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In an undated image provided by Joseph Coscia Jr./The Frick Collection, Bellinis St. Francis in the Desert, left, and Giorgiones The Three Philosophers, right, on display at the Frick Madison in New York. The Frick, with these not-to-miss treasures by Bellini and Giorgione, manages to get at the origins of our art-watching obsession. (Joseph Coscia Jr./The Frick Collection via The New York Times)
by Blake Gopnik
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 20, 1964, on a hilltop in New Jersey, an unlikely little structure called the Holmdel Horn revealed telltale signs of the Big Bang, and the birth of the universe we live in. The Horn has been much in the news this fall, as it survived a threat of demolition. Right now, at the Frick Collections temporary home on Madison Avenue in New York, an unlikely two-painting show called Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini has been revealing telltale signs of the Big Bang of Western fine art, and the birth of the artistic universe we now live in. It should be in the news right through this season, as one of the most revelatory exhibitions to hit New York in years. One of the exhibitions paintings is the Fricks own St. Francis in the Desert, a treasure created by Venetian master Giovanni Bellini sometime around 1475. Francis was known for his communion with nature, and Bellini paints a landscape and a saint joined in one holy light. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The City of Melbourne unveiled a suite of public artworks and commissions celebrating the richness of Kulin culture at Melbourneâs newest community hub in the historic Queen Victoria Market precinct, narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services. In this image: Aquatic animals, Children's Library multipurpose room, vinyl flooring by Maree Clarke. Photo: Lucy Foster.
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| White Cube Hong Kong opens the first exhibition in Asia of the late artist Bram Bogart | | Christie's to auction guitars from the personal collection of music legend Mark Knopfler | | Dana Schutz is seriously funny. Tracey Emin is seriously honest. | 
Bram Bogart, Promenade, 2007. Mixed media, 137 x 110 cm | 53 15/16 x 43 5/16 in.
HONG KONG.- White Cube Hong Kong is presenting the first exhibition in Asia of the late Dutch-born Belgian artist Bram Bogart (19212012). Featuring works drawn from across an extensive career focused on expressive abstraction and the formal possibilities of painting, the selection of paintings pays particular attention to Bogarts unique exploration of paint as sensorial, sculptural matter. In his essay Sculptural Paintings, published in 1986, Bogart wrote that many terms have been used to describe my work: peinture relief, peinture mixed, peinture sculpture, peinture Baroque, peinture matière. More important to me than terminology, however, is the ever-returning problem of how to make good paintings. During his life, Bogart became known for his dense, object-like paintings which fused gesture with substance, sensual colour with minimal form. Eliding the mediums of painting and sculpture and rejecting the ass ... More | | 
Fender Mark Knopfler Signature Stratocaster Prototype. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
LONDON.- Breaking news for music aficionados, fans and collectors around the globe: Christies will auction guitars from the personal collection of music legend Mark Knopfler, the celebrated singer-songwriter, guitar hero and frontman of the iconic British band, Dire Straits, on 31 January 2024 in London. Presenting fans with more than 120 guitars and amps, the collection spans the 50-year career of one of the worlds most influential musicians and chronicles the diverse array of guitars Knopfler has used to write, record and perform an extensive catalogue of compositions for Dire Straits, as well as multiple successful solo albums and film soundtracks. Renowned for his distinct and virtuoso finger-picking style, Knopfler chose each instrument for its individual sound and tone, assembling a wide-ranging archive which includes iconic and world-famous names such as Fender, Gibson, Gretsch and Martin alongside custom-built models by ... More | | 
Dana Schutz, Talking Twin, 2023, in the show Jupiters Lottery, at David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea. (Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, via The New York Times)
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- At the risk of evoking unpleasant memories of high school English, can we please discuss the word allegory? It refers to a story or a painting that comes with a moral or a lesson, perhaps a social or political one. And, in an era when figurative art has returned to prominence, the New York galleries are filled with a profusion of both allegorical paintings and their very opposite which is to say, paintings that reject third-person narration in favor of first-person self-exposure. I caught two shows last week Dana Schutzs and Tracey Emins that represent the two extremes. Schutz, 47, is our leading painter of oil-on-canvas allegories. Her current show, Jupiters Lottery, her first at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea is a substantial and exciting affair that brings ... More |
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| 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists' begins national tour in regional Victoria | | Saving praise houses before their African lineage is forgotten | | Phillips' New Now Auction on 6 December to be led by Andy Warhol and Robert Colescott | 
Margaret Preston, Flapper, 1925, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency.
