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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Brine Carriers, ca. 1804 (detail), woodblock print triptych, 29 3/4 by 14 5/8 in. (75.5 by 37.3 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Scholten Japanese Art participates in Asia Week 2016 with Ukiyo-e Tales: Stories from the Floating World, an exhibition focused on classic Japanese woodblock prints. This exhibition will take us back to the golden age of ukiyo-e and will feature works by some of the most important artists of the late 18th and up to the mid-19th century. We will focus predominately on images of beauties and the layers of meaning and stories that are conveyed via subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) clues found in the compositions. The exhibition will begin with works by Suzuki Harunobu (ca. 1724-70), who is largely credited with bringing together all of the elements that launched the production of nishiki -e (lit. brocade pictures), the full-color prints that we recognize today as ukiyo-e or images of the floating world. The term ukiyo (lit. 'floating world') references an older ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day LONDON.- A section of the Diamond Sutra, the world's earliest complete dated printed book, is seen at the British Library in London on March 2, 2016. Discovered in 1900 in a cave in north-west China, The Diamond Sutra is the world's earliest complete survival of a dated printed book, made in 868. It is about to be loaned to a museum in the US, which is the first time it has been loaned internationally. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP
| Park Avenue Armory reopens revitalized Veterans Room with designs by Louis C. Tiffany | | A rare almost 2,600 year old seal discovered in excavations at the City of David | | $15M vase and newly discovered historic painting lead Gianguan Auctions' Asia Week Sale | 
Details of the Veterans Room at Park Avenue Armory. Photo: James Ewing.
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of the ongoing transformation of its historic building into a cultural institution dedicated to cutting-edge unconventional arts productions, Park Avenue Armory is reopening its restored Veterans Room, the most significant remaining intact interior in the world by Louis C. Tiffany and Co., Associated Artists. A monument of late 19th-century decorative arts, the Veterans Room is being reanimated through interventions by Herzog & de Meuron with Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, which will transform the space into a state-of-the-art room for intimate and eclectic cultural programming. The room opens today with performances by jazz pianist, composer, and MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran as part of the Artists Studio series, featuring innovative artists and artistic pairings that harken back to the imaginative collaborations of the designers who originally conceived the room. We are thrilled to be reopening the Veterans ... More | | 
Yana Tchekhanovets, an archaeologist with the Israeli Antiquities Authority, displays a figurine believed to be over 2,500 years old. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM.- According to the excavation directors, the owner of the seal was exceptional compared to other women of the First Temple period: she had legal status which allowed her to conduct business and possess property. Who were Elihana bat Gael and Saaryahu ben Shabenyahu? Two seals bearing Hebrew names were uncovered in a large building dating to the First Temple period in excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is carrying out in the Givati parking lot at the City of David, in the Jerusalem Walls National Park. Finding seals that bear names from the time of the First Temple is hardly a commonplace occurrence, and finding a seal that belonged to a woman is an even rarer phenomenon, said the researchers. After nine years of excavating by the Israel Antiquities Authority, in cooperation with the Nature and Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation, archaeologists at the site succeeded ... More | | 
Lot 155. Qing Dynasty yellow-ground famille vase decorated with masterful enameling and sgraffito. Value: $15,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Asian art collectors and museum curators visit New York for Asia Week, Gianguan Auctions will greet them with collections of headline-making Chinese ceramics, ancient and modern scroll paintings and works of art by court scholars, artisans and monks whose vision and craftsmanship inspired emperors and influenced style for generations to come. The Gianguan Auctions sale is Saturday, March 19th at 39 W. 56th Street and online. Previews open on Friday, March 11th. The item to watch is Lot 155, a Qing Dynasty yellow-ground famille-rose enamelled vase with garlic head and arched scroll handles valued at $15,000,000. The estimate reflects the sophisticated use of enameling and sgraffiato - literally, scratching the hard fired surface to tap the hue of a glaze or slip beneath. The abundance of precisely executed peonies and butterflies set beneath ruyi heads, floral scrolls and a gilt rim belie the time and effort ... More |
