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Claus Sluter and workshop, Calvary, c. 1390-1400. Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Fund, the Vereniging Rembrandt (thanks in part to its dedicated Themafonds Beeldhouwkunst and the Schoufour-Martin Fonds) and private donors via the Rijksmuseum Fonds. Photo: Renate Neder, Munich.
AMSTERDAM.- A sculptural work recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum has been attributed to the father of Dutch sculpture, Claus Sluter. In March this year, the museum purchased a boxwood figure of excellent quality made during the Burgundian Netherlands period (around 1384 to 1482). Research conducted into art historical and technical aspects of the work has led multiple experts to conclude that this exceptional object can be conclusively attributed to Haarlem-born Claus Sluter, who was the court sculptor to Philip the Bold in Dijon, France, from 1389 to 1406. This makes the work the first by Sluter to be held in a Dutch collection. Calvary depicts the crucifixion of Christ with Mary and John the Evangelist, and will go on display at the Rijksmuseum on 25 August 2021. Calvary by Claus Sluter was acquired through the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund, the Vereniging Rembrandt (thanks in part to its dedicated Themafonds Beeldhouwkunst and S ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Natalie Toth (L), chief fossil preparator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, works with volunteers, interns, and researchers to place a grid for mapping the site as they excavate dinosaur bones and fossils from The Blues below Powell Point during an expedition at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah on July 21, 2021. Patrick T. FALLON / AFP.
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| V&A announces an all-star cast of objects across stage, screen and music to go on display | | Sotheby's celebrates The Grateful Dead with auction | | TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales to restore priceless Manet |
7-part costume for a dancer of the Adzogbo, 2000. Given by Adzido © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- Today the V&A announces that several significant costumes including an iconic drag costume from the musical Kinky Boots (2012), Eurovision winner Sandie Shaws mini dress and the UKs first ballet pointe shoes for a variety of skin tones by Freed / Ballet Black have gone on display as part of a major refresh in the V&A Theatre and Performance Galleries, due for completion in late April 2022. With a rolling programme of new material on display each month, the refresh will introduce over 120 objects from the V&As Theatre and Performance collection into the galleries, the majority of which will be on display for the first time. World-leading, the V&A is home to the national collection of performing arts, documenting current practice and the history of all areas of performing arts in the UK. Once completed, the galleries will bring together recent acquisitions and rare historic objects from the museums collection of t ... More | |
McIntosh 2300 Power Amp from the Wall of Sound with Original Road Case. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Just keep truckin on this fall, Sothebys will present From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends, dedicated to celebrating the global phenomenon of the Grateful Deads musical and cultural legacy, spanning the bands earliest years as one of the pivotal artistic focal points of the 1960s counterculture based in San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, in which the group routinely performed for Ken Keseys Acid Test experiences, through the heyday of the bands legendary live performances that filled arenas around the world and transformed the Grateful Dead into the definitive American band, and much more. Featuring items on offer directly from the collections of Grateful Dead Productions and their inner circle, the sale explores the vast cultural impact of the Grateful Dead, and is highlighted by stage equipment from all eras of Grateful Dead tours including surviving ... More | |
Ãdouard Manet, Portrait of Monsieur Jules Dejouy, 1879 (detail). Oil on canvas, 81 by 66 cm (31 7/8 by 26 in.) © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales.
