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Majestic Artistry of Grand 19th century Serapi Carpets Anchor a Lofty Great Room. The regal yet comfortable aesthetic of these two generously scaled antique Persian Serapi carpets from Claremont Rug Company form the essential foundation for this expansive, high-ceilinged living and dining spaces of this contemporary, open-plan home. The time-softened patina and naturally-derived colors find resonance with every part of the space, from the rich leather upholstery and hardwoods to the fieldstone hearth. The animated, spontaneous design makes this vacuous space seem intimate and invites the eye to linger comfortably as it discovers new individual flourishes in the design.
OAKLAND, CA.- Many grand residences, be they contemporary, mid-century modern or traditional in design, are characterized by high-ceiling rooms and voluminous spaces. To provide a degree of intimacy and an individual aesthetic, their owners residences often find that the artistry and individuality of antique Oriental rugs are perfect to capture the abundant light and ample space in their homes. Claremont Rug Company has worked with home owners and interior designers for nearly 40 years to create the personal ambiance that makes an environment both individual and comfortable. Whether utilizing palace-size rugs or a suite of compatible smaller rugs in a stylized design, these are hand-woven artworks from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving (ca. 1800 to ca. 1910) that become personal design aesthetics for the homeowner and create an emotional and multi-dimensional space. The aged naturally-dyed colors and captivating motifs of thes ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Last night in New York, Oprah Winfrey, Agnes Gund, members from Miss Porter's School and Sotheby's celebrated By Women, For Tomorrow's Women - the first-ever all-women artist benefit auction, which will take place at Sotheby's on 1 March. Photo: Ben Rosser BFA.com
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 | | Exhibition at Nationalmuseum comprises the very best of Danish painting from 1800 to 1864 | | Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens an exhibition of drawings and works on paper by Katia Santibañez | | MoMA acquires its first painting by Tarsila do Amaral | 
Christen Købke, The artist's nephew, the artist and headmaster Johan Jacob Krohn as a child, 1846. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Cecilia Heisser / Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum will present the exhibition The Danish Golden Age, which comprises the very best of Danish painting from 1800 to 1864. The exhibition includes more than 300 works and is a joint production by Nationalmuseum, the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen and the Petit Palais City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts in Paris. In the course of 2019 and 2020, it will be exhibited at each of these respective museums. Although Denmark is a neighbor and the two countries share a common art history, the art that shaped Denmarks image is surprisingly unknown in Sweden. During the 19th century, art that combined equal parts magical and realistic imagery grew out of a society marked by great upheaval. In these works, a parallel universe emerged in which everyday misery was highlighted by its very absence ... More | | 
Katia Santibañez, Shades of Night, 2017. Gouache on paper, 17 x 14 in. Photo: Ryan McKinley.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art presents Endless Conversations, an exhibition of drawings from 2012 to 2019, and other works on paper by Katia Santibañez. The show will run from February 28th - March 30th, 2019. A catalog with a conversation between Santibañez and the Master Printer Mae Shore: the founder of Cheymore Gallery / Shore Publishing, will be published to accompany the exhibition. Shore and Santibañez have worked together since 2014. Santibañez has, for many years, developed an interest in observation, creating a precious relationship between herself and various elements of nature. She is exploring the different forms of conversations between: her drawings and her prints, herself and master printers, herself and other artists, herself and the notion of colors. She was invited first in the winter of 2013 to be resident for two months at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and went back for ... More | | 
Tarsila do Amaral (Brazilian, 1886-1973), The Moon (A Lua). 1928 (detail). Oil on canvas, 43 1/3 x 43 1/3 in. (110 x 110 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has acquired The Moon (A Lua), made in 1928 by Tarsila do Amaral (Brazilian, 18861973). With this acquisition, the Museum welcomes into the collection its first painting by Brazils most important early modernist. Tarsila do Amaral is a foundational figure for modern art in Brazil, and a central protagonist in the transatlantic cultural exchanges that informed it. Her paintings from the 1920s ignited a radically new iconography of enduring influence in her native country, where today she is revered as simply Tarsila. Last spring, The Museum of Modern Art and The Art Institute of Chicago co-organized Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil, the first exhibition of her work ever presented in the United States. Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator ... More |
