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Amedeo Modigliani, Red-headed Woman wearing a Pendant, 1918 (detail). Oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm © Collection Alicia Koplowitz - Grupo Omega Capital.
PARIS.- Similar to some of the largest private European collections from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the Alicia Koplowitz Collection Grupo Omega Capital is remarkable for its broad range and the impeccable taste of its owner. Devoted to antique, modern and contemporary art, this collections bears witness to Alicia Koplowitzs refined taste and her keen eye. Each new acquisition finds its place in this collection, like the missing piece of a puzzle that brings meaning and splendour to the whole. This exhibition takes us on a very personal journey and is presented as a chronological voyage through the collection, ranging from 16th-century Spanish painting to contemporary artworks, all handpicked by Alicia Koplowitz herself. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This combination of pictures created on March 3, 2017 shows a file photo taken on March 31, 2016, (top) of the amphitheatre in the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, and a photo (bottom) taken on March 3, 2017, of the amphitheatre displaying damage. STRINGER, JOSEPH EID / AFP
| Woolly mammoths suffered genetic 'meltdown' before extinction | | Rizzoli to publish exquisite volume on the beautiful, talented, and mysterious Dora Maar | | Fossils point to life on Earth 4 billion years ago | 
Woolly mammoths were once among the most common herbivores in North America and Siberia.
MIAMI (AFP).- Before woolly mammoths went extinct thousands of years ago, their dwindling population suffered a series of genetic mutations that hampered their ability to survive, researchers said Thursday. Woolly mammoths were once among the most common herbivores in North America and Siberia, but came under threat from increased hunting pressure and a warming climate. They disappeared from the Earth 3,700 years ago. Experts analyzed the genome of one of the last known woolly mammoths ever found -- a 4,300-year-old specimen from Wrangel Island, off the northern coast of Siberia. On the island, about 300 of the lumbering creatures were believed to exist even after mammoths went extinct on the mainland some 10,000 years ago. They compared the genes from this recent specimen to one that was far older -- from some 45,000 years ago -- and came from a population that was much more numerous and robust. "Here we got a rare chance to look at ... More | | 
Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso © Dora Maar by Louise Baring, Rizzoli New York, 2017; Photography © Dora Maar.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso is at once an important look at Surrealist photography and a richly illustrated biography of the beautiful, talented, and mysterious photographer Dora Maar, publishing to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of her death. In the skilled hands of art writer Louise Baring, the book heroically restores Maars photographs to their place in history, featuring never-before-published images, many from the Pompidou Museum in Paris, that showcase the magnitude of her photographic talent. Baring ushers readers through Maars unconventional childhood in Paris and Buenos Aires, where she was raised by a hot-tempered Croatian father and a fervent French Catholic mother. Born Henrietta Markovitch (the name Theodora was added on years later), she found herself drawn to the arts and attended art school with Henri Cartier-Bresson. By the ear ... More | | 
Haematite tubes from the NSB hydrothermal vent deposits that represent the oldest microfossils and evidence for life on Earth. The remains are at least 3,770 million years old. Photo by Matthew Dodd.
