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Kathryn Hart, The Search", site-specific installation, diptych, 56x104x4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- In this solo exhibition, Kathryn Hart explores the web of emotions confronted in the search to begin anew, and the burden of choice. She continues her dialogue with evolving identity and the hope for new beginnings amidst a maze of emotional conflict, pain, and self-doubt. Hart offers, after life leaves us tumbled upside down, completely derailed, we pick ourselves up and begin the search for
personal truth, enlightenment, growth, love, connections, a place to feel comfortable, a place to call home. We even search for the place to start the search. My flightpath was obliterated by an onslaught of happenings my husbands cancer, the deaths of both my parents, and my own struggle with an ongoing disease and trauma. How do I move forward? The search starts with one intent, one thought, one moment, one breath, one catalyst, one cell, one dot. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Prince's Yellow Cloud guitar (R) and George Harrison's first electric guitar, the Hofner Club 40, are displayed along with other items during a media preview May 14, 2018 in New York. The items are part of the auction of property from the life and career of Prince scheduled to be held May 18, 2018 in New York and the Music Icons auction to be held May 19, 2018 in New York. Don EMMERT / AFP
| Modigliani sells for $157.2 mn in New York: Sotheby's | | American University chosen to receive majority share of works from Corcoran Art Collection | | Picasso 'accidentally' damaged, withdrawn from sale | 
Amedeo Modigliani, Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) detail. Signed Modigliani (lower left). Oil on canvas, 35¼ by 57¾ in.; 89.5 by 146.7 cm. Painted in 1917. Estimate in excess of $150 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A stunning nude that is the largest painting produced by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani sold for $157.2 million in New York on Monday, becoming the fourth most expensive work of art sold at auction. Painted a century ago, Modigliani's masterpiece "Nu couche (sur le cote gauche)" fetched the highest price in Sotheby's history and was the star single lot in the May art auction season in New York. Modigliani follows Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso as the third highest-selling artist at auction. Monday's sale failed to eclipse the $170.4 million paid for another Modigliani nude at Christie's in 2015. Nearly 58 inches (147 centimeters) wide, the picture was the cover star of a recent retrospective at the Tate Modern gallery in London. Modigliani reinvented the nude for the modern ... More | | 
Jimmy Ernst, Icarus (detail), oil on canvas, unframed: 55 1/4 x 76 1/8 in. (140.34 x 193.36 cm).
WASHINGTON, DC.- Under one of the largest free art distributions in U.S. history, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, part of American University, has been offered nearly 9,000 works from the Corcoran Art Collection. American University Museum is excited about the opportunities to share this rich collection with our students, scholars, the Washington community and beyond, said Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of AU Museum. This collection will enhance the museums longstanding commitment to exhibiting works by Washington, national and international artists who hail from diverse backgrounds and encompass many artistic styles and ranges. The proposed acquisition will include paintings, works on paper, photographs, sculpture and textiles. Works by historys most masterful artists are represented including Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt. Other prominent artists include 16th- ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Le Marin, 28 October 1943, oil on canvas. Estimated in the region of $70 million. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A Picasso self-portrait estimated to be worth $70 million and due to go under the hammer in New York on Tuesday, has been "accidentally damaged" and withdrawn from auction, Christie's said. The 1943 masterpiece called "The Marin" or "The Sailor" had been a highlight of Christie's marquee impressionist and modern evening art sale. According to US media, it belongs to former casino magnate Steve Wynn. Christie's said the damage happened on Friday "during the final stages of preparation." "After consultation with the consignor today, the painting has been withdrawn from Christie's May 15 sale to allow the restoration process to begin," it added. The auction house gave no further details on the incident or the extent of the damage. In the marketing blitz to accompany the sale, Christie's spoke ... More |
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| Hamiltons opens an exhibition of silkscreens on canvas by Daido Moriyama | | Exhibition reveals how artists in London responded to the protests of 1968 | | A rare Rolex Daytona 'Paul Newman' soars to $ 947,776 at Sotheby's in Geneva | 
Eros or Something Other than Eros, 1969 (detail) © Daido Moriyama.
