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1960s hand-colored, hand-annotated original fashion drawing created by Karl Lagerfeld (German, 1933-2019) while engaged by House of Tiziani, Rome. Fabric swatch attached. Estimate: $500-$1,500.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- When Chanels iconic couturier and design mastermind Karl Lagerfeld passed away in February, he left behind a legacy that will forever be associated with luxury, glamour and some of Hollywoods greatest stars. Prior to joining Chanel in 1983, Lagerfelds storied career included a series of design positions at other European houses favored by the rich and famous, among them Fendi, Chloe, Patou, and Balmain. But it was not until January 2014, when Palm Beach Modern Auctions hosted its high-profile Lagerfeld + Liz sale, that fashionistas learned of Lagerfelds early days with the House of Tiziani in Rome. That auction included a number of original Lagerfeld design sketches from the Tiziani archive. The selection was 100% sold. On April 18, 2019, Palm Beach Modern Auctions new division, Urban Culture Auctions, will offer what is believed to be the last remaining sketches from the long-hidden a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Daft Punk Technologic Redux from 2019 is displayed during the press visit of the exhibition "from Kraftwerk to Daftpunk" at the Philarmonie in Paris, on April 8, 2019. The exhibition "from Kraftwerk to Daftpunk" will start on April 9, 2019 until August 11, 2019. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP
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 | | 15 new acquisitions make their DMA debut in a free, focus exhibition of works primarily from the DMA's collection | | Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe and Francesca Woodman exhibition opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery | | Exhibition of overpainted photographs by Gerhard Richter opens at Gagosian | 
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park No. 29, 1970, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, 1981.106, © 2019, Estate of Richard Diebenkorn.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art is presenting America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape, a focus exhibition of works primarily from the DMAs collection of contemporary art that take the American landscape as a point of departure. If scenic images of the land were historically used to glorify the territory that would come to be called America, this exhibition looks at contemporary artists who have redefined the landscape genre through a variety of media and strategies. America Will Be! broadens the concept of the landscape through literal depictions of the natural world and allusions to a diversity of American experiences. The title of the exhibition is a rousing line from Let America Be America Again, a 1935 poem by Langston Hughes. In the poem, Hughes yearns for a future where the grandiose promises of the American dream are finally delivered to all people, regardless of race, class ... More | | 
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait, 1980 (printed 2009). Photograph on paper, 35.20 x 35.00 cm; framed: 68.40 x 66.20 x 3.10 cm. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation 2014.
EDINBURGH.- ARTIST ROOMS: Self Evidence Photographs by Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe explores how three of the twentieth centurys most influential photographers addressed issues of self-expression, performance and truth. This new exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery includes over 40 outstanding works, from Francesca Woodmans experimental images, to Diane Arbus raw, compassionate documentary photography, and the touching self-portraits that track the final years of Robert Mapplethorpes life. The works in ARTIST ROOMS: Self Evidence are drawn from ARTIST ROOMS, a touring collection of over 1,600 works of modern and contemporary art jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate on behalf of the nation. The collection is displayed across the UK through a touring programme, supported by Arts ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, MV. 92, 2011 (detail). Lacquer on colour photograph, 4 x 5 7/8 in. 10 x 15 cm © Gerhard Richter 2019.
