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Chess Set, Board and Box from the 2002 New York, New York, Kasparov and Karpov Exhibition Match. Photo © Michael DeFilippo.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Open Files: Celebrating 5 Years of Collecting is an exhibition of 100 select objects, showcasing the depth and breadth of the World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF)s collection. The exhibition was developed through donations and acquisitions made since the museum opened in Saint Louis in 2011. Donors include International Master John Donaldson, Joram Piatigorsky, 2006 U.S. Chess Hall of Fame inductee Yasser Seirawan, and staff at the WCHOF and the CCSCSL, among others. Highlights include chess sets inspired by popular culture, trophies and tournament scoresheets from the Piatigorsky and Sinquefield Cups, photographs, chess pins, print advertisements, caricatures, and other artifacts related to chess history and culture. One artifact is a photograph picturing Italian actress Liliana Chiari as a living chessboard, first published as U.S. and World Chess Hall of Fame inductee Bobby Fischer fought for the title of World Chess Cha ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia is presenting Rhythm and Movement: Paintings by James Michalopoulos on view through May 14, 2017. The exhibition features more than thirty of his large-scale, boldly colored paintings of the historic architecture of New Orleans, as well as its street scenes and local characters, many displayed for the first time.
| Christie's Paris sets new auction record for Diego Giacometti | | Exceptional loan to Michelangelo & Sebastiano exhibition announced | | Exhibition at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga aims to reconstitute the heart of Lisbon during the Renaissance | 
Triumph for Diego Giacometti from the Collection of Hubert de Givenchy. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
PARIS.- On 6 March 2017, Christies The Giacomettis of Hubert de Givenchy auction achieved a total of 32,748,500/£28,157,160/$34,523,469 with 100% of the lots sold above their pre-sale estimate. The top price of the evening was Diego Giacomettis octogonal table aux caryatides et atlantes, executed circa 1980 which realised 4,162,500 (estimate: 600,000-800,000) establishing a new sdauction record for the artist. Active international biddings demonstrated the continued demand for exceptional pieces with prestigious provenance. Hubert de Givenchys long collaboration and friendship with Diego Giacometti started in the 1960s when Givenchy met him for the first time thanks to Gustav Zumsteg, the director of the fabric company Abraham. The latter offered Givenchy his first piece by Diego Giacometti, a gueridon, sold tonight for 674,500 (estimate: 150,000-200,000). During ... More | | 
Michelangelo, The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist ('The Taddei Tondo'), about 1504-1505. Marble, 106.8 cm diameter. Royal Academy of Arts, London (03/1774) © Royal Academy of Arts, London; Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited.
LONDON.- The only marble sculpture by Michelangelo in Great Britain - The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, also known as the Taddei Tondo has been announced as an exceptional loan to The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Michelangelo & Sebastiano (opens 15 March 2017). The work has been a key part of the Royal Academy collection since it was bequeathed by Sir George Beaumont, entering the collection in 1829. It has only ever been lent once in the 188 years since, and that was over 50 years ago (in 1966) to an exhibition on the Tondo at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dr Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, says We are very excited to present Michelangelos unfinished masterpiece in the National Gallerys exhibition. ... More | | 
Unknown Netherlandish Master, View of the Rua Nova dos Mercadores 1570-1619 (detail). Oil on canvas London, Kelmscott Manor Collection, The Society of Antiquaries of London © By kind permission of The Society of Antiquaries of London, Kelmscott Manor.
LISBON.- The history of this exhibition begins in April of 1866, when the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) left his home in Chelsea, London, to evaluate a painting he had seen in a small antique shop. A large landscape with about 120 figures of the school of Velasquez, [but] not, [I think], by the great V himself, wrote the painter. The British art world had awakened to Spanish painting and collectors were on the lookout for works by great masters such as El Greco, Velázquez and Goya. Despite not recognising the city represented in the painting, Rossetti correctly guessed at its Iberian origin. An impetuous and eclectic collector, Rossetti divided the canvas into two, probably because it did not fit on the already overcrowded walls of his London ... More |
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| Josean dynasty ceramics highlight Gianguan Auctions March 11 Asia Week Sale | | Style capital Paris to get its first fashion museum | | Portugal formally scraps sale of its Miro collection | 
Lot 280. Round water dropper decorated in the Daoist trigrams around center yin/yang symbol. 2.3 X 2 1/4. $400.
