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People walk through a new gallery, Mathematics: The Winton Gallery, inside the Science Museum during a press view in London on December 7, 2016. The Gallery was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP.
LONDON.- London's Science Museum called upon the genius of late architect Zaha Hadid for the "huge challenge" of bringing life to its new gallery dedicated to mathematics, which opens on Thursday. The Winton Gallery highlights the importance of mathematics through 120 objects, including a cash dispenser, the Enigma encryption machine, a model of a supertanker, a revolutionary aircraft and a 19th-century instrument for measuring tides. Located in a regenerated old wing of the famous museum, the gallery was co-designed by celebrated Iraqi-British architect Hadid, who died of a heart attack in Miami in March before the gallery's completion. "It was a terrible shock for us all when Dame Zaha died suddenly in March this year, but I am sure that this gallery will be a lasting tribute to this world-changing architect and provide inspiration for our millions of visitors for many years to come," museum director Ian Blatchford said on Wednesday. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) concluded that banker Jaime Botin took from Spain Picasso's "Head of a Young Woman", valued at 26.2 million euros, illegaly. In this image: Spanish Civil Guards and museum employees push a box containing Picasso's painting "Head of a Young Woman" at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid after being transferred from the French island of Corsica, on August 11, 2015. AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN.
| Christie's Brett Gorvy partners with Dominique Lévy | | Kunsthaus Zürich acquires new work by Edvard Munch | | Great provenance & broad spectrum of buyers drive Old Masters Sale |
Brett Gorvy and Dominique Lévy. Photo by Chad Batka.
NEW YORK, NY.- We are delighted to be ending 2016 by launching an exciting new venture for the future. Inspired by twenty years of close friendship, professional collaboration, and a shared passion for the living history of art, we have formed Lévy Gorvy, an international gallery devoted to the highest levels of connoisseurship and collecting in the fields of modern, post-war and contemporary art. As Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christies and one of the leading forces and tastemakers behind the 20th century art market, Brett brings an extraordinary depth of knowledge to our merger. A globally respected gallerist, Dominique formed her eponymous gallery in 2012, opened her New York space in 2013, and inaugurated a London location in 2014. Lévy Gorvy will operate in these two locations, fostering our dedication to the living artists and artists' estates we represent and ... More | |
Edvard Munch, Portrait of Hanni Esche, 1905. Oil on canvas, 81 x 70.5 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, deposited by the Herbert Eugen Esche Foundation, 2015.
ZURICH.- The Kunsthaus Zürich is staging a special presentation on Edvard Munch and the Esche Family. The Portraits The Collection. Leading works by Edvard Munch and other artists owned by the Esche family of industrialists in Chemnitz are reunited at the Kunsthaus Zürich. New addition is the Portrait of Hanni Esche (1905). In 1905 Edvard Munch painted six portraits of the family of Chemnitz textile industrialist Herbert Esche, most of which, centred around the large group portrait of the children, have since 1997 been part of the Herbert Eugen Esche Foundation, housed at the Kunsthaus Zürich, and have hung as part of the collection there. Now the Foundation has been gifted the portrait of mother Hanni Esche as well, the counterpart to the childrens portrait and a milestone in the development of Munchs strongly coloured mature ... More | |
Titian, and Workshop, Portrait of two boys, said to be members of the Pesaro family, oil on canvas. Estimate: 1,000,000 - 1,500,000. Sold for: £2,108,750 ($2,666,514) (2,478,196). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Key to tonights success was the extraordinary provenance of a large proportion of the sale, with many of the works coming to the market for the first time, not just in decades but in centuries. The hunger of the market for such works was demonstrated by the participation of multiple bidders on so many of the lots, with paintings being driven well in excess of their estimates by a broad spectrum of private collectors and dealers from across the globe. In a collecting field as old as ours, its thrilling still to be introducing works by great masters to the market for the very first time. ---Alex Bell, Sothebys Worldwide Co-Chairman of Old Master Paintings · Tonights sale totalled an above-high-estimate £14,835,500 / $18, 759,490 / 17,434,632 · Pre-sale estimate: £7,990,000-11,850,000 · 80% of the ... More |
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| Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto makes North American premiere at Park Avenue Armory | | Exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Cy Twombly on view at Gagosian | | Suspicions about authenticity of portrait leads to x-ray discovery at Charles Dickens Museum |
Installation of Julian Rosefeldts Manifesto at Park Avenue Armory. Photo by James Ewing.
