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View from Edward Albees loft in TriBeca, including Ilya Bolotwoskys White Tondo, Kurt Schwitters Ohne Titel and Walter Dexels XIX. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today Sotheby's unveiled the full contents of The Collection of Edward Albee, which will be offered in a dedicated auction in New York on 26 September 2017. Acquired across decades, the 100+ works on offer surrounded Albee in the Tribeca loft he lived in for over 30 years. Together, they demonstrate the artist's great passion for collecting and provide unique insight into his creative vision. The highly-personal group spans the 20th century with a focus on in Albee's words art that is about art, featuring American, Modern and Contemporary art alongside a selection of African & Oceanic sculpture (Edward Albee, A Playwrights Adventure in the Visual Arts).* The September auction will be preceded by a public exhibition in Sotheby's York Avenue galleries, opening 20 September. Here visitors will discover standout pieces by Jean Arp, Milton Avery, Marc Chagall, Lee Krasner and John McLaughlin, sparking the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo shows "Madame Matisse au Kimono" by Andre Derain handled by a Christie's employee during a preview of Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art sales in New York. Pompidou centre will hold an exhibition on Derain from October 4. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
| Wild sheep grazed in the Black Desert 14,500 years ago | | Kunsthaus Zürich presents 'Cantastorie. Knights, robbers and sorceresses - folk art from southern Italy' | | The secret life of dodos, revealed | 
Semi-subterranean basalt paved structure in the Black Desert, dated to nearly 14,500 years ago. Photo: University of Copenhagen.
COPENHAGEN.- Excavations of architecture and associated deposits left by hunter-gatherers in the Black Desert in eastern Jordan have revealed bones from wild sheep a species previously not identified in this area in the Late Pleistocene. According to the team of University of Copenhagen archaeologists, who led the excavations, the discovery is further evidence that the region often seen as a marginal zone was capable of supporting a variety of resources, including a population of wild sheep, 14,500 years ago. A study by a team of archaeologists based at the University of Copenhagen published today in the Royal Society journal Open Science documents that the region now known as the Black Desert in eastern Jordan could sustain a population of wild sheep. On the basis of morphological and metrical analysis of the faunal remains ... More | | 
Detail of panel for «Orlando», first half 20th century. Distemper on paper, 149 x 130 cm. Sammlung Würth, Künzelsau.
ZURICH.- From 25 August to 8 October the Kunsthaus Zürich is presenting large-format picture stories from southern Italy. Dating from the early years of the 20th century, some 70 colourful panels depict the great themes of culture: mythology, creation, heroism and battles and not just between the sexes. These masterpieces of folk art, which were used by two families of puppeteers as advertising for their performances, are receiving their first showing in Switzerland. Cantastorie are a fascinating collection of pictures and picture cycles from the folk art of southern Italy that, for many years, were owned by two families of street singers and puppeteers in Foggia and Naples. Achille Parisi, his son Rinaldo and two other sons painted the sceneries on paper using distemper paint. Created in the first ... More | | 
Painting of a dodo head by Cornelis Saftleven from 1638, the last known original depiction.
PARIS (AFP).- Has any animal suffered greater ignominy than the ill-fated dodo? "A strange and grotesque specimen of bird... bearing a ridiculous bent bill," was the verdict of early 17th century Dutch admiral and explorer Wybrand van Warwijck. Subsequent expeditions of sailors feasted on the helpless fowl even as they disparaged the flavour of its flesh as "the devil's chicken". By 1680, the dodo -- found only on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius -- was extinct, wiped out by human appetites and invasive species brought by settlers. So deep was our contempt for this hapless creature that during a century of co-habitation no one bothered to closely observe its habits, or accurately describe its anatomy. And then, it was too late. Adding insult to injury, early scientists dubbed the dodo "Raphus cucullatus," and decided that it belonged to the same family as the lowly pigeon. ... More |
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| A splendid record of one of the largest and most important tapestry collections in the world | | Museum of Modern Art announces new appointments | | Morrison Hotel Gallery celebrates the era of psychedelia with an exhibition and sale | 
Front cover of Tapestries from the Burrell Collection.
