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Among the numerous Saxon rapiers on offer, an exquisite, silver-inlaid weapon from the same period commands attention. Made in Germany and elaborately finished, the iron knuckle-bow hilt entirely covered in ornamental silver inlays, the wooden grip embellished with silver corded wire and silver dots, the 130.5 cm showstopper is estimated at 19,000 euros.
MUNICH.- Collectors on the lookout for rare, outstanding and unique objects from antiquity to the modern era in the field of "Antique arms and armour from all over the world" are eagerly awaiting news of the wide range of objects offered by Hermann Historica. Despite the complex and time-consuming relocation to the new, spacious premises in Grasbrunn near Munich, the team of experts have managed to fill the twelve (!) catalogues for the large Autumn Auction the live auction from 11 to 20 November and the subsequent online-only auction on 21, 24 and 25 November 2019 with an incredible cornucopia of collectible objects from every corner of the globe. The large, live auction with 734 lots devoted to "Antique arms and armour from all over the world" will take place in Grasbrunn near Munich on 15 November 2019, from 10 am. On 21 November 2019, a further 714 lots associated with "Antique arms and armour from all over the wo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From Saturday 19th October 2019 until Sunday 16th February 2020, Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin is presenting the exhibition "Hokusai Hiroshige Hasui. Journey Through A Changing Japan". The exhibition presents works by the two great 19th-century Masters of the "Floating World", Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), alongside modern prints by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), a key member of the shin hanga ("new prints") movement.
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 | | French film icon Catherine Deneuve suffers stroke | | World record for Darwin's Origin of Species at Hindman | | Art museums across the US partner for feminist art coalition | 
French actress Catherine Deneuve was carried to a Parisian hospital after suffering a stroke, according to her family. LOIC VENANCE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The French actress Catherine Deneuve is in a Paris hospital after suffering a small stroke, her family told AFP Wednesday. The 76-year-old screen icon who made her name in such classic films as Luis Bunuel's "Belle de Jour", Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" and Jacques Demy's "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", had a "very limited stroke which is reversible", her family said in a statement. "Happily she has no loss of motor function, although she will of course have to rest for a while," said the statement, issued on behalf of her family by her agent Claire Blondel. Deneuve is arguably the most famous French actress of all time, having starred in more than 100 films, most recently alongside Juliette Binoche in Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's "The Truth". She had been shooting her latest film, "De son vivant" ("In her/his Lifetime") when she was taken ill. A source close to the actress had earlier told ... More | | 
The top lot of the sale, Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species set a world auction record for a first edition of Darwins landmark work. Realizing $564,500, the superb Garden Copy, previously owned by American philanthropist Paul Mellon (19071999), sold for more than double the presale estimate of $120,000- $180,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindmans November 5 single-owner sale of the Library of a Midwestern Collector featuring landmark works in the fields of science and technology, mathematics, literature, Americana and the social sciences realized over $1.9 million. Strong international bidding set several significant records at auction. The top lot of the sale, Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species set a world auction record for a first edition of Darwins landmark work. Realizing $564,500, the superb Garden Copy, previously owned by American philanthropist Paul Mellon (19071999), sold for more than double the presale estimate of $120,000- $180,000. Also exceeding presale estimates, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K ... More | | 
Deborah Roberts, Glass Castles, 2017, Mixed media on paper, 30 x 22 inches, Tang Teaching Museum collection.
