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| | Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens an exhibition of paintings by Jason Stewart | |
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Jason Stewart, Sunfrost, 2016. Acrylic on Linen, 24 x 24.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art presents Constructing Color / Painting by Jason Stewart, an exhibition by New York City / Hudson Valley based artist Jason Stewart. This is Jasons first show at Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art and his eighth solo show in NYC. With a veteran eye, Jason explores pure color: yellows, reds, greens, oranges, blues, greys, and blacks to construct the visual experience, often inviting urgent shifts into the visual field. Recent exhibitions include Geary Contemporary, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; and The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME. Jason studied with Richard Stankeiwicz at the University at Albany, during his MFA in painting. The author, publisher, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A master artisan in the Eli Wilner & Company studio hand carves ornament during the creation of two replica frames for the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University.
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| | Eli Wilner & Company Matching Funds for Museums program continues outreach | | To be unveiled at Sotheby's: One of the greatest collections of Orientalist paintings ever assembled | | Escape games go global from humble Hungary origins | 
Lengths of molding are shaped at the Eli Wilner & Company studio during the creation of two replica frames for the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University.
NEW YORK, NY.- Through their matching funds program, Eli Wilner & Company has helped museums and other non-profit institutions across the country bring important reframing and frame restoration projects to completion. This is a benefit to the value of the overall collection and the general publics greater enjoyment and understanding of the cultural objects. During the spring and summer of 2019, the Wilner studio artisans have undertaken projects for the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Lafayette Art Galleries & Collections at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It should be noted, that all three of these institutions are return clients to Eli Wilner & Company. For Eskenazi, they have created historically-appropriate replicas ... More | | 
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Prayers in the Mosque, oil on canvas, 1892 (detail), est. £1,500,000-2,000,000 / $1,810,700-2,414,300. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Precious records of the history of the Islamic world, Orientalist paintings provide a unique window into a realm that has forever changed, capturing in technicolour detail every aspect of life in the region. This autumn, visitors to Sothebys London galleries will experience every facet of daily life in the Arab, Ottoman, and Islamic worlds through the paintings of the renowned Najd Collection. Recorded in a publication that today stands as one of the leading resources for Orientalist art, the Najd Collection enjoys a celebrated status. Though certain paintings from the 155-strong collection have occasionally been exhibited in leading institutions around the world, this superlative assemblage of works has never before been displayed in its entirety. Beginning on October 11th this year, the Najd Collection will be unveiled to the public for the very first time coinciding with the British ... More | | 
Rijksmuseum Escape Game. Photo: Rijksmuseum.
BUDAPEST (AFP).- When Attila Gyurkovics created Europe's first escape game in Budapest, all he needed was some padlocks, a cellar, and a large helping of audacity. But after first appearing in Japan in the 2000s, such immersion games have now gone global, offering a vast range of puzzling experiences that offer creative and fun ways to escape a sticky situation. Whether solving a murder in a medieval crypt or saving the world from a deadly virus, the principle is always the same: players locked in an enclosed space quickly hunt for clues to find out how to exit "the room". While the idea was still unheard of in Europe, Gyurkovics, a social worker, spent his spare time working out how to transpose into real life his passion for logic games and cracking codes. His first escape room, Parapark, opened in 2011 in a dank sparsely-furnished cellar, and was, according to Gyurkovics, "the first real life escape room in the whole galaxy", according to him. "I was surprised to discover ... More |