LONDON.- Daido Moriyama is recognised as one of the few living modern masters of photography from Japan and is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. Hamiltons presents Daido Moriyama: SCENE, an exhibition of photographs selected by gallery owner Tim Jefferies from Moriyamas extensive oeuvre and produced exclusively for Hamiltons as silkscreens on canvas. The majority of these silkscreens are unique in their format and include images taken in the 60s and 70s, as well as much more recently. Hamiltons exhibition will open alongside Photo London, 16 20 May 2018, where Hamiltons will present Moriyama not only on stand at the fair but for the Photo London Pavilion Commission. Moriyamas work is notoriously gritty and challenging, often recording the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan. Haunted by the American occupation ... More | | 
Mario Merz Che Fare? 1968 - 1973.
LONDON.- To mark 50 years since the protests of 1968, a new display at Tate Britain reveals how artists in London responded to this watershed moment in political and social history. 1968 witnessed a series of protests across the globe. Although the different movements were not united by one singular goal, there was a shared sense of youthful rebellion and a struggle against oppression that was both personal and political. London: 1968 features a series of iconic agit-prop posters by the Camden Poster Workshop, who moved their studio into the London School of Economics during the student occupation in October. Inspired by the Atelier Populaire in Paris, between 1968-1971 anyone could commission a poster from the workshop, using screenprinting equipment to create posters for workers, tenants associations and liberation movements from all over the world. The posters leave behind a permanent visual record of pertinent issues of the time suc ... More | | 
Two telephone bidders battled in the sale room for a highly rare Rolex Paul Newman Daytona wristwatch, in stainless steel, with rare toffee registers. The watch was sold to applause in the room - for CHF 951,000 / $ 947,776 (Lot 276, estimate CHF 200,000 400,000 / $208,000 - 416,000). Courtesy Sothebys.
GENEVA.- An extraordinarily rare Rolex Daytona Paul Newman wristwatch, reference 6239, made in 1969, with highly-coveted tropical subsidiary dials was the star of Sothebys spring sale of Important Watches in Geneva today. This colour-change effect is one of the most coveted features on todays auction market. The iconic wristwatch eclipsed the pre-sale estimate to sell for CHF 951,000 / 947,776 (estimate CHF 200,000 400,000 / $208,000-416,000). The more than 1000 registrants participating in todays sale drove the total to CHF 6,588,500 ($6,566,165), an increase of over 26% compared with our sale of Important Watches in November last year. Sam Hines, Worldwide Head of Sothebys Watch Division, commented, ... More |
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| Margot Kidder, Lois Lane of 'Superman' films, dead at 69 | | Obama center in Chicago to include replica Oval Office | | University of Southampton's John Hansard Gallery reopens with Gerhard Richter exhibition | 
In this file photo taken on August 24, 2009 actress Margot Kidder arrives at the premiere of Dimension Films' "Halloween II" held at Grauman's Chinese Theate. Alberto E. Rodriguez / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Margot Kidder, who catapulted to Hollywood fame in the late '70s as Lois Lane in the "Superman" movies, has died, according to the Montana funeral home handling her arrangements. She was 69 years old. Kidder starred in the Superman trilogy released between 1978-1983 as hotshot reporter Lane, who was also the love interest of Clark Kent -- played by Christopher Reeve, who died in 2004. She also made a cameo appearance in the 1987 film about the DC Comics superhero titled "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace." The actress died on Sunday in her home in the northern US state of Montana, according to the Franzen-Davis Funeral Home & Crematory, which did not specify a cause. Born Margaret Ruth Kidder on October 17, 1948 in Canada's Northwest Territories, she grew up in a small town without a movie theater. But on a trip to New York she caught the acting bug, and after scho ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on June 30, 2016, US President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. The Obama presidential center, a museum and library to be built in Chicago and dedicated to Barack Obama's presidency, will include a replica Oval Office and augmented reality elements. Brendan Smialowski / AFP.
CHICAGO (AFP).- The Obama presidential center, a museum and library to be built in Chicago and dedicated to Barack Obama's presidency, will include a replica Oval Office and augmented reality elements. The museum, which is to chronicle Obama's eight years in the White House and his history-making path as the first ever African-American president, will also include a replica of the Resolute Desk used by multiple presidents. The details reported by the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper were the first to emerge about the presidential center's museum since Obama unveiled the initial designs a year ago. A nationwide network of 15 presidential libraries maintain the archives of various US administrations in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration. Several of those institutions also include Oval Office ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, Self Portrait Standing, Three Times, 17.3.1991 1991. AR00182. 6 photographs, gelatin silver print on paper with oil paint. Each photograph: 504 x 564 mm. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund 2008. Photo © National Galleries of Scotland (Antonia Reeves).
