| The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Friday, October 26, 2018 |
| | | Dry Danube reveals hidden treasure trove of some 2,000 gold and silver coins | |
|
|
Hungarian archaeologists inspect the site where they found coins from the 16th-17th centuries and special weapons on the banks of the Danube river due to its low water level on October 25, 2018 near Erd, located 25 kms from Budapest. According to archaeologists working on site, the treasure comes from a cargo of a commercial ship that probably sank in the 18th century. FERENC ISZA / AFP.
ERD (AFP).- A treasure trove of some 2,000 gold and silver coins has been found on the Danube riverbed in Hungary thanks to an exceptionally low water level, archaeologists said Thursday. "Around 2,000 coins have been found, as well as arms, pikes, cannon balls and swords," Katalin Kovacs, an archaeologist with the Ferenczy Museum Center, told the MTI agency. The discovery was made this week where the river passes by the town of Erd, to the south of Budapest. Archaeologists are working frantically, assisted by divers and drones, to extract what they can from the site before a rise in river levels expected this weekend. Like other rivers across Europe, the Danube is in some places at a historically low level after a long period of dry weather. In Budapest it is running at a mere 38cm (15 inches), which has affected shipping traffic. The treasure, which includes ducats and pennies, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A man looks at ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics part of the 'Serve the Gods of Egypt' exhibition showing at the Museum of Grenoble, southern eastern France On October 23, 2018. Based on the Grenoble collections and supplemented by 200 works from the Louvre Museum and others loaned by European museums, the exhibition offers an approach to Theban society during the Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC), around the temple of Karnak, the main place of worship of the god Amon. JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT / AFP
| Algorithm art fetches $432,500 at NY auction: Christie's | | Pace Gallery opens a solo exhibition of abstract works by the American artist Mark Tobey | | Ambience and spirit of French court revealed through rarely seen selection of works |
The portrait depicts a gentleman, possibly French and to judge by his dark frockcoat and plain white collar a man of the church. © Christie's Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A portrait made by algorithm smashed new boundaries Thursday, selling for $432,500 and becoming the first piece of Artificial Intelligence art sold at a major auction house, Christie's said. At first glance, "Edmond de Belamy," the portrait of a gentleman dressed in black and framed in gold, could be any standard portrait from the 18th or 19th century. Up close, the image is more intriguing. The face is fuzzy and the picture seemingly unfinished. Instead of an artist's signature, it bears the stamp of a mathematical formula on the bottom right. It's the brainchild of French collective Obvious, whose aim is to use artificial intelligence to democratize art. To make the painting, artist Pierre Fautrel ran 15,000 classic portraits through a computer software. Once the software "understood the rules of portraiture," using a new algorithm developed by Google researcher Ian Goodfellow, it then generated a series of new images by itself, Fautrel said. The French collective selected 11, callin ... More | |
Mark Tobey. Garden Rhythms, 1958 (detail). Tempera on paper, 12" à 18" (30.5 cm à 45.7 cm) © 2018 Mark Tobey / Seattle Art Museum, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Tom Barratt, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of abstract works by the American artist Mark Tobey (1890 1976), the first show dedicated to the artist in New York in over twenty years. Bringing together approximately 40 paintings and works on paper from private collections as well as major international museums, such as the Fondation Beyeler, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others, the exhibition spans three decades of Tobeys evolving approach to abstraction. The exhibition is on view at 32 East 57th Street from October 25, 2018 through January 12, 2019. Pace published a full-color catalogue for the exhibition, which includes a new essay on Tobey by art critic Robert C. Morgan. The exhibition also includes the film Mark Tobey (1952) directed Robert Gardner and written by Gardner and Tobey. Filmed when the artist lived in Seattle, the f ... More | |
Andrea Appiani, Italian (1754‐1817). Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, in the Uniform of a General in the Army of Italy, 1801. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 4/5 inches. Montreal, private collection. Photo MMFA, Christine Guest.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Napoleon: Power and Splendor marks the first examination of the majesty and the artistic, political and ideological significance of Napoleons imperial court, from Napoleons coronation in 1804 to his final exile in 1815. The exhibition opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Oct. 26 and aims to capture the spirit that prevailed in the French imperial court and to recreate the sumptuous ambiance of Napoleons reign. A selection of more than 200 works, most of which have never before been exhibited in North America before this tour, will reveal the power and splendor of the Imperial Household and its role in fashioning a monarchic identity for the new emperor, his family and loyal entourage. The exhibition is organized and circulated by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) with the participation of the Nelson-Atkins, the Musée national du château de Fontainebleau, and the Virginia Museum of Fine ... More |
