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The exhibition is available online at www.aronson.com/greeka
AMSTERDAM.- Of the approximately 30 ceramics factories in the city of Delft towards the end of the 17th century The Greek A was surely one of the most innovative and international. They had of course ample funding as they could count King William and especially his wife Queen Mary among their enthusiastic clientele. In their 200 year existence the factory had several owners, many of them related, and the generations handed down the pursuit of perfection. Aronson Antiquairs of Amsterdam, specialists in Delftware, dedicates an online exhibition to this factory, viewable from Sunday June 16th around midday CET. In 1658 Wouter van Eenhoorn began pottery production in the former brewery known as De Griex A on the Geer near De Metaale Pot (The Metal Pot) factory, creating what was to become a dynastic business and the most successful of all the early Delft factories. Although it is not certain whether Wouter used a mark ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on June 3, 2019, shows pictures of the four-face Mecca clock at the Clock Tower Museum in the Saudi holy city of Mecca. Overlooking the Kaaba, a black structure inside the Grand Mosque towards which Muslims around the world turn to pray, the four-storey Clock Tower Museum, opened a month ago. It is filled with models and structures on astronomy and galaxies, as Saudi authorities aim to lure more Muslim tourists to the country. Bandar ALDANDANI / AFP
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 | | Internationally acclaimed exhibition reveals the radical evolution of Monet's final decade | | Milwaukee Art Museum opens first retrospective of influential New York artist James Nares | | LACMA opens first major U.S. survey to examine the history of Korean calligraphy | 
Claude Monet, Weeping Willow and Water Lily Pond, 191619. Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 70 3/4 in. (200 x 180 cm). Private collection.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Monet: The Late Years is the first museum exhibition in more than 20 years dedicated to the final phase of Monets career. Through approximately 50 paintings, the exhibition traces the evolution of Monets practice from 1914, when he embarked on a reinvention of his painting style that led to increasingly bold and abstract works, up to his death in 1926. The Kimbells deputy director, George T. M. Shackelfordone of the foremost experts on 19th-century French artis the curator of the exhibition, which brings international loans from major public and private collections in Europe, the United States and Asia. Monet: The Late Years is on view at the Kimbell Art Museum from June 16 through September 15, 2019, in the Renzo Piano Pavilion. Monet: The Late Years includes more than 20 examples of the artists beloved water-lily paintings. The exhibition also showcases many other extraordinary and unfamilia ... More | | 
James Nares, Crosstown Traffic, 2013. Thermoplastic on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin Gallery.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The first retrospective for New Yorkbased artist James Nares is on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum this summer. James Nares: Moves, on view June 14 through October 6, 2019, is the first exhibition to explore in depth the artists films as central to his artistic practice. Nares has dedicated his five-decades-long career to focusing attention on motion by variously creating, capturing, and manipulating, as he describes it, things in motion, motion in things. His video Street, from 2011, and single-brushstroke paintings, from the early 2000s, have brought broader, popular attention to the British-born artist through online video channels and an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; both show Nares bringing a filmic perspective to his work, an approach he first established as a young artist in New York in the late 1970s. Looking at an artist such as James Nares and bringing greater attention to his work ... More | | 
Yoon Kwang Cho, Heart sutra, 2001, Red clay, Whiteslip, Coiling, Incised on mixture, 41.5 x 25 x 82 cm, © Yoon Kwang Cho, Photo courtesy Gana Art Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing, the first major U.S. survey to examine the history of Korean calligraphy. Beyond Line explores the role of calligraphy in Korean society by looking at the lives and legacies of writers from prehistory until the present day, a narrative spanning nearly 2,000 years. Featuring nearly 90 works, the exhibition focuses on the peopleroyalty, scholars, diplomats, monks, and artistswho produced calligraphic works in a variety of mediums including paper, stone, ceramic, wood, metal, lacquer, and textile. The exhibition demonstrates the important historic and social role of writing and calligraphy in Korean society and how calligraphy has developed as an art form throughout Korean history. Beyond Line is curated by Dr. Stephen Little, ... More |