LONDON.- Gagosian presents overpainted photographs by Gerhard Richter. Throughout his long and eminent career, Richter has expanded the potential of image making through a dialogue between old and new media. He began painting over photographs in the mid-1980s, at the very moment when New York Neo-Conceptual artists were engaging with questions of image appropriation and reproduction, and the German Neo-Expressionists were focusing rather on the sheer emotionality of paint. Richter has continued to bridge these two lines of inquiry into the present day, probing their tensions as photographic technologies become increasingly pervasive. Unlike his photo paintings of the 1960s (in which he translated found and personal photographs into arrestingly lifelike, out-of-focus paintings), the works in this exhibition retain their status as printed photographsmade with light rather than the artists handyet they are complicated ... More |
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| | | Sotheby's and fashion designer Jan Taminiau will open an exclusive collaborative exhibition | | Clark Art Institute announces Research and Academic Program fellowships for 2019-2020 | | Museum of Arts and Design exhibition explores visual culture of Punk through over 400 works | 
Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrech, Trompe l'oil with open cabinet, est. £40,000-60,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
AMSTERDAM.- Sothebys and acclaimed fashion designer Jan Taminiau will open an exclusive collaborative exhibition in which Old Master highlights from Sothebys forthcoming sales of The SÃR Rusche Collection will be presented in the contemporary setting of Jan Taminiaus dynamic pop-up store in Amsterdam on April 11 and 12. Known for his love of exquisite embroidery and lavish couture dresses, Jan launched his independent label JANTAMINIAU in 2004. Showcasing his collections during Couture Fashion Week in Paris since 2007, the avant-garde designer has dressed a star-studded line-up of royals and celebrities from Lady Gaga and Rihanna to Beyoncé and the Dutch Queen Maxima, who chose Jan to custom-make a majestic cobalt gown for the Kings coronation in 2013. Born into a family of collectors, and with a long-held love of the Dutch masters whose work has informed his visual world, Jan ... More | | 
Class of 1974 Curatorial Fellow: Carlos Basualdo, Philadelphia Museum of Art (US).
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute announces the appointment of a distinguished class of twenty-one scholars, art historians, and curators as fellows in the Clarks Research and Academic Program (RAP) for the 20192020 academic year. The Clark is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and a center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. The residential fellowships range from one to nine months, beginning in July 2019. During a residency, each fellow pursues an independent research project and has the opportunity to participate in a number of RAP programs considering diverse art historical topics and larger questions and motivations that shape the practice of art history. Fellowships are awarded annually to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation ... More | | 
Arturo Vega, Ramones, Showcase Poster, 1975 Ink on paper 14 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (37.1 x 49.8 cm) Courtesy Howl! Happening/The Arturo Vega Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design will present Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 19761986, an exhibition that explores the punk and post-punk movements through the lens of graphic design. The exhibition, on view from April 9 through August 18, 2019, will feature more than four hundred of punk's most memorable graphics, including flyers, posters, album covers, promotions, zines, and other ephemera. "Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die charts punk's explosive impact on design and examines its complex relationship with art, history, and culture," said Chris Scoates, MAD's Nanette L. Laitman Director. "Punk questioned everything, and it's that spirit of inquiry that is driving MAD forward today, presenting and debating innovative works and ideas with lots of energy, color, and noise." Originating at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan's Cranbrook Art Museum ... More |
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| | | Danziger Gallery opens its second exhibition of Evelyn Hofer's photographs | | Swann Auction Galleries offer limited edition work that proved a vital step in developing abstract photography | | Exhibition of new paintings by Joe Tilson opens at Marlborough | 
Policeman, 59th Street, New York, 1964. 20 x 16 in. Dye transfer print.
NEW YORK, NY.- For this, Danziger Gallery's second exhibition of Evelyn Hofers photographs, the gallery looks at the three distinct genres that Hofer mastered - portraits, landscapes, and still lives. Working exclusively with a 4 x 5 inch viewfinder camera, Hofer took her time to set up her camera composing each picture carefully and creating images that have a timeless aura regardless of the subject. Over a career spanning more than 40 years, Hofer created a body of work that both looked back to the tradition of August Sander and forward to anticipate the color work of William Eggleston. A photographers photographer, Hofer was both respected and influential within photographic circles but considerably less known to the public causing her to be called "the most famous unknown photographer in America" by New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer a devout supporter of her work. Almost in counterpoint to much of the on-the-f ... More | | 
Man Ray, Electricité, one of ten photogravures in a limited edition portfolio commissioned by La Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Electricité in 1931. The estimate for the portfolio is $20,000 to $30,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- A rare limited edition folio of images by the hugely influential photographer Man Ray is up for sale at Swann Auction Galleries on April 18 with a top estimate of $30,000. Electricité, which features 10 photogravures after Man Rays Rayographs, was a 1931 commission from Frances national electric company, La Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Electricité, and was limited to just 500 copies. Man Ray (1890-1976), who was one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, worked in photography, painting, print-making, and sculpture. After moving to Paris from New York City, he set up a photography studio to support his artistic endeavours, and subsequently hired Berenice Abbott as his assistant. The Rayograph was ... More | | 
Joe Tilson, The Stones of Venice Sant Alipio, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 59 3/4 in. (183 x 152 cm).
