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Isabelle de Borchgrave (Belgian, b. 1946), Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency, Princess of Condé (detail), 2017. Based on the portrait by Peter Paul Rubens at The Frick Pittsburgh. Mixed media: paper, cut, folded, and molded with acrylic paint, ink, metallic powder, and adhesive; mounted on dress form. 69 x 59 x 55 inches.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Frick Pittsburgh announces the opening of a major exhibition at The Frick Art Museum on October 13, 2018. Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper features meticulously crafted and astonishingly beautiful life-size paper sculptures based on historic clothing, created completely from artfully painted, pleated, crumpled, and manipulated paper by contemporary artist, Isabelle de Borchgrave (Belgian, born 1946). The exhibition will remain on view through January 6, 2019. Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper exhibition presents the full breadth of the artists exploration of historical costume through contemporary paper sculpture and will include examples from all of her major series, beginning with her exploration of 300 years of fashion history in the works created for Papiers à la Mode. Works from her Splendors of the Medici series are inspired by Italian Renaissance costumes portrayed in Old M ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A museum employee cleans The Apostles' Cupboard in the Bronte Parsonage Museum the former home of the Bronte family and the place where their novels were written, in Haworth, northern England on February 16, 2018. This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of Emily Bronte, the author of 'Wuthering Heights', and also the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Bronte Parsonage Museum. The museum houses the world's largest collection of Bronte manuscripts, furniture and personal possessions, and welcomed over 85,000 visitors. OLI SCARFF / AFP
| National Gallery receives major donation | | Buyer of shredded Banksy work goes through with deal | | Christie's to offer Francis Bacon's Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing | 
National Gallery Exterior. © National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The National Gallery has received a £4 million gift from Julia and Hans Rausing towards the refurbishment of its largest and one of its most visited rooms. At 34m long by 12m wide, Room 32 houses the Gallerys world-class collection of Italian 17th century paintings, including works by Caravaggio, Reni, Guercino, Rosa and Giordano. The room will also eventually become home to the Gallerys latest acquisition, a self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi. The upcoming renovation will enable the Gallery to continue to meet international museum standards and preserve the Gallerys collection of paintings for future generations to enjoy. After the work is completed, the room will be re-opened as The Julia and Hans Rausing Room. Room 32 is part of the first major extension to William Wilkins National Gallery by Edward Barry and was completed in 1876. External sun screening blinds on the roof will be upgraded t ... More | | 
Love is in the Bin will be on view to the public at Sothebys London over the weekend. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- The buyer of a work by street artist Banksy that was partially destroyed moments after it sold has gone through with the purchase, Sotheby's auction house said Thursday. The painting "Girl with Balloon" was passed through a shredder hidden in the frame just after it went under the hammer last week for £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros). The modified version has now been certified by Banksy's authentication body Pest Control as a new piece of work in its own right, entitled "Love is in the Bin". The unnamed buyer, described as a female European collector and a long-standing client of Sotheby's, has proceeded with the purchase at the price agreed on the night. "Banksy didn't destroy an artwork in the auction, he created one," said Alex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art for Europe. "Following his surprise ... More | | 
Francis Bacon, Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing, oil on canvas, 14 x 12 in., painted in 1969. Estimate: $14-18 million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 15, Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will be highlighted by Francis Bacons Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing (estimate: $14-18 million). This coveted painting comes from the Collection of S.I. Newhouse, one of the greatest connoisseur art collectors of the 20th Century revered for his innate ability to recognize and acquire only pinnacle works: those that most fully embody the unique vision of their respective makers at the height of their power. Having only had two owners in its 49-year history, counting the artists sister, Ianthe Bacon, and Mr. Newhouse, Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing is now being offered at auction for the very first time. Guillaume Cerutti, Christies CEO, remarked: It is an honour for Christies to present Francis Bacons remarkable Study of Henrietta ... More |
