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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Seigen 1577-1640 Antwerp), Lot and his Daughters, circa 1613-1614 (detail). Oil on canvas, 74 x 88 ½ in. (190 x 225 cm.). Estimate on Request. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2016.
LONDON.- Sir Peter Paul Rubenss masterpiece Lot and his Daughters (circa 1613-1614) will be sold by Christies as the centerpiece of a curated week of sales, Classic Week*, in London this July. An outstanding example of Rubenss early maturity and one of the most important paintings by the artist to have remained in private hands. The work has been hidden from public view for over a century and will be exhibited during Christies New York Classic Week (8 12 April 2016) and in Hong Kong (26 - 30 May 2016), before being offered in London Classic Week, leading the Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale on 7 July. Lot and his Daughters boasts a distinguished provenance, once forming part of the collections of wealthy Antwerp merchants; a Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands; Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor; and the Dukes of Marlborough. It was ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day NEW YORK.- Phoenix Ancient Art is participating in Asia Week New York for the first time with their exhibition: Glories of China! In this image: Inlaid Mirror. Chinese, Warring States, 4th - 3rd century B.C. Bronze, inlaid with Gold and Turquoise. Diameter: 7 inches (18 cm).
| First monographic exhibition devoted to Hubert Robert since 1933 on view at the Louvre | | Rare oval diamond expected to fetch $35 million at Sotheby's Hong Kong sale | | Gisèle Croës presents masterworks from the Chinese past as part of Asia Week New York | 
Hubert Robert, Personnages dans une baie à Saint-Pierre de Rome. 1763. Huile sur bois. H. 48,5; l. 37 cm. Valence, musée de Valence © Musée de Valence, photo Ãric Caillet.
Hubert Robert has come down in history as a painter of ruins and landscapes, but he was above all one of the 18th centurys greatest creators of poetic images. This aspect is at the heart of the first monographic exhibition devoted to the artist since 1933, co- organized by the Musée du Louvre and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. This retrospective illustrates the exceptional diversity and prolific curiosity of a creative and endearing artist whose skills as a painter-philosopher, landscape artist, architect, project manager, and public figure were augmented by his interest in poetry and history. Based on the rich collections of the Louvres Departments of Paintings and of Prints and Drawings, the exhibition presents an exceptional and varied selection of some 140 works including drawings, paintings, sketches, engravings, monumental paintings, large decorative works, and furniture. It was made ... More | | 
A Rare and Superb 10.10-Carat Oval Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond. Estimate HK$235280 Million / US$3035 Million. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG (AFP).- A 10.10 carat vivid blue diamond is expected to set the record for the most expensive piece of jewellery sold at auction in Asia despite an ongoing growth slowdown in China's economy, Sotheby's said Friday. The "De Beers Millennium Jewel 4" is expected to fetch between $30 million and $35 million at the April 5 sale in Hong Kong, and is described by the auction house as the largest oval blue diamond ever to appear at auction and "internally flawless". The diamond, which is slightly larger than an almond in size, came from South Africa's Cullinan Mine and was one of 12 displayed at London's Millennium Dome to mark the year 2000. "There are no more than a dozen or so blue diamonds of fancy vivid colour and over 10 carats in the world, so they are very, very rare," Sotheby's Deputy Chairman for Asia Quek Chin Yeow told AFP. The sale will come five months after the 12.03-carat "Blue Moon of Josephine" ... More | | 
Bronze bell, Nao. Late Shang dynasty (circa 1600-1050 BC). Bronze with green and blue patina, malachite and azurite encrustation, Ht 57,4 cm (22 10/16 in.) - Wd 37 cm (14 1/2 in.) Provenance: Swiss private collection. Photo Studio Roger Asselberghs - Frédéric Dehaen.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of Asia Week New York, Brussels-based art dealer Gisèle Croës is presenting Masterworks from the Chinese Past at Gagosian Gallery. She has collaborated on exhibitions with Gagosian Gallery since 2014, in New York and Hong Kong. For this exhibition Gisele Croës has carefully selected a number of rare and highly representative works of art ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the Qing dynasty, all of them illustrating the supreme artistic achievement of the period. Visitors will admire a truly extraordinary set of five Neolithic Longshan black pottery dating back to the 3 rd millenium BC. The eggshell thinness of the stemcups testifies to the high level of ceramic technology attained in this early age. Over the years, ritual bronzes have come over the years to be considered as signature pieces of the Gallery. They have pride of place ... More |
