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Jean-Etienne Liotard's A Dutch Girl at Breakfast - One of the last and finest oil paintings by the artist remaining in a Private Collection realised £4.41 million / $5.69 million / 5.16 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Over the last two days, at Sothebys London, masterpieces from the past attracted collectors from around the world, with over 50 countries and 40% more people participating in our sales of Old Master paintings, sculpture, works of arts and drawings and the highly anticipated Treasures auction. Todays and yesterdays four sales brought a combined total of £31,831,191 /$41,414,233 / 37,353,779. Many of the lots offered combined royal and aristocratic provenance with extraordinary beauty, freshness to the market and the imprimatur of the most influential art patrons and collectors of their time. Participants from 27 countries (up from the equivalent sale last year) 8 Auction records for works by Jean-Etienne Liotard, Marten van Cleve the Elder, Niccolò di ser Sozzo, Pacino di Bonaguida, Barthel Beham, Louis-Gabriel Blanchet, Dominic Serres and a still life ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Stadel Museum is presenting Georg Baselitz's famous "Heroes" in a comprehensive monographic special exhibition fifty years after the paintings' making. Photo: Stadel Museum
| HRH The Duchess of Cambridge announces V&A winner of Museum of the Year 2016 | | Sotheby's to offer a remarkable collection of historic numismatic books | | Major and innovative new galleries open at the National Museum of Scotland | 
Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, (L) speaks with Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, as she prepares to present the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016 prize at the Natural History Museum in London, on July 6, 2016. Matt Dunham / POOL / AFP.
LONDON.- The Victoria and Albert Museum was announced as the £100,000 winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016 by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge at a dinner and ceremony at the Natural History Museum, London, this evening. Among the 370 guests at the dinner hosted by Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar, were: artists Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Michael Craig-Martin, Cornelia Parker, Mat Collishaw, Gavin Turk, Yinka Shonibare; museum directors, Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait Gallery; Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate; Martin Roth, Director, V&A; Sir Michael Dixon, Director, Natural History Museum; Charles Saumarez-Smith, Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts; Axel Rüger, Director, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Ed Vaizey, Minister of State for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries. Art Fund awards the Museum of ... More | | 
Goltzius, Hubert (1526-1583). Icones imperatorum romanorum, ex priscis numismatibus ad vivum delineatae, & brevi narratione historica illustratae. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus, 1645. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This summer, Sothebys will offer for sale a remarkable collection of historic numismatic books, considered to be the finest private library of its kind in existence. The Collection of Patricia Milne-Henderson: Books on Coins, Medals and Antiquities will be presented in a timed online auction between 8 and 18 July 2016. Together, the 115 lots are estimated at £92,000-132,000. The auction provides a fascinating insight into the history of British book collecting, and takes the reader on a journey through some of the greatest libraries ever assembled. The provenance of these tomes is extraordinary, from Charles II (bound specially for his library at St. James), the Duke of Northumberland, the Earl of Pembroke, and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, to William Beckford, Sir William Stirling Maxwell and the Earl of Bute. Many of the books in the collection date to the Italian Renaissance, ... More | | 
The innovative new galleries, created in collaboration with award-winning practice Hoskins Architects and exhibition specialists Metaphor, encourage visitors to take a journey of discovery.