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| | | Phillips announces the sale of the collection from an apartment designed by Gio Ponti in 1951 | | Christie's to offer one of the most significant collections of Chinese Export art | | Rothko Chapel announces restoration and campus enhancement | 
Gio Ponti, Illuminated Positivo-negativo wall-mounted cabinet with tower and kind statuettes, circa 1951. Estimate: £40,000 - 60,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips in association with Italian auction house Cambi announced the sale of the collection from the apartment Casa Lucano, designed by Gio Ponti in 1951. Comprising a total of 30 lots, the sale of the Casa di Fantasia illustrates a milestone in Pontis oeuvre and his highly individual approach to design. It is a celebration of the architects collaboration with other artists and craftsmen, including Piero Fornasetti, Edina Altara, Giordano Chiesa, among others. Domenico Raimondo, Head of Design, Europe, said We are delighted to partner with Cambi Auction House for this exciting sale. The lots on offer from this important interior represent and celebrate the unique approach to design by Ponti through his collaboration with artists, craftsmen and designers alike. Edina Altara, Piero Fornasetti, Fausto Melotti, Giordano Chiesa (to name a few) have ... More | | 
A Pair of Famille Rose Soldier Vases. Estimate: $80,000-120,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced The Tibor Collection: A Noble Eye for Chinese Export, one of the most significant collections of Chinese Export porcelain in the world. Covering all aspects of Chinese Export porcelain, from late Ming blue and white to 18th century armorial and European subject wares, the sale is named for the stunning, oversized vases, jars and soldier vases known in Hispanic America as tibores, of which more than 50 examples are offered, including many pairs. A true connoisseurs collection comprised of objects of great beauty, quality and rarity, works with important provenance are also featured, highlighted by royal candlesticks and soldier vases made for Philip V of Spain. The landmark sale series begins with a single-owner sale on April 10 in New York, and continues with top pieces offered in The Exceptional Sale across upcoming seasons in New York, London and Paris, ... More | | 
Rothko Chapel will close on March 4, 2019 through the end of 2019, while it undergoes a comprehensive restoration. © Architecture Research Office.
HOUSTON, TX.- The leadership of the Rothko Chapel has announced the start of a year-long construction project that will include the restoration of the historic Rothko Chapel. This represents the first step in the implementation of the Opening Spaces master plan for the Rothko Chapel. The multi-year project will enhance the visitor experience in the Chapel and on its grounds, while developing a campus that offers visitors new experiences, programs and expanded education offerings in harmony with the original vision of Mark Rothko and John and Dominique de Menil, the Chapels founders. Rothko Chapel will close on March 4, 2019 through the end of 2019, while it undergoes a comprehensive restoration. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Rothko Chapel is one of the worlds most celebrated sacred spaces. The Chapel is ... More |
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| | | Luxembourg & Dayan opens an exhibition of new works by artist Derrick Adams | | Exhibition of Indian paintings passed 'From Hand to Hand' opens at Krannert Art Museum | | The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg's oeuvre for the first time in Germany | 
(b. 1970), Interior Life (Figure 6). Acrylic paint, pencil, fabric, on paper 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45. © Derrick Adams. Courtesy Luxembourg & Dayan, New York and London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luxembourg & Dayan announced Interior Life, an exhibition of new works by artist Derrick Adams, curated by Francesco Bonami. Inspired by a tenet of Catholic theology that describes "a life which seeks God in everything, Interior Life is a mediation on the intimate spaces of ones mind and home, each an analog for the other. Opening to the public on February 26, 2019, the exhibition includes new portraits on paper from the artists ongoing Deconstruction Worker series, installed on custom wallpaper depicting imaginary domestic environments. Adams spatial exploration of the relationship between the intimate and the infinite finds an ideal setting at Luxembourg & Dayans New York gallery, which resides in the second smallest townhouse in Manhattan. Adams artistic mission to devise spaces for his figures is advanced by a sophisticated and highly personalized architectural ... More | | 
Portrait of Bhim Singh with counselor, ca. 1820. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Mewar. Opaque color on paper. Gift of Alvin O. Bellak 1991-23-9
