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Mid Century Modern Bookcase, Herman Miller Charles and Ray Eames Modernica, late 20th century. Estimate $1500 - $1800.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York Citys newest full-service boutique auction house, La Belle Epoque Auction Gallery is presenting their premiere auction on Saturday, February 5th at 11 am in Manhattan, offering a friendly new auction experience to art and antique lovers, dealers, collectors, first time buyers and consigners. The inaugural auction at La Belle Epoque Auction Gallerys welcoming two-level, 5,000 square foot Meatpacking District/West Village location at 71 8th Avenue in Manhattan will be open to in-person auction lovers, with masks required, while being presented online through Live Auctioneers and Bidsquare. In-person previews for the auction will take place on Thursday, February 3rd from 1pm-7pm and Friday, February 4th from 12 noon - 5pm, with masks required. The premiere auction will feature a selection of hundreds of items including fine and contemporary art, antiques, furniture, Mid Century Modern decorative items and coll ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting its first solo exhibition by British artist Sarah Ball. Demonstrating an acute sensitivity to the psyche of her subjects, Ballâ's enigmatic portraits explore the way we project images of ourselves to the world. The show is accompanied by a new monograph that spans the last five years of the artist's practice, featuring essays by Flavia Frigeri (curator, National Portrait Gallery, London) and Philomena Epps (writer).
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| Detroit Institute of Arts acquires important work by American Modernist painter Marsden Hartley | | Gold statement & floral jewelry to highlight Palm Beach auction | | Krannert Art Museum exhibition of sacred, supernatural prints celebrates printmakers' technical skills | 
Marsden Hartley (18771943), Boat Abstraction, 1916.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts today announced it has acquired an important work by famed American modernist painter Marsden Hartley (18771943). Boat Abstraction (1916) exemplifies Hartleys early embrace of abstraction and stands as one of the most powerful works in a series of highly abstract paintings he completed while living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, during the summer and fall of 1916. As Kenneth Myers, curator of American Art at the DIA, explains Boat Abstraction expresses not just the movement of a sailboat, but Hartleys sense of the evanescence of experience the unending movement of the future into the present and the present into the past. Boat Abstraction is the most visually vibrant and emotionally expressive of the twenty or so paintings of sailboats Hartley completed in 191617. It is the only one of these paintings to use the distinctive palette of colors Hartley had developed ... More | | 
David Webb, Yellow Gold, Gemstone And Lapis Lazuli Pendant Estimate: $2,000-3,000.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- On February 10th, Hindman Auctions will offer jewelry by legendary designers in its Palm Beach Jewelry auction, ideal for anyone looking to add pieces to their collection that are simultaneously bold and sophisticated. The sale features everything from timeless statement jewelry to nature inspired pieces. Illustrious jewelers Tiffany & Co., Elizabeth Locke and David Webb will be represented in the offering, as well as an assortment of iconic designs. Gold statement pieces from the second half of the 20th century continue to be highly sought-after, making this the perfect sale for any collector. Boucheron earclips and a bracelet (lot 28 & 27; estimate: $2,500 - 3,500 and $5,000 - 7,000), a large thistle brooch by Cartier (lot 9; estimate: $2,500 - 3,500) and gold cuff bracelets are just a few of the top offerings. This sale offers a range of imaginative pieces that will suit everyone from Palm Beach locals to those who ... More | | 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Saint Jerome Beside a Pollard Willow, 1648. Engraving on paper. Museum purchase through the Iver M. Nelson, Jr. Purchase Fund. 2021-9-1.
