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Chinese Ming to Qing Dynasty stone panel of guardian fu lion or foo dog hand-carved in low relief against a scalloped panel, circa 17th to early 19th century CE, 16in long x 11¾in high. Provenance: Marc Amiguet Schmitt estate, Amiguets Ancient Art. Estimate $3,600-$5,400.
BOULDER, CO.- On Thursday, October 20, Artemis Gallery will conduct a very special auction featuring the cultural art collection of Marc Amiguet Schmitt, a respected lifelong antiquities dealer and owner of Amiguets Ancient Art. While Marc only lived to age 49, his impact was great, especially in Pre-Columbian art circles. Since the 1990s, Marc Schmitt was the owner of Amiguets Ancient Art, a name that is immediately recognizable in the field of Pre-Columbian art, said Bob Dodge, executive director of Artemis Gallery. Marc's appreciation of both Pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial cultures came from his grandfather, Louis Amiguet, who emigrated to the United States from Guatemala sometime before 1950. Many of Marc's most cherished treasures were objects that his grandfather passed down to him even before Marc began his career as an antiquarian. Sadly, Marc passed away in January from natural causes. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A blood donation campaign driven by the power of emotional response has been announced as the winner of NGVâs Rigg Design Prize 2022. Leo Burnett Australia has been awarded $30,000 for their concept of Can creativity make you bleed?. On display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia since Friday 7 October, the 2022 Rigg Design Prize highlights the creativity underpinning the work of eight leading Australian-based agencies.
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| Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art shines at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | | Ian McKeever's Henge Paintings now on view at Heather Gaudio Fine Art | | 'Roaring Twenties Rotterdam: Between Josephine Baker and Bombs' opens at Chabot Museum | 
Simone Martini (c. 1284 - 1344, Italy) Virgin and Child with Saints, about 1325. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art, on view at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (ISGM) since October 13, 2022, explores how painters across centuries have used gold to honor and commemorate their subjects. The exhibition features rare works by legendary Renaissance master, Simone Martini, juxtaposing his devotional paintings with portraits by contemporary artists Titus Kaphar, Stacy Lynn Waddell and Kehinde Wiley. These three artists have adopted gold to elevate or memorialize Black men and women, reinventing the techniques and visual rhetoric of early Renaissance devotion and transforming it into a contemporary honorific language. Additionally, fifteen paintings from Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project, featuring jewel-like portraits of incarcerated Black men that reveal the same gold ground techniques as his monumental canvases but on an intimate scale, are also on view in the Gardners F ... More | | 
Ian McKeever, HENGE XXVIII, 2021-2022, acrylic and oil on canvas; diptych, 71 x 84 1/2 inches.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is now presenting Ian McKeever: Henge Paintings, the British artists second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show features newly created paintings and works on paper and will run through December 3rd. The public is invited to attend a reception for the artist on Saturday, October 29, 4-6pm. McKeevers five-decade artistic career has been an ongoing exploration of abstraction through the use of oils and acrylics on canvas or paper. He typically creates works in groups, undertaking several canvases at a time which can take him two or three years to complete. For this exhibition, the gallery will present works from his most recent series, the Henge paintings, making their debut in the United States. Completed over a five-year period, these works form his most ambitious series to date in terms of number and scale, with over thirty paintings executed in three different sizes. Their source ... More | | 
The Chabot Museum for International Expressionism, constructed in an interbellum modernist style, is housed in an icon of the Modern Movement located in the bustling Rotterdam Museum Park.
ROTTERDAM.- The optimistic sound of the Jazz Age was everywhere, women were given the right to vote and there was now radio and film. Exactly hundred years ago the city of Rotterdam went through a unique, thriving period of unparalleled ambition and zest for building. When in 1918 the Great War ended, the Spanish flu (still claiming thousands of Rotterdam victims in 1919) was under control, a new era had started. Roaring Twenties Rotterdam looks at Rotterdam through the eyes of the art-and-anything-else collector Kees Schortemeijer (1894 1979). Evoking a city that is no longer there. A city that was physically wiped out and where memory is missing. For this exhibition, currently on view at the Chabot Museum through to March 12, 2023, guest curator Wim Pijbes made a selection from the Schortemeijer collection, opening it up to the public for the first time.
