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An undated photo via Sotheby's of Freddie Mercurys Freddie Mercurys neon telephone from 1985 that sold at auction for $56,000. As the art market wobbles, memorabilia and estate sales from big celebrities are filling holes in the auction calendar. (via Sotheby's via The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Within the living room where she entertained heads of state and celebrities, broadcast journalist Barbara Walters exhibited two pictures in gilded frames. One was a commissioned portrait of herself in a luxurious gown. The other was a painting of a stoic Egyptian woman in a black headscarf created in 1891 by one of the most beloved painters in American history, John Singer Sargent. After the iconic interviewer died last year, her family decided to keep her portrait and sell the Sargent as part of an $8 million trove of artworks, jewelry and dresses featured in a charity auction at Bonhams on Nov. 6 with an online sale running from Oct. 29 through Nov. 7. And though the Sargent painting is the marquee lot of the collection, with a high estimate of $1.8 million another female portrait from his trip to Egypt hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art auctioneers expect fans of Walters to compete in bidding wars for less prestigious items like cutlery and serving plates. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artists have been preoccupied with the human image since antiquity: under the title 'Self & Portrait', the new CLOSE UP is dedicated to an examination of the perception of the self in art. Four works by Maria Lassnig (1919-2014), Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Jonathan Meese (b. 1970), and Gabriele Stötzer (b. 1953) from the collection of the Städel Museum show how artistically diverse the preoccupation with the self can be.
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| Pop artist Ruby Mazur escapes Maui Fires - loses gallery and artwork | | The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Imperial Safavid carpet leads Christie's sale | | Phillips to offer photographs spanning more than a century in expansive live auction | 
Pop artist Ruby Mazur barely escaped the Maui fires with his life, but lost his new gallery on Front Street in Lahaina, along with over 100 paintings.
MAUI.- Legendary pop artist Ruby Mazur, best known as the creator of the original mouth & tongue image designed for The Rolling Stones, first used on the Tumbling Dice record sleeve in 1972, enjoyed celebrating the 50th Anniversary of his iconic image in 2022. Mazur now celebrates another milestone in his life, barely making it out of the fires in Maui alive with his three adult sons Cezanne, Miro and Matisse. He lost his brand new art gallery right on Front Street in Lahaina, that was to have its grand-opening the very day the fires destroyed the entire town and lost over one hundred of the treasured paintings he created over the years. Just several short weeks later, Ruby Mazur and sons have now relocated to Orange County, California and has his first local art exhibit the Ruby Mazur Laguna Beach Showcase, set to open October 5, 6 & 7th at the Bill Mack Gallery at 574 S Coast Hwy, in Laguna Beach, CA. Mazur will take part in the first Laguna Beach Art Walk of October ... More | | 
The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Royal Safavid red-ground palmette and bird carpet, possibly Qazvin, North Persia, third quarter of the 16th century, 16ft.3in. x 7ft. (494cm. x 213cm) Estimate £2,000,0003,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
LONDON.- Christies will present The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Bird and Palmette Imperial Safavid carpet, likely woven between 1565-1575 in Qazvin in central Persia, during the reign of the enlightened Shah Tahmasp (estimate £2,000,0003,000,000). This sixteenth century masterpiece, which survives in extraordinary condition, was produced during the 'Golden Age' of carpet weaving under the Safavid dynasty (1501-1732). Carpets of this period were noted for their detailed precision, sumptuous materials, and ornate designs. The red ground 'in and out palmette' or 'spiralling vine' design of the present carpet is perhaps the most recognisable of these court designs and remains one of the most sought-after of all classical carpets. The rich burgundy-red field is filled with an elaborate network of scrolling vines with counterposed palmettes, blossoms, buds, and leaves, but ... More | | 
Edward Steichen, Radio City and Rockefeller Center, 1933. Estimate $80,000 - 120,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips 11 October Photographs auction will present an exceptional selection of work across the history of the medium, including the special single-owner sequence HIGH VOLTAGE: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection of Fred and Laura Bidwell. Offering over 300 lots, the sale features some of the most desirable classic photographers, such as William Eggleston, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, and many others, as well as numerous contemporary practitioners, among them Hiroshi Sugimoto, Laurie Simmons, Zanele Muholi, Gillian Wearing, and Anne Collier. Also on view will be Inside the Photograph: Further Selections from the Peter C. Bunnell Collection, Phillips final online sale from the collection of this esteemed curator and photographic historian which opens for bidding on 10 October. Vanessa Hallett, Deputy Chairwoman, Americas and Worldwide Head of Photographs said, The wide rang ... More |
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| Photographer Ron Sherman's new book is due for a December 2023 release | | 'All around the world - unseen colour & early black and white' now on view at Galerie Buchkunst Berlin | | Phillips announces highlights from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Frieze Week sales | 
Witness A Photographic Essay of Humor and Heart has a target publication date of November 2023. The 140-page coffee table book features 98 images from Ron Shermans vast inventory.
