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| | Stephenson's New Year's Day Auction: robots to roosters and fine jewels in between | |
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Pair of Harry Bertoia for Knoll Diamond upholstered wire-frame lounge chairs. Estimate $400-$800
SOUTHAMPTON, PA. .- Stephensons popular and often standing-room-only New Years Day Antique and Decorative Arts Auction is an event typically attended by savvy collectors and dealers from a five-state region, with many more participating by phone and online. The family-owned metro-Philadelphia auction house is known for setting aside outstanding and unusual estate consignments throughout the year to showcase specifically at its first sale of the year. The January 1, 2020 auction features 500+ lots of fine and decorative art, silver, estate rugs and furniture, midcentury design, folk art, and an extensive array of jewelry and watches. The latter grouping includes several pieces set with large, high-quality diamonds, starting with a platinum wedding set whose sparkling engagement ring boasts a 1-carat brilliant-cut diamond solitaire of H color, S12 clarity. Flanking both sides of the central stone are an additional 24 princess-cut di ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The New Orleans Museum of Art is presenting Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, on view through January 26, 2020. The first major exhibition on Louisiana landscape painting in more than 40 years, Inventing Acadia explores the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the 19th century, revealing its role in creating---and exporting---a new vision for American landscape art that was vastly different than that to be found in the rest of the United States.
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 | | Centre Pompidou presents the first Francis Bacon exhibition in France for more than 20 years | | Exhibition of 100 works of art invites visitors to intuitively approach art from an emotional perspective | | X-ray in a manger - centuries old nativity discovered during painting investigation | 
Francis Bacon, Female nude standing in doorway, 1972. oil on canvas, 198 à 147,5 cm Centre Pompidou, Musée national dart moderne, Paris Dation 2007, Ancienne collection de M. et Mme Jean-Pierre Moueix.
PARIS.- After the exhibitions showcasing Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, André Derain and Henri Matisse, the Centre Pompidou continues its re-examination of key 20th century works by devoting a major exhibition to Francis Bacon. the last major French exhibition of this artists work was held in 1996 at the Centre Pompidou. More than twenty years later, Bacon: Books and Painting presents paintings dating from 1971, the year of the retrospective event at the National Galleries of the Grand Palais, to his final works in 1992. Didier Ottinger is the curator of this innovative exploration of the influence of literature in Francis Bacons painting. The exhibition includes six rooms along the gallery, placing literature at the heart of the exhibition. these rooms play readings of excerpts of texts taken from Francis Bacons library. ... More | | 
Stephan Melzl, Geheimnis, 2005. Oil on wood, 65 x 70 cm. 2006 acquired by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e.V. Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sibylle Forster © Stephan Melzl.
MUNICH.- What does art provoke in us? To what extent does our view of art depend on our personal experiences and memories? Which feelings emerge as we contemplate works of art, if our gaze is led by intuition alone? The exhibition Feelings on view at Pinakothek der Moderne seeks to encourage this direct dialogue between artwork and viewer in order to stimulate an intense emotional engagement. The works exhibited are characterized by enigmatic motifs and atmospheric visual spaces. Joy, excitement, anger, revulsion, sadness, and numerous other emotional reactions may ensue upon viewing the works. The choice of exhibits is subjective; the art historical context and explanatory wall texts have been deliberately omitted. When does a picture attract us, when does it repel us? The study of emotions is still a young ... More | | 
Art experts have experienced something of a Christmas miracle after discovering what could be a 16th century painting of a nativity scene hidden under another work of art.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.- Art conservators from Northumbria University have been working with The Bowes Museum to examine a centuries-old painting depicting the beheading of Saint John the Baptist. But they got a surprise when an x-ray of the artwork revealed another image underneath featuring angels with halos, a baby in a manger and the outline of what appears to a stable building. As Nicky Grimaldi, Senior Lecturer in Conservation of Fine Art at Northumbria, explains: It was such a lovely surprise to see the nativity scene revealed underneath the painting we see today. It really is quite unusual to find paintings hidden in this way and to discover a nativity scene in this detail and just before Christmas was really incredible. The painting is believed to be around 400 years old and belongs to The Bowes Museum, having been collected by its founders John and Jos ... More |
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| | First major exhibition on Louisiana landscape painting in more than 40 years on view in New Orleans | | Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art traces the first 60 years of the etched print | | Hauser & Wirth exhibits works by Jenny Holzer at Tarmak 22 in Gstaad-Saanen Airport | 
Asher Brown Durand, Forenoon, 1847, Oil on canvas, 60 ¼ x 48 ¼ inches, Gift of the Fine Arts Club of New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 16.4
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art is presenting Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, on view through January 26, 2020. The first major exhibition on Louisiana landscape painting in more than 40 years, Inventing Acadia explores the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the 19th century, revealing its role in creatingand exportinga new vision for American landscape art that was vastly different than that to be found in the rest of the United States. Inventing Acadia showcases how 19th century landscape painters from across the globe came together in Louisiana to form a new school of landscape painting that rivaled any other in the country, said Susan Taylor, NOMAs Montine McDaniel Freeman Director. Offering a newly expansive view of the American landscape and its people, Inventing Acadia is the first exhibition to place Louisiana landscape painting ... More | | 
Albrecht Altdorfer, The Small Spruce, ca 15171520. Etching. The Albertina Museum, Vienna.