NEW YORK.- Korean ceramicsa relatively rare breed among Asian porcelains treasured by Western collectorssmake a rare appearance Gianguan Auctions March 11 Asia Week sale. The collection of water droppers and vases can be previewed at Gianguan Auctions gallery, 39 West 56th Street, or online at www.gianguanauctions.com. With the Josean Dynasty (1392-1897) came an aesthetic of form, simplicity, and whimsy that recast the design of everyday objets. Notable are the highly-collected Korean water droppers originally used to wet the ink stone of fashionable 19th century literati. For example, Lot 283 is a lion-form water dropper with suppressed spout of underglaze white accentuated by ridges and relief at head and tail overpainted in brown. The 3 X 3 scholars desk item is estimated at $1,000. ... More | | 
A couture creation by fashion designer Christian Dior is displayed on July 10, 2014 at the Palais Galliera in Paris, as part of an exhibition on French fashion between 1947 and 1957. AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN.
PARIS.- Paris, the world's style capital, is finally to get its first permanent museum dedicated to fashion. The Palais Galliera, which has already been hosting temporary exhibitions on major designers for the last four years, is to become a permanent museum, the city's mayor Anne Hidalgo has said. New 5.7-million-euro ($6-million) galleries will be built under the colonnaded 19th-century pavilion with the help of the Chanel fashion house, she added. They will open in 2019 and will be named after Chanel's founder, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. The Paris Fashion Museum will also be open all year round and offer a journey through the history of fashion, from 18th-century costumes to the latest looks hot off the catwalk. "Paris is proud to be able to open this ... More | | 
Personnage dans un paysage, 1970, gouache, pastel and pen and India ink on paper. Estimate: £40,000-60,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2013.
LISBON (AFP).- Portugal's Socialist government has formally put an end to an unpopular scheme to auction off 85 state-owned works by famed Spanish artist Joan Miro, the finance ministry said Monday. It announced a final agreement with the London auctioneers Christie's for cancelling the sale, ending a political and judicial row which had dragged on for three years. The cancellation "did not entail any compensation payment," the ministry said in its statement. The paintings, drawings, tapestries and sculptures, dating from 1924 to 1981, are estimated to be worth around 35 million euros ($39 million). They came under state ownership in 2008 when the government nationalised the failed BPN bank which had built up the collection. Six years later, the then centre-right government put the works up for sale to raise ... More |
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| Lost Liszt opera to come to life | | Frank Gehry's Pierre Boulez Hall opens in Berlin | | Lasers flesh out dino-bird profile | 
The 19th century Hungarian composer was prolific and won a feverish fan base.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A rare opera by Franz Liszt has been meticulously restored by a scholar, who described the work as unique in the history of music. The 19th century Hungarian composer was prolific and won a feverish fan base, but he was best known for his piano pieces and only premiered one opera, a one-act work the prodigy completed when he was 13. "Sardanapale," based on Lord Byron's tragedy "Sardanapalo" about the overthrow of a peace-loving but hedonistic Assyrian king, was long thought to have been abandoned. David Trippett, a senior lecturer at Cambridge University, said he discovered the manuscript in an archive in Weimar, Liszt's longtime base in Germany, and spent two years restoring it. "We will never know exactly why he abandoned his work on the opera and I suspect he would have been surprised to learn that it is resurfacing in the 21st century. But I like to think he would have smiled on it," Trippett said in a statement. Trippett called ... More | | 
Pierre Boulez Saal © Volker Kreidler.
