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LOT 202: Kaare Klint for Rud. Rasmussens Snedkerier sofa, #KK 5011. Estimate $10,000-20,000. Modern Design + Post-War & Contemporary Art Wednesday, September 2, 2020.
OAK PARK, IL.- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will kick off its busy season with two September sales that together comprise nearly 800 lots. First up, on Wednesday, September 2, will be Modern Design + Post-War & Contemporary Art, followed by Fine Art + Furniture & Decorative Arts on Sunday, September 13. The auctions on September 2 and 13 will each start at 10:00 a.m. CDT at Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, 818 North Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois. In light of COVID-19, neither sale will be open to the public, but bidders may participate by phone (708-383-5234) or leave absentee bids (info@toomeyco.com). Full auction catalogs are available online at toomeyco.com. Early registration with Toomey & Co. is strongly recommended. In addition, bids may be placed via two real-time, third-party digital platforms (LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable). Prior to both sales, preview is available virtually and by appointment. Those interested may contact info@toomeyco.com to req ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A security guard stands at his post as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reopens to the public on August 29, 2020. The museum closed on March 13, 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Safety protocols are in place, including mandatory face coverings for staff and visitors, more frequent cleanings, hand sanitizing stations and capacity will be limited to 25 percent. The museum hosted 15,000 to 20,000 visitors a day before the pandemic. Kena Betancur / AFP
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 | | Aronson Antiquairs allows clients to virtually enjoy objects from its collection in Augmented Reality | | Andrew Jones Auctions will present its first-ever Fine Jewelry, Watches & Timepieces Auction | | 250 million years ago, they hibernated at the bottom of the world | 
Polychrome Puzzle Jug.
AMSTERDAM.- It's really magical and wow, I've never seen this before are some of the responses you can expect when seeing Aronson Antiquairs art objects in Augmented Reality, or AR for short. It cannot be captured on paper, you can only experience it with a smartphone or tablet. Through AR it is possible to virtually place computer-generated objects in your own surroundings. Be it creatures in the game Pokémon Go, an iPad from Apple or a bookcase from Ikea, the virtual objects have been recreated in computers and magically appear on the screen as the camera captures the actual environment. Until recently this was only possible with identical, mass-produced products, but it is more difficult to do this with unique art objects such as handmade antiques. The technology required to register unique and complex objects to micron levels and almost realistically and naturalistically reproduce them was not available until now. Now Amsterdam-based company FloatScans has ... More | | 
The auctions expected top lot is this dazzling 12.01-carat emerald cut diamond (K VVS1) and platinum ring (est. $80,000-$120,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions will present its first-ever Fine Jewelry, Watches & Timepieces Auction on Wednesday, September 16th, featuring more than one hundred lots from various private collections, highlighted by the collection of Mary and Lou Silver of Indian Wells, California. The Silver collection includes the sales expected top lot: a dazzling 12.01-carat emerald cut diamond (K VVS1) and platinum ring (est. $80,000-$120,000). The Mary and Lou Silver Collection encompasses an amazing breadth and variety of jewelry and timepieces collected over a lifetime, said company president and CEO Andrew Jones We are fortunate to have complementary collections with designers such as Van Cleef & Arpels, Tiffany and Bulgari to be offered in our inaugural Fine Jewelry, Watches & Timepieces sale. Also from the Silver collection is a pair of radiant cut ... More | | 
In an undated image from Crystal Shin, an artist's conception of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. Crystal Shin via The New York Times.
