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This picture taken on November 8, 2019, shows a pair of Napoleon I's riding boots ("bottes a l'ecuyere" in French) displayed at Drouot auction house in Paris ahead of their sale by French auction house "Binoche & Giquello" scheduled on November 29 at Drouot auction rooms. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A pair of boots worn by Napoleon during his final exile in St. Helena are to go under the hammer in Paris later this month. The size 40 boots (roughly seven in British measure) were given to a sculptor working on an equestrian statue of Bonaparte by General Henri Gatien Bertrand, who had followed the French leader into exile on the far-flung South Atlantic island after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, auctioneers said. The shoes are expected to fetch between 50,000 and 80,000 euros (£69,000) when they are sold at the Drouot auction rooms on November 29. Napoleon had a large collection of footwear, which he bought from the Paris shoemakers Jacques in Montmartre. Although British propagandists often caricatured the Corsican as an authoritarian midget, at 1.69 metres (five foot two inches) he was actually above average height for his time. The boots were gifted by the son of sculptor Carlo Marochetti to the French politician Paul Le Roux, a minister under the Second Empire ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "Rear Windows" is an immersive and collaborative project conceived on site by artist Li Qing and curator as a specific storyboard, an in-depth exploration of the history and the space of Prada Rong Zhai, creating a connection between the past times and the current urban environment of Shanghai.
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 | | Newly discovered Artemisia work to go under hammer in Paris | | Kusama arrives. It is worth your time to wait in line? | | Philip Glass is too busy to care about legacy | 
The painting 'Lucrece' by female Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 to ab 1652), put up for auction at the auction house Artcurial in Paris on November 8, 2019. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A newly discovered canvas by the female 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi will go up for auction in Paris next week amid a surge of interest in her extraordinarily dramatic work. Leading auction house Artcurial will on Wednesday offer the painting "Lucretia" by Artemisia with a base estimate of 600,000-800,000 euros ($660,000-$880,000), it told AFP on Friday. The painting was discovered only recently in a private collection in the French city of Lyon, where it had been stored unrecognised for some 40 years, Artcurial said. The painting depicts Lucretia, the ancient Roman noblewoman who killed herself after being raped, showing her bare-breasted and about to plunge a dagger into her upper chest. The work is "worthy of the great museums of the world" and "comes to us in an exceptional state of conservation", said prominent art expert Eric Turquin. It is extremely rare for ... More | | 
Inside Infinity Mirrored Room Dancing Lights That Flew Up to the Universe, 2019, at the David Zwirner gallery in New York, Nov. 6, 2019. In the artist Yayoi Kusamas newest Infinity room, a single, suspended globe of light illuminates the mirrored chamber, then a second, then a third, until the room becomes a constellation of lanterns with you at its nucleus. Then, in a flash, the white globes flash to red; you have a few seconds of colored light, and the room goes dark again. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Eiffel Tower or the Great Mosque of Mecca; the new iPhone or the latest Harry Potter book; Di Fara Pizza or that bakery that made Cronuts happen a few years back. For some experiences you just have to wait and the exhibitions of Yayoi Kusama, the 90-year-old Japanese mastermind of obsessively dotted paintings, hallucinatory pumpkins and sometimes blandly decorative installations, has become the art worlds equivalent of Star Wars premieres. Ignored for decades in New York and Tokyo, driven to madness, even plagiarized by less talented men, Kusama is enjoying a late and not unmerited surge in public visibility. (She even warrants her own balloon in this months Macys ... More | | 
Philip Glass in New York, Oct. 21, 2019. His classic trilogy of the 1970s and 80s has finally been surveyed at the Metropolitan Opera, his countrys pre-eminent opera house. Eva O'Leary/The New York Times.
