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Museum workers remove Shepherds (1927) by Kyrylo Hvozdyk from a crate at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, after the painting arrived from Ukraine, Nov. 22, 2022. An exhibition in Spain is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian modernist art abroad it was a long road from Kyiv to Madrid. (Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times)
by Scott Reyburn
NEW YORK, NY.- They left with just a couple of hours to spare. Two trucks loaded with early 20th-century masterworks from Ukraines National Art Museum left Kyiv the morning of Nov. 15, shortly before the city was struck by the heaviest bombardment of missiles Russian forces had yet unleashed. The transport was headed for Spain, where the artworks will be on display as part of the exhibition In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s, at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, which opens Nov. 29. But first the works had to get out of Ukraine safely. We were very nervous, said Svitlana Melnyk, the director of Kunsttrans Kyiv, a specialist art transporter hired for the task. Four employees packed the works at the National Art Museum on Nov. 14, then loaded them onto trucks the next morning. The whole of Ukraine was being attacked. We didnt know if it was more dangerous staying in Kyiv, or getting out, she added. Russia fired almost 100 mis ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Edward Hopper's New York (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 19, 2022- March 5, 2023). Photograph by Ron Amstutz.
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| Edward Hopper's fantasy island | | Art from antiquity to the 20th century, London and online auctions from Christie's | | Kherson's museums now display shattered cases and missing treasures |
Edward Hopper, Sunlight on Brownstones, 1956. Oil on canvas, 30 3/8 à 40 1/4 in. (71.1 à 101.6 cm). Wichita Art Museum, KS, Roland P. Murdock Collection. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
by Karen Rosenberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward Hoppers New York, the Whitneys latest dive into its extensive Hopper holdings, sounds at first like the museum coasting on its hometown hero. Here is an occasion to trot out works like Early Sunday Morning, which makes a tidy Anytown of row houses along Seventh Avenue. But focus instead on that apostrophe in the title: This is Hoppers New York, emphasis on the possessive, and for all its crowd-pleasing fare this is a more challenging show about his dominion over the city. In paintings we know well and many we dont, as well as some enlightening works on paper and writings, the artist long described as a Realist is recast as the architect of his own personal fantasy metropolis. He dispenses almost entirely with street life and traffic, ignores skyscrapers and the Brooklyn Bridge, and inserts ... More | |
John William Waterhouse, R.A., R.I...., "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May", Estimate GBP 700,000 - GBP 1,000,000. Photo Courtesy and Property of: Christie's.
LONDON.- See history in a new light this Classic Week at Christies London, with four live auctions and three online sales celebrating the breadth of human creativity from antiquities to modern classics. The series will run from 25 November to 15 December. Auction highlights will be on public view in Hong Kong (25 to 28 November) before the London pre-sale exhibition opens to the public on 2 December. This seasons highlights include Jean-François de Troys The Reading Party, one of the French Rococo painters finest tableaux de mode loosely translated as fashionable pictures coming from The Collection of Lord and Lady Weinstock (estimate: £2,000,000-3,000,000); a portrait of Desiderius Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger and Workshop (estimate: £1,000,000- 1,500,000); Anthony Van Dycks captivating portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria (estimate: £2,000,000-4,000,000); a majestic Roman marble ... More | |
Damaged exhibits at the regional history museum in Kherson, Ukraine, on Sunday Nov. 20, 2022. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)
by Lynsey Addario
