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Rudolf Schlichter, Margot, 1924 (detail), Oil on canvas, 110.5 à 75 cm, Stadtmuseum Berlin, © Viola Roehr von Alvensleben, München, Photo: Michael Setzpfandt, Berlin.
FRANKFURT.- Social tensions, political struggles, social upheavals, as well as artistic revolutions and innovations characterize the Weimar Republic. Beginning October 27, 2017, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting German art from 1918 to 1933 in a major thematic exhibition. Direct, ironic, angry, accusatory, and often even prophetic works demonstrate the struggle for democracy and paint a picture of a society in the midst of crisis and transition. Many artists were moved by the problems of the age to mirror reality and everyday life in their search for a new realism or ?naturalism.? They captured the stories of their contemporaries with an individual signature: the processing of the First World War with depictions of maimed soldiers and ?war profiteers,? public figures, the big city with its entertainment industry and increasing prostitution, political unrest and economic chasms, as well as the role model of the New Woman, the debates ab ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People gather by a portrait of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II and a huge image of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin during the opening of the exhibition entitled "The Winter Palace and the Hermitage in 1917. History was made here" at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg on October 25, 2017. The exhibition, which marks the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution, runs until February 4, 2018. Olga MALTSEVA / AFP
| Tank Magazine's Fashion Director and CEO Caroline Issa selects works for Sotheby's 'Contemporary Curated' sale | | Cézanne still life leads Zweig Collection at Sotheby's New York | | Berkshire Museum answers legal action on planned sale | 
Caroline Issa with a selection of works. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- This winter, Sothebys London galleries will embrace the flawless style and creative expertise of Tank Magazines Fashion Director and CEO Caroline Issa. In an exercise in fantasy collecting, Issa has hand-picked a selection her favourite artworks from Sothebys forthcoming Contemporary Curated sale in London on November 21. Not only is Issa a formidable businesswoman who has excelled in the fields of management consultancy, publishing, and the creative industries, she is a permanent fixture on the worlds best-dressed lists and a lifelong advocate of the arts. At Tank Magazine, she has collaborated with artists including Laure Prouvost, Thomas Demand, Hito Steyerl and Torbjørn Rødland. Issa insists that the two disciplines are inextricably linked: fashion exists in art and art in fashion. For Sothebys Contemporary Curated ... More | | 
Paul Cézanne, Nature morte (detail). Painted circa 1890. Oil on canvas, 11 1/8 by 15 7/8 in. Estimate $7/10 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present Property from the Collection of Barbara and Martin Zweig as a highlight of their Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 14 November in New York. Led by Paul Cézannes vibrant still life Nature morte (estimate $7/10 million), the collection features exceptional examples by many of the greatest French artists working at the turn of the 20th century from high Impressionist pictures by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Gustave Caillebotte, to the post-Impressionist modernity of Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard and Ãdouard Manet. With the majority of the collection assembled by Mr. and Mrs. Zweig in the 1990s, the collection offers works that are both exquisite and fresh to the market. The Evening Sale will offer ten works ... More | | 
Berkshire Museum Facade. Courtesy the Berkshire Museum.
PITTSFIELD, MASS.- The Board of Trustees of the Berkshire Museum developed a plan to secure the museums future, consistent with the founding principles of the institution, and met its fiduciary duty in doing so, lawyers for the Board assert in a legal brief filed today. The brief also demonstrates that there are no restrictions on the sale of artwork that is critical to the museums funding plan and explains why the sale should go forward. As dedicated trustees and members of the Pittsfield community, we undertook our fiduciary duty with diligence, transparency and great seriousness of purpose to ensure that the Berkshire Museum would thrive despite the challenging times that threaten the museums financial future, said Elizabeth McGraw, President of the Museums Board of Trustees. Every aspect of our plan will result in the Berkshire Museums ... More |
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| Rare ancien régime portrait revealed by Tomasso Brothers at TEFAF NY | | Rare never before seen images of John Lennon to be offered at Julien's Auctions | | Smithsonian announces plans to revitalize the National Air and Space Museum | 
Nicolas Mignard (16061668), Avignon, 1658, Portrait of Scipion du Roure, aged 30 (1628 1696). Oil on canvas, 67 cm (26 ¼ in.) high, 53 cm (20 ¾ in.) wide.
