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El Siglo de Oro. Die Ãra Velázquez. Installation view. © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Achim Kleuker.
BERLIN.- The Siglo de Oro the Golden Age of Spanish art remains one of the most important chapters in European cultural history. Prominent painters of the era such as Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbaran belong to the ranks of the greatest masters of art history just as much as do the sculptors Gregorio Fernández, Pedro de Mena and Juan MartÃnez Montañés. This summer, for the first time, 17th-century painting and sculpture in all its fascinating variety can be comprehensively explored outside of Spain: From 1 July 2016, the Gemäldegalerie, which itself holds one of the most important collections of Spanish painting in Germany, will be dedicated to the Golden Age with a large-scale exhibition featuring over 130 masterpieces from 64 international lenders, including the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre in Paris and the Museo Nacional de Escultura i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A tourist (R) takes pictures outside the Kuala Lumpur Upside Down House at KL Tower in Kuala Lumpur on June 28, 2016. Kuala Lumpur Upside Down House is a two-storey house and is the latest attraction for tourists arriving to the Malaysian capital where everything inside such as the furniture are placed in an upside down position. MOHD RASFAN / AFP
| Sotheby's to offer the most important American sports car ever offered for sale | | Nationalmuseum acquires and repatriates a piece of Sweden's cultural heritage | | The Art Institute of Chicago acquires newly discovered High Renaissance painting | 
Unprecedented sale: RM Sothebys presents the first Shelby CobraCSX 2000at its flagship Monterey, California sale, August 19-20. Photo: Darin Schnabel © 2016 courtesy RM Sothebys.
BLENHEIM, ON.- CSX 2000, the most important modern American carperiodand a vehicle that revolutionized the automotive world, will cross the auction block this summer as part of RM Sothebys flagship Monterey sale, August 1920, in California. Offered for sale by the Carroll Hall Shelby Trust, the iconic Cobra was constructed and kept from new by the legendary Carroll Shelby and never left his ownership. A truly unprecedented event, its presentation in Monterey will command the attention of the global collector community. The original Shelby Cobra, CSX 2000 marked the start of Carroll Shelbys incredible automotive legacy. The car was born in 1962 in a small garage in Santa Fe Springs, California, after Carroll Shelby, joined by a handful of hot-rodders, shoehorned Fords new, lightweight, high revving 260-cubic inch V-8 into a modified AC Ace chassis. The ... More | | 
Suite of tapestries manufactured at Beauvais to a design by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer, 1695.
STOCKHOLM.- Thanks to a generous donation, Nationalmuseum has been successful in its bid to purchase and repatriate four woven tapestries manufactured at Beauvais. Commissioned in 1695 by Carl Piper for his residence in Stockholms old town, the wall hangings are still in fabulous condition after spending over a century in Denmark and the United States. Carl Piper (16471716) was a prime example of the commoners who rose through the ranks of the government bureaucracy during the reign of Karl XI, supplanting the old aristocracy. Piper was ennobled in 1678 and made a baron and a count in 1697. Seven years later he married Kristina Törne (16731752), the daughter of his stepbrother. In 1692, as a gift from his father-in-law, Piper received a large property in Gamla stan, Stockholms old town, which is now known as Petersenska huset. The foremost Swedish architect of the time, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (16541728), ... More | | 