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| | | Toledo Museum of Art presents first exhibition to focus on car culture with emphasis on the Midwest | | Bonhams achieves world auction record for a presentation copy of Darwin's On the Origin of Species | | Columbus Museum of Art celebrates watercolorist Alice Schille | 
John Baeder, Stardust Motel. Oil on canvas, 1977 (detail). 58 x 70 in. Yale University Art Gallery, Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935, Collection Modern and Contemporary Art, 2008.19.762. Courtesy of the artist and OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
TOLEDO, OH.- The rise of the automobile as a popular visual symbol of American culture is being explored in Life Is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture. The exhibition features approximately 125 works of art in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, film, prints and drawings and a diversity of artists and perspectives, drawn from the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art along with important loans from many other North American institutions. The exhibition is on view June 15-Sept. 15, 2019, at TMA, the exclusive U.S. venue. This project is the first U.S. exhibition to provide an inclusive, historical overview of artists inspired by American car culture with an emphasis on the Midwest region. Mapped across four thematic focal points, Life is a Highway brings ... More | | 
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray, 1859. Price realized: $500,075. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- A fine first edition, early presentation copy of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection sold for $500,075, a world auction record for a presentation copy of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in New York on June 13. It had been estimated at $200,000-300,000. The 302-lot sale achieved a total of $1,270,890 and was sold 85% by lot and 94% by value. Ian Ehling, Director Books and Manuscripts, comments: This extraordinary presentation copy had been carefully stored in a private collection for nearly 100 years. It generated lots of interest during the exhibition and we saw competitive bidding in the auction room. After a four-way bidding battle, the book sold to a client on the telephone. Upon publication in 1859, a number of presentation copies were sent to family and colleagues, including one to ... More | | 
Alice Schille, Mother and Child in a Garden, France, c. 1911-12. Collection of Ann and Tom Hoaglin.
COLUMBUS, OH.- More than 50 works, many of which have not been exhibited for decades, comprise In a New Light: Alice Schille and the American Watercolor Movement, on view June 14 to Sept. 29, 2019, at the Columbus Museum of Art. The exhibition honors the Columbus natives 150th birthday and her contribution to the American watercolor movement, offering new critical insights on this remarkable artist. In addition, the illuminating exhibition explores Schilles travels, teaching and her steadfast advocacy for womens suffrage. In a New Light is organized by CMA with Guest Curators James Keny and Tara Keny with the assistance of CMA Roy Lichtenstein Curatorial Fellow Daniel Marcus. Were thrilled to have this exhibition at Columbus Museum of Art, said Nannette Maciejunes, CMA executive director. Schilles work is visually arresting, was recognized in its time and had profound influence ... More |
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| | | The Frye Art Museum exhibits American oil paintings around 1900 from its permanent collection | | Space exploration auction features Apollo 11th 50th anniversary artifacts | | Exhibition of more than 130 works showcase Alberto Giacometti's genius | 
Thomas Eakins. Maybelle, 1898. Oil on canvas. 24 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. Frye Art Museum, 1958.011.
SEATTLE, WA.- Drawn from the Frye Art Museums permanent collection, End of Day presents a selection of approximately 20 portrait and landscape paintings by American artists based primarily in the northeastern United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The works in the exhibition span the fifty-year period between the Civil War and First World War, a time of profound social, economic, and political change marked by rapid industrialization, urbanization, and Americas rise as an international superpower. Against this backdrop, the images offer sentiments that oscillate between an embrace of progress and a sense of nostalgia for what was perceived to be a simpler, bygone American era rooted in rural traditions, with many expressing ambivalence toward the complexities of modern life. End of Day highlights an eclectic array of styles and influences, from the steady, refined brushwork of the Hudson River School ... More | | 
Extremely rare 70-mm positive film roll from Magazine S of the Apollo 11 Hasselblad camera, containing 126 of the most iconic images from the first lunar-landing mission.
