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The auction will take place at the Carmelite Monastery, 15 Mt Carmel Road, Danvers, MA.
BEVERLY, MASS.- Kaminski Auctions announced a unique on-site auction event on August 17, 2024, showcasing the extraordinary contents, garden ornaments, and stunning stained-glass windows of the monastery of the Carmelite Nuns located in Danvers, Massachusetts. Established in 1958 on land formerly occupied by a golf course, the Danvers monastery was opened under the guidance of His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, DD, LL.D. A year later, Bishop Fenwick High School was constructed on the adjacent property, which sits at the intersection of Danvers, Salem, and Peabody. The chapel of the monastery is now permanently closed, and this auction marks a rare opportunity to acquire ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940-1980, on view at The Museum of Modern Art from March 8 through September 22, 2024. Photo: Robert Gerhardt.
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| Two Jean Dufy paintings take the top spots at Roland Auctions NY July 27th Summer Auction | | Woody Auction to offer outstanding examples of furniture, art glass and more | | Cape Ann Museum launches campaign with $18 million raised - setting sights on $20 million |
Jean Dufy (French, 1888-1964) Place de la Concorde, oil on canvas. Sold for $46,875.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY hosted their Mid-Summer eclectic Multi-Estates Auction on July 27th, with Fine and Contemporary Art once again taking the lead. Two Jean Dufy (French, 1888-1964) oil on canvas paintings were the high-sellers of the day, which both had already received a lot of pre-auction attention. Just following the Fine and Contemporary Art, most notable items were from the decorative arts and furniture arenas. In recent years ... More | |
Original bronze Lily Pad 12-light lamp marked Tiffany Studios, all 12 gold favrile shades marked LCT, 20 inches tall, with fantastic patina and original switch hardware (est. $15,000-$20,000).
DOUGLASS, KAN.- An original 12-light Tiffany Studios Lily table lamp, stunning late 19th or early 20th century French cameo art glass vases signed Galle and Daum, and a lovely French cameo art glass boudoir lamp signed Daum Nancy are just a few of the outstanding items bidders will compete for in an antique auction planned for Saturday, August 24th, by Woody Auction, ... More | |
J.J. Bell, Caroline Hovey, Oliver Barker, Henrietta Gates. Courtesy Cape Ann Museum.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- Building on the generous support of the Museums Board, donors, and supporters amid growing momentum for general Museum operations, Director Oliver Barker and Henrietta Gates, Board Chair, announced that the institution has generated over $18 million in campaign commitments. This significant support will fund renovations to its Downtown facility, provide upgrades to the CAM Green campus, enhance programming, and augment ... More |
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| 'The 80s: Photographing Britain' opens this November at Tate Britain | | Archaeologists find a 2,400-year-old 'pot of gold' in Turkey | | Blue: Art for the Ocean - Blue Marine Foundation and Christie's unite to auction artist-donated works |
Roy Mehta, From the series Revival, London, 1989-1993. Roy Mehta, Courtesy of the artist and LA.
LONDON.- This autumn, Tate Britain will present The 80s: Photographing Britain, a landmark survey which will consider the decade as a pivotal moment for the medium of photography. Bringing together nearly 350 images and archive materials from the period, the exhibition will explore how photographers used the camera to respond to the seismic social, political, and economic shifts around them. Through their lenses, ... More | |
One side of an ancient Persian daric, or gold coin, from the fifth century B.C. (Notion Archaeological Project/University of Michigan via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- It is the late fifth century B.C. and a mercenary soldier kneels in his modest quarters, digging a hole in the earthen floor. He places a small jug, called an olpe, in the hole for safekeeping and covers it with dirt. In the olpe are his savings scores of gold coins, known as darics, each one equal to a months pay. But something happens to the soldier possibly something ... More | |
Marina Abramović, Performance for the Oceans, 2024. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Blue Marine, a charity dedicated to protecting the ocean and tackling overfishing, one of the worlds biggest environmental problems, has partnered with Christies on Blue: Art for the Ocean, a philanthropic initiative taking place during the auction houses 20th/21st Century Art Marquee Week sales in October 2024, coinciding with Frieze Art Fair in London. ... More |
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| Tiny sprouts spotted at the stump of the fallen Sycamore Gap tree | | Opening 6 September: 'Peter Schlesinger: New Sculptures and Photographic Memories' | | A mental gold medal winner |
A ranger at Hadrians Wall Path National Trail, inspects the shoots growing at the stump of the Sycamore Gap tree, a beloved way marker that had grown for centuries along Hadrians Wall in Northumberland, England, before vandals cut it down in 2023, in July 2024. (Jason Lock/National Trust via The New York Times)
LONDON.- On a fine, bright morning last Friday, just like so many other fine, bright mornings, Gary Pickles took a walk. Pickles, a ranger who works at Northumberland National Park in England, just south of the Scottish border, was inspecting a route ... More | |
Untitled, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater will present Peter Schlesinger: New Sculptures and Photographic Memories, the gallerys first exhibition of new ceramic sculptures, vessels and vintage photographs by Peter Schlesinger. Schlesingers ceramic works include figurative sculptures that evoke mythology and fables in forms such as octopi and trees, as well as vessels that reference ancient forms and enigmatic biomorphic shapes with inventive glazes and textures. The exhibition will feature new glazed stoneware made ... More | |
Frank Moss Bennett, The Greek Runner Ladas Falling Dead as he Goes to Receive his Crown at Olympia, signed Frank M. Bennett in the lower right. Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.5 cm.)