GLASGOW.- The magnificent collection of some 200 European, mainly medieval, tapestries acquired by Glasgow shipping magnate Sir William Burrell (18611958) is one of the largest and most important tapestry collections in the world. Although attempts to catalogue Burrells tapestries have been made in the past, most have never been published and are therefore little known. Today sees the UK launch of the richly illustrated volume Tapestries from the Burrell Collection which presents for the first time the extraordinary tapestries in Glasgows Burrell Collection. Lavishly illustrated with new photography of each tapestry, this scholarly but accessible analysis will appeal to specialists and the general public alike. Although cataloguing first began in the 1940s, it was not until 2008, with funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Sir William Burrell Trustees that work could recommence in earnest. Dr Elizabeth Cleland and Dr Lorraine Karafel were ... More | | 
Leah Dickerman, Director of Editorial & Content Strategy. Photo: Martin Seck.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointments of Rob Baker as Director of Marketing & Creative Strategy and Leah Dickerman as Director of Editorial & Content Strategy. Together they will lead MoMAs creative team, setting and executing an integrated strategy to serve the mission and curatorial goals of the institution. The roles reflect the Museums deep commitment to sharing its collection, knowledge and scholarship and providing new opportunities for audience engagement. Ms. Dickerman and Mr. Baker will co-lead the effort to share stories and create conversations about the art MoMA collects and displays. These are new and collaborative positions at MoMA, representing a transformation of its approach to storytelling and marketing that will use both traditional and new media in innovative ways to showcase great art and artists, reach new audiences and deepen engagement. MoMA ... More | | 
Jim Morrison, NYC, 1967. © Joel Brodsky, 1967.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the late 1960s, deep political unrest set the stage for a revolution of the mind: the psychedelic era. During this time of unbridled experimentation, writers, artists, and musicians unleashed limits and broke down boundaries with their work. Timothy Leary explored the limits of consciousness, Allen Ginsburg wrote revolutionary poetry, and musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane brought the era to life through timeless music, still prevalent today. Artists also worked in the psychedelic style, creating the brightly-colored, Art Nouveau-inspired rock posters so often associated with the 60s. Psychedelia also found its way into rock photography, and leading the way was legendary photographer Karl Ferris. Manipulating color and working with various filters and lenses, Ferris created images like the world had never seen. On the 50th anniversary of Are You Experienced, the groundbreaking album by Jimi Hendrix, ... More |
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| LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair announces highlights from this year's fair | | Chinese seals are Gianguan Auctions most popular category | | Ebba Matz's second solo show at Cecilia Hillström Gallery on view in Stockholm | 
A rare self-portrait of 18th century British artist Joseph Wright of Derby, originally believed to be a portrait by a follower of Joshua Reynolds from The Parker Gallery.
LONDON.- Returning to Berkeley Square for the ninth year this September, the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair brings together the very best that Britains thriving art and antiques trade has to offer. Attracting thousands of visitors from both the UK and across the world, the Fair is a must-visit fixture in the capitals autumn art season. Over 110 LAPADA members will showcase an exquisite range of works across an array of disciplines, from fine art, furniture and contemporary works to decorative arts, jewellery and antiquities. As LAPADA members, each exhibitor adheres to the Associations strict Code of Practice and every item is vetted by the specialist vetting committee. This ensures the authenticity and quality of each and every item and allows visitors to buy with confidence. With items ranging in price from £500 to £500,000, the Fair appeals to both amateur enthusiasts and ... More | | 
Shoushan stone seal with Bixie atop and script honoring sun. Attributed to Wang Shou, Ming Dynasty philosopher and calligrapher. Lot 41. $2,000-$3,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- A trend in Chinese art collecting is on the rise at Gianguan Auctions in New York City and it is as personal as ones own signature. Businessmen, artists, and collectors are identifying themselves by a stone-carved signature seal that was originally used to identify name, status and position of emperors and scholars. The carvings have inspired active bidding lately at Gianguan Auctions, making the seals the gallery's best selling items. A strong collection of seals dots the upcoming Fall Asia Week auction at Gianguan in New York City on September 9th. The most notable is Lot 74, a large octagonal shoushan carving with reticulated dragon knop whose script says 侯官之皇, King of (侯官 - a town in southern province of Fuzhou.) Only in a town far down the coast from Beijing could a small town minister declare himself King without risking his head. The 6-inch tall ... More | | 