NEW YORK, NY.- Park Avenue Armory mounts the North American premiere of Manifesto a work by Julian Rosefeldt that stars Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett. Inspired by the tradition of artist manifestos, Manifesto is a collage of artistic declarations of the 20th century reinterpreted as poetic monologues that provoke timeless questions about the artists role in society. Rosefeldt adapts the installation in a site-specific presentation for the Armorys Wade Thompson Drill Hall, where it is on view December 7, 2016 January 8, 2017. Manifesto is the first engagement of the institutions 2017 season, the 10th anniversary of artistic programming for the pionerring organization. The 13 scenes that comprise Manifesto draw on more than 50 milestones of artist manifestos from the past century, woven together into dramatic soliloquies that highlight specific movements or schools of thought. The texts are ... More | |
Cy Twombly, Veil of Orpheus, 1968 (detail). House paint, crayon, and graphite pencil on primed canvas, 90 x 192 inches (228,6 x 487,7 cm). Private collection © Cy Twombly Foundation.
PARIS.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Cy Twombly. It coincides with the retrospective Cy Twombly on view at Centre Pompidou, Paris. The selection of works, dating between 1968 and 1979, take as their subject the figure of Orpheus. Orpheus, the mythic archetype representing the artist and the creative process itself was also the subject of Sonnets to Orpheus, a cycle of fifty-five sonnets written by Rainer Maria Rilke in 1922, which were of great inspiration to Twombly. The works on show have never been brought together until now. Orpheuss lyrical skills were such that he was able to convince Hades, god of the underworld, to return his wife and muse, Eurydice. Hadess one stipulation was that Orpheus not turn to look at Eurydice as he walked back toward the world of the living. But Orpheus could ... More | |
Daniel Maclise, Portrait of Catherine. © Charles Dickens Museum.
LONDON.- The Charles Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street, the London townhouse where Dickens completed The Pickwick Papers and wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, has discovered an important original portrait of Charless wife, Catherine Dickens, hidden within and beneath what had been believed to be the original painting. The Charles Dickens Museum holds the worlds most comprehensive collection of Dickens-related material. In 1996, it was given a Daniel Maclise portrait of Catherine Dickens. The portrait is extremely significant to the Museum, being the superior of only two paintings of Catherine in the collection. It shows Catherine embroidering an overmantel whilst wearing her engagement ring; the Museum displays this exact ring and a very similar overmantel made by Catherine beside the painting. The painting has been treasured by the Museum for the past twenty years. However, in May this year, during ... More |
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| Exhibition at Heather James Fine Art showcases historical cars built in earliest days of 1950 to 1963 | | Profiles in History to offer Walt Disney's will & his signed document trademarking his name | | Sotheby's Paris to offer Early Chinese Jade and Hardstone Carvings on December 15 |
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PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art presents Ferrari and Futurists - An Italian Look at Speed on view Nov. 21 through Jan. 30, 2017. Curated by Donald Osborne, the exhibition showcases four vintage Ferraris from the collection of Don Murray that encapsulate the speed, emotion, and personal connection of Ferrari. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1939 as Auto Avio Costruzioni, the company built its first car in 1940. The four limited edition models in this exhibition were hand built and are from the varied classic car collection of Don Murray. The Ferraris on exhibit include*: Ferrari Inter Berlinetta, 1950: One of 37 built, the 166 Inter was the first Ferrari produced for the road. The classic, simple, elegant and well-detailed bodies Touring fitted on Ferrari chassis beautifully capture the combination of lightness and strength that these cars possess. Ferrari 340 America Berlinetta, 1951: While 23 examples of the 340 America were ma ... More | |
Walt Disney signed historical legal license for use of hIs name by Walt Disney Inc.