CHAMPAIGN, IL.- A Krannert Art Museum exhibition of prints depicting sacred and supernatural imagery showcases Early Modern treasures from across campus, including the growing collection of historical European prints in KAMs collection. Sacred/Supernatural: Religion, Myth, and Magic in European Prints, 1450-1900 is on view Jan. 27-May 15. The 44 prints in the exhibition portray Christian imagery; devils, demons and monsters; and mythological subjects. The works are from the museums collection, including a half dozen new acquisitions that have never been shown at KAM; loans from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures and Ricker Library of Architecture and Art; and loans from a private collector. This exhibition is a great way to show the richness of the collections across campus. ... More |
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| Stephen Friedman Gallery opens its first solo exhibition by British artist Sarah Ball | | Jill Vaum Rothschild joins the Smithsonian American Art Museum as Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow | | Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by Oda Jaune | 
Sarah Ball, 'Inez', 2021. Oil on linen, 120 x 120cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4in). Copyright Sarah Ball. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Mark Blower.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting its first solo exhibition by British artist Sarah Ball. Demonstrating an acute sensitivity to the psyche of her subjects, Balls enigmatic portraits explore the way we project images of ourselves to the world. The show is accompanied by a new monograph that spans the last five years of the artists practice, featuring essays by Flavia Frigeri (curator, National Portrait Gallery, London) and Philomena Epps (writer). Using closely cropped compositions, this body of work celebrates individuals whose self-expression contest conventional gender norms. Ball focuses on the idiosyncrasies of her sitters by depicting their physiognomy, jewellery, makeup and tattoos. These new paintings reveal a newly abstracted visual language for the artist. Soft brushstrokes, muted colour palettes and monochromatic backgrounds contrast with the confrontational gazes of her subjects. The immediacy of ... More | | 
Rothschild earned a bachelors degree from Vanderbilt University (2011) followed by a masters degree (2014) and a doctorate (2021) from the University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Clarissa Villondo.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has appointed Jill Vaum Rothschild as a Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow. This position is the second of two curatorial training fellowships at the museum, supported by a five-year, $590,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Rothschilds appointment started on Jan. 3. We are delighted to welcome Jill to SAAM as our second Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow, said Amelia Goerlitz, chair of academic programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her academic expertise in 19th-century American art, African American art and visual culture combined with her experience engaging diverse audiences on these topics will be of great benefit to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Rothschild will apprentice with Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, on the museums reinstallation of its permanent collectiona major, multiye ... More | | 
Oda Jaune, :*|. Watercolor and wax on paper, 37,5 Ã 27,5 cm 14 6/8 Ã 10 7/8 in. unframed, 41,5 Ã 31,5 cm 16 3/8 Ã 12 3/8 in. framed.
PARIS.- After a two-year absence, unconventional artist Oda Jaune is back, offering a Paris transformed by the pandemic wOnderlust, a powerful, dazzling new exhibition centring on a breath-taking 10-metre-long canvas and a life-sized hologram. The canvases, water colours and hologram together map out a fabulous journey, veering between the magical and the monstrous. Originally from Bulgaria, Oda Jaune trained in Germany before adopting Paris as her home city. Over the last 10 years she has been one of the most intriguing figures on the European art scene. Her distinctive work, unshackled by convention, is part of the spectacular renaissance of figurative painting in France. Poetic, tortured, sometimes erotic or even unaffectedly feminist, her painting uninhibitedly explores the depths of the unconscious. The recent health crisis and forced isolation led the artist to reexamine the evolution of the human race and its shifting relationship with the world. As she explains, "After a year of the pa ... More |
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| Howard Hesseman, the DJ Johnny Fever in 'WKRP in Cincinnati,' dies at 81 | | Photo Elysée receives donation of 100 vintage photographs of the private world of Pablo Picasso | | Tomm El-Saieh's paintings are featured in year-long exhibition at the Clark Art Institute | 
Mr. Hesseman played a fallen radio star who landed in the Midwest on the popular sitcom, which captured the misadventures of a struggling station.
NEW YORK, NY.- Howard Hesseman, the actor and improvisational comedian best known for playing a stuck-in-the-60s radio disc jockey in the TV sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 81. His wife, Caroline Ducrocq, said he died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from colon surgery last summer. Hesseman received two Emmy nominations for playing Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, which ran on CBS for four seasons from 1978 to 1982. The series portrayed a struggling Top 40 rock radio station, where the staff rages against the age of disco with hard rock and punk songs. Hessemans hard-living character, having been pushed from a Los Angeles station where he was a star, serves as a senior member of the counterculture at the Midwestern outlet after smooth-talking his way into a job. I think maybe Johnny smokes a little marijuana, drinks beer and wine, and maybe a little hard liquor, Hesseman told The New York Times i ... More | | 
David Douglas Duncan, Picasso posant avec Duncan, Septembre 1960 © Gjon Mili / Succession Picasso 2022.