KHERSON, UKRAINE.- The principal artist designing the exhibitions at Khersons regional history museum, Anatoliy Gryaznov, was near tears. The collection to which he had dedicated a lifetime was mostly gone, he said, another cultural institution ransacked and looted by Russian forces before they withdrew from the city in defeat. Glass display cases were smashed. Deep gouges in the floor marked the paths along which Russian soldiers had dragged tombstones and other heavy objects. I spent my whole life working in this museum, Gryaznov said. And now it is all gone. Twenty years of my life gone. According to the head of the culture department at its City Council, Svitlana Dumynska, Kherson had one of the most impressive collections of regional museums in Ukraine. They are now in ruins. At the regional history museum, the section on guns and weapons was decimated, the Russians taking ever ... More |
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| Classic car show right at home in 'city that put the world on wheels' | | Consignment follows stunning £ 81,250 premium-inclusive price for John Glover's Scottish Tour sketchbook | | AstaGuru's auction to showcase works by Renoir, Picasso, Matisse and other visionaries of global art |
A photo provided by Xander Cesari shows vintage automobiles on display at the Concours dElegance in downtown Detroit on Sept. 18, 2022. (Xander Cesari via The New York Times)
by Brett Berk
NEW YORK, NY.- The Best of Show winner, a deep-blue 1937 Delahaye 135M Roadster Cabriolet, puttered up the horseshoe drive and past the judges stand to fanfare typical of a classic car expo. Such a meticulously restored, and rakish, car was to be expected at a vintage-vehicle show. The location, however, was anything but typical the Concours dElegance was held for the first time at the Detroit Institute of Arts, a beaux-arts museum in the heart of Americas Motor City. As remarkable as it may seem, there has not been a car show of this caliber in the city of Detroit ever, said Richard Vaughan, a veteran car designer who is on the advisory team for the event, which took place Sept. 18. We really felt strongly that an event celebrating ... More | |
Pages from the John Glover sketchbook, number 71. The estimate at Ewbanks on December 8 is £8,000-12,000. All images courtesy of Ewbanks Auctions.
LONDON.- Ewbanks are to sell a second sketchbook by John Glover (1767-1849), having taken a premium-inclusive £81,250 for another in June 2021 by the man dubbed the Father of Australian Landscape Painting.Originally consisted of 105 sketches, John Glover Sketchbook No. 71 still contains 47 mainly pencil and some grey wash sketches of cattle and landscapes in southern English locations. Some pages are double-sided and others include two or more individual sketches per page. The quality of the draughtsmanship is exceptional, says Ewbanks partner Andrew Ewbank. The previous sketchbook sold by Ewbanks was number 48, begun in 1817 and showing scenes from a Scottish Tour taken from August 30th to October 27th that year. The current sketchbook, which is initialled and numbered to the inside of the ... More | |
Pierre-Aguste Renoir, "Baigneuse Assise", circa 1915, oil on canvas, 17.1 x 14.3 inches.
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru reaches an international milestone with its upcoming International Iconic auction set to showcase a medley of works by revered and iconic global artists. The stunning lineup of the auction scheduled on November 28-29, 2022, represents some of the most important moments in modern art history. The highlight of the auction is a beautiful painting by French Impressionist master Pierre Auguste- Renoir, who created an extraordinary artistic legacy with his fascinating canvases bearing shimmering landscapes, sublime female nudes, sunkissed bathers, and charming portraits. This work was once in the collection of seminal novelist Somerset Maugham. The painting also featured on the cover of his book Purely For My Pleasure, published in 1962. The collection also puts a spotlight on the emergence and impact of modern art towards the mid twentieth century with creations by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernan ... More |
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| Storm King Art Center appoints Kellie Honeycutt as chief operating officer | | David Nolan Gallery presents "Paulo Pasta: Recent Paintings" | | The Dalà Museum's first-of-its-kind experience allows visitors to transform their dreams into art |
Kellie Honeycutt. Photo by Liz Ligon. Kellie Honeycutt to work alongside Storm Kings President John Stern and Artistic Director and Chief Curator Nora Lawrence commencing December 2022.
