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A picture taken on March 6, 2019 shows some of Albert EinsteinÂs manuscript pages, currently on display in the Givat Ram Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Hebrew University has unveiled 110 manuscripts by Einstein, most of which have not been displayed before and which shed light on the scientist and the man behind the science, to mark his 140th birthday. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM.- An Albert Einstein "puzzle" has been solved thanks to a missing page of manuscript emerging in a collection of his writings acquired by Jerusalem's Hebrew University, officials announced Wednesday. The handwritten page, part of an appendix to a 1930 paper on the Nobel winner's efforts towards a unified field theory, was discovered among the 110-page trove the university's Albert Einstein archives received some two weeks ago. Most of the documents constitute handwritten mathematical calculations behind Einstein's scientific writings in the late 1940s. There are also letters that Einstein, born in Germany in 1879, wrote to collaborators which deal with a range of scientific and personal issues, including one to his son, Hans Albert. The 1935 lette ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A person is restoring the sculptures of the Issenheim altarpiece from the Unterlinden Colmar museum, at the Center for Research and Restoration of Museums of France's restoration department in the Louvre in Paris, on March 6, 2019. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
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| | | Sotheby's to offer Francis Bacon's final portrait of his lover and muse, George Dyer | | Sotheby's announces highlights included in the Asia Week Sales Series in New York | | LACMA adds Zeng Fanzhi's Untitled (2018) to its Contemporary Chinese Collection |
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait Signed, titled and dated 1981 on the reverse. Oil and dry transfer lettering on canvas, 78 by 58 in. Executed in 1981. Estimate $12/18 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that works from the Gerald L. Lennard Foundation Collection will highlight its marquee auctions of Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art this May in New York. The Gerald L. Lennard Foundations interests include helping to promote programs involving visual and performing arts, healthcare, education and environmental sustainability. Proceeds from the sale of the 37 works presented will help to benefit the Foundations mission now and in the future. Passionately assembled by successful commodities trader Gerard L. Lennard primarily in the 1970s and 80s, the collection features a number of evocative works executed by artists working at the peak of their powers. Highlights include: Willem de Koonings Untitled X, a stunning example from the group of works created in 1975 that marked the artists transition from a period of radical experimentation to the lush abstracts ... More | |
The Fonthill Phoenix Vase, a Magnificent and Rare Rose-Verte Rouleau Vase from the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (estimate $300/500,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled the contents of its upcoming Asia Week sale series in New York. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of Asia Week New York, the sales feature an exceptional group of over 1,150 lots spanning centuries of artistic production. All eight auctions in the series open for public exhibition in Sothebys New York galleries beginning 14 March, with auctions taking place from 18 23 March. Christina Prescott Walker, Senior Vice President & Division Director of Asian Art, commented: We are pleased to offer a wide range of high-quality Asian Art once again this season, at price points from $500 to over $1,000,000 and ranging from Contemporary to Ancient in date. A large number of the works offered have exceptional provenance, and many appear on the market for the first time in a generation. The Asia Week series opens with our auction of Modern & Contemporary South Asian ... More | |
Zeng Fanzhi, Untitled, 2018 (detail), oil on canvas, 98 7/16 à 137 13/16 in., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Dominic and Ellen Ng, artist © Zeng Fanzhi 2019
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced the acquisition of Zeng Fanzhis Untitled (2018) to its permanent collection. The museum purchased the painting with funds generously donated by Dominic and Ellen Ng. In the past year the museum has strengthened its holdings in Chinese art with major acquisitions including the promised gift of Gérard and Dora Cogniés collection of global contemporary ink paintings and calligraphy. The addition of Zengs painting will further strengthen the museums growing contemporary Chinese art collection. Zengs painting will be on view at LACMA March 2019 in the Ahmanson Building. In recent years, LACMA has been building relationships with partners in China while deepening our commitment to the study, interpretation, and display of Chinese art, particularly contemporary art made by Chinese artists, said Michael Govan, LACMA ... More |
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| | | Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait goes on display for International Women's Day | | Photography's birthplace explored in new exhibition at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs | | Australian researchers say dingo is not a dog, but own species |
Artemisia Gentileschi's self portrait on display at Glasgow Womens Library © The National Gallery, London.
