 | | Phillips announces highlights for first New York auction of 2020 | | Canada's newest Tyrannosaur is named for a 'reaper of death' | | Warhol's Ali packs a punch in London | 
Julian Schnabel, Angela, 1982. Estimate: $70,000-100,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK.- Phillips announces highlights from the first New York auction of 2020, New Now on Wednesday, 4 March. The sale will feature nearly 200 works spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, showcasing a wide breadth of creative output from large scale painting to intimate drawings that span multiple genres including figuration, still-life, and abstraction. Highlights include works by emerging artists alongside more established names such as Ebony G. Patterson, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Noah Davis, and Jonathan Gardner, as well as Peter Halley, Ed Clark, Njideka Akunyi Crosby, and Alex Katz among others. Im thrilled to present this extraordinary group of works from top artists in 20th century and contemporary art alongside emerging artists, states Samuel Mansour, Head of New Now, New York. The New Now sales have come to be viewed as a bellwether of the market and, on the heels of our record breaking sale in ... More | | 
Thanatotheristes degrootorum is Canadas first new tyrannosaur species in 50 years © Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
by Nicholas St. Fleur
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Alberta is a tyrannosaur graveyard. There rest great carnivores of the Cretaceous, such as Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Daspletosaurus and, of course, Tyrannosaurus rex. Now, paleontologists in the province have announced the discovery of Canadas oldest known tyrannosaur: Thanatotheristes degrootorum, or the Reaper of Death. With its razor-sharp teeth and formidable two-ton frame, the newly discovered species terrorized the region some 79.5 million years ago. Though smaller than T. rex, it still measured about 30 feet long and about 8 feet tall. The new species was at least 2.5 million years older than its closest relatives, which may provide insight into when tyrannosaurs grew from small carnivores into the apex predators ... More | | 
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Muhammad Ali, 1977. 40 x 40 in (101.6 x 101.6 cm). Sold for £4,973,250 on 12 February 2020 at Christies in London. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London realised £56,180,434 / $72,697,482, to take the running total for 20th Century Week to £184,916,135. The top price of the night was achieved by Andy Warhols Muhammad Ali, which sold for £4,973,250 (including buyers premium). In 1977, Richard L. Weisman commissioned Warhol to paint the Athletes series, a set of ten silkscreen portraits of the leading sports stars of the day including Muhammad Ali, Chris Evert and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Signed by both Warhol and Ali, it was one of 10 works by Warhol offered from Weismans collection in the sale. Further Athletes series works from the Weisman Collection were offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 13 November 2019 in New York. The second and third highest prices ... More |
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| | The Daily Paper x Van Gogh Museum collection launches worldwide | | Over thirty further works from the legendary Najd Collection head to auction | | Own the recipes of Georgia O'Keeffe | 
Beri Dalgali, Dennis Schreuder & HERC. Photo: Nick van Tiem.
AMSTERDAM.- Inspired by the life and work of Vincent van Gogh, fashion and lifestyle brand Daily Paper has designed a capsule collection together with the Van Gogh Museum, incorporating several of Van Goghs masterpieces into a range of garments. A collaboration which sees the worlds of fashion and art merge. On Friday 14th of February, Daily Paper and The Van Gogh Museum will open its doors to the public for a first preview of the collaborative collection through an official launch event at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. From Saturday 15th of February, the collection will be available both online via dailypaperclothing.com and the Van Gogh Museum webstore, and physically in the Daily Paper flagship store and the Van Gogh Museum Shop in Amsterdam alongside selected retailers worldwide. The Daily Paper x Van Gogh Museum collection consists of 21 pieces, including jackets, trousers ... More | | 
Ludwig Deutsch, A Moment of Repose, oil on panel, 1906. Est. £600,000-800,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- On 22 October 2019, thirty-six works from the legendary Najd Collection together sold for a record total of £33.5 million, with nine further records broken for the greatest exponents of the genre. Following this major market-defining moment, Sothebys is set to offer a further selection of rigorously-painted historic scenes of the Middle East as it was experienced by intrepid explorers in the nineteenth-century. Over thirty rarely-seen works by leading artists including Jean-Léon Gérôme, Gustav Bauernfeind and Ludwig Deutsch will go on view at Sothebys London from 27 March, ahead of the auction on 31 March. Once in a while, a private collection has the power to redefine and reinvigorate a genre of art in the eyes of a new generation and in the market. Last year when we exhibited all 155 works from the prestigious Najd Collection, we were thrilled to witness a resounding enthusiasm for Orientalist ... More | | 
Georgia OKeeffes recipe collection, in New York, Feb. 6, 2020. For the first time, the artists recipe collection is going up for auction. Colin Clark/The New York Times.
