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A thumbnail view of Keith Haring in ARTBnkÂs Auction Sales Database.
NEW YORK, NY.- The team at ARTBnkÂthe fintech startup based out of New York and New HampshireÂis excited to announce the launch of the ARTBnk Auction Sales Database, a game-changer for collectors, dealers, auction houses, and other art world professionals who want access to reliable market information at an affordable price. The new fine art pricing database is available on an unlimited basis for all ARTBnk members at a nominal feeÂjust $10 per monthÂin contrast to most traditional pricing databases that impose limits on the number of searches. In a first for the industry, ARTBnk employs a team of both data and domain professionals to verify and review all lots before they are accepted into the system. This allows them to identify any potential errors (47 different spellings of Picasso, for example) and standardize the language used to express mediu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Gallery view of 'Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul', from 7 December 2020 until 28 February 2021, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2020. Photo: © David Parry
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| Dutch panel for looted art claims must change course, report finds | | Works from the collection of Claude Hersaint to lead Christie's The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | | Bob Dylan sells his songwriting catalog in blockbuster deal | 
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays many works that had been looted by the Nazis in hopes of finding the rightful owners in 1950. Rijksmuseum via The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For years, the Netherlands was heralded as a leader in the effort to remedy the injustice of Nazi looting during World War II. It was praised for taking action to research stolen art and return it to its rightful owners. But that reputation has been eroding this past decade as a government panel that handles claims from victims and their heirs, the Dutch Restitutions Commission, has drawn criticism for decisions that some viewed as petty and unsympathetic. Now, a committee convened by the minister of culture to assess the Restitutions Commissions track record has concluded in a report issued Monday that the Dutch had moved in the wrong direction. Two of the panels seven members, including its chairman, immediately resigned. At the center of the controversy is a policy ... More | | 
Joan Miró, Peinture, oil on canvas, 57½ x 45 in. (146 x 114.3 cm.), Painted in 1925. Estimate: £9,000,000 14,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Three works by Max Ernst, René Magritte and Joan Miró from the Collection of Claude Hersaint, one of the most important collectors of Surrealist art in the 20th century, will lead the annual The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale. The auction will take place on 9 March 2021 as part of 20th Century at Christies in March 2021. Exhibited extensively, the group is comprised of Magrittes iconic Le mois des vendanges (1959, estimate: £10,000,000 - 15,000,000), Mirós Peinture (1925, estimate: £9,000,000 - 14,000,000) and Ernsts Cage, forêt et soleil noir (1927, estimate: £2,000,000 - 3,000,000). Claude Hersaint was born in São Paulo in 1904. He spent his early childhood in Manaus, before the family returned to Paris where he continued his education at the Lycée Janson de Sailly. In 1921, at the age of 17, he visited the first exhibition dedicated to Max Ernst at the Galerie au Sans-Pareil in Paris, and acquired his first painting. A lifelong passion for ... More | | 
Bob Dylan in New York in 1963. William C. Eckenberg/The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Monday, the Universal Music Publishing Group announced that it had signed a landmark deal to purchase Bob Dylans entire songwriting catalog including world-changing classics like Blowin in the Wind, The Times They Are A-Changin and Like a Rolling Stone in what may be the biggest acquisition ever of the music publishing rights of a single songwriter. The deal, which covers Dylans entire career, from his earliest tunes to his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, was struck directly with Dylan, 79, who has long controlled the vast majority of his own songwriting copyrights. The price was not disclosed but is estimated at more than $300 million. Its no secret that the art of songwriting is the fundamental key to all great music nor is it a secret that Bob is one of the very greatest practitioners of that art, Lucian Grainge, chief executive of the Universal Music Group, said. The deal ... More |
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| Artcurial will hold three sales in Marrakesh | | "Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul" opens at the Royal Academy of Arts | | Bob Dylan 'Editions': A new exhibition of artworks by the musician opens at the Halcyon Gallery | 
Aboudia, Untitled. Estimate: 87 000 - 130 000 MAD / 8 000 - 12 000 .
