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Installation view of the exhibition Charles White: A Retrospective. October 7, 2018January 13, 2019. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Digital Image © 2018 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by Robert Gerhardt.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Arts Charles White: A Retrospective, on view from October 7, 2018, through January 13, 2019, is the first major exhibition dedicated to Charles White (19181979) in over three decades. Organized chronologically, the retrospective charts the entirety of Whites career, illuminating his socially motivated responses to the tumultuous events and cultural episodes that defined 20th-century American history. The exhibitions roughly 100 drawings, paintings, and prints, along with additional ephemera, attest to Whites continually developing body of work, and serve as a model for the active role art can play in contemporary society. Charles White: A Retrospective is organized by Esther Adler, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA; and Sarah Kelly Oehler, Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition was on view at The Art Insti ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Designs are projected on the Brandenburg Gate on the opening day of the yearly Festival of Lights in Berlin on October 5, 2018. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
| New auction record set for a living female artist | | Robin Williams memorabilia fetches $6.1 million in New York | | Neue Galerie opens first exhibition in the U.S. on the art of Franz Marc and August Macke | 
Jenny Saville, Propped, 1992, (est. £3,000,000-4,000,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- One of the most important paintings by a British artist of the last thirty years, Propped a superlative self-portrait that shatters canonised representations of female beauty propelled a young Jenny Saville to renown. Tonight at Sothebys in London, eight bidders vied for the the remarkable painting in a bidding battle lasting more than 10 minutes, propelling the price to £9.5 million / $12.4 million / 10.8 million (est. £3-4 million) - a new auction record for any artwork by a living female artist. The painting was offered from the collection of visionary collector, patron and museum trustee, the late David Teiger. Proceeds will benefit Teiger Foundation soon to be one of the worlds largest and most significant contemporary art foundations. Painted in 1992, Propped compelled collector Charles Saatchi to acquire every work by the artist that he possibly could, ... More | | 
Niki de Saint-Phalle, Le poète et sa muse, 1973, painted polyester, 94 x 56 x 22 in. Estimate: $350,000 - 450,000. Sold for: $399,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Art, film memorabilia and personal effects owned by the late actor Robin Williams and his wife fetched $6.1 million at auction in New York on Thursday, four years after his death, Sotheby's said. The Oscar-winner, movie veteran, stand-up comedian and television star was one of Hollywood's most popular entertainers whose death in August 2014 triggered an outpouring of emotion the world over. More than 2,000 fans and collectors from across the globe registered to bid for some 300 works owned by Williams and his second wife, film producer and philanthropist Marsha Garces Williams, Sotheby's said. The most expensive lot was Swiss artist Adolf Wolfli's "Der San Salvathor" that sold for $795,000, the auction house said. Stand-out items included a watercolor from the movie "Good Will Hunting" that sold ... More | | 
August Macke (18871914), Four Girls, 1913. Oil on canvas. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Photo: Museum Kunstpalast Horst Kolberg ARTOTHEK.
NEW YORK, NY.- Neue Galerie New York debuted Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914, an exhibition that explores the life and work of two German artists and the power of their friendship. In the four years prior to Mackes death in 1914 (Marc himself died in 1916), they wrote each other scores of letters, visited each others homes, traveled together, and often discussed the development of their work. They shared ideas about art, and through their innovations helped create the movement known as Expressionism in early twentieth-century Germany. On view through January 21, 2019, the exhibition focuses on Marc and Mackes artistic relationship, how their lives intersected, and how their art was developed and received during their lifetimes. Featuring approximately 70 ... More |
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| Sotheby's to offer a restituted masterpiece by Egon Schiele this November in New York | | Mary McCartney gifts major photographic series to the V&A for display in new Photography Centre | | New scholarship on Egon Schiele's 1910 male nudes announced by Jane Kallir | 
Egon Schiele, Dämmernde Stadt (Die Kleine Stadt II) (City in Twilight (The Small City II)) signed Egon Schiele and dated 1913 (centre left) oil on canvas 35 5/8 by 35 1/2in. Painted circa 1913. Estimate $12/18 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Egon Schieles masterwork landscape Dämmernde Stadt (Die Kleine Stadt II) (City in Twilight (The Small City II)) will highlight their Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 12 November 2018. Painted in 1913, Dämmernde Stadt is one of Schiele's finest landscapes remaining in private hands, with comparable works now principally found in museum collections. The dreamlike view above the city of Krumau - birthplace of the artist's mother - documents the pivotal period during which Schiele established his singular and now-iconic visual language, after years of shadowing his mentor Gustav Klimt. Independent of its art historical importance, the work is distinguished by the remarkable family history it has brought to life. ... More | | 
Mary McCartney, Making Tea, 2004, Bromide Print © Mary McCartney.
