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Qi Baishi (Chinese, 1864-1957), ink and wash-on-paper horizontal handscroll painting with images of shrimp, crabs, frogs and aquatic plants. Artist-signed, stamped with two seals. Size of painting: 145.25in long by 10in wide. Provenance: Gaithersburg, Maryland private collection, inherited from father who was art collector and adjunct professor at the Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University, Beijing. Estimate $150,000-$300,000.
BOULDER, COLO.- On Thursday, July 14, Artemis Gallery will present its highly anticipated Exceptional Antiquities, Ethnographic and Fine Art Auction, with absentee and online bidding through LiveAuctioneers. The 357-lot selection features museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Viking, Far East/Asian, Pre-Columbian, African/Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, and Spanish Colonial treasures. Additionally, Artemis will offer a wonderful assortment of fossils for natural history fans, exquisite examples of wearable ancient jewelry, and an exciting array of fine and decorative artworks. The latter category is highlighted by coveted examples of Picasso pottery from the collection of Nancy and Dr R F Simpson of Los Angeles. As we trace the evolution of cultures and societies through auction highlights, the journey begins in Ancient Egypt. Objects of special note include a Predynastic (circa 3500-3200 B ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation View, Living With Ghosts, Jul 8 - Aug 5, Pace Gallery, Londo. hoto: Damian Griffiths, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| Pace Gallery opens 'Living With Ghosts' curated by Kojo Abudu | | Phillips Hong Kong announces seminal works by Zao Wou-Ki from the collection of Sin-May Roy Zao | | Gagosian announces the representation of Harold Ancart | 
Nolan Oswald Denis, biko.cabral, 2020. Receipt Printer, microcontroller. Variable dimensions. © Nolan Oswald Denis, courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery is presenting Living With Ghosts, a group exhibition guest curated by writer, critic, and curator, Kojo Abudu. On view 8 July to 5 August, Abudu brings together nine pioneering artists whose work explores the ways the unresolved traumas of Africas colonial past, and its unfulfilled project of decolonisation, continue to haunt the present global order. Living With Ghosts is an expanded iteration of Abudus ongoing exhibition project, first staged at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in New York. Each of the artists included in the exhibition are united by their formal, historiographic, and poetic interrogations of the enduring power structures birthed by the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, and imperialism, and equally consider the myriad resistances and refusals formed in response to these very structures. Living ... More | | 
Zao Wou-Ki, Untitled, 2007 (detail). Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm. Estimate: HK$4,000,000 - 6,000,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips announced two important paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, 14.10.69 and Untitled, from the collection of the artists daughter Sin-May Roy Zao. Appearing on the auction market for the first time, both works will be offered in Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Sales in Hong Kong this Fall. Ahead of the sales, two works will be showcased at Phillips Paris alongside other highlights from the upcoming 20th Century & Contemporary Art and Design Sales across London and Hong Kong from 13-23 September. On the occasion of the exhibition in Paris, Phillips is delighted to showcase a group of beautiful sculptures by Zao Wou-Kis second wife May Zao from the private collection of Sin-May Roy Zao. Sin-May Roy Zao said, : I am glad to offer these two works by my father spanning nearly across five ... More | | 
Harold Ancart. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced the representation of Harold Ancart. The artist will have a solo exhibition with the gallery in New York in 2023. Born in Brussels and based in New York, Ancart had a solo exhibition at the Menil Collection, Houston, in 2016, and is featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. His work is represented in the collections of significant institutions worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Musee dArt Moderne de Paris; and Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland. Focusing on recognizable subjects, Ancart isolates moments of poetry in his everyday surroundings. By working serially, he moves beyond straightforward representation to emphasize the process of painting. Straddling abstraction and representation, he experiments with color and composition, allowing the operation of chance to help determine a works final form. Ancart was raised and educated in Belgium ... More |
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| Fine Arts Museums announce major acquisition of Bay Area artworks | | Dutch Museum Beelden aan Zee presents 'Mart Visser │ Sculptures' | | Does public art have an afterlife? | 
Saif Azzuz. "Lo'op' (It burns)," 2021. Acrylic and enamel on canvas. Museum purchase, a gift from the Svane Family Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Anthony Meier Fine Arts. Photograph by Randy Dodson.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco today announced the acquisition of 42 works of art by contemporary Bay Area artists. Funded with the generous support of the Svane Family Foundation, the new acquisition encapsulates the breadth of the SF arts community, illuminating the central concerns at the forefront of artistic practice in the region over the past decade, from climate change to COVID-19. The Svane initiative, helmed by Claudia Schmuckli, Curator in Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming, brings the works of 30 emerging and mid-career artists and collectives into the Fine Arts Museums permanent collection, reflecting the Museums commitment to inclusivity and the citys vibrant arts ecology. The Bay Area is home to an extraordinary cultural ecosystem, flush with ... More | | 
Mart Visser, Bronze sculpture, 2018.