LAUSANNE.- Photo Elysée received an exceptional donation from a private collection of 100 vintage photographs of the private world of Pablo Picasso taken between 1956 and 1973 by David Douglas Duncan, the famous American war photographer, as well as two portraits of Pablo Picasso and David Douglas Duncan by Gjon Mili, plus a print by Judy Caravaglia. Pablo Picasso was the most photographed artist of his time, especially during the second half of his life when his reputation had become planetary. Some will see complicity, others connivance. Great photographers such as Man Ray, Brassaï, Lee Miller, Willy Ronis, Robert Doisneau, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson made numerous portraits of the artist, not to mention Dora Maar, his companion, whose prints attest to the genesis of Guernica. As of the 1950s, Picasso had established a real working relationship with certain photographers that he himself had selected: André ... More | | 
Tomm El-Saieh (b. 1984, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives and works in Miami), Canapé Vert, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 84 à 60 in. (213.4 à 152.4 cm). © Tomm El-Saieh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- A selection of large-format paintings by Tomm El-Saieh are on view at the Clark Art Institute in the latest in its series of year-long installations of contemporary art. Tomm El-Saieh: Imaginary City is being shown at the Clark from January 29, 2022 through January 2, 2023. The free exhibition is presented in public spaces in the Clark Centers lower level and the Manton Research Centers Reading Room. Tomm El-Saieh creates powerful, mesmerizing pictures. said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. It is exciting to have the opportunity to show the work of this promising young artist here at the Clark and we look forward to having many months to study and appreciate his complex compositions during the time they enliven our walls. El-Saieh (b. 1984, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives and works ... More |
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| 1932 Riley 9 Gamecock for sale with H&H Clasics | | Claire Oliver Gallery opens 'A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking' | | Hargus Robbins, pianist on country music hits, dies at 84 | 
Introduced in 1932, the Riley 9 Gamecock featured the marque's latest Plus Ultra underslung chassis and jewel-like 1.1-litre four-cylinder engine.
LONDON.- This lovely ninety-year old Riley survivor has been subject to an eight-year restoration with its current owner and is now for sale with H&H Classics at IWM Duxford on March 16 for an estimate of £30,000 to £35,000. It is understood to have had just four owners from new, two from the same family and is now for sale with a history file documenting the restoration. Introduced in 1932, the Riley 9 Gamecock featured the marque's latest Plus Ultra underslung chassis and jewel-like 1.1-litre four-cylinder engine. Fed by twin-carburettors, the latter was allied to four-speed manual transmission and promised a 70mph-plus top speed. Sporting a lightweight aluminium body, large diameter drum brakes, all-round semi-elliptic leaf springs and Duplex Andre adjustable shock absorbers, the model retains good road manners to this day. Undeniably handsome, the Gamecock was ... More | | 
Karen Revis, Grey Face Pink Circles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Claire Oliver Gallery is presenting the New York debut exhibition A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking featuring 21 works by nine contemporary Black women printmakers. Curated by two artists, founder of Black Women of Print, Tanekeya Word and founding member Delita Martin, the exhibition explores the depth and breadth of printmaking through the lens of Black women and their myriad narratives. Like our foremothers, Black women printmakers have used the tools in our hands to create visual languages that tell the stories of our past, present, future and the in-between spaces within fractal time, states Tanekeya Word, co-curator, visual artist and printmaker. Each printmaker shares matriarchal perspectives on Black interiority. The exhibition includes work by Tanekeya Word, Delita Martin, Ann Johnson, LaToya M. Hobbs, Lisa Hunt, Karen J. Revis, Chloe Alexander, Sam Vernon and Stephanie S ... More | | 
A revered member of Nashvilles A-Team of studio musicians, he was a major contributor to Bob Dylans Blonde on Blonde album.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Hargus Pig Robbins, one of country musics most prolific session piano players and a key contributor to Bob Dylans landmark 1966 album, Blonde on Blonde, died Sunday. He was 84. His death was announced on the website of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. It did not say where he died or specify the cause. A longtime member of Nashvilles so-called A-Team of first-call studio musicians, Robbins appeared on thousands of popular recordings made here between the late 1950s and mid-2010s. Many became No. 1 country singles, including Hank Snows Ive Been Everywhere (1962), Loretta Lynns Dont Come Home A-Drinkin (With Lovin on Your Mind) (1966) and Dolly Partons I Will Always Love You (1974). Several also crossed over to become major pop hits, Patsy Clines I Fall to Pieces (1961) and Kenny Rogers' The Gambler ... More |