LONDON.- Today, the V&A announced a gift of photographs by the artist Mary McCartney. Known for her intimate, observational photographs, McCartney has gifted 14 prints to the museum from her first ever solo show Off Pointe - A Photographic Study of the Royal Ballet After Hours. A selection of these prints will feature in the V&A Photography Centres inaugural display, Collecting Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital, which opens on 12 October 2018. Taken in 2004, McCartneys seminal series captures unguarded, behind-the-scenes moments of ballet dancers as they prepare for performances at The Royal Opera House. After a long fascination with ballet, it was a 2004 night out in Londons Soho with Royal Ballet dancer, Sian Murphy, that inspired McCartney to reveal unseen aspects of the ballet world, including the highs and lows and the prestige and chaos behind the scenes. McCartney chose to shoot Off ... More | | 
Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Brown Background, 1912. Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper. Signed and dated, lower left. 12 3/8" x 10" (31.4 x 25.4 cm). Kallir D. 1177. Kallir Family Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- A group of 1910 drawings by Egon Schiele, previously thought to be self-portraits, are in fact portraits, says Jane Kallir, the author of the catalogue raisonné on Egon Schiele and co-director of Galerie St. Etienne. Several of the works will be part of a new exhibition Egon Schiele: In Search of the Perfect Line from November 1, 2018, through March 2, 2019, at Galerie St. Etienne. Marking the 100th anniversary of Schieles death in 1918, the exhibition of nearly 50 watercolors and drawings is curated from numerous private collections, providing a rare, comprehensive overview of Schieles artistic development. A number of the works, including several iconic self-portraits, have not been on public view in more than 20 years. Galerie St. Etienne mounted Schieles first American solo exhibition in 1941. Schieles male nudes ... More |
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| Aleksandr Rodchenko's 'Girl with a Leica' leads Sotheby's $4 million Photographs Auctions in New York | | New exhibition at Hever Castle tells the story of the Tudors and reveals the risks of royal marriages | | Love me fender: Elvis' last Cadillac up for sale in Austria | 
Aleksandr Rodchenko, Girl with a Leica (Devushka S Leikoi), , circa 1932-34, 15 3/4 by 11 1/2 in. (40 by 29.2 cm.) Estimate $300/500,000. Sold for $519,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys annual fall auctions spanning centuries of important Photographs concluded in New York, with 100+ works selling for an overall total of $4 million. Emily Bierman, Head of Sothebys Photographs Department in New York, commented: We are pleased with the results from our sales, which presented collectors with the opportunity to acquire museum-quality photographs from the beginning of the medium to today. There was tremendous strength for vintage masterworks, like the Rodchenko Girl with a Leica and Bragaglias Le Rose, both of which had been off the market for several decades and achieved new world record prices, as well as for the exceptional Moholy-Nagy. We saw strong competition for classic American images by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, in addition to innovative fashion ... More | | 
English School, c.1540-70, Elizabeth Woodville. © Hever Castle & Gardens.
HEVER.- Visitors to Hever Castle are able to experience what a typical Long Gallery would have looked like during the reign of Henry VIII and trace the turbulent history of the Tudors. Curated by Tudor history expert and broadcaster, Dr David Starkey, twenty original portraits form a new exhibition that not only chronologically depicts the dynastic saga - from the Wars of the Roses to the Reformation - but also reveals how such a gallery was intended as a teaching aid for young Prince Edward (later King Edward VI). The reign of King Henry VIII (who ruled England from 1509 to 1547, right) and the Tudor period (1485 to 1603) remain one of the most universally fascinating eras in English History. Using his unrivalled insight and knowledge of this era, David Starkey has organised a series of Hevers treasured Tudor portraits into successional order, beginning with Henry VI and concluding with Henry VIII himself. Also ... More | | 
The asking price for the King of Rock's beige-coloured 1972 Cadillac de Ville Estate -- which is being auctioned in Salzburg on October 20 -- is 100,000-200,000 euros ($115,500-$230,500).
