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A woman looks at paintings displayed as part of the exhibition entitled "Love", which propose to explore the ways people have loved each other throughout history, on September 25, 2018 at the Louvre-Lens museum in Lens. DENIS CHARLET / AFP.
LENS.- Although love is a universal emotion, the ways of loving are many and have continually evolved throughout history. From one period to the next, changes in romantic relationships have provided an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists. The exhibition at the Musée du Louvre-Lens traces the history of ways of loving, from original sin to the quest for freedom in the 20th century. It is a love story that has inspired by turns adoration, passion, gallantry, libertinage and romanticism. It reveals how, starting out from the stigmatising of the feminine, each successive period rehabilitated women, love, relations, pleasure and emotion, before eventually arriving at the invention of free love. This historical overview, illustrated by a selection of some 250 artworks of art in diverse media and from various civilizations, does not seek to be exhaustive, preferring a more selective approach. Each of the seven sections highlights ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Master framers Eli Wilner & Company celebrates a second year of its commitment of funds to assist not-for-profit institutions with their framing and frame restoration needs at deeply discounted rates. In this image: A master artisan in the Eli Wilner & Company studio uses a sgraffito technique in the creation of an elaborate gilded and painted frame with pastiglia ornament, for a painting in the collection of the Allentown Art Museum.
| Eli Wilner & Company announces second year of Museum Framing Funding | | Whitney Museum announces 417 recent acquisitions | | JMW Turner: Watercolours from Tate opens in Buenos Aires | 
A master artisan in the Eli Wilner & Company studio hand-carves lengths of ripple molding for a large Dutch-style frame being created for a painting by Joseph Wolf in the collection of the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Master framers Eli Wilner & Company celebrates a second year of its commitment of funds to assist not-for-profit institutions with their framing and frame restoration needs at deeply discounted rates. In 2018, the Wilner studio has been working on a wide-range of re-framing and frame restoration projects for several smaller scale institutions, including historical houses and university museums. Most recently, they have completed five replica frames for paintings in the European collection of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, and four replica frames for paintings in the collection of the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University. The Eskenazi projects included the recreation of an artist-made frame for a mixed media collage by Kurt Schwitters. The curatorial team was able ... More | | 
Derrick Adams, King, 2015. Screenprint with gold leaf. Sheet: 30 1/16 Ã 22 1/8in. (76.4 Ã 56.2 cm) Image: 30 1/16 Ã 22 1/8in. (76.4 Ã 56.2 cm) Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 2018.114.2.
NEW YORK, NY.- Demonstrating the dynamic and constantly evolving nature of the Museums collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art announced that the Museum acquired 417 works over the course of the past year. In that period, and as a result of these acquisitions, sixty-two new artists and collectives have entered the collection for the first time. They include Derrick Adams, Yuji Agematsu, Harold Ancart, Sam Contis, Sari Dienes, Mary Beth Edelson, Ja'Tovia Gary, Gran Fury, Marcia Hafif, Harmony Hammond, Sky Hopinka, Adelita Husni-Bey, Sanya Kantarovsky, Marlon Mullen, Juan Antonio Olivares, Walter Price, Marlon Riggs, Suellen Rocca, Bunny Rogers, Ming Smith, Sable Elyse Smith, Kyle Thurman, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, among others. Many were featured in recent exhibitions, including An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the ... More | | 