Sebastiano del Piombo. Christ Carrying the Cross, 1515/1517. The Art Institute of Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced today the exciting acquisition of Sebastiano del Piombo's Christ Carrying the Cross (1515/1517) to strengthen its focused collection of Italian High Renaissance painting. The first major discovery of a work by Sebastiano in recent years, it was brought to light by Colnaghi, the renowned London-based art gallery, who facilitated its transition to the museum's world-class collection. It represents one of the most popular compositions by one of the most distinguished painters working in Rome in the first half of the 16th century. Celebrated by the founding voice of art history, Giorgio Vasari, and given major commissions by Pope Clement VII, Sebastiano was hailed both in his time and beyond as a master of inventive painting who reimagined the monumentality and power of Michelangelo's style, and the grace and balance of Raphael's. "We couldn't be more thrilled to have this rare and wonderful opportuni ... More |
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| Christie's announces The Claudio Bravo Collection: From the Artist's Studio and Home, Morocco | | Art market veteran Candy Coleman to join Sotheby's Global Contemporary Art team | | Exhibitions take centre stage in the galleries of Mayfair and St. James's from 1 to 8 July | 
Arnaldo Pomodoro (B. 1926), Sfera, 1986. 6 5/8 x 6 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. Estimate: £40,000-60,000. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
LONDON.- On 13 July Christies South Kensington will present The Claudio Bravo Collection: From the Artists Studio and Home, Morocco, an auction of fine and decorative art from the collection of the late Chilean artist, Claudio Bravo (1936-2011). Bravo was, until his death in 2011, arguably the most prestigious Chilean painter of his time. He gained international recognition as a much sort after society portraitist in Madrid and held many successful exhibitions in New York and London. He later moved to Morocco, where he created two magnificent homes in Tangier and Taroudant filled with fine art, furniture and objects, which both stimulated him creatively and often became the theatrical setting for his paintings. Bravo spent the last 30 years of his life living in and working from Morocco a place that heavily influenced his ... More | | 
Prior to joining Sothebys in 1985, Coleman worked as a Studio Manager for Julian Schnabel and as Director for Massimo Audiello Gallery in New York Citys East Village. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys today announced that art market veteran Candy Coleman will join the companys global Contemporary Art team later this summer. Based on the West Coast, Colemans new role will draw upon her deep relationships and decades of market experience and focus on business development opportunities globally. A trusted advisor to both collectors and artists, Coleman comes to Sothebys after 21 years leading the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. This appointment is a return to Sothebys for Coleman, who previously spent a decade in the Contemporary art department in New York from 1985-1995. Amy Cappellazzo, Chairman of Sothebys Fine Art Division, stated, Candy is an established market powerhouse, and she brings to Sothebys extensive ... More | | 
Saint Jude Thaddeus by Jusepe de Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto (1591-1652) at Colnaghi.
LONDON.- London Art Week, the worlds most important gallery-based celebration of pre-contemporary art, will take place in Mayfair and St. Jamess from 1 to 8 July 2016. Bringing together almost 50 leading specialist dealers and three auction houses, this year will present more dedicated exhibitions than ever before, and will also include nine new participants and an exclusive partnership with Art History UK, a cultural tours company specialised in the history of the capitals art and architecture. Presenting a wide array of art from antiquity to the 20th century, including a number of rediscoveries and works rarely, if ever, seen in public, highlights this year include exhibitions dedicated to a wide range of specialist subjects including ancient arms and armour, 16th century stained glass, Dutch flower paintings, ancient Greek coins, artists sketches and sketchbook pages, neoclassicism ... More |
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| Rare and insightful collection of works on paper on view at Halcyon Gallery | | Carsten Höller's first exhibition in Geneva on view at Gagosian Gallery | | Exhibition at Fraenkel Gallery brings together a varied array of photographs | 
David Hockney, Amaryllis in Vase, 1984. Photo: Halcyon Gallery.