NEW YORK, NY.- A rare survivor of the acclaimed ancien régime portraits executed by French master Nicolas Mignard (1606-1668), the majority of which are now lost, is to be unveiled by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at the preview tomorrow, 27 October 2017, of TEFAF New York Fall 2017. The previously unseen portrait, with a continuous line of provenance, depicts Scipion du Roure (1628-1696) of Nîmes, aged 30. It is signed on the reverse of the original canvas N. MIGNARD PINXIT / AVENIONE 1658. Many of Mignards portraits of the aristocracy went missing during the French Revolution, and are known today only through engravings. Scipion du Roure, an officer of the Auvergne regiment, returned from military campaigning to his family seat in the South of France and married in 1650. Nicolas Mignard had settled in Avignon in 1637 after studying in Fontainebleau, and then Rome, where he admired the frescoes of Annibale ... More | | 
Darren Julien, President/CEO of Juliens Auctions estimated that the collection could sell for over £10,000 at auction.
NEW YORK, NY.- A collection of 26 negatives containing rare never before seen photographs of John Lennon from February 1970 have been uncovered at The Beatles Story. The negatives, which depict intimate portraits of the former Beatle, were bought to a Memorabilia Day held at The Beatles Story on Wednesday (25th October), an event where members of the public were being offered free valuations from leading celebrity memorabilia experts Juliens Auctions. Darren Julien, President/CEO of Juliens Auctions estimated that the collection could sell for over £10,000 at auction. He said: Its not often when you find images of John Lennon that have never before been seen by the public. These 26 images/negatives of John Lennon are a rare find. The owner of the negatives, who wishes to remain anonymous, told experts that the collection had been stored away in the familys junk draw for around 34 years, ... More | | 
Exploration reveals that our solar system is filled with amazingly diverse places that transform our understanding of Earth and worlds beyond. Exploring the Planets will probe the science and history of our understanding of planets and moons. Artist's rendering courtesy National Air and Space Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian has announced plans to revitalize the National Air and Space Museum and transform its exhibitions. The project, which will take approximately seven years, will be done on a phased sequencing schedule that will keep many exhibitions open during the construction process. The building will undergo complete refacing of the exterior cladding, replacement of outdated mechanical systems and other repairs and improvements. The visitor experience will also change when all of the museums 23 galleries and presentation spaces are updated or completely redone. Transformation of exhibitions begins a new era for the museum, said Gen. J.R. Jack Dailey, the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the National Air and Space Museum. ... More |
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| The Dayton Art Institute holds 'bond burning' to announce early payment of bond debt | | Turner Prize-winner Susan Philipsz joins Scottish and international artists in new contemporary exhibition | | Xavier Hufkens exhibits a new series of oil paintings and watercolours by American artist Lesley Vance | 
Museum debt reduced from $16.5M in 2011 to less than $600,000.
DAYTON, OH.- A brief ceremony and symbolic bond burning were held at The Dayton Art Institute today, Thursday, October 26, to announce the early payment of $11.7 million in bond debt held by the museum. This is an important step forward in our continuing efforts to ensure a sound financial future for The Dayton Art Institute, as the museum prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2019, says Director and CEO Michael R. Roediger. Since 2011, the museum staff, Board of Trustees, and Finance and Endowment Committees have been committed to reducing debt and being financially sound and responsible. In that time, The DAI has reduced its debt from $16.5 million to less than $600,000. A final payment of $11.7 million was applied to the 1996 museum renovation bondoriginally totaling $14.4 millionwhich was paid off nine years ahead of schedule. This final payment was made possible ... More | | 
Susan Philipsz, Seven Tears 2016. 7-channel soundinstallation, vinyl records 12, 17min., loop. Installation view Kunstverein Hannover 2016. Photo: Raimund Zakowski, Courtesy Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