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| Emerson, Lake and Palmer keyboardist Keith Emerson dead at 71 in Los Angeles | | Robert Arneson's "Guardians of the Secret II" on view at Brian Gross Fine Art | | Artist Edward Ruscha photo books offer views of Los Angeles, Dutch cityscape | 
This file photo taken on November 25, 2004 shows Keith Emerson performing at Universal Amphitheatre on November 26 2004 in Universal City, California. Frazer Harrison / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Keith Emerson, the flamboyant yet accomplished keyboardist who pioneered the use of synthesizers in rock music, has died at age 71, his bandmates said Friday. The English keyboardist died late Thursday at his home in the Los Angeles area, his former band, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, announced on Facebook. "Keith was a gentle soul whose love for music and passion for his performance as a keyboard player will remain unmatched for many years to come," Carl Palmer, the group's percussionist, said in a statement. "He was a pioneer and an innovator whose musical genius touched all of us in the worlds of rock, classical and jazz," he said. Inspired by Jimi Hendrix's theatrics with the electric guitar, Emerson created a new showmanship with the keyboards as he would attack the keys with knives and play ... More | | 
Robert Arneson, Guardians of the Secret II, 1989-1990. Glazed ceramic, wood, plexiglass, steel, canvas, epoxy, and mixed media, 86 x 119 x 26 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announces the exhibition, Robert Arneson: Guardians of the Secret II, opening Saturday, March 12, 2016 with a reception from 4-6pm. On view will be Guardians of the Secret II, 1989-1990, Arnesons tour-de-force ceramic rendering of the 1943 Jackson Pollock painting Guardians of the Secret. The exhibition marks the west coast debut of Guardians, and represents the pinnacle of Arnesons homage to and exploration of Pollock as his alter ego. Guardians of the Secret II will be on view through May 7, 2016. Guardians of the Secret II is the culmination of nearly a decade of Arnesons exploration of both Jackson Pollock the man and his art. Beginning in 1980, Arneson started to look for other artists to use as replacements for himself as both model and muse. Of the different artists he chose, he found Pollock to be the most compelling surrogate, completing 97 works ... More | | 
Foldout showing photo collage from Edward Ruscha 1962 book Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Myers Fine Art image.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Between 1962 and 1978, Los Angeles-based artist Edward Ruscha produced 16 artist's books, two of which Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) and Dutch Details (1971) will be sold at auction on Sunday, March 13. Both of these books are unique photographic collections of two very different landscapes. Every Building on the Sunset Strip is self-explanatory, as it captures a stretch of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, while Dutch Details features the architecture, canals and parks of Groningen, Netherlands. Dutch Details, published in 1971 for the Sonsbeek exhibition Sonsbeek Out of Bounds, is a photo series that captures the austere nature of a Dutch cityscape. This oblong book with foldout pages contains a beautiful series of photographs that transplants the viewer directly into Dutch city life. Three thousand copies of Dutch Details were printed, of which approximately 200 are said ... More |
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| John Berggruen Galery announces move across from new SFMOMA entrance | | Found for $10: 1853 map of Texas and related documents may bring $8,000+ at Heritage Auctions | | Major exhibition is the first in Berlin in over a decade dedicated to Jörg Immendorff | 
The gallery, a cornerstone of the west coast art world and a catalyst for the San Francisco market for more than 45 years, specializes in modern and contemporary art.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- John Berggruen Gallery has announced it is moving, opening a new space this fall at 10 Hawthorne Street, on the corner of Howard. The gallery will occupy an historic building, directly across from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts (SFMOMA) new Howard Street Entrance, part of a burgeoning neighborhood for the arts. The gallery, a cornerstone of the west coast art world and a catalyst for the San Francisco market for more than 45 years, specializes in modern and contemporary art, and has mounted exhibitions by internationally renowned artists and Bay Area luminaries including Frank Stella, Georgia OKeefe, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Edward Ruscha, Mark di Suvero, Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn. With the opening of the new SFMOMA, there is great energy ... More | | 
Surveyor's personal copy found buried in box of period sheet music in Indiana estate auction, with historic letters, to be offered March 12 in Dallas.