LONDON.- From 1st July 2016, Halcyon Gallery will present Master Graphics The Art of Printmaking, a rare and insightful collection of works on paper. Featuring works by the leading artists of the twentieth century, this exhibition is a must-see for art lovers and collectors alike. Master Graphics The Art of Printmaking encompasses works from practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic. Important works by Henri Matisse are displayed alongside Joan Mirós semi-abstract fantasy forms and dream landscapes which comment on the relationships between nature, art and twentieth-century society. Other artists on display include Pablo Picasso with the linocut Tête de femme [Portrait de Jacqueline de face II] (1962) amongst others featuring the faces of the women who inspired him throughout his life. David Hockney also reveals his passion for portraiture in Celia with a Green Hat (1984), the bright palette as vivid and striking ... More | | 
Installation view. © 2016 Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photogra
GENEVA.- Gagosian Gallery is presenting "Zoology," Carsten Höller's first exhibition in Geneva. Trained as a scientist, Höller both echoes and surpasses scientific procedures in his work as an artist. Many of his projects invite viewer participation in order to question the facts and forms of human life. From carousels that reflect and disorient, to winding slippery slides, to vision-flipping goggles, Höller actively interrogates the functions of logic, perception, and entertainment in the larger biosphere. "Zoology" is a selection of Höller's recent sculptures, photographs, and prints, made between 2008 and 2016, which consider how different forms of animal life might relate to human embodied awareness. Through taxidermy, casting, molding, and collage, Höller presents beings that cannot be easily categorized: they are animals, but they do not occur in nature; they are the products of anthropocentric willof mutation, ... More | | 
Alec Soth, Riverview Motel, 2005 © Alec Soth, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- How I Learned to See: An (Ongoing) Education in Pictures, Curated by Hanya Yanagihara, at 49 Geary Street, brings together a varied array of photographs that Yanagihara has chosen for their significance to her growth as an artist. The overarching theme is one of a writer looking deeply at other artists creative workspecifically, photographsas a process of learning and discovery. Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist whose most recent book, A Little Life, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and the 2016 Baileys Prize for Fiction. She has been a periodic visitor to Fraenkel Gallery for 17 years. Yanagihara remarked: The challenge for any artist, in any medium, is to find work that inspires her to re-see the things and people and places she thought she knew or understood. So much of my artistic development is directly ... More |
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| New exhibition of works by the celebrated Irish painter Brian Maguire opens at Kerlin Gallery | | Independent Curators International names Marian Goodman 2016 Leo Award r5ecipient | | Appeal to save Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I reaches £2.7 million following rapid public response | 
Brian Maguire, Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery presents Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up , a new exhibition of works by the celebrated Irish painter Brian Maguire (b. 1951). The exhibition opened on Thursday, 30 June, with a reception for the artist and continues until 20 August. Since the very beginning of his career in the 1970s, Maguire has approached painting as an act of solidarity. He operates a truly engaged practice, compelled by the raw realities of humanitys violence against itself, and the potential for justice. Maguires preoccupations draw him to the margins of the art worldalternative space, prisons, womens shelters, and psychiatric institutionsmaking shows in traditional gallery and museum spaces something of a rarity. The title of this new body of work, Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up , is taken from Primo Levis If This Be a Man , in turn is quoting Dantes Inferno . In these paintings, Maguir ... More | | 
For half a century, Goodman has shown deep commitment to fostering the careers of some of the most significant and respected artists of our times. Image courtesy of Michael Goodman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Independent Curators International the leading arts organization focusing on the role of the curator in contemporary art and culture announced today that it will honor Marian Goodman with the 2016 Leo Award. Named after early ICI supporter and legendary art dealer Leo Castelli, the award honors extraordinary commitment to artists and pioneering contributions to the field of contemporary art. The award will be presented to Mrs. Goodman at ICIs Annual Benefit & Auction in New York City on Wednesday October 26, 2016. With the Leo Award this year, ICI recognizes a steadfast advocate for artists and contemporary art, and continues to commemorate Castellis legacy by recognizing for the first time another pioneer gallerist. In 1965, Mrs. Goodman founded Multiples, which published prints, ... More | | 
Detail of The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, English school, c. 1590.
