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A good George II carved giltwood pier table in the manner of William Kent, second quarter 18th century (estimate: $15,000-20,000). Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On June 25 and 26, The Elegant Home sale at Bonhams Los Angeles will offer over 600 lots from the 17th through 21st centuries, representing a spectrum of diverse furniture, silver, decorative and fine arts. This sale presents an excellent opportunity for new and established collectors alike, with highlights ranging from Jean Puiforcat Art Deco silver flatware, a Richard Wehsner Vienna style porcelain tea service, Empire gilt and patinated bronze candelabra after Gérard-Jean Galle, to Old Master paintings. The public exhibition at Bonhams Los Angeles will be open (12pm-5pm) from June 22 to 24. Aileen Ward, Director, Silver & Objects of Vertu Department, commented: We are pleased to present our second Elegant Home auction of the season, featuring fresh-to-the market American and European decorative and fine arts, nationally sourced from private collections and estates. From h ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Picture showing restored pre-Inca funerary towers known as chullpas, erected at the Qala Uta archaeological site near Quehuaya, on the slopes of the hills bordering Lake Titicaca in the Bolivian Andes some 70 km west of La Paz, taken during the presentation of six restored towers, on June 14, 2018. With financial support from Switzerland and in coordination with the Culture Ministry, locals have reconstructed six of the 300 chullpas which have been torn down by time or looting in the area. Aizar RALDES / AFP
| David Bowie is welcomes 2 million visitors; 'Aladdin Sane' photograph by Brian Duffy presented to V&A | | Mozart manuscript fails to sell at Paris auction | | Chinese artist Liu Bolin's first solo exhibition in the UK opens at BAFA Contemporary |
Quilted two-piece suit, 1972. Designed by Freddie Burretti for the Ziggy Stardust tour. Courtesy of The David Bowie Archive. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum.
LONDON.- A print of a rarely seen original colour transparency image from Brian Duffys photo session for David Bowies world-famous 1973 album Aladdin Sane, has been gifted to the V&A by the Duffy Archive. The gift celebrates the V&As best-selling David Bowie is exhibition welcoming 2 million visitors during the final stop on its global tour, at the Brooklyn Museum in New York closing 15 July 2018. Since 2013, David Bowie is has travelled to eleven venues in ten countries, becoming the most-visited international touring show in the V&As 165-year history. The record visitor figure and gift were announced by museums Chairman Nicholas Coleridge CBE during the V&As annual Summer Party, organised in partnership with Harrods. Brian Duffy is widely considered to be one of the UKs most creative photographers. His cutting-photographs from the 1960s-70s provide a fascinating record one of the most crea ... More | |
The manuscript -- which experts had billed as "exceptional", dating from the height of the composer's career in 1786 -- was expected to sell for half a million euros ($578,000).
PARIS (AFP).- The first draft of music Mozart wrote for the last act of his opera "The Marriage of Figaro" failed to find a buyer when it went under the hammer in Paris Wednesday. The manuscript -- which experts had billed as "exceptional", dating from the height of the composer's career in 1786 -- was expected to sell for half a million euros ($578,000). But a draft of Schumann's oratorio "Scenes from Goethe's Faust" did go for 650,000 euros. The almost complete manuscript of Schumann's masterpiece "containing several versions from the first sketches until the orchestration" was described as "an extraordinary item" by the French auction house Ader Nordmann. The manuscripts are part of a vast sell-off by the French state of the collection amassed by the collapsed investment firm Aristophil. It was shut down amid a scandal three years ago, taking 850 million euros ($1 billion) of its investors' money with it. ... More | |
Liu Bolin Hiding in London No.5 Beer Rack. Bel Air Fine Art.