VIENNA (AFP).- Elvis Presley loved Cadillacs, compulsively collecting hundreds of them during his lifetime, and what is believed to be the last Cadillac he drove before his death in 1977 is going under the hammer in Austria later this month, the auctioneers said on Friday. The asking price for the King of Rock's beige-coloured 1972 Cadillac de Ville Estate -- which is being auctioned in Salzburg on October 20 -- is 100,000-200,000 euros ($115,500-$230,500), Vienna's Dorotheum auction house said. With around 70,000 miles (112,000 kilometres) on the clock, the car was the one Elvis used for his final road trip in December 1976, when he drove 1,500 miles from Las Vegas back to his home in Graceland, the Dorotheum said. The singer died just eight months later. Originally built as a Deville sedan, it was converted to an estate car ... More |
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| First U.S. museum survey of New York-based sculptor B. Wurtz on view at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | | Freeman's announces sale of British & European Furniture and Decorative Arts including Silver and Russian Works of Art | | Major Harald Sohlberg exhibition opens at the National Museum of Norway | 
B. Wurtz, Hotel de Ville, 1990. Wood, metal, tin cans, cloth, plastic bag, postcard, 56 Ã 30.25 Ã 18.75 in. (142.24 Ã 76.84 Ã 47.63 cm). Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles opened new exhibition in the main gallery: This Has No Name, the first U.S. museum survey of New York-based sculptor B. Wurtz. This Has No Name is the first U.S. museum survey of New York-based sculptor B. Wurtz (b. 1948). For over forty-years, Wurtz has developed a visual language that subverts the industrial austerity of Minimalism and centers the minutiae from daily life in ways poetic and whimsical. B. Wurtzs idiosyncratic work in sculpture and assemblage revolves around the use of objects that refer, directly or indirectly, to the acts of eating, sleeping, and keeping warm, inspired by an early drawing. Food tins, clothing, plastic bags, mesh produce bags, and yogurt containers are transformed into elegant meditations on form and line while ... More | | 
The Dowager Empress Archive (estimate: $15,000-20,000).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans October 16 sale of British & European Furniture and Decorative Arts including Silver and Russian Works of Art features a Russian section highlighted with more than 70 lots of Russian Imperial Ephemera, silver, works by Fabergé, and an important selection of Russian and Soviet porcelain from the private Ode to Joy Collection. A highlight of the sale is Lot 12, a small watercolor icon of the Derzhavnaya (She Who Reigns) Mother of God by the Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna (estimate: $4,000-6,000). Painted for her niece and namesake Princess Ksenia Andreievna Romanov in 1928, the signed work descended in the Romanov family. The image of the icon is of exceptional significance both to the Imperial family and to Russian monarchists, as the icon itself appeared on the date of the abdication of the last Emperor, Nicholas II. Also of interest in the Russian section is Lot 13, ... More | | 
Harald Sohlberg, Self Portrait, 1896. Photo: Nasjonalmuseet / Jaques Lathion.