EDINBURGH.- Ten major new galleries open this Friday, 8 July, at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, following a £14.1 million redevelopment in its 150th anniversary year. The new state-of-the-art galleries, which are dedicated to decorative art, design, fashion science and technology, are the latest phase in an £80 million Masterplan to transform the Museum and showcase the breadth of its world class collections. As one of the worlds great museums, the National Museum of Scotland uniquely brings together science and art, the natural world and the diversity of human cultures, inviting visitors to explore the world under one roof. The innovative new galleries, created in collaboration with award-winning practice Hoskins Architects and exhibition specialists Metaphor, encourage visitors to take a journey of discovery. The redevelopment of the magnificent Grade A listed Victorian building restores the Museums ... More |
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| Italian painter and sculptor Sandro Chia joins Marc Straus | | Claudia Schmuckli to join Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | | Exhibition includes nearly 100 new pieces produced by Urs Fischer | 
Sandro Chia was one of the foremost artists during the resurgent interest in painting in the 1980s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus announced that Sandro Chia has joined the gallery, where an exhibition of new work will open in February 2017. This will be the artists first solo show in New York City in nearly a decade. Sandro Chia was one of the foremost artists during the resurgent interest in painting in the 1980s. He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times. His works were exhibited in many of the most important museums and galleries of the world, and featured in almost every major museum exhibition benchmarking that era including Zeitgeist in 1982. In a career spanning almost five decades, some of the exhibition milestones include the Biennale of Paris, San Paolo and three different iterations of the Venice ... More | | 
Ms. Schmuckli joins the Fine Arts Museums from the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, where she is Director and Chief Curator.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced the appointment of Claudia Schmuckli as Curator-in-Charge, Contemporary Art and Programming. Ms. Schmuckli joins the Fine Arts Museums from the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, where she is Director and Chief Curator. I am excited that Claudia will join our team of extraordinary curators to augment our contemporary collection, programming and outreach, states Max Hollein, Director, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Widening our contemporary perspective is among several priorities for the Museums. With our broad and diverse collections and multiple platforms for programmatic exchangefrom exterior courtyards and major galleries to theater spacesthe de Young and Legion of Honor offer a wide range of possibilities ... More | | 
Urs Fischer and various artists, YES, 2011-ongoing. Unfired clay sculptures modeled on-site by multiple authors. Dimensions variable. Installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2016 © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
MOSCOW.- To celebrate the first anniversary of Garages move to its permanent home, Urs Fischer has developed Small Axe, an exhibition that responds to the building and its surroundings. Creating a series of installations that dramatically play with scale and sensory perception, the Swiss-born artist invites audiences to see the Museum from a new perspective. Occupying the Central Gallery, the installation includes nearly 100 new pieces produced for the show, as well as recent paintings and sculptures. A focus on personal histories is present in all the works that are on view, providing an interesting antidote to the grandeur of the Soviet Modernist architecture and its complex cultural mission after being remodeled into a contemporary museum. The shift is on smaller and more intimate ... More |
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| A Personal glimpse: 25 years of Les Enluminures | | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art debuts its first-ever folk art show | | Van Gogh Museum welcomes 1,000,000th visitor | 
Sandra Hindman.
NEW YORK, NY.- September marks the 25th anniversary of Les Enluminures, the creation of Sandra Hindman. In 1991, Ms. Hindman bought a tiny space just ten square meters large (about 100 square feet) in the Louvre des Antiquaires in the center of Paris. Ms. Hindman states: Our gallery was so small you could barely turn around, and there was space for no more than ten or fifteen manuscript illuminations on the walls. It was a miniature glassed-in fishbowl. At the time, she commuted at least once a month to Northwestern University in Chicago where she was Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History. A long-time friend, Charlotte Lacaze, art historian at the American University of Paris, and a student from the University ran day-to-day operations in the gallery. In the days before Skype, Gotomeeting, and Cloud-based sharing of information, she faxed and phoned back and forth daily. It was tiring. She didnt retir ... More | | 
Unknown, Mrs. Keyser, ca. 1834. Watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, in original frame covered with embossed paper with traces of gilt, 22 3/4 Ã 18 1/4 in. Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Ralph Esmerian, 2005.8.9. Photo: American Folk Art Museum / Art Resource, NY.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces the opening of American Made: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum, on view July 2 through September 19, 2016. The exhibition features 115+ works of art including quilts, carvings, signs, samplers, weathervanes, whirligigs, and morehandmade by Americans when the nation was young. Tickets are $10 for adults; free for ages 18 and under and museum members. Were excited for visitors to experience Crystal Bridges first-ever folk art exhibition which provides a glimpse into early American life with these extraordinary objects, says Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Executive Director Rod Bigelow. ... More | | 
Milou Halbesma (Division manager Communications, Marketing & Development) presents a bouquet of sunflowers to Jennifer Noble from the United States of America, the millionth visitor of the Van Gogh Museum in 2016. Photo: Jan-Kees Steenman.
