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Francisco de Goya, Still Life with Golden Bream (Besugos), 18081812. Oil on canvas, 44.8 x 62.5 cm. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund and the Pratt Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, 94.245. Photo: © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston .
BASEL.- 275 years after his birth, the Fondation Beyeler presents one of the most significant exhibitions ever devoted to Francisco de Goya one of modern arts major trailblazers. For the first time, rarely displayed paintings from Spanish private collections will be shown alongside key works from distinguished European and American museums and private collections. The exhibition brings together around 70 paintings and more than 100 masterful drawings and prints. Today as during the artists lifetime, Goyas works present viewers with a unique sensory and intellectual experience. For the past two centuries, his complex and ambiguous oeuvre has acted as a beacon and a landmark for many artists. The exhibition is organised by the Fondation Beyeler in collaboration with the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) occupies a paradoxical position in European art history as ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor looks at a painting during an exhibition showcasing North Korean art in Pyongyang on October 7, 2021. KIM Won Jin / AFP.
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| Pace exhibits rarely seen paintings on paper from the final years of Mark Rothko's life | | U.S. Holocaust museums are updating content and context | | Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild 747-1, highlights Christie's Hong Kong 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale | 
Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away, Pace Gallery, 5 Hanover Square, London, October 8 November 13, 2021. Artwork on paper by Mark Rothko Copyright © 2020 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. Photo: Damian Griffiths, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace inaugurated its new London gallery with Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away, an exhibition of rarely seen paintings on paper from the final years of Mark Rothkos life. On view October 8 November 13 at 5 Hanover Square, this landmark exhibition is the first in the United Kingdom that is solely dedicated to the artists extraordinary paper-based practice. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an introduction by Christopher Rothko and a new essay by art historian Eleanor Nairne, curator at the Barbican Art Gallery. Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away brings together key paintings from Rothkos renowned body of work made in the late 1960sa significant and prolific period in the artists life. In the wake of a particularly difficult bout of ill health and a tumultuous time in his personal life, Rothko was forced to reduce the scale of his practice ... More | | 
A rendering of a survivors gallery planned as part of an expansion of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. Gallagher & Associates via The New York Times.
by Adam Popescu
NEW YORK, NY.- With an urgency to preserve memory and modernize as Holocaust survivors enter their 80s and 90s, at least half a dozen Holocaust museums are being built, plan to break ground or have recently expanded, with more broadening their approach to look beyond the past and reflect todays social changes. Steven Spielbergs USC Shoah Foundation, founded in 1994 to record survivors stories, is at the forefront of the evolution. In a 2018 New York Times article, Spielberg described the need to broaden the focus, saying: The presence of hate has become taken for granted. We are not doing enough to counter it. The foundation is now archiving and studying victims of genocide in Rwanda or the Rohingya in Myanmar, developing medical ethics educational programming and podcasts, and ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild 747-1 (detail). HK$128,000,000 166,000,000 / US$16,500,000 21,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
HONG KONG.- Christies 20th and 21st Century Art Department will present a rare, museum-quality masterwork by the legendary Abstract Art titan Gerhard Richter: Abstraktes Bild 747-1, as a focal point of the 20th and 21st Century Art Evening Sale on 1 December. Executed in 1991, the iconic painting was chosen by Richter to open his first ever retrospective at Tate Gallery in London in the very same year, and embodies a crescendo in his career when the artist reached new heights in his technical investigation of his practice. Since then, Abstraktes Bild 747-1 has been toured to international museums and featured in Richters solo exhibitions in London, Paris, Bonn, Stockholm, and Madrid. In this majestic canvas, the artist reveals layer upon layer of shimmering beauty with a rare display of searing and luxurious tones together for dramatic effect, in his unique way of carefully and continuously manipulating the painted surface. The mas ... More |
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| Google Maps Anno Domini 1601: Gems In Ketterer Kunst Rare Books Auction | | Renowned avant garde artist Jacqueline de Jong arrives in Llandudno for first major UK show | | Rare 16th century dish by the 'Raphael of maiolica painting' sells for more than £1 million | 
Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum (detail). Three parts in one volume, Antwerp, 1601. Estimate: 80,000.