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| Bamigboye, Nigeria's tour-de-force sculptor, claims his fame in the world | | An Irish castle to call your own | | Tavares Strachan's first exhibition with Perrotin opens in Paris | 
A detail of a Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye mask with a superstructure depicting a war general, on display at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 13, 2022. Yale University Art Gallery maps the surviving work of the Yoruban carver in his 50-year career bridging ritual and modern art. Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Theres a mountain range rising in the middle of Yale University Art Gallery, with populations of cliff dwellers circling its heights. Among the inhabitants are stoical farmers, gun-toting soldiers, singers and drummers, mothers with babies, and kids waving flags. Equestrian beauties, male and female, loom large. Leopards and antelopes roam the scene. Carved in wood, its a dizzying panorama, fantastic but realistic. And every detail, in many cases, is the work of a single artist, Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye. Who? No worries if you dont know the name. Not knowing the names of African artists, even the assumption that they didnt have or use names, has been a Western tradition, at least till the recent sweep of contemporary artists from Africa onto the global auction ... More | | 
In an undated image provided by Peter Hayes, Cahercastle in Craughwell, County Galway, Ireland. Peter Hayes via The New York Times.
by Brendan Spiegel
NEW YORK, NY.- The imposing wooden door creaks open and my children burst into the shadowy entryway, gleefully giggling as they race up the spiraling stone staircase. Holter, 5, counts out each one of the 50 steps as we wind our way up through a 550-year-old tower to the cozy stonewalled living room. A few moments later were peeking out over a corner of the fortified roof, gazing at miles of lush green farmland. Towering over everything in sight, we feel like kings of our own castle. For one night, we are. An authentic Irish castle that dates to the late 1400s, Cahercastle sat in ruins for centuries before its new owner painstakingly restored it. Castles such as this, also known as tower houses, pepper the landscape of Ireland. Designed as both fortifications and residences, most are just a single tower stretching up above the landscape, the interior floors ... More | | 
Tavares Strachan, Black Madonna (Alice Nokuzola Mamcethe Biko and Bantu Stephen Biko), detail, 2022. Carrara marble, 271 Ã 95.5 Ã 79cm | 10611/16 Ã 375/8 Ã 31 1/8 in. Photo: Studio Sem Archives. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
PARIS.- Perrotin Paris is presenting In Broad Daylight, Tavares Strachans first exhibition with the gallery. In Broad Daylight marks the second part of a trilogy of exhibitions which began with The Awakening last Spring in New York and will be on view concurrently with the final part, In Total Darkness, at Galerie Marian Goodman in Paris. In broad daylight is a phrase that speaks to the brazen-ness of an offence. To commit a criminal act in prime time, when it can be fully seen and witnessed, often confounds and produces an adamant disbelief. Strachans proclivity for playing with double meaning is reflected in the exhibitions title through his interpretation of the phrase as a revelation of fundamental truths; a nod to an old wives tale, sunlight being the best medicine. In this exhibition, Strachan explores this duality through a new series of life-size sculptures based on the theme of the Ma ... More |
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| 'My Window review: An out-and-proud trailblazer finds her way | | Painting of 18th century cricketers at risk of leaving the UK | | Phillips appoints Minhee Suh as Regional Director in South Korea, based in Seoul | 
Melissa Etheridge in Melissa Etheridge Off Broadway: My Window A Journey Through Life, at New World Stages in NewY ork, Oct. 12, 2022. Richard Termine/The New York Times.
by Laura Collins-Hughes
NEW YORK, NY.- Not long into the second act of Melissa Etheridges new off-Broadway show, she tells a funny, sexy, completely charming tale of falling in love with a married woman in the late 1980s, and pairs it, playfully, with a gorgeous version of her 1995 song I Want to Come Over. Discreetly no names she recalls what a blast she and that partner and their showbiz friends used to have together in 1990s Los Angeles, in the heady early days of Etheridges rock fame. Then she mentions cannabis, which she didnt enjoy at the time. It always made me feel like everyone knew I was hiding something, you know? she said Friday, the second night of a 12-performance run at New World Stages. Like they could all see this sadness that I was hiding. In an almost solo show that wants very much to be a good time for the audience ... More | | 
Export bar is to allow time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire the painting.
