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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Self Portrait with Marie-Therese Walter, Pencil on Paper (Est: $30,000-50,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- Lark Mason Associates is pleased to announce that that its Autumn Fine Art sale, which includes a rare group of sketches by Pablo Picasso and an oversized Paul Jenkins watercolor are among the eclectic selection of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary works of art, which are now open for bidding on www.igavelauctions.com through November 17th. The sketches by Pablo Picasso and his daughter Maya Picasso provide an intimate glimpse into their creative relationship. The drawings were created for the amusement of his daughter and demonstrate Picassos masterful, yet playful ability as an artist. This collection was part of the estate of Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was Picassos lover and Mayas mother. Paul Jenkins became known for his unique style of controlling the color as he worked. Using mainly a knife to create the depths and parameters of his color environments, Jenkins would serendipitously allow his pigments ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A model poses with the ÂThe Spirit of the Rose a rare 14.83 carats vivid purple pink diamond, during a press preview ahead of sales by Sotheby's auction house, in Geneva on November 6, 2020. The exceptional ball-sized pink gem, shaped from the largest rough pink diamond ever discovered in Russia, will be offered in Geneva on 11 November by Sotheby's, which estimates it at between 23 and 38 million dollars. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP
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 | | Exhibition of new work by the renowned Belgian artist Luc Tuymans on view at David Zwirner | | Pace opens two concurrent exhibitions of work by pioneering American painter Jo Baer | | Star Wars toys discovered in bin bags net £400,000 for UK couple | 
Luc Tuymans, Anonymous I, 2018. Oil on canvas, 52 1/2 x 39 1/8 inches, 133.2 x 99.4 cm.
HONG KONG.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of new work by the renowned Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) at the gallerys Hong Kong locationhis first solo presentation in Greater China. On view is a selection of recent paintings and a new single-channel animated video that are drawn from a range of historical and contemporary images. Together the works share an undercurrent, as suggested by the exhibitions title, of paradox and uncertainty. Tuymans has become known for a distinctive style of painting that demonstrates the power of images to simultaneously communicate and withhold. Emerging in the 1980s, Tuymans pioneered a decidedly non-narrative approach to figurative painting, instead exploring how information can be layered and embedded within certain scenes and signifiers. Based on preexisting imagery culled from a variety of sources, his works are rendered in a muted palette that is suggestive of a blurry ... More | | 
Installation view of Jo Baer: The Risen / Originals, 540 West 25th Street, New York. November 6 December 19, 2020. Photography courtesy of Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting two concurrent exhibitions of work by pioneering American painter Jo Baer (b. 1929, Seattle), on view from November 6 December 19, 2020 at the gallerys location at 540 West 25th Street in New York. Jo Baer: The Risen features five of Baers Risen works, unprecedented Minimalist paintings originally created in 1960 and 1961 that were subsequently destroyed and then remade by the artist in 2019 from archival images. Jo Baer: Originals brings together twelve works from 1975 through the present that reflect the artists departure from Minimalism towards a new, image based aesthetic in her practice. Spanning nearly five decades, this presentation is the first time a survey of Baers image-based work has been exhibited in the U.S. Together, these exhibitions offer an overarching look at Baers prolific career that continues to defy categorization ... More | | 
From Storm Trooper helmets to R2D2s eye, memorabilia from one of the worlds biggest movie franchises can fetch eye-watering sums at auctions.