LONDON.- BAFA Contemporary is presenting its major summer exhibition, Liu Bolin: Vanishing Point, the world renowned Chinese artists first solo exhibition in the UK. Showcasing previously unseen photographic works, Vanishing Point explores Bolins signature method of using complicated and precise hand-painted camouflage to blend into painted backdrops, whilst continuing to raise questions about visibility, concealment, consumerism and the environment. Evolving from his acclaimed series at Art Basel, Bolins latest work engages the viewer by allowing them to distinguish him amongst several vivid backgrounds; including beer cans, English bank notes and coins. Recognised as one of the most imaginative and engaging artists in the world of performance art, Bolin continues to push boundaries by incorporating others into the picture. Last year, the artist enlisted twenty homeless people to feature alongside him in order to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness in his home c ... More |
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| Christie's New York Design sale totals $8.3 million, 95% by lot and 98% by value | | Guernsey's auction brings together African American historic & cultural treasures | | Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens exhibition of selected works from 2010-2018 by Lisbeth McCoy |
Pierre Chareau (1883-1950), 'Religieuse' Floor Lamp, Model SN31, Circa 1923. Sold for $2,172,500. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies spring sale of Design totals $8,308,875 with 95% sold by lot and 98% sold by value. There was active participation across all sales channels and registered bidders from Asia, the Americas, Europe, and United Kingdom. The top lots of the sale were Pierre Chareaus (1883-1950), 'Religieuse' Floor Lamp, Model SN31, Circa 1923, which sold for $2,172,500, establishing a new auction record for the designer and the top lot in a Design auction this season; and Eileen Grays (1879-1976) Transat chair from 1927-30, which sold for $1,596,500, setting a world auction record for a Transat chair. Other notable results included Pierre Legrains (18881929) unique flatware service and canteen created for Madame Jeanne Tachard, which realized $828,500, more than doubling its initial estimate and establishing ... More | |
Rosa Parks handwritten notes on Martin Luther King Jr.
NEW YORK, NY.- What do the Jackson Fives (and Michael Jacksons) first recording contract, the Larry Richards A Cinema Apart Collection, Rosa Parks family home and her handwritten thoughts on the day she first met Dr. Martin Luther King, and Alex Haleys manuscript for the Malcolm X biography (which includes many of Mr. Xs personal notes) have in common? These and hundreds of other extraordinary items are being brought to the block by Guernseys, the New York City-based auction house, on July 25 and 26, 2018 at the historic general Scott Mansion at the corner of Park Avenue and 93rd Street in New York City. Largely focusing on the Civil Rights Movement, African American movies, and music, this auction will include items that are of huge cultural and historical importance. The Gregory Reed Collection (being auctioned by court order) is an archive of Civil Rights documents, rare books, and African-Ameri ... More | |
Lisbeth McCoy / Selected Works, 2010 -2018 will feature drawings and sculptures which focus on an eight-year contemplation of life.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art presents Lisbeth McCoy / Selected Works, 2010-2018. The exhibition will be on view from June 21st to July 26th. Lisbeth McCoy / Selected Works, 2010 -2018 will feature drawings and sculptures which focus on an eight-year contemplation of life, especially as it cycles between various places in nature and urban settings, constantly shifting with time. McCoy considers place to be a form of language that can illustrate existential questions such as Who are we? and How are we grounded in the accidental place of our origin as well as in the places that we discover for ourselves later on? Using shape and material, she connects with the contingency of life and place. In Bumppo II (2017), ellipses and curvilinear lines aid in evoking a sense of continuity and familiarity. The ... More |
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| Survey of the pioneering early work of Ron Arad opens at Friedman Benda | | Sean Kelly opens exhibition of recent work by ten artists from Africa who utilize fabric to create works of art | | Group show champions the physicality of the photographic image |
Ron Arad [b. 1951], Looming Lloyd, 1986. Aluminum, 15 x 8 x 4 inches, 38 x 20 x 10 cm. Unique. Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Ron Arad. Photography by Dan Kukla.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda presents a survey of the pioneering early work of Ron Arad. Fishes & Crows examines the critical period of his career between 1985 and 1994, and presents rarely seen works from this time, including early prototypes. This marks the gallerys first solo exhibition of Arads work since "Guarded Thoughts" in 2008. For Arad, this decade was marked by constant experimentation, motivated by a profound questioning of the status quo. This excavation of new possibilities culminated in the some of the most iconic works of late twentieth-century design. In 1981, Arad founded his Covent Garden studio One Off, which quickly became legendary for its look and energy, equal parts construction and deconstruction. His first works there were Duchampian experiments, ... More | |
