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Fine art connoisseurs are discovering the splendor of displaying art-level rugs on their walls, where the myriad nuances of color and design are at eye level. In this exquisite setting, a Ferahan Sarouk on the wall and a Laver Kirman on the floor enhance each others beauty.
OAKLAND, CA.- Claremont Rug Company founder/president Jan David Winitz says that more than half his clients are choosing to acquire antique Oriental rugs to display as wall art. The interest in using rugs on walls in addition to as floor pieces has increased markedly in the past several years. "Art collectors are increasingly coming to me after having studied our website with requests that involve high collectible and connoisseur level pieces to serve as wall art. "They tell me that, compared to other art and antiques that they collect, Oriental rugs are undervalued both as art and as investments." He attributes recognition to the education-oriented information on the Claremont website. "What they deeply appreciate is our 'Oriental Rug Pyramid,' which divides carpets into six tiers, with Level 1 to Level 6. It is instructional and a graphic depiction, allowing them to make informed decisions." ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman looks at the work "The Praying Hands, 1508" by German Renaissance painter and printmaker Albrecht Duerer during a preview of the exhibition "Albrecht Dürer" at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria, on September 18, 2019. The Albertina will be presenting over 200 examples of DürerÂs drawings, printed graphics and paintings in the show running from September 20, 2019 to January 6, 2020. HERBERT NEUBAUER / APA / AFP
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 | | Early Van Gogh works auctioned in Belgium | | Exhibition examines American art at the height of the Great Depression | | Albertina Museum exhibits over 200 drawings, printed graphics, and paintings by Albrecht Dürer | 
A woman looks at a painting by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh at Kiggen's auction house in Gent, on September 22, 2019. Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP.
GHENT (AFP).- Two early works by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh were auctioned in the Belgian city of Ghent on Sunday, fetching near estimate prices that the organiser said were bargains. The first work, a watercolour of flowers, was snapped up for 220,000 euros ($240,000), slightly more than expected, auctioneer Johan Kiggen told AFP. The second piece, a charcoal drawing of a jug, went for 140,000 euros, just below the estimated price. "Everyone is happy," Kiggen said, who added that buyers could only bid in person. "The two works went for a very good price for the buyers," he said. The two buyers, who wished to remain anonymous, were both Belgians and pledged to keep the works in the country, which was a request of the seller. Kiggen said the works have been certified as authentic on several occasions, and are featured in Van Gogh catalogues. ... More | | 
Walker Evans. Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmers Wife, 1936, printed c. 1962. The Art Institute of Chicago, restricted gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne. © Walker Evans Archive, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, an examination of American art at the height of the Great Depression. Connecting the twin impulses of the time to record the present and collect the past, the exhibition tracks the rising interest in the arts of everyday people, places, and things, spurred in part by massive governmental efforts to document daily life. With over 130 objects on viewfrom photography to painting, sculpture, and decorative artsPhotography + Folk Art provides a window into the culture and conditions that would shape American visual identity. The exhibition, co-organized by Elizabeth Siegel, Curator of Photography, and Elizabeth McGoey, Ann S. and Samuel M. Mencoff Associate Curator ... More | | 
Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of a Beardless Man with a Cap, 1521. Oil on wood. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
VIENNA.- It has been decades since so many works by Albrecht Dürer (14711528) have been seen in one place: thanks to valuable international loans, Viennas Albertina Museumitself home to numerous world-famous icons of drawing by Dürer including the Hare, Praying Hands, and Large Piece of Turf is presenting over 200 examples of Dürers drawings, printed graphics, and paintings in autumn 2019. Upon its reopening in 2003, it was with an exhibition of works by Albrecht Dürer that the Albertina Museum ended up welcoming a total of half a million visitors. And now, a selection of over 100 drawings, a dozen paintings, personal writings, and other rare documents presents the oeuvre of this Renaissance genius more comprehensively than ever before. The Albertina Museum holds the worlds most important collection of Albrecht Dürers drawings, a collection that numbers nearly 140 works. The historical background ... More |
