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Turners Modern World reveals how Britains greatest landscape painter found new ways to capture the momentous events of his day, from technologys impact on the natural world to the dizzying effects of modernisation on society.
LONDON.- Tate Britain presents a landmark exhibition dedicated to JMW Turner (1775-1851), exploring what it meant to be a modern artist during his lifetime. Turners Modern World reveals how Britains greatest landscape painter found new ways to capture the momentous events of his day, from technologys impact on the natural world to the dizzying effects of modernisation on society. The exhibition brings together 150 key works, including major loans as well as paintings and rarely seen drawings from the rich holdings of Tates collection. Turner lived through turbulent times. Britain was at war for much of his life, while revolutions and independence struggles took place around the world. He witnessed the explosion of finance capitalism as well as the transition from sail to steam and from manpower to mechanisation. Political reform as well as scientific and cultural advances transformed society and shaped the modern world ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, 'Seeing Touch', curated by Giorgia von Albertini, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz, until 15 November 2020 © the artists. Courtesy the artists and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jon Etter.
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 | | Joe Biden and the arts: No RBG but a loyal promoter of culture | | Sean Connery, who embodied James Bond and more, dies at 90 | | Phillips to offer Paul Newman's Rolex Oyster Cosmograph Daytona | 
The artist Mary Page Evans speaking with Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the opening of her exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum in 2012. Photo: Coleman Sellers via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Joe Biden is no aesthete. Not many presidential nominees have been, though some, after a stint in the White House, have decided to take up painting with varying degrees of success. But if Bidens tastes run to 1967 Corvettes, Grisham novels and Crocodile Rock, he is, nonetheless, someone arts leaders say has always embraced the practical usefulness of the arts as an economic engine, political action trigger and community builder. Bidens attitude is less from a consumer point of view and more about the inspirational value and transformational value of the arts, said Robert Lynch, president and chief executive of Americans for the Arts, a national arts advocacy organization, who has tracked Bidens support for the arts for decades. Its not, Look, I loved this piece or this song. Its more about the bigger role of the ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on October 22, 1982 British actor Sean Connery poses in Nice during the making of the film "Never say, never again". AFP.
by Aljean Harmetz
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Sean Connery, the irascible Scot from the slums of Edinburgh who found international fame as Hollywoods original James Bond, dismayed his fans by walking away from the Bond franchise and went on to have a long and fruitful career as a respected actor and an always bankable star, died on Saturday. He was 90. His death was confirmed by Nicola Sturgeon, Scotlands first minister, on Twitter. Our nation today mourns one of her best loved sons, she wrote. Bond, James Bond was the characters familiar self-introduction, and to legions of fans who have watched a parade of actors play the role otherwise known as Agent 007 on Her Majestys Secret Service none uttered the words or played the part as magnetically or as indelibly as Connery. Tall, dark and dashing, ... More | | 
Paul Newmans Rolex Big Red Daytona Ref. 6263. Estimate: In Excess of $1 million. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Saturday, 12 December, Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, will offer one of the worlds most important Rolex watches Paul Newmans Big Red Rolex Cosmograph Daytona in RACING PULSE, the Flagship New York watch auction. Estimated in excess of $1 million, it is the wristwatch Paul Newman was most often photographed wearing for over two decades until he gifted it to his daughter, Clea Newman Soderlund, in 2008. Treasured by Clea for a dozen years, it remains remarkably well preserved, with its engraved caseback displaying the incredible and loving inscription, Drive slowly Joanne. Bearing all the features of one of the most sought-after wristwatches of the present era, it is being offered with its original dial with its bold black dial with white sub-dials, featuring the distinctive Big Red Daytona logo at 6 oclock. Paul Boutros, Phillips Head of Watches, ... More |
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| | Concert poster worth $100,000+ discovered in background of photo on social media | | Christie's announces highlights included in its Important Jewels Online Auction | | Seattle Art Museum presents landmark modern and contemporary works from the Wright Collection | 
The Beatles 1966 Genuine Shea Stadium NY Concert Poster, Brand New to the Hobby.