LONDON (AFP).- A British couple have thanked their lucky stars after a garage full of bin bags they inherited from a dead neighbour yielded a trove of Star Wars toys worth £400,000 ($525,000). The couple, from Stourbridge in central England, were initially unsure what to make of the jumble of dolls and spacecraft their neighbour had spent decades collecting, The Times newspaper reported Thursday. Their son called in an auctioneer, who found a treasure trove of Star Wars memorabilia including action figures still pristine in their sealed packaging. "A lot of them were a bit damp because of how they've been stored but generally it's the best Star Wars collection I've ever seen," Chris Aston of Aston's Auctioneers, told The Times. "We had a huge amount of interest from all over the world and were always expecting the sale to do very well," Aston said of the auction. Going under the hammer was a Star Destroyer ... More |
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| | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will offer 400+ lots in Jewelry, Silver & Objects of Vertu sale | | Gregory Crewdson debuts his latest series 'An Eclipse of Moths' in Europe at Templon in Paris | | Research tracks how pterosaurs mastered the primeval skies | 
The Kalo Shop, pendant necklace on an original chain sterling silver, freshwater pearls. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Thursday, November 12, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will hold its second annual Jewelry, Silver & Objects of Vertu sale with material by notable makers from various periods and in a range of styles. Included among the more than 400 lots in the auction are American Arts & Crafts examples as well as items representing the following eras: Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modernist/Mid-Century, and Contemporary. There are many distinguished sources for the auction, in particular, The Paul & Terry Somerson Collection of 20th and 21st Century Metalwork and Jewelry. Paul Somerson was a highly successful tech journalist and author during the 1980s and 1990s who later transitioned to collecting with his wife, Terry. The Somersons ultimately assembled the largest private collection of American Arts & Crafts metalwork and jewelry and also acquired many fine Modernist examples. On May 5, ... More | | 
Redemption Center, 2019 (detail), pigment print, 127 x 228 cm, edition of 4 + 2 APs.
PARIS.- Four years after the spectacular Cathedral of the Pines show, Gregory Crewdsons latest series An Eclipse of Moths premieres in Europe at Templon in Paris. This ensemble of sixteen panoramic photographs is the result of over two years work. In an America mired in a health and political crisis, with the presidential campaign in full swing, Gregory Crewdson, the undisputed master of staged photography, offers an empathetic and critical reflection on his country. Depicting outdoor scenes in a small, desolate town in post-industrial New England, the artist conceived the works as a meditation on the fragility of the world, brokenness, the yearning for redemption and the quest for transcendence. For more than 25 years, Gregory Crewdson has been creating complex, skillfully staged photographs that draw greatly on the codes of cinema. His creative process is similar to film production with all its logistical and technical complexi ... More | | 
Drawing of Zhejiangopterus by John Conway.
(AFP).- By the time they were wiped out alongside their dinosaur cousins, most winged pterosaurs had evolved from awkwardly airborne to lords of the primeval skies, according to new research published Wednesday. Pterosaurs, the first creatures with a backbone to fly under their own power, emerged during the late Triassic period more than 200 million years ago and include some of the largest animals ever to take to the air. Paleontologists are still piecing together details of the lives of these winged reptiles -- neither dinosaurs nor birds -- which soared above T-rex, Triceratops and other dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous period. In one of two studies published in Nature on pterosaurs, researchers in Britain found the creatures were initially ungainly fliers. But the study, which used statistical methods, biophysical models and fossil records, said that pterosaurs spent 150 million years perfecting their flying skills. "Pterosaurs really were incredible animals," co-author Joanna Baker of Rea ... More |
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| | Footprints of carnivorous dinosaurs and gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs found in northeast Brazil | | PIN. charity auction goes fully digital | | Denver Art Museum opens Mexican modernism exhibition with artworks by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera | 
Sauropod and theropods. Illustration by Pepi.
by Emanuel Pujol
BUENOS AIRES.- Paleontologists from Brazil and Italy studied a series of footprints about 120 million years old belonging to sharp-clawed carnivores and herbivorous dinosaurs weighing up to 30 tons. From this record, they were able to analyze the movements and certain behaviors of these extinct animals, and reveal characteristics of the environment they inhabited. In the Northeast of Brazil, in the state of Ceará, a team of researchers from Brazil and Italy studied a sequence of footprints of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs and tracks of a predator with sharp claws running at high speed. Dr. Ismar de Souza Carvalho, a researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, indicated that rocks from 125 to 113 million years old have been found that have deformation structures known as dinoturbation, which were caused by the passage of quadruped dinosaurs that ... More | | 
Kaspar Muller, Untitled, 2020. UV-gehärtete Tinte und Sennelier-Ãlpastell auf Leinwand
210 Ã 160 cm.
