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| | The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum exhibits small format works by JoaquÃn Sorolla | |
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JoaquÃn Sorolla Bastida. JoaquÃn, MarÃa y Elena Sorolla GarcÃa , 1897. Ãleo sobre tabla. Museo Sorolla, nº inv. 00422.
BILBAO.- JoaquÃn Sorolla (Valencia, 1863-Cercedilla, Madrid, 1923) painted almost 2,000 oils on tiny pieces of cardboard, panels, paper or canvasno larger than 20 x 30 cmwhich he called 'observations', 'patches of paint' or 'colour notes'. They are always related to the artist's work at every time in his career, although they cannot strictly be considered preparatory paintings for subsequent compositions. Therefore, they are like a record of Sorolla's way of looking and the best synthesis of his pictorial interests. This type of note was often used by great artists throughout the 19th century, and Sorolla also used it throughout his life as a way of exercising his skill, as well as serving as invaluable testimony of his freest and most private works. As shown in numerous photographs, Sorolla saved these small works in his studio and often gave them to his admirers, donated them to charitable causes or exchanged them with other painters. Yet many of them were also shown and sold at h ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artist Doug Argue teamed up with Byta to offer these bottles and cups. They started Byta to change the way we drink on the go. to stop throwing away so many cups and bottles. to carry something we love. to change our habits and give back to organizations making a difference for our planet. By choosing byta, youÂre choosing to help rid the world of the 500 billion disposable cups produced every year and 1 million disposable cups that end up in landfills every minute. Photo: Sam Deitch
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 | | Jerry Herman, composer of 'Hello, Dolly!' and other hits, dies at 88 | | Sue Lyon, star of 'Lolita,' is dead at 73 | | For a collector, it's 'love at first sight' | 
Jerry Herman in An Evening with Jerry Herman, a career retrospective that was his last Broadway show, at the Booth Theater in New York, in 1998. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Jerry Herman, the Broadway composer-lyricist who gave America the rousing, old-fashioned musicals Hello, Dolly! and Mame in the 1960s and Broadways first musical featuring gay lovers, La Cage aux Folles, in the 1980s, died Thursday at a hospital in Miami. He was 88. His death was confirmed by Jane Dorian, his goddaughter. Herman wrote music that left the nation singing rich melodies with powerful lyrics that stopped shows, dazzled critics, kept audiences returning for more and paved Broadway with gold for producers and performers. To millions, he was the postwar theaters clearest successor to Irving Berlin, a throwback to an era of songwriters who touched the heart with sophisticated simplicity, bringing audiences to their feet at curtain calls and sending them home humming ... More | | 
Sue Lyon, who at 14 was cast in the title role of Stanley Kubricks Lolita, a film version of Vladimir Nabokovs eyebrow-raising novel about a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 73.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Sue Lyon, who at 14 was cast in the title role of Stanley Kubricks Lolita, a film version of Vladimir Nabokovs eyebrow-raising novel about a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 73. Phil Syracopoulos, a longtime friend, announced her death. He said she had been in declining health for some time. Lyon accumulated more than two dozen film and television credits from 1959 to 1980, but she was known primarily for one: Kubricks 1962 film of the Nabokov novel, which was adapted for the screen by Nabokov himself. Some 800 girls were said to have sought the part. When Lyon was cast, Nabokov, employing the word he used in the novel, called her the perfect nymphet, although he ... More | | 
Olusanya Ojikutu, who works in the tech sector and both collects and creates art, at home in Bowie, Md. Emma Howells/The New York Times.