|
| Richard Gray Gallery opens a solo exhibition of recent abstract works by Jim Dine | | A tribal art world record emerges in Rago's $2.3M October auctions | | Exhibition presents works Alice Neel painted in New Jersey and Vermont |
Jim Dine (b. 1935), Late Last Summer, the Rue Madame, 2015. Acrylic and sand on wood with aluminum bars, 79 7/8 x 60 5/8 inches 203 x 154 cm. Courtesy Richard Gray Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Gray Gallery opened The Black Paintings, a solo exhibition of recent abstract works by Jim Dine, on view at the gallerys New York location from October 25 through December 21, 2018. The Black Paintings are a series of eight large-format works first conceived in 2015 at Jim Dines studio in Walla Walla, Washington. Built from a thick impasto of acrylic paint, sand and charcoal, Dine carefully works each canvas with an electric sander to achieve distinct and textured surfaces. A dominant configuration of related black shapes anchors the composition of each painting, which the artist explains evokes a figurative image that was (and is) human, yet [is] visually concrete so that the black forms can be interpreted unconsciously as many things. The group of eight canvases makes its US debut at Richard ... More | |
Fiji. Female Ancestor Figure. Sold for: $137,500.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago Auctions October 19-21 auction series brought in a total of $2,324,975 across three segments. While each segment saw spirited bidding, the series opening segment, Tribal Art from the Collection of Allan Stone and Other Owners, met or exceeded all expectations with strong interest and even stronger results throughout. This nearly 250 lot sale, consisting of tribal and ethnographic art of African, Oceanic, American and Asian origin and fueled by bidding from an international audience including buyers in Nigeria, France, China and the U.K., achieved a final sale price of $969,000 against a high estimate of $928,200. Standout lots from the Tribal sale include; lot 147, a Fijian ancestral figure which sold for $137,500; lot 209, a bronze sculpture of the Hindu god Shiva from the 16th century which sold for $40,625; lot 105, a community power figure from the Songye people of the Congo which sold for $28,750 against a $18, ... More | |
Alice Neel (1900-1984), Ginny and Elizabeth, 1976. Oil on canvas, 112,1 x 81,8 cm. Photo: HV-studio, Brussels. Courtesy: the Estate of Alice Neel and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Three years after the gallerys first exhibition of portraits by the American painter Alice Neel (19001984), Xavier Hufkens presents a different facet of her oeuvre: the landscapes, still lifes and portraits that she made in the rural surroundings of Spring Lake and Vermont. The paintings provide an intimate insight into the artists personal world and reveal the delight she took in the simple pleasures of life, away from the daily grind of New York. Alice Neel is considered to be one of the greatest chroniclers of 20th-century America, a story that is brought to life through the magnificent portraits she executed in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side of New York City. From intellectuals to next-door neighbours, and from fellow artists to single mothers, Neel painted people from all walks of life. Active ... More |
|
| Treasures from Chester Beatty's Collection: Exhibition celebrates 50th anniversary of bequest | | Col. Harlan Sanders' original suit offered at auction by longtime driver | | Schomburg Center displays never-before-seen 'lost' chapter of the Autobiography of Malcolm X, manuscript and notes |
Following his retirement, Beatty brought these collections to Ireland, later placing them in trust for the benefit of the people of Ireland on his death in 1968.
DUBLIN.- Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sir Alfred Chester Beattys magnificent bequest, Gift of a Lifetime presents a choice selection of masterpieces from this unique collection. From objects of the greatest beauty crafted for powerful rulers, to treasures tracing the history of world religions, the artworks drawn together in this exhibition and accompanying catalogue capture the breadth and wonder of this exceptional legacy: a gift to the nation, for Ireland to share with the world. Literary masterpieces from across the world are exquisitely revealed through folios from two beautiful illustrated manuscripts of the epic Persian poem Shahnama, and an especially fine example of Japans Tales of Ise, striking with its palette of green, red and orange. Significant works from the histories of faith, with folios from the oldest surviving manuscript to contain all four gospels of the Bible, are displayed alongside the exceptionally important Quran by master calligrapher Ibn al-B ... More | |
After nearly 40 years with the company, Miller is opening his personal archive of gifts and memorabilia he collected during his time with Sanders.
