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Auctioneer and SVP, Director of Trusts, Estates & Appraisals, Tash Perrin selling Gilbert Stuart's George Washington (Vaughan type) for $11,562,500. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Art of the Americas Evening Sale totaled $106,883,500 with seven artist records established. To date, the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller has totaled $765,384,844, and already has established the highest total achieved for any private collection offered at auction during the first night of the sale week. Thus far, 14 artist records have been set within the collection along with additional decorative arts records. The top lot of the sale was Willem de Kooning?s Untitled XIX, which sold for $14.2 million and formerly resided in David Rockefeller?s Chase Manhattan office.Will Haydock, Head of American Art, remarks: ?The American art from the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller represents one of the best single owner collections to come to market and this evening collectors responded accordingly ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The dress wedding ensemble by Christian Lacroix is exhibited during the press preview for the annual fashion exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" at The Metropolitan Museum of art on May 7, 2018 in New York. KENA BETANCUR / AFP
| Sean Kelly premieres a provocative new media campaign | | Comprehensive presentation of the German artist Gabriele Münter's works opens in Denmark | | 'Hamilton' musical creator to premiere Chicago exhibition | 
Collect Wisely asks what it means to be a collector today.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly premiered a provocative new media campaign designed to encourage lively discussion around the topic of collecting and connoisseurship. Launched May 2nd, Collect Wisely?s aim is to question the art world status quo and an increasing preoccupation with short-term monetary interests, to refocus the dialogue around core values centered upon art, artists, a passion for collecting and issues of connoisseurship. Collect Wisely asks what it means to be a collector today, if that has changed over time, and where the future of collecting is headed. Issues of patronage, connoisseurship, emotional connectivity, and engagement with a long-term historical view are traditionally of central concern to collectors. How are these mores shifting? Collect Wisely is a call to action, a far-reaching initiative geared toward bringing together individuals, institutions, and galleries to build a vital community and inspire future generations to focus ... More | | 
Gabriele Münter, Lady in an Armchair, Writing, 1929. Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 46 cm © Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung, Munich / VISDA 2018. Photo: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München.
HUMLEBÃK.- The big exhibition of the summer at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is a comprehensive presentation of the German artist Gabriele Münters works with around 140 items, several of them shown for the first time. The German painter Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), one of the most important representatives of German Expressionism and a member of the artists group Der Blaue Reiter, participated actively in the breakthrough of modern painting in Munich around 1910. Münters work as a whole has hitherto not been granted much space in the history of art. Usually she has been exhibited and interpreted in the context of her relationship and collaboration with the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) in the years around the formation of the artists group Der Blaue Reiter (1911-1914). ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on April 30, 2018 Lin-Manuel Miranda attends The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 18th Annual Monte Cristo Award honoring him. ANGELA WEISS / AFP.
CHICAGO (AFP).- "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will bring a new exhibition to Chicago dedicated to the American founding father after which the wildly popular musical was named. The project, described as a "360-degree, immersive exhibit" about Alexander Hamilton, the American Revolution and the birth of the United States, will open in the Windy City on November 17 before eventually traveling to other locations. Miranda described "Hamilton: The Exhibition" as an opportunity to more fully explore the first US treasury secretary's life and work. "It's been incredible and surreal to see the renewed interest (the musical) has sparked in Alexander Hamilton's life and times," he said in a statement, adding that the exhibition will offer "a deep dive into the details and experiences of Hamilton's story." The show -- complete with an audio tour narrated by Miranda and multimedia elements ... More |
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| The Museum of Arts and Design opens Tanya Aguiñiga's first institutional solo exhibition | | Glenstone Museum opens exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois | | Heard Museum opens largest showing of contemporary art in a decade | 
Tanya Aguiñiga. Photo by Jenna Bascom. Courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition of works by Los Angelesbased artist and designer Tanya Aguiñiga. Craft & Care highlights Aguiñiga's practice at the intersection of fiber art, design, social practice, and activism, with a focus on motherhood, care, border issues, and the creation of communitythemes that run throughout the artist's work. On view through October 2, the exhibition spotlights AMBOS Project (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), Aguiñiga's ongoing activation of the USMexico border. Aguiñiga's work, ranging from her "Performance Crafting" serieswhich uses craft to generate dialogues about identity, culture, and genderto furniture whose material and form reimagine its functionality to provide "support," asserts design (and craft) thinking as political. At the heart of her practice is an inquiry into how community is created, and the ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1996. Cloth, bone, and steel, 118 ¼ in x 82 in x 77 in (300.36 cm x 208.28 cm x 195.58 cm) © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Courtesy: Glenstone.
