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19th-century tobacconist figure of Native-American princess, 69in, carved and gessoed pine, attributed to Samuel Robb. Estimate $8,000-$12,000
LONE JACK, MO.- A premier collection of Americana amassed over a 30-year period by Jerry and Cathy Mueller of Sioux City, Iowa, will be offered without reserve on Saturday, September 19 in an outdoor country-style live auction event hosted by Soulis Auctions. All mandated health precautions will be observed, including the wearing of masks and social distancing. Limited tent seating and drive-in bidding spaces will be available to those who attend in person. Remote bidding options include absentee, phone or live online through a choice of three online platforms. The late Jerry Mueller was already an enthusiastic collector networking with prominent dealers by the time he and Cathy got together. It became a shared interest for them and resulted in what I would describe as a small but mighty collection, said Soulis Auctions owner/auctioneer Dirk ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors walk through an exhibition at the newly reopened Whitney Museum of American Art on September 3, 2020 in New York City. The museum officially opened to the public with new safety guidelines after being closed for months due to covid-19. Angela Weiss / AFP
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 | | Hermann Historica GmbH announces highlights of auction at Castle Greding near Munich | | Lehmann Maupin opens an exhibition featuring three video installations by Jennifer Steinkamp | | Notre-Dame crypt reopens with exhibition 18 months after blaze | 
A heavy Spanish sword with a gilt hilt, circa 1560. Lot 50, Starting price 10.000 Euro.
MUNICH.- This September, Hermann Historica is offering an extra highlight that takes Munich's autumn of art to a new level. Under the heading "From castles and palaces selected art and handcrafts from antiquity to the 20th century", around 250 lots continuing this theme are to come under the hammer in a special auction. In cooperation with the local art dealership Ehrl Fine Art & Antiques, these exquisite objects will be presented in an appropriate setting against the majestic backdrop of Castle Greding in an auction starting at 4 pm on 25 September. Art lovers will find the outing to Greding in the Altmühltal Nature Park, just 60 minutes north of Munich, well worthwhile, even for the pre-sale viewing days from 19 to 25 September. In the former prince-bishop's hunting lodge on the market place at the heart of the historical old town, collectors will have an opportunity to admire and acquire rare, perhaps ... More | | 
Jennifer Steinkamp, Souls. Installation view, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, 2020. Photo by OnArt Studio. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
SEOUL.- Lehmann Maupin, is presenting Souls, an exhibition featuring three video installations by Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp. A pioneer in the field of 3-D animation, Steinkamp works exclusively in digital media, using cutting-edge technology to render organic and abstract forms in motion that give deeper insight into the often unseen complexities of the natural environment. Her immersive installations are projected at a large scale in response to the architectural interiors in which they appear. Each work alters the viewers typical experience of an object within a gallery and invites a more comprehensive understanding of space and time. The exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Seoul is presented concurrently with Steinkamps solo exhibition at Leeahn Gallery, Seoul. The centerpiece of the exhibition is ... More | | 
A woman passes by a lithography copy by Feodor Hoffbauer (1839-1922) depicting the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral between 1595 and 1875. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP.
by Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere
PARIS (AFP).- The archeological crypt of Notre-Dame reopens on Wednesday with an exhibition retracing the cathedral's turbulent history nearly 18 months after it was ravaged by fire. The April 2019 blaze toppled the spire of the cathedral and destroyed much of the roof of what is one of France's most cherished national treasures. The crypt, situated below the square in front of the cathedral and containing the remains of fortifications and thermal baths, had to be cleaned of lead dust, an arduous job that took more than a year before visitors could be allowed back in. The exhibition pays homage to French writer Victor Hugo and the architect Eugene Viollet-Le-Duc, the two men behind the resurrection of the cathedral in the 19th century. ... More |
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| | Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art - SOAS announces next Online Expert Panel Discussion | | Speed Art Museum announces departure of Director Stephen Reily | | Design Museum's new virtual exhibit emphasizes the need for racial and gender diversity in design | 
Padmapani, Nepal, 9th/10th century. To be auctioned on 22 September, at Sothebys, New York © Sothebys.
