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Published Egyptian quartzite block statue of astronomer, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenthotep III (circa 1391-1353 BCE), 14.4 inches high. Estimate: $350,000-$450,000. Image courtesy of Artemis Gallery.
BOULDER, COLO.- Artemis Gallerys Fall 2019 Exceptional Series contains such an extensive selection of stellar cultural art, it is being divided into two parts with a weeks intermission in between. All forms of bidding will be available, including absentee and live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers. On Thursday, September 26, Artemis will present more than 325 lots in a Classical Antiquities & Asian Art session featuring investment-grade art and artifacts from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern and Far Eastern cultures. Additionally, there are many examples of beautiful gold and silver jewelry designs some with semiprecious stones of early Middle Eastern and Mediterranean origin. We have never before had such an impressive Egyptian section to offer our bidders, said Artemis Gallery Executive Director Teresa Dodge. This grouping goes above and beyond, starting with the very first lot. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Menil Collection is presenting Houston's first major museum exhibition devoted to Australian Aboriginal art: Mapa Wiya (Your Map's Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale. The show includes more than 100 works created by more than 60 artists from different regions of rural Australia. Photo: Paul Hester
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 | | Old lady discovers Renaissance masterpiece in her kitchen | | Christie's to offer the Collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf | | Museo Picasso Málaga opens Calder-Picasso exhibition | 
This photo taken on September 23, 2019 in Paris shows a painting entitled "the Mocking of Christ" by the late 13th century Florentine artist Cenni di Pepo also known as Cimabue. The painting will be auctioned in Senlis on October 27, 2019. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS.- An early Renaissance masterpiece by the Florentine master Cimabue has been discovered in an old lady's kitchen in a town near Paris, art experts said Monday. "Christ Mocked", by the 13th-century artist who taught Giotto, is estimated to be worth between four and six million euros ($4.3 million $6.6 million), according to the Old Masters specialists Turquin. They said the work was owned by an old lady in the northern French town of Compiegne, who had it hanging between her kitchen and her sitting room. It was directly above a hotplate for cooking food. The painting is thought to be part of a large diptych dating from 1280 when Cimabue painted eight scenes depicting Christ's passion and crucifixion. Two other scenes from the work hang in the National Gallery in London -- "The Virgin and Child with Two Angels" -- and the Frick Collection in New York ("The ... More | | 
Frida Kahlo, The Flower Basket, signed and dated 'Frida Kahlo 1941' (lower center), oil on copper, 25 1/4 in. diameter. Painted in 1941. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced it has been entrusted to auction The Collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf. Known for their generosity of spirit as significant arts patrons in their hometown of Chicago, James and Marilynn Alsdorf spent their 38-year marriage building a wide-ranging collection marked by both quality and diversity across a broad range of categories. With works spanning antiquity to the Renaissance, 19th century Impressionism, mid-20th century Surrealism, and modern masters, the Alsdorfs home was akin to an encyclopedic museum of art. The Collection will be offered at Christies Rockefeller Center in New York beginning November 2019 and continuing into spring 2020. The first highlights from the collection, which is expected to realize in excess of $50 million in total, will be unveiled on 1 October, which marks the start of a global tour of highlights ahead of initial sales in November. Marc Porter, Christie ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Acrobate, Paris, January 19, 1930. Oil on plywood, 69 x 59 cm. Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el arte, Madrid, © FABA photo: Marc Domage, © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2019.
MALAGA.- Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso two of the most seminal figures of twentieth-century art innovated entirely new ways to perceive grand themes. While the resonances between them are filled with endless possibilities, a key connection can be found specifically in their exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which both artists dealt with in their works, starting from the figure right through to abstraction. Both Picasso and Calder were born in the late 19th century and their respective fathers were classically trained artists. They both left their home countries and went to work in France, where they constantly reinvented themselves, destroying their own precedents and those of other artists, and renewing the art of their time, along with our way of perceiving it. While there are certain parallels and synergies in the work of these two icons of modernism, ... More |
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| | Exhibition at Ordovas focuses on Peggy Guggenheim's little known first gallery | | Exhibition of early and recent works by Harmony Hammond opens at White Cube Bermondsey | | New exhibition recreates four of Umberto Boccioni's sculptures destroyed in 1927 | 
Yves Tanguy, Titre inconnu (Title Unknown), 1931 © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019.
