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Some of the debate centers on the identity of the young woman portrayed. Other questions have arisen about what happened to the artwork during the Anschluss, when Austria was annexed into the Third Reich.
VIENNA.- On Wednesday, an auction house in Europe will put a painting by Gustav Klimt up for sale, with a preauction estimate of at least 30 million euros (about $32 million). Whoever buys it will obtain a painting by an artist whose major works rarely come up for sale, but also a portrait whose subject, provenance and current ownership are either unknown, not public or the subject of debate. The auctioneer selling the painting is not an international heavyweight such as Sothebyâs or Christieâs, but im Kinsky, a local house in Vienna whose biggest sale until now was in 2010: $6.1 million, for a painting by Egon Schiele. At a news conference in January announcing the sale of the mysterious Klimt work, Ernst Ploil, co-CEO of im Kinsky, said: âAll is in the dark. Whenever there is an argument for something, counterarguments arise again and again.â ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A 10-panel polyptych on thickly smeared gold by the Chinese artist Yu Hong, exhibiting in the Chiesetta della Misericordia at the Venice Biennale on April 18, 2024. The worldâs longest-running and most extravagant festival of contemporary art opens to the public on Saturday after a preview biathlon of fine art and financial profligacy that has grown more hectic than ever. (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times)
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| Exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac focuses on The Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange | | UBS donates major American landscape photographs to National Gallery of Art | | Poussin scholars confirm £60,000 painting sold by Sloane Street Auctions is primary work by the artist |
Samarkand Stitches #III, 1988. Sewn fabric collage with silkscreening, 157.5 x 104.1 cm (62 x 41 in). Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul, © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / ARS, New York 2021.
LONDON.- Between 1984 and 1991 Robert Rauschenberg undertook a monumental cultural exchange programme to foster mutual understanding between different cultures through artistic expression. The Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI), pronounced Rocky after the artists pet turtle, foregrounds his conviction ... More | |
Arthur Rothstein, Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Gelatin silver print, image: 21.7 x 21.5 cm (8 9/16 x 8 7/16 in.) sheet: 25.3 x 25 cm (9 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of the UBS Art Collection 2023.30.124
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has received 166 19th- and 20th-century photographs from the UBS Art Collectionthe largest gift from UBS to a museum to date. The group of photographs was assembled in the 1990s by John Szarkowski, a photographer, curator, and former director of the department of photography at the Museum ... More | |
The oil painting that scholars now confirm was painted by Nicolas Poussin, and for which the British Museum holds a preparatory study. It sold at Sloane Street Auctions on April 18 for a double top estimate £60,000.
LONDON.- A painting thought to be by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) has doubled its top estimate to sell for £60,000 at Sloane Street Auctions in London. Showing a satyr with a nymph on his back, the 40 x 30in oil on canvas belonged to the late Lord Eldon (1805-54), grandson of the 1st Earl of Eldon, the Lord Chancellor under George III and George IV, from whom ... More |
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| Miyako Yoshinaga opens last exhibition before closing gallery space | | This lava tube in Saudi Arabia has been a human refuge for 7,000 years | | Exhibition sheds new light on one of the world's most iconic artists |
Hitoshi Fugo, Kami 20, 2001. Gelatin silver print, printed in 2023 21 3/8 x 16 7/8 in / 54.3 x 42.9 cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs © Hitoshi Fugo, Courtesy: MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Miyako Yoshinaga is presenting its final exhibition, KAMI by Hitoshi Fugo, before the gallery closes its door to the public on its 25th anniversary. The exhibition will be on view until June 1, 2024. Miyako Yoshinaga will continue representing its artists and further announcements will be made after June. Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo (b. 1947)s still-life studies ... More | |
In an eight images combo provided by Stewart et al., 2024, Plos One, eight views, with the bottom four traced for clarity, of identifiable animals in the rock art of Umm Jirsan. (Stewart et al., 2024, Plos One via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When ancient humans pushed into the Arabian Peninsula, they found a world marked by magma. Swaths of it once erupted from volcanoes, leaving a landscape of craters and frozen lava flows. Many of these seemingly otherworldly volcanic fields are adorned with archaeological remains from small dwellings to colossal ... More | |
Robert Indiana, The Sweet Mystery, 1960-62. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches (182.9 x 152.4 cm) Photo: Courtesy of Tom Powel Imaging, New York; Artwork: © Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
VENICE.- Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery, an official Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia presented by Yorkshire Sculpture Park, opened to the public on Saturday, 20 April in the historic and central Procuratie Vecchie, recently restored by Pritzker Prize- winning architect David Chipperfield. ... More |
