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A box that had been used for munitions was found filled with ice. As glaciers melt and shrink in the Alps of Northern Italy, long-frozen relics of World War I have been emerging from the ice, found in cave barracks not far from the frigid summit of Mount Scorluzzo, which reaches more than 10,000 feet over sea level in Northern Italy, near Switzerland. White War Museum, Adamello via The New York Times.
by Jacey Fortin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As glaciers melt and shrink in the Alps of Northern Italy, long-frozen relics of World War I have been emerging from the ice. They include cups, cans, letters, weapons and bones with the marrow sucked dry. They were found in cave barracks not far from the frigid summit of Mount Scorluzzo, which reaches more than 10,000 feet above sea level in Northern Italy, near Switzerland. The Austro-Hungarian soldiers who occupied those barracks were fighting Italian troops in what became known as the White War. There in the Alps removed from the more famous Western Front, a site of bloody trench warfare between Germany and France troops climbed to precarious heights in the stinging cold to carve fortifications into the rock and snow. The weather that tested the troops on Mount Scorluzzo ultimately preserved their barracks, freezing the entrance shut after soldiers abandoned their post at the end of the war in 1918. The structure was essentially impenetrable for decades until 2 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Treating the gallery as a kind of automobile showroom, Graham's installation of models at 303 Gallery allows the viewer to become both participant and spectator in perceiving the space physically and psychologically in relation to other spectators. As Graham put it in a recent interview with Antoine Catala, "In my own work, walking around is important because not only do you see yourself seeing in the reflection, but you also see other people seeing each other as you see them."
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| Leonardo da Vinci's Head of a Boar to be offered at Christie's London in July | | Mainland China and U.S. collectors catapult Lark Mason Associates sale to $1,744,570 on iGavelAuctions.com | | Hindman's May Fine Art auctions realize over $7.4 million & set new records | 
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Head of a Bear (detail). Estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Leonardo da Vincis Head of a Bear will be offered for sale at Christies in London as a highlight lot in the Exceptional Sale, taking place live on 8 July. This penetrating study of a bears head, one of less than eight surviving drawings by Leonardo still in private hands outside of the British Royal Collection and the Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth, measuring 2 ¾ x 2 ¾ inches (7 x 7 cm), it is executed in silverpoint on a pale pink-beige prepared paper, a technique which Leonardo was taught by his master Andrea del Verrocchio. The drawing will be on public exhibition at Christies in Rockefeller Centre in New York from Saturday 8 May and then move on to be shown at Christies Hong Kong from 20 25 May. It will then go to London where it will be on view from 1 6 June prior to the Exceptional sale where it is expected to sell for £8,000,000-12,000,000. The drawings distinguished hi ... More | | 
A Qing white jade vase, associated with the Kangxi/Yongzheng period with archaistic straps in imitation of archaic bronze vessels of the Western Zhou period.
NEW YORK, NY.- The two-session sale of rare Chinese 18th century cloisonné, huanghuali furniture, snuff bottles and archaic jades presented by Lark Mason Associateswhich closed on April 27th and 29th achieved $1,744,570 in sales including buyers premium. With a 78% sell-through of the 486 lots, over a third of which went into extended bidding, the final hammer exceeded original estimates by six to tenfold. This sale had a number of superb works of art and the competitive bidding and final prices reflected this, says Lark Mason. Now that the pandemic is ending, collectors are once again focusing their attention towards buying quality Asian art. Among the standout lots that caught the eye of one Asian buyer was a magnificent pair of Chinese cloisonné ewers, with a Qianlong mark, which rang up $425,000 over its estimate of $30,000-50,000. According to Mason, a similar shaped example ... More | | 
Woman with Flowering Branches, 1920. Alphonse Mucha. (Czech, 18601939). Price Realized: $456,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions presented its spring Fine Art sales this week, realizing more than $7.4 million across three days of sales, beating presale estimates, and setting global auction records. A renowned selection and competitive international bidding brought fantastic results. Strong engagement with works by artists such as Alphonse Mucha, Edward Willis Redfield, Jim Nutt, Bernard Frize, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella drove remarkable prices to conclude a successful series of auctions. Property from the Collection of Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth (Atlanta, Georgia), the Estate of Avis Hope Truska (Scottsdale, Arizona), the Miriam B. Swanson Trust (Chicago, Illinois), and the Collection of Ms. Mavis Staples (Chicago, Illinois), among others, all saw outstanding results. We were pleased to see such incredible results and to have set new records across all three days of sales, said Joe Stanfield, Hin ... More |