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Small, richly colored paintings created in northern India from the late 1500s to the early 1800s animate vivid stories from the great Hindu epics, passionate verses of devotional and love poetry, and noble portraits of Rajput royals. Selections from Krannert Art Museums collection of such paintings will be on view in the exhibition From Hand to Hand: Painting and the Animation of History in Northern India, opening Feb. 28. Small in scale and featuring rich jewel-toned colors made from ground semiprecious stones and other organic materials, paintings produced for the Rajput courts were not meant to be framed on a wall or looked at from a distance. Instead, they were meant to be held, passed from person to person and shared for intimate viewing with courtiers or given as gifts. Many of the paintings were commissioned by royals and created in workshops of the Rajput courts semi-independent Hindu ... More | | 
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Greed, 2009, Stop motion animation, video, music, 10:45 min, © Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
FRANKFURT.- There is an element of seduction when encountering films by Nathalie Djurberg (*1978) and Hans Berg (*1978)striking and immediate, they attract the viewer into colorful, suggestive worlds accompanied by hypnotic music. Their playfully told, dismal fables full of black humor examine the great questions of humankind. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the Swedish artist duos oeuvre for the first time in Germany in an extensive survey exhibition. On display are some 40 video and sound works from the past two decades, including early videos such as My Name is Mud (2003) and Tiger Licking Girls Butt (2004), large-format installations like The Parade (2011), The Potato (2008) and The Experiment (2009), recent works such as One Need Not Be a House, The Brain Has Corridors (2018), and Dark Side of the Moon (2017), numerous sculptures, and the duos first virtual-reality work It Will ... More |
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| | | Pomona College announces $15 million gift for new art museum | | Oskar Schindler's wristwatch and compass among personal possessions up for auction | | The Asahi Shimbun Displays 'Feeding history: the politics of food' | 
For decades, Pomona College has played a key part in shaping innovative artists, including Helen Pashgian, James Turrell, Peter Shelton, the late Marcia Hafif and the late Chris Burden.
CLAREMONT, CA.- From the edge of L.A., Pomona College has helped launch some of the regions most influential artists. Today the College is taking the next step forward with the announcement of a $15 million gift for a new art museum from Janet Inskeep Benton, a 1979 graduate of the College and long-time supporter of the arts. Opening in fall 2020, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College or, more simply, The Benton, will provide a space for some of SoCals most compelling and experimental exhibitions. The 33,000-square-foot facility is under construction where the campus meets the lively Claremont Village and the citys civic center. For decades, Pomona College has played a key part in shaping innovative artists, including Helen Pashgian, James Turrell, Peter Shelton, the late Marcia Hafif and the late Chris Burden. The Bentons collection will include pieces from ... More | | 
Longines wristwatch belonging to Oskar Schindler, featuring a white face with gold-tone hands and time markers, silver-tone case, and black leather strap.
BOSTON, MASS.- A remarkable collection of Oskar Schindler's personal possessions will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. Schindler was a German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories. Schindlers story was recounted in the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Australian author Thomas Keneally and became the basis of Steven Spielberg's highly successful film Schindler's List in 1993 that won seven Academy Awards. Among the Schindler items included in the sale; his Longines wristwatch, a compass, a 1938 Sudetenland Medal, two fountain pens, and a business card. Longines wristwatch belonging to Oskar Schindler, featuring a white face with gold-tone hands and time markers, silver-tone case, and black leather strap. Compass manufactured by Bezard/Gotthilf Lufft, said to have ... More | | 
Gilded silver vase with grape harvesting scene. Possibly from Mazanderan, Iran, AD 500 700. Gilded silver © the Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The British Museums new Asahi Shimbun display will explore the relationship between food, power and control through a focussed selection of objects. More food is being produced than ever before, but hunger remains one of the biggest threats to society today in 2017, the United Nations estimated that around one in nine people around the world are undernourished. The Asahi Shimbun Displays Feeding history: the politics of food will place ancient objects alongside a contemporary sculpture to explore the issues surrounding the production and control of food resources throughout human history. At the centre of this display is a poignant sculpture Anti Social Wild West Weaving, evoking the harsh conditions faced by North Americans in their attempt to harvest traditional foods on their homelands. It depicts the barbed-wire fences that settlers used to claim the North American grasslands for cattle ... More |