SOUTHAMPTON .- John Hansard Gallery, part of the University of Southampton, announced its reopening programme, presented in its new purpose-built home in Studio 144, Southamptons Cultural Quarter. This programme showcases leading UK and international artists alongside creating a platform for emerging artists within a global context. The programme reflects on John Hansard Gallerys relocation to the city centre, re-contextualising previous commissions, exploring narratives of migration and reconsidering the history of art through an alternative lens. Featuring a dynamic series of overlapping and parallel exhibitions, events and engagement projects, highlights of the 20182019 programme include: a major presentation of the work of ... More |
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| World record Comic Book & Art Auction surpasses $12.2 million at Heritage Auctions | | San Miniato Basilica celebrates 1,000th anniversary with restoration of 15th century chapel | | Exhibition of portraits of sculptors by Anne Purkiss opens at the Royal Society of Sculptors | 
Frank Frazetta's Original Art titled Death Dealer 6, 1990 more than doubled the all-time auction record for any piece of comic art when it sold for $1.79 million.
DALLAS, TX.- Chicago's largest public auction dedicated to vintage comic books and original comic art fetched $12,201,974 setting the world record for the most valuable sale of its kind. The top lot claimed its own record when artist Frank Frazetta's Original Art titled Death Dealer 6, 1990 first published as the cover for Verotik's 1996 Death Dealer #2 comic book more than doubled the all-time auction record for any piece of comic art when it sold for $1.79 million. "As the live session opened, the Frazetta painting had a bid of $600,000, but within moments it had come down to two collectors, bidding by phone, who waged a pitched battle for this very desirable painting," said Barry Sandoval, Director of Comics Operations at Heritage. The sale surpassed the previous record for the world's most valuable comic book auction by more than $1.8 million, a record also ... More | | 
Chapel of the Crucifix, San Miniato al Monte, Florence, Italy. Restoration completed in 2018 with support from Friends of Florence. Detail of Ascension painting on popular wood by Agnolo Gaddi (1390) Photography by: Antonio Quattrone Courtesy of Friends of Florence.
FLORENCE.- The basilica of San Miniato al Monte, a Romanesque masterpiece established a thousand years ago as a basilica by Bishop Ildebrando, celebrates its millennial anniversary with the meticulous restoration of its Chapel of the Crucifix. The project was funded by the Friends of Florence, a nonprofit devoted to cultural heritage preservation in Florence, Italy. Friends of Florence celebrates its 20th anniversary this year having funded hundreds of restoration projects in Florence and the Tuscan region thus far. Designed by Michelozzo and completed in 1448, the Chapel of the Crucifix features a ciborium in Carrara marble with inlay and gilding, an altar, thirteen paintings by Agnolo Gaddi, a vault with glazed terracotta panels by Luca della Robbia, bronze eagles attributed to Maso di ... More | | 
Damien Hirst, 2006. © Anne Purkiss.
