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NEW YORK, NY.- Now that The Winter Show, the stalwart of antique shows, has eliminated the A word from its name, it might appear that the future use of this word might be in jeopardy. And designers are voicing their opinions. According to Thomas Jayne, Its cooler to be an antiques show than to be a polyglot, adding, The addition of antiques to a room imbues a depth and texture thats unmatched. Its the contrast of antiques juxtaposed with the more modern elements that makes the room extraordinary. Whether on the hunt for an ancient Aztec serpent god, a killer Carlo Bugatti parchment cabinet or a Navajo chiefs blanket, youll find that the AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show, which has no plans of abandoning the word antiques, is a singular one-stop design source for trendsetting designs. As pros and design lovers alike know all too well, this jewel ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On October 25, over a dozen blue-chip galleries open their doors on New York's Upper East Side to kick-off October Art Week. In this image: Didier Aaron, Inc., showcases Study for 'The Greeks and Trojans fighting over the body of Patroclus' by Nicolas-Guy Brenet an oil on canvas executed circa 1781. 32 East 67th Street
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, completes art conservation center | | No Paris self-destruct as Banksy prices stay anchored | | The Schirn Kunsthalle opens first major retrospective on the life and works of Wilhelm Kuhnert | 
Decorative arts studio inside the the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation by Lake|Flato Architects. Photograph © Richard Barnes.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has finished the second phase in its multi-year campusredevelopment plan with the completion of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation. The 39,000-squarefoot, state-of-the-art facility by Lake|Flato Architects brings the Museums distinguished conservation teams together on the main campus for the first time, in one of the largest, continuous spaces for conservation of any public museum. In a related announcement, the MFAH has received $750,000 in renewed art-conservation funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant will be overseen by David Bomford, chairman of the MFAH department of conservation; and Andrew W. Mellon Research Scientist Corina Rogge. It supports a continuing collaboration between the MFAH, the Menil Collection, and Rice ... More | | 
Banksy, Queen Vic - 2004. Sérigraphie sur papier. Non signé et numéroté "408/500". Silkscreen on paper; unsigned and numbered. Hauteur : 70 Largeur : 50 cm.
PARIS (AFP).- Several works by mercurial artist Banksy went under the hammer Wednesday at Paris auction house Artcurial but no work auto-destructed as happened earlier this month at Sotheby's. Artistic jaws dropped after Banksy's audacious prank involving the shredding of his "Girl with Balloon" moments after it fetched £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros) -- a joint record for the maverick, who had hidden a shredder in the frame. Experts said that stunt only added to the value of the work -- but in Paris, matters were much more low key as several oeuvres fetched above their reserve price albeit not by astronomical amounts. Wednesday's auction of 133 lots in all went ahead amid tight surveillance. But this time there was no rip it up and start again from the artist from Bristol, southern England, who has never ... More | | 
Exhibition view. © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2018, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- Wilhelm Kuhnert (18651926) shaped the concept of Africa in Europe and in the United States more than any other painter of his time. In the late 19th and early 20th century, he was one of the first European artists to set out on a number of journeys to the colony of German East Africa, which at that time was still largely unexplored. The drawings and oil sketches of the flora and fauna in the region that he made during these trips served as references for monumental paintings that he later produced in his studio in Berlin. Kuhnert exhibited his works internationally with great success, consequently becoming the leading interpreter of African wildlife. From October 25, 2018 to January 27, 2019, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first major retrospective on the life and work of the artist with some 120 works. Besides studies and paintings from European and American museums, private collections, ... More |
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| The Ukrainian Museum to host gallery talk with Andy Warhol's nephew | | Archives of American Art announces pivotal gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation | | Christie's to offer a masterpiece from the Collection of Mary Tyler Moore and Dr. S. Robert Levine | 
Alexander Motyl (left) with James Warhola at the opening of the exhibition Andy Warhol: Endangered Species. Photo by Yuri Mischenko.
