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A large 17th/18th century Chinese Bronze Jardiniere. Estimate: $20,000-40,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lark Mason Associates announced that its autumn 2021 Asian art sale opened for bidding on October 5th through October 21st on iGavel Auctions. With over 500 lots on sale, the auction centers around a strong collection of approximately 70 archaic and later jades that were purchased mainly in the 1970's from reputable sources, including Christie's, Sotheby's, Spink & Son's and other galleries. Many jades have a copy of the original invoice and often the original sale date and lot number. The collection features several examples of yellow jade, including a beautiful yellow jade water coupe carved with three rams that dates to the Qianlong period. It also includes several archaic jade blades, cong-form carvings and a Huang- form jade dating to the Han dynasty (206BC-220 AD). Rounding out the sale are over 100 lots of Japanese arms, including swords, blades, tsubas and other sword fittings, dating from the 15th to 19th centuri ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Vector Architects, Alila Yangshuo Hotel, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China, 2013-2017. Photograph by Shengliang Su (MoMA 295.2020.2).
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| Michelangelo's David not censored at Expo, officials say | | Sotheby's to sell late Botticelli masterpiece for $40+ million in January 2022 | | The Van Gogh Museum opens 'The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece?' | 
Standing tall in Italy's pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai is an exact replica of Michelangelo's statue of David, but most visitors will see just the head -- for the rest of the naked body, they'll have to lean in and peek. Massimo SESTINI / Italy Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai / AFP.
DUBAI.- Standing tall in Italy's pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai is an exact replica of Michelangelo's statue of David, but most visitors will see just the head. For the rest of the naked body, they'll have to lean in and peek. The 5.2-metre (5.5 yard) statue, created using 3D printers, is partially visible from two floors in the pavilion, with the head and torso appearing on the top level and the genitalia, buttocks and legs on the bottom. The public are welcome to visit the upper level, where they can clearly see the head and shoulders, while the lower level is reserved for VIPs, dignitaries and institutional visitors who can view David's lower portions. The way the statue has been displayed has been criticised by some Italian media, who said it was a form of censorship in the Muslim United Arab Emirates ... More | | 
Sandro Botticelli, The Man of Sorrows. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the last great masterpieces remaining in private hands by renowned Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli will star in Sothebys annual Masters Week sales series in New York in January 2022 with an estimate in excess of $40 million. Executed in the late 15th/early 16th century, The Man of Sorrows is a masterful late period work by the artist, when Botticelli was greatly influenced by the fanatical Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola and adopted a style characterized by Christian symbolism and visionary spirituality. The portrait of the resurrected Christ reveals an important coda to Botticellis well-known earlier career, while also encapsulating the artists singular style with a stunningly modern and human portrayal of Christ. The Man of Sorrows comes to auction following Sothebys record-breaking sale of Botticellis Young Man Holding a Roundel in January 2021, which realized ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh, 'Portrait of a Peasant', 1885, oil on canvas, 39 x 30.5 cm, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussel / photo: J. Geleyns - Art Photography.
AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece? opens at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam tomorrow (8 October). The painting that Vincent van Gogh made in 1885 in Nuenen, Brabant, is now one of the highlights of the museum collection, but was not widely considered to be a success at the time. The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece? challenges visitors to make up their own minds about what Van Gogh saw as his best ever painting to date. The exhibition focuses on the genesis of The Potato Eaters, Van Goghs dedication and perseverance, what the work meant to him, and the criticism that he received for the painting. Some 50 paintings, drawings, sketches and letters from the Van Gogh Museum collection are joined by two important loans to tell this story. The Potato Eaters Studio, home to a life-sized ... More |
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| Phillips to offer rare painting by Georgia O'Keeffe | | Looking close at the fragile beauty of Chinese painting | | Landmark Frida Kahlo exhibition opens in the Netherlands | 
Georgia O'Keeffe, Crabs Claw Ginger Hawaii, 1939. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the first highlight of the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art Georgia OKeeffes Crabs Claw Ginger Hawaii, a seminal work from her Hawaii series with exceptional provenance. The sale on 17 November marks the first time the painting is coming to auction, having first been owned by The Dole Pineapple Company for 40 years, before being acquired by Thurston Twigg-Smith in 1987, a prominent, fifth-generation Hawaiian known for his philanthropy and contributions to the arts. Crabs Claw Ginger Hawaii is the most significant of OKeeffes Hawaii pictures to appear at auction in three decades and the first to be offered in a Phillips Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Elizabeth Goldberg, Senior International Specialist, American Art and Deputy Chairwoman, Americas, said, Georgia OKeeffes experience in Hawaii inspired some of the ... More | | 
Shi Zhongs Winter Landscape with Fisherman, late 15th-early 16th century, ink on paper. Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- It always feels like early autumn in the Chinese painting galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lighting is warm but low; the décor, wheat-beige and nut-brown. Despite sparks of color, the ink-and-brush paintings are visually subdued; their images can be hard to read from even a short distance away. And although the galleries hold the museums permanent collection of Chinese paintings, no picture stays for long. Compared with Western-style oil painting a hardy, meat-and-potatoes, survivalist medium Classical Chinese painting is fragile. Often done in ink on silk, it has two natural enemies: time and light. The danger is less that they will fade the ink than that they will darken the silk. Paintings depicting daylight scenes can end up looking twilight-dim. Most of the 60 ... More | | 
Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column, 1944, oil on canvas on masonite, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City © 2021 Banco de México, Ciudad de México/ reproduction courtesy of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, 2021.
ASSEN.- From 8 October 2021 to 27 March 2022, the Drents Museum in the Netherlands (1907-1954) will bring together for the very first time two of the worlds leading Frida Kahlo collections for the major exhibition devoted to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Viva la Frida! - Life and Art of Frida Kahlo showcases an unparalleled joint presentation of Frida Kahlo's art and her personal effects such as clothes, painted corsets and jewellery. The Drents Museum has collaborated with the Museo Dolores Olmedo and the Museo Frida Kahlo (formerly La Casa Azul, The Blue House) in Mexico City in a unique partnership which offers the Dutch museum the unique opportunity to tell the complete Frida Kahlo story. The Museo Dolores Olmedo in Mexico City boasts the largest collection ... More |
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| Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Literature Prize | | Dep Art Gallery opens an exhibition devoted to the works of Imi Knoebel | | Pace Gallery announces installation of monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture at the historic IBM Building | 
An employee holds a copy of "Afterlives" by Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah at Waterstones bookshop in central London on October 7, 2021. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
by Pia Ohlin
LONDON.- Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his unflinching portrayal of the effects of colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience. Gurnah, 72, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee in the late 1960s to escape revolution, is the fifth African to win the Nobel Literature Prize. The Swedish Academy said Gurnah was honoured "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". "I am absolutely overwhelmed and proud. It was completely unexpected," Gurnah told AFP. Earlier he had told the Nobel Prize website he was stunned to get the call from ... More | | 
Installation view 'Imi Knoebel. Painting Color Space' (7 October 2021 - 15 January 2022). Courtesy Dep Art Gallery, Milan.
MILAN.- Dep Art Gallery presents the exhibition Painting Color Space devoted to Imi Knoebel (Dessau, 1940), one of the best-known artists devoted to minimalism and constructivism, which opens the gallery's new exhibition season from October 7th 2021 to January 15th 2022. Curated by Giorgio Verzotti, the exhibition presents 27 works created by the German painter from the late 1970s to the present - from the composition on paper Messerschnitt VI (1977) to the iconic Anima Mundi 106-3(2019) on aluminum - outlining the different moments of his visual research. Internationally renowned for a minimalist approach to color and geometry, Imi Knoebel conduct research strictly focused on the expressive qualities of form, material, surface, and space. Giorgio Verzotti, who previously curated with Marco Meneguzzo the exhibition Imi Knoebel. L'idea di Europa, ... More | | 
Joel Shapiro with untitled (1996-1999). Photography by Christopher Burke Studios.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced the installation of a large-scale bronze sculpture (untitled, 1996-1999) by Joel Shapiro at 590 Madison, the IBM Building, in Midtown Manhattan, New York. Replacing the Alexander Calder stabile Saurien (1975) that was in place for over 20 years, Shapiros work will be on public view at the front entrance of the building at the corner of 57th Street and Madison Avenue. On long-term loan, Shapiros sculpture brings a renewed energy to one of New York Citys most dynamic office buildings and streetscapes. The installation is co-organized with Edward J. Minskoff, with whom Pace has maintained a decades-long relationship that stems from a shared belief in the transformative power of public art and the intrinsic relationship between art and architecture. One of Americas foremost contemporary sculptors with more than 30 publicly sited sculptures around the world, Shapiro has continually ... More |
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| Billy Apple, artist who was his own life's work, dies at 85 | | Google Arts & Culture launches 'Klimt vs. Klimt: The Man of Contradictions' | | Tina Turner sells music rights to BMG | 
"The Golden Apple" (1983), cast from pure gold. Mary Morrison/Billy Apple Archive via The New York Times.
