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Hamptons Virtual Art Fair is open 24-hours a day on a range of compatible devices with cutting edge VR technology, creating a simulated art fair environment for visitors to virtually navigate as they would a physical fair. Through 3D renderings, artworks are being displayed in high-resolution detail and are available for purchase with a BUY NOW option.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Hamptons Virtual Art Fair hosted by Christofle, opened this week featuring 90 international galleries, and 105 booth displays from 11 countries around the world and 30 cities across the US. Over 2,000 pieces of artwork are being displayed in the virtual reality booths in 2D and 3D, and available for purchase on the website directly from the galleries. Produced by ShowHamptons, the virtual art fair opened on Wednesday, September 2nd. Admission is free. The fair runs continuously from Thursday, September 3rd at 12:01 AM through Monday, September 7th at 6 pm. The 2020 Hamptons Virtual Art Fair 2020 awardees include the Artist of the Year Award to Richard Mayhew, the Lifetime Achievement Award for Painting and Sculpture to Audrey Flack, the Sculptor of the Year Award to Deborah Butterfield, the Art Collector of the Year Award to Bruce Lewin and the Hamptons Recognition in Photography to Elliott Erwitt. A ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Hampton's Virtual Art Fair hosted by Christofle, opened featuring 90 international galleries, and 105 booth displays from 11 countries around the world and 30 cities across the US. Over 2,000 pieces of artwork are being displayed in the virtual reality booths in 2D and 3D, and available for purchase on the website directly from the galleries.
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 | | The Lumiere Center for Photography opens "Moscow of Naum Granovsky 1920-1980" | | Skulpturenhalle opens an exhibition of works by Bruce Nauman | | Tragic love, dramatic lighting, and thinly veiled eroticism in Koller's autumn auctions | 
Naum Granovsky, Hydroproject Research Institute. 1968 © Lumiere Gallery.
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography and the Still Art Foundation present the anniversary exhibition of Moscows main architectural photographer, Naum Granovsky, to mark the photographers 110th birthday. The new exhibition of Naum Granovskys work is a large retrospective project that combines famous photographs of old Moscow from the 20s and the Stalin era, as well as lesser-known works created by Granovsky during the period of Soviet modernism. More than a hundred of Granovskys works presented at the exhibition show how the capital changed and how Soviet architecture developed over the course of sixty years. This allows viewers not only to remember the forgotten pages in the citys history, but also appreciate what we are losing today. The exhibition is being presented in two halls of the Center for Photography: the first part of the project consists of original prints from the Lumiere Gallery coll ... More | | 
Bruce Nauman, Eat/Death, 1972. Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame, 19 x 64 x 5,5 cm. Private collection, Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020.
NEUSS.- One of the hallmarks of Bruce Naumans approach is that he has always focused as an artist on what he has found himself faced with directly the space around him, his own body, and language. Take language to start with: Nauman, like Marcel Duchamp before him, has never shied away from banal jokes and puns, for they often reveal things that are suppressed, in defiance of social convention. The fact that the word DEATH also contains the word EAT is a simple truism, as obvious as it is gruesome. Naumans chosen medium for insights such as these was commonplace neon signage illuminated writing which, unlike a picture or a relief, draws attention like a tacky advertisement. In this instance, however, what the neon signage conveys is not just straightforward information, but linguistic ambiguity. When Nauman engages with elementary phenomena, ... More | | 
Gerrit van Honthorst, Penitent Mary Magdalene. Circa 1625. Oil on panel. 73.5 Ã 58 cm. CHF 150 000/250 000.
ZURICH.- Koller's Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings auction on 25 September features a recently rediscovered "Venus and Adonis" by Jacob Jordaens, considered along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck as one of the most important Flemish Baroque artists (lot 3029, CHF 140 000/200 000). This tender and masterful depiction shows the goddess holding her dying lover, and its probable provenance can be traced all the way back to an auction in Amsterdam in 1696. Also fresh to the art market after an absence of several decades is a dramatically lit composition depicting a penitent Mary Magdalene by the main figure of Utrecht Caravaggism, Gerrit van Honthorst. After an artistic pilgrimage to Rome, Van Honthorst and several of his contemporaries brought the style and techniques of Caravaggio back to their native Utrecht, influencing a generation of northern artists ... More |
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| | Bonnie & Clyde's tackle box may hook bidders at Heritage Auctions | | Historic presidential campaign flags, including one of the earliest known, fly high at Heritage Auctions | | Christie's offers approximately 150 lots from Lord Snowdon's collection | 
Clyde's Personally-Owned Fishing Tackle Box.