GLASGOW.- A recently discovered, rare self portrait by the most celebrated female artist of the Italian Baroque Artemisia Gentileschi has gone on display today (6 March 2019) in Glasgow Womens Library, just in time for International Womens Day (8 March 2019). Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, an oil painting from about 161517, was acquired by the National Gallery, London in July 2018. Through spring and summer 2019, the painting is undertaking a series of visits to unusual and unexpected venues (not all of them galleries or museums) across the UK. In addition to Glasgow Womens Library, these will include a girls school and a health centre. Director of the National Gallery, Dr Gabriele Finaldi says, The National Gallery acquired Artemisia Gentileschis Self Portrait last year and it now belongs to everyone. The tour Artemisia Visits takes this superb picture to a series of remarkable and unexpected ... More | |
William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800-1877), Bust of Patroclus, 1842. Salt print from a calotype negative, 13.0 x 12.8 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Photography on paper was born in 1839 in England at Lacock Abbey. A new exhibition of photographs juxtaposes the work of its inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) with the contemporary work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, Abelardo Morell, and Mike Robinson. Lacock Abbey: Birthplace of Photography on Paper is on view at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs from March 2 through May 10, 2019. The exhibition, which pays tribute to Talbots beloved ancestral home in Wiltshire, features architectural exteriors and interiors, still lifes, portraits, and tree studies by Talbot, complemented by interpretations from three contemporary artists, who have been inspired by his pioneering photographs. Among the highlights of the exhibition is one of the earliest examples of Talbots calotype negative process, Stable roofline, northeast courtyard, Lacock Abbey, a salt print from September 1840, made the year after he ... More | |
Dog of New South Wales" illustrated in The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay in 1788. Photo: wikipedia.org
SYDNEY (AFP).- Researchers in Australia have determined that the dingo is not a dog but a native species of its own -- a classification they say requires a conservation rethink of the animal. Twenty researchers from a number of Australian Universities found the dingo has many characteristics that differentiate it from domestic and feral dogs, and other wild canids -- a family that includes wolves and foxes. In a paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Zootaxa Tuesday, they argue that due to its geographic isolation and lack of domestication in Australia for over a millennia "little evidence exists" to show the wild animal is a dog. "There is no historical evidence of domestication once the dingo arrived in Australia, and the degree of domestication prior to arrival is uncertain and likely to be low, certainly compared to modern domestic dogs," Bradley Smith, from Central Queensland University, said in a statement. ... More |
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| | | Mark Manders' largest single cast bronze sculpture opens at entrance to Central Park | | Paper Jam: Bonhams opens a curated exhibition of contemporary works on paper | | The Wexner Center for the Arts unveils 'John Waters: Indecent Exposure' |
Mark Manders, Tilted Head, 2015-18. Patinated bronze. Courtesy the artist, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New York / Los Angeles. Photo: Jason Wyche, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 6, Public Art Fund debuted Tilted Head, a monumental new sculpture by Dutch artist Mark Manders commissioned for Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast entrance to Central Park. Parkgoers will encounter a 13-foot-tall androgynous, detached human head in classical repose, seemingly made of drying moldable clay, but actually cast in bronze. The archetypally minimalist head is mysteriously incomplete, missing a third or more of its form, and is accompanied by remnants of cast bronze objects that appear left behind as if the sculpture was abandoned in the studio, frozen in time. With Tilted Head, tensions are evident throughout: the serenity of the face is countered by the disruption of the cracking surface, figurative representation veers towards abstraction of form. ... More | |
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976), Balloons, 1968. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- From March 4-10, Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art Department presents Paper Jam: Contemporary Works on Paper, a curated exhibition of works on paper by artists such as Andy Warhol, George Condo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder and Eva Hesse. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to acquire works on paper by over 25 different sought-after artists. Muys Snijders, Head of Americas for Post-War & Contemporary Art commented: We are delighted to begin our program of curated exhibitions in New York with Paper Jam: Contemporary Works on paper. The concept of works on paper was a natural choice for Bonhams as we like to champion the importance of the medium and emphasize the connoisseurship of our clients. The exhibition looks to appeal to a wide scope of collectors and covers a range of price points. ... More | |
John Waters. Image courtesy of the artist.