MARRAKESH.- On 30 December, Artcurial will hold three major sales at La Mamounia, Marrakech, streamed live in Paris. The sales will be dedicated to Majorelle and his Contemporaries, Modern & Contemporary Moroccan & International Art, and Contemporary African Art, the latter organised by the new director in this field, Christophe Person. « Since 2016, Artcurial has organised its year-end sales in Marrakech. Our session will be divided into 3 chapters: Majorelle and his contemporaries, Modern and Contemporary Moroccan and International Art in which we will pay tribute to the great Moroccan artist Mohamed Melehi and, to conclude, Contemporary African Art. We look forward to meeting our Moroccan and international collectors in this wonderful place that is La Mamounia. » Olivier Berman, Director Artcurial Morocco « As a committed ... More | | 
Gallery view of Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul, from 7 December 2020 until 28 February 2021, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2020. Photo: © David Parry.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents a landmark exhibition bringing together for the first time the work of acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin RA (b.1963) and the Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), two internationally renowned artists born 100 years apart. Long fascinated and inspired by Edvard Munchs work, Tracey Emin has choosen a selection of his masterpieces to accompany her own works. The exhibition features around 26 works by Emin, including paintings, some of which are on display for the first time, as well as neons and sculpture. These have been chosen by Emin to sit alongside a carefully considered selection of 18 oil paintings and watercolours by Munch, drawn from the rich collection ... More | | 
Bob Dylan, Sunday Afternoon, 2008.
LONDON.- On Monday 7th December, the new Bob Dylan Editions exhibition opened at the Halcyon Gallery, Mayfair. The new exhibition is a world-exclusive collection of rare, archival, limited edition portfolios and explores the sheer breadth of Dylans achievement and monumental impact on the world as a musician, poet and artist. The exhibition will be on display at the Halcyon Gallery until the end of January as well as being available virtually via a 3D gallery walkthrough. The gallery is also offering private virtual appointments with an art expert. Bob Dylan has been producing visual art since the early 1960s alongside his music career, though the first gallery exhibition of his work was not held until 2007, when Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany, unveiled The Drawn Blank Series. Since then, Dylan has produced an expansive body of work spanning drawing, painting and sculpture. The new Editions exhibition at ... More |
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| Swann sets Hedda Sterne record in inaugural sale of Modern & Post-War Art | | Pace Gallery presents an intimate solo exhibition of photographs and works on paper by Saul Steinberg | | California men declare themselves makers of Pine Mountain monolith | 
Hedda Sterne, Untitled, oil on canvas, 1962. Sold for $100,000, a record for the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries first sale of Modern & Post-War Art on Thursday, December 3 proved to be a major success with a sale total of $739,155 (over $200,000 above the sales high estimate), selling 69 of the 75 lots on offer, and delivering five new auction records. The auction saw fierce competitive bidding across all online platforms and on the phones. Of the five world records set, all are by midcentury modern American artists. Three of the five are women who, for too long, have been overshadowed by their male contemporaries. A reckoning is well afoot in establishing equity in the art market, as can be seen at Swann as well as in gallery exhibitions, and reassessments of the hanging of museum collections. Hopefully this is the beginning of a new normal, and not just a trend, commented Modern & Post-War director Harold Porcher, who organized the sale. Hedda Sterne led the auction with a record-setting ... More | | 
Saul Steinberg, Union Square, 1982. Colored paper, crayon and graphite on paper. No. 18925 © The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting an intimate solo exhibition of photographs and works on paper by celebrated artist Saul Steinberg. Held at the gallerys space in East Hampton, which has been programmed through October 2021, the exhibition brings Steinbergs work to the Hamptons community where the artist long resided, creating many important works. Following Paces presentation of Saul Steinberg: Imagined Interiors, a popular online show that launched the gallerys first series of thematic online exhibitions, Saul Steinberg will be on view until January 17, 2021. After emigrating from Europe to the United States in 1942, Steinberg quickly became dear to a broad American public through his numerous drawings and covers for The New Yorker. At the same time, he became part ... More | | 
A group of four artists and fabricators unveiled themselves on Saturday as the creators of the stainless-steel curiosity that was placed atop Pine Mountain in Atascadero, Calif.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For the first time, someone has taken credit for erecting one of the monoliths that have popped up in the past few weeks, riveting the world. A group of four artists and fabricators unveiled themselves Saturday as the creators of the steel curiosity that was placed atop Pine Mountain in Atascadero, California, on Tuesday and shared a YouTube video of their installation of a replacement after a group of young men livestreamed themselves unceremoniously toppling the original and replacing it with a cross. We intended for it to be a piece of guerrilla art. But when it was taken down in such a malicious manner, we decided we needed to replace it, Wade McKenzie, one of the California monoliths creators, said in an interview Sunday evening. The news of the origins of the monolith ... More |
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| First major UK survey of South African visual activist Zanele Muholi on view at Tate Modern | | Pamela Tiffin, movie star who shone brightly but briefly, dies at 78 | | Metropolitan Opera to lock out stagehands as contract talks stall | 
Zanele Muholi Qiniso, The Sails, Durban 2019. Courtesy of the Artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York © Zanele Muholi.