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| Pace Gallery opens an exhibition of sculpture in cast bronze by Lynda Benglis | | Rare portrait of Catherine de' Medici comes home to Strawberry Hill House - 247 years after she first hung there | | Joan B Mirviss LTD opens an exhibition of Fujino Sachiko's latest multi-dimensional clay forms | 
Installation view of Lynda Benglis: An Alphabet of Forms, 510 West 25th Street, New York, May 5 June 26, 2021. Photography courtesy of Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting Lynda Benglis: An Alphabet of Forms, an exhibition of sculpture in cast bronze by the pioneering artist. Marking Bengliss first solo presentation with the gallery in New York, the exhibition brings together six new large scale works made over the past three years. Drawing on the artists influential, decades-long investigation into knotted forms, her bronzes evoke both the morphology and semiotics of the knot. Glistening and reflective, her new sculptures lend shape to feeling, harnessing the dreamlike qualities of liquidity and buoyancy to explore ever newer possibilities for expressing proprioception, the bodys ability to perceive its own position in space. In these works, Benglis ties together several threads of longstanding interest in her practice: the pleasures of gesture and materiality, the powers of memory, the poetics of gravity, and the matter of sensation itself. Benglis ... More | | 
Installing A group portrait of Catherine de Medici with her children, Workshop of François Clouet, 1561 at Strawberry Hill House. Photo © Matt Chung.
TWICKENHAM.- A group portrait of Catherine de Medici with her children first bought by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) and recorded as hanging in his London home in 1774 is returning to Strawberry Hill House 247 years later, thanks to the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, administered by the Arts Council. The monumental 1561 work (measuring 198 x 137.2 cm) by the Workshop of François Clouet, a highly successful portrait painter at the French court (1510 1572) - which has only been publicly displayed three times in the past 126 years - will go on permanent display for everyone to enjoy in the main Gallery at Strawberry Hill House when it reopens to visitors on 17 May. The significance of this imposing portrait of the family of perhaps the most powerful woman in 16th-century Europe Queen consort to King Henry II of France (who reigned 1547-1559) - Catherine de Medici (1519-89), cannot be overstated. The ... More | | 
Fujino Sachiko (b. 1950), Form 19-6, 2019. Stoneware with matte glaze in white and gradations of gray, 18 3/8 x 15 3/8 x 14 1/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fujino Sachikos latest multi-dimensional clay forms challenge the viewer to think beyond petals and blossoms. For her third exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD, Fujinos hybrid sculptures take center stage in Forming a Voice. Her earlier explorations in both stark geometric forms and organic blooms merge to find new expression hereintricate artworks are built upon strong, balanced shapes of spheres and wedges and crowned with soft, irregular folds in velvety gray-black or gray-white. Through the laborious process of coil-building and hand-sculpting, and without the use of maquettes, the artist herself does not know the artworks final form until the end. Through the medium of clay, her sculptures speak her voice with a powerful inner conviction. Fujino says: The act of kneading clay and creating shapes connects me to the thoughts and memories deep in my heart. Fujino Sachiko (b. 1950) began ... More |
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| Christie's presents Live Auctions of Design from 26-27 May | | A jaw-dropping Philip Glass opera is finally on video | | Christie's Paris announces Asian art sale | 
Tiffany Studios, Important and Rare Elaborate Peony Table Lamp, circa 1913. Leaded glass, patinated bronze, 33½ in. high as shown; 22 in. diameter of shade. Estimate: $600,000-800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- This May, Christies will present three live sales of exceptional design on 26-27 May in New York, including a private collection of over 50 iconic works by celebrated 20th Century French Post-War Design masters, a dedicated sale of works by Tiffany Studios, and a range of important works by 20th and 21st Century innovators of French Art Deco, Austrian Wiener Werkstätte, American Studio and Italian Design. Previews are available in Christies New York galleries starting 22 May, by appointment only. Christies will present Tiffany, a live sale in New York dedicated to the works of the American visionary Louis Comfort Tiffany. The sale is led by a magnificent Landscape Window with Magnolia, Hydrangea and Azalea, circa 1915, which ranks among the most spectacular and artistic of the windows created by Tiffany ... More | | 
