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This photo taken on October 21, 2016 shows visitors looking at one of the Terracotta Warriors on display at the Terracotta Warrior Museum in Xian in north China's Shaanxi province. Silent and enigmatic, China's emblematic Terracotta Warriors are at the centre of a bitter row, with patriots and scholars dismissing as impossible theories they could have been inspired by Greek sculpture. STR / AFP.
by Benjamin Carlson
XIAN (AFP).- Silent and enigmatic, China's emblematic Terracotta Warriors are at the centre of a bitter row, with patriots and scholars dismissing as impossible theories they could have been inspired by Greek sculpture. The 8,000-man clay army, crafted around 250 BC for the tomb of Chinas first emperor Qin Shihuang, is a UNESCO world heritage site, a major tourist draw and a symbol of ancient Chinese artistic and military sophistication in a country that proclaims itself a 5,000-year-old civilisation. Questioning their origins touches on deep sensitivities, as many take pride in China's early discovery of world-changing inventions, from gunpowder to the compass and movable type. At the same time its history with the West is fraught with a sense of humiliation over the colonies and concessions established in the 19th century. But theories put forward by art historian Lukas Nickel of the University of Vienna and trumpeted in a recent documentary by National Geographic and the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman looks at a painting of last Queen of France, Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the exhibition of "Marie-Antoinette, a Queen in Versailles" at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Tokyo on October 24, 2016. The exhibition provides a look at the life of Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793), the last queen of France prior to French revolution, and the works of her preferred artisans. BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP
| Dylan says Nobel left him 'speechless': Swedish academy | | National Gallery and the British Public are rightful owners of Portrait of Greta Moll | | Félix Vallotton's "Au Marché" to lead Sotheby's November sale in Zurich: Swiss Art/Swiss Made | 
Books of the 2016 Literature Nobel Price winner US Bob Dylan are pictured at the booth of publisher Hoffman und Campe at the Frankfurt Book Fair. AMELIE QUERFURTH / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy that awards it said Friday, breaking his silence on the win that he said left him "speechless". Asked "if I accept the prize? Of course", the US singer-songwriter said in a call to the academy this week, around a fortnight after he was named laureate on October 13. "The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless," he told the academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius. "I appreciate the honour so much." Dylan had not responded to repeated phone calls made by the academy following the prize announcement, nor had he made any public statement, prompting one academy member to call him "impolite and arrogant". The academy said Friday that it had not yet been decided yet if Dylan would visit Stockholm to pick ... More | | 
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), Portrait of Greta Moll, 1908. Oil on canvas, 93 x 73.5 cm. NG 6450. Location: National Gallery London © Succession H. Matisse 2016 / DACS, London 2016.
LONDON.- The National Gallery acquired Portrait of Greta Moll by Matisse on behalf of the British public in 1979. The Gallery purchased the work from a commercial gallery in London in good faith and is its rightful owner. Prior to the 1979 purchase, the painting was exhibited and published on a number of occasions. Since then this much loved painting has been on display free of charge for millions of visitors to enjoy each year, and it can be appreciated today in Room 44 of our Trafalgar Square building. We understand that both Greta Moll and her husband were living in Germany during the Second World War. Some years after the war ended, and following the death of her husband in August 1947 (when the family say the painting was still in their possession), Greta Moll moved to Wales. This case therefore does not concern ... More | | 
Félix Vallotton, Au Marché. Estimate: CHF 1.5 2 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
ZURICH.- Sothebys presents Au Marché, a stunning work by the celebrated avant-garde painter Félix Vallotton, which will be offered at auction in Zurich on 29 November. Leading Sothebys sale of Swiss Art / Swiss Made, this vibrant work from the artists highly sought-after Nabi period is a masterpiece of great rarity from one of the most important artists of the early 20th century. The painting comes to auction after more than 60 years in private hands and will be offered with an estimate of CHF 1.5 2 million. This painting is a fascinating example of Vallottons work during his Nabi period, the most sought-after for the artist and one which would prove crucial for the rest of his career. This stunning work depicts a scene at the heart of late 19th-century Paris, in the bustling market of a popular neighbourhood. Félix Vallotton brings the characters to life, using strong outlines and bold unmediated colour alongi ... More |
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| Exhibition offers the most comprehensive look at Walker Evans' work ever mounted in Canada | | Exhibition of photographs by Lee Friedlander on view at Fraenkel Gallery | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac exhibits important sculpture by Marcel Duchamp | 
Walker Evans, Tin snips, by J. Wiss & Sons Co., $1.85, 1955. Ink jet print. Private collection.
