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German architect Heike Hanada poses in front of the new Bauhaus museum in Weimar, eastern Germany, on April 4, 2019. The Bauhaus design school, which transformed the way people around the world live, work and dream of the future, marks its centenary with the launch of the politically charged museum on April 6, 2019. The sprawling museum in Bauhaus's birthplace of Weimar, a small city 250 kilometres (150 miles) southwest of Berlin, will display the classics of its less-is-more, form-follows-function aesthetic. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
by Deborah Cole
WEIMAR (AFP).- The Bauhaus design school, which transformed the way people around the world live, work and dream of the future, marks its centenary this week with the launch of a politically charged German museum. Founded on April 1, 1919, during the rocky period between the world wars and finally driven out by the Nazis, Bauhaus still has the power to inspire and divide in today's own turbulent era. The sprawling museum in Bauhaus's birthplace of Weimar, a small city 250 kilometres (150 miles) southwest of Berlin, will open to the public Saturday and display the classics of its less-is-more, form-follows-function aesthetic. The inauguration of the minimalist temple housing the world's oldest Bauhaus collection comes just weeks ahead of European elections and six months before a key poll in Weimar's state of Thuringia. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) looks poised to make strong gains in each vote and is polling at about 20 percent here. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Eli Wilner & Company master carvers work to restore lost ornament on the original gilded frame on Luther TerryÂs Romeo & Juliet painting in the collection of the Historic Charleston Foundation's Aiken-Rhett House.
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| | | Eli Wilner & Company to be honored by the Historic Charleston Foundation for its work in frame conservation | | 'Henry Moore: The Shape of Things' exhibition now open at Christie's London | | London exhibition celebrates mini-skirt pioneer Mary Quant | 
An Eli Wilner & Company master artisan restores a gilded punchwork spandrel on the frame holding a circa 1858 copy of Raphaels Madonna of the Chair painting in the collection of the Historic Charleston Foundation's Aiken-Rhett House.
NEW YORK, NY.- On April 30, 2019, the Historic Charleston Foundation will be honoring Eli Wilner & Company with the Samuel Gaillard Stoney Conservation Craftsmanship Award, for its work in historic frame conservation. This presentation will take place during Historic Charleston Foundations annual Charter Day celebration. In recent years, Eli Wilner & Company has completed two elaborate frame restoration projects for the Aiken-Rhett House, one of the Foundations most prominent sites. In 2017, Eli Wilner & Company was contacted by the Aiken-Rhett Houses Museum Manager, Valerie Perry, about restoring the original 19th Century gilded frame on Luther Terrys Romeo & Juliet painting. This large frame, approximately 84 x 63 inches, was extremely fragile due to prior insect damage, had losses to the gesso and gilding, and was ... More | | 
Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986), Working Model for Locking Piece, signed and numbered 'Moore 3/9' (on the edge of the base) bronze with a green and brown patina, 41½ (105.4 cm.) high, including bronze base. Conceived and cast in 1962, in an edition of 9, plus 1 artist's cast.
LONDON.- Christies presents Henry Moore: The Shape of Things, an exhibition at King Street of over 30 artworks tracing the four key thematic concerns that defined Henry Moores prolific and deeply influential career. One of Britains best-known artists, Moore radically redefined the boundaries of sculpture. Working in bronze, stone and wood, as well as creating a large body of drawings and works on paper, Moore constantly sought to challenge traditional artistic conventions in his art as he explored the aesthetic potential of form and space, figuration and abstraction, as well as internal and external states. The human figure was predominantly the site of exploration for Moore, from the poignant visions of humanity witnessed in the Shelter Drawings, to the undulating forms of the reclining ... More | | 