EDINBURGH.- A series of new and recent sound installations, photographs and paintings by the Turner Prize-winning Scottish artist Susan Philipsz will be the centrepiece of a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh this autumn. Five rooms by Philipsz will feature in the second instalment of NOW, a dynamic programme of contemporary art exhibitions which has taken over the entire ground floor of the Gallerys Modern One building for the next three years. NOW reflects the Gallerys ambition to share contemporary art with a wide audience, highlighting the extraordinary quality and range of work being made by artists associated with Scotland, as well as those from across the globe, placing art created in ... More | | 
Lesley Vance, Untitled, 2017. Oil on linen, 78,7 x 61 x 2,5 cm (31 x 24 x 1 in.). Fredrik Nilsen. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is delighted to present a new series of oil paintings and watercolours by American artist Lesley Vance. This exhibition, the third with the gallery, demonstrates the change of direction that Vances work has taken since 2014, now moving towards entirely invented images and bringing them towards the allusion of a physical reality. Lesley Vance is an abstract painter whose visual language is rooted in her early engagement with still-life painting. Seeking to move beyond the boundaries of representation, Vance previously developed a process-based approach in which she translated everyday objects into abstract compositions. For these new works, Vance inverted her method. Freed from the rigours of direct observation, she now departs from immediate and improvised forms, often laid down wet-on-wet in concentrated bursts of activity. Henceforth, ... More |
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| Philippe Cognée exhibits a new collection of pieces bathed in nocturnal light at Galerie Templon | | Hake's final 50th-year auction to include million-dollar Star Wars collection | | New large-scale photographic works by Stan Douglas focus on locations of the 2011 London riots | 
Philippe Cognée, Idole, 2017. Wax painting on canvas, 200 x 150 cm ; 78 x 59 in. ©Philippe Cognée. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Templon Paris and Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Philippe Cognée is presenting a new collection of highly personal pieces bathed in nocturnal light. The artist, known for his urban landscapes, returns to the theme of interiors with a series of blurred visions where time is suspended. Using polaroids and photographs from his personal archives, Philippe Cognée takes places that have long been empty and depicts them on canvas: a hotel room, a table set for a special meal, the corner of a library, an unmade bed. Lying somewhere between still life and abstraction, these reconstructed memories question the relationship between painting and memory. The artist pursues his demonstration of the power of painting and its capacity to transcend the everyday. In doing so, he seeks to revitalize the image itself, drained of meaning in a society where it is used to excess. For over twenty years, Philippe Cognée has been exploring ordinary aspects of life motorways, suburban houses, supermarkets, anonymous ... More | | 
Kenner Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi 23 Back-A, AFA 80 NM double-telescoping action figure on blister card, 1978, estimate $75,000-$100,000. All images provided by Hakes Americana.
YORK, PA.- Hakes Americana will conclude its stellar 50th year with a Nov. 14-16 auction of extremely rare comic books, original comic art, political items, concert posters, Disney and sports memorabilia. The centerpiece of the sale is the 100% AFA-graded Russell Branton Star Wars collection. Brantons extraordinary assemblage of vintage Star Wars rarities is regarded as the finest in the hobby and is featured in the Nov. 16 session. As is the tradition at Hakes, the auction will open with early American political memorabilia. A 1920 Americanize America Vote For Cox And Roosevelt jugate button is the sections headliner. Considered the most iconic and desired button in the world of political campaign material, its rarity has been compared to that of the Honus Wagner T206 tobacco card or Action Comics #1. High-grade examples of this button seldom appear at auction. The one in Hakes sale is expected to reach ... More | | 
Stan Douglas, Pembury Estate, 2017. C-print on dibond. Print size 150 x 300 cm. 59 1/8 x 118 1/8 in © Stan Douglas. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London.
