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Monumental circa 400-700 CE Veracruz (Mexico) hollow-form terracotta figure of a dignitary, 28.125 inches tall, finely hand-built and modeled with distinctive facial details, a headdress, large earspools, and jingle-bell anklets. Estimate $22,000-$33,000.
BOULDER, COLO.- Authenticity and provenance form the bedrock of Artemis Gallerys auction business. In their beautifully illustrated catalogs, the company provides bidders with a virtual history lesson in each of its expertly written catalog descriptions. Scrupulously researched, each item is described in depth and tagged with a record of former ownership and previous appearances at auction, whenever such information is available. Provenance of this type is especially important to bidders who participate in Artemis Gallerys premium-level Exceptional Antiquities, Asian & Ethnographic auctions, the next of which is slated for Thursday, October 8. In this series of upscale auctions, Artemis Gallery presents its finest selections from private and institutional collections. The October 8 lineup shines a spotlight on many of the worlds great cultures by means ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Bronx artist Marcus Jansen is showing his first-ever U.S. museum solo-show, at Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Winter Park, FL. The show is like a mini-retrospective, surveying the past 15 years of the artist's work, including a handful of never-before-seen 2020 works. The exhibition has been long in the works, but fits so well in this year's conversation as Marcus' work is, and has always been, about political, social, and justice issues in the U.S... it's quite timely, titled E Pluribus Unum.
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 | | The New Museum is world class, but many find it a tough place to work | | Sotheby's Contemporary Curated sale totals $31 million in New York | | Rare flawless diamond fetches US$15.7m in Hong Kong auction | 
Lisa Phillips, who has led the New Museum for 21 years, at the museum in New York, March 10, 2017. Daniel Krieger/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Considered one of the finest small museums in America, the New Museum is routinely acclaimed for its exhibitions of contemporary art under the stewardship of its longtime director, Lisa Phillips. At the helm for 21 years, Phillips has earned the admiration of her peers by growing the institution from a scrappy operation into an influential cultural force with increased attendance, exhibition space, staff, budget and visibility. But there is another side to the New Museum described by former and current staff members who complain of unhealthy work conditions, low pay and low morale. A former finance director says Phillips told her to mislead the museums board about a cash shortfall. Art handlers say they were forced to work overnight at times to meet onerous deadlines. The best ... More | | 
Barkley L. Hendricks' Latin From Manhattan...The Bronx Actually achieved $1.5 million. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Last week in New York, Sothebys fall Contemporary Curated auction achieved an outstanding $31 million, marking the sale series fifth consecutive season with a total above $30 million. Charlotte Van Dercook, Head of Sothebys Contemporary Curated auctions in New York, said: Friday's Contemporary Curated auction once again showed the consistent strength of our market, as we achieved more than $30 million for the fifth sale in a row. We were thrilled to present a number of charitable sequences this October, highlighted by the Mercedes-Benz Project Geländewagen maquette, which raised funds for the Virgil Abloh Post-Modern Scholarship Fund. The sale also saw significant results for works by Black artists, with new artist records established for Romare Bearden, as well as Titus Kaphar, and Simone Leightwo artists whose auction records were previously set at Sothebys earlier this year. A ... More | | 
A model holds a 102.39-carat flawless oval diamond during a media preview at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on September 28, 2020. Daniel SUEN / AFP.
HONG KONG (AFP).- An exceedingly rare 102-carat flawless white diamond sold for $15.7 million at an online auction in Hong Kong on Monday evening. Described as "completely flawless" by auctioneer Sotheby's, the 102.39-carat stone went to an unnamed telephone bidder for HK$122 million in an auction held online because of the coronavirus pandemic. "The buyer of this diamond has bagged a bargain," said Tobias Kormind, managing director of online jeweller 77 Diamonds. During a time of economic uncertainty, he said, "savvy investors are currently falling over themselves to acquire alternative safe haven assets like diamonds, property and gold". Only seven other white diamonds bigger than 100 carats and of the same quality have ever gone under the hammer. The stone was sold without a reserve price, meaning the diamond went to the highest bidder and did not need to meet a minimum threshold, the first time i ... More |
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| | Mellon Foundation to spend $250 million to reimagine monuments | | Conservation of Tintoretto's last painting completed | | Led Zeppelin prevails in 'Stairway' copyright battle | 
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which honors lynching victims, in Montgomery, Ala., April 20, 2018. Audra Melton/The New York Times.