DALLAS, TX.- When Crystal Murray won a $10 box lot of 19th century sheet music at a small Indiana estate auction in the mid-1980s, she thought it was the perfect discovery for her children who were learning to play the piano. Besides finding new songs for her children, she also discovered a rare, early map of Texas and related historical letter and documents Texas historians say could sell for as much as $8,000 March 12 at Heritage Auctions. "I saw the box of sheet music at an auction in Seymour, Indiana, and my children at the time were taking up piano lessons," Murray said. "All of the music was from within that period of the late 1800s and we discovered the book with the map in the box. We thought it was interesting and we always kept the letters with the map." Murray discovered an 1853 edition of J. De Cordova's Map of Texas a large format lithograph map, measuring 32-3/4" by 34-3/4", elegantly colored by hand, showing ... More | | 
Jörg Immendorff, "Lidl-Tasche", 1969. Cardboard, fabric, flag, paper, 34,9 x 34,2 x 22,9 cm; 13 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 9 inches
BERLIN.- VW (VeneKlasen/Werner) announces Jörg Immendorff: LIDL Works and Performances from the 60s. This major exhibition is the first in Berlin in over a decade dedicated to Immendorff, who is among the most important and best-known artists to emerge during the post-war period in Germany. With more than thirty paintings and objects, and a large selection of rare documentary photographs, Jörg Immendorff: LIDL Works and Performances from the 60s examines the development of one of post-war German arts most dynamic figures. Immendorff began his formal artistic training at the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf during a time when that city was developing into an international center for contemporary art. In 1964 Immendorff was admitted into the class of Joseph Beuys, then the most important artist working in Germany and a figure of profound influence for an entire generation ... More |
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| The New York Public Library appoints Michael Dardia Vice President for Finance and Assistant Treasurer | | Oscar-winning British production designer Ken Adam dies at 95 | | World premiere retrospective of Oscar de la Renta's work opens in San Francisco | 
Dardia comes to the Library after spending nearly three decades -- the last 12 years in New York City -- bringing financial acumen to mission-driven organizations.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library has named Michael Dardia Vice President for Finance and Assistant Treasurer, responsible for the institutions budget and financial planning and analysis. He is scheduled to start on March 28. Dardia comes to the Library after spending nearly three decades -- the last 12 years in New York City -- bringing financial acumen to mission-driven organizations. From 2004 to 2014, Dardia worked as a deputy director in the New York City Office of Management and Budget, overseeing both expense and capital budgets for the citys housing and economic development agencies, as well as task forces responsible for macroeconomic and tax revenue forecasts covering the citys $70 billion budget. From 2014 until now, Dardia worked as co-director of research at the fiscal watchdog Citizens Budget Commission, where he managed research and analysis ... More | | 
The Oscar-winning British production designer, who dreamt up the elaborate lairs of Bond villains as well as 007's Aston Martin ejector seat, died on Thursday, the BBC reported.
LONDON (AFP).- Ken Adam, the designer of suave British spy James Bond's fictional worlds, has died at his home in London at the age of 95, British media reported on Friday. The Oscar-winning British production designer, who dreamt up the elaborate lairs of Bond villains as well as 007's Aston Martin ejector seat, died on Thursday, the BBC reported. "The Bond family mourns the passing of our beloved friend Sir Ken Adam who was so responsible for the visual style of the James Bond films," read a tweet on the film franchise's official account. Former Bond star Roger Moore tweeted: "Sir Ken Adam -- a friend, a visionary and the man who defined the look of the James Bond films." Adam's biographer Christopher Frayling told the BBC: "As a person he was remarkable. Roger Moore once said about him that his life was a great deal more interesting than most of the films that he designed. "He was a brilliant visualiser of worlds we will never be ... More | | 
Oscar de la Renta, Evening ensemble; dress and overblouse Spring 2012. Marigold silk taffeta, black floral-embroidered silk tulle. Jemal Countess/Getty Images.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present the world premiere retrospective of Oscar de la Rentas work the first major survey celebrating the life and career of one of fashions most influential designers. The exhibition is organized in close collaboration with the House of Oscar de la Renta and the designers family, and is curated by André Leon Talley, former American editor-at-large for Vogue and a lifelong friend of de la Renta. Included are more than 130 ensembles produced over five decades. These garments are organized into several thematic sections: early work; Spanish, Eastern, Russian and garden influences; daywear and eveningwear; and ball gowns and red carpet ensembles. The presentation traces the rise of de la Rentas career in Spain, where he gained his first commissions; his formative years spent in the worlds most iconic fashion houses; and his eventual role as a designer for many of ... More |