NEW YORK, NY.- The emergence of etching on paper in Europe in the late 15th and early 16th centurieswhen the technique moved out of the workshops of armor decorators and into those of printmakers and painterswas a pivotal moment that completely changed the course of printmaking. The Renaissance of Etching traces the first 60 years of the etched print through some 125 etchings created by both renowned and lesser-known artists, displayed alongside a selection of drawings, printing plates, etching tools, illustrated books, and armor. The works are drawn from the collections of The Met, The Albertina Museum, and a number of European and American lenders. "When etching on paper was first introduced, the ease and access of the technique enabled artists to expand the reach of their work, and exchange ideas and images in a new way," said Max Hollein, Director of The Met. "This exhibition will offer a fascinating examination of this trailblazi ... More | | 
Jenny Holzer. A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, Tarmak 22, Gstaad, 27 December 2019 - 22 January 2020 © Jenny Holzer. ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019.
GSTAAD.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting an exhibition by Jenny Holzer, titled A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, at Tarmak 22 in Gstaad-Saanen Airport, on view from 27 December 2019 22 January 2020. The presentation showcases works spanning the artists practice, including stone benches, LEDs, and paintings. Concurrently, Holzer projects large, scrolling texts in light on the stately Gstaad Palace, beginning the evening of 27 December. The light projections will then take place daily between 7 8.30 pm until 4 January, with additional dates from the 13 to 17 February 2020. For more than forty years Jenny Holzer has presented text emblazoned on T-shirts, carved in stone, painted on canvas, scrolling on LED signs, and luminously projected onto buildings and landscapes. Beginning in the 1970s with posters wheat-pasted throughout New York City and continuing through recent light projections, her practice ... More |
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| | One of Thailand's last Chinese opera troupes lights up Bangkok | | Lee Mendelson, producer behind 'A Charlie Brown Christmas,' dies at 86 | | Sleepy LaBeef, a rockabilly mainstay, is dead at 84 | 
This photograph taken on December 28, 2019 shows an actor resting during a Chinese opera performance by Thailand's Sai Bo Hong troupe on a makeshift stage at a street festival in Bangkok. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP.
BANGKOK (AFP).- An ancient world of swords, warriors and folklore roars to life on the darkened street, offering a momentary escape from the modern-day bustle of Bangkok's unstoppable development. On stage the Sai Bo Hong Chinese opera troupe act out dramatic tales centred around themes of loyalty, honesty and family to the sound of clashing cymbals and flutes. For centuries, troupes like this have performed throughout Thailand, where 14 percent of the population are ethnic Chinese. But the number of shows has dwindled in the era of smartphones, cinemas and Netflix, a vanishing art in a city of high-rises and mega-malls. "Chinese opera in Thailand has seen a sharp drop in terms of both audience attendance and performances," said one of the costume designers. When the Thai troupe plays upcountry mostly elderly ethnic Chinese come to see them while in Bangkok it's a mix of tourists and local residents. Sai Bo Hong has been around for decades and ... More | | 
Despite the popularity of A Charlie Brown Christmas, which was the idea of the Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, the project almost never materialized.