PALO ALTO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A Joan Mitchell painting looms at the top of the grand staircase at the Anderson Collection, Stanford Universitys modern art museum here. Its a sweaty, emotive work, bright colors moodily smeared across a huge canvas. On a recent Monday evening, Philip Glass sat at a piano placed between the painting and a few dozen potential donors to the Days and Nights Festival, his annual works-in-progress showcase south of Palo Alto. Glass, the master of musical minimalism, is known for the precision of his endlessly undulating arpeggios. When he plays his own pieces, though, they tend to blur and smear, like Mitchells brush strokes. Rhythms that in other hands are almost clinical in their regularity begin to smudge, the music newly volatile and feeling. This is called Opening, he told the audience, by way of introducing a piece from his 1981 collection Glassworks. Its ... More |
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| | Missing some stars, New York auctions push lesser-known artists | | Early Mozart manuscript to go on sale in Paris | | Soul of a Nation opens at de Young Museum | 
Blue Over Red is estimated to sell for $25/35 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York's fall auctions will highlight lesser known artists next week as the market searches for diversity amid an absence of works set to make astronomical amounts. Christie's set a record price for a living artist during its spring sale this year, two years after selling Leonardo de Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" for $450 million, the most expensive artwork ever sold. Unless there is an unexpected surge in interest neither Christie's nor Sotheby's are likely to get anywhere near the crazy highs that they have set over the past three years this time around. Instead, the sales, which begin on Monday, are expected to set individual records for artists with lower profiles, with a number of rare works that have never before been offered to the public hitting the auction block. Auctioneers at Christie's are particularly excited about "Hurting the Word Radio #2" by American pop-art artist Ed Ruscha, who has long lived in the shadow of the movement's leader, Andy Warhol. The 1964 painting -- cons ... More | | 
The asking price for the handwritten score dating from 1772 has been set at 150,000-200,000 euros ($166,000-220,000), the auction house said.
PARIS (AFP).- An original score of two minuets composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was just 16 are to be put up for auction in Paris later this month, Sotheby's said on Thursday. The asking price for the handwritten score dating from 1772 has been set at 150,000-200,000 euros ($166,000-220,000), the auction house said. It goes on sale on November 18. "It's the only version," said Simon Maguire, a specialist in musical manuscripts at Sotheby's in London. "Mozart always wrote first versions" without subsequently reworking them, "unlike Beethoven who revised (his scores) endlessly," the expert told AFP. The minuets -- which are types of dances -- have never been published and the autograph score contains a few corrections and minor modifications, including one or two that might be in the hand of Mozart's father, Leopold. The manuscript was kept in Salzburg by the composer's sister ... More | | 
William T. Williams (b.1942), "Hawk's Return", 1969-70, acrylic on canvas, 109" x 85 1/2", signed; © William T. Williams; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The internationally acclaimed exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power is on view in San Francisco this fall. Celebrating the works that African American artists created during two pivotal decades in American history (19631983), the exhibitionorganized by Tate Modern, Londonexamines the very purpose of art and the role of artists in society. Featuring more than 150 works by over 60 artists, the de Young museum presentation uniquely includes works closely connected to the San Francisco Bay Area. Soul of a Nation captures a turbulent time when race and identity were central issues in American society, much as they continue to be today. The artists featured in Soul of a Nation were on the front lines of creating social and political change, says Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts ... More |
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| | Finding himself in the Morgan | | Iconic Beatles album cover photographer Freeman dies | | Standing up for humanity in a world of screens | 
Duane Michals at his home in New York, Oct. 18, 2019. Michals spent two years searching through the treasures of the Morgan Library & Museum for the museum's current exhibition. His pick of drawings, paintings and artifacts reside in dialogue with his own photographic work. Mark Elzey/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Duane Michals, the pioneer of still-image, multiframe sequences that introduced storytelling to modern photography, stood in the conservation lab of the Morgan Library & Museum one recent autumn day, discussing his two-year treasure hunt through the institutions vast collection of works, and their relevance to his own. For Michals, whose roving mind at age 87 still sprints from the philosophical to the paradoxical to the playful, foraging through the museums vaults was tantamount to an Odyssean journey through some of the finest examples of what civilized man hath wrought. Imagine all Christmases and birthdays combined into a single event, he said about the pleasure of discovering a trove of drawings by William Blake, or the original score ... More | | 
Freeman's photographs first made the covers of the quartet's "Meet the Beatles!" and "Beatles for Sale" albums, which came out at the height of the Beatlemania that swept the world in the mid-1960s.