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| | Sotheby's to offer the most valuable collection of whisky ever to be sold at auction | | Freeman's moving to new flagship location at 2400 market street, Philadelphia | | Exhibition sddresses the darker fears that arise when we encounter the unknown | 
Brora Limited Edition, 40 Year Old, 1972, 59.1% Estimate £12,500-18,000 / $15,000-20,000. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- With collectors thirst for the finest and rarest examples of Scotch whisky increasingly reaching new heights, this autumn Sothebys will present The Ultimate Whisky Collection, the most valuable collection of whisky ever to be sold at auction, and the Companys first single-owner offering of spirits. Showcasing the most comprehensive range of desirable Scotch whisky to come to the market from a private cellar, the collection is estimated to bring in the region of £4 million ($4.8 million). The sale will open for online bidding on 27 September 2019 and culminate in a live auction on 24 October at the Olympia event space in West Kensington, London, alongside RM Sothebys sale of collectible motor cars on the same day, an annual highlight on the European collector car calendar since 2007. The Ultimate Whisky Collector had always remained ... More | | 
Rendering of reception area in gallery at 2400 Market Street.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- After nearly a century at 1808 Chestnut Street, Freemans will be relocating its flagship location to Center Citys prestigious 2400 Market Street. Featuring a purpose-built gallery and auction room with corporate offices above, Freemans will join the 600,000 square-foot development that has been recently hailed as one of the biggest and most visible mixed-use projects in Philadelphia. Designed to meet the needs of both emerging and established collectors, the modern development at 2400 Market Street will enhance the auction experience for the companys local and international clientele. In the new gallery, Freemans will host a year-round season of curated fine auctions across multiple disciplines. They are also planning to cultivate the space as a premier cultural venue and are currently developing a program of events set to begin in Spring 2020 that will be open to the Philadelphia community ... More | | 
Ewa Juszkiewicz, Portrait of a lady (after Louis Leopold Boilly), 2019. Oil on canvas, 79 x 63 in. 200.7 x 160 cm. © Ewa Juszkiewicz. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian presents Domestic Horror, an exhibition organized by Bill Powers. On view are works by Natalie Ball, Louise Bonnet, Ginny Casey, Genieve Figgis, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Tanya Merrill, Cheikh Ndiaye, Rene Ricard, Pauline Shaw, Lucien Smith (with Glenn OBrien), Vaughn Spann, and Chloe Wise. Featuring several young and emerging artists, this exhibition includes many specially commissioned works. Addressing the darker fears that arise when we encounter the unknown, Domestic Horror probes the friction between the civilized world and baser human impulses. The word domestic contains a potent double meaning here, alluding to the unintended consequences that can occurin private life and in a larger national and cultural lifewhere internalized anxieties meet external pressures. Ndiaye and Spann confront the perils of political turmoil by disrupting ... More |
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| | Metro Pictures presents an exhibition by Berlin-based artist Judith Hopf | | Morris Museum acquires Mechanical Music Library International | | Phillips presents property from a Private Collection in the New York Photographs Auction on 1 October | 
Judith Hopf, Alifi. Installation view, 2019. Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Metro Pictures presents the first exhibition by Berlin-based artist Judith Hopf with the gallery. Comprised of three different sculptural seriesWalls, Tongues, and Pearsthe works on view further Hopfs practice of employing everyday construction materials and common manufacturing processes to investigate the social dynamics of the contemporary built environment and its influence on human behavior. Fluctuating between the sculptural and the architectural, the Walls and Pears on view are an extension of Hopfs recent series of large red brick works. In the front gallery, a six-by-seven-foot brick wall appears to have had a chunk bitten off the top and a very large hole drilled through the middle. The cut-out brick circle and missing corner are presented nearby on the gallery floor, provoking one to question if what is missing is just as or more important than what remains. Elsewhere, three over ... More | | 
The MMLI was created by William H. Edgerton of Darien CT, a longtime collector and enthusiast of mechanical music and automata.
