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Huge South Arabian alabaster libation table carvings of four ibex heads, circa 1st millennium BCE. Est. $80,000-$120,000. Image provided by Artemis Gallery.
BOULDER, COLO.- World renowned for their carefully curated ancient and cultural art auctions, Bob and Teresa Dodge of Artemis Gallery will host a Wednesday/Thursday May 22-23 sale from their Exceptional Auctions series featuring antiquities, Asian, ethnographic and tribal art. Additionally, the Thursday session boasts an intriguing selection of prehistoric fossils. Each item comes to auction with impeccable provenance and is offered with the gallerys unconditional guarantee that it is authentic and legal to purchase, own, and if desired, resell. Bidders may participate by phone, live online or by lodging an absentee bid that will be executed competitively and confidentially. The two-day event is a virtual timeline of the most significant civilizations of the past 4,000 years. A top lot is the huge Ancient Egyptian bronze bust of Osiris from the Third Intermediate Period, circa 1070-712 BCE. With provenance from Christies and a Mun ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Gormleys Fine Art are hosting a Garden Sculpture exhibition at Russborough House & Parklands in Co. Wicklow. There are over 120 works on display. Russborough House is synonymous with Irish Art and in particular the Alfred Beit Foundation. With its landscaped gardens and carefully manicured lawns Russborough acts as a perfect backdrop for the finest collection of sculpture to ever to be displayed in Ireland. The exhibition includes large outdoor and indoor works by the best known Irish and International sculptors. In this image: Christopher Stone, Husk, 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 x 17 3/4 in. 80 x 100 x 45 cm. Bronze with green/black patina.
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 | | Exhibition takes visitors on a sensory journey through the food cycle | | Ai Weiwei's largest exhibition in Europe to date opens at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen | | 2019 Whitney Biennial opens featuring works by seventy-five artists | 
Installation image, FOOD Bigger than the Plate at V&A © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- FOOD: Bigger than the Plate explores how innovative individuals, communities and organisations are radically re-inventing how we grow, distribute and experience food. Taking visitors on a sensory journey through the food cycle, from compost to table, it poses questions about how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future in unexpected and playful ways. The exhibition falls at a pivotal time where food and our relationship to it are topics of increasing global interest and debate. Featuring over 70 contemporary projects, new commissions and creative collaborations by artists and designers working with chefs, farmers, scientists and local communities, it has been split into four sections: Compost, Farming, Trading and Eating. Taking a fresh, experimental and often provocative perspective, projects present ideas and alternative food futures from gastronomic experiments to creative interventi ... More | | 
Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei listens during a press conference to present his exhibition at the K21 contemporary art museum on May 16, 2019. INA FASSBENDER / AFP.
DUSSELDORF.- Everything is art. Everything is politics: with these words, the internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Ai Weiwei encapsulates the basic principle of his working approach. This motto is also the leitmotif of his largest exhibition in Europe to date, which is on view simultaneously at the K20 and the K21 of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Large-scale works and extensive image wallpaper from the last four decades transform the museum galleries into dense, accessible installations. The close interlocking of political engagement with artistic activity in the oeuvre of this important and disputatious artist allows the contradictions of the present day to become tangible. Shown in the large exhibition halls of the K20 for the first time together in a single exhibition and in their complete forms are the two key works Straight (2008 2012) and Sunflower Seeds ( ... More | | 
Iman Issa, detail of Heritage Studies #20, 2016. Bronze, painted box, and vinyl text, 49 1/4 x 9 1/8 x 15 in. (125 x 23 x 38 cm). Image courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London; Piraeus, Greece; and carlier gebauer, Berlin. Photograph by Gunter Lepkowski.
