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This year is extra special because Asia Week New York celebrates its 10th anniversary. To mark this milestone, a champagne reception was held in the Patrons Lounge at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to congratulate the 10 honorees, all of whom have made significant contributions to advancing Asian art in North America. Photo: Annie Watt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York got off to a roaring start last week, when 48 galleries, 6 auction housesBonhams, Christies, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel, and Sothebys and 16 museums opened their doors to collectors, curators and connoisseurs who converged in New York to get their annual eyeful of whats on offer at the galleries and auction houses now through March 23rd. This year is extra special because Asia Week New York celebrates its 10th anniversary. To mark this milestone, a champagne reception was held in the Patrons Lounge at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to congratulate the 10 honorees, all of whom have made significant contributions to advancing Asian art in North America. This distinguished group of honorees represents a cross section of prominent collectors, museum professionals who include Diane and Arthur Abbey, Maxwell Mike Hearn, Elizabeth B Lillie and Edward Ned ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This ilustration from the Fraser Album: Portrait of Emperor Akbar IIÂs elephant Maula Bakhsh, Delhi, circa 1814 is part of Indian Court Painting, the exhibition at Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd.'s exhibition during Asia Week New York 2019. The exhibition can be seen at 67 East 80th Street, Suite 2. Photo: Courtesy of Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd.
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 | | Major UK gallery drops donation due to opioid links | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new works by Robert Therrien | | New York's MoMA sells rare Picasso drawing in Paris | 
National Portrait Gallery proposed North Façade entrance and forecourt. Jamie Fobert Architects / image by Forbes Massie Studio.
LONDON (AFP).- Britain's historic National Portrait Gallery has cancelled a £1 million ($1.3 million, 1.1 million euros) donation from the Sackler family, which is accused of contributing to the US opioid crisis. The Sackler Trust, run by the family that owns the controversial Purdue Pharma, had planned to give the sum to the gallery's Inspiring People project. "It has become evident that recent reporting of allegations made against Sackler family members may cause this new donation to deflect the National Portrait Gallery from its important work," said a spokesman for the Sackler Trust. Purdue Pharma sells the prescription painkiller OxyContin, and is facing a raft of lawsuits in the US, where it is accused of contributing to people getting hooked on opioids. Art photographer and former opioid addict Nan Goldin has been a vocal critic of the Sackler family, which claims to have donated more than £60 million to philanthropic ... More | | 
Robert Therrien, No title (hands and tambourines), 2018. Japan color and enamel with graphite on panel, 63 3/4 à 48 à 1 1/2 inches, 161.9 à 121.9 à 3.8 cm © 2019 Robert Therrien / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Josh White/JWPictures.com. Courtesy Gagosian.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gagosian presents new works by Robert Therrien. This is his first solo exhibition in San Francisco in more than twenty years. Central to Therriens process is the repetition and refinement of found and invented forms. As he translates seemingly simple subjects from two to three dimensions or from small to large and back again, familiar images become oddly crypticlike ambiguous linguistic units whose meanings shift depending on their placement and orientation. Entirely new motifs emerge from this process: renderings of a chapel evolve into an oilcan; snowmen become clouds; and a stork beak is echoed in the bent tip of a witch hat. Attesting to Therriens interest in cartoons and animation (especially that of Max Fleischer), new works depict puffy cloud-like forms resembling ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Joueuse de lyre et nu couché (detail). Estimate: 250,000-350,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- On March 28, Christie's France will have the privilege to present a rare pen and India ink drawing on paper by Pablo Picasso, entrusted by the MoMA, New York which will be sold to benefit their acquisition funds. Dating from October 1932, a particularly prolific year in the private and artistic life of Picasso, this work is part of the important but little-known series of India ink on paper addressing the theme of Joueurs de flûte et nus couchés. A revealing series of the artist's devouring passion for his new idyll, Christian Zervos wrote: "To those who have not yet grasped the impact of Picasso's private life on his work, these drawings will no doubt suffice to persuade them" (C. Zervos, Picasso, Paris, 1957, P. IX.). Antoine Lebouteiller, Director of the Impressionist and Modern Art department: Christies Paris is honoured to present this rare drawing by Pablo Picasso amongst the highlights of its Works on Paper sale ... More |