Installation view, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
STOCKHOLM.- Cecilia Hillström Gallery is presenting Ebba Matzs second solo show at the gallery. In the new exhibition, the foundation for Matzs installation is that of a sculptor and creator of space, both inner and outer. The sculpture 8 minutes 20 seconds, which also lends its name to the exhibition, contains black glass spheres symbolizing the planets and the sun. The title refers to the time, based on the speed of light, it would take us to realize that the sun has shut down. The exhibition makes the gallery a down-scaled model of the universe. 8 minutes 20 seconds is about recreating systems too extraordinary to grasp, yet giving in to the yearning of understanding our position and the foundation for everything. The exhibition text has been written by Sara Walker. Ebba Matz (b. 1963) graduated from The Royal Institute of Art in 1992. Her work has been shown at Färgfabriken, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Cité des Arts, Paris, Wanås ... More |
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| Bonhams announces three Chinese and Japanese Works of Art sales in September | | Giant doodle installation unveiled at Wembley Park | | Works by Calder, Wyeth, Lichtenstein, Bertoia, others offered at Cottone Auctions | 
Hattori Tadasaburo (d.1939), A fine and large moriage cloisonné-enamel vase, Taisho era (1912-1926), circa 1912-1920. Estimate: $50,000 70,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On September 11 and 13, Bonhams New York will offer three auctions of The Dr. Sylvan and Faith Golder Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, Twentieth Century Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, and Japanese Works of Art. The sales present an array of rare and exquisite ceramics, jades, metalwork, prints, and paintings, many offered from important private collections including property from the Ackerman collection, the collection of Judi Blum and the collection of Dr. Sylvan and Faith Golder. The sale consists of 126 bottles made of coral, glass, jade, as well as nephrite with estimates ranging from $1,000-18,000. Among the highlights are a coral kuilong snuff bottle, beautifully carved example from the 18th century (estimate: $18,000-25,000); an enameled glass lotus snuff bottle, also dating from the 18th century a product of the imperial glass ... More | | 
The first installation, made up of Mr Doodles idiosyncratic characters results in a fun and unique blend of doodle pandemonium.
LONDON.- Today Wembley Park unveiled, The Wembley Park Street Art Project, in partnership with Global Street Art and Mr Doodle covering the legs of the pedestrian walkway (pedway) that connects Wembley Stadium to Olympic Way, or Wembley Way as its known to millions of football fans. The partnership with Global Street Art, the organisation campaigning to create more opportunities for street artists from over 100 countries, has launched its first Wembley Park installation, with Mr Doodle, marking the start of the 12 month project, which will see different artists transform different areas across Wembley Park. The first installation, made up of Mr Doodles idiosyncratic characters results in a fun and unique blend of doodle pandemonium. The artwork itself has been created by hand and covers the area at the southern end of Olympic Way transforming the area from a throughway, ... More | | 
The Cravens collection features a pair of metal stabiles by Alexander Calder metal, to include Crayfish, shown here (est. $50,000-$80,000).
GENESEO, NY.- Day 1 of Cottone Auctions upcoming Fine Art and Antiques Auction, slated for September 22nd and 23rd, will feature the lifetime collection of Annette McGuire Cravens, the well-known philanthropist and patron of the arts from Buffalo, N.Y. Her collection includes an outstanding Egyptian Cycladic marble head dating from 2,000 BC, with impeccable provenance. The Cravens collection of modern design, contemporary ceramics and antiquities will fill up the Sept. 22 session; Sept. 23 will feature fine art, antiques and modern design. The auction will be held in Cottone Auctions gallery, located at 120 Court Street in Geneseo. For bidders unable to attend the auction in person, internet bidding will be facilitated by live.cottoneauctions.com. Other highlights from the Cravens collection include a pair of metal stabiles by Alexander Calder (Crayfish, estimated at $50,000-$80,000, and Black Disk, estimated at ... More |