NEW YORK, NY.- Featuring seventy-five artists working in painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, performance, and sound, the 2019 Whitney Biennial takes the pulse of the contemporary artistic moment. Introduced by the Museums founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, the Biennial is the longest-running exhibition in the country to chart the latest developments in American art. The 2019 Whitney Biennial is organized by Jane Panetta, associate curator, and Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator, with Ramsay Kolber, curatorial project assistant. Panetta remarked: Ru and I especially focused on emerging artists and first time Biennial participants: approximately seventy-five percent of the artists in the show are under forty and only five have previously appeared in a Whitney Biennial. In part, this ... More |
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| | | Sotheby's presents highlights of the Sales of 19th Century European Art and Master Paintings | | Christie's to offer fine printed books and manuscripts including Americana | | Christie's announces highlights included in the annual summer auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art | 
Angelika Kauffmann, R.A., Portrait of William Heberden the Younger, M.D. (1767-1845) as a Boy, Half Length, Seated Beside a Table. Oil on canvas, 24⅛ by 20⅛ in.; 61.2 by 51.1 cm. Estimate $80/120,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced highlights from their 19th Century European Art and Master Paintings auctions on 22 May in New York. These two spring sales will present nearly 200 works that reflect the rich diversity of artistic production in Europe from the 13th century to the 19th century, with estimates ranging from $7,000 1.5 million. All works are now on view in Sothebys newly-imagined and expanded York Avenue galleries. The morning auction of 19th Century European Art is led by The Embodiment of Dreams, a collection of paintings, works on paper and sculptures that celebrate 19th century artists fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of imagination and invention. Inspired by the heroes and goddesses of ancient myth, magic and the explorations of exotic lands, the ... More | | 
Emmy Ingeborg Brun (18721929), Globe of the Planet Mars. A rare globe by the female astronomer Emmy Brun, portraying an early theory of life on Mars. Estimate: $30,000 - 50,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- This June 12th, Christies Books & Manuscripts department will be presenting two live sales: The Birth of Modern Business: Luca Paciolis Summa de Arithmetica (estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000), a stand-alone sale of the original how-to guide for business and a various owner sale of Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts Including Americana. The latter includes over 200 objects ranging from early printed books to 20th-century manuscripts. The public view will open in Christies Rockefeller galleries in New York from Friday June 7th to Tuesday June 11th. A notable highlight of the June auction is a group of Letters from Benjamin Franklin to Henry Homes, Lord Kames. This important series of letters were written between 1760 and 1775 from Franklin, "the First ... More | | 
Raza, Untitled (Church in landscape). © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies annual summer auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art comprises 77 lots, almost entirely from private collections from Europe, India, Asia, US and Australia. Following Indias participation and Pakistans debut at this years Venice Biennale, this years auction will celebrate art from both countries. The auction is led by the striking Falling Figure with Bird painted in 2002 by Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009). This compelling composition manifests the sense of angst, helplessness and fear that Mehta felt at the societal violence and tragedy he experienced in the aftermath of partition. This image draws its power from a cinematic sense of suspense, freezing the action in an eternal moment of helpless free fall. Both deeply personal and politically poignant, this virtuoso painting distils complex psychological and metaphysical notions of suffering and trauma with the economy of line, form and col ... More |
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| | | Contemporary Week at Dorotheum includes modern and contemporary art, jewels, and watches | | Never-before-seen carving by Eric Gill offered at Bonhams Modern and British Art Sale | | The Arkansas Arts Center announces $128 million campaign, with commitments exceeding $118 million to date | 
Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) Bon Espoir (Paysage avec personnages), 1955 (detail), oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm, estimate 300,000 - 400,000, Auction 5 June 2019.