PARIS (AFP).- The oldest fossils ever found are "direct evidence" of life on Earth 3.8 to 4.3 billion years ago when our planet was still in its infancy, researchers reported Wednesday. Even at the lower end of the spectrum, "the microfossils we discovered are about 300 million years older" than any runners-up, said Dominic Papineau, a professor at University College London who made the discovery. The dating puts the fossils "within a few hundred million years of the accretion of the solar system," he said in a video statement. The results were published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. The fact that life kick-started not long after Earth formed suggests it could also emerge on watery worlds outside our Solar System at comparable stages of formation, the scientists said. "If life happened so quickly on Earth, then could we expect it to be a simple process that could start on other ... More |
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| 20th century art at Christie's achieves total to date of $200,923,354 | | Christie's Prints & Multiples auction to include a group of 30 David Hockney prints | | TEFAF Art Market Report 2017: Market shifts away from auction model towards dealer sales | 
The top work of the week was Paul Gauguins, Te Fare (La maison) which achieved £20,325,000 / $25,243,650 / 23,780,250. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- 20th Century at Christies opened to high energy in the salerooms resulting in a total to date of £161,929,636 / $200,923,354 / 189,443,774 for the Impressionist & Modern sales that took place at Christies from 28 February to 3 March 2017. A world record price at auction was achieved for René Magrittes La corde sensible, once in the collection of the esteemed art collector and patron Edward James, which sold for £14,441,348 / $17,936,155 / 16,896,378. Works from prestigious collections including the Personal Collection of Barbara Lambrecht, the Heidi Weber Museum Collection, the family of Max Ernst and the Art Institute of Chicago inspired spirited bidding. The Personal Collection of Barbara Lambrecht Sold to Benefit the Rubens Prize Collection in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Siegen was ... More | | 
David Hockney, Rue de Seine, 1971. Estimate: £10,000-15,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Christies Prints & Multiples auction includes a focus on two groups of work: David Hockney as Printmaker, featuring 30 prints charting over three decades of his extensive engagement with print media. The second group celebrates the counter-cultural spirit of American Post-War artists from the 1960s to the present day, and includes Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, , Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, James Turrell, Andy Warhol and Christopher Wool. Prices in the sale range from £3,000-150,000, providing an opportunity for collectors of every level to purchase work by leading artists. A highlight is David Hockney's Fish and Chip Shop (1954, estimate: £6,000-8,000), which was gifted by the artist to the proprietors of his local chippy, The Sea Catch, Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, while Hockney was studying at Bradford School of Art. This evocative work depicts ... More | | 
Röbbig at TEFAF Maastricht 2016.
HELVOIRT.- The overall picture of the art market in 2016 is of a sturdy, resilient market that is thriving despite global economic and political uncertainty, according to the TEFAF Art Market Report 2017. This year for the first time, the TEFAF Art Market Report has been prepared by Professor Rachel A. J. Pownall, who holds the TEFAF Chair in Art Markets at the School of Business Economics at Maastricht University. Professor Pownall also holds the Van Gogh Chair on Art Finance and Museum Management at TIAS School for Business and Society. The report is written in partnership with the Maastricht Centre of Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) at Maastricht University and is the only report to be able to use the aggregated artnet auction data. Professor Pownall will present the TEFAF Art Market Report 2017 at TEFAF Maastricht during the TEFAF Symposium on Friday 10 March. TEFAF Maastricht, the worlds leading ... More |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Art presents first museum retrospective of famed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro | | Marian Cramer Projects presents a new series of wall-based sculptures by Joe Frazer | | MacDougall's open Russian art gallery in London | 
Portrait of Guillermo del Toro at Bleak House. Photo: © Josh White/JWPictures.com
MINNEAPOLIS.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art presents an exhibition offering a rare glimpse into the mind and creative workings of famed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Del Toros first museum retrospective, Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, is on view at Mia March 5 to May 28, 2017. The exhibition reveals the creative process behind del Toros singular vision by bringing together elements from his films, objects from his vast personal collections, and drawings from his notebooks, alongside objects del Toro has selected from Mias permanent collection. Conceived and initiated by Mia and co-organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), At Home with Monsters features a diverse range of media, including sculpture, paintings, prints, photography, costumes, ancient artifacts, books, maquettes, and film. More than 500 objects are being featured. Th ... More | | 
Joe Frazer, Usually it's me who remembers these things. It's been me who reminds you and to know you remembered and will always remember took me back. Aluminium, dye, towelling, loofah.
AMSTERDAM.- Following Im not in the mood Joe Frazers second solo show at Marian Cramer's project space Its nice to be smiled at presents a series of new works wall based sculptures, a digital print and a collection of watercolour paintings. Working predominately in sculpture, Frazer makes elegant sculptures using a variety of materials and processes. The works act as autobiographical surrogates, repeated fashionings towards counterfeit mug-shots of the artist and his desires. Measured flamboyancy, particular embellishments and flirtations take centre stage. Using early work of Rietveld as inspiration the simple aluminium structures and primary colour planes act as bathroom vanity stations the polished metal acknowledging the chromed metal of bathroom towel rails. The colours of each unit ... More | | 
Boris Grigoriev, Russian Peasant Woman, from the series Visages de Russie, 1923. POA.