LONDON.- Art Fund and Royal Museums Greenwich announced today that the appeal to save the iconic Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I for the museum has brought in an extraordinary £1.3 million from over 7,000 donations by the public and a match fund contributed by private donors, as well as grants from charitable trusts, in just one month. This makes it one of the most successful Art Fund appeals ever, as fast and as popular as the Save Wedgwood appeal in 2014. For the Armada campaign, the public has been digging deeper than ever before, with an average donation of £82. Encouraged by the groundswell of public support, major donors have responded generously to extend the match fund and encourage more people to contribute. Every donation is matched pound for pound. The #SaveArmada appeal was launched on 23 May 2016 with £1.4 million in contributions from Art Fund and Royal Museums Greenwich, towards ... More |
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 African and Military single owner collections to feature at Kaminski Auctions July 10 Estate AuctionBEVERLY, MASS.- Kaminski Auctions will bring two sessions of auction to the podium on July 10, 2016 starting at 10:00 am EST. Beginning with an estate auction that features a diverse array of exquisite prints, paintings, silver, Asian art and antiques, carpets, and an exceptional single owner collection of African tribal art specimens, as well as some mid century modern furniture. The African collection includes Dogon, Senufo, Hemba, Ibo, Yoruba, Tiv, Songye, and Ding's figures and masks collected in California from 1930s to 1940s. Of particular importance is a Songye of Kifwebe carved figure with a scarified face, measuring 23 inches high estimated at $2,600-$3,500. In addition there is a Nigerian Tiv large carved female figure measuring 46 ¾ inches high also valued at $2,600-$3.500. The estate portion of the auction includes a Russian bronze of a Cossack on horse in full stride ... More Pavel Zoubok Gallery opens exhibition of new works by David PoppieNEW YORK, NY.- Pavel Zoubok Gallery presents Between Worlds, an exhibition of new works by David Poppie, whose signature constructions of cut colored pencils and record LP covers reveal the inherent physical dynamism and pictorial range of his chosen materials. In our back gallery, a concurrent exhibition of Barton Lidicé Bene (1942-2012) Cojones further explores the use of single-material accumulation in a series of dense spherical forms. David Poppies vibrant, abstract compositions of hand-sanded colored pencils evoke the energy of painting while simultaneously engaging meticulous sculptural process. In the pencil construction I am Here (2016), opposing hues of green and purple radiate from a horizon line of vibrant yellows and orange. Although working within a prescribed palette, subtle hints of blue, pink, red and white emerge from beneath this densely layered ... More "20 Under 20: Younger Than Rimbaud" opens at Elga Wimmer PCCNEW YORK, NY.- Part of what has intrigued generations of readers about the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud is that hed written all his great works by the time he was 21 time will tell with this group of exciting emerging artists! There is a special raw quality to this work where the elements of their time and their age come in to play. It is a fun and engaging group exhibit of great diversity, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, photography, and video, with works gathered from around the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, giving a wide-ranging snapshot on early talent in all its freshness before it is manipulated for better or worse by teachers and the market. Artists include: Cole Bilik, Ewan Creed, Catalina Covacevich, Kira Dunkley, Rebecca Finley, Charlotte Fox, Atlanta Japp, Ainsley Kass, Sophia Klebnikov, Talia Kirsh, Evan Sebastian Lagache, Anna Lee, Lola Loening, ... More Successful first half of 2016 at Dorotheum: World records and millions in salesVIENNA.- Dorotheum has every reason to be proud of its first half of 2016 which saw six new world records, millions of euros of sales, and top results achieved for Modern and Contemporary Art. Some of the most successful auctions in Modern Art, Old Master paintings, and 19th century paintings in Dorotheums history make this one of our best years to date. The Modern Art auction in May saw a recently discovered James Ensor Baptême de masques (ca. 1925-30), bring in 1,022,500, far above its estimate, achieving a record price for a late work by Ensor. Once again, Dorotheum proved its strength in Contemporary Art with a total of four world records and several incredible results. One of the highlights was a blue Lucio Fontana Concetto Spaziale, Attesa, 1967/68, sold in June for 735,000. World record prices achieved in June auctions include the poetic Carla ... More 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art opensMOSCOW.