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Paul Seignac (French, 1826-1904), Christmas Morning, oil on panel, signed, 20½in x 25½in. Sold July 29, 2018 for $20,000, four times its high estimate. All images provided by I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.- Founded in 1969 by Asian art expert Isadore M. Izzy Chait, I.M. Chait Gallery & Auctioneers conducts approximately 20 auctions per year, with estimates that range from one hundred to one million dollars. And while the family-owned business is most closely associated with high-end Asian art and antiques, I.M. Chait has seen its profile rise this year with successes in jewelry, watches, antiquities and fine art of the Western world. In particular, Chait made headlines with its May 20 International Fine Arts Auction featuring a collection of five select paintings by the beloved American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson (1860-1961), better known as Grandma Moses. All of the artworks had provenance from Hammer Galleries, where they were exhibited in 1964-65. It was the first time we had ever auctioned paintings by Grandma Moses, and it was quite a thrill for us, since her work is so coveted but rarely appears in the marketp ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French President Emmanuel Macron (2ndL), his wife Brigitte Macron (L), Danish Crown Princess Mary (2ndR) and Crown Prince Frederik pose as they arrive to visit the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum, on August 29, 2018 in Copenhagen. ludovic MARIN / AFP
| Renowned Austria photographer Erich Lessing dies at 95 | | Rijksmuseum acquires floral still life by Gerard van Spaendonck | | Art Basel Cities Week in Buenos Aires: Program announced | 
Member of Magnum Photos, Austrian photographer Erich Lessing, is pictured during an interview on March 16, 2012, in Vienna. Lessing passed away on August 29, 2018 at age 95. HERBERT NEUBAUER / APA / AFP.
VIENNA (AFP).- Renowned Austrian photographer Erich Lessing has died at the age of 95, Austria's Jewish community organisation, the IKG, said on Wednesday. Lessing's career in photojournalism saw him document many of the key moments of postwar European history, such as the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and Charles de Gaulle's 1958 visit to Algeria. Lessing worked with the Associated Press and the Magnum Agency and his photos also appeared in publications such as Time, Paris Match and Fortune. Born in 1923 in Vienna, the son of a dentist and a concert pianist, Lessing fled the Nazis to Palestine at the age of 16. His mother and grandmother were murdered in the Holocaust. In 1947 he returned to Austria, having taken up his childhood hobby of photography as a profession, including for the British Army during the war. From the 1960s he ... More | | 
Gerard van Spaendonck, Still Life of Flowers in Alabaster Vase, 1783, 80.5 x 64 cm, Oil on canvas, Acquired with the support of the BankGiro Lottery.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has procured a painting by Gerard van Spaendonck, the most famous painter of floral still lifes of the second half of the 18th century. It was a long-cherished wish of the museum to include in its collection an important work by this Dutch painter of international renown. The Rijksmuseums director Taco Dibbits describes this painting as a radiantly beautiful acquisition. The purchase of Still Life of Flowers and Alabaster Vase from a gallery in Paris for 900,000 was made possible in part by participants in the BankGiro Lottery. The painting is on show from today. Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822) was born in the southern Dutch city of Tilburg and settled in Paris in the 1760s. He gained fame not only as a painter of floral still lifes, but also as the illustrator of the French kings botanical collection, a highly prestigious position. He was a leading and active figure in ... More | | 
Alex Da Corte. C-A-T SPELLS MURDER, installation view at Karma Gallery, New York City, 2018. Photo by Thomas Müller.
BUENOS AIRES.- Taking place across three neighborhoods of the city, 'Hopscotch', curated by Cecilia Alemani, has been conceived as a journey through the city of Buenos Aires, occupying grand plazas and striking parks, abandoned buildings and museums of curiosities, derelict architectural structures and industrial relics that are not typically devoted to contemporary art. The selected artists were invited to create artworks in close dialogue with each of the venues, shaping a multilayered experience that connects visual arts, urban spaces and the citys histories in unexpected ways. The participating artists comprise Eduardo Basualdo, Pia Camil, Maurizio Cattelan, Gabriel Chaile, Alex Da Corte, Santiago de Paoli, Narcisa Hirsch, David Horvitz, Leandro Katz, Barbara Kruger, Luciana Lamothe, Ad Minoliti, Eduardo Navarro, Alexandra Pirici, Mika Rottenberg, Mariela Scafati, Vivian Suter and Stan ... More |
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| German city takes down golden Erdogan statue after outcry | | Exhibition at Museum Ludwig presents photographs from Diane Arbus to Piet Zwart | | Controversial Fukushima nuclear statue to be removed | 
Fireworkers lift a four-metre tall golden statue featuring Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to remove it on late August 28, 2018 in the western German town of Wiesbaden, where it had been placed on August 26. Sebastian Stenzel / dpa / AFP.