AMSTERDAM.- The European Fine Art Foundation announced Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, is to receive 20,000, as the second recipient of this years TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund, an annual grant created in support of the international art communitys vital work to preserve artistic and cultural heritage. With TEFAFs funding, National Museum Wales will restore Ãdouard Manets (1832-1883) Portrait de Monsieur Jules Dejouy, 1879, a piece the museum attained in 2019 after more than ninety years in the same private family collection. Jules Dejouy (1815-1894) was not only Manets older cousin, but also an important figure in the artists life. He was a successful lawyer, appointed to the Imperial Court in France in 1849. After the death of the artists father in 1862, Dejouy was appointed as chief counsellor and guide to Manet and his brothers and Manet ... More |
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| 'Nevermind' baby sues Nirvana for sexual exploitation | | Al Capone's guns to go under the hammer in US auction | | LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History Auction bests itself for the third year in a row |
The album cover "exposed Spencer's intimate body part and lasciviously displayed Spencers genitals from the time he was an infant to the present day," the lawsuit, filed in California, said.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- The US man who featured as a baby on the cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album, one of the most famous album covers of all time, is suing the band for sexual exploitation, according to a lawsuit. Spencer Elden was photographed in 1991, when he was four months old, naked in a swimming pool reaching for a dollar bill on a fish hook. The album went on to sell 30 million copies, with songs such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" becoming American pop cultural touchstones. But neither Elden nor his legal guardians "ever signed a release authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him," the lawsuit said. It also said Elden had never received any compensation for the image, and asked for $150,000 in damages from each of the 15 defendants -- including the ... More | |
Al Capone's "Favorite" .45 Auto. Starting Price: $50,000. Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000. Photo: Sheldon Carpenter/Witherell's Inc.
LOS ANGELES, CA (AFP).- Guns once owned by Al Capone, one of the most notorious gangsters in United States history, are to go under the hammer at a California auction. The mobster's favored .45 automatic pistol is among the haul, which also includes vintage photos, a letter to his son written from Alcatraz, and the bed he shared with his wife at their luxury Florida mansion. The 174 items on sale in October are a collection entitled "A Century of Notoriety: the Estate of Al Capone," in what auctioneers say "will no doubt go down as one of the most important celebrity auctions in history." Capone was one of the most feared figures in organized crime during the Prohibition Era, when the sale or production of alcohol was banned in the United States. He was the boss of the Chicago Outfit, a 1920s gang that beat out rivals in bootlegging and racketeering with increasingly brutal methods. These culminated in the 1929 ... More | |
Diane Arbus, Two Men Dancing at the Drag Ball, NYC, silver print, 1970, printed 1972. Sold for $50,000, a record for the print.
NEW YORK, NY.- "Swann's third annual auction of LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History was an unmitigated success. From the limited exhibition, which had the highest attendance of any of the houses exhibitions in 18 months, to the truly spirited and competitive bidding institutions and avid collectors all participated at what could at times be referred to as a fever pitch. Records were set in many different categories: art, photography, posters and ephemera. Perhaps most heartening were the outstanding results achieved for artists whose work had not previously or only infrequently appeared at auction, Swann Galleries President, Nicholas D. Lowry reflected on the Thursday, August 19 sale. The sale earned $1.1 million hammer ($1.3 million with BP), nearly 30% over the high estimate with 94% of the 268 lots on offer finding buyers. Tom of Finlands popular S&M illustrations led the auction, with the complete ... More |
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| Smithsonian begins two-year racial justice initiative | | How 2 Jewish sisters built a cultural oasis during World War II | | Deborah Emont Scott to retire as Taft Museum of Art President/CEO |
Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced last year that the organization had received a $25 million gift from Bank of America, he envisioned an initiative that would create safe spaces in communities across the nation where Americans could gather to discuss the countrys racial past. The result, Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past, a two-year series of online and in-person events, will kick off Thursday in Los Angeles with a virtual summit meeting that will focus on income and health care inequality and include subjects ranging from early race science to vaccine distribution. The initial event will be livestreamed at oursharedfuture.si.edu, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern. We cant solve the problems of race in America ourselves, Bunch said in a phone conversation Monday. But ... More | |
The Sisters of Auschwitz is out in the United States on Aug. 31.