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 Haute Photographie closes fourth successful editionAMSTERDAM.- The fourth official edition of Haute Photographie closed its doors on February 10, 2019. Haute Photographie returned to Art Rotterdam Week gaining international recognition with its refreshing take on the fair format. The fifteen participating galleries and Haute Talents presented a museum-quality group exhibition at LP2 in Las Palmas, next to the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. Haute Photographie attracted about 6.200 visitors this year. Across the galleries nearly 150 artworks were sold to both private and corporate collections. Works by Jitske Schols, Albarran Cabrera and Justine Tjallinks proved to be favourites of visitors, finding their way to multiple collections. The public programme, which was created in collaboration with Nederlands Fotomuseum, was very popular among visitors. The sold-out panel discussion with ... More Kunsthalle Zurich presents artist Genoveva Filipovic's newest workZURICH.- New York-based, German-Croatian artist Genoveva Filipovic's newest work runs under the title Shiva 2019 ✆ . Her art seems enigmatic, but light; it is hermetic, yet open, serious, yet oblique. It is an afterthought and an over-archiver, and never fishes for compliments. It is painting after the proclaimed end of painting that famously was never reached, except perhaps in the heads of art historians and art critics. Nevertheless, the suggestion was a powerful one perhaps more so for male painters than female painters. The discourse centered on formalism, the idea that form in its essence is free and autonomous, with artworks wide open to interpretation and prone to long accompanying explanatory texts. This idea, pure form as a gateway to freedom, was eventually questioned by postcolonialist and feminist theorists, who pointed out that autonomy comes ... More A survey exhibition of one of the famous 'Petyarre' sisters is showing at Mitchell Fine ArtBRISBANE.- Nancy Kunoth Petyarre was an Anmatyerre women and senior artist. She was also one of the acclaimed seven Petyarre sisters, all artists of note and internationally renowned. Featuring paintings spanning more a decade, this exhibition showcases the various styles and stories for which Nancy was known. Nancy Kunoth Petyarre was born c1938 out bush about 350 kms north-east of Alice Springs in Central Australia. She did not start painting until she was in her 40s, had no formal education and knew almost nothing of Western art. Her primary dreaming was Arnkerrthe, the Mountain Devil Lizard. Many of her works depict the lizard through compositions of delicate dotting, replicating the skin of the lizard. There is a fragility to her work that is countered by the strength of form and use of striking colour. Other works in the exhibition include Awelye ... More Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea opens a solo show by Anri SalaTURIN.- Castello di Rivoli Museo dArte Contemporanea is presenting the solo show by Anri Sala (Tirana, 1974). One of the most prominent contemporary artists on the international scene, Anri Sala lives and works in Berlin. He represented France at the 2013 Venice Biennale and took part in important exhibitions at the Castello di Rivoli, including the group shows Faces in the Crowd, 2005, and Colori, 2017. Beginning in 2000, Anri Sala has produced film and sound installations, sculptures, photographs, and drawings that explore the fractures, the intervals, the overlaps and the echoes through which reality unfolds through time, and events become meaningful. The artist uses architecture to shape visual, sound, and tactile elements so as to generate new interpretations and unique possibilities of perception within a liberating vision of language and culture. ... More Exhibition at the Science Gallery London rethinks human repairLONDON.- Spare Parts, from 28 February to 12 May, is the second exhibition season from the new Science Gallery London at Kings College London in London Bridge. The free exhibition and accompanying events programme will explore the art, science, ethics and technology that enables human repair and alteration. Drawing on the latest research from the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at Kings, the exhibition examines organ transplantation and tissue regeneration through the creative responses of world-renowned artists and designers. The distinctive new season considers the emotional and psychological aspects of living with a replacement organ or limb; organic or engineered. Developed alongside scientists from Kings College London and the gallerys Young Leaders 15-25 year-olds ... More International Arts & Artists names new President/CEOWASHINGTON, DC.- International Arts & Artists Board of Trustees announced the appointment of Lise Dubé-Scherr as its new president and CEO, succeeding the organizations founder, David Furchgott. Dubé-Scherr assumed her role as president on January 22, 2019, following her tenure as the director of museum affairs for The Preservation Society of Newport County (Newport Mansions). Lise Dubé-Scherr stood out among a pool of exceptional candidates. We are pleased she will lead IA&A into the future, building on the outstanding work of Founder David Furchgott, says Board President Dave Feinstein. In Lise, IA&A has found a seasoned entrepreneurial leader who will advance the organizations local, national, and international visibility, reach and impact. A native of Canada, Dubé-Scherr brings over 27 years of museum experience from notable ... More Auction celebrates America's Great Basin Native American heritageRENO, NEV.