LONDON.- Faces of Sculpture is an exhibition of photographer Anne Purkiss portraits of leading British sculptors in their studios taken over the past 30 years. Dame Elisabeth Frink, Sir Anthony Caro, Damian Hirst, Grayson Perry, Sir Antony Gormley, Cornelia Parker, Rachel Whiteread, Maggi Hambling, Phyllida Barlow, Martin Creed, Gavin Turk, Yinka Shonibare and many more have all been the subject of Annes incisive lens at different stages of their careers, some of them she has photographed on several occasions. As a photo-journalist Anne arrived in the UK from former East Germany in 1984. Two years later she got her first commission to photograph a sculptor in his studio. The job came from the Associated Press and the pictures were to be a celebration of the 90th birthday of Arthur Fleischmann. This was the start of a three-decade project that has seen her taking portraits of more than one hundred sculptors who inspire her through their work and ideas. Dame ... More |
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 Belgian comic book artist William Vance dies: publisherBRUSSELS (AFP).- Belgian comic book artist William Vance, whose action adventure series XIII was popular in the French-speaking world, died late Monday, his publisher announced. "My friend the artist William Vance died this evening," Yves Schlirf, editorial director at Dargaud Benelux, tweeted. "I will really miss you my old lion." Vance, the pen name of William Van Cutsem, was born in the Brussels region and drew for the Tintin series before striking it big with XIII, a contemporary action adventure series. Media accounts said the bespectacled and mustachioed Vance was 82 years old and was suffering from Parkinson's disease. The Belgian news outlet L'Echo said Vance, who also produced Bob Morane and Bruno Brazil, was "one of the last masters of Belgian comic strips." Parkinson's disease forced him to abandon XIII in 2010 after he created it with script ... More Perot Museum of Nature and Science's Being Human Hall undergoes major transformationDALLAS, TX.- Fulfilling a promise to keep content fresh, relevant and exciting, the Perot Museum unveiled its first completely transformed exhibit hall since its 2012 opening more than five years ago. On Friday, May 11, the reimagined Being Human Hall was unveiled to the public with twice as many interactive displays than the original hall, an array of innovative content, and dozens of experiences, all offered in English and Spanish. In a fascinating and highly entertaining manner, guests will be transported through seven components of the human journey plus enhanced Bio Lab and Nobel Prize experiences, as they explore the traits and abilities that are essential and unique to being human from early origins and DNA; to the complexities of the brain, hands, face and voice; to the miracle of movement. Adorned with boldly colorful graphics, images and digital ... More Exhibition explores the relationship between photography and transienceAMSTERDAM.- Photography not only chronicles the passage of time, impermanence, and the ageing of people and things, but photographs themselves are uniquely impermanent objects. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents Forever Young?, an exhibition that explores the relationship between photography and transience, from 30 March to 12 August. Spread out over five galleries, the presentation spotlights photographs that portray impermanence, and those that are themselves showing signs of age. The exhibition also looks at photography that plays with the suggestion of ageing, and artworks in which the combination of photography and other media can create conservation issues. The museum treats photographic objects in particular with extreme care, especially in the case of color photography, and artworks that combine photography with ... More Miller & Miller Auctions announces highlights from its Fine & Decorative Arts AuctionNEW HAMBURG.- A Fine & Decorative Arts Auction featuring the single-owner lifetime collection of the late Bob and Delores McCash two dedicated collectors who acquired most of their antique finds in the 1950s and 60s and kept them in their wartime-era bungalow in Kitchener, Ontario will be auctioned Saturday, May 19th, at 10 am Eastern time. The sale will be conducted by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., online and at the firms gallery located at 59 Webster Street in New Hamburg, Ontario. For those who cant attend in person, online bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and the Miller & Miller website. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken. In all, 522 lots will come up for bid, in categories that include sterling silver, bronze and marble sculptures, lamps, art glass, art pottery, jewelry, fine furniture, porcelain and ceramics, paintings ... More SculptureCenter presents new commissions and existing works by 10 international artistsLONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Individuals and objects contribute to and corroborate accounts of a significant event, or shift, in material, social, technological, and/or political realities. But before this happens, there is a period of time between the event and its subsequent narratives when a lapse in comprehension exists. Before there is consensus or familiarity with a fundamental change in understanding, the parts must be identified and pieced together. The artists in this exhibition directly intervene in these moments to expand on the devices for measurement and documentation of what has yet to become widely known or accepted. They make potential future documents that reflect a range of subjectivities, human and otherwise. By operating inside the delays, silent pauses, sensory impairments, and omissions, the artists examine the shape and weigh the force of these ... More Nadeau's to offer over 600 lots from the Collection of Peggy and David RockefellerWINDSOR, CONN.