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Koichiro Isezaki, Yo, 2020. Stoneware, 9.06h x 12.68w x 10.24d in.
CONCORD MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery presents Contemporary Bizen: Isezaki Jun and Isezaki Koichiro featuring the Living National Treasure of Bizen, Isezaki Jun, and his trailblazing son Isezaki Koichiro exhibiting together for the first time November 14 Â December 5, 2020. The town of Imbe in Bizen province has a ceramic history going back 1,000 years and is considered the site of one of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan. Today walking around the town, known for its Bizen pottery, it is not unusual to see smoke rising through the air, from one of the townÂs 300 or so wood-firing kilns. Traditional Bizen ware has a rustic quality and played a role in the development of the tea ceremony. It is made with a sticky, fine clay, dug from the rice paddies, which does not hold a glaze well. Much of the work is wheel thrown and relies on surface effects from falling ash, rice straw markings and the artful stacking of the wood burning kiln to block out or ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors look at bronze statues displayed at a government museum reopened after the government eased the lockdown restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Chennai on November 10, 2020. Arun SANKAR / AFP
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 | | A new museum to bring the Benin Bronzes home | | John Waters donates art to Baltimore Museum | | Thieves grab Nazi memorabilia in museum heists, puzzling police | 
Benin brass plaque (16th-17th century) showing Benin court officials flanking a palace entrance or altar. (2020 © Trustees of the British Museum).
by Alex Marshall
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1897, the British army violently raided Benin City in what is now Nigeria, seizing thousands of priceless artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes. Ever since, there have been hopes of bringing them back from Western museums. On Friday, hope got a little closer to reality with the release of the first images of the planned Edo Museum of West African Art, which will house some 300 items on loan from European museums if the money to build it can be raised. The three-story building, designed by David Adjaye, looks almost like a palace from the ancient Kingdom of Benin. Adjaye intends it to be completed in five years, he said in a telephone interview. On Friday, the architect, the British Museum and Nigerian authorities also announced a $4 million archaeology project to excavate the site of the planned museum and other parts of Benin City to uncover ancient remains, including parts of the city walls. The developments will be a boost to campaigners urging the return of artifacts taken ... More | | 
The filmmaker John Waters at his four-story Baltimore home, Oct. 29, 2020. Waters is donating artworks from his personal collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Andrew Mangum/The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The 1998 John Waters movie, Pecker, about a young photographer on the rise, lovingly skewers the art world, with one of the filmmakers longtime muses, Patricia Hearst, playing a pretentious photography collector. This week, it is Waters who is taking on the patron role in real life, announcing the bequest of 372 works by 125 artists, the bulk of his personal collection. The trove will go to the Baltimore Museum of Art, his hometown institution, after his death, although the works may be exhibited in 2022. The collection, stocked with photographs and works on paper, includes pieces by Thomas Demand, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Christian Marclay, Catherine Opie, Gary Simmons, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol and Christopher Wool. Its a classy lineup, not always what you expect from Waters, 74, given his carefully developed reputation as the Pope of Trash, a nickname earned most vividly for the scene ... More | | 
Wim Seelen, director of the Eyewitness Museum, at the museum in Beek, Netherlands, Nov. 10, 2020. Thieves stole $1.5 million worth of World War II memorabilia, Seelen said, including rare Nazi uniforms. Herman Wouters/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was 2 a.m. on a Tuesday when the raid began at the Eyewitness War Museum in the town of Beek, the Netherlands. First, a group of thieves teased open the museums front gate. You can see it on our cameras, said Wim Seelen, the museums director. But then, they disappeared. An hour later, the burglars returned in several estate cars. In a scene reminiscent of a heist movie, they spread out tires across the highway that runs past the museum to create a roadblock and parked a fake police car beside it, so it looked official. Over the next five minutes, the group maybe 12 people in total, Seelen said battered down the museums front door, broke display cabinets and took what theyd come for: nine mannequins wearing rare Nazi uniforms. The outfits included one worn by Hitlers personal chef and another by a high-ranking member of the SS. The robbers took other items of World War ... More |
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| | 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now' opens at the National Gallery of Australia | | Christie's Paris presents 'The Exceptional Sale & The Collector : Le Goût Français' | | Exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich focuses on Romanticism | 
Nora Heysen, Self-portrait, 1932. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Masterpieces for the Nation Fund 2011.
