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Photo from the ÂSpeech during Unesco meeting about Mosaic Road Project in NYC in 2016 Mrs Demet Sabancı Cetindogan and Mrs Irina Bokova.
ISTANBUL.- While TurkeyÂs struggle against the COVID-19 virus, T-ONE (Turkey - Old, New, Eternal) Association supports Turkish artists and Turkish art through digital platforms. T-ONE Association is a non-profit organization with a general aim and mission for protecting and promoting TurkeyÂs cultural, historical and natural assets on international platforms. Founded in 2014, T-ONE Association started working with a strong and capable team for initiating several projects which exhibit our shared values that unite societies with cultural heritage, historical and natural richnesses and marking Turkey on international platforms. The Founding Goals of T-ONE Association is to protect, develop and promote the cultures, natural and historical heritage, and social and economic life of Turkey at the national and international levels by: Informing, educating and raising awareness about Turkey nationally and internationally, Ensuring the preservation an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on September 10, 2020 shows an archaeologist from the Fine Arts Department in Ratchaburi using an application on a mobile phone to look at newly-discovered cave paintings in Khao Sam Roi Yot national park in the coastal Prachuap Kiri Khan province. An antelope, a lonely figure, a family linking arms -- Kanniga shines her flashlight across a cave to reveal paintings believed to date back to the pre-historic era, a stunning discovery for Thailand's scrappy team of archaeologists. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP
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 | | Guggenheim opens focused exhibition on seminal work by Jackson Pollock | | Exhibition reveals the richness, diversity and complexity of the Olmec civilisation | | Pollock painting sells for $12 million moving Everson goals forward | 
Jackson Pollock with the unpainted canvas for Mural in his and Lee Krasners Eighth Street apartment, New York, summer 1943. Photo: Bernard Schardt, Courtesy Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, Gift of Jeffrey Potter.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is presenting Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollocks Mural, a focused exhibition dedicated to the first monumental painting by American artist Jackson Pollock (19121956). Commissioned by visionary collector and dealer Peggy Guggenheim for her Manhattan home in the summer of 1943, during a pivotal moment in the evolution of Pollocks artistic style, Mural was completed by the end of that same year. The current presentation is the first time this work has been on view in New York in more than 20 years and marks the paintings debut at the Guggenheim Museum. Along with Mural, the exhibition features three additional works by Pollock. Nearly 20 feet wide by 8 feet tall, Mural is Pollocks largest painting. The work was a breakthrough for the artist and marked a transformational year. During his brief time working as a custodian and ... More | | 
Male sculpture © SecretarÃa de Cultura. INAH. MEX-CANON. Archivo Digital de las Colecciones del Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa.
PARIS.- For the first time in Europe, The Olmecs and the civilizations from the Gulf of Mexico exhibit reveals the richness, diversity and complexity of the Olmec civilisation (1600 400 B.C.) and numerous other cultures that followed, up until the early 1500 A.D. Starting with the spectacular Olmec, over 300 objects show but a glimpse into the multiplicity of differing artistic traditions, beliefs and languages that thrived in the region bordering the Gulf of Mexico during three millennia. The ancient Olmec lived and prospered on the coastal lowlands of the southern states of Veracruz and Tabasco. It is there that one finds some of the early examples of village life, urbanisation and monumental earthen architecture. Evidence of long-distance trade and a fully developed art style expressed in large and small-scale sculptures in stones ranging from basalt to jade reveal an established complex society with a sophisticated ideology that left an indelible imprint in the contemporaneous cultu ... More | | 
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Red Composition (detail) signed 'Jackson Pollock' (lower right); signed again and dated 'Pollock 46' (on the reverse) oil on Masonite, 19 ¼ x 23 ¼ in. (48.9 x 59.1 cm.) Painted in 1946. Estimate: $12-18 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