- Items from the single-owner collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller members of one of the most important and wealthiest families in American history will be sold at public auction on Saturday, June 2nd, by Nadeaus Auction Gallery, online and at Nadeaus showroom located at 25 Meadow Road in Windsor, beginning promptly at 11 am Eastern time. Around 635 lots will come up for bid, to include artworks by Pablo Picasso and Michael Wesely, Chinese and Japanese antiques and objects, many personally inscribed items (such as jewelry, crystal, silver, bronzes, paintings, lithographs and engravings) and furnishings, including French, Georgian and contemporary. About 100 items are monogrammed or inscribed for Rockefeller. This is a great opportunity for everyone to take part in, and potentially own, a piece from one of Americas ... More Four artists chosen for Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2018DUBLIN.- Hennessy and IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) revealed the names of the four contemporary artists whose works have been purchased by the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2018. Barbara Knezevic, Susan MacWilliam, Mary McIntyre and Helen OLeary were joined by Elaine Cullen of Hennessy Ireland, IMMAs Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator, Head of Collections and invited curator Hugh Mulholland, Senior Curator at The MAC, Belfast, as the works went on display. The Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection exhibition is free to view and runs from May 10th to September 16th. Each of the artists selected have well-established practices, making work of quality and rigor which has received considerable critical acknowledgment and are not yet represented in the IMMA National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. From thought-provoking ... More Artist Alexander James campaigns to tackle plastic pollutionLONDON.- International artist Alexander James is highlighting the global problem of plastic pollution with a new series of unique photograms to fund the first recycling facility on the remote islands of the Maldives. The twenty works, which are being exhibited by Dellasposa Fine Art, were created from plastic waste collected from the sea last year by James, as he lived and worked in a plein-air studio in the region. His oneman campaign has already prompted a positive response, with corporate supporters promising to fund 20 recycling facilities for every one that James manages to build. The photograms, produced alongside a series of polaroids and letters collectively entitled Textures & texts from the shoreline, celebrate James longstanding medium of water, exploring its interaction with light, while revealing both its infiltration with man-made detritus and the tension between ... More Stone Age oak fashioned into spring fling furniture and potteryDUMFRIES.- Three craft makers are using a 7,000-year-old oak to create beautiful furniture and ceramics for this years Spring Fling open studios event. The ancient tree grew beside the Solway Firth during the Mesolithic (or Middle Stone Age) at a time when the only humans in the area were hunter gatherers centuries before the first settled farmers. Daniel Lacey, a furniture maker from Dumfries and Galloway whose clients include Middle Eastern royalty, will display items made from the huge piece of bog oak at his studio in Langholm during Spring Fling from 26-28 May. These will be seen alongside gorgeous ceramics by Siobhan and Martin Miles-Moore, from Kirkby-Lonsdale in Cumbria, who have used burned sawdust from the oak to create unusual coloured glaze for their pottery. Quality bog oak is much sought after by furniture makers and to recover a log this old, ... More Art Nouveau. Its beginnings, influences and original nature explored at the Art Museum Riga BourseRIGA.- The exhibition Art Nouveau. Its Beginnings, Influences and Original Nature dedicated to Latvias Centenary is on view at the Art Museum Riga Bourse in Riga (Doma laukums 6) from 4 May to 5 August 2018. Within the landscape of global art, Latvia has written an enduring story with its brilliant examples of Art Nouveau. By highlighting the Art Nouveau heritage, the Latvian National Museum of Art wants to show Rigas special place in the European cultural palette at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, at a time when Latvian national consciousness was forming. The rapid rise of the Baltics biggest metropolis, Riga at the turn of the century inspired the fantasies of architects, who developed the idea of Art Nouveau through the design of richly decorated façades, colourful interiors and overall aesthetic harmony. In addition ... More SCHAUM/SHIEH designs new building for the Transart Foundation for Art and AnthropologyHOUSTON, TX.- The Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology is a multifaceted platform for the creative activities of an artist and independent curator in Houston, Texas. Designed by SCHAUM/SHIEH of Houston and New York, the new building will house visitors, art, exhibitions and performances, and will host conversations that spark broader community dialogue about the role of art in our lives, providing a space for the critical intersection between art and anthropology. The project is designed around a 3,000-square-foot gallery & library. This large living room is punctuated in the middle by a circulation core that integrates steps and a library, expanding into a second-floor salon that is open to the space below, effectively dividing the gallery into two adjacent exhibition spaces. The front exhibition space, naturally lit and facing the street, is reserved ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Richard Avedon was born May 15, 1923. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century". In this image: Humphrey Bogart, October 2, 1953 by Richard Avedon.
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