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Items of pre-Columbian artworks to be auctioned are displayed at the Drouot auction house in Paris on September 18, 2019. The Mexican government called for an auction of pre-Columbian art in Paris to be halted, insisting that 95 works going under the hammer are a part of its cultural heritage. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A controversial sale of pre-Columbian art went ahead in Paris on Wednesday despite furious calls from Mexico for it to be halted. The Mexican government filed a formal complaint against the auction of 120 religious and cultural artefacts from several private collections, with UNESCO also urging auctioneers Millon to postpone the sale. But despite a last-minute appeal by Mexico's ambassador for the French authorities to intervene, the auction went ahead, with a statue of an Aztec goddess selling for five times its estimate. The stone figure of Chalchiuhtlicue, the goddess of water and protector of births, went for 377,000 euros ($417,000). Sculpted from volcanic rock, it shows her kneeling and looking at the sky. Another kneeling figure of the Aztec mother goddess Coatlicue sold for 97,500 euros to bring the auction total to more than 1.2 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Labourers clean chandeliers during the restoration of Mohamed Ali Shubra Palace in the Egyptian capital Cairo, on September 12, 2019. Egypt is in the process of restoring the 210-year-old palace of Mohamed Ali Pasha, the Ottoman governor widely considered to be a moderniser. The royal masterpiece was built in 1808 combining western and Muslim styles of architecture. It is opulently furnished with priceless paintings, high ceilings and stunning chandeliers. Fountains and lush gardens surround the palatial complex stretching over 59 acres. Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP
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 | | Hindman hosts Atlanta Collections Auction | | 'Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome' celebrates Caravaggio's influence | | Asheville Art Museum announces first public art installation on its plaza | 
Francois Brunery (Italian/French, 1849-1926), The Latest Gossip. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, 26 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches. Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00.
ATLANTA, GA.- Hindman announced the auction of fine art, photographs, books and manuscripts, Asian, American and European furniture and decorative arts and silver from prominent estates and collectors, including the Estate of Charles S. Ackerman. The auction, featuring almost 600 lots, will take place on Thursday, September 19 at 10AM (ET) at the Hindman galleries located at 668 Miami Circle NE, Atlanta. In addition to reaffirming its visible presence in the vital Atlanta arts community, Hindman is particularly pleased to have been chosen to offer property from the Estate of Charles S. Ackerman at auction. Charles S. Ackerman, the founder and chairman of the storied Atlanta commercial real estate firm Ackerman & Co, has long been recognized as one of the visionaries of Buckhead's modern skyline. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as well as ... More | | 
Peter Paul Rubens, b. Siegen, 1577; d. Antwerp, 1640. Christ on the Cross, ca. 1610. Oil on panel, 45 x 30 3/4 inches. Museum and Gallery at Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC.
ATHENS, GA.- In early-17th-century Rome, painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610) sparked an artistic revolution in the Eternal City. Painters from all corners of Europe traveled to Rome to see his work and emulate his handling of light and dark, use of live models, dramatic staging and striking realism. Caravaggios shocking style drew a huge following and completely altered the Italian baroque period. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is currently showcasing a collection of six paintings that celebrate Caravaggios influence, all on loan from Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina. The exhibition Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome offers a unique opportunity for the public to better understand a pivotal moment in the history of art. The highlight of the exhibition ... More | | 
Artist Henry Richardson poses with his glass sculpture Reflections on Unity, to be installed this Thursday, September 19, on the Museum's plaza.