ATLANTA, GA.- A new book by the acclaimed Atlanta photographer Ron Sherman titled Witness A Photographic Essay of Humor and Heart is nearing completion, with a target publication date of December 2023. The handsome, 144-page coffee table book 10 inches by 12 inches, with a cloth-wrapped hard cover features 98 images from Mr. Shermans vast inventory of thousands of photographs, some of which are quite famous. Witness A Photographic Essay of Humor and Heart is a testament to my sixty years as a professional photographer documenting the people of Atlanta, of Georgia and much of the rest of the country, said Mr. Sherman, who grew up in Cleveland but has made Atlanta his home for the past five-plus decades. I had the privilege of meeting political figures, sports stars, musicians, school children, college students and corporate ... More | | 
Thomas Hoepker, Paris, 1961. Copyright Thomas Hoepker Magnum Photos, Courtesy Buchkunst Berlin.
BERLIN.- As of 30 September 2023, Galerie Buchkunst Berlin is presenting the new exhibition All around the world unseen colour & early black and white, with photographs by the legendary Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker. Hoepker's numerous unpublished early recordings, which are now being shown for the first time, were taken in Rio, Hong Kong, New York, Naples, and Paris. More than a decade before the term New Color entered the history of photography, Thomas Hoepker was already photographing with Kodachrome and Ektachrome slide film in Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, and many countries in Europe. A new discovery! In the extensive bundles of unpublished slide films that Thomas Hoepker took around the world from 1959 onwards, during his photo documentations around the world, there are many shots in which color represents an extended and dominant element of the pictorial composition, and takes on the role of narrative. Hoe ... More | | 
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1973. Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips will present an extraordinary array of highlights from the upcoming Frieze Week auctions of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in London this October. Showcasing an eclectic mix of renowned masters, to the most cutting-edge contemporary artists of the moment. Comprised of 46 lots, the Evening Sale will take place on 13 October at 3pm, after the Day Sale on 12 October at 1pm. A standout highlight is Luc Tuymans Rome, a luminous example from the artists Les Revenants series. Coming to auction for the first time, this work was on continuous long-term loan first to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and then the Kunstmuseum in The Hague. Only three of the nine works in the series have appeared at auction before, other examples being held in the esteemed Pinault Collection and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Delving into the history of the Jesuit order, this large-scale painting depicts the interior of St. Peter ... More |
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| Hattie McDaniel's historic Oscar will return to its desired home | | In 'Big Trip,' an exiled Russian director asks: What makes us human? | | Robert Day, financier and philanthropist, dies at 79 | 
The plaque that McDaniel, the first Black winner of an Academy Award, bequeathed to Howard University has been missing for about 50 years. Now a replacement is on its way.
by Jonathan Abrams
NEW YORK, NY.- After becoming the first Black person to win an Academy Award, in 1940, Hattie McDaniel called the plaque she received a cherished beacon for all that could be accomplished. McDaniel had earned the award for her portrayal of Mammy, an agreeable slave at the whim of Scarlett OHara in Gone With the Wind, a movie that arrived as a cinematic triumph but has since been rebuked for its blind eye toward slavery. Before dying in 1952, McDaniel deflected the criticism she received for taking many stereotypical roles throughout her career. Id rather play a maid than be one, she would say, envisioning that her work would open better doors for future Black actors. She also had an eternal resting spot in mind for that beacon, bequeathing the Oscar plaque to Howard University in Washington, , ... More | | 
Dmitry Krymov, one of Russias leading theater directors, in New York, where he has lived since signing a letter opposing the war in Ukraine, Jan. 31, 2023. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
by Elisabeth Vincentelli
NEW YORK, NY.- Russian theatermaker Dmitry Krymovs Big Trip, two shows in repertory through mid-October at La MaMa, in Manhattan, is in love with the very essence of theater: how we tell stories, how we make art, how we live. The productions have no sets to speak of. The costumes and props look as if they have been sourced from thrift shops and Home Depot one piece makes extensive use of cardboard. Yet we are far from the usual off-off-Broadway seen at incubators like the Brick. The framework here Alexander Pushkin, Ernest Hemingway and Eugene ONeill is drawn from high art, or at least classics some might deem musty. Flares of whimsy, as when the actors don red clown noses, might feel rather European to locals more accustomed to irony. It is safe to say there ... More | | 
An heir to an oil fortune, he built his own empire with TCW Group and was an influential California donor, including to his alma mater, Claremont McKenna College.