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK, NY.- Over his long, provocative career, artist Billy Apple changed his name, registered it as a trademark, branded products with it, had his genome sequenced and, finally, arranged to have his cells extracted and stored so that they might survive forever even if he could not. He died Sept. 6 at his home in Auckland, New Zealand, at 85. The cause was esophageal cancer, said Mary Morrison, his wife and collaborator. He was born Barrie Bates in Auckland but became Billy Apple in London after graduating, barely, from the Royal College of Art in 1962, one of a rebellious cohort that included David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. By 1964, he was in New York City (subletting a loft on the Bowery from sculptor Eva Hesse) and showing his work. His cast bronze, half-eaten watermelon slice was one of many objects included in The American Supermarket, an early pop spectacle at the Bianchini Gallery on Manhattans Upper East Side, ... More | | 
Gustav Klimt retrospective and online hub gives unprecedented access to his work and life through immersive storytelling and state of the art digital technologies.
NEW YORK, NY.- Google Arts & Culture is presenting, Klimt vs. Klimt - The Man of Contradictions, a comprehensive online hub about Klimts art, life and legacy, bringing light to a man of contradictions. Curated by leading Klimt expert Dr. Franz Smola, the comprehensive retrospective brings together over 30 partners and institutions from 10+ countries. Through 120+ curated online exhibits they give unprecedented online access to over 700 assets, such as paintings, drawings, letters or illustrations many of which have been digitized for the first time. The exhibition features an immersive Augmented Reality Pocket Gallery, which digitally organizes 63 of Klimts masterworks under a single roof. Audiences can virtually walk the halls of the gallery space at scale and zoom in on the paintings fine ornamentation and pattern, characteristic of Klimts practice, made possible by the digitization of his ... More | | 
Turner, 81, has sold over 100 million records. Warner Music will remain the Grammy-winner's record company, BMG said.
NEW YORK, NY.- Legendary American hitmaker Tina Turner has sold her music rights in a major deal with BMG, the record publisher announced Wednesday, the latest legacy artist to cash in on their extensive catalogue. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but BMG said it includes all of Turner's artist's share of her recordings and her music publishing writer's share, as well as neighboring rights and name, image and likeness. Turner, 81, has sold over 100 million records. Warner Music will remain the Grammy-winner's record company, BMG said. "Like any artist, the protection of my life's work, my musical inheritance, is something personal," Turner said in a statement released by BMG, saying she was "confident" her work "is in professional and reliable hands." The company's CEO Hartwig Masuch said BMG was "honored" to manage the interests of Turner, responsible for classics including "What's Love Got To Do With It" and "Private Dancer." "It is a responsibility we take seriously ... More |
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 Rodrigo Moynihan now represented by David Nolan GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery announced representation of the Estate of Rodrigo Moynihan (1910-1990). The gallerys first show of work by Moynihan will take place in January 2022. Rodrigo Moynihan was born in Tenerife, Spain in 1910 to a Spanish mother and an English father. The family moved briefly to London before relocating to New York, where he graduated in 1927. After attending the Slade School of Art in London in 1928-31, Moynihan started a pioneering movement in painting called Objective Abstraction, together with a small group of artists that included Ivon Hitchens and William Coldstream. Their works were concerned with the medium itself, emphasizing painterly strokes, and were in their way a precursor of Abstract Expressionism that prompted the poet David Gascoyne at the time to describe them as an explosion in a jam factory. ... More  Winnie-the-Pooh bridge fetches over £130,000 at UK auctionLONDON.- A bridge depicted by author A.A. Milne in his children's books about honey-loving teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh has sold at auction for more than twice its estimated price, a UK-based auctioneer said Thursday. Built in 1907 in Ashdown Forest in southern England but later replaced and restored, the bridge fetched £131,625 ($179,167, 154,830 euros) in a sealed bid, auctioneer Summers Place Auctions said. Originally known as Posingford Bridge, it captured the imaginations of generations of children as "Poohsticks Bridge" where the bear protagonist invented a game dropping sticks and pinecones into the water below. Milne's son Christopher Robin, who inspired the books and shared his name with the boy who joined Pooh in his adventures, played on the bridge in the 1920s before it appeared in the books, illustrated by E.H Shepard. ... More  Signed page from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles' finds home in Heritage manuscripts eventDALLAS, TX.