DALLAS, TX.- When evading authorities after committing a crime, the ability to find food is critically important. Such was the case for Clyde Barrow, half of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde tandem whose exploits included a slew of wrongdoings, including murder and bank robbery. When running from the law, they often relied on fishing to survive, which was possible in part because of a tackle box found in Barrows car when the legendary criminal was killed. Clyde's Personally-Owned Fishing Tackle Box (estimate: $5,000+) is among the unique items in Heritage Auctions Americana & Political Auction Sept. 14-15. To live the lives they did, the ability to fend for themselves was vital, Heritage Auctions Americana Director Tom Slater said. So they would fish using material found in this box: hooks, floats, weights. They did whatever they had to do when they were on the run, and this box helped feed them for years. ... More | | 
The campaign flag for James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur's 1880 run is like Garfield's campaign itself rather unassuming, with the candidates' names emblazed on a panel affixed to the fabric as was once common. Its design was like that of most Civil War-era flags, but it's also quite large 81 inches by 42 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- The painted flag, adorned with a campaign catchphrase surrounded by flowers, is 180 years old. It's also as timely as today's tweets and tomorrow's headlines. "HARRISON AND REFORM., says one of the handful of presidential-campaign flags offered in Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political event taking place Sept. 14-15. That was the slogan of William Henry Harrison at a time when the United States of America teetered on the precipice of economic ruin sparked by the Panic of 1837 and the long-lasting depression that followed. Banks began failing; unemployment spiked; prices for agricultural exports plummeted. A crisis wrought ... More | | 
A pair of red-painted Prince of Wales investiture chairs, designed by Lord Snowdon in 1969. Estimate £2,000-4,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies presents Snowdon: A Life in Art and Objects, a striking private collection sale of approximately 150 lots. Estimates range from £500 to £5,000 representing English and European furniture, porcelain, silver, books, Old Master Drawings, Chinese works of art, modern British art, Australian and Canadian paintings, and photography. Antony Armstrong-Jones began his career as a photographer in fashion, design and theatre, following his time at Cambridge where he coxed the Cambridge boat to victory in the 1950 Boat Race. Opening his studio at 20 Pimlico Road, he became renowned not only for his sittings and his ground-breaking images of inner city life, immortalised in his book London published in 1958, but also his tireless work for the disabled and under- ... More |
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| | Bosco Sodi presents his most recent work at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo of Málaga | | Galerie Karsten Greve opens an exhibition on the ceramic works of avant gardist Lucio Fontana | | Mutant cats still a draw at Hemingway's virus-hit Florida home | 
Bosco Sodi.
MALAGA.- The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo of Málaga is presenting an exhibition featuring the artist Bosco Sodi, curated by Helena Juncosa. A showcase of his most recent work, ergo sum consists of nearly forty pieces, including black monochrome paintings in different formats and a group of gold sculptures. His abstract compositions are similar in appearance and explore the possibilities of materials and the spiritual connection that seeks to overcome conceptual barriers. The title of the show alludes to the Latin phrase cogito ergo sum with which philosopher René Descartes summarised the intellectual and philosophical process that affirms that reason is the only truth. The most characteristic aspect of Bosco Sodis work is the importance of colour, texture and the materials used to create his paintings or sculptures. He works with organic materials and tries to cultivate, in the artists own words, temporality, humility, asymmetr ... More | | 
Lucio Fontana, Crocifisso, 1950 - 1955. Polychrome ceramics, 36 x 19,5 x 12 cm / 14 1/4 x 7 2/3 x 4 3/4 in.