DALLAS, TX.- For the last decade of his life, Colonel Harland Sanders relied on Dick Miller perhaps more closely than anyone else. Sanders driver and friend, Miller tended Sanders estate gardens, looked after his Sanders wife, Claudia, after her husbands passing in 1980, and came to feel like a part of the Sanders family. After nearly 40 years with the company, Miller is opening his personal archive of gifts and memorabilia he collected during his time with Sanders. The collection spans 20 personal items, including an authentic and iconic Col. Sanders White Suit and a matching Stetson cowboy hat rarely seen at auction. The two first met in 1979 outside of Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Sanders asked if Miller would mow grass and wash dishes. "Wash dishes? Miller asked. The Colonel replied, "Yes, the dishwasher is the most important job. The dishwasher knows if people are eating the food or not! Miller says he even ... More | |
The limited-time public display is open to the public for viewing at the Schomburg Center near the main entrance, and features selections of Malcolm Xs autobiographical writing with Alex Haley.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is hosting a public display from October 23 through November 10 of its newly-acquired, never-before-seen manuscripts, notes, and unpublished chapter from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The limited-time public display is open to the public for viewing at the Schomburg Center near the main entrance, and features selections of Malcolm Xs autobiographical writing with Alex Haley including: The partial, yet-extensive manuscript of The Autobiography, illustrating the influential text as a work-in-progress, with back-and-forth written dialogue between Malcolm X and Haley on everything from diction to timing and tone Written fragments showing Malcolm Xs reworking of key passages from the final pages of his autobiography The never-before-seen unpublished chapter from The Autobiography of Malcolm ... More |
|
| Marianne Boesky Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by artist John Houck | | First major survey of works by master bark painter John Mawurndjul opens in Adelaide | | Ketterer Kunst announces sale of Classics of the 20th Century and Contemporary Art |
John Houck, Rejoin, 2018. Archival pigment print. Image Dimensions: 26 x 34 inches, 66 x 86.4 cm. Edition of 3, with 2AP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting Holding Environment, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist John Houck that highlights the artists deepening engagement with the expressive effects and conceptual possibilities of painterly gesture within his photography practice. Inspired by Houcks temporary relocation to Portland, OR, in 2018, and his time spent living near family there for the first time since his formative years, the exhibition presents the artists explorations of memory, identity, and relational psychology. The exhibition is on view from October 25 through December 22, 2018 at the gallerys 507 W. 24th Street location. Holding Environment is the artists first presentation with the gallery in New York, following a solo exhibition at Boesky West in Aspen, CO, in summer 2017. Houcks practice is distinguished by a deconstruction of accepted formal and conceptual bou ... More | |
John Mawurndjul, Maninigrida, 2018; photo: Rhett Hammerton.
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australias 2018 TARNANTHI opened to the public this Thursday 25 October. TARNANTHI is an annual event illuminates the diversity and depth of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art by alternately staging an expansive city-wide festival in one year and a focus exhibition the following year. TARNANTHI also includes an annual Art Fair, artist talks, performances and events. This year TARNANTHI presents the first major survey of works by one of Australias leading contemporary artists master bark painter John Mawurndjul. Developed and co-presented with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), in close association with Maningrida Arts & Culture, John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new includes over 160 works, spanning forty years of the artists practice. Presented bilingually in Kuninjku (pronounced Goo-nin-goo) and English, the exhibition illuminates Kuninjku cul ... More | |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Selbstporträt mit Gerda (Mann und Sitzende im Atelier). Pastel, 1915, 67.4 x 52 cm / 26.5 x 20.4 inches. Estimate: 400,000-600,000 / US$ 460,000-690,000.