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| Ahlers & Ogletree announces highlights included in Fine Jewelry & Watches Auction | | Jawbone in child's rock collection linked to Marine who died in 1951 | | Roland Auctions NY to offer the collection of Baroness Gabriele Langer von Langendorff |
2021 Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona 'Paul Newman' 38mm watch in 18k yellow gold with a Swiss-made perpetual movement and three subsidiary dials (est. $45,000-$75,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- A spectacular 6-85-carat diamond and ruby wedding ring set, a handsome Rolex Daytona Paul Newman watch in 18k yellow gold, and a whimsical pair of Van Cleef & Arpels mop dangle Alhambra earrings are just a few of the wonderful items up for bid in Ahlers & Ogletrees Fine Jewelry & Watches auction, featuring the Dobson ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Ramapo College of New Jersey shows Capt. Everett Leland Yager. (Ramapo College of New Jersey via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A jawbone found in a childs rock collection in Arizona more than two decades ago belonged to a Marine who died in California in 1951 and was buried in Missouri, authorities said Friday. Everett Leland Yager, a U.S. Marine Corps captain, was 30 years old when his plane crashed during a training exercise July 31, 1951, the Yavapai County Sheriffs Office in Arizona ... More | |
Gold and simulated Gemstone Suite inspired by Elizabeth Taylors Daisy Parure Reine Marquerite. Est. $15,000-25,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY will now present their next very high-profile auction, the collection of legendary New York socialite Baroness Gabriele Langer von Langendorff, on May 4th, 2024 at 10am. The Baroness own personal collection, coming mostly from her two residences at The Pierre Hotel and another NYC Upper East Side apartment, will now be offered at auction, along ... More |
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| ACES Gallery announces Online-Only Spring Estates Auction, May 8th | | Lehmann Maupin's first presentation in Milan features a group exhibition | | The Hispanic Society Museum & Library presents 'The Word-Shimmering Sea: Diego Velázquez / Enrique MartÃnez Celaya' |
Chippendale carved partners desk having an inset red leather top with gilt tooling above two reeded drawers on ball-and-claw feet, 60 inches long by 38 inches wide (est. $500-$1,000).
STAMFORD, CONN.- A collection of important jewelry from a Scarsdale, New York lady led by an impressive festoon necklace; an unusual folk art polychrome carved box discovered in a Chappaqua, New York home; and two paintings by the ... More | |
Mandy El-Sayegh, Burning Square (Golden Yellow), 2024. Oil and acrylic on canvas with collaged and silkscreened elements, gold leaf, and joss paper, 48.43 x 38.58 inches / 123 x 98 cm.
MILAN.- Circolo, art and design platform founded by Nicole Saikalis Bay, presents a new collaboration in Via della Spiga with the leading international gallery Lehmann Maupin, during a key period for both the Italian and the international art systems, ... More | |
La añoranza, las medias (The Yearning, The Socks).
NEW YORK, NY.- The Hispanic Society Museum & Librarythe primary institution dedicated to the preservation, study, understanding, exhibition and enjoyment of the art and culture of the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking worldis presenting The Word-Shimmering Sea: Diego Velázquez / Enrique MartÃnez Celaya, an exhibition of works by contemporary Cuban- ... More |
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Salman Rushdie is again the toast of literary ManhattanNEW YORK, NY.- Three security guards stood along a leafy street in the West Village of Manhattan on April 11, watching as a procession of writers, editors and publishing industry veterans entered the Waverly Inn restaurant for a book party. The security team was present because this wasnt just any book party. It was a gathering for the release of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a new memoir by Salman Rushdie, in which he examines how his life was altered by a violent stabbing nearly two years ago, when he was attacked onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. The episode temporarily placed Rushdie on a ventilator and left him blind in his right eye. (The suspect, Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault.) When Rushdie, 76, arrived in the Waverly ... More Judith Hill sang with pop royalty. Now she is composing her own story.NEW YORK, NY.- The first time musician Judith Hill performed her anguished requiem Black Widow for an audience, she wept, right onstage. The songs title is an epithet that has been directed at her for years by tabloids and trolls because as a vocalist and artist, she had been close with two of pops biggest stars shortly before their deaths. She was Michael Jacksons duet partner and performed at his televised memorial in 2009. And for two years before Princes fatal overdose in April 2016, she was his protegee, collaborator and more. They shared what she has called an intense relationship; he told her he loved her. Princes sudden, accidental death derailed her promising career which he had been guiding and she spiraled into deep grief, depression and self-doubt as online cruelty rained down. It took years before ... More 'Cabaret' Review: What good is screaming alone in your room?NEW YORK, NY.