by Kenneth Chang
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- How to tell if something that died 250 million years ago hibernated when it was alive? After all, hibernation a state of reduced metabolism is a good strategy for making it through long, harsh winters when food can be scarce. Biologists would not be surprised that evolution figured this out early in the history of life. But uncovering convincing evidence of that is hard. As a paleontologist, what youre presented with is a pile of bones, said Christian A. Sidor, a professor of biology at the University of Washington and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke Museum in Seattle. And that just tells you where the animal died. It doesnt even tell you where the animal lived. But Sidor and Megan R. Whitney, a former graduate student who is now ... More |
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| | Jürgen Schadeberg, whose photos chronicled apartheid, dies at 89 | | Guernsey's to offer the legendary Vladi Collection of Historical Maps | | Christie's announces sales for Asian Art Week New York | 
Unusually for a young white person, he gained entree into segregated Black communities and photographed such emblems of talent in the face of adversity as singer Miriam Makeba and trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
by Alan Cowell
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jürgen Schadeberg, a German-born photographer who survived the turmoil of wartime Berlin, then emigrated to South Africa, creating some of the most potent and enduring images of Nelson Mandela and chronicling the increasingly violent imposition of apartheid on Black lives, died Saturday at his home in La Drova, Spain. He was 89. The cause was stroke-related issues, his wife, Claudia, said. Unusually for a young white person, he gained entree into segregated Black communities and photographed such emblems of talent in the face of adversity as singer Miriam Makeba and trumpeter Hugh Masekela. In many ways his work broke the mold of conventional white photography. In a memoir ... More | | 
Schedel, Hartmann. Das Buch der Chroniken (atlas).
NEW YORK, NY.- Guernseys brings to auction The Legendary Vladi Collection of Historical Maps. The auction, scheduled for September 23, will include over 300 examples of the finest quality antique maps, with proceeds benefiting MapAction, an organization that uses maps to aid those in disaster-stricken areas. In addition to a discerning collector of maps, Vladi Farhad, is the foremost international island broker, having sold more than 2,000 private islands over his near five-decade career. His interest in antique maps was born out of his interest in islands. Whenever he represented an island, he would seek out antique maps of that island to gift to his clients. What began as a generous gesture burgeoned into a world-class collection. As a member of the International Map Collectors Society, Vladi has traveled the world in his quest to amass a collection of the finest, rarest, and most beautiful maps he could find. The collection he assembled ... More | | 
An Important Gilt-Copper Figure of Padmapani Lokeshvara Nepal, 13th Century. Estimate: $2,000,000 - 3,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Asian Art Week, a series of auctions, viewings, and events, from September 4-29. This season presents twelve auctions featuring over 1,000 objects from 5,000 years of art spanning all epochs and categories of Asian art comprising Chinese archaic bronzes through Japanese and Korean art to contemporary Indian painting. Highlights include a 3rd to 4th century gray schist figure of a bodhisattva from the ancient region of Gandhara ($1,500,000-2,500,000), the groundbreaking The Last Chapter by Rameshwar Broota ($250,000-350,000), an early to mid-6th century B.C. ding bronze ritual tripod food vessel and cover ($350,000-450,000); and Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong porcelain from the prestigious collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf. From rare huanghuali furniture to modern paintings ... More |
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| | Dallas Museum of Art debuts new acquisitions in new exhibition 'Contemporary Art + Design' | | The complete suite of Billy Al Bengston's The Alamo to be sold at Bonhams Los Angeles | | Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of recent paintings by Ted Gahl | 
Shara Hughes, My Natural Nyctinasty, 2019, oil, acrylic, and dye on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, The Rachofsky Collection Acquisition Fund, 2019.92, © Shara Hughes.
DALLAS, TX.- This summer, the Dallas Museum of Art debuts a selection of recently acquired contemporary and decorative art works in Contemporary Art + Design: New Acquisitions. Jointly organized by the Museums decorative arts and design and contemporary art curators, Contemporary Art + Design is the first special exhibition to debut since the Museums reopening, after closing in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dynamic group of featured artists and designers in this new show includes Firelei Báez, Derek Fordjour, Shara Hughes, Misha Kahn, Kiff Slemmons, and Tomie Ohtake, among others. The 32 works on view are diverse in media and disciplines, and most were acquired in the past two years. They vividly demonstrate the DMAs commitment to supporting emerging talents, exhibiting work with local relevance, and placing ... More | | 
Billy Al Bengston (B. 1934), The Alamo (the complete suite of five), 1969. Estimate: US$50,000-70,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams announces Post-War & Contemporary Art X Made in California, an exciting new auction taking place on September 16, 2020. On the heels of extraordinary results in New York and Los Angeles in the Summer season, this sale will bring together a selection of global Post-War & Contemporary masters, as well as the West Coast artists that Bonhams has long championed in Made in California. Bonhams is the only auction house catering to the expanding global art market in Los Angeles, for collectors in Californian and beyond. Bonhams will present, for the first time ever at auction, the complete suite of Billy Al Bengstons The Alamo, 1969 (estimate: $50,000-70,000). Among Bengstons Dentos, one of his best-known and most lauded bodies of work, The Alamo is characterized by the artists energetic disruption of surfaces created with lush automotive colors and luminous ... More | | 
Ted Gahl, Quarrel Painting, 2020. Acrylic, oil pastel on canvas in artists frame, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.).