THE HAGUE.- Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen (The Hague) presents a retrospective of Dutch visual artist Mart Visser from 9 July until 2 October 2022. The museum shows a selection of more than a hundred sculptures and eighty reliefs, paintings and installations, with a diversity of abstract heads and faces. At the opening of the dynamic exhibition Sculptures, Mart launches a first art book with an impression of his three studios and way of working. Although Mart Visser is mainly known for his work as a fashion designer, he has also been a passionate and multidisciplinary artist for years. He creates sculptures and paintings intuitively and experiments with sizes and use of materials. As with his modernist fashion design, structure, relief, texture and technique enhance the design. The starting point for Marts visual art is a personal empathy and the search for common ground with other art that he admires or intrigues ... More | | 
A Fountain for Survivors by Pamela Council on display in Times Square in New York, Oct. 14, 2021. Sunny Shokrae/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Pamela Council set a deadline and said a prayer. It had been nearly seven months since the artists monument to survivors of the pandemic appeared in Times Square, with its carapace of 400,000 hand-painted acrylic nails enshrining a bubbling fountain where visitors could reflect on persevering through COVID-19. But when the artists commissioned exhibition with Times Square Arts ended in December, and the 18-foot-tall grotto was moved into a Brooklyn storage facility, Council was shocked to get a bill for $5,000 in monthly fees and insurance, an expense that would quickly drain the artists bank account. Times Square Arts would pay for the first five months of storage, but it was up to Council, the organization said, to foot the continuing bill or choose to dismantle ... More |
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| Exhibition brings together exquisite examples of still life, photographs of flowers by two masters | | Low estimate doubled at Bonhams Quidam de Revel Collection sale | | The robot guerrilla campaign to re-create the Elgin Marbles | 
Three Poppies, Arab Chief, New York, 1969. Dye transfer print, printed 1992. From an edition of 27.
LONDON.- Hamiltons Gallery presents Richard Learoyd & Irving Penn: Flowers. From 22nd June - 10th September 2022 this unprecedented exhibition brings together exquisite examples of still life, photographs of flowers by two masters of the subject. Hamiltons Gallerys association with Irving Penn and later his Foundation spanned three decades; and for the first time, the gallery unites the work of Penn who was one of the most renowned photographers of his time alongside that of contemporary, British photographer Richard Learoyd. Together, their studies of flowers present us with an exceptional vision of forms, tones, and patterns, entwining the beauty of nature with their photographic genius. Learoyds oeuvre gives a contemporary interpretation, whilst remaining deeply rooted in the past; both his black-and-white photographs and his works in colour are the result of a traditional process. He strips photography down to ... More | | 
Four pre-emptions from the Palais Galliera. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- As Paris was hosting Fashion Week, Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr auctioned the Quidam de Revel Collection, on Thursday 7 July, presenting Alix Grès gowns and photographs to collectors and curators. Many of these dresses had been exhibited in 2004, and at the Bourdelle Museum, Paris, in 2011. On Thursday, more than 120 pieces were sold for a total of 275,860, more than twice the low estimate. A number of museums were successful in acquiring pieces in this sale with pre-emptions from the Musée Galliera: a maroon day dress, a prototype from the Spring-Summer 1951 Collection (estimate: 1,500 - 2,000) was sold for 5,200, a long black jersey evening gown from the late 1940s, estimated at 1,200 - 1,500 went for 5,200 and a two-tone white and black jersey evening cape-toga from the late 1940s was sold for 7,800 (estimate: 1,500 - 2,000). Hubert Felbacq, Director of the Fashion Department at Bon ... More | | 
Dr. Alexy Karenowska, the technical director of the Institute for Digital Archaeology, in Banbury, England, in June 2022. Francesca Jones/The New York Times.