by Michael J. de la Merced
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Day, the heir to an oil fortune who founded what is now known as the TCW Group, a giant asset-management firm, and later became an influential philanthropist, who donated to California medical, arts and scholarly institutions, died Sept. 14 in Los Angeles. He was 79. His death was announced by the W.M. Keck Foundation, the philanthropic organization of which he had been chair since 1995. The announcement did not specify a cause. Born into wealth his grandfather, William Myron Keck, amassed a fortune through his independent oil company, Superior Oil Day built his own empire in the Trust Company of the West. That firm, which was eventually renamed the TCW Group, became a major financial steward for corporate pension funds, endowments and wealthy individuals. By the time TCW agreed ... More |
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| The 3rd edition of Larnaca Biennale returns bigger than ever | | Letterboxd, online haven for film nerds, gets a new owner | | A young designer nabs a viral moment with Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift | 
100 artworks by international artists, 17 parallel events across numerous locations in Larnaca and Athienou are getting ready to welcome thousands of visitors.
LARNACA.- As autumn draws closer, Larnaca will transform from a quiet coastal town to a buzzing hub of art, connection and reflection. The 3rd edition of Larnaca Biennale will present a carefully selected range of artworks that promise to redefine our understanding of belonging, memory and identity. Under the theme Home Away from Home, the Biennale will present a seven-week-long agenda running from October 11th to November 24th. Get ready for an immersive odyssey that will cross mental and physical boundaries to discover the multi-layered elements that make up ones home.
The theme In a world where homes are constantly built and lost, where distances shrink and where world citizens can come from more than just one place, the concept of home takes on new dimensions. This years Larnaca Biennale seeks to unravel them, exploring the yearning to call a place home, the ideas attached to it and the limitles ... More | | 
From left, Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, Letterboxds founders, in Auckland, New Zealand, on Jan. 10, 2020. Two designers from New Zealand built a wildly popular social network for movie buffs. Now, theyre cashing in (and sticking around for the sequel). (Birgit Krippner/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Barbie star Margot Robbie created an account. Ditto Rian Johnson, the Knives Out auteur. Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruises directing partner, has used his to heap praise on another action star (Sylvester Stallone). Letterboxd, the social network for recommending and reviewing movies, has become a kind of shibboleth for film nerds over the past decade. Roughly 10 million people now use the service to share their favorites: You like Studio Ghibli, too? Whats your favorite Spike Lee joint? The service has not undergone any revolutionary changes since it was founded in 2011. But Letterboxd is undergoing two big changes: a new owner and, eventually, user recommendations and review of TV shows. Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, Letterboxds founders, ... More | | 
A photo provided by the Kansas City Chiefs shows tight end Travis Kelce wearing KidSupers Bedroom Painting denim set before the game on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Because a certain Pennsylvania-born singer-songwriter was in attendance at the game, the outfit became national news. (Kansas City Chiefs via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- By now, youve very possibly heard the news, whether you wanted to or not: On Sunday, 12-time Grammy Award-winning pop star Taylor Swift stoked recent dating rumors when she showed up at the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Chicago Bears to watch Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce lead the team to victory. Swift ate chicken fingers and took in the game from a private box with Kelces mother, Donna. When the singer left the stadium after the game, decked out in Chiefs gear, Kelce, striding alongside her, wore a light blue and white denim jacket and pants set from KidSuper. The image of Kelce and Swift together quickly went viral and sparked immediate interest in Kelces outfit. American designer Colm Dillane started releasing clothes under the label KidSuper ... More |
