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Greek Boeotian terracotta horse and rider, circa 575 to 550 BC. Estimate: $1,800-$2,700.
BOULDER, COLO.- Artemis Gallery will conduct a Holiday Charity Auction and donate 100 percent of the sales total or a minimum donation of $25,000 to Community Food Share. The organizations mission is to eliminate hunger in Colorados Boulder and Broomfield Counties. This special online auction of more than 200 lots of ancient and ethnographic art will take place Tuesday, Dec. 25. Each item boasts impeccable provenance and is offered with the gallerys unconditional guarantee that it is authentic and legal to purchase, own, and if desired, resell.
One of the many auction highlights is an Egyptian faience overseer ushabti from the Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 25th Dynasty. The mummiform figure wears a tripartite wig while holding two picks and a seed bag across the back. The top hieroglyph, that of an ox tongue, signifies that this shabti was designated as an overseer, perhaps to monitor the other workers w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors walk past a "Winged Victory" statue in the lobby of the German History Museum in Berlin on December 19, 2018. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
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 | | Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou takes a fresh look at Cubism | | Exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue explores large-scale abstract painting, sculpture, and assemblage | | Exhibition provides rare opportunity to see works from the acclaimed Manton Collection of British Art | 
Juan Gris, Le Petit Déjeuner, October 1915. 92 x 73 cm. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Philippe Migeat/Dist. RMN-GP.
PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou takes a fresh look at one of modern art history's founding movements, Cubism (1907-1917), through a comprehensive overview. The first exhibition devoted to Cubism in France since 1953, the project's originality lies in its unusual stance, broadening a standpoint usually focused on its two inventors, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, to other artists. These pioneers, soon followed by Fernand Léger and Juan Gris, reserved their ground-breaking experimental work for a small-scale gallery run by a young unknown dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, while artists like Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Robert and Sonia Delaunay brought the movement to the attention of critics and the public through their contributions to the Paris Salons. The exhibition highlights the rich inventiveness and wide variety of the movement. Not only did it introduce a geometric approach ... More | | 
Jackson Pollock. Number 28, 1950 (detail), 1950. Enamel on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, in honor of her grandchildren, Ellen Steinberg Coven and Dr. Peter Steinberg, 2006 © 2018 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- On view at The Met Fifth Avenue, Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera begins in the 1940s and extends into the 21st century to explore large-scale abstract painting, sculpture, and assemblage through more than 50 works from The Met collection, a selection of loans, and promised gifts and new acquisitions. Iconic works from The Met collection, such as Jackson Pollocks classic drip painting Autumn Rhythm (1950) and Louise Nevelsons monumental Mrs. Ns Palace (196477) are being shown in conversation with works by international artists, such as Japanese painter Kazuo Shiraga and the Hungarian artist Ilona Keserü. The exhibition is punctuated with special loans of major works by Helen Frankenthaler, Carmen Herrera, Shiraga, Joan Snyder, and Cy Twombly. ... More | | 
John Constable (English, 17761837), The Wheat Field, 1816 (detail). Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 30 3/4 in. Clark Art Institute. Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.27.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 17751851) and John Constable (English, 17761837) rose to prominence as landscape artists in early nineteenth-century Britain. Their inspired subjects, their distinctive compositions, and their innovative brushwork combined to elevate a genre traditionally considered less important than history painting and portraiture. Turner and Constable: The Inhabited Landscape, on view at the Clark Art Institute December 15, 2018March 10, 2019, explores the significance of human figures and the built environment in the landscape, as well as the personal significance of specific places to each artist. The exhibition features more than fifty paintings, drawings and watercolors, prints, and books, a beautiful selection of which are on loan from the Yale Center for British Art and the Chapin Library at Williams College. The works in the show are primarily drawn ... More |
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| | | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquires 250 works for permanent collection | | Is this what gave Banksy the idea for his shredding stunt? | | SFMOMA opens an exhibition devoted to exploring the early concepts and plans of The Sea Ranch | 
Hale Woodruff (American, 19001980), The Banjo Player, 1929 (detail). Oil on canvas, 23 ¾ à 28 ¾ in. (60.33 à 73.03 cm). The J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced a number of new significant acquisitions to its collections, including works by Nick Cave, Frederic Edwin Church and Hale Woodruff. In addition to several other notable acquisitions this quarter, the purchase of Frederic Edwin Chuchs View on the Magdalena River allows VMFA to greatly enhance the museums holdings of one of the most important American landscape painters of the nineteenth century. The gift of Nick Caves Untitled (Soundsuit) and the purchase of The Banjo Player, an early canvas by Harlem Renaissance painter Hale Woodruff, reflect VMFAs strategic plan goal to bolster significantly its collection of works by African-American artists. We are thrilled to add these wonderful works of art to VMFAs collection, says VMFA Director Alex Nyerges. The Church and Woodruff represent transformative ... More | | 
