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Left: Detail of Persian Bakhtiari Bibibaff or Grandmothers weave, late 19th century, so named to indicate that such fine knotting and pinpoint detail work was only achieved after many decades of weaving. Right: Elderly Qashqai weaver working on a rug several yards long, undoubtedly a major work for her.
By Jan David Winitz, president/founder Claremont Rug Company
OAKLAND, CA.- In Part 1, I examined many of the steps that led to the actual hand-knotting of a carpet, ranging from the preparation of the wool to cutting the sheeps fleece to creating yarn. It would not be an exaggeration to say that each of the preparation skills needed (shearing, carding, sorting, spinning, and dyeing) could be an article in itself. For the most part, the art of tribal weaving was handed down from the looms of mothers to those of their daughters. It was a tradition transmitted solely through oral and visual means. The elaborate designs of a particular tribe were learned by repetition from an early age and were executed entirely from memory. No plan of the complete carpet was drawn out beforehand and it was understood that the weaver was free to interpret the traditional patterns spontaneously. This was an art form that literally unfolded as the weaver worked day-after-day for periods often spanning over one year. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The original 12,000-square-foot collection galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg have recently reopened after a major renovation and reinstallation project to enhance the presentation of the museum's encyclopedic collection that spans 5,000 years of art history. New galleries were created, and others expanded such as this space dedicated to art related to the Baroque Period, which includes a mix of art works from the MFAÂs collection as well as exquisite Old Master paintings on long-term loan from the Grasset Family of Spain. In this image: European Art 13-18th Centuries - Baroque Gallery.
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 | | Marian Goodman Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Julie Mehretu | | Christie's to offer a private collection of important baseball memorabilia | | Newly discovered primate in Myanmar 'already facing extinction' | 
Julie Mehretu, about the space of half an hour. Installation view at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting about the space of half an hour, a solo exhibition of new work by Julie Mehretu that is on view through Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020. This is the third solo exhibition of the artist at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. The show coincides with her ongoing retrospective survey from 1996 to the present, which was shown first at LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, and is currently on view at The High Museum in Atlanta, prior to traveling to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and to The Walker Museum of Art in Minneapolis. Referencing the book of Revelation and presaging the threshold of foreboding silence in heaven after the breaking of the seventh seal, about the space of half an hour includes new paintings completed over the past year. Comprised of two distinct bodies ... More | | 
Important 1931 Lou Gehrig New York Yankees professional model home jersey. Estimate on request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies and Hunt Auctions announce a historic offering from a single owner private collection of baseball memorabilia and trading cards presented within a December 16 live auction entitled Home Plate: A Private Collection of Important Baseball Memorabilia. The collection has been assembled over the last 25 years, and features iconic players, teams, and moments in the history of Major League Baseball with specific focus on items of scarcity. Highlights of the auction include a very rare original Lou Gehrig jersey worn during the 1931 New York Yankees home season (estimate on request) and a Babe Ruth Boston Red Sox Era Professional Model Baseball Bat circa 1916-18 (estimate: $500,000-1,000,000). The collection is notable for some of the greatest artifacts extant relating to the 1903 World Series, 1927 New York Yankees, and the 1934 U.S. All-Star Tour of Japan. With over 150 lots in total, ... More | | 
There are a few distinctive parts of the Popa langur's skull, including larger molars and an more elongated skull © Kevin Webb/Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.
PARIS (AFP).- Scientists have identified a new species of primate living in the forests of central Myanmar, a lithe tree-dweller with a mask-like face framed by a shock of unruly grey hair. The Popa langur -- named after an extinct volcano home to its largest population, some 100 individuals -- has been around for at least a million years, according to a study detailing the find, published on Wednesday in Zoological Research. But with only 200 to 250 left in the wild, experts will recommend that the leaf-eating species be classified as "critically endangered". "Just described, the Popa langur is already facing extinction," said senior author Frank Momberg, a researcher at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), in Yangon. Throughout its range, the monkey with startling chalk-white rings around its eyes is threatened by "hunting, habitat loss, degradation, fragmentation caused by agricultural ... More |
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| | The Cleveland Museum of Art presents 50 photographs from Bruce Davidson's 'Brooklyn Gang' series | | Almine Rech presents never-before-seen works by Vivian Springford | | Exhibition pairs the work of two African photographers | 
Detail of Untitled from Brooklyn Gang, 1959. Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933). Gelatin silver print; paper: 27.9 x 35.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of an anonymous donor, 2018.741. © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos.
