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In this whole home project in a massive lakeside family compound in the High Sierras, the homeowners employed a harmonious series of room size and oversize antique Oriental rugs to furnish their massive living room with three gracious seating areas. This strategic ensemble of compatible antique carpets created a harmonious atmosphere, as the unified movements of a perfectly played orchestral piece.
OAKLAND, CA.- Antique Oriental rugs can serve as unifying themes or to establish conversations areas in grand great rooms. Whether used in combination or as statement pieces, these rare vintage rugs from Claremont Rug Company add intimacy and atmosphere to residences that are both personal and majestic. Jan David Winitz, president/founder of Claremont, annually works with dozens of homeowners who employ connoisseur-level antique Oriental rugs as their personal style signifiers. Increasingly antique rug collectors are working with Claremont to unify large interior spaces that characterize residences, whether they are located seaside or magnificent mountains or in more urban environments. In working with clients, says Winitz, I find that they are open to employing rugs to set off spaces within larger rooms and to create more intimate conversation areas. Antique Oriental rugs, with their vibrant colors and subtle patterns, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photo taken on November 29, 2018 shows Vic Capuno, 52-year-old jeepney artist, painting in one of the jeepneys at a workshop in San Pablo, Laguna province, south of Manila. Capuno, a draughtsman by education who went into jeepney painting in 1987, works along with a colleague on three or four jeepneys a month produced by San Pablo's Armak Motors. As the government runs jeepneys gradually off the road due to pollution and safety concerns, artists like him -- and their work -- are going too. TED ALJIBE / AFP
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 | | Suspect nabbed in brazen art theft from Moscow museum | | Yearlong exhibition in two parts celebrates the sustained legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe | | Holocaust museum stokes controversy among Hungary's Jews | 
In this file photo taken on August 12, 2016 a woman takes a photo during an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Alexander NEMENOV / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Russian police on Monday detained a man they believe snatched a 19th-century painting off the wall in a busy Moscow museum then strolled out past visitors and security. Police and museum officials hailed the swift arrest and the recovery of the painting, but Sunday's brazen theft is raising questions about security at Moscow's Tretyakov gallery, home to some of Russia's most storied art. The 31-year-old man took a Crimean landscape by Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi and carried it through a room filled with visitors, according to the officials. In a video shot by police after apprehending the man, who has not been named, he denies any wrongdoing. "I don't breach the law or the Russian Constitution," says the man, who is shown kneeling and clearly sporting a black eye. The painting, depicting the Ai-Petri ... More | | 
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait, 1980. Gelatin silver print, 35.6 x 35.6 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Gift, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation 93.4289 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2019, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents a yearlong exhibition conceived in two sequential parts honoring the groundbreaking work and sustained legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe (19461989), one of the most critically acclaimed yet controversial American artists of the late twentieth century. Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now is on view in the museums Mapplethorpe Gallery on Tower Level 4 from January 25July 10, 2019 and July 24, 2019January 5, 2020. The exhibition is organized by Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections, and Susan Thompson, Associate Curator, with Levi Prombaum, Curatorial Assistant, Collections. The Guggenheim Museum holds one of the most ... More | | 
The new holocaust museum 'House of Fates' housed in what was the former 'Jozsefvarosi' railway station is pictured in Budapest on January 21, 2019. FERENC ISZA / AFP.
BUDAPEST (AFP).- As the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, Hungarian Jews find themselves divided in a bitter dispute over the long-delayed opening of a new Holocaust museum in Budapest. The "House of Fates" complex, located on the run-down fringe of the city centre, is fronted by two 15-metre (49-foot) high towers of stacked cattle wagons connected by a giant, floodlit metal bridge in the shape of the Jewish Star of David. The 24-million-euro ($27 million) revamp of the sprawling site, a former railway station where Jews were deported to Nazi German death camps, was largely finished by 2015. But it has remained shuttered ever since, its exhibition space empty save for furniture in dusty bubble wrap, amid wrangles over its ... More |
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| | | Royal College of Art announces ambitious future plans including new Battersea building | | Leonardo da Vinci's drawings go under the microscope in a new publication | | New work by Miroslaw Balka links and transforms each of White Cube's gallery spaces | 
The new RCA Battersea Building © Herzog & de Meuron.