LONDON.- Peggy Guggenheim needs little introduction for her contributions to twentieth-century art. Yet her formative years as a gallerist and her London gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, that she opened at the age of forty, have been relatively overlooked. Situated in a former pawnbrokers shop at 30 Cork Street, Guggenheim Jeune operated for eighteen months between January 1938 and June 1939. While its lifespan may have been brief its influence was considerable, both on the art world at the time and on Guggenheim herself; by the time Guggenheim Jeune closed she was a self-confessed art addict. Peggy Guggenheim and London, on display from 24 September until 14 December 2019, is intended as an anniversary celebration of Guggenheim as one of the first female gallerists in London and will showcase her parallel collecting interests in Abstraction and Surrealism through a display of works by Jean (Hans) Arp and ... More | | 
Harmony Hammond, Bag VI, 1971. Cloth and acrylic, 137.16 x 55.88 cm | 54 x 22 in. © Harmony Hammond. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition by Harmony Hammond at Bermondsey. Her first solo show in Europe, it features early and recent works, ranging in date from 1971 to 2019. Artist, curator, author and activist, Hammond was born in 1944 in Chicago but has lived and worked in New Mexico since 1984. A pivotal figure in the feminist art movement in New York during the 1970s, her early work combined gender politics with both a minimal and post-minimal understanding of materials and process, a focus that continues to this day. Frequently occupying a unique space between painting and sculpture, Hammonds abstract, monochrome oil on canvas paintings incorporate additional materials such as fabrics, push pins, metal grommets and rope into their compositions, creating active, textural surfaces that appear to refute ... More | | 
Matt Smith and Anders Rådén. Digital rendering (contour) of Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head.
LONDON.- The destruction, in 1927, of a number of plaster and mixed-media sculptures by the Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was a tragic loss for avant-garde art. Of the many groundbreaking sculptures he created between c.1913 and 1915, only a handful remain in existence today. Now, using a combination of vintage photographic material and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, digital artists Matt Smith and Anders Rådén have recreated four of Boccionis destroyed works: a volumetric study of a human face titled Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head , and three of the artists iconic striding figures. A ground-breaking display on show at Londons Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art from 25 September to 22 December 2019 will enable modern audiences to see these lost masterpieces for the very first time, in a new exhibition, Umberto Boccioni: Recreating the Lost Sculptures. Boccionis in ... More |
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| | Hauser & Wirth opens its first solo exhibition of Ed Clark's work | | Tampa Museum of Art opens 'Ordinary/Extraordinary: Assemblage in Three Acts' | | Keeping the thread alive at a Vietnam silk village | 
Ed Clark, Vertical Movement, 2002. Acrylic on canvas, 181.6 x 144.8 x 2.5 cm / 71 1/2 x 57 x 1 in. © Ed Clark. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Barratt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting its first solo exhibition of Ed Clarks work since announcing representation of the artist in 2019. Devoted to paintings made after the year 2000, the exhibition finds Clark returning to and building upon central motifs of his practice: specifically his use of the push broom to create enigmatic compositions with broad strokes, painted on canvas laid flat on the floor. Clark has masterfully established a unique form of expressionism by literally sweeping his medium into atmospheric, emotive, and ultimately exuberant works. Over the course of seven decades, Clarks experimentations with pure color, abstract form, and the seductive materiality of paint have yielded an oeuvre of remarkable originality, extending the language of American abstraction. Clark is regarded as a pioneer of the New York School and a formative addition to the group of abstract artists ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988), Yellow Door, 1985. Acrylic and oil stick on collaged wood door. Collage elements: color xerox paper on pegboard, nails and metal hinges. 84 x 36 inches. Private Collection. Photographer: Jeremy Scott. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art announced its fall exhibition series Ordinary/Extraordinary: Assemblage in Three Acts. Of the exhibitions, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Joanna Robotham stated, We are thrilled to present this robust, diverse schedule of exhibitions. The series features three exhibitions and I am delighted to share with our visitors works of art from private collections, including two important Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings, one of the largest collections of Haitian Vodou flags, as well as the Museums Purvis Young holdings. Basquiats Yellow Door (1985) and Untitled (Word on Wood) (1985) are significant examples of the artists abstract portraiture and his expressive use of language and symbols. Sacred Diagrams: Haitian Vodou Flags from the Gessen Collection highlights the ... More | | 
This photograph taken on September 17, 2019 shows a worker collecting yellow silk threads on a bobbbin inside a workshop in Co Chat village in Vietnam's Nam Dinh province. Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP.