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How Was It Made? A Korean Inlaid-Lacquer Box
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 Design Miami/ announces inaugural Paris edition and appointment of Maria Cristina Didero to Curatorial DirectorMIAMI, FLA.- Design Miami/ today announced plans to launch its first ever Paris edition this October to coincide with sister fair Art Basel's venture at the Grand Palais. In addition, Design Miami/ announced the appointment of Milan-based design curator, consultant and author Maria Cristina Didero to the global role of Curatorial Director. Jennifer Roberts, CEO of Design Miami/ said The decision to present an event in Paris this October is the natural next step in Design Miamis evolution. Rooted in the past with a hold on the future, the city truly complements Design Miamis commitment to showcasing the best of historic and contemporary collectible design. Building on the excitement, we are thrilled to welcome Maria Cristina to our Design Miami/ family. Maria ... More  Asian Civilisations Museum unveils exquisite masks at the "Clothing The Pandemic" virtual exhibitionSINGAPORE.- Asian Civilisations Museum unveiled an exquisite selection of masks currently on showcase in Clothing the Pandemic: A Virtual Exhibition of COVID-19 Face Masks from Around the World. Organised by the International Committee ICOM for the Museums and Collections of Costume, Fashion and Textiles, this virtual exhibition is an international collaboration among numerous museum curators who have collected face masks for their institutions to document the material culture of the pandemic during 20202021. As Singapores National Museum of Asian Antiquities and Decorative Art and the only Singapore representative in the international roster, ACM stands among the diverse museums participating in this project, including the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum (United Kingdom), the Museo Kordilyera (Philippines), ... More  Exhibition features new relief paintings, site-specific line sculpture, and functional sculptureSARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is presenting Opener 34: Ruby Sky StilerNew Patterns, a solo exhibition by artist Ruby Sky Stiler, including new relief paintings, site-specific line sculpture, and functional sculpture. The exhibition opened January 29 and runs through May 15; however, due to health and safety concerns at the start of the semester visitors for opening weekend were limited to members of Skidmores on-campus community. The public can view the exhibition beginning February 3. Stilers visual language spans time periods, art movements, and spatial dimensions. Her influences move between the art historical and deeply personal: from textbook images of Greco-Roman sculpture and Art Deco illustrations to contemporary textile patterns and iPhone photographs. ... More  Matchmaker's estate on offer at Benefit Shop Foundation Feb. 23MOUNT KISCO, NY.- On the heels of Valentines Day, the Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc. will feature the estate of the late matchmaker extraordinaire Denise Winston at its Red Carpet auction on Wednesday, February 23, at 10 am. The New York socialite, who died in January 2020, had her own boutique business as a matchmaker and love coach. Winston traveled in elite circles, hobnobbing with celebrities and affluent clients at chic restaurants or courtside at Knicks games. She even consulted on the 1996 film, Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as a young woman who acts as a matchmaker in her community. While Winston accrued a collection of couture fashion accessories, notably designer handbags, she had a love for New York sports teams and attended many games. Judging by her large collection of concert tees, she also enjoyed ... More  Norman Rockwell Museum expands senior leadership and innovation plansSTOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Norman Rockwell Museum announced the recent addition of new executive positions. The talent joining the existing Museum leadership invites the opportunity to build forward to serve audiences in new and broader ways as the Museum emerges from the ongoing pandemic. Joining the team is Sue Elliott, appointed to the Museums newly created position of Chief Audience Officer; she will oversee the new Audience Engagement division. Elliott joins recently appointed staff Alyssa Blumenthal, the new Director of Public Operations and Visitor Engagement, and Chris Kupernik, Director of Facilities and Safety. These exemplary leaders with diverse experience and new perspectives from beyond the museum world, join forces with our accomplished professional team to play integral roles in ongoing strategic development, ... More  New