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Emmanuel Kasarherou, president of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, at the museum, June 2, 2020. More than a century after French colonial troops ransacked a West African royal palace and took its treasures, President Emmanuel Macron of France on Wednesday began the formal transfer of 26 of those artifacts to Benin in the first large-scale act of restitution to Africa by a former European colonial power. Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times.
PARIS.- More than a century after French colonial troops ransacked a West African royal palace and took its treasures, President Emmanuel Macron of France on Wednesday began the formal transfer of 26 of those artifacts to Benin in the first large-scale act of restitution to Africa by a former European colonial power. Macron spoke at a ceremony at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, where the objects are on display for the last time, through Sunday. The president will complete the transfer in a signing ceremony with President Patrice Talon of Benin at the Ãlysée Palace, after which the treasures will permanently leave France. The restitution of the objects is a tangible and powerfully symbolic result of a confluence of events in Europe: a belated reckoning with its colonial past, fueled by a contemporary questioning of sexism, racism and other social inequalities. That reexamination has been particularly fraught in France, which maintained strong ties to its former colonies in Africa decades after ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On view at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum from Oct. 22 to March 6, 2022, New Glass Now features a range of objects, installations, videos and performances by 50 artists working in more than 23 countries.
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| Mexico asks France to cancel pre-Columbian art sales | | Christie's to offer Beeple's first-ever dynamic physical artwork + video NFT | | Lakeside Collection entrusted to the care of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen |
Representation Vase of the "Jaguar Nenuphar". Maya culture, Chocholà style, northwest of Yucatán. Recent classic, 600-900 AD. J.-C. Estimate: 7,000 - 8,000.
PARIS.- The Mexican embassy in Paris on Thursday asked France to cancel two planned auctions of pre-Columbian art, saying valuable Mexican heritage could be sold illegally. The request concerns next month's auctions of "Antiquities, Islamic and Pre-Columbian Art" by the Artcurial auction house, and "Pre-Columbian Art & Taino Masterworks from the Fiore Arts Collection", by Christie's. The Artcurial auction comprises more than 40 pieces from the Mixteca, Aztec, Tlatilco and Colima cultures, each valued at between 200 and 10,000 euros ($235-$11,700). Christie's sale catalogue includes pieces over 1,000 years old, including an Olmec pendant estimated at a minimum of 150,000 euros. In a statement, the embassy said it had already told the French foreign ministry last week that it was concerned by the trade in its "national heritage on the occasion of these sales". Private buying and selling "deprives these priceless objects of their cultural, historical and symbolic essence", it said. ... More | |
Beeple, (B. 1981), HUMAN ONE. Kinetic video sculpturefour video screens (16k resolution), polished aluminum metal, mahogany wood frame, dual media servers; endless video with corresponding dynamic non-fungible token, 87 x 48 x 48 in. Executed in 2021. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beeple is back at Christies, materializing in the form of the unprecedented HUMAN ONE, the artists first ever physical work of art. Groundbreaking, life-size, and spellbindingly illuminated in three dimensions, Beeples first blockchain-driven video sculpture, accompanied by an NFT representing the underlying digital assets, invites collectors to join the artist on a life-long journey never-before launched in digital art. HUMAN ONE will make its debut at Christies Rockefeller Center galleries the morning of October 30, one week prior to heading to Christies highly anticipated 21st Century Art Evening Sale, taking place in New York Tuesday, November 9. Beeples instantly iconic sculpture is a hybrid physical and digital object, propelled by the theme of continuous exploration. Both the object and its NFT display dynamically ... More | |
Ali Keles, Founding Managing Partner van Lakeside Capital Partners, oprichter Lakeside Collection in depot-compartiment Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. Photo: Tomá LibertÃny.