MORNINGTON.- The National Gallery of Australias newest touring exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists has begun a two-year tour of regional Australia. Know My Name tells a new story of Australian art with over 60 works by 56 First Nations and Australian women artists. The touring exhibition is part of Know My Name an ongoing series of gender equity initiatives by the National Gallery to increase representation of women artists who have often been omitted from published histories and public collections. The first presentation of this touring exhibition opens this Saturday 25 November at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC, just an hours drive from Naarm/Melbourne on Bunurong Country. Other venues scheduled to host the tour in 2024 include Horsham Regional Art Gallery, VIC, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, NSW, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD, and Rockhampton Museum of Art, QL ... More | | 
James Peter Smalls, a deacon, at the Mary Jenkins Praise House on St. Helena Island, S.C., in August 2023. Smalls pays the monthly bills. (Candace Dane Chambers/The New York Times)
by Patricia Leigh Brown
JOHNS ISLAND, SC.- The Rev. Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, a crooked roof and a storied history. The hall is a rare surviving example of a praise house humble one-room structures used as places of worship by enslaved people on coastal plantations throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. They have been providing spiritual sustenance for generations of African Americans ever since. There were no keys, so we just came right in, Colleton recalled of that day in 1989. It was in a state of barrenness. Ill be honest: I said to the Lord, Youve got to be kidding. Colleton and her church, Manna Life Center, on Johns Island, vowed to breathe new life into the hall. And on a hot and humid day last summer, rife with tiny no ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Portrait of a Lady (Natalie Sparber), 1984. Estimate: £150,000 - 200,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced highlights ahead of the London New Now auction on 6 December. Comprising 180 lots, this sale features a selection of 20th century works alongside cutting-edge contemporary pieces. Led by Andy Warhol and Robert Colescott, the auction includes other celebrated blue-chip artists such as Ed Ruscha, George Condo, Peter Halley, and Banksy. The strong contemporary and emerging art section of the sale includes Xie Lei, Alfie Caine, Salvo, Louise Giovanelli, Emma Webster, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Jenna Gribbon, among others. A number of works by German speaking artists feature in the sale, led by Günther Förg, with pieces by Martin Kippenberger and A.R. Penck also included. The auction catalogue is now online, and the preview opens in Phillips galleries at Berkeley Square from 30 November until the auction on 6 December. Charlotte Gibbs, Associate Specialist, Head of New Now, said, We are excited to present o ... More |
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| Experience the strange beauty and emotional power of Louise Bourgeois's art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales | | Original page featuring Tony Stark's first fight in his armor realizes record-smashing $336,000 at Heritage | | Public artworks unveiled at new Melbourne library narrm ngarrgu celebrate Kulin culture | 
Louise Bourgeois 'Arch of Hysteria' 1993, bronze, polished patina, 83.8 x 101.6 x 58.4 cm, Collection The Easton Foundation, New York © The Easton Foundation, photo: Christopher Burke
SYDNEY, AU.- From tomorrow, visitors to the Art Gallery of New South Wales will discover the fearless creativity of the famed FrenchAmerican artist Louise Bourgeois (19112010) in the major exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, exclusive to Sydney and part of the Sydney International Art Series 202324. Spanning two major exhibition spaces over two floors of our new North Building and including more than 120 works, this exhibition is the largest and most comprehensive display of Bourgeoiss work ever seen in the Asia-Pacific region, and one of the most extensive presentations ever dedicated to a woman artist in Australia. The exhibition is curated by the Art Gallery's head curator of international art Justin Paton and realised in close collaboration with The Easton Foundation, New York, ... More | | 
Don Heck Tales of Suspense #39 Iron Man Story Page 10 Original Art (Marvel, 1963). Sold on Nov 16, 2023 for: $336,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage's latest Comics & Comic Art event was one heck of an auction. Don Heck, to be more specific, the co-creator of Iron Man who set an auction record during the four-day event when his original artwork for Page 10 from Tales of Suspense No. 39 realized $336,000 a new auction record for the Silver Age artist whose work is now worth its weight in gold. That page, written by Stan Lee, was the first to feature Tony Stark doing battle as Iron Man, and after a prolonged tussle between bidders, it shattered the previous auction record for original Heck art set in September 2022, when Heritage sold Page 12 from Tales of Suspense No. 39 for $228,000. "We were all thrilled by the flurry of live bidding and the final record price for one of the greatest first-appearance pages that has ever come to market," says Heritage Executive Vice President Todd Hignite. The Nov. 16-19 event realized ... More | | 
Glass from the past, Objects made available for display courtesy of Heritage Victoria. Photo: Lucy Foster.