Lawrence Lemaoana, When the Wicked Rule, 2018. Embroidery on kanga, 61 x 45 1/4 inches (155 x 115 cm) © Lawrence Lemaoana. Courtesy: AFRONOVA GALLERY, Johannesburg and Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly presents Ravelled Threads, a thematic exhibition of recent work by ten artists from Africa who utilize fabric to create textiles, weavings, embroidery, performances and installations. These disparate artists are united in their backgrounds, both living and working throughout Africa. Each artist is distinguished by the diverse and complex relationships that run through their varied geographical, political, and gendered narratives. Ravelled Threads is organized in collaboration with Mariane Ibrahim. Perhaps more so than in any other place in the world, cloth in Africa plays a critical role as signifier, storyteller, and recorder of history. It infuses distinct traditions across the continent, reflecting personal, political and social concerns, serving simultaneously ... More | |
Glass Half Full.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting Little/Big, a group show that champions the physicality of the photographic image. Comparing size (literal and figurative), and our perceptions, these images are presented in a new way. Landscape, little town and the big city, the larger than life household object and invented still lifes confront the viewer in a wonderful and immediate way. Are you seeing this announcement on your mobile device? Are the photographs small? Guess what? Those are images of the photographs, not the photographs. They may be little on that phone or that tablet, but they're big in real life. Instagram and selfies are not the only way to see photographic content, nor are they particularly the best. The historic conversation about the veracity of the photographic print seems to have given way to a non-heirarchical acceptance of all images. Photographs, as we experience them daily, are ... More |
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| Zoë Buckman presents an entirely new installation entitled 'Heavy Rag' at Albertz Benda | | Betty Cuningham Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Elizabeth Enders | | Bilingual play brings Trumped-up Moliere to London |
Installation view of Zoë Buckman's Heavy Rag.
NEW YORK, NY.- Zoë Buckman presents an entirely new installation entitled Heavy Rag that addresses motherhood and the domestic sphere as sources of both oppression and empowerment. In Heavy Rag , the artist has quilted vintage French tea towels into complex and striking patterns that deviate from the familiar red-and-white checkered linen. Quilted panels completely envelope a boxing punching bag a recurring element in her work which hangs in the center of the room as a commanding presence. Two audio recordings of Buckmans training sessions at an underground boxing gym and the artist giving birth play on a loop in the gallery. The audio clips are different lengths, at times syncing, mingling, and drowning each other out. It is not clear whether the voices in the recordings are in pain or ecstasy, yet the combined effects of the sounds elicit a sense of endurance, physical strain, and release. Buckmans work is an obvious homage to Louise Bourge ... More | |
Elizabeth Enders, Sitting by the River, 2018. Oil on linen, 40 x 30 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Waterlines, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Elizabeth Enders. This is the artists second exhibition with the Gallery. While the early work of Enders was primarily a personal, visual diary, the current work, featured in Waterlines, moves beyond into the far reaches of her imagination. Boats sail across the seas, through darkness and light, by forts and rising mounds, a journey that parallels the trip that Enders takes with the brush. The exhibition includes 10 paintings and a complement of watercolors. It will remain on view through Friday, August 3. Elizabeth Enders was born in 1939 in New London, CT. In 1962, she graduated with a B.A. from Connecticut College and in 1987 she received her M.A. from New York University. Enders has been exhibiting her work in a variety of institutions and galleries since the 1960s. Her recent retrospectives include ... More | |
British actor Paul Anderson (L) and French actress Audrey Fleurot perform in a scene from 'Tartuffe'. NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- For the first time in the history of London's West End theatre district, a play is being staged in English and French -- Moliere's classic "Tartuffe", transposed into Donald Trump's United States. The comedy at the Theatre Royal Haymarket stars two television regulars from either side of the Channel -- Paul Anderson in the title role as a US evangelist, and Audrey Fleurot as Elmire. Anderson is known for his role as Arthur in "Peaky Blinders", a crime drama series about a 1920s gang in Birmingham, while flamboyant redhead Audrey Fleurot played lawyer Josephine Karlsson in the Paris police and legal drama "Spiral". In the modern take on the 1660s play, Orgon, portrayed by Sebastian Roche, is a French media tycoon in Los Angeles, who falls under the spell of radical evangelist Tartuffe. Tartuffe has hoodwinked Orgon so comprehensively that ... More |