VIENNA.- No matter who the artist is, Klimt, Walde, West, Warhol or Dubuffet: Contemporary Week at Dorotheum showcases quality on an international scale. He turned stars into gods and was one himself: Andy Warhol. He told people just to look at the surface of his images, saying that there was nothing behind it and that the viewers themselves had to come up with the metaphysical aspects. However, using car crashes or the electric chair as the subject of his images meant that nevertheless involved him passing comment. The same can be said of his images of Marilyn, reproduced on a massive scale, with the tragic diva now depicted with a permanent smile, like a mask. The image by the Pop art artist up for auction at Dorotheum on 5 June depicts a series showing copies of photos featuring Judy Garland and Liza ... More | | 
Girl with Comb in her Hair, circa 1928, Eric Gill. Estimate £200,000-300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A major carving never-before-seen in public by master sculptor Eric Gill (1882-1940) leads Bonhams Modern British and Irish Sale on Wednesday 12 June in London. The sculpture, Girl with Comb in her Hair, carved circa 1928, has an estimate of £200,000-300,000. It was commissioned in 1928 as a 21st-birthday present for Desmond Flower, the son of Sir Newman Flower, whose publishing house Cassell & Co was at the time preparing a volume of Gills essays for publication. Girl with Comb in Her Hair has been in the family since it was made. Although it was known to exist it is mentioned in the memoirs of Desmond Flower and in Robert Speaights The Life of Eric Gill it had only ever been seen in private. Gill is best known as a sculptor his Prospero and Ariel were made for BBC Broadcasting House in London in 1932 but the typefaces he invented have perhaps been as influential, with his elega ... More | | 
Arkansas Arts Center. View from Crescent Drive at Night. Image Courtesy Studio Gang and SCAPE.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.- The Arkansas Arts Center announced Reimagining the Arkansas Arts Center: Campaign for Our Cultural Future, a $128 million special fundraising campaign that will realize a stunning new Arts Center for the 21st Century. The project will result in a comprehensive reenvisioning of the AAC by renowned architect Jeanne Gang and her practice, Studio Gang. The new AAC will include a revitalized landscape, designed by Kate Orff and SCAPE, which will expand the connection between the architecture and MacArthur Park. Both Jeanne Gang and Kate Orff are MacArthur fellows who have received prestigious MacArthur Genius grants. The Campaign will also provide transition and opening support, and endowment funds. Scheduled for completion in early 2022, the project will strengthen the Arkansas Arts Center as the regions pre-eminent cultural and arts education institution for visual ... More |
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| | | Christie's displays nine works that will be offered in the Modern British Art Evening Sale | | American Academy in Rome receives gift to establish Philip Guston Rome Prize Fellowship | | Hamilton | 
Barry Flanagan, R.A. (1941-2009), The Bowler. Bronze with a black patina, 129 in. (327.7 cm.) high. Conceived in 1990 in an edition of 8, plus 3 artist's casts. Estimate: £600,000-800,000.
LONDON.- Christies is presenting the third iteration of Sculpture in the Square, an outdoor sculpture garden set within St Jamess Square, London, on view to the public from 15 May to 17 June 2019. The exhibition displays nine works that will be offered in the Modern British Art Evening Sale as part of 20th Century at Christies, a series of sales that take place from 17 to 26 June 2019. Artists include Barry Flanagan, Henry Moore, Dame Elisabeth Frink and Emily Young. Presented in St Jamess Square adjacent to Christies headquarters on King Street, Sculpture in the Square coincides with the opening of this years Chelsea Flower Show, which runs from 21 to 25 May 2019. Exhibition curator Pippa Jacomb, Director, Modern British Art at Christies: Sculpture has always played an integral part in ... More | | 
Philip Guston in his studio at the American Academy in Rome, 1948. Photo: Herman Cherry and provided by the Estate of Philip Guston.
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Academy in Rome announced a new Rome Prize Fellowship this year. The Philip Guston Rome Prize in Visual Arts, established by Musa and Thomas Mayer with a $3 million gift in memory of the artist Philip Guston, further marks Gustons long-standing relationship with the Academy and the city of Rome. When my father was awarded the Rome Prize in 1948, he was at a crucial juncture in his painting, said Musa Mayer. In 1970, an extended stay at the Academy offered the distance and perspective he needed, allowing him to continue painting unencumbered by the rejection of the New York art world. On each visit, he was renewed and sustained by the painting of the Italian masters he loved so much, and by the language, culture, and companionship he found at the Academy. Knowing just how much ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Courtesy of David Korins.
