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Rehs Galleries' Comments on the Art Market newsletter will be celebrating its 20th birthday next month, with December marking the 240th edition!
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries Inc., one of the worlds preeminent galleries specializing in 19th and 20th-century works of art, celebrates 20 years of its monthly newsletter Comments on the Art Market. Buying art, and the art market in general, is viewed by many as intimidating to say the least. There is such a vast amount of information to absorb and consider; one would be surprised if most people had a true grasp on the industry's breadth and nuances. Knowing many feel buying art is an overwhelming task, Rehs Galleries began publishing a newsletter to help educate those who are considering jumping into the buyer pool, as well as those already struggling to swim. Rehs Galleries' Comments on the Art Market newsletter will be celebrating its 20th birthday next month, with December marking the 240th edition! What started as a short and informative (physical) mailing to advise potential art buyers, has evolved into a robust monthly update on the art ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square reopened to the public with visitors experiencing the premiere retrospective exhibition DESTINY, showcasing the work of one of AustraliaÂs most respected artists Destiny Deacon.
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| That mysterious monolith in the Utah desert? It's gone, officials say | | Masterpiece of the Flemish Baroque to headline Sotheby's Old Masters Sale | | Even from the desert, Danny Lyon still speaks to the streets | 
A monolith embedded in the rock in southeastern Utah, Nov. 18, 2020. A team surveying bighorn sheep for Utahs wildlife agency found the strange object, 10 to 12 feet tall, embedded in the ground in a remote part of Red Rock Country its probably art, officials said. Utah Department of Public Safety via The New York Times.
by Bryan Pietsch
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As mysteriously as it arrived, a metal monolith that was discovered this month by Utah public safety workers is now gone, officials said Saturday. The three-sided metal structure was removed Friday evening by an unknown party from the public land it was found on, the federal Bureau of Land Managements Utah office said in a statement. The bureau said it had not removed the monolith, which it considers private property. The Utah Department of Public Safety said Monday that it had found the object while surveying for bighorn sheep. "ITS GONE! the Department of Public Safety said, reacting to the news in an ... More | | 
Unseen for over a century, The Wine Harvest by David Teniers the Younger emerges from a private collection. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This December, Sothebys will bring to auction a 17th-century masterpiece which has been unseen in public since the late-19th century. Emerging from the collection of the Viscounts Gage, having been passed by inheritance since the 1770s, the momentous canvas by the celebrated Flemish artist, David Teniers the Younger, will be offered for sale at Sothebys London Old Masters sale on 10 December 2020, with an estimate of £3-5 million. Measuring 56 x 104 ins (142.4 x 264.1 cms), The Wine Harvest is the largest, and certainly the finest work by Teniers to come to market in living memory. Rivalled in scale only by two other masterpieces, both of which now reside in international museums, the painting is presented in a remarkable state of preservation, undoubtedly due to its unbroken ownership having been passed by inheritance since being acquired, probably in the 1770s, by Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount ... More | | 
Photographer Danny Lyon with his dog, Trip, on his property in Bernalillo, N.M., Nov. 19, 2020. The indefatigable photographer on the struggles of getting his new film to the next generation of activists. Brad Trone/The New York Times.
by Rebecca Bengal
BERNALILLO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Nov. 4, the morning after the election, hope and uncertainty mingled in the air outside the adobe house of photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon. Wind ruffled the branches of the golden cottonwoods he planted when he built the place in the early 1970s; it was sunny out. Im an eternal optimist, he said. Lyon wore a Stetson hat, a blue button-down shirt, a face mask; green suspenders hitched up his jeans. In some parts of the country he has occasionally been mistaken for his University of Chicago classmate Bernie Sanders, for whom he stumped in 2019. I just wave back at everybody, he said. The previous night, Lyon and his wife, artist Nancy Lyon, had parked in front of the television to watch ... More |
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| Hollywood's obituary, the sequel. Now streaming. | | As pandemic closes New York stores, artists move in | | Transformed Australian Museum reopens | 
Billboards advertising content by Netflix along Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif., on Oct. 10, 2020. Philip Cheung/The New York Times.