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LONDON (AFP).- When London's Victoria and Albert Museum put out an appeal for surviving Mary Quant clothing ahead of a major exhibition dedicated to the designer they were overwhelmed with the response. Over 800 people responded to the request to rummage through their attics and wardrobes to find not just clothing but also snapshots and memories. Those items are now due to go on display as part of the V&A's One hundred Quant creations retrospective which opens Saturday and runs until February next year. Thirty-five of the pieces in the exhibition were donated by the women who originally wore them, complete with personal stories linked to each garment. Among them is a 1966 fancy red plastic raincoat with a white collar that has served two generations of the family of London artist Lady Michaelle St Vincent. The exhibition features clothes and accessories dating from 1955 to 1975 as well as advertising posters for cosmetics bearing the daisy logo that became Quant's trademark. The exhibition ... More |
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| | | Thousands-year-old Egypt sarcophagus to be opened on live TV | | Gagosian announces the representation of Nathaniel Mary Quinn | | Christie's announces 'Icons of Glamour & Style: The Leon Constantiner Collection' | 
In this file photo an archaeologist brushes a newly-discovered mummy laid inside a sarcophagus, part of a collection found in burial chambers dating to the Ptolemaic era (323-30 BC). MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A sarcophagus believed to contain an Egyptian nobleman will be opened on live TV during a special broadcast by the American channel Discovery. The two-hour "Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live" will air Sunday night (0000 GMT Monday) from the site outside Minya, which is along the Nile River south of Cairo and its Giza pyramids. Egypt has sought to promote archeological discoveries across the country in a bid to revive tourism hit by turmoil after the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. The country's Supreme Council of Antiquities declined to comment, even though Discovery announced that council head Mostafa Waziri would be present for the event. The site containing the sarcophagus was discovered in February last year, and a Discovery spokesman told AFP that the project was set up in collaboration with Egypt's antiquities ministry. Archeologists ... More | | 
Nathaniel Mary Quinn. Photo: Kyle Dorosz. Courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- In his collage-like composite portraits derived from sources both personal and found, Nathaniel Mary Quinn probes the relationship between visual memory and perception. Fragments of images taken from online searches, fashion magazines, and family photographs come together to form hybrid faces and figures that are at once neo-Dada and adamantly realist, evoking the intimacy and intensity of a face-to-face encounter with an alien other. Collecting imagery that he tears, cuts, and overlaps on the walls of his studio, Quinn uses oil paint, charcoal, gouache, oil stick, and pastels to render facial features and details from the found images, covering parts of the canvas as he goes. He employs the stream-of-consciousness tactics of Dadaas in the chimerical, masklike collages of Hannah Höchtogether with a visceral realism reminiscent of Romare Bearden, whose deft photomontages made palpable the feelings, spaces, music, and energies of Black experience during ... More | | 
Peter Lindbergh, Cindy Crawford, Tatjana Patitz, Helena Christensen, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Karen Mulder & Stephanie Seymour, for American Vogue, Brooklyn, New York, 1991. Image/feuille : 193 x 127 cm. Estimate 70,000 - 100,000 © Peter Lindbergh, courtesy Peter Lindbergh, Paris.
PARIS.- On June 19th, Christies will offer photographs assembled by New York collector Léon Constantiner that celebrate glamour, elegance and idealised beauty. The first sale, at Christies New York in 2008, presenting works from his collection was a landmark event in the photography auction market, underscoring the importance of the great editorial photographers who captured so memorably our ideals of beauty in the inspirational post-war decades of fashion and style magazines. The works now on sale the treasures that Constantiner had kept back to enjoy just a little longer focus again on such emblematic figures as Helmut Newton, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts and Peter Lindberg, whose reputations were made through the printed page, but ... More |
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| | | Koller's Old Master and 19th Century Paintings auctions achieve 100% sell through rates | | Julien's Auctions announces Music Icons: Property From The Collection of Slash and Perla Hudson | | 'American Embassy' by Ayman Baalbaki leads Bonhams Middle Eastern Art Sale | 
A portrait by Lucas Cranach and his workshop of Cranachs patron, Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, nearly tripled its presale estimate to sell for CHF 264,000.