DALLAS, TX.- Could it be the most valuable Halloween photo of all time? When Anthony Bruno posted an otherwise nondescript photo of himself dressed as "Austin Powers on social media, it wasn't the British Union Jack flag t-shirt or the signature glasses a friend noticed. Instead, it was a poster behind Bruno that caught his friend's eye. He inquired about the Beatles poster on the wall, which Bruno said he had taken down in the subway after attending the Fab Four's 1966 show. Now The Beatles 1966 Genuine Shea Stadium NY Concert Poster, Brand New to the Hobby will find a new home when it crosses the block in Heritage Auctions' Nov. 14 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Auction. The poster is extremely rare, one of six or seven known to remain in existence, and coveted by the most serious of collectors. Heritage Auctions has sold two copies previously, one of which set a world record in April 2020 when it sold ... More | | 
Early 20th Century Diamond Tiara. Estimate: £45,000 65,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies Important Jewels online auction from 4 to 18 November presents a diverse array of jewels dating from the late eighteenth century through to present day, from a group of Victorian insect brooches, opulent Belle Epoque and Art Deco jewels, bold yellow gold gem-set and enamel designs from the 1960s to 1980s, and a wide selection of signed contemporary pieces by the worlds most renowned jewellery houses including Bulgari, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Graff and Tiffany & Co. A highlight of the sale is a bracelet, formerly in the collection of the late Dame Vera Lynn, which will be sold to benefit The Dame Vera Lynn Childrens Charity. Leading lots of the sale include an elegant Edwardian garland design tiara (estimate £45,000-65,000), an impressive Art Deco diamond and ruby cabochon strap bracelet by Drayson (estimate £40,000-60,000), a rare antique foil-backed diamond coll ... More | | 
Robert Gober, Urinal, 1984. Wood, wire, plaster, and enamel paint, 30 à 20 à 20 in., Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2014.25.24, © Robert Gober.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle (October 23, 2020January 18, 2021), with landmark modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the Wright Collection, along with historical and personal ephemera tracing Jinnys life in art and her many contributions to the city of Seattle and Pacific Northwest region. On view are works by Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, David Hammons, and more. Philanthropist and collector Virginia Jinny Wright (19292020) played a pivotal role in the cultural development of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. Along with her ... More |
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| | One of the most storied and celebrated collections of Batman comics heads to Heritage Auctions in November | | Curators from Mia and the Somali Museum of Minnesota organize exhibition of Arabic calligraphy | | Sotheby's to present important Judaica from the legendary Sassoon Family in December 2020 | 
Batman #2 (DC, 1940) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages.
DALLAS, TX.- One of the world's most prominent collections of Batman comic books heads to auction in November two years after the comics were stolen out of a Florida self-storage unit. This is the CGC-certified, award-winning, headline-making Alfred Pennyworth Collection amassed by Randy Lawrence, who, only a few months ago, thought he might never again see the comics he spent most of his 60 years collecting. The brazen theft around the beginning of 2019 made national headlines; the arrests, too. And for nearly two painful and terrifying years, Lawrence almost single-handedly worked to secure the collection's return. When he said farewell to the Batman books for a second time earlier this year, at least it was on his terms: Lawrence helped load the comics into a van headed for Heritage Auctions' Dallas headquarters, so they could ... More | | 