BERKELEY, CA.- Next fall, a new consortium of art institutions from across the United States will mount a nationwide season of programming informed by feminist thought and practice. Comprising more than three dozen art museums and cultural organizations to date, the Feminist Art Coalition (FAC) will present a series of concurrent eventsincluding exhibitions, performances, lectures, symposia, and new commissionstimed to coincide with the next presidential election. The Feminist Art Coalition represents an unprecedented collective endeavor by arts organizations in the United States, of various different sizes, to generate and support public consciousness of feminist themes and catalyze civic engagement during a critical moment in the history of the US. Initially convened by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), the Feminist Art Coalition has expanded into a grassroots initiative collectively ... More |
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| | Sotheby's partners with The Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti for special Old Masters exhibition & auction | | Almine Rech Shanghai debuts a new light work by James Turrell | | Everything's coming up Kusama, including a Macy's balloon | 
Fab Moretti and Fabrizio Moretti. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced Fabrizio Moretti x Fabrizio Moretti | In Passing, a special, one-time-only exhibition and auction of Old Master paintings and sculpture bringing together musician and visual artist Fabrizio (Fab) Moretti, of the critically acclaimed and internationally Platinum-certified band The Strokes, and renowned art dealer and collector Fabrizio Moretti, who specializes in Old Masters and is proprietor of the London-based Galleria Moretti. The unique collaboration will include an exhibition of more than 20 Old Master paintings and sculpture selected by Fabrizio Moretti, which will be showcased in a series of immersive and interactive installations designed and fabricated by Fab Moretti, each playing on the concept of perspective and based on corresponding themes represented in the works. The exhibit will be on view at Sothebys New York 15 18 December, ahead of the live auction on 18 December. Online biddin ... More | | 
James Turrell, City of Light, 2019. 121 x 213 cm, 47 3/5 x 83 7/8 inches. © James Turrell. Photo: Alessandro Wang, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech is presenting a new experiential light work by James Turrell, created on the occassion of his first solo show at the gallerys Shanghai space. The presentation features a work from the artists ongoing Wide Glass series, begun in 2004. The show marks the 11th solo exhibition of James Turrell organized by Almine Rech since 1989. Turrells concept of a Tall Glass or Wide Glass is a unique aperturerectangular or elliptical, horizontal or verticalin which the light changes slowly over the course of several hours through the use of translucent materials. In the past, Turrells Tall and Wide Glass works were realized in neon, but for the last 15 years the artist has turned to LED technologies, which allow for richer hues and a lower light level, offering the artist more freedom as to what shapes, transitions, and ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusamas balloon, Love Flies Up to the Sky, on a test flight before the Thanksgiving Day Parade in East Rutherford, N.J., on Nov. 2, 2019. Everythings coming up Kusama, including a Macys balloon but is there such a thing as too much attention for the Japanese artist who once struggled to get noticed? Is the art world cashing in? Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Amid the polka dots, mirrors and pumpkins of her artwork, Yayoi Kusama has lately been incorporating poetic messages, like the one featured in the exhibition that opens Saturday at David Zwirner, which includes the line, With the challenge of creating new art, I work as if dying; these works are my everything. And there is undeniable poetry or perhaps poetic justice in what is happening to Kusamas career, given that she recently turned 90. As a young artist who moved from her native Matsumoto, Japan, to New York in the late 1950s, Kusama often struggled ... More |
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| | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020 shortlist announced | | 'Museum diplomacy' as new Pompidou Center opens in Shanghai | | The art of Burning Man is given a second life | 
Mark Neville, Parade #7, 2019 (detail) © Mark Neville.
LONDON.- The four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020 are Mohamed Bourouissa; Anton Kusters; Mark Neville and Clare Strand. Now in its twenty-fourth year, this highly regarded annual prize, originated by The Photographers Gallery in 1996 and awarded in collaboration with the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation since 2016, recognises artists and projects deemed to have made the most significant contribution to photography over the previous 12 months. From an experiment with image-making, transmission and interpretation (Strand); to a photographic portrait of a farming community in Brittany (Neville); a conceptual response to violence, trauma and memory (Kusters); and an interrogation of consumerism, trade and disenfranchisement (Bourouissa); the four projects offer very distinctive approaches to the photographic medium whilst demonstrating its ability to accommodate a ... More | | 
Inside the West Bund Museum, which contains a new outpost of the Centre Pompidou, called Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, in Shanghai on Nov. 4, 2019. The French museum will curate the exhibitions and provide works from its collection but Chinese officials are keeping a close eye on what gets shown. Yuyang Liu/The New York Times.