CHICAGO, IL.- The world-premiere of Hamilton: The Exhibition, a 360-degree, immersive exhibit, debuted in Chicago in a free-standing temporary building on Northerly Island (1535 S. Linn White Drive). Hamilton: The Exhibition takes visitors deeper into the life and times of Alexander Hamilton, while at the same time chronicling the American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. From the post in St. Croix where teenager Alexander became an indispensable trader, to the hilltop in Weehawken, NJ where Burr fatally shot Hamilton in their infamous duel, Hamilton: The Exhibition seeks to elucidate the powerful experience of building our country and shaping our Democracy. The exhibition features an audio tour narrated by the musicals author, Lin-Manuel Miranda, along with Phillipa Soo and Christopher Jackson, who played Eliza Schuyler Hamilton and George Washington in the original Broadway productio ... More |
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 Project Mystical Es Vedrà: A journey into languages, civilizations and cultures IBIZA.- In the site-specific project Mystical Es Vedrà , Phil Akashi observes how modern Ibiza (Eivissa) became an intricate mosaic of cultures and a crossroads of civilizations. Founded by the Phoenicians who transformed the island into a strategic enclave in the 7th century B.C., the history of Ibiza has been enriched later with Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs occupations. Since 1999, large portions of the island are registered as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Inspired by myths and legends of Es Vedrà , Phil Akashi created a monumental artwork integrating parts of the major ancient Greek epic poem, Homers Odyssey, mentioning the island to be home to sirens and sea-nymphs, who tried to lure Odysseus from his ship. The artist also incorporated numerous elements which recall the Phoenician ... More Chinese born, New York photographer, Mi Zhou opens exhibition in IrelandCO.WEXFORD.- KAMERA ∞ Gallery opened their exhibition, with works by Chinese born, New York Photographer, Mi Zhou. The exhibition was opened by Anthony Hobbs , retired Head of the Department of Media at NCAD. Born in China, Mi Zhou studied Civil Engineering in college. Following graduation, worked for 13 years as a field engineer for Chinese National Railroad Survey and Design Institute. In 1997, obtained Master degree in Communication Arts in New York, and worked as art director at an advertising agency. Since 2004, resides in San Francisco, USA, working as a freelance photographer, mainly focusing on personal projects, and working with non-profit organizations on social documentaries. Speaking about the project presented in the exhibition, EARTH, Mi Zhou noted: What attracted me was the simplicity and basic idea in human history, when ... More MOCA GA announces plans for new facilityATLANTA, GA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is in the process of acquiring an acre of land in West Midtown, along Foster Street at The Goat Farm Arts Center to build a hoped-for new facility. For nearly 2 decades, MOCA GA has been the only institution dedicated solely to supporting Georgias artists and providing the community with the opportunity to experience Georgias contemporary visual art through its exhibitions, collection and archives, and educational programming. By relocating to The Goat Farm, which is located in the center of Atlantas new and growing cultural scene in West Midtown, MOCA GA will magnify its ability to provide resources to the creative community while simultaneously being more visible and accessible to the public. This is exciting news, not just for the arts community, but for Georgia residents and beyond. ... More Pérez Art Museum Miami announces new acquisitions from eleven artists for permanent collectionMIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami announced a number of significant acquisitions from eleven artists for the museum's permanent collection. Among the new artworks are a hanging installation by Teresita Fernándezgifted by Rosa and Carlos De La Cruzwhich will be included in the artists upcoming retrospective at PAMM in October 2019, and will be the first large-scale sculptural installation of Fernándezs in the museums collection; a new painting by Derek Fordjour that depicts an African American tennis player, gifted by Allison and Laurence Berg and Stephanie and Leon Vahn; Barthélémy Toguos monumental oil painting that depicts the brutal history of the Rwandan genocidegifted by Jorge M. Pérezwhich furthers the museums dedication to African American art; and a monumental installation of unspun wool by Cecilia Vicuña, purchased ... More French-Spanish singer Nilda Fernandez dies aged 61PARIS.- French-Spanish singer Nilda Fernandez, who won fame with hits in the late 80s and 90s and later became popular in Russia, died Sunday aged 61, his family told AFP. He died of heart failure in the south of France. Born in Barcelona, Fernandez grew up in the French city of Lyon and started playing in bars and clubs with just a guitar in the style of a French chansonnier. By 1981, he recorded his first album but he waited over half a decade more for success with the 1987 song and album "Madrid Madrid" and then his biggest hit "Nos fiancailles" (Our Engagement) in 1991. Known for his agile but vulnerable sounding voice, Fernandez in 2001 left for Russia where he stayed for half a decade, collaborating with Russian pop singer Boris Moiseev. He also worked in Cuba. ... More Maddox Gallery opens Coco Dávez's first solo exhibition in the UKLONDON.