by Brooks Barnes
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hollywoods like Egypt: full of crumbled pyramids. Itll never come back. Itll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. David O. Selznick, the golden era producer, made that glum proclamation in 1951. A new entertainment technology, TV, was emasculating cinema as a cultural force, and film studios had started to fossilize into bottom line-oriented businesses. As Selznick put it, Hollywood had been grabbed by a little group of bookkeepers and turned into a junk industry. Since then, Hollywood has repeatedly written its own obituary. It died when interlopers like Gulf + Western Industries began buying studios in the 1960s. And again when Star Wars (1977) and Superman (1978) turned movies into toy advertisements. The 1980s (VCRs), the 1990s (the rise ... More | | 
The artist known as Sir Shadow, who draws and exhibits his work in empty real estate spaces, draws one of his signature one-stroke drawings on November 25, 2020 in New York TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
by Peter Hutchison
NEW YORK (AFP).- Artists are taking over New York storefronts made empty by the coronavirus pandemic, receiving invaluable free exposure and breathing life into depressed shopping streets. Thousands of shops and restaurants have closed this year as the virus ravages the Big Apple's economy, and artists are now getting some of them as studios and exhibition space. "Sometimes they say tragedy brings an opportunity. So this is an opportunity," says the artist known as Sir Shadow, performing his signature one-stroke drawings in a former furniture store in Manhattan. The 70-something is helped by Chashama, a 25-year-old New York non-profit that persuades property owners to temporarily donate unused units to struggling artists to use as studios and to display their ... More | | 
People look at the Tyrannosaurs exhibit during the reopening of the Australian Museum in Sydney on November 26, 2020. Steven SAPHORE / AFP.
SYDNEY.- The Australian Museum reopened to the public on Saturday 28 November after a 15 month $57.5m building transformation which has significantly increased public spaces and improved amenities within the historic museum complex on the corner of William and College Streets. As a major bonus for the public, the NSW Government has announced general admission will be free to celebrate the reopening of the iconic institution, providing access to the AM for all and helping position the regions leading natural history and culture museum among the best in the world. In its most extensive renovation in decades, Australias first museum, originally founded in 1827, has redeveloped its public and exhibition spaces. This includes adding more than 3,000sqm of new public space, repurposed from back-of-house areas. Known as Project Discover, the transformation was made possible by the NSW Government contributing $50.5m and generous philan ... More |
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| Dave Prowse, man behind Darth Vader's mask, is dead at 85 | | NGV Australia reopens with Destiny Deacon retrospective | | Giant killer: Florentine masterpiece at Bonhams Old Master Paintings Sale | 
David Prowse physically portrayed Vader in the original film trilogy. Photo: Xanathon.
(AFP).- Dave Prowse, the British actor who gave the imposing physical presence but not the voice to Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, died Saturday in a hospital in London. He was 85. Prowses death was confirmed by Thomas Bowington, his agent. Prowses family did not release a cause of death, but he retired in 2016 because of ill health, Bowington said. Standing 6 feet, 6 inches tall and with a physique honed by years of weightlifting (he was once the British heavyweight champion), Prowse had the perfect presence for the role of Darth Vader, whom he played in 1977s Star Wars, in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and in Return of the Jedi in 1983. He was scouted for the role by George Lucas, the franchises creator, who had seen Prowse play a bodyguard in Stanley Kubricks A Clockwork Orange. Lucas actually offered Prowse a choice of roles ... More | | 
Destiny Deacon, Wheres Mickey? 2002. Lightjet photograph from Polaroid photograph, 80.0 x 100.0 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2016© Destiny Deacon.
