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NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled today their newly-expanded and reimagined New York City galleries, located in their global headquarters at 1334 York Avenue. Designed in collaboration with Sothebys by Shohei Shigematsu, of the internationally-acclaimed architecture firm OMA New York, the redesign features vast new galleries that were designed to provide the optimal exhibition space for everything from single objects to expansive collections, and can accommodate works of art of any scale. Opening today with Sothebys May exhibitions and auctions including masterworks of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon and more the new galleries increase Sothebys exhibition space from 67,000 to more than 90,000 square feet (the equivalent of two acres). Comprising 40 public galleries and 9 private sales salons of varying sizes spread across four entirely transformed floors, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A German gas mask is displayed in the new exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage entitled "Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away." on May 02, 2019 in New York City. The exhibition, which will open on the anniversary of the 1945 surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II, features more than 600 original objects that trace the history of both the Nazi movement and the infamous death camp Auschwitz. Of the approximately 1.3 million people who were deported to Auschwitz, 1 million were murdered or died there; the majority of them Jewish. The exhibition firm was first produced for a show in Madrid from December 2017 to February 2019. The exhibition will open to the public on May 8th and is being described as the largest-ever traveling exhibit on Auschwitz. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP
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 | | Garry Winogrand: Color is the first exhibition dedicated to the artist's rarely seen color photographs | | Brussels show presents private side of screen icon Audrey Hepburn | | High prices and world records achieved at Old Masters auction | 
Garry Winogrand (American, 19281984), Untitled (New York), circa 1965. 35mm color slide. Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garry Winogrand: Color sheds new light on the influential career of twentieth-century photographer Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) as the first exhibition dedicated to the artist's color photographs. While almost exclusively known for his black-and-white images that pioneered a "snapshot aesthetic" in contemporary art, Winogrand also produced more than 45,000 color slides between the early 1950s and late 1960s. The exhibition features an enveloping installation of seventeen projections comprising more than 450 rarely or never-before seen color photographs that demonstrate the artist's commitment to color, with which he experimented for nearly 20 years. Also included are 25 gelatin silver photographs drawn from the Museum's extensive holdings of works by the artist. Garry ... More | | 
The exhibition of around 800 photos, some previously unpublished, include black and white portraits that evoke the severity of Dutch aristocracy -- a world she knew as a child.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- An exhibition tracing the private life of screen icon Audrey Hepburn through hundreds of photos and personal items opened in her hometown of Brussels this week to mark the 90th anniversary of her birth. The "Intimate Audrey" show features nearly a thousand objects gathered by one of her two sons, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, born from her relationship with the US actor and producer Mel Ferrer. Alongside the glamour of the star who shot dizzyingly to Hollywood fame -- winning an Oscar at just 25 for her role alongside Gregory Peck in "Roman Holiday" -- the exhibition focuses on Hepburn's life as a mother and as a UNICEF ambassador, a role she threw herself into during the five years leading up to her death in 1993. "Fundamentally we don't learn anything new, but when we get to the end, we see that the girl that the world fell in love with... has blossomed into this woman. ... More | | 
Habsburg Court Painter, late 16th Century, Portrait of Archduke Ernst of Austria (1553 - 1595), oil on canvas, 124 x 103 cm, realised price 344,900.