NAM DINH (AFP).- Cocoons bob in boiling water as silk is rapidly teased out, spinning on reels skilfully operated by women in Vietnam's Co Chat village, where households have been making thread for more than a century. The village in Nam Dinh province, two hours south of the capital Hanoi, is nearing the end of silk production season. Dozens of workers, mostly women, in the bustling workshops stir the vats, gently unwinding the fibre from the cocoons through clouds of rising steam. Once the yellow and white fibres are spun onto wooden reels, workers hang them in the sun to dry. "Production from the silkworm cocoons depends 90 percent on the weather," says workshop owner Pham Van Ba, whose family has been spinning thread for three generations. "Our products will be ruined" if it's not dried under the sun, he tells AFP, explaining that even good quality thread can be marred by inclement weather. ... More |
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| | Pace Gallery presents a site-specific installation by Yto Barrada | | Sneakers, toys and street art land in Phillips with 'Tongue + Chic' sneaker exhibition & '24/7' online sale | | Zurich Asia to offer rare stamps and philatelic treasures | 
Installation view of Yto Barrada: Paste Papers 540 West 25th Street, New York September 14, 2019 September 14, 2020 Photographed by Kyle Knodell, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of Paces inaugural program for its global headquarters on view at 540 West 25th Street, the gallery presents a site‑specific installation by Yto Barrada in its new 10,000 volume research library on the first floor. Inspired by designs that the artist discovered in the endpapers of books within the library of the late architect Luis Barragán at his home in Mexico City, Barrada created a wallpaper that covers the entire south wall of the library. Additionally, the exhibition features a series of smaller framed works on paper that influenced Barradas special commission for Pace. Paste Papers is on view from September 14 December 20, 2019. Barradas wallpaper employs the techniques of paste papera centuries old practice used to embellish book covers and end papers with decorative patterns ... More | | 
Damien Hirst x Converse. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- This fall, Phillips auction house will present Tongue + Chic in Hong Kong, an exhibition that brings together an exciting selection of one-of-a-kind sneakers designed by the most influential contemporary artists, such as KAWS, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, and Dave White, one of the world's top tattoo artist Dr. Woo, hip-hop songwriter Swizz Beatz, Gucci Ghost Artist Trevor Andrew and fashion designer Pyer Moss, among others. Tongue + Chic will open to the public from 9-25 October at Phillips Hong Kong galleries in the St. Georges Building. Curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Senior Curator at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, these sneakers represent another medium for art lovers to engage with works by some of the leading artists beyond painting and sculpture. In conjunction with the sneaker exhibition, Phillips announced its inaugural online-only auction based in Asia, 24/7, which focuses on trend-setting collectibles. ... More | | 
An extremely rare 1925 inverted surcharge in red on 2nd Peking print Junk issue, 3 cents on 4 cents grey (Estimate: HK$1,000,000-1,200,000/ US$128,205-153,846.
