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West Elevation. Photo: Richard Barnes. Image courtesy the Menil Collection, Houston.
HOUSTON, TX.- Rebecca Rabinow, Director of the Menil Collection in Houston, welcomeed civic officials, cultural leaders, community representatives, artists, supporters, and Menil leadership on Saturday, November 3 for the dedication and public opening of the Menil Drawing Institute. The new home for the Institute is the first freestanding museum facility built expressly for the acquisition, study, exhibition, conservation, and storage of modern and contemporary drawings. The 30,000-square-foot, $40 million buildingdesigned by Johnston Marklee in collaboration with landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associatesopened with the inaugural exhibition The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns, spanning the artists career. Rebecca Rabinow, Director of the Menil Collection, said, As we prepare to cut the ribbon to welcome visitors into this beautiful new building, we reflect on the Menil Collections commitm ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Australian model Miranda Kerr arrives for the 2018 LACMA Art+Film Gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California on November 3, 2018. Chris Delmas / AFP
| French poet's suicide letter goes under hammer | | First moon walk's commemorative plaque sold for $468,500 | | Royal Academy of Arts marks the centenary of the deaths of Klimt and Schiele | 
The suicide letter of Baudelaire. JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A letter written by nineteenth century French poet Charles Baudelaire announcing his intention to kill himself sold at auction on Sunday for 234,000 euros ($267,000), three times the expected price. Best known for his collection of poems "Les Fleurs du mal" (The Flowers of Evil"), Baudelaire was 24 at the time he wrote the letter to his mistress Jeanne Duval in June 1845. It was bought by a private collector, the Osenat auction house said. "When you receive this letter I will be dead
. I am killing myself because I cannot carry on living, I can no longer endure the ordeal of falling asleep or waking up again," the poet wrote. Baudelaire stabbed himself but failed to do any serious damage and lived for another 22 years. He died aged 46 in 1867. ... More | | 
A commemorative plaque that belonged to US astronaut Neil Armstrong displayed at Heritage Auctions in New York. Don EMMERT / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A commemorative plaque brought to the moon on the Apollo 11 mission went under the hammer for $468,500 in Texas, as part of a huge collection that once belonged to late astronaut Neil Armstrong, auctioneers said. The plaque includes a representation of the lunar module that touched down on the moon on July 20, 1969. Once back on Earth, it was mounted on a wooden base before being offered to Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon. The other two astronauts who took part in the mission, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, also each received one of these plaques. Armstrong's two sons, Rick and Mark, decided to part with some of the very large collection of their father, who died ... More | | 
Egon Schiele, The Cellist, 1910. Black crayon and watercolour on packing paper, 44.7 x 31.2 cm. The Albertina Museum, Vienna.
LONDON.- 2018 marks the centenary of the deaths of two of the most celebrated and pioneering figures of early twentieth-century art: Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna, is the first exhibition in the UK to focus on the fundamental importance of drawing for both artists, from the origins of their academic training to their unconventional explorations of the human figure expressed through line. For Klimt and Schiele, two of Austrias most famous artists, drawing emerged as a highly expressive practice that was ideally suited to new ideas of modernity, subjectivity and the erotic. The exhibition comprises around 100 unique works on paper by Klimt and Schiele, ... More |
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| Exhibition presents the most exhaustive scientific overview of the oeuvre of Mimmo Rotella | | Exhibition offers an exploration of choreographer Merce Cunningham's dynamic artistic collaborations | | Pride and fears for Uzbekistan's 'Louvre of the Steppes' | 
Mimmo Rotella: Manifesto, installation view.
