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J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), Bell Rock Lighthouse, 1819. Watercolour and gouache with scratching out on paper, 30.60 x 45.50 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland. Purchased by Private Treaty Sale 1989 with the aid of funds from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Pilgrim Trust.
EDINBURGH.- A dramatic depiction of Robert Stevensons engineering marvel, the Bell Rock Lighthouse, by Britains most celebrated artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), will shine its light on the National Galleries of Scotlands seasonal exhibition Turner in January, which opens at the Scottish National Gallery on New Years Day. In 2019, this much-loved annual exhibition is supported by players of Peoples Postcode Lottery for the seventh year. In a tradition that stretches back more than a century, every January the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) displays an outstanding collection of Turners radiant watercolours, bequeathed in 1900 by one of the greatest connoisseurs of his work, Henry Vaughan (1809-1899). Conscious that limited exposure would preserve the brilliant colour and exceptional condition of the works, Vaughan stipulated in his will that his Turners should only ever be shown ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fireworks explode around the London Eye during New Year's celebrations in central London just after midnight on January 1, 2019. ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP
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 | | Vito Schnabel opens its first solo exhibition with New York-based artist Tom Sachs | | Phoenix Art Museum announces major gift of contemporary Latin American artworks | | Exhibition explores how jewelry acts upon and activates the body it adorns | 
Front: The Pack (Lagos), 2018; Mixed media; 49 1/2 x 62 x 24 1/2 in. The Pack, (Mogadishu), 2018; Mixed media; 49 1/2 x 62 x 24 1/2 in. The Pack (Kinshasa), 2018; Mixed media; 49 1/2 x 62 x 24 1/2 in.. Back: Flag, 2018; Synthetic polymer paint, steel, plywood; 84 x 84 x 5 in. © Tom Sachs; Photo by Genevieve Hanson; Courtesy Tom Sachs Studio and Vito Schnabel Gallery.
ST. MORITZ.- Vito Schnabel is presenting its first solo exhibition with New Yorkbased artist Tom Sachs. The Pack includes new and recent sculptures that materialize the artists long-standing fascination with the nation of Switzerland and the pristine bliss that stands at the heart of the Swiss brand. Over the last three decades, Sachs has been driven by what he describes as a desire to remake the world not as it is, but the way it ought to be. Employing his signature technique of bricolage, he assembles collected materials to construct objects that critique modernity. Creating one alternative universe after the next, Sachs sculpts grandiose projects of sympathetic magic: a universe of brand icons, ... More | | 
DarÃo Escobar, Broken Circle VIII, 2013. Plastic and steel. Gift of Nicholas Pardon. Image Courtesy of the artist and Nils Steerk, Copenhagen. Photograph: Andrés Asturias.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum is the recipient of a significant gift from Nicholas Pardon, co-founder of the SPACE Collection, the largest collection of post-1990s abstract art from Latin America in the United States featuring major works by artists recognized as the pioneers of their generation. The gift includes 112 artworks by 49 artists from 14 Latin American countries and represents a 280% increase in the Museums holdings of contemporary Latin American art. Previously, the Museums Latin American art collection included approximately 40 contemporary artworks. We are deeply grateful for this generous gift from Nicholas Pardon, said Amada Cruz, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. These significant works from the esteemed SPACE Collection greatly diversify and strengthen ... More | | 
Broad Collar of Wah, Egyptian, ca. 1981.1975 B.C. (40.3.2).
NEW YORK, NY.- What is jewelry? Why do we wear it? What meanings does it convey? On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Jewelry: The Body Transformed traverses time and space to explore how jewelry acts upon and activates the body it adorns. This global conversation about one of the most personal and universal of art forms brings together some 230 objects drawn almost exclusively from The Met collection. A dazzling array of headdresses and ear ornaments, brooches and belts, necklaces and rings created between 2600 B.C.E. and the present day are being shown along with sculptures, paintings, prints, and photographs that enrich and amplify the many stories of transformation that jewelry tells. Jewelry is one of the oldest modes of creative expressionpredating even cave painting by tens of thousands of yearsand the urge to adorn ourselves is now nearly universal, commented Max ... More |
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| | | Centre Pompidou presents 2019 FranceRomania cycle | | Record prices in 2018 U.S. rare coin market, reports Professional Numismatists Guild | | British Library awarded £9.2 million for a major new project set to revolutionise research | 
The 2019 FranceRomania cycle is an opportunity to take a fresh look at a key moment in the history of 20thcentury international cultural dynamics.
