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Peru spent 20 years trying to secure the return of this gold funerary mask from the pre-Columbian Sican culture (AFP Photo/HO)
LIMA (AFP).- Germany has returned a pre-Columbian gold funerary mask to Peru following a 20-year legal and diplomatic battle, the South American country's culture minister said on Thursday. Peru had reported the eighth century Sican mask's disappearance in 1999, after which it was confiscated by Interpol from the German city of Wiesbaden. "I'm happy to receive one of the most emblematic assets from the north Peruvian cultures, the Sican Mask," said Patricia Balbuena in a statement. The mask was handed over to the Peruvian embassy in Berlin by Bavarian authorities. The Munich regional court ordered the mask be returned to Peru in December 2016 after it had been confiscated by the public prosecutor. It is due to arrive in Peru in the coming weeks. Like neighboring Ecuador, which secured the return ... More |
Elegantly Proportioned Artistry and Warm Camelhair Tones of Antique Persian Serab Carpets Create Central Focus to Grand Foyer This Claremont Rug Company whole home project for a massive lakeside family compound in the High Sierras demanded carpets equal to the grandeur of the most opulent and ambitious Beaux Arts-inspired interiors. This extremely rare, room-size antique Persian Serab camelhair rug handles this challenge by harmonizing the theme of light and dark that appears in the gilt-iron metalwork and lofty domed ceiling of the entry. The 19th century art carpet provides a tactile, human touch to soften the impact of each commanding decorative feature.
| Exhibition presents works by artists who turn fragments of everyday life into legible narratives | | Sotheby's to offer extraordinary Chinese art from the fabled collection of Stephen Junkunc, III | | Exhibition marks Hauser & Wirth's first solo presentation of Lygia Pape's work in the United States | 
Jeff Wall, Tenants, 2007 (detail). Silver gelatin print, 100 9/16 x 132 inches / 255.4 x 335.3 cm. Edition of 3. Courtesy of the Artist and Gagosian.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gagosian is presenting I Dont Like Fiction, I Like History, with works by Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Duane Hanson, Sharon Lockhart, and Jeff Wall. Using the pictorial languages of realism and illusion, the participating artists turn fragments of everyday life into legible narratives. Duane Hansons ensemble of construction workers at rest, Lunchbreak (1989), and a figure modeled after his own child in a quiet moment, Child with Puzzle (1978), are installed with photographic works that both reflect and complicate ideas of recorded reality and subjective, constructed composition. Hansons hyperreal human figures, often in mundane situations, have been compared to Pop and to Photorealism; instantly and innately familiar, they come as close to photography as three-dimensional sculpture can. Yet in their verisimilitude, these effigies of house painters, janitors, security ... More | | 
A Large and Rare Brown Conglomerate Limestone Head of a Luohan Song - Early Ming Dynasty Estimate $150/250,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- As a highlight of our upcoming Asia Week sale series in New York, Sothebys will present an extraordinary group of Chinese art from the collection of Stephen Junkunc, III one of the largest and most important collections of Chinese art ever assembled in the United States. At its height in the mid-20th century, the Junkunc Collection numbered over 2,000 examples of exceptional Chinese porcelain once including two examples of the fabled Ru ware jade, bronzes, paintings and Buddhist sculptures. The collection serves as a testament to a period of unprecedented abundance of important Chinese material available in the West, as well as Junkunc's limitless intellectual curiosity, coupled with the means and savvy to acquire internationally from the leading dealers in the field. Angela McAteer, Head of Sothebys Chinese Works of Art Department in New York, commented: It has been a true ... More | | 
Lygia Pape, Red and Black Amazonino (Amazonino Vermelho e Preto) (installation view), 1990. Automotive paint on iron, 320 x 280.5 x 91.4 cm / 126 x 110 3/8 x 36 in © Lygia Pape. Courtesy Projeto Lygia Pape and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- A founding member of Brazils Neo-Concrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927 2004) valued art that favored the primacy of the viewer and his or her sensorial experience. Pape explored rich territory via the media of sculpture, drawing, engraving, filmmaking, and installation, and cemented her reputation as one of the most significant Brazilian artists of her generation. On view from 6 September through 20 October at Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street, this exhibition marks the gallerys first solo presentation of Papes work in the United States since announcing worldwide representation of Projeto Lygia Pape in 2016. Spanning Papes multidisciplinary practice, this exhibition unpacks the artists singular vision, mining her profound and often playful approach to the physical and material experience ... More |