LONDON.- The first in a new series of works triggered by the uprisings of the early 2010s, including the Arab Spring and riots across global locations including London and the artists home town of Vancouver, these photographs focus on scenes associated with events in August 2011, when thousands of people rioted across London boroughs: in Tottenham, where protests started following the shooting by police of Mark Duggan, and Hackney Downs, where events were focused around the Pembury Estate. To create the panoramic mise-en-scènes on display, Douglas has conducted intensive research, mining sources including contemporary aerial news reports and still images. He also chartered a helicopter to fly over the locations, meticulously combining his own footage with media images to reconstruct moments frozen at specific points in the unfolding disturbance. Occasions of flux, transformation and ... More |
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 Angela Doane appointed by BFI as new Head of Collections and InformationLONDON.- The BFI today announced that Angela Doane has joined the BFI as Head of Collections and Information, directly reporting to BFI Creative Director, Heather Stewart. Angela will lead on developing the collections of the BFI National Archive and BFI Reuben Library, managing curation, conservation, information and library teams and leading on strategies to develop, interpret, care for and deliver access to the BFIs world-class collection of film and television. Angelas role will ensure the successful development of the BFI Filmography, launched in September 2017 and will be instrumental in driving the BFIs Heritage 2022 strategy, preserving television heritage by digitising at least 100,000 of the most significant British TV programmes currently only available on obsolete video formats. With over two decades of experience in collections ... More Dean Martin's Diego Rivera watercolor to appear at auctionNEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Bonhams will offer Hilando (La tejedora) (estimate: $200,000-300,000), a beautiful watercolor by renowned Mexican artist Diego Rivera from the Collection of the late Dean and Jeanne Martin in the Impressionist & Modern Art sale on November 14. This previously unpublished work from the Martins collection can be seen in the left background of a 1966 family portrait taken at their 601 Mountain Drive home in Beverly Hills. Famously The King of Cool, Dean Martins résumé included actor, comedian, singer, film producer, entertainer extraordinaire, and of course as a charismatic member of the Rat Pack. His wife Jeanne, a former Orange Bowl queen from Coral Gables, Florida, had an affinity for the arts of Mexico, and collected pre-Columbian pottery and traditional Mexican textiles. This tender painting, Hilando (La tejedora), shows ... More Ursula Johnson wins 2017 Sobey Art Award, Canada's most prestigious contemporary art prizeOTTAWA.- The jury for the 2017 Sobey Art Award announced Ursula Johnson as the winner of Canadas CA$50,000 prestigious contemporary art prize. She is the fourteenth Canadian artist under 40 to win the distinguished annual award. The announcement was made during a gala event held Wednesday evening at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. The 37-year-old artist, who was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and represents the Atlantic region, was presented with the award by last years winner, Jeremy Shaw (West Coast and Yukon). On receiving the award, Ursula Johnson said: "I am so grateful for winning this award! I have so much gratitude to have been selected to represent my region and to be in the company of such brilliant artists who are working in amazing ways! This gift of being the winner of the Sobey Art Award means that I will now have ... More Exhibition showcases rare works by seventeenth-century Chinese painterBERKELEY, CA.- One of the most influential artists of seventeenth-century imperial China is the subject of a major museum survey, the artists first in North America, when the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou. The exhibition includes twenty-five rarely exhibited works that exemplify Chens important role in driving the course of Chinese art history. The paintings are drawn from BAMPFAs own substantial holdings of Chinese art and from international collections, including works from the Shanghai Museum that have never been exhibited in the United States. A celebrated figure in his own short lifetime, Chen Hongshou (1599 1652) continues to be regarded as one of imperial Chinas most skilled figurative artists, known for bird-and-flower as well as landscape paintings ... More New sculptural, video, and print works by Jonathan Monaghan on view at bitforms galleryNEW YORK, NY.- bitforms gallery announces Disco Beast, Jonathan Monaghans second solo exhibition with the gallery, which features new sculptural, video, and print works. Drawing on a range of aesthetic references, such as surveillance technology and Beaux-Arts architecture, Monaghan presents an unsettling vision of reality. The titular work, Disco Beast, is a seamlessly looped eighteen minute video installation following a unicorn through abandoned, opulent consumer environments rendered meticulously by the artist using 3D computer animation techniques. These barren, glossy landscapes evoke a hyper-capitalist dystopia, fashioned in reaction to the unchecked optimism of Silicon Valley and the corporate techno-sphere. In the videos climax, an omnipotent cell phone charging station captures the unicorn. Its lifeless body resurrects in ... More Nancy Hoffman Gallery opens an exhibition of small square format watercolors by Joseph RaffaelNEW YORK, NY.