by Franz Lidz
NEW YORK, NY.- Few cultural disputes inflame British passions more than the disposition of the Parthenon Marbles. Public debate about the statuary has raged since the early 1800s, when the sculptures and bas-reliefs, which date from 447 B.C. to 432 B.C., were stripped from the Parthenon and other Classical Greek temples on the Acropolis of Athens by agents of Thomas Bruce, a Scottish statesman and seventh earl of Elgin. The marbles were purchased some say looted by Elgin during his time as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, the occupying power; they have resided in the British Museum since 1817. Greek campaigners have repeatedly called on Britain to repatriate the works, arguing that the Turks were a foreign force acting against the will of the people they had invaded. ... More |
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| If you wanted speed before WW2 these cars offered at Silverstone Auctions would have been great choice | | Yorkshire Sculpture Park opens an exhibition of drawings by Jaume Plensa | | Brett Rogers, OBE, to step down as Director of The Photographers' Gallery | 
1939 Lagonda V12 Sports Saloon - £80,000 TO £100,000.
LONDON.- One of the fastest British sporting cars of its era with stunning looks and a powerful 4.5-litre, twin-plug, straight-six, this pillarless saloon is an ideal owner/driver fast express. GUIDE PRICE: £60,000 - £80,000 Rob Hubbard, Director of Sales at Silverstone Auctions, comments: Offered from a prominent private collection, this rare pillar-less sports saloon is running and driving beautifully and must surely be the ultimate owner/driver Lagonda. Lagondas sales brochure announcing the new M45, a powerful model boasting some 4 ½ litres and rightly regarded as one of the most desirable of all post-vintage thoroughbred (PVT) offerings at the time, stated: If the best British workmanship and the finest materials appeal to you, and if character, sweet running and a maximum speed
are qualities that attract you, there is no need to look further; you will find them in this ... More | | 
Jaume Plensa, Shadow (study) XXXII, 2010. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Gasull Fotografia © Plensa Studio Barcelona.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents an exhibition of drawing by internationally renowned Catalan artist Jaume Plensa. As a sculptor, I always need to collaborate with other people to bring my work to life, but when I draw, my work flows directly from my brain and my heart onto my hands and the paper. Drawing is an incredible laboratory where you can develop intuitions I feel much more free than when I am working with sculpture. Drawing is a place for freedom. In small places, close to home comprises two complementary installations of drawings that convey the richness of Jaume Plensas drawing practice. It highlights the artists devotion to a medium that embraces many materials and processes including collage, etched glass, industrial paints and solvents, ... More | | 
Brett Rogers, OBE. Photo by Suki Dhanda.
LONDON.- After 16 years of leadership, Brett Rogers, OBE, announces today she will be leaving her role as Director of The Photographers Gallery the UKs foremost centre for photography at the end of 2022. Following the success of The Photographers Gallerys 50th anniversary programme in 2021 and the launch of Soho Photography Quarter - the Gallerys ambitious new free, permanent outdoor exhibition space, which opened last month, Rogers planned departure marks the end of an extraordinary period of growth and creative evolution for the internationally acclaimed Gallery - founded in 1971 as the UKs first public gallery dedicated to photography. From 2006 - 2022, Rogers expansive vision and influential leadership at The Photographers Gallery has led to a range of momentous cultural presentations and institutional developments, both in London ... More |
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Why Lucas Cranachâs The Nymph of the Spring was âalmost the perfect subjectâ for the artist.