ROME.- The Galleria Nazionale dArte Moderna e Contemporanea of Rome, the Fondazione Mimmo Rotella and the Mimmo Rotella Institute of Milan, announced the opening of the Mimmo Rotella Manifesto exhibition. Curated by Germano Celant with Antonella Soldaini, the exhibition aims to present the most exhaustive scientific overview of the oeuvre of Mimmo Rotella (Catanzaro, 1918 Milan, 2006) on the centenary anniversary of his birth. The presentation of the exhibition stems from the layout of the Salone Centrale of the Galleria Nazionale dArte Moderna e Contemporanea and interprets the exhibition space as a large interior square surrounded by walls or facades of buildings: This urban interpretation required a display, declares Celant that was something other than a series of fragments the paintings with central exhibition structures, typical of traditional displays, in which the works are presented by themes and moments, in ... More | | 
Merce Cunningham in Changeling, 1957 (studio photograph), photo by Richard Rutledge, courtesy the Merce Cunningham Trust.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting Merce Cunningham, Clouds and Screens, an exploration of choreographer Merce Cunninghams dynamic artistic collaborations. Cunningham (19192009) revolutionized dance through his partnerships with leading artists who created costumes, films, music, and décor and whose independent creative instincts he held in the highest regard. Known for embracing risk and chance, Cunningham believed in the radical notion that movement, sound, and visual art could exist independently of each other, coming together only during the common time of a performance. Spanning BCAM, Level 1, the exhibition features immersive installations by Charles Atlas and Andy Warhol, two artists associated with the choreographers company, along with two video projections of early dances by ... More | | 
Tourists visit the Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after Igor Savitsky. Stanislav KHODJAEV / AFP.
NUKUS.- More than 50 years after its founding, the Nukus Museum of Art in Uzbekistan's remote Karakalpakstan region still startles and charms visitors in the spirit of its eccentric late founder. But having survived Soviet censorship and predatory foreign art dealers in the 1990s, some fear the world's second-largest collection of Russian avant-garde art, faces a fresh threat. The Friends of Nukus Museum, a Dutch-registered charity that has provided thousands of dollars in support to the museum annually since 2001 is expected to disband at the end of this year. The main reason, its chairman David Pearce told AFP, is an impasse over gifts donated to the museum including books and audio equipment more than three years ago that have disappeared. "As far as we are concerned they have been confiscated or stolen," said Pearce, whose charity also serves as an important voice for the museum abroad. The ... More |
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| The Photographers' Gallery opens the first UK retrospective of Russian born American photographer Roman Vishniac | | 8th edition of the European Month of Photography Berlin ends drawing a total of 500,000 visitors | | Rare & iconic tv props and costumes to be auctioned by Prop Store | 
Roman Vischniac, Sara, 1935-37.
LONDON.- Presented simultaneously at The Photographers Gallery and Jewish Museum London, Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is the first UK retrospective of Russian born American photographer, Roman Vishniac (18971990). An extraordinarily versatile and innovative photographer, Vishniac is best known for having created one of the most widely recognised and reproduced photographic records of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars. Featuring many of his most iconic works, this comprehensive exhibition further introduces recently discovered and lesser-known chapters of his photographic career from the early 1920s to the late 1970s. The cross-venue exhibition presents radically diverse bodies of work and positions Vishniac as one of the most important social documentary photographers of the 20th century whose work also sits within a broader tradition of 1930s modernist ... More | | 
Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus © Kulturprojekte Berlin / Philipp Külker.
BERLIN.- On Wednesday, 31 October, the 8th edition of Germanys largest photo festival came to a successful close, drawing a total of 500,000 visitors. In 120 exhibitions and more than 300 events including workshops, talks, studio visits, films, and much more the diversity of historical and contemporary photography was presented, explored, and debated. Participants included museums, galleries, embassies, cultural institutes, project spaces, and photography schools in Berlin and Potsdam, with both indoor and outdoor events. Particularly popular were the exhibitions Daring to Dream. 50 Years Hipgnosis at Browse Gallery; Vivian Maier. In Her Own Hands at Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus; The Moment is Eternity at me Collectors Room Berlin; Back to the Future and Nicholas Nixon at C/O Berlin; Between the Films A Photo History of the ... More | | 
Batman Riddler Jacket and Vest.