POTOMAC, MD.- Glenstone Museum today announced the exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment, will open to the public on May 10. It will be presented in the museums original exhibition space, the Gallery, and will remain on view when Glenstone opens its new building, the Pavilions, and expanded landscape on October 4. The exhibition will remain on view through January 2020. The trailblazing work of French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) will be the subject of a five-decade survey exhibition featuring nearly 30 works, all from Glenstones collection, including a recently acquired masterpiece that was realized at a pivotal moment in her career: the 1974 installation The Destruction of the Father. At Glenstone we strive to collect and exhibit works ... More | | 
Nicholas Galanin, A Supple Plunder, 2015-2018.
PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museum announced the opening of the exhibition, Dear Listener: Works by Nicholas Galanin. The mid-career retrospective of the provocative artist runs through September 2018 and is the largest concentration of contemporary work at the Heard Museum in a decade. Galanin, who is of mixed Tlingit-Unangax and non-Native ancestry, was born in 1979 in Sitka, Alaska. His conceptual work is thought provoking and addresses issues of authority, authenticity, the American Indian experience and the commoditization of Indigenous culture. Proclaimed a standout by The New York Times, Galanins prominence in the contemporary art world continues to grow as museums both domestically and internationally showcase his work. The exhibition has been installed in the recently opened Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Grand Gallery, the Dennis Lyon Family Crossroads Gallery, and the Freeman Gallery. Curated by ... More |
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| National Portrait Gallery secures 5M from Garfield Weston Foundation to create new wing | | Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo opens exhibition of works by the Spanish artist Francisco Suárez | | More than $1 million for earthquake-damaged Monte Alban | 
Exterior, National Portrait Gallery. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- In their 60th year of supporting a wide range of projects across the UK, the Trustees of the Garfield Weston Foundation have awarded a grant of £5 million towards the creation of a new public wing at the National Portrait Gallery, as part its £35.5m transformation programme, Inspiring People, it was announced today, Wednesday 9 May 2018. This generous gift celebrates the long-standing relationship between the Gallery and the Weston family and will enable this historic part of the Gallery to return to public use. Renamed the Weston Wing, the Gallerys East Wing, used as offices since the 1980s will be restored to its original use with top-lit rooms, revealing historic features. More than 500 square metres will be accessible to the public and the restoration of original display galleries will provide an entirely new space in which to present the Gallerys permanent Collection and special exhibitions. These together ... More | | 
Francisco Suárez, Cuadrado 3, 2018. AcrÃlico sobre lienzo. 160 x 160 x 3,5 cm.
BARCELONA.- The Gallery VÃctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo announced the opening of its new exhibition: Adde by the Spanish artist Francisco Suárez. The work of Francisco Suárez, especially focuses on the autonomy of painting, the physical and perceptual presence of the pictorial object. Each work is, above all, a declaration about itself. They are formed by chromatic and visual incentives, and they are composed of numerical relations. But an artwork is not a mathematical equation. Besides the frigidity that the geometrical can lead to, his work preserves a certain mysterious impulse from what it spontaneously emerges from the act of painting. Thus, his characteristic fields of lines are born from a process similar to the action painting, since the paint drops -carefully placed by the artist- flow through the surface. This way, the images acquire a special vibration and an absence of rigidity that eases the interaction ... More | | 
After the September 2017 earthquakes several structures required emergency shoring to prevent further collapse, 2017. Photo Fidel Ugarte Liévana. Courtesy WMF.