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The FLAG Art Foundation opens Genevieve Gaignard's first New York solo exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting Genevieve Gaignard: Counterfeit Currency, the artists first NY solo exhibition, from June 5-August 17, 2018, on its 10th floor. The exhibition of new self-portraits and collages, all created in Miami, FL, continues Gaignards interest in the performance of race, gender presentation, beauty standards, and class, through fictional personas and staged environments. The title, Counterfeit Currency, addresses the inherent complexities of self-presentation, noting that the way one appears to others is often incongruent with the way in which they see themselves, yielding a feeling of displacement and fraudulence. Through a variety of female archetypes, Gaignard explores her own existence as a mixed-race woman of color, revealing the malleability of identity as something both self-constructed and ... More
Tenri Cultural Center of New York exhibits modern Japanese textiles by Ken Arai & Kiyo Masuyama
NEW YORK, NY.- Our Road has come to announce their first overseas exhibition by a leading Japanese dyeing artist Ken Arai and textile artist Kiyo Masuyama who has been granted a sponsorship and exhibition opportunity by Consulate General of The Republic of Indonesia in New York. Their 30 year-long creative activities at the studio in their beloved Indonesian island of Bali and preservation of the traditional techniques of Batik and Ikat via artworks were recognized. This solo exhibit, which is being held at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Manhattan this month, represents the culmination of the work of the renowned duo, alongside the premier Japanese textile artists who have been active for over half a century. The works shown trace the dynamic contours of their careers, from their earliest works to their latest pieces. In this present age of trendy clothes, few people ... More
British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah's most ambitious project to date on view at Bildmuseet
UMEÃ .- Bildmuseet is presenting a new work by British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah, his most ambitious project to date. Purple is an immersive six-channel video installation addressing man's relationship to nature and to the planet. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at historically high levels and glaciers are melting, Purple poses the question of human responsibility. In this epic film work, John Akomfrah combines archival material with newly staged footage and a hypnotic sound score. The new film sequences were recorded in regions with particularly climate-sensitive ecosystems, such as Greenland, Alaska and the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia and at various sites around the UK. Combined with images and film clips from the 1940s to the present day, they form a multi-layered montage of politics, history, and fiction. ... More
Group exhibition at the Cob Gallery explores the manipulation and application of material
LONDON.- Material brings together works from 25 international emerging and established artists who are known for their unwavering experimentation in the application and manipulation of their chosen material. Presented as a meeting of painting, sculpture, installation, video work, photography and mixed media, this exhibition examines the dialogue between the natural and man-made. Material is a selling exhibition opening on Thursday 21 June. Internationally recognised artists include the sculptor Fernando Cassasempre, textile artist Caroline Achaintre, performance artist Alice Anderson and sculptor Meekyoung Shin. Presented together with works by critically acclaimed and award winning emerging talent such as Lindsey Mendick, Sam Austen, Xavier Robles De Medina and Irvin Pascal, the international artists in the exhibition includes ... More
Zabludowicz Collection Invites: Guy Oliver And You Thought I Was Bad?
LONDON.- Continuing his exploration of the relationship between comedy and tragedy within contemporary popular culture, the exhibition And You Thought I Was Bad? finds Guy Oliver stepping back into the recent past. Central to the show is a new film that examines the perculiarities of individual and collective memory, the function of arts education, and the role of political protest within art. Assuming the role of a television arts presenter, Oliver returns to an unrealised work from his time as an undergraduate student in the mid-2000s. The artist goes back to his former university to remake this long obsolete idea a T-shirt bearing an image of Richard Nixon that aimed to satirise George W Bush and the events surrounding the Iraq war. Along the way Oliver ruminates on American Presidential figures, the cultural significance of Johnny Cash as both renegade ... More
Rollins announces new curator for Cornell Fine Arts Museum
WINTER PARK, FLA.- Rollins College has hired Gisela Carbonell as the new curator of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. Carbonell was previously Director of Curatorial Affairs at Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida. She joins Rollins on June 18. In her role as curator of Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Carbonell will be responsible for collection scholarship as well as exhibitions, acquisitions, research and publications. Carbonell will work closely with the Bruce A. Beal Director Ena Heller to plan and implement an ambitious schedule of exhibitions and educational programs built around, and complementing, the permanent collection. Additionally, Carbonell will serve as the liaison with Rollins faculty and students, and actively pursue strategies of engagement for campus and the community alike. CFAM has been on a path of rapid growth and is engaged ... More