MUNICH.- Herbstwolken, Friesland is a powerful natural spectacle and an absolutely marvelous masterpiece. The view from the window of Emil Noldes living room will be called up in the Auction from December 6 - 8 at Ketterer Kunst in Munich, Germany. The estimate is at 1,200,000 1,500,000. With its bright colors and the dissolving forms, this oil painting is a unique document of Emil Noldes mystical concept of nature. Green marshland nestles up against the reflections of the afterglow on the water, while wild forces of nature rage on the sky. Strong brushstrokes of a bright orange glow whirl on the deep, sulfur yellow rainy sky, black-gray piles of towering clouds fight against the glistening azure. The powerful natural spectacle awakens an abundance of associations within the suggestive range of human emotions. The faces of two primal, fire-spitting ... More |
|
href=' href='
Metallica's Kirk Hammett on Collecting Horror and The Mummy Film Poster
| More News |
Royal Enfield barnfind for sale with H&H Classics
BIRMINGHAM.- The next H&H Classics sale of motorcycles at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on November 9th has among the 165 bikes on sale valued at £1miilion a number that stand out because of their fascinating histories. This Royal Enfield Constellation 700cc with its Wessex sidecar is a perfect time capsule, found in a Birmingham garage at the bottom of an overgrown garden with overalls, helmets and maps still sat in the sidecar when they were last used 53 years ago by John Hardwicke. The late Mr Hardwicke bought the bike new in 1962 for £231, used it briefly then parked it in his garage at the bottom of the garden and never took it out for 53 years after the birth of his daughter. When Mark Bryan of H&H arrived to look at the bike after its owner had passed away there was a tree that had grown up in front of the garage ... More
Award-winning Indigenous artist Dana Claxton opens major solo exhibition
VANCOUVER.- As one of its major fall season exhibitions, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube, the first-ever survey of the work of the provocative Vancouver-based Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) artist Dana Claxton, on view October 27, 2018 to February 3, 2019. Photography, film, video and performance documentation trace nearly thirty years of Claxtons career and her investigations into Indigenous identity, beauty, gender and the body. As a prolific multidisciplinary artist, Dana Claxton has been an important voice for reclaiming narratives around Indigenous culture through striking critique of stereotypes and ideologies, says Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. From the Indigenous portraits captured to stunning effect in her fireboxes, to the dramatic video installations that retell the stories of her Hunkpapa Lakota ... More
Walker Art Center opens the first US survey to focus on Mario GarcÃa Torres's practice
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Mario GarcÃa Torres (Mexico, b. 1975) is one of the most compelling and inventive conceptual artists living today. His work investigates the mechanisms of production of artistic thought and explores the unofficial or un-historicized points of intangible heritage; it is bound up with the facts, fictions, and live testimonials not listed in the typical accounts of conceptual art, its gestures, figures, and practices. Appropriation, narrative, repetition, and reenactment are just a few of the strategies that the artist employs to delve into the often-blurred division between truth and fiction. To express his ideas, GarcÃa Torres uses a variety of mediums such as video, installation, photography, and sculpture. Each is carefully chosen to best address the subjectivity of historical records and the limitations of memory, which are at the core of the artists work. ... More
Solo exhibition of new work by Jeffrey Gibson on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting I AM A RAINBOW TOO, a solo exhibition of new work by Jeffrey Gibson on view from October 18 through November 21, 2018. I AM A RAINBOW TOO marks Jeffrey Gibsons first exhibition with Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and is his first show focused primarily on his painting practice since 2010. The exhibition features six large canvases along with a smaller scale painted triptych entitled SKIN in red, yellow, and brown tones, and a seven-part work entitled I AM A RAINBOW TOO painted in a seven-color spectrum all bordered by unique beaded inset frames. For this body of work, Gibson continues his exploration of geometric abstraction in bright colors and strong patterning, but integrating text common in his beaded panels, textiles, garments, and popular series of punching bags onto the painted ... More
Exhibition documents New York City's largest wave of Chinese immigration
NEW YORK, NY.- Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers, on view at the Museum of the City of New York from October 26, 2018 through March 24, 2019, features the work of three photographersThomas Holton, Annie Ling, and An Rong Xuwho bring into focus the complex realities of Chinese-American immigrant life in the city. The exhibition is curated by Sean Corcoran, Museum Curator of Prints and Photographs, and is organized in conjunction with the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) exhibition Interior Lives: Photographs of Chinese Americans in the 1980s by Bud Glick. With more than half a million people of Chinese descent living in Manhattans Chinatown and other neighborhoods across the city, said Whitney Donhauser, Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum of the City of New York, New York is home ... More
Horniman Museum launches new arts space, The Studio, with inaugural exhibition The Lore of the Land