LONDON.- MacDougall's announced the opening of a gallery specializing in Russian art at its London premises. Located right in the centre of the capital, MacDougalls Gallery will open its doors to the public throughout the year and will run in parallel with regular auction operations. The gallery will serve as a dynamic platform for bringing together sellers, collectors and lovers of Russian art, who want to enjoy and buy it, learn and discuss it. With over twelve years of successful experience in Russian art sales at MacDougalls biannual and specialised auctions, MacDougalls Gallery will further promote sales of Russian art outside the established London Russian art auction seasons in June and November. The gallery will capitalise on MacDougalls extensive knowledge of the Russian art market and its profound connections with sellers and collectors alike. The gallery will have a large selection of works in its ... More |
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| Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens exhibition of new work by the artist Philip Buller | | The Museum of the City of New York launches app 'Digital Walk Through Gilded New York' | | Material Culture's auction features folk & self-taught art collections of film director Jonathan Demme | 
Philip Buller, Head Looking Down, 2017 (detail). Oil on panel, 36 x 24 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces Human Patterns, an exhibition of new work by the artist Philip Buller.. A painter whose practice is influenced by a range of artmaking techniques, Buller explores patterns of human experience and organization by recognizing their echo in visual patterns. Buller recently started working from found photographs that frequently feature crowds. Beach Memory (2016), for instance, is dominated by a network of interlocking bodies, both moving and stationary. While individual actors and groups are engaged in unique behaviors and interactions, when taken together, they produce a rhythmic, harmonious arrangement. Beyond the figure, Buller carefully attends to his paintings negative spaces, which not only are essential for describing a subject but contain truths in their own right. They also offer a back ... More | | 
A Walk Through Gilded NY is available for download on iPhone or Andoid devices today.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York launches its first-ever app, A Walk Through Gilded New York, a digital companion to the critically acclaimed exhibition Gilded New York. With actress Grace Grummer as a tour guide, A Walk Through Gilded New York allows users to take a time-traveling tour through the city, following the footsteps of turn-of-the-20th century tourists past the periods choicest shops, grandest hotels, largest mansions, iconic museums, and performance spaces. The app is built around stunning then-and-now photographs of the world that inspired Gilded New York, which opened in 2013 and inaugurated the Museums Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gallery. The exhibition offers a vivid exploration of the citys visual culture at the end of the 19th century, when its elite class expressed their status and cultural refinement through extravagant fashions, ... More | | 
Minnie Evans (North Carolina, 1892-1987), Profile at Sunset, 1946, colored pencil, ink, graphite on paper, signed and dated, 11.75 x 9 inches, Jonathan Demme collection. Est. $9,000-$12,000. All images courtesy of Material Culture.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- One world is enough for Material Culture, the Philadelphia auction house that respectfully celebrates the art of all nations and societies, past or present. On Sunday, March 19, the company will shine its spotlight on premier works from the folk and self-taught art collections of Academy Award-winning Hollywood director Jonathan Demme and his friend and past collaborator, the renowned movie set designer Ford Wheeler. I believe many motion picture professionals would argue that, between the two, Jonathan and Ford are the best eyes in Hollywood, said George Jevremovic, owner of Material Culture. Demmes phenomenal art collection has attracted headlines before, most notably in the run-up to a Material Culture sale ... More |
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 Bergen Kunsthall installs Matana Roberts' 'I Call America' BERGEN.- I Call America attempts to capture the perplexity of what it means to be American in the 21st century." The exhibition is Matana Roberts first in Europe and is based on a comprehensive project that was conceived during a residency at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and then realized as an exhibition at the Fridman Gallery in New York in 2016. Roberts belongs to a new generation of jazz and improvisation musicians who continue the strong tradition of African American avant-garde music in which political commitment, historical awareness and the spiritual or intellectual roots of creativity are inextricably linked. As an artist she prefers to use the term "experimentalist" rather than more historically charged expressions like "jazz musician." Her open-minded attitude to the act of creationwithin a range of different traditions and genresis clear in her intimate ... More Native American and Western artifacts and art at Big Spring Phoenix, March 11MESA, ARIZ.