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Arthur John Elsley (1860 - 1952), The Singing Lesson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries Inc., New York's premier gallery specializing in 19th- and 20th-century works of art, has recently acquired The Singing Lesson, a rare Christmas-themed painting by Arthur John Elsley (1860-1952) one of England's finest late 19th-century genre artists. By the age of fourteen, Elsley enrolled in South Kensington School of Art, known today as the Royal College of Art. In 1876, he entered the Royal Academy Schools, studying under Frederick Pickersgill (Keeper of the Royal Academy), Edward Armitage, John Marshal, and Henry Bowler. Two years later, he presented his first work at London's Royal Academy, A Portrait of An Old Pony. During the 1880s, Elsley met Frederick Morgan (1847-1927), one of England's most popular genre artists, and in 1889 they began sharing a studio. The two collaborated on many works, including Ruff Play, the only known painting to include both signatures; Rehs Galleries sold Ruff Play in 1987. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kim de lâHorizon in Berlin, Nov. 16, 2022. The victory of Kim de lâHorizon, a nonbinary writer, in a top literary prize stirred a debate about how the German language can accommodate people who donât identify as male or female. (Gordon Welters/The New York Times)
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art receives $10 million gift from Adrienne Arsht | | Ketterer Kunst Rare Books Auction in Hamburg: Rarities win the race | | John Mendelsohn, "Dark Color Wheel Paintings", in second solo presentation at David Richard Gallery | 
Adrienne Arsht. Courtesy of Adrienne Arsht.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Adrienne Arsht has pledged $10 million in support of the MetLiveArts performance series, the largest single gift to the Museums Department of Live Arts. This transformative gift will fund department activities that uplift and highlight themes of resilience through art. The gift follows previous donations from Ms. Arsht to The Met that have strengthened inclusivity by creating the Museums first ever fully paid internship program and supported a diverse program of contemporary performance art. We are incredibly grateful to Adrienne Arsht for her remarkable gift, which will significantly advance the Museums commitment to groundbreaking performances and a thriving commissioning program, said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. The deep impact of Ms. Arshts gift is extraordinarily inspiring as it truly carries with ... More | | 
Basilius Besler, Hortus Eystettensis, Eichstätt and Nuremberg, 1713.
HAMBURG.- This has been a really good year for Rare Books. With total proceeds of more than 2.5 million*, Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg realized a very robust annual result. The latest Rare Books Auction on November 29 showed that high quality objects in combination with a professional presentation will make for excellent results, says Christoph Calaminus. The head of the Rare Books Department at Ketterer Kunst explains: A well attended saleroom and brisk domestic and international participation on both phones and the internet, did the rest and led to surprisingly high individual results and remarkable increases. While the top lots fetched a multiple of their estimates in the spring auction and won the interest of bidders in the USA and the UK, Fracanzano da Montalboddos first German edition of one of the earliest printed collections of travelogues and expeditions (lot 17) will remain, as expected, ... More | | 
John Mendelsohn, Dark Color Wheel 7, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 27 inches © John Mendelsohn, Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting the exhibition, John Mendelsohn: Dark Color Wheel Paintings, that focuses on a series created in 2022 in his second solo presentation with the Gallery. The paintings undertow of feeling arises from their array of gradated discs, distinctive color palette, and sense of shifting light. In these works, we have the uncanny sense that we have entered an imaginal space that is both abstract and yet somehow tangible. A poetic motive for the paintings was the phrase a song of flowering and fading, conjured up by the paintings radiating forms, that suggested to the artist a way to consider the splendor and shadow pervading everything. The paintings, acrylic on canvas, 40x27 inches, follow the artists Color Wheel series that were exhibited at the David Richard Gallery in 2021. ... More |
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| National Gallery of art acquires Lee Ufan's "Dialogue" | | Perrotin Dubai exhibits new work by Takashi Murakami | | Extremely rare 700 year old ivory casket at risk of leaving the UK | 
Lee Ufan, Dialogue, 2011. Oil on canvas, overall: 161.93 x 130.02 cm (63 3/4 x 51 3/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of Milly and Arnie Glimcher 2022.83.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- Lee Ufan (born Haman, Korea, 1936) is an internationally celebrated painter, sculptor, and theorist who is best known as a founder of Mono-ha (School of Things), one of the most important movements to emerge from postwar Japan. The group rejected Western notions of representation and emphasized making, perception, and the interrelationships between space and matter, creating works from raw, natural, and industrial materials with little manipulation. The National Gallery of Art has acquired the painting Dialogue (2011), a classic example of one of the artists most important series (Dialogue, 2006present). Acquired using funds from the Patrons Permanent Fund and a generous gift from Milly and Arne Glimcher, this is the first work by the artist to enter the collection. Lee is recognized for his unconventional artistic processeswhich underscore relationships ... More | | 
View of the exhibition at Perrotin Dubai, 2022. © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki. Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy Perrotin. Photo: Altamash Urooj.
