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Curator Kenneth E. Silver poses with Katy Grannan's Anonymous, Oakland, CA, 2011. Art: © Katy Grannan, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Only yesterday, it seems, one was hard-pressed to name more than a handful of successful women artists; now the list would be extensive, and the choices rich and varied. Although numerous recent exhibitions have featured womens art, the collecting of art created by women has received scant attention. In fact, private collections are in the process of being dramatically transformed, shifting to focus on contemporary artists, women in particular. The Bruce Museum opened Her Crowd: New Art by Women from Our Neighbors Private Collections. Greenwich and the nearby communities in Fairfield and Westchester counties are home to a number of the finest contemporary collections, and thus to some of the most exciting art by women being made today. Her Crowd offers the rare opportunity to see what some of Americas most influential collectors of contemporary art consider beautiful, important, and compelling. Themes specific ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on November 6, 2016 shows Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visiting the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Alexander Astafyev / SPUTNIK / AFP
| Austria busts gang selling fake Picassos | | Janis Joplin's 'Me and Bobby McGee' Gibson guitar headlines Heritage Auctions sale | | Select group of paintings and drawings by Modern masters on view at Hammer Galleries | 
Portrait photograph of Pablo Picasso, 1908.
VIENNA (AFP).- Austrian police said Monday that they have busted a gang allegedly trying to sell off forgeries of famous artists such as Pablo Picasso for millions of euros (dollars). The six men were arrested in a hotel room near Vienna airport as they tried to pass off five Picasso paintings for 50 million euros ($55 million), police said. The buyer was in fact a police officer in disguise. Police commandos arrested the five Austrians and one Slovenian "in case they were armed," a statement said. Subsequent raids in homes and cars found 14 fakes complete with forged artists' signatures and counterfeit certificates of authenticity signed by Picasso's son. Police also recovered 66 other works purported to be by 40 famous artists including Claude Monet and Gustav Klimt at the home of the Slovenian suspect. The arrests took place earlier this year but were only announced on Monday. The men, now on bail, said they believed the works were genuine, police said. ... More | | 
Janis Joplin Owned and Played 1969 Gibson Hummingbird Acoustic Guitar, Serial # 849 604.
DALLAS, TX.- The 1969 Gibson Hummingbird Acoustic Guitar that Janis Joplin owned and used to write her classic anthem, Me and Bobby McGee, highlights a roster of rare screen-worn costumes, outfits worn by rock stars and a wig worn by Marilyn Monroe are among the most heavily sought-after lots in Heritage Auctions' Nov. 12 Entertainment and Music Memorabilia Auction in Dallas. 'This is an extraordinary collection of items that has enormous appeal to collectors and music lovers around the world," Heritage Auctions Director of Entertainment Margaret Barrett said. 'Not only were Janis Joplin, John Lennon and Michael Jackson iconic musicians who transcended the music world, but they also had their lives cut short, thereby making these items part of finite sets. These artists will be known around the world for generations to come, making these items of extraordinary value to collectors." The enormously talented and influential ... More | | 
Wassily Kandinsky, Launischer Strich (Capricious Line), 1924 © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hammer Galleries is presenting Modern Masters: Between the Wars, a select group of paintings and drawings by Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Kees van Dongen, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso, created between 1917 and 1945. Modern Masters: Between the Wars is on view from November 1st, 2016 through February 28th, 2017. Hammer Galleries is located at 32 East 67th Street between Madison and Park Avenues. The First World War was a war unlike any that preceded it the first mechanized, truly modern war. Hemingway described it as the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. The two decades that followed were years of great political, social, and intellectual change, influenced not only by the unprecedented horror ... More |
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| Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale at Sotheby's New York | | Lord & Lady Attenborough collection of Modern British art at Sotheby's | | Sex sells: Erotic museum's closing sale a big hit | 