SYRACUSE, NY.- This week, Christies sold the painting Red Composition, 1946, by Jackson Pollock at its highly anticipated 20th Century Evening Sale in New York. Bidding started at $9 million at the marquee event, and the work sold to an anonymous bidder for the hammer price of $12 million. The work, offered for auction to Christies by the Everson Museum of Art, was donated to the Everson in 1991. The work was originally purchased by Marshall and Dorothy Reisman in 1958 for $3,500. The work was donated to the Museum at a value of $800,000. In addition to Red Composition, 1946, the Reismans also donated an untitled ink on paper work by Pollock to the Everson in 1997; the drawing is currently on view at the Museum in the exhibition, A Legacy of Firsts. The Christies sale also included masterworks by fellow Abstract Expressionists Willem de Kooning and Mark ... More |
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| | Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard appointed Chairman of Bonhams, Bruno Vinciguerra as Global CEO | | Exhibition encompassing 65 works by Joan Miró on view at Nouveau Musée National Monaco | | Centro BotÃn opens major new exhibition "Architecture into Art: A Dialogue" | 
Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard, appointed as Bonhams Chairman. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams, the international auction house, announces that Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard has been appointed to the position of non-executive Chairman, following Bruno Vinciguerras move from the role of Executive Chairman to Global Chief Executive Officer in February. Bruno Vinciguerra was appointed Executive Chairman by Bonhams new owners, Epiris in September 2018 and has since been leading Bonhams radical overhaul. He has hired some of the most respected minds in the business, such as Marc Sands as Chief Marketing Officer and Chris Tolson as Chief Technology Officer, to create new digital marketing platforms and to rewire Bonhams technology. During lockdown, Bonhams was the first international auction house to hold a live-streamed auction [May 1, Native American Art, an LA sale streamed from Bonhams saleroom in Oxford]. Bruno Vinciguerra, Global CEO of Bonhams, said: I am delighted ... More | | 
Joan Miró, Femme espagnole, 27 March 1972. Courtesy of Galerie Gmurzynska.
MONACO.- Galerie Gmurzynska is presenting La Peinture au défi, an exhibition encompassing 65 works by Joan Miró at Nouveau Musée National Monaco, Villa Paloma. The exhibition is a return for Miró to Monte-Carlo where he worked on Diaghilevs 1932 Ballets Russes, the Jeux d` Enfants. The very painting used in the original ballet will return to Monaco for the first time, making it one of the highlights of the exhibition. One of the merits of this exhibition is to remind us that the painter created the stage curtain, sets, costumes and props for the ballet Jeux denfants. Knowing this enables us to fully appreciate the good fortune of the Monegasque public when the music of George Bizet, a libretto by Boris Kochno, choreography by Léonide Massine, the unparalleled talent of the Ballets Russes and the inimitable visual language of Joan Miró were brought together in the Principality in 1932. The ... More | | 
Juan Navarro Baldeweg, «Habitación roja con figura, 2005».
SANTANDER.- Centro BotÃn presents Architecture into Art: A Dialogue, a major new exhibition, open to the public from 9 October 2020 to 14 March 2021. The show conducts a conversation with Renzo Piano's building, which has become an icon and a landmark of Santander's Paseo MarÃtimo since it opened in June 2017, and addresses the relationship that artists establish with the physical site in which they show their work, the strategies by which they appropriate the exhibition space and the architectural space, investigating the mutual influence architecture and art exert on one another and offering reflections on how architecture shapes our lives and articulates social interaction and how while art brings viewers closer to reality from new angles. Architecture into Art: A Dialogue brings together a selection of works by artists who have run one of the Fundación BotÃns Visual Arts Workshops and exhibited ... More |
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| | Their buzzy off-Broadway play shut down. Here's what they did next. | | Library of Congress and National Park Service receive historic collection on Women's Rights from National Woman's Party | | Dr. Malcolm Warner, Executive Director of Laguna Art Museum announces retirement | 
Jay Janicki, production manager at Playwrights Horizons in New York, Oct. 11, 2019. Ricky Rhodes/The New York Times.