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| | British Museum exhibits works from Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles' collection | | B.B. King's Lucille guitar sold for $280,000 & Blues record collection for $51,200 at Julien's Auctions | | A new excavation of the princely tomb of Vix: First results | 
Mask of the demon Macan Laut, Central Java, Late 1700s or early 1800s. Wood, pigment, fibre, gold leaf © Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781 1826) spent most of his career as an East India Company official in Southeast Asia. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Java in 1811 and assumed the Lieutenant Governorship of Sumatra in 1818. Raffles is credited as being the founder of modern Singapore but remains a controversial figure, particularly for his policies. When he was Lieutenant-Governor of Java, for example, he ordered troops to attack the most powerful court, which still has consequences to this day. Over time, he has been viewed as a scholarly expert on the region, a progressive reformer, a committed imperialist and an incompetent colonial official. He was also an avid collector of objects from the region, particularly amassing material from Java. He acquired objects to show his European audience that Javanese society was worth colonising. The exhibition ... More | | 
The most coveted item of the auction will be Kings stage played black Gibson ES-345 prototype 1 for 80 limited edition Lucille guitar that was gifted by Gibson to B.B. King on his 80th birthday.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions held its spectacular music auction event Property From The Estate of B.B. King today on Saturday, September 21 live in Beverly Hills in front of a packed crowd of collectors and music fans bidding live on the floor, online and on the phone across the globe for nearly 600 items owned and used by the legendary King of the Blues, who would have turned 94 years old this past Monday. The centerpiece of the auction was Kings beloved, stage played Lucille black Gibson ES-345 prototype 1 for 80 limited edition Lucille guitar that was gifted by Gibson to B.B. King on his 80th birthday. This Lucille was heavily used by King and served as his primary guitar on tour in his later years. The guitar accompanied by a hard leather case with "B.B. King" embroidered in gold sold for $280,000, well over its original estimate at $80,000 ... More | | 
Opposite Mount Lassois, in front of the tumulus, is a flat stone crown that could be a second facing. Photo: Denis Gliksman, Inrap.
PARIS.- In Europe, the site of Vix is an emblematic testimony to the Celtic princely phenomenon. It is primarily famous for the tomb of the Lady of Vix, whose 1953 excavation revealed a remarkable array of grave offerings. Sixty-six years after the excavations by René Joffroy and Maurice Moisson, archaeologists are returning to this site. Supported by the Drac, this research is conducted under the direction of Inrap in partnership with the ARTEHIS laboratory (CNRS/Université de BourgogneFranche-Comté). Expected to run until mid-November 2019, the aim of this research excavation is to understand the environment of this fabulous discovery. Vix, a place of power The site includes a promontory overlooking the Seine, fortified by a vast network of ramparts. On its summit, there is a settlement, which was probably the seat of the local aristocracy. It is composed of large apsed buildings ... More |
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| | Fashion exhibition presents more than 100 illustrations, photographs by Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos | | 'The New Bauhaus' makes world premiere in New York and Chicago this fall | | Exhibition of new drawings by David Hockney depict the arrival of spring in the French countryside | 
Gianfranco Ferre, visto da Antonio Lopez, Italian Vogue, model unknown, 1982.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum will present Antonio: The Fine Art of Fashion Illustration, a three-decade survey of works by renowned fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez and art director Juan Ramos. Spanning the 1960s through the 1980s, the exhibition showcases more than 100 original drawings, photographs, and magazines featuring work that Lopez and Ramos created under ANTONIO, the signature representing the Puerto Rican duos collaborative creations. Antonio explores how Lopez and Ramos brought a fresh perspective to an industry that was quickly prioritizing photography over illustration, and how their vibrant designs expanded and transformed fashions view of beauty, ethnicity, and sexuality. We are excited to present Antonio: The Fine Art of Fashion Illustration to our audiences in Arizona, said Gilbert Vicario, the Museums Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and the Selig Family Chief Curator. Through their ... More | | 
The New Bauhaus film poster. © Opendox.