HAMBURG.- Today we can hardly imagine the world without Google Maps. But this was the reality in past centuries. Orientation came with the first modern atlas by Abraham Ortelius, which set the standard for all following atlases. On November 29 the famous map work will be called up in the Rare Book Auction at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg with an estimate of 80,000. As the first atlas of all, Abraham Ortelius Theatrum orbis terrarum has a very special significance for its groundbreaking innovations in terms of content and getup. This copy in a splendid old coloring is one of only 200 from the last edition that Jan Moretus had printed by the Plantin printshop for Ortelius' heirs. The atlas contains more than 150 maps, among them a world map, views of the continents Europe, Africa, Asia and America, as well as maps of the Pacific Ocean and the Norwegian Sea. EUROPEAN: With his ambitious publishing project from 1649, the ... More | | 
MOSTYN presents the first UK institutional solo exhibition of Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong, one of the crucial artistic figures from the post-war years of protest and revolt. The Ultimate Kiss opened on 9 October and runs until 6 February 2022.
LLANDUDNO.- Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong attended the opening of her first major exhibition in the UK. The 82 year old Dutch artist arrived at MOSTYN contemporary art gallery in Llandudno to unveil a major exhibition of her work in the stunning gallery space of Wales largest contemporary art gallery. Jacqueline de Jong: The Ultimate Kiss features over 80 paintings spanning a 50 year career where de Jong has continuously re-invented her painting style. Nicknamed The Art Rebel works of expressionism, Cubism pop art, photo realism and landscape paintings are in turns imbued with de Jongs trademark humour, eroticism and the grotesque. In parallel to her work as a painter, she was editor of The Situationist Times (1962-1967) and a member of the Situationist International during her early years in Paris in the 1960s. MOSTYN ... More | | 
The dish, which measures about 27cm (11 in) in diameter, had been expected to fetch between £80,000 and £120,000.
EDINBURGH.- A rare 16th century dish from the eclectic collection of a country house in the Scottish Borders sold on 06 October for more than £1m at auction. The dish, which measures about 27cm (11in) in diameter, had been expected to fetch between £80,000 and £120,000 during the live online sale by Edinburgh-headquartered auctioneers, Lyon & Turnbull, but sold for a record-breaking price of £1,263,000 (premium inclusive) The dish is attributed to Nicola di Gabriele Sbraghe, described as the Raphael of maiolica painting. It was made by him around 1520-23 and was part of a sale of the contents of Lowood House near Melrose. The dish was found in a drawer by Lyon & Turnbulls European ceramics specialists when preparations for the 400+ lot auction began. Lowood House's collection were amassed by two families, the Crum Ewings and the Hamiltons. The Crum Ewing's ... More |
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| There is only one CryptoPunk 6503, and Heritage Auctions has him this month | | Over 80 works by Kandinsky from Guggenheim Collection on view in museum rotunda | | Biden's pick to lead NEA sees culture as a community building tool | 
Larva Labs (Est. 2005), CryptoPunk 6503. Non-fungible token NFT, 24 x 24 pixels. Minted on June 23, 2017. Ed. 1/1.