LONDON.- This year has seen tremendous shifts in the Asian art world. This panel brings together leading specialists from across the world to explore pressing questions at this unique historical moment. What are the opportunities and challenges facing museum curators? What are the new trends in the South Asian art market? How has covid-19 impacted both museums and the market for South Asian Art? How are online interactions changing the ways we curate and share museum collections? The panellists will discuss their current projects and how they are responding to the technological and cultural changes of 2020. Ms. Anuradha Ghosh-Mazumdar was appointed Head of the Indian & Southeast Asian Art department in New York in 2011. She joined Sothebys in 2003 as a Specialist for both Classical as well as Modern Indian art. Over the past 16 years she has played a key role in securing major consignments ... More | | 
Reily, a local business and civic leader, joined the Speed as Interim Director in early 2017, one year after the museum had completed a $65 million renovation.
LOUISVILLE. KY.- The Speed Art Museum has announced that Stephen Reily will end his tenure as Director in spring 2021. Earlier this year Reily informed the Museums Board of Trustees of his intention that his fourth full year as Director would be his last. He will depart in spring 2021, once his successor has been identified and successfully onboarded with the organization. Once I realized that I wanted to serve the Speed for longer but not forever I set a number of milestones defining what I hoped to accomplish during my tenure, said Reily. Those milestones were built around our mission of inviting everyone to celebrate art, forever, and together with my leadership team, our colleagues, and volunteers, we will achieve most of those milestones by early 2021. While continuing that work, weve also faced the unexpected task of operating the Speed (and reopening safely to the public) ... More | | 
We Design: People. Practice. Progress online exhibition.
BOSTON, MASS.- Bringing the transformative power of design to the forefront, Design Museum Everywhere goes virtual with its groundbreaking exhibition, We Design: People. Practice. Progress. Highlighting the lack of racial and gender diversity in the design field first and foremost, We Design demands change in the industry and encourages the next generation of designers to make an impact through design. We Design begins with the words of Marian Wright Edleman, You cant be what you cant see. The dynamic online exhibition tells stories about designers of different ages, genders, backgrounds, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and abilities showcasing their unique personal lives and career paths through stories, oral histories, videos and photos, along with examples of their work throughout their careers including design process imagery and artifacts. Using quantitative and ... More |
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| | France's pioneering Black opera star Christiane Eda-Pierre dies | | Exhibition of new paintings by Joe Fig opens at Cristin Tierney Gallery | | The Menil Collection to reopen September 12 | 
In this file photo taken on November 25, 1983, French soprano Christiane Eda-Pierre performs in Olivier Messiaen's opera "Saint-Francois d'Assise" at Paris' Opera. Joel ROBINE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Christiane Eda-Pierre, a French soprano who broke ground as the country's first black woman to make her mark on the international opera stage, has died at 88, her family told AFP on Monday. She died of natural causes at her home in Deux-Sevres, western France, on Sunday. Born on March 24, 1932, in France's Caribbean territory of Martinique, Eda-Pierre was steeped in the arts from an early age -- her aunt Paulette Nardal, an author and journalist, was the first black female student at the Sorbonne. She learned to read music from her mother, a piano teacher, while still a young child. "Her first experience with opera was through her grandfather, who knew all sorts of arias from ensembles which would stop for performances in Saint-Pierre or Fort-de-France while travelling between Europe and the United States," her biographer Catherine Marceline told AFP. After ... More | | 
Installation view of Joe Fig: Contemplation (Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, September 1 - October 17, 2020). Photograph by John Muggenborg.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Joe Fig, entitled Contemplation. It opened on September 1st, and continues through Saturday, October 17th. The paintings in Contemplation present versions of the same scene: people looking at art. Some are in galleries, others in museums. Settings run the gamut from crowded blockbuster shows where the visitors take prominence, to quiet and intimate portraits of an individual completely absorbed in an artwork. Begun in 2016, the series illustrates numerous exhibitions from the past few years, and chronicles the artist's travels across the country. When we contemplate an artwork, we break it down to its elements, evaluate what we see, and form opinions. We consider what is being communicated. Contemplation is something artists constantly do. When making something, artists frequently pause to take ... More | | 