PARIS.- A Romanian cycle at the Centre Pompidou provides an opportunity to showcase an extraordinary laboratory of artistic creation which intimately and fully shaped the history of modern and contemporary art. The 2019 FranceRomania cycle is an opportunity to take a fresh look at a key moment in the history of 20thcentury international cultural dynamics, in which Paris has long been a key hub where the Central and East European art scenes emerged, asserted themselves and came to play a leading role. Through some of the founding figures of artistic modernity and the avant-garde, the Centre Pompidou presents and revisits the vast wealth of its collections through special exhibitions and installations. As the owner of Brancusis Studio, the Centre Pompidou possesses an absolute icon of modern art. It forms one of the key focus points of this cycle, with an installation by the visionary designer and charismatic perf ... More | | 
Dealers organization estimates the U.S. rare coin market was over $4 billion in 2018.
TEMECULA, CA.- Quality was in the eyes of the bidders in the multi-billion dollar United States rare coin market during 2018, according to a year-end tabulation conducted by the Professional Numismatists Guild, a nonprofit organization composed of many of the countrys top rare coin and paper money dealers. While prices declined during the year for some U.S. coins in easily available lower grades, hundreds of noteworthy coins from early American to modern that are among the finest known of their kind set auction price records. Based on responses to a year-end PNG questionnaire, the aggregate prices realized for all U.S. coins sold at major public auctions in 2018 totaled more than $345 million, compared to $316 million in 2017. The PNG estimates the overall U.S. rare coin market in 2018 was over $4 billion not including sales by the United States Mint or bullion coins, such as gold and silver American Eagles. With the stock market dr ... More | | 
The storage void of the British Library National Newspaper Building at Boston Spa in West Yorkshire © British Library Board.
LONDON.- The Alan Turing Institute and the British Library, together with researchers from a range of universities, have been awarded £9.2 million from the UKRI's Strategic Priorities Fund for a major new project. Living with Machines, which will take place over five years, is set to be one of the biggest and most ambitious humanities and science research initiatives ever to launch in the UK. 'Living with Machines' will see data scientists working with curators, historians, geographers and computational linguists with the goal to devise new methods in data science and artificial intelligence that can be applied to historical resources, producing tools and software to analyse digitised collections at scale for the first time. In recognition of the significant changes currently underway in technology, notably in artificial intelligence, the project will use the century following the first Industrial Revolution, and the changes ... More |
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| | | Outsider Art Fair announces exhibitors for its 27th New York edition | | Marc Straus announces the release of Jeanne Silverthorne's first limited-edition monograph | | Exhibition links together Egon Schiele's drawings to tell the story of the artist's brief life | 
Minnie Evans, Untitled (Three faces in floral design) (detail),1967, Crayon, graphite and oil on canvas board, 22.75Ã27.75 in. Artwork © Estate off Minnie Evans. Courtesy of Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, N.C.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Outsider Art Fair, the only fair dedicated to Self-Taught Art, Art Brut and Outsider Art, is pleased to announce the exhibitor list for its 27th New York edition, taking place January 17-20, 2019 at The Metropolitan Pavilion. The fair will showcase 67 exhibitors, representing 37 cities from 7 countries, with 8 first-time galleries. This year, OAF will host two of its hallmark Curated Spaces. Good Kids: Underground Comics from China will feature zines and original drawings created by Chinese artists. Co-organized by Brett Littman (Director, Noguchi Museum, New York) and Yi Zhou (partner and curator of C5Art Gallery, Beijing), these works deal with subject matter that is scatological, sexual, puerile and anti-conformist, making the distribution and sales of these work in mainland China complicated to almost impossible. A second Curated Space will serve as homage to the late ... More | | 