MELBOURNE.- The City of Melbourne today unveiled a suite of public artworks and commissions celebrating the richness of Kulin culture at Melbournes newest community hub in the historic Queen Victoria Market precinct, narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services. narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services is the first library to open in the City of Melbourne in nearly a decade offering a suite of family health and wellbeing services, and a collection of more than 30,000 new books. Now open to the public, narrm ngarrgu is the first space of its kind dedicated to sharing the wisdom and voice of the Kulin people, and was designed to be a place of value and significance for the local community. The Council collaborated with Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elders, artists and community members to reflect their knowledge and lore in the curation of the narrm ngarrgu art program. At the heart of the program is a series of cult ... More |
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| Neue Auctions announces 416-lot online fine estates & collections auction | | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sets a new record as his rookie Milwaukee Bucks jersey sells for $675,000 at Heritage | | Banksy, Tiffany and Belperron feature in Michaan's December Fine Sale | 
Vaporized metal pigments on paper by Larry Bell (American, b. 1939), titled Vapor Drawing (1979), signed and dated, 47 ½ inches by 38 ½ inches (est. $6,000-$8,000).
BEACHWOOD, OHIO .- Original artworks by Joseph B. OSickey (American, 1918-2013), Larry Bell (American, b. 1939) and Felix Ziem (French, 1821-1911) will headline Neue Auctions online-only Fine Estates & Collections auction planned for Saturday, December 2nd, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Any one of the sales 416 lots would make for wonderful holiday presents. The catalog for our December auction is filled with original art, bronzes, miniature paintings, European collections of antiques and antiquities, carpets and furniture, from fine local estates and collections, said Cynthia Maciejewski of Neue Auctions. Youre certain to find something for everyone on your holiday gift list and at an attractive price. The large oil on canvas painting by Joseph B. OSickey, titled Red Cloth, is signed lower right and housed in a frame measuring 51 ... More | | 
1970-71 Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) Game Worn Milwaukee Bucks Rookie Jersey Photo Matched to 1970 Playoffs & 1971 Regular Season & Playoffs Including NBA Finals Clincher, MEARS A10.
DALLAS, TX.- On February 7, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saw his NBA all-time scoring record fall to fellow Los Angeles Laker LeBron James. But just nine months later, the man called Cap by his teammates reached a brand-new milestone when a road Milwaukee Bucks jersey worn by Abdul-Jabbar during his first two historic seasons sold for $675,000 at Heritage. This road-green jersey is now the world's most valuable piece of Abdul-Jabbar memorabilia ever sold at auction. This record-setter is worthy of its new-found glory: Photo-matching revealed Abdul-Jabbar, then Lew Alcindor, wore this jersey during the 1969-70 season when he was named Rookie of the Year. It was also on his back when, just one season later, Abdul-Jabbar, the league's scoring leader, led the Bucks to an NBA title and was named the Most Valuable Player for the regular season and in the Finals. That jersey was ... More | | 
The furniture and decorative departments have several exciting pieces, the first of which is Tiffany Studios Bronze Lamp with Favrile Shade ($8/12,000).
