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A picture taken on October 7, 2020 shows letters written by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, at the exhibition "Je Liefhebbende Vincent" at the Vincent Van Gohg museum in Amsterdam. With the temporary exhibition, the Van Gogh Museum is showing letters from the painter, which rarely come into the open because of their vulnerability. Olaf KRAAK / ANP / AFP.
AMSTERDAM.- Vincent van Gogh was not only a talented artist, he was also an avid letter writer. His letters provide an intimate insight into his thoughts and feelings. Due to their fragility, the letters rarely go on public display. The exhibition 'Your loving Vincent': Van Gogh's Greatest Letters offers visitors the unique opportunity to view some 40 of Vincent van Goghs fascinating letters, displayed alongside famous works such as The Potato Eaters (1885), The Bedroom (1888) and The Sower (1888). Concurrently with the exhibition, the Van Gogh Museum is launching new episodes of the letters podcast (in Dutch), recorded by poet Ester Naomi Perquin, performer Huub van der Lubbe and author Abdelkader Benali. Dutch and English versions of a new anthology of Van Goghs 76 greatest letters have been published to mark the exhibition. Compilers ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view of Ha Chong-Hyun, October 06 - November 14, 2020. Almine Rech London. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
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| | Ren Renfa's 'Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback' soars to US$40 Million | | The Queensland Art Gallery │ Gallery of Modern Art announces transformative bequest | | Sotheby's announces 28 October date for Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art Evening sales |
Over 100 bids were received, pushing the final sale price to HK$306,551,000 / US$39,555,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Yesterday at Sothebys in Hong Kong, a 75-minute bidding battle broke out as collectors competed to acquire Ren Renfas Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback, a late 13th / early 14th scroll from the Yuan dynasty. Over 100 bids were received, pushing the final sale price to HK$306,551,000 / US$39,555,000, well beyond the pre-high estimate of HK$120,000,000 / US$15,484,000 a sum that establishes the scroll as the most valuable work sold at auction in Asia in 2020, and the most valuable Chinese ink painting sold by Sothebys Hong Kong. This historic moment stands as the longest bidding war in living memory. Rens masterpiece was already highly prized by the time of the Ming dynasty, encapsulated in the words of literarti painter Zhang Ning (1426-1496): Black, Yellow, Red, White, and Mottled Horses. Every horse is worth a thousand taels of gold. Nicolas Chow, Chairman, Sothebys Asia, I ... More | |
Yayoi Kusama, Flowers that bloom at midnight, 2011. Fibreglass-reinforced plastic, urethane paint, metal frame / 181 x 181 x 268cm. Purchased 2012 with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art © YAYOI KUSAMA.
BRISBANE.- The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art today announced receipt of a $35 million bequest, the largest single cash gift in the Gallerys 125 year history and one of the most generous bequests ever made to an Australian state gallery. Chair of the Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, Professor Emeritus Ian OConnor AC said the inspiring bequest made by the late Win Schubert AO (19372017), a Gold Coast-based philanthropist, gallerist and art lover, was extraordinarily generous and would support the acquisition of major Australian and international works for the Collection. Comparable to some of the countrys most generous cultural gifts, Mrs Schuberts $35 million gift establishes The ... More | |
Vincent Van Goghs Fleurs dans un verre, 1890. Estimate: $14/18 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that its marquee fall Evening Sales of Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art will be held in New York and livestreamed to the world on Wednesday, 28 October. The sales will be highlighted by Mark Rothkos Untitled (Black On Maroon) from 1958, estimated to achieve $25/35 million in the Contemporary Art Evening Sale, and Vincent Van Goghs Fleurs dans un verre from 1890, estimated to sell for $14/18 million in the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale. The October sales will be presented in the dynamic, innovative digital format pioneered during Sothebys marquee summer sales in June and July. The auctions will be broadcast globally from the New York salesroom to enable viewers to follow the bidding live, in high-definition through real-time video streams, while bidders will be able to place bids with Sothebys specialists in New York, Hong Kong and London ... More |
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| | Simon Denny presents a group of new works at K21 | | Shakespeare's rare 'First Folio' to be auctioned at Christie's 14 October in New York | | Now open: Jill Mulleady "Decline & Glory" at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels |
Simon Denny. Mine, Installation view at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21. Photo: Achim Kukulies.