MELBOURNE.- The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square reopened to the public with visitors experiencing the premiere retrospective exhibition Destiny, showcasing the work of one of Australias most respected artists Destiny Deacon. The NGV is delighted to reopen the doors of NGV Australia to the public. Many of our visitors have missed the Gallery and we look forward to welcoming them back. The DESTINY exhibition is a not-to-be-missed solo survey, highlighting the poignant and humorous perspective of one of Australias most accomplished living artists, Destiny Deacon, said Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV. The reopening of NGV Australia at Fed Square is a great moment for Victorians and heralds a fantastic season of art ... More | | 
David with the Head of Goliath by Jacopo Vignali. Estimate: £150,000-200,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The Biblical story of how the shepherd boy David slew the mighty giant Goliath with a well-aimed shot from his sling has long appealed to religious and secular audiences alike as an example of the little man defeating the odds to come out on top. The subject has inspired some of the worlds greatest works of arts including Michelangelos and Donatellos sculptures in Florence where they became symbols of a resilient small City State standing up to its larger bullying neighbours. A newly discovered painting, David with the Head of Goliath, by the early Baroque Florentine painter Jacopo Vignali (1592-1664) leads Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale in London on Thursday 17 December. It has an estimate of £150,000-200,000. In David with the Head of Goliath, painted in 1624, Vignali put a contemporary interpretation on the subject, marrying rich and colourful ... More |
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| Bauhaus Dessau Foundation researches the "Bauhaus im Text" | | Peter Monaghan features a new body of work at Heather Gaudio Fine Art | | Kehrer Verlag publishes 'Ragnar Axelsson's Arctic Heroes: A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland' | 
The journal bauhaus. sprachrohr der studierenden. organ der kostufra. © Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (I 8460/1-8 L) / Image by Google.
DESSAU-ROÃLAU.- With the project Bauhaus im Text (The textual Bauhaus), the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is concentrating on a new research topic and is thus placing a hitherto unique focus on the textual heritage of the historical Bauhaus. The scholars are compiling a complete, annotated catalogue of all texts written by Bauhaus members between 1919 and 1933 as well as two digital sample editions. The two-year pilot project is funded by the Ministry of Economics, Science and Digitisation of the state of Saxony-Anhalt with a total of 620,000 euros. An annotated catalogue of all writings authored by Bauhaus members during their time at the Bauhaus does not yet exist. In 1962, Hans Maria Wingler published the volume Das Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin 19191933, which was the first anthology to have a significant influence on the reception of the Bauhaus. However, it comprises only a selection and in part only excerpts ... More | | 
Peter Monaghan, Fold 11, 2020. Acrylic on wood construction mounted on panel. 44 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is presenting Peter Monaghan: Fold his first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show opened on November 21st and runs through January 9th. In the early 2000s, the Irish artist made a conscious decision to pivot from his successful commercial graphic design company and turn his attention to developing the fine artist within. Although Monaghan had never fully stopped painting since his days at art school in Dublin, his new explorations with the medium took him away from the representational to abstraction. Gradually, the creative avenues led to adding three-dimensional components such as painted ping-pong balls, wooden sheets or dowels to his surfaces, allowing him to puzzle out his interest in color, form and light. This element of play with shapes and forms refined his abstraction and worked naturally with his design instincts, making for an original and authentic output of sculptur ... More | | 
Ragnar Axelsson's Arctic Heroes: A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland.