- Just east of its marquee, the August Wilson Theater abuts an alley you probably didnt notice when last you were there, perhaps to see Funny Girl, its previous tenant. Why would you? Where the trash goes is not usually part of the Broadway experience. But it is for the latest revival of Cabaret, which opened at the Wilson on Sunday. Audience members are herded into that alley, past the garbage, down some halls, up some stairs and through a fringed curtain to a dimly lit lounge. (Theres a separate entrance for those with mobility issues.) Along the way, greeters offer free shots of cherry schnapps that taste, Im reliably told, like cough syrup cut with paint thinner. Too often I thought the same of the show itself. But the show comes later. First, starting 75 minutes beforehand, you can experience ... More Saddling up and feeling spry at Martha GrahamNEW YORK, NY.- The Martha Graham Dance Company wont turn 100 until 2026, but evidently its not too early to start celebrating. The company is commemorating the milestone with not one, but three New York seasons, the first of which opened Wednesday at New York City Center. We couldnt fit it into one year, Janet Eilber, the companys artistic director, said in a curtain speech, adding, Were feeling pretty spry for our age. Under the title American Legacies, the season includes a new production of Agnes de Milles Rodeo, her 1942 ballet set on a ranch in the American Southwest; the New York premiere of We the People, choreographed by Jamar Roberts to music by Rhiannon Giddens; and Grahams The Rite of Spring (1984), among other works. Some of this feels more dated or dutiful than spry, but one part of the ... More 'Hell's Kitchen' review: Alicia Keys' musical finds its groove on BroadwayNEW YORK, NY.- There was never much doubt that the Alicia Keys musical, Hells Kitchen, was going to be on Broadway. Keys spent 12 years developing a loosely autobiographical jukebox of her songs, incorporating such hits as Girl on Fire, Fallin and No One. The problem is that while it played to sold-out crowds, the show that premiered at the Public Theater in November had herky-jerky pacing, a few too many groan-inducing scenes, and a second act that lost sight of whatever point the story was trying to make. (In his review for The New York Times, Jesse Green pointed out that, after the intermission, the show tumbled directly into the potholes it spent its first half so smartly avoiding.) Yet here we are now, with Hells Kitchen at the Shubert Theater, a few blocks from where the shows action is set. Having seen the first ... More The Maya Train will get you to all of Yucatán's best spots. But not yet.NEW YORK, NY.- I stepped off the platform at the gleaming new Maxcanú, Mexico, train station, eager to see the magnificent Maya archaeological site of Uxmal. All I needed was a taxi to take me there, a trip of about 30 miles. There are no taxis, said the stationmaster, as we stood on the polished limestone floors of the high-ceilinged station, which was cool and breezy despite the brilliant late-morning sun outside. And I was the third person in two weeks to get off at Maxcanú expecting to reach Uxmal, he said. I was midway through a five-day trip to explore the brand-new Maya Train and several of its destinations in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Designed to run 965 miles (1,554 kilometers) around a loop of 34 stations when completed, the train will whisk passengers in cool comfort through colonial cities, archaeological sites, splashy ... More Cher, Dave Matthews Band and A Tribe Called Quest join Rock Hall of FameNEW YORK, NY.- Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Frampton and Mary J. Blige are part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fames class of 2024, along with Dave Matthews Band, Kool & the Gang, Foreigner and A Tribe Called Quest, the hall announced Sunday. The latest crop of stars will officially join the pantheon in a ceremony Oct. 19 at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, where the halls affiliated museum is also located. The 39th annual group of inductees matches the halls genre and demographic spread of recent years, with a pop diva (Cher), a metal idol (Osbourne), a top funk band of 1970s and 80s vintage (Kool & the Gang), a couple of 90s hip-hop and R&B heroes (Blige, Tribe) and rock mainstays from the boomer (Frampton, Foreigner) and Gen X (Matthews) eras. Of those artists, four were elevated to the hall ... More The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia celebrates its 20 millionth visitorSYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia welcomed its 20 millionth visitor. This significant milestone marks the enduring impact and cultural significance of MCA Australia since its inception. MCA Australia opened its doors in 1991, through a bequest by Australian artist John Power to make contemporary art accessible to all Australians, attracting an estimated 100,000 visitors. Over the past 33 years it has firmly established itself as the leading platform for contemporary art in Australia and beyond, and a much-loved cultural destination for Australian and international audiences alike. The Museum celebrated its major milestone with the MCA Board, advisory groups, staff, artists, supporters, and NSW Minister for the Arts, The Honourable John Graham MLC, coming together to welcome the 20 millionth visitor into the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American model and photographer Lee Miller was born April 23, 1907. Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 - July 21, 1977), was an American photographer. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. In this image: Lee Miller, Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller after the liberation of Paris, Rue de Grand Augustins, Paris, France, 1944. Photographer: Lee Miller. Negative Number: NC0002-1. Notes: DF VB>BW © Lee Miller Archives, England 2015. All rights reserved. ©Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2015.
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