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| | | Giant squid gets makeover before showtime | | Christie's announces Magnificent Jewels sale in New York | | Bodleian Libraries digital collaboration brings German manuscripts from medieval monasteries to life | 
Head taxidermist at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Christophe Gottini carries out a restoration work on a giant squid at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A little elbow grease, some formaldehyde, and a lot of ingenuity -- that's what it took for taxidermists at the Museum of Natural History to prettify a giant squid along with a coelacanth, a rare fish known as the "living fossil". Six metres (20 feet) long -- not counting its tentacles -- and weighing in at 80 kilos (180 pounds), the squid, nicknamed "Wheke", hangs from a workshop during a recent visit, suspended on a pulley. "It's the real thing!", enthused Christophe Gottini, who has been primping and plumping inert creatures at the museum for nearly half-a-century. "Aside from the eyes, which are not right at all," he added disapprovingly, knowing he still had time to get it right. "The squid looks as if it's having a psychotic episode." Before becoming a permanent exhibit, this dainty specimen -- the largest grow up to 18 metres -- lived off the coast of New Zealand, where it was caught in 2000. Stuffing an animal skin with a foam rubber replica ... More | | 
Fancy Pink Diamond of 6.11 carats. Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces the April 16 auction of Magnificent Jewels and the concurrent Jewels Online sale from April 10 to April 17/18. The auction includes a significant selection of colorless diamonds, colored diamonds, and gemstones, along with important signed pieces by Bulgari, Cartier, Harry Winston, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels. The sale will offer over 285 lots, with estimates ranging from $10,000 to $6,000,000. The April 16 auction is led by a sensational Twin-Stone Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond Ring of 3.06 and 2.61 carats ($6,000,000-8,000,000). Additionally, this season presents three D color diamonds over 15-carats, including a Marquise-cut Diamond Ring of 16.69 carats, D color, Type IIa, potentially internally flawless, from The Collection of Elizabeth Stafford ($1,200,000-1,800,000). Colored diamonds are also strongly represented with a Fancy Pink Diamond Ring of 6.11 carats ($1,200,000-1,500,000), a Pa ... More | | 
The project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation, will have much to tell us about the European Middle Ages and about the history of Germanic monastic traditions. Photo: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
OXFORD.- The University of Oxfords Bodleian Libraries and the German library, Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, have announced a new collaborative digitization project that will open up repositories of medieval manuscripts from German-speaking lands. The three-year project will ensure that more than 600 western medieval manuscripts from both libraries remarkable collections are made freely available online to researchers and the public worldwide through a special online resource at https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en. The project was launched at an event at the Bodleian Libraries on 19 March with the German Deputy Head of Mission, Julia Gross, in attendance. The project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation, will have much to tell us about the European Middle Ages and about the history of Germanic monastic traditions. Through coordinated digitization and shared software and cataloguing standards, the ... More |
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| | | Dallas Museum of Art's Anna Katherine Brodbeck named Senior Curator of Contemporary Art | | Mexican imprints & manuscript material leads Swann Americana Auction | | Most ambitious U.S. exhibition of Ursula von Rydingsvard's influential recent work opens in Washington | 
Since joining the DMA in 2017, Brodbeck has curated several exhibitions across the breadth of contemporary art. Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art.