CANBERRA.- Over the next year, the National Gallery of Australia will celebrate the work of Australian women artists in its major, two-part exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, which opens to the public on Saturday, 14 November 2020. One of the biggest ever displays of art by Australian women, the exhibition delivered in two parts will showcase more than 400 works by around 170 artists over the course of a year, encouraging audiences to consider the history of Australian art in a new light and celebrate the role of women in the nations cultural life. Natasha Bullock, the National Gallery of Australias Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, said the exhibition was a very public demonstration of a deeper commitment throughout the institution. The Know My Name initiative was launched last year after research revealed only 25 per cent ... More | | 
Benitier en corail de Trapani. Estimate: 100,000 - 200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
PARIS.- Christie's presents its sales dedicated to classical and decorative arts through The Exceptional Sale and The Collector: Le Goût Français on November 24th. After the cartes blanches given to renowned gallery owners, collectors and artists, such as Hervé Van der Straeten, Elie Top or Kamel Mennour, Christie's has chosen the artist Louis Cane to bring a new perspective to these two iconic sales of the Classic Week. The Exceptional Sale features outstanding pieces with unique origins and stories. One of the highlights of this sale will be André- Charles Boulle's Louis XIV period "Aux Saisons" cabinet on legs (estimate 500.000-1.000.000). Dating from the 1670s, this extraordinary cabinet illustrates the genius of Louis XIV's cabinetmaker. Other known copies are kept at the J.-Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, the Wallace Collection in London and Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland. Decorated in chased bronze, this sumptuous ... More | | 
Léopold Robert, Brigands wife watching over her sleeping husband, 1821. Oil on canvas, 47 x 37 cm. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Sturzeneggersche Gemäldesammlung.
ZURICH.- From 13 November 2020 to 14 February 2021 the Kunsthaus is turning the spotlight on Romanticism, with an exhibition of over 160 works spanning the arc from Henry Fuseli to Alexandre Calame and the early Arnold Böcklin. It reveals the considerable contribution made by Swiss artists to the development of European landscape painting, follows them to academies abroad, and explores the close ties between them. The overview also extends to famous Romantics from other countries such as Caspar David Friedrich, Eugène Delacroix and J.M.W. Turner, thus adding an international perspective to the appreciation of Swiss Romanticism. In the late 18th century, Romanticism spread across Europe. Artists began creating works that focused on feelings and the fascination of the unfathomable, in contrast to the ... More |
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| | Christie's announces Monet / Richter private selling exhibition | | Aldo Tambellini, avant-garde filmmaker and video artist, dies at 90 | | Exhibition presents a selection of more than 60 prints from the Dutch Golden Age | 
Claude Monet, Les bords de la Seine près de vetheuil (detail). Oil on canvas. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Christies announced Monet / Richter, a virtual selling exhibition celebrating the talents of the two groundbreaking artists that is be presented both online from 28 October to 20 December, and in person with select highlights going on view in New York. The exhibition addresses the visual dialogue between the work of Claude Monet and Gerhard Richter with juxtaposed canvases that pose a fundamental challenge to the distinction between abstraction and representation. Alongside the works on view in-person, the full exhibition may be viewed in an immersive digital experience. David Kleiweg de Zwaan, Head of Private Sales, Impressionist and Modern Art, Americas, remarked: This is an exciting endeavor that strives to provide a discourse between the work of two pioneering artists, and we are grateful to the collecting community for contributing ... More | | 
The Seed 2, from the Black Seed of Cosmic Creation Series, 1961. Duco on paper, 25 7/8 x 26 in. © The Artist / Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai.