NEW YORK, NY.- This October independent production company Opendox will premiere its highly anticipated film, The New Bauhaus, at the Architecture and Design Film Festival in NY on October 16th followed by the Chicago International Film Festival on October 17th. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Alysa Nahmias The New Bauhaus centers around the creative and controversial genius László Moholy-Nagy who immigrated to the U.S., after being forced into exile by the Nazis, and helped establish The New Bauhaus school in Chicago. Working closely with Moholy-Nagys daughter, Hattula, and the Moholy-Nagy estate, the filmmakers offer an intimate look at the man and school that forever transformed design, photography, and arts education in America and beyond through rare, archival footage and commentary by prominent figures in the art world like Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich-Obrist. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, which was revolutionary in its time and continues to influence ... More | | 
Installation view of David Hockney: Le Grande Cour, Normandy 540 West 25th Street, New York September 14 October 19, 2019 Photographed by Rich Lee, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery inaugurated the third floor of its global headquarters with La Grande Cour, Normandy, an extraordinary exhibition of new drawings by David Hockney depicting the arrival of spring in the French countryside. This marks the first body of work created by the artist at his studio in Normandy, after which the show is titled. In 2019, following his opening at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Hockney began working at La Grande Cour. He first saw the property on a trip to France after the unveiling of his stained‑glass window at Westminster Abbey in London. Almost immediately, this new environment in Normandy inspired him to start this series of drawings. Through the use of playful and colorful marks, each drawing captures the vibrancy of Normandys landscape during the arrival of spring and reveals Hockneys personal connection to the land ... More |
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| | Perrotin New York opens an exhibition of new work by French artist JR | | Hauser & Wirth opens a group exhibition exploring the idea of the inner life | | Philadelphia Museum of Art reopens its historic North Entrance to reactivate public space | 
View of the exhibition The Chronicles of New York City Sketches at Perrotin New York. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli © Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin © JR-ART.NET.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Chronicles of New York City Sketches is presented in conversation with JR: Chronicles, the artists largest-ever solo museum exhibition to date, opening on October 4, 2019 and running through May 3, 2020 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Situated on the second floor of the gallery, Sketches comprises photographic prints, mixed media works, light boxes and a short film, which have all been made in relation to The Chronicles of New York City, an expansive new mural that will be unveiled at the Brooklyn Museum. JR began the Chronicles series after being inspired by the murals of Diego Rivera. His goal was to make a faithful representation of an entire neighborhood or city as a tribute to the people who live there. Over the last fifteen years, JR has used photography in an expanded public art practice that is socially-engaged, collaborative and global in scope. His work celebrates the power of individual people, often ... More | | 
Ivy Haldeman, Back Forward, Cuffs Gesture Left, Torso Scrunch (Yellow, Blue) 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 170.2 x 152.4 cm / 67 x 60 in © Ivy Haldeman. Courtesy of the artist and Downs & Ross, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth presents Personal Private Public, a group exhibition exploring the idea of the inner life in three main themes: introspection, intimacy, and voyeurism. Contemplating the ways in which we reflect upon ourselves and others, the works on view oscillate in tone from moments of gentle privacy to voyeuristic intrusions, each addressing the power of observation through realms of their own making. The exhibition features a presentation of work by Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Ivy Haldeman, Celia Hempton, Tala Madani, Paul McCarthy, B. Ingrid Olson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Emily Mae Smith, Mira Schor, and Kohei Yoshiyuki, who are connected through an interest in probing the uneasy relationship between making and viewing images, often exploring timely themes of identity, sexuality, and fantasy. Personal Private Public opens with a self-portrait by Paul McCarthy. A classic example of his early conceptual photograp ... More | | 
Museum and city officials welcome second-graders from the nearby Bache Martin School, the first visitors to enter the museums North Entrance in over forty years, September 18, 2019. Photo by Tim Tiebout, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In a gathering attended by Mayor Jim Kenney, Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia Dr. William Hite, museum officials, and architect Frank Gehry, 28 second graders from the Bache-Martin School became the first members of the public to pass once again through an historic street-level entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Wednesday. This moment marked an important milestone in the realization of the museums Facilities Master Plan: the reopening of architecturally significant spaces that have been out of the public eye for many decades. Accompanied by a burst of confetti and a trumpet solo by Arnetta Johnson, todays opening reactivated a grand entrance lobby with ceiling heights of more than 24 feet and a rich array of architectural features, as well as a section of the museums storied Vaulted Walkwayits arched ceiling clad in newly restored Guastavino ... More |