CLEVELAND, OH.- One of the most highly respected and influential American documentary photographers of the past half century, Bruce Davidson spent several months photographing the daily lives of a teenage street gang for his 1959 series Brooklyn Gang. A new exhibition in the Cleveland Museum of Arts Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery, Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang features 50 black-and-white photographs from that series, which are part of a recent anonymous gift to the museum of extensive selections from the artists archives. The exhibition is on view now through February 28, 2021. Brooklyn Gang was Davidsons first major project after joining the distinguished photo agency Magnum and was the fruit of several months spent immersing himself in the daily lives of the Jokers, one of ... More | | 
Vivian Springford, Untitled, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 76.2 x 76.5 x 2.9 cm 30 x 30 1/8 x 1 1/8 in. Vivian Springford © The Vivian Springford Administration. Courtesy of Almine Rech - Photo: Dan Bradica.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York is presenting an exhibition of never-before-seen works from the estate of iconic, mid-century abstract painter Vivian Springford (1913-2003). Through a selection of paintings spanning over 25 years of Springfords prolific career, the exhibition offers novel insights into the artist's singular practice, with its distinct fusion of Abstract Expressionist energy with Color Fields cerebral planes. The rediscovery of the paintings of Vivian Springford (1913-2003) has introduced a wonderful new voice to the resounding chorus of the New York School of twentieth century painting. Daughter of a wealthy New York executive, Springford attended Manhattans elite Spence School. But instead of attending one of the prestigious colleges to receive an education in the liberal arts, or perhaps marrying into another kind of respectability, she went directly ... More | | 
Seydou Keïta, Untitled Portraits. 1948 - 1959. 24 x 20 inch gelatin silver print - Edition of 10, 64 x 48 inch gelatin silver print - Edition of 5.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Danziger Gallery is presenting their first show in Los Angeles at the collaboratively named Danziger at Fetterman. As some of you also know, the gallery has moved from 980 Madison around the corner to 952 5th Avenue where you will find the gallery overlooking Central Park. The gallery is open there in November by appointment but welcome visitors. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles exhibition pairs the work of two African photographers separated by many decades and the length of the continent - Seydou Keïtas black and white portraits taken in Mali in the 1950s and 60s and Alice Manns color photographs of South African Drummies taken in 2017 and 2018. Born circa 1921, Keïta lived in Bamako where he ran a successful portrait studio. Essentially self-taught, Keïta developed his trademark style photographing his sitters in daylight against a variety of backdrops from plain drapes to vibrant African pattern. ... More |
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| | Important Thai Orders, medals and decorations to be sold at auction | | Sindika Dokolo, crusader for return of African art, dies at 48 | | Eli Klein Gallery opens a group exhibition of 8 Chinese contemporary artists residing in New York | 
Order of Chula Chom Klao.