BOWIE, MD (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The white living room in Olusanya Ojikutus home, with its soaring cathedral ceiling, is a temple to his traditional and contemporary African art. Sculptures bookend the sofa, paintings and prints decorate the walls, and the overall atmosphere is one of beauty, historic grandeur and repose. Most of Ojikutus sculptures are at least a century old, created for performances or rituals. They served as intermediaries between the local people and their ancestors spirits to make their lives better and protect them from evil forces in this world and beyond, he said. Among the dozens of sculptures are a metal Kota reliquary guardian figure from Gabon, a wood Bamana Chi Wara headdress from Mali and a wood-fiber Bwa plank mask from Burkina Faso. African art has long been seen as a monolith, but it really has many different origins, said Ojikutu, who is also an artist. It should be recognized as more nuanced and coming from the ... More |
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the first U.S. exhibition of Félix Vallotton's work in nearly 30 years | | Christie's to offer the Jane and Kito de Boer collection | | Rembrandt etchings acquired for the nation | 
Félix Vallotton, Self-portrait at the Age of Twenty, 1885. Oil on canvas, 70 x 55.2 cm. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Acquisition, 1896. Inv. 620. Photo © Nora Rupp, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne.
NEW YORK, NY.- In darkly suggestive paintings and graphically spare prints, Félix Vallotton (18651925) chronicled fin de siècle Paris like no other artist of his generation. He lampooned the bourgeoisie with acerbic wit and laid bare the urban turmoil of a society in flux. Swiss born and Paris educated, Vallotton was a highly original artist whose diverse talents have never been fully recognized. In the first U.S. exhibition of his work in nearly 30 years, Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquieton view at The Metropolitan Museum of Artprofiles pivotal moments in the artists career as a painter and printmaker through some 80 works of art from more than two dozen lenders. His compelling portraits, interiors, still lifes, and landscapes engage us in their comedy and ... More | | 
Jane and Kito de Boer. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- During New Yorks annual Asian Art Week in March 2020, Christies announces an additional single-owner auction, A Lasting Engagement: The Jane and Kito de Boer Collection, offering more than 150 works of Indian art from the prestigious collection of Jane and Kito de Boer. This is the largest and most important single owner sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art that Christies has had the pleasure to announce in this field in the last few years. A live auction, which will take place on 18 March, will be accompanied by an online sale, offering additional works from the collection between 13-20 March. A strong selection of highlights will be on view at Christies India representative office during Mumbai Gallery Weekend, taking place from 9 to 12 January, and then exhibited at a preview at the Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi on 31 January and 1 February, coinciding with the India Art Fair. Speaking about their co ... More | | 
Detail of The Adoration of the Shepherds (1654) by Rembrandt.
LONDON.- Working in collaboration with the Old Master Prints specialists and the Valuations team, Christies Heritage and Taxation experts negotiated the acceptance in lieu of six etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn, which have been allocated to National Museums NI for display at the Ulster Museum. This is a particularly fitting acquisition, being completed in the year of the 350th anniversary of Rembrandts death. This is the first time that any works by Rembrandt have entered these collections and demonstrates the importance of the scheme to provide works of significance for the public to view. Included amongst the etchings is The Adoration of the Shepherds which will go on display with immediate effect in an exhibition entitled Masterpieces of Dutch Landscape Painting at the Ulster Museum, together with Sixs Bridge. The works will remain on display until 26th January ... More |
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| | Master Drawings New York announce 2020 highlights from the world's leading fine art dealers | | Exhibition showcases an important selection of works from the collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles | | Christie's launching new publishing initiative in 2020 | 
Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599 1641), Mary Barber, later Lady Jermyn (d. 1679) , ca. 1637. Oil on canvas 48 x 3¼ in. (122 x 94.5 cm) Image courtesy The Weiss Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty-five of the worlds leading international art dealers have announced highlights to be exhibited at the highly-anticipated 2020 edition of Master Drawings New York. The event takes place from Saturday, January 25th through Saturday, February 1st, 2020, on Manhattans Upper East Side, with the Preview on Friday, January 24. Some of the most influential names in the business, some exhibiting for the very first time, are dedicated to drawings, paintings, watercolors, sculpture and oil sketches from the 14th to the 21st centuries. Now in its 14th year, the annual week-long event presents an exciting showcase of concurrent pop-up gallery exhibitions by visiting dealers from London, Paris, and Vienna, and special presentations mounted in private gallery spaces by top New York specialists. These take place in galleries mostly along Madison Avenue ... More | | 