LONDON (AFP).- Photographer Robert Freeman, who helped define The Beatles' mop top look on their early album covers, has died, the legendary Liverpool band said Saturday. He was 82. "Besides being a great professional he was imaginative and a true original thinker," Paul McCartney wrote in a blog post. "I will miss this wonderful man but will always cherish the fond memories I have of him." Freeman's photographs first made the covers of the quartet's "Meet the Beatles!" and "Beatles for Sale" albums, which came out at the height of the Beatlemania that swept the world in the mid-1960s. For the slightly comical cover of "Help!", John Lennon, McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were meant to spell out the title in flag semaphore. Freeman decided to rearrange their arm positions to give the cover a better look, with the group spelling out gibberish in the end -- but ... More | | 
A photo provided by the Estate of Nam June Paik; Andrew Dunkley/Tate shows Sistine Chapel, a 34-projector installation by Nam June Paik, at Tate Modern in London. A major retrospective of Nam June Paik, the foremost innovator of media art, begins a three-year international tour at Tate Modern. Estate of Nam June Paik; Andrew Dunkley/Tate via The New York Times.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- One of Europes leading museums has devoted its biggest show of the season to someone who saw the future more clearly than any artist of his century. He was a restless traveler and a keen student of anatomy who danced across the boundaries of art and science. He blended ancient religion with new forms of representation, and sketched strange new machines that would be realized long after his death. You thought I meant that lefty at the Louvre? Forget Leonardo: Im talking about the Korean American conjurer Nam June Paik (1932-2006), who appears as pioneering as ever in a broad retrospective at Tate Modern in London, and more urgent than ever as a defender of human life in a world ... More |
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| | A landmark exhibition examines our inability to switch off from our 24/7 culture | | Bonhams to auction 'Alligator' guitar owned and played by Jerry Garcia | | Folklore & Avant-garde aims to reassess our understanding of modernism, a century after its development | 
Installation view of Tekja, Awake, 2019 at 247 at Somerset House © Stephen Chung for Somerset House.
LONDON.- This autumn, Somerset House presents 24/7, a landmark exhibition examining our inability to switch off from our 24/7 culture, through a series of immersive works from some of todays most exciting global artists. Over 50 multi-disciplinary works have been brought together to explore the unrelenting pressure to produce and consume around the clock. The exhibition takes visitors on a 24-hour cycle from dawn to dusk through interactive installations and interrogations. It holds a mirror up to a society where complex systems are exerting control, causing us to sleep less and disrupting our instincts to daydream and pay attention to the world around us, and each other. Some of the works playfully suggest solutions, inviting visitors to unplug and unwind, from Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajimas meditative isolation chamber Life Palace (tea room) to Canadian artist Catherine Richards ... More | | 
Alligator! A Fender Stratocaster owned and played by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Estimate: $250,000 - 400,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES.- Bonhams will offer Alligator, a Fender Stratocaster owned and played by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, in the sale of Alligator! A San Francisco Rock Star's Guitars, Art & More at Bonhams Los Angeles on December 10. The guitar was nicknamed Alligator after the dancing alligator sticker on the pickguard. It has an estimate of $250,000-400,000. The personal collection of over 70 lots also includes additional guitars, paintings by Jerry Garcia, his large collection of comics, as well as his Hawaiian shirts. A build date of 1955, Alligator is believed to have been gifted to Jerry Garcia in 1970 by Graham Nash (ex-Hollies; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) in appreciation of Garcias guitar work on Nashs solo album Songs For Beginners. Nash supposedly bought the guitar in 1970 for $250 at a pawn shop in Phoenix, TX. The guitar has numerous external and internal modifications largely ... More | | 
Natalia Goncharova, Composition with horses and sirin birds, 1915-1917. Design of the curtain for the ballet Svadebka, Les Noces, music by Igor Stravinsky. Gouache, pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 53 x 73.5 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
KREFELD.- The exhibition Folklore & Avant-garde aims to reassess our understanding of modernism, a century after its development. While modernism is usually associated with a break from past traditions and a universalistic approach, is this really the case? For the first time, this exhibition aims to examine the role played by local, popular traditionsin particular handicrafts and folk artin the development of a new artistic language by the inventors and key protagonists of the avant-garde. It is the most ambitious exhibition organized to date by the Kunstmuseen Krefeld. As Museum Director and exhibition curator Katia Baudin underlines: This exhibition offers a new perspective through a historical lens on issues that are acutely relevant today. Although international in focus, the exhibitions point of ... More |