VALENCIA, CA.- Prop Store, one of the leading film and TV memorabilia companies, in association with the world renowned TV Collector James Comisar, announced it is hosting the first ever all-television live auction event featuring original costumes, props and set decorations from beloved TV shows from the 1960s-2010s. 400 lots will be offered in the auction taking place on Saturday, December 1st at Prop Stores auction facility in Valencia, California. In addition to live bidding, out-of-town fans can participate via telephone or online via www.propstore.com Highlights of the upcoming auction include Batmans (Adam West) signature bat shield prop from Batman (1966-1968) (estimated $400,000-$600,000) and Riddlers (Frank Gorshin) ? green jacket ensemble from the first episode of the classic 1960s television series Batman (estimated $100,000 - $150,000), Uncle Martins 10-foot spaceship from My Favorite Martian (19 ... More |
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| Sculpture by the Sea announces Aqualand Sculpture Award recipient as Victorian artist James Parrett | | Philip Martin Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by Kwame Brathwaite | | Simon Lee Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by London-based artist Toby Ziegler | 
James Parrett in front of his work M-fortysix. Photo: Gareth Carr.
SYDNEY.- Sculpture by the Sea and Aqualand today announced James Parrett from Strathmore, Victoria as the recipient of the $70,000 Aqualand Sculpture Award for M-fortysix at the 22nd annual Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi. The acquisitive award, which was increased by Aqualand to $70,000 in 2018, is the most generous sculpture award in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the most sought after in the world. M-fortysix will be gifted to the Harbour Trust for permanent public enjoyment in Georges Heads at Headland Park. Receiving an award like this is something that I have allowed myself to daydream about from time to time, but never expected to happen! After getting that call from David Handley and having a surreal and giddy sleepless night, I am just so excited and humbled to be the recipient of the Aqualand Sculpture Award. A big thank you to Aqualand for their generosity, said Parrett. Of his work, he continued: M-fortysix is one of those sculptures that was ... More | | 
Kwame Brathwaite, Marley at Soundcheck, 1975 October 4. Archival pigment print, mounted and framed, 1/5 (Ed 5 + 2P) 40 x 30 inches, 101.6 x 76.2 centimeters.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Philip Martin Gallery is presenting, Celebrity and the Everyday, an exhibition of photographs by Kwame Brathwaite (b. 1938). The exhibition is co-curated by Jesse Williams and Kwame S. Brathwaite. For almost six decades, Kwame Brathwaite has created positive images of African-Americans and promoted the beauty of everyday people. Brathwaite, his brother Elombe, and the two groups of artist-activists the brothers helped co-found African Jazz Arts Society and Studios (AJASS) and Grandassa Models were the first to promote Black is Beautiful. Black is Beautiful is one of the most influential ideas of the twentieth century. It finds resonance today in contemporary political movements like Black Lives Matter. Although Brathwaite is well-known for his photographs of public figures like Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, and Stevie Wonder, what is not ... More | | 
Toby Ziegler, New confession, 2018. Oil on aluminium, 125 x 90.5 x 3 cm 49 1/4 x 35 5/8 x 1 1/8 in. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong © Toby Ziegler.