LONDON.- The Royal College of Art, the internationally renowned art and design university, today launched GenerationRCA, an ambitious five-year campaign programme representing the most significant development in its history since the College was founded in 1837. GenerationRCA will propel the RCAs radical new academic vision by focusing on three key pillars: Places, Projects and People. This programme will see the RCA transform its campuses and the ways in which the university teaches, researches and creates. On a site immediately opposite its existing Battersea campus, the RCA will open a new state-of-the-art building, designed by internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron. A landmark for London and British higher education, the Herzog & de Meuron development sets a new blueprint for creative education. After 2021, the RCA will turn its focus to its historic site in Kensington, and undertake the revitalisation of ... More | | 
Leonardo da Vinci, 'The cardiovascular system and principal organs of a woman', c.1509-10. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019.
LONDON.- Hidden details in drawings by Leonardo da Vinci are revealed for the first time in a groundbreaking new book, Leonardo da Vinci: A Closer Look, published on 1 February. Shedding fresh light on the artists drawing methods, tools and materials, the book presents the findings from 20 years of scientific research by Alan Donnithorne, former Head of Paper Conservation, Royal Collection Trust. Focussing on 80 of Leonardos finest drawings from the unrivalled holdings of the Royal Collection, the author leads us through the Renaissance masters creative processes. He examines the material aspects of Leonardos work in unprecedented detail using a range of techniques, including microscopy, ultraviolet imaging, infrared reflectography and X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The publication of Leonardo da Vinci: A Closer Look coincides with the opening on 1 February ... More | | 
Miroslaw Balka, Random Access Memory. 25 January 9 March 2019. White Cube Masons Yard © Miroslaw Balka. Courtesy White Cube (Theo Christelis).
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting Random Access Memory by Miroslaw Balka at Masons Yard, a new work that links and transforms each of the gallery spaces. Throughout his practice, Balka has emphasised how the viewers experience and their negotiation of space is fundamental to meaning. In this exhibition, he reflects on this through a radical artistic gesture, whereby both floors of the gallery are partially blocked by heated metal walls spanning the entire width of each space. The title for the exhibition, Random Access Memory, refers to the complex form of computer data storage that we all use but do not necessarily comprehend, as well as to more generalised conceptions of memory, both in terms of the personal and the collective. It can also be seen as a reflection on our current political climate in which access to memory and history is often deliberately manipulated or even denied. In his sc ... More |
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| | | Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a sculpture installation by Antony Gormley | | Spectacular La Cornue Grand Palais Château Series custom range brings the heat at Andrew Jones Auctions | | Kerlin Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Mark Francis | 
Antony Gormley with his installation, STAND, at Philadelphia Museum of Art. © Antony Gormley. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery. Photo by Joseph Hu, 2019.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents STAND, an installation across the Museums East Terrace of ten cast-iron Blockworks sculptures by Antony Gormley, one of the most significant artists of our time. The artist said: Like standing stones, these works are markers in space, but I would also like them to engage the viewers time. I want to use material mass and the orthogonal forms of the built environment to evoke internal states. This exhibition is incomplete without the subjective witness of the citizen: each work in its different way calls on him/her to simultaneously project and recognize internal affinities in the attitude carried by the block piles. Here is sculpture, not statue; less hero or ideal, more material and real: a public declaration of subjective identity. Ten standing works, each about ten feet high, ... More | | 