SHANGHAI (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When the Pompidou Center first floated the idea of opening a Chinese outpost more than a decade ago, skeptics back home in France were still fiercely debating the question of whether the countrys cherished national museums should have a role in promoting political and commercial interests abroad. But with the opening in recent years of the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Pompidou Málaga, the countrys strategy of using museum diplomacy to raise its profile overseas is well underway. That effort took a bold step forward Tuesday when the Pompidou, the renowned Parisian museum of modern and contemporary art, unveiled an outpost in China. ... More | | 
In an undated image provided by Finn-Olaf Jones, David Olivers Portal, one of four pieces from this years festival that are being installed at the Reno Playa Art Park. The monumental art pieces of Nevadas Burning Man festival have begun to show up in plazas, parks, museums and galleries across the United States. Finn-Olaf Jones via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Ever since 1986, when a small gathering of artists and friends first gathered at San Franciscos Baker Beach to celebrate the summer solstice by igniting an 8-foot male effigy, the art of the Burning Man festival was not meant to be seen by the outside world. Now held in Nevadas Black Rock Desert, the event has swelled to some 80,000 people who brave dust storms and furnace-like heat each year to construct, dance and play in a pop up-city of fantastical art installations. This years festival featured 408 creations, ranging from a surreal Irish fishing village to a cluttered maze inside a three-story rendering of a human ... More |
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| | Criminal or mad? Russian film and TV debunk 'Lenin myth' | | On November 17, Turner Auctions + Appraisals offers steam engines & comic books | | Marciano Art Foundation lays off employees trying to unionize | 
Russian director Vladimir Khotinenko attends an interview with AFP on his latest movie "The Lenin factor" in Moscow on October 8, 2019. Who was the real Lenin -- a blood-thirsty criminal, a sufferer from inherited mental illness or a conventional snob? As Russia prepares to quietly mark the 102nd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on November 7, 2019, a new Russian TV series and feature film aim to show its leader in a new light, far from the dusty Soviet-era cliches. Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Who was the real Lenin -- a blood-thirsty criminal, a bowler-hatted opera lover, a person suffering from mental illness or all three? As Russia prepares to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Thursday, a new Russian TV series and feature film aim to show its leader in a new light, far from the dusty Soviet-era cliches. A documentary series to be shown shortly on state-run Channel One aims to "finish off the myth of Vladimir Ulyanov," scriptwriter Igor Lipin told AFP, using the revolutionary's real name. The makers of the 12-part series titled "Lenin," spent four years delving into the archive of the FSB secret service, the successor ... More | | 
A Vintage German Wilesco Toy Tractor, marked made in W. Germany. 7 1/2 inches high x 12 x 6. Estimate: $80-120.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Steam Engines & Comic Books from the collections of Craig Miller and Robert Haas on Sunday, November 17, 2019, at 10:30 am PST. Reflecting the pleasures of childhood, the sale features over 215 lots of vintage steam engines; toys; O gauge toy trains; and a wide selection of comic books from Dell, Walt Disney, Looney Tunes, Classic Comics, Classics Illustrated and others. Besides vintage steam and hot air engines and turbines, the Miller collection includes steam toys such as a shovel, shop, tractor, grinder and steamroller. Other toys offered are fans and tools, a two-man saw, sausage maker, farm toys, factory machines, windmills, a Ferris wheel, and some from Germany and Japan. Groupings of little toy cars come from Matchbox, Corgi and Dinky Toys. Among several lots of O gauge toy trains are KBN, Issmayer, Hornby and Ives. The Haas collection features a wide s ... More | | 
The Marciano Art Foundation, housed in a former Masonic temple from 1961, in Los Angeles, May 10, 2017. After employees at the Marciano Art Foundation announced they were taking steps to form a union, the museum said it was anticipating discussions but then laid off visitors services associates and said it was closed to the public. Emily Berl/The New York Times.