LONDON.- The collection, which was assembled over a period of many years by a private collector from Scandinavia comprises 48 lots and is estimated to fetch in excess of £125,000 (lots 1455-1503). Morton & Eden said: We are delighted to be offering this specialist collection of Siamese and Thai Orders in our forthcoming sale. Many of the awards in this collection are exquisitely made, rare to the market, and in some cases unique. Furthermore some boast a royal provenance or attribution. The highlights include insignia of The Most Illustrious Order of Chula Chom Klao, Grand Cordon (Special Class), dating from the early 20th century. The Most Illustrious Order of Chula Chom Klao was founded by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) on 16 November 1873 to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Chakri dynasty. The insignia comprise an elaborate gold and enamelled collar, a sash/collar badge, with central portrait of Rama V and bearing ... More | | 
Sindika Dokolo, the noted Congolese art collector and advocate for repatriation of African art, in Porto, Portugal, May 15, 2015. Patricia de Melo Moreira/The New York Times.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Sindika Dokolo, a wealthy Congolese art collector who crusaded for the return of African art removed during the colonial era by Western museums, art dealers and auction houses, but who became embroiled this year in investigations into how his Angolan wife had acquired her riches, died Oct. 29 in Dubai. He was 48. His family announced his death on his Twitter account. According to news media reports, he died in a diving accident off the coast of Dubai. Works that used to be clearly in African museums must absolutely return to Africa, Dokolo told The New York Times in 2015. There are works that disappeared from Africa and are now circulating on the world market based on obvious lies ... More | | 
Zhao Jiawei, We are Living in an Overwhelmed American-Dominated Image World With Our Self-Isolated Space in Year 2020, 2020. Archival pigment print, 45 x 36 inches (114 x 91 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhao Jiawei.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is proud to present Alienation? - a group exhibition of 8 Chinese contemporary artists currently residing in New York, and features 16 works completed in a multitude of mediums including painting, video, photography, and sculpture. Whereas direct references to social phenomena tend to rise and fade quickly, it is the ideas and rules we extrapolate and derive from these events that actually guide mankind towards the future. Alienation? invites its audience to inquire beneath what lies on the surface, whether its a pandemic or social justice movements, to investigate the relationship between individuals and what they have created. Regardless of its controversial reputation in the West, Karl Marx's theory is, for some, considered to be more ... More |
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| | Shannon's fall online fine art auction includes 242 lots of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures | | Christie's to offer an important collection of Tiffany Studio and remarkable jewels | | 65 year old Jaguar emerges from Arizona and roars into UK classic car scene | 
Oil on Masonite painting by Eric Sloane (American, 1905-1985), titled New England Red, circa 1978, signed, 36 inches by 28 inches (est. $10,000-$15,000).
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons Fine Art Auctioneers will host their last auction of the year on Thursday, November 19th at 2pm Eastern time. The 242-lot online sale includes American and European art from the 19th and early 20th centuries, modern and contemporary art, fine prints, sculpture and drawings. Bidding is available by absentee and online through Invaluable.com. The expected top lot of the sale is a rare drawing by Dutch artist Rudolf Bonnet, of two women carrying water jugs on their heads. Waterdraagsters was painted while the artist was living and working in Bali. Bonnet devoted his life to artistic and philanthropic efforts to promote Balinese art. His genre scenes of Balinese people capture the spirit of life in Bali and are widely collected by enthusiasts of Indonesian art. Another rare gem is an Eliseo Meifren painting of his garden in Majorca. ... More | | 
Laburnum table lamp with Twisted Vine base, c. 1915, leaded glass, gilt-bronze
$200,000-300,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies have been entrusted with Property from the Collection of Mary M. and Robert M. Montgomery, Jr., which will be offered across a range of live and online sales during the remainder of 2020 and into 2021. The Montgomerys created an enduring legacy over the course of their lives together, which mixed a sweeping range of philanthropic endeavors with the focused creation of their exceptional personal collection of decorative and fine arts, objects and jewelry. The couple's passion and clearly demonstrated in the strength of the present collection. Included within this grouping is the Montgomerys extensive collection of leaded-glass lamps and objects by Tiffany Studios, which will be sold in a dedicated auction on December 11, the same day as the New York Design sale. Also highlighting the collection are several remarkable examples of Mrs. Montgomerys jewelry, which will be included ... More | | 
The 1955 Jaguar XK140 MC Roadster has an estimate of £100,000 to £120,000.