DUSSELDORF.- [Surveillance Capitalism is] a new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales --Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, 2018. With his context and research-based work, Simon Denny investigates how profoundly our perception and experience of culture is changed by the transformation of technology and politics. He examines the organizational structures, rhetoric, and visual language of high-tech companies, as well as the people behind them. Thanks to this ongoing interest, it becomes possible to understand how the mood towards the high-tech world has changed in recent years. On the first floor of K21, the artist presents a group of new works developed for the MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in Hobart, Australia, which have never before been shown in Europe. ... More | |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published According to the True Originall Copies. London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623. Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the auction of William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, often referred to as the First Folio, as part of the Exceptional Sale during Classic Week at Christies New York on 14 October 2020 (estimate $4,000,000-6,000,000). The First Folio, bringing together for the first time the collected plays of Shakespeare, ranks as the greatest work of the English language and, indeed, of world literature. Already celebrated on its first publication, it has remained a highly sought-after masterpiece over four centuries. Only six complete copies are known in private hands. Shakespeares First Folio is being sold on behalf of Mills College in Oakland, California. The First Folio will be available for preview at Christies Rockefeller Galleries by appointment starting 10 October. The book was published in 1623 by Shakespeares friends ... More | |
Jill Mulleady, A Thought that Never Changes Remains a Stupid Lie, II, 2020. Oil on linen, 35 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. © Jill Mulleady. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting Decline & Glory, an exhibition of new paintings by Jill Mulleady, the artists first with the gallery. Activating the gallerys existing architecture, a Neoclassical-inspired late nineteenth-century Maison Bruxelloise, Mulleady stages a sequence of paintings en enfilade, with implied narratives threading between the works and the rooms of the installation. In one work, Gardens of the Blind, a chiaroscuro figure appears amidst the turbulent forces of a whirlwind and a burning landscape. The same figure is seen again in the yellow interior of 18 Rue Souveraine 1050, where she seems to have aged and is now illuminated by another fire a psychic recurrence, or unextinguished memory. Still lifes of flowers mark the inexorable passage of time, with the same bouquet observed in different moments of decay (A Thought that Never ... More |
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| | Broadway will remain closed at least through May | | MAXXI's collection is enriched with masterpieces by great masters with the exhibition senzamargine | | Black trustees join forces to make art museums more diverse |
Charlotte St. Martin, the president of the Broadway League, speaks during a press conference in support of the beleaguered industry, in Times Square in Manhattan, on Sept. 18, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Broadway is going to remain closed at least through May 30, which is 444 days after all 41 theaters went dark as part of New Yorks effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. On Friday, the Broadway League, a trade organization representing producers and theater owners, announced that it was suspending all ticket sales through that date. But when will Broadway actually reopen? Thats the question of the hour and the day and the month and the year, because we truly dont know, Charlotte St. Martin, the Leagues president, said Friday. Certainly a lot of shows are making their plans, and some think we will open in the summer, and I hope they are right. But I think peoples bets are the ... More | |
Luciano Fabro, Italia allasta, 1994. Ferro verniciato, 355 x 70 x 10 cm. Photo: Cecilia Fiorenza.