ZURICH.- The Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings auctions at Koller Zurich on 29 March enjoyed a very successful sales rate, with over 100% sold by value. A portrait by Lucas Cranach and his workshop of Cranachs patron, Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, nearly tripled its presale estimate to sell for CHF 264,000. Arnold Böcklins powerfully dynamic Battle on the Bridge changed hands for CHF 240,000. Further Old Master works included a rediscovered work by Jan Wellens de Cock that fetched CHF 168,000, and a work by Gerrit Dou that realised CHF 156,000. Among the 19th century paintings, a shimmering Venice landscape by Carl Morgenstern sold for CHF 72,000, and a humorous de- piction of a butterfly-chasing botanist by Carl Spitzweg fetched CHF 114,000. The collection of Dutch ... More | | 
A J Hats black felt top hat signed with drawings by Slash in silver marker pen. Estimate: 400-600.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Five years since the official separation of one of rock and rolls most famous couples, Juliens Auctions has announced Property From The Collection of Slash and Perla Hudson as part of their two day Music Icons auction taking place on Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18, 2019 with historical items by other music legends (to be announced) live in New York at the Hard Rock Cafe and online at juliensauctions.com. The world record breaking auction house that has specialized in some of the most headline making rock and roll artist auctions in the past fifteen years will present for the first time in Juliens history, this exclusive celebrity uncoupling auction featuring some of the most personal and unique items from the magnificent Beverly Hills estate that Perla Hudson and legendary Guns NRoses guitarist Slash shared during their fourteen year marriage as well as memorabilia and ... More | | 
American Embassy by Ayman Baalbaki. Estimate: £70,000-100,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- American Embassy by Lebanese painter Ayman Baalbaki leads Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale on Wednesday 1 May in London. Baalbakis haunting work shows the destruction of the American Embassy in Beirut after it was bombed during the Lebanese civil war in 1983. Amongst the wreckage hangs the American flag, the only thing unharmed by the explosion. It has an estimate of £70,000-100,000. The attack came in the wake of an intervention from the US and the West in an attempt to restore a central government to the country. The explosion, which killed 63 people, was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that point. The scale of American Embassy, which stands at 205.5 x 115cm, captures both the enormous size of the building and the damage it suffered, portraying a city whose landscape was punctured and mutilated by war. Born in 1975, the same year as ... More |
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| | | Heathrow Terminal 5 exhibits skeleton of new species of dinosaur | | Christie's announces highlights included in the Rare Watches Auction | | LX opens second exhibition curated by Lisa Cooley | 
Scientific study indicates it is a new species, a cousin of the diplodocus. It will be seen by the millions of passengers at Heathrows Terminal Five for two months during April and May before its sale at auction.
LONDON.- The skeleton of a 155 million year old diplodocus has gone on exhibition at Heathrow Terminal 5 from April 2nd until the end of May before being sold by the leading French auction house Aguttes in June for an expected £2m. Nicknamed Skinny the Diplodocus skeleton shows important and significant impressions of the skin of the dinosaur, which has never been discovered before on a Diplodocus, making this a uniquely valuable skeleton a world first. It was discovered in shale beds in Wyoming USA in 2012. Ross Baker, Chief Commercial Officer at Heathrow said, What a sizeable welcome for families travelling this Easter! Were excited to see the roar-some reaction from our passengers, as they encounter this completely unique specimen before heading on their travels with loved ones. Scientific study indicates it is a new species, a cousin of the diplodocus. It will be seen by ... More | | 
The top lot of the pocket watch section is the historically important personal watch of Patek Philippes co-founder Jean-Adrien Philippe (1815-1894). Estimate CHF50,000-100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
GENEVA.- On 13 May 2019, Christies will be holding the Rare Watches auction at the Four Seasons des Bergues in Geneva. Offering 254 watches spanning the early 19th century to the present day, the majority of timepieces have been consigned by private collectors, mainly from Europe. With estimates ranging from CHF2,000 to CHF1,000,000 the sale is expected to realise in the region of CHF 12 Million. The top lot of the sale, with an estimate of CHF1,000,000 to CHF2,000,000, is the exceptional pink gold Rolex reference 6062 Stelline triple calendar with moon phase and, most notably, the celebrated star dial. What makes this watch so special is the design and the fact that the production for the reference was extremely limited scholars estimate the number to be around 50 cased in pink gold, however only around 10 featuring this particular star dial. Introduced ... More | | 