Greek red figure askos, South Italy, Apulian, circa 4th century BCE ($3,250).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A spectacular La Cornue Grand Palais Château Series custom range, complete with a teppanyaki grill, found a new home for $25,000 at Andrew Jones Auctions first DTLA Collections & Estates Auction of the New Year, held January 20th, online and in the firms spacious gallery located at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. The sale featured a vast selection of over 500 lots of market fresh furnishings, decorations and accessories, including fine art, antiques, modern design, Asian works of art, estate jewelry, fine silver and Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, all pulled from several local collections and estates. Bidders found it a fun and sustainable way to shop for fine furnishings and accessories. We continue to welcome regular clients as well as brand new buyers for each auction, said company president Andrew Jones. Collectors, decorators, young families and ... More | | 
Mark Francis, Space Light, 2019. Oil on aluminium, 66 x 53 cm. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery is presenting White Light, an exhibition of new paintings by Mark Francis. Francis ongoing fascination with the mysteries of the universe provides the point of departure for this most recent body of work by the London based artist. The invisible energy which powers all cosmic activity including our very own existence is given form and structure in these new paintings; delicate filaments become linked and intertwined, floating in darkly hued voids lit by the white light of glowing abstract forms. 'As a starting point, I visualise the universe being made up of a loosely structured grid where order and chaos can reside. As the work develops, this quickly gets lost or moves aside in the painting process. I like to visualise the paintings as the photographic moment capturing the birth and death of invisible energy'. Over the past thirty years, Francis has made paintings ... More |
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| | | Major art collection to be sold on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council | | Dr. Seuss' letters from his pivotal year of 1957 on The Cat in the Hat to be auctioned | | Powerful show electrifies Miami's new season of art at Frost Art Museum FIU | 
Work by Kenneth Rowntree.
CAMBRIDGE.- A major collection of paintings by Hertfordshire County Council will be offered for sale to the public at Cheffins Fine Art Auctioneers in Cambridge on the 21st March. The council is selling 428 paintings from its 1,828-strong art collection and those on offer at Cheffins feature works from some of the most renowned British artists of the 20th century. The County Councils compilation was started in 1949 as part of the School Loan Collection, a post-war initiative by Sir John Newsom, the Hertfordshire Chief Education Officer at the time. The initiative involved obtaining artworks from contemporary British artists for schools to borrow from the council, therefore improving the educational experience of schoolchildren in Hertfordshire schools by exposure to real, contemporary art. Many of the pieces were purchased from reputable dealers, artists and the Pictures for Schools ... More | | 
The letters were written in 1957, which was a blockbuster year for Seuss (Theodor Geisel) as both The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas were published that year.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Three letters and two pages of illustrations by Dr. Seuss will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on January 31, 2019. The letters and illustrations were directed to fellow author and long-time friend Mike McClintock. The letters were written in 1957, which was a blockbuster year for Seuss (Theodor Geisel) as both The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas were published that year. Dr. Seuss enthusiastically wrote about the success of his new books and addressed the marketing potential of toys and games based on his characters. The lot comes from the estate of McClintock, who wrote the 1958 childrens book, A Fly Went By. The first letter in the lot is dated May 19, 1957 and is written on Seuss personal stationery. ... More | | 
Portrait of LaToya Ruby Frazier, photograph by Steve Benisty.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Frost Art Museum at Florida International University presents LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family, January 30-April 14. The opening reception is Wednesday, Jan. 30 (5:00-7:00 p.m.), free and open to the public. The photographer and MacArthur Fellow, LaToya Ruby Frazier, explores the Flint water crisis and the tragic and heartbreaking effects on families and residents. As a witness to their daily lives, Frazier documented how they endured one of the most devastating man-made ecological crises in U.S. history. For five months, she lived with women from three generations the poet Shea Cobb, Sheas mother, Renée Cobb, and her daughter, Zion using the camera as a weapon and agent for social change. After the water supply in Flint switched water sources, residents began noticing rashes on their skin and ... More |