by Amelia Nierenberg
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In looping handwriting, the artist Georgia OKeeffe sketched out a method for making chicken flautas, from rolling up chicken in tortillas to cooking a creamy green chile-spiced sauce. After about 10 minutes in the oven, theyd be done, just the way she liked them. Do you think other people eat as well as we do? she would often wonder aloud. For the first time, OKeeffes collection of recipes a card file containing about 300 items is going up for auction. Many are penned, or penciled, by the artist. Along with the chicken flautas, she copied out recipes for pecan butterball cookies, fresh applesauce, and leek and potato soup, among others. Theres a certain pleasure in reading other peoples letters, ... More |
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| | Robert Smithson now represented by Marian Goodman Gallery | | Liverpool 'Beatles pub' gets top architectural listing | | Oscar-winning director McQueen returns to art with Tate show | 
Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson with Rainbow, August 1971. Arches National Park, Utah. Scanned from original 126 format chromogenic slide. Photograph: Nancy Holt © Holt/Smithson Foundation, licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Holt/Smithson Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery announced Robert Smithson (1938-1973) is now represented by Marian Goodman Gallery. Robert Smithson is an artist who recalibrated the possibilities of art. For over fifty years his work and ideas have influenced artists and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has grown. An autodidact, Smithsons interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, science-fiction, popular culture, and language spiral through his work. He was fascinated by concepts of duality, entropy, and questions of how we might find our place in the world. In his short and prolific life, Smithson produced paintings, drawings, sculptures, architectural schemes, films, photographs, writings, earthworks, and all the stops between. From his landmark earthworks ... More | | 
Eamonn Lavin, landlord of the The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, poses for a photograph at the pub in Liverpool, north west England on February 11, 2020. Paul ELLIS / AFP.
LIVERPOOL (AFP).- It's a Liverpool institution that was a favourite hangout of The Beatles. Now, the Philharmonic Dining Rooms has become the first Victorian-era English pub to be given Grade I listed status. "The Phil", as it's known in the city, was built in 1898 by architect Walter W Thomas during the "golden age" of pub building in the 19th century. The venue, opposite the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall concert venue, is notable for its exuberant grand stone exterior and richly decorated interior. John Lennon once complained that the worst thing about being in The Beatles was "not being able to have a pint in the Phil". Band-mate Paul McCartney returned to the city where the band made their name and surprised drinkers with an impromptu show there in 2018. The pub, Grade II listed since 1955, now joins other architectural gems such as Buckingham Palace and Chatsworth House after Historic England upgraded it to a top- ... More | | 
Steve McQueen, Ashes 2002-2015. Video still © Steve McQueen. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery.
LONDON (AFP).- Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen is returning to his art roots with a series of short films at London's Tate Modern art gallery, offering a sensory exploration of black identity. McQueen, who became the first black director to win the best picture Academy Award in 2014 for "12 Years a Slave", is now based between London and Amsterdam and is focused on championing diversity in the film industry. Visitors to his new exhibition will be greeted by "Static", a film of New York's Statue of Liberty, scrutinising the iconic symbol from every possible angle at very close range against a deafening backdrop of the helicopter from where the footage was filmed. "What interests Steve is our view of the world, how humans are trying to represent Liberty," said Fiontan Moran, assistant curator of the exhibition. "7th Nov, 2001" features a still shot of a body while McQueen's cousin Marcus tells of how he accidentally killed his brother, a particularly traumatic experience ... More |
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| | Blanton Museum of Art receives $5 million from Still Water Foundation | | The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens 'Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent' | | Christie's announces 'Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste' in New York | 
Ellsworth Kelly, Austin, 2015. Artist-designed building with installation of colored glass windows, black and white marble panels, and redwood totem, 60 ft. x 73 ft. x 26 ft. 4 in. ©Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. Photo courtesy Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin.