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 Hollywood honors French singing legend Charles AznavourLOS ANGELES (AFP).- French icon Charles Aznavour, one of the 20th century's most prolific entertainers who continues to write and perform at 93, was honored Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. With a career spanning eight decades, the crooner has recorded 1,400 songs -- 1,300 of which he wrote -- and produced over 390 albums in multiple languages. The star, who is also credited in more than 60 movies, defied detractors who pointed to his unconventional looks to become one of France's most iconic singers, dubbed the country's Frank Sinatra. "Sinatra once said every song is a one-act play with one character, and Charles is an extraordinary actor as well as an extraordinary singer," film director Peter Bogdanovich, a friend of the star, said at the unveiling ceremony. Aznavour delivered a brief message thanking well-wishers, explaining that he rarely ... More The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art opens 'Marc Trujillo: American Purgatory'CHARLESTON, SC.- The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston presents a solo exhibition called Marc Trujillo: American Purgatory that will be on view from August 25 October 7, 2017. American Purgatory features more than 30 paintings by the Los Angeles-based painter Marc Trujillo. The paintings of Marc Trujillo portray quotidian scenes: fast food restaurants, big box store aisles, the long terminal corridors of airports, and so on. The scenes are remarkably unremarkable. In their ubiquitous nature, the paintings present an anti-place: scenes that refer not to a specific place, but to uncannily similar tableaus that unfold everyday in communities across America. While Trujillo models his paintings after specific locations, usually in the Los Angeles area, his scenes appear strikingly similar to viewers own relationships with local commerce. ... More Ballroom Marfa opens an exhibition envisioned by artist Rafa EsparzaMARFA, TX.- Ballroom Marfa announces Tierra. Sangre. Oro., an exhibition envisioned by artist Rafa Esparza. The program will include new installation, performance, and sculptural work from Esparza alongside collaborations and contributions from artists Carmen Argote, Nao Bustamante, Beatriz Cortez, Timo Fahler, Eamon Ore-Giron, and Star Montana. Esparzas work manifests primarily through performance and sculpture, in a territory where the two mediums combine and hybridize. The artist uses adobe brick-building as a process-centered site for personal, cultural, ecological, and political investigation. In residence in Marfa from June through August, Esparza will produce new work and conceive of a site-specific installation that is particular to the landscape and cultural context of the Big Bend region and northern Mexico, where adobe building is prevalent. ... More Gallery 1957 opens a second space in AccraACCRA.- Gallery 1957 announced that it has expanded its activities with a second space in Accra. Recently inaugurated with a solo exhibition by British-Ghanaian artist Godfried Donkor (The First Day of the Yam Custom: 1817, curated by Koyo Kouoh and on until 30 October), the new location is an exhibition and project space of 220 m² in Accras new Galleria Mall. Located within Gold Coast City - an ongoing development for the capital encompassing offices, residential and retail space - the space compliments the gallerys existing location at the nearby Kempinski Hotel. The new space allows for larger-scale presentations by the gallerys expanding roster of West African artists. Upcoming exhibitions include a collaborative project between fantasy coffin artist Paa Joe and performance artist Elisabeth Efua Sutherland, opening 21 November 2017, to coincide with Paa ... More Esher Hall Antiques & Fine Art Fair announces highlights from its tenth editionESHER.- The tenth Esher Hall Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 October 2017 in the Esher Hall at Sandown Park Racecourse, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey KT10 9AJ. This prestigious annual event is frequented by interior designers, international collectors and people seeking something unique. The majority of exhibitors are members of BADA and LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers. There is a good mix of disciplines: paintings, illustrations, photographs, luminograms, sculpture, lighting, glass, oriental ceramics and textiles, jewellery, silver, furniture, Tunbridge ware, clocks and furniture, for sale. Joining the exhibitors for the first time are MMX Gallery with vintage and contemporary fine art photography, GrÃ¥silver offering original Georg Jensen & vintage Scandinavian jewellery and Granta Fine Art bringing ... More Häusler Contemporary celebrates 10th anniversary with exhibition curated by Giovanni CarmineZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary Zürich is celebrating its 10 years anniversary. Giovanni Carmine, director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, has curated an exhibition for the gallery on this special occasion. His presentation combines the past with a possible future and focuses on process-oriented strategies by putting artists from the gallery's program into dialogue with external positions. For ten years now, Häusler Contemporary has been presenting international contemporary conceptual art in Zurich, focusing on developments in the 1960s/70s. The gallery wants to duly celebrate this jubilee and takes the opportunity to look back as well as forward: What outline did the gallery program adopt in the past decade? Which artistic positions had major impact on the gallery's exhibition activities? Where and how do younger artists pursue the gallery's established artists approaches? ... More Exhibition of Santa Fe subjects by American art great John Sloan opens at The Gerald Peters GallerySANTA FE, NM.