LONDON.- The Cricketers (Ralph Izard & Friends) by Benjamin West is at risk of leaving the country unless a buyer can be found. The Cricketers shows five wealthy American men playing cricket, possibly at Kew, while visiting the UK to study in the 1700s. The painting is regarded as one of the most important works depicting early cricket and shows that by the 1750s the sport had evolved from the rustic game played in the 1720s to one taken up by the aristocracy. West is best known for his work The Death of Nelson which shows the great British naval hero Lord Nelson on the deck of his ship, Victory, at the Battle of Trafalgar. Arts Minister Stuart Andrew said: Cricket is enjoyed by millions of people across the world and this fascinating painting tells the story of the rise of the sport during the 18th century. It is a wonderful and rare depiction of the early development of one of our most loved games. I hope a buyer comes forward to save the work for the nation so we can give it another innings ... More | | 
Ms. Suh will bring with her wealth of experience and extensive knowledge of the Korean art and luxury market to support the expansion of Phillips in Asia. Image courtesy of Phillips.
SEOUL.- Phillips is pleased to announce the appointment of Minhee Suh as Regional Director, South Korea, based in Seoul. Ms. Suh will bring with her wealth of experience and extensive knowledge of the Korean art and luxury market to support the expansion of Phillips in Asia. She will play an important role in developing and expanding Phillips client base and representing Phillips in South Korea across all selling categories. I am delighted to welcome Minhee to Phillips as we are building extraordinary momentum in South Korea, said Jonathan Crockett, Chairman, Asia, Phillips. Last month, we received an excellent response to our first art exhibition beyond the traditional auction calendar in Seoul, coinciding with the debut of Frieze. South Korea is indeed one of the worlds fastest growth art markets and we feel the time is right to expand our footprint here. As we continue to strengthen our presence in Asia, Min ... More |
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| Sculpture by the Sea to showcase leading Ukranian artists on Bondi coastal walk | | Miller & Miller's announces highlights included in Petroliana & Advertising Auction | | RIBA Stirling Prize 2022 winner announced | 
Egor Zigura, Ukraine, Colossus Holds Up the World, bronze, 2.80 x 85 x 75 cm. STATEMENT: Our civilisation's collapse might prove to be more cataclysmic than that of any ancient culture. We believe that we rule the world, but our society and our civilisation are not cohesive - they represent a fragile mechanism.
SYDNEY.- Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi will showcase artworks by sculptors from the Ukraine as a highlight of this years exhibition and to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees and those displaced by the war. The Ukraine Showcase will feature four sculptures by Dmitriy Grek (Contemplation), Egor Zigura (Colossus Holds Up the World), Nikita Zigura (Global Warming) and Oleksii Zolotariov (Wind Rose) and is curated by Viktoria Kulikova, Art Director at Abramovych Art Agency from Kyiv. Kulikova said: The day-to-day life in Ukraine these days isnt limited to the Russian invasion. It is also about resistance and unity as parts of our genetic code and our culture. Highlighting our intangible and material heritage for the international community is of utmost importance to promote solidarity with Ukraine. ... More | | 
Coca-Cola clock (American, 1950s) having a painted metal dial with neon backlit acrylic dial cover and marquee. A fine clock, with all original components (est. $4,000-$6,000).