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 An exhibition of photographs by Vincent Giordano opens at the Consulate of GreeceNEW YORK, NY.- "Romaniote Memories - a Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece to Manhattan: Photographs by Vincent Giordano" opened on Thursday, September 19th, 2019 at the Consulate of Greece in New York and will continue through October 3rd, 2019. A lecture and panel discussion about Romaniote Jews will take place at the Consulate on Wednesday, September 25th. The photographs are part of a multi-media archive, created by Giordano, who died in 2010, which was sponsored by International Survey of Jewish Monuments and since June, 2019 has found a new home at the Hellenic American Project and Special Collections at the Library of Queens College, New York ... More Robert Ewing wins Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2019SYDNEY.- Hazelhurst Arts Centre tonight announced Robert Ewing as the winner of the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2019 for his work entitled Chaos and Consequence, October 2017. Robert who is from Pinjarra in Western Australia has been awarded $15,000. The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award promotes excellence and innovation in the field of art on paper. Judges for the 2019 Art on Paper Award were artists Idris Murphy, Joan Ross and Oliver Watts, artist and Head Curator of Artbank. The judges chose this work from 86 finalists. This year Hazelhurst received entries from over 800 artists from throughout Australia. The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is a significant national exhibition that aims to elevate the status of works on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. The works in the ... More Major work by British artist William Turnbull joins the Wadsworth's Sculptures on Main StreetHARTFORD, CONN.- Earlier this week the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art installed Large Horse (1990) one of the largest and most archetypal works by acclaimed twentieth century artist William Turnbull (1922-2012). Also on view is a selection of eight drawings he made between 1950 and 1957. "Art has the power to humanize the urban environment with sculpture having a distinguishing public art role throughout history," says Thomas J. Loughman, Director and CEO of the Wadsworth. "We are delighted to work with the Turnbull Studio in creating this major addition to the cityscape, particularly as the world is rediscovering Turnbull's work." The Wadsworth has been placing sculpture on Main Street for a century beginning with Enoch Woods' sculpture honoring Nathan Hale which was installed in 1894 ... More A journey into the world of Osman Hamdi Bey: Pera Museum offers a Virtual Reality ExperienceISTANBUL.- Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum revives Osman Hamdi Bey's The Tortoise Trainer, one of the best-known works of Turkish painting, with a virtual reality project. The project, which was launched on the 15th anniversary of the inclusion of the painting in the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundations Orientalist Painting Collection, is titled "A Journey into the World of Osman Hamdi Bey: Virtual Reality Experience. Developed with data and documents accumulated from various archives and collections, the VR application allows the visitors to tour Osman Hamdi Beys workshop and interact with many important elements ranging from the artist's personal belongings to the music of the period. Pera Museum re-introduces Osman Hamdi Beys signature work The Tortoise Trainer to art enthusiasts on a ... More Ulterior Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by New York-based artist Carrie YamaokaNEW YORK, NY.- Ulterior Gallery opened its fourth season with Panorama, an exhibition of photographs by New York-based artist Carrie Yamaoka. This exhibition will be on view until Sunday, October 20. There are celebrated sites such as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Niagara Fallslandscapes depicted countless times in photographs, painting, and film, forming a part of the myth of this countrys nature and character. And there are other landscapes, mostly hidden from our view. Sing Sing is a maximum security prison up the Hudson River from New York City, its name derived from the Sintsink people from whom the land was taken in 1685 in exchange for money. Guantanamo Bay, now used for indefinite detention of accused terrorists and enemy combatants, was used in the early 1990s to detain Haitian immigrants and ... More 'Speculative Landscapes' now open at NYU Abu Dhabi Art GalleryABU DHABI.- NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, the universitys academic museum-gallery, has opened its fall show, Speculative Landscapes. Curated by Maya Allison (Executive Director of the NYUAD Art Gallery and the universitys Chief Curator), this exhibition features four new installations by UAE-based artists. Each offers a distinct lens onto the UAE and the region, and their work is gaining international recognition for its conceptual speculations on our contemporary world. Together the exhibition offers a landmark presentation of these important artists, both in terms of the scale of the new projects, and the distinct voice and perspective they offer. Areej Kaoud, Ayman Zedani, Jumairy, and Rajaa Khalid each have an established reputation in the UAE, and are gaining international attention. Each ... More Galerie Richard now representing Rainer Gross in New York and ParisNEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Richard announced it is now representing Rainer Gross in New York and Paris and is presenting Contact Paintings, his first show in the New York gallery, from September 4 to October 26, 2019. Galerie Richard previously exhibited Rainer Gross work in Paris in 1990 and 1997. The artists Twin Paintings and Contact Paintings are a definitive achievement in the history of painting. As their name implies, the compositions encompass two painted surfaces that the artist presents as a diptych, each panel imprinting on and mirroring the other. With the modesty of a philosopher, Gross admits that he controls the general composition of these unique pieces but insists that nature makes the details. Gross process is alchemic. He first paints six or seven layers of different-colored pigments ... More Liang Yi Museum's landmark show on female empowerment and self-expressionHONG KONG.