This comprehensive, fully illustrated, hard-cover catalogue assembles Silverthornes remarkable oeuvre for the first time, through 220 pages of more than 90 color illustrations that explore works and exhibitions over four decades.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus announced the release of Jeanne Silverthornes first limited-edition monograph, on the occasion of her upcoming exhibition on view Jan 9Feb 10, 2019. This comprehensive, fully illustrated, hard-cover catalogue assembles Silverthornes remarkable oeuvre for the first time, through 220 pages of more than 90 color illustrations that explore works and exhibitions over four decades. Drawing on Silverthornes historic archive of transparencies and newly commissioned photographs, this catalogue focuses on the seminal 1994 Untitled (Chandelier), and the 2018 Frankenstein work, both of which comprise the exhibition, and further explores central tenets of her work, such as language and her studio environment. The catalogue also contains critical essays by art historians and critics Glenn Adamson and Sue Canning. Also an interview ... More | | 
Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Brown Background, 1912. Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper. Signed and dated, lower left. 12 3/8" x 10" (31.4 x 25.4 cm). Kallir D. 1177. Kallir Family Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tracing the arc of his artistic development, Egon Schiele: In Search of the Perfect Line is on view at Galerie St. Etienne through March 2, 2019. Galerie St. Etienne has presented more than 15 Egon Schiele exhibitions since 1941, when the gallery introduced the work of the artist to the U.S. The exhibition leverages the gallerys access to rare and newly authenticated work with 46 watercolors and drawings curated from numerous private collections, many of which have not been exhibited publically in more than 20 years. Egon Schiele: In Search of the Perfect Line marks the 100th anniversary of Schieles death in 1918 and links together Schieles drawings to tell the story of the artists brief life, which ended when he died of the Spanish flu at age 28. One of the greatest draughtsmen of all times, Schiele drew almost daily, using the medium to record his fluctuating responses to the basic problems ... More |
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| | | Feminist filmmakers tackle adult movie machismo | | Exhibition of large-scale works on paper by David X. Levine opens at Zevitas Marcus | | TEFAF New York Spring 2019 announces new exhibitors | 
French actress, director, producer and writer Ovidie gives an AFP interview during the screening of her movie 'Everything is Better Than a Hooker'. Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Ethical, diverse and not a silicone breast in sight -- feminist filmmakers are standing up to mass-market porn with adult movies free of male domination and gender stereotypes. Their films aim to show realistic, consent-based and egalitarian sex instead of the superhuman bedroom exploits of macho studs and submissive women. "Feminist porn is part of a fight against misogyny on the same territory and with the same weapons as the sex movie mainstream," French filmmaker Ovidie, 38, told AFP at a recent film festival on the subject in Berlin. The first attempts at feminist pornography date back to the 1980s in the United States, but the movement has received a new lease of life in response to a flood of free online porn in the internet age. The easy availability of even hardcore porn online has raised concerns that a generation ... More | | 
David X Levine, KANYE WEST, 2018. Colored pencil on paper, 53h x 66w in.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Zevitas Marcus is presenting HA HA HA! NO JOKE an exhibition of large-scale works on paper by New York based artist David X. Levine. The exhibition runs from December 29, 2018 February 2, 2019. HA HA HA! NO JOKE offers viewers a summation of the past three years of Levines practice. Finding inspiration in poetry, prose, popular culture and art history, Levines most recent work merges abstraction and language in order to investigate how both operate on visual and conceptual levels. In earlier works, Levines text was meant to be read; in his recent work, which operates as a sort of concrete poetry, he is more interested in how text acts when it is unshackled from its culturally assigned meaning. The dozen six-foot works on display were all executed with colored pencils on paper, which has been Levines primary medium for close to two decades. Meticulous and concentrated, each work takes ... More | | 
Gmurzynska, stand 18 - TEFAF New York Spring 2018. Photography: Kirsten Chilstrom.