August Sander, Boxer, Aufnahme, 1928. Gelatin silver print, printed 1970's, 11 x 8 in. 27.9 x 20.3 cm. Printed by Gunther Sander. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- LX, the new art space on 60th Street and Park Avenue that integrates both museum quality exhibitions and art advising in an intimate gallery setting, opened its second exhibition, Last Night I Wore a Costume, curated by art advisor and writer Lisa Cooley. Featuring paintings, sculpture, photography and works on paper by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Susan Cianciolo, Marc Camille Chaimowitcz, Sara Cwynar, Michael Dean, Jimmy de Sana, Van Hanos, Barkley Hendricks, Greer Lankton, Jennifer J. Lee, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ellen Lesperance, Jill Magid, Jim Nutt, Elizabeth Peyton, Michelangelo Pistoletto, August Sander, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Laurie Simmons and Martin Wong, which grapple with the concept of the self. The exhibition will be on view through May 29, 2019 and will include a program of talks throughout the duration. From Pygmalion to Melvilles ... More |
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 Napoleon love letters to Josephine go for over 500,000 euroThree love letters from Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife Josephine, written between 1796 and 1804, were sold for a total of 513,000 euros ($575,000) on Thursday, the Drouot auction house said. "No letter from you my adorable friend, you must have very sweet preoccupations since you forget your husband who, though in the midst of business and extremely tired thinks only and desires only you," the French leader said in one letter written during the Italian campaign in 1796. The historically-themed auction run by the French Ader and Aguttes houses also included a rare Enigma encryption machine, used by Nazi Germany during World War II, which went for 48,100 euros. The items were part of a vast sell-off by the French state of the collection amassed by the collapsed investment firm Aristophil. It was shut down amid a scandal four years ago, taking 850 million ... More Exhibition at Design Museum Gent displays designer Daniela Dossi's study of headgearGENT.- Hats and other headgear are probably the most potent expressions of ones cultural identity. The hat, turban or cap reveals a lot about your nationality, ethnicity, religion, social status or gender. Designer Daniela Dossi studied headgear in press photos from all over the world to reveal the symbolic, political and social values that underpin it. She developed a method to remix headgear, combining different cultural identities in the process. Her research and its outcome is on display from 5 April until 1 September at Design Museum Gent. The research covered an extensive archive of 838 online press photos from 170 countries. Daniela Dossi extracted the used textile, the wearers and their social status, resources, actions and location from these photos. She used this data to examine the symbolic, political and social values of headgear in todays ... More Christie's April Photograph Auctions total $6.9 millionNEW YORK, NY.- The top lot across all three auctions was Richard Avedons (19232004), Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955 which realized $615,000; the second highest auction price achieved for this image by Avedon. Other stellar results were achieved for Edward Steichens (18791973) Loretta Young, Hollywood, August 1931 which realized $38,000 against an estimate of $10,000-15,000 and Irving Penns (19172009) Harlequin Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), NY, 1950 which realized $260,000. The top lots from The Face of the Century: Photographs from a Private Collection were two photographs by Helmut Newton (19202004), 'Self Portrait with Wife and Models', Paris, 1981 and 'Tied-Up Torso', Ramatuelle, 1980. Both works realized $100,000 greatly outperforming their estimates. The top ... More Weiss Berlin opens an exhibition of works by Evan NesbitBERLIN.- Evan Nesbit's paintings are abstract color fields, capturing a performative gesture in the process of distributing paint and pigments to stain, bleach, coat, and color textiles and objects. Some of the paintings are achromatic, made with small amounts of pigment dispersed in acrylic, others oversaturated in bright monochrome fluorescence. For his paintings, Nesbit often uses pressure and gravity to push paint between the fibers of natural dyed burlap causing the synthetic pigment material to press through the fabric and dry. Through this formal inversion, the paint becomes a substrate and the burlap fabric a foregrounded image, giving equal visual importance to both while marking the presence of a painter and the process of manipulating a panel. Nesbit works within the tradition of American impressionism, color field painting, minimalism and post-minimalism ... More Exhibition offers a personal and singular thirty-year record of an activist artist living with HIVCHICAGO, IL.- From April 4 to July 14, 2019, the Art Institute of Chicago presents Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well, a personal and singular thirty-year record of an activist artist living with HIV for more than half of his adult life. Bordowitz began his art practice in the late 1980s in the service of direct advocacy, responding to government inaction toward the AIDS public health crisis. I Wanna Be Well ties together the scope of that interwoven practice: site-specific installation, sculpture, poetry, drawing, performance, ephemera, and the video-making for which he is renowned. Taking its title from the eponymous track on the Ramones 1977 album Rocket to Russia, the exhibition raises broad questions about how we define illness and health in the context of the continuing AIDS crisis. This is the first retrospective of the artists prodigious career, which spans three ... More Weapons, pottery lead Heritage Auctions' Ethnographic Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- A rare Iroquois weapon from more than 200 years ago is among the items in highest demand at Heritage Auctions Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Auction June 25 in Dallas, Texas. The top lots in