LONDON.- This lovely example of the 1955 Jaguar XK140 MC Roadster spent most of its life in the Grand Canyon State of Arizona and is now for sale with H&H Classics on November 25th in a Live Auction Online, for an estimate of £100,000 to £120,000. The Jaguar XK140 was among the fastest cars of its generation, reputedly capable of over 130mph, it focused public consciousness on Jaguar's continued success at Le Mans with the Coventry marque winning the endurance classic in 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956 and 1957. For many the most desirable variant, the Roadster accounted for some 3,356 sales during its three-year production cycle. The car was supplied new to Roger P Ahrenberg of Maricopa County, Arizona and was resident in the Grand Canyon State for most of its life. It has been treated to an extensive, body off restoration 10,000 miles ago and is still highly presentable. It comes fitted with the rare and highly desirable option of electric overdri ... More |
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Exhibition Tour---Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property | Met Exhibitions
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 Aileen Passloff, dancer, choreographer and teacher, dies at 89NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Aileen Passloff, whose career as a dancer, choreographer and broadly influential teacher spanned ballet, modern dance and postmodern dance, died Nov. 3 in Manhattan. She was 89. Her death, in hospice care at NYU Langone Health, was caused by heart failure resulting from complications of lung cancer, which had been diagnosed five years ago, according to dancer Charlotte Hendrickson, a friend. Passloff, a former member of the Judson Dance Theater, the experimental 1960s collective that led to postmodern dance, was devoted to all aspects of the form. I dont remember not dancing, she said last year in an interview with The New York Times. I would be set out in the backyard to play, and to play was to dance. For truth. For truth was her refrain in any conversation. Her thirst for truth and beauty ... More Museum launches new CAMHLAB initiative to support artists in production of new workHOUSTON, TX.- As Contemporary Arts Museum Houston remains closed to the public due to COVID-19 safety considerations, the Museum announced a new program that directly supports artists in a moment when safe, accessible artist space is diminished in Houston. The programcalled CAMHLABwas launched in late October and the initial season will continue into December 2020 when the Museum will begin preparations for its planned reopening in early 2021. CAMHLAB is an ongoing artist-in-residence initiative that gives the Museum to artists. The program supports artists working within, and in partnership with, the Museum to develop new work and new ideas. Launched immediately following CAMHs interior renovations in fall 2020, the residency was established in response to effects of COVID-19, particularly the loss of Houston- ... More The original art for Topps' legendary 1966 Monster Stickers resurfaces at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- They were called, rather tamely, Make Your Own Name Stickers when the frightening five-cent wax packs stormed retailers' shelves in 1966. Kids gobbled them up like the bubble gum that came with The Topps Company's cards most likely, because their parents absolutely abhorred the evils within. Only a few years earlier, the legendary maker of sports cards jumped into the creepy-card business with its You'll Die Laughing line illustrated by Mad's co-founding cartoonist Jack Davis. The deft combination of horror and humor, especially its Ugly Stickers, proved an enormous hit for Topps, and by 1967 kids were flocking to the Wacky Packs still being reproduced today. But few products were as short-lived and as awesome as the Make Your Own Name Stickers, which let kids put their friends' (and, better still, enemies') names ... More Parrasch Heijnen opens exhibition comprising eleven works by Marcia HafifLOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen announced Marcia Hafif: Paintings, 2000 - 2014, the gallerys first exhibition with the late artist. This exhibition comprises eleven works depicting the breadth of Hafifs later painting styles including diptych Fresco: Pale Paintings, TGGT (Tomatoes, Grapes and Green Tea), Shade Paintings, and the Pacific Ocean near monochromes. Hafifs temporal bodily process is in opposition to formal abstraction. Throughout her oeuvre, Hafifs small, tempera-like vertical strokes and energized reductive forms are a focused meditation on color. Her process marks the duration of time through the amassing of lines that ultimately emerge into forms of continuity. The artists hand is visible in the slight variations of repetitive gestures on the surface of the plane. The imprint of Hafifs brush pressing against the surface and its ... More Great War Memorial Plaque that rewrites Black history in World War One sold for £10,540LONDON.