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 Ed Fancher, a founder of The Village Voice, is dead at 100NEW YORK, NY.- Ed Fancher, who started The Village Voice, the nationally known alternative weekly newspaper, with two partners in 1955 and remained its publisher until new ownership dismissed him 19 years later, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 100. The death was confirmed by his daughter, Emily Fancher. In a city brimming with daily newspapers, The Voice found its niche as an alternative newsweekly in the bohemian culture of Greenwich Village, where another weekly, The Villager, had been publishing since the 1930s. We were crazy enough to think it would succeed, Ed Fancher said in an interview for this obituary in 2018. It was absolutely nutty, but we were all World War II vets who had survived, and that had a lot to do with our optimism that goddamn it! we were going to make it. The ... More  At the New York Film Festival, delicate movies and ones that go vroomNEW YORK, NY.- Bradley Cooper may still be on strike (solidarity!), but theres no stopping the New York Film Festival. Over 61 transporting, galvanic and at times weird and fractious years, this institutional stalwart has weathered financial woes, regime change and unfortunate opening-night selections, so there was never any question that it was going to survive missing-in-action stars like Cooper and Natalie Portman. As the festivals longevity and reputational standing prove, there is far more to movies than crowded red carpets and photo ops. The festival opened Friday with Todd Haynes May December, a standout at Cannes that explores what happens when an actress (Portman) meets the woman (Julianne Moore) shes about to play in a biopic. The New York Film Festival invariably skims the cream from earlier events, but what matters ... More  Back-to-back Verdi evenings showcase the Met Opera ChorusNEW YORK, NY.- This week, the Metropolitan Opera featured one of its most reliable stars in back-to-back shows: its chorus. It just so happens that those performances were both of works by Giusseppe Verdi the Requiem on Wednesday, and Nabucco on Thursday whose bold, catchy, intensely emotive choruses are nearly a genre unto themselves. Each piece turns over large swaths of music and its most dramatic moments to the chorus. And the Mets delivered: Singing with strength and clarity, the ensemble filled the companys imposing hall without sacrificing the smooth texture and depth of its sound. It was all a reminder of what Donald Palumbo, chorus master since 2006, has accomplished with these singers, and of the standard he will leave behind when he steps down at the end of the season. Nabucco and the Requiem ... More  ROSEGALLERY opens 'Del Cielo', a collection of photographs by several artistsSANTA MONICA, CALIF.- ROSEGALLERY is presenting Del Cielo, a collection of photographs by Graciela Iturbide, Masahisa Fukase, Jo Ann Callis, Rinko Kawauchi, and James Gallagher. Artists and poets have drawn inspiration from birds for centuries, celebrating their intricate patterns and melodious tunes as representations of the natural worlds aesthetic wonders. From ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to John James Audubons intricate avian illustrations in The Birds of America, artists have sought to capture the essence of these creatures in their work. Del Cielo continues this interest and worldly narrative, tracking the visual presence of these creatures through photography. One of the most famous poems about birds in the English language is The Raven, written by American poet Edgar Allan Poe. Published ... More  Bruneau & Co. will auction the Illustration Collection of Carl J. PuglieseCRANSTON, RI.- On Saturday, October 14th, at 10 am Eastern time, Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will present the illustration art collection of Carl J. Pugliese (American, 1916-1982), a painter, illustrator, sculptor, and historian who, from an early age, had a passion for the American West as well as United States military history, cemented during his four years of service in World War II. Following his honorable discharge from the Army, Pugliese enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he studied under Harry Fisk, Ben Dale, and Burne Hogarth, honing his own skills as an artist. Carl also had a passion for great illustration art and collected works by many of the most renowned artist-illustrators of the time. The auction contains 150 lots of great illustration art, including works by Howard Pyle, Tom Lovell, J.C. Leyendecker, ... More  Rare and complete Andy Warhol portfolio hits Heritage's block to benefit Norton Children's Hospital of Louisville, KY DALLAS, TX.