VIENNA.- Old Master Paintings sales can deliver remarkable results. This was confirmed at Dorotheums sale of Old Master paintings on the 30th April 2019, where three paintings were sold for world record prices. A record price of over 217,000 was achieved for a portrait of the Empress Maria Theresia by Martin van Meytens. Van Meytens was the leading court portraitist of the Austrian Empress and her family. Another portrait of a member the Imperial family, Archduke Ernst of Austria, reached an impressive total of 344,900. Ernst, the younger brother of Emperor Rudolf II, was the Governor of the Netherlands who amassed a collection of paintings by Pieter Brueghel, which later formed the basis of the world-famous and recently exhibited Brueghel collection at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The auction was also of particular interest for its strong group of works by the Caravaggisti, the followers of ... More |
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| | | Still Life with Lilac by Petrov-Vodkin leads Russian Art Sale | | National Gallery of Art launches Alfred Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition | | French will have say on Notre-Dame restoration: minister | 
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939), Still life with lilac. oil on canvas, 80 x 65.4 cm. Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies will present their annual auction in London on 3 June, which includes an exciting selection of works by highly sought-after artists including Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Boris Grigoriev, Ivan Shishkin, Konstantin Makovsky, Aleksandr Deineka, Sergei Chekhonin and the pioneering female printmaker Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva. The session of the sale dedicated to Russian Works of Art will offer pieces from the esteemed workshops of Fabergé, important 18th and 19th century silversmiths and Imperial Porcelain Factory, including a jewelled gold-mounted nephrite and rock crystal study of a dandelion by Fabergé and an important parcel-gilt silver and niello tureen (estimate: £120,000-£160,000, and estimate: £200,000-£300,000). The highlight of the sale is Still life with lilac by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (estimate: £1,000,000-£1,500,000). The mastery of optical illusion, the brazen use of pure colours and the daring command of perspective ... More | | 
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'KeeffeHand and Wheel, 1933, gelatin silver print. Sheet (trimmed to image): 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred Stieglitz Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- On April 25, 2019, the National Gallery of Art released the Alfred Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition, a digital version of an authoritative scholarly publication on the photographs and photographic practice of Alfred Stieglitz. Originally published as a two-volume print edition (Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set) in 2002, the digital version incorporates updated scholarship, including recent conservation findings, as well as robust search functionality and advanced image viewing and comparison tools. Under the guidance of Sarah Greenough, the Gallery's senior curator and head of the department of photographs, and Mark Levitch, Stieglitz online project coordinator, this most recent installment of the Online Editions series makes the 1,642 works from the Key Setthe foremost collection of Stieglitz's photographsavailable to all and provides new opportunities for researching Stieglitz's oeuvre. "Spanning the ... More | | 
A worker stands on a scaffolding to secure part of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, two weeks after a fire devastated it, in Paris on May 2, 2019. Thomas SAMSON / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French citizens will be consulted on how Notre-Dame should be rebuilt after the iconic cathedral was ravaged by a fire on April 15, Culture Minister Franck Riester said Friday. "The French will be able to express themselves, and then we'll see which decision (will be taken) and how Notre-Dame will be restored," Riester told LCI television. He promised a "debate and a large consultation," though the government will have the final say on the Paris landmark, which President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to restore within five years. The church's roof and spire were destroyed in the blaze, with the cause still under investigation. France has launched an international architectural competition for the reconstruction, raising the prospect of modern touches to a structure dating from the 13th century. But experts note that it has been modified periodically since then, not least with the addition of the spire by Viollet- ... More |
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| | | The Harvey Quaytman Trust joins Blum & Poe | | BFI launches unprecedented Victorian Film collection of Britain's earliest films | | Arc de Triomphe to be 'fully restored' for VE Day | 
Harvey Quaytman, Mirror to Damascus, 1971. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 136 1/4 inches © Harvey Quaytman Trust.
NEW YORK, NY.- In collaboration with Van Doren Waxter, New York, Blum & Poe announced the worldwide representation of the Harvey Quaytman Trust. A survey at Blum & Poe examining Quaytmans formal interests in shape, color, line, and surface across all periods of his practice of five decades is scheduled for Fall 2019 in Los Angeles, following a presentation at Art Basel, Switzerland, in June 2019. These exhibitions follow the major retrospective Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static (2018), curated by Apsara DiQuinzio at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), CA. Quaytman (1937 2002), a self-professed classical modernist, began his career in the 1960s at a time when painting had been declared dead. An under-recognized figure in the written history of modernist abstraction, yet always an artists artist with a wide ... More | | 
The Big Swallow, 1901.