The bodhisattva Manjusri, Java, AD 800 to 850. Bronze © Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781 1826) spent most of his career as an East India Company official in Southeast Asia. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Java in 1811 and assumed the Lieutenant Governorship of Sumatra in 1818. Raffles is credited as being the founder of modern Singapore but remains a controversial figure, particularly for his policies. When he was Lieutenant-Governor of Java, for example, he ordered troops to attack the most powerful court, which still has consequences to this day. Over time, he has been viewed as a scholarly expert on the region, a progressive reformer, a committed imperialist and an incompetent colonial official. He was also an avid collector of objects from the region, particularly amassing material from Java. He acquired objects to show his European audience that Javanese society was worth colonising. The exhibition showcases an important selection of Hindu-Buddhist antiquities, different types of ... More | | 
Existing client behaviour underpins this shift with over 52% of all lots acquired at Christies already being purchased by clients who did not receive any print materials. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies is launching a new publishing initiative to significantly reduce print materials. The initial focus will be on the continued evolution of catalogue production and circulation with a goal of 50% reduction in print over the course of 2020. The reduction will be paired with increased investment in digital capabilities and experiences from immersive property presentation to transactional experiences. Nearly all Christies global client base are now digitally engaged on a transactional basis with a complete collecting experience online. From engaging general content to our detailed catalogues, bidder registration and post-sale processes, all can be accessed via screens of choice. While recognising broader efforts are required to continue to address our overall environmental impact, this initiative provides the opportunity to significantly reduce print materials ... More |
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| | A dazzling decade for jewellery at Sotheby's: 10 years of record-breaking sales total $4.7 billion | | The MAK Vienna opens an exhibition devoted to the late period of the ukiyo-e | | Galerie Karsten Greve St. Moritz opens an exhibition of sculpture by Joel Shapiro | 
Record for a diamond and any jewel sold at auction The CTF Pink Star ($71.2 million). Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- As 2019 draws to a close and on the eve of 2020, Sothebys international Jewellery division is marking ten years of record-breaking results, and celebrating a decade which has redrawn the boundaries of the auction market for diamonds and jewels. Embraced by an ever-expanding globalized audience and propelled by the digital revolution, show-stopping treasures have achieved unprecedented prices: the ten most valuable jewels ever sold at Sothebys all came under the hammer in the last ten years. These pieces were offered across sales locations of Geneva, New York and Hong Kong, and have found new homes in collections around the world. The last ten years have seen a complete transformation of the jewellery auction market and without a doubt, this has been a defining decade in my 40-year career at Sothebys. We have rewritten the rulebook for our sales, connecting with collectors ... More | | 
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Fashionable Taste in these Days, 18301840 © MAK/Georg Mayer.
VIENNA.- For the 150th anniversary of Austrian-Japanese friendship the MAK exhibition KUNIYOSHI +: Design and Entertainment in Japanese Woodblock Prints is devoted to the late period of the ukiyo-e. The shows main spotlight is on one of the most important and innovative artists of the nineteenth century, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 1861). Selected prints from the extensive woodblock print collection in the MAK show his works so to speak as creative response to the great political and social changes in Japan in the nineteenth century. The exhibition also deals with Kuniyoshis collaboration with contemporary artists, including Hiroshige and Kunisada, also his impact on the themes and style of the following generation in the Meiji period. Kuniyoshis multifaceted and innovative oeuvre is illustrated in eight sections. Kuniyoshi is the central personality in the history of woodblock prints at the ... More | | 
Joel Shapiro, Untitled, 63,5 x 77,5 x 46,4 cm. Image courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve.