Salvador DalÃ, Paysage Avec Femme. Signed Salvador Dalà and dated 1934 (lower left). Oil on panel, 9 1/2 by 7 3/8 in. 24 by 18.8 cm. Painted in 1934. Est. $1.2/1.8 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale in New York will be held on 15 November 2016, featuring more than 250 exceptional paintings, works on paper and sculpture that celebrate the diversity of the category. The sale features an number of works that are emerging after decades spent in celebrated private collections including the Edward M. Snider Collection and the Collection of Mrs. Marjorie S. Fisher, Palm Beach. The pre-sale exhibition is now open to the public in Sothebys York Avenue galleries alongside our Contemporary Art auctions. The Day Sale is led by an exceedingly rare example of traditional portraiture by Surrealisms leading figure: Salvador DalÃ. Paysage avec Femme (estimate $1.2/1.8 million) is quintessential Dalà in its physiological intensity and remarkable technicality. Based on the overall ... More | | 
Henry Moore, Shelter Drawing, 1942 (est. £150,000-250,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Lord and Lady Attenborough first started collecting British art in the 1940s and it was a hobby and a passion that endured throughout their lives. On 22 23 November, Sothebys Modern & Post-War British art sales will offer 37 works from their celebrated private collection, assembled with immense passion and a very distinctive eye. This will take place alongside a single-owner auction of exceptional Picasso ceramics, By instinct, my father was an internationalist. But, when pressed, as far as art and music were concerned, he would admit to an unapologetic love of all things British. Especially of his own time, the period that spanned his life, the twentieth century
Dad never bought a painting, sculpture or ceramic as an investment. He bought it because he loved it, because he wanted to live with it, because he knew it would give him infinite pleasure. And, yes, because he believed passionately that ... More | | 
Two persons stand in front of the the Erotic Museum of Paris on November 2, 2016 prior to the auction sale of the collection on November 6 and the closure of the museum. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Paris Museum of Eroticism's closing-down sale brought in almost half a million euros (dollars) on Sunday, around three times the pre-sale estimate, the auctioneers said. Everything from a forest of phalluses to South American objects based on female genitalia, to a Thai pipe shaped liked a reclining male member went under the hammer. Much of the 2,000-item collection, including its oldest object, an 18th-century marble plaque of the Hindu god Vishnu from an Indian tantric temple, comes from Asia. The auction also included many drawings and photographs from late 19th-century "Belle Epoque" Paris, when the city was seen as the world capital of pleasure. There were also objects taken from France's legal brothels or "maisons closes" which were shut down after World War II. One of the highlights of the sale, handled ... More |
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| First appearance of Aquaman and Green Arrow expected to bring 1 million times its original cost | | Page from Tintin moon adventure may raise $1 mn at auction | | Freemans's Americana auction highlighted by prominent collections | 
More Fun Comics #73 (DC, 1941) CGC VF 8.0 White pages.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- A CGC-certified Very Fine (VF) 8.0 copy of More Fun Comics #73, recently discovered unprotected in a closet for three quarters of a century, is now expected to sell for one million times its cover price when Heritage Auctions offers the book in Beverly Hills, California, Nov. 17-29. More Fun Comics #73 is famous in collecting circles for featuring the origin and first appearance of Aquaman and the first appearance of Green Arrow. The copy offered by Heritage, retaining white pages despite having been published in 1941 and sold for 10 cents, is the jewel in the crown of a fresh-to-market, original-owner Golden Age collection titled "The Columbus Collection." It was assembled by a poor, young boy who grew up during the 1930s and 1940s in the Wisconsin countryside. "The great condition and page quality of the books in The Columbus Collection especially the More Fun Comics #73 are all the more stunning ... More | | 
Herge, On a marché sur la Lune. Encre de Chine et gouache pour la planche 26 de cet album publié en 1954 aux éditions Casterman. Prépublié dans le journal Tintin n°13 du 1er avril 1953. Pièce de musée. Encadré.
