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French auctioneer Aymeric (L) and Philippe Rouillac (R) hold a rare blue, white and celadon porcelain moon flask belonging to the emperor Qianlong is pictured during auction party on June 10, 2018 at the Artigny's castle in Montbazon. The moon flask was sold 4,1 million euros. The moon flask was sold 4,1 million euros. GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP.
MONTBAZON (AFP).- A rare porcelain moon flask that belonged to the 18th century Chinese Emperor Qianlong has been sold for 4.1 million euros ($4.8 million) after a bidding war at an auction in France. The blue, white and celadon flask -- more than 200-years-old -- was bought by a French woman who outbid 17 Chinese buyers during a sale that lasted about ten-minutes, according to auctioneers who described the buy as "historic and legendary". The final sale including fees totalled more than 5 million euros -- ten times the auction's opening price of 500,000 euros. Emperor Qianlong, one of the longest serving Chinese emperors who ruled for much of the 18th Century, was an avid art collector. The round-shaped moon flask has eight Buddhist symbols in stylised lotus petals and bears the seal of the emperor. It was discovered by chance in April in a French castle during a valuation of antiques and its original owners remain anonymous. The buyer, who bid over the phone during the auction at Artigny chateau i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on June 10, 2018 shows a view of the entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum under construction in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo, with the Pyramid of Menkaure (L) seen in the background. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
| More than 200 works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York come to Melbourne | | Dazzling works of art from the Indian subcontinent go on display at The Queen's Gallery | | Kandinsky painting of lover surfaces onto the market for first time in half a century |
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 18531890). Portrait of Joseph Roulin, early 1889. Oil on canvas. 25 3/8 x 21 3/4″ (64.4 x 55.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rosenberg, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Armand P. Bartos, The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Werner E. Josten, and Loula D. Lasker Bequest (all by exchange).
MELBOURNE.- In an international exclusive, the National Gallery of Victoria presents a major exhibition of modern and contemporary masterworks from New Yorks iconic Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in the world-premiere exhibition MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, on view now at NGV International in Melbourne. Co-organised by the NGV and MoMA, the exhibition features more than 200 works many of which have never been seen in Australia from a line-up of seminal nineteenth and twentieth-century artists, including Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador DalÃ, Frida Kahlo, Georgia OKeeffe, Edward Hopper, Louise Bourgeois, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Diane Arbus, ... More | |
A Royal Collection Trust member of staff views an enamelled gold and diamond perfume holder, which opens like a lotus flower to reveal a hidden cup and cover. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018.
LONDON.- Two exhibitions on view now at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace bring together some of the finest examples of craftsmanship and literary and artistic production from the Indian subcontinent. Both are drawn entirely from the Royal Collection, which contains one of the world's greatest and most wide-ranging collections of material from the region. Exploring the long-standing relationship between the British Monarchy and South Asia, Splendours of the Subcontinent: Four Centuries of South Asian Paintings and Manuscripts presents 150 works from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, most of which are on public display for the first time. In the complementary exhibition Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Prince's Tour of India 18756, gifts given to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales are on display in London for the first time in 130 years. Since the early 17th ... More | |
Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter Painting Outdoors in front of an Easel (detail). Est. £3,000,000-5,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby?s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening and Day sales in London on 19 and 20 June 2018 will include a spectrum of exceptional works by some of the most important, challenging and powerful German and Austrian artists of the 20th century. Featuring paintings and works on paper, many of which are completely fresh to the market, by leading figures such as Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Nolde, Franz Marc, Alexej von Jawkensky, August Macke, Max Liebermann and Egon Schiele, the group of over 65 works to be sold across the Evening and Day sales constitutes one of Sotheby?s largest offerings of German and Austrian art in recent years. Together, they illustrate every aspect of this crucial period in the development of early 20th-century art. Helena Newman, Global Co-Head of Sotheby?s Impressionist & Modern Art Department & Chairman of Sotheby?s Europe, said: ?Following our sale last summer of two masterpieces by Kandinsky which broke the aucti ... More |
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| Luce Foundation awards Palmer Museum of Art largest foundation grant in the museum's history | | Kunstsammlung NRW opens Anni Albers retrospective | | After 19 years, New York Ceramics & Glass Fair ends its run |
John Brewster, Jr., Mother with Son (Lucy Knapp Mygatt and Son, George), 1799, oil on canvas, 54¼ x 40 inches. Gift of Nancy Adams McCord, 87.1.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- This spring, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State received a major grant of $100,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to produce a catalogue that will illustrate and detail its impressive American art collection. The four-year grant will provide funding for the research and production of the catalogue, which will highlight around 100 of the most aesthetically and historically significant examples of the Palmers 4,500-some works of American art. The Henry Luce Foundation only awards grants to art museums with exceptional holdings in American art, said Palmer director Erin Coe. A grant from this prestigious foundation recognizes both the national significance of the Palmers collection of American art and the need to support scholarly research so the collection is more accessible and visible. The Luce-funded catalogue will be the first of the museums permanent collection ever to be publi ... More | |
Anni Albers, Study for an unexecuted wallhanging, 1926, Gouache, 38,1 x 24,8 cm, © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art © Kunstsammlung NRW.