ST. MORITZ.- Galerie Karsten Greve St. Moritz dedicates the second solo exhibition to the work of American sculptor Joel Shapiro. Shapiro is considered one of the most important sculptors of his generation: over the course of an artistic career that spans more than 45 years, he has created an oeuvre, which, through his stimulating use of scale and shape configurations, is unmistakable in character. Some works are composed of enormous cast bronze blocks or massive wooden beams that suggest architectural elements, while others, hanging from the wall or ceiling and made of various pieces of wood conjoined with wires, nails, and screws, are delicate and light in their toy-like format the seemingly spontaneous results of sculptural bricolage. These fragile forms are occasionally reminiscent of the folded paper of origami objects. With the disintegration of the tangible spatial parameters, Shapiro also ... More |
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 "Zen motorcycle" takes final journey into the Smithsonian's collectionsWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History will be the new home of American author Robert M. Pirsigs 1966 Honda Super Hawk motorcycle featured in his book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values. Pirsigs book, originally published by William Morrow in 1974, has sold more than 5 million copies and has been translated into 27 languages. The inspiration for Zen stemmed from a monthlong road trip Pirsig (19282017) took with his 11-year-old son Chris in 1968. As they rode along the 5,700 miles from the Twin Cities of Minnesota to San Francisco and back, Pirsig became better acquainted with his son and himself. The book kick-started an international cultural movement to rethink how people interact with technology and find balance in life. Stored for decades in the familys New England ... More New exhibition highlights the unsung achievements of female paleontologistsWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History is hosting a new exhibition that highlights the unsung achievements of female paleontologists and examines the obstacles they face because of their gender. Challenging the Face of Science: The Bearded Lady Project offers visitors the opportunity to see female scientists at work and evaluate societal stereotypes concerning gender and professional roles. The exhibition opens Nov. 14. The Bearded Lady Project is a traveling exhibition composed of a series of 38 black-and-white portraits taken by photographer Kelsey Vance alongside a short documentary. The photographs showcase female paleontologists conducting their research in the field, laboratories, offices and museums. The paleontologists posed for the large-format camera wearing fake beards ... More 'Soft Power': When political art walks a very fine lineSAN FRANCISCO (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- An ambitious survey of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Soft Power dusts off a Reagan-era term for cultural diplomacy and applies it to political art being made today. The show, featuring 20 artists from 12 countries, feels of a piece with the most recent Whitney Biennial in casting artists as engaged citizens, savvy persuaders and skilled communicators. And like the Whitney exhibition, it occasionally rubs up against the limits of soft power at a moment when museums, among other institutions, are being transformed by hard activism. Soft Power is, at the very least, a transformation of SFMoMAs programming to a more contemporary and global outlook. The museums biggest exhibition to date, it is the first one organized by Eungie Joo, who became SFMoMAs first ... More UNTITLED, ART San Francisco announces fair programming and special projectsSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- UNTITLED, ART announced a diverse public program of performances, workshops, and conversations for the fourth edition of UNTITLED, ART San Francisco. In addition, the fair will feature Special Projects by participating galleries, the return of the Books & Editions section after its 2019 debut, and a number of additional partnerships, including Withersworldwide, the presenting partner of conversations held in the Podcast Lounge. The fair will take place for the second consecutive year at San Franciscos historic Pier 35 on The Embarcadero, from January 1719, 2020, with artwork available by modern and contemporary artists presented by an international roster of galleries and nonprofit foundations. As we developed the programming for the fourth edition of UNTITLED, ART San Francisco, we wanted to think strategically about how ... More Ketterer Kunst anniversary year with world records and results in the millionsMUNICH.- Total proceeds of around 62 million Ketterer Kunst closes the anniversary year 2019 with this more than appropriate result. We were able to strengthen and expand our leading position on the German art auction market mainly because of three key factors: We beat our own record from last year by around 15%. We had the best-selling auction in Germany for the third consecutive time. We realized the highest individual hammer prices in the millions, states Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. He continues: We look ahead at 2020 with great optimism and confidence. Ketterer Kunst is the best market place for German Art of the 19th, 20th and 21st Century, as well as for Rare Books. But thats not all the records that Ketterer Kunst set in 2019: The remarkable amount of 114 objects scored a price of at ... More Dix Noonan Webb to hold their first auction devoted to Indian coins and historical medalsLONDON.- Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists will be holding their first auction devoted to Indian Coins and Historical Medals. The auction will be held on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 10am at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. The sale will comprise four collections - Coins of the Indian Sultanates (Part II); Indian Coins from the Collection of the late John Roberts-Lewis; Indian Coins from the Collection of John Rose and Indian Historical Medals from the Collection formed by Michael Shaw as well as Indian Coins from Various Properties. Among the highlights is, from the Collection of the late John Roberts-Lewis, a very rare and fine double-rupee from the Madras mint, dating from 1807 which has been overstruck on a Spanish-American Lima 8 Reales (coin) of Charles IV ... More French government offers concessions to striking dancers of Paris OperaPARIS (AFP).- With France gripped by strike action crippling the transport system in a dispute over pensions reform, news emerged Saturday of the latest government concessions -- to striking ballet dancers at the Paris Opera. News of the offer added to a series of concessions made to striking workers in different sectors, as the strike entered its 24th day. But the government is still insisting it will maintain the main thrust of the reform -- to replace more than 40 separate pension schemes with a single points-based system. Financial daily Les Echos revealed Saturday that Culture Minister Franck Riester and Laurent Pietraszewski, the junior minister leading the pensions reform project, had written to the head of the Paris Opera. They proposed that the pensions reforms only come into force for dancers recruited after January 1, 2022, according ... More The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair to take place for the 8th time this JanuaryLONDON.- Once again, dealers are gathering for the first quality London fine art and antiques fair of the year. The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6JP for four days from Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 January 2020. This annual event, taking place for the 8th time, attracts collectors, interior designers and discerning individuals from around the world. Some 40 exhibitors, most of whom are members of BADA or LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers, are gathering to present their finest stock, which includes period, Art Deco and mid-century furniture, antique and 20th century jewellery, traditional and contemporary paintings and sculpture, clocks and vintage watches, early to modern glass and silver, decorative ceramics, antique enamels, tapestries and many other interesting ... More Foam exhibits work by the winner of the 13th Foam Paul Huf AwardAMSTERDAM.- Eric Gyamfi (1990, Ghana) is the winner of the 13th Foam Paul Huf Award, which is awarded annually by an international jury to talented photographers under the age of 35. Gyamfi uses a wide array of visual techniques to create visual narratives that hover somewhere in between autobiography and fiction. His work comprises collages, texts, audio and photographs developed according to various methods, including cyanotype and silk screen printing. His portraits and diaristic installations are highly personal, yet transcend the artists individual experience. Foam invited Gyamfi to apply his scrapbook aesthetic to the walls of the museum. The resulting installations are opaque and multi-layered, blurring the boundaries between storytelling and documentary photography. The photographic image is presented as a powerful ... More VisionQuesT 4rosso opens an exhibition of photographs by Guia BesanaGENOA.- Photography is not simply a tool to give back a reality, nor to synthesize images in time. It is a want to add a chapter to a broader path of personal research, with which to deliver autobiographical experiences by translating them into universal themes. By looking back at the super 8 movies of her childhood, and focusing on a scene where she is dragged by her mother across the runway, and then on to a plane that disappears into the sky, Guia Besana wants to represent the fear of flying, but in the deepest sense the universal fear of not having control over time. Her images freeze frames of a larger narrative almost like fragments of a film. In these images one can perceive two scenes in time: a dilated time in which the subjects/objects are staged in reflective or immobile situations; and a more precipitous time, in which the subjects/objects ... More Circulation(s): Festival dedicated to emerging photography in Europe announces 10th editionPARIS.- Circulation(s) is the festival dedicated to emerging photography in Europe. Each year, at the Centquatre-Paris and satellite sites in France and abroad, it reveals the vitality of young creation and speaks for the diversity of photographic expressions through unique exhibitions and events. A stepping stone for artists, a prospective and innovative laboratory of contemporary creativity, Circulation(s) has become, over the past 10 years, a must-attend photography event and a trend revelator. Since its inception in 2011, the festival has exhibited over 382 artists and attracted over 300,000 visitors with an ever-growing aspiration to be an approachable event of high standards. The tenth anniversary edition will take place from 14 March to 10 May 2020. This year, Audrey Hoareau, an independent curator, has been appointed as the art director ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was born December 29, 1896. David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros, December 29, 1896, in Chihuahua - January 6, 1974, in Cuernavaca, Morelos) was a Mexican social realist painter, better known for his large murals in fresco. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he established "Mexican Muralism." In this image: Unfinished 1940s mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros, in Escuela de Bellas Artes, a cultural center in San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
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