DUBAI.- On the occasion of the opening of Perrotin Dubai, the gallery partnered with ICD Brookfield Place to organize the first exhibition of Takashi Murakami in Dubai. It follows several major museum exhibitions of the artist in recent years: The Broad, Los Angeles (2022), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2019), Vancouver Art Gallery (2018) and MCA Chicago (2017). In 2012, the masterful Murakami Ego exhibition across 5000m2 of the Al Riwaq Hall in Doha made history.
Takashi Murakamis works are in the worlds largest public and private collections, like the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Also on view: new paintings from the body of work Murakami.Flowers. A component of NFT project Murakami.Flowers, the pixelated flower paintings by Takashi Murakami combine the artists iconic Superflat aesthetic with the nostalgia of the graphics ... More | | 
Export bar is to allow time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire the piece.
LONDON.- A French Gothic ivory casket worth more than £1.5 million is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found to save it for the nation. The casket is one of just nine known 14th century French composite caskets that depict scenes from mediaeval romance tales. It includes a detailed and early depiction of wild men, mythical creatures appearing in mediaeval European art and literature that symbolise people living outside civilised society. The casket shows them assaulting a castle in a rare variation on the popular theme of the storming of the Castle of Love. The Castle of Love was a commonly depicted scene on secular ivories in the 14th century in which women and girls are shown defending a castle attacked by knights. The scene was so popular at the time that there are records of re-enactments where castles were built and defended by women and girls of the town while men attacked them with fruits and flowers. On the lid of this casket, wild men and knights are shown ... More |
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| Art Basel Miami Beach concludes highly-successful 20th-anniversary edition | | National Gallery of Art Appoints Kaira M. Cabañas Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Publications for the Center | | Museum Folkwang pays tribute to Helen Frankenthaler with extensive solo exhibition | 
Kavi Gupta. Courtesy of Art Basel.
MIAMI, FLA.- Art Basel celebrated its landmark 20th-anniversary edition in Miami Beach, signaling two decades of growth and impact by Art Basel as a cultural cornerstone in South Florida, across the Americas, and beyond. The 2022 edition Art Basels largest to date in Miami Beach brought together 282 premier galleries from 38 countries and territories, including 25 galleries participating in the fair for the first time, as well as multiple international exhibitors returning to the show after a brief hiatus. Art Basel continued to draw an attendance of unparalleled global breadth and caliber. Leading private collectors from 88 countries across North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East visited the fair, as well as museum directors, curators, and high-level patrons from over 150 cultural organizations, including: Art Gallery of Ontario; Aspen Art Museum; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; The Brookly ... More | | 
Kaira M. Cabañas, Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Publications for the Center. Photo by José Falconi.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Kaira M. Cabañas has been appointed associate dean of academic programs and publications for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (the Center). As associate dean, Cabañas will manage the research institutes many annual symposia, lectures, meetings, and other academic gatherings as well as oversee their academic and commissioned research publications. She will direct various long-term research projects within the Center and serve as an academic administrator with Dean Steven Nelson and other leadership within the department. Cabañas begins her tenure on March 27, 2023. I am thrilled to have Kaira Cabañas as the Centers new associate dean. With her international scholarly profile, decades of teaching and institution building, ... More | | 
Helen Frankenthaler, Grotto Azura, 1963. Oil on paper, 58,4 x 73,7 cm. Collection Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York © Helen Frankenthaler Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022.