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 Alternate Realities exhibition explores deepfakes, augmented reality and contemporary storytellingMANCHESTER.- A startling series of "deepfakes" featuring Freddie Mercury, Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian by Manchester artist Bill Posters is one of the artworks in Alternate Realities, a collection of non-fiction stories told through innovative technologies being showcased at HOME from Sat 9 Nov to Sun 17 Nov. Posters real name Barnaby Francis collaborated with another artist, Dr Daniel Howe, to create Big Dada, a series of cautionary tales where real celebrities appear to be voicing their support for the shadowy big data organisation, Spectre. The works were inserted into social media channels as a digital intervention in June 2019. This work went viral to the point that they caused social media giant to amend their policies regarding deepfake content shared on their platforms. Big Dada was created by the artists as part of a Sheffield Doc/Fest commission, ... More CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux opens an exhibition by Lubaina HimidBORDEAUX.- CAPCs 2019 programme concludes with an exhibition by the 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid centred on the presentation in the nave of her seminal installation Naming the Money (2004). A key work in the career of the British artist, it consists of nearly one hundred life-size painted plywood cut-outs that bring to life African servants depicted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European court paintings. A figurehead of the Black Arts movement in 1980s Britain, Himid has been developing a multifaceted uvre across four decades in which she combines artmaking, curating, archiving and teaching to explore the marginalisation of the black diaspora in contemporary society. By removing the protagonists of Naming the Money from contexts in which they were instrumentalised as signifiers of their masters wealth and ... More Tiancheng International sale highlights magnificent gemstones, diamonds and jadeiteHONG KONG.- Tiancheng International Jewellery and Jadeite Autumn Auction will take place on 27 November, offering over 210 lots of handpicked jewellery and jadeite pieces. Leading the auction is an astonishing 31.44-carat Burmese Pigeon's Blood Ruby Ring. The sale is also highlighted by a finely translucent emerald green jadeite bangle and a stunning pair of 24.93 and 23.80-carat Colombian Emerald Earrings by Graff. They are complemented by a lavish selection of coloured gemstones and outstanding pieces by acclaimed jewellers and designers that will delight all connoisseurs. Ms.Connie Huang, Head of Tiancheng Internationals Jewellery Department, remarks, Tiancheng International has always striven to present jewellery of remarkable quality. This season, we are thrilled to offer one of the most significant rubies on the auction market over the past ... More Harvard Graduate School of Design opens new exhibition: Love in a MistCAMBRIDGE, MA.- Harvard Graduate School of Design is presenting a new group exhibition curated by architect-researcher Malkit Shoshan. Love in a Mist presents political, artistic, and architectural investigations of fertility, drawing on works by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts and Women on Waves, Joep van Liehout, Yael Bartana, Tabita Rezaire, Lori Brown and Desiree Dolron. The exhibition is on view at the GSD through December 20, 2019. So-called Heartbeat Laws, the recently introduced abortion-ban bills in states such as Mississippi, Kentucky, and Georgia, provoked Shoshan to investigate the spaces behind attempts to control womens bodies and nature. As she dug deeper, Shoshan discovered a feedback loop consistent throughout modern history: with hormones, steroids, and other forms of biological control applied both to women and to animals, we have generated ... More Newly acquired children's book illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky now on view at ZimmerliNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- For more than 30 years, artist Vladimir Radunsky created childrens books, combining creative narration, innovative design, and pervasive wit. The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers spotlights his career in A Celebration of the Childrens Books of Vladimir Radunsky, on view through March 8, 2020. With support from the Avenir Foundation Endowment Fund, the exhibition features recently acquired artwork for two of the books, Because . . . and Discovery; while illustrations from The Mighty Asparagus and Mother Goose of Pudding Lane are on loan from the collection of Eugenia Radunsky, the artists wife. More than 50 original gouache, photo collage, and paper collage illustrations are on public view for the first time and include bilingual labels, in English and Spanish. On November 23, Chris Raschka reads from and discusses the ... More Philbrook hosts exhibition by prize-winning Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum AghaTULSA, OKLA.