VANCOUVER.- Vancouver Art Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Walker Evans, a preeminent American photographer who shaped the history of twentieth-century photography. Opening on October 29, 2016, Walker Evans: Depth of Field features over 200 photographs from the 1920s to the 1970s, including the iconic images Evans made in the American South during the Great Depressionwork that played a major role in solidifying the term we now refer to as documentary photography. This exhibition addresses the full arc of his career and is the most comprehensive look at Evans work ever presented in Canada. The significance of Walker Evans in the establishment of photography as art can hardly be overemphasized. His work serves as the nexus for many strands of twentieth-century photography, and holds a special significance in Vancouver, a city that has become widely associated with conceptually rigorous photography over the past ... More | | 
Lee Friedlander, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, 1997 (detail). © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes at 49 Geary Street from October 27 December 23, 2016. The landscapeespecially the extravagantly varied landscape of the American westhas been a recurring subject for Friedlander over the course of a nearly six-decade career. Concurrent with the exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery is publishing an ambitious, large-format book of the same title. The exhibition will include approximately 50 works, the large majority of which are being seen and published for the first time. Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes focuses on the photographs the artist made during a series of road trips through the 1990s and 2000s. Working with a large negative, a wide-angle lens, and photographing from unconventional vantage points, Friedlanders square-format photographs draw the viewer into idiosyncratic qualities of the terrain while skewing expectations of ... More | | 
Marcel Duchamp, Porte-bouteilles, 1959. Acier galvanisé, 59.1 x 36.8 cm. Courtesy The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation © Succession Marcel Duchamp / Adagp Paris, 2016 Photo: Glenn Steigelman.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting an exhibition featuring the most important sculpture by Marcel Duchamp to be on the market for many years. The Porte-bouteilles (Bottle Rack), dated 1959, is considered one of the most influential sculptures from the 20th century. The exhibition curated around this seminal work opened in the Paris Marais gallery on 20 October2016, a year which also commemorates the 100th anniversary of the term readymade, that Duchamp first coined in 1916 in a letter to his sister Suzanne. The exhibition features Marcel Duchamps Porte-bouteilles from 1959, the year Robert Rauschenberg bought it for his personal collection where it remained until it was passed on to the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation states: The Board made the strategic decision to sell this work, ... More |
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| Diana Thater's first comprehensive museum exhibition in the United States opens in Chicago | | Marvelously preserved mammoth tusk highlights Nature & Science offering at Heritage Auctions | | Pack toothbrush and garlic for night at Dracula's castle | 
Diana Thater, Delphine, 1999. Installation view, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, 2004. © Diana Thater. Photo © Roman Mensing/artdoc.de.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, the artists first comprehensive museum exhibition in the United States. Among the most important artists to emerge during the 1990s, Los Angelesbased artist Diana Thater has created groundbreaking and influential works of art in film, video, and installation that challenge the ways in which moving images are experienced. Her dynamic, immersive installations address key issues that span the realms of film, museum exhibitions, the natural sciences, and contemporary culture through the use of movement, scale, and architecture. The exhibition, comprising 22 works from the early 1990s through 2015, was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and is co-curated by Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator for Special Projects in Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Co ... More | | 
Mammoth Tusk, Mammuthus primigenius Pleistocene, Alaska. Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000.
DALLAS, TX.- An unparalleled and wholly complete Prehistoric Mammoth Tusk, measuring a bone-crushing 84 inches on the curve (est. $25,000), highlights a hand-curated selection of natural history specimens in Heritage Auctions' Nov. 3 Nature & Science Auction in Dallas. "The tusk is absolutely suitable for the advanced collector or even for someone seeking a statement piece for their office or home," said Craig Kissick, Director of Nature & Science at Heritage Auctions. "The entire auction is filled with amazing finds like this works of art from the Earth." A glimmering "Gem" Ammonite from the Late Cretaceous Period is a fossilized symphony of green, purple and blue gemstone and is highly prized among collectors (est. $20,000). Additional natural formations include a significant, 14.83 troy ounce Gold Nugget from Alaska (est. $30,000) and a crystalized Copper Specimen nicknamed "Matterhorn" was discovered in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula (est. $ ... More | | 
An exterior view of the Bran Castle is pictured in Bran, Romania. DANIEL MIHAILESCU / AFP.