DALLAS, TX.- Four years ago they were unleashed into the wild, just given away, all 10,000 of these randomly generated pixelated portraits made of computer code. CryptoPunks, they were called, the bad boys and girls of the Ethereum, these new kids on the blockchain. They were among the first of the NFTs, long before your mom knew that stood for "non-fungible token." These digital visages didn't have names, merely numbers and easily identifiable traits, as no two CryptoPunks are alike. What once was given away has become the coveted and valuable, driven in part by "Silicon Valley CEOs, prominent venture capitalists, famous YouTubers, poker stars and major business personalities" who fell in love with the 'Punks, as TechCrunch noted in April in a story examining "The Cult of CryptoPunks." Prices skyrocketed; so, too, interest and demand, driven by what TechCrunch said was "climbing cryptocurrency prices, the rise in popularity of Dapper Labs' NBA Top Shot and the resurgence of the physical col ... More | | 
Vasily Kandinsky, Yellow Painting (La toile jaune), July 1938. Oil and enamel on canvas, 45 13/16 x 35 inches (116.4 x 88.9 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 45.964.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle. Drawing from the Guggenheims exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well as a selection of his illustrated books, spanning the artists earlier years in Russia and Germany and through his exile in France at the end of his life. The presentation, installed along the midsection of the museums spiral rotunda, reconsiders Kandinskys career not as a fixed path from representation to abstraction, but as a circular passage through persistent themes centered around the pursuit of one dominant ideal: the impulse for spiritual expression. Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle is organized by Megan Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance. Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, ... More | | 
In this file photo US President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on restoring protections for national monuments on the North Lawn of the White House on October 8, 2021. Olivier DOULIERY / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- President Joe Bidens new nominee to lead the National Endowment for the Arts is a veteran arts administrator and tenured professor at Arizona State University with a background in urban planning and a history of embracing the importance of the arts at the neighborhood level. The nominee, Maria Rosario Jackson, is a recognized expert in creative placemaking, a process that leverages arts, culture and design to spur economic development in communities and promote social change. Colleagues said she will bring a public policy lens to one of the nations top arts jobs. She is one of our nations most profound thinkers around how arts and design can be deployed to create healthier and more equitable communities, Steven Tepper, the dean of Arizona States Herberger Institute for Design and Arts, where Jackson is on the faculty, said ... More |
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| Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale and Online Sales now online for browsing | | Designer Ini Archibong's first solo gallery exhibition opens at Friedman Benda | | Pace Gallery inaugurates new space in London at 5 Hanover Square | 
Andy Warhol, (1928-1987), Karen Kain. Estimate: GBP 150,000 - GBP 200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 16 October, will bring together works by artists including Yayoi Kusamas My Life (2014, estimate: £300,000-500,000), Andy Warhols Karen Kain (1980, estimate: £150,000-200,000) and Rudolf Stingels Untitled (1992, estimate: £150,000-200,000). Peter Doigs Star Apple Stag & Philip Guston (2015, estimate: £200,000-300,000) is from the Estate of fellow Trinidadian resident and poet Derek Walcott. Contemporary names are also represented, among them Titus Kaphars How I remember him (2009, estimate: £100,000-150,000) and Amoako Boafos Portrait (2018, estimate: £50,000-70,000). There is also a strong presentation of works by female artists, including Natalia LLs Consumer Art (1972, estimate: £12,000-18,000), Franciszka Themersons Piéton Apocalypse (1972, estimate: £40,000-60,000), Chantal Joffes, Night Self-Portrait in a Red Dress (2014, estimate: £35,000- ... More | | 
Ini Archibong, Manna Chandelier, 2021. Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Ini Archibong. Photo: Andreas Zimmermann.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda is presenting, Hierophany, Designer Ini Archibongs first solo gallery exhibition. Hierophany marks the culmination of an ongoing four-year collaboration with the gallery and the first time this comprehensive body of work by Archibong is on public view. Combining his lifelong interests in global cultures, mathematics, philosophy, mythology and world religions with a passion for his own Nigerian ancestry, Archibong views each object as a reflection of his life experiences. Hierophany demonstrates the dualities inherent to Archibongs practice: past and future, personal and collective, opacity and transparency, opposition and reconciliation, local and global, intangible and physical. For Archibong, the coexistence of these oppositional forces is in itself hierophanous. Through his philosophical approach to design, Archibongs practice is rooted in the ... More | | 