ROTTERDAM.- The corporate collection of Lakeside Capital Partners, also known as the Lakeside Collection, will occupy a dedicated space at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The Lakeside Collection is thus at the forefront of private collections being entrusted to the Rotterdam depot, which will receive the same care and attention as the museum collection. Ali Keles, Founding Managing Partner of Lakeside Capital Partners and the collections founder, signed a long-running agreement with Boijmans director Sjarel Ex for the housing of the Lakeside Collection earlier this month. It now occupies its own compartment in the depot, with an exhibition space, an artist-in-residence studio, a storage space and boardroom, a floor area of 173 square metres in all. Ali Keles, Founding Managing Partner of Lakeside Capital Partners: "The Lakeside Collection is proud of and grateful for this collaboration. Depot Boijmans Van ... More |
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| Christie's to offer El Greco early masterpiece restituted to the heirs to the Julius & Camilla Priester Collection | | Bidding wars over works by Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier at Freeman's sale | | Hindman Auctions announces highlights included in the Western and Contemporary Native American Art Auction |
Doménikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (Crete 15411614 Toledo), Portrait of a Gentleman. Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- An early masterpiece by El Greco leads a group of three exceptional Old Master paintings restituted to the heirs to the Julius & Camilla Priester Collection which will be offered for sale in Christies Old Masters Evening Sale on 7 December, as highlights of Classic Week in London. One of the earliest surviving portraits by the artist and one of the last to remain in private hands, El Grecos Portrait of a Gentleman, 1570, is charged with an uncompromising intensity that would define the artists revolutionary idiom, securing his reputation as one of the great visionaries of western art (estimate: £800,000-1,200,000). It will be offered alongside an extremely rare, trompe loeil church interior by Emmanuel de Witte (estimate: £500,000-800,000) and a powerful portrait by the Master of Frankfurt (estimate: £40,000- 60,000). These works highlight the ... More | |
A sapphire, diamond, and fourteen karat white gold ring exceeded its pre-sale high estimate by nearly eight times to achieve $119,700 (Lot 53; estimate: $10,000-15,000).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The result of Freemans October 28 Fine Jewelry and Luxury Accessories auction exceeded its pre-sale estimate by 10%, delivering exciting opportunities for collectors of well-known houses and makers, particularly Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier. Exceptional colored stones ruled the sale today, followed closely by impressive diamond lots, said Kate Della Monica, Head of Sale. As always, name-brand items performed beautifully, but theres also something to be said for hidden gems made of excellent components. Quality always speaks for itself, regardless of whether or not the piece is signed. Competitive bidding wars for statement rings and pendants pushed sale prices well above their estimates; leading Thursdays sale was a sapphire, diamond, and fourteen karat ... More | |
Mountain Caribou (detail). Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius. Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000.
DENVER, CO.- On November 4, Hindman Auctions will present a Western Art including Contemporary Native American Art auction in its Denver saleroom. The sale will feature nearly 300 lots of historic and contemporary Western and wildlife paintings and bronzes, and includes an outstanding offering of contemporary Native American art, pottery and jewelry. Among the highlights for the auction is property from the Palm Springs Art Museum being sold to support the care of collections and the George Montgomery fund for acquisitions, as well as property from the Homer E. Noble Collection, Denver, Colorado, and various other consignors from across the country. Among the significant offerings in the Western Art session are works by important blue-chip artists such as Carl Rungius, Thomas Moran, Joseph Henry Sharp, Charlie Russell, Frederic Remington, Philip Goodwin, Thomas Hill and Edmu ... More |
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| Outstanding works from Bergamo offered at Dorotheum's Old Master Paintings sale | | Kandis Williams envisions dancing bodies without borders | | Christie's to offer the Collection of Victoria, Lady de Rothschild |
Giovanni Battista Moroni (Albino 1520/4 1579/80) Portrait of a man with a red beard, oil on canvas, 60.5 x 52 cm, estimate 300,000 - 400,000.