AUSTIN, TX.- The University of Texas at Austin announces that two of its major arts programs have received gifts totaling $10 million from Austin-based Still Water Foundation. The Blanton Museum of Art and Landmarks will each receive $5 million to strengthen their respective programs. The Blanton Museum of Arts master plan project to reimagine and transform the museum grounds will receive $5 million in support. Landmarks, the universitys public art program in the College of Fine Arts, will receive $5 million, which will serve as the foundation of an operating endowment for the organization. Still Waters generous investment will propel forward these significant initiatives, elevating the arts across the Forty Acres and benefitting generations of students and visitors. Each grant includes a $2 million challenge match that has been designated to inspire ... More | | 
John Singer Sargent (American, 18561925) and A.W. Elson & Co (active Boston, 18941925, printer) or Heliotype Printing Company (active Boston, late 19th early 20th century, printer). Study of a Seated Male Nude in a Roundel for the Rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1921. Collotype print on blue-gray paper, 58.5 x 47.6 cm (231/16 x 18 3/4 in.) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens a new exhibition, Bostons Apollo: Thomas McKeller & John Singer Sargent, on view February 13-May 17, 2020 in the Museums Hostetter Gallery. In 1916, John Singer Sargent (18561925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (18901962), a young African-American elevator attendant, at Bostons Hotel Vendome. McKeller posed for most of the figuresboth male and femalein Sargents murals in the Museum of Fine Arts. The painter transformed McKeller into white gods and goddesses, creating soaring allegories of the liberal arts that celebrated the recent expansion of the citys premier civic museum. Sargent gave the preparatory drawings depicting McKeller to Isabella Stewart Gardner, ensuring their preservation ... More | | 
A late Louis XVI pietra dura and ormolu-mounted ebony secrétaire en cabinet by Adam Weisweiler and almost certainly supplied by Dominique Daguerre, circa 1785-1790. Estimate: $600,000-1,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK.- Christies announces the auction Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste In New York to be offered on 2 April in New York. The family firm of Dalva Brothers has been a fixture in New York as the go-to source for the best in 18th century French furniture and decorative arts for the past eighty years and across three generations, selling to collectors and to museums including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Versailles and the Louvre. Dalva Brothers is renowned for holding one of the finest and deepest inventories of 18th century decorative arts in the world, and the auction will present approximately 250 lots including European furniture, Sèvres porcelain, Chinese works of art, clocks, and sculpture. A second sale will take place in Paris in November 2020. In collaboration with Christies Education, a four-part series of classes on the decorative arts, with lectures and handling sessions, ... More |
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 Zeitz MOCAA to unveil monumental textile work by acclaimed artist Abdoulaye KonatéCAPE TOWN.- This February, Zeitz MOCAA unveils a new monumental work by internationally renowned Malian artist, Abdoulaye Konaté. Titled Idéogrammes, signes, symboles et logos (Hommage à Youssouf Tata Cissé et Germaine Dieterlen), the installation was conceived as a site-specific work for Zeitz MOCAA and honours two thinkers distinguished for their contribution to culture and history: Malian historian and ethnologist Youssouf Tata Cissé (1935-2013), who specialised in canonising oral history from various parts of West Africa, and Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999), a French anthropologist who pioneered research on Dogon astronomy and the Bamana cultures of Mali. Abdoulaye Konaté is one of the most eminent West African artists of his generation. He is known for his monumental figurative and abstract textile compositions that balance political ... More Hayward Gallery opens the first solo exhibition in the UK of Turkish artist Nevin AladağLONDON.