PARIS.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting Ceramics, an exhibition on the ceramic works of avant gardist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968). A master of abstraction, known internationally for his slashed canvases, or Tagli, it was, nevertheless, ceramics to which he devoted most of his time and art, deeply reinventing the medium throughout his career. This exhibition shines the spotlight on the diversity of his creations through works that are either emblematic or long unknown to the public. In this selection of sculptures crafted between 1936 and the end of the 1950s, the viewer can thus entertain correlations between the avant garde and biomorphic, abstract and figurative ceramics, with their profane and religious subjects. In 1930 in Milan, Fontana distanced himself from classical sculpture and marble carving and gave his preference to modelling to shape more intuitive, expressive artworks. His first reliefs and sculptures ... More | | 
Andrew Morawski, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum director, pets Joe DiMaggio, one of the six-toed cats that live in the late author's house in Key West, Florida on August 30, 2020. Leila MACOR / AFP.
by Leila Macor
KEY WEST (AFP).- Starved of international visitors, the house once inhabited by writer Ernest Hemingway in the Florida Keys has struggled to stay open. Almost all of its staff have been laid off during the coronavirus pandemic, yet the six-toed cats who live there still attract locals to the site. After the author's death in 1961, his home was converted into one of the leading tourist attractions in Key West, which is closer to Havana than to Miami, and where margaritas, diving and sunbathing are a way of life. Its residents have survived ferocious hurricanes and economic downturns in the past, but nothing had prepared them for the collapse in tourism brought on by the pandemic. Foreign tourists have been unable to visit because of closed ... More |
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| | Exhibition of the work of the young Swiss artist Julian Charrière opens at The Aargauer Kunsthaus | | Exhibition of works by painter Michael Armitage Opens at Haus der Kunst | | Sotheby's unveils the full contents of inaugural auction dedicated to hip hop | 
Julian Charrière, Empire, 2019. Installation View Towards No Earthly Pole, 2020. Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland © the artist; ProLitteris Zürich, Photo by Jens Ziehe.
AARAU.- The Aargauer Kunsthaus is presenting the work of the young Swiss artist Julian Charrière (b. 1987). Like the early explorers, the artist is drawn to the most inhospitable regions of the world, such as the North Pole or a nuclear weapons test site. In his latest film projection he takes the audience along on his artistic expeditions into the most impressive icy landscapes on the planet. The film is echoed in selected photographs and sculptures. The exhibition Towards No Earthly Pole by Julian Charrière invites the viewer on a unique journey through the galleries in the museum. His latest film installation, Towards No Earthly Pole (2019) shows shimmering icebergs, gaping cracks in glaciers and surging polar seas. They appear abruptly out of the darkness before immediately being swallowed up by it again. In his film ... More | | 
Michael Armitage © White Cube (George Darrell).
MUNICH.- The young British-Kenyan painter Michael Armitage (born 1984 in Nairobi, Kenya) has quickly become one of the most exciting voices in contemporary painting. In his large-format, nuanced oil paintings, he combines European and East African motifs and painting traditions. He draws inspiration from political events, pop culture, folklore and personal memories, weaving these into mythically charged and dreamlike images. With Paradise Edict Michael Armitage, who will be awarded the renowned Ruth Baumgarte Art Award in the fall, celebrates his first major presentation in a museum setting and his first show in Germany. Those trained in Western art history will find Michael Armitages paintings attractive and surprisingly familiar, experiencing a kind of déjà vu. The iconography of Titian, Francisco de Goya, Ãdouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh and Egon Schiele can be found in the works compositional elements, motifs and color combinations. Michael ... More | | 
Fab 5 Freddys MTV Ring. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled the full contents of their inaugural Hip Hop auction, to be held live at 6PM EST on 15 September in New York. A celebration of the history and cultural impact of Hip Hop, the sale reflects on the impact the movement has had on art and culture from the late 1970s through the Golden Age of the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, and up to the present. Among the newly announced highlights in the sale include the iconic Salt-N-Pepa Push It jackets; visual artist, filmmaker and Hip Hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddys MTV ring made specially for Yo! MTV Raps; a private lyric writing lesson and studio session with the God MC Rakim Allah; a unique art installation by DJ Ross One entitled The Wall of Boom, which is comprised of 32 vintage boomboxes, and much more. The auction also features unique artifacts, contemporary art, one of a kind experiences, photography, vintage and modern fashion, historic and newly designed jewelry and luxury ... More |