J. M. W. Turner, Venice: Looking Across the Lagoon at Sunset, 1840 (detail). Watercolour on paper, 244 x 304mm. Tate.
BUENOS AIRES.- JMW Turner: Watercolours from Tate is the first major exhibition of the work of Turner in Latin America, and the first Tate exhibition to be shown in Argentina. It opened today, 26 September 2018, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. J.M.W. Turner is undisputed as the greatest exponent of English watercolour in its golden age. This exhibition, curated by David Blayney Brown of Tate Britain, one of the worlds leading experts on Turner, reveals the role watercolours played in the artists life and work. Turner rarely left home without a rolled up, loose-bound sketchbook, pencils, and a small travelling case of watercolours in his pocket. He exploited the mediums luminosity and transparency like no one before him, conjuring light effects on English meadows and Venetian lagoons and gauzy mists over mountains and lakes. The exhibition comprises more than 80 works from Tates collection, including la ... More |
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| Getty acquires Betye Saar archive, launches African American Art History Initiative | | Sotheby's to offer property from the country home of Christopher Cone and Stanley J. Seeger | | The Art Institute of Chicago opens the first major exhibition to focus exclusively on the Hairy Who | 
Betye Saar in her Los Angeles studio, 2015; photo: Ashley Walker; courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced the establishment of the African American Art History Initiative with the acquisition of the archive of world-renowned artist Betye Saar (American, b. 1926). The African American Art History Initiative is an ambitious program to establish the Getty Research Institute as a major center for the study of African American art history. In addition to acquiring archives and related original sources, the initiative will establish a dedicated curatorship in African American Art History, a bibliographer with a specialty in the subject, annual research graduate and post-graduate fellowships, a program to conduct oral histories of notable African American artists, scholars, critics, collectors and art dealers, and partnerships with other institutions to digitize existing archival collections and collaborate on joint conferences, publications, and research projects. The ... More | | 
Marilyn Monroes wicker picnic basket. Acquired by Cone as a present for Seeger from the sale of Monroes effects in 1999. Estimate: £600-800. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Stanley J. Seeger (1930-2011) was one of the greatest post-war collectors of our time. Together with his partner of 32 years, Christopher Cone, the pair created a series of truly unique homes in England and around the world, where the sheer joy of their collecting was very much in evidence. This passion resulted in the accrual of a very special collection and a number of momentous sales at auction. On 30 October, more than 200 items from the extraordinary collection they housed in an idyllic property deep in the British countryside will be offered for sale at Sothebys in London, under the title A Private View: Property from the Country Home of Christopher Cone and Stanley J. Seeger. The forthcoming sale features pieces which held poignant significance for both Cone and Seeger, who lovingly cherished them through the years. Packed with delights, the sales ... More | | 
Karl Wirsum, Screamin Jay Hawkins, 1968. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund. © Karl Wirsum.
CHICAGO, IL.- In the late 1960s, six boldy unconventional Chicago artists showcased their work at the Hyde Park Art Center. Inspired by the citys vernacular, cultural, and political fabric,Jim Falconer (b. 1943), Art Green (b.1941), Gladys Nilsson (b. 1940), Jim Nutt (b. 1938), Suellen Rocca (b. 1943), and Karl Wirsum (b. 1939) each transformed popular imagery into highly personal and technically virtuosic artworks. Self-organized and self-named, Hairy Whos distinctive style permanently transformed the cultural landscape of Chicago at a time when Pop Art and Minimalism dominated the American art scene. From September 26, 2018 through January 6, 2019, the Art Institute of Chicago features these six artists on the fiftieth anniversary of their final exhibition in Chicago. The first major exhibition to focus exclusively on the Hairy Who, this comprehensive survey features large-scale paintings, ... More |
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| Elmgreen & Dragset reveal The Whitechapel Pool | | The de Young Museum's collection of vintage hats headlines Michaan's October Gallery Auction | | Disappearing act: What happened to Hong Kong's Umbrella Art? | 
Elmgreen & Dragset, The Whitechapel Pool, 2018. Installation view. Courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery. Photo: Jack Hems.
LONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery has today unveiled the transformation of its ground-floor gallery into a vast, eerily abandoned public swimming pool. The Whitechapel Pool (2018) is a large-scale site-specific installation created by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. It relates to the gentrification of Londons East End and is created especially for Whitechapel Gallery as part of This is How We Bite Our Tongue, a major survey exhibition of the artists work opening tomorrow until 13 January 2019. The commission is accompanied by a fictional narrative charting the swimming pools rise and fall, from its philanthropic founding in 1901 to its rise as a famed public amenity and its politically sanctioned and commercially driven decline. The Whitechapel Pool is empty of water, its municipal tiles grimy and plaster peeling. Visitors to This is How We Bite Our Tongue are immediately ... More | | 
Featuring a selection of Vintage Hats from The deYoung Museum, San Francisco.