- Maddox Gallery is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Coco Dávez, in her first solo exhibition in the UK. Listed as one of the most influential artists in the world and one to invest in now, Dávezs paintings are at once uniquely identifiable. Her signature technique is achieved through unconstrained brushwork and pure acrylic colour on canvas, paying homage to the Fauvist artists who have deeply inspired her practice. Primarily experimenting with colour and shape, Dávezs subjects are a diverse blend of cultural and historical influences ranging from celebrities, musicians and artists, to film characters and cartoons. In her most recent collection, Faceless, Dávez engages with the dialogue of popular culture and societys obsession with icons. Large, exquisitely bright canvases portray a range of notable people from Amy Winehouse to Frida ... More Landmark Walt Whitman exhibition opens at the Grolier ClubNEW YORK, NY.- How did a carpenters son, grammar school dropout and sometime hack writer become Americas greatest poet? To commemorate Whitmans 200th birthday on May 31, 2019, this landmark exhibition showcases New York's role in the extraordinary transformation of Walter Whitman Jr. to Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son. On public view at the Grolier Club from May 15 to July 27, 2019, the exhibition brings together over 200 extraordinary books, manuscripts, photographs, and other objects to show how this obscure young New Yorker transformed himself into one of Americas great artists, the Poet of the Body: New Yorks Walt Whitman. Whitman is now universally acclaimed as the "Good Gray Poet" and for his Civil War writings, though less is known of his early years as a Long Islander, Brooklynite, and self-described ... More Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona opens 'Undefined Territories: Perspectives on Colonial Legacies'BARCELONA.- In April 1955, representatives of 29 newly, and struggling-to-be, independent countries from Asia and Africa gathered for a conference in Bandung, Indonesia, to champion common interests of national sovereignty, decolonisation, anti-imperialism and economic development. The international meeting of new geopolitical alliances represented 54% of the world population at the time and signalled a pivotal moment for postcolonial political order. From this encounter emerged the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) formed by nations that embraced the above and shunned the polarities of the Cold War the Third World. A centrepiece of the exhibition is Naeem Mohaiemens (b. 1969) acclaimed film Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017), which meticulously weaves together both new and archival footage with the narration of historian ... More Fierce bidding for outstanding collection of netsuke at BonhamsLONDON.- The sale of the Robert S. Huthart Collection of Iwami Netsuke: Part I at Bonhams on 15 May attracted strong bidding. All of the top ten items far out-performed their presale estimates, and the sale achieved a total of £1,315,646. The Fine Japanese Art sale made £1,062,661 and the two sales achieved a combined total of £2,378,307. Businessman Robert S. Huthart was born in Newcastle in the UK, but lived and worked for most of his life in Hong Kong. Fascinated by netsuke the small carved ornaments worn as part of Japanese traditional dress he built up over many decades the finest collection ever formed of netsuke from the historical Iwami district in South West Japan (today part of the Shimane prefecture). Highlights of the sale included: A boar-tusk netsuke with an applied snail, by Seiyodo Tomiharu. Sold for £68,810 (£5,000-5,500) A ... More Premiere Props to auction off 500 pieces of memorabilia from film and televisionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Premiere Props announced they will be auctioning off over 500 pieces of memorabilia from classic and newly released films and television shows on Saturday, June 1 at the Premiere Props headquarters in El Segundo, CA. There will be a preview from 9-11am PT with the live auction beginning at 11am PT. The auction includes costumes and props from the Back to the Future, Deadpool, Iron Man, Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and Terminator franchises, the classic television series The Little Rascals, as well as numerous items The Upside, plus wardrobe from Cher, Brad Pitt, Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. Items include: Dr. Emmet Brown's (Christopher Lloyd) Mr. Fusion home energy reactor from Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II. Biff Tannen's (Thomas F. Wilson) black and red Pitt Bull Hover board from Back ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Barbara Hepworth died May 20, 1975. Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence. In this image:Barbara Hepworth, Photo-collage with Two Segments at Richard NeutraÂs Silver Lake house in Los Angeles 1938 © The Hepworth Estate.
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