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| Major collection of the fall auction season to be recorded with blockchain technology | | US returns plundered artifacts to Colombia | | Shredded Banksy painting worth more than original, say experts | 
Willem de Kooning, Woman as Landscape, signed 'de Kooning' (lower left), oil and charcoal on linen, 65 1/2 x 49 1/2 in. Painted in 1955. Estimate in the region of $60 million © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced it will pilot encrypted registration of art transactions on a blockchain this fall, as part of a unique collaboration with Artory, a leading independent digital registry for the art market. In an industry first, each artwork from An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection sold at Christies this November will include a secure, encrypted certification of the sale for the successful bidder, providing a permanent digital record of relevant information about the artwork. This announcement of the blockchain collaboration is timed to Christies upcoming West Coast tour of major artworks from the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection, widely recognized as the most important privately-held collection of 20th Century American Art. It is estimated to exceed $300 million total at auction. Led by Chop Suey, Edward Hoppers singular masterpiece of American Modernism, Christies will tour 13 painti ... More | | 
Colombian Culture Minister Carmen Vasquez (L) speaks with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Aleisha Woodward (R). John VIZCAINO / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The United States returned to Colombia Wednesday 38 ancient artifacts plundered over decades by a private American collector described as a "modern-day Indiana Jones." The FBI recovered the artifacts -- pre-Colombian ceramic pottery from the southern Narino highlands and the Caribbean -- after receiving a complaint about the museum-like collection at the home in Indiana of one Donald Miller, a businessman with an interest in archeology. Investigators found thousands of pieces from China, Colombia, New Guinea and the United States. "This collector was a modern-day Indiana Jones. Remember that what Indiana Jones did was to steal all manners of cultural patrimony from other countries," Colombia's Ambassador in Washington Francisco Santos told reporters during a ceremony at the Colombian Embassy. "That's what this man was -- but ... More | | 
Banksy's Girl with Red Balloon mysteriously shreds following its sale at Sotheby's London. Image Courtesy of Casterline Goodman Gallery.
PARIS (AFP).- When street artist Banksy destroyed one of his works of art last week seconds after it was sold at auction, he probably added to its value, with some experts suggesting it could now be worth double its original price. No one knows how the secretive artist activated a shredder hidden within the frame of his painting "Girl with Balloon" just after it was sold last week by Sotheby's for £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros). The maverick British artist posted a video on Instagram in the wake of the prank accompanied by a quote attributed to Pablo Picasso -- "the urge to destroy is also a creative urge". He said he had fitted the shredder in case the painting should ever be put up for auction -- where its final price set a joint record for his work. "Banksy might think that by destroying his art he's undermining capitalists who buy it, but he's wrong," commented Mikael Faujour of the specialist French art magazine Artension. ... More |
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| Reagan hologram unveiled at museum dedicated to late US president | | Grande Decorazione: Exhibition of Italian monumental painting in graphic art opens at Pinakothek der Moderne | | Russian historians use Nazi photo to locate Stalin-era mass graves | 
Former US President Ronald Reagan is recreated on Hologram technology during a media preview on October 10, 2018, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP.
SIMI VALLEY, CA.- The Ronald Reagan museum in California has brought the late president back to virtual life with a state of the art hologram. It features his voice, facial expressions and even hand movements in a project that cost a million dollars and took four years to complete. It was unveiled Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, near Los Angeles. "It's amazing. It really is. It's a little jarring to be honest with you," said Joanne Drake, who worked in the White House during the second of Reagan's two terms in the 1980s and stayed with him until his death as an aide and spokeswoman. The hologram recreates three scenes: Reagan speaking from the back of a train during a 1984 campaign tour; in horse-riding garb at his ranch in California with wife Nancy; and in the Oval Office. "This will feel like you're standing right there with him," said John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation ... More | | 
Giorgio Ghisi, The Prophet Jeremiah, v. 1570. After Michelangelo, ceiling fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, 1508/12. Engraving, 557 x 432 mm (Sheet) © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München.
