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Vincent Van Gogh, "Women Mending Nets in the Dunes, 1882. Estimate: 5 million euros ($6 million) © Artcurial.
PARIS (AFP).- The first Van Gogh painting to go under the hammer in France in more than two decades was unveiled Wednesday. "Women Mending Nets in the Dunes", which the Dutch artist painted early in his career at Scheveningen near The Hague, is expected to go for around five million euros ($6 million) when it is auctioned in June. But with the art market booming, and prices for artists like Vincent Van Gogh rocketing, experts said it was hard to predict exactly when the bidding would stop. The scene dates from the same period in 1882 when Van Gogh painted "View of the Sea at Scheveningen", which was stolen by the Italian Camorra organised crime syndicate from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002 and discovered in Naples in 2016 thanks to a tip-off from a suspected drug trafficker. The oil on paper, which belongs to a European collector, also graced the walls of the Van Gogh Museum for several years after being previously on show in Montreal. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman looks at the painting "Chasse au lion" during a press visit of the exhibition "Delacroix (1798-1863)" at the Louvre Museum in Paris on March 27, 2018. The exhibition on French artist Eugene Delacroix will run from March 29 to July 23. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP
| Jackson Pollock's Number 32, 1949 to feature in Sotheby's New York Evening Auction of Contemporary Art | | Julien's Auctions to offer one of the most important guitars in Rock history | | Gérard and Dora Cognié announce promised gift of global contemporary art collection to LACMA |
Jackson Pollock, Number 32, 1949. Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on paper mounted on board, 31 by 22 ½ in. Executed in 1949. Estimate $30/40 million © 2018 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Number 32, 1949 by Jackson Pollock will be featured in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 16 May 2018 in New York. The production of the artists drip paintings of 1948-9 stands as one of the most radical events in 20th-century art, in which the boundaries of painting were pushed and a new aesthetic established. Number 32, 1949 comes from a critical year for the artist and epitomizes the chaotic vibrancy, heroic drama and thrilling vigor that have come to define Pollocks prodigious legacy. Acquired in 1983 and held in the same esteemed private collection for over 35 years, the work was unveiled in Hong Kong on 29 March before travelling to Los Angeles and London, with the New York exhibition opening on 4 May. Jackson Pollock executed his first drip painting in 1947. Over the next two years he would hone this now instantly recognizable, signature technique, ... More | |
The legendary Fender Telecaster first came onto the music scene making history as the guitar played by acoustic folk icon Bob Dylan on his first tour "going electric" with The Hawks in 1966
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, is proud to announce that one of the most historically important guitars in rock history-played by the most influential singer-songwriter of all time and pop culture icon Bob Dylan and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame legendary songwriter and guitarist Robbie Robertsons famous 1965 Fender Telecaster electric guitar-will headline day two of the blockbuster rock and roll auction event MUSIC ICONS on May 19 live in New York at the Hard Rock Cafe and online. The iconic guitar is available for auction for the first time in history and is estimated to sell between $400,000$600,000. It joins a stellar line up of historical items by other music legends including the previously announced PROPERTY FROM THE LIFE AND CAREER OF PRINCE taking place May 18th. The legendary Fender Telecaster first came onto the music scene making history as the guitar played by acoustic f ... More | |
Li Jin, Party in the Garden, 2010 (detail). Ink and color on paper, 20 7/8 à 92 13/16 in. (53 à 235.8 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Promised gift of Gérard and Dora Cognié, © Li Jin, Photo by Maurice Aeschimann.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced today that Gérard and Dora Cognié have made a promised gift of their collection of global contemporary art comprising just over 400 works, all of which are ink painting related, the majority being Chinese ink paintings. The most important promised gift of contemporary Chinese art to LACMAand, indeed, of global inkrelated artto date, the Gérard and Dora Cognié Collection will dramatically transform the museums contemporary art and Chinese art holdings. This important collection consists mostly of ink paintings and calligraphy, with a significant selection of photographs. In addition to Chinese artists from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, the collection includes works by leading artists from Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Europe, and the United States. The majority of these artists work in a visual idiom deeply informed by the ... More |