NEW YORK, NY.- Arctic Heroes takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenlandic sled dog. In Greenland, where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably disrupting the hunters 4,000 year old traditional way of life, the stark reality of global warming is an immediate and direct threat to their everyday survival. The Greenland dog, essential to Inuit settlement and survival, now faces extinction as hunters are forced to adapt to the vanishing world around them. The sled dog population has shrunk from about 30,000 in 2009 to about 12,000 in 2019. In approximately 150 stunning images, and through hunters personal stories, retold by the author, this book bears witness to the animals magnificence and the deep, integral role they play in the hunters lives. The photographs included in this book were taken in Greenland between 1986 and 2020. For over forty years, Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson, also known as RAX (b. 1958), has b ... More |
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 GRIMM opens an exhibition of new paintings by Louise GiovanelliAMSTERDAM.- GRIMM is presenting A Priori, an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Giovanelli. The exhibition marks Giovanelli's second solo exhibition with the gallery and her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. Giovanelli's practice is one of subtle contrasts and involves an erasure or undoing of prior meaning in the images she appropriates. Using thin layers of paint to build up form, light and shade, Giovanelli removes her subject matter from circulation in the world, to be studied and observed. Disconnected from their original context, the subsequent ephemera of staged performance and film comes to life in a new series of paintings. Giovanelli's luminous works are created by applying single pigment colors to create real painted light. In the central work of the exhibition, a large diptych, as well as in a single painting titled Dyer, theatre ... More BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announces its 2021 programmeGATESHEAD.- In the wake of one of the most challenging and formative years for the world at large, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art looks to the future with its exhibition and events programme, launching from 6th January 2021 with joint exhibitions of work by Lithuanian artist duo Pakui Hardware, and the BALTIC Open Submission showcasing over 150 works created by both professional and amateur artists from across the North East during the lockdown of spring 2020. BALTIC will also launch the podcast mini-series For All I Care in November 2020, created in partnership with Wellcome Collection. The podcast, hosted by artist Nwando Ebizie, explores the urgency and beauty of care and healing over 5 monthly-episodes featuring contributions from the worlds of contemporary art, science and healthcare. In 2021, BALTIC will present highlight- ... More Important Falklands War D.C.M. to be sold by Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- The important and superb Falklands War Goose Green and Wireless Ridge D.C.M. (Distinguished Conduct Medal) group of nine awarded to Platoon Sergeant, later Major, J. C. Meredith, 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their live/ online auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Thursday, December 3, 2020 on their website. It is estimated to fetch £100,000-120,000. John Clifford Meredith was born in 1950 at Bangor, Wales. He joined the British Army in March 1967 and attended selection for the Parachute Regiment, completing his recruit training at Aldershot and initial jumps training at R.A.F. Abingdon. After completing his eighth tour in Northern Ireland, Major, J. C. Meredith, in 1982, embarked with his battalion for the Falkland Islands where he displayed conspicuous gallantry ... More Pat Larter's first solo exhibition in a public art museum on view at The Art Gallery of New South WalesSYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is presenting the first solo exhibition in a public art museum of Australian artist Pat Larter. Spanning more than 20 years of Larters art practice, Pat Larter: Get Arted, reveals a collaborative, provocative, witty and joyful body of work that challenges conventions and stereotypes of female desire and sexuality. Moving across performance art, film, mail art and eventually to painting, Larter's work from the 1970s to mid 1990s blurred the roles of wife, muse, collaborator, subject and artist to explore ideas about gender and the body. From her home in Luddenham, west of Sydney, Larter became one of the major voices in the international - and fiercely anti-establishment - mail art movement, coining the term femail art. Her involvement in the movement saw her participate in hundreds of international ... More Goulburn Regional Art Gallery announces 2021 exhibition programGOULBURN.- Goulburn Regional Art Gallery has this announced its 2021 exhibition program, comprising the Gallerys inaugural international group show curated by Berlin-based Lauren Reid; a series of solo exhibitions from some of Australias most cutting-edge artists photographer David Ryrie, Paris-based contemporary artist Mel OCallaghan, Indigenous trans-disciplinary artist Dean Cross, and painting, textile and ceramic artist Harriet Body; plus a group show celebrating local ceramicists, curated by Hannah Gee. On view now, and running throughout the summer school holiday period, Infinities explores works that defy our human-scale conceptions of time, from the microbial-scale of bacterium inside our bodies, to the planetary-scale of the spinning of the Earth and beyond. Curated by Berlin-based curator, Lauren Reid, this immersive ... More The National 2021 announces curators and exhibiting artists SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) announced four curators and 39 exhibiting artists, collectives and collaboratives for The National 2021: New Australian Art. The National 2021 is the third edition of the six-year initiative presented in 2017, 2019, and 2021, exploring the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art. Following the success of the initiative, AGNSW, Carriageworks and the MCA have committed to the continuation of The National beyond 2021. A major collaborative venture connecting three of Sydneys key cultural precincts The Domain, Redfern and Circular Quay the three editions of The National have created career-defining opportunities for 149 contemporary Australian artists. The 2017 and 2019 iterations of The National ... More Hungary culture head called out for Holocaust memory 'abuse'BUDAPEST (AFP).