Unknown artist, Somalia. Qur'anic writing board, mid 20th century. Wood, ink. The Rebecca and Ben Field Endowment for Art Acquisition. 2017.92.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art this month opened Khatt Islāmi: Sacred Scripts from Islamic Africa, an exhibition showcasing Arabic calligraphy, which is considered the highest form of art in Islām. Co-curated by Amallina Mohamed, curator at the Somali Museum of Minnesota, and Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, curator of African art and head of Mias Department of Arts of Africa and the Americas, Khatt Islāmi highlights 16 artworks from Mias African art collection dating from the mid-1800s to today. Many of these objects are on view for the first time. The exhibition opened October 31, 2020, and runs through August 1, 2021, in Gallery 255. The exhibition title Khatt Islāmi means Islamic line or Islamic design and refers to calligraphy made by Muslims to transmit the words of God as recorded in the Quran, Islāms ... More | | 
Back view of an Important Parcel-Gilt Silver Torah Shield Engraved with a Plan of The Holy Temple in Jerusalem, Attributed to Elimelekh Tzoref Of Stanislav, circa 1780. Estimate $500/800,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that it will present a dedicated auction of important Judaica from the legendary Sassoon family on 17 December in New York. Assembled over the course of more than a century by the fabled Rothschilds of the East, SASSOON: A Golden Legacy will present a treasure trove of gilded silver objects, rare Hebrew manuscripts, textiles and family artifacts, ranging geographically from Western Europe to the Far East, with rarities dating from the 11th to the 20th centuries. The nearly 70 lots in the collection are monumental in their significance as a primary source on the history of Jewish life and culture, and of the legendary Sassoon family. With roots in Baghdad, the Sassoons relocated in the 1830s to India, led by their ... More |
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| | Bob Biggs, Los Angeles punk-rock entrepreneur, dies at 74 | | British Library makes 40,000 maps and views freely available online | | Elmgreen & Dragset and Avant Arte launch limited edition THE FUTURE | 
Bob Biggs at his home in Los Angeles in 2003. Kim Biggs via The New York Times.
by Alex Vadukul
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bob Biggs, who sensed opportunity in the Mohawk-filled mosh pits of the Los Angeles punk movement in the late 1970s and founded Slash Records, which became one of the most successful independent record labels of its era, died Oct. 17 at his ranch in Tehachapi, California. He was 74. His wife, Kim (Truch) Biggs, said the cause was complications of Lewy body dementia. At Slash Records originally part of Slash magazine, the underground LA punk scenes bible Biggs signed bands, like the Germs, X and Fear, that were dominating the moment. The label later expanded into other kinds of rock with artists like Los Lobos, the Blasters, Violent Femmes and Faith No More. When it entered a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records, Slashs sound traveled far past ... More | | 
Nicholas Hawksmoor, [An elevation and plan for St George, Bloomsbury]. London, between 1712 and 1730. Maps K.Top 23.16.2.a.
LONDON.- The British Library is nearing the end of a project to make 40,000 early maps and views freely available online for the first time. The material forms part of the Topographical Collection of King George III (K. Top) held by the British Library and captures four centuries of visual impressions of places throughout the world, from maps and atlases to architectural drawings, cartoons and watercolours. From today, the images will be available for anyone to view online via the British Librarys digital Flickr Commons collection. This resource offers everyone the chance to virtually explore, the geography, art, science and cultures of the past through the collection of one of historys most avid armchair travellers. Over seven years, a team of expert cataloguers, curators, conservators and imaging specialists at the Library have worked to catalogue, conserve and digitise ... More | | 
Avant Artes edition is constructed with powder coated steel, and features a hyperreal, clothed figure made of resin. The work measures 64 x 45 x 20cm. 7500 excluding VAT.