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| Masterworks by Michelangelo and his contemporaries on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | | Frist Center opens "We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights and the Nashville Press, 1957-1968" | | The Munnings Art Museum exhibits landscape paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings |
Tiziano Vecello, called Titian, Portrait of Pope Paul III, 1543, oil on canvas, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, an exhibition highlighting the artistic legacy of Pope Paul III (14681549) and the vital role that drawing played in artistic production throughout Europe in the late 15th and 16th centuries. Largely drawn from the renowned collection of the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy, Michelangelo and the Vatican features drawings, cartoons, paintings, sculpture and prints by Renaissance master Michelangelo and his predecessors and successors across Italy, including Raphael, Titian, and Tintoretto. The exhibition is on view in Houston from March 11 through June 10, 2018. The legacy of Alessandro Farnese, Pope Paul III, who is remembered as an avid patron of the arts and architecture, illuminates a watershed moment in the history of Italian Renaissance art. We are grateful to our colleagues at the ... More | |
Silhouetted against disaster, John Thomas Martin wielded his broom, sweeping up the fragments of glass from shattered windows in the Meharry Medical College alumni building on April 19, 1960. Courtesy of The Tennessean
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present a selection of 50 photographs from the archives of The Tennessean and The Nashville Banner that document an important period in Nashvilles struggle for racial equality. The black-and-white photographs will be on display from March 30 through October 14, 2018 in the always free Conte Community Arts Gallery. We Shall Overcome opens to the public fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination, at a time when race relations and human rights are again at the forefront of our countrys political and social consciousness. The images were taken between 1957, the year that desegregation began in public schools, and 1968, when Dr. King was killed in Memphis. Of central significance are photographs of lunch counter sit-ins led by a group of studentsincluding John Lewis and Diane ... More | |
Study of a River Landscape, Sir Alfred Munnings, c1940 © The Estate of Sir Alfred Munnings.
COLCHESTER.- Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) is one of the most renowned Presidents of the Royal Academy. In its 250th anniversary year, there is a unique opportunity to explore his work as landscape painter, rather than as an equestrian or sporting artist for which he was more widely known. More than half of the 50 paintings on display in Munnings and the River are rarely on public display, including a number from his time at Exmoor during World War Two. Having established himself as a fine equestrian artist and portraitist, with a clientele that included the future King Edward VIII, Sir Alfreds private passion was capturing the beauty of natural landscapes and the rivers that flowed through them. In fact, rivers flowed through Munnings life. He was born beside the River Waveney and his childhood home was the local water mill at Mendham, Norfolk. He settled at Castle House in the Essex village of Dedham, so he could be close to the River Stour the waterway that was so inspiratio ... More |
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| Christopher Scoates named Director of the Museum of Arts and Design | | JFK's 'Victory Map' used during the Cuban Missile Crisis up for auction | | Creative Time appoints Executive Director Justine Ludwig |
Christopher Scoates is the new Nanette L. Laitman Director of the Museum of Arts and Design. Photo: Ryan Debolski.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Arts and Design today announced the appointment of Christopher Scoates as the Museums next Nanette L. Laitman Director. Currently serving as the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Director at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Scoates will stay in that role through the end of the academic year. He will join MAD on July 1, 2018. I am deeply honored to have been chosen to lead MAD, said Scoates. I greatly admire the Museums track record of experimental exhibitions, and I look forward to building upon its rich history of craft, art, and design. With its dedicated staff and board, I know we can position ourselves as a leading museum in the twenty-first century. I am eager to begin developing new experiences for our audiences that will honor the history of MAD while also using art and design to challenge the way we think ... More | |
Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council - Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- John F. Kennedy's personal 'victory map' of Cuba used during the Cuban Missile Crisis will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The map in two sheets that feature eight types of sticker symbols applied to the surface, representing Soviet MiG fighter jets, Komar-class missile boats, IL-28 bombers, SS-4 missiles, SSM-Cruise missiles and nuclear storage sites. The intelligence represented by this map was supplied by U-2 spy planes, confirming President Kennedy's worst fears of an increasing Soviet military presence just one hundred miles away from the American coast. The map is marked "Secret" in the lower left and upper right corners. A two-page key paperclipped to the upper right corner, headed "MRBM-IRBM Status of Cuban Missiles," dated October 27, 1962, summarizes the Soviet military buildup, listing sites, ... More | |
Ludwig comes to Creative Time from Dallas Contemporary, where she serves as Deputy Director and Chief Curator. Photo: Charlie Rubin.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Board of Trustees of Creative Time, New Yorks leading public art organization, is pleased to announce the appointment of Justine Ludwig as the next Creative Time Executive Director. Ludwig comes to Creative Time from Dallas Contemporary, where she serves as Deputy Director and Chief Curator. In those roles she oversaw numerous exhibitions, including by artists Pia Camil, Pedro Reyes, and Paola Pivi; drove higher attendance numbers; committed to more diversified programming reflective of the Dallas community; and regularly contributed critical writing to international periodicals. I have admired Creative Time, with its commitment to social justice and art within the public sphere, for many years, Ludwig says. I believe that art is one of the greatest tools we have access to in creating better communities, and am committed to a Creative Time that stays ahead of the ... More |
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| Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary African Art Auction totals £1.8 Million | | Tate Liverpool celebrates Art Handling Manager Ken Simons with exhibition | | Buddhist sculptures on view at the Georgia Museum of Art |
Ben Enwonwu, Africa Dances. Estimate: £60,000-£90,000. Sold for £187,500 / $265,744. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Sothebys second sale of Modern & Contemporary African Art realised £1,802,750 GBP / $2,555,038 USD in London (pre-sale estimate: £1,167,500-1,707,000 / $1,654, 698-2,419,331 USD) and set fourteen auction records in this category. The sale was led by two Nigerian artists, including the pioneer of African modernism Ben Enwonwu, whose work Africa Dances achieved six times its high estimate to sell for £187,500 / $265,744 (est. £20,000-30,000). Njideka Akunyili Crosby's à La Warhol, a self-portrait inspired by the silk screen portraits of Andy Warhol, sold for over double its high estimate to reach £200,000 / $283,460 (est. £50,000-70,000). Numerous Congolese artists also shone yesterday, including Bodys Isek Kingelez, whose work Base King soared past its presale estimate to sell for £42,500 ... More | |
Ken Simons © Roger Sinek.
LIVERPOOL.- 2018 marks Tate Liverpools 30th anniversary. Since opening in 1988 one man has been a constant presence at the Albert Dock gallery: Art Handling Manager Ken Simons. To celebrate this landmark year, Tate Liverpool presents a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of 30 artworks from the Tate collection curated and conceived by Ken. Kens Show: Exploring the Unseen, in the ground floor Wolfson Gallery, includes some of his favourite artworks many of which he has previously installed in the galleries. Together the works explore the unseen or mysterious spaces in our world and point to Kens particular interest in sculptural and landscape art. Many of the chosen artists have worked directly with Ken, and a number of their works have now become central to the Tate collection. Key works include Equivalents for the Megaliths 1935 by Paul Nash, Phillip Kings large sculpture Within 1978-9, Snow ... More | |
Head from temple near Rawalpini, ca. 300 BCE Clay 3 5/8 x 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gift of W. P. Jacocks 58.2.19
ATHENS, GA.- Long before the current countries of the Middle East existed, an ancient kingdom known as Gandhāra spanned present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. Once heralded as the Crossroads of Asia, it fused Greco-Roman aesthetics with Indian forms between 1500 BCE and 535 CE. These cultural traditions and artistic expressions are on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia through June 17 in the exhibition Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Guest curator Nicolas Morrissey, associate professor of art history at UGAs Lamar Dodd School of Art, says the exhibition began with a donation to the museum of a rare and important ... More |
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Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens exhibition by designer Mathieu Lehanneur