LONDON.- Tate Modern presents the first major UK survey of South African visual activist Zanele Muholi. Muholi (b.1972) came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that told the stories of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives in South Africa. Over 300 photographs are brought together to present the full breadth of Muholis career to date, from their very first body of work Only Half the Picture, to their on-going series Somnyama Ngonyama. These works challenge dominant ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as fellow human beings bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance and often violence. During the 1990s, South Africa underwent major social and political changes. While the countrys 1996 post-apartheid constitution was the first in the world to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, the LGBTQIA+ community remains a target for vi ... More | | 
In 1961 she starred as the perky daughter of a Coca-Cola executive in Wilders political comedy One, Two, Three. Her character travels to Berlin and marries a sexy young communist (Horst Buchholz) very much against the wishes of her corporate watchdog (James Cagney).
by Anita Gates
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Pamela Tiffin, the bouffant-haired brunette model turned actress who leapt to movie stardom at 19 in a Tennessee Williams drama and a Billy Wilder comedy, then ran away to make Italian movies and retired from acting before her 32nd birthday, died Wednesday at a Manhattan hospital in New York. She was 78. The death was announced in a family statement to The Hollywood Reporter. Tiffin began her Hollywood movie career in two very different films. In Summer and Smoke (1961), based on the Williams play about a spinster (Geraldine Page) and her love for a local doctor (Laurence Harvey), she played the innocent and much younger woman who steals him away. That same year she starred as the perky daughter of a Coca-Cola ... More | | 
Empty seating in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Sept. 14, 2020. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As performing arts institutions around the world scramble to survive a pandemic that has closed their theaters for months, the Metropolitan Opera said on Monday that it would lock out its stagehands after failing to reach an agreement on long-term pay cuts with their union. And just across the plaza at Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic announced a new contract with its musicians one that includes significant pay cuts over the coming years. The Mets lockout and the Philharmonics labor deal make it clear that arts organizations expect their financial pain to last, even if the pandemic subsides over the coming months. The Met has asked for a 30% pay reduction from many of its workers, a figure that would be cut in half once its box-office revenue reached prepandemic levels. The agreement at the Philharmonic establishes 25% cuts to the musicians base pay for the first three years ... More |
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Alexander Calder: The Artist as Inventor
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 Premiere Props to hold Hollywood Movie Props & Costumes AuctionEL SEGUNDO, CALIF.- A treasure trove of more than 750 pieces of memorabilia, props and costumes owned, worn and/or signed by stars like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra plus a massive archive of material from the late Debbie Reynolds and her son Todd Fisher will all come up for bid in an Internet-only Hollywood Movie Props & Costumes Auction slated for Saturday, December 12th, by Premiere Props, starting at 11 am Pacific time. Fans, bidders and collectors around the globe will be able to watch and participate in the auction in real time at HollywoodLiveAuctions.com and PremiereProps.com. An online show about the auction featuring guest Todd Fisher will be aired online. Internet bidding will be provided by the major platforms LiveAuctioneers.com and iCollector.com. Im really excited about the incredible collection ... More Breathtaking Tiffany & Co. trophy Goelet Cup leads $1.4 million Silver & Vertu auction at HeritageDALLAS, TX.