- The Gerald Peters Gallery is presenting an important summer exhibition of Santa Fe subjects by American art great, John Sloan (1871-1951). While John Sloans reputation as a rebel of genteel art grew out of his association with The Eight in New York during the first years of the twentieth century, he also spent much of his career in the American Southwest. From 1919 to 1950, Sloan spent nearly every summer painting the indigenous cultures, colorful landscapes, and everyday genre scenes in and around Santa Fe. I like to paint the landscape of the Southwest because of the fine geometric formations and handsome color, he said. The ground is not covered with green mold as it is elsewhere.[1] An easterner by birth and upbringing, Sloan became a part-time westerner midway through his career, doing much to advance the early exhibition policies at the ... More Kunsthalle Zurich opens Cheryl Donegan's first ever comprehensive exhibitionZURICH.- My Plastic Bag is Cheryl Donegan's first ever comprehensive exhibition and refers to the small retrospective Scenes + Commercials , which was organized by American curator Johanna Burton in 2016 at the New Museum in New York. In its condensed form, Scenes + Commercials pinpointed the difficulty of understanding Donegan's work in established discourses, thus offering an explanation as to why her work has remained subversive until today. In this regard it is interesting to note that Donegan has largely been seen as a video artist even though she is also a painter. In her practice, Donegan confronts painting with new media and its modes of production and immateriality. She does so with a persistence and pleasure that taunts the professionalism and production criteria that have come to dictate the art (and our lives) in the last two decades. This results in an art that ... More Japanese bamboo art's preeminent artist couple Tanioka Shigeo and Aiko exhibit at TAI ModernSANTA FE, NM.- TAI Modern is presenting an exhibition with Japanese bamboo arts preeminent artist couple, Tanioka Shigeo and Aiko. As former students of the famed multi-generational Tanabe family, the husband and wife are inheritors of a rich historical tradition which they have each firmly adapted to the contemporary. After splitting his first culm of bamboo at age 25, Shigeo sought an apprenticeship with Tanabe Chikuunsai II, whom he studied under for nine years. Since becoming independent in 1984, Shigeo has integrated the techniques he learned from Chikuunsai II into a legacy of highly sculptural works. Whether symmetrical and regular like a traditional vessel, or an abstract aggregation of seemingly cascading bamboo, his pieces always highlight the inherent qualities of the material. Opting to use challenging bamboo types such as whole culms of a thin dwarf ... More The Cahoon Museum of American Art opens bird carving exhibitCOTUIT, MASS.- The Cahoon Museum of American Art presents an exhibition dedicated to the history of bird carving, a distinctly American art form. Objects included in the exhibition range from functional decoys used in hunting to inspired art objects, highly prized by collectors. Artists featured in the exhibition are considered masters in the field who capture wildlife subjects in precise and naturalistic detail, such as historic carvers Elmer Crowell (1862-1952) and Eldridge Arnold (1928-2009), as well as a number of prominent contemporary carvers. Curated by Cape Cod master bird carver, Eric Kaiser, the exhibition opened to the public on Wednesday, August 23 and continues through Sunday, October 8, 2017. A free public reception with the artists will be held on Friday, August 25 from 5:30 to 7:00pm at the Museum's location at 4676 Falmouth Road in Cotuit. ... More Children design future of public space with Build Your Own Pavilion 2017LONDON.- Build Your Own Pavilion is a nationwide campaign to celebrate architecture and encourage young architects everywhere to design public spaces for the cities of the future. Inspired by the Serpentine Pavilion, the Serpentines annual commission of temporary buildings by world-famous architects, Build Your Own Pavilion invites young people aged 8-16 to consider the relationship between architecture and public space and to design the architecture for the cities they would like to live in. The campaign includes a nationwide workshop tour for 8-16 year olds, taking place in cities across the UK, and a series of online digital tools for teachers and children to use in the classroom. Made possible with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Build Your Own Pavilion is now in its third successful year. Since launching in 2015, the initiative has inspired young ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri Fantin-Latour died August 25, 1904. Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 - 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. In this image: People gather in Arthur Rimbaud's museum as part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the famed poet's birth, Wednesday Oct.20, 2004 in his native town Charleville-Mezieres, eastern France. Rimbaud is seen at left on a copy of Fantin Latour's painting "Rimbaud en discussion avec Verlaine" (Rimbaud Talks with Verlaine). Other characters on painting are unidentified.
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