ESSEN.- Museum Folkwang is dedicating an extensive retrospective to Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), one of the pioneers of American Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field painting. The presentation includes a total of 84 works from the period between 1949 and 2002. The focus of the show Painterly Constellations (2. DEC 20225. MAR 2023) is Frankenthaler's work on paper. At the age of 23, Helen Frankenthaler had already established herself in the male-dominated art scene of New York in the circle of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. With the soak-stain technique she developed, Frankenthaler became a precursor of Colour Field painting and had a lasting influence on artists such as Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis. In 10 rooms, the exhibition retrospectively traces Helen ... More |
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| Pace opens a solo exhibition dedicated to Yin Xiuzhen | | Noonans to sell the Puddester Collection of coins of the English East India Company 1600-1835 | | National Gallery of Art appoints Robert Stein to lead museum's Technology Division | 
Yin Xiuzhen, Ripple No.5, 2020. Wood, glass, molding paste, used cloth, fruit/plant, 20-15/16" Ã 16-9/16".
HONG KONG.- Pace is presenting Yin Xiuzhen: Everywhere, a solo exhibition dedicated to Yin Xiuzhen, a key figure in Chinese installation and performance art since the 1990s, at its Hong Kong Gallery. On view from November 25 to January 5, 2023, this exhibition marks Yins first presentation in Hong Kong since her acclaimed institutional exhibition Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch opened at the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT) in 2020. Yins show with Pace in Hong Kong, which follows her 2021 solo exhibition at Paces New York gallery, will spotlight her ongoing explorations of materiality. Among the 40 sculptures and installations on view, which date from 2008 to 2022, will be Yins new series The Surging Waves Chronicles, which has never before been exhibited publicly. Yin is known for her deeply resonant installations incorporating everyday objects and materials, from used clothes and fabrics to porcelain and cement ... More | | 
The spectacular collection comprises coins dating from the inception of the East India Company in London by a group of merchant venturers in 1600, from the Madras, Bombay and Bengal presidencies; the uniform series from 1835 to 1858 and the regal coinages issued by British India down to independence in 1947.
LONDON.- A phenomenal single-owner collection of coins of the East India Company will be offered by Noonans on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 8 and 9, 2023. Comprising 1,246 coins, the legendary Robert P. Puddester Collection has been amassed over the past 45 years and will be sold in 907 lots. Described as a once in a lifetime opportunity, it is expected to fetch in the region of £2million. The spectacular collection comprises coins dating from the inception of the East India Company in London by a group of merchant venturers in 1600, from the Madras, Bombay and Bengal presidencies; the uniform series from 1835 to 1858 and the regal coinages issued by British India down to independence in 1947. As Peter Preston-Morley, ... More | | 
Robert Stein. Photo by Brenna Hernandez.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Robert Stein will become the museums new chief information officer. Stein will lead the Digital Solutions Division within the Office of the Treasurer and be responsible for implementing innovative technology solutions for a diverse global audience and for the staff of the National Gallery. Currently the deputy director and chief experience officer at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Stein will begin his tenure at the National Gallery on January 16, 2023. As chief information officer, Stein will establish and implement a new IT strategy for the National Gallery that aligns with our mission and will oversee the delivery of technology and data analytics platforms and services required to meet that mission. As part of the museums senior leadership team, Stein will bring his knowledge and experience in museums to apply leading-edge technology ... More |