CALABASAS, CA.- Walt Disneys Last Will and Testament, plus his signed document marking the genesis of the Disney Empire/brand; How the Grinch Stole Christmas production artwork (perfectly timed to the 50th anniversary of the animated TV special!) and Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas original artwork and set pieces; Disneyana, featuring rare animation art and Disney park props, including an Atom-mobile miniature prop from the retired Journey Through Inner Space attraction, an assortment of props from The Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, a miniature Jungle Cruise boat, cast member attraction costumes and rare hand-silkscreened ride posters highlight Profiles in History highly anticipated Animation and Disneyana auction, Friday, December 9, 2016. Other featured items include the instantly recognizable I Dream of Jeannie and ... More | |
A Rare Jade Notched Disk, Xuanji, Neolithic Period to Shang Dynasty. Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- The last sale of the year at Sothebys Paris, the Asian Art sale will take place on December 15. The first session will offer at auction a group of early Chinese jade and hardstone carvings including the Collection of Max Loehr. Just after, 114 works from private collectors will be offered at auction. The majority of the archaic jade and hardstone carvings offered in this sale come from the collection of Prof. Max Loehr (1903-1988), one of the most pre-eminent Western scholars of early Chinese art whose interests and research on Chinese archaic jades, bronzes and classical paintings forming and influencing later scholarship on Chinese art. Many of the examples included in this sale offer a rare insight into the early jade and stone-working cultures of Neolithic and early dynastic China. A rare jade notched disc, xuanji, dating to the Neolithic or early Shang Period, ... More |
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| Marlborough Chelsea opens exhibition of works by Andrew Kuo | | James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Michelle Grabner | | Property of Shirley Temple Black exceeds $1.6 million |
Andrew Kuo, TRIP (7 15 16), 2016, acrylic and carbon transfer on linen, 86 x 62 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- From stock futures to political prediction, the ongoing battle between empiricists and those that depend on instinct has come to a head. A line has been drawn between the fallibility/reliability of raw data versus an almost mystical seat-of-the-pants feel for a given situation, and this division has taken on a moral dimension. This conflictthe static noise of so much information in contradiction and disputeis the starting point for Andrew Kuos newest body of tragicomic acrylic on linen paintings. Formally, the paintings reflect the frictionless, perpetual motion of information. Many of them utilize the image of a deck of cards spread out in sliding stacks, their rectangular shapes repeated and overlapping, as if pushed into snaky piles by the hand of an unseen magician. In a digital analogue, the forms also mimic a proliferation of open windows on a computer desktopa glut of data options. The paintings structure their content around some of the ... More | |
Michelle Grabner, Untitled, 2016. Bronze with Indiana limestone base, 64 x 34 x 24 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announces the opening of an exhibition of new work by Michelle Grabner. This will be the artists second solo exhibition at James Cohan. The exhibition will feature a new series of bronze sculptures along with large scale paintings and works on paper. A catalogue of the bronze works will be published on the occasion of this exhibition with a contributing essay by David Getsy. The sculptures are casts of hand-crocheted and knitted blankets, many of which were used as templates for her abstract paintings. Collected over decades, these textiles have lent themselves to different modes of usefulness, functioning first as an object of comfort and care before becoming the physical framework for fine art objects, losing their original form during this transformation. Through the quasi-alchemical process of casting, Grabner reinvents these domestic objects and relies upon her chosen medium to change the quotid ... More | |
Temple's Tiffany Studios Nasturtium leaded glass table lamp sold for $62,500.
DALLAS, TX.- The Personal Property of Shirley Temple Black exceeded $1.6 million at a public auction of her personal collections, outfits, U.S. diplomat awards and other keepsakes on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 5-6, 2016, at Heritage Auctions. A selection of jewelry sold for more than $1 million. A cherished Tiffany & Co. diamond, platinum brooch, worn by both Temple and her mother Gertrude, sold for $250,000, and her 8.43 carat diamond, platinum ring, given to her by her father, sold for $137,500. A session of Temple's personal property sold for $648,000. Members of Shirley's Army, a fan club devoted to "America's Little Darling," who attended the auction, jumped up, hugged each other and cheered when a pair of her childhood tap shoes sold for $20,000, as well as when a small, red tambourine used by Shirley's mother to teach her timing and rhythm for dancing sold for $2,500. Temple's Tiffany Studios Nasturtium leaded glass table lamp sold ... More |
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Cigar store Indian, Malcolm S. Forbes Estate political buttons, pace $1.7 million Americana & Political Sale