ASHEVILLE, NC.- Artist Henry Richardson arrives this week to install his glass orb Reflections on Unity, Thursday, September 19. The two-ton sculpture will be the first work installed in the Asheville Art Museums plaza as part of its inaugural public art sculptural exhibition. Richardson chiseled and sanded bonded plate glass to create his orb series. Its made out of a material that you dont see in sculpture in this scale, Richardson says of the bulletproof glass used to create the six-foot work of art. And by placing it on this very large boulder, which is black and angular, youre going to have a sense of mass down below and almost ethereal lightness on the glass orb. My hope is that Reflections on Unity acts as a symbol of what the Asheville Art Museum isa place of unity, explains Assistant Curator Whitney Richardson (no relation to the artist), who played an integral role in ... More |
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| | Exciting estate discoveries highlight Stephenson's Sept. 20 Late Summer Antiques & Decorative Arts Auction | | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens the biggest exhibition so far in Europe of works by Marsden Hartley | | Getty to devote $100 million to address threats to the world's ancient cultural heritage | 
Women's Rolex Datejust Oyster Perpetual wristwatch, stainless steel with Roman numerals, circa 1990. Est. $1,200-$2,500.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA. .- Stephensons Auctions, the Philadelphia areas estate specialists, will close out the summer season with a 484-lot auction of antiques, decorative art and historical memorabilia on Friday, September 20. All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet. We never know what well find when we visit a residence in our region, said Stephensons owner, Cindy Stephenson. In Philadelphia houses we sometimes find collections of items that go back many generations, even to colonial days; and quite often local estates can produce items whose value is far more than what their owners might have thought. It still happens quite often, even in these days where everyone is familiar with Antiques Roadshow discoveries. Every closet, box, attic and basement has the potential of revealing something wonderful, which is why we always enjoy the house-call process. ... More | | 
Marsden Hartley, Adelard the Drowned, Master of the "Phantom",1938-1939. Oil on academy board, 71 Ã 56 cm. Collection of the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. Bequest of Hudson D. Walker from the Ione and Hudson D. Walker Collection.
HUMLEBÃK.- This autumn Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents the biggest exhibition so far in Europe of the American painter Marsden Hartley, an important figure in American art history. It is the first time in 60 years that a retrospective exhibition of the artist can be seen on European soil. The works in the exhibition have been borrowed from the greatest American museums and private collections. The exhibition is thus a large-scale, ambiÂtious venture for Louisiana. Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) belongs among the first major modernist artists in 20th-century America; he was part of an artistic elite through which he moved both in Europe and in his home country. All the same, he is an undiscovered spot on the art-histoÂrical world map viewed from a present-day European perspective. Perhaps because ... More | | 
The Tetrapylon of Aphrodisias, one of the archaeological sites visited during a Connecting Art Histories research seminar led by the University of California, Berkeley. © 2018 J. Paul Getty Trust.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Trust will embark on an unprecedented and ambitious $100-million, decade-long global initiative to promote a greater understanding of the worlds cultural heritage and its universal value to society, including far-reaching education, research, and conservation efforts. The innovative initiative, Ancient Worlds Now: A Future for the Past, will explore the interwoven histories of the ancient worlds through a diverse program of ground-breaking scholarship, exhibitions, conservation, and pre- and post-graduate education, and draw on partnerships across a broad geographic spectrum including Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East, and Europe. In an age of resurgent populism, sectarian violence, and climate change, the future of the worlds common heritage is at risk, said James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul ... More |
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| | Grey Art Gallery opens 'Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection' | | Christie's announces highlights included in its Thinking Italian Evening Auction | | Let me take you down: Strawberry Field opens to public | 
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (Turkish), Full Moon, 1961. Oil and glue on canvas, 50 7/8 x 42 in. Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection. Gift of Abby Weed Grey, G1975.293.
NEW YORK, NY.- Drawing on its remarkable collection of modern Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art, the Grey Art Gallery at New York University presents Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYUs Abby Weed Grey Collection. Featuring approximately thirty to forty artworks from each country, the exhibition examines the artistic practices in Iran, Turkey, and India, from the 1960s and early 70s via selections from the Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art. The first major museum exhibition to bring together modern works from these nations, Modernisms sheds new light on how the featured artists created works that drew on their specific heritages while also engaging in global discourses around key issues of modernity. Assembled by Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery ... More | | 
Alberto Burri, Sacco, 1953. Signed and dated 'BURRI 53' (lower right) burlap, fabric, oil, gold and Vinavil on canvas, 39¼ x 33 7/8in. (99.8 x 86cm.). Estimate: GBP 3,000,000 - GBP 5,000,000 (USD 3,738,000 - USD 6,230,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies Thinking Italian Evening Auction will take place during Frieze Week on 4 October 2019 and directly follows the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction. The auction will be led by Alberto Burris Sacco (1953, estimate: £3,000,000-5,000,000), a rare, early example of the artists famed Sacchi, the iconic series that he began in 1950 and by an early steel work by Lucio Fontana that encapsulates the artists exploration of space, Concetto spaziale (1954, Estimate on Request). Art for Future, Selected Works from the UniCredit Group will be presented across both evening auctions with Enrico Castellani and Giuseppe Gallo starring in Thinking Italian. Mario Schifanos oeuvre during the 1960s was defined by the artists experimentation as he sought to carve out his indefatigable ... More | | 
A visitor writes on the wall alongside the gates to Strawberry Field in Liverpool, northwest England on September 18, 2019. Paul ELLIS / AFP.