- A pair of Native American cradleboards (one Iroquois, one toy Crow), a tanned elk hide Cheyenne mens war shirt and an early 1900s 3rd Phase Navajo chiefs blanket are a few of the expected top lots at this years Big Spring Phoenix auction, planned for March 11th and 12th by Allard Auctions, at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites in Mesa, just outside of Phoenix. This years auction will feature 870 lots of Native American and Western artifacts, artworks and related collectibles. Lots 1-380 will come up for bid on Saturday, March 11th (starting 12 noon, Mountain time); lots 501-870 on Sunday, March 12th, starting at 10 a.m. Previews both days will start at 8 a.m. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and iCollector.com. The auction will feature all manner of rare and highly collectible Indian material, including baskets, rugs and weavings, pottery, ... More The Anita Shapolsky Gallery exhibits a selection of works by four 20th century masters of Latin American artNEW YORK, NY.- The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is presenting Latin Implosion! a selection of works by four 20th century masters of Latin American art, including Rodolfo Abularach, Mario Bencomo, Pérez Celis, and Agustin Fernandez. Each of these four artists seeks to explore the sensory overload within each human interaction or experience. Histories of exile, repatriation and diaspora transform the works into vehicles for re-imagining the most intimate aspects of these contested psychic spaces. Each artist depicts their narrative through the gaze of personal mythology and visual language, with the physical and spiritual worlds dancing together within each frame. With Latin Implosion!, the gallery is thrilled to continue its legacy as a pioneering space for the exposure and appreciation of the lucid dreamers of Latin America. Born in Guatemala in 1933 and of Palestinian descent, ... More Exhibition features artists engaged in investigative, forensic, and documentary artNEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition aims to articulate a particular form of realism in art that portrays and reveals evidence from complex social systems. The truth-seeking artworks featured explore the notion of evidence and its modes of representation. Evidentiary Realism on view at NOME Gallery + Fridman Gallery in NYC reflects on post-9/11 geopolitics, increasing economic inequalities, the erosion of civil rights, and environmental disasters. It builds on the renewed appreciation of the exposure of truth in the context of the cases of WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, the Panama Papers, and the recent efforts to contend with the post-factual era. Contemporary sharing and processing of information in an open global collaborative environment entails an amplified sense of reality. Leaks, discoveries, and facts are collectively verified and disseminated among numerous distribution ... More Lisson Gallery launches a second space in New York with installation by Haroon MirzaNEW YORK, NY.- For his first solo exhibition with Lisson Gallery New York and to launch a second space in the city, British artist Haroon Mirza presents an installation highlighting his recent exploration of the perceptual distinctions between noise, sound and light as experienced through the transformative use of psychotropic plants. ããã Fear of the Unknown remix inaugurates Lisson Gallerys new venue in New York, five blocks south of the gallerys location under the High Line on 24th Street, which opened in May 2016. The new installation continues the themes Mirza began to explore during a two-month residency at PIVà in São Paulo, Brazil, last year. For the iteration at Lisson Gallery Tenth Avenue, ããã Fear of the Unknown remix draws on his work in Brazil and integrates new footage and subject matter which addresses the current global political climate. The ... More Pinakothek der Moderne announces Korea: Design + Poster: A presentation by Die Neue SammlungMUNICH.- Explosion and chaos or Land of the Morning Calm? Design in South Korea oscillates between these extremes. With selected objects Die Neue Sammlung is presenting design, handicrafts and posters from South Korea for the first time, beginning with the 1980s. In South Korea design encompasses both craftwork and the design of industrial products, which enjoy great prestige in a country that has advanced from the poverty of the post-War era to become an industrialized nation. The Korean approach to arts and crafts was initially characterized by the search for simple beauty in an everyday product. As such, the sublime simplicity of Korean porcelain objects is just as fascinating as the gently flowing forms of metal vessels. Delicate pieces of jewelry made of unusual materials and handcrafted to perfection lead the way into another dimension, hitherto ... More Montreal-based artist Karine Giboulo's first solo exhibition in Europe on view at Art MürLEIPZIG.