- Liang Yi Museum presents Crowning Glory: The Beauty of Ladies' Ornaments from Asia and Europe, a landmark exhibition exploring the role womens clothing and accessories played in the social construction of gender and identity from the late imperial era in China and Japan to the early modern period. The compelling selection features over 250 exhibits, including objects of everyday use from traditional Chinese furniture associated with the boudoir; Japanese hair ornaments and silver pieces; to textiles from both cultures. The aim of the exhibit is to provide an insightful view into the traditional and modern concept of female beauty in the East, and its dilution and evolution upon the introduction of Western notions, morals and ideas. The exhibition is open now and will run until the 27th February, 2020. Building on ... More At vast New York warehouse, preserving records in the digital ageNEW YORK (AFP).- The turntable needle drops and the reverbs of the obscure band The Motifs ring out, bouncing off mountains of records lining the musty warehouse housing America's largest pop music collection. The cavernous independent private music library, known as the ARChive of Contemporary Music, on a non-descript street in lower Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood claims more than three million recordings -- mostly vinyl and some CDS and cassettes, not to mention a vast collection of memorabilia. "You're just constantly discovering things that you wouldn't know," its co-founder B. George told AFP from his desk tucked behind the stacks. In an age dominated by streaming and the ephemerality of digital media, places like the ARChive can prove vital to preserving physical copies of music that can be key ... More Transcorporealities: Museum Ludwig, Cologne opens a group exhibitionCOLOGNE.- The exhibition Transcorporealities takes as its starting point the concept of the permeability of bodies. Posthumanist theories view bodies as open-ended systems in constant exchange with their environmentbeyond dualisms such as nature and culture, human and machine, subject and object, or individuality and community. This idea of transcorporeality can also be applied to the museum: in continuous metabolic processes, various social, biological, technological, economic, and political systems intersect. Against this backdrop, the exhibition activates an area in the museum that is freely accessible and opens toward the urban space with its transparent façades and glass doors on two sides: the foyer. As a transitional space it forms a kind of membraneon the one hand to protect the sensitive inner life of the institution from external ... More Paris Tutankhamun show sets new record with 1.42 mn visitorsPARIS (AFP).- A blockbuster Tutankhamun show set a new all-time French record Sunday, with 1.42 million visitors flocking to see the exhibition in Paris, the organisers said. The turnout beat the previous record set by another Tutankhamun show billed as the "exhibition of the century" in 1967, when 1.24 million queued to see "Tutankhamun and His Times" at the Petit Palais. "Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh" -- which has been described as a "once in a generation" show -- will open in London in November. The last time a show of comparable size about the boy king opened there in 1972 it sparked "Tutmania", with 1.6 million people thronging the British Museum. More than 150 treasures from the monarch's tomb -- including 60 which have never left Egypt before -- have been assembled for the ... More Poetry in motion: Social media revives ancient artLONDON (AFP).- Eighteen-year-old Londoner Danique Bailey is one of a new generation of poets using social media to revive the art. The teenager was among the 100 winners of last year's Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, an international competition of 6,000 11- to 17-year-olds from 83 countries. She was rewarded for a mischievous ode to the plantain fruit. "Social media made a lot more people interested in poetry, including myself," she told AFP, calling it a "really fun and satisfying way to express yourself in a short amount of space". She is not the only millennial getting into the art -- sales of poetry books jumped 66 percent between 2012 and 2017, according to Nielsen BookScan, which gathers data for the book publishing sector. Around 1.3 million poetry books were sold last year, a 12-percent increase over the previous year ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor Louise Nevelson was born September 23, 1899. Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 - April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in Czarist Russia, she emigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century when she was three years old. Nevelson learned English at school, as she spoke Yiddish at home. In this image: Playwright Edward Albee, center, joins his star, Iree Worth, left, backstage at the Morosco Theater in New York City Thursday, Jan 31, 1980 . After the opening performance of his " The Lady From Dubuque." The two were greeting well -wishers, who included sculptress, Louise Nevelson, at right.
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