LONDON.- Continuing a year of celebration for his 90th birthday, Marlborough will present an exhibition of new paintings by Joe Tilson. Following on from his 2016 exhibition, Stones of Venice, this collection continues to draw upon Tilsons love and knowledge of the city he has visited for over 60 years, bringing together some 18 works on canvas, painted in acrylic with his characteristic use of bright colour and expressively layered texture. Opening 10 April, this exhibition straddles the unveiling of two exciting public installations by the artist in Venice. Since the 50s, Tilson has nurtured a love of Venice, and is celebrated in both his native country and Italy, dividing his time between London, Tuscany and Venice. Since 2002, he and his wife have spent months of each year in their small house in the sestiere of Dorsoduro. In 2018 he was commissioned by the Grand Hotel Hungaria on the Lido to produce some 3,000 gla ... More |
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| | | Russian director Serebrennikov freed from house arrest | | Sotheby's to offer two masterpieces epitomizing key periods in the history of jewellery | | The horns of the Broto, a Central African tradition under threat | 
In this file photo taken on November 7, 2018 Russian stage and screen director Kirill Serebrennikov waits for the start of a hearing at a court in Moscow. Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- A Russian court on Monday ordered the release from house arrest of renowned film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov who is on trial on embezzlement charges, local news agencies reported. A Moscow city court judge overturned a decision by a lower tribunal last week to extend his arrest for three more months. Serebrennikov -- who supporters say is facing politically motivated charges -- has been detained since August 2017. Speaking to news agency Interfax, Serebrennikov said he plans to return to work at the Gogol Centre, the Moscow theatre he heads. "I will celebrate now but will return (to work) very soon. It's not easy psychologically but there is so much to do, we have stagings and rehearsals," he said. Under the conditions of his house arrest, Serebrennikov was able to spend limited time outside his apartment, for example when going to the gym, making work nearly ... More | | 
Diamond tiara, attributed to Fabergé, circa 1903. Estimate: CHF 200,000 300,000 / USD 200,000 300,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
GENEVA.- This May in Geneva, Sothebys will offer for sale two masterpieces epitomizing the craftsmanship of key periods in the history of Jewellery. Following the record-breaking sale of Royal Jewels from the Bourbon Parma Family in November 2018, both jewels have prestigious provenance: they belonged to two influential women who in their time embodied the height of fashion and elegance. The first jewel is an Art Deco treasure, probably by Van Cleef & Arpels: a stunning emerald and diamond necklace created in the 1930s for Hélène Beaumont (1894 1988), an American socialite and close friend of the Duchess of Windsor. She settled on the French Riviera, where she held legendary parties and galas during the magical, hedonistic days of the 1920s and 1930s. The necklace is set with 11 immaculate Colombian emeralds weighing a total of over 75 carats, and is estimated at CHF 2,895,000 3,980,000 ($3 - 4 million). The second is an ... More | | 
A traditional Broto musician plays the wooden horn in the middle of his troupe during a performance in Bambari, in the centre of Central African Republic, on March 14, 2019. FLORENT VERGNES / AFP.