DALLAS, TX.- Frenzied bidding drove the return on a Hand-Carved American Tobacconist Cigar Store Indian to $150,000 to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political Auction Dec. 3 in Dallas, Texas that realized a combined $1,783,252. Created in the manner of cigar store Indians carved by Julius Melchers, and perhaps by Melchers himself, this 67-1/5-inch statue was in such high demand that the ultimate return was more than seven times the pre-auction estimate of $20,000. The figure is depicted wearing a bear claw necklace and medallion with a pelt over his right shoulder. "A selling price in the mid-five figures range was expected," Heritage Americana Auctions Director Tom Slater said, but furious bidding drove the price to $150,000. "This was a very strong auction," Slater observes. "We have found that auction items of the best quality regardless ... More
Kunsthalle Wien opens exhibition of paintings and films by Sarah Morris
VIENNA.- Sarah Morris paintings and films contain elements that complement and connect to one another, generating a constant back-and-forth play between the two. In her paintings, she uses colors and geometries that she associates with a citys unique aesthetic vocabulary and palette, as well as its character and multiple histories. Within the framework, Morris work plays with social and bureaucratic typologies to implicate occluded systems of control. In her films President Bill Clinton, Chase Bank, Philip Johnson, Robert Towne, the film industry, poster design, the Olympics, the banking system, Oscar Niemeyer, J.G. Ballard, perfume, lunar cycles, pharmaceutical packaging, birdcages and even fruit are all fair game. Known for her distinct use of color, Morris streamlines a way of perception as much as a virtual architecture, which is suggested through her titling. In Bettina ... More
Exhibition of new work by Ian Kimmerly opens at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces As We Wander, We Are Closer, an exhibition of new work by Ian Kimmerly. Kimmerlys generously layered paintings provocatively combine figuration and abstraction. Figurative elements, especially faces, are rendered photorealistically, scraped away, and then submerged within a milieu of open spaces, abstract passages, and textured daubs of paint. Kimmerly explains that technologys impact on our interpersonal relationships has played a role in the creation of this body of work. Smart phones and social media, among other tools, have heightened our ability to remain constantly connected with one another, yet the type of connection facilitated is largely fleeting and immaterial. It exists in contradistinction to true forms of conversation, which are predicated on an open and sustained dialogue that goes beyond surface- ... More
Sotheby's to offer unique illustrations & artworks by world-renowned artists, musicians and designers
LONDON.- On 13th December, Sothebys London will offer for sale over 40 original illustrations by leading artists, designers, and musicians to benefit House of Illustration. The pieces offered for sale fall into a number of different sections including What Are You Like? (autobiographical drawings by leading cultural figures), Quentin Blakes illustrations of Sophie and the BFG at St Pancras International station, and original drawings of the Famous Five commissioned to celebrate the series 70th anniversary. Artists include Quentin Blake, Brian Eno, Eric Clapton, Oliver Jeffers, Emma Chichester Clark, Peter Capaldi, David Shrigley, Peter Brooks, Peter Blake, Paul Smith, and Margaret Howell. A registered charity, House of Illustration is the UK's only public gallery dedicated solely to illustration, with a creative programme of exhibitions, talks and events. Founded by Sir Quentin ... More
Exhibition at Betty Cuningham Gallery includes six paintings dating from 1970 to 2014 by Jake Berthot
NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the Phillips Collection exhibition Jake Berthot: From the Collection and Promised Gifts, Betty Cuningham Gallery is mounting their own show of Jake Berthots work, open from December 7th to January 7th. The exhibition includes approximately six paintings dating from 1970 to 2014. The Gallerys exhibition includes examples of the artists early abstract works, as well as his later landscape paintings. Berthot began exhibiting in the mid-1960s, at a time when Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Minimalism were part of the aesthetic environment. Berthots early work was geometric and the color was subdued. Over the following years, his color intensified and the underlying grid opened to include an oval (some thought a portrait or a head). In 1992, Berthot moved to upstate New York. There he began to incorporate the landscape ... More
Sky Arts presents: Tate Britain's Great British Walks
LONDON.- This new Sky Arts series, in partnership with Tate Britain, presents an epic travelogue through British art in the company of Danny Baker, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Cerys Matthews, Miriam Margolyes and Michael Sheen, as they each journey to discover the landscapes that inspired their favourite paintings, chosen from Tates national collection. From William Hogarth, John Constable, JMW Turner, Alfred Wallis, William Powell Frith and Josef Herman we see the lush green countryside, gritty urban cityscapes and wild romantic coasts that seduced these artistic greats. Along the way, art historian Gus Casely-Hayford accompanies the guests as they not only discover the stories behind their chosen paintings, but also the local characters and contemporary artists that still reflect the scenes caught on canvas decades, if not hundreds of years, ago. ... More