HONG KONG.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting Your Mother, an exhibition of new paintings by London-based artist Toby Ziegler. This is his second solo exhibition with the gallery in Hong Kong. A new body of work takes as its source two paintings by the seventeenth century French painter Georges de la Tour. Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, and The Flea Catcher, both painted between 1630 and 1640, offer mirrored compositions of a seated female figure in contemplative chiaroscuro. Working from this axis Ziegler develops an anatomical and figurative lexicon. The largest paintings of the group imagine the meeting of the two compositions, as if the sacred and the profane subjects were to meet in a single pictorial space. Other works re-frame each individual figure, or suggest intimate cropped details, just visible through a lattice of geometric pattern. For the first ... More |
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 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona opens exhibition curated by Raqs Media CollectiveBARCELONA.- The exhibition In the Open or in Stealth at MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, curated by Raqs Media Collective, is a multi-layered site of discovery that explores the concept of a future in which multiple histories and geographies are placed in dialogue, giving way to a plurality of possibilities and queries by following paths that interlace, entwine and expose relations between objects, feelings and concepts, while simultaneously tracing indeterminate spaces between them. A list of artists includes Rosa Barba, Jeamin Cha, Mark Chung, Liao Fei, John Gerrard, Geumhyung Jeong, Hassan Khan, Charles Lim, Cristina Lucas, Kabelo Malatsie, Dillon Marsh, Huma Mulji, Mehreen Murtaza, Joe Nishizawa, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Bahar Noorizadeh, Lucy Parker, Racter, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Muhannad Shono, Tito Zungu ... More British photographer Saul Fletcher presents 16 new photographs at Anton Kern GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- For his ninth exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, the British photographer Saul Fletcher is showing 16 new photographs created in his current home base of Berlin. Fletchers work transcends photography; his studio wall acts as a canvas on which he paints with broad, lush strokes. Figures and symbols are drawn in rough black line. Found objectssticks, shoes, and even an umbrellabecome elements and subjects in his compositions. As these iterations of the wall are composed and photographed, an intimate light permeates. When human subjects appear, the painted wall is their backdrop; equally composed for and around the person. These deeply personal works contain symbols and artifacts from Fletchers past. A self-taught photographer who worked for many years loading coal on the docks of Hull, the raw, visceral ... More Auction Life's auction will feature estate finds, Asian antiques and archaeological artifactsWEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- A two-day, two-session auction featuring market-fresh Palm Beach estate finds on Day 1 and Asian antiques and archaeological artifacts on Day 2 will be held Sunday and Monday, November 11th and 12th, by Auction Life. Its primarily an online, phone and absentee auction, with limited seating available for live bidders (RSVP is required). Online bidding is facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com All lots can be viewed online now, on the Auction Life website. Visit www.auctionlifeflorida.com. The Day 1 session, on Sunday, November 11th, will begin promptly at 1 pm Eastern time and feature more than 400 lots of antiques, collectibles, clocks, fine art, sculptures, bronzes, art glass, candelabra, furniture, jewelry, porcelain, crystal, watches and more. Most of the merchandise has been pulled ... More Beaverbrook Art Gallery turns a lens on Saint John's historyFREDERICTON.- The Beaverbrook Art Gallery opened a special touring exhibition in Saint John. In fact, visitors to the Saint John Arts Centre will have the opportunity to see this exhibition, months before the Gallerys own visitors, as the Saint John Arts Centre is the first venue for this exhibition. The exhibition, The Lost City: Ian MacEacherns Photographs of Saint John, presents 75 photographs by the artist that record life in the 1960s North End of the city. These narrative photographs are visceral and poignant, portraying the poverty as well as the humanity of mid-century Saint John says the Gallerys Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, John Leroux, who has also authored the book about MacEacherns photos. They document a city on the cusp of monumental change, and are among the finest visual documents of social conditions and urban ... More David Nolan Gallery opens "Drawing Space: 1970-1983"NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery is presenting Drawing Space: 1970-1983, on view from November 1 through December 21, 2018. Featuring the work of Hanne Darboven, Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, Fred Sandback, Alan Saret, and Keith Sonnier, the exhibition takes a fresh look at a group of artists who are variously associated with the Minimalist, Postminimalist, and Process art movements. Focusing chiefly on works on paper some of which are working drawings for sculptures or installations, others that are finished works in themselves the presentation explores these artists relationship to interior and architectural space. Works in the exhibition by Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) and Fred Sandback (1943-2003) convey Minimalisms emphasis on seriality and geometric forms. Darboven, who lived most of ... More Turner Auctions + Appraisals to offer the Kappy Hendricks collection of Japanese printsSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On Sunday, November 18, Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present the Kappy Hendricks Collection of Japanese Prints. The sale features over 175 lots from the personal collection of Mrs. Hendricks, a long-time expert, lecturer and gallerist of Japanese woodblock prints. Most of the works are from the 20th century. Among the artists are Tadashi Nakayama, Joichi Hoshi, Hiroshi and Toshi Yoshida, Kawase Hasui, Yoshitoshi Mori, Kiyoshi Saito, Hajime Namiki, Ryohei Tanaka, Kihei Sasajima, Hiroyuki Tajima and Ted Colyer. Artists from other centuries are represented as well, including Hiroshige, Hiroshige II, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Toyokuni III. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Sunday, November 18, 2018, at 10:30 am PST; sale items can be previewed online now until the auction starts. The sale is featured on four platforms: ... More Tate St Ives opens exhibition of works by Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy SkaerST IVES.- Tate St Ives is presenting British artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer. Working together as Nashashibi/Skaer, this exhibition combines the artists collaborative films with their selection of artworks from the Tate collection and other sources. Art from different places and times is brought together to generate new meanings and connections with Nashashibi/Skaers own practice. Nashashibi/Skaer have treated the process of exhibition-making as if they were creating an artwork. Each of their five films on display becomes a starting point to explore key ideas that resonate across the exhibition, from the portrayal of women and the representation of global cultures to issues around political conflict. Featured artists include Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Paul Nash, Pierre Bonnard, Louise Bourgeois, Jo Spence, Lee Miller, Gauri Gill and Rossella Biscotti. ... More Bonhams to preview major international jewellery auction for first time in AustraliaSYDNEY.- Bonhams announced the inaugural preview of highlights from the Bonhams Hong Kong Rare Jewels and Jadeite auction, to be presented to the public in Sydney from 9 until 13 November, ahead of the Hong Kong auction on 25 November. This will be the first time an international jewellery auction has previewed in Australia and marks a stop on the sales tour of America and Asia. The preview will feature pieces by Houses such as Bulgari, Carvin, Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, presented at the beautiful Bond Building at 36-40 Queen Street in Woollahra. Director of Bonhams Australia, Merryn Schriever said: We are delighted to be able to preview these superb quality international items with the Australian public. It is a first for Australia that an international auction house has previewed an international jewellery sale here in Sydney, highlighting the growing ... More Bruce Museum opens exhibition of small-scale sculpture by contemporary artistsGREENWICH, CONN.- A miniatures show has been a biennial Bruce Museum holiday tradition for over 35 yearscome take a peek at Downsized: Small-Scale Sculpture by Contemporary Artists on view to the public in the Museums Arcade gallery. The exhibition is on view through January 27, 2019. Enticing viewers to take a closer look, this exhibition of miniatures, models, and dioramas explores interior and exterior architecture in a range of scales. Some works contemplate the structure and its place in history as a monument to architectural creativity. Others pay homage to the history of an urban environment or to the emotions elicited by places close to our hearts. Yet others depict fanciful, surreal places that could only exist in miniature. The sculptures encourage observers to suspend their perception of reality and to invent their own ... More Drawing Room Hamburg presents exhibition of works by Anke VölkHAMBURG.- From the very beginning, Berlin painter Anke Völks work has aimed at expanding the range of possibility, and namely on the basis of an eclectic art-media palette that always implicitly deals with pictorial issues. Nevertheless or perhaps exactly for this reason an artist like Anke Völk can be considered one of the more complicated figures in an art history based on the concept of disciplines. Judging solely by the body of paper-based works she has created in recent years, it is clear that no simple classification is possible. Her new exhibition ON at the Drawing Room consequently combines a series of highly diverse works in a new installation which naturally incorporates the exhibition venue, and uses shimmering wall pieces and kaleidoscopic paintings to convolute and expand the space. In this configuration a Völk work categorically does ... More Christine Gedeon's first solo exhibition with Jane Lombard Gallery on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting Christine Gedeons first solo exhibition with the gallery, Syria...as my mother speaks. Gedeon was born in Aleppo, Syria and raised in the U.S. The show consists of three bodies of work that draw from the artists memories and her familys experiences in Syria. The centerpiece of the exhibition Syria
as my mother speaks is an interactive playable string instrument, connecting strands of string to the interior of a space, and when triggered, plays sounds and snippets of stories and conversations with her mother (mainly in Arabic), centered around the war in Syria, her relatives there, and her mothers memories before the war. The exhibition additionally features fifteen works on paper, called Aleppo: Deconstruction | Reconstruction and four stitched fabric canvases. In Syria
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Maurice Utrillo died November 05, 1955. Maurice Utrillo (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who was born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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