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Cross Contemporary Partners Digital Gallery Inaugural Group Exhibition Part II Installation View.
KINDERHOOK, NY.- Is there a company that can integrate traditional art marketing knowledge with the online marketing tools of today? The answer is yes! Cross Contemporary Partners (CCP), a division of Katharine T. Carter & Associates, offers all this and more. Katharine T. Carter and Jen Dragon work together to take a proactive approach to virtual career-building in the time of Covid for more than two dozen artists, by focusing on developing an artists digital presence and online reputation. This savvy company blends the traditional promotion of brick and mortar exhibition experience with the digital marketing tools of todays art trade. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Friederike Seyfried, director of the Egyptian Museum Berlin points to the damage caused by an "oily liquid" leaving visible stains on exhibits in the Egyptian part of the Neues Museum on October 21, 2020 in Berlin. Vandals have damaged more than 70 artworks and artifacts at some of Berlin's most renowned museums, police said Wednesday, in a targeted attack kept quiet by authorities for more than two weeks. STEFANIE LOOS / AFP
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 | | Rare Brueghel the Younger painting sale in Belgium | | Banksy take on Monet masterpiece sells for £7.6 million | | Jacob Lawrence painting, missing for decades, is found by Met visitor | 
Dubbed "Farmers' dinner in the open air", the picture sold Wednesday represents a village scene from the early 17th Century.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- A Belgian auction house said Wednesday it had sold a painting by Flemish renaissance artist Brueghel the Younger, marking a rare home-territory transaction for the master. The work by the painter born in Brussels in 1564 was sold for 280,000 euros ($332,000) after its owners passed away, the Legia Auction house said. Experts say that fewer than 10 of Brueghel the Younger's paintings change hands each year around the world -- almost never in his home country. Dubbed "Farmers' dinner in the open air", the picture sold Wednesday represents a village scene from the early 17th Century. It was found in a château near Huy in Wallonia as the deceased owners' estate was being tallied up. The heirs -- a total of eight children -- had no idea that the family art collection passed down through at least three generations included such a renowned painter, Legia founder Vincent de Lange told AFP. ... More | | 
Banksy, Show me the Monet, 2005. Est. £3-5million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- An oil painting by British street artist Banksy parodying a Claude Monet masterpiece sold in London on Wednesday for £7.6 million, the second highest price at auction for the mysterious artist. The oil on canvas work, "Show Me the Monet", a modern take on Monet's impressionist classic "The Water-Lily Pond", sold for £7,551,600 ($9.8 mn, 8.4 mn euros) at Sotheby's following a bidding battle. "The hammer came down after five determined collectors battled for nearly nine minutes to drive the final price beyond its estimate of £3,000,000-5,000,000 to become the second highest price for the artist at auction," Sotheby's said. The sale comes a year after a Banksy painting depicting the British parliament populated by chimpanzees smashed the record for the street artist by fetching nearly £9.9 million. On that occasion the 2009 work entitled "Devolved Parliament" attracted a 13-minute battle between 10 different bidders. "Show Me the Monet" was created in 2005, ... More | | 
Technicians install a Jacob Lawrence painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Metropolitan Museums celebrated exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle has drawn many visitors, but recently one of them had a revelation: She suspected that one of five panels missing from the artists original series of 30 reexamining the nations early history had been hanging in her neighbors Upper West Side apartment for decades. She returned home and encouraged them to contact the museum. The neighbors had purchased the small painting by the renowned Black artist for a very modest sum at a friends Christmas charity art auction in 1960, to benefit a music school. They are an elderly couple and asked the Met and The New York Times that they not be identified to protect their privacy. They are not art collectors; they had only become aware that their painting ... More |