by J. Hoberman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Aldo Tambellini, a sculptor turned avant-garde filmmaker, pioneer video artist and veteran practitioner of multimedia installations, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 90. Anna Salamone, his partner and only immediate survivor, said he had died of complications following surgery at Spaulding Hospital. Tambellini was notable for his community-based sense of cultural production, particularly during his years as an artist-activist on Manhattans Lower East Side. He was even more famous for his career-long interest in the color (or noncolor) black. It is striking that one of the true pioneers of video has seemed to base his entire production on a ... More | | 
Rembrandt (Dutch, 1606 1669), Dr. Faustus, 1652, drypoint, etching, and engraving, Gift, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Goodman, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
HAGERSTOWN, MD.- Featuring a selection of more than 60 prints, including seven by the renowned master of the medium, Rembrandt van Rijn (16061669), The Dutch Golden Age: Prints by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries invites viewers into a world of extraordinary images created during the Baroque period in the Netherlands, when art made its way into the homes of the middle-class and saw a new diversity of subject matter and expression. Organized and toured by the Reading Public Museum from their collection, the exhibition travels to Hagerstown for this years holiday season. Sarah J. Hall, director of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts remarks, There are few periods in art history as rich in memorable imagery as Holland during the 1600s. These prints show ... More |
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| | Stonehenge road tunnel approved despite protests | | "Rubber Pencil Devil" by Alex Da Corte opens at Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai | | Christie's Latin American Art sale achieves $8.9M | 
In this file photo taken on April 26, 2020 a sign warns of a road closure on the route to the prehistoric monument at Stonehenge in southern England. Adrian DENNIS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Britain has approved a controversial plan to build a road tunnel close to the prehistoric site of Stonehenge to relieve congestion, despite strong opposition from archaeologists and druids. The 5,000-year-old ring of stones in Wiltshire in southwest England is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions, with 1.6 million visitors last year. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps on Thursday approved a plan to bore a tunnel to replace a busy road that passes within 165 metres of the stones, allowing drivers to see the site but making it a noisy experience for visitors. Tom Holland, the head of the Stonehenge Alliance which includes archaeologists and non-governmental organisations, condemned what he called a "shocking and shameful decision". The writer said the tunnel would "inject a great gash of concrete and tarmac into Britain's most precious prehistoric landscape". ... More | | 
Exhibition view of Rubber Pencil Devil by Alex Da Corte. Prada Rong Zhai, 13 November 2020 - 17 January 2021. Photo: Alessandro Wang. Courtesy Prada.
SHANGHAI.- Prada presents Rubber Pencil Devil, a site-specific intervention by American artist Alex Da Corte, with the support of Fondazione Prada. The project is on view from 13 November 2020 to 17 January 2021 in the premises of Prada Rong Zhai, a 1918 historical residence in Shanghai restored by Prada and reopened in October 2017. Conceived in 2018, Rubber Pencil Devil is a video work composed by 57 chapters and a prologue. In Rong Zhai the work is presented by the artist in a site-specific exhibition format featuring 51 of the 57 acts on 19 large rear-projection multi-colored video cubes displayed in the two main floors of the building, giving a new spatial configuration to the artwork according to the new venue. Rubber Pencil Devil is a looping, two-hour-40-minute stream of highly stylized videos inspired by a wide range of iconographical and cultural sources from vintage television imagery to 20th-century animation, fr ... More | | 
Anonymous (Peruvian, 18th century), Nuestra Señora de Cocharcas, oil on canvas, 57 ½ x 48 in. Price Realized: $325,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York live auction of Latin American Art totaled $8,988,750 with global participation from clients across 23 countries. The top lot of the sale was Fernando Botero, Card Players, which achieved $2,010,000, against a low estimate of $1,000,000. The sale realized strong results for Boteros sculptures and paintings, including Horse with Saddle, which achieved $600,000; Still Life with Pineapple, which sold for $425,000; and Naturaleza muerta con sopa caliente, which realized $400,000. Spanish colonial paintings from the 17th and 18th-century saw strong results with competitive global bidding. Some notable results from the selection include Anonymous (Mexican School, Late 17th Century), The Birth of Virgin, which sold for $325,000, more than three times its low estimate of $100,000; Anonymous (Peruvian, 18th century), Nuestra Señora de Cocharcas realized $325,000, more than eight times its low estimate of $40,0 ... More |