LONDON.- On 11 November 2020, artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset and Avant Arte, the worlds largest online community of art lovers, launch a new edition entitled THE FUTURE. The original version, a life size, wall mounted sculptural installation was created in 2014 for Biography, a major solo retrospective presented in Oslo and Copenhagen, and was later acquired by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The new limited-edition is a reimagining, with a meaning that has morphed and shifted poignantly through its new adaptation into domestic scale. The duo, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, have made a profound mark on the art world since they joined forces in 1995. Through their sculptures, installations and performances, Elmgreen & Dragset challenge their audiences to rethink societal norms. For The Future, a small scale wall sculpture in a ... More |
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 Kunstmuseum Den Haag opens an exhibition of works by Joseph Sassoon Semah THE HAGUE.- Exile, hospitality and friendship are key themes in the work of Joseph Sassoon Semah (b. 1948, Baghdad). In 1950 he and his parents were forced to leave Israel, and Joseph eventually arrived in Amsterdam in 1981, via London, Berlin and Paris. On Friendship
will for the first time bring together 36 architectural models of houses, a synagogue, schools and cultural buildings made by Sassoon Semah that refer to the liberal Jewish culture of his Babylonian ancestors a culture which, he says, barely exists except in memory now. 86 drawings and wall-mounted objects refer to the old culture and to exile. These works are part of his research project On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III The Third GaLUT: Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam. Referring to his own GaLUT (Hebrew for exile), these are the three cities with a reputation for tolerance ... More Galeria Nara Roesler announces new location in ChelseaNEW YORK, NY.- Galeria Nara Roesler announced the launch of its new space in Chelsea, New York. We are proud to have been the first Brazilian gallery to launch a New York outpost and will now be expanding our space, moving from the Upper East Side to a spacious new location in Chelsea in early January 2021. Located at 511 West 21st Street, the 4500 square foot layout, designed by Brazilian architect Miguel Pinto Guimarães, will enhance our presentations of seminal Brazilian and international artists to a New York and global audience. We envision the Chelsea gallery becoming an active, ever-changing epicenter of Brazilian and international artistic exchange. It is a proud moment of growth for us: we have the space to give back, support, and connect more deeply with New Yorks enormous infrastructure of artists, collectors, curators, ... More TV's horror hosts: 70 years of screams and cheeseNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Vampires, demons, Michael Myers in horror, many things never die. One Cleveland television station is betting theres something else thats immortal: the appetite for horror hosts. Halloween night brings the third episode of The Big Bad B-Movie Show, a new, locally produced schlock horror movie series on CW43, the citys CW affiliate. Its hosted by Zachariah Durr, 40, and Laura Wimbels, 37, who play Leopold and Lenora, two dapper, wisecracking ghouls trapped in a vault. The two are part of a new generation of horror hosts, those late-night cheeseball emcees who supplement terrible movies with wink-wink sketch comedy and goofy gags, delivered in accents that land somewhere between Transylvania and the Catskills. Whats unusual about The Big Bad B-Movie Show is more than just the two weirdo ... More Paradigm Gallery opens a solo exhibition of new works by mixed media artist Seth Clark129697.- Paradigm Gallery is presenting In Isolation, a solo exhibition of new works by mixed media artist, Seth Clark, on view through November 21, 2020. The new series of collage and drawings continues the artists ongoing study of structure and aging architecture, but with a looser and more gestural hand. In Isolation explores control, constriction and the idea of home within the framework of the global shared experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. For his fourth solo exhibition at Paradigm, Clark is presenting a new series of house portraits he created during quarantine. The new series is more bare and disjointed than the works Clark is usually known for producing, but they do not feel messy or careless. Rather, by leaving in drips and smudges of paint, the works of In Isolation give the viewer a more honest and less manicured ... More Jona Frank: Between reality and fantasyNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In each project I am asking the same questions about becoming and identity and how we find ourselves, said Jona Frank, a Los Angeles-based photographer who has made a series of portraits of subcultures in American high schools, a British boxing club and a Christian college in Virginia. Her new memoir, Cherry Hill: A Childhood Reimagined, part autobiographical text and part cinematic recreation of her upbringing in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, might appear to be a departure. The photographs are staged with actors. The written narrative is as important as the images. And instead of exploring unfamiliar subcultures, she is excavating territory much closer to home: her own childhood. However, to Frank, Cherry Hill is a continuation of her artistic project, even if the starting point is different. ... More 'It's going away': A small movie theater struggles to surviveNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a rainy day last week, 72 moviegoers visited the Park Plaza Cinema in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, to see Liam Neeson in Honest Thief. It was the largest single-day attendance the independently owned five-screen theater had seen since reopening in August after a five-month shutdown. The feeling of celebration was short-lived. The next day, only 22 people showed. Park Plaza, like movie theaters big and small around the country, has been decimated by the pandemic. After its long closure, it has established social-distancing protocols and installed new air filtration systems. It has tried initiatives like curbside popcorn sales. But the efforts have not been enough to offset the larger trends upending moviegoing, namely that many people still dont seem inclined to return to theaters in large ... More Museum of Neon Art announces the appointment of new board membersGLENDALE, CA.