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 Steidl to publish 'Orange' by Orhan Pamuk NEW YORK, NY.- The dominant color in Orhan Pamuk's new book of photographs is orange. When the Nobel-Prize-winning novelist is finished with a days writing, he takes his camera and wanders through Istanbuls various neighborhoods. He often explores the backstreets of his hometown, areas without tourists, spaces that seem neglected and forgotten, washed in a particular light. This is the orange light of the windows and street lamps that Pamuk knows so well from his childhood in Istanbul 50 years ago, as he tells in his introduction. Yet Pamuk also observes how the homely, cozy orange light is slowly being replaced by a new, bright and icy-white light from the more modernized light bulbs. His continuous walks in the backstreets is about recording and preserving the comforting effect of the old, disappearing orange light, as well as recognizing this ... More Adirondack Experience Museum hires long-time MASS MoCA Communications DirectorBLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, NY.- The Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake announced today that it has appointed Jodi Joseph, the long-time Communications Director for MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), as its Director of Communications and Partnerships. In her new role, Joseph will leverage her success in marketing museum programs and building destination tourism to expand visibility of and engagement with ADKX, which is spread across 24 historic and contemporary buildings on a 121-acre campus in the heart of the Adirondacks. Joseph will begin work at ADKX on September 28, 2020. Jodi has been incredibly successful throughout her career in building relationships with the communities in which she works and developing partnerships that have benefited both institutions and the publics ... More European Cultural Centre opens the first edition of the multidisciplinary outdoor exhibition 'Open Space'VENICE.- The European Cultural Centre presents the first edition of the multidisciplinary outdoor exhibition titled Open Space. The exhibition runs until February 16th, 2021 in the beautiful gardens of Giardini della Marinaressa. With this exhibition, the European Cultural Centre acknowledges the important influence of art and design on our lives, by highlighting the relationship with public spaces and communities. Open Space is an interdisciplinary project involving artists, architects and designers bringing small and large scale installations, adding uniqueness and cultural value to the city of Venice and meaning to its community. In such unprecedented times, the public space is cherished, in which Giardini della Marinaressa captures the spirit and atmosphere of a vivid cultural milieu in an open space in nature. The exhibited works invite visitors ... More The Ravestijn Gallery exhibits Patrick Waterhouse's acclaimed series Restricted ImagesAMSTERDAM.- The Ravestijn Gallery is presenting the first gallery exhibition of Patrick Waterhouses acclaimed series Restricted Images, made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia. The Restricted Images series is a collaboration between Waterhouse and the Warlukurlangu Art Centre. The works were made in the communities of Yuendumu and Nyirripi which are remote desert aboriginal communities in Central Australia. In 1899, the book The Native Tribes of Central Australia caused a sensation in Europe. Francis J. Gillen and W. Baldwin Spencer wrote about Aboriginal groups living near Alice Springs and illustrated their texts with 119 photographs. Whilst the images set a new standard for anthropological photography, the authors were oblivious to their local impact. The images infringed upon Aboriginal cultural beliefs by showing sacred ... More She gave up a lot to play OthelloNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jessika D. Williams has wanted to play the title role in Othello since she was a teenager. Now shes 35, with quotes from Shakespeare tattooed down both arms, and after years studying in Scotland, working in Britain and traveling the United States by van to perform in regional theaters, she finally got the part this summer, at the American Shakespeare Center, a destination theater in Virginias Shenandoah Valley. There was only one hitch, but it was a big one: the coronavirus pandemic. Actors Equity, the labor union representing performers and stage managers, barred its members from in-person performances around the country, citing safety concerns. The union then made a handful of exceptions, mostly in New England, where infection rates are low; the Virginia theater was among scores denied ... More 500 Gallery will hold an online auction of African tribal artFRANKLIN, MASS.- 500 Gallery will make a brief departure from its core business of fine art originals and attributions with the first in a series of all-tribal art auctions, online-only, on Wednesday, September 30th, at 5:30 pm Eastern time. The sale features African tribal sculptures and masks from the late 1800s through the mid-20th century. People can register and bid now, at www.500Gallery.com. The catalog a taut 60 lots is packed with rare examples of Bangwa, Dogon, Baule, Ibibio, Yoruba, Bakongo and Senufo art, gathered over the past few decades by a collector in Massachusetts. This auction has an abbreviated, teaser selection from a deep collection of African tribal art that will be coming to market over the next few years, said Bruce Wood of 500 Gallery, adding, Cataloging it has become a fascinating endeavor and we're looking ... More The Julia Stoschek Collection exhibits three parafictional short films by Jeremy ShawBERLIN.