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 Dustin Johnston promoted to Vice President of Currency at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced that Dustin Johnston has been promoted to Vice President. Now in his 20th year at Heritage Auctions, Johnston has been active in just about every aspect of the business. Most recently, as Director of the Heritage Auctions Currency department, Johnston oversaw all aspects of the department, including consignment acquisitions, purchasing, catalogs and inventory management. Dustin is an accomplished expert who is universally admired and respected throughout the Currency collecting community, Heritage Auctions Co-Chairman Jim Halperin said. His knowledge and expertise are the results of exceptional talent and energy combined with his long-term, sharply focused involvement in all aspects of collecting, including roles in prominent currency collecting professional organizations. Prior to his arrival at Heritage ... More US writer Ferris triumphs over illness to win top comics prizeANGOULÃME (AFP).- American artist Emil Ferris has overcome life-threatening illness to become the first woman in more than a decade to win the Golden Wildcat prize at France's top graphic novel festival. The Chicagoan -- who wrote "My Favourite Thing is Monsters" after being paralysed from the waist down after getting West Nile fever from a mosquito bite -- is the first female since "Persepolis" author Marjane Satrapi to take the honour. Satrapi won in 2005 for her novel "Chicken with Plums". Ferris, 55, picked up the award in the western French city of Angouleme Saturday still walking with the aid of a cane, 15 years after being struck down by the illness. She said she was touched by how her coming-of-age tale of a girl obsessed with monster mags investigating the murder of a Holocaust survivor had found such a global audience. "I live like a monster and I wrote a book about monsters. ... More Philippine 'jeepney' artists stalked by extinctionMANILA (AFP).- Bernardo de la Cruz casts his eyes around the nearly silent workshop where he used to toil overtime hand-painting custom decor on jeepneys, the singularly Philippine minibuses facing the scrapheap. These rolling art galleries adorned with images of everything from Batman to babies, as well as disco lights and chrome wheels, have for decades provided cheap transport for millions. But pollution and safety concerns have led to a modernisation programme, with jeepneys 15 years or older to be taken off the streets by 2020. "This is an act of treachery against fellow Filipinos," said de la Cruz. "This is a uniquely Filipino product. We were born with it." When he began 45 years ago, there were hundreds of artists giving the vehicles their famously boisterous paint jobs. Now there are estimated to be fewer than a dozen left. He has seen orders decline ... More Global provenance to highlight sale at Benefit Shop Foundation Feb. 6 MOUNT KISCO, NY.- The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc., sources its auctions from area estates so there are items with global connections or provenances that pop up here from time to time. The next sale here on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 10 am, however, will up the wow factor exponentially as it comprises a wealth of offerings with ties to South Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Spanning a wide range of collecting interests, including fine art, furniture and decorative arts, the auction largely comprises a consignment from a hospitality design firm, whose custom designed furniture for European luxury hotels and Middle Eastern royalty will cross the block here. This auction has an especially global aesthetic, said Pam Stone, owner and founder of The Benefit Shop Foundation. Anyone on the market for designer furniture will appreciate the fine pieces in this auction, ... More Roll up! Roll up! Laura Knight's fine circus act at Bonhams 19th century saleLONDON.- A fully realised study of one of Dame Laura Knights most significant and ambitious circus paintings Charivari is featured in the 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art sale on Wednesday 20 February at Bonhams New Bond Street. It has an estimate of £50,000-70,000. The work, Charivari, itself is in the collection of Newport Museum and Gallery, having been exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1929. In 1936, it was instrumental in helping Knight become the first woman elected to full membership of RA. Knight produced this highly detailed preliminary study of Charivari to refine and cement the composition of what she herself called a complicated piece of work. This painting is signed Laura Knight in the bottom right corner. Bonhams Head of 19th Century Paintings Charles OBrien commented, Laura Knight shared a huge ... More Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission by Ghislaine LeungLONDON.