FRANKFURT AM MAIN (AFP).- The German city of Wiesbaden removed Wednesday a temporary statue of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set up in a town square by artists, after it sparked confrontations between his supporters and opponents. "In agreement with state police, Mayor Sven Gerich decided to have the statue removed as security could no longer be guaranteed," the city's government said on Twitter. Firefighters arrived shortly after midnight with a crane to lift the four-metre (13-feet) tall golden effigy of Erdogan from the central German Unity Square, where it had been placed on Monday as part of Wiesbaden's Biennale art festival. Organisers had hoped the statue would provoke public debate relevant to this year's theme of "bad news". Since a failed 2016 coup attempt in Ankara, Erdogan's crackdown ... More | | 
Walker Evans, [Bud Fields, Hale County, Alabama], 1936. Gelatinesilberpapier, 24 x 18,8 cm © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reproduktion: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln.
COLOGNE.- Diane Arbus, Boris Becker, Karl Blossfeldt, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Candida Höfer, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, Tata Ronkholz, Albert Renger-Patzsch, August Sander, Hugo and Karl Hugo Schmölz, Garry Winogrand, Piet Zwartacross generations, all these photographers continually followed themes over decades in their work. In the case of Sander, these series formed an atlas of People of the Twentieth Century, while Höfer has created an archive of public spaces and their codes of representation, and Blossfeldt catalogued the formal variety of fauna and flora. Straight photography brought together the varying reception of photography as artistic and documentary in a particular way. This survey exhibition presents the mutual influence between German and American positions in the dense cultural landscape of the Rhineland from the 1960s to the 1990s. This is where the first photography galleries were located ... More | | 
The artwork entitled "Sun Child" by artist Kenji Yanobe is displayed at an unveiling ceremony in Fukushima on August 14, 2018. AFP PHOTO.
TOKYO (AFP).- A giant statue of a child wearing a radiation suit in the Japanese city of Fukushima will be removed after it sparked a huge controversy in the nuclear-hit area. Fukushima city mayor Hiroshi Kohata said the statue intended to be a symbol of reconstruction had ended up being divisive. "I judged it impossible to keep displaying a statue meant to be 'a symbol of reconstruction' when citizens are divided over it," Kohata said in a statement Tuesday. He said the statue on display near the city's main train station would be "removed as soon as possible" and officials would discuss what to with the 6.2-metre (20-foot) figure. The statue, named "Sun Child" and sporting a yellow protective suit with a digital display on its chest showing "000" to symbolise zero nuclear contamination, was installed at the station earlier this month. The figure holds a helmet in one hand, showing the air is safe to breathe, and a symbol of the sun in the other, representing hope and new ... More |
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| Blum & Poe Tokyo exhibits work spanning three decades by artist Yukie Ishikawa | | Marianne Boesky Gallery in Aspen presents the group exhibition Mother Sky | | Tufts University Art Galleries shows American Outsider Art from the Andrew and Linda Safran Collection | 
Yukie Ishikawa, Impermanence - Columbine, 2014 (detail). Acrylic and sand on canvas, 72 x 72 inches.