Pace Gallery, 5 Hanover Square, London. Photo: Matt Clayton, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery announced that its new London gallery at 5 Hanover Square is now open. The Hanover Square gallery is inaugurated by Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away, the first exhibition in the UK dedicated to the artist's rarely seen paper-based paintings created during the last years of Rothko's life, and Torkwase Dyson: Liquid A Place, a multimedia installation featuring monumental sculpture, a site-specific sound piece, and collaborative performances presented as part of the Pace Live programme. Designed by Jamie Fobert Architects, Paces new London gallery comprises three flexible gallery spaces, allowing for concurrent exhibitions dedicated to leading contemporary artists and estates as well as multidisciplinary Pace Live programming. The winter 2021 season will open with a landmark exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Yoshitomo Nara. Spanning the spaces three galleries, the presentation will fea ... More |
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Impressionist Women and Pastels: A conversation with Laura D. Corey
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 Tate Britain presents a new installation by London-based artist and dancer Jamila Johnson-Small LONDON.- This autumn Tate Britain presents a new installation by SERAFINE1369, the London-based artist and dancer Jamila Johnson-Small (previously known as Last Yearz Interesting Negro 2015-2020). Titled from darkness into darkness, the multi-media installation is the artists first work for the gallery setting that is not dependent on the live presence of the artist. SERAFINE1369s work considers dance as a philosophical enquiry, tool for divination and psycho-spiritual practice. The exhibition is the latest in Tate Britains Art Now series of free exhibitions showcasing emerging talent and highlighting the latest developments in British art. from darkness into darkness features three video works in which the artist transforms themselves into different mythological archetypes of monstrous creatures as metaphor for experiences of being, or feeling haunted ... More  Solo exhibition by one of Greece's most renowned contemporary artists opens in LondonLONDON.- Varvara Roza Galleries (based in London) and The Blender Gallery (based in Athens) are joining forces in the pursuit of one common goal and passion: to present Greeces most outstanding contemporary artists to the global art market and make a splash on the contemporary art scene as London prepares for Frieze week and auction season kicks off. Varvara Roza Galleries Founder Varvara Roza, an academic, patron of the Greek arts and respected former politician of the Greek political scene, is on a mission to introduce contemporary Greek art to the London art scene and establish Greek artists on a global level, with an ongoing series of exhibitions and events showcasing approximately 60 pieces of artwork from five different artists. Featuring both emerging and established Greek talent, the series will be a three-month celebration of Greek ... More  Sotheby's to present most valuable sneakers ever offered at auction during special luxury sale in Las VegasNEW YORK, NY.- This month, Sothebys will offer for sale a legendary piece of basketball and sports history: the earliest known Michael Jordan Regular Season Game Worn Nikes the Nike Air Ships. Attributed to Jordans 5th NBA game in his rookie season on November 1, 1984, the sneakers are the earliest regular season pair from Jordans unparalleled career in the NBA to come to market, and are a precursor to the genesis of the Air Jordan line. Estimated to sell for $1/1.5 million, the Air Ships carry the highest estimate for a pair of sneakers ever offered at auction, and are among the most valuable pair of sneakers ever, following Sothebys record-breaking sale last year of Kanye West Grammy Worn Nike Air Yeezy 1 Prototypes from 2008, which sold for $1.8 million via private sale. The sneakers will be offered in Sothebys Icons of Excellence & Haute ... More  Washi exhibit in Allentown transforms Japanese paper into amazing sculpturesALLENTOWN, PA.- The Allentown Art Museum announced the opening of the special exhibition Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper on Sunday, October 10, 2021, and continuing on view through January 2, 2022. Allentown is the first stop on a tour of the exhibition, which goes through 2024. Washi Transformed presents more than thirty highly textured two-dimensional works, expressive sculptures, and dramatic installations that explore the astonishing potential of traditional Japanese paper. Nine Japanese artists embrace the seemingly infinite possibilities of washi, underscoring the unique stature this ancient art form has earned in the realm of international contemporary art. Historically, washi has been used as a base for Japanese calligraphy, painting, and printmaking; but when oiled, lacquered, or otherwise ... More  Champagne pops expected for heroic works by Preller and Stern at Strauss & CoJOHANNESBURG.