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World auction record for Tsarouchis at Bonhams Greek sale
PARIS.- La garde oubliÃ©e by one of the leading painters of the 30s Generation Yiannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989) set a new world record for a work by the artist at auction when it sold for 441,375 at Bonhams Greek Sale in Paris on 24 November 2022. Once in the collection of legendary gallerist Alexander Iolas, it encompassed the defining elements of the painters universe, including the sailor his signature subject and one of the most celebrated images of 20th century Greek art. It had been estimated at 80,000-120,000. Another work by Tsarouchis, Ãpicerie Ã Mytiline from 1965, sold for 189,375 against an estimate of 80,000-120,000. The sale, which consisted of 136 lots, made a total of 3,482,138. Ãpithalamique by Yiannis Moralis (1916-2009). Star of Moraliss 1972 one man show, the work was part of the artists epithalamiaÂ series and echoed age-old ... More

Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art presents "Freer's Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers"
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Asian Art presents Freers Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers, a groundbreaking exhibition that shines new light on the Freer Gallery of Arts founder Charles Lang Freer. The exhibition opened Oct. 15near the start of the museums centennial celebrationsand is ongoing. An innovative digital feature makes the exhibition accessible to global audiences. As the National Museum of Asian Art charts its next 100 years, Freers Global Network offers an opportunity to reflect on the past. Freers Global Network looks closely at the interconnected web of artists, dealers and collectors who helped shape the Freer Gallery of Arts collection amid the shifting political and economic environment ... More

Nye & Company's Holiday Chick and Antique Estate Treasures Auction offers fine and decorate arts, plus jewelery items
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers will wrap up 2022 with a two-day auction featuring jewelry for holiday gift-giving, December 7th-8th, at 10 am Eastern Time. The live-online Holiday Chic and Antique Estate Treasures Auction includes jewelry from three tri-state area consignors and other items suitable for the beneficiary of holiday charm. Headlining the jewelry portion of the auction is property consigned by an Upper East Side estate, including a 6.1-carat Marquis platinum and diamond engagement ring with removable gold cocktail jacket in a ribbed basket weave pattern; and a 3.24-carat brilliant-cut platinum engagement ring; both accompanied by a G.I.A. certificate and will make quite the statement. The estate also includes ... More

Galerie Miranda opens an exhibition of works by artist Tanya Marcuse
PARIS.- Galerie Miranda is presenting, for the first time in France, the beautiful and fascinating series Undergarments & Armor by NYC-based artist Tanya Marcuse, made in 2002-3 with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship. The artist anchors the project in typological foundations, formally expressed with highly precise yet sensual black & white pigment prints. A lavish 3-volume slipcased monograph of the series was published by Nazraeli Press in 2005 with an essay by Valerie Steele, chief curator and acting director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. "I traveled to archives and museums in the U.S. and England photographing undergarments, armor, and the museum forms that populate the storerooms; breastplates, helmets, corsets, bustles, mannequins and dress forms. The earliest objects date to the 14th century while no object is dated past 1900, ruling out the possibility ... More

Chad Fisher, renowned sculptor, hired as sculpture chair of the Lyme Academy of Art
OLD LYME, CONN.- The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts announced the arrival of internationally-renowned sculptor Chad Fisher as the new Charlotte Colby Danly Sculpture Chair. This appointment marks a bold step in the Lyme Academys move to build the premier figurative sculpting program in the United States. Set to launch in Fall 2023, this multi-year, intensive program further expands the breadth of the Academys rich fine arts curriculum, while deepening its commitment to its mission. I am beyond thrilled and honored to be the incoming Sculpture Chair at Lyme Academy, says Fisher. To teach is to provide students with a space to grow emotionally, intellectually, and experientially. As an art educator, I am here to help amplify each students dream through a very human and personal experience, and to provide the tools that are necessary for them to grow expansively, ... More

