible, says Queens College President Frank H. Wu. ... More  Digital art project by Rachel Rossin launches on whitney.orgNEW YORK, NY.- Today, the Whitney Museum of American Art launched artist Rachel Rossins THE MAW OF, a new digital art project on whitney.org. The work is a transmedia story that unfolds across multiple platforms and formats. It reflects on the coalescence and alterations our bodies and minds experience with technology. THE MAW OF is the latest commission for artport, the Museums portal dedicated to Internet art, and an online gallery space for commissions of net art. Through her work, Rachel Rossin investigates the relationship between bodies and machines, highlighting technologys evolution from a tool to an extension of the mind and body that affects our existence at profound levels. Rossin highlights that technology, ranging from smartphones to virtual reality headsets, has already permeated our lives and increasingly ... More  Sara Anstis joins KasminNEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced the representation of Sara Anstis (b. 1991 Stockholm, lives and works in London), who uses sensuous soft pastels and oil paint to build worlds that set the stage for explorations of subjectivity, mythology, and ecology. Utilizing the visual language of folklore and dream, Anstiss paintings and site-specific installations weave together surreal landscapes, deftly lit figures, anthropomorphic flora, and symbolic objects that vibrate both materially and narratively. Her first solo exhibition at Kasmin, titled Procession, is currently on view at 297 Tenth Avenue through October 29, 2022. The artist will also be represented by Various Small Fires (Los Angeles, Dallas, & Seoul). "Sara Anstis's extraordinary paintings are the products of a unique vision, balancing a timeless quality with an ability to probe the undercurrents ... More  In Alaska, slowing down to take things inNEW YORK, NY.- With rain hitting the roof, the temperature outside hovering in the low 50s and a cast iron stove keeping things warm inside the cabin that, on this July weekend, is serving as an art studio and classroom, I feel a nap coming on. Summer days in Alaska. They are not always the bluebird skies promised in travel ads. But theres no time for napping on this trip to McCarthy, a bustling summer community of artists, writers, seasonal workers and visitors that sits 60 miles down a gravel road in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve. Im here to expand the techniques I use to observe and record the natural world, to gain a deeper understanding of the animals, plants and geology of the state Ive called home for eight years. Over the next two days Ill attend a field-sketching workshop taught by science illustrator and natural history artist ... More  Milestone to host diverse Oct. 15 auction of classic cars, rare parts, automobilia, antiques of all sortsWILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- When the doors open to Milestones auction gallery on Saturday, October 15th, an energized and eclectic group of bidders is expected to rush in, grab a coffee and take a last-minute look at the merchandise they hope to bring home. There will be those who collect automotive advertising and memorabilia, perhaps to display in a man cave. Classic car collectors are expected to turn out for 20th-century motoring gems like a 1931 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine, a 1936 Packard 1407 Coupe, or a showy 1956 Chevrolet Corvette C1 Convertible. Hunter-gatherers in search of elusive car parts, hood ornaments and radiator badges will be there, as will buyers of jukeboxes and coin-op machines; salesmens samples, pottery and stoneware, and art glass lamps. Additional categories of interest include figural match holders, ... More  Lyon & Turnbull expands its Modern & Contemporary Art DepartmentEDINBURGH.- Lyon & Turnbull are to introduce a new sale dedicated to Modern and Contemporary Art to their London calendar championed by newly-appointed Modern & Contemporary art specialist Simon Hucker. He joins the firm this month as Associate Director and Senior Specialist and will work alongside Head of Modern Art & Design Phillip Smith at Lyon & Turnbulls London gallery near Hyde Park. This brand-new dedicated sale will, for its first edition, run alongside the firms highly successful Modern Made auction, in April 2023. Simon Hucker has worked in the Modern & Contemporary art world in London since the late 1990s, both at auction and in galleries. He was a Senior Specialist and Co-Head of the Modern & Post War British Art department at Sothebys, London, where he was responsible for a number of sales of major private ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Geoffrey Beene died September 28, 2004. Geoffrey Beene (born Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr., August 30, 1924 - September 28, 2004) was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear. Beene's clients included Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Faye Dunaway and Glenn Close. In this image: Three Geoffrey Beene Dresses, Spring 1992. The Geoffrey Beene Archive.
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