- A five-day Wigwam Auction a celebration of the countrys Great Basin Native American heritage, highlighted by the Moe and Mary Royels Great Basin Wigwam Collection will be held Thursday to Monday, March 7th -11th, by Holabird Western Americana Collections, online and in Holabirds spacious gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite #308) in Reno. Start times all five days will be 8 am PST. A two-day office preview will be held March 5th and 6th, from 9-5 (or by appointment). For those unable to attend the sale in person, online bidding will be facilitated by iCollector.com and Invaluable.com. The items in the Royels collections reflect the rich history the state of Nevada enjoys in the unique place known as the Great Basin. The Wigwam Collection is a fantastic array of Native American collectibles, art and artifacts. A number of items (mainly ... More John Lennon's fascination with UFOs and space highlighted in original art up for saleLOS ANGELES, CA.- John Lennons fascination with aliens and UFOs has been well documented throughout his life. As a member of one of the most famous bands of all time, The Beatles, Lennon often talked about his belief in alien life and even wrote about it. From his earlier years with wife Cynthia to his sighting in New York over the East River in 1974, the Beatles member continued to be mesmerized with life in space, even as much as to site visitations from aliens when he was with Yoko Ono. On March 30, 2019, Kruse GWS Auctions will offer an extraordinary collection of John Lennons personal drawings and Sci-Fi magazines, long collected by an old friend who shared his passion. On July 6, 1957, a fellow Liverpoolian befriended Lennon when he was performing as part of the Quarrymen, the group that eventually evolved into The Beatles. ... More Vintage Norman Seeff photos of pop culture icons offered through Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A collection of 50 extraordinary photographs by Norman Seeff of some of the most important figures in pop culture, entertainment and sports is being offered in Heritage Auctions Vintage Photographs by Norman Seeff Online Auction March 13. Online bidding, which is presented in conjunction with the Norman Seeff Archive and Artsy, begins Feb. 26 on HA.com, and the images will be available for viewing at Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills gallery (9478 West Olympic, First Floor, Beverly Hills, Calif., 90212) from Feb. 29 through March 8. Among the iconic personalities featured in the auction: artist Andy Warhol, actors John Belushi, Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster and Steve Martin, musicians James Taylor, Ray Charles, Whitney Houston and the Rolling Stones, and athletes like former boxer Ken Norton and former New York Jets quarterback ... More Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cover leads Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Auction past $9.4 MillionDALLAS, TX.- Original comic cover art by legendary artist Frank Frazetta soared beyond its pre-auction estimate, claiming top-lot honors and leading Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art auction to $9,432,650 Feb. 21-23 in Dallas. The auction boasted sell-through rates of 99.5 percent by value and 99.6 percent by lots sold through the worlds largest comics auctioneer. Frank Frazetta Famous Funnies #209 Cover Original Art (Eastern Color, 1953) drew bids from two dozen hopeful collectors before it closed at $552,000, surpassing its pre-auction estimate of $300,000 by 84 percent. One of just eight Famous Funnies covers the famed artist ever did, it features Buck Rogers and his trusty Sonic Ray Gun, and Wilma Deering, Rogers' equally smart and assertive adventurer, facing certain peril by space goons blocking the only exit from a cave. The image ... More Art-inspired mini-golf to debut in sculpture parkKANSAS CITY, MO.- In celebration of the masterpieces within The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, this summer the museum will debut a miniature golf course nestled into the trees and terraces on the south lawn. Art Course, open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, will feature nine hole designs that present a fresh interpretation of works of art in the museums collection. The nine were selected from 75 proposals submitted by students, architects, designers, and others interested in imagining a playable experience in the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park. Visitors can enjoy Art Course during the museums operating hours, and tickets will include equipment to play. Art Course will give us an exciting way to celebrate the treasures inside our walls, and we will all experience our collection from new and wildly creative points of view, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator John Tenniel was born February 28, 1820. Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 - 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).In this image: John Tenniel, A Conspiracy, oil on panel, August 1850. Private collection, UK.
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