NEW YORK, NY.- Just over fifty years ago, on June 3, 1968, Andy Warhol, the worlds most famous Ruthenian artist was shot and almost killed in his studio in downtown New York. His given name was Andrew Warholaa shy boy of Slavic peasant stock who was born and raised in a deeply religious and cloistered Eastern European community in Pittsburgh, and grew up to be the legendary New York avant-garde artist celebrated around the world. His popularity and, ultimately, his renown, had their beginnings at home in Pittsburgh. As James Warhola tells the story, it was Andy's motherJulia Zavacká Warholawho instilled a love of art in her son and nurtured his talent during his formative years. Andy's nephew, James, was, in turn, an ardent pupil of his uncle Andy's, and became a successful illustrator and author in his own right. As the ... More | | 
Photographer unknown, Toshiko Takaezu, 1974.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, (the Archives) today announced it has received a $5 million gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation to create an endowment to process and digitize material on art and artists from historically underrepresented groups in the Archives collections and the American canon, making them broadly available online. African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and women are typically underrepresented in U.S. museum collections. The gift is among the largest in the history of the Archives and builds on the commitment the Foundation made in June with its announcement of a promised gift to the Archives of the expansive Roy Lichtenstein Foundation records and Roy Lichtenstein papers comprising more than 500 linear feet. Highlights of materials already in the Archives collections that will be prioritized ... More | | 
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #137, oil and charcoal on canvas, 1985 | Estimate: $18-22 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 15, Christies will offer A Masterpiece from the Collection of Mary Tyler Moore and Dr. S. Robert Levine: Richard Diebenkorns Ocean Park #137, 1985. At over eight feet tall, Ocean Park #137 was executed on the largest canvas that Diebenkorn could possibly fit through his studio doors. This monumental painting is one of the final works from Diebenkorns celebrated Ocean Park series and stands as a majestic example of the entirely new language of painting inspired as much by art historical traditions as by the light and landscape of California. Bonnie Brennan, Deputy Chairman, Christies New York, remarked: Mary Tyler Moore was known for her groundbreaking performance as a strong, independent career woman who inspired both the generation that watched her, as well as all woman today, to dream big. It is both a great ... More |
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| Largest ever gathering of 'Igloos' by Arte Povera pioneer Mario Merz opens at Pirelli HangarBicocca | | Christie's announces highlights from the Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art auction | | Survey of paintings and works on paper by Yun Hyong-keun opens at Simon Lee Gallery | 
Mario Merz, Senza titolo, 1985. Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2018. Collezione Merz, Turin. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo: Renato Ghiazza © Mario Merz, by SIAE 2018.
MILAN.- Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Mario Merz, Igloos (25 October 2018 24 February 2019), a show by Mario Merz (Milan, 19252003), bringing together his most iconic group of works: the Igloos, dating from 1968 until the end of his life. Curated by Vicente TodolÃ, Artistic Director of Pirelli HangarBicocca and realised in collaboration with Fondazione Merz, the exhibition spans the whole 5,500 square meters of the Navate and the Cubo of Pirelli HangarBicocca, placing the visitor at the heart of a constellation of over 30 large-scale works in the shape of an igloo: an unprecedented landscape of great visual impact. Fifty years since the creation of the first igloo, the exhibition provides an overview of Mario Merzs work, of its historical importance and great innovative reach. Gathered from numerous private collections and international museums, including the Museo ... More | | 
A Rare Large Ming-Style Blue and White Moonflask, Bianhu, Yongzheng six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1725-1735) Estimate on request. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- On 6 November 2018, Christies Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art auction will present an array of rare works of exceptional quality and with important provenance, many offered to the market for the first time in decades. The season will be highlighted by exquisite imperial ceramics, fine jade carvings, Buddhist art, huanghuali furniture, paintings from celebrated modern Chinese artists, along with works of art from a number of important collections, including The Soame Jenyns Collection of Japanese and Chinese Art. The works will be on view and open to the public from 2 to 5 November. The auction will be led by a moonflask, Bianhu, Yongzheng six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1725-1735) (estimate on request). This magnificent flask is exceptionally large, and takes ... More | | 