LIVERPOOL (AFP).- Beatles fans can now take a trip through the childhood sanctuary of John Lennon that inspired the seminal song "Strawberry Fields Forever", with the former children's home opening its doors to the public. Lennon used to climb over the fence from his aunt's house, where he grew up, and play with other children at the Strawberry Field orphanage. Its importance in shaping Lennon's personality was laid bare in the classic 1967 psychedelic hit. Around 60,000 fans flock each year to the site to have their photographs taken outside the famous red gates, but until now have never been allowed beyond. "The gates are open for good," Major Allister Versfeld, mission development officer of the Salvation Army charity, told AFP. "This is a unique opportunity for people to come and explore the garden.. and just enjoy what many have said; there's a real sense ... More |
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| | Michael Werner Gallery presents Sigmar Polke Objects: Real and Imagined | | Lauren Schell Dickens promoted to Senior Curator at the San José Museum of Art | | Northwestern University opens first media museum in Arab region | 
Pflanze: Holz, Latten, Seidenpapier, Plant: Wood, Slats, Soft Tissue, 1968. Pencil, ink on lined paper, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 21 x 15 cm. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of early sculptures and drawings by Sigmar Polke (1941-2010), one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. Sigmar Polke - Objects: Real and Imagined features a mystifying and important body of work from the 1960s and includes loans from private and public collections. Fascinated by the ambitious inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, Polke imagined monumental works made from plaster, glass, and leaves, as well as sculptures made from everyday items such as potatoes, beer coasters, cardboard, and matchsticks. In one of the artists seminal works, Constructions around Leonardo da Vinci and Sigmar Polke (1969), Polke writes of the possibility of using Leonardos knowledge to place conscious or unconscious emphasis on a period of time in such a way as to form it into a nonmaterial work of art. At once highly conceptual ... More | | 
Dickens has led several key acquisitions to SJMAs growing permanent collection. Photo by Gary Sexton Photography.
SAN JOSE, CA.- Susan Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director of the San José Museum of Art, announces that Lauren Schell Dickens has been promoted to Senior Curator of SJMAs dynamic exhibition program. On staff since joining the Museum as curator in 2016, Dickens most recently co-organized the first major mid-career survey of Rina Banerjee with Jodi Throckmorton of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a ground-breaking exhibition accompanied by a full catalogue that will travel to three additional venues after it closes October 6 at SJMA. Dickens has also spearheaded several major solo exhibitions of note, including Undersoul: Jay DeFeo and Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City, both of which featured accompanying publications. Upcoming exhibitions include With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith, and the first museum exhibition of Bay-Area ceramicist Woody de Othello, opening simultaneously at SJMA on November 1, 2019. In addition, ... More | | 
Installation view of Arab identities, images in film. Courtesy of The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar. Photo by Nick Guttridge.