by Derrick Bryson Taylor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Lee Mendelson, an Emmy Award-winning producer who was instrumental in bringing the holiday staple A Charlie Brown Christmas to television in 1965 and wrote the iconic lyrics to the song Christmas Time Is Here, died on Christmas morning at his home in Hillsborough, California. He was 86. His son Jason confirmed his death and said Mendelson, who had lung cancer, died of congestive heart failure. Jason Mendelson said his fathers death on Christmas a day that he was strongly associated with because of his music and television productions was a pretty serendipitous thing. Despite the popularity of A Charlie Brown Christmas, which was the idea of the Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, the project almost never materialized. Mendelson approached Schulz about making a documentary about his life, and the creation of Peanuts, but was nearly turned ... More | | 
He claimed to know 6,000 songs and played, as he put it at the time, root music: old-time rock n roll, Southern gospel and hand-clapping music, black blues, Hank Williams-style country.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Sleepy LaBeef, an early and enduring rockabilly artist who helped fuel a resurgence of that genre in the 1970s and 80s, especially with his propulsive live shows, died Thursday at his home in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He was 84. His daughter Jessie Mae Lynn LaBeff confirmed his death. A cause was not given. In 1991, at which point LaBeef was 35 years into his musical career, The New York Times called him a living, breathing, guitar-picking history of American music. He claimed to know 6,000 songs and played, as he put it at the time, root music: old-time rock n roll, Southern gospel and hand-clapping music, black blues, Hank Williams-style country. Elvis Presley was a contemporary (six months older), and, like Presley, LaBeef made his first records in the 1950s. He was living in Texas at the time, recording on small labels there, ... More |
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| | A guide to watching Scorsese movies like an insider | | Exhibition in Detroit is the first to feature African American art from several local collectors | | Bonhams presents "The Next Wave: Modern Vietnamese Art' | 
In an undated image provided by Netflix, Kathrine Narducci left, and Stephanie Kurtzuba as mob wives in the film "The Irishman." Niko Tavernise/Netflix via The New York Times.
by Ben Kenigsberg
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Even at 3 1/2 hours, Martin Scorseses new mob drama The Irishman brims with details that reward repeat viewings. And as any Scorsese fan knows, the movie is undoubtedly filled with subtle footnotes. One of Americas most ardent moviegoers (and a steadfast advocate of film preservation), the director inscribes his work with his influences. Close inspection of his movies almost always reveals homages to his favorite films, quotations that frequently complement the story at hand. Here is a guide to some of his more memorable allusions from the last 30 years. A digression early in The Irishman depicts the headline-grabbing slaying of gangster Albert Anastasia in a New York hotel barbershop in 1957. The execution sequence unfolds in ... More | | 
"(Echoes) Let the Church Roll On," 1995-1996, David C. Driskell, American; Encaustic, gouache, and crayon on paper.
DETROIT, MICH.- In celebration of Detroits rich history as a center for African American art and artists, the Detroit Institute of Arts presents Detroit Collects: Selections of African American Art from Private Collections, from November 12, 2019 through March 1, 2020. Nineteen Detroit-area art collectors generously loaned the artworks in this exhibition, some of which are on public view for the first time. This exhibition, the first at the DIA to feature African American art from several local collectors, features 60 works of art in a variety of media, including paintings, sculptures, photography and more by internationally renowned artists. Highlights include works by Romare Bearden, Nick Cave, Alison Saar, Rashid Johnson and Carrie Mae Weems. The exhibition also features artists with Detroit roots, including Charles McGee, Mario Moore, Tylonn Sawyer, Allie McGhee and others. Their works are being displayed alongside the stories of ... More | | 
Nguyen Trung (b. 1940), Fisherman Family, 1980. Oil on canvas, 178 x 135 cm. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- Bonhams is presenting The Next Wave | Modern Vietnamese Art at its Hong Kong gallery, the first-ever exhibition in Asia dedicated to key second-generation modern Vietnamese artists, featuring over 25 works by ten of the most significant artists from this period. Unlike their predecessors including Le Pho (1907-2001) and Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980), who had lived and worked through relatively calmer times, the artists featured in the show saw their lives and careers inextricably intertwined with the profound shifts experienced by Vietnam and its people throughout the second half of the 20th century. Collectively, they lived through the Vietnam War from the mid-1950s to 1970s, as well as the subsequent opening up of the country and economic reforms in the 1980s Đổi Mới era. Over three decades, the circumstances and orientations of this generation of artists underwent immense changes, as subject matters and se ... More |