LONDON.- The BFI celebrates 200 years since the birth of Queen Victoria (born 24 May 1819) with the launch of the BFIs entire collection of British Victorian Film made between 1895 and 1901, available to all, for free on BFI Player from 13 May. The online collection is complemented by a Victorian Film Weekender programme of screenings and events at BFI Southbank (9-12 May) including TV previews for broadcast collaborations between BFI and Victorian Sensations (BBC Four) and Horrible Histories (CBBC), plus innovative BFI education courses offering access to explore the Victorian era and discover more about our earliest films. Held and preserved by the BFI National Archive, the Victorian Film collection is a vast resource with more than 500 films newly digitised from the best quality source materials thanks to £36,700 of National Lottery funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. With existing Victorian era titles filmed by Mitchell ... More | | 
The mould of the 'Genie de la patrie', which was damaged by protestors on the sidelines of the 'yellow vest' (gilets jaunes) demonstrations on December 1, 2018. Martin BUREAU / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which was ransacked during a "yellow vest" protest last year, will be entirely restored for next week's VE Day celebrations, the French government said Friday. The monument, which contains the French tomb of the unknown soldier, was vandalised during an anti-government demonstration in December that ended in rioting and looting. Culture Minister Franck Riester said 1.2 million euros ($1.3 million) was spent restoring damaged statues and equipment inside the landmark at the top of the Champs-Elysees. As well as spraying its walls with graffiti and breaking equipment, rioters smashed artworks, including a 1930s copy of a famous sculpture of "The Marseillaise" by Francois Rude representing Victory, which was moulded from the 19th-century original. "The restoration ... More |
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| | | Outdoor installations by New York-based artist Heather Hart and North Carolina artist Daniel Johnston come to the NCMA | | Major exhibition of early work by Lee Ufan, pioneer of the Japanese Mono-Ha movement, opens at Dia:Beacon | | Exhibition features a new body of paintings, photographs and sculpture by Idris Khan | 
Heather Hart, The Oracle of Lacuna, 2017, Storm King Art Center, New York.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art celebrates the opening of Heather Harts temporary, interactive installation Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off and a new, permanent commissioned sculpture by Daniel Johnston with an outdoor Hoopla party Saturday, May 4, in the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park, featuring music, food, art making, and more. Harts Southern Oracle, similar to the one pictured here, is a partially submerged rooftop sculpture with just the roofline peeking out of the ground. It is inspired by her family history in North Carolina and the album Mothership Connection by Parliament-Funkadelic, the project of renowned singer, songwriter, producer, and North Carolina native George Clinton. Visitors can climb on top of the work and venture inside, surrounding themselves with music from their own phones that they can play through speakers. In addition to the May 4 opening event, several ... More | | 
Lee Ufan, Relatum, 1974. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, Dia Art Foundation mounts a major presentation of early sculpture by Lee Ufan, a pioneer of the Mono-ha movement that first emerged in Japan in the late 1960s. Developed in close association with the artist, the exhibition reveals Lees desire to present the world as-it-is, through the relationships between natural and man-made materials and encounters between objects, viewers, and space. The exhibition features five large-scale works, including three recently acquired installationsRelatum (formerly System, 1969), Relatum (formerly Language, 1971), and Relatum (1974). At Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, Lees work will be placed within the context of his peers who developed Minimal, Postminimal, and Land art practices contemporaneously, such as Michael Heizer, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, and Michelle Stuart, tracing the formal, material, and conceptual ... More | | 
Idris Khan, Lost Happiness, 2019. Digital C print, image/paper: 93 7/8 x 71 inches (238.4 x 180.3 cm) framed: 101 3/8 x 78 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (257.5 x 199.4 x 7 cm) edition of 7 with 2 APs © Idris Khan. Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly is presenting Idris Khans second solo exhibition with the gallery, Blue Rhythms, featuring a new body of paintings, photographs and sculpture that continue the artists investigation into the passage and collapse of time and its use within textual, musical and visual bodies. The density and precision of Khans compositions, defined by his technique of imposing multiple layers of image, text and music upon one another, allude to the excessive proliferation of information in the technical age whilst simultaneously advocating for a slower, more considered way of looking. Retaining traces of what has gone before or what has been left behind, Khans works speak to a layering of experience that harbors palimpsests of the past whilst suggesting entirely new possibilities. ... More |