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| | Doyle to auction Old Master Paintings & Drawings on October 28 | | Sotheby's offers Alberto Giacometti's monumental 'Grande Femme I' in special sealed bid private sale | | 2 broke artists started a bakery at home. It's a pandemic hit. | 
Circle of Pieter van Lint, Hercules and Omphale (detail). The Collection of Donald and Leona Kuba.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle's auction on Wednesday, October 28 at 10am will offer Old Master Paintings and Drawings spanning the Italian Renaissance through the early 19th century. The sale will showcase over 100 lots including landscapes, still lifes, portraits and religious and mythological subjects. Highlighting the sale is property from two distinguished collections: the Collection of Donald and Leona Kuba and the Collection of Gustav and Mira Berger The public is invited to the exhibition on view Saturday, October 24 thru Monday October 26 from Noon - 5pm and by appointment at other times. Safety protocols will be in place. Doyle is located at 175 East 87th Street in Manhattan. View the catalogue and place bids at Doyle.com Donald and Leona Kuba shared a gift for art. By profession he was a highly regarded attorney; she was an artist. Both had a keen eye for quality, a delight in discovery, and a scholars interest in the history and meaning of th ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti's Grande Femme I. Bids start at $90 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced In Confidence: A Masterpiece by Alberto Giacometti, a sealed bid private sale offering of the artists monumental Grande femme I. The sale is open for confidential bidding starting today through 27 October, in advance of Sothebys marquee Evening Sales of Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art 28 October in New York. Grande femme I is one of a series of four monumental female figures, each standing approximately nine-feet tall, which Giacometti created for an unrealized outdoor sculpture installation in Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York. A lifetime cast created in 1960, the sculpture is the finest and grandest in scale by Giacometti to come to market since the record-breaking sale of L'homme au doigt in 2015. The sealed bid process represents an open, competitive, and timed private sale, in which all interested parties must file their interest with a sealed best bid offer. All qualified ... More | | 
Andrea Ferrero photogrpahs a cake jar at her business, Cuarantena Baking, in Mexico City, Sept. 5, 2020. Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times.
by Natalie Kitroeff
MEXICO CITY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A toaster oven may not be the ideal gadget for starting a full-fledged bakery, but this is a pandemic and everyone is doing their best with what they have. And what two artists in Mexico City had was a $42 toaster oven. We were broke, said Andrea Ferrero, shrugging her elbows out of a bowl of cake batter. We bought it on credit. Like legions of others around the world stuck in coronavirus lockdown, Ferrero and her boyfriend, David Ayala-Alfonso, began baking several months ago to escape unrelenting boredom. They turned out to be very good at it. So they started an addictive Instagram account, Cuarentena Baking, or Quarantine Baking, to showcase their cookies, cakes and doughnuts. And they have since amassed hundreds of clients. With a viable business, theyve moved ... More |
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| | Flattened basketballs as art | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris exhibits two series of metal paintings by Robert Rauschenberg | | Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett unlikely to perform again after strokes | 
Tyrrell Winston, whose art is often fashioned from discarded items, especially basketballs, at his studio in Queens, Oct. 15, 2020. Brittainy Newman/The New York Times.
by Sopan Deb
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For many of us, the outdoors serve as a refuge a place to gather (at a social distance, of course) and live some sort of normalcy as the pandemic continues to disrupt society. Then there is artist Tyrrell Winston, who has spent years scouring the outside world to gather the material he has made integral to his work. Winstons pieces are typically made with objects he finds outside most commonly, flattened basketballs and cigarette butts. When Im walking down the street, Im seeing art materials, Winston said during a recent Zoom interview. Its literally, What can I use or what can I look at that I have never seen before? Winston, 35, is based in New York City and has no formal art training, but he has made a career out of combining ... More | | 