PARIS (AFP).- A page of original comic strip drawings from one of the best Tintin adventures, "Explorers on the Moon", is expected to sell for up to $1 million when it goes under the hammer later this month. The page, entitled "We walk on the moon", has the boy reporter, his dog Snowy and blundering sidekick Captain Haddock making their first moon walk from their red and white rocket. With the 1954 book regarded as one of the artist Herge's very best, the Paris auction house Artcurial said it could make up to 900,000 euros. The late Belgium artist already holds the world record price for a comic strip. A double-page ink drawing that served as the inside cover of all the Tintin adventures published between 1937 and 1958, sold for $3.7 million to an American fan two ... More | | 
Thomas Sully (1783-1872), Jane Duval Leiper (1796-1866).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman's November 16 American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts auction is highlighted by impressive private collections, including furnishings from historic Lemon Hill mansion of Fairmount Park, a New England collection of scrimshaw and sailor-made objects, and items from Big Bend, the home of George A. Frolic Weymouth. Philadelphias Lemon Hill Mansion has elegantly stood on a spectacular bluff above the Schuylkill River for more than 200 years. In 1957, The Colonial Dames of America, Chapter II graciously took charge of the daily operations and maintenance of mansion, carefully restoring it with carefully selected Federal and Classical period furnishings. The Lemon Hill collection makes up the first 91 lots of Freeman's Americana auction, highlights of which include a pair of portraits by Thomas Sully of Jane Duval Leiper and John Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia (estimate ... More |
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| Linus W.L. Cheung appointed to Sotheby's Board of Directors | | Launch of new foundation dedicated to art historical research | | Nigerian artists keep sculpture in the family | 
Retired Hong Kong Telecom and Cathay Pacific executive brings significant experience in Asia. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced today that Linus Wing Lam Cheung has been unanimously elected to join the Companys Board of Directors. Mr. Cheung is the retired Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Telecom and a renowned collector of Chinese Art. Linus brings a wealth of business experience and sophistication to our Board and company, said Domenico De Sole, Chairman of Sothebys Board of Directors. His unique insights on Asia, as well as the many areas in which Sothebys operates, will be incredibly valuable. Having had the pleasure of knowing him as a client for years, we are very pleased to now welcome him as an independent Director. Mr. Cheung served as Executive Chairman of Asia Television Limited from 2008 to 2009, Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong ... More | | 
Elizabeth Gorayeb, Courtesy Wildenstein Plattner Institute.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, a new foundation dedicated to advancing art historical scholarship by fostering the accessibility, cataloguing, and digitization of primary sources, was publicly launched today. The WPI was cofounded by Guy Wildenstein, president of Wildenstein & Company, and Hasso Plattner, a leading entrepreneur in digital technology and an international benefactor of arts and education. Elizabeth Gorayeb has been appointed executive director of the WPI. Gorayeb previously served as the senior vice president and director of research at Sothebys. She has led many significant research projects over the course of her career and has lectured internationally on research and attribution practices. She will be based in the WPIs headquarters in New York and is building a team of researchers, ... More | | 
Nigeria's first female bronze caster Princess Elizabeth Olowu, 77, cleans her bronze sculptures. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP.
BENIN CITY (AFP).- Princess Elizabeth Olowu, 77, sits on the sofa in her small living room, rubbing bronze sculptures with lemon juice to make them shine. Her eldest daughter Peju Layiwola, 49, is showing off her latest contemporary art sculptures on the screen of her Apple laptop. "Now I have evolved to other materials but I started with bronze," she explains. "It was easier for me, my mother already paved the way for females to be bronze casters." It was bronze art that made the reputation and the fortune of the ancient royal kingdom of Benin, whose history dates back nearly 1,000 years and which is now located inside southern Nigeria. In days gone by, only kings could own sculptures, which typically represented former monarchs or creatures such as birds and wild animals. ... More |