- Acclaimed artist Anila Agha believes that art has the power to change lives and bring people together. Her work attempts to dissolve borders, both real and perceived. Aghas groundbreaking installation Intersections appears as the centerpiece of the forthcoming Philbrook special exhibition Shadow of Time. On view November 10, 2019 February 16, 2020. One lightbulb sits in the center of a cube made with intricate laser-cut designs. Philbrooks Helmerich gallery is filled with patterns and shadows, creating one unforgettable, awe-inspiring moment. This is the experience at the heart of Intersections. This mind-blowing installation captured hearts and minds at the prestigious ArtPrize competition in 2014, taking home both public and juried awards. Shadow of Time also includes recent sculptural works and drawings. Aghas work is immediately ... More Half Dollar worth 1 million times its face value to be auctionedSANTA ANA, CA.- Numismatic auction powerhouse Stacks Bowers Galleries will be presenting for sale a famous and ultra-rare 1838-O Capped Bust Half Dollar at the Whitman Baltimore Winter Expo at the Baltimore Convention Center on Nov. 14, 2019. Valued at as much as $500,000, the 1838-O is one of only nine known to exist from an estimated mintage of no more than 20 coins made of this first issue of half dollars from the then newly opened New Orleans Mint. This particular mint was established to produce coins of several different denominations at the time but its main focus was the 50 Cent Piece, which was needed to convert the flow of uneven quality Latin American silver coins into a sufficient quantity of new United States coins fit for banking and commerce. However, technical issues and the spread of yellow fever in the area limited production of the coin ... More The House of Illustration presents 'W. E. B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives'LONDON.- Revered by everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Beyoncé, W. E. B. Du Bois stands as one of the most important and influential African American activists and intellectuals of the 20th century. As co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and author of the seminal book The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois is celebrated for his profound and prolific writings. But alongside his famous essays, Du Bois produced an astounding yet little-known body of infographics to challenge pseudo-scientific racism, making visual arguments every bit as powerful as his textual ones. W. E. B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives opened at House of Illustration on 8 November 2019. For the first time in the UK, it displays the complete set of 63 graphics shown at the 1900 Paris Exposition, produced by Du Bois and a team of African ... More Ultra-rare poster from Beatles' final tour headlines Heritage Auctions' Entertainment AuctionDALLAS, TX.- One of the rarest Beatles posters ever to come to auction and one of the finest Grateful Dead posters ever made will compete for the brightest spotlight at Heritage Auctions' Entertainment Auction Nov. 16 in Dallas, Texas. The Beatles 1966 Genuine, Original Shea Stadium NYC Concert Poster was pulled from a telephone pole 53 years ago by the consignor, who has kept it in exceptional condition ever since. The poster, which features a familiar image of the Fab Four, was to sell tickets to the group's Aug. 23, 1966 performance in Shea Stadium. "This is an incredible poster, beyond rare," Heritage Auctions Entertainment & Music Consignment Director Pete Howard said. "The concert itself was enormous for them by playing at Shea Stadium, they played for a crowd that was about the same size as the crowds at all 279 shows they played at Liverpool's ... More Largest collection of original hand-drawn vintage Disney animation art drawings offered at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- The largest collection of original hand-drawn vintage Disney animation art ever offered in a single auction will cross the block Nov. 27 in Heritage Auctions Mickey Mouse and Friends Animation Art Internet Auction on HA.com. The sale will feature animation drawings, as well as original concept, layout and storyboard drawings from the characters that have been beloved by generations of fans. All 289 lots in the sale are offered without estimates, with bidding beginning at $1. No company has created more pop culture icons on a global scale than Disney, with characters like Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto, Heritage Auctions Animation Art Director Jim Lentz said. The drawings that were used to create the color images photographed one frame at a time, and then played at 24 per second, are the heartbeat of a ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English artist William Hogarth was born November 10, 1697. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian." In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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