Robert Rauschenberg, Marsh Haven (Phantom), 1991, Silkscreen ink on anodized mirrored aluminum , 152,5 x 123,2 cm (60 x 48,5 in). © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by Adagp, Paris, 2020. Photo: Glenn Steigelman. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris is presenting an exhibition of Robert Rauschenbergs Night Shades and Phantoms from 1991, two series of metal paintings composed of silk-screened photographic images and gestural strokes on aluminium supports. Made during his decade-long experimentations with metal, these paintings are characterised by their grayscale palette, which ranges from the Night Shades painterly chiaroscuro to the Phantoms mirrored surfaces and ethereal translucency. Rauschenberg creates dream-like imagery which appears and disappears as a result of light, shadows and reflections across the artworks surfaces. The works respond to their surroundings, playing with the viewers perception and bringing the world into the paintings, recalling ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 19, 2006, US musician Keith Jarrett applauds his fans at the end of a jazz concert "Piano solo" at La Fenice theater in Venice as part of the Veneto Jazz 2006 event. MICHELE CROSERA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- One of the world's most vaunted jazz and classical pianists, Keith Jarrett, revealed Wednesday he likely won't perform publicly again after a series of strokes. The 75-year-old -- whose "Koln Concert" album is among the best-selling piano records ever -- told The New York Times that two strokes in 2018 temporarily paralyzed him. "My left side is still partially paralyzed," he said. "I'm able to try to walk with a cane, but it took a long time for that -- took a year or more." Today the pianist can only play with one hand. "When I hear two-handed piano music, it's very frustrating, in a physical way," Jarrett said. "If I even hear Schubert, or something played softly, that's enough for me. Because I know that I couldn't do that. And I'm not expected to recover that. "The most I'm expected to recover in my left hand is possibly the ability ... More |
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| | Mysterious vandal attacks at Berlin museums | | FENIX Museum for Migration acquires iconic relief: Les émigrants by Honoré Daumier | | UK museums fight for survival as virus ravages sector | 
Friederike Seyfried, director of the Egyptian Museum Berlin points to the damage caused by an "oily liquid" leaving visible stains on exhibits in the Egyptian part of the Neues Museum on October 21, 2020 in Berlin. STEFANIE LOOS / AFP.
by Felix Hoffmann
BERLIN (AFP).- Vandals have damaged dozens of artworks and artifacts at some of Berlin's most renowned museums, police said Wednesday, in a stunning attack kept quiet by authorities for more than two weeks. Egyptian stone sculptures and sarcophagi as well as the frames of valuable 19th-century paintings at three institutions on the German capital's UNESCO-listed Museum Island were among more than 60 objects sprayed with an "oily liquid", leaving visible stains, Christina Haak, deputy director of Berlin's state museums, told reporters. National media, which had earlier referred to around 70 damaged objects, called it "one of the biggest attacks on art and antiquities in German post-war history". The state criminal investigation ... More | | 
The bas-relief Les émigrants, which probably originated around 1850, consists of a series of figures, adults and children.
ROTTERDAM.- The famous bronze relief Les émigrants, one of the earliest representations of mass migration, was acquired by FENIX. The maker, French painter, lithographer and sculptor Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) is considered one of the most critical observers of the political and social life of France in the nineteenth century. Les émigrants will be exhibited in the permanent presentation of the future FENIX Museum for Migration in Rotterdam. The bas-relief Les émigrants, which probably originated around 1850, consists of a series of figures, adults and children. A few silhouettes accentuate the foreground; some men carry burdens whose nature is difficult to discern. On the right, the face of a woman disappears behind a hand against her forehead. The relief refers to a classic frieze, monumental and almost heroic. Daumier shows no heroes or gods, but rather a lamentation of hardship and pain, of flight and ... More | | 
This file photo shows visitors looking around the dining room of the Charles Dickens Museum based in a house where the British novelist lived in central London. Carl COURT / AFP.