DALLAS, TX.- Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, today announced that Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck has been named the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, overseeing the Museums exemplary contemporary art collection, programming, exhibitions, and scholarship. Brodbeck steps into her new position after serving for two years in the DMAs Department of Contemporary Art as The Nancy and Tim Hanley Associate Curator, and previously as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art. Katherines leadership and contributions to the DMA have been exceptional, and it has been a true pleasure to collaborate with her in shaping the direction of contemporary art at the Museum, said Arteaga. As we continue to expand the vision for the DMAs collection and programming across the institutionaiming to bring underrecognized narratives of art history to the forefrontKathe ... More | | 
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Villancicos que se cantaron en los maitines del gloriosissimo Padre S. Pedro Nolasco, first edition, Mexico, 1677. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries Tuesday, April 16 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana features a robust selection of Mexican imprints and manuscripts, state material and items relating to the Civil War and President Lincoln. Mexican material forms the cornerstone of an extensive section of Latin Americana. Among the highlights are works such as Juan Navarros 1604 Liber in quo quatuor passions Christi Domini continentur, the first music by a New World composer printed in the Americas (Estimate: $8,000-12,000); a 1677 first edition of Mexican poetess Sor Juana Inés de la Cruzs Villancios que se cantaron en los maitines del gloriosissimo Padre S. Pedro Nolasco, which consists of Christmas carols to be sung in honor of the thirteenth-century saint ($30,00-40,000); and Primera parte del sermonario del tiemp de todo el año, duplicado, en lengua Mexicana, ... More | | 
Ursula von Rydingsvard, For Natasha, 2015; Cedar and graphite, 9 ft. 1 in. x 6 ft. 7 in. x 3 ft. 6 in.; © Ursula von Rydingsvard, Courtesy of Galerie Lelong & Co.; Photo by Michael Bodycomb. Photographer: Michael Bodycomb.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling, a major exhibition celebrating one of the most influential sculptors working today. On view March 22July 28, 2019, The Contour of Feeling marks the most ambitious von Rydingsvard exhibition to date in the United States and her first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C. Featuring approximately 30 sculptures and 10 works on paper, the exhibition focuses on the artists signature works monumental, organic-shaped sculptures made from carved cedar woodas well as other pieces that are on view in this project for the first time. This exhibition is guest-curated by Mark Rosenthal, formerly curator of 20th-century art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and organized by the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, where it was on ... More |
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| | | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers has strong bidder interest in first 'Art & Design' sale of 2019 | | Guild Hall announces the launch of the museum's digitized permanent collection | | Ketterer Kunst announces first Rare Books Online-Only Auction | 
Frederick Carl Frieseke, Woman with a Blue Dress, 1917 | $75,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers began its 2019 auction calendar on March 10 with a highly successful Art & Design sale featuring nearly 700 lots, which included fine and decorative artworks, sculpture, early 20th century and modern furniture, art pottery, lighting, silver, metalwork and jewelry. The auction was marked by significant bidder interest, with high in-person, phone and online engagement, which resulted in a 93% sell-through rate. There were several Fine Art highlights in Art & Design with works by major artists represented. American Impressionist Frederick Carl Friesekes Woman with a Blue Dress, 1917 realized $75,000. Contemporary painter Joe Colemans Betrayal, 2001 brought $37,500. Andy Warhols After the Party, 1979 achieved $18,750. Charles Warren Eatons Among the Berkshires brought $23,750 and an After Alexander Calder Zebra tapestry sold for $10,000. Results were also strong ... More | | 
The collection houses artwork by artists associated with the region, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and is a testament to the significant legacy of the Hamptons as an artist colony.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Guild Hall announced the launch of its digitized permanent collection, with works by Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Max Ernst, Eric Fischl, Jane Freilicher, April Gornik, Adolph Gottlieb, Grace Hartigan, Childe Hassam, Mary Heilmann, Winslow Homer, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Fairfield Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman Andy Warhol, and many others, all accessible online via pc.guildhall.org. This unprecedented access to the Guild Hall Permanent Collection was made possible with generous lead support from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, and an additional award from the Gerry Charitable Trust. Jess ... More | | 
Johann Jakob Marinoni, De astronomica specula. 1745. Estimate: 10,000. Starting price: 1.