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions partnered with San Franciscos The de Young Museum in the sale of more than 200 vintage hats, recently deaccessioned from the museums Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts. These historical pieces, each meticulously conserved and catalogued by The de Young curators, will be offered at Michaans live Gallery Auction at 2751 Todd Street in Alameda, CA, and online, on Saturday, October 13. Throughout fashion history, the hat has often served as an outfits finishing touch, says Laura Camerlengo, Associate Curator of Costume and Textile Arts for The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Vintage hats, made during the heyday of hat-wearing, can give extra panache to an ensemble, whether you enjoy wearing retro fashions or embrace contemporary trends. Imagine the impact of the mid-century black fur felt toque with grey chinchilla ... More | | 
In this file picture taken on October 5, 2014, the statue "Umbrella Man" by the Hong Kong artist known as Milk, is set up at a pro-democracy protest site. ALEX OGLE / AFP.
HONG KONG.- Illuminated under a spotlight at London's British Museum, hand-drawn sketches of Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement are part of a new exhibition on dissent that offers a rare glimpse of the artworks produced during the pro-democracy rallies. The months-long demonstrations, which kicked off on September 28 four years ago, brought parts of the city to a standstill as protest camps took over areas normally clogged with traffic and commercial hustle. Images of some of the thousands of posters, banners, drawings, sculptures, shrines and caricatures that adorned walls, bridges and roads in the tent-filled camps have been gathered online and in library archives. But the original works have largely fallen out of view. With Beijing tightening its grip on the semi-autonomous city and fears that ... More |
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| Christie's announces a season of masterworks and prestigious collections during FIAC | | Tim Van Laere Gallery builds a new space designed by OFFICE | | Record Kerry James Marshall 'Study' tops Sotheby's $31 million Contemporary Curated auction in New York | 
Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attessa, Nudo, 1959. Peinture à leau et huile sur toile, 20 x 15 cm. Estimate: 250.000-350.000.
PARIS.- Christies France will celebrate the third edition of its dedicated 20th century sale season during the week of FIAC, the international contemporary art fair that animates the city, from October 18th to October 21st 2018. During this exceptional week, Christies will offer international collectors three auctions presenting over 200 lots by leading international artists with a global estimate of 25 million. Last year, Christies realised an exceptional three-day auction season including the exceptional Grande Femme II by Alberto Giacometti selling for 25M. During this busy week, Christies also presented the Prat Collection which totalised 36,5M and where Jean-Michel Basquiats Jim Crow became the most expensive painting sold in France in 2017 and the most expensive painting by Basquiat ever sold in France, fetching 15M. François de Ricqlès, President of ... More | | 
For the new building, Tim Van Laere Gallery collaborated with the Belgian architects OFFICE David Van Severen and Kersten Geers.
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery moves after 20 years to a new building on the Antwerp Nieuw Zuid. The new gallery is designed by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen. The opening of the new building is planned for the spring of 2019. As an autonomous pavilion, the new building will be part of a green and sustainable urban development on the Nieuw Zuid, a Triple Living project. In it, the gallery will occupy a unique position, not only through the characteristic architecture of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen and the location within the Nieuw Zuid district, but also through the function of the building. Landscape architect Bas Smets will integrate the new building project with the neighboring square into the master plan of the district. "It really becomes a building tailored to art and the artists. They remain the most important motivation for me, "explains Tim ... More | | 
Kerry James Marshall, Study for Past Times (detail). Sold for $1.8 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys Contemporary Curated auction concluded last night in New York with a total of $31 million the highest-ever total for the auction series since it was introduced at Sothebys in 2013. Charlotte Van Dercook, Head of Sothebys Contemporary Curated auctions in New York, remarked: We are thrilled with the results from todays auction, which saw our highest total since we began the Contemporary Curated auction series in September 2013. The sale brought outstanding prices for both established and emerging artists alike, and with particular strength in the market for works by African American artists including Kehinde Wiley, Faith Ringgold, Sam Gilliam and many others. We also established several auction records, including a record for a work on paper by Kerry James Marshall; a record for a Scramble by Frank Stella and a record for a work by Anne Truitt. We look forward to continuing this success as ... More |