- Moscow is hosting the International Biennale for Young Art for the fifth time. The head curator for the biennale this year is Nadim Samman, who has created the general theme"Deep Inside" and selected the works of art for the main project of the biennale. From 30 June to 14 August 2016, HYPERCONECYED, the Strategic project of the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, is being shown in MMOMA. The curator is João Laia. The exhibition is on five floors of the building on Ermolayevsky Lane and brings together nineteen artists from fifteen different countries around the world. The project aims to explain to the viewer how art investigates and comments on the processes of everyday interactions between people and the world, how contemporary art practices interpret the current condition of disappearing transitions from object to subject, from nature and ... More Seattle art collector gifts notable Northwest Collection to Tacoma Art MuseumTACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum has received a major promised gift from Seattle art collector Vasiliki Dwyer on behalf of her family and late husband William Dwyer, whose work as a federal judge had broad impact in the Pacific Northwest. The gift includes 22 works by important Northwest artists, and significant funding for the care and interpretation of the collection. The museums board of trustees accepted the promised gift on June 28, 2016. We are exceedingly grateful for the extraordinary gift of the Dwyer collection, said Stephanie Stebich, Executive Director of Tacoma Art Museum. Stebich praised the gift as a beneficial contribution to TAM, the City of Tacoma, and the broader arts community. TAMs remarkable collection has been built largely through transformative gifts like this one. The Dwyers gift joins major recent contributions from the Benaroya family, ... More Phillips adds Robert Manley & Scott Nussbaum to 20th Century & Contemporary Art teamNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the appointments of Robert Manley as Deputy Chairman and Senior International Specialist of 20th Century and Contemporary Art and Scott Nussbaum as Senior Specialist and Head of 20th Century and Contemporary Art in New York. The addition of these well-regarded industry leaders will strengthen Phillips team of international specialists and broaden the range of expertise the auction house offers collectors. Mr. Manley joins Phillips from Christies, where he was Deputy Chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art, and Mr. Nussbaum joins the company from Sothebys, where he was a Vice President in the Contemporary Art Department. Both will work closely with Hugues Joffre, Chairman of Europe and Worldwide Head of 20th Century Art, Jean-Paul Engelen, Phillips Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art, and the entire global leadership ... More Egidio Marzona gives the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden his archive of avant-garde worksDRESDEN.- One of the most internationally well-known collectors of contemporary art, Egidio Marzona, has donated his archive of 20th-century avant-garde works to Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. With one and a half million items, it is the world's largest archive of avant-garde items from that time. From expressionism and futurism, art informel, pop art and Fluxus to post-modernism and the Junge Wilde, it offers an in-depth insight into the history of the major art movements of a 20th century characterised by a search for radical innovation. Collected since the end of the 1960s, the collection comprises large amounts of correspondence, manifestoes, sketches and collages, posters, photographs and films, along with artist's books, signed catalogues and journals. The addition of examples of art works, sculptures, paintings and designer ... More Ronchini Gallery opens first UK solo exhibition of works by Richard HöglundLONDON.- Ronchini Gallery presenting the first UK solo exhibition of works by Richard Höglund, Richard Höglund: Primary Colours, curated by Kamiar Maleki. Höglunds unique practice explores the fundamental artistic practices of drawing and painting to create distinctive works that investigate the significance of these traditional media. Richard Höglund: Primary Colours will feature a new direction in the artists project, Sea Pictures, a lifelong endeavour about portraiture. The Sea Pictures are inspired by modernist approaches to representing the human spirit. According to Höglund, portraiture is a gesture in time. He remarks: with Sea Pictures, I wanted to indicate a man by his index; by his trace rather than his likeness. I wanted to indicate humanity through mark and measure. Höglunds works are unmediated and expressive. His extensive research into language ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen died July 01, 1950. Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland - July 1, 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. He was the father of Eero Saarinen. In this image: Nighttime photograph of Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, NY
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