by John Leland
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Seven months ago, on a brisk Thursday in March, New Yorks theater world came to a sudden halt. Lives were upended, fortunes evaporated, dreams put on hold. Why do people come to New York, if not for some version of the dream embodied by theater: to experience the new, the fantastic, the tragic some to witness, some to participate in its creation? No other city has theater quite like New York or depends on theater for both its economy and its soul. In September, The New York Times looked in on one production Selling Kabul, which was in rehearsals at Playwrights Horizons when the coronavirus outbreak closed everything down to see how everyone involved had been ... More | | 
National Woman's Party picketer Dorothy Bartlett on September 4, 1917, with the Draft Day banner. Mrs. Bartlett was one of thirteen women arrested and sentenced to 60 days in the Occoquan Workhouse.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Last week, the National Womans Party announced the gift of its historic collection spanning womens suffrage and the movement for womens equality to the Library of Congress and National Park Service. This gift comes as the country celebrates 100 years of women's constitutional right to vote and ensures public access to a trove of records about the history of the womens rights movement in the United States. This gift builds on established relationships between the NWP and the Library of Congress and the National Park Service. The Library of Congress, already the repository for a large majority of the NWP papers and related womens history collections, will serve as the home for the remainder of the NWPs records approximately ... More | | 
Malcolm Warner, Ph.D. Photo: James Cant.
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Dr. Malcolm Warner, executive director of Laguna Art Museum since 2012, has announced his retirement. He will continue to lead the museum through December 2020, following the eighth annual Art & Nature and the opening of the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns. From the start, I wanted to play up the museums commitment to California art, which I felt should be even more emphatic than it already was, said Warner of his aims. I thought we should position ourselves as strongly as possible as the place to see the best of all kinds of California art, from the early twentieth-century landscape painting with which the museum was so closely associated to contemporary works. Im pleased that our exhibitions have ranged so widely, from Anna Hills to Wayne Thiebaud, Granville Redmond to Tony DeLap. During my time weve recognized the extraordinary flourishing of landscape painting in Laguna ... More |
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| | Colchester's Firstsite gallery Director made an MBE in Queen's 2020 Birthday Honours list for response to Covid-19 | | Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. announces an online-only Canadiana & Historic Objects auction | | Amsterdam's Tribal Art Fair 2020 goes online later this month | 
Firstsite Gallery Director Sally Shaw © Jayne Lloyd.
COLCHESTER.- Sally Shaw, Director of Firstsite in Colchester, has been awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the Queens Birthday Honours list for services to the Arts. The Queens Birthday Honours lists recognise the achievements and service of people across the UK, from all walks of life. Along with the New Year Honours, they are the most significant announcements of civilian and military gallantry awards. The 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours were due to be announced in June but were deferred as the country continued to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. They will be officially announced in a special supplement of the Crowns newspaper, The Gazette, on Saturday 10 October 2020. Sally Shaw will join some 450 other nominees who have been put forward for an award, specifically for their contribution to the national response to Covid-19, and who are, as the Cabinet Office states exemplars of the wide range and excepti ... More | | 
Early 19th century example of Newtons Celestial Library Globe (English), on a cast iron base, with 12 applied engraved gores, the globe 17 inches in diameter (est. CA$4,000-$6,000).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- An online-only Canadiana & Historic Objects auction highlighted by the outstanding lifetime collections of Dick Withington and Brian Stead will be held on Saturday, October 24th, by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., based in New Hamburg. The 699-lot auction will begin at 9 am Eastern time. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The auction is packed with Canadiana, clocks, art, pottery and stoneware, art pottery, furniture, folk art, decoys, historical objects, lamps, lighting, rugs and textiles. This sale is the perfect storm, said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions. Were unleashing the rare clocks of a renaissance man, Dick Withington, juxtaposed Brian Steads Canadiana furniture and pottery. Regarding the Withington collection of scarce American and Canadian clocks, Miller ... More | | 
Kani cult board. Geographical area of the Tami Islands, Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea. Wood, pigments. Height 165 cm. First half of the 20th century. Photo: ichel Gurfinkel. Courtesy Galerie Punchinello
