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Bronze busts are displayed at a retrospective exhibition of work by Swiss sculptor and artist Alberto Giacometti at the Guggenheim Museum, June 7, 2018 in New York City. The exhibition will be open to the public from June 8 through September 12. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- From June 8 to September 12, 2018, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the work of the Alberto Giacometti (19011966)the first major museum exhibition in the United States in more than 15 years dedicated to the Swiss-born artist. Installed within the museums rotunda, Giacometti examines this preeminent modernist who is renowned for the distinctive figurative sculptures that he produced in reaction to the trauma and anguish of World War II, including a series of elongated standing women, striding men, and expressive bust-length portraits. The exhibition encompasses the entirety of the artists career, featuring nearly 200 sculptures, paintings, and drawings, some of which have never before been shown in the United States, as well as archival photographs and ephemera. Giacometti is organized by Megan Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Catherine Grenier, Direc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) and Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) are among the most prominent exponents of post-war English figurative art. From 16 May to 12 August 2018, the Städel Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings unites major works by the two artists in a single exhibition for the first time. "Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud: Faces" presents altogether forty drawings and prints, in particular portraits that are among the most uncompromising and most innovative in contemporary art.
| The Whitney receives an extraordinary gift of works by Roy Lichtenstein | | Contents from the homes of legendary aesthete Pierre Bergé to be offered in Paris | | Peter Doig's 'Daytime Astronomy (Grasshopper)' to make auction debut | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Shipboard Girl, 1965. Offset lithograph on white wove paper, Sheet: 27 3/16 x 20 1/4 in, Image: 26 1/8 x 19 3/16 in. Edition: unknown. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that it has received a remarkable promised gift of over 400 works by Roy Lichtenstein (19231997). The Museum and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation have forged an agreement that will bring the two organizations into a close and ongoing partnership and will make the Whitney a locus for Lichtenstein scholarship with the creation of the Roy Lichtenstein Study Collection. Through this gift, and an expanded relationship with the Foundation, the Whitney will hold the worlds largest study collection of Lichtensteins work, opening up exceptional possibilities for the Museum in terms of exhibition, scholarship, and conservation. Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitneys Alice Pratt Brown Director, said, We are delighted ... More | | 
The private Parisian residence in rue Bonaparte. Photo: Sothebys Art Digital Studio.
PARIS.- In what is set to be one of the most hotly-anticipated highlights of this years auction calendar, Sothebys and Pierre Bergé & Associés will later this year offer for sale the extraordinary contents of the various homes of one of the most successful and cultured businessmen and aesthetes of our times. Reflecting the broad-ranging interests, refined taste and voraciously curious mind of the collector behind them, the 800 lots to be offered span everything from Antiquity to Modern Art. Previously housed in Berges beautiful, and very distinct, homes in Normandy (the Datcha), Provence (Mas Theo), Morocco (Villa Mabrouka) and Paris (Rue Bonaparte), they will be exhibited and sold in Sothebys newly-refurbished spaces at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris over the course of three days this autumn (29 - 31 October 2018). This will be followed, in December, with ... More | | 
Peter Doig, Daytime Astronomy (Grasshopper), 1998-9 (detail), 118 by 144.8 cm, est. £6-8 million ($8.1-10.7 million USD). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Peter Doigs Daytime Astronomy (Grasshopper) will make its auction debut at Sothebys Evening Sale of Contemporary Art in London on 26 June 2018. Estimated at £6-8 million ($8.1-10.7 million USD), the painting is a spectacular distillation of all the elements that have made Doig one of the most celebrated and successful painters of his generation. Oliver Barker, Chairman of Sothebys Europe, said: Peter Doig is a master image maker. In Daytime Astronomy (Grasshopper), one of the artists most important paintings, Doig pays homage to his Abstract Expressionist forebears, most notably Jackson Pollock who is subtly incorporated into the horizontal layers of the picture, shown lying in the grass outside his Long Island Studio. The ever growing enthusiasm of collectors for Peter Doig at auction has cemented his reputation ... More |
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| Gagosian opens exhibition of recent works by Jeff Koons from the Gazing Ball series | | Christie's announces Jennifer Zatorski as President, Christie's North and South America | | Exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau explores immersive spaces since the 1960s | 
Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (Poussin The Triumph of Pan), 2015-2016 (detail). Oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum, 63 1/2 x 68 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches, 161.3 x 173.4 x 37.5 cm © Jeff Koons. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting recent works by Jeff Koons from the Gazing Ball series. Making use of conceptual constructs including the ancient, the everyday, and the sublime, Koons creates luxurious icons and elaborate tableaux, which, beneath their captivating exteriors, engage the viewer in a metaphysical dialogue with cultural history. With the Gazing Ball series, Koons draws attention to the continuity of images as they pass through time. In each work, a blue mirrored, hand-blown glass gazing balla convention from eighteenth-century garden designis affixed to a replica of a famous painting or sculpture, adding a layer of sensory experience to familiar masterpieces. Installed within these art historical milestones, the gazing ball reflects its surroundings, uniting painting, sculpture, and architecture. Included in this exhibition are seven Gazing Ball paintings, ranging from mythical and pastoral scenes by ... More | | 
Ms. Zatorski will transition from her current role as President of Christies Art Departments to a broader leadership role overseeing Christies operations throughout the Americas. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the appointment of Jennifer Zatorski as President, Christies North and South America. A 25-year veteran of the company, Ms. Zatorski will transition from her current role as President of Christies Art Departments to a broader leadership role overseeing Christies operations throughout the Americas. She will work in close collaboration with Marc Porter, Chairman, Americas. I am delighted to appoint Jen as President, Christies North and South America. A consummate professional, her wisdom and insight is sought after and valued by colleagues across the company. The depth and breadth of her experience coupled with her unwavering commitment to continued innovation and diversification of our business, makes her uniquely well-positioned to lead our operations for this important region, commented Guillaume Cerutti, Chief ... More | | 
Doug Wheeler, Untitled, 1969/2014. Vacuum-formed acrylic, sprayed lacquer on acrylic, electronic transformer, and daylight neon, 90 1/2 x 90 1/2 x 3 inches (229.9 x 229.9 x 7.6 cm) © 2014 Doug Wheeler. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Photo: Tim Nighswander.
BERLIN.- Welt ohne AuÃen. Immersive Spaces since the 1960s traces a development from the pioneers of immersive installations to contemporary artistic practices, bringing together a wide range of art forms and disciplines that mark the transition from object to spatial situation. Curated by Thomas Oberender and Tino Sehgal the exhibition features objects and installations, virtual reality, 3D-film and olfactory compositions, tea ceremonies, live works and workshops in a unique dramaturgy that allows visitors to enter immersive spaces, with each work unfolding within its own temporality. Welt ohne AuÃen attempts to create immersive experiences within a format that, since its advent, has usually operated with an almost opposed modality: the exhibition. This ritual of Western modernity can be seen as an expression of a particular ... More |
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| Barry R. Harwood, Curator of the Brooklyn Museum's Decorative Arts Collection, has died | | Major courtyard installation brings the sun down to earth | | The Hill Art Foundation appoints Sarah Needham as Executive Director | 
Dr. Harwood joined the Brooklyn Museum in 1988 and dedicated the ensuing 30 years to developing the Museums Decorative Arts holdings.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum announced the passing of curator Dr. Barry R. Harwood earlier this week. Dr. Harwood joined the Brooklyn Museum in 1988 and dedicated the ensuing 30 years to developing the Museums Decorative Arts holdings. His vision and expertise transformed the collection, elevating it to international status. Under his guidance and careful curation, Brooklyn exhibitions such as Tiffany Glass and Lamps; The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America; From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith, and many more, came to life. In addition to his curatorial roles at the Museum, he served as Adjunct Professor at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Parsons Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts. From early on a devotee of the arts, he spent much of his childhood in New York exploring the citys many museum ... More | | 
Kimchi & Chips, Halo © Doug Peters Press Association.
LONDON.- This June, a large-scale, futuristic sculpture consisting of over 100 mirrors that track the movements of the sun will set in Somerset Houses spectacular neoclassical courtyard. The innovative installation creates a seemingly otherworldly halo a shape suspended in the air above Somerset House - but it is, in fact, produced from the power of the sun. Devised and designed by Seoul-based experimental art studio Kimchi and Chips (founded by Mimi Son and Elliot Woods), Kimchi and Chips: Halo invites audiences to look at one of Londons favourite public spaces through a magical new lens, and to consider how the potential of one of the worlds most precious natural resources can be harnessed sustainably. Situated within Somerset Houses famous fountains, Kimchi and Chips: Halo is constructed of two 4-metre-high towers and one 15-metre-long track, which ... More | | 
Sarah Needham, Executive Director of The Hill Art Foundation. Photo Courtesy of Andrew T. Warman.