MUNICH.- Corona smashed the great plans the Friends of PIN. had. Instead of the big saleroom auction at Pinakothek der Moderne and different satellite locations, there will now be two digital online charity auctions. Our motto has never been more topical: Life is Art. Now more than ever. We are taking on this challenge, explains PIN. managing director Dorothee Wahl in Munich. The second wave of corona forced us to make entirely new plans. But corona is not going to weaken our commitment to support museums and artists with the yields from the charity auction this year, too. Which is why only the live events with an audience will be canceled, while the charity auction itself will take place live and online. And everyone is welcome to place bids. Those who want to join us in our support of museums, galleries and artists in hard times like these get a perfect chance to d ... More | | 
Frida Kahlo, Diego on my Mind, 1943. Oil on Masonite; 29.9 x 24 in. (76 x 61 cm). The Vergel Foundation and MondoMostre in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL). © 2020 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Gerardo Suter.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum opened Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, a traveling exhibition focused on the post-Mexican Revolution artworks of internationally celebrated artists Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and their contemporaries, including Lola Alvarez Bravo, Gunther Gerzso, MarÃa Izquierdo and Carlos Mérida. Organized by MondoMostre and curated locally by Rebecca Hart, Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the DAM, a selection of more than 150 artworks are on display in the DAMs Anschutz and Martin & McCormick Galleries from Oct. 25, 2020, ... More |
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| | Morrison Gallery opens major new art storage facility | | Qaumajuq is the name for WAG Inuit art centre, new Indigenous names for spaces within | | Chihuly exhibition launches 20th anniversary season of The Baker Museum | 
The new Morrison Art Storage Facility is a 25,000 square foot, two-story, temperature, humidity and climate-controlled building.
KENT, CONN.- William Morrison, owner of the highly regarded Morrison Gallery in the heart of the northwestern Connecticut town of Kent, has opened an ultra modern art storage facility at 60 North Main Street. The new Morrison Art Storage Facility is a 25,000 square foot, two-story, temperature, humidity and climate-controlled building. It is part of an art services community that accommodates all possible needs of collectors, artists and museums. MASF services include general and private storage rooms, white-glove transportation service by professional art handlers, 24/7 loading dock hours and private viewing rooms. The family owned and operated MASF is part of a complex constructed in the past year that will soon include the Morrison Gallery, which re-opens late Spring 2021, in a new breezeway connected building fronting on Kent's Main Street, which is also Rt. 7. In addition to art works the facility ... More | | 
Inuit Art Centre architectural renderings. Photo: Michael Maltzan Architecture, courtesy of WAG.
WINNIPEG.- The Winnipeg Art Gallery announced that a circle of language keepers has given an Inuktitut name to what was formerly known as the Inuit Art Centre: Qaumajuq [HOW-ma-yourq], meaning It is bright, it is lit, which celebrates the light that flows into the new building connected to the WAG. This naming initiative is an important step on the WAGs Indigenization journey, as is free admission for all Indigenous Peoples to WAG-Qaumajuq starting with the landmark opening, expected to launch in February 2021. It is the first time an Indigenous naming of this kind has occurred at a major art institution in Canada. Guided by the WAG Indigenous Advisory Circle, the historic naming responds to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Article 13 and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canadas Call to Action 14i, both of which reference the importance of Indigenous languages. In addition to the new ... More | | 
Dale Chihuly, Red Reeds, 2010. 10 x 43 x 2'. ArtisNaples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, installed 2020 © Chihuly Studio. All Rights Reserved.