AMSTERDAM.- Many visitors from the Netherlands and abroad were looking forward to the annual Tribal Art Fair in Amsterdam. Unsurprisingly, the organisers have cancelled the physical fair, scheduled to open in De Duif, Amsterdam later this month. In its place will be a special online version. The online fair opens on Thursday, 29 October at 15.00 hours. and continues until Sunday 1 November at 22.00 hours (Dutch time). During the four days, some 21 expert dealers and galleries, from across The Netherlands and seven other countries, are showing their most recent acquisitions to collectors, interior designers and interested members of the public around the world. Each exhibitor is showing up to fifty objects on the specially produced website. Organiser Finette Lemaire of Galerie Lemaire said, As with many other events around the world, ... More |
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 Edinburgh Art Festival announce exhibition showcasing and supporting four early career artistsEDINBURGH.- Edinburgh Art Festival announced full details of this years Platform exhibition, the festivals annual showcase supporting artists in the early stages of their careers to make and present new work. The festival once again partnered with City Art Centre to present Platform: 2020 from 31 October to 29 November. Selected from an open call by artist Ruth Ewan, and curator, Sophia Hao (Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design), four artists based in Scotland Rabindranath A Bhose, Mark Bleakley, Rhona Jack and Susannah Stark have been supported to create new work which will be presented in a group show at City Art Centre. Edinburgh Art Festival, along with its sibling August Festivals, made the difficult decision earlier this year to cancel their 2020 edition due to the ongoing pandemic. ... More Seminal work by Frank Auerbach offered at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art SaleLONDON.- Frank Auerbachs J.Y.M. Seated in the Studio VI is one of the highlights of Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale on 22 October in London. The work, which dates from 1988, was personally selected by Auerbach to be included in his landmark Tate Britain retrospective in 2015. It has an estimate of £380,000 - 450,000. Ralph Taylor, Bonhams Global Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, commented: With such powerful, resonant and inimitable works, it is no wonder that Frank Auerbach continues to be held in such high international esteem. Auerbachs sitters have been a constant subject of engagement and experimentation, and for four decades, 'J.Y.M.' Juliet Yardley Mills was a central protagonist. J.Y.M. Seated in the Studio VI is a definitive example of Auerbachs accomplished style, and it is not surprising that ... More Open now: The UK premiere of Van Gogh Alive at Birmingham HippodromeBIRMINGHAM.- The newly transformed Birmingham Hippodrome opened its doors for the first time since March to host the UK premiere of the worlds most visited large-scale, multi-sensory experience, Van Gogh Alive. The experience has already inspired over 6 million people across 50 cities around the world. Van Goghs works have been exhibited and admired for over a century but never like this. The multi-sensory experience provides visitors with the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in Van Goghs artistry and truly venture into his world through beautifully curated projections accompanied by a stunning classical soundscape. Reacting quickly and efficiently to the government restrictions on live theatre performances, Birmingham Hippodrome has transformed its offering in order to continue providing a high-quality cultural ... More Artists explore the transformational qualities of paper in new exhibitionWASHINGTON, DC.- Cut, folded, torn, glued, burned or embossed, paper becomes a transformational art medium in Paper RoutesWomen to Watch 2020, on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts from October 8, 2020 through January 18, 2021. Presenting the work of 22 emerging and underrepresented contemporary women artists from around the world, Paper Routes highlights the versatility of paper well beyond its traditional role as support for drawings, prints and photographs with works that range in scale from intimate to immersive. Some featured artists highlight the delicate properties of paper through thousands of meticulous cuts, while others create surprisingly dense and monumental sculptures. The artists in Paper Routes are: Jen Aitken, Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Bowdoin, Mira Burack, Elisabetta Di Maggio, Oasa DuVerney, Mary Evans, Rachel ... More Crystal Bridges announces the appointment of new deputy director and senior directorBENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced the appointments of Sandy Edwards as senior director, and Jill Wagar as deputy director, effective immediately. We have seen Crystal Bridges and Momentary teams strengthen at a time when we are all managing extraordinary challenges, said Rod Bigelow, executive director and chief diversity & inclusion officer. With Sandy and Jills new roles, we have the opportunity to look toward the next decade with a new strategic plan process and an increase on fundraising efforts to support innovative new initiatives. Sandy Edwards career exemplifies her deep commitment during her 46-year career to improving quality of life through arts and education. Stepping into her new role as senior director, Edwards will be refining her focus and pursuing significant initiatives ... More Solo exhibition of acrylic, charcoal, and paintings on board by Kim Goldfarb on view at Bender GalleryASHEVILLE, NC.