NEW YORK, NY.- President of The Hill Art Foundation, J. Tomilson Hill, announced today that Sarah Needham has been appointed the Executive Director of his operating art foundation in New York, which will launch in November 2018. Sarah joins the Chelsea-based foundation following her accomplished tenure at Stavros Niarchos Foundation, where she held the position of Program Officer for four years. Commenting on Sarah Needhams appointment, President of The Hill Art Foundation, J. Tomilson Hill, said: "I selected Sarah from a competitive pool of candidates because she possesses all the requisite skills and experience necessary to succeed in this role for our foundation. Her relevant expertise ranges from developing robust business strategies and innovating, to her deep knowledge of organizational structures, and strength in leadership. With her ... More |
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| Morphy to offer highly-prized pieces at Lamps, Glass, and Fine Jewelry Sale | | Gert & Uwe Tobias' fifth exhibition with Contemporary Fine Arts opens in Berlin | | Polish Vodka Museum opens in Warsaw next week | 
Monumental Galle Clematis Cameo Glass Lamp.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions, a leading antiques auction destination specializing in fresh to the market collections, announced today its landmark, Lamps, Glass, and Fine Jewelry Collection will be offered to global collectors and fine art aficionados at the June 20-21 auction at their Denver, PA gallery. A variety of luxury glass and lamp lots as well as fine, vintage jewels--including pendants, diamonds, rubies, and gold--will be spotlighted in Morphy Auctions Lamps, Glass, and Fine Jewelry Collection. Highlights among the 926 unique lots available to collectors include: ● Tiffany & Co. Mackay Sterling Service ● Tiffany Studios Daffodil, Pansy and Poppy Table Lamps ● Monumental Galle Clematis Cameo Glass Lamp ● Tiffany & Co. 4.45 ct Emerald Cut Diamond Ring ● Antique Natural Fancy Yellow Diamond Pendant We ... More | | 
Gert & Uwe Tobias, Ohne Titel / Untitled, 2018. Coloured woodcut on canvas, 200 x 168 cm | 78 3/4 x 66 1/4 in. Ed of 2. Photo: Alistair Overbruck. Courtesy the artist and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts is presenting Gert & Uwe Tobias fifth exhibition with the gallery, Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat. Since the early 2000s, Romanian-born twins Gert & Uwe Tobias have developed a practice that blurs the lines between fine art and craft, abstraction and decoration, history and folklore. In large woodcut prints on canvas, Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat is comprised of a series of fanciful scenes in muted pastels and moody blues. Overlaying the faint, boxed outlines of the woodcut, cross-hatched lines become a perch or a cage for avian creatures. The recurrent figure of the cage builds upon the motif first explored in Auf , their current exhibition at Kunsthalle ... More | | 
A visitor reacts at the Polish Vodka Museum on June 6, 2018, a new museum that will open next week, in Warsaw. JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP.