NEW YORK, NY.- World Monuments Fund announced today more than $1 million in funding to support disaster response and restoration efforts at Monte Albán Archaeological Site in Oaxaca, Mexico. The new project is the latest in WMFs long history of supporting cultural heritage sites damaged or destroyed at the hands of natural disaster beginning with the floods of Venice in 1966. Fifteen structures within Monte Albán and the northern section of Atzompa were affected by a devastating September 2017 earthquake, with five showing severe damage that required emergency structural shoring to prevent collapse. The site was included on the 2018 World Monuments Watch as part of the Disaster Sites of the Caribbean, the Gulf, and Mexico, with the goal of mobilizing heritage conservation efforts in the aftermath ... More |
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| The Armory Show appoints Eliza Osborne as Deputy Director | | Bernhard Knaus Gallery opens exhibition of works by Kyungwoo Chun | | Leslie Brothers named director of Ulrich Museum of Art | 
Since 2014, Osborne has served as the Executive Director for the Centre Pompidou Foundation. Photo: Jacque Hsu.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show announced today that Eliza Osborne has been appointed Deputy Director of The Armory Show, beginning June 1. Osborne will oversee the VIP Program, manage strategic partnerships, and further strengthen the fair?s relationships with collectors, galleries, and institutions worldwide. Osborne was appointed by Executive Director Nicole Berry and joins The Armory Show?s leadership team as the fair prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary edition in 2019. This past March, The Armory Show hosted 198 galleries from 31 countries for its 2018 edition, which was widely praised by press and collectors alike for its breadth of international art, curated exhibitor sections, and improved layout. Since 2014, Osborne has served as the Executive Director for the Centre Pompidou Foundation, an American not-for-profit dedicated to supporting the Centre Georges Pompidou. During her four years as Executive Director, she oversaw acqui ... More | | 
Kyungwoo Chun, Face of Face 6, 2017. Archival-Pigment-Print auf Aluminium, 140 x 115 cm. Edition 1 / 5 + 2 AP.
FRANKFURT.- In the 5th exhibition by Kyungwoo Chun at the gallery since 2006, Bernhard Knaus Gallery exhibits the artist's latest performance based photographs from the series "Face of Face" and "The Weight". For the "Face of Face" series, Kyungwoo Chun invited young actors for a performance in his studio. The artist positioned the participants in front of a desk with pencil and paper. The task of the participants was to close their eyes, to focus on their appearance and themselves to portray themself. During the performance Kyungwoo Chun photographed the participants in a long time exposure. The resulting portrait he then overlaid with the drawn self-portrait of the respective person. (Face of Face).
In the portraits we see concentrated and completely absorbed people. The actors, who usually take on the role of other people were completely alone. The title of the second series in this exhibition is "The Weight". This project has been rea ... More | | 
Leslie Brothers is currently director of the McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University's Center for Contemporary Art.