VIENNA.- The Northern Italian city of Bergamo was exceptional for the vitality and wealth of its artistic tradition which rivalled many of the better-known Italian provinces. Two particular paintings, included in the Dorotheum Old Master Paintings sale on the 10th November 2021, reflect the quality and artistic scope of the work produced there: The portrait of a man with a red beard by Giovanni Battista Moroni, and a Still life of musical instruments by Evaristos Baschenis. The importance of the city of Bergamo, and its influence within the development of Italian art, burgeoned from the sixteenth century. Situated at the foot of the Alps, between the great cities of Milan and Venice, Bergamo was ideally placed to absorb the artistic developments taking place in Lombardy and the Veneto. It was the last outpost of the Republic of Venice on the mainland and communication and the ... More | |
The artist Kandis Williams, left, with Ebony Haynes, director of 52 Walker, a new gallery in New Yorks TriBeCa neighborhood, at the gallery, Oct. 28, 2021. Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter and Siobhan Burke
NEW YORK, NY.- Dance is both the central theme and a lens to inspect contemporary culture in Kandis Williams: A Line, the debut New York solo exhibition of the multimedia artist and the inaugural presentation of 52 Walker, the new space that the David Zwirner gallery has opened in Tribeca. Large-scale collages on grid-lined paper mingle archival photographs of dancers and choreographers some recognizable to aficionados, such as Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine and Martha Graham with photographs Williams made in her studio. There, she worked with three Black dancers versed in ballet and modern dance, exploring how they have learned within but also resisted the enduring racial and gender conventions of their training. Some ... More | |
A Henry Moore screenprint in the Living Room. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- A celebration of the taste and style of a champion of art and design, Christies will offer The Collection of Victoria, Lady de Rothschild in an online sale that opens for bidding on 18 November and closes on 9 December. Presenting a fresh and dynamic aesthetic that reflects Victorias discerning eye, the sale comprises over 200 lots, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring important modern design by André Sornay and notable works by contemporary designers Yoichi Ohira, Johnny Swing, Ingrid Donat and Mattia Bonetti, alongside works of art by Dora Maar, Henry Moore and Irving Penn, as well as a curated collection of over twenty contemporary Japanese bamboo baskets by Tanioka Shigeo and Minoura Chikuhō, amongst others. The sale is led by Johnny Swings One Cent Couch, a custom commission for Victoria for her personal collection and an impressive example of the important series by the designer ... More |
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| After time of 'real terror,' city's resilience is symbolized in statue | | Bertoia's Nov. 18-19 auction features magnificent European and American antique toys and holiday antiques | | Filipino artist Kidlat Tahimik presents a new installation at Palacio de Cristal |
The Winged Victory statue in Brescia, Italy, Oct. 27, 2021. Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
BRESCIA.- Wearing a toga, the woman points out the top attractions of one of Italys more underrated cities: Look! Heres the ancient Capitoline Temple. Over here you have the Renaissance-era piazza. And you simply must check out the side-by-side old and new cathedrals. Then the tour guide performs a neat trick that would make Ovid proud: She metamorphoses into a winged statue, while a young girl looking on mouths: Wow. The commercial, seen on national TV, encourages Italians to take in the sights of Brescia, an industrious northern city midway between Milan and Verona that is bypassed by most international visitors and whose considerable charms most Italians need reminding of, too. The city is known for an ancient Roman sculpture that for nearly 200 years has been a symbol of Brescias resilience in times of trouble. And the artworks return to public viewing, after a lengthy restoration ... More | |
Gunthermann Clown Musician, German, 10in high, plinking sound emits from base when clown plays instrument. Exc./pristine condition. Estimate $2,000-$3,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- On November 18-19, family-owned Bertoia Auctions will conclude a record-setting year with the 2021 edition of every toy collectors favorite event: their Annual Fall Sale. Always a beautiful presentation, the Fall Sale is reserved for genuinely exceptional toys and holiday antiques sourced from many high-quality collections. In the past, the Fall Sale has been described by the media as a rare opportunity to purchase from the top shelves of dozens of high-end collectors. The selection includes more than 200 European tin toys, 50 Lehmann and Martin windup toys, American tin and clockwork toys, 75+ Schoenhuts and roly polys; figural cast-iron including banks; cast-iron automotive and horse-drawn toys; and pressed-steel trains. Also, the auction boasts a formidable lineup of pressed-steel trucks from the collection of the late Buddy George. A special highlight of the November ... More | |
Kidlat Tahimik at his show: Magellan, Marilyn, Mickey & Fr. Dámaso. 500 Years of Conquistador RockStars at Palacio de Cristal. October, 2021. Photographic archive of Museo Reina Sofia.