- From 12 February to 13 April 2020, Hayward Gallerys HENI Project Space presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of Turkish artist Nevin Aladağ, bringing together recent video and sculptural works that explore sound, rhythm and music. Nevin Aladağ: Fanfare includes the artists playful video work Traces (2015), an audio-visual portrait across three projections that depicts the urban landscape of Stuttgart in Germany, the city of her childhood. Here a series of instruments are played, not by musicians, but by the city itself: a tambourine bounces down a deserted street; an accordion hangs from a lamppost; a violin revolves on a spinning merry-go-round. By establishing playful and contingent musical situations, Aladağ creates a poetic portrait of the urban landscape. Another three-channel video work, Session (2013), features Arabic, Indian, and African percussion instrumen ... More Nye & Company announces Estate Treasures Auction on February 26thBLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Following the success of its recent January auction and Americana Week in New York, the resurgence of traditional collecting categories continues to delight, excite collectors and serve as the foundation for Nye & Companys Estate Treasures auction planned for Wednesday, February 26th, online and in the firms gallery at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. starting at 10 am Eastern time. The sale is officially titled an Estate Treasures Auction; featuring property from the Estate of Judith Applegate, Princeton, NJ. The auction will begin promptly at 10 am Eastern time. Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The catalog will also be posted to the Nye & Company website prior to Valentines Day. We are thrilled to be offering property from the collection of Judith Appelgate said ... More Clars Auction Gallery to offer significant works by renowned artistsOAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallerys February 22-23, 2020 auction will present to the market highly significant works by renowned artists, designers and historic collections spanning the categories of Fine Art, Decorative Arts & Furnishings, Jewelry and Asian Antiques and Art. This auction will be one to watch as the important investment level property to be offered will draw highly competitive bidding from the global market. Clars presents the stand out painting, Eid al-Fitr, (Breaking the Fast) 1902, by the amazing French naturalized Austrian Orientalist painter Ludwig Deutsch (Austrian/French, 1855-1935). This work is signed, inscribed and dated L. Deutsch Le Caire 1902on the lower left. Despite the startling clarity of his pictures, the details of Ludwig Deutsch's life remain elusive and vague. Brought up in Vienna, he studied at the Akademie ... More Art rises in the Saudi desert, shadowed by politicsAL ULA (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The Coachella art crowd had arrived in the Saudi desert, and chic caftans in head-turning colors outnumbered abayas on the sand. At a buffet ornamented with cantaloupes carved in the shape of flowers, waiters tended a fresh-squeezed juice station and rows of dainty canapés. Across the gold-and-russet sandstone canyon, the brawny rock formations sprouted contemporary art: an iridescent spaceshiplike sculpture, a glinting metal tunnel, a scattering of brightly painted spheres. These were the fruits of Desert X AlUla, a partnership between Desert X, a California-based art biennial that had staged two previous exhibitions in the Coachella Valley, and the Saudi government, which had coaxed Desert X to mount a show in its own western desert at the countrys expense. Controversy ensued, as it tends to when Saudi ... More The end of the age of steam - and a mouse - captured by CuneoSTANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Sworders' March 10-11 Fine Interiors sale includes a well-known oil by artist Terence Cuneo (1907-1996). Evening Star at Full Steam, signed and dated October 1963, is estimated at £40,000-60,000. The paintings end of an era subject is the last steam locomotive ever built for British Railways the BR standard class 9F engine completed at Swindon Works in 1960. Built with the intention that it would be preserved as a heritage object, it was withdrawn from service in 1965 and is now in the National Railway Museum collection in York. The 76 cm x 1.02 m scene of the engine hauling passenger carriages at her top speed of over 90 mph was commissioned from Cuneo by the printers James Haworth & Company for use in the companys 1964 calendar and later became one the most successful fine art prints ever published by ... More Morbidelli's marvels at BonhamsSTAFFORD.- A world-class selection of 200 post-war road and racing motorcycles from the celebrated Morbidelli Motorcycle Museum in Pesaro, Italy will be the centrepiece of Bonhams Spring Stafford Sale, 25-26 April 2020 the most significant private collection of motorcycles to be offered by the auction house to date. This important collection was built up and curated by the late Giancarlo Morbidelli, the museums founder, motorcycle manufacturer and Grand Prix boss, over a period of 40 years, and represents the best of Italy, with an emphasis on Italian marques, including Benelli and Ducati. They represent the passion of the farmers son and former woodworking machinist who, while building up a successful engineering firm as his day job, spent his spare time tuning, racing and later building his own motorcycles. In pole position as the top ... More Drawing Room Hamburg presents The Body of Drawing #1-The Touch of DensityHAMBURG.