TOKYO.- Blum & Poe presents a body of work spanning three decades by Tokyo-based artist Yukie Ishikawa. This is Ishikawa's first solo presentation with the gallery. Yukie Ishikawa began her career in the late 1980s as the Japanese New Painting movement, which developed alongside American and European Neo-Expressionism, gave way to new artistic possibilities. During this time in Japan, artists began to explore subversive artistic languages of simulacra and appropriation that responded to the zeitgeist of design and advertisement culture during the bubble economy. Ishikawa's practice is distinct for its conscientious response against the history of Modernist painting and against the monochromatic space found in Minimalist art. The compositions originate from photographs of miscellaneous subject matter she finds in magazines, advertisements, newspapers, and books, which she enlarges, projects, and traces onto the canvas. Although this tracin ... More | | 
Björn Braun, Untitled (nest), 2015. Sisal fibers, artificial plastic wood, colored paper, wood, 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches 17 x 17 x 11 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Björn Braun. Photo: Object Studies.
ASPEN, COLO.- Marianne Boesky Gallery presents the group exhibition Mother Sky including works by Björn Braun, Jay Heikes, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, and Thiago Rocha Pitta. Through a variety of media that range from watercolor and fresco to sculpture, the featured artists explore subtle changes in the natural world, the tension of fleeting moments, and the sublime. Mother Sky will be on view September 1 October 6, 2018 at Boesky West, Aspen. The title of the exhibition, Mother Sky, is drawn from a new series of painted screens by Jay Heikes in which he depicts cloudy skies in vibrant and unnatural colors of copper and violet. Mother Sky refers to the title of the 1969 song by the German experimental rock group Can which influenced Heikess latest works along with writings by the Tibetan Buddhist, Milarepa. When describing ... More | | 
B.F. Perkins, Statue of Liberty, 1989. Oil on canvas. Tufts University Permanent Collections. Gift of Andrew and Linda Safran.
MEDFORD, MASS.- The Tufts University Art Galleries presents "Expressions Unbound: American Outsider Art from the Andrew and Linda Safran Collection," from Aug. 29 through Dec. 16, 2018. A public opening reception will take place on Thursday, Sept. 6, at 5:30 p.m. in the Remis Sculpture Court at the Shirley and Alex Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, in Medford, Mass. Expressions Unbound" celebrates the recent gift of American outsider art to Tufts University from Tufts and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy alumnus Andrew and Linda Safran, the first major contribution of American outsider art to the school and the largest single-collection gift of work predominantly by African-American artists in the universitys history. The collection brings together some of the foremost self-taught artists of the 20th century, including Thornton Dial, Bessie Harvey, William L. Hawkins, Mary T. Smith, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, and ... More |
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| Dallas Museum of Art appoints Michelle Rich as Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas | | Classic Swiss picture books on display at the Swiss National Museum. | | Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Chris Cosnowski | 
Dr. Rich will join the DMA after the completion of two prestigious Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships at national museums.
DALLAS, TX.- Dr. Michelle Rich has been named The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art. The appointment was announced today by Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, the DMAs Eugene McDermott Director. Dr. Rich will join the DMA after the completion of two prestigious Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships at national museums: first at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and currently at the San Antonio Museum of Art. She will begin her new role in Dallas on September 17, 2018. Michelle Rich brings to the DMA extensive archaeological field experience and expertise in researching, conserving, and exhibiting important historical objects from across the Americas, said Arteaga. We look forward to welcoming her to the Museum to work with the DMAs ... More | | 
Robert Lips, poster for youth meeting 1934. Colour lithograph. Swiss National Museum.