- The Gilded Age may have passed but it was not forgotten as Heritage Auctions' presentation of the best of American silversmiths led its $1,465,902 Silver & Vertu Auction Nov. 17 in Dallas, Texas. The sale is the most successful auction of its kind in the history of the house. Leading the auction was the majestic Tiffany & Co. Silver Goelet Cup for schooners dated 1893. Boldly designed in form and scale, the American presentation and trophy cup is formerly from the Collection of J.D. Parks. Parks who hunted for 20 years to find this specific cup, the very best of Gilded Age American silversmith art. "J.D. Parks' collection of Presentation & Trophy silver brought great excitement to the auction room," said Karen Rigdon, Director of Fine & Decorative Arts at Heritage. "Bidders vied for some of the greatest examples of Gilded Age silver ... More Sotheby's eyes $1 mn for rare sneakersNEW YORK (AFP).- A unique pair of sneakers designed by Adidas and German porcelain maker Meissen that could become the first to fetch $1 million went on sale at a Sotheby's auction Monday. The leather shoes -- based on Adidas's popular ZX8000 model and painted by craftsmen from Meissen -- are tipped to set a new record for a pair of trainers. The record has already been broken several times this year, most recently by a set of Nike Air Jordan 1s that Christie's sold for $615,000 in August. Sotheby's has set the pre-sale estimate high at $1 million for the Adidas-Meissen shoes, which are not meant to be worn. The low estimate is one dollar in an attempt to encourage bidding, but auctioneers expect the final price to be at the higher end. "There is that shift in the market looking at these sneakers as art," said Brahm Wachter, director of e-commerce ... More Exhibition "Beyond Appearances - Women Looking at Women" opens at KunstraumBROOKLYN, NY.- The show Beyond Appearances - Women Looking at Women is an exploration into feminine narratives and brings into dialogue recent works by Mona Kuhn, Alex McQuilkin, Regina Parra, and Marianna Rothen. Including video, painting, photography, and installation, the exhibited artworks explore their ongoing research into the female gaze and question, more specifically, the relationship between outer image and inner character. In 1975, the film theorist Laura Mulvey coined the notion of the male gaze in her essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, which depicts the world from the narrow, masculine, heterosexual perspective prevailing in the Hollywood film industry at this time. This notion has since expanded in the following decades to decry and, more broady, the domination of patriarchal values in ... More A 'lion' in winter as Thomas Moran's 1914 masterwork tops American art saleDALLAS, TX.- American art roared back with a vengeance at Heritage Auctions this year, as evidenced by yet another successful event Thursday that realized more than $4.2 million, welcomed more than 740 bidders and saw seven lots reach the six-figure mark. "This has been the year for American art," says Aviva Lehmann, Heritage Auctions' New York-based Vice President and Director of American Art. "For this event we saw an extraordinary 93% sell-through rate, and had museums, new collectors and long-time buyers vying for some amazing pieces that spanned decades and styles from the Hudson River School to Modernism, from Western works to illustration art. Just a thrilling way to end the year." The excitement was evident early in the Dallas-based auction house's Dec. 3 American Art event, when Thomas Moran's stunning Mountain ... More Artis-Naples names Museum Director-Chief CuratorNAPLES, FLA.- ArtisNaples announced today the appointment of Courtney McNeil as Museum Director and Chief Curator of The Baker Museum. McNeil joins ArtisNaples from Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, where she worked for nearly 15 years. During that time, she had progressive responsibilities including serving as Curator of Fine Arts and Exhibitions, Chief Curator & Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and, most recently, as Interim Co-Managing Director. At Telfair Museums, McNeil curated dozens of exhibitions including Collecting Impressionism: Telfairs Modern Vision and Mickalene Thomas at Giverny. After a nationwide search process, McNeil was the unanimous choice of the search committee, which included members of the ArtisNaples Board of Directors, the Museum Board Committee and Artis─Naples ... More Virus could leave theatre workers homeless: Helen Mirren (AFP).