DUSSELDORF.- Anni Albers (18991994) was an extraordinarily versatile artist who established handloom weaving as a fully-fledged art form. In the process, she revolutionized an ancient cultural technology, amalgamating it with modern artistic practices. She spent her formative years of study at the Bauhaus School in Weimar and Dessau, where she cultivated close exchanges with teachers and fellow students alike. In 1933, after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, she emigrated with her husband Josef Albers to the United States, where the two taught at the legendary Black Mountain College. In this wide-ranging retrospective, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents the multifaceted oeuvre of the artist, craftsmen, designer, pedagogue, and author Anni Albers. On view at the K20 Grabbeplatz from June ... More | |
The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair, the only fair of its kind, took place in late January during Americana Week. Photo: Annie Watt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Liz Lees and Meg Wendy, the organizers of The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair, have announced that they are cancelling their fair, which would have celebrated its 20th anniversary next January.. Liz Lees, who established the fair in 1999, with her late husband Bill Caskey, says that she and Meg did everything they could to keep the fair alive. "This was a truly hard decision for both of us to make. Shows have been difficult for everyone in our business for the last 10 or so years, and exhibiting at them is expensive. We are fully sympathetic to this because it is equally difficult and expensive from a management perspective." Says Meg Wendy: "We are very sad about the closing of this show and did everything we could to keep it going. However, many of our historic dealers are at the point of retiring and there just isn't a big enough pool of other dealers to replace them." The New York Ceramics & Glass ... More |
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| Photographs from Lucas Samaras's widely celebrated Photo-Transformation series on view at Craig F. Starr Gallery | | The Whitney presents the first museum survey of the work of Mary Corse | | Nick Cave convenes immersive dance celebration with debut of site-specific commission at Park Avenue Armory |
Lucas Samaras (b. 1936), Photo-Transformation 1/28/74, 1974. Instant dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid SX-70), 3 1/8 x 3 inches, image 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches, sheet.
NEW YORK, NY.- Craig F. Starr Gallery is presenting Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations on view June 7 August 10, 2018. Selected in conjunction with the artist, the exhibition features sixty-eight Polaroid photographs from Lucas Samarass widely celebrated Photo-Transformation series. Executed between 1973-76, these works have been described as the most uncanny, original representations of the self especially the artists self, in all its glory and suffering (self-glorifying suffering?) in art history. [1] Samaras was already known as a sculptor, painter, and performance artist when he began experimenting with photography. His first series of photographs, the AutoPolaroids (1969-71), were shot with a Polaroid 360 camera. Samaras said he was attracted to the Polaroid medium because it allowed him ... More | |
Mary Corse (b. 1945), Triangular Columns, 1965. Acrylic on wood and plexiglass, two parts, 92 Ã 18 1/8 Ã 18 1/8 in. (233.7 Ã 46 Ã 46 cm) and 92 Ã 18 1/16 Ã 18 in. (233.7 Ã 45.9 Ã 45.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Michael Straus in loving memory of Howard and Helaine Straus 2016.6a-b.