NEW HAMBURG.- A single-family owned 1966 Ford Ranger 250 Custom Cab "Camper Special" pick-up truck with Avion camper, and a United Motors Service single-sided porcelain neon sign, are both expected to do well in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online-only Petroliana & Advertising auction slated for Saturday, October 29th. The 381-lot auction, beginning promptly at 9 am Eastern time, will feature petroliana (gas station memorabilia), advertising signs, advertising tins, breweriana (beer and wine collectibles), general store items, jukeboxes, vintage and antique toys and more. There will be no in-person event to attend, but bidders can tune in to the live webcast on auction day to watch lots close in real time. The 1966 Ford Ranger camper pickup truck was purchased for hunting trips once a year, which explains in part why the odometer reads just 39,966 actual miles. The side-style vehicle boasts ... More | | 
The New Library, Magdalene College. Photo: Nick Kane.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has named The New Library, Magdalene College in Cambridge by NÃall McLaughlin Architects, as the winner of the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize. The exquisitely detailed new building provides students at the 700-year-old University of Cambridge college with a new library open 24 hours a day incorporating an archive and an art gallery. Set within the college grounds in Cambridges city-centre, the new library replaces the cramped study spaces of the adjacent 17th century Grade I listed Pepys Library and extends the quadrangular arrangement of buildings and courts that have gradually developed from the monastic college site. Honouring the rich surrounding history, NÃall McLaughlin Architects combines load-bearing brick, gabled pitched roofs, windows with tracery and brick chimneys that animate the skyline with contemporary sustainable design elements to create a building that ... More |
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Churchill to Eden: The Collection of The Earl and Countess of Avon
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 National Gallery of Art acquires rare drawing by Isack van OstadeWASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired a newly discovered pen and ink drawing by Dutch genre and landscape artist Isack van Ostade (16211649) entitled Workmen before an Inn (Village Street Scene) (recto) and Man with a Fiddle (verso) (c. 1645). The first drawing by Ostade to enter the collection, it joins two paintings by the artist. A rare and important work, the highly finished and developed composition highlights Ostade's artistic practice. In Workmen before an Inn (Village Street Scene) (recto), Ostade used black chalk to establish the initial composition, which was then layered with multiple colored watercolor washes in brown, gray blue, pale yellows, and pinks. Demonstrating his skill as a draftsman, the scene was transformed from an expressive line drawing to a fully ... More  M+ launches online exhibition to celebrate conceptual art pioneer Marcel DuchampHONG KONG.- M+, Asias first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District launches today an online exhibition Lessons for a Creative Life from Box in a Valise to invite online audiences to explore the seminal editioned artwork, From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a Valise) (19351941/19631966), in the M+ Collections through mini games structured around seven lessons for life. This online exhibition was inspired by and complements the unprecedented display method of the work in one of the museums inaugural exhibitions, The Dream of the Museum. Widely considered the father of conceptual art, French-born Marcel Duchamp (18871968) revolutionised twentieth-century art, profoundly influencing how artists in the West, in Asia, and around t ... More  A posthumous memoir reveals Paul Newman in his own wordsNEW YORK, NY.- Decades into his singularly successful career as an actor, Paul Newman offered a frank admission. I am faced with the appalling fact that I dont know anything, he said. Newman was in his 60s when he made this confession, by which time he had starred in a lifetimes worth of seminal films, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke and The Verdict. He was an instantly recognizable if reluctant celebrity, idolized for his calm manner, his piercing blue eyes and his seemingly storybook marriage to the equally accomplished Joanne Woodward. He had raised a family and held a spot on President Richard Nixons enemies list for his advocacy of liberal causes. He went on to drive race cars and immerse himself in philanthropy. Yet Newman, who died in 2008, wa ... More  Quintessential Lowry leads Bonhams Modern and Irish Art SaleLONDON.