OSLO.- In his art, Harald Sohlberg (18691935) focused primarily on the Norwegian landscape. Although his pictures show specific places, they also represent landscapes of the mind, of thought and eternity. This exhibition explores the full breadth of Sohlbergs artistic career. Sohlberg focused on parts of Norway that had attracted little interest among other artists. With his pictures he helped places such as Røros and Rondane to establish cultural and artistic identities. Despite their apparent realism, his paintings stand aloof from time and geographic location. The exhibition shows the range and ambiguity of Sohlbergs art. His pictures are mysterious and thought provoking. Images of tranquil summer nights convey the beauty of nature, while at the same time arousing a sense of disquiet. His rich colours appeal to our intuitions and emotions. He explores hidden connections between the outer perceptible world and the ... More |
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 First large-scale museum survey of Metahaven opens in AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum will stage the first large-scale museum survey of Metahaven, bringing together the collectives new moving image work with their renowned design practice. As Metahaven, Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden have achieved international acclaim for their work spanning the genres of visual art, design, and film. This exhibition features the premiere of Eurasia (Questions on Happiness), a film installation jointly commissioned by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (ICA), which will be simultaneously shown at both locations. Karen Archey, Curator of Contemporary Art, Time-based Media: We are pleased to collaborate with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London on complementary exhibitions of the Dutch collective Metahaven. With the co-commissioning of the new film Eurasia, this ... More "Embroidery: The Thread of History" at Winterthur explores needlework as a document of recordWINTERTHUR, DE.- From a rare sampler worked about 1820 by a young African American girl to an intricately embroidered sweet bag and knife sheath that are said to have belonged to a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, nearly 30 works from 1660 to the present are on view in Embroidery: The Thread of History at Winterthur. The exhibition explores the use of embroidery as historical documents that can deepen our understanding of womens lives and considers how needlework has been used to remember the past, document the present, and look forward to the future. The exhibition is on view in the Society of Winterthur Fellows Gallery from October 5, 2018, until January 6, 2019. Needlework is a crucially important area of study, said Linda Eaton, John L. and Marjorie P. McGraw Director of Collections and Senior Curator of Textiles. Samplers and silkwork ... More The New-York Historical Society opens "Harry Potter: A History of Magic"NEW YORK, NY.- Harry Potter: A History of Magic, the British Librarys most successful exhibition, opened at the New-York Historical Society on Friday, October 5. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, the New York exhibition explores the traditions of folklore and magic at the heart of the Harry Potter stories and showcases a new selection of objects that are on view to the public for the very first time. Harry Potter: A History of Magic features centuries-old treasures, including rare books, manuscripts, and magical objects from the collections of the British Library, the New-York Historical Society, and other museums, as well as original material from publisher Scholastic and J.K. Rowlings own archives. The exhibition is accompanied by a special audio tour featuring the voice of actress Natalie Dormeravailable ... More China Guardian Hong Kong 2018 auctions bring US$ 141.8 millionHONG KONG.- China Guardian Hong Kong Autumn Auctions 2018 concluded on 3 October with outstanding results. 12 sales over 2 days encompassing 5 categories achieved HK$ 690 million / US$ 87.9 million, the highest seasonal total in the Companys 6-year history, bringing the 2018 total of the Company to an impressive HK$ 1.1 billion / US$ 141.8 million, the highest ever annual total at China Guardian (Hong Kong) and 17% up from 2017. Ms. Hu Yanyan, President of China Guardian (HK) Auctions Co., Ltd, says, Over the past two days, nearly 1,000 lots of Chinese paintings and calligraphy, modern and contemporary art, Chinese ceramics, jades, Buddhist art, Classical furniture, as well as jewels and jadeite were sold at our Hong Kong Autumn Auctions for a total of HK$ 690 million / US$ 87.9 million, marking a delightful opening for the Autumn sale season at China ... More Baltimore Museum of Art opens major retrospective of visual art by John Waters BALTIMORE, MD.- From October 7, 2018, to January 6, 2019, The Baltimore Museum of Art presents John Waters: Indecent Exposure, the first major retrospective of the artists visual art in his hometown of Baltimore. Through more than 160 photographs, sculptures, and sound and video works made since the early 1990s, Waters renegade humor subverts mainstream expectations of representation and reveals the ways that mass media and celebrity embody cultural attitudes, moral codes, and shared tragedy. Waters freely manipulates images of less-than sacred, low-brow referencesElizabeth Taylors hairstyles, Justin Biebers preening poses, his own selfportraits, and pictures of individuals brought into the limelight through his filmsto entice viewers to connect to his astute and provocative observations about society. We are thrilled to organize the first ... More France bids farewell to singer Aznavour, its little 'giant'PARIS (AFP).