this sale of American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal art all come from private collections. An Iroquois Ball Head War Club ($60,000-80,000), circa 1800, is a beautiful hand-carved hardwood piece with fine brown patina, measuring 28 inches long. Tracing back to the Iroquois tribe that lived mostly in what is now western and northern New York, it is a solid weapon, not just a ceremonial item. This is a beautiful weapon, and weapons are enormously popular with collectors, many of whom see them as the ultimate symbol of masculinity, Heritage Auctions Senior Ethnographic Art Specialist Delia Sullivan said. Ball ... More Christie's announces two-day sale of Prints and Multiples taking place over four sessionsNEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the two-day sale of Prints and Multiples taking place over four sessions from April 17-18. The sale includes over 300 lots spanning the 20th to 21st centuries and features modern works by Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso - and Post-War and Contemporary editions by Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Helen Frankenthaler among others. The auction view will be open to the public at Christies New York galleries from April 13-17. The sessions on Wednesday, April 17th will feature a strong selection of Post-War and Contemporary prints led by a complete set of Andy Warhols Shadows II screenprints ($200,000-300,000), Gerhard Richters September ($100,000 150,000) and a selection of woodcuts by Helen Frankenthaler from the Tales of the Genji series. Following the success of the Warhol ... More Heaven sent: Taiwan honours dead with lavish paper modelsTAIPEI (AFP).- From a modern summer villa with an outdoor pool to a fully equipped film studio or a casino, paper model makers in Taiwan are ensuring the dead enjoy an eternity of luxury. Across the global Chinese diaspora, burning paper offerings has long been seen as a way to send ancestors gifts that they can use in the afterlife. In recent years, traditional paper incarnations of money and gold bars have given way to the more modern -- paper iPads and mobile phones, washing machines, cars, televisions and credit cards. But a handful of paper model makers in Taiwan are taking the art to a new level and crafting offerings that bestow on the dead the kind of trappings only experienced by the truly rich and famous in the land of the living. "We believe that people will move on to another world after they die," explained Taipei businessman Chen Shu-hsuan, as ... More Deified as the voice of his generation, Kurt Cobain livesNEW YORK (AFP).- Decades after Kurt Cobain's guttural rasp seduced Generation X from its collective bedroom and into the post-punk clubs of 1990s Seattle, the late Nirvana frontman remains a talisman for the young and disaffected the world over. It is a quarter-century on Friday since grunge's reluctant poster boy took his own life at the age of just 27, and Cobain's former manager Danny Goldberg says he's finally ready to reflect publicly on the legacy of an enigma and a pioneer. In "Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain" -- published this week to mark the anniversary -- Goldberg remembers a Cobain ahead of his time, whose quick wit and humanity shone through the brooding melancholy. "The impression of him in the media had become a little distorted and focused disproportionately on his death, and not as much on his life and his ... More To Know Herself presents new work by Tammy Rae Carland and iconic Macon Reed installationSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- To Know Herself explores the lesbian bar as a place for social and political change. Bars dedicated exclusively to queer women are systematically disappearing around the country, particularly in San Francisco. Once a thriving ground for queer culture with numerous spaces where queer women gathered, there are few remaining bars specifically for queer women here today. Mauds, which operated from 1961 to 1989, and Amelias, which opened its doors in 1978 and closed in 1991, were two of the most popular and longest-running spaces both owned by respected LGBTQ activist Rikki Streicher (19221994). More recently, The Lexington Club, a beloved lesbian dive bar and LGBTQ cultural landmark located in the Mission, closed its doors in 2015. This was one of the last historic lesbian bars in San Francisco. Queer spots have since ... More Lisa Oppenheim creates a new body of work for her third exhibition at the ApproachLONDON.- For her third exhibition at the Approach, The American Colony, Lisa Oppenheim has created a new body of work based on the photographic archive of the American Colony in Jerusalem, now housed in the United States Library of Congress, that highlights her unique ability to translate historical subjects and early methods of photo-making through contemporary experimental darkroom processes. In these new works, the artist explores stereoscopy in particular, a technique popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for its pseudo-three-dimensional effect. Two photographs of the same subject are taken from slightly different angles and then are optically merged through a viewing device, creating the optical illusion of depth. The American Colony began as a non-denominational Christian utopian community founded by a small group ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Franz Pforr was born April 05, 1788. Franz Pforr (5 April 1788 - 16 June 1812) was a painter of the German Nazarene movement. Pforr did not live long enough to see his art acknowledged. He died of tuberculosis in Albano Laziale, Rome at age 24. In this image: Portrait by Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1810.
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