BERLIN.- After a four-year building programme that has gone entirely according to plan, Berlins new Pierre Boulez Hall opened with a gala concert under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. As honorary guest, German President Joachim Gauck attended the opening concert on 4 March. The newly formed Boulez Ensemble presented works by Boulez, Schubert, Mozart, Jörg Widmann and Alban Berg. The Pierre Boulez Hall has been designed by American architect Frank Gehry and is a part of the BarenboimSaid Academy. Summoned into existence by Daniel Barenboim, the Academy began its teaching programme in the autumn of 2016. Located at the cultural heart of Berlin, the new concert hall has seating for 700 and offers a range of possibilities with its elliptical shape and flexible stage design. The halls acoustics are the responsibility of the Japanese acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, who is well known for his expertise in this field. Both Frank Gehry and Yasuhisa Toyota have generously donated their s ... More | | 
Dr Pittman and the laser-stimulated fluorescence device used for scanning the soft tissues of Anchiornis. (Background photo is a life reconstruction of bird-like feathered dinosaur Anchiornis).
PARIS (AFP).- A chicken-sized, feathered dinosaur that scuttled around Earth 160 million years ago is helping flesh out the missing link between land-bound animals and flying ones, scientists said Tuesday. A team from China and the United States used lasers to study traces of soft tissue once attached to the now-fossilised bones of a Jurassic dinosaur called Anchiornis. The outlines revealed it had "drumstick-shaped legs, a slender tail and an arm that looks just like a modern bird wing," said Michael Pittman of the University of Hong Kong, who co-authored the study in Nature Communications. "We even have foot scales preserved in the Anchiornis specimens that are just like chickens today," he said in a video explaining the findings. It is still not clear if Anchiornis was a flier. Most of what scientists know about dinosaur body shape is gleaned from looking at fossilised skeletons ... More |
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| New York's Armory Show records most successful edition ever | | Second exhibition from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection opens | | Tracey Emin, Juergen Teller announced as judges for #SaatchiSelfie competition | 
New floor plan, more notable galleries and improved quality of art draw critical praise.
NEW YORK.- The 2017 edition of The Armory Show closed on Sunday, March 5, with robust sales reported over five days across all levels of the market, ranging from four to seven figures. Staged amid a redesigned floor plan that saw wider aisles, larger lounge spaces and fewer small booths, the fairs 210 exhibitors hailed from 30 countries and exhibited artworks ranging from groundbreaking new-media to modern masterpieces. The worlds leading collectors, both private and institutional, came out in record strength, demonstrating an appetite for modern and contemporary artwork of the highest quality. The fair saw a noted increase in attendance throughout the week. With outstanding curatorial displays, over 70 galleries exhibited solo-artist and dual-artist booths throughout Piers 92 & 94, with an emphasis on artist debuts and new artworks commissioned for the fair. I am proud to report that the new Armory Show has ... More | | 
Günther Uecker, New York Dancer I, 1965. Nails, cloth, metal, and electric motor, 200 à 30 à 30 cm. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi © Günther Uecker. Photo: Erik and Petra Hesmerg © Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
ABU DHABI.- Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) celebrated today the opening of The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence at Manarat Al Saadiyat on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. Featuring works by more than 25 artists from different nationalities and generations, the exhibition explores the related themes of performance, process, and presence through a variety of mediums. Running until 29 July 2017, The Creative Act is the second major exhibition of works from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection. HE Saif Saeed Ghobash, Director General of TCA Abu Dhabi, commented on the exhibition The Creative Act offers ... More | | 
An entry from the #SaatchiSelfie competition which closes on March 12th 2017.