NEW YORK, NY.- A stellar roster of 90 leading exhibitors will participate in the third edition of TEFAF New York Spring -- with 12 new participants, some of most influential names in the business -- taking part for the first time. Launched in May 2017, the Fair is dedicated to modern and contemporary art and design and takes place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from May 3-7, 2019. New York is arguably the most important global center -- historically, artistically and commercially for the field of modern and contemporary art, comments Sofie Scheerlinck, Managing Director of TEFAF New York. We are delighted to be part of this dynamic art landscape, offering an unrivalled platform for exhibitors in New York. In turn, the Fair offers art lovers, collectors, museum curators and design professionals an exceptionally strong line up of leading international galleries, and a ... More |
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 Bonniers Konsthall presents an exhibition of works by Peter LiversidgeSTOCKHOLM.- The artistic practice of Peter Liversidge unfolds from his Proposals. At the end of December 2017, the artist addressed 45 proposals to Bonniers Konsthall, presented in the exhibition Working Title 2018. The proposals challenge and invite, but the potential realization is left open-ended, akin to a score or a script. During the year, some of them were brought to life, often with the help from visitors or from employees at the konsthall. The collaborative aspect of the works questions the myth of the artist as a lone genius. In Working Title II the artist returns. The proposals, framed single sheets of A4 paper, form the hub of the exhibition. Documentations and new works unfolding from the proposals are presented alongside, some more explicit in their becoming than other. The realization process also takes place at external sites. In Notes ... More Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Parreno and Charlotte Pryce headline Rotterdam Film FestivalROTTERDAM.- Art Directions, the art programme for the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam features a wide-ranging programme of art installations, exhibitions and performances including a re-working of Jean-Luc Godard latest film, a major new work by Philippe Parreno and a world premiere by LA-based Charlotte Pryce. French artist Philippe Parreno will present his new work entitled No More Reality (1988-2018). This feature-length film combines 20 years of new, existing and re-edited footage to create a 'film of films'. Screened in the classical halls of Pathé in the centre of Rotterdam, Parreno proposes a 'seance of cinema' reintroducing the magic and rituals of cinema back to this historic location. Jean-Luc Godard will present his latest film, Le livre dimage, in the way he originally intended: in a specially designed, intimate setting that reflects ... More Science-inspired art looks beyond the "seen" to appreciate the beauty and mystery of the "unseen"WASHINGTON, DC.- Dualityabstraction and representation, the literal and the metaphorical, science and mysticism, the unseen and the seenis a predominant theme in New York artist Jody Raschs work, which is explored in Duality: Art + Science, a stunning exhibition curated by The American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC as part of its Art of Science and Technology Program. The exhibition also features work by Betsy Stewart and is on view through February 1, 2019 in the gallery space at AAASs headquarters. Rasch uses science images to look beyond what we see in the macro world of our daily lives and challenges us to explore the world around us, question our world-view and how we react to information. Duality: Art + Science presents paintings and drawings inspired by astronomy, biology, physics and spectra. The works from the spectra ... More The Asia Contemporary Art Show returns for its 14th edition next springHONG KONG.- Now in its 14th edition, the Asia Contemporary Art Show will take place March 29th April 1st, 2019 at the Conrad Hong Kong, and will welcome more than 80 galleries from Asia and the world, including up-and-coming and mid-career artists. The show kicks off on Friday, March 29th with the exclusive UnionPay Private View and the UnionPay VIP Collectors Preview. General admission opens on Saturday, March 30th and continues until Monday, April 1st. Art is certainly closing out a solid year in Hong Kong, albeit in the past few weeks there has been distraction from trade issues and yo-yo stock indices. No one blinked this past Fall, when we saw record attendance and turnover at art fairs and solid auction results. remarked Show Director Mark Saunderson, On top of that, early benefits from the Greater Bay Area development - the economic hub made ... More 1885 Trade Dollar kicks off Heritage's highly anticipated FUN offerings, Jan. 9-14DALLAS, TX.- With a convention busting 5,745 lots, Heritage Auctions' sale line-up associated with the Florida United Numismatists Show, Jan. 9-14, will present collectors the stuff of dreams. Kicking off the rarities is among the most sought after U.S. coins of all time: The finest of five examples known to exist of the 1885 Trade Dollar will cross the block Jan. 11 during Heritage's Platinum Night auction. Already bid to $1.2 million at the time of this newsletter, the example was acquired by William Cutler Atwater sometime before 1923. Atwater compiled one of the most important collections of the first half of the 20th century. It is not difficult to see why Atwater found this particular 1885 Trade Dollar easy on the eyes: The impeccably preserved surfaces include deeply mirrored fields that exhibit noticeable, if undesignated, cameo contrast with the frosty devices. ... More Not seen in 30 years: Rare $100 1878 Silver Certificate surfacesDALLAS, TX.