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 State Archives opens "The Path to Statehood" exhibition at State MuseumALBANY.- The New York State Archives today announced a special limited engagement exhibition at the New York State Museum featuring New York States founding documents. The Path to Statehood features New Yorks first constitution (1777), journal of the Poughkeepsie Convention (1788), New Yorks engrossed copy of the U.S. Constitution (1788), and New Yorks current constitution (1894). The exhibition is open November 8 27. The State Archives cares for more than 200 million documents in its collections, said Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa. This exhibition features foundation documents of our state and nation, including the states first constitution, which was adopted while the American colonies were fighting for their freedom from Great Britain. I encourage New Yorkers adults, children, and educators to visit the exhibition and see the documents ... More New series of sculptural paintings by Rachel Hellmann on view at Elizabeth Houston GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Rachel Hellmanns new series of sculptural paintings, titled State of Play, is distinguished by tranquil observation and craft-like accuracy. In bright, saturated hues the works create a fascinating play between literal and illusionistic depth. They are tied to childrens games, each titled and reminiscent of these themes as in the strong angled rectangular planes in the piece Simon Says and the strength embodied through the strong contrasting color and line in the painting: Cats Cradle. Constructed paintings that are somewhere between painting and sculpture, Hellmanns works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing simplicity of form, similar to the hard edge work of Ellsworth Kelly and the three dimensional shaped wooden paintings of Charles Hinman. Trained in painting but growing up around woodworkers and builders, Hellmanns intuitive ... More The Great Silence: Allora & Calzadilla in collaboration with Ted Chiang on view at Quartz Studio TURIN.- Quartz Studio is presenting The Great Silence, a special project by Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora (Philadelphia, USA, 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Havana, Cuba, 1971) who, for the occasion, have made a single channel version of their acclaimed three channel video installation The Great Silence (2014). The video installation, presented for the first time in 2014 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, focuses on the world's largest single aperture radio telescope, located in Esperanza (Hope), Puerto Rico, which transmits and captures radio waves to and from the farthest edges of the universe. The site of the Arecibo Observatory is also home to the last remaining wild population of critically endangered Puerto Rican Parrots, Amazona vittata, who make their habitat in the surrounding Rio Abajo forest. Allora & Calzadilla collaborated with ... More Cristin Tierney Gallery opens exhibition of abstract paintings from the early 1960s by Helen LundebergNEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery is presenting Classic Attitude, an exhibition of hard-edged abstract paintings from the early 1960s by Helen Lundeberg. Classic Attitude opened on Thursday, November 3rd. This is the gallerys first exhibition of Lundebergs work. Helen Lundeberg was a leading figure of west coast abstraction in the post-war era. An active painter and writer, she was at the epicenter of a dynamic group of Los Angeles artists and critics that included Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Jules Langsner, John McLaughlin, and Frederick Hammersley. Along with her peers, Lundebergs work formed the core of what later became known as California hard-edged painting. Although her contributions to American abstraction have long been recognized on the west coast, Lundeberg has yet to receive ... More Apollo 13 space-flown autographed checklist may bring $30,000 in Heritage Auctions' Space AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Collectors will have a rare opportunity to bid on Heritage Auctions' largest compilation of space-flown, signed and collectible space-related memorabilia including the space-flown Apollo 13 Command/Service Module Launch Checklist book (est. $30,000) signed by astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert upon their safe return. In addition to artifacts from various explorations, the Nov. 11 Space Auction offers original artwork by astronaut Alan Bean, whose depictions of his time on the surface of the moon have been exhibited around the country. "This collection offers some exceptionally rare lots, items that were received directly from astronauts who have flown or been involved in Apollo missions," Heritage Auctions chief cataloger and space historian Michael Riley said. "Historic Items in this auction are the kind that really can take your collection ... More TRAFO exhibits works by influential pioneers in the field of computer graphics and digital artSZCZECIN.- Following back the path in history of art, the third exhibition of the series Sculpting (Virtual) Realities is dedicated to one of the most influential pioneers in the field of computer graphics and digital art: Herbert W. Franke. Besides this passion, he is well known as science fiction author and scientist. Franke studied physics, mathematics, chemistry, psychology and philosophy in Vienna and received his PhD in electron optics in 1950. Twenty-nine years later, he co-founded the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. Already in the 1960s, Herbert W. Franke sought to expand the boundaries of sculpture towards the virtual space: Could the computer lead us also in new areas of sculptures? A way to find an answer is to ignore the mentioned conditions for physical realization and try to design not realizable 3D- forms. By using the computer as a tool for art, ... More First exhibition of Arab modern art to take place in Iran opens at Tehran Museum of Contemporary ArtTEHRAN.