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest humanities philanthropy in the United States, has pledged to spend $250 million over five years to help re-imagine the countrys approach to monuments and memorials, in an effort to better reflect the nations diversity and highlight buried or marginalized stories. The Monuments Project, the largest initiative in the foundations 50-year history, will support the creation of new monuments, as well as the relocation or rethinking of existing ones. And it defines monument broadly to include not just memorials, statues and markers but also storytelling spaces, as the foundation puts it, like museums and art installations. The beauty of monuments as a rubric is, its really a way of asking, How do we say who we are? How do we teach our history in public ... More | | 
Detail of two figures supporting the faint Virgin Mary with Calvary in the background.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the final years of his life, Venetian Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto received the prestigious commission to paint several pictures for the newly constructed and magnificent church of San Giorgio Maggiore. In addition to two scenes for side walls of the high altar, Tintoretto and his son Domenico completed the Entombment of Christ between 1592 and 1594 for the Cappella dei Morti, the mortuary chapel of the Benedictine monks. It is the last documented painting to emerge from the Tintoretto workshop before Jacopo's death on May 31, 1594. While it is believed that Tintorettos son Domenico executed a majority of this painting, the composition and emotional impact can certainly be credited to Jacopo. The work dramatically portrays the suffering and death of Christ in the foreground, the Virgin Mary in the middle ground as she is overcome with grief and faints into the arms of two attendants, and the hill of Calvary amongst a lush landscape in the background. ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on April 1, 2019 Jimmy Page, guitarist and Led Zeppelin founder, speaks during a media preview for an exhibit called "Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Don EMMERT / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a copyright claim over Led Zeppelin's classic "Stairway to Heaven," capping a long-running legal dispute over the song. A lower court in California last March had ruled that the British rockers had not swiped the song's opening riff from "Taurus," which was written by Randy Wolfe of a Los Angeles band called Spirit. The decision on Monday by the country's highest court not to hear the case definitively ends the legal challenges which had been closely watched by the music industry. Led Zeppelin had initially won the case in 2016, with the court at the time finding no proof that the 1971 classic breached the copyright of "Taurus." However that ruling was overturned on appeal in 2018. "Stairway" is estimated to have grossed $3.4 million during a ... More |
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| | Exceptional works by Zadkine and Foujita offered at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale | | C24 Gallery opens an exhibition featuring the work of five photographers | | Paris Opera ponders blackface as it tackles ballet's race problem | 
Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967), Ephebus. Estimate: £500,000 - 700,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Rare and exceptional works by two key émigré artists of the radical Ãcole de Paris, Ephebus by Ossip Zadkine and Femme allongée, Youki by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, are highlights of Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale on 15 October in London. Both works have an estimate of £500,000 - £700,000. In the early 20th century, Paris was the epicentre of the international art scene and attracted young artists from all over the world. Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) and Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) were two such artists. They would become not only great friends who mingled in the same circles as Modigliani, Brancusi, and Picasso but also leading figures of the Ãcole de Paris, which was formed largely of émigré artists who congregated in Montparnasse and Montmartre. Head of Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Department, Hannah Foster, commented: Zadkines Ephebus and Foujitas Femme allongée, Youki are ... More | | 
Laura Heyman, Camesuze Mondesir in the Yardat the Grand Rue, November 2011. Pigmented inkjet print on paper. Framed Dimensions: 24 7/8 x 20 1/8 in. (63.2 x51.1 cm) Edition 1 of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery announced the opening of their exhibition, On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography, featuring the work of Lisa Crafts, Laura Heyman, Pixy Liao, Sven Marquardt and Marie Tomanova. This body of work by an international assembling of photographers encompassing cultural backgrounds and content from Germany, China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Haiti and the US, offers a collection of images borne of deeply personal connections, resulting in intimate and revealing portraits from around the globe. The exhibition is on view through Thursday, December 24th, 2020. The artists featured in On the Inside each realize their images through distinctive versions of an insiders perspective. Lisa Crafts spends months investigating the worlds of the environmental and social justice activists, thinkers and dreamers at ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on September 27, 2018, dancers get ready prior to the opening of the annual gala at the Opera Garnier in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