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 Solo exhibition by Tiziana Lorenzelli on view at Cortesi Gallery LuganoLUGANO.- Cortesi Gallery Lugano is presenting Naturalismo Cosmico - Cosmic Naturalism, a solo exhibition by Tiziana Lorenzelli curated by Vera Canevazzi. An eclectic and transversal artist, Tiziana Lorenzelli (Lecco, 1961), transforms the gallery's spaces into a universe of shiny, metallic installations, some of which have been specially designed for Cortesi Gallery: Lava (2022) and Cobalt Blue Aluflexia Site Specific (2022). The exhibition develops mainly around the theme of Nature, understood in all its terrestrial and cosmic forms, in the mechanisms of forces that regulate it and in the increasingly urgent need to protect it. This link is also highlighted by choice of titles for the works, such as Lugano Lake (2022), Lugano Moon (2022) and Cosmic Treasure (2022). Nature is conceived in its mutability, continuous transformation, and evolution with the other elements. This ... More  Lucia Tro Santafe promoted to Senior Specialist for Impressionist & Modern Art at bonhams in SpainMADRID.- The international auction house Bonhams has announced the promotion of Lucia Tro Santafe to the newly created post of Senior Specialist for Impressionist & Modern Art, Post-War & Contemporary Art and Prints & Multiples in Spain with immediate effect. Based at Bonhams office in Madrid, Lucia will oversee the Spanish market for 20th and 21st century art. She will be responsible for sourcing consignments for sales in Paris, London and New York, with a particular focus on Spanish clients. She will continue to head the Picassomania sales in London and is co-heading the single owner collection sale Jean Cocteau et LAtelier Madeline-Jolly: une amitié sans faille at Bonhams Paris on 29 September. Born and raised in Spain, Lucia has a particular interest and expertise in Spanish Modern and Surrealist art including Picasso, Miró and Dalà through ... More  Danai Gurira makes a sleek supervillain of Richard IIINEW YORK, NY.- Richard of Gloucester may be the killingest character in Shakespeare, personally knocking off or precipitating the deaths of more than a dozen people who get in his way. To be fair, he does so over the course of three plays, while top competitors like Macbeth and Titus Andronicus have just one. Still, lacking a prophecy, a particular vengeance or a bloody-minded wife to flesh out his motives, Richard remains the most mysterious in his evil; to make a success of the fabulous mess that is Richard III, you must decide what to do about that. The tonally wobbly and workmanlike revival that opened Sunday at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park doesnt decide. Whether Richard chooses his evil in reaction to the worlds revulsion a lump of foul deformity is one of the nicer descriptions of him or whether he was merely born to be bad is a question ... More  Guangdong Times Museum presents 'River Pulses, Border Flows'GUANGZHOU.- At the edge of the Himalayas where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, four southward rivers emerged, each passing through plateaus, mountains, plains, valleys, and deltas. They cross through multiple geographies as both center and periphery before finally merging into the Indian and Pacific Oceans. These four rivers are the Irrawaddy/N'Mai/Dulong, Salween/Nu, Mekong/Lancang, and Red/Yuan. Monsoon winds from the oceans intertwine with the diverse terrain on land to form a flourishing and dynamic climate. Their seasonal floods are the lungs of the surrounding ecosystem, providing nutrients and conditions for creatures to survive and thrive. The alluvial plains formed by the rise and fall of the rivers over the years are fertile ground for the growth of a rice-based civilization, while the high mountains and valleys weave a mountain civilization ... More  Rare Chinese coins lead Heritage HKINF Auctions above $14.3 mllionDALLAS, TX.- An exceedingly rare Chinese coin, struck in commemoration of the completion of one full lunar cycle since the start of the lunar series, sold for $576,000 to lead Heritage Auctions HKINF World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction July 7-9. The $11,967,441 event was part of the Hong Kong International Numismatic Fair, which also featured Heritages HKINF World Paper Money Signature® Auction, which totaled $2,365,998. Both events were virtually sold out; between them, they drew 3,438 bidders in pursuit of 1,838 lots. With a sell-through rate of 99.8% and total combined sales of $14,333,439, this was by almost every metric Heritages most successful Hong Kong auction ever. Three lots sold for more than half a million dollars: the top lot was Peoples Republic gold Proof Completion of Lunar Cycle 2000 Yuan (Kilo) ... More  'Into the Woods' review: Do you believe in magic?NEW YORK, NY.