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| Shakespeare's curse-protected grave gets radar survey by documentary film makers | | Sotheby's announces Asia Week Sales of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art | | British Museum announces major gallery renovation of Room 33 in 2016/17 | 
An image of Shakespeare's Globe theatre is projected onto London's Guildhall building during a light and sound production in central London. LEON NEAL / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Documentary film makers have radar scanned William Shakespeare's grave this year as Britain celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Channel 4 said and the Daily Telegraph reported Monday. The grave in the Holy Trinity Church in Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford upon Avon is a place of pilgrimage for fans and has an inscription on it with a curse against anyone planning to tamper with it. "Bleste be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones," the inscription reads. The survey could help researchers learn more about Shakespeare's life and family, helping to detect unmarked or previously unknown graves and items buried within the coffins, the Telegraph reported. "We can confirm a scan has been completed. The results of the scan will be revealed as part of a Channel 4 documentary later in the spring," a spokesman for the church was quoted as saying. A Channel 4 spokeswoman confirmed ... More | | 
A Gilt-Bronze Figure Depicting A Dakini. Tibet, 16th/17th Century. Estimate: $250/350,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys spring offering of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art Including Property from the Estate of Dr. Claus Virch features Buddhist, Hindu, Mughal and Jain devotional works of art, including several significant sculptures. Formerly on loan to the Brooklyn Museum, this Fine Sedimentary Stone Stele Depicting Scenes from the Life of Buddha hails from 11/12th Century Eastern India (estimate $100/150,000). Part of a small group of miniature sculptures carved during the Pala period, these steles served as a memento for pilgrims making their way from Eastern India to Tibet and Burma. This shrine beautifully depicts Buddhas triumph over Mara while seated beneath the Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya. The Buddha reflects the stylistics traits associated with the image of Buddha in the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya. This very fine and rare Qianlong-period bronze depicting Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva ... More | | 
Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. Bronze, c.1100. Chola Dynasty, South India. Purchased with the Brooke Sewell Permanent Fund © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The British Museum will undertake a major renovation of Room 33 in 2016/17. Currently the Joseph E Hotung Gallery of Oriental Antiquities, the new display will include a new narrative for China and South Asia which will bring the story up to the present day. The redisplay will allow the Museum to add new types of objects to the gallery such as paintings and textiles which need regulated conditions for display .These will complement the existing types of objects on show, such as sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, jade and metal ware. Updated interpretation, new lighting and design will allow this extraordinarily rich collection to be better seen and understood by the Museums seven million annual visitors. The refurbishment has been made possible by a generous donation from The Sir Joseph Hotung Charitable Settlement . The current gallery will close to the public on 1 June 2016 and will reopen in November 2017, the 25th ... More |
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| Pallant House Gallery exhibits the work of one of the 20th century's leading female photographers, Helen Muspratt | | 9/11 Memorial Museum hits milestone of more than five million visitors since it opened in May 2014 | | Overview of musical instruments for performances in the home on view at the Rijksmuseum | 
Helen Muspratt, Busking miner, Dec 1930
CHICHESTER.- A new exhibition at Pallant House Gallery will showcase the work of one of the 20th centurys leading female photographers, Helen Muspratt. During the 1930s she created evocative portraits of important artistic and cultural figures of the day as well as capturing insightful documentary images of the Soviet Union. She also experimented with avant-garde photographic techniques with results that bear comparison with Man Ray and Lee Miller. A selection of her works will go on display in the DeLonghi Print Room at Pallant House Gallery from 9 March until 8 May 2016. Helen Muspratt (1907-2001) was one of the leading female photographers of her generation, capturing images of celebrated artists and cultural figures of the 1930s such as Paul Nash, Eileen Agar and Oliver Zangwill. Her political interests led her into photo-journalism as she documented workers in the Soviet Union and the South Wales valleys. With her business pa ... More | | 
A "Little Red" doll discovered by Brian Van Flandern on September 12, 2001.