- Jeremy Shaws Quantification Trilogy consists of three parafictional short films: Quickeners (2014), Liminals (2017), and I Can See Forever (2018). The works are set in the future and explore how marginalized societies confront life after a scientific discovery has mapped and determined all parameters of transcendental spiritual experience. This is known as The Quantification. Employing aesthetics and outmoded media of the 20th century to depict the future, Shaws alchemical combination of cinema verité, ethnographic film, conceptual art, and music video invites the viewer to suspend their disbelief in the story, and provides a series of critical perspectives on systems of power. The Quantification Trilogy examines fringe culture, theories of evolution, virtual reality, neurotheology, esotericism, dance, the representation of the sublime, as well as the ... More Abdelkader Benchamma's first solo exhibition in Belgium opens at Galerie TemplonBRUSSELS.- This autumn, Galerie Templon's Brussels space is hosting Abdelkader Benchamma's first solo exhibition in Belgium. The artist is known for his use of black ink drawings, site-specific and often ephemeral, which interact and transform exhibition spaces into vast, strange landscapes, both physical and mental, shot through with subtle yet chaotic energies. For Signs, Benchamma has taken a step away from immersive wall painting to offer a new series of drawings and paintings on paper that explore the representation of miracles and beliefs through the ages, from ancient mythology to the digital era. The infinite variety of mythological signs invites us to view and interpret the image and its status in different ways: while a sign is a mark or a script, it also, and especially, bears witness to the impossibility of reading an event in a single ... More Film reveals Greta Thunberg as steely, funny and a secret dancerVENICE (AFP).- Greta Thunberg said Friday the weight of having to sound the alarm on climate change was "too much" for her or any child after a hugely surprising fly-on-the-wall film about her rise was premiered at the Venice film festival. The Swedish teenager allowed film-maker Nathan Grossman to follow her for a year after he met her in 2018 on the very first day of her schools' strike, sitting alone outside parliament in Stockholm with her homemade placard. In that time she went from being a self-confessed "shy nerdy person" to global icon. The resulting film, "Greta", reveals not only the inside story of the pain and risk Thunberg has put herself through for the climate cause -- braving death threats and a hair-raising North Atlantic crossing in a racing yacht -- but her love of breaking into dance and her gift for comedy. Thunberg told AFP that she hoped ... More 17th century token fetches highest individual price paid at any major London auction saleLONDON.- A Fleet Street halfpenny featuring the sign of the King of Sweden (King Gustavus Adolfus), believed to be the only known specimen, became the first 17th century token to achieve the highest individual price paid in any major London coin sale in a live/online auction of British Tokens, Tickets and Passes at International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb on Thursday, August 27, 2020. Bought by a UK dealer, the token which sold for £2,976 was part of the Collection of London 17th Century Tokens formed by the late Cole Danehower (Part II), was estimated to fetch £200-300, and had been found in the River Thames in 1991 [lot 10]. The sale comprised 759 lots and was 98.8% sold. The second highest price of the sale was paid for a very fine charming but crude London (City) octagonal Penny from Little ... More Galerie Urs Meile displays paintings as well as works on paper by Qiu ShihuaLUCERNE.- Galerie Urs Meile announced the opening of Empty / Not Empty, Qiu Shihuas (*1940, lives and works in Beijing, Sacramento and Shenzhen) first appearance since his last show seven years ago in our gallery in Lucerne. The most comprehensive exhibition of his works in the Swiss gallery to date displays oil on canvas as well as paper works spanning 25 years of his oeuvre with earlier pieces he painted in Beijing and Shenzhen until very recent ones from Sacramento. In the 1980s Qiu Shihua visited France and studied the works of the Impressionists. Qiu underwent an incredible development in the course of the 1990s, moving from traditional landscape painting to find a very personal style. An untrained eye might find in his work little more than an almost unmodulated white, but his minimalist style of painting has nothing ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Caspar David Friedrich was born September 05, 1774. Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. In this image: Two visitors watch the painting "Kreidefelsen auf Ruegen" from 1818 from painter Caspar David Friedrich at the museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, May 2, 2006. The exhibition "Caspar David Friedrich - Invention of romance" shows a retrospective of the great German painter from May 5 to August 20, 2006.
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