BRAN (AFP).- Armed with courage and hopefully garlic, two horror fans dying for a thrill will become the first guests in almost 70 years to spend a night at Dracula's castle in Transylvania on Halloween. More than 80,000 subscribers to the home-sharing service Airbnb have taken part in a global contest for the unique chance to stay at the brooding fortress, perched on a rock above the misty Carpathian valley in central Romania. Officially called Bran Castle, the 11th-century mansion is a landmark tourist attraction made famous by Irish author Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic novel "Dracula". In the book's opening pages, unsuspecting London lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to the remote Transylvanian woods for business dealings with the mysterious Count Dracula. Several blood-drenched chapters later, the reclusive aristocrat reveals himself to be an ancient vampire with an unsatiable appetite for young women's arteries. Although Stoker never visited Romania, his description of the count's eery home ... More |
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| Abbot Hall Art Gallery brings together some of the finest drawings in the Arts Council Collection | | Rare collection of over 1,000 Disneyland artifacts goes to auction Nov 19th | | A taste of the high life at Bonhams: Three important private collections come to auction | 
Walter Sickert, A Weak Desence, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © Estate of Walter R. Sickert. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015.
KENDAL.- This autumn Abbot Hall Art Gallery presents People on Paper, a remarkable drawing exhibition featuring many of the greatest British artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The show includes drawings by nearly 50 artists, including Frank Auerbach, Martin Bloch, Peter Blake, John Bratby, John Craxton, Peter de Francia, Lucian Freud, Antony Gormley, Alasdair Gray, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Gwen John, Leon Kossoff, LS Lowry, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Roberts, William Scott, Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer and Euan Uglow. Artists have been drawing the figure for centuries, from carefully composed life drawings to people caught unawares at leisure or work. Though there are sometimes surprising similarities across the decades, there is also a great diversity ... More | | 
Complete Animatronic Its a Small World Doll.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Van Eaton Galleries, one of the worlds leading animation artwork and collectibles galleries, located in Sherman Oaks, California, has announced one of the most extraordinary auctions of rare and iconic Disneyland memorabilia ever offered. The Souvenirs of Disneyland auction will take place Saturday, November 19, 2016 at Van Eaton Galleries, located at 13613 Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks, California, starting at 10am PT. Souvenirs of Disneyland is an extraordinary auction devoted to the history of Disneyland and features very rare and remarkable items from some of the finest collections in the world. The auction will feature over 1000 rare items, many of which have never been offered for public sale. For over 60 years, Disneyland has influenced popular culture and built generations of loyal fans. The rare Disneyland memorabilia offered in this auction shows how early park items, from simple sou ... More | | 
Love Rat by Banksy (£2,500-3,500). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Fine furniture and paintings from three important private collections make up Bonhams next European Collections Sale on Wednesday 14th December at Bonhams Knightsbridge. The Fine Art and Antique collection of Hotel De La Ville in Rome; the selected contents of Chelford Manor in Cheshire, and the contents of a Monegasque apartments all offer an opportunity to acquire a slice of the high life. The late fifties and early sixties in Rome are still seen as a golden time of post-war frivolity and Italian glamour. At the centre of it all was the Hotel de la Ville, where director Federico Fellini, whose 1960 film, La Dolce Vita, gave its name to those gilded years, whiled away afternoons in the bar along with Marlon Brando, Roberto Rossellini, and Francis Ford Coppola. When the Hotel de la Ville closed its doors for the last time in April 2016, it marked the end of an era. The hotels famous fine art collection, which ... More |
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 PIASA to offer the B. et C. Marq collection and a set of 22 books enriched with drawings by Marc ChagallPARIS.