MUNICH.- Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, Michelangelo, Primaticcio, Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo are world famous for their achievements in monumental painting. Mantegnas Triumph of Caesar from around 1500 is one of his most important works, soon rivalled by Michelangelos Sistine Chapel ceiling and Raphaels Stanze in the Vatican. These and later frescoes were taken up by printmakers and reinterpreted in their own uniquely graphic style. This exhibition offers the first overview dedicated to the subject of Italian monumental painting in prints from the late 15th century through to the 18th century. It features 120 artworks that are uncommonly striking, appealing, and artistically mature in both scale and form. Single sheets, some with highly unconventional interpretations of, for example, Michelangelos Last Judgement and compositions by Giulio Romano and Parmigianino, are on display alongside cycles of multiple sheets depicting gallery dec ... More | | 
A photo taken on September 28 shows the forested area near Moscow known as Kommunarka where historians belive Stalin's NKVD secret police killed and burried more than 6000 people in 1937-41. Andrei BORODULIN / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- A team of Russian historians and archaeologists have used a Nazi bomber pilot's photograph to help them pinpoint the location of mass graves in Moscow containing the remains of thousands shot by Stalin's secret police. The existence of a mass grave in the Kommunarka district in southwestern Moscow first came to light in the dying days of the Soviet Union when the KGB opened up its archives. It was one of three killing fields in the city used by Stalin's NKVD secret police in the 1930s. Historians believe at least 6,609 people were shot and thrown into mass graves in Kommunarka between 1937 and 1941. The gated forested area was once used by NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda, who had a holiday cottage there. But he fell foul of the regime and was removed from his post in 1936 and shot in 1938 -- with his body most likely also disposed of in Kommunarka. Until recently, the mass graves were believed to be located in one area of the forest, where ... More |
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| Magnificent Abraaj Art Collection to be offered at Bonhams London | | 1000 lots of Asian art offered at iGavel and Lark Mason Associates | | Phillips to offer Carmen Herrera's Blanco y Verde in November Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art | 
Manjit Bawa (India, 1941-2008), Untitled. Oil on canvas, 200 x 151.5cm. Estimate: £180,000-250,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The international auction house Bonhams is to sell the art collection of the Abraaj Group, the private equity company. The Abraaj Collection, assembled mainly in the early 2000s, is famous for its depth and quality, and combines Arab, Iranian, and South Asian art with traditional Islamic and Indian art. Many of the pieces have appeared in retrospective exhibitions, and in monographs and publications. Bonhams Director of Middle Eastern, Islamic and South Asian Art, Nima Sagharchi said: The Abraaj Collection is widely respected for its depth and scope and it is an honour to be entrusted with bringing it to market. All works carrying a low estimate of £50,000 or under are being sold without reserve, and I am hoping that this imaginative approach will encourage many more collectors to enjoy these wonderful pieces. The 200-piece strong collection will feature in the following sales at Bonhams ... More | | 
A Rare Cizhou Sgraffiato Vase, from the Song/ Yuan dynasties.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- iGavel Auctions kicks off its Fall 2018 sales season with a series of three Asian art auctions: Asian Works of Art (Oct. 2-23), Chinese Jades and other Carvings (Oct. 9-22), and Fine Art and Antiques from Florida Estates (Oct. 10-25) - all open for online bidding. With over 1,000 works of art representing all the major cultures of Asia, the sales includes over 300 lots of jade, jadeite, and hardstone carvings dating from the Qianlong period and later; more than fifty Japanese prints from the collections of Dr. William Schull and Clyde Littlefield which will benefit four entities: the Schull Institute, Marquette University, The Historical Archives Center of Texas Medical Center Library, and the University of Texas. Rounding out the auctions are over one hundred Chinese and other Asian works from a Northwest Collector assembled prior to World War I. Among the highlights of these blockbuster sales are a Fine Japanese Eight Pan ... More | | 
Carmen Herrera, Blanco y Verde, 1966 (detail). Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 15 November, Carmen Herreras Blanco y Verde will be offered in the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Painted in 1966 and unseen to the larger public for more than 50 years, this painting is one of only 14 known extant works from Herreras seminal Blanco y Verde series, exemplifying her pioneering artistic achievements. Created from 1959 to 1971, this coveted series is recognized as Herreras most significant body of work in her nearly 80 year career, with such revered institutions as the Tate, London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, acquiring examples for their permanent collections in the past seven years. Estimated at $1-1.5 million, the work is poised to break the auction record for a work by Carmen Herrera.