- After the woods and the wolf and the dark and the knife, Little Red Riding Hood has learned a thing or two. In the first act of Into the Woods, while modeling a cloak made from the wolfs pelt, she shares her wisdom. Be prepared, she advises in I Know Things Now. Watch out for strangers. Stephen Sondheims bone-dry lyrics supply one more maxim: Nice, Little Red concludes, is different than good. True. But isnt it splendid when a work of musical theater is absolutely both? Lear deBessonets superb production of the Sondheim and James Lapine modern classic Into the Woods, which originated at Encores! in May, has made the journey west and south to Broadway. Despite some cast changes, its humor, wonder and humanity have arrived intact. Indeed, they may glimmer even more brightly at the St. James Theater than they ... More  Bruneau & Co.'s online Historic Arms & Militaria auction slated for July 21stCRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co.s Summer Historic Arms & Militaria auction, planned for Thursday, July 21st, at 6 pm Eastern time, is loaded with over 300 lots of historic objects dating from the late 18th century forward, with a highlight on World Wars I and II, plus rare uniforms from a private collection. This is an online sale; no live bidding. This will be the fourth Historic Arms & Militaria auction for Bruneau & Co., in the recently formed Arms & Militaria department headed up by director Joel Bohy, a seasoned veteran of the arms and militaria scene. Its been some time since Ive seen some of these arms in this condition and quality, he said. This is a great opportunity to pick up some rare items. Kevin Bruneau, the companys president and an auctioneer, added, Having read about and watched movies and TV series about Word War II for years, it ... More  The 10th Anniversary Auctions of Poly Auction Hong Kong presents 12 sales with over 1,500 lotsHONG KONG.- Poly Auction Hong Kong presents the 10th Anniversary Auctions between 9 and 14 July at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Curated by six specialist departments, including Modern and Contemporary Art, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Fine Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, Magnificent Jewels and Important Watches, Noble Handbags and Hype Collectibles, as well as Rare Wine, Whisky and Chinese Tea, 12 sales will be presented during the auctions. Showcasing a spectacular array of over 1,500 exquisite and rarely seen masterpieces, this anniversary celebration will bring a museum-level art feast to collectors and art lovers. With the 10th anniversary theme Heritage, Diversification and Breakthrough, Poly Auction Hong Kong vows to adhere to cultural heritage and traditional values, offering a diverse range of works, and further ... More  The Visit by distinguished contemporary artist Yamandú Canosa opens at The Dalà MuseumST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Uruguayan-Spanish artist Yamandú Canosa (born in Montevideo, Uruguay 1954) creates an intense dialog between Surrealism and contemporary art in The Visit, a new exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs. The Visit features both abstract and figurative works set in a dramatic installation especially conceived for The Dalà Museum, with a majority of the works created for the exhibition. On view exclusively at The Dalà Jun. 18 Oct. 30, 2022, The Visit includes new and earlier works by Yamandú Canosa, plus a small selection of related Salvador Dalà works from the Museums renowned collection. Organized by The DalÃ, the project is curated by Dr. William Jeffett, Chief Curator, who worked closely with Canosa on the exhibit concept and has previously published about the artists work. The Dalà is committed to tracing the lineage ... More  Unpublished handwritten poems by Ted Hughes on offer at Sotheby'sLONDON.- A series of unpublished handwritten poems from Ted Hughes which he wrote in the tragic aftermath of the suicide of his partner Assia Wevill and their daughter Shura in 1969 - just six years after the suicide of his first wife Sylvia Plath - are to be offered at Sothebys London Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern sale, open for bidding from 12-19 July. With an estimate of £10,000- 15,000, the materials offer an insight into the overwhelming grief and loss that Hughes experienced. Wevill and Hughes began an affair in 1962, and this was one of the causes of the breakdown of his marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath in the summer of that year. Following Plaths suicide, their relationship continued but was plagued with troubles, from money to Hughes lack of commitment. Wevill suffered from depression and in a terrible parallel with Plaths ... More  The Locker Room exhibits a body of embroidery work by Alexandria DetersNEW YORK, NY.- The Locker Room opened the Prophet of the Month exhibition running July 12th - August 28th, featuring a body of embroidery work by Alexandria Deters. The show is a joint presentation of two series by Deters: (un)Observed, a series of Playmates and 1970s-era sex symbols, and False Prophets, a series of female cult leaders known for their extremism and authority. In Prophet of the Month, these two histories are juxtaposed to explore the ever-present and ever-changing creation of idols, icons, and celebrities in society, and the power they are given. What is the common human impulse that causes us to escape by submitting our will to outside forces, whether sexual fantasy, religious experience, or fascist authority? This exhibition highlights women who have been caught in the middle of this dynamic and wielded it to their own benefit, involving ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani was born July 12, 1884. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 - 24 January 1920) was an Italian-Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces, necks, and figures that were not received well during his lifetime but later found acceptance. In this image: Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude (Céline Howard), 1918, Private collection, Geneva.
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