NEW YORK, NY.- This June, the Whitney Museum of American Artdebuts Mary Corse: A Survey in Light, the first museum survey devoted to the work of Mary Corse (born 1945, Berkeley, CA; lives and works in Topanga, CA). One of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement of the 1960s, Corse shared with her contemporaries a deep fascination with perception and with the possibility that light itself could serve as both a subject and material of art. Yet while others largely migrated away from painting into sculptural and environmental projects, Corse approached the question of light through painting. This long overdue examinationwhich runs at the Whitney from June 8 through November 25 in the ... More | |
The Let Go, an immersive performance and installation by Nick Cave at Park Avenue Armory. Photo by Da Ping Luo.
NEW YORK, NY.- Animating Park Avenue Armory with the sights, sounds, and movement of renowned interdisciplinary artist Nick Cave, The Let Go transforms the Armorys Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a dance-based town hall that brings together visitors to participate in a collective act of catharsis. The Armorys 2018 visual arts commission builds on Caves hybrid, multisensory practice with an ambitious project encompassing performance, installation, dance-based encounters, and soundtracks by some of New Yorks leading DJsthat provides a backdrop for audiences to dispel negativity and uplift one another. On view June 7 through July 1, 2018, The Let Go features a series of soundsuitswearable sculptures that create a second skin to conceal race, gender, and class, that come to life in a new Up Right performance conceived for the Armorys historic interiors. In ... More |
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| Tourism keeps Vietnam's ancient water puppets afloat | | A solo exhibition of over 200 works by M.C. Escher on view at Brooklyn's Industry City. | | Alvar Aalto Museum's summer exhibition explores the ideology of Alvar Aalto's residential designs |
This picture taken on May 25, 2018 shows Vietnamese craftsman Nguyen Van Tham, 53, carving a wood to make a water puppet at a workshop in Thai Binh province. Nhac NGUYEN / AFP.
HANOI (AFP).- In a darkened theatre in central Hanoi, a wooden dragon emerges from a pool to the sound of cymbals crashing in a traditional water puppet show that lures hundreds of tourists daily but is largely shunned by locals. Backstage behind a thin bamboo screen, around 20 puppeteers slosh around waist-deep in rubber overalls wielding the marionettes with long rods. "The puppets are pretty heavy... and the water also creates resistance," said puppeteer Nguyen Thu Hoai, who swapped her galoshes for flip-flops between sold-out shows. "But our years of training and experience helps us control them," added Hoai, who like many of her colleagues graduated from Hanoi's College of Theatre and Cinema. Some of the puppets weigh as much as 10 kilogrammes (22 pounds) and the largest ones, like the one-metre-tall ... More | |
Installation view, ESCHER. The Exhibition & Experience at Industry City, June 8, 2018 February 3, 2019. Photo by Adam Reich. Courtesy Arthemisia.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Arthemisia, Italys leading art exhibition producer, is making its American debut with ESCHER. The Exhibition & Experience, an exhibition of over 200 works by the iconic Dutch artist M.C. Escher, from June 8, 2018 through February 3, 2019 at Brooklyns Industry City. The exhibition is curated by Mark Veldhuysen (curator of the M.C. Escher Foundation Collection for over thirty years) and Federico Giudiceandrea (one of the worlds foremost collectors of, and experts on, the art of M.C. Escher). ESCHER. The Exhibition & Experience is the most important and the largest exhibition of M.C. Escher ever presented in the United States. The exhibitions American premiere follows its wide success internationally in cities including Rome, Bologna, Milan, Singapore, Madrid and Lisbon where it has been attended by over 1 million visitors. Maurits Cornelis ... More | |
Alvar Aalto in the backyard of the Riihitie House in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki in 1960´s. Photo Eva and Pertti Ingervo, Alvar Aalto Museum.