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY.- Storm King Art Center announces the appointment of Kellie Honeycutt to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Honeycutt will be the first to hold the title at Storm King, which has in the last decade experienced exponential growth in its visitorship, collection, and seasonal and year-round programming. Honeycutt will report to John P. Stern, Storm Kings President since 2012, and will work alongside Nora Lawrence, the Art Centers Artistic Director and Chief Curator, streamlining the museums leadership under Stern within operations and artistic programming. The Chief Operating Officer position was created early this year as part of Storm Kings long-term vision for growthfurther reflected in its ongoing Capital Project, which encompasses vital capital, landscape, and environmental measures designed to enhance visitor experience, significantly improve site ... More | |
Paulo Pasta, Untitled, 2022, oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in., (80 x 100 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery began the solo exhibition of recent paintings by Paulo Pasta (b. 1959) this past November 4th, marking the Brazilian artists first presentation in North America, with special thanks to Simon Watson. The event will be on view until December 23rd, 2022. Paulo Pasta has established himself as one of the revered painters of abstraction in his native Brazil. Pastas practice is dedicated to collapsing the passage of time into fields of color and geometries of lines and crosses. The elegant and poetic works are representations of imagined space, where parallel, perpendicular diagonal lines suggest a metaphysical architecture. Rendered in evocative hues of oil paint that the artist hand mixes to perfect tonality, the work recalls that of Mexican architect, Luis Barragán. Drawing endless inspiration from São Paulo, Pasta creates landscapes of a different type, mainly through memory. He con ... More | |
The Shape of Dreams features five centuries of art and the world premiere of the Dream Tapestry experience.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- A new exhibition at The Dalà Museum examines the profound yet universal human occurrence, the dream, through renowned artists works and a new interactive Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience. The Shape of Dreams, on view Nov. 25, 2022-April 30, 2023, explores 500 years of paintings from the 16th to 20th centuries and examines dreams through different lenses psychological, religious and metaphysical. An innovative AI area offers visitors the opportunity to see their own dreams transformed into works of art. The DalÃs debut of its latest innovation, the Dream Tapestry, continues the Museums commitment to engaging visitors through immersive, interactive experiences while providing an educational art encounter. The experience was developed by The Dalà in collaboration with Goodby Silverstein & Partners (GS&P), with creative concepting by Minds Over Matter, and OpenAI the creator of the text-to-image AI ... More |
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| Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens a solo exhibition of works by Tamina Amadyar | | New gallery location for Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena to open November 29th | | In December, Heritage raises the curtain on its most star-studded epic entertainment auction ever |
Tamina Amadyar, froza, 2022. Tusche, Wasserfarbe auf Leinwand. Indian Ink, watercolor on canvas, 200 x 170 cm.
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting its fourth solo exhibition of works by Tamina Amadyar. Under the title setting the table, the Berlin-based artist is showing new paintings as well as a new sculpture. In recent years, Tamina Amadyar has become known for her equally expressive and reduced color field paintings, which emerge from the trans- formation of personal experiences into abstract painting. The starting point has always been representational works on paper, in which the artist primarily processes her reality. In addition to spatial motifs, objects and people from Amadyars immediate environment often appear. The latter are now also the focus of her new paintings. Thus, in the exhibition one encounters mainly portraits, or more precisely, shoulder pieces in frontal view. The consistently large format pain- tings show faces belonging to members of the ... More | |
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts announces its new gallery location for which doors will open on November 29th at 600 South Lake Avenue, #102, Pasadena, CA.
PASADENA, CALIF.- Jack Rutberg Fine Arts announces its new gallery location for which doors will open on November 29th at 600 South Lake Avenue, #102, Pasadena, CA 91106, located at the corner of California Avenue. This year, our celebration of the Thanksgiving Holiday takes on special meaning as we open the doors of our new gallery location in nearby Pasadena. We will be in close proximity to so many cultural institutions, and neighboring two of the nation's finest: The Norton Simon Museum and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Indeed, a great many artists represented in those museums' collections are part of our gallery's holdings for your collecting consideration. Pasadena and San Marino have had a formidable cultural history, and Jack Rutberg Fine Arts can proudly say we have shared in a bit of that history. Artist Ruth ... More | |
The Wicked Witch of the West Hourglass -- the Most Famous and Recognizable Timepiece in Film History.