- In 1981, as Andy Warhol dove into his third decade as one of the 20th century's most celebrated artists, he created a special portfolio of screenprints he titled Myths. In a return to his roots as perhaps the greatest of all Pop Artists, he pulled together nine of the figures (plus a self-portrait) that epitomize a century of America's psyche as embodied in its culture of entertainment: Mickey Mouse, Superman, Howdy Doody, Santa Claus and more. Under Warhol's undeniable intuition, these characters are gathered in a conversation that illuminates the foundations of Warhol's appreciation of what is, in a sense, a true American canon, and our country's ideation of itself. Each panel is rich ... More  Hauser & Wirth announces global representation of Firelei BáezNEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced today that the gallery now globally represents artist Firelei Báez. New Yorkbased artist Firelei Báez (b. 1981, Dominican Republic) has achieved wide acclaim over the past decade for her immersive paintings, installations and sculptures that explore diasporic histories against the backdrop of colonial narratives and conventional ways of seeing. A self-described bibliophile and voracious reader, Báez has been likened to a historian, mining the foundational and forgotten archives of the Americas and beyond in order to challenge and expand the ways in which we perceive and relate to one another. Her constructions are marked by erudition and an intimate physicality that gives way to vibrant abstraction and exquisite detail. Though richly layered in cultural and historical references, ... More  Kyiv Biennial presents artists, partners, and venues for fifth editionKYIV.- The fifth edition of the Kyiv Biennial will take place across Europe at locations in Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Berlin, Warsaw, Lublin, Antwerp and Vienna as the main exhibition venue. In view of the brutal Russian attack on Ukraine, a comprehensive biennial project in Kyiv long seemed deeply uncertain, if not impossible. But, with a cascade of openingsstarting in Kyiv in October 2023, finishing in Berlin in 2024the fifth Kyiv Biennial will be taking place. This Biennial edition is conceived as a European event, with dispersed exhibitions and public programs in a number of Ukrainian and EU cities, and realized in partnership with leading European institutions in the field of contemporary art. The project aims to reintegrate the Ukrainian artistic community, divided by war and scattered across Europe, and to enable its actors to work ... More  70-year-old 'Peanuts' baseball strip hits a home run in Heritage's fourth Art of Anime and Everything Cool AucDALLAS, TX.- This April 6, 1953, Peanuts strip is a fastball down the middle of the plate. It appeared less than three years into Charles Schulz's five-decade run as America's most adored creator of some of the most famous kids in American literature. It features a solitary figure in its four panels: Charlie Brown, the beloved blockhead with his oversized mitt on his left hand, tossing yet another in the relentlessly long line of line drives surrendered throughout his miserable career on the mound. He launches the ball with tongue-wagging determination; he receives it with a thwack that knocks the cap clean off his big round head. This strip's mere existence cements its status as one of the myriad centerpieces contained ... More  Friends of Blickachsen Art Prize 2023 awarded to Michael DekkerBAD HOMBURG .- At a prize-giving ceremony in Bad Homburg, Michael Dekker accepted the Friends of Blickachsen Art Prize 2023. The German artist received the award, worth 5,000 Euros, for his work Suite, exhibited in Blickachsen 13. The Blickachsen Prize has been awarded every two years since the fourth Sculpture Biennale in 2003 to honour the distinctive artistic approach of one of the exhibitions participants. Since 2015, the prize has been endowed by the Friends of Blickachsen. After careful consideration, the jurys decision this year to award the prize to Michael Dekker was unanimous, said Blickachsen founder and curator Christian K. Scheffel of the Blickachsen Foundation on behalf, also, of Thomas Buhl of the Friends of Blickachsen and Sir Peter Murray CBE, founding director emeritus of the Yorkshire Sculpture ... More  Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even from your couch.NEW YORK, NY.- In October 1973, Arena Stage in Washington took its productions of Inherit the Wind and Our Town to Moscow and Leningrad for the first American theatrical performances on the Soviet stage in memory, according to The New York Times. A teenager named Dmitry Krymov was so bowled over by Our Town that he returned the next day. He grew up to become one of the worlds finest theatermakers, and Our Town plays a pivotal role in his wonderfully evocative recent memory play, We Are All Here, which tracks Krymovs relationship with Grovers Corners over the course of his life, and peaks in an emotional gut punch doubling as a visual masterstroke, with the cast lined up on a slowly rising bridge. The good news is that I was able to take in Krymovs show earlier this month. The less-good news is that I saw ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Richard Avedon died October 01, 2004. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century." IN this image: Amon Carter Museum Senior Curator of Photographs John Rohrbach points to a Richard Avedon photograph of Boyd Fortin, Friday, Sept. 9, 2005, in Fort Worth, Texas. The photo is part of the "In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon" exhibit.
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