appointments at Museum of the City of New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Museum of the City of New Yorkthe citys storyteller for close to 100 yearsannounced the appointment of Leela Outcalt as its Director of Collections. Her role oversees the management of Museums 750,000 object collection, including overseeing rights and reproductions; the acquisition, installation, archiving, digitization and cataloging of works; and providing for the physical care and conservation of the collection, in addition to helping set the strategic priorities of the institution as part of the senior leadership. Additionally, MCNY has elevated Sean Corcoran to Senior Curator, Prints and Photographs; and brought Monxo López, formerly an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow with the Museum, for an Associate Curator appointment for the 2022 year. Both Corcoran and López will continue in their work organizing exhibitions ... More  Important items signed by Einstein, Lincoln, and Washington to be offered at auctionWILTON, CONN.- Two letters signed by Albert Einstein (one typed, one handwritten, both in German), a recognizance bond signed by Sir Isaac Newton when he was Warden of the Royal Mint in 1699, and two items signed by Abraham Lincoln (one an autograph album, the other an early legal brief drafted in 1854) are just a few of the expected highlights in University Archives online-only auction slated for Wednesday, February 16th, beginning at 10:30 am Eastern time. The Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Photographs & Books auction features historical material from multiple collecting categories. The catalog, with all 455 lots, is up for viewing and bidding now, on the University Archives website (www.UniversityArchives.com), plus the platforms LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. ... More  Aviva Lehmann, the voice of American art in the auction world, promoted to Senior Vice PresidentDALLAS, TX.- Aviva Lehmann has been promoted to Heritage Auctions Senior Vice President based in New York City, where she will continue to oversee the American Art category she has helped turn into an auction-world juggernaut. Lehmann is among the most esteemed voices in American art both as a power broker, per Artnet.com, and as a lecturer and professor at New York University. After more than a decade in the auction world, she joined Heritage Auctions in January 2013, where, during her tenure as the auction houses Director of American Art, she has overseen numerous record-setting events. Avivas great appreciation and passion for American art makes her one of the art worlds most admired specialists, says Ed Beardsley, Vice President and Managing Director at Heritage Auctions. Our clients frequently reach out to tell ... More  1914 Cracker Jack collection smashes several records in Heritage Auctions' Winter Sports Card eventDALLAS, TX.- There was quite the prize inside Heritage Auctions two-day Winter Sports Card Catalog Auction: a 1914 Cracker Jack Ty Cobb card that sold for $516,000. Thats the highest price ever paid for a Georgia Peach found inside a box filled with caramel-coated peanuts and popcorn. That was but one card out of a single collectors 144-piece Cracker Jack collection that sold for a combined record-setting $1.38 million and anchored Heritages near-sellout Winter Sports Card Catalog Auction, which closed early Saturday morning and realized a total of $12,591,161. Thousands of bidders worldwide competed for vintage and modern offerings, among them one of the highest-graded complete Cracker Jack sets on PSAs registry. Here, too, was collector Stephen Parthums No. 1 Card assemblage, so called because he bought the very first ... More  Private data shows Broadway's hits and misses after reopeningNEW YORK, NY.- During the long, dark months when the coronavirus pandemic kept Broadway shuttered, a hypothesis took hold in parts of the industry: Once theaters reopened, the audience would include more New Yorkers and fewer tourists, and the result could be a more receptive marketplace for ambitious new plays. It did not turn out that way. Previously undisclosed data about the financial performance of individual Broadway shows reveals that the fundamental modern economics of the industry, in which big brands dominate and adventurous new works struggle to break through, were reinforced, rather than upended, as the industry reopened last fall. The good news: In the months between the reopening of Broadway and the upheaval caused by the arrival of omicron, the biggest pre-pandemic hits were doing reasonably well. The disappointment: ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and sculptor Takashi Murakami was born February 01, 1962. Takashi Murakami (born February 1, 1962) is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. In this image: Installation view, Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats its Own Leg, MCA Chicago, June 6 - September 24, 2017. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA.
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