- France paid a moving national homage on Friday to the late singer Charles Aznavour, the little man with the very big life. With honours that are usually reserved for national heroes, one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century was lauded as a cultural giant by the leaders of his two homelands -- France and Armenia -- at a ceremony in Paris. Aznavour -- who was still touring at 94 -- died in his bath on Monday just days after he declared that he would like to breathe his last on stage. He had concerts planned in both Brussels and his hometown of Paris over the next month. The ceremony at the Invalides began with Aznavour's coffin, draped in the French tricolour flag, being carried into the cobbled courtyard to the haunting Armenian lament, "Dle Yaman", played on a traditional dudek flute. French President Emmanuel Macron said Aznavour knew ... More "Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time" opens at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in BostonBOSTON, MASS.- In the spirit of Isabella Stewart Gardner and her love of textiles, a special exhibition, Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time, opened this fall and features works by contemporary artists from around the world. These artists, many of whom have been Artists-in-Residence at the Gardner, are redefining textile art through mediums including music, video, and participatory art. The exhibition opened Oct. 4 and runs through Jan. 13, 2019. Works by artists El Anatsui, William Kentridge, Lee Mingwei, the Raqs Media Collective, Elaine Reichek, Nevet Yitzhak, and Standard Incomparable (a collective project conceived by artist Helen Mirra) have been installed in Hostetter Gallery in the new building. The Tapestry Room in the historic Palace hosts a newly commissioned, site-specific art work, true pearl: an opera, in five tapestries by David Lang. In ... More The Ukrainian Institute of America opens an exhibition of contemporary decorative and wearable fabric art NEW YORK, NY.- Art at the Institute announced the start to its 2018-19 season with High Textile, an exhibition of contemporary decorative and wearable fabric art by Kyiv-based Ukrainian artist Anastasiia Podervianska. The exhibition opened on Thursday, October 4 and remains on view to Sunday, November 11. Curated by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, director of Art at the Institute, this exhibition marks Ms. Podervianskas first showing in New York. Redefining the history of art subjects and themes, Podervianska uses the medium of textile to subvert its cultural aura as womans work and transforms it into colorful, ironic, lively, and, if not, liberating objects of visual effect. Influenced by postmodernist ideas, the two groups of
works on display Country Horrors and Coat Portraits are the products of spirited experimentation with materials and exacting technique ... More Antonia Jannone Gallery in Milan opens exhibition of works by Sergei Tchoban MILAN.- With Den-City Urban Landscape, Sergei Tchoban lets us feel the essence of density: façades of the buildings are pushing pedestrians, dangling street cables are covering the view of the sky, and places hum about merging of stone, glass and steel. And suddenly moments of complete silence latch on the viewer, as a thinking break from all the dust and noise. In his drawings, which were created mainly during his travels Tchoban captures not only the flickering atmosphere of Asian metropolises, but also the urban jungle of an American city. With the city characteristics seen and experienced, the artist composes breathtaking fantastical drawings, some of which will be shown in the context of Den-City for the very first time. Tchoban senses the tunes of this city symphony in most appropriate ways. Lines in glowing yellow pastels illuminate dark urban canyons in Tokyo. Sharp pen ... More Russian bronze sculpture leads Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Arts auction beyond $1.7 millionDALLAS, TX.- Multiple bidders pushed the final price for After Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray Cossack Herding Horses, circa 1920 to $81,250 five times its pre-auction estimate to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction Sept. 21-23 in Dallas. The final total for the auction was $1,743,525. "This auction offered a wide variety of artwork for collectors of all tastes, Heritage Auctions Decorative Art Director Karen Rigdon said. "Having a range of lots that includes Russian bronzes to an elaborate grand piano to an array of sculptures and paintings helped us expand our reach to collectors with a broad scope of artistic interests. Multiple collectors bid on a Rare John Broadwood & Sons Amboyna and Giltwood Grand Piano, circa 1845 from a distinguished estate in Dallas, Texas, before it closed at $27,500. Records show ... More Cooper Hewitt opens "Tablescapes: Designs for Dining"NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum presents Tablescapes: Designs for Dining, an exhibition that offers a creative timeline of dining experiences through three distinct installations. At the center of the exhibition is Cooper Hewitts surtout de table, a magnificent, newly conserved treasure from the museums expansive collection of over 210,000 design objects that once ornamented the tables of French nobility at the turn of the 19th century. The exhibition also spotlights the work of the underrecognized but influential textile designer Marguerita Mergentime, active in the 1920s and 30s, whose work has not received a dedicated museum presentation in 75 years. Pivoting to address 21st-century concerns, the exhibition debuts experimental and collaborative products commissioned from National Design Award-winning designers Joe Doucet and Mary ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier was born October 06, 1887. Charles-Ãdouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 - 27 August 1965) was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.
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