NEW YORK, NY.- The National September 11 Memorial & Museum today announced that more than five million people have visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum since it opened in May 2014. Visitors have traveled from all 50 states and more than 150 countries. In addition to the United States, the nations represented in the greatest numbers include the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany and France. In the Museums first full year of operation, it welcomed nearly 2.7 million visitors. People across the nation and throughout the world recognize the Museum as the leading institution for understanding the history of 9/11, and that it uniquely presents this history in the very place where it happened, 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels said. The millions of people coming to the Museum are a profound testament to the important stories of the 9/11 victims, the rescuers, the recovery workers and the survivors. We are grateful to ea ... More | | 
Harp, Georges Cousineau en zoon, Parijs, ca. 1790. Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag.
AMSTERDAM.- For the first time, the Rijksmuseum is presenting an overview of musical instruments for performances in the home. Virginal, theorbo, clavichord, violin, harpsichord, harp, flute, pianos, mandolin and a chamber organ can all be seen until 5 June at the 'Music at Home' exhibition. This small exhibition displays a selection of musical highlights from instrument collections of the Rijksmuseum and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (municipal museum in The Hague), the two most important collections of their kind in the Netherlands. In the area around the showcase in which the instruments are displayed, visitors will hear recordings of pieces performed by Early Music students from the conservatories in Amsterdam and The Hague. For centuries, playing a musical instrument was a favourite way of entertaining family and friends, or just for personal pleasure. Music at home was more intimate than music ... More |
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| J.K. Rowling's chair, in which she wrote the first two Harry Potter books, to cross the auction block | | Spink announces auction of Ancient, British, Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals | | The ADAA Art Show draws major collectors and arts professionals for strong sales at 2016 edition | 
Chair Used by J.K. Rowling whilst Writing the First Two Harry Potter Books, Later Hand-Painted and Signed by Rowling Herself.
NEW YORK, NY.- The chair used by author J.K. Rowling while she wrote the first two Harry Potter books Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets will cross the auction block in New York on April 6, 2016. "The international phenomenon that would become, and still is, Harry Potter had its humble beginnings in this modest old chair," said James Gannon, Director of Rare Books at Heritage Auctions, the company conducting the auction. "It's inspiring to imagine the young mother and author settling down at her desk, seated in this chair, typing out the original manuscripts of her first two books." The chair comes from a set that Rowling was given for her government housing flat when she was a young, single mother living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rowling took the most comfortable of the chairs and used it as her main ... More | | 
Poland, Sigismund III Vasa (1587-1632), 5-Ducats, 1614. Estimate: £20,000-30,000.
LONDON.- Spink announced another instalment of their famous auctions of Ancient, British, Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals on the 22-23rd March 2016 in their London premises in the heart of Bloomsbury. This auction boasts of a fantastic selection of Ancient coins and the third part of one of the finest collections of Polish coins to come on the market in recent years. There is also a strong portion of English coins to excite and delight the avid collector. With St. Patricks Day just around the corner, Spink will be offering a fantastic coin: lot 852, which is a Charles II (1645-85), Irish St Patrick Halfpenny from 1660-61, showing King David playing harp on the obverse and St Patrick on the reverse. A very fine example of a beautiful and very rare coin full of history; many of these coins made it all the way to America to fill the deficit of coins in the colonies. Lot 852, estimated: £1,200 1,500 The highlight from amongst t ... More | | 
The Art Show 2016 once again fostered a distinct fair environment. Photos by Hunter Abrams / BFA.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, closed its 2016 edition yesterday with ADAA member exhibitors, collectors, and visitors alike voicing tremendous enthusiasm for the fairs intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated presentations of art of the highest quality. Mounted annually at the Park Avenue Armory by the ADAA, a non-profit membership organization of art dealers from around the country, The Art Show 2016 once again fostered a distinct fair environmentinviting active conversations with gallerists and close-looking at works by artists from a variety of genres, practices, and national and international origins. The longest-running art fair in the nation, The Art Show kicked off New York Arts Week with the annual Gala Preview on Tuesday, March 1, which welcomed over 2,750 guests, including major ... More |