WICHITA, KS .- Leslie Brothers, director of the McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University's Center for Contemporary Art, has been named director of the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, effective June 18. The announcement was made by Rick Muma, interim provost at Wichita State University. Brothers will fill the position held by Bob Workman, who announced plans to retire in June. Workman has served as director of the Ulrich since January 2013. "We are very fortunate to have Leslie join the Wichita State University community," said Muma. "Her background, experience and interest align perfectly with our urban focus of providing access to educational opportunities, assisting local industry and agencies in providing solutions to their most pressing concerns, and improving the overall social wellbeing of our community. Additionally, her interest in connecting with and retaining students fits perfectly ... More |
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 Important work by Piet Mondrian to be offered at ClarsOAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallery will present an important work by Piet Mondrian on Sunday, May 20th, as part of their Important Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry and Asian Art Auction. This impressive work will be offered along with several other investment level works and property which come to this sale from important museums, estates and collections. A painting, hidden from the public for several generations, will surely get the art world talking as this piece has never before come to public offering. The work by Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944), titled Cottages Along the River Gein Lined with Trees, circa 1905, was created just after the Fauvist movement began to inspire the already Impressionistic influences in his work. The movement, which began in 1904, is seen in the bright pinks, reds, and blues in the river Gein, contrasted by the very ... More WIELS Contemporary Art Centre opens Belgian artist Hana Miletić's largest exhibition to dateBRUSSELS.- Dependencies is Belgian artist Hana Miletićs largest exhibition to date. The title refers both to her interest in the social agency of textile art and to her works reliance on photographic reproduction. What we pay attention to is dependent on what we care about, on the values that bind or separate us. Miletić represents this insight metaphorically through her choice of medium. Although she was trained as a photographer, she recently turned her focus to weaving and wet felting. The exhibition at WIELS is founded on these works made during the last three years, when Miletić started to take part in communal textile workshops in Brussels. Reconnecting with a craft from her childhood in former Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia), she collaborates with women from different social and cultural backgrounds, who do not share the same language but connect ... More Cooper Hewitt announces winners of 2018 National Design AwardsNEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announces the winners of the 2018 National Design Awards, recognizing design excellence and innovation in 10 categories. Now in their 19th year, the annual awards promote design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world and are accompanied by robust educational programs in cities nationwide. The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner and ceremony Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden at Cooper Hewitt. This years recipients are Gail Anderson, Lifetime Achievement; Anne Whiston Spirn, Design Mind; Design for America, Corporate & Institutional Achievement; WEISS/MANFREDI, Architecture Design; Civilization, Communication Design; Christina Kim, Fashion Design; Neri Oxman, Interaction Design; Oppenheim Architecture + Design, Interior ... More Exhibition offers a glimpse into the domestic lives of eras pastMELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria is offering a glimpse into the domestic lives of eras past in A Modern Life: Tablewares 1930s 1980s. Running until January 2019, this new collection exhibition in the NGVs popular Decorative Arts corridor premieres over 140 never-seen-before tablewares including dinner services, pitchers, teapots, mugs and plates from the 1930s to the 1980s. Exploring the transformation of lifestyles following the austerity of the Second World War, the exhibition illustrates the shift towards a more contemporary approach to tableware design with the emergence of bold colour, versatility in design and technical innovations. The exhibition, which celebrates a generous gift from Melbourne collector John Hinds, includes works by leading manufacturers Wedgwood, Rosenthal and Poole Pottery and designers Keith Murray, ... More National Gallery of Denmark opens exhibition of works by the Berlin-based artist Judith HopfCOPENHAGEN.- How do everyday objects, architecture and technology affect the human body, human behaviour and inter-human relationships? Berlin-based artist Judith Hopf explores these issues in art where humour is also a main factor. Art shouldnt be too serious, she says. Judith Hopfs works are on display at SMK - National Gallery of Denmark from 10 May. Giant pears have been carved out of solid cubes built out of red bricks. The inherently illogical nature of producing pear-shaped sculptures out of square bricks is typical of the artist Judith Hopf (b. 1969). By having such easily bruised, perishable fruits shaped out of solid, durable bricks and scaling up the almost cartoonish pear shapes to form monumental sculptures, Hopf challenges our habitual views of the world. Hopf often employs humour in her works, injecting it as a disarming factor ... More Frieze New York 2018 sees robust sales across price points and dynamic presentationNEW YORK, NY.