NEW YORK, NY.- Ted Gahls recent paintingscreated before and during his quarantinecapture loneliness, longing, and the granularity of the present moment. Abstracted figures and household objects are confined in compositions of cultural quarrel, but uplifted through the artist's lively exploration of color via energetic brushwork. In Gahls 2020 Burning Chair, a thin flame rises into an active multi-colored sky. In other examples, shapes take on weight, wedging figures between them, as in the volumetric almond-like ovals in his 2020 Horizontal Study (Lamu Walk Under Stars). In speaking about his process, Gahl noted: I have always been interested in how imagery begins to shift. You work with it enough, and you see it transform into different formats that lead you into a new visual narrative. Gahl paints from symbolic references such as mosquitoes, a figure waiting at a train station, tables, chairs, hammers, and nails. In the artists 2020 ... More |
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| | The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego reimagines art auction as digital event | | Parts & Labor Beacon opens an exhibition of works by Lois Dodd and Shara Hughes | | Bethel Woods launches augmented reality adventure, "Meet Me at Woodstock" | 
Kim MacConnel, How Not To Paint A Chair (Homage to John Baldessari), 2020. Painted armchair, 47 x 39 x 39 in.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego had plans to host its biennial Art Auction 2020 at the Jacobs Building at MCASD Downtown in May, but as with most arts events across the nation, those plans have changed. The highly anticipated fundraiser will now be reimagined as a robust digital event featuring a silent and live auction, digital catalog, live conversations with curators and a virtual tour of the works. The two week digital event will begin on Thursday, October 1 with a silent auction and will run through the end of the Live Auction on Thursday, October 15. The Live portion of the auction will take place digitally on Wednesday, October 14th at 6 PM and will be led by Sothebys Auctioneer Gary Metzner, Head of Office, Chicago. Collectors and art lovers from around the world will be able access the auctions ... More | | 
Installation view.
BEACON, NY.- Parts & Labor Beacon is presenting Lois Dodd and Shara Hughes, an exhibition featuring recent paintings by contemporary artist Shara Hughes alongside a selection of paintings by Lois Dodd dating from 1966 to 1988. In keeping with Parts & Labor Beacons mission, this show, which began with a meeting between the two artists arranged by the gallery in spring of 2019, envelops the spirit of cross-generational exchange of like-minded approach. The images of Lois Dodd (b. 1927, Montclair, NJ) reveal the artists intimate and focused interest in painting her immediate environs the surrounding woods of her summer home in coastal Maine, the interior-exterior views of her East Village apartment window, and the winter scenes of her home near the Delaware Water Gap that she has revisited through her 70-year career. Dodd studied painting at Cooper Union from 1945 to 1948. Devoted to the plein air ... More | | 
The new augmented reality tour lets visitors view the historic site as one of 450,000 during the 1969 Woodstock festival. Photo by Kevin Ferguson.