ROME.- Carla Accardi, Luciano Fabro, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Luigi Ghirri, Paolo Icaro, Jannis Kounellis, Anna Maria Maiolino, Claudio Parmiggiani, Mario Schifano. These nine essential masters of contemporary Italian art, still a point of reference for younger generations, are the protagonists of the homage exhibition senzamargine. Passages in Italian Art at the Turn of the Millennium, a MAXXI Arte project curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, at MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts from 2 October 2020 to 10 October 2021. The works of these nine masters, which are not yet present in the Collection, will become part of it thanks to special funding from MiBACT on the occasion of the museum's 10th anniversary and through this exhibition. In the year of MAXXI's 10th anniversary, the national public collection, a collective patrimony, is still the protagonist. Moreover, senzamargine is the culmination of a broader proje ... More | |
Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation and who would later become the first Black trustee at the National Gallery in 2019, in New York, April 13, 2017. Tokenism is no longer acceptable, said Walker. Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For years, Black trustees at the countrys art museums have been talking to each other. They share their frustrations at being the only Black faces in board meetings. They exchange ideas about how to help recruit more Black directors, to collect more Black artists, to cultivate more Black curators. Now, in an effort to formalize those conversations and facilitate meaningful change amid the Black Lives Matter movement, several of those trustees have banded together to form the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums. This is a different moment, said Pamela J. Joyner, a member of the alliances steering committee who is a trustee at the Getty Trust, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco ... More |
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| | PART Palazzi dell'Arte: The new contemporary art museum in Rimini is now open to the public | | New book: The Goldfinger Files by Steffen Appel and Peter Wälty | | Artist Frank Bowling awarded Knighthood in Queen's Birthday Honours |
The collection is already a rich contemporary collection that brings together many fine artists.
RIMINI.- PART is now open in Rimini. The new museum site combines in a single project the redevelopment for cultural purposes of two historic buildings in the heart of the city and the permanent placement of the eclectic collection of contemporary artworks donated to the San Patrignano Foundation by artists, collectors and gallery owners. The new museum site is located inside the medieval monumental complex consisting of the 13th century Palazzo dell'Arengo and the 14th century Palazzo del Podestà , the two imposing adjoining buildings of great historical and architectural importance that together with Palazzo Garampi, Teatro Galli and the Pescheria overlook Piazza Cavour, the heart of the city. The San Patrignano Foundation Collection, a collection of works donated by established contemporary artists on the Italian and international scene, finds its home in this evocative context, which is in constant expansion with the ... More | |
Connery sandwiched: left Phillys Cornell, right Miriam Charrière.
NEW YORK, NY.- As one of popular cultures most charming and enduring characters, James Bond needs no introduction. Neither does Goldfinger (1964), perhaps the classic Bond film and undoubtedly the beginning of 1960s Bondmania. Incorporating much unpublished material including photographs and the original typed screenplay, The Goldfinger Files is an illustrated history of the films iconic scenes shot in Switzerlands Urseren Valley, crowned by the car chase with Bonds gadget-laden Aston Martin. To maximize publicity for the film, its makers took the unorthodox step of inviting journalists and photographers onto the set, resulting in a wealth of photos including those by Hans Gerber, Josef Ritler and Erich Kocian. These give us an insiders view of the famous sequenceGoldfingers Rolls-Royce on the dusty mountain road, Tilly Mastersons failed assassination attempt on him, the chase between her Mustang and Bonds ... More | |
Frank Bowling in his South London studio, 2020, photo by Sacha Bowling, courtesy the artist.