- Frieze New York closed its seventh edition on Sunday, May 6, bringing together 197 leading galleries from 30 countries and driving strong sales to leading institutions and collectors across a wide range of price points. The 2018 edition convened a record number of top-tier guests during the fairs two Preview Days, including collectors, curators, museum groups, and art enthusiasts from around the world. Audiences responded enthusiastically to the quality and depth of the curated presentations, as well as the revealing juxtapositions of work by both newly discovered artists and the most influential figures of the 20th century. Presented May 3-6, 2018 at Randalls Island Park, Frieze New York introduced new programs, a new themed section, leading curators, and a fresh layout in 2018, and continued the fairs signature ... More Strong sales continue through the close of TEFAF New York Spring 2018NEW YORK, NY.- The second edition of TEFAF New York Spring came to a close yesterday, May 8, 2018, at the Park Avenue Armory, following six days of vigorous sales and attendance from international collectors, connoisseurs, museum leaders and the public, from Europe, Asia and the Americas. The Fair presented 90 of the worlds preeminent modern and contemporary art and design dealers, the top names in their respective collecting categories, adding two-dozen new participants to the roster. For the first time this year, the exhibitors museum-quality works were complemented by five monumental installations in the public spaces of the Armorys historic Drill Hallincluding Robert Rauschenbergs (1925 2008) Shuttle Buttle/ROCI USA (Wax Fire Works) (1990) from Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art (USA; stand 86); Alexander Calder's (1898 1976) Les Trois Barres ... More Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers sale in early May is their best sale to dateLONDON.- The sale, which was their 20th since the auction house was established in 2012, comprised almost 470 lots of furniture, textiles, paintings, ceramics, silver, jewellery, toys and militaria, however it was the 200 plus lots of jewellery that dominated much of the sale, closely followed by the silver, which included a fine pair of Paul Storr silver entrée dishes and covers which sold for £3,068, against an estimate of £800 - £1,200 [lot 126]. These fought off competition and were eventually sold privately in the room. As Auctioneer Catherine Southon noted after the sale: It was both quantity and quality of the jewellery in this auction which resulted in standing room only during much of the sale. The star lot was undoubtedly lot 344 - an 8.5ct. diamond set ring, which had been estimated at £15,000 - £20,000. The ring had been found locally in the borough ... More Adrian Lahoud appointed curator of the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial SHARJAH.- Sharjah Architecture Triennial announces the appointment of Adrian Lahoud, Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, as curator of the first edition. Taking place in November 2019 in the Emirate of Sharjah, the Triennial is the first major platform to invite dialogue on architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Lahoud is an internationally recognised architect, urban designer, and researcher. He has written and lectured extensively on urban spatial forms and large scale environmental change with a focus on the Arab world and Africa. He was Studio Master in the Projective Cities Master of Philosophy in Architecture and Urban Design Program at the Architectural Association London. Prior to that he was Director of the MA program in Research Architecture and a Research Fellow in the Forensic ... More Exhibition at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art proposes a subjective portrait of Mexico CityMELBOURNE.- One of the great cross-roads of north America, Mexico City has taken prominence not only as one of Americas most populous urban centres, and as Latin Americas strongest economy, but as a node of rich and potent cultural production, in part thanks to a whole generation of artists from the 90s through to the burgeoning, much-discussed contemporary art scene of today. In this new exhibition curated by Chris Sharp, Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study proposes a subjective portrait of the Mexican capital through a selection of artists that live there, have lived there, or have only passed through and yet have nevertheless contributed to its composition. It considers the way artists and cities mutually transform each other. A city, it could be argued, is the sum of its portrayals, says Sharp. The more it is depicted, the more it enters ... More For top pianist Andsnes, a quest for a perfect moodNEW YORK (AFP).- When he sat down to his longtime goal of recording Chopin's famously demanding Ballades, the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes knew he had to choose the right space. The Norwegian virtuoso, who has spent the past season as the artist-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic, has developed an intuition on the relationship between settings and the great composers whose works he brings to life. "With Beethoven, for instance, I feel that he speaks to the crowd -- he's sort of delivering a speech in an extremely profound way. But with Chopin -- and the same with Schumann -- you feel it's very much between two persons," Andsnes told AFP over lunch near the Philharmonic's home at Lincoln Center. Andsnes had recorded well-regarded CDs of Sibelius and Stravinsky in Berlin's Teldex studio but he found its reflection from the walls and floor ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and illustrator Hokusai died May 10, 2018. Katsushika Hokusai (c. October 31, 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. In this image: A woman looks at the artwork 'Women in various walks of life' (around 1793) during a press preview of the Hokusai retrospective at the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin, Germany.
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