PARIS.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery | Paris presents Ocean Memories, an exhibition by designer Mathieu Lehanneur, from March 29th to June 22nd. In the continuity of his Liquid Marble series, Mathieu Lehanneur brings us a surrealistic and materialized vision of an ocen frozen in its movement. As a three-dimensional still picture, Ocean Memories works to capture the complex movements of waves and currents. Designed digitally and made from blocks of white and grey marble or polished bronze, these pieces make it impossible to mistake the relief of the water. The environment is reflected and the light is distorted. As impossible impressions, real parts of oceans seem to have been extracted, intact, before being fixed in matter. Through this new collection, Mathieu Lehanneur plays a permanent balance between geometric and organic. Each of the works ... More
V&A Museum of Childhood opens exhibition of Nordic design for children 1900 to today
LONDON.- Nordic designs can be found in homes, playgrounds and schools across the UK. From BRIO to LEGO, Marimekko and the Moomins, Nordic products are everywhere. Opening at Easter 2018, Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today gathers the best and most progressive Nordic designs, architecture and art for children. The exhibition features Nordic Icons including Arne Jacobsen, IKEA, Alvar Aalto, BabyBjörn, Tetra Pak and Helly Hansen. The exhibition borrows its title from the groundbreaking book, The Century of the Child by Swedish social theorist, Ellen Key, first published in 1900. Ellen Key envisioned that during the 20th century, children would become the centre of adults attention. Her ideas on encouraging childrens creativity, education and rights have permeated Nordic designs and have shaped the content of the exhibition. ... More
Miya Ando brings ethereal metal paintings and works on wood to Sundaraam Tagore Chelsea
NEW YORK, NY.- Sundaram Tagore is pleased to present Drifting Cloud, Flowing Water, an exhibition of new paintings on metal and sculptural wooden installations by New York-based artist Miya Ando. This exhibition is a continuation of the artists ongoing exploration into concepts of time and transformation. Ando, who is best known for her sublime metal paintings in luminous gradients of color, is a practicing Buddhist who infuses her work with her spiritual beliefs and focuses on the interconnectivity between artwork and viewer. Embodying concepts of both ephemerality and permanence, Andos work is meant to be experiential, compelling the audience to interact, to move around and view the work from different angles. By doing so, the viewer experiences the works in multiple ways. As the light changes throughout the day, the perception of the paintings change, ... More
Cincinnati Art Museum presents Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors and Scenes from Western Culture
CINCINNATI, OH.- Internationally acclaimed visual artist and musician Ragnar Kjartansson will be featured at the Cincinnati Art Museum March 30June 17, 2018. His landmark video installation The Visitors and selections from his new work Scenes from Western Culture will bring visitors into Kjartanssons visual and aural world. The Visitors (2012), a masterful multi-channel video experience, immerses viewers in a performance made in the rooms of a historic manor. Nine large-scale video screens weave together the musicians positioned in separate areas throughout a nearly 200-year-old manor in the Hudson Valley. The musicians, all friends of Kjartansson, play a single melody over and over, repeating lyrics from an ÃsdÃs Sif Gunnarsdóttir poem: Once again I fall into my feminine ways. Though physically separated, the musicians are united through ... More
Performance art comes clean at Hong Kong's Art Basel
HONG KONG (AFP).- The gigantic bowls and chopsticks strewn across the floor at Hong Kong's Art Basel looked so squeaky clean it seemed pointless for the cleaner to keep wiping them, dwarfed by the oversized tableware. A few metres away, a robot vacuum cleaner buzzed about as the gazes of onlookers followed its mechanical and almost playful movements. Looking like a scene out of Alice in Wonderland, it was in fact part of a performance art piece by Taiwanese artist Chou Yu-cheng. On the other side of the bowls stand three tall sculptures shaped like Dyson's signature air purifiers -- the robot cleaner is also provided by the technology company, which is a sponsor of the installation. Here, a smartly dressed male performer recites a "product description" rewritten by a poet. "I feel my work is comparatively modern, or should I say, it has a sense of cleanliness," said Chou. ... More
Monhegan Museum of Art & History receives $1 million challenge grant from the Wyeth Foundation
MONHEGAN, ME.- The Monhegan Museum of Art & History has received a $1 million challenge grant from the Wyeth Foundation. The museum has up to three years to match this significant gift, the largest in the museums history. This grant from the Wyeth Foundation will support the museums campaign to raise $4 million toward an endowment, with income from the endowment going to support operations and capital improvements to the museums buildings. The Wyeth Foundation is funded by the generous support of Jamie and Phyllis Wyeth. Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth have been extremely generous to the Monhegan Museum for the past three decades, said Monhegan Museum President Edward L. Deci. They have encouraged our many efforts to restore the museums historic buildings, and they have ... More