- The stained-glass workshop run by Brigitte Simon and Charles Marq in Rheims in the 1950s was the scene of artistic friendships with Marc Chagall, George Braque, Le Corbusier, Raoul Ubac, Joseph Sima, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Geneviève Asse and Serge Charchoune. On 17 November 2016 PIASA will offer for auction the collection of books and artworks offered to Brigitte Simon and Charles Marq by these artists. Dedicated books, paintings and works on paper reflect the links forged during the long hours spent together pioneering a new approach to stained glass. The works in the Collection of B & C Marq retrace a history born in Rheims at the start of the 1950s, in the workshop close to the Cathedral run by the stained-glass artists Brigitte Simon (1926-2009) and Charles Marq (1923-2006). Brigitte Simon and Charles ... More Getty Museum appoints Carolyn Marsden-Smith, Associate Director for ExhibitionsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the appointment of Carolyn Marsden-Smith as Associate Director for Exhibitions. Currently Head of Exhibitions at the British Museum in London, Ms. Marsden-Smith will join the Getty in January 2017. Each year, the Getty Museum presents more than twenty exhibitions, both large and small, that engage our diverse audiences with displays of art from ancient to modern and from cultures around the world. The Associate Director of Exhibitions plays a crucial role in developing and implementing these exhibitions, leading a talented team and working across many Museum departments, said Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, in announcing the appointment. We are thrilled that Carolyn Marsden-Smith has chosen to join the Getty to serve in this key role. She has both the breadth ... More Ursula von Rydingsvard's "SCIENTIA" on view at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Galerie Lelong announced the installation of Ursula von Rydingsvards monumental sculpture SCIENTIA (2016), a gift commissioned by Lore Harp McGovern for the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Public Art Collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Towering at a height of 25 feet, it is her tallest bronze sculpture to date. Von Rydingsvard first constructed a full-scale wood model from stacked 4 x 4 cedar beams, which were painstakingly cut using circular saws and hand tools, then cast in bronze. The delicate lace crown at the top is one of von Rydingsvards most ambitious feats to date. A thin metal web of perforations of all different sizes and shapes through which an interior light emits was engineered to give the appearance of fragility while remaining structurally sound. SCIENTIA is a monument to science, echoing ... More Queensland Art Gallery and Singapore Art Museum announce long-term partnershipBRISBANE.- The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art today formalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). In Singapore to sign the wide-ranging agreement, QAGOMA Director Chris Saines CNZM said the MOU will seal a five-year partnership between the two institutions from 2017 to 2021, with a possibility of a further extension. QAGOMA is delighted to be partnering with the Singapore Art Museum, Singapores top contemporary art museum, with whom we share the vision of presenting the most thought-provoking contemporary art from our region, Mr Saines said. With this partnership, we will be able to deepen our curatorial and research expertise by learning from each other. Forged on common interests to promote and advance the art of this region, this MOU between SAM and QAGOMA strengthens and ... More Ena Swansea's first exhibition at Albertz Benda on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Albertz Benda is presenting Ena Swansea: New Paintings, the first exhibition at the gallery of American painter Ena Swansea, on view from October 27 to December 17, 2016. Expanding her formal and material vocabulary, Swansea has created a series of large-scale works that incorporate subtle themes from the recent history of painting. The culmination of two years of intense experimentation, the exhibition premieres a series of new paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and figuration. In a nod to Abstract Expressionism and the New York School, she works on a large scale and pushes descriptive images snow laden branches, velvet curtains, brick facades -to their limit, manipulating the structures on the canvas. When viewed from afar, the swathes of color and light on the monumental canvases coalesce into images of contemporary ... More NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale receives $500,000 legacy gift from art educator Conni GordonFORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.- NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale has received a $500,000 Legacy Gift from pioneering art educator Conni Gordon that will support museum education programs. Gordon, a Miami resident, is recognized since 1980 in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific art teacher in the world. She is also a military veteran who served with the U.S. Marine Corps Special Services during World War II. My passion has not been what I can do for myself, but what I can do for others, said Gordon. Her legacy gift creates the Conni Gordon Education Series at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale that will help bring to fruition her philanthropic goal of educating millions of people within the South Florida community and internationally through the museum and its website. Nova Southeastern University (NSU) inducted Gordon into its Fellows Society ... More Keith Piper's "Unearthing the Banker's Bones" opens at Bluecoat in Liverpool LIVERPOOL.