LONDON.- Artist Frank Bowling OBE RA has been given the honour of Knight Bachelor conferred upon him in the Birthday 2020 Honours List by Her Majesty The Queen. The Birthday Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. During his six-decades long career, Bowlings relentless pursuit of excellence in painting underpins a lifetime of service to British art. At age 86, he still is an active painter with an irrepressible work ethic, working in his studio almost every day. Sir Frank says: Ive set out on a quest to explore the possibilities of paint, and I find myself making something new every time. I have an insatiable determination to experiment with colour, form and process, to create new and original artworks that push the boundaries of the medium, while being intellectually grounded in post-war abstraction. The things that paint can achieve are so ... More |
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Jacob Lawrence: An Intimate Portrait, 1993 | From the Vaults
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Frist Art Museum opens major survey of works by Rina Banerjee
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World, the first major survey of the artists work in the United States, which includes large-scale installations, sculptures, and paintings produced over two decades. Together, the thirty-three works in the exhibition show Banerjees ongoing desire to summarize the complexity, beauty, and sense of disequilibrium that can arise in a world undergoing constant fragmentation and renewal. Co-organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the San José Museum of Art, the exhibition is on view in the Frists Ingram Gallery from October 9, 2020, through January 10, 2021. Born in Kolkata, India, in 1963, Banerjee now works in the US. She is renowned for works about the splintering of identity, tradition, and culture often prevalent in diasporic communities. ... More
Exhibition brings together eleven artists' projects that respond to a world turned upside down
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Mending the Sky, the museums first major exhibition following New Orleans months-long shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On view October 9, 2020 through January 31, 2021, the exhibition brings together eleven artists projects that respond to a world turned upside down. Working across the fields of art, animation, and performance, the artists work to shift conversations, challenge entrenched views, and subvert the established order. Inspired by one of the works in the exhibition, Mending the Sky takes its title from a Chinese fable in which a rip in the sky causes the earth to split open, bringing floods, fires, famine, and diseaseuntil a goddess comes to take on the arduous task of mending the broken sky. Each of the artworks in the exhibition help give shape to the aftermath ... More
A writer-director-star breaks through. It only took a lifetime.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a recent September morning, Radha Blank sat on a paint-blistered bench just above Riverbank State Park, soaking up the late-summer sun. Trucks thundered by on the highway below. Wasps circled a garbage can. Blanks surgical mask tangled with her hoop earrings, but nothing could kill her mood. She cooed at a small dog in a zebra-striped jacket. The dog paused and released a stream of urine. He just blessed us, she said. Blank had last visited this Hamilton Heights block about a year ago, on the first day of filming for the The Forty-Year-Old Version, which premiered on Netflix on Friday. Blank wrote the movie. She also directed it. She stars, too, playing a character named Radha, a struggling New York playwright who passed her next-big-thing sell-by-date a decade ago. But the movie argues ... More
Limited edition Daum bronze and collection of Art Deco and art glass capture spotlight at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions' Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass Auction Oct. 22 is expected to build on the momentum of its highly successful June event, and will serve as an ideal springboard to two online auctions the following day: Heritage's Automobilia, Transport History and Mechanical Models Online Auction and its Erté Art & Design Online Auction, both to be held Oct. 23. The auction includes an important selection of more than 100 lots from the property from Valerio Antiques, the storied dealer in high-quality and visually stimulating Art Deco art and objects. After more than 40 years, Antonio Valerio is retiring and passing the business to Martell Gallery. "I always admired the impressive Art Deco sculpture, and eye-popping art glass from Le Verre Francais that was a signature of Valerio," Heritage Auctions Senior Vice President of Special ... More
Christie's announces highlights included in the Prints and Multiples Fall sales
NEW YORK, NY.- This Fall, Christies Prints and Multiples department in New York will offer a series of four live and online sales throughout October. The annual fall live sale of Prints and Multiples (20-21 October) will be held in three sessions, including 200 lots that span the 19th century to the present day. The sale comprises works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Edvard Munch, as well as prints by Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, and Roy Lichtenstein. Highlights of the sale include an exceptional collection of linocuts by Pablo Picasso from the Nick and Raquel Newman Collection. During this month the department will also feature a series of online auctions beginning with Robert Motherwell Prints from the Dedalus Foundation (22 September 8 October), a dedicated online-only sale of prints by Motherwell. Following this auction will be two ... More
Exhibition featuring the Venezuelan artist Sol Calero opens at Copenhagen Contemporary