by Nina Siegal
NAARDEN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Midway through The Sisters of Auschwitz, Roxane van Iperens book on two Dutch Jewish sisters who aided dozens of people during World War II, there is a moment of merriment that one doesnt usually expect from a Holocaust narrative. In a neighborhood crawling with fascists, she writes, the sisters, Janny and Lien Brilleslijper, organized a celebration of Yiddish culture at their countryside estate in Naarden, about 30 minutes from Amsterdam. There is dance, music, song and recitation, van Iperen writes. Simon drums, Puck plays the violin and Jaap builds Kathinka a little piano. Lien uses the death mask for a Yiddish story. The attendees quietly dissolve into the night without a single Nazi, German soldier or ... More | |
Scott was named museum director in 2009.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Deborah Emont Scott, the Louise Taft Semple President/CEO of the Taft Museum of Art, announced Monday to the board of directors that she will conclude her tenure in summer 2022 following the completion of the museums widely publicized Bicentennial Infrastructure Project. Followed by a transition period and a national search for her successor, she will mark over 12 years of distinguished leadership and be named Director Emerita. Scott has elevated the Taft Museum of Arts visibility and influence within the Greater Cincinnati community as well as within the national and international museum sector, positioning the museum for sustained success, says Gerald H. Greene, Jr., board of directors chair. Scott was named museum director in 2009 and has led the organization through the trials of the Great Recession and global COVID-19 pandemic. As the museum faced challenges due to the current ... More |
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| AstaGuru's upcoming Modern Indian Art Auction will debut landmark masterpieces | | Carpintaria opens an exhibition by Ernesto Neto featuring brand new works | | The Concord Art Prize: Shortlisted entries unveiled |
Krishen Khanna, Emaus. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in. Opening Bid: ₹ 54,00,000.
MUMBAI.- This September, AstaGuru will present an impressive selection of iconic masterpieces by some of Indias most distinguished artists in its upcoming Modern Indian Art Online Auction. The online auction will be held on 8 9 September 2021 and will feature 50 lots including works by modern masters such as M F Husain, S H Raza, Krishen Khanna, Bhupen Khakhar, F N Souza, Anjolie Ela Menon, K K Hebbar, Ganesh Pyne, Jamini Roy, and many more. This well-curated collection includes several important works from prolific periods in the artists careers, many of which come from significant collections within India and abroad. Speaking about the collection, Sneha Gautam, Vice President- Client Relations, AstaGuru, said, The demand for modern Indian art has increased exponentially in the last year, the Indian art auction market having its strongest year ever. The Indian auction market ... More | |
Installation view of O beijo Vi de Só e Té Ãgua e Fô e outras tecelá at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, 2020.
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Carpintaria is presenting O beijo Vi de Só e Té Ãgua e Fô e outras tecelá, an exhibition by Ernesto Neto featuring brand new works that deal with the relationship between heaven and earth, ceramics and crochet, sculpture and space. Together, these pieces are interspersed with the architecture of Carpintaria, where the floor, wall and ceiling are combined, creating an immersive experience. Neto perceives sculpture as a living and transgressive organism, constantly devouring and transforming itself and those around. The environment created by the artist in this show suggests a (re)construction of social space and the natural world, crossing the limits of the sculptural body in a reinvented landscape. A crochet sky supports sculptures composed of long, suspended shapes, like drops that are filled with herb leaves or nuts, falling towards ceramic pieces that in turn spring from the ground, alluding to kisses betw ... More | |
Finalist Olly Fathers playful sculptural response to Newley & Bricusses Pure Imagination.