Richard Croft plays Gandhi in the opera Satyagraha, at the Met in New York, Oct. 22, 2011. Satyagraha, one of the Metropolitan Operas greatest stagings of the 21st century, has been released on DVD and CD. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Seth Colter Walls
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For decades, Philip Glass fans have internalized a lesson: If you want to see his operas, plan to buy tickets and attend in person. Dont expect the stagings to show up on DVD in a year or two, as most prominent productions do these days. Glass has long carefully husbanded the rights to his work. And since founding his own record label, Orange Mountain Music, in 2001, he has been selective regarding releases of some of his operas. This has been particularly glaring when it comes to his trilogy of what became known as portrait operas, the stage works of the 1970s and 80s which made his reputation in the genre. Each is focused on the life of a consequential man of history: Einstein on the Beach is an abstract ... More | | 
A magnificent gilt bronze ritual bell dating from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and estimated at 400,000-600,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS.- On 9 June, the Asian Art department of Christies France will offer a selection of 273 lots for an estimate of between 5.6m and 8.4m, coming from private European and Asian collections covering more than 3,000 years of Far Eastern art. All the richness of Asian art and the different mediums in which it unfolds will highlighted, with the sale featuring important Buddhist art, archaic bronzes, ancient ceramics, Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain, jade sculptures, cloisonné enamels, lacquerware, and classical and modern Chinese paintings. The highlight of the sale is a magnificent 15th century Tibetan statue of Buddha Bhaisajyaguru (Healing Buddha) from a private Dutch collection. He is depicted seated in Vajrasana, the main Buddhist meditation position. He holds the attributes of the 'Master Healer' in his hands: the myrobalan fruit, which symbolises the supreme remedy, and an alms bowl. His forehead ... More |
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| Caroline Bøge selects 35 works from von Bartha's archive for ongoing series of temporary exhibitions | | Pamela Kraft, 77, dies; Arts magnet and champion of Indigenous rights | | The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Hana Miletić | 
Installation View, Imaginary Collection Vol.IV, Take the Stage at 2112, Copenhagen in collaboration with von Bartha. Image courtesy von Bartha. Photo: Malle Madsen.
COPENHAGEN.- Von Bartha is presenting the fourth edition of The Imaginary Collection, an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions with works from the gallerys archive, curated by independent collectors and presented within unique spaces. The fourth edition sees Danish Art Advisor Caroline Bøge curate Take the Stage, her imaginary collection, featuring works by 12 international artists presented at 2112 in Copenhagen, 5 May 26 June 2021. Testifying to a life-long love of art, Caroline has selected 35 works from von Barthas archive, by a diverse range of artists including: Anna Dickinson; Barry Flanagan; Athene Galiciadis; Terry Haggerty; Imi Knoebel; Mike Meiré; Landon Metz; Sarah Oppenheimer; Francisco Sierra; Claudia Wieser; and John Wood & Paul Harrison. Entitled Take the Stage, Bøge has centred her imaginary collection around the theme of the stage. As a former dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, th ... More | | 
Pamela Kraft circa 1968, photographed with Leg Table, a piece created for Implosions, Inc., a part of the Fluxus art movement. Robert Watts via The New York Times.
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Pamela Kraft mingled among stars like Lou Reed and Patti Smith at the storied nightclub Maxs Kansas City but was not a musician. She championed the rights of Indigenous peoples with the United Nations but had no background in policy. She worked with artists in the Fluxus art movement but was not, by trade, a painter or a sculptor. Perhaps she did not need to be. Pam was a true artist, and her work was her canvas, said Diane Williams, a friend and colleague at Tribal Link Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Indigenous peoples that Kraft founded in 1993. Kraft died March 14 in North Bergen, New Jersey, after a heart attack, according to a friend, James Merewether. She was 77. Hers was a life in two parts: a bohemian fantasy made real ... More | | 
Hana Miletić, Materials, 202, Hand-woven and Jacquard-woven textile (burnt orange recycled wood fibre, carrot and dahlia- coloured eri silk, dark apricot recycled polyamide, recycled nylon, recycled plastic thread, and white polyester), 30 x 24 x 2 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 x 3/4 in.).