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| Exhibition at Nailya Alexander Gallery celebrates the eightieth birthday of George Tice | | Sotheby's to offer over 100 paintings and calligraphy spanning the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties | | Rare movie memorabilia on show for London auction | 
George Tice (b. 1938, Newark), Lincoln Motel and Abe's Disco, Newark, NJ, 1981, printed 2/3/82. Selenium waxed gelatin silver print. Image: 13 1/8 x 10 3/8 in. (33.3 x 26.4 cm) Mount: 17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.6 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery celebrates the eightieth birthday of George Tice with his third solo exhibition at the gallery from September 6 through October 13, 2018. The exhibition commemorates the artists life and his six decades of contributions to the fields of fine art photography, printmaking, and American history. Born on October 13, 1938 in Newark, New Jersey, George Tice was inspired as a young boy by his fathers photo albums to purchase a $29.95 Kodak Pony camera and begin taking photographs. At age fourteen, he became the youngest member of the Carteret Camera Club, and a few years later enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a photographers mate. In 1959, the twenty-year-old Tice photographed an explosion aboard the USS Wasp. The photograph made the front page of The New York Times and caught the attention of Edward Steichen, then Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum ... More | | 
Zhu Da (Bada Shanren) (1626 1705), Pine Tree and Rock. Ink on paper, hanging scroll. Estimate: HK$8,000,000-10,000,000 / US$1,020,000-1,280,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Comprising over 100 lots, Sothebys Hong Kong Classical Chinese Paintings Autumn Sale on 1 October 2018 will present a tightly curated selection of fine and rare calligraphy and paintings with a particular focus on the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The sale is anchored by an exceptional handscroll by Shen Zhou, Landscape of Yu Ying Tang, created in memory of his grandmother, together with other major highlights including Zhu Da (Bada Shanren)s Pine Tree and Rock, and Colophon of Yan Wenguis Painting, which was originally kept in the Forbidden City. Steven Zuo, Head of Classical Chinese Paintings, Sothebys Asia, comments, Our Classical Chinese Paintings sale this season is distinguished by a group of seminal works from across the dynasties, many of which were sourced from prominent private collections around the world. We are particularly thrilled to present two rare and important works: Landscape of Y ... More | | 
The jacket worn by Harrison Ford's character Han Solo in the 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' film is on show at the Imax in central London on September 6, 2018 and will be auctioned on September 20. Adrian DENNIS / AFP
LONDON (AFP).- Han Solo's jacket from "The Empire Strikes Back" and Indiana Jones' signature hat top off some dazzling movie memorabilia that went on display in London on Thursday before being auctioned later this month. More than 600 props and costumes from film and television, including Marty McFly's hoverboard in "Back To The Future Part II", will go under the hammer in the British capital on September 20. Around a third of the rare and unique lots can be viewed at the BFI IMAX complex ahead of the bidding. "We've got some of the best (items) from the pinnacle of all the films," said Sian Taylor, project manager at organiser Prop Store -- namechecking seminal franchises from "Star Wars" and "Batman" to "The Terminator" and "The Lord of the Rings". The film memorabilia seller has held the annual auction since 2014, and expects this year's collection to fetch a record £3.5 million ($4.6 million, 3.9 million euros). "It's ... More |
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| Monumental portrait of John Wayne by Norman Rockwell, online bidding exclusively on Bidsquare | | 'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights' star Burt Reynolds dies | | Betty Cuningham Gallery opens exhibition of paintings and drawings by Rackstraw Downes | 
Norman Rockwell, John Wayne; Estimate $1,000,000-1,500,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Headlining Jackson Hole Art Auction's September sale is a monumental portrait of John Wayne by Norman Rockwell. Fresh to the auction market, this iconic piece celebrates two American legends and will head to the auction block on September 15th. Online bidding will only be available exclusively through Bidsquare. The painting graced the cover of Country Gentleman magazine in the summer of 1976, commissioned by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center to celebrate Waynes induction into the Hall of Great Western Performers. While best known for his animated pictures of everyday life in America, Norman Rockwell also had an enduring connection with Hollywood. He painted a number of movie illustrations and posters, including the 1966 remake of Stagecoach - the original 1939 film that coincidentally led to John Wayne's first major break-out role. Rockwell even won a bit part in the 1966 ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on September 7, 2001 US actor Burt Reynolds poses for a picture during the Deauville Festival of American Cinema. Alain JOCARD / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed heart-throb of 1970s cinema who won acclaim in "Deliverance" and a host of awards later in his career for "Boogie Nights," died on Thursday, his family announced. The famously suave 82-year-old, a huge box office draw at his peak who had a reputation as a hard-drinking playboy, reportedly suffered a heart attack and died at a hospital in Florida. "It is with a broken heart that I said goodbye to my uncle today," the actor's niece Nancy Lee Hess, said in a statement sent to AFP. "My uncle was not just a movie icon; he was a generous, passionate and sensitive man, who was dedicated to his family, friends, fans and acting students." Reynolds, whose career spanned six decades, earned a Golden Globe, Oscar nomination and several critics' awards for his portrayal of porn director Jack Horner in the 1997 film "Boogie Nights." Last ... More | | 
Rackstraw Downes, George Washington Bridge Exit Ramp Over Riverside Drive, NYC, 2015 (detail). Oil on linen, 20 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. (51.44 x 49.85 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Rackstraw Downes, Paintings and Drawings, opened the season at Betty Cuningham Gallery on Wednesday, September 5th. This is Downes first solo show since 2014. His steadfast commitment to painting from observation, on site from start to finish, remains tantamount. Among the 11 paintings on view are three interiors of the artists living/studio space: two looking to the west (one painted standing, one sitting) and a third looking to the east - every chair, book, light, etc. considered anew, part of a familiar environment seen freshly. The site of three other paintings is an intersection near Columbia Presbyterian Hospital; here Downes turns the ordinary into the extraordinary observing each angle, far, near, north, and south. In an atypical vertical painting, Outdoor Passageway at 15 Rivington, Downes reveals and reveres all, from weeds to ... More |
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| Littlejohn Contemporary exhibits recent digital composite ink prints by Maggie Taylor | | Lark Mason Associates celebrates new exhibition gallery with The Art of Dining: Now live on iGavelAuctions.com | | Works featuring Tamiko Kawata's signature use of safety pins on view at Garvey/Simon | 
Maggie Taylor, What Do You Call Yourself, 2018 (detail). Archival ink print, 22 x 22.
NEW YORK, NY.- Littlejohn Contemporary is presenting a one-person exhibition of recent digital composite ink prints by Maggie Taylor. Through The Looking-Glass and Other Stories runs from September 4th through October 6th, 2018. This exhibition is being presented in conjunction with the release of the artists new book published by Moth House Press, Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There with images created by Maggie Taylor. Among the statements in his essay accompanying the book, Thomas W. Southall has written: Taylors use of antique nineteenth-century photographic sources including anonymous daguerreotypes and tintypes imbues her imagery with a Victorian character appropriate to the setting of Carrolls narrative. Yet Taylors use of twenty-first-century digital processes and Photoshop montage techniques results in images that are simultaneously hi ... More | | 
A Large Group of German Baroque Style Enameled Glass Drinking Vessels.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- To celebrate the launch of the first phase of the build-out of its new auction house, an historic German fachwerk farmhouse, located in New Braunfels, Texas, in the heart of Texas Hill Country, Lark Mason Associates and iGavelAuctions offer up The Art of Dining. This extraordinary sale of 384 lots representing thousands of fine examples of Venetian, German, English, French, American, and Asian table glass and porcelain serving articles, dinner and other services, serving vessels, silver flatware, and related items from the 17th century up to the 20th century. Says Lark Mason: Were excited to present the first of many sales we intend to hold in this historic 19th century farmhouse, which we moved from a remote ranch location to the center of New Braunfels. For anyone looking for a wedding or anniversary gift, or for starting their holiday shopping early, these items are of extremely fine quality ... More | | 
Tamiko Kawata, CBM-3, 2018. Cardboard, acrylic, 17 x 14.5 x 1.5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon is presenting Tamiko Kawata: Permutations, a selection of panels, sculptures, and installations featuring Kawatas signature use of safety pins as primary building blocks. Kawata weaves together fantasy and minimalism in this exhibition, elevating safety pins from their prosaic object-roles and endowing them with elegance and grandeur. In addition, Kawata introduces corrugated cardboard as a prominent material in this new body of work. This is the artists first solo show at Garvey|Simon. The exhibition closes on October 6, 2018. Born in Japan in 1936, Tamiko Kawata grew up in Tokyo during the climate of the World War II Era. In the early years of her art career, Kawata was largely influenced by Bauhaus and Dada, and then the emergence of the Gutai Group. Begun in 1954, Gutai was a Japanese avant-garde movement with radical, new ideas and ... More |