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 The Royal Society King's Medal in Gold awarded to "star gazer" Sir John Herschel offered at auctionLONDON.- The Royal Society Kings Medal in gold awarded to Sir John Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS (1792-1871), one of the great British scientists of the 19th century is estimated to fetch in excess of £60,000 when it is included in the sale of Orders, Medals and Decorations at Morton & Eden in London on 7 December 2022. Made of solid gold and weighing almost 10 ounces, this magnificent medal has not been seen since it last appeared at auction more than 70 years ago when it sold for £150. The Royal Societys Royal Medal, also known as the Kings Medal (or, later, Queens Medal), was created by George IV in 1826 as a highly distinguished award for contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge or in the applied sciences. James Morton, Director of Morton & Eden said: This gold medal of 1833 is outstanding not only because it is a rare and magnificent ... More  Warhol works star in one of Bonhams' two London Print sales this DecemberLONDON.- Works by Pop Art Pioneer Andy Warhol (1928-1987) are amongst the highlights leading one of Bonhams Prints & Multiples sale this December. The first sale will take place in Knightsbridge on 7 December followed by the New Bond Street Prints & Multiples sale on 13 December, in which Madonna & Self-Portrait with Skeleton's Arm (After Munch), a unique screenprint in colours by Warhol, is one of the standout works. It has an estimate of £80,000-120,000. Leading the sale will be another work by Warhol, Superman, a unique preparatory proof, estimated at £150,000-200,000. Warhol was commissioned to create a series of works after Munch's woodcuts by Galleri Bellman in 1982, after the gallery had hosted an exhibition of Munch's original prints which Warhol visited on multiple occasions. In Madonna & Self-Portrait with Skeleton's Arm (After Munch) ... More  Fondazione Elpis: A new space for contemporary art in MilanMILAN.- Fondazione Elpis presents until 5th March, 2023 the group show HAZE. Contemporary Art From South Asia, curated by HH Art Spaces and Mario DSouza. An ambitious project, designed specifically for the new spaces of the Foundation in via Orti 25 in Milan, HAZE, aims to offer an unprecedented look at South Asias contemporary art scene and underlines the role of visual arts in the narration of a global crisis that affects different areas of society: ecological, political and socio-cultural. The show presents established and emerging practices of 21 artists of different generations from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, ranging from painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and performance to site-specific installations. HAZE brings together a selection of unpublished works and recent productions by: Bani Abidi (1971, Pakistan), Nikhil Chopra (1974, India), Avian D'Souza (1992, India) ... More  Lesia Topolnyk wins the Prix de Rome Architecture 2022ROTTERDAM.- Lesia Topolnyk is the winner of the Prix de Rome 2022, the oldest prize in the Netherlands for architects aged 35 and younger, with an entry inspired by the wreckage site of flight MH17, in response to the theme of Healing Sites. The architect has just received the prize of 40,000 and a residency of her choice from State Secretary Gunay Uslu (Culture and Media) at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. With their entries, the nominees for the Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 responded to the theme of Healing Sites: diverse locations dealing with social trauma. Topolnyk chose the mining village of Hrabove in her native Ukraine, which became world news in 2014 when passenger flight MH17 was shot down, killing all 298 people on board. With her design No Innocent Landscape, Topolnyk shows how the landscape that forms the backdrop to such an event is not innocent in itself ... More  Stephen Friedman Gallery announces relocation to Cork Street, MayfairLONDON.- After 27 years at its current home on Old Burlington Street in Mayfair, Stephen Friedman Gallery announces that it will expand and relocate to neighbouring 5-6 Cork Street, Mayfair in the Autumn of 2023. The new location, which will be designed by award-winning London architectural firm David Kohn Architects, will support the gallerys ambitious plans for growth. Key developments in the building will include large bespoke galleries and a new mezzanine level. Externally, a landscaped courtyard garden will create a new space for the presentation of outdoor sculpture. Other features include a variety of offices, purpose-built flexible areas for working, a library, private viewing rooms and spaces for visitors to dwell and congregate, including a specially designed kiosk. Stephen Friedman Gallery represents 35 artists and estates from around the world ... More  Winners of the Association for Art History's inaugural Curatorial Prize announcedLONDON.- The curatorial teams behind two outstanding exhibitions have been announced as joint winners of the inaugural Curatorial Prizes by the Association for Art History during a special presentation in London this evening. The winners are Helen Ritchie and Magdalene Odundo for their exhibition Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge (October 2021 to July 2022) at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and Julia Griffin, Roisin Inglesby and Andrzej Szczerski for their exhibition, Young Poland: An Arts and Crafts Movement (1890-1918) at the William Morris Gallery in London (October 2021 to January 2022). The winners were selected by an eminent panel, consisting of Christopher Baker (former Director, European and Scottish Portraiture, National Galleries of Scotland), Nicholas Cullinan (Director, National Portrait Gallery), Mark Sealy (Director, Autograph), Deborah Smith ... More  Quentin Blake at 90 sale at BonhamsLONDON.