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 "Mianus River Gorge: Photographs by William Abranowicz" opens at the Bruce MuseumGREENWICH, CONN.- The natural grandeur of the Mianus River Gorge will be on view at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, from March 12 through June 5, 2016. Three years ago, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of its founding, Mianus River Gorge, Inc. gave renowned photographer and longtime Bedford, NY, resident William Abranowicz unrestricted access to the Gorge preserve for a year. While the Gorge is open only seasonally to most visitors, Abranowicz was able to photograph in the preserve through all four seasons and create a record of natures annual cycle in this timeless forest. In his photographs, Abranowicz captures the profound beauty and myriad faces of this primeval forest in our midst. Selected photographs from Abranowiczs experience are on view for the first time in the exhibition Mianus River Gorge: Photographs by ... More Long Beach Museum of Art opens new exhibition "Beyond The Frame: New Media Arts from Taiwan"LONG BEACH, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art opened its main 2016 spring exhibition on March 11, 2016 entitled Beyond the Frame: New Media Arts from Taiwan, an innovative exhibition featuring new media artists who continually evolve their creative practice with rapid advances in media technology. The exhibition includes the work of six Taiwanese artists: Daniel Lee, Shyu Ruey-Shiann, Lin Jiun-Ting, Tseng Wei-Hao, Wu Chi-Tsung, and Yao Chung-Han. These artists navigate the line between artistic tradition and modern technology conceptually as well as in form and medium. Beyond the Frame includes works created with new technologies, including video art, virtual art, interactive art, and robotics. The exhibition will run through May 29, 2016. Organized by the Taiwan Academy, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Los Angeles and curated by Josiane Lih-Huei Lai ... More Betty Cuningham Gallery opens exhibition of works by Jake BerthotNEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the career of Jake Berthot, Betty Cuningham Gallery opens Jake Berthot: In Color on Saturday, March 12th. The exhibition will include approximately 20 works dating from 1969 to 2014. As this is the first exhibition of Berthots work since his death in December of 2014, the Gallery chose to feature Nympha Red, a major work only once exhibited in 1988 at the Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University). Painted in 1969, Nympha Red measures 60 ½ x 210 inches and is the sister painting to another major horizontal painting, Walken's Ridge, 1975-6, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. From these two paintings painted early in his career the titles alone indicate Berthots instinctive interest in both color and landscape. Berthot began exhibiting in the mid-1960s, at a time when Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Minimalism were part ... More Exhibition of contemporary art jewellery Nationalmuseum in SwedenSTOCKHOLM.- This spring Nationalmuseum Design hosts an exhibition of contemporary art jewellery. The exhibition features 30 international artists with about 160 works on display. The exhibition Open Space Mind Maps. Positions in Contemporary Jewellery intends to illustrate the point at which the actual art in jewellery arrived and what cultural messages take on the most crucial importance in this context. The jewellery in the exhibition represents adventure and experimentation aimed at opposing and protesting against traditional customs, propagandising a type of beauty that unifies provocation and aesthetics at the same time. Jewellery long ago breached frontiers, and acts as artistic field research, participating in the current topics of art in our time. In our context, jewellery no longer represents a simple decoration or a status symbol, but an aesthetic discourse ... More Collection of Old Master paintings will headline March 26 auction in FloridaWEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- A marvelous collection of 17th century Old Master paintings that was gathered by a Miami woman from around the world prior to her retirement in Florida is the expected headliner at an auction slated for Saturday, March 26th, by Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery in the firms gallery at 809 Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach, starting at 1 pm (EST). Paintings either by, or attributed to, the Old Masters Maerten Vos (Neth., 1532-1603), Guido Reni (Ital., 1575-1642), Giovanni Carnovali (Ital., 1804-1873), and Francesco Albani (Ital., 1578-1660), were acquired by the Miami woman, now 80, earlier in life, when she and her husband acquired them at auction houses and antique shops while living in Italy and Venezuela. About 250 lots will come up for bid. In addition to the Old Master paintings, the sale will also feature sterling silver, bronze, porcelain, ... More Parrish Perspectives features special exhibitions by Brian Gaman, Connie Fox and Lindsay MorrisWATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents Parrish Perspectives, a series of concentrated exhibitions that allows the Museum to respond spontaneously and directly to unique ways of thinking about art, artists, and the creative process, on view from March 13 through April 24. The three distinct exhibitionsConnie Fox: Self As...;Brian Gaman: Vanishing Point; and Lindsay Morris: You Are Youprovide visitors with the opportunity to experience timely, relevant work, on view for the first time in a Museum, by these nationally recognized artists with close ties to the East End of Long Island. Connie Fox: Self As... features an innovative self-portrait series in which Fox melds her own image with self-portraits by German painter Max Beckmann(18841950) and photographs of French writer Colette (18731954). Brian Gaman: Vanishing Point presents a survey selection ... More Exhibition of Robert Morris and Kishio Suga opens at Blum & PoeTOKYO.