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 Marbles are just a small part of Holabird Western Americana Collections' 5-day saleRENO, NEV.- Marbles will be just one of many collecting categories in a five-day Dont Lose Your Marbles Auction planned for Thursday to Monday, May 16th thru 20th by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, online and in the gallery at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite #308) in Reno. The sale overall will contain a staggering 4,134 lots. Start times each day are 8 am Pacific. Along with marbles, the list of categories will also include Western Americana, mining, stock certificates, railroadiana, Native Americana, art, bottles, postcards, postal history, baseball sports memorabilia, coins, medals and tokens. Previews will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, May 14th-15th, from 10-5 Pacific time in the gallery. To schedule a private preview call 775-851-1859. Day 1, on Thursday, May 16th (lots 1000-1839) will feature numismatics, to include books and checks, ... More Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery opens its 20th Anniversary Show - Part IINEW YORK, NY.- Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery is presenting its 20th Anniversary Show Part II. Opened in May 1999 under the name M.Y. Art Prospects, Miyako Yoshinaga shares a unique slice of history with the New York City art gallery scene. From its inception, the gallery has embraced a diverse group of international artists and an eclectic range of styles, promoting innovative ideas and giving voice to vital but often underrepresented personal, social and cultural issues through art. In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, the gallery featured an exhibition by artists from the Middle East. In 2003, it showcased largely unknown works by a group of young Cuban artists. And its most recent exhibition honored the repressed Uyghur ethnic minority in China. Following Part I (Photography), Part II of the anniversary show reflects the gallerys ... More Swann Graphic Design offers a tour through historyNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries annual Graphic Design sale on Thursday, May 23 features important designers, such as Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Charles Loupot and Tadanori Yokoo. On display is the evolution of design in the last century, from exceptional Constructivist images of the 1910s, to Psychedelic Rock-and-Roll posters and corporate propaganda from the 2010s. A spectacular run of luxury advertisements by Parisian postermaker Charles Loupot leads the sale. Highlights include a 1930 poster for Twining Tea and Lion Noir / Cirage Crème, 1949, which features a black lion preparing to pounce ($30,000-$40,000 apiece), a dizzying 1926 ad for the French automobile company Peugeot ($40,000-$60,000), and Wanneroil / Huile du bon Chauffeur, 1926 ($20,000-30,000). A.M. Cassandre is present with his ... More Bowdoin College Museum of Art appoints Curatorial Assistant and Manager of Student ProgramsBRUNSWICK, ME.- The Bowdoin College Museum of Art announces the appointment of Elizabeth Humphrey as the next Curatorial Assistant/Manager of Student Programs. Humphrey will receive her Masters degree in American Material Culture this spring from the Winterthur Program at the University of Delaware and is a 2014 graduate of Bowdoin College. Humphrey interned at the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2014. She researched unidentified sitters in NMAAHCs photographic collection, including the work of H.C. Andersons Greenville, MS series featured in the inaugural exhibition, Power of Place . As a Lois F. McNeil Fellow in the Winterthur Program of American Material Culture, Humphrey researched diverse narratives found in American material and visual culture, architecture, and design. Her masters ... More Rarely-seen garments from Seattle's Museum of History & Industry on view at the Seattle Style exhibitSEATTLE, WA.- What Seattleites wearpast and presentreveals something captivating about the city. This and more will be unveiled in Seattle Style: Fashion/Function, a major new exhibit presented by Nordstrom, featuring garments and accessories from Seattles Museum of History & Industrys collection, on view May 4-October 14, 2019. No single style defines this region. Instead, when we look at the clothing made and worn here, enduring themes emerge: influences of the weather, ambition, a casual nature, and a spirit of people forging a new path. This exciting exhibit highlights how elegance and practicality co-existed and converged in Seattle wardrobes, providing new insights into local clothing, ranging from couture to grunge aesthetics. Alone, few of these ingredients are unique to Seattle. But, woven together, a distinct local story emerges. "Our ... More Kunsthalle Basel opens an exhibition of works by Geumhyung JeongBASEL.