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 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2016 winners announced LONDON.- The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers and the Lynn Foundation awarded the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2016 to Henry Kondracki for his atmospheric oil painting The Cowgate. Now in its eleventh year, the Prize is one of the most prestigious awards for artists in the UK, and is unique in its focus on draughtsmanship and representational painting. Kondracki receives the £15,000 top prize in addition to an engraved gold medal. Kondracki, who lives and works in Edinburgh, comments: A well worn part of Edinburgh, the Cowgates history goes back a long way
My memory is part of the story of the city, but only a small part. I am aware of all the people who have walked these same snowy streets, leaving tracks that record their journeys, rather like drawing a moment in time frozen. Henry Kondracki's The Cowgate was an instant choice for the Prize. The painting is full ... More Robin Reisenfeld joins Toledo Museum of Art curatorial staffTOLEDO, OH.- Robin Reisenfeld has joined the Toledo Museum of Art staff as curator of works on paper, Brian Kennedy, CEO, president and director of the Museum, has announced. Reisenfeld has served as course director of Global Contemporary Art in the master of arts program at Christies Education, New York, for the past two years and as a full-time faculty member in modern and contemporary art for over a decade. She has designed and taught seminar courses on many subjects including connoisseurship and materials, contemporary conservation issues and the history of modern and contemporary prints. She also has been invited to lecture and provide public programs internationally on modern and contemporary art topics such as today's global art economy. Dr. Reisenfeld stood out among candidates for the position because of her extensive experience in art history and ... More Exhibition of new and recent work by the Dublin-based artist Martin Healy on view at Crawford Art Gallery CORK.- Crawford Art Gallery is presenting Martin Healy: A moment twice lived, an exhibition of new and recent work by the Dublin-based artist. Martin Healys film and photographic installations have explored ideological motifs from early 20th century literature endeavouring to mine the synthesis of fact, fiction and manifest mythology embedded in systems of belief. The work featured in A moment twice lived extrapolates concerns about earth and the cosmos, dreams and reality, and investigates states of temporal being, both physical and psychological. Frequently examining the relationship between scientific truth and aesthetic form, the works emphasise fleeting or ethereal moments when these two ideologies coalesce. The exhibition, displayed over two floors, includes a number of new photographic and sculptural works and a key new single screen installation entitled, ... More Shapero Rare Books announces highlights to be presented at TEFAF 2016LONDON.- A unique Andy Warhol silkscreen print of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is one of many artefacts to be found at Shapero Rare Bookss stand at this years TEFAF. Made in 1985, it is a unique trial proof in an edition of 30. It comes from Warhols Reigning Queens series, which also featured Queen Elizabeth II. Beatrix, now 78, never met Warhol, who used an official photograph for the print, and it is not known if she owns a copy herself. It is available from Shapero Rare Books at £50,000. Shapero are also offering a complete collection of John Goulds magnificent bird books. Gould was one of the most distinguished ornithologists of the 19th Century, producing books of unrivalled beauty and scholarship. A single edition of these luxurious books would comfortably occupy any library as its centrepiece; the complete collection 12 folio works in 44 volumes ... More New gallery showcasing contemporary art of the Middle East opens in LondonLONDON.- Opening on 9 March 2016 in Londons Mayfair, Sophia Contemporary is a new gallery showcasing contemporary art of the Middle East and Iran alongside contemporary Western art. Founded by Vassili Tsarenkov, Lali Marganiya and Lili Jassemi, the gallerys inaugural exhibition showcases a series of new paintings by the artist Reza Derakshani, one of the most celebrated living Iranian artists. Derakshani will present new works from a number of ongoing series, including the Hunting, Pomegranate and Garden Party series, as well as two large paintings from a new Calligraphy series, which have never previously been exhibited. Whilst Derakshanis practice is grounded in Iranian artistic traditions, his dynamic brushstrokes reveal the influence of the textured surfaces from Western abstract art movements. The fusion of Eastern artistic traditions and contemporary art ... More Detroit Institute of Arts hosts "First Foilio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare"DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts is the Michigan host site for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the worlds most treasured books. It is on display at the museum from March 7 to April 3. The Folger Shakespeare Library, in partnership with Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association, is touring the First Folio of Shakespeare to all 50 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico this year. Many of William Shakespeare's plays were written to be performed and were not published during his lifetime. The First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeares plays and was published in 1623, seven years after the playwrights death. While two of Shakespeares fellow actors compiled 36 of his plays, hoping to preserve the works for future generations, the First Folio contained ... More The first full-scale museum exhibition in the U.S. devoted to Ana Mendieta's filmworks opens in FloridaFORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.- NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is presenting Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta from February 28 through July 3, 2016. This is the first and largest full-scale museum exhibition in the United States devoted to Ana Mendietas filmworks. One of the most influential Cuban-American artists of the post-World War II era, Mendietas (1948- 1985) synthesis of sculpture, earth art and performance unflinchingly investigated what it means to be human. The exhibition includes 21 films and 26 related photographs and is organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota and curated by Lynn Lukkas, Chair of the Department of Art, and Howard Oransky, Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery. It underscores NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdales emphasis on experimental postwar art and ... More Collezione Maramotti opens first exhibition in Europe of the American painter Anna ConwayREGGIO EMILIA.- Collezione Maramotti presents the first exhibition in Europe of the American painter Anna Conway. Four new works were created in 2015 especially for this exhibition. Conway's approach to representation, which is equally precise, methodical, intuitive and analytical, not only involves a depiction of scenes that interweave close observation and pure imagination. She is also concerned in a picture with where we are, at what point in time, who inhabits the space, and what may be going on in his or her mind. In this respect she is as much a short story writer, or a screenwriter, or a reporter as a painter. Her acts of inscription take visual form, and even when a scene is fantastic, beyond the limits of the everyday, for her it must appear true. We see figures in her paintings. She sees them as actual people, with a past, with a present that may hang in the balance, with hopes ... More PULSE New York 2016 closes on a high noteNEW YORK, NY.- The eleventh edition of PULSE New York captivated audiences closing the week with vigorous sales and high energy. Visitors reveled in the spatial thoughtfulness that has become a signature aspect of the PULSE experience. The atmosphere created a contemplative space for visitors to engage in tightly curated exhibitions and purchase works with intention and information. It has been a great fair and I have enjoyed witnessing the exchanges between our exhibitors and visitors. There is a genuine enthusiasm about sharing information and connecting the dots, which helps foster a welcoming community and greater exposure for the artists, says Helen Toomer, Director of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair. Within minutes of opening strong sales were reported for both established and emerging artists. New exhibitor, SIM SMITH GALLERY sold out their booth, ... More Great Bardfield's time has come, says Sworders' Guy Schooling as he launches Modern British Art saleSTANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Recent major retrospectives for Eric Ravilious and Kenneth Rowntree at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Pallant House Gallery in Chichester have cast the spotlight on the Great Bardfield artists, who also include Edward Bawden, John Aldridge and others. Guy Schooling, managing director of Sworders auctioneers in Stansted Mountfitchet and a long-term friend of the Ravilious and Bawden families, runs his auction house less than 15 miles from the village that became home to a decades-lasting artistic community in the 1930s that he argues rivals St Ives for talent, inspiration and importance. The artists open-house exhibitions of the 1950s attracted national and international media attention as the idea of viewing modern art in a remote country setting caught visitors imagination. As a keen supporter of the Fry Art Gallery in nearby Saffron ... More New mural entitled "Suns" by Victoria Fu and Byron Kim installed by Murals of La JollaLA JOLLA, CA.- This is the first artist collaboration between Victoria Fu, who primarily works with moving images, and Byron Kim, who is a painter. For this project, the starting image in the mural was taken from a top floor window of the site, the Empress Hotel in La Jolla. The resulting image went through a process of being printed, and then re-photographed as a printed photograph hung on a wall, staged with lighting in the studio. The glowing orb that appears sun-like is a reflection of a studio lamp on the photo's material surface. Its slanted incandescent light as captured on the studio surface echoes the actual raking light of a La Jolla sunset on the hotel's exterior walls. The result of this process and staging is made legible to the viewer as "a photograph of a photograph," the mural image a displaced reference to the actual view from the site. The artists worked toward a methodology ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Anselm Kiefer, was born March 08, 1945. Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah.
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