COPENHAGEN.- If we travel for a longer period of time, we become acutely aware of our place of origin and aspects of our own particular culture. In the encounter with strangers, we are confronted, as is our home country, with the perception of strangers and the paraphrases, generalisations, and misunderstandings that may arise when a particular culture and its narratives are interpreted by outsiders. This is the kind of journey that the Venezuelan artist Sol Calero invites us to take when her brilliantly coloured Caribbean universe entitled El barco de barro (The Clay Ship) unfolds at full throttle in Copenhagen Contemporarys halls. Here, Calero creates a living community with pavilions, plastic chairs, and organically shaped furniture emblematic of a perception of Latin America. The exhibition is structured as a large clay workshop where questions ... More
Success for Martin Cohen's Final Chapter at Bonhams New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The Martin Cohen Collection: The Final Chapter, featuring important interior and design pieces from the collection of the renowned dealer, collector and design connoisseur, Martin Cohen, achieved an impressive $3,034,492 at Bonhams New York (October 6-7) with 81% sold by value and 67% sold by lot. Highlights of the sale included items created especially for the former Fifth Avenue mansion of New York pharmaceutical magnate, George Kemp including early pieces designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany (son of Charles L. Tiffany, founder of the eponymous jewellery and silver firm, Tiffany & Co.). The top lot was an Important Armchair, circa 1879, by LOUIS C. TIFFANY (1848-1930) FOR L.C. TIFFANY & CO., which sold for $237,575. An Important sofa designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany for ASSOCIATED ARTISTS, circa ... More
Exhibition provides an overview of ongoing research processes and analyses at the BarabásiLab
BUDAPEST.- It is the undisguised aim of contemporary art museums to engage the present. This is true not only in regard to their fundamental task of collecting works, but also in terms of their functionality. Collecting and exhibiting institutions must provide opportunities that are in line with todays expectations for the presentation of art, and for other kinds of experiences and services that art museums have begun to offer. New strategies are constantly being developed to engage visitors with the latest mediation techniques and by using the language and terminology of the current moment. The Ludwig Museum in Budapest is no exception. The museum's intent is to be an authentically pluralistic institution, by providing a framework for both the artwork and its perception. And, like other contemporary art spaces, the museum takes current artistic practice ... More
M - Museum Leuven opens an exhibition of works by Ericka Beckman
LEUVEN.- The American artist Ericka Beckman (1951) makes films not video art, but real films, mostly recorded on celluloid. These films are quite unique experimental works marked by social criticism, and they derive their visual language from popular culture, cartoons, musicals and sports events on television. If action in films is commonly driven by narrative and emotions, films by Beckman operate differently: she structures her work based on rules of play. The actors in her films normally do not talk, but language still features prominently: rhythmically and repetitively sung verses offer viewers of her films a sense of their content. The origin of 'Reach Capacity is The Landlords Game, a board game conceived in the early 20th century by Lizzie Magie. The aim of this game was to demonstrate how different economic systems operate, including ... More
Sarajevo's Olympic Museum reopened 25 years after war
SARAJEVO (AFP).- Almost three decades after being destroyed in a bombing campaign during the war in Bosnia, a museum that honours the memory of the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games has been rebuilt and reopened. The jewel of local architecture, built as a luxury villa in the early 20th century, was among the first city symbols to be demolished by Serb forces during the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995. The Winter Olympics were organised a few years before the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia, a conflict that claimed some 100,000 lives in Bosnia and 11,000 in Sarajevo itself. The reopening ceremony was attended Thursday by Prince Albert II of Monaco and hosted by Sarajevo Mayor Abdulah Skaka, who pledged to continue patching up the city's architecture that still shows war scars, a quarter of a century since the clashes. "Our intention ... More
Hong Kong performers long for the stage as pandemic drags on
HONG KONG (AFP).- Hong Kong's performing arts community has been brutally hit by the coronavirus pandemic, which has left theatres empty and stage lights cold -- and there is little hope on the horizon even as entertainment venues begin to reopen. The same pain felt by performers in Broadway and the West End is being experienced by artists in Asia, even while governments there have had greater success at tackling the coronavirus. The region has had a much better track record of keeping down infections, but the often drastic social-distancing measures used to combat the virus have kept entertainment venues shuttered. In her cramped Hong Kong apartment that has served as a studio, stage and gym for the past six months, ballerina Irene Lo fastens her pointe shoes and effortlessly lifts one leg into a full split. "We're all missing the ... More
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Bruce Nauman
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau was born October 10, 1684. Jean-Antoine Watteau (baptised October 10, 1684 - died July 18, 1721), better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. In this image: Exhibition view "Watteau. The Draughtsman". Photo: Städel Museum.
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