- On October 26, an exhibition of small square format watercolors by Joseph Raffael, opened at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, continuing through December 9. For the first time in over twenty years the artist has devoted himself to an intimate scale, and for the first time he has eschewed landscape or vertical format in favor of the post-modern square to explore in depth and breadth the garden single bloom by single bloom. Each watercolor is a flower, some recognizable--a rose or peony; others abstract as the artist zeroes in on the central core of the flower opened and unfurling its myriad petals, like a pulsing heart. While each work depicts a bloom from the artists own garden, the show itself is about painting, painting in watercolor, and above all, about the artists appreciation of life in his 9th decade. For many years Raffael has painted on the heroic scale ... More Rare Gothic Revival chairs at auctionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The six armchairs and eight side chairs offered at Freemans American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts sale on November 15 are one of the last groups of seating designed by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) still in private hands. Securely documented furniture by Davis exists for only four of his houses: Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York (first built as Knoll 1838-1842, expanded into the present house 1864-1867); Belmead in Powhatan County, Virginia (built 1845-1848), Ericstan in Tarrytown, New York (built 1855-1859), and Walnut Wood in Bridgeport, Connecticut (built 1846-1850). The 14 chairs in the sale were made for Ericstan about 1857 by the firm of Burns and Brother in New York City, the same firm that made the lost chairs for the original Knoll dining room at the same period. Although they have less carving than ... More Asya Geisberg Gallery opens second solo exhibition of Amsterdam-based Marjolijn de WitNEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting How Things Act, the second solo exhibition of Amsterdam-based Marjolijn de Wit. While De Wit has always worked in diverse media, seamlessly interweaving photography, sculpture, and installation, in How Things Act, her paintings alternate with and echo smaller ceramic-photo collages. De Wit continues her insight into the field of future archaeology, creating a trail of crumbs for imaginary viewers millennia from now. She explores these ideas in her collages, layering ceramic shards upon backdrops of textbook reprints or imagery drawn from old National Geographics. In her paintings, enigmatic fragmented shapes sit atop abstracted backgrounds that originate from the same landscapes, or resemble construction material. In each media, De Wits work causes the viewer to question what exists ... More Beatrice Lettice Boyle and Jessie Makinson open exhibition at Frameless GalleryLONDON.- Teasing threads from art history, Beatrice Lettice Boyle and Jessie Makinson readdress a patriarchal past from a female perspective. They pluck themes and narratives from historical precedent, creating a bold new context for the motifs they select. ShungaÂthe historical Japanese art of erotic printshas been an inspiration to both artists. Explicit illustrations of sexual relations, Shunga prints depict a varied world of eroticised sexual possibility. Frequently tender and humorous, the woodblock prints were made for men and women of all classes to enjoy. In this egalitarian art form, women are active participants rather than passive permission givers. Similarly, in Boyle and Makinsons works, women have agency. They hold sexual power and disrupt societal standards and expectations. Their artworks feature unapologetically feminine references: to crafts, ... More Six figure set of Basquiat prints headlines Swann Contemporary SaleNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries announces their largest and most encyclopedic sale of Contemporary Art to date, featuring scarce and important works by such titans as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yves Klein and Christo. Also in the Thursday, November 16 auction is the largest section of sculpture the department has ever offered, and a slew of works that toe the line between two- and three- dimensions, epitomizing the paradoxical nature of postmodernism. The sale is led by a set of four evocative prints by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled: Four Prints, 1983-2001, rarely seen complete at auction. Each panel features the graffiti-inspired enigmatic figures for which the visionary artist is known. The set carries an estimate of $250,000 to $350,000. Another highlight is a delicate triptych by the master of the minimal, Yves Klein: L' IKB, l'IKG, et l'immatériel vous souhaitent ... More New Orleans gave birth to Fats Domino - and rock 'n' rollNEW ORLEANS (AFP).- Fats Domino's death marks the passing of an era in New Orleans, the city whose uniquely boisterous cultural brew created his sound -- and, with it, rock 'n' roll. Domino, who died Tuesday at age 89, embodied "The Big Easy" on the Mississippi River like perhaps no other musician since jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong. Despite his fame, he proudly livetin the working-class Lower Ninth Ward, returning after the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and would generally end his concerts with a festive "When the Saints Go Marching In," the city's unofficial anthem. Raised listening to the boogie-woogie pianists who packed New Orleans clubs, Domino became one of the top-selling acts of the 1950s and rivaled Elvis Presley as the King of Rock 'n' Roll. But the self-effacing Domino once said: "Everybody started calling my music rock ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Lee Krasner was born October 27, 1908. Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 - June 19, 1984) was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the abstract expressionism movement. In this 1949 photo provided by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, artists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock are shown in their garden at their East Hampton, N.Y., home.
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