DOHA.- Located in the heart of one of the most advanced media and communication schools in the world, The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar, which is dedicated to the exploration of journalism, communication, and media in the Arab region, has opened at Northwestern Universitys campus in Doha. The Media Majlis features a multi-screen façade, as well as space where exhibition content and technology converge. The technology elevates visitors' experience by inviting them to participate in a global conversation on a continually changing media landscape. Drawing its name from the traditional Arab majlisor gathering placethe museum seeks to be a vital source of interpersonal communication that connects values of local culture to universal and global concerns. All exhibitions are bilingual in English and Arabic, adding to the museum's global essence and eliminating language barriers from telling the ful ... More |
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 Phillips announces highlights from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Frieze week auctionsLONDON.- Phillips brings together a rich diversity of contemporary artists during its London sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art this October. In tandem with Frieze Week, the Evening Sale will open with a front run of highly sought-after names, including Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Simone Leigh, and Derek Fordjour. Female portraiture will also form a focal point, alongside key works by major figures, including Hurvin Anderson, Mark Bradford, and Rudolf Stingel. Comprising 43 lots, the Evening Sale will take place at 5pm on 4 October, and will be preceded by the Day Sale at 2pm on 3 October. This season, in celebration of Frieze Week, we have focused on bringing those artists of the moment to the fore, positioning them alongside our consistent offering of works by blue-chip contemporary names, said Olivia Thornton, ... More Miró Universe, organised by the Fundació Joan Miró, opens at the Spanish Embassy in Ireland DUBLIN.- Miró considered art an intrinsic part of life, with magical attributes that had to be recovered. To achieve this goal, he did not hesitate to transgress the academic conventions of painting and, like other artists linked to the Surrealist world, he sought inspiration in primitive artistic manifestations: formally simple, yet loaded with sacred connotations. Taking as references prehistoric art, the medieval masters and popular culture, Miró wanted to go beyond the mimetic representation of reality by progressively simplifying forms and leaving only what is essential. This practice gave rise to a singular sign language, which crystallised in the early 1940s and from which he was never to depart. In his work, the night, the woman, the constellations, male and female sexes, the ladder of escape and the bird became expressions of a universe of creation and ... More Bonhams Los Angeles announces its fall 2019 Modern Design │ Art AuctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams Los Angeles presents its fall 2019 Modern Design | Art Sale on Sunday, October 27, 2019, with more than 400 lots spanning the early 1900s to the present day and ranging in style from stark, modern design to high-style Hollywood, and mid-century treasures to Arts and Crafts furniture. Highlights from the sale include: · Tiffany Studios leaded glass windows from the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica the Woodland Landscape Window (estimate: $100,000-150,000) and the Tennyson Landscape Window (estimate: $80,000-120,000). · Property from the iconic Clift Hotel of San Francisco, including custom furniture from the lobby, lounge and nightclub by Philippe Starck, Salvador Dali, and Jean-Baptist Mondino, such as chairs, tables, mirrors and lighting. · A selection of pieces previously owned or designed by mid-century industrial designer ... More Life-size, fully sculpted figures rendered in lacquer and gold powder are on view at Yoshii GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Life-size, fully sculpted figures rendered in lacquer and gold powder are on view in Gen Saratani: Maki-e Sculpture at Yoshii Gallery from September 12 to October 20, 2019. The three-dimensional contemporary works, from 2018-2019, are on an unprecedented scale for this venerable Japanese medium and technique, extending its artistic possibilities to a new level. A master of the traditional medium of lacquer sprinkled with metallic powder, or maki-e, Gen Saratani (b. 1980) has created two dynamic works that reflect a traditional Japanese cultural interest in nature but with a twist, at least to the Western eye. He presents not the serenity of a lotus blossom or a cloudshrouded moon but an impending denouement between predator and prey. Untitled (Snake) shows a snake (a symbol of rebirth in Japanese culture) coiled and draped around ... More Sotheby's Hong Kong presents Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art autumn sales 2019HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong will present more than 230 lots of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art during the Autumn 2019 Sales Series. The Evening Sale on 5 October will spotlight an exceptional grouping of works by Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès from an important European private collection, including the remarkable Women on the Terrace from a highly sought-after period of the artist. Other highlights include museum quality works with impeccable provenance by Indonesian artist Affandi, as well as some of the finest works by established Vietnamese artists including Tô Ngọc Vân, Pham Hầu and Nguyen Gia Tri. Kim Chuan Mok, Sothebys Head of Southeast Asian Art, says, Over the years Sothebys has played a prominent role in bringing to world attention the gems of Southeast Asian art. We continue to impress this ... More Feliciano Centurión's first London exhibition opens at Cecilia Brunson ProjectsLONDON.