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum has acquired the Mechanical Music Library International, containing approximately 6000 items, comprised of books, journals, magazines, newsletters, bulletins, directories, trade and auction catalogs, sound media and period prints, all related to the field of mechanical musical instruments and automata. On August 20th, 2019 the library was physically transferred to the Morris Museum, home to the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata. The addition of this library will serve as a vital resource for the ongoing study and research of that collection. The MMLI was created by William H. Edgerton of Darien CT, a longtime collector and enthusiast of mechanical music and automata. Over the years more than 60 donors have contributed to the Library with major donations having come ... More | | 
Robert Polidori, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Duchesse du Maine, Attributed to Francois de Troy, Salle Les Princesses Royales (86) and ANR.02.004, Salles du XVII, Aile du Nord, 1er Etage, Versailles, 1984. Estimate $20,000 30,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announces the sale of World View: Property from a Private Collection as a highlight of the fall sale season. To be included in the New York Photographs auction on 1 October, World View was formed over the course of twenty years and includes images encapsulating the human experience. This dynamic collection includes a wide-ranging group of photographs which, when combined, display the remarkable diversity of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries. Vanessa Hallett, Deputy Chairwoman, Americas, and Worldwide Head of Photographs, said, From New York City to Long Beach, and from Paris to Bangkok, World View brings together images from across the globe. The collection is full of visual and cultural juxtapositions that address ... More |
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| | Nina Katchadourian joins Pace Gallery | | Housatonic Museum of Art re-opens after one year closure | | Danziger Gallery presents the works of four Californian creative artists with varied backgrounds | 
Nina Katchadourian. Photo by Jennifer Garza-Cuen, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced representation of Nina Katchadourian, an interdisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice spans video, performance, sound, sculpture, and photography, as well as public projects. Raised in California and currently based in Brooklyn and Berlin, Katchadourian has embraced an optimistic search for the artistic potential in the mundane, resulting in works that both subvert and activate our usual sense of life and its surroundings. We are thrilled to have Nina as part of the Pace family. Over the course of her esteemed career, Nina has created objects and moments that upend the expectations of our collective consciousness. With the close support and collaboration of her longtime San Francisco dealer, Catharine Clark, we look forward to sharing Ninas unique vision with a broader audience.Marc Glimcher, CEO and President of Pace Gallery. Katchadourian's works are connected across her dive ... More | | 
Mari Rantanen Aesthetic Ecstacy and Uncertain Universe 2019 (detail), 72 x 120 inches acrylic and pigments on canvas.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.- The Housatonic Museum announced it is presenting Close to the Line: Mari Rantanen and Kirsten Reynolds. An investigation into geometric abstraction through a performative lens, the exhibit offers brightly painted canvasses and sculptural installations for visitors to reconsider the history of 20th century geometric abstraction, its evolution and its place in the 21st century. The exhibition is on view in the museums Burt Chernow Galleries September 5 October 12, 2019. Close to the Line pairs paintings by Mari Rantanen (b. 1956, Finland) and sculptural installation by Kirsten Reynolds (b. 1972, United States) in a selection made by independent curator Barbara OBrien. Paired together for the first time, both artists utilize an ambitious, formal vocabulary of intense color relationships, and swooping, geometric line. A gallery walk-through with the curator and the artists will take place at noon ... More | | 
Ed Templeton, Girl With Gun Lighter, 2019. Acrylic ink on Hotel Stationery, 11 x 8.5. Signed and dated on verso.
NEW YORK, NY.- Danziger Gallery presents the show Cali Style featuring the work of Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, Nick Fouquet, and Will Adler. A look at four Californian creative artists with varied backgrounds - a street artist, a skate boarder, a hat maker, and a surf photographer the show embraces the maverick spirit of the west coast and the originality and diversity of its creative expression. Barry McGee was raised in San Francisco and continues to live and work there. His boldly graphic, colorful work incorporates a multitude of influences graffiti art, vernacular signage, and Op Art but is mostly evocative of the street art where his work began. He has had solo shows at the Hammer Museum, Prada Foundation and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth amongst others. Ed Templeton grew up and lives in Huntington Beach. While Templeton originally gained fame as a professional skateboarder, he is ... More |