COLUMBUS, OH.- For its winter 2019 season, the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University welcomes back a longtime friend, John Waters, for the first major retrospective of his visual art. John Waters: Indecent Exposure, on view February 2 through April 21, 2019, reveals how Waters has transmuted his personal obsessions into a singular body of work through more than 160 photographs, sculptures, sound works, and moving image pieces. Organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art, the exhibition debuted there in October 2018 before its presentation at the Wexner Center, the only other venue to host it. In 1999, the Wexs John Waters: Photographs was the artists first one-person museum exhibition. The relationship between the artist and the centers director and curators has continued over time, with Waters serving on the centers International Advisory Council. He also served, together with Wex director Sherri Geldin, for ... More |
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| | | Flowers Gallery presents a new body of work focusing on conceptual ideas of 'theatre' by Tom Lovelace | | Martin Parr's new and previously unseen photographs of Brexit Britain go on display | | Ruby City announces the acquisition of Joyce J. Scott's profound sculpture, Breathe |
Purple Drape, Aarhus (detail) 2017, photogram on cotton canvas, 120cm x 150cm.
LONDON.- British artist Tom Lovelace works at the intersection of photography, sculpture and performance to create multi-layered, site-specific installations. In this solo exhibition at Flowers Gallery, Lovelace presents a new body of work focusing on conceptual ideas of theatre, to explore spaces and encounters where the real, imagined and performed converge and intertwine. Interval brings together several of Lovelaces most recent Assembly Works, an ongoing series of assemblages centred around photography and, significantly, involving elements of bodily intervention. The exhibition discreetly explores the interstices of the gallery, working inbetween the hidden and public aspects of its internal architecture. Influenced by Poor Theatre, a concept defined by Polish Director Jerzy Grotowski, which was characterized by a minimal use of staging and props, Lovelace creates uncommon objects, images and experiences from mun ... More | |
Photographer, Martin Parr alongside his work in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, Only Human: Martin Parr. Photographs by Jorge Herrera.
LONDON.- New and previously unseen photographs which reveal photographer Martin Parrs take on the social climate in the aftermath of the EU referendum, have gone on public display for the first time in a major new exhibition of works by one of Britains best-known and most widely celebrated photographers at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Only Human: Martin Parr, brings together some of Parrs best known photographs with new work by Parr never exhibited before, to focus on one of his most engaging subjects people. Featuring portraits of people from around the world, the exhibition examines national identity today, both in the UK and abroad with a special focus on Parrs wry observations of Britishness. As well as Britain in the time of Brexit, the exhibition focuses on the British Abroad including photographs made in British Army camps overseas, and Parrs long term study of the British Establishme ... More | |
Joyce J. Scott, Breathe, 2014. Hand-blown Murano glass, beads and thread. 20.5 x 19.5 x 16 in. © Joyce J. Scott. Linda Pace Foundation Collection, Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruby City announced the acquisition of renowned contemporary artist, Joyce J. Scotts 2014 sculpture, Breathe. Depicting a red Buddha giving birth, Breathe speaks to the incredible bond between a mother and child while showcasing the artists remarkable technical skill. A former McArthur Genius Fellow, Scott has worked since the 1970s in a variety of media, including quilting, performance, jewelry and sculpture, continually testing the limits of craft-based materials, and combining classical notions of beauty with a larger social commentary. Breathe features Murano-blown glass and beadwork in the form of a seated female figure. A beaded snake coils around the womans neck and head like a crown and glass frit darkens the face of the otherwise translucent object. The red woman sits with crossed legs in reference to the seated Buddha, a key figure in Scotts ... More |
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How Marie-Antoinette's Jewels Soared at 'Once in a Lifetime' Sale
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Nye & Company Auctioneers announces 531-lot Estate Treasures Auction