- Six memos for the Next Millennium, composed by the Italian writer Italo Calvino in 1985, are reflections on writing and the future of literature. They are a profound plea on behalf of the intellectual and illustrative power of art, and its ability to seem to describe the world partly in terms of ever-changing material qualities, and partly in terms of aggregate states: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency. In the chapter about lightness, Calvino describes two opposite tendencies, which throughout the centuries ... have competed in literature: one tries to make language into a weightless element that hovers above things like a cloud or better, perhaps, the finest dust or, better still, a field of magnetic impulses. The other tries to give language the weight, density, and concreteness of things, bodies, and sensations. Is the tension ... More Where to celebrate women's rights this yearNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Congress granted women the right to vote on June 4, 1919, a bittersweet moment for many who had fought for equality for decades. To commemorate the centennial of the ratification in 1920, enshrined in the 19th amendment, new tours and exhibitions can be found across the country. Theres been a huge interest in the centennial and voting rights, said Deborah Hughes, president of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, New York. This national landmark, where Anthony was arrested for voting as a woman before that activity became legal, receives more than 13,000 visitors each year. The $15 daily admission for adults includes a tour, while Votercade 2020, a free series of daylong events with artistic and philosophical discussions, runs until Oct 3. In Seneca Falls, New York, well-known ... More Prospect New Orleans appoints artist Dawn DeDeaux and Curator Arthur Lewis to boardNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Prospect New Orleans announced the appointment of two new members to its board. Dawn DeDeaux and Arthur Lewis will help guide the organization in the lead-up to its fifth edition, Yesterday we said tomorrow, curated by Artistic Directors Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi. Opening on October 24, 2020 and remaining on view through January 24, 2021, Prospect.5 will take place in museums, cultural spaces, and public sites throughout New Orleans. The exhibition will feature artists based in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe, many of whom will produce newly commissioned projects. We are truly honored to add two luminaries like Dawn and Arthur to our board, said Prospect Executive Director Nick Stillman. Theyre each ideal Prospect board members: New Orleans natives with global impact and ... More Rare piano destroyed during move is now in 'piano heaven' (hopefully)NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- For 17 years, Angela Hewitt, one of the worlds foremost classical pianists, has been performing recitals and creating acclaimed recordings with a rare concert grand piano. But their partnership has now ended. This week, she composed a eulogy for her beloved instrument, as full of emotion and longing as the music she once created with it, after movers dropped the piano, destroying it. In a Facebook post Sunday, Hewitt described having just completed a recording of Beethoven variations at a studio in Berlin. She was elated with the results, she said, and as she was finishing up with her producer, the movers entered the control room, mortified. They had dropped my precious Fazioli concert grand piano, she wrote. I adored this piano, she continued. It was my best friend, best companion. Hewitt said she was ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and academic Grant Wood was born February 13, 1891. Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 - February 12, 1942) was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic, an iconic painting of the 20th century. In this image: Grant Wood (1891 - 1942), American Gothic, 1930. Oil on composition board, 30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. (78 x 65.3 cm). Art Institute of Chicago; Friends of American Art Collection 1930.934. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph courtesy Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY.
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