WARSAW (AFP).- Poland has been synonymous with vodka around the world for years, but it is only next week that the country's first museum devoted to the national beverage will open in Warsaw. Housed in a 19th-century vodka factory that has been abandoned for decades, the museum is located at the heart of the former working class Praga neighbourhood that has been undergoing regeneration. "Our museum is a tribute to the history of vodka production in Poland, a history spanning more than 500 years," Andrzej Szumowski, president of the Polish Vodka Association, told reporters on Wednesday. Since Poland entered the European Union in 2004, "Polish Vodka" strictly applies to spirits that are produced in the country according to traditional ... More |
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 Freeman's sets world record for work by Mira NakashimaPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Pennsylvania artisans highlighted Freemans Design sale this week, with record-breaking work from Mira Nakashima among others. The first of Freemans bi-annual 20th Century Design auctions featured works from the Collection of Perry & June Ottenberg, and totaled more than $875,000, with a 91 percent sell-through rate and 93 percent sold by value. The double-header sale day, which came just one day after the American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction, opened with 18 Works from the Bachman Collection, which achieved more than $1,960,000, bringing the two-day sale total to over $4.5 million. Freemans set a worldwide auction record for any work made by Mira Nakashima (under her sole direction or in conjunction with her father, George Nakashima), with the sale of Lot 43, an exceptional Holtz dining table and set of eight ... More Matt Connors' second exhibition with Xavier Hufkens opens in BrusselsBRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting Look Up, Matt Connors second exhibition with the gallery. For much of his career, Connors, a New York-based painter, has shown an almost mischievous embrace of familiar templates to create what he refers to as compelling confusion. His approach to painting puts an emphasis on the idea of the structure of his work. By overloading the canvas with pigment-rich paint, or using laminate as a compositional material, he creates pieces that bend conventions. Much like the title of his 2012 book, A Bell Is A Cup, a painting is also a physical construction. For his new exhibition, Connors has developed a wide range of tones, building on the inspiration he draws from life in a city built on grids, lines, and boundaries. Serendipity is an important compositional tool for Connors, and for this show. Figures re-emerge in different patterns, ... More The Institute of Contemporary Arts opens the first survey exhibition devoted to the work of Julie Becker LONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents the first survey exhibition devoted to the work of the late Julie Becker (19722016). Embedded in the psychological, cinematic and material geographies of Los Angeles, her home city, Becker produced a legendary body of installations, sculpture, drawings, photographs and video. Beckers oeuvre speaks to the language and mythology of the late 20th century American Dream turned nightmare, drawing from sources as diverse as Stephen Kings The Shining, Disneys fantasy The Gnome-Mobile, Kay Thompsons childrens books Eloise, and suburban stoner myths espousing the karmic convergence between The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyds The Dark Side of the Moon. Materialising architectural spaces at actual scale and as models, Becker constructed altered and highly interiorised worlds, where cultural ... More V&A announces first Mary Quant exhibition in 50 years with public call-out to uncover lost designsLONDON.- Today, the V&A announced that it has been given unprecedented access to Dame Mary Quants Archive to curate the first international retrospective on the revolutionary fashion designer in nearly 50 years. Opening in April 2019, the exhibition will focus on the years between 1955 and 1975, when Quant revolutionised the high street with her subversive and playful designs for a younger generation, from hot pants, miniskirts and trousers for women to accessories, tights and make-up. The exhibition will bring together over 200 objects, the majority of which have never been on public display. It will reveal the real stories behind the myths to explore how Quant democratised fashion and empowered women through her determination, ingenuity and unique personal style, which she exported around the world. The exhibition will be drawn from the V&As extensive fashion ... More Christie's Interiors: New York Visions, totals $1.78 million, 99% sold by lotNEW YORK, NY.- Christie's spring sale Interiors: New York Visions totaled $1,782,438 with 99% sold by lot and 97% sold by value. Strong prices were realized across lots offered from the three collections of celebrated style icons including The Estate of Kenneth Jay Lane, The Collection of Arnold Scaasi and Parker Ladd, and Robert Couturier: Elements of Style, and additionally jewellery offered from the Kenneth Jay Lane, Inc. Archives was 100% sold. The top lot of the sale was A Patinated Bronze Ecorche Figure, from The Estate of Kenneth Jay Lane, which realized $87,500, over 50 times its low estimate. There was active participation across all sales channels and robust global participation with registered bidders represented from 34 countries and five continents. The Estate of Kenneth Jay Lane totaled $690,875, more than doubling the collections low estimate, ... More Brooklyn Museum announces 96 recent acquisitions by female artistsBROOKLYN, NY.