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Steve Reich on how a composer reads sculpture | MoMA BBC | THE WAY I SEE IT
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 Venue announced for new London art fair Eye of the CollectorLONDON.- The venue for the London launch of Eye of the Collector will be Two Temple Place an architectural masterpiece hidden in the heart of central London. The late Victorian neo-Gothic mansion was commissioned in 1892 by financier and statesman William Waldorf Astor, once known as the richest man in the world. Nazy Vassegh, Founder, Eye of the Collector, says: Our creatively driven selling exhibition is designed to showcase works of art as they might be presented in a collectors home. Two Temple Place, referred to as a perfect gem by Nikolaus Pevsner and with its extraordinary history of artistic patronage, really is the embodiment of this joy of collecting. Just as William Waldorf Astor looked to the past and the future, we hope to do the same with our new alternative fair model. A celebration of ornamentation and connoisseurship, Two ... More Asia Culture Center in Korea hosts 'Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture'GWANGJU.- Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture features sculptural works that apply handicraft techniques or craft material among the various trajectories of contemporary sculpture in the last 20 or so years. In this exhibition, "craft element" functions as a keyword which sheds a new light on contemporary sculpture. The artists invited to the exhibition present works that explore craft elements through issues in regional specificity, globalism, sociopolitical issues, and historical consciousness, while also tracing the changes in contemporary sculptural practice. Their works redefine and recreate contemporary sculpture, making elaborate and convincing connections between "craft elements" with different space-times, various traditions, complex styles and intricate issues in reality. They also explore a more expanded meaning of the social, cultural ... More Gallery list announced for third Marrakech edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art FairMARRAKESH.- 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora, has announced the 20 international galleries participating in its third Marrakech edition, taking place at La Mamounia, 22 and 23 February, with VIP and Press Previews on 20 and 21 February 2020. It was always important for Founding Director, Touria El Glaoui to initiate 1-54 on the African Continent, and in February 2018, the fair was successfully launched in Marrakech. This has allowed the fair to broaden its reach and further diversify its portfolio of exhibiting and promoting gallerists as well as artists who are connected to Africa, adding to the global network 1-54 has cultivated over the past seven years. Marrakech is home to one of the continents most dynamic arts scenes and 1-54 Marrakech aims ... More An opera of trench warfareNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Three years ago, on a trip to Johannesburg, I had the chance to watch artist William Kentridge working on a new production of Alban Bergs knifelike opera Wozzeck. With a troupe of South African performers, Kentridge blocked out scenes from this bleak tale of a soldier driven to madness and murder whose setting he was updating to the years around World War I, when it was written, through the hand-drawn animations and low-tech costumes that Metropolitan Opera audiences have seen in his stagings of Bergs Lulu and Shostakovichs The Nose. Some of what I saw in Kentridges studio has survived in Wozzeck, which opens at the Met on Friday. But he often works on multiple projects at once, and much of the material instead ended up in The Head and the Load, a historical pageant ; ... More 'The White Sheik': Fellini's charming farce about fandomNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The White Sheik, which had its premiere in 1952, was Federico Fellinis first solo feature, and the essence of his style is present from the moment when a tattered canvas canopy appears on an empty beach, accompanied by Nino Rotas brassy carnivalesque score. At Film Forum through Jan. 7 in a new 4K restoration, The White Sheik is not only the first but also in some respects the most charming, least overweening film Fellini ever made a comic fable of mass-produced fantasy and fanatical devotion. Two wide-eyed newlyweds arrive in Rome from the provinces. Impossibly officious, Ivan (Leopoldo Trieste) plans a timetable for their activities, which include the consummation of their marriage. Timorous yet determined, his bride, Wanda (a teenage Brunella Bovo), has another obsession. She is addicted ... More NOMAD travels to the Swiss Engadine Valley for third winter editionST. MORITZ.- NOMAD, the first travelling showcase for collectible design and contemporary art, returns to the Swiss Alps for a third winter edition. Staged inside a 16th-century alpine mansion, Chesa Planta, NOMAD St. Moritz will bring together a selection of galleries, artists and designers from around the world from 6th to 9th February 2020 to present contemporary, limited-edition works and rare, 20th-century collectors objects. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Chesa Planta and its surroundings, participating galleries will present small-scale exhibitions or site-specific installations inspired by their temporary home in the Alps, while others will draw influences from distinctive design identities from around the world, including Brazil, Japan, Nordic territories and the Middle East, among others. Debut works from some of todays most exciting names in contemporary ... More Remembering Jerry Herman: 'He called his shows his children'NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Everyone described Jerry Herman as an optimist. And certainly the Broadway songwriter, who died Thursday at 88, had reason to look on the bright side: Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles, to name his biggest hits, each ran for more than 1,500 performances, the last winning the best musical Tony Award three times (twice for its revivals.) But asked to recall Herman on Friday, many of his collaborators pointed to a fierce, almost parental protectiveness toward his shows. So when they failed, he took it personally. That explains why, amid remembrances of Dolly and other triumphs, the status of Mack & Mabel a 1974 Broadway flop about the silent film stars Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand loomed large. City Centers Encores! has scheduled a production for February, so this famed near ... More As James Bond, he only lived onceNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Whats the best James Bond film? The odds are on Goldfinger, the 1964 entry that set the big-screen 007 pattern for outsize plots, lavish sets, beautiful women, clever gadgets and frequent laughs. But among Bond purists, the winner is the often overlooked On Her Majestys Secret Service, released 50 years ago this month. OHMSS, as it is commonly known among hard-core fans, was a singular Bond movie. It starred George Lazenby, a first-time actor, in his only appearance as 007. Every other Bond in the official franchise overseen by EON Productions has played the role at least twice. What sets OHMSS apart, too, is its faithfulness to the original Ian Fleming novel, virtual absence of Q Branch gizmos and, above all, its emotional depth. Bond falls in honest-to-goodness love and marries, only ... More Thematic exhibition includes works from the collection of Ruth and Peter HerzogARLES.- The thematic exhibition
et labora starts from an exploration of the collection of Ruth and Peter Herzog, which comprises more than 600,000 photographs some anonymous, others by renowned practitioners. The one hundred or so images presented here are a mixture of pioneer photographs from the nineteenth century and those dating from the first half of the twentieth century onwards, and interrogate work in its representation and daily execution. This selection is brought together with Provençal ex-voto paintings and the works of contemporary artists, capturing or sublimating the different realities of places of work. Their mutual encounter offers multiple points of entry into the theme of work. Taking up the famous phrase Ora et labora (Pray and work), associated with the way of life followed by monks in the Benedictine Order, the ... More Art Brussels announces participating galleries for 38th edition, 24-26 April 2020BRUSSELS.- Art Brussels, one of Europes most original and established art fairs, returns for its 38th edition with a strong and international line up and a unique mix of established and emerging talent. Reporting an increase of 23% in applications to this years edition, as well as an increase in SOLO gallery presentations, Art Brussels is highly curated and more appealing than ever. Anne Vierstraete, Managing Director of Art Brussels says: Participants at the fair this year have shown a commitment to Art Brussels at a local and international level. Brussels continues to be a cultural hub with major exhibitions from Sean Scully at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, John M Armleder at KANAL - Centre Pompidou and Wolfgang Tillmans at WIELS during the run of the fair. 159 galleries are presented across the fairs four sections: 98 in PRIME, ... More First solo show in Italy by Saddie Choua opens at Laveronica arte contemporaneaMODICA.- Laveronica arte contemporanea presents The Chouas We are the movie!, the first solo show in Italy by the Belgian Moroccan artist Saddie Choua. Five men pushed in a corner of a room. A photo. Found in a newspaper. Or in a family album lost in the attic. A picture that produces questions. Where has it been made? During a party? A holiday? What is the relation between these men? And who took the picture? A photographer? Or one of the mens wife? Being the daughter of the man in the middle, I know: they are five brothers. These are the Chouas. This picture is made in Morocco. Three of the five brothers emigrated to Belgium. One turned back. Two stayed in Morocco. There are a lot of questions the picture does not answer. The Chouas is balancing between fact and fiction, between personal and political considerations. On ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian photographer and architect El Lissitzky died December 30, 1941. Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 - December 30, 1941) was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. In this image: El Lissitzky, "Proun, Street Decoration Design", 1921. Photo Peter Cox.
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