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 Hope for Bollywood stars' dilapidated homes in PakistanPESHAWAR (AFP).- Tucked away near the centuries-old Storytellers' Bazaar, the decaying Pakistani mansions once home to Bollywood superstars are being brought back to life as Peshawar emerges from years of Islamist militancy. The ancestral homes of Golden Age heroes Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar in the northwestern city are symbols of its link to the world's largest film industry, but have suffered from decades of neglect. The region's archaeology team says it is close to wresting the more than 100-year-old buildings, located in the heart of the historic walled city, from their private owners so they can be restored and turned into museums. "I always feel sad and angry while looking at Kapoor's house, that it once was a beautiful mansion of top quality," said Samiuddin Khan, who remembers running through the 40-room abandoned house as a child ... More Bronx Museum of the Arts announces new Executive Director BRONX, NY.- Joseph Mizzi, Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, announced today that the Board has unanimously appointed Klaudio Rodriguez to serve as the institutions Executive Director. Mr. Rodriguez joined the Bronx Museum in September 2017 as Deputy Director and has held the post of Interim Director since January 2020. Mr. Mizzi also announced that Shirley Solomon, the Museums Director of Government and Institutional Giving, has been promoted to Deputy Director. Mr. Mizzi said, From the time our late Executive Director Holly Block brought Klaudio Rodriguez to the Bronx Museum as her Deputy, his combination of leadership, expertise, and sensitivity has won the wholehearted confidence and loyalty of our staff, Trustees, and community of artists. Demonstrating skillful performance as our Interim Director, ... More New Dean for the Courtauld Institute of ArtLONDON.- The Courtauld Institute of Art has appointed Professor Alixe Bovey as its new Dean and Deputy Director. An internationally-renowned and research-led higher education institution, The Courtauld is home to the largest community of art historians and conservators in the UK, and is an independent college of the University of London. Founded by collectors and philanthropists in the 1930s, the organisation has been at the forefront of developing the field of art history ever since, through advanced research and conservation practice, innovative teaching, inspiring public exhibitions and events. Professor Bovey will be responsible for leading the teaching, learning, research and public engagement mission of The Courtauld. She will also support, and deputise for, Professor Deborah Swallow (the Märit Rausing Director of the ... More Sotheby's to offer rare opportunity to acquire the complete Black Bowmore whisky collection HONG KONG.- Twenty-seven years after its first release, Black Bowmore has become legendary within whisky circles, both as a hallmark of the distillerys house style and as a highly desirable collectors item. Next year, Sothebys in partnership with Bowmore will offer a rare opportunity to acquire the complete Black Bowmore single malt whisky collection direct from the Bowmore distillery. Five archive bottles of Black Bowmore, spanning 1993 to 2016, presented in a truly unique bespoke piece of furniture created by award-winning craftsman John Galvin, will be offered by Sothebys in Hong Kong in the spring of 2021. Estimated in the region of HK$4,000,000 (US$500,000 / £400,000), the Black Bowmore Archive Cabinet will form the centrepiece of an auction of Finest & Rarest Wines and Spirits. The winning bidder will be invited to the Bowmore ... More Sculpture by the Sea unveils a major artwork as a beacon of hopeSYDNEY.- Although Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi has been postponed this year, today the exhibition organisers unveiled as a beacon of hope for the future Green Life, a 10m tall sculpture by Prague based-Slovakian artist Milan Kuzica. Installed on the end of the south Bondi headland in Marks Park looking out across the ocean, the sculpture, which symbolises the birth of a new life, will greet visitors as they wander the Bondi coastal walk. The artist Milan Kuzica said: For all the calmness of the sculpture that represents the first shoots of a new plant, there is an urgency. In a world plagued by a viral pandemic we are reminded that our future is possible only if we live our lives in harmony with nature. I was inspired by John Lennon's song Imagine, his almost utopian notion of a harmonious world. Today, the threats of Lennon's time have largely ... More A famous Santa and Rudolph are heading to auctionNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- You know Dasher and DancerAnd Prancer and VixenComet and CupidAnd Donner and Blitzen,But do you recallthe most famous reindeer of all? Of course you do. Burl Ives sang that question decades ago in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the 1964 TV special. Now that very Rudolph and Santa are up for grabs. Two of the puppetlike figures from the childrens musical holiday feature, created by the team of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, will