Waterhouse & Dodd opens a major exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Sophie Ryder
NEW YORK, NY.- Waterhouse & Dodd, the international dealership with galleries in London and New York, announces U.S. representation of Sophie Ryder and her upcoming solo exhibition, Rising at their Madison Avenue gallery. Ryder's work has long been a feature of the British cultural landscape, seen most recently in a magnificent sell-out exhibition at Salisbury Cathedral, which featured a number of her monumental sculptures. Over the last 20 years she has also established an enviable reputation in America, where many clients have acquired both her large outdoor sculptures and smaller works. The show in New York is her first exhibition in the U.S. for 10 years. It will be followed by a major three-month show with 8 monumental sculptures and related smaller works at the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden in January 2017. Sophies work is instantly recognizable. ... More
Original Madame Butterfly in Milan, 112 years later
MILAN (AFP).- Milan's La Scala opened its 2016-17 season Wednesday with a performance of Madame Butterfly in its original version for the first time since the famous opera's controversial 1904 premiere. Adapted from a play by David Belasco, composer Giacomo Puccini's first version of the Japanese tragedy was presented at La Scala on February 17, 1904. The premiere was a fiasco, with the audience booing and hissing throughout and fights even breaking out in the stalls. It was "very controversial," said La Scala's CEO and artistic director, Alexander Pereira. "The time was not ready for an opera where a woman kills herself in front of the audience by committing harakiri," he explained. Chastened by the reaction of the public and ferocious press criticism, Puccini withdrew the work after a single performance. After a substantial rewrite that included reorganising it i ... More
Spectacular 17-carat diamonf solitaire ring achieves $1,447,500 at Bonhams New York
NEW YORK, NY.- An important diamond solitaire ring, weighing 17.97 carats realized $1,447,500 at the Fine Jewelry auction at Bonhams on Dec. 6 in New York. The sale, which featured a strong group of sapphires and emeralds made a total of $6,381,000 in the 171-lot sale. Anticipation had been building for the moment when auctioneer Matthew Girling, Global CEO and Group Jewelry Director opened the bidding on the last lot of the sale, the 17.97 carat rectangular step-cut diamond solitaire ring. Estimated at $1,000,000-1,500,000, the platinum-mounted diamond - D color, VS1 clarity, Type IIa - attracted prospective buyers from around the world. After frenzied bidding, it was finally hammered down to a United States buyer on the phone. Susan Abeles, Director of Jewelry, Bonhams US, commented, The success of the entire sale, including this top lot, illustrates ... More
Middle East sheik's car collection boosts H&H Classics last sale of 2016 to £2M
DROITWICH SPA.- The end of year sale by H&H Classics at Chateau Impney in the Midlands today (Dec 7th) was nothing short of pre-Christmas garage sale with a fabulous collection of luxury cars on offer seized from a Middle Eastern sheikh following a financial dispute. The collection of exceptionally low mileage Ferrari, Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars came to auction with H&H following a High Court ruling against the unnamed former owner. Estimates on the cars were attractive and as a result there was huge interest. The hammer price total (without buyers premium) for the sheiks cars was £782,000. The 90 strong car sale made a total of £2m. Damian Jones, Head of Sales at H&H Classics said: The sale today provided a chance to acquire some stunning cars with incredibly low odometer readings which have been kept garaged in some of Londons best postcodes. ... More
Emerson College's new visual arts gallery in Boston officially opens
BOSTON, MASS.- On Wednesday, December 14, a new exhibition titled NO ONE will tell me who I am will premiere at the recently opened Emerson Urban Arts: Media Art Gallery. The exhibition explores the current generations desire to construct new and diverse identities that defy the rigidity of social, cultural, and situational uniformity. Free and open to the public, the exhibit will show through Saturday, February 18, 2017 (note: it will be closed during the holidays from December 18, 2016 to January 18, 2017). Located at 25 Avery Street, Boston, the Emerson Urban Arts gallery is open WednesdaySaturday, 2:007:00 pm. NO ONE will tell me who I am is curated by Emerson College undergraduate students as part of the What Is Contemporary Art? Visual and Media Arts course. Students in the class conducted studio visits at the graduate studios of Boston University ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Diego Rivera was born December 08, 1886. Diego MarÃa de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y RodrÃguez (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929-1939 and 1940-1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In this image: A couple look at the painting 'Portrait of Gilda Blanca' (R) by Mexican Diego Rivera during an exhibition to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City, Mexico, 04 July 2011.
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