ZURICH.- Lisa Wengers Joggeli, who wont shake down the pears, the kitten Pitschi, the children from the Maggi songbook or the teddy bear who sets off for Tripiti these characters from Swiss picture books have captivated countless readers over many generations. These classic Swiss picture books are on display in their cultural historical context at the family exhibition in the National Museum. Switzerland has a long tradition of picture books. Picture books are handed down through the generations, more than any other type of book. One example is Lisa Wengers Joggeli, which appeared more than 100 years ago. The story of the lazy servant, who would rather sit under the shade of the pear tree than gather pears, is an integral part of Swiss cultural heritage. Swiss picture book creations enjoyed an initial upturn in the period between the two world wars. There were advertising ... More | | 
Ferrigno, 2016 I Oil on panel I 25 x 25 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Chris Cosnowskis Might and Main. Cosnowski continues his exploration of the conflicted soul of our pop culture. His toys, trophies, models and other Americana transport us into a world thats both playful and haunting, sacred and silly, minimal and complex. In Might and Main, a phrase from the 12th century meaning with as much effort or strength as one can muster, many of Cosnowskis figures are raising their fists in a gesture that speaks equally of assertion and desperation. A gesture that perfectly encapsulates our current situation. All of these figures seem to have jumped right out of a nostalgic childhood dream. Plastic toys depict characters from classical Greek mythology and trophies remind us of past glory and success. But there is no real strength depicted in these figures. Despite their gloriously shiny surfaces, experience tells us that the trophies ... More |
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 New book chronicles the unique and artful private photographs of William GoldmanNEW YORK, NY.- Working Girls chronicles the unique and artful private photographs of commercial photographer William Goldman, whose collection of work captures the deep appreciation and understanding of the group of women who lived and worked at a brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1892. Taken two decades before the famous E. J. Bellocq photographs of the 1913 sex workers in Storyville, New Orleans, these beautifully produced photographs are the earliest known body of work on this subject in the United States, only now seeing the light of day. The project began when author Robert Flynn Johnson visited an art fair and became captivated by the beauty and originality of a group of nineteenth century photographs of women. Curious to know more, Johnson began an investigation into their origin and purpose. Now, nearly a decade later, he has unearthed ... More Exhibit 'Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress' opens in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The first comprehensive US exhibition drawn from the Israel Museums world-renowned collection of Jewish costumes, Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, showcases more than 100 articles of clothing spanning the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, drawn from over twenty countries across four continents. Arranged as complete ensembles or shown as stand-alone items, the sumptuous array of apparel offers an exceptional opportunity for American audiences to experience many facets of Jewish identity and culture through rarely seen garments. The extraordinary range of textile designs and clothing on display illuminates the story of how diverse global cultures have thrived, interacted, and inspired each other for centuries. The featured clothing represents Jewish communities ... More MoMA announces mid-career retrospective of celebrated French filmmaker Jacques AudiardNEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Jacques Audiard, a mid-career retrospective highlighting the works of the award-winning French filmmaker. Running August 31 through September 20, 2018, in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, the series closes with a screening of Audiards new darkly comic Western The Sisters Brothers, starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix. Audiard and Reilly will be present for a postscreening conversation on Thursday, September 20. The film, Audiards first English-language feature, will be released in select cities by Annapurna Pictures on Friday, September 21. The series is organized by Sean Egan, Senior Producer, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. For audiences who live and breathe film, the cinematic atmosphere created by writer-director Jacques ... More The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art presents the first museum survey of Donna GottschNEW YORK, NY.- The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is presenting Brave, Beautiful Outlaws: The Photographs of Donna Gottschalk, on view from August 29, 2018 to March 17, 2019. The first-ever museum exhibition of Gottschalks photography, Brave, Beautiful Outlaws will survey both her essential documentation of lesbian culture of the late 1960s and 1970s, alongside intimate family photographs. Raised into a working-class family on the Lower East Side, Gottschalk came out just as foundational activist groups, such as the Gay Liberation Front and radicalesbians, were forming. Active in political organizing while an art student at Cooper Union, Gottschalk remembers printing Lesbians Unite posters in the schools silkscreen shop and stenciling the iconic Lavender Menace tee shirts. Gottschalk recalls, I got my first camera ... More Be-Part presents the first solo exhibition in Belgium by Caroline AchaintreWAREGEM.