NEW YORK, NY.- With the Olympics underway, there are always many discussions about what it takes to become a top athlete. That it takes an extensive amount of natural talent, or in this case athletic skill is an indisputable fact. However, an often-overlooked characteristic of these top sporters is the ability to apply the coaching given together with natural talent to produce an ... More |
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| Major solo exhibition Rekospective: The Art of Reko Rennie opens 11 October | | Heritage Auctions offers Rob Liefeld's original art introducing The Merc with a Mouth | | Norton Museum of Art exhibitions explore global issues through video, photomontage |
Reko Rennie, OA WARRIOR I (blue) 2020. Neon, 189.3 x 80.0 x 5.9 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2020 © Reko Rennie. Photo: Samantha Lynch.
MELBOURNE.- Featuring a 15-metre-wide light sculpture and a Rolls Royce covered in bold pink and black camouflage, Rekospective: The Art of Reko Rennie is the artists largest presentation of work to date and his first-ever retrospective exhibition. With more than 100 works on display - including recent acquisitions and new, never-before-seen bodies of work - the exhibition charts the entirety ... More | |
Rob Liefeld New Mutants #98 Cover Original Art (1991) New Mutants #98, The Original Published Cover Art (pen and inks) by Deadpool's Co-Creator, Rob Liefeld.
DALLAS, TX.- Lets f*****g go! Thats the rallying cry heard throughout Deadpool & Wolverine, which became the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever just days after its July 26 release. Its also the perfect reaction to the news that Heritage Auctions is offering for sale the original artwork Rob Liefeld penciled and inked for the cover of New Mutants No. 98, which introduced Marvel Comics Merc With a Mouth. The asking price: ... More | |
Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1973. Photo collage on paper, 11 7/8 x 9 in. (301.2 x 22.9 cm) Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody © 2024 The Jay DeFeo Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art offers two exhibitions this summer that bring different approaches to looking at the world around us. First up: Surroundings: Video Encounters of Nature, opening Saturday, July 27, explores the impact of climate change. We all are experiencing the effects of climate change, which the United Nations says is the result ... More |
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Photographer Stephen Shore: Godâs Eye But Human | Louisiana Channel
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Jackie Fox saw the dark side of rock. Now she's playing her own way.NEW YORK, NY.- Jackie Fox grew up with a guitar in her hand. In 1975, when she was 15 years old, she was pulled off the dance floor at a Hollywood nightclub and recruited to join an all-girl teen rock band. The Runaways became a sensation and tossed Fox and her young bandmates into a turbulent industry that was also violent and sexist. In 1977, Fox quit the band. She never played music professionally again. Now, almost 50 years later, Fox has recast her experience in the form of a board game. In Rock Hard: 1977, Fox has shrunk the chaotic 70s club scene to the size of a card table. She has written her own rules, anointed new kinds of rock stars and assumed control. Now she can play on her own terms and win. As soon as I decided I was going to design a game, I knew it was going to be about becoming a rock star, Fox, 64, said ... More Two new musicals poke at the seamy underbelly of the American DreamBOSTON, MASS.- It may surprise you, Jackie Siegel says, but we are not old money. Surprise us? Probably not, but there were some context clues. Such as that she utters these words while dressed to the pink and sparkly nines, holding a tiny, fluffy dog and perched in the lap of her decades-older husband, David, whose capacious, ornately gilded chair suggests delusions of royalty. So does their home construction project: a 90,000-square-foot house modeled on the Palace of Versailles (because, you know how it is, their current 26,000 square feet are feeling cramped) and built, Jackie tells us, in the most beautiful place in the entire world Orlando, Florida. The audience at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston got a good guffaw out of that on Thursdays opening night of The Queen of Versailles, the surprising and frequently excellent ... More 'Trap' review: Pop goes the thrillerNEW YORK, NY.