- Blum & Poe presents an exhibition of Robert Morris and Kishio Suga, two influential artists whose work has been central to the history of site-specific installation since the 1960s. This is Morris first exhibition in Tokyo in nearly twenty years, and the first occasion to see Sugas work in a focused, two-person presentation with one of his American peers. Robert Morris played a pivotal role in defining Minimalist sculpture, Process Art, and Earthworks. After concentrating his attention on rigid materials and angular forms in the mid1960s, Morris began to use soft materials, most notably felt, which he piled, stacked, and hung from the wall in an investigation of the effects of gravity and tension on ordinary materials. Morris also explored other industrial raw materials such as dirt and thread waste, yet due to their scattered placement these works often appear light despite their heavy ... More Graphic works by Eduardo Paolozzi on view at Yorkshire Sculpture ParkWAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a display of graphic works, still vibrant and fresh today, by influential UK Pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi (19242005). The exhibition runs from 12 March to 12 June 2016. The Upper Space display includes graphic works taken from the series BUNK, Zero Energy Experimental Pile, Moonstrip Empire News and General Dynamic F.U.N., all gifted to YSP by the artist in 1994. These works stand as pictorial sourcebooks that reveal Paolozzis fascination with post-war popular culture through an eclectic range of sources, from advertisements, films, toys, magazines and packaging to emerging technology. Throughout his life Paolozzi kept scrapbooks, with images cut out and collaged largely from American comics and publications. He felt the seductive appeal of American consumerism offered a promise of exotic society, bountiful ... More Japan Society presents "In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11"NEW YORK, NY.- Japan Society Gallery in New York presents In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, five years to the day since an enormous earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan, devastating coastal regions and setting off nuclear power plant failure. On view through June 12, 2016, the exhibition is the centerpiece of an institution-wide observance of what was the most widely photographed catastrophe in history. First organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where it was on view in 2015, In the Wake features more than 90 photographs, videos, and installations created by 17 artists who contemplate what has been lost and what remains in the aftermath of a national tragedy that took some 18,000 lives and displaced another 400,000 individuals. The reconceived and expanded presentation at Japan Society is divided into three sections, focusing ... More Christiane Feser's first solo show in the United States opens at Von Lintel GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Von Lintel Gallery announces an exhibition by German photographer, Christiane Feser. Photoobjects is comprised of unique photographic objects and a selection of archival pigment prints. The exhibition is the artists first solo show in the United States and her first with the gallery. Christiane Feser plays in the intersection of photography and object. Her subjects begin as paper models of cut-up patterns. She photographs the models and then manually alters the printsfolding, carving and threading the paperto complete the patterns in three dimensional relief. Fesers experimental process hijacks the logic of the photographic medium. A flat photograph, assumed to represent the reality of its subject, transforms into an object with its own reality that exists in space and interacts with its surroundings. Object and representation pristinely intertwine to create ... More April African-American fine art at Swann features Ringgold, Lewis, Gilliam & moreNEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, April 7, Swann Galleries will hold an auction of African-American Fine Art, featuring works by modern and contemporary artists. The sale is headlined by Faith Ringgolds 1988 story quilt, Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge, the second quilt in her important 1988 Woman on a Bridge series. The series depicts women floating above the famous bridges of San Francisco and New York and includes Ringgolds most famous story quilt, Tar Beach. This is only the second of Ringgolds signature story quilts to come to auction: the first, Mayas Quilt of Life, sold at Swann in September 2015 as part of The Art Collection of Maya Angelou, realizing $461,000, a record for Ringgolds work at auction. Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge, which has been shown extensively in museum exhibitions, is estimated at $150,000 to $250,000. Modern ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Elaine de Kooning, was born March 12, 1918. Elaine de Kooning (March 12, 1918/1920 - February 1, 1989) was an Abstract Expressionist, Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era and editorial associate for Art News magazine. On December 9, 1943, she married artist Willem de Kooning, who was a highly influential artist in the Abstract Expressionism movement. In this image: Members of the media and Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum staff are surrounded by portraits of presidents including Warren Harding, left, by Margaret Lindsay Williams, Dwight D. Eisenhower, third from right, by Thomas Edgar Stephens, John F. Kennedy, second from right, by Elaine de Kooning, and photographs of Kennedy by George Thames, as they tour the exhibit at the Carter Museum Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003.
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