LONDON.- There is a micro-political dimension to weaving for Hana Miletić, who employs this process as a method of slowing down production. She sees it as an embodied and situated art practice that requires considerable time and dedication, aimed at counteracting certain economic and social conditions at work, such as acceleration, standardisation and transparency. Miletić weaves to narrate a different, feminist story of technology and progress stemming from the loom (not extractive and technocratic, but caring and tactile). She sees care as an affect because caring produces emotional attachments, a real material action that disrupts the artificial and brutal seizure between head and hand, between thinking and feeling and as an ethical obligation, because caring and repairing are forms of knowledge, ... More |
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 Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics to Blowin' in the Wind to be offered at auctionSCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.- Bob Dylans handwritten lyrics to the legendary rock song Blowin in the Wind, two items relating to the Beatles (a signed photo and Pauls stage-worn jacket), and guitars personally owned by Eric Clapton, Kurt Cobain and Eddie Van Halen are expected top lots in Iconic Auctions online-only The Amazing Music Auction, online now, ending May 15th. The entire catalog is up for viewing and bidding now, at www.IconicAuctions.com. Most of the items have been authenticated by James Spence Authentication (JSA), PSA/DNA, Roger Epperson/REAL Authentication, Beatles autographs expert Frank Caiazzo, Tracks UK, Beckett and BAS Guaranteed. Others still are accompanied by letters or certificates of authenticity. The Dylan lyrics to Blowin in the Wind is an expected headliner. Penned entirely in Dylans hand in 2011 at the request ... More  Exhibition of new sculptures by Kathleen Ryan opens at KarmaNEW YORK, NY.- Karma is presenting an exhibition of new sculptures by Kathleen Ryan. This is her first exhibition with the gallery. Assertive in their materiality, Ryans sculptures tackle formal concerns such as volume, weight, surface, and balance. Utilizing a diverse range of mediumsincluding marble, glazed ceramic, concrete, and found objects such as bowling balls or an Airstream trailershe creates oversized models of commonplace goods, defamiliarizing basic commodities. Taking the form of vintage decorative crafts that have been blown up to an imposing scale, her Bad Fruit series employs material irony and art historical tropes to play with expectation and desire; Ryan fashions decaying fruit from glittering beads, gemstones, and found items, illustrating her fascination with how objects bring meaning and carry a history. ... More  The June Kelly Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings and drawings by John MooreNEW YORK, NY.- John Moores exhibition titled, Obsessive Memory, a body of arresting paintings, and drawings, vast pictorial space, like universal emptiness in landscape, against which simple oblique forms, often saturated with political content, cajole consciousness of experience, will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street on Thursday, May 7. The work will remain on view through June 29, 2021. Moore wants his work to be seen not as pictures but as experiences, wrote curator and writer, Charlotte Kotik in the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts brochure accompanying the exhibition ARTNOW. In works from the early 1990's, writes Moore, black oval shapes served as surrogates for the presence of the figure, in later works the oval shapes represent mirrors. I use the image of mirrors as a metaphor in an oblique ... More  Once sold for $89, rare Rolex Submariner could fetch $175K at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- An extremely rare Rolex that once sold for less than $100 over half a century ago could bring $175,000 or more when it crosses the block in Heritage Auctions' Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction June 1. The Rolex, Extremely Rare And Important Submariner "Big Crown", Four Liner Dial, Ref. 6538, From The Original Owner, circa 1958 (estimate: $150,000-175,000) is the same model worn by Sean Connery in his portrayal of James Bond in several movies, including Dr. No. The rarest model in the Submariner series, it comes directly from the family of the original owner, who paid $89.65 (plus tax) for it in November 1960, according to the original sale invoice, which is included with this magnificent timepiece. "This is absolutely the Holy Grail of the Submariner series," Heritage Auctions Watches & Fine Timepieces Director ... More  J.C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post cover sells for $4.1 million at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- Joseph Christian Leyendecker's Beat-up Boy, Football Hero, which appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on Nov. 21, 1914, sold Friday for $4.12 million, shattering the previous world record for a work by the influential illustrator. The painting was a centerpiece of Heritage Auctions' May 7 American Art Signature Auction, alongside masterworks by such revered names as Moran, Bierstadt and Rockwell. Numerous records for several significant artists were set throughout the day, as the total for the nearly sold-out American Art event surpassed the $10.7 million mark the first American Art event at Heritage to do so. "I always vowed that I would be the first one to sell a million-dollar Leyendecker," says Aviva Lehmann, Heritage Auctions' New York City-based Director of American Art, pictured at left with the ... More  Fontaine's auction highlights spring with 2-part auction in MayPITTSFIELD, MASS.