BOSTON, MASS.- Boston-based RR Auction honors the Apollo 11 astronauts, their predecessors and those who made the historic mission possible, and their enduring legacy in manned spaceflight during its June 13-June 20 sale. With over 500 lots highlighted by autographs, hardware, and flown artifacts, this auction brings to life the history of the space program. Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module 'Eagle' touched down on the surface of the moon. Astronaut Neil Armstrong descended the spacecraft's ladder and spoke his immortal words: 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' Buzz Aldrin soon followed behind him, and the two became the first earthly beings to set foot upon another celestial body. Included in the sale is an extremely rare 70-mm positive film roll from Magazine S of the Apollo 11 Hasselblad camera, containing ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti, Annette Without Arms (Annette IX), 1964. Bronze. The Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, UK, UEA 49 © Estate of Alberto Giacometti/SOCAN (2019).
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents its headline exhibition this summer, Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time from June 16 to September 29, 2019. This wide-ranging exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings and lithographs by Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) examines the pre-and post-war career of one of the greatest sculptors of the first half of the twentieth century. Presented on the Gallerys first floor, it showcases Giacomettis works alongside the ancient sculptures that served his imagination, and works by famed artists with whom he was in dialogue. Giacomettis dedication to the medium of sculpture continues to impact the art world, says Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. In his work, this relentless and eccentric master captured the profoundness of the human ... More |
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| | | Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center opens 'Alastair Noble: A Message in a Bo(a)ttle' | | Rare $75,000 silver dime found in sunken treasure | | From the Rooftops: Hyde offers sky-high exhibition | 
This cross-disciplinary exhibition features Environmental/Installation Artist Alastair Noble, complemented by Hudson River School Painter Sanford Robinson Gifford, early drawings on loan by hometown hero Edward Hopper, boat building with Jonathan Richer, and sculptures thematically related to the exhibition curated by Eric David Laxman.
NYACK, NY.- Edward Hopper House is presenting an immersive multi-media exhibition focusing on interpretations of life along the Hudson. The cross-disciplinary exhibition features environmental / installation artist Alastair Noble, complemented by Hudson River School painter Sanford Robinson Gifford, early drawings on loan by hometown hero Edward Hopper, boat building with Jonathon Richer, and sculptures thematically related to the exhibition. Inspired by Edward Hoppers boyhood fascination with yachts and other sailing boats, Alastair Noble constructed an installation of paper boats and poetic messages which is being exhibited as a flotilla suspended from the gallerys ceiling and flowing across the gallery floor. ... More | | 
A rare 1856 San Francisco Mint silver dime, tied for the finest known surviving example and valued today at about $75,000, was among the sunken treasure coins recently discovered from the last recovery expedition to the fabled S.S. Central America. Photo: Professional Coin Grading Service www.PCGS.com.