Records set in $1.5 million Animation Art Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A new record for artwork by Disney Legend Inductee Mary Blair was set when Mary Blair Cinderella Magic Coach Concept Painting (Walt Disney, 1950) sold for $60,000, lifting the final total for Heritage Auctions Animation Art Auction June 16-17 in Dallas to $1,456,032.40. The painting quadrupled its pre-auction estimate, and Blairs works were in extremely high demand at the auction; the Cinderella Magic Coach concept painting was the top lot in the auction and had 20 bidders, and her artwork claimed the top spot, four of the top five and six of the top 10. Mary Blair is among the most acclaimed of all Disney artists, Heritage Auctions Animation Art director Jim Lentz said. The number of her works that fared so well, and the fact that the Cinderella Magic Coach painting brought the highest price ever paid for one of her paintings shows ... More
The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art announces Executive Director Debi Gray's retirement
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that Debi Gray will retire as Executive Director as of January 31, 2019. Coming to MOCA in 2009, she guided the museum through the final stages of accreditation, which was awarded by the American Alliance of Museums in December 2010. Under her tenure, Gray has established MOCA as one of the most preeminent contemporary art museums focused on the art of now. She has been a tireless advocate for elevating the curatorial program and took on the largest and most groundbreaking exhibition endeavors in the museums history. Gray has positioned MOCA to be the most critical resource for arts education in our region. In addition, she oversaw and bolstered the museums presence in providing public art for the community. Most recently under her immeasurable ... More
Matt Mignanelli's first solo exhibition with Denny Gallery opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Denny Gallery announces Nocturnes, a solo exhibition by Matt Mignanelli on view from June 21st to August 17th, 2018. This is his first solo exhibition with Denny Gallery. Matt Mignanelli is best known for his intricate paintings of grids inspired by light, shadow, and architectural elements present in the urban landscape. Mignanelli explores permutations of the geometric forms while recording the element of chance associated with his freehand process in drips of paint that he allows to splash on the canvas as he works. The work in the exhibition will introduce expressionistically painted abstract fields of color alongside of the gridded compositions for which he is best known. Mignanellis show title, Nocturnes, harkens back to the origins of his departure from his black and white work, inspired by the inky colors of the night sky. When ... More
Dolby Chadwick Gallery exhibits new work by Edwige Fouvry
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery is presenting Entrevoir, an exhibition of new work by Edwige Fouvry, on view from June 9 to July 7. Fouvrys paintings are exercises in locating order in chaos. She takes the disarray of our shared worlds and daily lives and examines and rearranges it, seeking harmony and coherence without falling prey to overly neat or artificial resolutions. Making deft choices of color, form, and gesture, she sets abstraction against representation, painted against raw canvas, line against wash, dry against dripping brushwork, and loose gestures against tightly rendered eddies of swirling marks. This visual tension, however, is perfectly calibrated, creating a type of pressure that supports rather than wrenches apart. By drawing the eye in and carefully guiding it around a given scene, Fouvry allows the viewer ... More
Center for Maine Contemporary Art presents life-size, walk-in installation by Tom Burckhardt
ROCKLAND, ME.- Studio Flood is a life-size, walk-in installation executed entirely in cardboard and black paint, and centered on the image of an artists studio that has experienced a catastrophic flood. Here the floor plane, now an extended surface of water, appears above our heads. Ones world is turned upside down, both figuratively and literally. In the floodwater, black monochrome canvasesemblems of intellect, will, and disciplineare floating and have been wrenched from their creators control and set adrift. Imagine an artist who insists on separating his paintings from the real world only to find that world crashing in anyway. With coastal communities around the world vulnerable to rising seas and flooding, Burckhardt says, Like most of us, I am concerned about these unsettling ecological prospects, but what concerns me most directly is realitys clash ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was born June 21, 2018. Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 - January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars In this image: 2000 Academy Award Nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress [Laura Linney in You Can Count on Me, Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream, Ed Harris in Pollock, Geoffrey Rush in Quills, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Joan Allen in The Contender, Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls, Juliette Binoche in Chocolat], 2001. Ink on board. Collection of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
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