AMSTERDAM.- The millionth visitor to the Van Gogh Museum in 2016 was today given a special celebratory welcome. The milestone was reached three weeks earlier than in 2015, the jubilee year in which the museum attracted the record number of 1.9 million visitors. Around 13% more culture enthusiasts visited the museum in the first half of 2016 compared to the same period last year. Vincent van Gogh, the new Entrance Hall, the museums permanent collection and the programme of exhibitions continue to represent a strong attraction to museum visitors from the Netherlands and much further afield. "I am very pleased with the sustained interest in our museum. Every day, we witness how the life story and art of Vincent van ... More |
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| New trading platform set to revolutionise the art world | | The Great Animal Orchestra opens at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain | | Fondazione Prada presents two new projects by Theaster Gates and Nastio Mosquito | 
ARTSTAQs CEO Jozef Barta, formerly the head of UniCredit Bank (Slovakia), confidently predicts the new exchange model will spark a revolution in the art world.
LONDON.- ARTSTAQ, the London-based fintech company, announced the launch of Artex500, a new exchange model that enables investors to acquire and trade art as an asset class in real-time anywhere in the world. The platform, the first of its kind, provides independent market data, market valuation along with other investment parameters free of charge, and has been designed for experienced art investors as well as those who are new to the sector. It is supported by ARTSTAQs unique technology for automated quotation and real-time rating. ARTSTAQs CEO Jozef Barta, formerly the head of UniCredit Bank (Slovakia), confidently predicts the new exchange model will spark a revolution in the art world, enticing traders, family offices, hedge funds, banks and other institutions to invest in art for the first time, substantially enlarging the market for art ... More | | 
3D view of the exhibition The Great Animal Orchestra, Courtesy of United Visual Artists.
PARIS.- From July 2, 2016 to January 8, 2017, the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain presents The Great Animal Orchestra, inspired by the work of American musician and bioacoustician, Bernie Krause. The exhibition brings together the work of artists from all over the world and invites the public to enjoy an aesthetic meditation, both aural and visual, on the animal kingdom, which is increasingly under threat in todays modern world. For almost 50 years, Bernie Krause has collected almost 5,000 hours of sound recordings of natural habitats, both terrestrial and marine, inhabited by almost 15,000 animal species. His research offers a wonderful immersion into the sound universe of animals, otherwise known as biophony. Before developing a passion for animal recordings, far removed from the world of humans, Bernie Krause worked as a musician and acoustician in the 1960s and 1970s, collaborating with artists like Th ... More | | 
Theaster Gates, Boli, 2014. Installation view of A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, or When We Believe exhibited in Artes Mundi 6, 2014-2015. Photo by Warren Orchard.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada will present the exhibitions True Value and T.T.T.-Template Temples of Tenacity from 7 July to 25 September 2016 by Theaster Gates and Nástio Mosquito respectively. Conceived by Elvira Dyangani Ose as independent projects, the two exhibitions will include installations, site-specific works and projections, as well as collective experiences and musical events that will actively involve the public. True Value the first exhibition by Theaster Gates (Chicago, 1973) in Milan will bring together a selection of existing works and new commissions in two different spaces at Fondazione Prada. The Cisterna will feature works in which the artist explores habitual, everyday things, immersed in the most evocative Black aesthetics. Gates operates on the conviction that everyday objects convey a deep understanding, ... More |
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 First North American retrospective highlights two decades of art by artist Bharti KherVANCOUVER, BC.- Vancouver Art Gallery will present Bharti Kher Matter, the first major retrospective in North America of internationally acclaimed artist Bharti Kher. Opening on July 9, this exhibition incorporates elements of painting, photography and sculpture that have been the hallmarks of her practice over the past two decades. Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Daina Augaitis (Chief Curator/Associate Director) and Diana Freundl (Associate Curator, Asian Art), this exhibition is presented as part of the Gallerys Institute of Asian Art initiative which features historical, contemporary and emerging international and local Asian artists. Born in 1969 in London, England, Bharti Kher moved to India in 1991 and continues to work and live in New Delhi. She has an extensive record of international exhibitions, and her ... More Exhibition of new work by the French painter Lou Ros opens at Dolby Chadwick GallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces an exhibition of new work by the French painter Lou Ros, SOMEWHERE, starting on July 7 and continuing through August 27. Raised in La Rochelle in western France, Ros started painting at 17, first as a graffiti artist, working on large works on the walls of abandoned buildings. The paintings took several days to paint and the work technically wasnt against the law, since the buildings were slated for demolition. Four years later, Ros began working on canvas. His new works evoke the freedom and spontaneity of graffiti art but show the maturity of years spent painting in his Paris atelier. Ross work for SOMEWHERE encompasses three areas: portraits that evoke movement and transition, even as they capture the subject; haunting, mysterious scenes based on historical photos that Ros collects; and two landscapes ... More Francisco Ugarte's 'Slideshow' opens at Cristin Tierney GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery presents Slideshow, an exhibition of slide projector works by Francisco Ugarte. This is Ugarte's first solo show in New York, and he will be present at the reception on Thursday, July 7th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Slideshow explores the creative possibilities of two simple materials: transparent slides and projected light. Of the hundreds of slides that comprise the works on view, each transparency has been drawn on or altered with tape by the artist. When illuminated, the slides project a series of images that evoke abstracted landscapes, Constructivist iconography, and pictograph-like symbols. No discernible narrative exists in the works, but a steady progression through the images is marked by one slide clicking to the next. The works in Slideshow are indebted to the rich history of geometric abstraction and early 20th century ... More High Museum of Art is sole venue for international tour of Walker Evans photographyATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art presents Walker Evans: Depth of Field, a major touring retrospective of the work of one of the most influential documentary photographers of the 20th century. The High is the only U.S. venue for the exhibition, which places Evans most recognized photographs within the larger context of his 50-year career. Co-organized by the High and the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery, the exhibition is among the most thorough examinations ever presented of the photographers work and the most comprehensive Evans retrospective to be mounted in Europe, Canada and the southeastern United States. The Highs presentation features more than 120 black-and-white and color prints from the 1920s through the 1970s, including photographs from the Museums permanent collection. ... More Bo Bartlett Center, designed by Olson Kundig, to open in late 2017COLUMBUS, GA.- A former cotton warehouse on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, transformed by Tom Kundig, of the internationally renowned architecture firm Olson Kundig, will be unveiled as the Bo Bartlett Center in late 2017. Part of the RiverPark campus of Columbus State University (CSU) in Columbus, Georgia, the center will encompass 18,425-square-feet of gallery, archive and multidisciplinary programming spaces. This vibrant addition to the Southeasts visual arts community is named after James Bo Bartlett III (born 1955, Columbus, Georgia), who is recognized as one of the leading figurative painters of his generation. Construction on the project begins August 2016. A unique partnership between a living mid-career artist and a state university, the center will house more than 300 paintings and drawings of Bartletts, as well as his complete ... More "Pablo Picasso: 25 Years of Edition Ceramics" on view at the Columbus Museum of ArtCOLUMBUS, OH.- Columbus Museum of Art is presenting Pablo Picasso: 25 Years of Edition Ceramics June 10 through September 11, 2016. The exhibition complements CMAs special exhibition Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change, which is on view simultaneously. Internationally famed for his paintings, sculpture, and graphics, Pablo Picasso was long intrigued by ceramics. After seeing the works of the Madoura potters at a crafts fair in 1946, he asked Georges and Suzanne Ramie, who operated the studio, to provide him with the opportunity to work with them. This exhibition features ceramic pieces created by Pablo Picasso in collaboration with George and Suzanne Ramie and the artisans at their Madoura pottery workshop in Vallauris, Southern France, between the years 1947 and 1971. The themes of collaboration and creative process that recur ... More Temporary architectural pavilion made entirely from bamboo opens in SydneySYDNEY.