DALLAS, TX.- Go ahead pull back the curtain. When you do, pay plenty of attention to the history waiting behind it. In Heritage Auctions Dec. 13 Hollywood & Entertainment Signature® Auction, cinephiles and collectors will find hundreds of costumes, vehicles and props from some of the most momentous and treasured films of all time and even a Holy Grail. The blockbuster event spans a century of cinema and counts among its myriad highlights iconic offerings from The Wizard of Oz, The Ten Commandments, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Dr. No, The Prince and the Showgirl, The Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, Ferris Buellers Day Off, The Princess Bride, the original Star Wars trilogy, Avengers: Endgame and Titanic. That is but the tip of the proverbial iceberg. I am always excited to announce a new auction, but this one is especially thrilling, says Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena. ... More |
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Theseus Chan, Gerhard Steidl and the art space Kunsthaus Göttingen collaborate on new book
GÃTTINGEN .- Shaped by spontaneity and subversion, STEIDLWERK No.30: KUNSTHAUS GÃTTINGEN redefines the traditions of offset printing. Each book in this limited edition boasts a different range of colors and is thus unique. The publication is a collaboration between Theseus Chan, Gerhard Steidl and the art space Kunsthaus Göttingen, where Chan showed WERK No.30 in printing futures as part of documenta 15. The installation, which he added to daily, was Chans love letter to printed matter in all its forms (from paper sheets and printing plates to recycled packaging), and the book is both the documentation and final piece of this work. Chan and Steidl took up the manifest of WERK No.30to malfunction established mindsets, techniques, and procedures by sabotaging machines and human interventionsand realized it in book ... More
Erika Jayne's diamond earrings headline Moran's Fine Jewelry & Timepieces sale
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Just in time for the holidays, John Moran Auctioneers will present their Winter Fine Jewelry & Timepieces auction, Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 at 10am PST. This sale is all about diamonds! All shapes, sizes and qualities and price ranges. The highlight: diamond earrings once belonging to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Erika Jayne Girardi. Morans is offering these earrings on behalf of the trustee through a court ordered sale. Having over 370 lots, the selection will include jewelry, time pieces, diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, and gold. The first half of the auction will offer fine gemstone and diamond everyday classics. The timepieces presented will be Gerald Genta, Cartier, Rolex and Patek Phillippe. In addition, a small collection of fine Antique jeweled seals and boxes. The second half of the sale includes a large ... More
Rare antique bottles from the S.S. Central America will be auctioned Dec. 3
RENO, NEV.- Rare antique bottles retrieved from the S.S. Central America the legendary Ship of Gold that sank in a storm off the North Carolina coast in 1857 while on a voyage from Panama to New York City will come up for bid in an auction slated for Saturday, December 3rd, by Holabird Western Americana Collections, at 10 am PST. The auction will be held online on several platforms as well as live at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno. Collectors have been eagerly awaiting the Gold Rush-era items to come on the market since the S.S. Central America was first spotted on the ocean floor in 1988. At the time, Life magazine proclaimed it Americas greatest treasure ever found, and rightly so. The antique bottles are just one of the categories of the more than 500 lots on offer in the Part 1 auction (Part 2 will be held in late February ... More
Arms & Armour from Scotland and Wales among the highlights of Thomas Del Mar's sale
LONDON.- Pieces from Scotland and Wales will be among the highlights in Thomas Del Mars forthcoming sale of Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria which will be held on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at Olympia Auctions, 25 Blythe Road, London W14. From the Collection of a Distinguished Scholar and Collector is a fine and rare Scottish backsword with signed basket-hilt by John Simpson the Elder of Glasgow. It dates from circa 1690-1700 and is estimated at £8,000 - 10,000. From the same collection is an extremely rare Welsh Buckler (shield) from Wrexham, dating from 1440-1580 that is estimated at £6,000 - 8,000. As Thomas Del Mar comments: The robust design of these bucklers was clearly effective and it was perhaps this that brought them to the attention of King Henry VIII who had a number made for his guard, some of which are depicted ... More
Prizes from two of the world's leading horse races recall past glories as bidders gather to compete for them
LONDON.- The 1877 Ascot Gold Cup the prize for one of the worlds most prestigious flat racing events is to be offered for sale with an estimate of £100,000-120,000 at Mayfair Auctioneers Noonans in a sale of Selected Silver and Objects of Vertu on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 12 noon. Alongside the magnificent gold trophy will be the 1922 Grand National Trophy silver centrepiece, which is expected to sell for between £20,000-30,000. Both trophies come from a leading private collector. Frances Noble, Associate Director and Head of Jewellery at Noonans commented: The Ascot Gold Cup was established in 1807 as the most prestigious prize in flat racing. The 1877 trophy is an impressive 18 carat gold vase-shaped trophy centrepiece, the cover crowned by a finial of a rearing stallion attended by a classical youth, standing 47.5cm ... More