BETHEL, NY.- The Museum at Bethel Woods, located at the National Register historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival, today announced a new augmented reality tour, Meet Me at Woodstock. The immersive tour gives guests the chance to experience the history of the festival first-hand as they listen to stories of those who were there, visualize the iconic stage, hear concert recordings and authentic announcements, and survey the grounds as a member of the 450,000 person crowd. The tour is hosted on a tablet and led by the voices of Nick and Bobbi Ercoline the couple featured on the cover of the Woodstock album who are also volunteers at Bethel Woods. Guests will walk the field that hosted the concert in 1969 to see a full-scale 3D model of the stage sitting where it was over 50 years ago. The tour is available for an additional ... More |
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 Space Lace, San Francisco's exciting new auction house for vintage fashion, to debut with Sept. 6 saleSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- At the intersection of 1930s glamour and trendsetting street style, theres Space Lace, a new San Francisco auction house specializing in vintage fashion, jewelry, accessories and interior furnishings. Space Lace is the recently launched auction division of Torso Vintages, an atelier with a twist in the citys historic Jackson Square. Under one roof, high fashion clothing and accessories created in-house share the spotlight with curated vintage apparel, jewelry and interior furnishings selected for auction under the Space Lace banner. The companys auction debut is set for Sunday, September 6, with absentee and Internet live bidding available exclusively through LiveAuctioneers. With its online-auction format, Space Lace is the latest extension of Senior Fashion Director John Zakour Hadeeds aesthetic vision aimed at bringing together ... More Walker Art Center forefronts community engagement and impact with organizational realignmentMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center is realigning the organization to center audience engagement and the impact of its programs on the communities it serves. A new department titled Public Engagement, Learning and Impact will be created and Nisa Mackie, currently the Director of Education and Public Programs, has been promoted to lead this area of organizational focus at the senior leadership level. Mackie will report directly to Executive Director, Mary Ceruti. Another new leadership position, Head of Content and Communications will also be created as part of the re-alignment with responsibilities for refining and amplifying the public voice of the Walker through design and digital communications. That position has not yet been filled. The new structure centers and prioritizes audience and community engagement initiatives as well as design, ... More The Morris Museum of Art announces the 2021 Porter Fleming Literary CompetitionAUGUSTA, GA.- The 2021 Porter Fleming Literary Competition, now in its twenty-seventh year, recognizes outstanding fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Writers age 18 and older who reside in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee are invited to enter. The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2021. The competition awards cash prizes totaling $7,000. Entry forms and guidelines can be found on https://www.themorris.org/porter-fleming-literary-competition/ The competition is administered by the Morris Museum of Art, with the support of the Porter Fleming Foundation. The Trustees of the Academy of Richmond County are honored to have sponsored the literary competition since its founding by Augusta author and artist Berry Fleming, said Cobbs Nixon, a trustee of the Academy of Richmond County. ... More Wembley Park launches free art trail including installation for first London Mural FestivalLONDON.- North West Londons cultural neighbourhood, Wembley Park, is expanding its free art programme for visitors and residents. From 1 September 2020, three new installations will join 11 existing pieces of art to complete its first public art trail. As an opening highlight of the first London Mural Festival, which runs throughout September, Brent-born graffiti artist and designer Pref is creating Better Together, a large-scale street art intervention. Commissioned by Wembley Parks cultural director Josh McNorton and Global Street Art − the company behind the London Mural Festival − for its newest office building, The Hive, it will be situated next to Wembleys world-famous national stadium and the popular London Designer Outlet. Pref, whose studio is in Brent Cross, is known for his multi-layered, three dimensional lettering, often with one word laying ... More Steidl releases second edition of 'William Eggleston: Election Eve'NEW YORK, NY.- In 1977 William Eggleston released Election Eve, his first and most elaborate artists book, containing 100 original prints in two leather-bound volumes housed in a linen box. It was published by Caldecot Chubb in New York in an edition of only five, and has since become Egglestons rarest collectible book. This new Steidl edition recreates the full original sequence of photos in a single volume, making it available to the wider public for the first time. Election Eve contains images made in October 1976 during Egglestons pilgrimage from Memphis to the small town of Plains, Georgia, the home of Jimmy Carter who in November 1976 was elected 39th President of the United States. Eggleston began photographing even before he left Memphis and depicted the surrounding countryside and villages of Sumter County, before he reached ... More Lebanon loses defender of heritage architecture Lady CochraneBEIRUT (AFP).