Yun Hyong-keun, Burnt Umber & Ultramarine, 2002. Oil on linen, 130.2 x 97.5 cm (51 1/4 x 38 3/8 in.). Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting a survey of paintings and works on paper by Yun Hyong-keun. The Korean artists second solo exhibition with the gallery examines the connection between his painting and drawing practices across the full breadth of a career profoundly connected with the history and culture of his native country. Yun is currently the subject of a retrospective at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea, the first major solo show of the artist at a national institution in Korea. Amongst the leading proponents of the Dansaekhwa art movement, Yuns mature practice began in earnest in the 1970s. He had come of age during a prolonged period of injustice for the Korean people that saw them endure military occupation and civil war. Threatened with execution as a student in the 1950s and imprisoned while ... More |
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| New body of work five years in the making by Rona Pondick on view at Marc Straus | | Rare early Iznik charger makes £5.4 million + 10 new records set for Arab & Iranian art | | Successful sale by Andrew Jones Auctions redefines the auction buying experience | 
Encased Blue Blue, 2015-2018. Pigmented resin and acrylic, 11 1/4 x 7 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (28.6 x 18.7 x 29.2 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus presents its inaugural solo exhibition of Rona Pondick, featuring a new body of work five years in the making. Pondicks new works feature semi-transparent clear blocks encasing her head rendered in brilliant contrasting color. The heads appear in various orientations, sometimes even floating partway out of their evanescent domain. The blocks have subtle contours and worked edges, paying fealty to the sculptors hand. They are made from resin, acrylic and an epoxy modeling compound; new materials for Pondick who experimented endlessly to achieve a harmony of form, color, and emotional depth. One indelible quality of the new work is the use of sonorous color. Each work features a dominant hue and no more than four different colors, for which the work is titled. These are intimate and yet powerful works that shift with our ... More | | 
187 Lots Sold Over Two Middle Eastern Art Sales Bring £11.5 Million / $14.9 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- One of the most important pieces of Iznik pottery remaining in private hands, a large and intact dish circa 1480 appeared at auction for the first time today to make £5,359,950 / $6,937,383 more than 13 times its pre-sale estimate of £300,000-500,000. The rare piece represents a significant discovery in the field of Ottoman art, belonging to the earliest group of Iznik produced at the very genesis of the art form during the reign of Mehmet II the Conqueror. Following a fierce bidding battle between nine collectors that lasted twenty minutes, the charger broke a record for a piece of Iznik pottery and established one of the highest prices for an Islamic work of art. The exceptional charger was formerly in the collection of prolific bibliophile and businessman Max Debbane (1893-1965), who patronised many leading cultural institutions in the town of his birth, Alexandria, as well as serving ... More | | 
German Expressionist painting of factory workers by Anton Toni Wolter, 1879-1929 ($1,060).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Continuing the success of its inaugural auction at Andrew Jones Auctions, the sustainable living and budget friendly DTLA Collections and Estates auction held on October 21 drew a diverse and enthusiastic crowd in the room and online achieving a sell through rate of 95%. The beautifully appointed gallery just a few blocks northeast of USC in downtown greeted clients like VIPs as they enjoyed coffee, muffins and a complimentary lunch while shopping the varied offerings to suit every taste and pocket. There were some deals and steals to be had, but the sale also achieved impressive prices. A German Expressionist painting of factory workers by Anton Toni Wolter, 1879-1929 sold for $1,060 and an Italian School painting of a Venice canal at night realized $2,250. A large suite of Michael Taylor Montecito garden furniture more than tripled its pre-auction estimate and sold for ... More |