- Art Mûr is presenting Karine Giboulos first solo exhibition in Europe. The Montreal-based artist creates elaborate miniature worlds that are reminiscent of dioramas and ethnographic museum displays. Behind their precious scale and warm colours are harsh observations and critiques of the worlds economic and social ills. In the discourse of contemporary art, the migrant occupies a liminal position only available in theory. Existing within the in-between space of Nation and State, culture and unculture, possessed and dispossessed, they embody a subjectivity consistently objectified and as a result rarely understood, rarely the object of empathy. To be nowhere yet everywhere, nearby however far, and forever drawn to a situation most of us take for granted a peaceful existence in the absence of threat, starvation, genocide, execution, persecution ... More First focused investigation of Gustave Baumann's influential presence in California on view in PasadenaPASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art is presenting Gustave Baumann in California. The first focused investigation of Gustave Baumanns (1881-1971) influential presence in California, the exhibition emphasizes the artists affinity for the natural landscape of the United States as well as the intricate elements of his unique approach to printmaking. Trained in the German tradition of woodblock printing, Baumann adapted his skills to American subjects and became a pioneer in the development of color woodcuts in the U.S. An expressive carver and exceptional colorist, Baumann employed dramatic shifts of light, color, and pattern. The exhibition features approximately 35 works, including graphite, tempera, and gouache studies; woodcuts; and progressive proofs as well as Baumanns chosen printing press, the Midget Reliance. Hung alongside ... More Gallery 16 in San Francisco opens exhibition of works by Jonn HerschendSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Your Lost Shoe is Jonn Herschends first solo show since 2011. He wanted you to know that it has been a while. Hes been distracted. Heres what its about: Its about a love triangle between Mark, Lisa and the Narrator of the show. Heres also what it is about: Its about everything that happened since the last solo show (which took place at Steven Wolf Projects in 2011 and was called The Book You Said I Never Returned, which attempted to provein the form of a gallery exhibitionthat the narrator had in fact returned a book that he borrowed from Lisa). One can consider it a sort of update on how things have shaken out with Mark, Lisa and the Narrator. The show also involves Marks lost shoe. The show is also a sort of adaptation of Shakespeares As You Like It. It can also be said that the show is a further exploration of narrative structure, ... More Somalian, Seattle-based gallerist wins inaugural Presents Booth PrizeNEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show and Athena Art Finance Corp. announced Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (Seattle) as the winner of the inaugural Presents Booth Prize. The Presents Booth Prize, supported in its inaugural year by Athena Art Finance, is a new initiative recognizing an outstanding and innovative gallery presentation within the Presents section of the fair. By a majority decision, the international jury of collectors and curators awarded Mariane Ibrahim Gallery a $10,000 prize for its exemplary solo-presentation of multi-media works by Zohra Opoku, a German and Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist living and working in Accra. Opokus work employs media including installations, photography and video to explore the sophistication of textile cultures in disparate spaces, targeting fashions political and psychological role and socio-cultural dynamics in ... More In Belfast, street art battles community riftsBELFAST (AFP).- From the art of war to the art of peace: for decades Belfast adorned its walls with huge community murals marking the bloody history of the Northern Irish conflict. But the murals springing up across the city centre have another aim -- helping to erase the Catholic-Protestant divide. "I grew up in front of these political murals and I thought that my goal was to take the city and make it look completely different," street artist Glenn Molloy, a former DJ, told AFP. Instead of guns, paramilitaries and clenched fists, his murals in the city centre feature portraits of celebrities like Jack Nicholson, Bruce Lee and David Bowie. With little hope in sight that this week's elections in Northern Ireland will end a bitter political stalemate, Molloy said his work is aimed at celebrating the positive. "I wanted to give something positive, bright, cheerful, something that the people ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born March 05, 1696. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. In this image: Two employees carry a rediscovered painting by Giambattista Tiepolo, titled 'Portrait of a lady as Flora', as they prepare to put it on display at Christie's auction house in London, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. The painting lost for over 200 years and found in the attic of a French chateau is to be auctioned in a sale on Dec. 2, and is expected to fetch between GBP 700,000 to 900,000 pounds (USD 1.1 to 1.4 million; euro 836,000 to 1.1 million
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