LONDON.- Saatchi Gallery and Huawei announced the judges for the #SaatchiSelfie competition are Tracey Emin, Idris Khan, Juergen Teller, Juno Calypso and Saatchi Gallery CEO Nigel Hurst. The #SaatchiSelfie competition was launched on the 23rd January as part of the forthcoming From Selfie to Self-Expression exhibition opening at Saatchi Gallery on 30th March. The competition closes on Sunday 12th March when the judges will select a shortlist of ten from the thousands of selfies entered by the public. In addition to having their selfie showcased at the Saatchi Gallery the ten shortlisted winners will also receive Huaweis new P10 smartphone, and the overall winner will receive an incredible photographic experience with a world-renowned Leica photography ambassador. The overall winner of the #SaatchiSelfie Competition will be announced at the shows launch in London on 30th March ... More |
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 Rediscovered US literary great Paula Fox dies at 93NEW YORK (AFP).- The writer Paula Fox -- whose novels had fallen out of print until she was hailed as a forgotten great of American letters in her seventies -- has died in New York. She was 93. Fox was mostly known as a children's writer who frankly explored abandonment and loss until she was championed by a new generation of US writers in the 1990s. One of them, Jonathan Franzen, author of "The Corrections," called her masterpiece "Desperate Characters" about a couple stuck in a loveless marriage, the greatest realist novel of the postwar era. Fox -- grandmother of rock star-turned-actress Courtney Love -- died at a hospital near her Brooklyn home, her daughter, Linda Carroll-Barraud, told The New York Times. Abandoned by her bohemian parents, who left her in a home for abandoned children when they went off to travel, she spent her childhood being ... More Exhibition explores the fascinating lives of the female divers of Jeju in South KoreaGREENWICH.- This March join the National Maritime Museum as it celebrates the start of Womens History Month with the opening of Haenyeo: Women of the Sea, an exhibition exploring the fascinating lives of the female divers of Jeju in South Korea. Running from 5 March 1 April 2017, the fascinating story of haenyeo and their community is told from two different perspectives, through life-size photographic portraits taken by Hyung S. Kim and SeaWomen, a video and sound installation by Mikhail Karikis. Both components of the exhibition celebrate the unique culture of haenyeo, who for centuries have harvested seafood from the ocean without any diving apparatus. The women dive for up to seven hours a day and range in age from 11 to over 60 years old. The inspiration for Kims series of portraits stems from his visit to Jeju Island in 2012, where he was captivated ... More First exhibition in Scotland of work by Mark Wallinger on view at the Fruitmarket GalleryEDINBURGH.- Dundee Contemporary Arts and The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh present Mark Wallinger Mark, the first exhibition in Scotland of work by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger. The exhibition is in two parts, shown simultaneously in the both venues from Saturday 4 March until Sunday 4 June 2017. It features Wallingers most recent body of work: the id Paintings. These are presented alongside a series of sculptures, films and wall based works that further explore the themes of identity, reflection and perception addressed in this new work. The id Paintings (2015-2016), have grown out of Wallingers extensive series of self-portraits, and they reference the artists own body. His height and therefore his arm span is the basis of the canvas size. They are exactly this ... More Fashion designers turn to secondhand shops for inspirationPARIS (AFP).- It is a humdrum secondhand clothing store in one of the most down-at-heel districts of the French capital. But for designer Francisco Terra and other rising stars of the Paris catwalk, the shop stuffed with shirts and skirts that sell for the price of a coffee is "a temple of fashion research". Terra loves the place so much he held his Paris fashion week show in the store, the flagship "friperie" of the Guerrisol chain. "It is not just people who don't have much money who shop here," the creator behind the Neith Nyer label said, "but all the stylists of the big labels who come to do their homework." His show comes only six weeks after hip brand AVOC presented their menswear collection in another more upmarket vintage store. With high street chains going hell for leather for throwaway fashion, those in the know are embracing better quality vintage clothing while ... More Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein exhibits video works by Bani Abidi BERLIN.- Bani Abidi addresses nationalism and state power, as well as the tendencies within civil society to respond to state influence in an affirmative way or with subtle resistance. Her work is based on everyday and historical events, which she often fictionalizes. In doing so, she counters official measures intended to reshape the memory culture with a sense of humor that is based on the conviction that the depiction of history is often characterized by current claims to political power. In her video work An Unforeseen Situation (2015), Abidi relates to a series of state-run competitions, organized by the Ministry of Sport in the Pakistani region of Punjab in 2014. According to reports, Pakistan broke several world records during these mass events. Bani Abidi uses this as an opportunity to tell her own version of such an event: a failed competition for the greatest mass ... More The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opens Beth Campbells first museum surveyRIDGEFIELD.