- A government-appointed cultural commissioner in Hungary has been condemned for comparing liberal billionaire George Soros to Hitler in an article about Hungary and Poland's row with the EU over rule of law. "Europe has become the gas chamber of George Soros... George Soros is the liberal Fuhrer," Szilard Demeter wrote on the pro-government news-site Origo.hu on Saturday. Poles and Hungarians "are the new Jews" said Demeter in the article that addressed the ongoing deadlock between the EU, and Hungary and Poland over their veto of the bloc's funding due to its rule of law criteria. "These "Liber-aryans" are now aiming at excluding us Poles and Hungarians from the one last political community where we still have rights," he said. Jewish and Holocaust memorial groups at home and abroad condemned the tirade ... More Handmade with love: Nepali takes grandma's socks to the worldKATHMANDU (AFP).- Every winter, Lorina Sthapit and her cousins would warm their feet in woollen socks freshly knitted by their grandmother. As the brightly coloured pairs stacked up in her cupboard, the 32-year-old felt inspired to share the creations with the world -- co-founding a crafts venture that not only sells such handmade products but also delves into the seldom-told lives of their mostly elderly female makers. "Each product has a story and historical and cultural value. We want to keep their legacy and skills alive for the future," Sthapit told AFP. "They grew up at a time when most things were handmade, not store-bought. So there is an amazing wealth of skills and experiences among people of that generation." Aji's -- which means grandmother -- was founded in 2018 by Sthapit, her sister Irina and husband Pursarth Tuladhar, selling a variety ... More The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will reopen to the public on TuesdayTEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will present new solo exhibitions by Israeli artists and to announce that in light of public demand, the exhibition of Jeff Koons has been extended until January 2021. It invites the Israeli public, at a time when all the major museums in the world are closed, to take special tours among the masterpieces of the greatest masters of all time: Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and more that are waiting for visitors to the museum, in the heart of Tel Aviv. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will reopen to the public on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 12:00. The museum, offers the public a safe and enjoyable experience in a variety of temporary exhibitions and in its Israeli and international collections, ... More Morphy's presents exceptional fine and decorative art, magnificent jewels and watches DENVER, PA.- Without exception, every Morphy Auctions event features outstanding and fresh-to-market collections, but theres one sale that consistently wins the auction-gallery beauty contest: their annual pre-Christmas Fine & Decorative Arts Auction. For this particular sale, which ushers in the holiday season, Morphys gallery is at its shining best, showcasing exquisite, connoisseur-level examples of antique and vintage rarities. This years edition, which will be held at Morphys gallery on December 8, 9 and 10, includes fabulous Tiffany lamps, over 100 pieces of art glass, 200+ pieces of high-quality silver, 50+ bronzes, coins, furniture, fine art, antique canes, and an incomparable array of more than 150 pieces of art pottery, including exotic Amphora. In addition, more than 200 lots of magnificent jewelry and important watches will cross the auction ... More Flag used in Australian commando raid in Singapore harbour to be sold at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- An Australian-made Japanese flag, one of two that that adorned MV Krait during Operation Jaywick in 1943 one of the greatest raids of WW2 when the Australian Commandos performed a raid on Japanese occupied Singapore Harbour in a vessel disguised as an Asian fishing boat, resulting in the sinking and burning of seven enemy ships, will be offered along with a group of medals by Dix Noonan Webb in their live/ online auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Thursday, December 3, 2020 on their website. The medals were awarded to Lieutenant H. E. Carse, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his gallantry, skill and devotion to duty as skipper and navigator of the MV Krait during its hazardous and highly audacious 4,000 mile round trip Commando raid. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian architect Andrea Palladio was born  November 30, 1508. Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 - 19 August 1580) was an architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture. All of his buildings are located in what was the Venetian Republic, but his teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture), gained him wide recognition. The city of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In this image: A Royal Academy of Arts staff looks over a model of the Villa Emo at the Royal Academy in London, Britain, 27 January, 2009. The Royal Academy of Arts showed the first exhibition devoted to one of Italy's greatest architects Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) to be held in London. The exhibit follows Palladio's career, from the earlier palazzi in Vicenza, the Basilica and his innovative solutions to rural buildings.
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