MADRID.- Kidlat Tahimik presents Magellan, Marilyn, Mickey & Fr. Dámaso. 500 Years of Conquistador RockStars at Palacio de Cristal, a site-specific project that analyses the buildings past, the history of colonialism in the Philippines and the influence of cultural imperialism nowadays. Born in the Philippine city of Baguio, Eric Oteyza de Guia (1942) changed his birth name to Kidlat Tahimik, which means silent lightning in Tagalog, the native language from the center and south of the island of Luzon. He has worked as a filmmaker, performer, writer and actor, creating contemporary myths and fables that critique colonialism, capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism. Tahimiks artistic practice comprises large-scale, seemingly chaotic installations, which articulate anachronistic relationships in narrative fashion, building stories by drinking from a variety of sources and contemporary mythologies and bri ... More |
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Renoirâs Jeune fille and the Triumph of Impressionism
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Major exhibition explores the lives and art of pioneering sisters from New London at Lyman Allyn Art Museum
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announced the opening of a major new exhibition on Saturday, Oct. 30, which presents the story and art of May Way (17691833) and Elizabeth (Way) Champlain (17711825), two sisters and artists from New London, Connecticut. The sisters were among the earliest professional women artists working in the United States. The Way Sisters: Miniaturists of the Early Republic will be on view through Jan. 23, 2022. This is the first museum exhibition to focus on the Way sisters, and it includes objects that have never been publicly exhibited, said Dr. Tanya Pohrt, the exhibitions curator. These two women made important and lasting contributions to the art and history of Connecticut and a young nation. Their ... More
Crescent City Auction Gallery to offer items from the estate of the Sarkis Kaltakdjian
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A pair of antique Chinese watercolors on silk depicting The Ten Courts of Hell, a rare pair of Imperial cloisonné and enamel lingzhi fungus jardinieres, and items from the estate of the Sarkis Kaltakdjian, the former prominent rug dealer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will be part of Crescent City Auction Gallerys Important Estates Auction slated for Nov. 12-14. Sarkis Kaltakdjian was a native of Damascus, Syria who studied interior design in Paris and eventually moved to Baton Rouge, La. It was there where he and his wife, Nora Keshishian, established Sarkis Oriental Rugs in 1976, which ran until 2015. Equipped with a unique taste and style, he collected an eclectic array of decorative art, paintings, and antiques throughout his life and travels. These very items are in the auction and present a unique opportunity for collectors. Mr. Kaltakdjians nearly three-acre ... More
SUNNY NY presents new paintings, a site-specific wall painting and several works on paper by Trudy Benson
NEW YORK, NY.- SUNNY NY is presenting WAVES, a two-venue solo exhibition by Trudy Benson, held concurrently at SUNNY NY and Miles McEnery Gallery. On view at SUNNY NY are new paintings, along with a site-specific wall painting and several works on paper. Floating, sinking, weaving, and impeding, the varied pictorial elements within Bensons layered canvases seem to be constantly renegotiating their relative positions- as if to turn away for just a second, one would risk missing out on some of the action. Undulating airbrushed checkerboards and stepped squares set an illusory stage, from which crisply defined patches of thick, brushy color pop forth with optical effect. Goopy lines piped straight from the tube sit upon the surface, acting as ... More
Journey to a center of the earth
NEW YORK, NY.- The married founders of the architecture and design firm Roman and Williams, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, are known for their dramatic room schemes that often use saturated colors and layers of objects to communicate richness and depth. Their work includes the restaurant Le Coucou at the edge of Chinatown in Manhattan; the Ace Hotel in New Yorks NoMad neighborhood; the British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and an indoor-outdoor dining hall for Facebooks Silicon Valley headquarters. They designed many projects for actor Ben Stiller, who made the introduction when they won a 2014 National Design Award, regarded as the highest honor in their field. They also did the Goop offices for Gwyneth Paltrow. Their latest project has them coming down to earth: They are opening the ceramics-focused Guild Gallery on Canal Street in New ... More
In Paris, a straight road to the past
PARIS.- When Napoleon III commissioned urban planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann to modernize the dense, disjointed and pestilential mess that was mid-19th-century Paris, his instructions were summed up in three verbs: aérer, unifier and embellir. Make it airy, interconnected and beautiful. Today, an apartment in a Haussmann-style building in Paris an 1890s limestone row house with wrought-iron balconies and oak parquet floors distills the essence of the grandly remodeled metropolis. Renovated by the Parisian firm Jouin Manku as a pied-à -terre for Georges Bousleiman, 56, a real estate developer, the home, which sits on a corner in the opulent 16th Arrondissement, is ventilated with ceiling-high windows, unified with tones of cream and glints of brass and embellished with upholstered walls and custom furnishings. The simplicity of plaster and wood is the baseline that goes ... More
Ornament or crime? With painted woodwork, there is no middle ground
NEW YORK, NY.- Many vintage homes today are seeing the light, as naked wood staircases, wainscoting, baseboards and beams receive coat upon coat of pale-colored paint. Yet even as the slathered millwork remains wet, emotions are running high both for those wielding the brushes and those leery of the cover-ups. I dont know if Im going to make the naughty or nice list in this article, said Brandon Curry, a real estate specialist with Signature Sothebys International Realty in Michigan, upon revealing that he did not regret whitewashing woodwork in his own 1920s home. The change made the interior seem far larger, he said, and yet, he added, we got a lot of angry people. Paint, he said, is the great divider of people. Images of woodwork before and after painting are pouring forth on social media. Some renovators boast of having crushed it by brushing high-gloss paint ... More
Haven't I seen you somewhere?