Two metal-detecting discoveries belonging to 14th century ladies to be sold at Noonans
LONDON.- When David Board, aged 69, took up metal detecting again in 2019, he could not have envisaged what he was going to find. Having tried detecting on local beaches in the 1970s and not finding much, it was a family friend who motivated him to try his luck again. Now armed with the latest detector, an XP Deus, David got permission to search near Thorncombe in Dorset by a local farmer, for whom David had formerly been a milk tanker driver for many years. On his second outing on a pasture field, nearing the end of the day, and having found just a few old copper half pennies, David got a signal near a footpath. At a depth of 5 inches he saw what he thought was a sweet wrapper, then looking more closely he realised it was a ring and put it in his top pocket. What a find this proved to be: this ring, now known as The Lady Brook Medieval diamond ... More
Stepping out of her family's shadow, and laying bare family history
RYE, ENGLAND.- A couple of years ago, theater director Irina Brook became obsessed with shadows. She kept photographing her own, and filmed others moving around her. It was a transparent metaphor for the feelings she was working through, because Brooks parents have cast a long shadow over her life and career. Her latest work, House of Us, which opens in Venice on Nov. 29, is dedicated to her mother, English actress Natasha Parry, whose rich stage and screen career lasted more than six decades. As for her father? You may have heard of Peter Brook, one of the most influential theater directors of the past century, who died this year, in Paris, at 97. Brook, 60, is only just coming to terms with her family history, by laying much of it bare in House of Us. In this immersive work, which will be staged over two floors at Casa dei Tre Oci, ... More
'The Patient Gloria' review: A theatrical remedy for toxic therapy
NEW YORK, NY.- I demand justice for Gloria. That is Gloria Szymanski, a 30-year-old divorced mother who in the 1960s agreed to be filmed during therapy sessions with three leading male psychologists. The recordings, originally called Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, were widely distributed in the United States without her consent, even screened in movie theaters as The Gloria Films. (You can watch them on YouTube.) She took legal action but was unsuccessful, and died of leukemia in 1979 at age 46. So when Gloria glides across the stage at St. Anns Warehouse in the punchy, punk-rock play The Patient Gloria, she does so performatively. Dressed in a pale pink dress, white shoes and matching purse, Gloria, gracefully portrayed by Liv ODonoghue, routinely sweeps her arms and tidily recrosses her legs, as if shes aware ... More
In this solo 'Christmas Carol,' the night is never silent
NEW YORK, NY.- Has Jefferson Mays ever met a role or a root vegetable that he hesitated to take on? In the noisy, excitable one-man version of A Christmas Carol on Broadway, in a production that opened Monday at the Nederlander Theater, Mays stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, spirits of Christmas, assorted Cratchits, street folk, partygoers. He even plays a boiling potato, straining against a pot lid. At the festive board, Mays is side dish, main course, everything. Creepy and antic, gloomy and giddy, Michael Ardens production capitalizes on every trick in Charles Dickens story and then pulls a few new ones out of Scrooges top hat. Peace on Earth? Mercy mild? Please. There are moments when you would swear that Mays couldnt possibly be unaccompanied, so raucous is this Carol. But he is, more or less. (Danny ... More
New exhibitions in QUAD, Derby, explore Virtual Worlds
DERBY.- Lawrence Lek presents Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins Edition), an architectural installation and video game revolving around the ruins of Beijings Old Summer Palace. This installation is part of his ongoing open-world game Nepenthe, which is set on a mysterious island named after the fictional medicine for sorrow from Greek mythology. The project continues Leks exploration of video games as a cinematic medium, particularly the first-person perspective often employed in adventure-RPGs (role-playing games), which he uses to draw parallels between open-world game mechanics and patterns of colonial exploration.  For his exhibition at QUAD, Lawrence has created a new physical installation and game map based on the ruin of Da Shui Fa the waterworks at Beijings Old Summer Palace. Widely regarded as the Garden ... More
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You Ni Chae
The seduction of beauty
Mehmet Sinan Kuran
Barbara Hepworth
Flashback On a day like today, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born November 24, 1864. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. In this image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Mademoiselle Eglantine's troupe [La troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine] 1896. Brush, spatter and crayon lithograph, 61.7 x 80.4 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. The Poynton Bequest 2012.
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