LONDON.- The Horniman Museum and Gardens in South London has launched its new arts space, The Studio, with its inaugural exhibition, The Lore of the Land. Exploring peoples deep-rooted relationship with plants, water and the natural world, The Lore of the Land is a multi-sensory exhibition, centred around five large-scale ceramic pieces by artist Serena Korda. Their bulbous organic forms incorporate plant matter from the Hornimans 16-acre Gardens, and reference objects from the Hornimans anthropology collection. These include composite, zoomorphic figures from India, also part of the exhibition. Each ceramic work releases an individual scent, replicating essential oils distilled from plants in the Hornimans Gardens, and complemented by a blended scent infusing the whole exhibition space. The ceramics, scents and accompanying soundscape together form ... More
Exhibition at The Lightbox sheds light on the key themes Elisabeth Frink explored
WOKING.- Commemorating 25 years since Elisabeth Frinks death in 1993, Elisabeth Frink: A Collectors Passion from The Ingram Collection explores nature and humanity through an emotive body of work. The exhibition includes personal responses to the artworks from Chris Ingram, owner of The Ingram Collection. Frinks art is a personal passion of Chriss, with many of her paintings, sculptures and drawings being prevalent within the collection, one of the largest publicly accessible collections of Modern British Art in the UK. Shedding light on the key themes Frink (1930-1993) explored throughout her career, the exhibition will explore representations of animals, man, and their relationship to each other. From early on, Frink regularly returned to motifs of standing men, men on horseback, mens heads, horses, warriors and birds falling, flying, attacking. ... More
More than 2,200 lots make Heritage Sports' Fall Card Catalog Auction largest in company history
DALLAS, TX.- After recording hundreds of world-record prices in its earthshaking September auction of the PSA all-time finest 1909-11 T206 set, Heritage will present a thrilling sequel in the form of its largest trading card auction to date as more than 2,200 lots will close in Extended Bidding format on Nov. 15-16. "The massive prices in the T206 sale inspired a tidal wave of consignments to this sale, said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. "The result is the largest and most diverse trading card auction of 2018. The Dead Ball Era comes to life with more than 100 19th-century lots, including a recently discovered collection of N172 Old Judge cards, multiple N690 Kalamazoo Bats, an N403 Yum Yum Tim Keefe (est. $10,000-up) and a pair of N142 Duke Cabinets. Memorabilia from the 20th century begins with a selection of W600 Sporting Life cabinets ... More
Foujita's Fillette aux perruches highlights Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale
NEW YORK, NY.- After setting the world auction record for Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita last month in London*, Bonhams New York will offer Fillette aux perruches in the Impressionist & Modern Art sale on November 13. Painted in 1957, Fillette aux perruches is a brilliantly colored depiction of a young girl with parakeets from the artist's mature oeuvre. Beginning in the 1950s, during his second Paris period, Foujita drew inspiration from his everyday life, shifting his focus from the sensual nudes of the 20s and 30s to paintings featuring children and young girls. Fillette aux perruches is a quintessential example of the artist's ability to seamlessly blend his Japanese origins with the classicism of the great Western masters. The work is estimated at $300,000-500,000 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné by Sylvie Buisson. The sale also features ... More
Nationalmuseum Sweden announces new acquisition: Uno Åhrén's unique cabinet from 1924
STOCKHOLM.- In conjunction with the reopening of Nationalmuseum, the association Nationalmusei Vänner has donated Uno à hréns unique cabinet called The Garden of Eden, also known as The Paradise Cabinet. It was displayed in a ladies drawing room, or a boudoir, at the 1925 Paris Exhibition, that was furnished by the architect Uno à hrén. This cabinet is the only one that was made, which makes it not only a rarity of great international interest, but also an exquisite piece of designer furniture that sums up the Swedish Grace style of the 1920s. For close to a century, Uno à hréns (1897-1977) interior design of a ladies drawing room at the Paris Exhibition in 1925 was reduced to a well-known black-and-white photograph in the standard design history reference works. The furniture ended up in the hands of private collectors, but, fortunately, some ... More
Large-scale paintings and watercolors by Janaina Tschäpe on view at Sean Kelly
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly announces HumidGray and ShadowLake, Janaina Tschäpes first exhibition since joining the gallery. Comprising large-scale paintings and watercolors, these evocative compositions demonstrate Tschäpes assured approach and deft ability to handle delicate media while painting on an impressive scale. Born in Munich, Germany and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Janaina Tschäpe received a Masters in Fine Arts studies from the Hochschule fur Bilende Kuenste, Hamburg, Germany and an MA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, the city she has called home for over twenty years. Tschäpe has become recognized for a multivalent body of work, embracing film, photography, sculpture and performance, as well as painting and drawing. It is the latter discipline which serves as the core element in Tschäpes practice and connective tissue relating ... More
|
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin was born October 26, 1842. Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (October 26, 1842 - April 13, 1904), was one of the most famous Russian war artists and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognised abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited. In this image: An auction house worker poses for the photographers sitting in front of a 1887 painting by Vasily Vereshchagin, entitled ''Crucifixion by the Romans' in central London.
|
|
|