- Chisenhale Gallery presents CONSTITUTION, a new commission by Ghislaine Leung. Situated within the discourses of both artists moving image and institutional critique, Leungs work is foregrounded by questions of agency, circulation and distribution. Working with sound, light, scale and temperature this exhibition builds on Leungs ongoing enquiry into withdrawal and dependency. Taking active cancellation in sound as an initial structure, Leungs new body of work considers moves from closed systems to complex commons. A new sound work explores the spatial possibilities of active sound cancellation, a method used in the design of noise-cancelling headphones in order to eliminate unwanted environmental sounds. In bringing sound cancellation into an open system, sound here is not isolated in fidelity, but is instead altered in volume ... More Replica of the world's largest coin to be offered at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- A 19th century replica of the worlds largest coin measuring 13.5cm and weighing 900g will be included in an auction of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals at Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists. The auction will be held on Wednesday, February 20 and Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 11am at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. Expected to fetch £3,000-4,000, the original was made for Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan I. A similar specimen is also in the British Museum and both are clearly copies of the same original, a coin which was discovered in Patna in the 18th century and which was last seen in the 1840s. The specimen, worth 200 mohurs, in the British Museum was formerly in the collection of the India Museum in London, which closed in 1879. Mughal ... More Van Gogh House opens new exhibition "Vincent Inspires"ZUNDERT.- The Vincent van Gogh House in Zundert presents the exhibition Vincent inspires from January 19th until March 17th 2019. With new artworks from the museum collection one sees that van Gogh still is a current source of inspiration for contemporary artists. You can see artworks by artists who worked in the guest studio next to the Van Gogh church. These artists work here inspired by van Gogh's native village and the surrounding natural region. In exchange for their stay in the residency they donate one work to the Van Gogh House. In this exhibition you can see artworks from the period between 2017-2018, like Ingrid Simons, Albert Zwaan, Jeroen Witvliet, Anna Lange, René van Trier, Lindert Paulussen, Bettie van Haaster, Arpaïs Du Bois, Diana Roig en Kurt Ryslavy. Also you can see two artworks which were donated during the 10th anniversary ... More Kasmin opens an exhibition of new works by Matvey LevensteinNEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting an exhibition of new works by Matvey Levenstein, on view at 293 Tenth Avenue between January 24 - March 2, 2019. Levensteins work depicts scenes from his life on the North Fork of Long Island and explores themes of history and representation, speaking to the relevance of Romanticism in the 21st Century. Imbued with a distinctly literary sensitivity, the exhibition brings together a selection of new works ranging in size and materials, including large sumi ink drawings, canvases that blur the distinction between landscape and still-life, and smaller works realized on linen, copper, and wood. This is the artists first solo exhibition at the gallery. Levensteins interest in sites that have a largely unexplored historical significance has led him to old pilgrim cemeteries and to views towards Gardiners Bay. Beginning with snapshots, ... More Angela Grossmann's 'Troublemakers' exhibition opens at McMaster Museum of ArtHAMILTON.- The 68 works presented in Angela Grossmanns Troublemakers address the role that performance plays in the transgression of gender and social expectation, the stigma of the unruly body and the disciplinary power of shame. Throughout her career Grossmann has sought to re-create and re-dress the marginalized, the misunderstood and dispossessed with her strongly feminist dynamic mixed media works that intervene in both the physical form and visual experience of subjectivity. Troublemakers continues with this project exploring concepts relating to the wanting to be and not wanting to be of identity. The re-make is at the heart of her undertaking. From her large found photo archives, which include vintage mug-shots (retrieved from the trash at the closure of the BC Penitentiary), risqué images of women posing in cheap motel rooms, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Barnett Newman was born January 29, 1905. Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 - July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. His paintings are existential in tone and content, explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality, presence, and contingency. In this image: Barnett Newman, Thirteenth Station, 1965/1966. Acrylic on canvas, 198.2 x 152.5 cm (78 1/16 x 60 1/16 in.). Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff.
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