JYVÃSKYLÃ.- The Alvar Aalto Museums main summer exhibition is showing Alvar Aaltos production from the viewpoint of residential design. His efforts bore fruit, for instance, in the form of residential areas marked on town plans variable single-family houses made out of standard elements, for factory workers and managers, all built beside industrial areas, many with the aid of the bank of broad shoulders (self-built). There were also unique artists homes in various parts of Finland and elsewhere. The exhibition reflects changes in living habits throughout the decades, and ways that architecture can respond to them. Aaltos early interest in the relationship between a home and its surroundings was reflected in numerous ways in his residential designs throughout his career. The exhibition highlights Aino and Alvar Aaltos progressive solutions for modern living, their furniture and ... More |
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Morphy Auctions offers firearm aficionados opportunity to enhance collections with Firearms Auction
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions, a leading antiques auction destination specializing in fresh to the market collections, announced today its highly-prized Firearms Collection will be offered to global collectors from June 25-28 in Denver, PA. The June sale represents the first James D. Julia and Morphy Auctions co-branded firearm sale and will underscore both houses legacys as industry leaders in firearms collectibles. Reigning supreme in firearm collections, Morphy Auctions and its impressive selection of antique handguns, rifles, shotguns and other quality items will provide novice collectors, arms enthusiasts, and discerning firearms aficionados the opportunity to expand their collections with rarely seen firearms. Over 2,300 lots will be offered throughout the late-June ... More
Group exhibition investigates the nature of documentation and reality in post-truth America
NEW YORK, NY.- Metro Pictures presents Evidence, a group exhibition organized by Josh Kline. Featuring the work of seven artists, Evidence investigates the nature of documentation and reality in post-truth America and their potential for political manipulation. The artists in the exhibition respond in different ways to issues of class and inequality in the United States. Sampling images, materials, strategies, or subjects from the real world, each grapples with the ethics and implications of altering that reality, injecting it with carefully metered dosages of fiction. The artists all address different aspects of our current political environment in which the distinctions between fact and fantasy have been deliberately confused. The works in the exhibition span a diverse range of subjects and media. Paul Chans sculpture Dimposium, from his breather series, imitates ... More
First Bond girl Eunice Gayson dies aged 90
LONDON (AFP).- British actress Eunice Gayson, who played the first Bond girl, has died at the age of 90, the official 007 Twitter account said Saturday. Gayson played the spy's love interest Sylvia Trench opposite Sean Connery in the 1962 film "Dr No", the first of the franchise, and then again in "From Russia with Love". Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli offered their condolences to her family in a statement posted on the 007 Twitter feed. "We are so sad to learn that Eunice Gayson, our very first 'Bond girl' who played Sylvia Trench in DR. NO and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE has passed away. Our sincere thoughts are with her family," they said. Gayson also appeared opposite Peter Cushing in 1958 Hammer horror film "The Revenge of Frankenstein", and in episodes of 1960s television series "The Avengers" and "The Saint". ... More
Ponti Art Gallery to offer two remarkable orientalist paintings by Francesco Hayez and Ernesto Fontana
ROME.- Among latest acquisitions, Ponti Art Gallery offers two astonishing orientalist female portraits by Francesco Hayez and Ernesto Fontana, two of most important artists active in Italy in the 19th century. The small painting by Hayez has a precise iconographic and chronological reference in the series of lithographs titled Soggetti tratti dallIvanhoe, romanzo storico, di Walter Scott, composti e disegnati da Hayez, published with great success by the Milanese lithography of Giuseppe Vassalli between 1828 and 1829 (Falchetti, in Hayez, 1983, pp. 349-351). The oil, where the sloping nuances of the background evoke the typical nuanced rendering of the lithographic stone, testifies, as observed by Grandesso, although still in an embryonic state, the artists interest in the representation of those female figures whose biography or whose allegorical ... More
New series of "Puddles Paintings" by John M Armleder on view at Almine Rech Gallery
PARIS.- Among the works on display for the John M Armleder exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery Paris, alongside murals from 2018, is a new series of Puddles Paintings. The paintings are made by spilling various materials directly onto the canvas (acrylic paint, varnish, liquids for exterior surfaces, but also powders, confetti, glitter and small ormaments). They emerge from a double random rule: first, the application onto the medium is not controlled by a movement of artistic mastery, and second, the mixing of elements causes chemical changes in their original properties, both chromatically and physically. In addition, application of the painting materials is performed flat (unlike the Pour Paintings, the first examples of which date back to the 1970s), and verticalization of the result, once the layers have formed, further deeply modifies the paintings appearance. ... More
Fine Art & Antiques Show announces 2018 dealer roster