- A veteran advocate of the arts and Lebanon's cultural heritage, Yvonne Sursock Cochrane died Monday aged 98, four weeks after the devastating Beirut blast in which she was injured. Born into a wealthy Greek Orthodox family -- famed for their Sursock Museum -- and married to an Irish nobleman, Lady Cochrane died on the eve of the centenary of Lebanon, friends and family said on Facebook. As head of the Association for the Protection of the Sites and Ancient Homes of Lebanon (APSAD), she devoted her life to the preservation of her country's rich architectural heritage. She had labelled the capital's chaotic and profit-driven reconstruction after its devastating 1975-1990 civil war as little more than an "archaeological massacre". "Beirut, once a joy of the Mediterranean, has been turned into a junkyard," she said of the decade that ... More Wright & Wright Architects begins office transformation forThe British AcademyLONDON.- Wright & Wright Architects have started on site at The British Academy to transform its staff areas at the Grade I listed home at 10-11 Carlton House Terrace in London. The refurbishment on the second and third floors will accommodate staff growth, enhance the overall working environment and address the need to provide more flexible ways of working following the Covid-19 pandemic. Following a feasibility study that was carried out by the practice in Autumn 2019, the project received Listed Building Consent in June 2020. Wright & Wrights redesign respects the Listed building by retaining and restoring historic features while introducing small-scale contemporary interventions to improve connectivity between staff departments. Addressing the need for growing staff numbers and the option to provide greater flexibility for future expansion, ... More With a pickup truck and an open mind, the New York Philharmonic returnsNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Dark clouds loomed over Downtown Brooklyn on Friday as countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, standing on the bed of a pickup truck, announced to people gathered at Betty Carter Park that they were about to witness a world premiere. No one has heard this music before! he told the small crowd, as if he were a carnival barker. We are so excited to do this for you. Then he cued a trio of players from the New York Philharmonic, which had not given a public performance since the coronavirus pandemic forced it to close in March. The orchestra made its return with this pop-up, pickup concert from what is being called the NY Phil Bandwagon. The musicians, wearing orchestra-branded red shirts and black face masks, began the new piece, Carlos Simons Loop, as raindrops started to fall. With ... More Tolarno Galleries presents a new series of small abstract paintings by Peter AtkinsMELBOURNE.- TV Week 1980-1985 attempts to locate pure monochromatic colour within the specific era of the early to mid-1980s. The pastel blues and pinks along with the quintessentially '80s fluorescent greens and yellows remind us that colour can transport us into another time and emotional space. Adding to this, each work in the series has two titles which reference the layered headlines seen on the covers of the popular Australian TV gossip magazine. The sensational headline Why Jack Thompson Posed Nude coupled with the evocative Inside Kamahls Sydney Mansion was the first work in the series which came from the cover of a magazine picked up in a flea market and led into the entire project. It appeared that each magazine had increasingly more ridiculous headlines, including Rowena: Why I Killed Pat the ... More Lyman Allyn Art Museum showcases works by Michael HarveyNEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of Stains Remain: Works by Michael Harvey, on view Aug. 29 through Nov. 1, 2020. Harvey, an artist and writer who lives in Lyme, moved to New York in 1969, drawn by the art scene and the offer of a teaching position at The School of Visual Arts. The Lyman Allyns exhibition showcases recent paintings that contain personal elements from conceptual and literary interests to contemplative values and the whimsical and humorous. It is, after all, who I am. The stains remain, said Harvey, referencing the shows title, which is also the title of the book published to coincide with this exhibition. Stains Remain: Stories of becoming an artist in the 1960s, is available in print in the Lyman Allyns gift shop and on Amazon Kindle. The exhibition is on view in the Glassenberg Gallery ... More The Artist Book Foundation publishes 'Glassworks: The Art of Frederick Birkhill'NORTH ADAMS, MASS.- Over a lifetime, Frederick Birkhill has explored the unique qualities of glass and the numerous techniques and intricacies of working with it. The result of these decades of study is a body of work that is extraordinary in scope, technical expertise, and sheer virtuosity. The Artist Book Foundation announced the publication in September 2020 of a new monograph honoring this gifted artist: Glassworks: The Art of Frederick Birkhill. From his time in England at Burleighfield House, the studio of stained-glass artist Patrick Reyntiens, to his unprecedented visit to Lauscha, the village in East Germany famous for both its art and scientific glass production, and to his subsequent career as an explorer, teacher, and master of the glass arts, Birkhill has devoted himself to furthering the appreciation of the medium and sharing ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish artist Per Kirkeby was born September 01, 1938. Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 - 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. In this image: Danish Crown Princess Mary, left, talks with Danish artist Per Kirkeby, right, at the opening of his art exhibition in Tate Modern gallery in London, Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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