- Bender Gallery is presenting She, an extraordinary solo exhibition of acrylic, charcoal, and mixed media paintings on board by figure artist Kim Goldfarb. Goldfarb paints expressive portraits of women and girls that connect to the viewer on an emotional level. She paints intuitively with an effortless easy gestural control allowing her to impart something of her emotion or state of mind in each of her paintings. She opened on Friday October 2 and runs through November 2 during regular business hours. Goldfarbs subjects echo her own feelings. She grew up in a small rural town in southern Georgia during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in the deep South with the yearning to be an artist was not easy for her. She was a shy child with an emotionally distant mother and spent a lot of her time alone cultivating her ... More Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts announces $ 50,000 Schenberg Arts Fellowship Recipient for 2020PERTH.- The Schenberg Art Fellowship 2020, a cash prize of $50,000, has been awarded to Tina Stefanou, a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University for her works Horse Power (2019) and Antiphonea (2019). This generous fellowship, made possible by the Dr Harold Schenberg Bequest, is the most significant award for emerging artists in Australia. The announcement of this major investment in the burgeoning career of an Australian artist was made at the Hatched National Graduate Show 2020 closing event Night School at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts on Friday 9 October. Tina was selected from a pool of 56 of the most promising emerging artists nationally for inclusion in the exhibition, which closes on Sunday 11 October. This is the eleventh year that PICA has worked with the University of Western Australia (UWA) ... More Exhibition questions humanity's relationship with a planet on the brink of mass destructionISTANBUL.- OMM Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Eskişehir, Turkey is presenting a show questioning humanitys relationship with a planet on the brink of mass destruction. At the End of the Day, curated by the OMM team and spanning all three floors of the museum, asks whether we can develop respectful ways of coexisting with nature, inviting viewers to rethink their relation to the environment. It is the first new show to follow the museums reopening in July after a period of temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 became a global health crisis, humanity was beginning to face the consequences of the environmental damage it has wrought ever since the Industrial Revolution. Natural disasters induced by climate change, an immigration wave that has yet to crest, and a worldwide pandemic ... More JD Malat Gallery exhibits a new body of work by leading Turkish artist ZümrütoğluLONDON.- JD Malat Gallery is presenting Atonal Drift, a new body of work by leading Turkish artist, Zümrütoğlu. Atonal Drift brings together Zümrütoğlus highly expressive paintings and sculptures in an attempt to demonstrate how the artist explores the theme of the dissonant and disharmonious body and the possibilities of figurative abstraction across different mediums. The title of the exhibition, Atonal Drift, marks an extension of the progressive thinking first expressed by Austrian-born composer and painter, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951). Atonality has been understood as a conscious attempt to avoid traditional harmony in music. Taking on the broadest sense of the term - as deviation from traditional structures and integral frameworks of different practices - atonal in Zümrütoğlus new body of work denotes his ability to challenge the conventions of figurative painting to express ... More Iranian maestro Shajarian laid to rest beside epic poetTEHRAN (AFP).- Legendary Iranian signer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian was buried on Saturday alongside the tomb of the ancient poet Abul Qasem Ferdowsi in the northeast of the country, state news agency IRNA reported. A national treasure in his homeland, the "Ostad" -- master in Persian -- died at the age of 80 on Thursday in Tehran after a long battle with cancer. His body was taken the day after to the holy city of Mashhad in the northeastern Khorasan Razavi province, where he was born. He was laid to rest in Tus city, as willed, next to the tomb of the 10th-century poet Ferdowsi, who wrote the epic "Shahnameh," or the Book of Kings. According to IRNA, a crowd of "almost 150 people" consisting of his family, Iranian music icons and some of his fans were present at the burial, due to Covid-19 pandemic and the necessity of social distancing. But ... More Kenyan filmmaker hopes to follow in Hollywood's LGBTQ footstepsLONDON (AFP).- The Kenyan director behind a new documentary about a gay couple struggling for acceptance in the east African country hopes its film industry can mirror Hollywood's progressive role in promoting LGBTQ rights. Peter Murimi, whose documentary "I Am Samuel" screens at the London Film Festival this weekend, is the latest filmmaker to depict a same-sex relationship in sub-Saharan Africa in the face of religious and cultural conservatism. He believes portraying more gay people on the big screen across the continent, alongside moves to decriminalise homosexuality, can make LGBTQ rights a mainstream issue. "The role Hollywood played in furthering LBGTQ rights in the United States was really big, it cannot be understated," Murimi told AFP on the sidelines of the festival. "You could just see gay people on TV ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Richard Meier was born October 12, 1934. Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. In this image: Architect Richard Meier speaks as he was honored at the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards on Ellis Island on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
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