- The architectural pavilion titled Green Ladder has been created by one of the worlds edgiest architects - Vo Trong Nghia (New York Post 2015) and will be on public display at SCAF from 7 July to 10 December 2016. Award-winning architect, Vo Trong Nghia will be in Sydney for the opening of Green Ladder and will present a talk at SCAF during the opening week. SCAFs Fugitive Structures now in its fourth and final year, was the first series in Australia to explore the potential of temporary pavilions as tools for experimentation and for investigating new architectural concepts. Dr Gene Sherman, Executive Director of SCAF comments: The design of this final SCAF pavilion centres around two central pillars of Vo Trong Nghias approach to architecture: the innovative use of bamboo, and his passion and self imposed duty to green the worlds urban ... More First gallery exhibition by The Family Acid opens at Benrubi GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- The Benrubi Gallery presents the first gallery exhibition by The Family Acid, an artistic collective centuring around the counterculture-era photography of Roger Steffens, and archived, digitized, and curated by Steffens daughter Kate, son Devon and wife, Mary. This is The Family Acids first exhibition with Benrubi Gallery. Roger Steffens is a renowned musicologist as well as an actor and narrator in both documentary and drama films: hes published six books on Bob Marley, and appeared in or narrated such Academy Awardwinning films as Forrest Gump, Wag the Dog, and The Flight of the Gossamer Condor. He began taking pictures while serving in the Psychological Operations Unit during the Vietnam War, and over the next two decades amassed an archive of some 400,000 images. Influenced by the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the ... More Art Southampton returns to Nova's Ark ProjectSOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Art Southampton, the seasons most acclaimed contemporary and modern art fair, will celebrate its fifth installment on the grounds of Nova's Ark Project (60 Millstone Road, Bridgehampton, NY) beginning July 7th and continuing through the 11th. Presented by Art Miami, this edition of the annual fair will feature over 70 prominent international galleries and showcase tens of millions of dollars worth of the finest museum quality art, sculpture, and photography from the 20th and 21st centuries. The 2016 fair kicks-off with a VIP Preview Party, which will benefit the Parrish Art Museum and Southampton Hospital, on Thursday evening. Prominent collectors, curators, designers and decorators will have a sneak peak at this years offerings, which include blue chip modern and contemporary works from iconic artists and the emerging, mid-career, Post War and Pop ... More 1889 Specimen Pattern Dollar leads Heritage's $3.58+ million Asian Coins and Currency Signature AuctionHONG KONG.- An elegantly preserved 1889 Kwangtung Empire Specimen Pattern Dollar SP64+ Brown PCGS commanded $150,000 in Heritage Auctions Hong Kong's $3.58+ million joint World & Ancient Coins and Currency Signature Auctions, held June 22-24, 2016 at the Mira Hotel Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The $150,000 price realized for the Kwangtung Dollar is one of the highest prices paid for any Chinese copper coin, regardless of year or denomination. Modern Chinese coins also faired very well, with prices considerably stronger than they had been in previous auctions with any firm. The top modern sale was a 1979 People's Republic "Year of the Child" Proof Piefort Set containing a 35 Yuan silver coin and a 450 Yuan gold coin, which realized an impressive 1$43,400. The two proofs in the set are exceedingly rare, with a mintage of 2,000 for the silver ... More Large micromosaic table headline AuctionLife Florida's inaugural auctionBOCA RATON, FLA.- A beautiful and large micromosaic table made in Rome, Italy around 1850 circular in shape and made from black marble, with the top inlaid with semi-precious stones is the expected headliner at the inaugural sale of AuctionLife Florida, set for Saturday, July 24th, in the Ramada Boca Raton hotel at 701 Northwest 53rd Street, beginning at 1 pm Eastern time. The table carries a pre-sale estimate of $25,000-$45,000 and depicts St. Peters Square in the center and four Roman sites interconnected by floral festoons, a motif popularized by the artist Cavalier Barberi, who began using it around 1840. Each scene is bordered with what appears to be coral, followed by malachite, the whole surrounded by a band of micromosaic lapis lazuli. The table was once valued at $200,000 by the International Society of Appraisers (a valuation sheet is included ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Marc Chagall was born July 07, 1887. Marc Chagall (7 July 1887 - 28 March 1985), was a Belarusian-Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He was an early modernist, and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. In this image: Russian-born French painter Marc Chagall, 82, is portrayed in front of a mosaic he designed in his villa in Saint-Paul de Vence, southern France, November 25, 1969. AP Photo.
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