BAMBARI (AFP).- The young man picks up a heavy wooden horn, raises it to his lips and with widened eyes and puffed cheeks starts to blow. A primal rumble emerges from the mouth of the instrument. On a stony hill in Bambari, deep in the heart of the Central African Republic, 14 other horns start to sound, each with a unique hum, and an impromptu polyphonic concert gets underway. The musicians -- clad in clothes made of bark that are called kundou -- mark the rhythm with a rolling step, shaking their alikposso, little bells made of palm leaves attached to their ankles. Local people emerge from their homes, delighted to hear something that is not gunfire but rather the comforting resonance of a horn sculpted by nature itself. "People in Bangui think that the Broto are dead and gone -- but they're still here!" exclaims Bruno Hogonede, head of the Ongo-Broto band, one of the last orchestras in the CAR devoted to the heavy horn. Carved ... More |
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 French spy turned engineer behind Sydney Opera House magic diesSYDNEY (AFP).- A former French spy hailed as a genius for an engineering feat that made building the Sydney Opera House possible has died aged 97, officials said Monday. Joe Bertony -- one of the original engineers of Australia's most recognisable building -- handwrote 30,000 separate equations to create the "erection arch" or truss which held the concrete sails in place during construction. "Bertony was a remarkable man who will be remembered as the inventor of the Sydney Opera House's mobile erection arch," Sydney Opera House chief executive Louise Herron said in a statement. "Those calculations were checked by the only computer in Australia at the time with a large enough capacity to do so. Not a single error was found," she said. "Bertony was a genius. Without him, the spectacular sails might never have become a reality." He died ... More 50/50 exhibition pays tribute to British women artistsLEEDS.- A new exhibition at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, pays tribute to the extraordinary cultural production of 50 women artists who lived and worked in Britain during the first half of the 20th century. Curated by Sacha Llewellyn, Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900 - 1950 builds on celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Representation of the Peoples Act. Opening on Tuesday 9 April, the exhibition explores a diverse range of traditions and styles of artwork and addresses the long under-valued contributions of women to the art of 20th century Britain. Exhibition curator Sacha Llewellyn said: When I was putting this exhibition together, a lot of people thought I wouldnt to be able to find 50 British women artists to show. In the end, I could have shown 500. Its not just about rounding up lost heroines, its about ... More me Collectors Room Berlin features seven international artistic positions from the Olbricht CollectionBERLIN.- On show from 10 April to 18 August 2019, the exhibition BEYOND features seven international artistic positions from the Olbricht Collection, who use their respective art forms to explore the subject of the afterlife. Each artist fills a separate space with art in their chosen media, ranging from painting, sculpture, video, installation to printmaking. As a kind of vague assumption, sinister threat, or blissful reward, the idea of the afterlife has gripped mankind since the beginning of time. Religious promises of salvation, manifested psychosis, and ominous memento mori conjure a nebulous concept of the beyond. While the depiction of agony and death evokes the transience of earthly life, mythical illusory worlds oscillate between the here and the there, catastrophe and dream-like beauty, the material world and the hereafter. The other side is also invariably ... More Rare masterpiece by Jean-Léon Gérôme leads Sotheby's annual Orientalist SaleLONDON.- A rare masterpiece by Jean-Léon Gérôme will lead Sothebys annual Orientalist Sale in London. Cinematic in scale and impact, Rider and His Steed in the Desert is a unique work in Gérômes oeuvre. The highly charged picture captures both the stoicism of the North African tribespeople and a heroic struggle between man and nature. Estimated at £1,000,000-1,500,000, the oil is one of five works by the artist in a sale comprising 79 exceptional paintings, watercolours and sculptures that together provide fascinating historical insights into the Arab, Ottoman, and Islamic worlds during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Launched as an annual event by Sothebys in London in 2012 and now in its eighth season, The Orientalist Sale on 30 April 2019 will go on exhibition from 25 April alongside the Arts of the Islamic World auction, as part of Orientalist ... More Thousands-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus opened on live TVWASHINGTON (AFP).- A sarcophagus containing an Egyptian high priest was opened on live TV Sunday during a special two-hour broadcast by the American channel Discovery. "Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live" aired from the site outside Minya, which is along the Nile River south of Cairo and its Giza pyramids. Archeologists recently discovered a network of vertical shafts at the site which led to tunnels and tombs containing 40 mummies "believed to be part of the noble elite." After exploring other tombs -- finding artifacts like statues, amulets, canopic jars used to store organs, and other mummies including one that had decomposed to a skeleton -- they crawled to the chamber containing the intricately carved sarcophagus. It took the strength of several people to open. And the team's efforts had not gone to waste: inside was a ... More Exclusively in Cleveland: rarely seen Japanese treasures offer encounters with the divineCLEVELAND, OH.- A major international loan exhibition of great importance, Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art presents artworks of Shinto, Japans unique belief system focused on the veneration of divine phenomena called kami. Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, with the special cooperation of the Nara National Museum, the exhibition presents about 125 works in different mediacalligraphy, painting, sculpture, costume and decorative artsassembled from Japanese and American museums, shrines and Buddhist temples. The exhibition features artworks that are an expression of the everyday engagement of people with divinities in their midst. The exhibition includes treasures never before seen outside Japan and a significant number of works designated as Important Cultural Properties by the Japanese government. Works ... More Rare Liverpool £500 note sells for £12,000 in auction devoted to British & Irish banknotesLONDON.- An extremely rare £500 Bank of England note that was issued in Liverpool in 1936 was sold for £12,000 in the inaugural auction of British and Irish Banknotes at Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists on Thursday, March 28, 2019 at their auction rooms in central Mayfair (16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ). The fine example was estimated to fetch £8,000-12,000 and is one of only 10 to 15 examples known to be in private hands [Lot 185]. Andrew Pattison Head of Department, Banknotes at Dix Noonan Webb, noted: This first dedicated sale of British and Irish material at DNW achieved an excellent overall result of over £360,000 (including Buyers Premium). Bank of England material from all eras and at all price levels was extremely strong, with several notes hitting the £10,000 mark. Early Irish notes ... More Esteban Cabeza de Baca's first solo exhibition in New York on view at Boers-Li GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Boers-Li Gallery, New York, is presenting Esteban Cabeza de Bacas first solo exhibition in New York. Worlds without Borders features the artists latest work, questioning the notion of borders between nations, races, and species. Cabeza de Baca employs graffiti techniques, mythological symbols, and pre-Columbian pictorial languages in his paintings and sculpture to deconstruct the linear representation of time and space. Landscape is essentially a picture that depicts a world. Throughout histories it has been romanticized in such ways that the land is flattened into a fantasy of wilderness rather than an interconnected ecology where mankind, animals, plants, and the land share equal and reciprocal relationships. In the eyes of colonial settlers, landscape represented a new world to conquer, to possess, and to control. Returning ... More Group of 37 Old Judge cabinet cards from 1888 sells for $431,00 at Weiss AuctionsLYNBROOK, NY.- The North Fork Collection of N173 Old Judge cabinet baseball cards from 1888 37 in all, sold as individual lots brought a combined $431,000 at a Sports, Comics, Comic Art & Animation Auction held March 28th by Weiss Auctions, online and in the firms gallery at 74 Merrick Road in Lynbrook. The 500-lot auction grossed a little less than $750,000. The crown jewel of the North Fork Collection was a possibly unique cabinet card photo image of New York Giants captain Buck Ewing wearing civilian clothes. With buyers premium, the card realized $109,250, a record for an 1888 N173 Old Judge cabinet card. Also sold were cards for Cincinnati Hall of Fame second baseman John McPhee ($66,125) and Washington catcher and legendary Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack ($48,300). All were excellent, high-grade cards. Other sports cards ... More Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre sacks chief over harassment woesSTOCKHOLM (AFP).- Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre said Monday it had sacked its CEO and artistic director following allegations of longstanding harassment at the institution, the latest figure to succumb to the #MeToo movement. Repercussions from the movement have ripped apart Swedish cultural institutions and careers. Eirik Stubo was fired from the job he had held since 2015 for failing to address the theatre's problems. "The board believes the Royal Dramatic Theatre needs a new start in areas concerning the work environment. And we think that is best done with a new chief executive," board chairwoman Ulrika Arehed Kagstrom said in a statement. The announcement followed weeks of criticism after Swedish Television (SVT) aired a documentary about Swedish singer and actress Josefin Nilsson, who died in 2016 at the age of 46. ... More Sotheby's auction of Photographs totals $4 million in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys annual spring auction of important Photographs concluded on Friday afternoon in New York with 100+ works selling for an overall total of $4 million. Emily Bierman, Head of Sothebys Photographs Department in New York, commented: We are delighted with the results from the sale, which saw demand for photographs spanning more than 150 years of this medium. There was tremendous interest for classic fashion photography, led by Irving Penns seminal Black and White Vogue Cover and Woman in Chicken Hat, as well as for works by Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon. El Lissitzkys masterpiece Pelikan Tinte topped the sale at $462,500, and it was nothing short of a privilege to handle the sale of this photograph from one of the most renowned collectors in our field, Manfred Heiting. Fridays auction was led by an extremely rare ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English photographer Eadweard Muybridge was born April 09, 1830. Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 - 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name Eadweard as the original Anglo-Saxon form of Edward, and the surname Muybridge believing it to be similarly archaic. In this image: Eadweard Muybridge, Contemplation Rock, Glacier Point (1385) 1872. Collection of California Historical Society
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