In 'KPOP,' Korean pop and Broadway meet (too) cute
NEW YORK, NY.- A lot of people come to these things and they dont even understand the language, says Harry, a filmmaker who passes for the villain in the noisy yet skimpy new musical KPOP. So what are they watching for? Good question. For the record, the answer provided by Tiny, a member of a Korean pop group called RTMIS, is delivered, unlike a lot of the show, in English: Perfection, Mr. Harry. OK? And its true that if you enjoy the precision-drilled dancing, meticulous melisma and auto-tuned sentiments that have turned K-pop into a worldwide sensation over the past 10 years, you are likely to be among those cheering the musicals Broadway incarnation, which opened Sunday at Circle in the Square. But those who arent hard-core fans of the genre or dont understand Korean let alone those who saw the radically different and far superior off-Broadway version in ... More

A mural celebrated migrant workers. When the World Cup began, it was gone.
LUSAIL, QATAR.- The giant mural with thousands of faces was certainly an arresting feature for visitors of Qatars showpiece stadium in the months leading to the World Cup. When the buses stopped and the visiting journalists stepped out, they were directed toward a spot near Gate 32. There, in the shadow of the vast golden bowl of the $1 billion Lusail stadium, was an intricate mosaic stretching out and up along a long wall nearly 20 feet high. On it were passport-style photographs of men, staring straight ahead. The mural, a representative of Qatars organizing committee said, was a way for the country to pay homage to the army of men who had toiled for years under the scorching desert sun to build the cathedrals to the countrys World Cup ambitions. But then the World Cup started, and the faces were gone. Instead, the VIPs and assorted high-rollers who roll up in expensive cars and luxury ... More

Rare Meissen red-ground bottle vases lead Bonhams 500 years of European Ceramics sale
LONDON.- An extremely rare pair of Meissen red-ground bottle vases made in around 1735 lead Bonhams 500 Years of European Ceramics sale in London on Wednesday 7 December 2022. They are estimated at Â£120,000 - 180,000/140,000 - 210,000. Nette Megens, Bonhams Head of Continental Ceramics, said: This form of bottle vase was almost certainly made exclusively for the Dresden court since all of them are marked with the AR monogram for Augustus Rex. The vases were produced in several sizes and ground colours and were most notably displayed in the Japanese Palace in Dresden. The pair of vases in the sale are so special and desirable because of their size they are the largest of their type and most importantly for their red ground-colour which is unique among vases of this shape (red was in any event among the rarest ground colours employed at the Meissen factory). ... More

At the Big Apple circus, it's a family affair
NEW YORK, NY.- Nepotism babies, performers who were launched into the entertainment industry with a boost from a family member or two, have a bad reputation. Maybe they deserve a better one. During the Big Apple Circus Dream Big, the latest splendid show to alight beneath its lavish tent in a corner of Lincoln Centers plaza, second-, third- and fourth-generation performers swoop, swing, somersault and traverse a high wire 20 feet in the air. In the short videos that precede the acts, each credits their success to the mothers, fathers, uncles or grandparents who went into the ring before them. Nik Wallenda, the headliner, can trace his big top lineage back nearly 250 years, as can his 69-year-old mother, Delilah Wallenda, who helps him onto that wire. Sure, these performers started their careers a couple of rungs up the ladder. Then again, that ladder is unstable ... More

Collin Sekajugo joins Blum & Poe
NEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe announced the representation of Ugandan artist Collin Sekajugo. Sekajugos first presentation with the gallery will debut at Art Basel Miami Beach later this week, followed by a forthcoming solo exhibition at the gallery. Collin Sekajugo approaches his work from a distinct, aesthetic departure point that resides in his repeated return to pop culture and the omnipresent influence exuded by the global mainstream, conversing with and critiquing its many biases across visual, oral, and digital cultures. Since 2012, Sekajugo has worked with the manipulation of the common stock image to reveal its inherent biases of entitlement and privilege largely modelled on the Western self. Conceptually, Sekajugos works become pure theater, a hacking of identity that exposes truths behind these stock images that quietly continue to colonize the entire globe by the weight ... More