- It is hard to believe, but the illustrator and author Quentin Blake celebrates his 90th birthday this December. Known to generations of children (and their parents) for his illustrations for the books of Roald Dahl, Blake has worked on more than 300 other titles dozens of which he wrote himself. He is marking the occasion with an online sale of 140 works at Bonhams. Quentin Blake at 90: A Birthday Auction in Support of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will run on Bonhams.com from Friday 2 December - Friday 16 December, midday to midday. It ends on the day he turns 90. Estimates for the works have been set at a competitive level to encourage as many people as possible to participate and begin at £300-500.They include the charmingly witty Measuring a Dragon No. 1 as well as drawings of amazing performing dogs, balancing ducks, and dragons. ... More  'Guy Ben Ner - Go Back Where U Came From' opens at the Tel Aviv Museum of ArtTEL AVIV.- The first retrospective in Israel for the artist Guy Ben Ner (b. 1969, Israel, lives and works in Tel Aviv), who is one of the most prominent video artists in the world today. Ben Ner has gained worldwide recognition for his video works, many of which are shot at his home on a purposely meager budget, and feature the artist himself and members of his family (his spouse and children). The exhibition presents works from the early 90s to the present day include new works made specifically for this exhibition. Ben Ners early works highlight the tension between the artists freedom and his position as a father and family man, based on formative myths, canonical literary works, and classic films. They capture the chaos, horror, and fantasy ... More  International Library of Fashion Research opens at the National Museum in Oslo OSLO.- The International Library of Fashion Research is a repository of specialized fashion research and contemporary fashion publications. The collection is continually growing through donations from global fashion houses, publishers and practitioners. The library will be open and accessible to general visitors. The inauguration is marked by a two-day event programme with international visitors. The International Library of Fashion Research (ILFR) was launched in 2020 by Elise By Olsen (b. 1999). It is an independent fashion library based on a large donation from the late fashion theorist Steven Mark Klein. The ILFR is housed in the Station Masters Building at the National Museum in Oslo. The collaboration between ILFR and the National Museum have so far resulted in three projects, including the Fashion Research Symposium that gathered 170 students ... More  First edition Paddington presentation copy included in Bellmans' December Book Auction LONDON.- This year, more than ever, Paddington Bear touched people's hearts when he featured prominently in a charming scene made for television as part of the celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. Paddington was created by children's author Michael Bond (1926-2017) when he wrote the first in a series of books, A Bear Called Paddington, in 1958. More than 35 million Paddington books have been sold around the world, and the last Paddington book was published in 2018. Following his first appearance in book form here in A Bear Called Paddington, Paddington went on to appear in a stop-motion animated television series in the 1970s and two hugely-successful feature films. Over the years, Paddington has entered the nation's psyche and endeared himself to several generations of the young and the not-so-young alike. The front turn-in states: ... More |
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The seduction of beauty
Flashback On a day like today, photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt was born December 06, 1898. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid photographs, frequently made using various models of a 35mm Leica rangefinder camera. He is best known for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day. In this image: 86 year-old Edith Shain and 78 year-0ld Carl Muscarello recreate the Famous 'Kiss Picture', Sunday 14 August 2005. The original couple in the iconic image, Edith Shain the nurse and Carl Muscarello the sailor was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt 60 years ago do the day in Times Square on Victory Japan Day in 1945 to signify the end of World War Two. The Artist Seward Johnson created a life-sized sculpture of the kiss Unconditional Surrender for the event.
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