ALAMEDA, CA .- Michaans Auctions Winter Fine Sale on Thursday, December 14th, features notable names leading the fine art, decorative, and jewelry departments. BANKSYs 2004 screen print Barcode headlines a sale featuring Tiffany Studios Bronze Lamp and Wisteria Table Screen, wristwatches by Omega and Hublot, and a brooch attributed to Suzanne Belperron. The Fine Art department leads the way with an exciting work, Barcode by British phenom Banksy ($40/60,000). Functioning both as a criticism of the illegal wildlife trade and as a subtle anti-consumerist metaphor, Barcode is one of the finer examples of the artists social critique and has regularly proven its value. This work is certified by the Pest Control Office and is signed by the artist. Also for sale is M.W. Skip Whitcombs Trail Into the Back Country ($2/4,000) a beautiful painting by the Colorado plein-air artist, and Verve ... More |
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 Contemporary and classic designs to make the perfect Christmas gift in Ewbank's £333,000 jewellery saleWOKING.- Classic and contemporary designs come together to provide the perfect inspiration for those looking for that special Christmas gift in the Jewellery & Watches auction at Ewbanks on December 6. The sale is expected to fetch up to £333,000, and stand-out lots begin with an Edwardian diamond drop pendant, featuring an old mine cut diamond weighing an estimated 3.72 carats. The large diamond is suspended from a rose cut diamond set bale with four old cut diamonds set beneath. The claw set tests as platinum, and the whole is suspended on a base metal and pearl chain. At 38cm long and in a fitted box, the estimate is £4,000-8,000. Renowned designer Kat Florence is known for her exquisite and high-end jewellery creations, making a name for herself in the world of luxury jewellery through her commitment to crafting ... More  Almine Rech opens an exhibition of works by Jean MiottePARIS.- Jean Miotte is one of the prominent figures of lyrical abstraction within the New School of Paris. Since the very beginning, he favored gestures and action to transpose an emotion testifying of his complex relationship with sensitive reality, a philosophical and spiritual experience in service of the symbolism of the image. His discourse is borne out of a semantics where he regards the sign as the I who paints: "I am painting" he declares. His approach tends to two extremes, on the one hand a writing at the height of thought and sensation, and jointly and exuberant spontaneity until the loss of oneself, in a Zen spirit. This vocation of the void was manifested especially from 1962 on, following regular stays in New York where he bonds with Rothko and Motherwell. Miotte gives praise to white that has become light, and which radiates ... More  'Manahatta,' Mary Kathryn Nagle's play about the Lenape, comes homeNEW YORK, NY.- Mary Kathryn Nagle moved to Manhattan in 2010. Back then, she would often run to work along a path that skirted the East River, absorbing the city and its history from the shoreline. I was interested in learning more about whose lands I was on, she said. Nagle, a lawyer and a playwright, grew up in Oklahoma, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She had not known much about the Lenape, Manhattans original residents, though Lenape tribes (some of whom refer to themselves as Delaware Indians) lived in Anadarko and Bartlesville, not far from her hometown. That year, through contacts at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, she discovered more, including details of the purchase of Manhattan, which was then part of the Lenapes homeland, Lenapehoking, by Dutch colonists. ... More  The strange $55 million saga of a Netflix series you'll never seeNEW YORK, NY.- Near the height of the streaming boom in 2018, a half-dozen studios and video platforms lined up to woo a little-known filmmaker named Carl Erik Rinsch. He had directed only one movie, 47 Ronin. It was a commercial and critical dud, and Rinschs tussles with its producers had raised eyebrows. But demand for new content was intense. Amid the feeding frenzy, the project that Rinsch was pitching a science-fiction series about artificial humans became a hot property. After a competitive auction, Rinsch and his representatives reached an informal eight-figure agreement with Amazon. But before they had a chance to put it in writing, Netflix swooped in. Cindy Holland, the companys vice president of original content at the time, dangled millions of dollars more, as well as something studios rarely gave directors: final cut. Netflix won the deal ... More  Charles Peters, neoliberal founder of The Washington Monthly, dies at 96NEW YORK, NY.- Charles Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly, a small political journal that challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies and for decades was avidly read in the White House, Congress and the citys newsrooms, died Thursday at his home in Washington. He was 96. His death was confirmed by The Washington Monthly, which reported that Peters had been in declining physical health for several years, mainly from congestive heart failure. Often called the godfather of neoliberalism, the core policy doctrine of the magazine, Peters was the Monthlys editor from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. He also wrote five books on politics, government and history, and a column, Tilting at Windmills, offering pithy thoughts on politics and current events, from 1977 to 2014. His work was not widely read, let ... More  A Martin D-28 gifted from Graham Nash to Judee Sill headlines Heritage's Dec. 8 Vintage Guitars AuctionDALLAS, TX.