- Street Scene, an archetypal work by L. S. Lowry, leads Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale in London on Tuesday 22 November. The painting, which has been in the same family for almost 50 years, is estimated at £800,000-1,200,000. Penny Day, Bonhams Head of Modern and British Art, said Street Scene really is the perfect Lowry. Dating from 1941, it hails from what is traditionally considered his finest period and bears all the qualities of his most desirable work. The street that runs through the centre of the busy composition gives a strong sense of perspective, order and space. The terraced housing, shops and movement of the people in the foreground create an almost tranquil atmosphere as the street winds down towards the central gates, symbolic of the industry and ... More  At 13, she fled the Nazis. At 95, she runs a storied bohemian hotel.NEW YORK, NY.- One night in 1980, Rita Paul asked her husband, Daniel, if he minded if they moved into the Hotel Earle, on the corner of Waverly and MacDougal streets in Greenwich Village. It was not such a strange request. The Pauls had owned the Earle since 1973, when it was already seven decades old. By the time the Pauls acquired it, the Earle had evolved from a bare-bones residential hotel to a funky haven for an eclectic crowd. For her own retreat, Rita Paul had her eye on four connecting chambers on the fourth floor. I guess at the time we had a lot of empty rooms, she said recently. For the next 12 years, the Pauls were full-time residents there. Rita Paul enjoyed an eccentric existence with her art supplies, her baby grand piano and her kiln. They stayed there until 1992, when they separat ... More  Ambiguity: LaiSun Keane exhibits works by Michal Fargo, Susan Metrican, and Chase TravailleBOSTON, MASS.- This exhibition is a presentation of works which engage with interpretation of form and context. Each artist brings their rich and deeply personal narratives to their work, employing their chosen medium in critical and creative ways. Michal Fargo, born in Israel and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany, communicates her conflicted identity and experiences as an immigrant through her clay sculptures. Her work although vessel based which is a concept deeply rooted in the ceramic field is a departure from the tradition. She constructs sculptures that imitate nature, yet the addition of flocking alters the surface reminiscent of domestic objects. Development of her unique process is connected to her own journey as a person born in Israel, a young secular state, yet belonging t ... More  Last week to see Greek artist Iliodora Margellos' first solo exhibition at Baert Gallery LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Baert Gallery's presentation of Fragments of Transparencies, Iliodora Margellos (b. 1985, Minneapolis, MN. Lives and works in Athens, Greece) first solo exhibition with the gallery, to end this October 22, 2022. Greek artist Iliodora Margellos works with steel wire mesh, fiber, glass beads, and embroidery to explore the entanglements of art history, craftsmanship, and femininity. The exhibition encompasses a grouping of sculptural and mixed media pieces. In her long-time commitment to yarn, embroidery, and weaving, Margellos subverts the formal Modernist legacies of abstract painting and a-political expressionism from a feminist perspective informed by an ontological investment in the phenomenology of physical encounter and manual labor. A key component of the exhibition is a suite ... More  Nashville Art Museum to showcase works by prominent 20th Century cartoonistNASHVILLE, TENN.- Cheekwood Estate & Gardens recently brought the dark, bizarre and enduring humor of Charles Addams to Nashville with Inside the World of Charles Addams, on view in the Cheekwood Mansion since Oct. 8, 2022 and will continue through to January 8, 2023. Addams was a dominant force in 20th century visual humor whose legacy lives on through the several thousand cartoons he created over the course of his 60-year career. He is best known as the creator of The Addams Family®, and the television series, movies and animated features that spun off from his recurring characters depicting a strange, satirical version of the American family. Inside the World of Charles Addams is the first solo exhibition of his work in the Southeast. Charles Addams sophisticated, mischievous and macab ... More  Studio Museum in Harlem announces artists in residenceNEW YORK, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem, renowned for shepherding artists of African descent, has announced its latest artists in residence, in a program that has fostered creative greats such as David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. They are Devin N. Morris, Charisse Pearlina Weston and Jeffrey Meris. The residency comes with a $25,000 stipend, studio space, developmental guidance and a group exhibition at the end of the program. The three artists will work from a temporary space, Studio Museum 127, as the new building is undergoing construction designed by David Adjaye, one of the architects behind the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. This year, the foundation of the Glenstone Museum has endowed $10 m ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens died October 18, 1678. Jacob Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640âthe year Rubens diedâhe was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general.
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