In the email exchange Darren Julien suggested the idea of destroying artworks. The email is dated February 13, 2015.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A video Banksy posted on Instagram after the Girl With Balloon picture shredding event at Sothebys shows the shredding mechanism being assembled into the frame and states that the frame was constructed A few years ago.This timeframe tallies with an email exchange between Darren Julien CEO of Juliens Auctions in the US and Pest Control the elusive Banksy authentication service in the UK. In the email exchange Darren Julien suggested the idea of destroying artworks. The email is dated February 13, 2015. Pest Control wrote back asking: Is this some sort of joke? Darren Julien says: One can only wonder if my email to Pest Control in 2015 about destroying artworks might have triggered his astonishing response
to actually destroy one of his paintings as a coup de théâtre. It has certainly worked to further raise his profile and increase the value of his works. ... More | | 
Rush House interior, 2018; photo: © Leslie Williamson.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- One hundred miles north of San Francisco, perched on the edge of 10 miles of rugged, wind-swept California coast, is a touchstone of 20th-century architectural historyThe Sea Ranch. Conceived in 1964 by developer Al Boeke and a group of Bay Area architects, landscape architects and graphic designers including Charles Moore, Joseph Esherick, William Turnbull, Lawrence Halprin and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, this development was founded as the antithesis of suburban sprawl. With the open-minded optimism of 1960s California as a jumping-off point, The Sea Ranch was designed as a modern model community combining affordable living with exemplary architecture and a shared commitment to live lightly on the land. On December 22, 2018, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism, an exhibition devoted to exploring the early concepts and plans of this ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Museum Rietberg showcases 2,500 years of Buddhist art and culture | | Rare ancient funerary plaque with corrections subject of new scholarly research | | Brazilian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: Artists and curator announced | 
Buddha Shakyamuni. Western Tibet 12th/13th century, brass alloy, permanent loan, collection Berti Aschmann © Museum Rietberg.
ZURICH.- What you have always wanted to know about Buddhism: Who was the Buddha? What did he teach? What are the hallmarks of Buddhism? How did Buddhism spread across the world? What kind of rituals do Buddhists perform in everyday life? These are just some of the questions the major exhibition Next Stop Nirvana Approaches to Buddhism at the Museum Rietberg seeks to answer. It showcases 2,500 years of Buddhist art and culture. Around a hundred remarkable sculptures, paintings, written works, and objects from numerous Asian countries and regions (China, Himalayas, India, Japan, Myanmar, among others) tell of the beginnings of Buddhism in India and its subsequent spread, first across Asia, then to the Western world. The rich testimonies are ... More | | 
Riccardo Bertolazzi describes the unpublished stone as having come from an Augustan-age underground columbarium (where cremated remains of pagan Romans were stored).
BOSTON, MASS.- A rare, marble memorial stone from first-century Rome, inscribed in Latin on each side more than a century apart, has drawn the attention of a classical scholar who finds the inscriptions, and especially the corrections chiseled into the text, extremely uncommon. Writing in the latest issue of the Germany-based Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy), Riccardo Bertolazzi, an Italian-born classicist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, describes the unpublished stone as having come from an Augustan-age underground columbarium (where cremated remains of pagan Romans were stored). Such stones were usually inscribed on one side only, but the object of this study is "opisthographic," or two- ... More | | 
Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Estas vendo coisas, 2016.
SAO PAULO.- The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro as curator of the Brazilian participation at the 58th Venice Biennale, in 2019. To represent Brazil at the worlds oldest art biennial, Pérez-Barreiro curator of the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo selected the artist duo Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, who will develop a film commissioned for the occasion. The promotion of Brazils artistic and cultural wealth abroad is a key concern for the Ministry of Culture; the joint effort by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and the Fundação Bienal for the realisation of Brazils representation at such a prestigious venue as the Venice Biennale is vital for this, says Minister of Culture Sérgio Sá Leitão. The excellence of the exhibitions presented at the Brazilian Pavilion is widely ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus explores Surrealism in Switzerland | | Vancouver Art Gallery announces 334 acquisitions to its permanent collection in 2018 | | Solo exhibition of the Swiss artist Daniele Buetti on view at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art | 
Jean Viollier, L'épouvantail charmeur III, 1928. Ãl auf Leinwand, 71 x 51 cm. Association des Amis du Petit Palais, Genève © 2018, ProLitteris, Zürich. Photo: Patrick Goetelen, Genève.