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September's Must-See Museum Exhibitions
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 Arts Council England commits new investment for ArnolfiniBRISTOL.- Arnolfini, Bristols international centre for contemporary art, and Arts Council England announced a major new investment of £1.8 million until 2022, that secures the sustainable future of the gallery presenting a bold new programme over the next three years. Arnolfini relaunches as an independent charity that is part of UWE Bristol in a partnership that was announced in January 2019. Its governance is established to ensure that Arnolfini continues to thrive in its new structure with strong support from the University. UWE Bristol also owns Bush House, the distinctive waterfront building Arnolfini has inhabited since 1975, and the organisations will work closely together to ensure mutual benefit to artists, audiences, academics and students. Arnolfini continues to receive ongoing funding from the Ashley Clinton ... More  Artist Rinus Van de Velde presents his first ever video installationANTWERP.- Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde is presenting a video installation, a project he has been working on for about two years. The 40-minute video installation, entitled The Villagers, premiered at Rinus Van de Veldes solo exhibition on September 5 at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp. In addition to the video installation, some new charcoal drawings are being presented, as well as small color drawings and three monumental sets from the film. The whole is a total installation in which the spectator enters the universe of the artist. Van de Velde, who is mostly known for his large scale charcoal drawings, has evolved increasingly towards a total artist, creating a tension between fiction and reality by the use of different media such as drawings, sculptures, installations and recently adding the medium of film. His finely rendered, monochromatic drawings ... More  Gallery Alice Mogabgab presents a solo exhibition by Philippe De GobertBRUSSELS.- Philippe De Gobert: studio journeys is the artist's first solo exhibition with Galerie Alice Mogabgab. The exhibition is curated by Michel Baudson and presents two sets of photographs; the first from 2010, inspired by a painting of a Dutch interior from the 17th century, shows a series of doors and almost empty rooms, in which the light magnifies the infinite space; the theme of the second set is New York studios, freely inspired by, for example, Donald Judd's loft or an Edward Hopper painting, so as to accentuate the strange atmosphere or the light of a sunny morning, with the view over the city's rooftops. A model of each space/subject is also presented, to remind us of the scale of the original. Philippe De Gobert begins by constructing a model of a place either imagined or inspired by an existing space, often an artist's studio or an emblematic ... More  Rare masterpiece by Turkish polymath offered at Bonhams 19th Century Art SaleLONDON.- A rare work by the 19th century Turkish painter, Osman Hamdi Bey (1982-1910) leads Bonhams 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art in London on Thursday 26 September. Young Woman Reading, painted in 1880, has an estimate of £600,000-800,000. Osman Hamdi Bey was a remarkable figure who combined his life as an artist with a career as a public administrator in the Ottoman bureaucracy, an archaeologist and as Director of the Imperial Museum, and founder of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum a pioneer of the profession of museum curator in Turkey. He also founded the Istanbul Museum of Fine Arts. Trained initially as a lawyer, Osman Hamdi embraced painting while completing his law studies in Paris in 1860. He studied painting under the great French orientalists Jean-Léon Gérôme and ... More  Exhibition brings together six artists around an exploration of how gestures can conceal realityHONG KONG.- Focusing primarily on works on paper and an installation, Folded Veil at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong prompts one to consider what compels us to make markings, produce symbols, and the intimacies that follow from each encounter. By bringing together the work of Lai Chih-Sheng (b. 1971, Taipei), Kong Chun Hei (b. 1987, Hong Kong), Zhang Ruyi (b. 1985, Shanghai), Liu Yin (b. 1984, Guangzhou), Fabien Mérelle (b. 1981, France) and Ester Fleckner (b. 1983, Denmark), Folded Veil presents an array of approaches, each reflecting metaphysical mental realities that are often subdued or go unnoticed. As such, viewers are led to question prescribed notions of the quality and meaning of materials, and in this subversion probed to contemplate a diversity of existences. Creating a minimalist, atypical reality within everyday ... More  Hermès Himalayan could grab top billing in Heritage Auctions' Autumn Luxury Accessories AuctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- An Hermès Himalayan Birkin is expected to earn top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Autumn Luxury Accessories Auction Sept. 