NAPLES, FLA.- Dreaming Forms: Chihuly Then and Now, the third Chihuly exhibition in the history of The Baker Museum, helps celebrate the museums 20th season and its reopening to the public. American artist Dale Chihuly has long been associated with The Baker Museum, including an exhibition of his works that was featured when the museum opened in November 2000, with Chihuly himself attending the inaugural festivities. Dreaming Forms: Chihuly Then and Now, on view from November 1, 2020 through February 28, 2021, includes stunning artworks presented in The Baker Museum as well as around the Kimberly K. Querrey and Louis A. Simpson Cultural Campus. There is a lovely symmetry to having Dale Chihuly anchor the 20th anniversary season of The Baker Museum, since he helped inaugurate the museum when it opened, said Kathleen van Bergen, CEO and President of ArtisNaples. Since then, ... More |
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 25 NYC museums and cultural institutions resume free, in-person "Culture Pass" programNEW YORK, NY.- Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library announced that their joint initiative Culture Pass a citywide library program providing free access to library cardholders to cultural institutions across the five boroughs has resumed service at select participating institutions, with limited capacity. Created in 2018, Culture Pass has provided nearly 110,000 free passes to museums, gardens, historical societies, performance venues, and other cultural institutions. As institutions across New York City reopen to the public, the Citys tri-library system is providing library patrons select opportunities to visit New York Citys unparalleled arts and culture organizations which have reopened with updated safety protocols in place, free of charge. Through Culture Pass, participating cultural institutions provide ... More signs and symbols presents an exhibition of works by Berlin-based artist Ornella FieresNEW YORK, NY.- 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany. After the Second World War, Germany was divided between the allies with the eastern sector controlled by the Soviet Union. For decades we have seen a steady reveal of untold stories from those living in East Germany, under the dictatorial regime. signs and symbols is presenting a group of people walking down a snow covered street, the gallerys second solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Ornella Fieres. For this exhibition, Fieres presents works based on a collection of over 700 letters, postcards and photographs from the 1960s 1980s belonging to a woman living in the former GDR in East Berlin. After finding these materials all within one box, Fieres spent several years processing them through various artificial intelligences. This exhibition ... More Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries announces 50 arts and cultural organisations as hosts for 2020-2022LONDON.- Jerwood Arts announced the 50 organisations across the UK who will host Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries Fellows to provide talented individuals from low socio-economic backgrounds opportunities for a career in the arts and cultural sector. The hosts applied prior to the Covid pandemic, and all remain fully committed. The programme will now provide the added benefit of supporting a sector hit hard by lockdown measures. Each of the 50 host organisations taking part have created significant new roles at the heart of their work, with the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme funding up to 90% of salaries plus a dedicated career development programme for the Fellow, support for their progression beyond the programme, and individual mentors supported in partnership with Arts Emergency. Fellows will all be undertaking an artistic/creative role such as ... More Virtual exhibition focuses on the complex meanings and creative absorption of the American flagPROVIDENCE, RI .- Out of the Fray is a special focused group exhibition curated by Judith Tolnick Champa featuring the American flag as a powerful symbol of critique. In 2020, the flag has come increasingly to serve as a fraught symbol of democracy and its freedoms. During the coronavirus pandemic, it has become ubiquitous signage in our lives, across urban, suburban, and rural contexts, as well as in the increasing racial upheaval and alarming politicized events captured by all media nationwide. Featuring work by three progenitors and a cohort of 12 contemporary artists, Out of the Fray was developed in a time of frayed nerves. It anticipated that we might begin to see ourselves clear of at least some of the prevailing assaults on democratic values that we have recognized and experienced, and be able and willing to re-examine ... More Short stories need a defender. She's ready.