HAMBURG.- As a consequence of the excellent results that the 1 Fine Art Auctions have yielded and just in time for the companys 65th anniversary, Ketterer Kunst launches a broad online presence for its Rare Books Department. The saleroom auction in Hamburg on May 27 will be accompanied by an online book auction that runs until May 29. All objects of the online offer will be called up with a starting price of 1 . This extremely attractive calling price promises thrilling bidding races. The bibliophile gems from five centuries have estimate prices of up to 10,000 and a sales volume of around 90,000. In total around 100 objects from fields such as Architecture, Facsimiles, Children's Books, Modern Literature, Natural History and World Literature will go under the virtual hammer. Next to Johann Jakob Marinonis important astronomical main work De astronomica specula and Tommaso Filippo ... More |
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 Musicians brace for Brexit disharmonyLONDON (AFP).- As the Brexit saga reaches a crescendo, classical musicians based in Britain fear that a disorderly divorce could threaten their European livelihood and stunt the development of potential maestros. Viola player Aliye Cornish told AFP she was particularly concerned because she is due to start a European tour in Spain on March 30 -- the day after Britain is scheduled to leave the EU. "At the moment we have no formal guidance on how to prepare," she said. Like many classical musicians in Britain, Cornish spends months every year working in the EU. Their concern is that bureaucratic uncertainty will mean missing out on jobs. "I've heard stories of colleagues having offers of work retracted from ensembles in the EU 27, who are concerned there may be too many restrictions in place," she said, taking a break from a rehearsal in the historic surroundings ... More Original comic art, toys and historic Americana generate $1.26M at Hake's March 13-14 auctionYORK, PA.- Fresh-to-market original comic book art spurred a fan frenzy at Hakes March 13-14 auction and produced a $1.26 million result, with new auction records set by several prize entries. Predicted to finish well in the money, Rob Liefelds original pen-and-ink art for Page 27 of New Mutants #98, published by Marvel in February 1991, did not disappoint. It swept past its $20,000-$35,000 estimate to settle at $40,380, making it the auctions top lot. The artboard is from the issue that introduced Deadpool, the wildly popular antihero who went on to star in countless comics, video games and films, said Hakes president Alex Winter. Original page art from Issue 98 is especially rare if it actually depicts Deadpool which was the case with the page art we sold because he appears on only seven pages in that issue. The artwork had been held privately ... More Neuberger Museum of Art announces 2019 winner of the Roy R. Neuberger PrizePURCHASE, NY.- Tracy Fitzpatrick, Director of the Neuberger Museum of Art, announced today that the Museums 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, now carrying an honorarium of $25,000, has been awarded to Yto Barrada, an internationally-acclaimed French-Moroccan multi-media artist. In addition to the cash award, an exhibition of her work Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden, will be on view for the first time in the United States at the Neuberger Museum of Art from September 25 December 22, 2019. Ms. Barrada was selected from a long list of candidates nominated by the Roy R. Neuberger Prize Advisory Panel, consisting of the museums director and curators, and various faculty at Purchase College. Prior prizewinners are Tania Bruguera, Leandro Erlich, Robin Rhode, and Dana Schutz. Winners of the Prize embody outstanding artistic achievement ... More Praz-Delavallade opens Pierre Ardouvin's first solo show in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Childhood mementossome cheery, others a bit creepyare endemic in Pierre Ardouvins oeuvre. For his first solo show in Los Angeles, the French artist presents a selection of new and recent works in which youthful delights like toys, costume jewelry, carnival rides, playground equipment, and family vacations factor prominently. Featuring watercolors of stuffed animals, plastic figurine assemblages, and spectacular room-filling installationsnotably the shows title work, Ohlala, 2013, which evokes the pride and trauma of losing a tooththis exhibition is an ode to a more innocent time. Among the most recent works on view, Ardouvins Phrase paintings (2018-19) are sensitive watercolor renderings of well-loved (but inevitably discarded) playthings. Like the famous sled in Orson Wells Citizen Kane, each fuzzy animal, miniature car, and limp ... More The Queen's House, Greenwich presents new commission by Susan DergesGREENWICH.- The Queens House, Greenwich presents a new set of works by artist, Susan Derges. The newly commissioned photographic works, titled Mortal Moon, are a creative response to the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I and have been inspired by the fragile vessels travelling the oceans at the mercy of heavenly and earthly forces. The works are being displayed in the Queens Presence Chamber, alongside the iconic portrait of the Virgin Queen. Having trained as a painter, Susan Derges is perhaps best known for her pioneering method of capturing the continuous movement of water by immersing photographic paper directly into rivers or shorelines. For the Queens House, she has created four new photographic works, using both analogue and digital techniques, unpacking the Armada Portraits symbolism, with a particular focus on the Moon. ... More House on Lützowplatz opens Global National: Art on Right-Wing Populism curated by Raimar Stange BERLIN.