by Rana Moussaoui
PARIS (AFP).- The Paris Opera is looking at banning "blackface" in its ballets and operas after nearly a quarter of its staff called for a major shake-up of how it deals with race. The issue of racism and diversity has been seen simmering since the choreographer Benjamin Millepied of "Black Swan" fame denounced the ballet's "insidious racism" after taking the reins in 2015. He said he had been told that "one does not put a person of colour in the corps de ballet because they would be a distraction". "We have to get rid of this racist idea," Millepied said soon after taking over, only to resign a year later. The institution's new director Alexander Neef has asked outside experts to examine the "ballet blanc", some traditional 19th-century ballets where all the female dancers wear white dresses ... More |
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| | Hamburger Bahnhof exhibits an expansive painting by Katharina Grosse | | Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022: Call for entries opens today | | Bill Viola's 'The Raft' invites a university community to explore crisis and recovery | 
Katharina Grosse. It Wasnt Us, Ausstellungsansicht Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, 2020 / Courtesy KÃNIG GALERIE, Berlin, London, Tokyo / Gagosian / Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien © Katharina Grosse / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 / Foto: Jens Ziehe
BERLIN.- Katharina Grosses paintings can appear anywhere: on a rubber boot, on an egg, on the crumpled folds of a cloth, along a railway line, on the beach, in snow, on a sculptural form, or across a façade and on the roof. Her large-scale works are multi-dimensional pictorial worlds in which splendid colours sweep across walls, ceilings, objects, and even entire buildings and landscapes. Central to Grosses artistic practice is this notion that painting takes place not just on canvas, but that it can also permeate every facet of our surroundings. For the exhibition Katharina Grosse. It Wasnt Us, the artist has transformed the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, as well as the outdoor space behind the building, into an expansive painting which radically destabilises the existing order of the museum architecture. The artists latest ... More | | 
DeRay Mckesson. Artist: Quinn Russell Brown, Inkjet print, 2018. Collection of the artist, courtesy University of Washington © Quinn Russell Brown.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery announces an open call from Oct. 5 through Jan. 29, 2021, for submissions to its sixth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Established in 2006, the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition invites artists (ages 18 and over) living and working in the United States, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam, to submit one portrait for consideration by a panel of experts. Artworks by prizewinners and finalists are then featured in a museum exhibition. The competition focuses on broadening the definition of portraiture while highlighting the genres wider relevance to society and within the field of contemporary art. It aims to bring together works that attend to the countrys diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other conditions that shape the individual and collective identities of artists and sitters. The first-prize winner will receive $25,000 and a commission to portray a rem ... More | | 
Bill Viola, The Raft, May 2004. Video/sound installation. Photos: Kira Perov. Courtesy Bill Viola Studio, James Cohan Gallery, New York and American Federation of Arts.
MADISON, WIS.- The effects of climate change on a Midwestern college campus may seem abstract, but in 2018, torrential rains made them suddenly very real for Madison, Wisconsin. For two days, rain poured down on the region, shattering all rainfall records and causing widespread damage including washed out roads and massive flooding of buildings. The rain event prompted city and campus leaders to begin immediate examination of Madison and the surrounding Dane Countys ability to collaboratively manage such events in the future. The Chazen Museum of Art will invite audiences to consider the human and community impacts of disasters via Bill Viola: The Raft, a video installation that will be on view through Jan. 24, 2021, in the first floor Rowland Gallery. New acquisitions to the Chazens permanent collection will be featured in an adjoining room. Originally created as a commission for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, The Raft is currently tou ... More |
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Moonstruck: Cy TwomblyÂs homage to the first lunar landing | Christie's