- In conjunction with A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum, marking the 10th anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the Museum welcomed 96 works by female artists into the Sackler Center and Contemporary Art collections. Acquired as the Museum celebrated a decade of groundbreaking feminist exhibitions and programs from late 2016 to early 2018, they include notable works by Emma Amos, Beverly Buchanan, the Guerrilla Girls, Marilyn Minter, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, and Betty Tompkins, among others. The Brooklyn Museum is excited to have added numerous works from ancient times to the present to its collection over the past year and, after a concerted effort to broaden our historic narratives, among them are nearly a hundred works by women artists, all of whom have contributed ... More The McMichael Canadian Art Collection announces the appointment of Sarah Milroy as Chief CuratorKLEINBURG, ON.- The McMichael Canadian Art Collection announced the appointment of Sarah Milroy as Chief Curator. Sarah Milroy is a highly-respected and well-known public figure and champion of the art of Canada working as an independent art critic, curator, and essayist. Sarah served as The Globe and Mail's Chief Art Critic from 2001 to 2011, having started working for The Globe as a freelance contributor covering the visual arts in Vancouver in 1996. Before that, from 1984 to 1996, she worked with the journal Canadian Art, latterly as Editor and Publisher. Canadian Art was recognized as Magazine of the Year in 1996. During her years at Canadian Art she also contributed regularly to the CBC as a visual arts correspondent. A contributor to more than a dozen books on art, Sarah is one of both historic and contemporary Canadian art's most knowledgeable ... More Amanda W. Dotseth appointed Curator for the Meadows Museum, SMUDALLAS, TX.- Following a six-month national and international search, the Meadows Museum, SMU has appointed Dr. Amanda W. Dotseth to the position of curator. An accomplished scholar, Dotseth conducts research that is grounded in the Spanish Middle Ages, but has addressed a wide range of topics, including architecture, panel painting and the history of collecting. Dotseth is currently completing a Meadows/Mellon/Prado postdoctoral fellowship at the museum; she will begin her new role as curator on September 19, 2018. During the two years of her fellowship, Dotseth has curated or co-curated exhibitions such as Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle; Chillida in Dallas: De Música at the Meyerson; and At the Beach: Mariano Fortuny y Marsal and William Merritt Chase. She also coordinated the first colloquium of current and former Meadows/Prado fellows and organized a symposium on medieva ... More 25 works for 25 years: Jerwood Collection anniversary exhibition opens at Sotheby's LONDON.- This Summer, the Jerwood Collection of Modern and Contemporary British Art will hold an exhibition of twenty-five works by some of Britains most distinguished artists, opening to the public on 8 June 2018 at Sothebys London. Twenty-five years after the Jerwood Collections first-ever purchase Sir Frank Brangwyns From my Window at Ditchling from an auction at Sothebys London the exhibition is set to commemorate the Jerwood Foundations legacy of championing 20th and 21st century British art. The show will highlight important pieces from the Collection which illustrate the rich history of British art, including works by renowned 20th century artists such as Walter Richard Sickert, Paul Nash, and Sir Stanley Spencer RA, alongside leading contemporary artists Rose Wylie RA, and Maggi Hambling, among others. Frances Christie, ... More 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Championship ring among items in Sports themed auctionBOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction is proud to announce its first auction devoted entirely to the category of Sports. The online offering will feature more than 650 sports-related items, in a variety of formats including; cards, signed baseballs, game-worn jerseys, Olympic memorabilia and more. A highlight of the sale is a 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Championship Ring. This stunning 14K gold ring is the same type that was presented to the players on the 1955 Dodgers squad, which included legends like Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, and Roy Campanella. Their championship victory over their crosstown rivals, the New York Yankees, was the first and only World Series won during the team's time in Brooklyn. A truly superb ring from a historic World Series. Accompanied by three holiday cards sent to Grafton by Dodgers players Ron Fairly, Bob Lillis, and Carl Erskine. (Estimate: $15,000+) Also up for auction is a Brooklyn Dodgers 1952 Signed Panoramic Photograph. ... More Kira Muratova, award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker, dies at 83KIEV (AFP).- Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, one of the Russian-speaking world's most respected filmmakers, has died at the age of 83, Ukraine's state film agency announced on Thursday. The award-winning director and screenwriter, who received a special jury prize at Berlin Film Festival in 1990 for her film "The Asthenic Syndrome", died late on Wednesday in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, where she had lived and worked for many years. "She was a very talented film director, she personified an era, her views on the world were applauded by critics," Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Facebook, adding that Muratova "will remain in our hearts". Muratova was born on November 5, 1934 in the city of Soroca, which was then part of Romania but later became part of the Soviet republic of Moldova, in a family of active Communists. She graduated ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Everett Millais was born June 08, 1829. Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 - 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). In this image: Afternoon Tea (or The Gossips). The Winnipeg Art Gallery.
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