- It is a terrifying yet scintillating technological world we find ourselves in. Speaking, that is, for us humans. The food we eat is industrially produced and genetically modified, our bodies performances are chemically enhanced, our homes are filled with devices that speak back to us (and even have names: Alexa, Siri), the minutiae of our identities are processed by software algorithms. Traditional distinctions between the human and the technological other are getting rather thin. Geumhyung Jeong knows this. The South Korean artist and choreographer has from the very beginning explored the depths of the human-versus-other divide. Trained in dance, theater, and filmmaking, she began her career by making performances. The first of these involved attaching rubber face masks to different parts of her own shrouded, slowly writhing body ... More albertz benda opens its first solo exhibition with Brie RuaisNEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is presenting the gallerys first solo exhibition with Brie Ruais entitled Ways, on view from May 3 through June 8, 2019. Three ongoing series of works - Topology, From Center, and Interwoven - converge in an installation that maps out, in spatial and material terms, the terrain that the artists body navigates and the movements it engenders. Ruais process is guided by choreographed actions, full-body gestures, and specified environments. The pieces begin with a mass of clay equal to her bodyweight and are then formed by exhaustive bursts of spreading, pushing, kicking, and scraping. Made in places ranging from the studio, the urban garden, to the illusory, untouched American desert, Ways charts the relationship between the sensorial body, materiality, and the landscape. The latest of Ruais ongoing series, the Topology works ... More Habatat Galleries announces the 47th International Glass Invitational Award exhibitionROYAL OAK, MICH.- Corey Hampson, President of Habatat Galleries, has announced its 47th International Glass Invitational Award Exhibition, which is the largest international glass exhibition in the world, and opens to the public with a celebration on May 4th at 8:00pm at the gallery, located at 4400 Ferule Avenue, a 30 minute drive from DTW airport, and will be on view through July 5th. The three day Invitational includes Habatats 23rd Masterworks Auction, featuring artists from more than dozen countries, both historic and new works will be available from many of the most legendary artists in the medium of glass, including Harvey Littleton, Dale Chihuly, Toots Zinsky, Lino Tagliapietra, and Paul Stankard, to name a few. Following the live auction, the Invitational will offer a wide variety of events and opportunities, from artist lectures, museum tours, and demonstrations, ... More Work by Nelson Mandela achieves $112,575 at Bonhams record breaking African Art saleNEW YORK, NY.- On May 2, a powerful sketch by Nelson Mandela, The Cell Door, Robben Island, sold for $112,575 at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary African Art sale. The wax pastel crayon work, which Mandela created in 2002, was the only work that the statesman kept for his personal collection. It had an estimate of $60,000-90,000. After his official retirement in 1999, the former President of South Africa turned to art as a therapeutic activity that helped him express and reflect on his tumultuous life. In 2002, he created 22 sketches about his 27 year-long incarceration, focusing on images he found symbolically and emotionally powerful. Ten of these original drawings were then reproduced as editions of lithographs for the series My Robben Island (2002) and Reflections of Robben Island (2003). However, these sets did not include The Cell Door, ... More Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg opens the first-ever retrospective of overlooked American artist Gene Beery FRIBOURG.- Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg will present the first retrospective of undiscovered American artist Gene Beery (*1937). On view from May 4 - June 30, the exhibition will feature 40 works spanning over 50 years. The majority of the works are on loan from the personal collection of minimalist artist Sol LeWitt, the LeWitt Collection, USA. Accompanying the retrospective is the artists very first monograph, Gene Beery, offering an in-depth exploration into his lifes work. Despite his art historical significance and his contribution to reconsiderations of the picture plane, Beery remains largely unknown. The retrospective will allow the fluctuating periods of Beerys oeuvre to be in dialogue, for the first time in the same space. The works on view range from early anti-art paintings (1960-1963), figurative works (1965-1975), the artist-book series (1976-1985) and ... More Fontaine's Auction Gallery to offer statement pieces May 18PITTSFIELD, MASS.- As temperatures warm up and spring blooms pop out, the action is also heating up at Fontaines Auction Gallery. With spring being a perfect time for undertaking projects in and around the home, buyers can find plenty of decorating inspiration at Fontaines Auction Gallery at its sale on Saturday, May 18, at 11 am. Previews auction week will be Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, and Saturday, 8 am to 11 am. This auction will feature 350 lots of antiques and fine art, including American Victorian and figural carved furniture, 19th & 20th Century lighting by Tiffany Studios, Duffner & Kimberly, Handel, Gorham, Unique, J.A.Whaley, etc,; fine clocks and music boxes, paintings, Royal Vienna and KPM porcelains, gold and diamond jewelry, fine silver, art glass and cameo glass, bronze and marble statuary, Black Forest items and more. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Frederic Edwin Church was born May 04, 1826. Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also sometimes depicting dramatic natural phenomena that he saw during his travels to the Arctic and Central and South America. In this image: Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Winter Twilight from Olana, about 1871-2. Oil on paper, 25.6 x 33 cm© New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation / Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY (OL.1976.4)
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