- The resurgence of right-wing extremism in Europe and other parts of the world as well as the ensuing dangers, such as the aggravation of xenophobic policies including a more or less furtive racism, stand at the focus of the exhibition GLOBAL NATIONAL. Thirteen artists from eight different nations examine the causes, manifestations and effects of these disastrous developments in this project conceived by Raimar Stange. The exhibition "GLOBAL NATIONAL" wants to take a stand in this democracy-threatening context, for a truly open and multicultural society, it aims to warn against the current shift to the right, it wants to raise awareness for racist thinking and analyze causes of right-wing populism aesthetically. The striking text work We Have a Situation Here by Oliver Ressler shows dead black-clad men lying on the ground in a pile. ... More The Goss-Michael Foundation opens 'Marc Quinn: History & Chaos 'DALLAS, TX.- A solo exhibition by Marc Quinn entitled Marc Quinn: History & Chaos premiered at The Goss-Michael Foundation on Monday, March 18 and run through Friday, May 24. The Foundation was established in 2007 by the late music icon George Michael and his then partner, Kenny Goss. The Goss-Michael Foundation exhibition is presenting a curated selection of Marc Quinns newest work. Art in the show is for sale with a portion of the sales going to the educational programming at the Foundation. Its a presentation of the History Paintings; plus, my recent Chaos Paintings which are an evolution of the History Paintings. I guess theyre about how the news cycle is populating our minds. About how we see these things happening all over the world, and how we live with them as this kind of virtual reality of news becomes our reality. And ... More The Empty Quarter Gallery presents photographs taken in 1962 by Japanese photographer Y. KawashimaDUBAI.- It was in November 1962 when a Japanese photographer Y. Kawashima set foot in the Trucial States, todays United Arab Emirates. Along with his fellow journalist, he was on a mission to report on the wider Middle East for the Sankei Shimbun Newspaper, as Japans interest in the region had been fuelled by the arrival of first shipment of oil from Khafji on Saudi/Kuwait border in the previous year. Having landed in Sharjahs RAF airfield, the pair of journalists made their way to Dubai on a Land Rover taxi to stay in Airlines Hotel near the Creek, the first and only lodging there. Though Dubai then was a poor small settlement before the dawn of the modernisation era (the discovery of oil did not take place until 1966), it appeared to be a surprisingly lively place with trading and commercial activities. Kawashima who was enchanted by its energy, hustle and ... More Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen populate Marres with sculptures and molded portraits MAASTRICHT.- For the theatrical exhibition The Floor is Lava, artist duo Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen populated Marres with sculptures and molded portraits of people in everyday environments. Made from different materials, clay, cloth, wood, the figures have expressive faces, but are otherwise sketchily composed with stick legs, half torsos and loosely hanging pieces of cloth. The faces seem mask-like, unrelated to the bodies that support them. They lean against a wall, sit on makeshift chairs, queue at a ticket office, or wait on a platform for a train to arrive at the station. They are actors in search of a play, as much as they are compositions of identity, that fictional moment of stasis in a world that is constantly on the move. The premise here is that people always play a role, different in every situation, with specific character traits and body language. ... More 1936 Bentley once owned by war hero who bombed Hitler sold for £453,250LONDON.- This magnificent car was previously owned by former RAF pilot Charles Blackman who took part in the raid to bomb Hitlers mountain-top retreat in the Bavarian Alps in April 1945 sold today 20th March at Duxford Imperial War Museum with H&H Classics for £454,250. Mr Blackham served in the RAF 550 Squadron and took part in the raid to bomb Hitler's famous mountain-top retreat in the Bavarian Alps in April 1945. Later that month he made emergency food drops on the German/Dutch border where people were facing famine. Charles Blackham drove the classic convertible for 36 years before his age forced him to take it off road. The car then spent the last 30 years locked up at his home in Stockport, Greater Manchester, but was unearthed after his death in January aged 96. One of just six ever made by Bentley, the 4.5-litre classic is now ... More Mighty V-Twins prepare to conquer Bonhams Spring Stafford saleLONDON.- Bonhams annual Spring Stafford Sale will once again be a marathon two-day affair, held at the International Classic MotorCycle Show in Stafford on 27 and 28 April. The sale, as expected from a Bonhams auction, offers a staggering variety of machinery, hard-to-find spares and important memorabilia more than 600 lots are presently consigned. There is a particularly strong entry of V-Twin machines, with examples from Brough Superior, Zenith and Coventry-Eagle. The 1924 Brough Superior 980cc SS80 (£90,000-130,000) to be offered was delivered new to Germany, and retains matching numbers, despite being nearly a century old. An early example fitted with JAPs four-cam 980cc, it was registered in the UK after just a year in Germany and received upgrades such as an SS100 gearbox. Another important Brough Superior to be offered ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann was born March 21, 1880. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings.
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