Tiffany floor lamp and Tiffany diamond ring combine for a staggering $424,800 at Cottone Auctions
GENESEO, NY.- Tiffany led the list of top lots at Cottone Auctions two-day Spring Fine Art & Antiques Auction held March 23rd and 24th, as a rare Tiffany Studios Bamboo leaded glass and bronze floor lamp lit up the room for $241,900 and a fine, vintage Tiffany & Company 5.25-carat diamond ring slipped onto a new finger for $182,900, combining for a staggering $424,800. They were easily the top achievers in a 576-lot sale that posted an overall gross of $1.9 million. We had some great items with excellent provenance, said Matt Cottone of Cottone Auctions. Participation was strong nationally and internationally. The market continues to be solid for the right merchandise. We try to have carefully curated sales limited to 350 lots or less per day. The 'Bamboo' leaded glass and bronze floor lamp on a 'Bamboo' senior base, made circa 1910, featured ... More
The Menil Collection appoints Irene Mei Zhi Shum and Natalie Dupêcher
HOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection announced the appointments of Irene Mei Zhi Shum as Associate Curator of Contemporary Art and Natalie Dupêcher as Assistant Curator of Modern Art. They will begin their appointments in summer 2018. Both positions report to Senior Curator Michelle White, who has reorganized the museums approach to its modern and contemporary collection with an eye to collection-based research, rotating installations drawn from the permanent collection, and the development of special loan exhibitions. Since 2007, Irene Mei Zhi Shum has served as the inaugural curator and collections manager for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT. Prior to the sites public opening, Shum coordinated the transfer of property from the Estates of Philip Johnson and David Whitney to the National Trust ... More
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain opens exhibition of works by Junya Ishigami
PARIS.- From March 30 to June 10, 2018, the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain presents Freeing Architecture, the first major solo exhibition devoted to the work of Junya Ishigami. An important and singular figure of Japans young architecture scene, Ishigamiwinner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010is the creator of a conceptual and poetic body of work in which the landscape occupies an important place. For the exhibition Freeing Architecture, conceived specifically for the Fondation Cartier, Ishigami reveals twenty of his architectural projects in Asia and in Europe. These projects will be presented through a series of large-scale models, accompanied by films and drawings, which document their different stages of conception and construction. In dialogue with Jean Nouvels iconic building, this event is also the first large- ... More
Gray's to offer a wide variety of memorabilia and collectibles from the historic World's Fair exhibitions
CLEVELAND, OH.- Once again, Grays auctioneers will host a wide variety of memorabilia and collectibles from the historic Worlds Fair exhibitions, with another slew of souvenirs and curiosities from the 1939 World of Tomorrow New York Exhibition in particular. This particular expo famously featured the monumental Trylon and Pyrosphere, two large modernist buildings connected by what was at the time the worlds longest escalator. While the buildings themselves were unfortunately broken down to be turned into artillery shells during World War II, their legacy lives on in their depiction across a wide variety of posters, travel guides and souvenir merchandise from the exposition now up for auction this month at Grays, including the painted wood and metal form lamps built in the shape of the iconic buildings in Lot 145. In addition to the array of smaller worlds fair ... More
Osamu James Nakagawa's second solo exhibition sepiaEYE opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- sepiaEYE presents Osamu James Nakagawas second solo exhibition in the gallery, Kai Series. Kai Series is Nakagawas ongoing, now twenty-year long exploration and visual meditation on the circular nature of change within the family. Presented both as a diary of his immediate relatives and as a shared humanistic narrative, the series resonates with a deeply felt emotional gravity. Nakagawa began the project in 1998 during a challenging time in his life, when his father was diagnosed with cancer and his wife Tomoko was pregnant with their daughter, Hikari. In Nakagawas words Photographing became a way for me to slow down and question the changes that were bringing a different rhythm to my life. I began to realize the importance of preserving and creating memories by constructing visual connections and relationships between ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-French painter Francisco Goya was born March 30, 1746. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. In this image: Francisco de Goya, The victorious Hannibal, 1771.
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