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Danielle Evans really did mean to write a novel. She had promised one to her literary agent, and there was certainly interest after her critically acclaimed 2010 debut, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, a story collection that earned her a place on the National Book Foundations Five Under 35 list. But over the past 10 years, Evans kept getting ideas for short stories. She would write them quickly and secretly, she said in a video interview last month, then get back to work. Eventually, however, the novel gave rise to a novella, the stories kept coming, and they are all together in her new collection, The Office of Historical Corrections, out Tuesday from Riverhead. The book is thematically about apologies, or corrections, or trying to make things right, Evans, 36, said, although it shouldnt be taken as any ... More Modern Art Museum Shanghai opens duo solo exhibitions SHANGHAI.- The Modern Art Museum is presenting Neo Golden Age from 8 November 2020 to 14 March 2021. The exhibition features British Neo-Pop artist Philip Colbert and Canadian street artist Trevor Andrew in the form of a duo solo exhibition. Following their China debut exhibition, Reset, in 2018, the two artists will bring their largest ever solo exhibitions to Shanghai. This time they will use novel, engaging creative methods and media to open a dialogue between the artistic themes of Lobster Land and The Real Big Deal, organized by WAVELENGTH. The Neo Golden Age exhibition uses a unique way of art presentation to impact contemporary pop culture and the consumerism world, depicting realistic scenes with exaggerated and unconventional installations, including an immersive ... More Annet Gelink Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Ella Reitsma.SnoepAMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting Japan. War & Fairytales, Ella Reitsma.Snoeps third solo exhibition in The Bakery. In Japan. War & Fairytales Reitsma.Snoep seeks to explain the contradictory relation that is at the heart of Japans identity: its past as both aggressor and seeker of beauty. Steering clear of either vilifying or romanticizing, Reitsma.Snoep explores the complexities that underly this contradictory identity. Having been interned as a child - together with only her mother - in Indonesia's infamous Japanese internment camps for 'enemy foreigners' from 1941 until 1945, Japan was a taboo subject for Reitsma.Snoep growing up. The Japanese were considered cruel, unpredictable and the personification of pure evil. That said, though the beauty of Japanese artefacts, architecture and design had intrigued her as an ... More Nancy Margolis Gallery opens online-only exhibition 'Night Transfigured' by Sylvia NaimarkNEW YORK, NY.- Nancy Margolis Gallery announced its second solo exhibition for Swedish painter Sylvia Naimark, Night Transfigured. The exhibition is being presented in the gallery's online Viewing Room November 5th Âthrough January 8th. Sylvia Naimarks new body of work, Night Transfigured, comprises eleven oil paintings that communicate a coherent yet nonlinear narrative. Her haunting representations of atmospheres and figures convey the mystical, melancholic quality of Nordic light. Naimarks paintings are not evocative of objects or places in themselves; rather, the painting itself is the place and not an image of a place, but the whole reality. In Untitled, an effusion of deep violets and blues triumphantly asserts itself against the raw canvas background. Pocket I and Transfigured Night captivate viewers through a duality ... More 'Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau' comes to Reading Public MuseumREADING, PA.- From September 26, 2020 through January 3, 2021 the Reading Public Museum presents, Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau includes more than 70 original works by the artist many consider the creator of the Art Nouveau style. From 1895 to 1910 Alphonse Mucha (18601939) was one of the most significant artists in all of Europe. His work became synonymous with the international Art Nouveau style, popularly called "le style Mucha" in Paris at the turn of the century. With a focus on the works created during the 1890s, this exhibition shows a creative man exploring possibilities when the emphasis was on defining a new art, fit for the new century. Mucha's designs for posters, calendars, books and advertising labels circulated widely throughout Europe and America, and his Art Nouveau style dominated visual ... More Adjaye Associates reveal designs for The Martyrs MemorialLONDON.- The Martyrs Memorial is a commemoration to all those lost in the fight against terrorism along Nigers southern and western borders. It is conceived as a monument to those who lost their lives, a tangible documentation of the continuous fight against extremist entities and the soldiers who have fallen in the process. Located within the heart of the city, the monument bestows the site with a dedicated memorial, new urban plaza and a multi-use civic gathering space. Established on a raised triangular plot, the design leverages its site to create a gently inclined plane framing the monument against the sky to create an experience that removes one from the every day of the city. As visitors approach the memorial, they are engrossed in a labyrinth of abstraction through a rhythmic interplay of light, shadow and geometries ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss photographer Robert Frank was born November 09, 1924. Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 - September 9, 2019) was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ ... ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.
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