- The appearance of the rare $100 1878 Silver Certificate, PCGS Very Fine 35, in Heritage Auction's FUN Currency Platinum Night marks the first time in 30 years that any $100 1878 Silver Certificate has been available to the collecting public, and the first time in four decades since a specimen has appeared at public auction. The note carries a pre-sale estimate of $150,000-up, possibly a conservative figure considering not one collector in this generation has ever had the opportunity to acquire any note of this type. "It's an extraordinary opportunity for the hobby to own the finest of only four known and the first of the two privately held examples to reach auction," said Dustin Johnston, Director of Currency Auctions at Heritage. "Fortunately for collectors, this note's grade is commensurate with its rarity." All of the short-lived Series 1878 Silvers come countersigned. ... More Galerie Alexis Pentcheff to present a selection of postimpressionist and modern works at BRAFAMARSEILLE.- For its tenth anniversary in January 2019, Galerie Alexis Pentcheff announced a very special exhibition. Genuine journey through the ages, from the mid-19th century to the post-war period, this ambitious project is just like the two founders of the gallery, Giulia and Alexis Pentcheff. Deeply rooted in the origins of modern art, this exhibition also draws important parallels between eras and regions. Deployed in two stages, this anniversary aims to highlight the work of artists that the gallery has been supporting for the last ten years, but also to present one masterpiece for each leading modern and post-impressionist artist. The first part of the exhibition will take place in Marseille, and will open the festivities with living works by the French contemporary artist Ben, produced especially for this show. The artistic selection carefully ... More Members of the public asked to help find missing portrait which inspired the world's first gothic novelLONDON.- The curators at Strawberry Hill House in London are asking members of the public to help them find a missing painting that inspired Horace Walpoles celebrated gothic novel The Castle of Otranto. The painting, a portrait of Henry Carey Lord Falkland, c. 1762, attributed to Paul Van Somers (1575 1633), originally hung in the great Gallery at Strawberry Hill but has since been lost. Over 150 paintings, sculptures and curiosities from Horace Walpoles celebrated 18th century collection have been reunited for the first time in 176 years for Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpoles Collection, a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition open until 24 February 2019. Research Curator, Dr Silvia Davoli and Michael Snodin, Chair of Strawberry Hill Collection Trust, have undertaken a worldwide treasure hunt for Walpoles collection. The search ... More Israelis mourn writer and peace advocate Amos OzHULDA (AFP).- Hundreds mourned revered Israeli writer and peace advocate Amos Oz on Monday at a funeral ceremony where the country's president hailed him as the nation's storyteller not afraid to be called a "traitor." Crowds lined up at a small theatre in central Tel Aviv, where Oz's closed casket lay on the stage ahead of eulogies from speakers including Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. In a sign of the widespread appreciation and respect for Oz in Israel, his funeral was broadcast live on television, unusual for a writer. Family members, politicians and average Israelis touched by Oz's works slowly filed past the black coffin ahead of the ceremony that followed the writer's death on Friday from cancer at the age of 79. A teary Rivlin recalled their childhood friendship in Jerusalem, where they were neighbours growing up. "Because your writing was personal ... More See Venice, but pay an entry fee firstROME (AFP).- Visitors to Venice will have to pay a new tax to help cover the costs of keeping the tourist-thronged historic city clean and safe, city officials have announced. The measure, passed late on Saturday as part of the budget bill, allows the city authorities from July to being charging tourists a landing fee of between 2.5 and 10 euros ($2.9-11.5) depending on the season. The charge covers all visitors, whether they are staying overnight or not. That means it will apply to day-trippers such as the thousands of cruise ship passengers who currently escape the existing tax charged by hotels and the owners of rented properties for those staying overnight. Some 600 cruise ships stop at Venice every year, helping drive complaints that the city is being swamped by the millions of tourists who visit each year. Airlines and coach companies ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Chinese painter Qi Baishi was born January 01, 1864. Qi Baishi (1 January 1864 - 16 September 1957) was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his watercolor works. Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan, Hunan, Qi became a carpenter at 14, and learned to paint by himself. After he turned 40, he traveled, visiting various scenic spots in China. After 1917 he settled in Beijing. In this image: Qi Baishi, Crabs, circa 1930. Album leaf, ink on paper. University of Michigan Museum of Art. Gift of Sotokichi Katsuizumi, 1949/1.199.
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