by Martine Pauwels
LONDON (AFP).- Faced with reduced opening hours, far fewer visitors and plummeting income, London's picturesque Charles Dickens Museum is typical of how British cultural institutions are being financially strangled by the pandemic. The Victorian house in the heart of the British capital where the famous storyteller wrote "Oliver Twist", "The Pickwick Papers" and "Nicholas Nickleby" in the 19th century was eerily empty earlier this week, days after the government ramped up virus restrictions in the city. That is perhaps not surprising. The residence, which houses many of Dickens' personal effects, has only been open three days a week since late July following Britain's months-long nationwide lockdown. Elsewhere, other museums, theatres and concert halls -- from the most ... More |
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Pierre Soulages: 'Peinture 162 x 130 cm, 9 juillet 1961' | Christie's
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 Asia's biggest film fest opens as a shadow of its usual selfBUSAN (AFP).- An anthology paying cinematic tribute to Hong Kong was the highlight Wednesday on the opening day of Asia's biggest film festival, which has been forced largely online by the coronavirus pandemic. The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) usually sees a host of stars and industry players from Asia and elsewhere descend on the port city for 10 days of critical consideration and financial deal-making. But strict conditions imposed this year due to the pandemic mean that while socially-distanced screenings are taking place, there are no opening or closing ceremonies, no red-carpet parades, no after-parties or outdoor fan events. Even so the fact it is taking place at all contrasts with the many international festivals have gone online-only, while some -- such as Cannes -- have been cancelled altogether. This year marks ... More Iceland tourism prepares for a comebackREYKJAVIK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a normal October, the Radisson BLU Saga Hotel in Reykjavik would be buzzing with tourists hoping for a glimpse of the Northern Lights, business travelers in town for trade fairs, honeymooners gearing up for a tour of Icelands waterfalls and geothermal spas. This year, of course, things are very different. Its surreal, said Ingibjorg Olafsdottir, the hotels general manager. Its completely quiet. Since March, even with government support, Olafsdottirs staff has shrunk from 140 to just 16. The hotel, which has more than 200 rooms, normally has an occupancy rate of above 75%, but it fell to 11% in September. Its been emotional, Olafsdottir said, adding that, even after cutting down to bare-bones operations, the hotel continues to rack up debt. But the thing is, I think everybody is in the same boat ... More Exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Magnus EnckellHELSINKI.- Magnus Enckell is one of the key artists of the golden age of Finnish art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and yet only some of his work is known. The Ateneum exhibition offers a diverse overview of Enckells entire oeuvre from five different decades. The exhibition and the book to be published in conjunction with it shed light on the artists many facets. Enckell, on the one hand, promoted radical reforms in art, but, on the other, relied on the traditions of culture and education. He was a dreamer, but also an international man of the world, a curator of exhibitions, the chairman of the Artists Association of Finland, and a creator of monumental works. Music, theatre, and literature were all important to this diversely educated artist. The exhibition presents many previously unknown works, sketchbooks, pieces from Enckells extensive body of drawings, ... More Ruth Falcon, soprano turned master teacher, dies at 77NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ruth Falcon, a soprano who sang leading roles at major international opera houses and went on to become a sought-after voice teacher, mentoring prominent artists including Deborah Voigt, Sondra Radvanovsky and Danielle de Niese, died Oct. 9 in Manhattan. She was 77. The cause was complications of heart disease, her husband, Douglas W. Meyer, said. At her death, Falcon was still working remotely with students around the world, including from Mannes School of Music, where she taught for nearly 30 years. Following an auspicious 1974 debut with the New York City Opera as Micaela in Bizets Carmen, Falcon moved quickly in her career. In 1976, she became a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where her roles included Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze ... More Richard Tuttle represented by David Kordansky GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced its West Coast representation of Richard Tuttle. Over the last six decades, Tuttle has become one of the most representative American artists of the postwar period, occupying interstitial positions between several genres, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and poetry. He consistently opens new possibilities for a variety of mediums and materials, demonstrating how traditional categories of artmaking can function as starting points for unhindered, open investigations into the functioning of perception and language. His early encounters with artists and artworks associated with pop and minimalism laid the groundwork for a project precipitated on reinvention and change. As Tuttle developed a syntax remarkable for the frankness of its physicality and the poetry of its juxtapositions, he created ... More Tornabuoni Art's new Paris gallery presents works by Italian pioneers of visual experimentationPARIS.