- Dad, this is the literally the best day of my life, teenager Riley (Ariel Donoghue) beams to her doting father, Cooper (Josh Hartnett), in the opening minutes of M. Night Shyamalans Trap. That feeling wont last but for the first half of this mischievous thriller, were also having fun. Riley is ecstatic to have stadium floor seats for her favorite pop icon, Lady Raven (Saleka). The childs attention is on the stage. Ours is on her father who is having visible difficulty concentrating on the show. Hes clocking the cameras, the exits, the unusual number of cops, the no-nonsense FBI profiler (Hayley Mills) muttering into her walkie-talkie. The police are hunting a serial killer named the Butcher, but all theyve got to go on is that hes a middle-aged man in this majority girl crowd. Underneath the thumping bass and the squeals, ... More An 18th century phenom arrives at Lincoln CenterNEW YORK, NY.- Composer Marianna Martines grew up in Vienna when the city was teeming with towering figures in classical music. Haydn was her neighbor and teacher. Mozart sought her out as a duet partner. Born in 1744, Martines began her remarkable career at just 16. At 38, she became the first female composer programmed by the Society of Musicians, whose elite concert series also gave Beethoven his Viennese performance debut. But after her death, in 1812, Martines music mostly fell silent, a fate shared by so many female composers of her era. This week, though, the Summer for the City festival at Lincoln Center will perform Martines Symphony in C major (1770), a work composed decades before it was common for women to write orchestral music. The performances are a significant step in the reclamation of her music. It was an easy decision to present ... More As hundreds of churches sit empty, some become malls and restaurantsNEW YORK, NY.- Lisa Tofano was baptized, confirmed and married at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Lake Opeka in Des Plaines, Illinois. When she and her husband, John, visited the church last fall, however, it wasnt to worship but rather to celebrate their 34th wedding anniversary at what the church had become: the Foxtail on the Lake, a restaurant. The transformation was not easy: The shuttered church needed an 18-month, $6 million gut renovation, and a new 3,000-square-foot kitchen, before it could start offering items such as paella and beef shawarma, said David Villegas, a managing partner of Foxtail, who said he had been a bit nervous before the restaurants opening in November about the reaction of former parishioners. For Lisa Tofano, though, a church is more about the people than the building, she ... More This NYC tourist hub has become trash-strewn chaos for everyoneNEW YORK, NY.- Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan is many things. It is the first street to greet many travelers as they arrive at Pennsylvania Station or the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It is the temporary address for thousands of hotel dwellers. It is the backdrop to any night spent at a Broadway show or Madison Square Garden, or just out on the town. Eighth Avenue can also be unsettling. At the best of times, it is the Champs-Ãlysées of hot dog carts: a grand thoroughfare of vendors, tourists and commuters whose bustle brings the city to life. Motorists share it with bicycles, pedicabs and the occasional horse-drawn carriage. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalk and overflow into an ad hoc expansion of it, created in 2016 when the city began to cordon off a lane of traffic and paint it gray. But at the worst of times, Eighth Avenue is a Dickensian parade of humanity. ... More The Moon's most shadowy places can't hide from NASA's new cameraNEW YORK, NY.- When a NASA spacecraft passes over Shackleton Crater on the moon and peers in, it sees a sea of blackness. The sun never rises high above the horizon, and the rim of Shackleton blocks the sunâs rays from ever shining directly onto the crater floor. There are more than 300 such craters on the moon, and the darkness hides an intriguing mystery: oases of frozen water, which could provide a key resource for astronauts living there in the future. Scientists have now figured out how to, in essence, flip on the light switch. How is it possible to take a picture of a place where the sun never shines? The new views are the fruits of ShadowCam, an instrument that NASA provided for Danuri, a South Korean orbiter that arrived at the moon in December. Since 2009, almost all of the moonâs surf ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Andy Warhol was born August 06, 1928. Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.
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