- The instrument is coveted even before adding the backstory a 1963 Martin D-28, the go-to acoustic guitar for Your Favorite Musicians Name Here since its introduction in 1931. But this D-28, offered in Heritages December 8 Vintage Guitars and Musical Instruments Signature ® Auction, has an extraordinary tale, too, that begins in 1963, when it was purchased by a 21-year-old whod just started his first band. That young man was Graham Nash. That band was The Hollies. That provenance alone makes this Martin D-28 storied and significant, as it remained with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer for close to a decade all through his tenure with the hit-making Hollies, which ended in December 1968 when he joined former Byrd David Crosby and ex-Buffalo Springfield member Stephen Stills to start Crosby, Stills ... More  Hermès Himalayan Kelly leads Heritage's Holiday Luxury Accessories AuctionDALLAS, TX.- This seasons gift-giving just got easier thanks to Heritages Dec. 7 Holiday Luxury Accessories Signature ® Auction. From hard-to-find handbags and spectacular jewelry to pieces for travel and home, theres something for everyone in this treasure-filled sale. Leading the auction is one of the most incredible and sought-after handbags ever created: an Hermès 28cm Matte White Himalayan Niloticus Crocodile Retourne Kelly. A masterwork of wearable art, the bag is fashioned from one of the scarcest materials on Earth the hide of the Niloticus crocodile. Inspired by the snow-capped Himalayas, the natural olive brown skin is painstakingly bleached and hand-dyed to create an ombre of smoky grays that fade into a luminescent white. Produced in extremely limited quantities, the Himalayan Kelly, which was first ... More  The Morgan Library & Museum announces Jennifer Kalter as new Director of Education and Public ProgramsNEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announced the appointment of Jennifer Kalter as Director of Education and Public Programs. Kalter will lead the activities of the department, which include organizing concerts, lectures, readings, films, tours, and family and school programs. With the Morgans Centennial approaching in 2024, Kalters arrival positions the institution for renewed community engagement during the Centennial and beyond. It is my pleasure to welcome Jennifer Kalter to the Morgan, said the Morgans Director, Colin B. Bailey. Our public programs and education initiatives are essential components of the Morgans engagement with the public in our mission to provide access to one of the ... More  Elizabeth Welch named Assistant Curator of American Art at Munson Museum of ArtUTICA, NY.- American art specialist Elizabeth Welch, Ph.D., has been named Assistant Curator of American Art at the Munson Museum of Art, Utica, New York. An established scholar of 19th and 20th-century American painting, sculpture, and works on paper, Welch brings a distinguished background in museum and teaching experience to Munsons renowned collection of American art from the 1780s to the early 1900s. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, Welch holds advanced degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Blanton Museum of Art. She later served as a research assistant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before moving into undergraduate teaching at Providence College in Rhode Island. Welch has worked on subjects as diverse ... More  Riopelle's centenary fuels remarkable sales at Heffel Fall AuctionTORONTO, CA.- Today in Toronto, at its semi-annual live auction, market leader Heffel Fine Art Auction House presented 94 exceptional artworks to a passionate global audience and shattered records across all areas of the market, underscoring the dynamism of the art market and a consistent demand for outstanding works of art. Jean Paul Riopelle stole the show as the world celebrates the 100th anniversary of his birth, alongside major works by Emily Carr, Paul-Ãmile Borduas and many others, totalling an incredible $23.5 million. The exciting event was held at Heffels state-of-the-art Yorkville auction room, which was seamlessly connected to remote bidders through the firms Digital Saleroom. (All prices are in Canadian dollars and include a buyer's premium.) Seven important works by Jean Paul Riopelle totalled a staggering ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, 'Max Klinger. The Drama of Man and Woman' opened November 25, 2011. OLDENBURG.- An employee of the Horst Janssen Museum in Oldenburg walks through the exhibition 'Max Klinger. The Drama of Man and Woman' and checks the art works helped by the catalogue of the special exhibition in Oldenburg, Germany. About 100 exhibits concerned with the relationship of man and woman were presented between 25 November 2011 and 19 February 2012 at the museum.
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