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 Hood Museum of Art enters final phase of renovation and expansion; prepares for Jan. 26 opening HANOVER, NH.- As the Hood Museum of Art prepares for its January 26, 2019, reopening in its renovated and expanded facility, gallery reinstallation is well underway. The new center for object study, which houses three classrooms, and the public atrium that ties the Dartmouth Green to the campus arts district will open for use in early January by students and faculty. The galleries will reopen on January 26 with a celebration that is free and open to the public. Designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners (TWBTA), the expanded museum ties together the Colleges academic and research priorities with an emphasis on the arts at Dartmouth. The Hoods encyclopedic collection is one of the largest of its kind in the United States, comprising more than 65,000 works spanning a variety of media and historical periods. The renovation and expansion ... More New public artwork by Do Ho Suh appears on a footbridge in the City of LondonLONDON.- An ambitious new installation by Korean artist Do Ho Suh (b.1962, South Korea) was unveiled this week on a footbridge above Wormwood Street one of the busiest roads in the City of London, near Liverpool Street Station. Invited by Art Night and Sculpture in the City to respond to the migrant history of the East End and the City of London, Suh has created Bridging Home, London, a replica of a traditional Korean house, his childhood home, and surrounding bamboo garden, which appears to have fallen onto the Wormwood Street footbridge. Suhs first large-scale outdoor installation in the capital, Bridging Home, London reflects the artists own experience of moving across continents and between cultures, and continues his career-long investigation of memory, migration, the multiplicity of the immigrant experience, and home as both a physical ... More Burri masterwork to be sold in Phillips' Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced that Alberto Burris monumental Grande legno e rosso will be offered as a highlight in the Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in New York on 15 November. Executed in 1957-1959, the work has remained in the same private family collection for over fifty years since its acquisition from the renowned Galleria La Tartaruga in Rome, shortly after it was first exhibited there in 1957. With an estimate of $10-15 million, it is poised to break Burris auction record during its first-ever public sale. Grande legno e rosso is a prime example from one of Burris most celebrated periods, said Hugues Joffre, Phillips Senior Advisor to the CEO. A picture of exceptional quality, the sale of Grande legno e rosso presents an exciting opportunity for collectors of Italian post-war art to acquire a true masterwork from Burris body ... More Godward masterpiece top lot at Bonhams 19th Century Paintings saleLONDON.- Dolce far Niente, a masterpiece by the reclusive and tragic Victorian Neo-classicist painter John William Godward, was sold for £248,750 at Bonhams 19th century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art in London today (Wednesday 26 September). It had been estimated at £200,000-300,000. The sale made more than £2,000,000. Godward (1861-1922) often depicted young women striking studied poses against meticulously rendered classical landscapes, very much in the style of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, under whom he studied. Rejected by his family who disapproved of his life as an artist, he spent much of his career in Italy, returning to England in 1921, a year before he committed suicide at the age of 61. Other sale highlights included: Little Fatima, by Frederic, Lord Leighton (British, 1830-1896). Estimated at £100,000-150,000, ... More Leica revives iconic Soviet Zenit cameraMOSCOW.- German camera manufacturer Leica is reviving the legendary Soviet Zenit camera more than 30 years after its mass production ended, with a new digital model unveiled on Wednesday. The new camera, showcased at a photography exhibition in Cologne on Wednesday, will be available from December in Europe and from January 2019 in Russia. The design of the new Zenit M is inspired by the Soviet Union's Zenit and Zorki cameras -- which, in turn, had ironically been inspired by Leica. The new camera will be jointly produced by Russia and Germany and will sell for 5,000 to 6,000 euros ($5,900-$7,000). "The main target audience is luxury and amateur photographers," a spokesman for the Russian holding company Shvabe told AFP, insisting that the cameras will be worth their price tag. "The price of the product will be absolutely adequate, taking into ... More Rarely seen propaganda posters from WWI to Cuba and Clinton will be sold in rare poster auctionNEW YORK, NY.- A collection of over 50 rare, original propaganda posters will be auctioned on Sunday, October 28th, by Poster Auctions International, Inc., as part of the firms Rare Poster Auction #76. The collection includes World Wars I and II, the inter-war period, the beginnings of the Cold War, the Cuban Revolution and more. The sale overall will feature 475 lots, to include lithographs, maquettes, oil paintings and illustrations, plus rare books, with item estimates ranging from $500 to $350,000 a wide range catering to all level of collector, from the beginner to the seasoned veteran. The sale will be held online, at posterauctions.com, and in the gallery, at 11 am Eastern. The PAI gallery is located at 26 West 17th Street in New York City, in lower Manhattan. Artists in the catalog will be instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with ... More Bowdoin Museum opens multi-media commission by artist linn meyersBRUNSWICK, ME.