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 46th annual Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show goes virtual CHICAGO, IL.- When Covid-19 hit the US, organizers of the Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show werent sure if they would be able to host the annual event. Fortunately, the popular Antiques Show will open on October 17th but with a twist. The show will take place completely online, allowing local antique aficionados, and those from the around the world, to attend from the comfort of their own home. The Fall show will take place on October 17th and 18th thanks to a new online portal that will enable people from anywhere in the world to see and experience what antiques lovers in the greater Chicago area have enjoyed for more than six decades. Were excited to expand this show to include vendors from across North America thanks to the new virtual platform. Both the fall and spring antiques shows have generated much needed funds for historic preservation ... More Marcus Jansen's first-ever museum solo exhibition on view at the Cornell Fine Arts MuseumWINTER PARK, FLA.- The Cornell Fine Arts Museum is presenting the first solo museum exhibition of Marcus Jansen in the United States. Based in Bronx, New York, and Fort Myers, Florida, Jansen creates powerful, monumental canvases that address poignant social and political themes. Through the use of an arresting visual language characterized by colorful and expressive brushwork, and references to contemporary and historical issues, Jansen invites viewers to engage in a reflection about the human condition. Jansen was born in Manhattan in 1968 and resided in the South Bronx, NY. He lived in Laurelton Queens for a brief period before moving to Moenchengladbach, Germany where grew up speaking German as his second language. Inspired by the rebellious art form from his native Bronx in the 1970s and 80s, and meeting ... More Lyndsey Ingram opens an exhibition of new work by the British artist Tom HammickLONDON.- Lyndsey Ingram opened an exhibition of new work by the British artist Tom Hammick. Entitled Nightfire', this is the gallerys first solo show of Hammicks work to be held in their Mayfair space, as well as the first time his paintings are being presented alongside his woodcuts, etchings and aquatints. This exhibition was first planned for spring 2020, but due to lockdown was postponed until the autumn. In the intervening months, Hammick completed this new body of over 20 works in various mediums, as he spent this period in isolation at his home in the English countryside near Battle in Sussex. While Hammicks familiar subjects of his family and the forested nature and sea beyond his studio reappear, the new works appear charged with an almost electric energy. Natural phenomena that normally appear in his work, such as the darkness ... More Nicknamed The Beast, one of just 111 made, for sale with H&H ClassicsLONDON.- This rare and historically interesting 1952 HRG was nicknamed The Beast because of its ability to devour anything on wheels on a short course. It is now for sale with H&H Classics at their Duxford sale on October 14th for an estimate of £60,000 to £70,000. It was campaigned by first owner Albert D. Trager in numerous SCCA races in the USA. Later it became the property of ex-Works Frazer-Nash and Bristol driver Peter Wilson who had it UK road registered as 'ASV 605'. It was then acquired by the current vendor's late husband, an ex-Works Porsche driver, in August 2013 and driven back from Denmark. It has been treated to an extensive engine overhaul during 2019 plus a new clutch and fresh tyres. According to a letter on file from Ian Dussek of the HRG Association, chassis W219 was laid down on February 12th 1952 but not completed ... More BFI London Film Festival launches a new programme strand dedicated to XR and immersive art worksLONDON.- To celebrate the opening of LFF Expanded, the 64th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) in partnership with American Express has today announced that it will be holding an official opening ceremony on Thursday 8th October at 7.30 8.15pm where attendees will have a first-look at the festivals virtual museum and event space, THE EXPANSE. The opening ceremony will feature speakers Ben Roberts (BFI Chief Executive), Tricia Tuttle (Festivals Director, BFI) and Ulrich Schrauth (XR and Immersive Programmer, BFI London Film Festival), and to celebrate LFF Expandeds new partnership with The National Theatre, Toby Coffey (Head of Digital Development, NT) will also be in attendance. As announced earlier this week, LFF Expanded will present a number of original and thought-provoking panel discussions and talks around the medium of VR ... More Abrons Arts Center opens Visual Artist AIRspace Residency exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- Abrons Arts Center, the Lower East Side arts institution that has long been a nexus of creative communities and local cultures, presents the opening of the Visual Artist AIRspace Residency Exhibition, featuring the work by 2019-2020 Visual Artists AIRSpace Artists. Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.s photography is being presented outdoors on the exterior of Abrons Arts Center in partnership with the Photoville Festival 2020. His photographic works visualize moments of contemplation, self-possession, and intimacy. The ambiguous nature of the photographs is in favor of an expansive, incoherent, and timeless regard for what is pictured. Similar to how experiences are layered in memory, he considers how a singular moment may be recontextualized to glean something comprehensive, new, or unplanned for. Alicia Mersy presents photographs from her ... More Tabletop tile by Roy Lichtenstein reaches $36,900 at Neue Auctions saleBEACHWOOD, OH.