BREA, CA.- The S.S. Central America, the famous Ship of Gold that sank in 1857 carrying tons of California Gold Rush-era treasure, continues to reveal astonishing numismatic surprises. The latest find is an extremely rare, mint condition Liberty Seated design silver dime struck in 1856 at the San Francisco Mint and now valued at $75,000. Recovered in 2014 with thousands of other dimes in the ship pursers iron lock box but only recently examined and cataloged by experts, the coin now has been authenticated and certified by Professional Coin Grading Service as Mint State 65 (on a 1 to 70 scale). It is one of only two known at that high grade and with none higher. The 1856-S dime has an incredibly rare mintage of only 70,000; a mere $7,000 in face value. This example ... More | | 
Louis Ribak, Manhattan Rooftops, c. 1930, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches. Palmer Museum of Art, Gift of Steven and Stephanie Wasser, 2017.102.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection is exhibiting From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space, organized by the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, from June 15 through September 15. The Melting Pot of early twentieth-century New York City lured hopeful immigrants to the burgeoning city, where many took to the tenements with the rest of the working class. The citys poor began to find refuge on the rooftops from the claustrophobia, summer heat, and lack of fresh air in the citys cramped sweat shops and apartments. Ashcan School painter John Sloan (18711951) was, perhaps more than any other American artist in the first half of the twentieth century, preoccupied with New York City rooftops. In From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space, some of Sloans most iconic works are celebrated. Sloan grew up in a working-class family and understood well the gritty desperation ... More |
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 Exhibition of photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick opens in BaltimoreBALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents an exhibition of photographs by New Orleans natives Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick. On view June 16October 27, 2019, Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick features the husband-and-wife teams poignant and celebrated photographs of life and labor practices at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the largest maximumsecurity prison in the United States. The exhibition features approximately three dozen mostly black-and-white images and videos that record the exploitation of the men incarcerated at the Angola prison farm while also revealing the nuances of their individual narratives. Included among these works is a remarkable group of portraits, images of living and working conditions in the prison ... More Bradley Hart's solo exhibition Deconstructing Seurat on view at Anna Zorina GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery is presenting Bradley Hart's solo exhibition Deconstructing Seurat. The artist expands his Masters Interpreted series by honing in on Georges Seurats iconic Neo-Impressionist work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Harts latest body of work investigates the minute aspects of the seminal 19th Century Pointillist painting by presenting multiple facets through a contemporary lens. Through his Masters Interpreted series, Hart reinvents recognizable artworks that may not be seen in real life but rather frequently on a screen. La Grande Jatte is a familiar painting with a scope that far extends outside the Art Institute of Chicago through its repeated appearance on the Internet, TV and film. The artist reconstructs Seurats Pointillist painting method through the matrix of bubble wrap, bringing the Neo ... More Ancient Resource Auctions' Antiquities Discovery sale to be held on June 29thMONTROSE, CA.- Ancient Resource Auctions online-only Spring Antiquities Discovery Auction on Saturday, June 29th, at 9 am Pacific, is packed with around 375 lots of authentic, museum-quality and well-provenanced items from various Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Near Eastern, and Pre-Columbian cultures, as well as other ethnographic and antique items. Also featured will be a selection of antique and ancient reproduction pieces. This sale is a wonderful opportunity for seasoned collectors looking to add to their collections, or anyone thinking of starting an antiquities collection, said Gabriel Vandervort of Ancient Resource Auctions. There are great bargains to be had across all the major categories. All lots may be viewed and bid on now, via Ancient Resource Auctions bidding platform, at bid.AncientResourceAuctions.com, and on its bidding ... More The Photographers' Gallery opens TPG New Talent exhibitionLONDON.- The eight UK-based artists are: Rhiannon Adam, Chiara Avagliano, Alberto Feijóo, Adama Jalloh, Seungwon Jung, Alice Myers, Giovanna Petrocchi and Miguel Proença. They were selected from an open submission process, initially by TPGs curatorial team, and finally by the esteemed US artist Jim Goldberg. An exhibition of their work is on show at the Gallery from 14 June - 6 October 2019. TPG New Talent (TNT) was launched in 2019 by The Photographers Gallery as a way to identify and champion under-recognised or emerging UK-based artists and photographers who use photography as a key part of their practice. It continues a tradition of programmes designed by TPG to support practitioners and confirms an ongoing commitment to ensuring new photographic practices are given a public platform. Showing a range of approaches ... More American University Museum summer shows openWASHINGTON, DC.