- The Bowdoin College Museum of Art commissioned a site-specific, multi-media art installation unveiled this fall. Washington, D.C.-based contemporary artist linn meyers created a large-scale wall drawing entitled Lets Get Lost, while serving as the 2018 halley k. harrisburg 90 and Michael Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residence at the College. Concurrently, interaction and sound artists Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles, along with meyers, created an interactive sound installation, Listening Glass, that corresponds with the wall drawing and features acoustic components activated through audience participation. The works are being exhibited together as Lets Get Lost and Listening Glass at the Museum for a year from September 27, 2018 through September 29, 2019. For nearly 20 years, linn meyers has created large-scale ... More H&H Classics to offer a 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash 5hp Runaround LONDON.- For the modest amount of £34,000 to £37,000 (estimate) you could be the proud owner of this 115 year old piece of automotive history. They are not making them anymore so its a great conversation starter and investment both financial and fun. If you are the lucky bidder on this lot come October 17th at the H&H Classics Auction at IWM Duxford you will have a fortnight to get this beauty ready for action. And if you already own some good wet weather gear and a deerstalker hat you will look the business come the start of the Run on November 4th. The car is Registration No:AR 245, Chassis No:8691 and it is of course . MOT:Exempt Back in the day it was originally exported to Australia where it carried passengers around some very rough and ready roads. It arrived back on our shores in the 1960s and since then has been ... More Six 'must-have' masterpieces at the next Fine Arts Paris fair include works by Manet & RodinPARIS.- Fine Arts Paris will offer many reasons to travel to the City of Light in the dark days of November 7th to 11th and six items on sale during this second holding of the art fair are each in their own right reason enough to go. For art lovers Fine Art Paris is a must. Fine Arts Paris has commanded the attention of the art world in what is only the second running of this new Paris based event run in partnership with the major French museums including the Louvre, Petit Palais, Centre Pompidou, Zadkine, Bourdelle, Rodin and Maillol museums. This new fair, organized by the Salon du dessin team in partnership with Paris Tableau offers a mix of established dealers and emerging galleries, plus partnerships with museums, cultural program and a strong presence of overseas art galleries. Currently there are already more than 40 foreign galleries booked to attend. ... More Rediscovered Fu Baoshi leads Bonhams Fine Chinese Paintings sale in Hong KongHONG KONG.- A rediscovered masterpiece by the Chinese master Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), Spring Morning at Mount Shao, painted in 1961 and unseen in public since 1968, leads the forthcoming Fine Chinese Paintings auction on Monday 1 October in Hong Kong. This masterpiece is the artists largest existing painting on this subject matter and has captured the attention of worldwide collectors. Marking its debut at auction, this piece comes from the distinguished private collection of a British collector, who bought it in Hong Kong more than half a century ago and displayed it as the prized centrepiece of his living room. The piece returns to Hong Kong alongside a further four pieces from this collection, including a further two paintings from Fu Baoshi Appreciating the Chrysanthemum Under the Pine Trees (1945) estimated at HK$4,000,000 - 6,000,000 and Mount Shao (1965) estimated at ... More Sotheby's to offer judge's copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover, used in celebrated trial in BritainLONDON.- The 1960 Chatterley trial, the court case that heralded the transformation of the 1960s and helped to bring to birth a more liberal and permissive Britain, stands as a defining moment in British history. Marking the end of one epoch and the opening of another, it is justly regarded as the most celebrated obscenity trial in British literary history, during which D.H. Lawrences infamous novel, Lady Chatterleys Lover, came under the spotlight and caused a media sensation from Land's End to John O'Groats. It was the trial that sold two million books, but one copy holds a unique place amongst all the others. The judges copy, annotated for him by his wife, and housed for purposes of discretion in a damask bag with ribbon tie, is far from the only copy of the book to have been read with particular attention to the sex scenes, but as a document of the event, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas died September 27, 1917. Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. In this image: Darcey Bussell poses with Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.
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