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Last week, after employees at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles announced that they were taking steps to form a union, the museum issued a statement saying it looked forward to engaging with them to learn more about their requests. As an organization, we are supportive of all recommendations to improve the workplace experience, the museums statement went on to say, adding that it anticipated discussions. Instead, workers who had sought unionization received an email from the foundation Tuesday evening that said, Effective Thursday Nov. 7, we will be laying off all of the Visitors Services Associates. The foundation, a private museum with a heralded collection that was opened by two of the brothers who started ... More |
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 An artist's march to freedomLAPLACE, LA (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The New York artist Dread Scott was standing in a tiny traffic island in this working-class suburb west of New Orleans on a recent afternoon near the EZ Stop convenience store. He had come to point out a single sentence on a historical marker, one unheeded by the truck drivers barreling down Airline Highway: Major 1811 slave uprising organized here. Thats the only marker anywhere in the United States, as far as I know, Scott said, that mentions the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history. He gestured toward one of the oncoming trucks, his voice shifting into a sardonic gear: Im pretty sure that guy didnt read it. The remedy Scott is planning, for Friday and Saturday, is likely to be the most ambitious artwork thus far in his long career as a radical multidisciplinary artist: A large-scale re-enactment of the 1811 ... More Quinn's Nov. 16 sale stars Ruscha's 'Hollywood' and extra-fine Warhol 'Grace Kelly' screenprintFALLS CHURCH, VA.- Modern and contemporary prints and posters enhance all sorts of spaces, from sophisticated Manhattan apartments to the geometric hillside homes of Los Angeles. On November 16, Quinns Auction Galleries will present a outstanding selection of prints to suit todays interior décor, including such important highlights as Ed Ruschas iconic split-fountain screenprint Hollywood, an exceptionally fine Andy Warhol silkscreen of Grace Kelly, a pencil-signed first state of Henri Matisses Danseuse Debout from the Dix Danseuse suite, and Freidensreich Hundertwassers complete Midori No Namida portfolio. Additionally, the auction shines a spotlight on works from local Washington Color School artists Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam, and Hilda Thorpe; the boldly distinctive lithographs by Alexander Calder, and more than 80 poster lots. The ... More Kathrin Becker to become artistic Director of the KINDLBERLIN.- The Berlin-based curator Kathrin Becker will be the new artistic director of the KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art. Kathrin Becker is currently managing director of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and has been director of the Video-Forum there since 2001. Kathrin Becker studied art history and Slavic studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Leningrad State University. Themes of her curatorial work are intercultural and transnational issues, the role of visual art in society, and the complex of exclusion and inclusion in contemporary cultures. Exhibitions she was responsible for include Candice Breitz: Labour (n.b.k., Berlin, 2019), John Bock: Im AntliTZ des SchädelapparaTZ (n.b.k., 2019), Halil Altındere: Space Refugee (n.b.k., 2016), 3rd Moscow International Biennial for Young Art (Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2012), No more ... More Vienna orchestra celebrates 50th birthday with new woman chiefVIENNA (AFP).- When Vienna's ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra marks its 50th anniversary with a special concert on Wednesday, it will be under the baton of its new chief conductor who, for the first time in Austria, is a woman. Top-tier orchestras in Vienna -- arguably the world capital of classical music -- are traditionally a predominantly male preserve. But industry observers see the arrival in September of US conductor Marin Alsop at the helm of the ensemble as a sign that even deeply conservative Vienna is beginning to change with the times. The 63-year-old American -- who has previously been chief conductor of orchestras in Bournemouth in Britain, Baltimore in the United States and Sao Paolo in Brazil -- said her reception in the Austrian capital has been "very warm". "I haven't felt this kind of welcome in a long time," she told AFP after a recent ... More Firstsite in Colchester brings the V&A's Chance & Control: Art in the Age of Computers exhibition to EssexCOLCHESTER.- Chance & Control draws on the V&As rich international collection of computer-generated art. The exhibition includes more than 40 works by pioneering artists of the 1960s and 70s such as Frieder Nake and Georg Nees who produced some of the earliest computer art through to the younger generation of artists practising today, such as Esther Rolinson, best known for her digitally programmed light installations, based on drawings exploring structure, movement and sensation, and Casey Reas, one of the founders of Processing, a computer programming language used by many digital artists. Digital technologies have transformed our cultural experiences dramatically in the last half-century. Chance & Control offers visitors the opportunity to trace the chronological development of digital art, exploring how aspects of chance ... More Chinese experts to help in Notre-Dame reconstructionBEIJING (AFP).