AARAU.- Is there such a thing as Swiss Surrealism? This first major survey exhibition on the subject answers the question with 400 selected key works and surprising new discoveries by some 60 Swiss artists. After a historical introduction the exhibition shows, in nine atmospheric themed rooms, how Surrealist achievements and pictorial inventions have shaped art into the present day. Surrealism A magical, enticing concept. But what lies behind it? We might think of the melting clock faces of Salvador DalÃ, the dream figures of René Magritte and the mysterious landscapes of Max Ernst. From the ranks of Swiss artists Meret Oppenheims fur cup is lodged in the collective memory. Alberto Giacometti, with his oppressive objects and cages, did much to shape Surrealist sculpture. But Swiss Surrealism? The exhibition Surrealism Switzerland ... More | | 
Brian Jungen, Warrior 4, 2018, Nike Air Jordans, copper, leather, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with funds from the Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund and the Jean MacMillan Southam Art]
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announces the recent acquisition of an impressive 334 works to its expanding collection in 2018, the majority of which were gifted through the generosity of private donors. Some of these notable pieces include a photo series by Sarah Anne Johnson, recently presented works by Elad Lassry, a portfolio of works by Fred Herzog, as well as contemporary works by Indigenous artists Brian Jungen, Sonny Assu, and Wayne Alfred. The Gallery is proud to add remarkable works of art to its collection due to an outpouring of support by donors from Canada and abroad in 2018, says Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. These gifts further strengthen the collection, especially our holdings of contemporary artworks by BC-based artists and prominent ... More | | 
Are you talking to me - aw, 2018. Pigment-Print, cutted, mirror, framed, 91,5 x 75,5 cm. Unique.
FRANKFURT.- Bernhard Knaus Fine Art is presenting the solo exhibition of the Swiss artist Daniele Buetti. Shown are works of the new series "Don´t talk to me". In the middle of the portrait - nothing. No, an empty room. Daniele Buetti has cut out the face and inserted a mirror surface. If we stood in front of it, we would be reflected in it. "Do not talk to me", the faceless nature rules us. No, it's not about dialogue. Not a verbal exchange between two persons, whose faces reflect the statements of the other person. Instead, we look at ourselves. Let's face it, with what eagerness and excess today smartphones are drawn and selfies are snapped, we realize: We live in a thoroughly narcissistic age. Or, to use a term of the sociologist Andreas Reckwitz, in a time of "singularization" of all possible life decisions. We are driven by the constant need to make one's life as something special. All around we meet with outrageous self-centeredne ... More |
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 Mona Museum of Old and New Art set to show six exhibitions this summerHOBART.- Mona opened two new exhibitions in November. British artist Toby Ziegler is presenting his exhibition Your shadow rising, and French artists Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni return to Mona with The Everted Capital, the second part of their epic project, The Unmanned. Over the peak summer tourist season Mona will reveal six exhibitions a record for the museum. Mark Wilsdon, Co-CEO, Mona said: We are looking forward to another busy tourist season. Our museum curators have put in a huge effort to ensure every gallery space is open over the holiday period. There will be plenty for our visitorsboth first-time and those returning to Monato experience. Your shadow rising includes paintings, sculptures and a video work that focus on themes of fire and transformation. A key feature is a large sculpture of a hand titled The human engine, suspended ... More The Border Project Space in Brooklyn opens "Color Matters II": A group showBROOKLYN, NY.- The Border Project Space presents Color Matters II, a group show featuring the work of William Bradley, Noriko Mizokawa and Pilar Uribe from December 21, 2018, to January 21st, 2019. Color Matters II is the second part of Colors Matters which recently closed at Galerie Richard, in the Lower East Side, and gathered seven painters: Koen Delaere, Carl Fudge, Dennis Hollingsworth, Kim Young-Hun, Jamie Martinez, Noriko Mizokawa, and Joseph Nechvatal. Both exhibitions emphasize the diversity of artistic choices and the singularity of each artist in their color decisions. With two solo exhibitions at Galerie Richard in New York in 2013 and 2016, the presentation of his works in the collection of the Rema Hort Mann family in Tribeca, William Bradley made his name in the New York art scene. However, this is the first exhibition dedicated ... More "In King Matt's Poland" on view at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish JewsWARSAW.- Is it worth talking to children about freedom, statehood or co-responsibility? When should you start? How to go about it and what really is the point? POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews invites you to a unique exhibition addressed to both children and adults. The exposition creates a space for intergenerational debate, individual discoveries and gaining experience through action. The 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence provides an occasion to reflect on the toils and challenges of rebuilding a state, and to recall the remarkable figure of Janusz Korczaka pedagogue, social activist and proponent of childrens rights. The exhibition encourages its visitors, both big and small, to venture into the enchanted world of Korczaks novel King Matt the First and invites them to a fascinating meeting with the little king, full of engaging ... More Lin & Lin Gallery presents 'Chen Chieh-jen: After the Financial Crisis and Automated Production'TAIPEI.