- One of the few remaining handwritten pages from the original manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles third novel and fifth Sherlock Holmes book, The Hound of the Baskervilles (estimate: $170,000+), will begin a new chapter of its own when it is sold in Heritage Auctions Manuscripts Auction Nov. 6. Published in 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles is the novel in which Doyle brought back his most famous character, after killing off Holmes in 1894, and remains one of the most popular among Doyles Sherlock Holmes books. McClure, Phillips & Company, the New York publisher of the book, embarked on a publicity campaign in an effort to promote the book and the return of Sherlock Holmes, Heritage Auctions Historical ... More  The Wellin Museum of Art presents the exhibition 'Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine'CLINTON, NY.- The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College presents the exhibition Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine from August 28 through December 5, 2021, featuring new work that invites visitors to collaboratively re-align and re-configure the Museums Dietrich Exhibition Gallery. Visitors touch and turn four hollow beams, setting in motion a relay of spatial cause and effect. Columns split and slide, creating new sightlines, while light fixtures rise and fall, shifting the radiance of the gallery. Conceptually, the work explores how our actionsboth individually and communallyshape the spaces we inhabit, and how those spaces embody a constant state of flux. The work mobilizes group dynamics and engages the joy of improvised learning, bringing awareness to the collaborative experience of inhabited architecture. The exhibition is curated ... More  Venus Over Manhattan opens its first solo exhibition of work by the Polish artist and cult figure MaryanNEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan is presenting its first solo exhibition of work by the Polish artist and cult figure Maryan, curated by artist Eddie Martinez. Comprising more than twenty works selected by Martinez, and spotlighting Maryans signature lurid palette, wildly gestural brushwork, and explosive figures, the exhibition serves as a prelude to My Name Is Maryan, a major retrospective of the late artists work that will go on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami on November 17, 2021. Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, that retrospective will travel to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2023. Maryan was born Pinkas Bursztyn in 1927, to a Jewish family in Nowy-Saçz, a town in southern Poland. He spent World War II separated from his family in various ghettos, labor camps, and concentration camps, before being sent to Auschwitz. ... More  Exhibition at Heller Gallery reflects on twenty years of Lino Tagliapietra's practiceNEW YORK, NY.- Heller Gallery presents Journey, an exhibition honoring the octogenarian Italian maestro, Lino Tagliapietra, who recently announced his retirement from active glassblowing. The exhibition reflects on twenty years of Tagliapietras practice and focuses on prime examples of new and archived works. Tagliapietra, who just celebrated his 87th birthday, has spent an unprecedented 75 years practicing his art. Douglas Heller, a leading authority on contemporary glass who helped establish the US market for this medium, curated the exhibition. Along with the exhibition, Heller Gallery will be screening Lino Tagliapietra: The Making of a Maestro, a one-hour documentary on the history of maestro glass artist, Lino Tagliapietra narrated by the British-American actor Alfred Molina. Tagliapietras glass forms are firmly based ... More  Their downtown hits are now sharing a Broadway stageNEW YORK, NY.- Director Tina Satter was just hours from the first preview of her first Broadway show when she popped upstairs for an interview in the most conducive available spot: a box, house right, overlooking the Lyceum Theater stage. Were doing it in here? she said, surprised, as she made her way past the heavy velvet curtain and looked out across the orchestra. Its like where the Muppet dudes sit. On that late September morning, Satter, the artistic director of the downtown experimental company Half Straddle, settled in alongside playwright Lucas Hnath, whose previous Broadway credits are A Dolls House, Part 2, a sequel to the Ibsen play, and the starry political comedy Hillary and Clinton. One of the more adventurous programming moves of this resurgent Broadway season pairs Satters play Is This a Room, set to open Monday, with ... More  Their Thai cave rescue film was done. Then 87 hours of footage arrived.NEW YORK, NY.- Documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi lives in fear of not telling a complete story. What if there is another angle to explore? More footage to uncover? Is her exploration of a topic ever really complete? Those feelings were occupying large swaths of her brain back in May when she was finally able to travel to Thailand. Vasarhelyi, 42, and her husband, Jimmy Chin, 47, are best known for their Oscar-winning, death-defying climbing documentary, Free Solo. The duo had already spent three years painstakingly turning over every piece of video available to them for their new film: The Rescue, which opens Friday in theaters. It tracks the 2018 global effort to retrieve 12 young soccer players and their coach trapped in the flooded Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province, Thailand. The filmmakers had scoured international ... More  Gorgeous Galle vases lead the way in Neue Auctions' Art & Antiques AuctionBEACHWOOD, OHIO .- Vibrant, colorful vases and table lamps by Galle and other famous makers, lithographs by Charles Burchfield, Alberto Giacometti and other noted artists, Mid-Century Modern furniture pieces, original oil paintings, sterling silver flatware and more all came up for bid in Neue Auctions online-only Art & Antiques auction held September 25th. The two top lots were Galle vases. A Galle cameo glass blown out vase with a Plums design, 15 ½ inches tall, of baluster form, fire polished with pendant branches heavy with plums, finished at $9,840; while a large Galle cameo glass vase, Lilies, 23 inches tall, of baluster form with incised Galle signature, cameo carved with lily flowers on long leafy stems, changed hands for $9,225. A lovely Galle cameo glass scenic table lamp, the base with tall pines in a mountain landscape, the shade showing ... More  Review: Carnegie Hall reopens with a blaze from PhiladelphiaNEW YORK, NY.- After being closed for 572 days because of the pandemic, Carnegie Hall, the countrys preeminent concert space, opened its season on Wednesday. It took only a simple greeting from the stage welcome back, spoken by Clive Gillinson, the halls executive and artistic director for the audience to burst into sustained cheers. On paper, the Philadelphia Orchestras program including favorites like Bernsteins joyous overture to Candide and staples like Beethovens Fifth Symphony seemed tilted toward an opening nights traditional purpose as a crowd-pleasing fundraising gala. Yet both the choice of works and the vibrant music-making went deeper into questions of classical musics relevance and renewal than I had expected. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the orchestras music director, began by leading a performance ... More  Exhibition features eight projects by a new generation of Chinese architectsNEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from China, an exhibition highlighting a new generation of Chinese architects and their commitment to social and environmental sustainability. On view from September 18, 2021, through July 4, 2022, in the street-level galleries, the exhibition presents eight projects that speak to a multiplicity of architectural methodologiesranging, from the adaptive reuse of former industrial buildings, the recycling of building materials, and the reinterpretation of ancient construction techniques, to the economic rejuvenation of rural villages or entire regions through non-invasive architectural insertions. Anchoring the exhibition are projects by Pritzker Prize winning Amateur Architecture Studio (Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu), Archi-Union Architects (Philip ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and activist Faith Ringgold was born October 08, 1930. Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930, in Harlem, New York City) is an artist, best known for her narrative quilts. Ringgoldâs artistic practice was extremely broad and diverse, and included media from painting to quilts, from sculptures and performance art to childrenâs books. She was an educator who taught in the New York city Public school system and on the college level. In 1973, she quit teaching public school to devote herself to creating art full-time. In this image: Faith Ringgold, American People Series, The Flag is Bleeding, 1967, oil on canvas. Collection of the artist, c. Faith Ringgold. Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY.
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