22 in Beverly Hills, California. The Hermès 30cm Himalayan Niloticus Crocodile Birkin Bag with Palladium Hardware (estimate: $80,000-100,000) is a true collectors piece, designed to resemble the beautiful snow-capped Himalaya mountains. Himalayans are extremely rare, and are the pinnacle of any Hermès collection, only offered to VIP clients, Heritage Auctions Luxury Accessories Director Diane DAmato said. Getting the skin that color entails an arduous dye process and is very hard to achieve, which is part of the reason why these bags represent the highest level of Hermès craftsmanship. An Hermès 28cm Himalayan Niloticus Crocodile Plume Bag with Palladium Hardware (estimate: $45,000- ... More  Bonhams Hong Kong to offer one of America's premier private collections of Modern Chinese PaintingsHONG KONG.- The international auction house Bonhams announces that it has secured one of Americas premier private collections of Modern Chinese paintings for sale. Comprising over 280 works in total, The Reverend Richard Fabian Collection of Chinese Paintings spans from the Kangxi and Qianlong period to the 1980s, encompassing every major school with examples by such masters as Ren Yi, Xugu, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi, and Li Keran, among others. A select group of 38 works will debut at Bonhams Hong Kong on 9 October. The Collector, Reverend Richard Fabian Founder and rector of San Francisco's ecumenical St. Gregory Nyssen Episcopal Church first discovered the compelling beauty of Chinese paintings while majoring in Chinese art at Yale University in the 1960s. ... More  Heritage Auctions Rock H. Currier Collection of Fine Minerals Auction soars above $3.4 million DALLAS, TX.- Pre-auction estimates were smashed as swarms of collectors went after 322 specimens from the estate of one of the most legendary mineral collectors of the last 50 years, driving the results for Heritage Auctions Rock H. Currier Collection of Fine Minerals Auction to $3,403,406 Aug. 26 in Dallas. The sale, held in a packed auction room after a heavily attended preview, boasted a 100% sell-through rate by value and by lots sold, which is virtually unheard of in the category. The auction celebrated the lifelong passion of Currier, who spent a lifetime traveling the world collecting minerals for his business and for his extraordinary personal collection. The auction was a stellar success, and Heritage Nature & Science was pleased to honor the memory of the legendary, larger-than-life figure who meant so much to the mineral ... More  Honor Fraser presents Optimistically Melting, an exhibition of new work by Kenny ScharfLOS ANGELES, CA.- Defying expectations has long been a hallmark of the work of Kenny Scharf. Taught to revere Abstract Expressionism in art school during the 70s, Scharf chose to paint cartoon figures and used outlandish colors. Frustrated with the inaccessible gallery and museum system in the 80s, he spray-painted throughout New York City, ensuring that everyone could see his bold work. Along with his peers, Scharf has always pushed against the boundaries of the established art world and pursued his own artistic path that encompasses painting, video, sculpture, prints, fashion, and more. After four decades of constant production, Scharfs latest group of paintings introduces a new subject: the still life. The trope of flowers in a vase appears throughout Western art, notably in the work of artists such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Vincent Van Gogh, and ... More  Kelly Kinzle tapped to head Morphy Auctions' new Americana, Folk Art & American Decorative Arts divisionDENVER, PA.- Dan Morphy, president of Morphy Auctions, has announced a powerful new addition to the companys roster of expert consultants. Prominent Pennsylvania Americana dealer Kelly Kinzle has been appointed to help launch and supervise Morphys new Americana, Folk Art & American Decorative Arts division. Kelly and I have known each other for more than twenty years. His reputation and knowledge of all types of Americana and American decorative art is second to none. On top of that, hes well versed in American fine art, said Dan Morphy. There are very few in Kellys league. We feel so privileged that he agreed to join our team of consultants. Kinzle, who operates his own antiques business on the square in historic New Oxford, Pennsylvania, grew up in an atmosphere of antiques and auctions. Both his parents were antiques ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-born illustrator Sergio Aragonés was born September 06, 1937. Sergio Aragonés Domenech (born 6 September 1937, Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain) is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer. In this image: Mad Magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, seated far right, takes a photo of fellow cartoonist Sergio Aragones, left, and Benjamin Meglin during an event to honor Aragones, Davis, and others, including Benjamin's grandfather former magazine editor Nick Meglin, Friday, Oct. 11, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Aragones and Davis where among eight veteran MAD contributors gathering Saturday for a rare reunion.
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