- People working in Britain's theatre industry risk homelessness because of the coronavirus outbreak, stage and screen star Helen Mirren warned in an interview published on Monday. The curtain came down on theatres across the country in March as the pandemic took hold. Lockdown rules have now eased, but many venues cannot afford to reopen with limited audience numbers. Some have been forced to close permanently. That has left many employees -- from actors to stagehands -- in dire straits, given that many are self-employed and live "from wage packet to wage packet", Mirren said. She told Britain's Press Association news agency that people in the arts were "really suffering". "The worry is simply people not being able to pay their rent," she said. "When those wage packets aren't there, which has been the case for the last year, it is ... More A polarizing documentary spurs debate over a violent time in QuebecMONTREAL (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Félix Rose was 7 years old when he realized that the gentle father he idolized had a secret past. Your daddy killed someone, his cousin told him during a family celebration, he recalled recently. His father, Paul Rose, had been a leader of a violent extremist group, the Front de Libération du Québec, or FLQ, that agitated for Quebecs independence from Anglophone-dominated Canada. The elder Rose was convicted in 1971 of the groups most notorious crime: the kidnapping and murder in October 1970 of a Quebec Cabinet minister, Pierre Laporte. It was the first political assassination in Canada in more than a century. Now, half a century later, the younger Rose, 33, has produced a documentary film about his family, Les Rose, that has been a surprise hit and sensation in Quebec, underlining ... More Hastings Contemporary Gallery opens two new exhibitionsHASTINGS.- Two hugely anticipated exhibitions Lakwena Mcivers Homeplace and Stephen Chambers The Court of Redonda mark the re-opening of Hastings Contemporary after the UKs latest national lockdown. Lakwena Maciver, one of the UKs most exciting contemporary black artists creates painted prayers and meditations, which respond to and re-appropriate elements of popular culture. Central to her practice are words, used as both images and anchors of meaning. Exploring the role of the artist as myth-maker, with their use of acid-bright colour and bold typographic text, her paintings act as a means of decolonisation, subtly subverting prevailing mythologies. The approach is instinctive and autodidactic, producing visceral, rhythmic and immersive panel paintings, iconic murals and installations. Lakwenas most recent body of work ... More Nobel laureates receive prizes at home amid pandemicSTOCKHOLM (AFP).- Adjusting to a world where travel is hampered by the pandemic, this year's Nobel laureates will receive their prizes at home this week following the cancellation of the traditional Stockholm and Oslo ceremonies. The awards in the six categories were announced in nearly typical fashion in October, albeit with fewer reporters in physical attendance. However, none of the winners will travel to Stockholm or Oslo to receive their diplomas and medals due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The ceremonies are traditionally held on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the prize's founder, Swedish entrepeneur and inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel. The lavish Stockholm ceremony hasn't been cancelled since World War II, and the last time the Oslo ceremony was scrapped was in 1976 when the peace prize was "reserved" ... More In Brooklyn Bridge Park, artwork confronts climate changeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Those who wander the circuitous paths of Pier 3 in Brooklyn Bridge Park may be drawn to the western edge of the pier by the lapping of water. But the sounds may not be coming from the East River, which borders the site. Rather, they may be emanating from an installation of videos of lush and swampy Southern landscapes. It will all be part of Waters of a Lower Register, a work by artist Allison Janae Hamilton, which will play on five 70-inch screens Dec. 16-20. The screens will be placed in an arc on the northwest corner of Pier 3, offering the intimacy of a screening room and the safety of an open-air setting, with the view of the lower Manhattan skyline behind them. Hamilton, 36, has lived in New York since 2006. Waters of a Lower Register focuses on the watery landscape of northern Florida, where she ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Diego Rivera was born December 08, 1886. Diego MarÃa de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y RodrÃguez (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929 - 1939 and 1940 - 1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In this image: A couple looks at the painting 'Portrait of Gilda Blanca' (R) by Mexican Diego Rivera during an exhibition to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City, Mexico, 04 July 2011.
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