- Cecilia Brunson Projects is presenting I am Awake, the first London exhibition of the celebrated Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión. Centurión, who died aged 34 in 1996 from the complications of AIDS, was a central figure of the Arte Light movement of the late 80s, linked to the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. These artists were known for their flamboyant, irreverent works that embodied progressive attitudes to sexuality and lifestyle, emerging in tandem with the fall of right-wing dictatorships across Latin America. I am Awake is comprised of a series of works from the artists estate, some of which are being shown publicly for the first time since his death. Taken mostly from the period of his life following his diagnosis with HIV in 1992, the exhibition consists of characteristic embroidered frazadas (blankets), along ... More Debut London solo exhibition of British artist Rebecca Harper opens at Huxley-Parlour GalleryLONDON.- Huxley-Parlour Gallery is presenting the debut London solo exhibition of British artist Rebecca Harper, showcasing five large-scale paintings all produced in 2019. These new works build and expand on themes that Harper has explored throughout her career, particularly ideas of displacement and nostalgia. Harper is interested in how we interact with the world around us, specifically connected to the ideas of transience and alienation. Says the artist: the works contain deep echoes of a personal displacement and narrative. A storm brews, siblings drape on family trees, the figures journey from place to place much like some of my ancestors in exile. The subjects of her recent paintings are situated in what Harper describes as middling space: camping, tree climbing or mid-road trip. Although visually referencing the aesthetic of the classic British holiday ... More Prinseps' saw strong results across their consecutive 8th and 9th auctions of rare books and printsMUMBAI.- Prinseps recent back to back online auctions for books and prints saw strong results across the board with the bidding time extended on multiple lots in the prints auction due to a flurry of last minute bids. The auctions highlighted Prinseps ongoing success in the spaces of rare collectables and modern Indian art. The prints auction, which went live from 10 to 11 September made a total of 47,26,800 INR (including buyers premium) highlights included Somnath Hores Wounds selling for double the high estimate, with the winning bid at 9,00,000 INR. The work is part of the artists paper pulp print series from his experiments in the 1970s.Wounds represent the theme of war, starvation and human suffering, that carry resonance in todays challenging climate. Other highlights of the sale included prints by leading modernists V. S. Gaitonde, Francis Newton Souza and ... More Prison becomes 'second home' for Turkish cartoonistISTANBUL.- Renowned Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart says he has spent as much time in prison and courthouses as he has at work since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power. His latest stint in jail started in April, after an appeals court upheld his sentence of three years and nine months for "helping terrorist organisations". Released last week pending another appeal, Kart told AFP: "For 15 years, prisons and courthouses have become a second home to me." Kart, who was recognised last year by the Swiss Foundation Cartooning for Peace, was among 14 journalists and staff from the renowned opposition paper Cumhuriyet convicted in the case. He was initially arrested in 2016 after Erdogan launched a major crackdown on opponents in the wake of a failed coup. "I have spent almost the same amount of time in court corridors as I spent in the paper. It is very unfortunate," he told AFP. ... More Gallery Henoch opens a group show focused solely on the work of womenNEW YORK, NY.- Gallery Henoch presents The Female Eye, a group exhibition of 11 contemporary female realist painters investigating their present-day truths as womens issues continue to forge to the forefront of modern concern. The exhibition will be on view to the public through October 22nd, 2019. Gallery Henoch, located in the heart of Chelseas Gallery District, has a noted history of championing female artists since its founding by George Henoch Shechtman in the 1960s. The works presented examine reality in its raw, personal minutiae; Alexandra Pacula and Sunghee Jang ruminate on scenes of urban complexity and the sense of self in a fast-paced society, while Patricia Taubs harmonious menagerie inspired by rich traditions of 15th-17th century Duth and Italian painters call for empathy between all living things through themes of animal welfare, ... More Bates College receives $192,000 grant for creation of comprehensive public catalogue of Marsden Hartley artLEWISTON, ME.- Thanks to a major grant to Bates College from a foundation dedicated to the arts, creation has begun of the first-ever comprehensive, publicly accessible guide to all known artworks by Marsden Hartley, a pioneer of American Modernism. During the summer, the New York City-based Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts conveyed to the Bates College Museum of Art the first installment of a $192,000 grant for the creation of the "Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: The Complete Paintings and Works on Paper." The initial phase of the Hartley Legacy Project will be an annotated online catalogue of all known paintings and works on paper by the prolific artist, with publication as a book being a longer-term goal. One of the biggest foundation gifts ever received by the museum, this year's grant is the Bates museum's ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish painter Michael Peter Ancher died September 19, 1927. Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 - 19 September 1927) was a Danish impressionist artist. He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists. In this image: A Christening, Michael Ancher (1888).
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