- A recently discovered Great War Memorial Plaque that rewrites Black History in World War One sold for £10,540 (£8,500 hammer price) 13 times its pre-sale estimate - at Dix Noonan Webb in auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria today (Thursday, November 12, 2020). The plaque, which was estimated to fetch £600-800, related to Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who is believed to have been the first Black officer commissioned into a British army regiment during the Great War and is also believed to have been the first Black officer casualty of the Great War, when he was killed in action on April 25, 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres. After much interest on the telephones, it was bought by The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) after substantial fundraising. Discovered by former ... More Israel Horovitz, playwright tarnished by abuse allegations, dies at 81NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Israel Horovitz, an influential and oft-produced playwright whose career was tarnished by accusations by multiple women that he had sexually assaulted them, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81. His wife, Gillian Horovitz, said the cause was cancer. Horovitz enjoyed his biggest successes off-Broadway and in regional and European theaters, including at the Gloucester Stage Company in Massachusetts, which he helped found in 1979. His plays gave opportunities to a number of young actors who went on to become household names. A Horovitz double bill of The Indian Wants the Bronx and Its Called the Sugar Plum, which enjoyed a long run at the Astor Place Theater in Manhattan in 1968, had a cast that included Al Pacino, Marsha Mason and John Cazale. Two years later his Line ... More Natan Zach, blunt and cherished Israeli poet, dies at 89NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Natan Zach, a cherished Israeli poet who helped revolutionize Hebrew poetry by spurning the formality of his more established contemporaries in favor of plain-spoken, loose-limbed verse, died Nov. 6 in Ramat Gan, outside Tel Aviv. He was 89. His death, at a hospital, was announced in a statement by Israels culture minister, Hili Tropper, who called him one of Israels greatest poets. He had been struggling with Alzheimers disease, according to a nearby nursing home, where he lived. Although Israel is a relatively young country, with a language that had to be reconstructed in the late 19th century after it had nearly died out during the Roman Empire, it has a rich and sometimes tumultuous poetic tradition. Volumes of verse are common on Israeli bookshelves, and the merits of various poets are ... More Strangers on a phone, theatrically speakingNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the lockdown days of early spring, after they had left New York City for their house in a village in upstate New York, Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone better known as the experimental theater duo 600 Highwaymen were as eager as any other drama aficionados to dig into the bounty of archived productions that were suddenly, mercifully online. It wasnt as much fun as expected. Im sitting in my living room, Silverstone recalled by phone recently, and Ive got my dog in my lap and Im watching this Peter Brook show, but something isnt right about this. The not-rightness had nothing to do with Brook, the pioneering stage director, and everything to do with the nagging awareness familiar to those of us who have struggled to adjust to screened theater that the audience, so vital ... More Premier Western artists headline first American Art Auction at new Heritage headquartersDALLAS, TX.- A powerful, blue-chip assortment of Western Art leads the way for Heritage Auctions' inaugural American Art Auction in the firm's newly built 150,000-square foot global headquarters Dec. 3 in Dallas, Texas. William Robinson Leigh's The Best in the Bunch, 1941 (estimate: $300,000-500,000) come to Heritage from the Estate of Philip R. Jonsson, of Dallas, Texas, the same consignor of the record-setting Leigh Home Sweet Home, 1921, which was sold by Heritage in 2011 for $1.195 million (and auction record that still stands today). Originally purchased by Mr. Eric Jonsson, former mayor of Dallas from 1964 to 1971, Heritage is pleased to present this exceptional scene of Indians attempting to wrangle a wild horse, on behalf of the Jonsson family. Thomas Moran's classic, romantic vision of American West could bring $500,000 or more ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Camille Pissarro died November 13, 1903. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54. In this image: An unidentified visitor looks at the Impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro called the "Rue Saint-Honore apre-midi. Effet de Pluie (Rue Saint-Honore Afternoon, Rain Effect)," in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Thursday May 12, 2005.
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