- The Museum of Neon Art announced the appointment of Veronica Alvarez, Arlene Vidor, and Connie Conway to the Board of Trustees and Nsikan Akpan to the Advisory Board. These individuals are the first additions to the Museums leadership team after the hiring of MONAs Executive Director in the Spring of 2020. The new members point the way to a future museum that is inclusive, imaginative, forward thinking, and sustainable. The vision, intelligence, and community investment that Connie Conway, Veronica Alvarez, Arlene Vidor and Nsikan Akpan bring to the table is an inspiration. MONA is thrilled that these stellar individuals will help to shape the future of this institution, says Executive Director Corrie Siegel. As the Museum of Neon Art soon enters its fortieth year, we are proud to welcome three talented Trustees and one advisor ... More Horror legend Elvira's collection heads to Julien's AuctionsBEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced its spine-tingling event Property from the Collection of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark will take place in October 2021 in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com. The exclusive auction celebration of the career of American actress, writer, singer, pop culture icon and sex symbol, Cassandra Peterson, known the world over as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark will showcase a frightful collection of her personal memorabilia, including her signature black gown, props and costumes from her television series and films as well as jewelry, a pinball machine and other Elvira ephemera from the pioneering horror host who was the first ever to be syndicated throughout the U.S. on national television. Cassandra Peterson began her career in entertainment as a Las Vegas showgirl and appeared ... More Exhibition presents Rob Thom's latest works that celebrate absurdities and vulgarities of everyday lifeNEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery is presenting Viscera Americana, Rob Thoms first exhibition with the Gallery. The show features the artists latest works that celebrate absurdities and vulgarities of everyday life in America. Thom honors a captivatingly shameless approach to common and everyday practices of Americans as seen on TV and the internet with a nod to European tradition. His paintings bring to mind the surreal layerings of masters like Bruegel or Bosch while remaining compellingly contemporary and allegorical. Upon close inspection, the frenzied yet banal scenes reveal the edge of chaos. In House of Tarnation Thom freezes the turning point of a backyard wrestling calamity. One figure suspends mid-dive from a tall ladder, another is about to get pummeled in a piledriver. Something here seems off or ... More Lorna May Wadsworth installs portraits of Neil Gaiman at Shapero ModernLONDON.- Renowned contemporary artist Lorna May Wadsworth (artist in residence for the Amazon Prime series Good Omens) is exhibiting The Book of Neil Gaiman at Shapero Rare Books located in its new first floor space on New Bond Street and Big Neil at newly opened Shapero Modern in an exciting short-term exhibition. Wadsworth rose to prominence in the contemporary art world before she had completed her postgraduate course at the prestigious Royal Drawing School, with a series of notable works, including portraits of the Rt. Hon. Lord Blunkett and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt. Hon. Lord Williams. One of her most acclaimed works, a monumental portrait of the late Margaret Thatcher, was completed from five life sittings. The resultant painting is one of the most commanding and respected formal portraits of a modern British ... More Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong opens an exhibition of works by Takesada MatsutaniHONG KONG.- For six decades the Osaka-born, Paris-based artist Takesada Matsutani has developed a unique visual language of form and materials. Organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément, the artists first solo exhibition in Hong Kong includes new mixed-media paintings, works on paper, assemblages and an important site-specific installation from the artists archive. From the early 1960s until the 1970s Matsutani was a key member of the influential post-war Japanese art collective, the Gutai Art Association. As part of the group, Matsutani experimented with vinyl glue, using fans and his own breath to manipulate the substance, creating bulbous and sensuous forms. By working closely with the material, this approach embodied an important aspect of Gutai: letting material and spirit work in conjunction with one another to create something new. Entering ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and educator William Merritt Chase was born November 01, 1849. William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design. In this image: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916), The Young Orphan (An Idle Moment) by 1884. Oil on canvas. National Academy Museum, New York. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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