- Lin & Lin Gallery is presenting Chen Chieh-jen's After the Financial Crisis and Automated Production. This is the third solo exhibition of Chen Chieh-jen in Lin & Lin Gallery. Since financial capitalism and technology completely joined together to create the financial-technological capitalist system, new forms of administrative technology with unprecedented power to permeate both systems and individual consciousness have developed. This has made it possible for the corporatocracy to manipulate contemporary society and the perceptions, desire, and thinking of its individuals. Is there a way for people to get out from under this situation? Presented in two galleries, this exhibition includes Notes on the Twelve Karmas (19992000/re-edited 2018), Star Chart (2017), and A Field of Non-Field (2017), in which Chen considers these difficult issues. Chen ... More Exhibition at Craft in America Center traces the deep roots of craft in California's historyLOS ANGELES, CA.- Rooted: Craft Origins from the California Episode is an exhibition tracing the deep roots of craft in California's history and the roles of native plant life as inspiration for various art traditions. From Pomo basketry to the Arts and Crafts movement and contemporary art, craft defines California culture. Through its plants, California provides a richness of physical material that artists have adopted and manipulated over centuries. With Pomo basketry, there is a deep understanding of the plant life that it takes to make the baskets. Master Pomo basket weaver Corine Pearce explains in our CALIFORNIA episode, "Baskets are the plants, and you have to have good material." She masterfully uses the sedge root to connect her ancestors with the next generation of artisans. Pearce's incredibly skillful baskets are physically made from ... More Sotheby's & Miss Porter's School announce an all-women artist benefit auctionNEW YORK, NY.- Miss Porters School, the nations leading, all-girls private high school, has announced plans for a fundraising initiative, gathering modern and contemporary artworks by more than 25 pioneering female artists to be sold together as the centerpiece of Sothebys Contemporary Curated auction on 1 March, 2019. The offering will represent the first-ever all-women benefit auction at a major auction house. Following the pre-sale exhibition opening in Sothebys New York galleries on 22 February, 2019, the works will be auctioned to support financial aid that enables emerging female leaders to attend Miss Porters School and go on to shape a changing world. Details on individual works and a full list of artists will be released in early 2019. Agnes Gund 56 and Oprah Winfrey, longtime supporters of Miss Porters School, will serve as Honorary ... More 'Inhabiting the Mediterranean' on view at the Valencian Institute of Modern ArtVALENCIA.- Beyond the idyllic view of the Mediterranean Sea portrayed in the early 20th century by northern painters who were fascinated by its light, the Mediterranean has encompassed a superimposition, mingling and confrontation of languages, cultures and religions since the beginning of history. It is also an urban context, consisting of historic cities that have been destroyed and rebuilt, illusory holiday agglomerations and camps of people who do not have access to the city. The Mediterranean has been a home for citizens since ancient Greece, which involves rejection of people who make it possible for the city to live but to whom the status of citizen is not granted, and it forms the setting for habits and customs and ways of life, shaped by a habitat that allows them to breathe or constricts them. The Mediterranean Sea is water that runs deep. Inhabiting ... More Donna Huanca's work leads visitors from artificial light to darknessVIENNA.- The Belvedere invited emerging artist Donna Huanca to create a multisensory cosmos of sculpture, painting, video works, sound, and olfactory elements, including live performances within the historic rooms of the building. The Bolivian-American artists work leads visitors from artificial light to darkness. In the former private chambers of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Donna Huancas mise en scène juxtaposes the self-asserted display of male power and virility with a female universe. The Baroque palace has become the setting for a journey from light to dark, symbolizing the movement from superficial perception to insight and understanding. Stella Rollig, CEO of the Belvedere and curator of the exhibition, explains her motivation in presenting the innovative project: We see the Belvederes reputation and attraction as a mandate to showcase ... More Explore Money Museum from comfort of homeCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- Money derives its value by being a medium of exchange, a unit of measurement and a storehouse for wealth; it can be a shell, a metal coin or a piece of paper. Money also provides a substantial record of the history and culture of civilizations dating to ancient times. The American Numismatic Associations (ANA) Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colo., is a treasure trove of such artifacts. In its three main galleries, visitors can see spectacular rarities and explore the diverse nature of money as it relates to art, history, science and much more. For those unable to visit in person or hoping to see a temporary exhibit that has since closed, the museum offers a dozen fascinating virtual exhibits and tours that can be enjoyed free of charge from the comfort of an overstuffed chair. Trenches to Treaties: World War I in Remembrance is the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh was born December 23, 1908. Yousuf Karsh, CC (December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer best known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. In this image: Yousuf Karsh, Ford of Canada (surgeons), 1951.
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