NEW YORK, NY.- For the past several years, design companies have exploited an awakened interest in modernisms storied past, combing the vast archives of 20th-century furnishings to find forgotten gems that they believe deserve a new audience (not to mention new sales). This revival movement had been gaining steam for some time. It took off in a significant way in 1964 when Cassina, an Italian furniture manufacturer, began reproducing designs by Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand in its I Maestri collection. Fifty-seven years later, the company is still unearthing treasures. Our mission is to discover great ideas from the past, said Luca Fuso, Cassinas chief executive, adding, Its a chance to bring to life a brilliant project even if we dont make money on it. He cited the companys recent reissue of a radio designed by Franco Albini in 1940, though Cassina ... More
Solo exhibition of works by artist Gladys Nilsson opens at Hales London
LONDON.- Hales is presenting Games, a solo exhibition of works by revered artist Gladys Nilsson. Nilssons second exhibition with the gallery focuses on collages made from 2014 to the present day. Nilsson (b.1940, Chicago, IL, USA) studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958-62. In 1973, the artist was among the first women to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Nilsson first came to prominence in 1966, as a member of a group of graduates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago including Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, Karl Wirsum, Art Green and Jim Falconer who exhibited under the moniker Hairy Who at Chicagos Hyde Park Art Center. Despite only showing works together for three years between 1966 69, these exhibitions are now cited as the first defining moments of Chicago ... More
Thousands mourn south Indian film star Puneeth Rajkumar
BANGALORE.- Thousands of bereaved cinema fans thronged the streets of Bangalore on Friday after the sudden death of regional Indian film star Puneeth Rajkumar from a heart attack at just 46. The actor, known as "Powerstar" for his action roles in the Kannada-language film industry, was admitted to hospital on Friday morning with chest pains and died shortly afterwards. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led tributes, tweeting that a "cruel twist of fate has snatched away from us a prolific and talented actor... The coming generations will remember him fondly for his works and wonderful personality." Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj S. Bommai said that Rajkumar was the state's "most loved superstar... A huge personal loss and one that's difficult to come to terms with." Authorities enhanced security around the actor's house fearing violence by his fans, some of whom could be ... More
Mary Ellen Carroll's red neon artwork to illuminate the Glasgow skyline during 2021 Climate Change Conference
GLASGOW.- The monumental neon artwork, indestructible language, by New York-based conceptual artist and activist Mary Ellen Carroll/MEC studios will launch at 7pm (GMT + 1) on Saturday, October 30, on the eve of UN Climate Conference in Glasgow (COP26). indestructible language consists of three meter high illuminated red neon characters made of lead-free glass, powered 100% by renewable energy, spelling out the phrase: IT IS GREEN THINKS NATURE EVEN IN THE DARK. The artwork is situated on the roof of The Schoolhouse, an historic Victorian building in the centre of Glasgow, visible from COP 26 and the M8, the busiest motorway in Scotland, where it will be seen by millions both locally and virtually. The installation which also acts as ... More
Large-scale artwork to transform Govan Graving Docks for COP26
GLASGOW.- Award-winning artist collective Still/Moving and Clyde Docks Preservation Initiative (CDPI) will transform Govans A-listed Graving Docks for the duration of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference with a large-scale sculpture, NO NEW WORLDS. Created by artist collective Still/Moving and supported by CDPI, NO NEW WORLDS will be erected at Govan Graving Docks 30 Oct - 13 Nov, placing an unmissable statement in front of COP 26 delegates directly opposite the main COP delegate zone. The artwork illuminates the links between climate change and historical and ongoing colonisation, inviting viewers to ask difficult questions about themselves, the legacy of colonialism and its relation to our damaged planet, as well as providing a bright beacon for the future. The high-profile sculpture - measuring 70m long, 7m high and using 3,723 low power LED ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Anglo-French artist Alfred Sisley was born October 30, 1839. Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 - 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. In this image: French businessman Pierre de Gunzbourg, flanked by his son Vivien, left, looks at the painting, "Soleil de Printemps, Le Loing, " (Spring Sun, Le Loing) by impressionist Alfred Sisley at the Paris courthouse, Friday, June 18, 2004.
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