NEW YORK, NY.- When the Art and Antiques Dealers League of America (AADLA) announced last year that it was launching a new fair, inveterate pessimists had a field day. Another fair in the busy October season? What an imprudent idea, especially because the AADLA fair would be going up against the juggernaut of TEFAF. But AADLA proved the naysayers wrong: The inaugural show was a ringing success, garnering applause from every quarter. Now AADLA is announcing their follow-up: The second show-with 26 dealers-will open at the St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Wallace Hall, 980 Park Avenue, on October 26 and run through October 29, 2018. Here is the roster of participants (partial): Richard A. Berman Fine Arts (Old Master Drawings) European Decorative Arts (Objects de Vertu and Carriage Clocks) Framont (Late 18th and 19th ... More
Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens exhibition of works by South African artists
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach and blank projects announce an exhibition of works by South African artists Igshaan Adams, Jared Ginsburg, Bronwyn Katz, Donna Kukama, Turiya Magadlela, Sabelo Mlangeni, Kyle Morland, Cinga Samson, Gerda Scheepers, Lerato Shadi and James Webb. The exhibition arose out of conversations around a gallery swap between Guido Baudach and Jonathan Garnham, who have been friends and colleagues since the 90s, which resulted in the invitation to present blanks programme in Berlin. Curated by Garnham, the exhibition features selected works by represented artists and invited guests, the show offers a vignette of the practices of a group of emerging and established South African artists working today. Igshaan Adams (b.1982, Cape Town) combines aspects of performance, sculpture and installation in an ... More
Emily Mae Smith's first exhibition with Contemporary Fine Arts on view in Berlin
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts is presenting Feast of Totems, Emily Mae Smiths first exhibition with the gallery. In an array of paintings and drawings, Smiths motifs occupy and distort art historical compositions, claiming space for feminine subjectivity. Smith paints subversive riffs on art history, injecting defiant language, design, and science fiction elements into classic settings. She stages a dialogue between the neo-classical and symbolist works from the twisted end of academic painting and her own visual language. At once humorous and critical, Smiths meticulously rendered tableaux present a feast of codes, signs, and symbols. Gradated horizon lines posture a traditional composition, unsettled by the animistic brooms, fruit, and stilettos posing in the foreground. Many of the images are painted with contre-jour light, accentuating the experience ... More
Oscar Tuazon's first solo exhibition at Maureen Paley on view in London
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Oscar Tuazon. Oscar Tuazon identifies primarily as a sculptor, though his practice occupies a position between sculptural concerns, architecture and activism. His large-scale installations consist of structures that foreground their own means of construction, most notably through his use of industrial materials. Much of Tuazons work is influenced by Minimalist strategies, yet his concerns push far beyond the elements of purity in form. He considers a sculptural installation as being analogous to a house, as both are continuously built, repaired, and maintained. By extension, the act of inhabiting or occupying a space functions as a kind of extension of his artistic production, serving as the undercurrent of his predominantly site-specific practice. One of Tuazons most ambitious projects ... More
The Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv opens a solo exhibition by French artist Laurent Montaron
TEL AVIV.- The Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv announces a solo exhibition by French artist Laurent Montaron (*1972, Verneuil-sur-Avre, France; lives and works in Paris). This is Montarons first solo exhibition in Israel and it takes place in the centers ground floor and auditorium. Montaron is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, photography, installation, sound, and objects. His work is suffused with the contemporary history of the mass media and questions the tools that shape representation, with a special interest in the legacy of cinema. By revealing the somewhat irrational element of belief involved with emerging techniques, his works remind us that while technology has provided new means of perceiving and representing reality, it has not necessarily brought us closer to the truth for it has also given rise to new ways of questioning ... More
Hauser & Wirth Zürich opens exhibition of large-scale drawings by artist Roni Horn
ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth Zürich is presenting Wits End Sampler | Recent Drawings, an exhibition of large-scale drawings by acclaimed American artist Roni Horn and the unveiling of a new installation. Using drawing, photography, installation, sculpture and literature, Roni Horns work consistently questions and generates uncertainty to thwart closure in her work, engaging with many different concerns and materials. Important across her oeuvre is her longstanding interest to the protean nature of identity, meaning, and perception, as well as the notion of doubling; issues which continue to propel Horns practice. For Horn, drawing is a primary activity that has been a defining area of her artistic practice since 1980, and the pigment drawings explore recurrent themes of identity, interpretation and textual play. In drawings from the Yet series, Horn has worked powdered ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable was born June 11, 1776. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home -- now known as "Constable Country" -- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton estimated at £400,000 - 600,000. Photo: Bonhams.
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