LONDON.- Artworks by the ten Concord Art Prize finalists were unveiled today. The ten artists have received a £1000 bursary to create their submissions, including works by Anna Kerman, Sam Tahmessabi, Jacob Love, Angela Fung and Olly Fathers. The final entries will will be exhibited at 180 Strand this September where the winner will be announced. This major new art prize encourages visuals inspired by music. Over 600 submissions were received from artists aged 18-72, responding to a selection of songs from Concord Music Publishings expansive catalogue. The illustrious panel of judges, including world renowned British artist Mat Collishaw, representatives from the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins and Hiscox, alongside Julie Lomax (CEO of a-n The Artists Information Company), Robert Yates of The Observer, and songwriters Mark Ronson and Joan Armatrading, have deliberated ... More |
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Micki Grant, groundbreaking Broadway composer, dies at 92
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Micki Grant, who in the early 1970s became the first woman to write the book, music and lyrics of a Broadway musical, Dont Bother Me, I Cant Cope, a soulful, spirited exploration of Black life, died Saturday in New York. She was 92. Her death was announced by Joan Allen, a family spokesperson. Grant, an actress, composer, playwright and musician, had developed Dont Bother Me for two years with director Vinnette Carroll, taking it to small theaters in New York, Philadelphia and Washington before opening on Broadway in April 1972. She would also be known for her work on another Broadway musical, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, and for her seven years on the NBC soap opera Another World. Set in New York City, Dont Bother Me explored topics like ghetto life, Black power, feminism ... More
Crescent City Auction Gallery to offer more than 800 lots in Important September Estates sale
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Crescent City Auction Gallery will greet the busy fall season with a two-day Important September Estates Auction on Saturday and Sunday, September 11th and 12th, starting at 10 am Central time both days. More than 800 lots, pulled from prominent estates and collections, will come up for bid, online and live in the gallery located at 1330 St. Charles Ave. A large collection of Old Master paintings will be on offer, led by a 19th century oil on board after Domenico Tintoretto (1560-1635), titled The Penitent Magdalene, measuring 24 ½ inches in height by 18 ½ inches in width (estimate: $1,000-$2,000). Also, an unsigned 18th century oil on board painted in the manner of Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721), titled Fete Galante Picnic, 17 ½ inches tall by 21 ¼ inches wide, carries a pre-sale estimate of $3,000-$5,000. The renowned ... More
Martine Gutierrez debuts ten self-portraits as legendary historical figures for multi-city exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Public Art Fund unveiled ANTI-ICON, a 300-site exhibition of ten new photographs by Brooklyn-based photographer and performance artist Martine Gutierrez. The exhibition is now on view on 100 JCDecaux bus shelters across New York City, 150 in Chicago, and for the first time in this exhibition series, 50 JCDecaux bus shelters in Boston. With ANTI-ICON, Gutierrez continues her exploration of identity across the landscapes of race, gender, class, and culture. Through the ten black and white and color photographs, the artist embodies the spirit of historical and mythological women who have achieved iconic status across cultures, over many centuries, in both art history and popular culture. Gutierrez is the sole performer in the series, and through the use of simple props, wigs, makeup, disguises, and natural elements, ... More
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts re-opens launching new programs of study in September 2021
OLD LYME, CONN.- The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts has officially reopened with a renewed dedication to the mission first articulated by its Founder, sculptor Elisabeth Gordon Chandler. The Academy was created in 1976 as an institution dedicated to the traditional, skills-based art education, first taught in the Renaissance academies of Europe and, later, at Pariss Ãcole des Beaux-Arts. Returning to the roots of the organization, the Academy begins the academic year with the launch of a new Core Program of study for full-time students, which will commence in late September. Led by the husband and wife team of Jordan Sokol and Amaya Gurpide who serve as Co-Artistic Directors, a dynamic new faculty of internationally acclaimed instructors will teach students the foundational skills on which they can build a career in the fine arts. Enrollment ... More
Michaan's roundup of summer sales
ALAMEDA, CA.- A survey of summer 2021 at Michaans Auctions shows sustained growth across all categories. Our longtime customers have proven their loyalty month after month, says president Allen Michaan, noting that this holds for seasoned consignors and bidders alike. At the same time, more and more new buyers and sellers are recognizing that the auction business blends discovery and sustainability, which makes it the perfect marketplace for the times we live in, as Michaan puts it. Many new customers have come on board through the expansion of Michaans Annex, the massive monthly auction now offered online through MLIVE. Adding the MLIVE sales platform to the eclectic, no-reserve Annex auction has made it accessible to more buyers, and Annex sales have soared in 2021. We are moving so much inventory through Michaans ... More