- Be-Part presents the first solo exhibition in Belgium by Caroline Achaintre (° 1969, Toulouse, lives and works in London). The exhibition, entitled Fantômas, includes a dozen new ceramic sculptures and four large, hand-tufted wall hangings, in addition to a selection of drawings that have never been shown before. Achaintres visually striking, witty ceramic sculptures and hand-tufted wall hangings evoke the subversive spirit of Carnival, creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously playful and absurd. Her works incorporate diverse references such as catwalk fashion, carnival, and death-metal iconography, as well as Primitivism and Expressionism early twentieth-century Western art movements that borrowed heavily from non-Western and prehistoric imagery to find new ways of representing the modern world. At times menacing, sexual and playful they ... More Derren Brown 'meets the people with love' with his street photography bookLONDON.- As well as being an incredible stage performer, a brilliant writer and a talented painter, Derren Brown is also a dab hand at street photography. Here, for the first time, is a selection of some of his own self-selected personal favourites. Meet The People With Love showcases one of Derrens most abiding passions. He has lived with his Leica almost constantly by his side for the last four years, seeking out a soulful interplay of people and their surroundings. The result is a beautiful collection of images, evocative of the mid-century era of classical street photography. For him, the photographers challenge is to hint at the connection and suggest a narrative which can be imposed through the image. As Derren comments: One keeps an eye out for a particularly serendipitous arrangement of people and environment, and learns ways of securing ... More New book: 'A Habit of Self Deceit' by Lorena TurnerNEW YORK, NY.- Lorena Turner's adopted mother was an alcoholic who drank heavily most of her life. She was verbally and physically abusive to her daughter and also to her husband, Lorena's adopted father. In September of 2016 her mother, also named Lorena, drank wine in the morning and vodka in the afternoon. She then battered her husband to the point he couldn't take it anymore and he called 911 for help. Two police officers arrived at the house, and on September 26, 2016, Lorena's mother was moved out of the home she had shared with her husband for almost 25 years to live in an assisted living facility for people with dementia. Lorena was 47 years old at the time and had been estranged from her parents for the better part of 30 years. Lorena writes: "When my father called me to tell me about what had happened to my mother three ... More Photography exhibit by Chilean SALTO Collective debuts at Urbano Project in Jamaica PlainJAMAICA PLAIN, MASS.- La Victoria: Resilience & Creativity, an exhibition of photographs by the SALTO Collective examining issues of belonging and identity in their home city of Santiago, Chile, will be on view at Urbano Project, August 30 October 5, 2018. This will be the first exhibition of these works in the U.S. La Victoria settlement in Santiago, Chile recently observed its 60th anniversary. One of the first organized, massive occupations of urban land on the South American continent, the community has built an alternative city, initially in defiance of a dictatorship, and today, continuing to find ways to break out of a neoliberal model. The neighborhood is marked by mural after mural displaying the inspiring history and ideology of the community. Urbano is presenting La Victoria as part of a series exploring themes of Resilience and Sustainability. The ... More Hermann Nitsch to realize one of his world-famous and controversial performances in his own museumMISTELBACH.- In honour of his 80th birthday, Hermann Nitsch realizes one of his world-famous and controversial performances in his own museum, accompanied by a self-composed symphony and big orchestra. Interested parties have the opportunity to experience the performance at first hand and become a part of the artwork. Hermann Nitsch conceived his 155th action with a symphonic accompaniment. Andrea Cusumano conducts the orchestra Klangvereinigung Wien, the Stadtkapelle Mistelbach, the Chor con cor from Mistelbach and the Musik- und Gesangsverein Asparn an der Zaya. The essence of Hermann Nitschs total work of art is presented in real terms and made immediately and intensively perceptible to visitors with all their senses. One of the basic ideas of my theater is to realize an event. the recipient of my actions is not a spectator, but is a participant ... More Perthshire Open Studios 2018 will showcase140 artists and makers PERTHSHIRE.- This years Perthshire Open Studies offers the chance to enjoy the work of a fabulous array of 140 artists and makers in studios across one of Scotlands loveliest regions. The nine-day event, from 1-9 September, is an opportunity to meet and chat to painters, potters, woodworkers, jewellery makers and a multitude of other creative people in everything from cottages and converted barns to galleries and tearooms. The brochure and website provide full details of all those taking part in the 11thannual event (see the directory at www.perthshireopenstudios.com/artists-directory/) and also suggest seven colour coded routes to help visitors explore. Luisa Ramazzotti, the events co-founder, says: Right now artists and makers all across the region are busy creating wonderful art and craft for this years open studios event. Its a great chance ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and illustrator Jacques-Louis David was born August 30, 1748. Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 - 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In this image: An 1813 painting of Napoleon Bonaparte pre-cleaning (L) and the same painting after it was cleaned. The long-lost portrait of Napoleon which sold at auction for £15,000 (18,000 Euro, 24,000 USD) could be worth more than 100 times that after a deep-clean showed it to be the work of Jacques-Louis David, one of France's most celebrated painters. AFP PHOTO/HO/COLLINS FINE ART, LTD, NEW YORK/RICHARD COLLINS.
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