- Barjeel Art Foundation will present and curate an exhibition of Arab modern art at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) this November. This historic exhibition will mark the first time a show of Arab art from the modern period will take place in Iran. The exhibition will feature works by modern masters drawn exclusively from the Barjeel Art Foundation collection, and will represent a fifty-year period of works from the 1940s to the 1990s from around the Arab world, including Egypt, Iraq, North Africa, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. Majid Mollanorouzi, Director of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA), said: Art is important in that it allows experiences to be shared, even across the boundaries of language or culture. This is even more significant when we work together with organisations from the region, such as the Barjeel Art Foundation. ... More "Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa" is on view at the Wellin Museum of ArtCLINTON, NJ.- Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa on view through December 11, 2016 at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, explores how time is experienced and produced by the human body. Figures stand, climb, dance, and dissolve in nine works of video and film art by seven acclaimed contemporary African artists: Sammy Baloji, Jim Chuchu, Theo Eshetu, Moataz Nasr, Berni Searle, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Sue Williamson. Characters in these works, and the actions they depict, repeat, resist, and reverse the expectation that time must move relentlessly forward. Each work invites viewers to consider tensions between personal and political time, ritual and technological time, and bodily and mechanical time. Through pacing, sequencing, looping, layering, and mirroring, the works express and embody diverse perceptions ... More Exhibition of paintings by Chinese artist Chen Jiang-Hong on view at Gallery Elena ShchukinaLONDON.- Gallery Elena Shchukina presents Returning Home, an exhibition of ink wash and oil paintings by Paris-based Chinese artist Chen Jiang-Hong. The exhibition, Chens first with the gallery, opened on 3rd November to coincide with Asian Art in London. Chens work is characterised by a chaotic serenity: at once explosive and calm, dynamic and tranquil. Chen has developed his unique aesthetic by merging Eastern and Western painting traditions, profoundly influenced by his own experience of living between two cultures. With his painting, the artist wishes to bring the culture to which I am attached to life, to allow it to cross boundaries, and to allow others to be a part of it. I try to tell stories in such a way that they become universal. His process of dripping, sweeping and splashing inks and oil ... More Metro Pictures opens exhibition of works by Paulina OlowskaNEW YORK, NY.- Paulina Olowskas exhibition Wisteria, Mysteria, Hysteria at Metro Pictures focuses on recent paintings, ceramics and collages by the artist. Since Olowskas last show at the gallery in 2010, she has had major one-person exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Olowska received the prestigious Aachen Art Prize in 2014, with an associated exhibition at the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany. In the last six years, she has also staged performances at Tate Modern, the Carnegie International and the Museum of Modern Art. In January 2017 Olowska will present Slavic Goddesses, a newly conceived ballet at The Kitchen. Throughout her more than 15-year career, Paulina Olowska has worked across performance, sculpture, painting, neon and fashion to ... More Poly Gallery Hong Kong opens emerging artist He Jie's first solo exhibition in Hong KongNEW YORK, NY.- Poly Gallery Hong Kong and Triumph Art Space opened a new exhibition, Intermediate State Solo Exhibition of He Jie, which runs through 18 November. The Exhibition features the artists 21 oil paintings created from 2013 to 2016, with the series of Forever Mark as the highlight. Being one of the most outstanding emerging artists, He Jie demonstrates a unique artistic style and uncommon visual presentation in his paintings. The frame within his paintings is one of the most impressive elements of He Jies artistic creations. In Hes paintings, which depict natural sceneries and human figures, frames are repeatedly appeared to invite the audience to a new dimensional space out of the paintings. The series of Forever Mark focuses on the significant political and social events; not only a mere documentation, it is also a record of the personal and collective memories and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American illustrator Norman Rockwell died November 08, 1978. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, Saying Grace (1951), The Problem We All Live With, and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his work for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); producing covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. In this image: Laurie Norton Moffatt, director and CEO of the Norman Rockwell Museum, discusses the painting "Girl at Mirror", Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007, in Akron, Ohio.
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