- Great pictures are the champagne of the auction market. Two post-war paintings with remarkable fizz, a blazing mural-scale work by Alexis Preller and light-infused harbour scene by Irma Stern, lend Strauss & Cos forthcoming live virtual auction on 11-12 October extra anticipation. These premier lots are expected to achieve popping results. Since 2009, works by Stern and Preller sold by Strauss & Co have collectively earned three-quarters of a billion rand (R725 million). Conceived on a grand scale, Prellers 135,5 by 125,5cm Boy with a Crocodile (estimate R8 12 million) is a dazzling mix of symbol, blazing colour and surprising pattern. Executed in the mid-1960s during a period of mature experimentation, the painting hints at the wide range of Prellers visual sources, his unique interpretations of African mythologies, and ... More  Marilyn Van Derbur becomes first Miss America to auction her crown - to raise money for teachersDALLAS, TX.- The box, small and gray and sturdy, sat in her closet for years, tucked away like a forgotten memory. She seldom thought about that case or its contents, which were awarded to her on a Saturday in September 64 years ago. The night Bert Parks crowned her 1958 Miss America on national television, in front of millions who suddenly knew the name of this reluctant pageant queen. "Being Miss America gave me the springboard for everything I have done ever since," the 84-year-old Marilyn Van Derbur says from her home in Colorado, which she has called home her entire life. "And I am grateful for it. But I do not live in the past." Except when people ask her about it. Last year, filmmaker Jay Pitts interviewed Van Derbur for an upcoming documentary about the Miss America pageant, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in December. At the ... More  Ngununggula, the first regional art gallery in the Southern Highlands, set to open on 12 OctoberBOWRAL .- Ngununggula, the Southern Highlands first regional art gallery, will open to the public on 12 October 2021, following a delay due to the COVID-19 lockdown in NSW. The Gallery will open with two inaugural exhibitions by celebrated Australian artists Tamara Dean and Megan Cope. Meaning "belonging" in the traditional language of the Gundungurra First Nation People, Ngununggula is located in what was the old dairy at Retford Park, which has received a heritage-sensitive redesign undertaken by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and constructed by Richard Crookes Constructions, surrounded by a landscaped garden created by Jane Irwin. Director of Ngununggula Megan Monte said: Were so delighted that we can finally unveil Ngununggula to the public and begin this new chapter engaging with our local community and visitors. Its ... More  'Dragon and Phoenix: Centuries of Exchange between Chinese and Islamic Worlds' exhibition opens to the publicABU DHABI.- H.E. Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi, inaugurated Louvre Abu Dhabis exhibition, Dragon and Phoenix Centuries of Exchange between Chinese and Islamic Worlds. The exhibition opened to the public on 6 October 2021 and will run until 12 February 2022. With more than 200 artworks on display, visitors can explore the cultural and artistic exchange between the Chinese and Islamic worlds from the 8th to the 18th century. A rich cultural programme will accompany the exhibition, offering an array of events, from dragon boating to kayak cinema and family film screenings. Organised by Louvre Abu Dhabi in partnership with Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet and France Muséums, the exhibition is curated by Sophie Makariou, President of Musée national ... More  The road back: 'How am I ever going to dance again?'NEW YORK, NY.- Dancing is more than a job. Its all consuming, and time is of the essence. A body doesnt last forever, especially one able to express the artistry of George Balanchine, whose ballets make up the bulk of the repertory at New York City Ballet. Balanchine dancers move big, and company members are used to dancing in studios, not kitchens. How did they cope as the pandemic wore on? To get a better understanding of what this strange time has been like, I checked in with three City Ballet dancers a member of the corps de ballet, a soloist and a principal to track their experiences, both in life and in ballet as they made their way to opening night, which was Sept. 21. But the fall season was never a sure thing. Would a third wave ruin everything? Each dancer was in a markedly different place, yet, for all, a positive COVID test ... More  Marie Wilcox, who saved her native language from extinction, dies at 87NEW YORK, NY.- For many years, Marie Wilcox was the guardian of the Wukchumni language, one of several Indigenous languages that were once common in Central California but have either disappeared or nearly disappeared. She was the only person for a time who could speak it fluently. She started writing down words in Wukchumni as she remembered them in the late 1990s, scrawling on the backs of envelopes and slips of paper. Then she started typing them into an old boxy computer. Soon she was getting up early to devote her day to gathering words and working into the night. After 20 years of labor, of hunting and pecking on her keyboard, Wilcox, who died at 87 on Sept. 25, produced a dictionary, the first known complete compendium of Wukchumni. The dictionary was her whole life, Jennifer Malone, one of her daughters, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, On a day like today, French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau was born October 10, 1684. Jean-Antoine Watteau (baptised October 10, 1684 - died July 18, 1721), better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. In this image: Exhibition view "Watteau. The Draughtsman". Photo: Städel Museum.
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