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 New exhibition at the Drawing Center focuses on three young artistsNEW YORK, NY.- This fall, The Drawing Center presents an exhibition that focuses on three young artistsElijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Nathaniel Mary Quinnwho explore diverse identities through portraiture and who do so almost exclusively through the medium of drawing. These artists have entirely distinct stylistic approaches and personal backgrounds but they are connected by the way in which they use drawing to investigate subjecthood as well as its resistance to depiction. Indeed, Burgher, Ojih Odutola, and Quinn embrace drawing because it invests surface with the felt intimacy of touch while nonetheless confirming it to be a malleable and uncertain construct. Ultimately, in the intellectual tradition of French theorist Ãdouard Glissant, these artists believe that the right to refuse explanation is as integral to the formulation of selfhood as is ... More Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago opens "Echoes: Reframing Collage"CHICAGO, IL.- From October 11 through December 21, 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago presents Echoes: Reframing Collage, a companion exhibition to The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics, serving to further deepen our understanding of Arnolds lasting contribution. Echoes: Reframing Collage examines the parallels between Arnolds work and 21st-century artists including Krista Franklin, Wardell Milan, Ayanah Moor, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Xaviera Simmons. These artists not only reconceptualize the photocollage, they also build upon Arnolds legacy as an artist whose medium and content reflected his multifaceted identity. Highlights include works like Paul Mpagi Sepuyas Mirror Study (Q5A3505) (2016). Sepuyas processtearing his prints into fragments, splitting the body ... More Clark Art Institute names Anne Leonard as Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsWILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute announces the appointment of Anne Leonard as the Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. Leonard will be responsible for the care and growth of the Clarks works on paper collection, oversee the ongoing exhibition program in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper, supervise the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, and contribute to other curatorial and academic initiatives. She joins the Clark staff in January 2019. Anne Leonard is an inspired curator and a talented teachera combination that will be so important to her role as the Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, said Olivier Meslay, the Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute. While her expertise in nineteenth-century European art is ideally suited to the scope of our collection, Anne brings ... More Laffanour Galerie Downtown presents works by Charlotte Perriand, Jose Zanine Caldas, and Oscar NiemeyerPARIS.- In 1959, Charlotte Perriand, in collaboration with Le Corbusier and Lucio Costa, did the layout of La Maison du Brésil in the Cité Internationale de Paris. In 1962, her husband Jacques Martin was appointed director of Air France for the Latin America region, so until 1969 he made frequent trips to Brazil. Thanks to Lucio Costa, she meets architects Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Max, who introduced her to the Tropicalism movement. It is a global cultural movement that takes the opposite of the West, mixing different disciplines such as music or furniture. He emerged in Brazil in 1967, during the period of military dictatorship (1964-1985), and aspired to revolutionize his time. It is for its actors to meet both unique climatic requirements, while using local materials, and adopting the typical forms of these countries of South America. Very inspired, ... More Exhibition invites visitors to re-learn to perceive beyond the margins of the visibleBERLIN.- ifa-Galerie Berlin opened its new exhibition "Invisible". Originally produced for the Dakar Biennale 2018, the exhibition has been adapted to the context of ifa-Galerie, now including new works and being presented within the second phase "Movement.Bewegung" of the gallerys four-year research and exhibition programme "Untie to Tie". "Invisible" is an invitation to re-learn to perceive beyond the margins of the visible. Today, the visual sense predominates our ways of imagining the world that surrounds us. Contemporary societies are defined by an incessant flow of images whereas the unmanifest has been weeded out of the collective imaginaries, and the spiritual dimension has been dismissed from contemporary concerns. By imposing its "universal" codes and standards, the West relegated the unmanifest to the bottom of its heap. However, ... More Rosenfeld porcini opens exhibition of works by Nigerian artist Ndidi EmefieleLONDON.- Rosenfeld porcini is presenting the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Nigerian artist Ndidi Emefiele (*1987). Gravitating around theatrical mixed media large-scale compositions, Pets, Parties and a Cuddle also features a number of mid-size portraits and a selection of works on paper. Drawing on her rich visual lexicon, Emefieles new body of works further challenges the historically held vision of women as figures of beauty encapsulating a standardized male desire. Young, fiercely proud, self-assured female characters are the sole protagonists of her compositions. Their unconcerned postures reveal an aversion to conventional conformism and their demeanors and outfits in no way are attempting to lure the male gaze, rather embodying an expression of a purely female necessity. Through the depiction of exaggerated heads said to predict ones ... More Dedicated sale to offer unprecedented glimpse into the lives of two talented musiciansLONDON.