- Featuring a curated selection of 700 items, Fontaines will highlight the spring season with a two-day auction. The sessions on back-to-back weekends with each offering 350 lots. The first session will take place on Saturday, May 22, at 11 am, followed a week later on May 29, also at 11 am. The first session will include 19th and 20th Century lighting, art glass, leaded glass windows, timepieces, marble and bronze statuary, American and European furniture and the second session will offer paintings, fine silver, porcelains, gold and diamond jewelry, American and European wood carvings and art pottery. We have been gathering items from coast-to-coast over the last few months and have acquired many high-quality works from renowned artists and makers, said John Fontaine, owner of Fontaines Auction Gallery. We have our always ... More  Anita Lane, rocker who was more than a muse, is dead at 61NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Anita Lane, who collaborated with Australian rocker Nick Cave on some of his most striking songs and made distinctive records of her own, applying her sometimes girly, sometimes sultry vocal style to lyrics that could be haunting, gloomy, sexual or tongue-in-cheek, died last month in Melbourne, Australia. She was 61. Her label, Mute Records, announced her death in a posting on its website on April 29 but did not say when she died or give the cause. She lived in Melbourne. Lane met Cave in 1977, when both were teenagers. She was his girlfriend during the period when he was coming to prominence with the band the Birthday Party and continued to write with him after he formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 1984. She was the smartest and most talented of all of us, by far, Cave wrote in ... More  Holabird Western Americana Collections will hold a huge five-day saleRENO, NEV.- Fresh off a February auction that attracted about 7,500 registered bidders and featured around $1 million in collectibles of all kinds, Holabird Western Americana Collections will bounce into spring with another five-day monster sale, planned for May 13th thru 17th, online and live in the gallery at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno. Start times all five days are 8 am Pacific. This auction officially titled a Western Americana Signature Sale is loaded with historical autographs, minerals and mining collectibles, numismatics, stock certificates, Americana, art and more a staggering 3,049 lots in all. Were proud to present another amazing offering of fresh material from dozens of collections across America, said company president Fred Holabird. Collectors panning for gold need look no further. The auction features gold nuggets ... More  Michelangelo Lovelace, artist of street life in Cleveland, dies at 60NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Michelangelo Lovelace, an artist whose poignant sketches of people he cared for as a nursing home aide and whose bold paintings of urban Black life gained increasing attention and critical praise late in his life, died April 26 at his home in Cleveland. He was 60. His sister Janine Lovelace said the cause was pancreatic cancer. Lovelaces paintings, many of them distinctive cityscapes, are acrylic-on-canvas reflections of his years growing up poor in Clevelands housing projects. He depicted joyful, everyday scenes a carnival, a block party, a concert but also raw representations of crime, poverty, racism and drug abuse. In Wheel of Poverty (1997), contestants spin a wheel that lands on prizes like bankruptcy, Chapters 7, 11 and 13, and a cut in welfare benefits. Life Trapped in a Bottle ... More  Freeman's to bring the collection of a prominent Philadelphia lady to jewelry and watches auctionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans will present the collection of a prominent Philadelphia lady, a single-collection highlight of our May 19 Jewelry and Watches auction. The 42-lot collection features a wide range of beautiful jewelry and accessories, including pieces from leading design houses, many in Art Deco and Retro styles. The style of the collections look is large in scale, jewelry that is meant to be seen, says Virginia Salem, Head of Freemans Jewelry and Watches department. While lunching at Parc on Rittenhouse Square, the client could be seen wearing some of this jewelry. She was always well turned-out, a consummate lady with impeccable style. A striking eighteen-karat gold and diamond bracelet is one of the collections highlights; the 1950s Van Cleef & Arpels piece is estimated at $20,000-30,000 (Lot 41). A diamond and eighteen ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Victorian painter James Collinson was born May 09, 1825. James Collinson (9 May 1825 - 24 January 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. In this image: Mother and Child by a Stile, with Culver Cliff, Isle of Wight, in the Distance, 1849-50.
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