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- An Estate Treasures Auction featuring 531 lots in a host of categories and highlighted by a nice collection of jewelry from a private New Jersey collector and the personal folk art collection from noted Native American dealers Ted Trotta and Ann Bono will be held on Wednesday, March 13th, by Nye & Company Auctioneers, at 10 am Eastern time. The auction will be held online and in the Nye & Company gallery located at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. Internet bidding is provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The full catalog can be viewed now at www.nyeandcompany.com. Phone and absentee bids will be taken. Our March auction is a wonderful mix of dazzling jewelry and silver, with a strong blend of decorative arts including early American, French and English furniture, said Andrew Holter of Nye ... More
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art opens exhibition of works by Susan Te Kahurangi King
CHICAGO, IL.- Organized by Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Susan Te Kahurangi King: 1958-2018 presents a survey of the New Zealand-based artist's work. This major exhibition brings together more than 60 of her drawings, along with memorabilia from the personal archive of her sister, Petita Cole. The exhibition includes drawings that span her output from her early colorful mashups of Donald Duck and cartoon imagery to her detailed graphite abstractions to her most recent gouache brush work created during a summer residency at the Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton, N.Y. The exhibition will be the first major presentation of King's work at Intuit and the first museum exhibition to include personal objects collected by her family. Born in Te Aroha, New Zealand, in 1951, Susan Te Kahurangi King began making art as a young ... More
The Baltimore Museum of Art opens ' Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s'
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first major exhibition to examine how 20th-century European and American Surrealist artists used monsters and mythic figures to depict their experiences of war, violence, and exile. Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s includes 90 works by Salvador DalÃ, Max Ernst, André Masson, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Dorothea Tanning, and others who were affected by the political turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. On view in Baltimore February 24May 26, 2019, this ticketed exhibition is co-organized by the BMA and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. This groundbreaking exhibition explores a facet of one of the 20th-centurys most influential and revolutionary avant-garde art movements, said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford. ... More
Exhibition showcases acclaimed Japanese artist Yoichiro Nishimura's photography
HONG KONG.- Fabrik Gallery is presenting Yoichiro Nishimura The Art of Photography an exhibition that showcases acclaimed Japanese artist Yoichiro Nishimuras (b.1967) photography from his two significant works Life and Blue Flower series. The exhibition runs from March 7 to April 11, 2019. After studying Photography in the Bigakko School of Arts, Yoichiro Nishimura expressed an interest in taking photographs of his surroundings and with the influence of the two admired Japanese photographers Takuma Nakahira and Daido Moriyama, it has since then, become the focal point of his lenses. For the Hong Kong debut of Yoichiro Nishimura The Art of Photography, the artist has carefully curated a selection of photographs from his two catalogue raisonné Life and Blue Flower published in 1999 and 2016, respectively. In his Life series, artist ... More
Exhibition at HdM Gallery explores the colour black
LONDON.- This Spring HdM Gallery presents Black Dots by Lu Chao. The sixth installment in a range of sequential exhibitions exploring the colour black, Black Dots continues Lu Chaos trademark investigation into issues of identity and the unknown, mass society vs. the individual. Following exhibitions at HdM GALLERY in Beijing, this will be Lu Chaos fifth show with the gallery and his first exhibition at the London gallery. The show will open on March 7th and last until May 11th 2019. A collector of faces Inspired by both Chinese and Western philosophy, Lu Chaos large scale, monochromatic oil paintings are surrealist dreamscapes. An astute observer of society in all its guises, Lu Chaos approach is part painter, part sociologist and his paintings shine a searing spotlight on the human condition. Drawing inspiration from the quotidian, Lu Chao uses newspapers, ... More
Howard Greenberg Gallery presents works by the African American photographer James Van Der Zee
NEW YORK, NY.- James Van Der Zee, the celebrated African American photographer whose studio was at the crossroads of the Harlem Renaissance, depicted the lives of black New Yorkers for decades. Forty of his influential portraits will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 7- April 27, 2019. Spanning the 1920s through the 1950s, James Van Der Zee: Studio marks the photographers first exhibition in New York in over 15 years, providing a window into his legendary studio and the vast archive he created of Harlems cultural history. Van Der Zees inclusion in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Harlem on My Mind exhibition in 1969 brought his work to a new audience securing his reputation as one of the great photographers of the 20th century. When James Van Der Zee opened his photography studio on 135th ... More