- Chinese experts will participate in the restoration of France's Notre-Dame cathedral, state media reported on Wednesday, following a meeting between the two countries' heads of state in Beijing. The 850-year-old cathedral, which was scarred in April after a fire tore through its roof and toppled its spire, was the most visited historic monument in Europe. Since the blaze, which took 400 firefighters to control, Chinese and French authorities have been in touch about cooperating on restoration efforts, reported official news agency Xinhua. "China has a great deal of experience in renovating ancient buildings affected by fire, especially ones made of wood," said Chai Xiaoming, director of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, in an interview with state-run China Daily. "This means we could offer suggestions on how to approach the renovation ... More MFAH announces fall 2020 opening for Nancy and Rich Kinder BuildingHOUSTON, TX.- Gary Tinterow, Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced that the institutions multi-year project to expand and redevelop its Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus will reach completion in fall 2020 with the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the firm that also created the master plan for the campus redevelopment, the Kinder Building is specially dedicated to installations from the important and rapidly growing MFAH collection of 20th- and 21st-century art and will open with an exhibition highlighting a trove of major collections never before presented in depth. The redevelopment of the Sarofim Campus and related off-site art-storage facilities is the largest cultural project currently in progress in North America, with some 650,000 square feet of new ... More Diamonds and designer jewels, California painting and sculpture are highlights at Michaan's Auctions ALAMEDA, CA.- Novembers Gallery Auction illustrates why Michaans is the leading Bay Area resource for great finds in fine things. Fine art, Asian art, fine jewelry and estate furnishings are offered in a live auction event on Saturday, November 9, with online and phone bidding available as well. Bidders are invited to preview the auction in person, and absentee bids may be submitted in advance. The final stretch of 2019 is an exciting time at Michaans, where the auction specialists are preparing to wrap up a year of outstanding sales. October was a stellar month for jewelry and theres much more to come. On November 9 and at two December events including the Winter Fine Sale on Friday, December 6, specialist and GIA gemologist Elise Coronado offers stunning property from fine estates; every kind of fine jewelry ... More In celebration of its 65th edition, BRAFA is organising a charity auction of five segments of the Berlin WallBRUSSELS.- The 65th BRAFA art fair, which will take place from 26 January until 2 February 2020, will be celebrated in a highly original manner with the exclusive exhibition and sale of five segments of the Berlin Wall. The proceeds from the sale will be split among five beneficiaries (associations and museums) in the areas of cancer research, the social integration of people with disabilities and the preservation of art heritage. This initiative is only possible due to BRAFAs nonprofit status which it has retained for 65 years and allows for greater investment in the arts and support of other non-profit organisations. BRAFAs visitors have come to expect a different guest of honour every year. These have included international museums, foundations and artists, who have all added their own unique touch to the event. In 2020, the art fair is choosing an innovative ... More Largest collection of Jean Cocteau ceramics ever to be offered at auction at BonhamsLONDON.- In the 130th Anniversary year of Jean Cocteau's birth, an important collection of 46 ceramics by the leading figure of the French avant-garde, will highlight Bonhams Prints and Multiples sale on Wednesday 11 December and Thursday 12 December in London. It is the first time such a large collection of Cocteau ceramics has been offered at auction. Born in 1889, Jean Cocteau was a painter, ceramicist, poet, writer and filmmaker whose wide-ranging career spanned more than 50 years. Growing up in Paris, he became a leading figure of the avant-garde befriending many of the great French art figures of the period, including painters Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani, writer Guillaume Apollinaire and poet Raymond Radiguet among others. He produced his first ceramics in 1957, when he met Marie Madeleine Jolly and Philippe Madeline. In their ... More Sotheby's Hong Kong Chinese Works of Art sales to take place on 28-29 NovemberHONG KONG.- Sothebys will present two sales of Chinese Works of Art at its Hong Kong Gallery this November: Ceramics and Jades from the Collection of Sir Quo-Wei Lee (28 November) and Chinese Art, including Snuff Bottles and Jades from an Old Hong Kong Family Collection (28-29 November). All works will be exhibited for public viewing from 22 27 November 2019. Following the success of the past two editions in 2018 and 2019, highlights of the third sale of this prestigious Hong Kong collection Ceramics and Jades from the Collection of Sir Quo-Wei Lee include further rare examples of Ming and Qing porcelain and several exceptional jades, including a Qing dynasty 18th century large white jade bowl, a spinach-green jade twin fish marriage bowl and a celadon jade landscape screen from the Qianlong period, formerly in a French collection ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Francisco Zurbarán was baptized November 07, 1598. Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7, 1598; died August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. In this image: A visitor looks at Pablo Picasso's 1911-1912 oil on canvas "Homme a la guitare", left, next to Francisco de Zurbaran's 1630-1634 oil on canvas "Saint-Francois d'Assise dans sa tombe" exhibited at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.
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