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 The Charterhouse commissions unique tapestry designed by childrenLONDON.- West Dean Tapestry Studio is working on a tapestry conceived and commissioned by the Charterhouse, the almshouse and heritage site in London with a strong emphasis on learning. Uniquely but fittingly, the Charterhouse has involved a team of children from St John the Evangelist school in Islington to create the design, working with the internationally acclaimed UK tapestry studios expert weavers. The process is a democratic and accessible way to engage youngsters in a craft that is enjoying a contemporary resurgence. The project has been funded by Neil and Emma Redcliffe. To create the design, Philip Sanderson, Tapestry Subject Tutor and Studio Leader at West Dean Tapestry Studio, and Trainee Weaver Ellie Rudd visited the Charterhouse and ran two workshops with year 5 pupils. Responding to the Charterhouses own tapestries ... More Portrait of Princess Charlotte from the collection of former MP Frank Goldsmith to be offered at auctionLONDON.- Chiswick Auctions' Old Master Paintings sale on October 31, 2018 features a painting that was originally in the private collection of Major Frank Goldsmith MP and close friend of Sir Winston Churchill. The painting titled: Portrait of Princess Charlotte, by the Circle of Sir Thomas Lawrence, was carefully hidden away with other artworks during the war, for fear of it being looted. It will be offered for sale by his granddaughter, the former French actress Clio Goldsmith, daughter of the late Edward Goldsmith. Frank Goldsmith (1878-1967) was born Franck Adolphe Benedict Goldschmidt into the German Jewish Goldschmidt family, in Frankfurt in 1878. He was the son of the multi-millionaire Adolphe Benedict Hayum Goldschmidt. The family moved to London in 1895 and changed their surname to the more anglicised Goldsmith to avoid being ostracized ... More Tampa Museum of Art opens 'Robert Indiana: A sculpture Retrospective'TAMPA, FLA.- On October 25, the Tampa Museum of Art opens the third in its exciting slate of Fall 2018 exhibitions focused on the theme of love. Sponsored by the Vinik Family Foundation, the Season of Love continues with Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective, organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Seth Pevnick, Chief Curator and Richard E. Perry of Greek and Roman Art stated, Robert Indiana is a giant of contemporary art, and it is so exciting to bring this comprehensive exhibition of his work to Tampa. In addition to his widely celebrated LOVE sculptures, which nicely complement the work of Patricia Cronin and Yayoi Kusama in our Season of Love, the exhibition will also introduce visitors to the range of words, numbers, and symbols that populate his highly personal artworks. We are most grateful for the Vinik Family Foundations ... More MarÃa-Elisa Heg to Join HCCC as new Curatorial FellowHOUSTON, TX.- Houston Center for Contemporary Craft announced the appointment of MarÃa-Elisa Heg as the next HCCC curatorial fellow. Heg is an illustrator and cartoonist who has been a co-organizer of Zine Fest Houston since 2012. She is currently a MA candidate in the Arts Leadership program at the University of Houston. In 2009, she received a BA in medieval studies, as well as a BA in visual and dramatic arts, from Rice University. Since then, she has been active in various capacities as an activist and artist, featured in shows at the Blaffer Art Museum, CentralTrak, Hardy & Nance Studios, Matchbox Gallery, and the Caroline Collective. Her research and curatorial interests are rooted in social practice, focusing on strategies for the decolonization of art, self-publishing, and lifting up artists and other groups who have been marginalized in mainstream ... More Tim Van Laere Gallery opens a solo show of works by Ryan MosleyANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents the second solo exhibition of Ryan Mosley, titled Under Moon. Blurring the lines between the figurative, the anthropomorphic and even the abstract, Ryan Mosley (°1980 Chesterfield, lives and works in Sheffield) has created a parallel universe making everyday life fantastical. For this exhibition Ryan Mosley presents a new series of paintings, inspired by the looming presence of the moon. His characters of actors and actresses, flaneurs, dandies, drag acts and dog walkers, inhabit a modernist world where they stage a conversation formed from every conceivable tentative, corner of fact and fiction. Each character shares the same ambiguity and tragedy as the moon they are under. This ambiguity runs through all aspects of Mosleys paintings, from his choice of colours, motifs and patterns to the changing meaning ... More Kunsthalle Wien opens 'Antarctica: An Exhibition on Alienation'VIENNA.- It all began with a brief sketch for a possible motion picture. The glaciers of Antarctica are moving in our direction at a rate of three millimetres per year, the director Michelangelo Antonioni noted in the 1960s. Calculate when theyll reach us. Anticipate, in a film, what will happen. Antonionis Antarctica is a condensed image for a life in which genuine feelings are buried beneath a glacier of rigid convention, a vision of society that was dominant in post-war European film, and continues to inform the work of contemporary filmmakers. Ever sensitive to historys shifting winds and changing social climates, visual art, too, is rife with haunting portraits of the cooling of affect in the age of consumerism. Alienation is a term often employed to describe this phenomenon. Encapsulating a complex state of affairs in a single metaphor, it is nonetheless ... More DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art opens exhibition of works by Jasmina CibicMONTREAL.