First U.S. survey of artist peter campus opens at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts presents video ergo sum, the first U.S. survey of artist peter campus, on view from March 7, 2019 through July 22, 2019. Widely recognized as a pioneer of new media and video art, campus works have become an important reference point in the history of moving image. The exhibition presents select works from different periods in campus career, dating from 1971 to the present. video ergo sum features several rarely-seen historic video installations, contrasting single-channel videos from the 1970s with works from the last decade. In the videos produced from 1971-76, campus explored issues of spatial awareness and identity construction through the use of unusual perspectives, precise editing, and multiple timeframes. Through the live transmission of the electronic image, he embarks the visitor on a ... More
Abdul-Jabbar memorabilia fetches $3m at auction
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- A trove of NBA memorabilia -- including championship rings and MVP hardware from the hall-of-fame basketball career of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, garnered nearly $3 million at an American auction on Sunday. The 71-year-old former Los Angeles Laker put hundreds of items up for sale with the New Jersey-based Goldin Auctions which fetched a total of $2.9 million. The lots included four of his six championship rings and three of his most valuable player trophies. The rings commemorating the Los Angeles Lakers' titles in the 1980s accounted for four of the five highest sales at the auction's close. Abdul-Jabbar's 14K 1987 diamond ring sold for the most at $398,937. His three MVP trophies (1976, 1974, 1972) all sold for more than $120,000 each. He won six total MVP awards. A signed ball from his final regular season ... More
Exhibition of large-scale landscape paintings by Claire Sherman opens at DC Moore Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery presents Claire Sherman: New Pangaea, an exhibition of large-scale landscape paintings by Claire Sherman. Shermans current works represent the natural world in a manner that makes her landscapes both recognizable and utterly imaginative, inviting yet daunting. The distorted palette of deep blues and greens creates an enhanced vividness that is in tension with the dense mesh of branches broken and askew, and leaves and plants twisted and overgrown. Independent curator Melissa Messina describes Shermans paintings as, vast entanglements, synthesized mixes of plant life and geographical phenomena that in their detail maintain a sense of specificity but in combination intentionally do not scribe an exact location. They are every place at once or no place at all. The exhibitions title comes from the writings of environmental ... More
Sealed Pokémon set, Key Magic: The Gathering Cards auctioned for nearly $300,000
DALLAS, TX.- Important Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering cards and sets sold for nearly $300,000 at auction recently, after bidding wars blew away all expectations when they crossed the block at Heritage Auctions. A total of 37 lots were on offer and MTG cards claimed nine of the top prices. However, a bidding war broke out for a Pokémon First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Box (Wizards of the Coast, 1999), which pushed the sale price to $78,000, the sales most expensive role-playing game item. The auction offered 12 Pokémon lots and 25 MTG lots, which sold for a combined $294,858 in Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Auction Feb. 21-23. Bidders were determined to own the Pokémon First Edition Base Set, containing 36 unopened packs, each with 11 cards, and paid $28,000 more than the sets $50,000 pre-auction estimate. The demand ... More
Johnny Burleson joins North Carolina Museum of Art as Director of Development
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art announces that seasoned North Carolina fundraiser Johnny Burleson will join the Museum as director of development. In this role Burleson will set the strategy for the Museums fundraising efforts to support special exhibitions, programs, acquisitions, the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park, and the care of its permanent collection. Mr. Burleson brings proven experience in philanthropy and believes in matching the passions of donors with innovative ideas, says Museum Director Valerie Hillings, Ph.D. His love for North Carolinas cultural and natural resources reflects the Museums mission of connecting art, nature, and people. We welcome him to our team. As director of development, Burleson will lead the NCMA Foundations efforts to broaden its base of support, manage major gifts, and execute ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Piet Mondrian was born March 07, 1872. Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (7 March 1872 - 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. In this image: Mondrian restoration project team with Sea after sunset (1909) Photo: Alice de Groot.
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