- This Friday, 28 October 2016, artist Keith Piper returned to Bluecoat, Liverpools centre for the contemporary arts, with a major solo exhibition presented in partnership with Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). Unearthing the Bankers Bones (28 October 2016 - 22 January 2017), comprises three new large-scale works spanning installation, digital works and drawings that address current anxieties about the impacts of globalisation. It is the most substantial presentation of the artists work in nearly two decades and celebrates the longstanding relationship between Piper and the two institutions which began over three decades ago. Lending its title to the exhibition, the centrepiece of the show is a new Arts Council Collection 70th Anniversary commission comprising of three synchronised high definition video projections, which depict a narrative of economic ... More Prominent L.A. 60's, 70's, & 80', art gallery owned by Jacqueline & David Stuart to be offered at KaminskiBEVERLY, MASS.- Kaminski Auctions will present the estate of renowned Los Angeles gallerist, Jacqueline Stuart (1921-2016), wife of Los Angeles gallery impresario David Stuart of the seminal early 1960s Primus-Stuart Gallery, and later, David Stuart Galleries. Included in the sale is a lovely Alexander Calder tapestry (estimate 2,500-4,500), a striking early oil on canvas by Emerson Woelffer (estimate, 4,000-7,000) (a personal friend of Jacquelines husband, David Stuart) as well as a dynamic late 1970s abstract painting by the California hard-edge artist June Harwood (estimate 3,000-5,000). Claes Oldenburg Wedding Souvenir (estimate 5000-7000)given to a select few attending the 1966 wedding of Judith and James Elliotwill also be available, as will an enticing collection of never-before-seen limited editions and works on paper by one ... More Haus der Kunst exhibits works by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil JoreigeMUNICH.- We are storytellers, the artist duo Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige says of themselves, and they tell their stories through photography and film, as well as installation and performance. In terms of content, the common thread running through their work is the recent history and contemporary history of Lebanon and Beirut. Both artists were born in Beirut in 1969; they grew up in the city during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), confronted with constant insecurity, violence and frequent relocation, but also images and representations of those moments. The artistic practice of Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige is in the words of Okwui Enwezor, "a meditation on the status and the nature of the images, the way images travel through the world, the way they infiltrate and embed themselves in our historical consciousness." "We are coming from a minor position ... More Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing exhibits drawings by Peter CookBERLIN.- The new temporary exhibition, Peter Cook. Retrospective is dedicated to the drawings of the famous British architect who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year. Back in 1982, the Aedes Architecture Forum, then located in the Savigny Platz arches, showed a fantastic exhibition of his work; now, almost 40 years on, Peter Cook returns to Berlin. Peter Cook. Retrospective enables a view into the artists work from Archigram to CRAB, from 1968 to today, from Plug-In City to Hidden City . Peter Cook is regarded as one of the leading instigators of Archigram. This group whose name originated from the architectural pamphlet, Archigram - a wordplay on architecture and telegram - was founded in the 1960s by young British architecture graduates who strove to break away from traditional architectural office routine and continue the discourse stimulated ... More The Ravestijn Gallery opens exhibition of photographs by Alinka EcheverrÃaAMSTERDAM.- Prior to South Sudans independence from the Republic of Sudan in 2011, forty years of internal conflicts and two protracted civil wars had permeated the history of the country. Established in 1956 at the end of the AngloEgyptian colonial rule, the Republic of Sudan had its borders drawn by its very European predecessors with little concern to the cultural and ethnic reality of the region. South Sudans independence allowed the borders to be reconfigured to extent. Regardless, the worlds newest nation remains in shambles, en masse. Its short history has demonstrated that internal solidarity along the ethnic lines has long lost its echo among the rivalries within the countrys ruling party, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM). Artist Alinka EcheverrÃas Becoming South Sudan arrests the momentum of the solemnity of the independence day ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle was born October 29, 1930. Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (29 October 1930 - 21 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker. In this image: French-born artist Niki de Saint Phalle presents her sculpture "L'Ange Protecteur," 'Guardian Angel' in the main hall of the central train station in Zurich, Switzerland in this Nov. 14, 1997. A spokesperson for the City of Hanover on Wednesday, May 22, 2002, confirmed that Niki de Saint Phalle died at the age of 71 years in San Diego, Cal., on Tuesday, May, 21, 2002. Saint Phalle, who owned the honorary chitzenship of Hanover, was renowned for her colourful, voluminous sculptures called "Nanas".
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