Installation view of Helen Frankenthalers Hybrid Vigor, 1973. Photo: Paul Hester.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection announced today that it will reopen its main building and the Menil Drawing Institute on Saturday, September 12, 2020. The Menil, which temporarily closed on March 18, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will reopen with extensive safety protocols in place for visitors and staff. Rebecca Rabinow, director of the Menil Collection, said: The Menil Collection's mission is to foster direct personal encounters with works of art, and reopening the museum is something we celebrate. We welcome back visitors to our galleries with new installations and thought-provoking exhibitions. In the main building galleries, visitors will be greeted with a fresh installation of works by John Chamberlain, Mary Corse, Dan Flavin, Barkley Hendricks, Leslie Hewitt, Jasper Johns, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and more. On special loan is a monumental painting by Helen Frankenthaler, Hybrid Vigor, ... More |
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| | Irish & International art worth €1M for auction in Dublin | | 'Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia' opens to the public | | The Contemporary Dayton welcomes new Curator and Director of Programs | 
Paul Henry, A Sunny Day, Connemara, c.1940 (detail). Estimate: 150,000-200,000.
DUBLIN.- On Monday 28 September 2020 a select collection of 131 lots of Irish & International art will be offered for auction at the RDS Dublin. Viewing takes place at the RDS, Friday to Monday 25 to 28 September from 10am to 6pm daily. The highlight of the sale is a magnificent oil titled A Sunny Day, Connemara, c.1940 by Paul Henry (lot 18, estimate 150,000-200,000). Considered the artists finest West of Ireland painting, it was chosen by Paul Henry to grace the cover of his 1951 autobiography, An Irish Portrait, and later in 2000, by Henry expert Dr SB Kennedy, for the cover of his Catalogue Raisonné. This work captures a glorious day and almost certainly represents Achill Island seen at the foot of Croagh Patrick with Leckanvy harbour at the centre right of the composition. In his foreword to Henrys autobiography Seán à Faoláin describes the artists long happy love story with landscape, ... More | | 
George Nakashima glass seated chair with stool. Courtesy of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens opened its new major exhibition Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia, on view through November 29, 2020. The exhibition 360 viewing room will be available in mid-October. Organized by The Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia (JASGP) with support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the exhibition celebrates the friendships and trans-cultural exchanges between architect Junzo Yoshimura (1908 1997, Japan), woodworker George Nakashima (1905-1990, US), designer Noémi Pernessin Raymond (1889-1980,Swiss French, born in Geneva) and architect Antonin Raymond (1888 1976, Czech), through their collaborative architectural projects. The exhibition is curated by Yuka Yokoyama and guest curator William Whitaker. Designed by the architect ... More | | 
Goodsons talents span over 20 years curating exhibitions. Photo: Briana Snyder.
DAYTON, OH.- The Contemporary Dayton announced the partnership with Michael Goodson as the new Curator and Director of Programs. Goodsons talents span over 20 years curating exhibitions for The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design, and James Cohan Gallery, NY. I am very pleased to be joining the The Contemporary Daytons team in what is essentially a return to where my connection with and understanding of the power of art first began, Goodson recalls. When I first spoke with Eva Buttacavoli, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Co about the vision of that she has nurtured over the last decade, it was immediately clear to me that Dayton and its surrounding communities are now, and perhaps always have been, ready for the challenge of contemporary art. Goodsons plans will expand programming to create a significant ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist, sculptor André Derain died September 08, 1954. André Derain (10 June 1880 - 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. In this image: A Christie's employee poses with a 1905 painting 'Bateaux a Collioure' by Andre Derain on display at the auction house in London, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The painting, last seen in public in 1965, was auctioned at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Feb. 9 with an estimated price of 4 to 6 million pounds ($6.5 to 9.7 million or 4.7 to 7 million euro).
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