be on the auction block Friday at Profiles in History in Calabasas, California. Constructed of wood, felted wool, leather and lead armature, Santa Claus and Rudolph cost about $5,000 apiece to make in 1964. Now, sold as a lot, they are expected to realize between $150,000 and $250,000. Im very sentimental about them, said their owner, Peter Lutrario, ... More National Gallery of Canada Foundation announces new CEOOTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada Foundation announced the appointment of Barbara Stead-Coyle as the Foundations Chief Executive Officer. She will take the helm on November 16, 2020. Ms. Stead-Coyle brings fifteen years of executive experience in the non-profit healthcare sector and has held senior leadership roles in the areas of fundraising, strategic planning and management, strategic partnerships, and donor, board and government relations. Most recently, Ms. Stead-Coyle was CEO of Muscular Dystrophy Canada (MDC) where she led a national team in fund development, research development, program/service delivery and advocacy. She was responsible for transformational restructuring which resulted in increased mission spending, reduced costs, and streamlined operations nationwide. Her focus on building research ... More Heritage Auctions offers Norman Rockwell's original study for 1963 portrait of President John KennedyDALLAS, TX.- The first time John Kennedy sat for a Norman Rockwell portrait, he was a 43-year-old two-term senator from Massachusetts still seeking the highest office in the land. The illustrator had been asked by The Saturday Evening Post to paint both presidential candidates of 1960, Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and was dispatched to the Kennedy residence in Hyannis Port to get to know his subject. The result, Rockwell would later say, was a portrait of a man whose expression was "serious with a certain dignity, but relaxed and pleasant, not hard." The radiant painting, later reproduced innumerable times, first appeared on the Oct. 29, 1960, issue of The Post -- then, again, on Dec. 14, 1963, surrounded by a mournful black box. The second time Rockwell painted John Fitzgerald Kennedy was in the spring of 1963, as part of a series of Post ... More MOCA Toronto completes $25 million capital campaign with major contributionTORONTO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto announced that it has received the Museums most significant show of private sector support to date$5.7 millionfrom Castlepoint Auto BLDG Inc. (Castlepoint), MOCAs landlord. The extraordinary contribution completes the Museums $25 million Tomorrow of Contemporary Art (TOCA) capital campaign launched in 2017. This outstanding and timely support from Castlepoint is highly impactful when many cultural organizations, including MOCA, are engaged in urgent discussions about programming and operational sustainability due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic effects, said Board Chair Brad Keast. Castlepoints contribution towards the TOCA campaignto retire a capital loan for the construction of MOCAallows the Museum to fully ... More Jil Weinstock named Director of Baxter St at CCNYNEW YORK, NY.- Baxter St at CCNY announces the appointment of museum executive, arts educator, and artist Jil Weinstock as Director, effective November 19, 2020. As Director, Weinstock will oversee and expand Baxter St's mission-driven initiatives, public programs, and fundraising. She will play a continuous role in engaging Baxter Sts dynamic community of artists, educators, curators, and donors to bolster its culture and grow its audience through strategic partnerships. Weinstock comes to Baxter St with over 15 years of experience in executive museum administration and arts education, focusing on art, design, new media, and contemporary culture. She recently completed a seven-year tenure at the Children's Museum of the Arts, where she served as artistic director. Im honored to work with Baxter St and joyfully return ... More Lynn Kellogg, who found the spotlight in 'Hair,' dies at 77NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lynn Kellogg Simpers, a singer and actress who, as Lynn Kellogg, played Sheila, the uptight debutante who turns into a free-spirited hippie in the original 1968 Broadway production of Hair, died Thursday in St. Louis. She was 77. The cause was COVID-19, according to Timothy Philen, her publicist. Her husband, John Simpers, said she had been infected at a recent gathering in a large theater in Branson, Missouri. Most of the people there were not wearing masks, he said. Kellogg Simpers had had a non-life-threatening form of leukemia that compromised her vascular system, he added. She died in a hospital. Hair, the original counterculture musical created by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, ran for more than four years at the Biltmore Theater. It has always been an ensemble show, but Sheila is the closest ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Claude Monet was born November 14, 1840. Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). In this image: In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, gently dusts Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.
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