- One was the worlds greatest cellist, and conductor, the other, the electrifying principal soprano of Moscows Bolshoi Theatre. Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, the world renowned golden couple of classical music, were exceptional in their talents and vehement in their belief of artistic freedom. Unwillingly exiled from their beloved Soviet homeland, the couples inspiring story and continued legacy illustrates one of the most important triumphs of talent and moral conviction of our time. On 28th November, Sothebys London will offer for sale the private collection of Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya. The dedicated sale will feature over 300 lots, including furniture, personal jewellery, Russian works of art, books, and even musical instruments played by the maestro, and by some of the most prevalent contemporary composers and musicians ... More Exceptional early Chinese art offered at BonhamsLONDON.- Masterpieces from the collection of French businessman and philanthropist, Jean-Yves Ollivier, will be offered in The Ollivier Collection of Early Chinese Art: A Journey Through Time sale at Bonhams in London on Thursday 8 November. The sale has a combined upper estimate of £4m. Highlights of the collection include magnificent and rare Chinese archaic bronze vessels from the Western Zhou dynasty (1047-772 BC), a sancai-glazed sculpture of a Bactrian camel and an extremely rare and massive archaic bronze ritual vessel from the Eastern Zhou dynasty. Bonhams UK and Asia Chairman Colin Sheaf said: The Ollivier Collection of Early Chinese Art is one of the finest of its kind ever to appear at auction. Jean-Yves is a remarkable man, as his many achievements testify, and his judgement and intuitive feeling for quality and authenticity have ... More Peabody Essex Museum Executive Director and CEO, Dan Monroe, announces retirementSALEM, MASS.- Dan Monroe, the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum for 25 years, announced his retirement today. Monroe will continue to lead PEM until September, 2019 following the summer opening of PEMs major new wing and featuring fresh installations of its vast and diverse collections. Robert N. Shapiro, President of PEMs Board of Trustees, said Monroe is a widely-recognized pathbreaker and leader in creating an entirely new kind of art museum. Just like PEMs global entrepreneurial founders in 1799, Dan set out to create an experience that connects art, culture and creative expression from around the world in exciting and unexpected ways, said Shapiro. He has poured his heart, passion and talent into transforming PEM into the international force that it is today. Dan is a remarkable ... More Lion of Punjab treasure leads Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art sale in LondonLONDON.- A gold-thread-embroidered, velvet-clad leather quiver and bow holder almost certainly made for Maharajah Ranjit Singh, Lion of the Punjab, is among a wealth of Sikh treasures to be offered at Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art sale in London on Tuesday, 23 October. It is estimated at £80,000-120,000. Archery played an important role in Sikh military culture. Long after bows and arrows were superseded by more modern weaponry, they retained a ceremonial and symbolic significance, especially among the nobility who would appear in public wearing an embroidered quiver at their side. It is believed that the Maharajah commissioned a quiver in 1838 to wear at the wedding of his eldest son and heir Kharak; and he appears to be wearing the one in the sale or one extremely similar to it in a painting of the same year by the French artist Alfred de Dreaux, ... More The Guggenheim Museum presents a new group of paintings by contemporary artist R. H. QuaytmanNEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents R. H. Quaytman: + x, Chapter 34, featuring a new group of paintings by contemporary artist R. H. Quaytman. This presentation is organized in tandem with Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, the first exhibition devoted to Hilma af Klint (18621944) in the United States since Quaytman organized a survey of the Swedish artists work nearly thirty years ago at New Yorks P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. Quaytmans new paintings engage af Klints work through visual quotations and conceptual references, offering a multifaceted examination of af Klints output and legacy. R. H. Quaytman: + x, Chapter 34 is the artists first solo museum exhibition in New York and features twenty-eight paintings on the sixth level of the Guggenheim Museums ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter Hiroshige, died October 12, 1858. Utagawa Hiroshige, also Ando Hiroshige (Japanese 1797 - 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. In this image: Hiroshige Ando, 'Mishima,' c. 1833-1834, woodblock print on paper, Carnegie Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. James B. Austin.
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