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents Beth Campbell: My Potential Future Past, Campbells first museum survey. This exhibition presents three interrelated bodies of work, the Potential Future Drawings series (1998present), Mobiles (2006 present), and the Future Past Drawings series (2014present). Campbells practice ranges from drawing to sculpture and installation, and centers on an extensive exploration of the potential latent within everyday experience. She exploits the what ifs, channeling those life choices that shape who we think we want to be or who we might really become. In Campbells world, objects are personified, rooms multiply, mirrors become portals, and streaming thoughts predict future outcomes. She exposes the inherent beingness underlying daily phenomena through a manipulation of reality, an ... More South African poet, activist awarded in PolandWARSAW.- A jury in Warsaw on Monday named South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach as the recipient of the 2017 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, named after the anti-communist Polish poet and philosopher. "I'm pleased that this year the jury has chosen a poet who combines great talent with the attitude of an uncompromising man who sides with the oppressed," said Katarzyna Herbert, the widow of the poet who died in 1998, as she announced the winner. Born in Cape Town in 1939, Breytenbach left South Africa for Paris in the early 1960s after becoming an opponent of apartheid. He married in France but since his wife was of Vietnamese descent, he was unable to return to South Africa where mixed-race marriages were illegal. Breytenbach however did return to his homeland in secret to engage in the anti-apartheid struggle, ... More Exhibition of works by 23 international artists explores the theme of waitingHAMBURG.- The Hamburger Kunsthalle is addressing for the first time in a large-scale exhibition a theme that is as universal as it is complex, and one that is of particular relevance to todays society: WAITING. Between Power and Possibility. Works by 23 international artists are on view in the Gallery of Contemporary Art and various other locations both inside and outside the museum. In a continuation of the exhibition Fail Better (2013), which attracted widespread interest and international recognition, the Kunsthalle is now exploring a curiously anachronistic phenomenon in our fast-paced modern society, which is driven by a compulsive need for instant gratification. Waiting is unpleasant, stressful and costly. It lays bare the power structures behind social systems, functioning as an indicator of social standing and status: first-class passengers enjoy priority ... More The inaugural auction at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury AuctionsLONDON.- The Library of the Late Hubert Dingwall, featuring rare and historic books collected by Hubert Dingwall over 70 years, will be the first collection to go under the hammer at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions new London premises which will open in Pall Mall this April. The Library includes over 1,500 books and ranges in estimate from £100 - £15,000. The auction takes place on Thursday, 27 April 2017 with a preview brunch on Sunday, 23 April, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the death of two literary legends: Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare. Hubert Dingwalls (1912 - 2001) passion for serious book collecting started when he was in his early 20s, soon after he graduated from Oxford. From the early 1930s he enjoyed trawling the many booksellers barrows in the Charing Cross Road for bargains, although later he established a close ... More Hirshhorn announces Jarrett Gregory as newest addition to curatorial teamWASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announces the appointment of Jarrett Gregory as curator as of Monday, March 6. Serving under the leadership of Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu and Chief Curator Stéphane Aquin, Gregory will be responsible for the development of the museum's contemporary international collection as well as a rotating schedule of exhibitions, commissions and special programs. "We are very pleased to welcome Jarrett as the Hirshhorn's newest curator," said Chiu. "Jarrett has organized exhibitions of some of the most consequential international artists working today, including Pierre Huyghe and Stephen Prina, and we look forward to the experience and expertise she will bring to the Hirshhorn as the national museum of contemporary art." "This is an exciting moment for the Hirshhorn," said Aquin. "As ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan was born March 07, 1872. Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (March 7, 1872 - February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.
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