- The exhibition ITALIA Minimal presents carefully selected masterpieces created by Italian pioneers of visual experimentation between the late 1950s and 70s: Vincenzo Agnetti, Alighiero Boetti, Agostino Bonalumi, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Mario Ceroli, Gianni Colombo, Dadamaino, Lucio Fontana, Emilio Isgrò, Jannis Kounellis, Sergio Lombardo, Piero Manzoni, Paolo Scheggi and Giuseppe Uncini. While there was no defined minimalist movement in Italy, many artists of this time were interested in minimalist ideas - in particular the search for pure form - so current at the time of the space race - which they approached in different ways. As the title of this exhibition suggests, the post-war work by these artists is seen through the lens of Minimalism: a definition which, although traditionally linked to American art, can offer an ... More Michal Chelbin joins ClampArtNEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt announced that photographer Michal Chelbin has joined the gallery's roster of artists. Look out for a new monograph from Damiani in the spring of 2021 to be accompanied by a solo show at ClampArt in New York City. The book and exhibition will feature Chelbin's newest series, "How to Dance the Waltz." The photographs in this recent body of work were shot at Military Boarding Schools, Prom Ceremonies, and Matador Schools over the course of five years. The photographs explore the connection between youth, uniforms, and dress codes. The series examines the role of a young individual in a group who appears to be just another one of the same; the heightened traditional, sexualized roles of boys and girls that come with wearing a uniform; and the performance uniforms force on young people, in general. Originally ... More Artist STIK to fund new wave of public sculpture in HackneyLONDON.- This week Christies are offering an original unique maquette on Friday (23 October) at Christies in London. All the money raised from the sale will go to Hackney Council for the creation of a new groundbreaking public art fund that will commission artists across East London with an inclusive remit. Holding Hands depicts two figures facing in opposite directions yet holding hands in a sign of universal love and solidarity. Traditionally cast in patinated bronze, the four metre outdoor sculpture is roughly twice human height, the hands low enough for the viewer to reach, with legs forming a doorway to pass through. The unique quarter sized bronze maquette of Holding Hands is for sale at Christies in London as part of their Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale. Holding Hands was gifted to Hackney Council by STIK and all the money raised ... More The Foundling Museum stages first ever exhibition by fashion provocateur Jonny BangerLONDON.- This autumn Foundling Museum Trustee and Turner Prize-winning artist, Jeremy Deller, invites Jonny Banger, designer and owner of subversive fashion label Sports Banger, to show the work he gathered from the nations children during lockdown. A selection of over 200 works from The Covid Letters will go on display at the Foundling Museum from Saturday 24 October. As the country went into lockdown, Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, wrote a letter intended for every household in the UK, urging residents to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives. In response, Banger invited young people, under the age of 16, to customise the letter, as a way of articulating their feelings including about the Governments handling of the coronavirus crisis, and the NHS. The social media call out was straightforward: if youve received a letter, design a poster. ... More Los Angeles Modern Auctions sets new records with robust fall auctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions held its first live auction since the Covid-19 outbreak on Sunday, October 18, 2020, debuting an internet-broadcast live auction format. Of the 213 lots on offer, 154 sold, and the auction exceeded pre-auction expectations by realizing $1.9M. The headlining lot, an untitled 1987 Jean-Michel Basquiat work on paper from the collection of American screenwriter Becky Johnston, realized more than twice its high estimate for a selling price of $468,750. Other high-selling lots included John Baldessari's 1963 canvas White X Sign, a turn-of-the-century Henry Moret seascape, the 1973 preparatory work Jeziory (Sketch) by Frank Stella, and Roy Lichtenstein's Modern Head Relief. Among the significant lots sold, several original and editioned works surpassed previous records and expectations. ... More Holabird Western Americana Collections will host a huge 5-day saleRENO, NEV.- Original artwork for what is widely regarded as the very first psychedelic rock poster created in 1965 for the grand opening of the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada and advertising the acid-rock group The Charlatans for a series of dates that never happened is an expected star lot in Holabird Western Americana Collections big, five-day Spooktacular Sale planned for Oct. 29-Nov. 2, online and live in the gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno. Start times all five days are 8 am Pacific time. More than 3,600 lots in a wide array of collecting categories are set to cross the auction block. We continue to get in marvelous collections of Americana from all over the country, and this auction features many amazing one-of-a-kind rarities and several long-awaited collections, like the ones for Ken Prag, Salvatore Falcone and John ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Robert Rauschenberg was born October 22, 1925. Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 - May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993. In this image: Actress and singer Liza Minnelli poses with artist Robert Rauschenberg at the opening of Rauschenberg's silkscreen paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1990.
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