- Last summer, Montreal celebrated the 50th anniversary of Expo 67, a monumental event that put the city at the centre of the international stage. Jasmina Cibics latest projectcreated expressly for the Foundations exhibition spaces and the Montreal milieuis an immersive installation that explores the production of national culture and its instrumentalization for political aims in the context of 20th Century World Expositions. The exhibitions title, Everything That You Desire and Nothing That You Fear, is drawn from political discussions and agreements in the planning stages of Expo 67 about what each country should show to the international audience. Expo 67 was also the last international exhibition at which the former Yugoslavia had a pavilion prior to its dissolution in the 1990sits final act of staging where the country presented, each time ... More IMMA opens a major retrospective of Mary Swanzy and a new exhibition by Wolfgang TillmansDUBLIN.- IMMA presents two major solo exhibitions, Voyages by Irish born modernist master Mary Swanzy (1882 1978) and Rebuilding the Future by internationally renowned German artist Wolfgang Tillmans. These two IMMA initiated exhibitions exemplify the breadth of the museums programme. Mary Swanzy is arguably Irelands first modernist painter and this is the first major retrospective of her work since 1968. This exhibition aims to reintroduce audiences to Swanzys extraordinary achievements and reinstate her as a Modern Irish Master. Wolfgang Tillmans relationship with IMMA began over 20 years ago, when he first exhibited work at the museum in 1997 as part of a group exhibition of young emerging artists Projects and more recently in 2015 in the popular exhibition What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now. This is his first solo ... More British artist Lucy Smallbone's second ever solo exhibition, Edgelands, opens at Fiumano ClaseLONDON.- Smallbone specialises in modern landscape painting and creates works which investigate the effect of memory in altering our perceptions of a place. She uses bold colour and abstract form to merge fictional and real spaces, creating vivid yet distorted images. The title for the exhibition, Edgelands, describes the transitional, liminal areas of space to be found on the boundaries between man-made and natural environments. Smallbone uses this feeling of never truly having access to the landscape to reflect something that is felt in moments of the sublime in nature. She started her education at Falmouth with a foundation diploma in Art and Design. Then after receiving a 1st class degree in painting from City and Guilds of London Institute, Smallbone went on to complete a masters at the Slade School of Fine Art where she won ... More Decades of war shatter Afghanistan's glassblowing craftHERAT (AFP).- Hunched and shrivelled, Afghan glassblower Ghulam Sakhi deftly blows and twirls molten glass into delicate blue and green goblets and vases -- a craft passed down for generations but now at risk of dying out. Sakhi is one of the last makers of Herati glassware in the eponymous western city where the once-thriving industry has been shattered by decades of war, poverty, and cheap imports. The brick and corrugated iron workshop where Sakhi toils only operates a few days a month owing to the lack of demand for the distinctive coloured glassware that is more expensive than Chinese-made products. "People don't value art," says Sakhi, who is in his mid-40s but looks much older. He began working with his glassblower father when he was seven. Sakhi sits on a low stool next to a wood-fired clay oven, occasionally wiping away sweat as the temperature inside ... More Bidders reel in rare fishing lures at Miller & Miller's October 19th-20th auctionNEW HAMBURG, ONTARIO.- Three green Chippewa spinner lures made around 1910 by the Immell Bait & Tackle Company (USA) brought a combined CA$24,780, and a clever Canadian-made circa 1930 Lurette No. 2 living bait lure was reeled in for CA$3,750 (a new record price for the lure) at an auction held October 19th-20th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The sale was held online and in Miller & Millers gallery at 59 Webster Street in New Hamburg, Ontario. Featured was the single-owner lifetime collection of fishing lures, decoys and reels of the late Bob Ronson. Around 700 of the 724 lots that came up for bid were from Mr. Ronsons vast collection. Including the buyers premium, the two-day sale grossed more than CA$175,000. The auction was fast-paced, with bidders not afraid to jump in and bid immediately, said Ben Lennox, a respected ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso was born  October 25, 2018. Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces during the Spanish Civil War. In this image: Pablo Picasso, La Baignade Paris, 1937. Huile, crayon et craie sur toile, 129.1 x 194 cm. Collection de la Fondation Peggy Guggenheim, Venise Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Photo de David Heald © Succession Picasso 2018
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