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 Anthony Adcock opens exhibition at Lyons Wier GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Lyons Wier Gallery is presenting "Foundation" by Anthony Adcock. Every Anthony Adcock exhibition is mounted with the disclaimer, "There is no wood or metal in this exhibition." In today's bustling world, this disclaimer works two-fold; one, as a speed bump to slow the viewer down, and two, as a compass to point the viewer into the realm of painting. Adcock's paintings and sculptures literally resemble the objects found on a job-site; pieces of worn plywood, rusty I-beams, scrap rebar, work tools, etc., and are often dismissed as debris and not actual artwork. Anthony Adcock is a superb example of a Conceptual Realist. A Conceptual Realist is one who utilizes realism as a point of departure focusing on the essence of the subject matter rather than verisimilitude. Adcock creates his artwork by synthesizing the knowledge gleaned from three ... More Comprehensive lineup of exhibitions announced for inauguration of Jameel Arts Centre, DubaiDUBAI.- Art Jameel, the independent organisation that supports arts, education and heritage in the Middle East, today announces the much-anticipated inaugural programming for Jameel Arts Centre, an innovative cultural destination opening in Dubai on November 11, 2018. Designed as a 10,000-square metre, three-storey, multi-disciplinary space by UK-based Serie Architects, Jameel Arts Centre is the first non-governmental contemporary arts institution of its kind in the Gulf. Reflecting the institutions commitment to dynamic programming that resonates with a diverse audience, Jameel Arts Centre launches with a series of four solo shows Artists Rooms by eminent artists from the Middle East and Asia, drawn in part from the Art Jameel Collection; a curated group exhibition, Crude, that considers the complex ... More 'Edo Style: Art of Japan' exhibition opens at The David Roche Foundation ADELAIDE.- The David Roche Foundation opened a major new exhibition Edo Style: Art of Japan (1615-1868) which showcases more than 150 exquisite works of art, drawn predominantly from the renowned Japanese art collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia, with additional items from The David Roche Collection and private collections. This new collaboration between The David Roche Collection and the Art Gallery of South Australia brings together outstanding works of Japanese art. David Roche had a close and longstanding relationship with the Art Gallery with a number of his works displayed in important exhibitions at the Gallery from the 1990s. David had a love of Japanese art and travelled extensively to Japan to add small items to his vast collection. David would be thrilled with this collaboration said Robert Reason, Senior Curator, The David Roche ... More Letitia Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Basir MahmoodBEIRUT.- Letitia Gallery announces Eyes Recently Seen, a solo exhibition by Basir Mahmood. Curated by Lauren Wetmore, the show presents new and existing photographic and video works which reveal the distinctive processes by which the artist recreates his own visual experiences. Fascinated by the structures of daily life labour, hierarchy, distribution and identity Mahmoods photographs and videos occupy a space between staged scenes and spontaneous documentation. In Eyes Recently Seen, works from the past five years of Mahmoods practice including meditations on fishermen (Message to the Sea, 2012) and blessed water (Holy water from Mecca, 2015) are shown together with new pieces that investigate communal human consumption. Taken together, the works demonstrate the artists position in relation to the various social structures ... More 'NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960' opens at New York University's Grey Art Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 19321960 poignantly portrays life in Italy through the lens of photography before, during, and after World War II. While neorealism is associated primarily with cinematic and literary depictions of dire postwar conditions, this is the first major museum exhibition to highlight key photographers active at the time. Featuring approximately 175 photographsprimarily vintage printsby over 60 Italian artists, NeoRealismo pairs them with the original publications in which they circulatedillustrated magazines, photobooks, and exhibition catalogues. On view at NYUs Grey Art Gallery from September 6 through December 8, 2018, the show also includes film excerpts by such notable directors as Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, and Luchino Visconti, alongside related movie posters. Neorealism ... More Two person show opens at JanKossen ContemporaryNEW YORK, NY.