- A rare and unusual mosaic tabletop tile by Roy Lichtenstein climbed to $36,900, a circa 1910 Roycroft Ali Baba bench knocked down for $17,220 and a stunning 17th century English, Netherlands or Spanish School oil portrait of a Royal or Court Lady garnered $14,760 in an online-only Fine Art & Antiques auction held September 26th by Neue Auctions. The auction featured traditional art and antiques, silver, jewelry, decorations and furnishings, pulled from prominent local estates and collections. Downsizing households presented some great opportunities for both new and established collectors. Internet bidding was provided by Liveauctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com. Phone and absentee bids were taken. The mosaic tile by Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) was executed by the artist in 1950 and was ... More MAGMA gallery opens an exhibition of works by Vhils, Betz and Gonzalo BorondoBOLOGNA.- MAGMA gallery is presenting the show Renaissance, with works by Vhils, Betz and Gonzalo Borondo. For MAGMA gallery, Renaissance is an important event because of various reasons: it is the first exhibition after the lockdown, it is the first time that MAGMA gallery meets these three great artists, and this is the first time that Betz and Vhils exhibit their works in Italy. All the exhibited artworks have been realized specifically for the show; according to their own sensitivity, each artist wanted to focus on and to provide a personal interpretation of the word Renaissance, which is about starting a new path, with new energies, while being aware of ones past. This is how the splendid artworks by Vhils (Portugal, 1987), protagonist of the global urban art scene, were born. From his works emerges the awareness of his unique style, his own distinctiveness. The great Accretion series #09& ... More Japan mourns fashion designer Kenzo TakadaTOKYO (AFP).- Japanese fashion lovers, politicians and friends of Kenzo Takada paid tribute to the designer on Monday after he died in Paris aged 81 having contracted coronavirus. Junko Koshino, who went to fashion school with Takada in Tokyo, told local media she could not believe news of his death. "I won't be able to see him even if I go to Paris. I miss him," said Koshino, who last visited her friend in February in the French capital. "I called him afterwards and said, 'Please take care. Don't go out.' And he said, 'Don't worry, I won't. I'll be careful (about the virus).'" Takada, founder of the global Kenzo brand, was the first Japanese designer to decamp to Paris, and was renowned for his signature floral prints. "I'm truly shocked... I was inspired by the colours," said one fan on Twitter. "I hate the coronavirus. It takes away so many things." "I loved his floral prints and perfumes. Thank you for t ... More A LeBron James card, a Kobe Bryant-signed floor and a Michael Jordan uniform battle for top-lot honorsDALLAS, TX.- The event extended well into the early hours of Sunday morning, and by the time all the bidding came to an end, more than 370 extraordinary pieces of basketball history found new homes. Among them: the Staples Center floor signed by Kobe Bryant after his Hollywood farewell. A uniform worn by Michael Jordan at the very beginning of his mythic ascent. And a singular, shimmering-gold card featuring LeBron James in just his second year. Heritage Auctions Michael Jordan and Basketball Icons Sports Catalog event realized $4,264,661, with more than 6,400 bids placed during the event many of them after it went into extended bidding at 10 p.m. C.T. Saturday. There is no doubt that the market for Michael Jordan and NBA collectibles is red-hot, said Chris Ivy, Heritages Director of Sports Auctions. And the extraordinary ... More Thomas Jefferson Byrd, actor in Spike Lee films, is killed in shootingNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Thomas Jefferson Byrd, a Tony-nominated actor also known for roles in various Spike Lee films, was found shot to death on an Atlanta street, authorities said Sunday. Byrd, 70, was found unresponsive by Atlanta police officers, who responded to a call about an injured person at 1:45 a.m. Saturday, said Anthony Grant, a spokesperson for the police. Byrd was pronounced dead of multiple gunshot wounds to the back, Grant said. Craig Wyckoff, Byrds friend and former representative, said Sunday that he had spoken with a circle of friends who said that Byrd had gotten into an argument with someone at a store and that that person must have followed him home. The police said the case was under investigation and declined to confirm that account. In a series of posts to Instagram, Lee said he was ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss architect Le Corbusier was born  October 06, 1887. Charles-Ãdouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, "Lecorbésier." He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal and AIA Gold Medal in 1961. In this image: French architect Georges Le Corbusier, left, and French writer Jules Romains are shown during a session of the conference of artists from around the world in the Palace of the Doges in Venice, Italy, in Sept. 1952.
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