- Summer shows at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center opened June 15 and close Aug. 11. Plans to Prosper You: Reflections of Black Resistance and Resilience in Montgomery Countys Potomac River Valley is a collaboration between American University graduate students and members of several historic black communities in Northwest Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. Each of the communities was founded by formerly enslaved individuals, and most current community members trace their ancestry to those Reconstruction-era founders. This unique multimedia exhibit examines the role of the black church in social change. It aims to shine a light on the little-known histories of the communities and to spur dialogue around the various forms of structural racism and the proud resistance that ... More GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen opens an exhibition of works by Mattia Denisse BREMEN.- Mattia Denisse was born in France in 1967 in Blois, the town of Jean Eugène RobertHoudin1, Denis Papin2 and René Guénon3. Since 1999 he is based in Lisbon and made numerous trips through the Brazilian Amazon River region and the islands of Cape Verde from there. The mainly graphic and textual works he produced after these extensive journeys show the realism of a fieldworkers notebook. They document the impressions of exotic landscapes and vegetations as well as the myths and collective narratives, finding their way into his fantastic worlds of images and ideas. Literary influences of the French avant-garde likewise play an important role, especially Alfred Jarry, the founding father of Pataphysics as the the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their ... More First planted American D-Day flag tops $162KDALLAS, TX.- The first American flag planted on Omaha Beach in northern France on World War IIs infamous D-Day soared to $162,500 to lead Heritage Auctions Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Auction June 9 in Dallas, Texas. The sale totaled $1,157,991.25 and boasted sell-through rates of more than 95 percent by value and lots sold. A flurry of competitive bidding boosted the result for D-Day: First American Flag Planted on Normandy Beachhead with August 1944 Newspaper Documentation to more than three times its pre-auction estimate. It was planted by First Sergeant John E. Horvath when thousands of Allied forces stormed the beach in Normandy. The flag was sold along with a copy of a newspaper article in which Horvaths wife is pictured after she received the flag from her husband. This is among the most significant and important ... More Ponti Art Gallery presents masterpieces by Giovanni Battista Costantini and Gino MarottaROME.- Ponti Art Gallery is offering important masterpieces coming from several private collections. The selection starts from a masterpiece by the greatest exponent of Roman painting of the first decade of the 20th century, Giovanni Battista Costantini, Wedding procession, vital and joyful painting, dedicated to the theme of feast day, to the representation of a village Sunday, depicts the wedding procession, in a large-format work, in which Costantini photographs with absolute acribia a local tradition probably of Abruzzese atmosphere linked to the rite of marriage: the analysis conducted by the painter on the costumes of women in the foreground as well the physiognomic characterization of each character represents a proof of his vocation as an artist called to represent the peasant world with absolute fidelity. The further important artworks offered ... More Ippodo Gallery opens a solo exhibition of over 50 pieces by Shin FujihiraNEW YORK, NY.- As a legend in the field of ceramic art, Shin Fujihiras impact on Japanese ceramics was profound. His whimsical works lived in an imaginative world of their own and, since his death in 2012, only a very small number of exhibitions have showcased them. Therefore, Ippodo Gallery presents Shin Fujihira: Ethereal Clay, a solo exhibition of over 50 pieces by Shin Fujihira, ranging from the early 1980s to the late 2000s, on view June 13 until July 21 in New York. For this special occasion, the gallery essays in the shows catalogue by Glenn Adamson, curator and Elizabeth Essner, who is an independent curator, writer and researcher specializing in modern and contemporary design and craft. Fujihiras legacy was shaped early on by a few key, formative circumstances. His family owned a studio in the well-known ceramic area of Kyoto, Gojozaka, ... More 32 artists take over Brooklyn's oldest brewery this summer BROOKLYN, NY.- This June, curator Madeleine Mermall brings her latest group exhibition to Brooklyns oldest brewery. On view from June 15th through July 6th, SPF 32 features thirty two emerging and mid-career artists, on view at the William Ulmer Brewery, 81 Beaver Street, Brooklyn, New York. Featuring primarily female painters, the works presented explore themes of summer through imagery that evoke the seasons experiential lexicon. Summers visit is both amiable and oppressive: its sweet sap that envelops us in its hazy warmth is at first a welcome delight that, as the heat and humidity take their most formidable positions, turns cloying. Golden afternoons sweat away into slick, metallic evenings: city lights set against luminescent skies that fade fast into an inky black mimic the flicker of the lighting bugs that meander about the darkening fields and forests. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. In this image: Irving Penn, Leontyne Price, New York, 1961, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © Condé Nast.
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