- JanKossen Contemporary presents Dialogue, a two-person show featuring German artist Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer and American Troy Simmons, on view from September 6, 2018 October 8, 2018. Although visually both artists appear to be radically different, from Simmons bioorganic and deconstructive aesthetic in contrast to the precise geometric clean lines of Schmitz-Schmelzer, both artists carefully engineer each of their works; For Simmons this involves building and constructing his pieces and then breaking the forms out of the concrete. Inversely, Harald Schmitz-Schmelzers process involves freeing the resin sculpture from the constructed molds he crates. Troy Simmons explores the idea of the Anthropocene and humanitys destructive relationship with the planet. He plays with the viewers notions of nature by depicting it as an ... More Female artist tackles the global climate change crisisNORTH MIAMI, FLA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami is presenting the exhibition Tracing the Red Thread, by distinguished South Florida-based artist Mira Lehr, Sept. 6 Nov. 4, 2018. The multimedia, museum-wide installation reflects Lehrs eco-feminist philosophy, the concept of mankind working with nature rather than dominating over it. Lehr uses the classical myth of Ariadne to explore the beauty, fragility and interconnectedness of the endangered aquatic ecosystem of the South Florida coast. In Lehrs mesmerizing installation, two and three-dimensional works evoke dense thickets of mangroves, the dangerous beauty of jellyfish and the ethereal luminosity of the coral reef. Lehr creates a mysterious world whose seductive beauty reminds us not only of the gifts that nature gives us, but of the importance of preserving them for the future generations ... More Dominic Willsdon appointed executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCURICHMOND, VA.- The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University announced today the appointment of Dominic Willsdon as executive director. In this role, Willsdon will work to advance the mission of the ICA regionally, nationally and internationally. Willsdon comes to the ICA with 18 years of experience as a curator and educator in leadership positions at contemporary art institutions, most recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) where he has served as the Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Practice since 2006. Willsdon will assume the directorship on December 1, 2018. During his tenure at SFMOMA, Willsdon created platforms for new art and ideas from the Bay Area and around the world, promoting creative practices of many kinds, and engaging new audiences through community ... More Sean Kelly announces Gladys Lin as Director, Sean Kelly AsiaNEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly announced that Gladys Lin has joined the gallery as Director, Sean Kelly Asia. Lin, a highly respected professional, comes to the gallery with over a decade of experience in the international contemporary art world. As Director with responsibility for the gallerys operations in the Asian region Lin will oversee the gallerys artist and client relationships, as well as spearheading museum and exhibition initiatives to service and expand the gallerys growing presence in the region. Lin will be based in Taipei, Taiwan, where she will launch and operate the new Sean Kelly Asia (SKA) project space. Lin has worked extensively with private collectors to build important collections of significant Asian and Western artists for them. She has been responsible for introducing many prominent international artists to the Asian market, often facilitating ... 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More Works by Feininger, Klimt, Man Ray & Pissarro among highlights at Swann Galleries auctionNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries season-opening auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on September 20 brings to market original works by blue-chip artists and scarce prints by Regionalists, German Expressionists, Modernists and more. The cover lot for the auction, Downtown, New York, by John Taylor Arms, comes from a private collection of iconic New York City views (estimate $2,000-3,000). A showcase of architectural splendor, the run features early twentieth-century etchings of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Flatiron Building, elevated trains and waterways. Among unusual examples is Kerr Ebys scarce view of the Singer Building, circa 1930, which was razed in the late 1960s. The etching shows the now-forgotten building swathed in fog ($1,200-1,800). Other artists in the collection are ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Grandma Moses was born September 07, 1860. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961), known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is often cited as an example of an individual who successfully began a career in the arts at an advanced age. In this image: Anna Mary Robertson aka Grandma Moses (American, 1860 - 1961), Halloween, signed and dated July 7, 1958. Sold May 20, 2018 for $100,000 against an estimate of $30,000 - $40,000. All images provided by I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers.
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