OSL contemporary opens Vibeke Tandberg's fourth exhibition at the gallery
OSLO.- OSL contemporary is presenting 'Feber' Vibeke Tandberg's fourth exhibition at the gallery. Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I haunt? (Breton, trans. Howard, 1960, 11) These are the opening lines of Andre Bretons novel Nadja from 1928, an autobiographical novel about a random encounter with a mentally unstable woman. The woman Nadja became for Breton an example of the very essence of surrealism. According to Breton, the purpose of surreal art was to ventilate the subconscious so that the human being, in a state stripped of their outer shell, became visible. A so-called pure state for the surrealists was the triggering and active moment when reason became absent and the thoughts were devoid of any moral and ethical controlan automation controlled ... More
Rolling Stones pay tribute to drummer Charlie Watts
LONDON (AFP).- The remaining three members of the Rolling Stones on Wednesday posted poignant tributes for the band's drummer Charlie Watts, whose death at age 80 prompted outpourings of condolences from around the world. Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood posted a photo of himself and Watts on Twitter Wednesday, writing: "I love you my fellow Gemini. I will dearly miss you. You are the best." Frontman Mick Jagger posted a photograph of Watts smiling broadly as he sat at the drum kit, while Keith Richards posted a photo of Watts' drum kit on stage with a "closed" sign hanging on it. Paul McCartney said in a video message posted online Tuesday that "Charlie was a rock and a fantastic drummer". Fellow British star Elton John joined top musicians around the world in paying their respects, from Liam Gallagher to Sheryl ... More
Gavin Gardiner Ltd. to sell guns built for HRH Prince Albert as a gift from Queen Victoria
LONDON.- A fine pair of 14-bore percussion guns by Charles Lancaster that were built for HRH Prince Albert as a gift from Queen Victoria, and are the only known examples outside the Royal Collection, will be offered in Gavin Gardiner Ltds live/ online auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns on Monday, September 6, 2021 at 10.30am. The sale will take place online and bidding is available via invaluable.com. Estimated to fetch £30,000-40,000, the guns were built in 1850 and are signed Charles Lancaster, 151 New Bond Street, London. HRH Prince Albert was a regular customer of Charles Lancaster; he ordered his first pair of 15-bore guns in 1843 and the company received the Royal Warrant later the same year. Gavin Gardiner notes: These are a superb pair of 14-bore Percussion sporting guns, by Charles Lancaster, and were a gift to the Prince ... More
Haus der Kunst presents a multisensory installation by Lamin Fofana
MUNICH.- This year and in the years to come, sound will become a focal point of the Haus der Kunst program. Plans include a series of musical performances and a new commissioned acoustic work that will permeate the Terrace Hall for a year. Tune is located between the realms of sound, music, and visual art. This offering of a collective experience and unique listening experiences will be encountered throughout the museum in the form of installation and performance. The participating artists share a common interest in how sound flows through, intersects with, and transforms the material world. Their work evokes the unknown and demonstrates how sound can both provide orientation and disorient us. Sound is the form of expression most easily liberated from its context: It can move freely through and between cultures. In the process, ... More
Archive containing 150 handwritten letters by Steve Ditko heads to auction
DALLAS, TX.- The headlines read more or less the same upon the great man's passing in 2018: Steve Ditko, Influential Comic-Book Artist Who Helped Create Spider-Man, Dies at 90. Ditko breathed life into myriad myths, heroes both renowned and relatively obscure, among them Dr. Strange, the Creeper, The Question, Hawk and Dove, Captain Atom. Mr. A and Shade, the Changing Man. Yet to the casual comic-book reader, that was more or less the extent of Ditko's résumé as one of Peter Parker's parents (alongside, natch, Stan Lee), as co-author of the Web-slinger's origin story. On one of the multiverse's other earths, no doubt, Ditko is as treasured as any author or artist, as beloved as Stan Lee or as revered as Jack Kirby or Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. His lithe, lean, dynamic work was "instantly recognizable, utterly personal and uniquely ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo was born August 26, 1899. Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 - June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. In this image: Rufino Tamayo's painting "Sandias" or "Watermelons'' is seen in this undated picture. Mexico put out an international alert Sunday, Jan. 31, 1999 for 12 paintings that were stolen from an exhibition last week, including "Sandias" by one of Mexico's most famous painters. The paintings, on loan from private art collectors in Mexico, the United States and Europe, were part of a 43-canvas show the gallery organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tamayo's birth.
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