HONG KONG.- Zurich Asia announced that it will hold its Hong Kong autumn auction on 28 and 29 September 2019 at Harbour Plaza North Point Hotel, offering over 2,400 lots of rare philatelic treasures, banknotes and coins. The sale features an exceptional group of a variety known as one of the Four Treasures of the Republic which are highly coveted by philatelic connoisseurs. Leading this section is an extremely rare 1925 inverted surcharge in red on 2nd Peking print Junk issue, 3 cents on 4 cents grey (Estimate: HK$1,000,000 -1,200,000/ US$128,205 -153,846, Lot 505). In mint condition and with no gum, its reverse carries a H.L. CHUNG' seal chop in red and comes with a certificate by Experts & Consultants dated 2019. Only ten examples of this variety are believed to exist, making it a true rarity in the market. Another ... More |
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 Two creative crossings unveiled on Kensington High StreetLONDON.- Kensington is embarking on a mission to rebrand and revitalise Kensington High Street. As part of London Design Festival two creative crossings were unveiled to the public. These unique works of street art are designed by internationally renowned figures in the world of art and design and will lead visitors on a visual journey through the newly branded Kensington Creative High Street. This project the first of its kind to be unveiled on Kensington High Street showcases designs from two local institutions, the Design Museum and Japan House London. Opened on Kensington High Street in June 2018, the creative crossing design from Japan House is the work of Hara Kenya, Creative Director for the global Japan House project. Hara is President of Nippon Design Center, Professor at Tokyo's Musashino Art University and Art Director of MUJI. ... More Johnny Cash-owned bed will headline Ripley Auctions' October 19 saleINDIANAPOLIS, IND.- The spectacular Chinese carved canopy bed that singer Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash shared in their home of 35 years in Hendersonville, Tennessee is the centerpiece lot in an Estate Art & Antiques Auction planned for Saturday, October 19th, by Ripley Auctions, online and in the gallery, located at 2764 East 55th Place in Indianapolis. The bed was sold in 2005, after the home was sold following the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Cash, for a reported $100,000. That owner installed the bed in their master bedroom, where it was used until its later sale to the current owner, in 2011. But its original home was in the Carters Hendersonville residence, north of Nashville, which the couple had built to their wishes in 1968. The auction will also feature John J. Audubon prints (including the Arctic Yager and Black-Bellied Darter); over ... More 25+ works by KAWS to lead the collection of Ryan Brant at Sotheby'sNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that they will offer 130+ works from the prescient and playful collection of pioneering video game executive Ryan Brant across a series of sales beginning in September 2019 and extending into spring 2020. Led by a selection of more than 25 works by KAWS, Game On! Property from the Collection of Ryan Brant features works by many of the most innovative and celebrated artists and designers of the 20th century, including Fernando and Humberto Campana, Ettore Sottsass and Wendell Castle. Amy Cappellazzo, Chairman of Sothebys Fine Art Division, commented: Ryan Brant was a brave and independent collector with a definitive point of view, and its a privilege to present his vision and collection at auction. As is befitting a successful creative entrepreneur, Ryan was ahead of the curve in his appreciation ... More Major works by contemporary designers and modern Italian masters lead Phillips' design sale this OctoberLONDON.- Phillips announced highlights from the upcoming London Design auction, which will take place on Thursday 17 October at 30 Berkeley Square. Spanning key periods of modern and contemporary design, the sale comprises 156 lots. Featuring in the sale are ceramics by Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Lucie Rie as well as masterfully crafted works by Gio Ponti, Hans J. Wegner, and Joris Laarman. As part of a unique collaborative project between Phillips and Märta Måås-Fjetterström to celebrate the studios centenary, a uniquely patterned rug, designed by the studios artistic director Barbro Nilsson for the Stockholms stads handtverksförening, will be offered. Leading the Italian works in the sale are two unique prototype folding coffee tables designed by Gio Ponti in 1970. Featuring joints and hinges which enable them to collapse and fold into ... More First U.S. museum exhibition to showcase graffiti and street art painted directly on gallery walls opensMORRISTOWN, NJ.- The new installation Aerosol: Graffiti | Street Art | New Jersey | Now opened at the Morris Museum on September 19, 2019. This is the first U.S. museum exhibition to showcase the work of contemporary graffiti writers and street artists painted directly on the gallery walls―from floor to ceiling―to capture the scale and site-specific nature of this artistic practice. Ranging from quick name tags and throw-ups to mural-sized pieces and a monumental tribute wall, the artworks on view illustrate current trends in New Jersey aerosol art. It features newly created work by twelve artists, including: 4sakn, Acet TM7, Dave Mek One Klama, Dean Ras Innocenzi, Demerock, Distort, Elan, Felipe Prox One Rivas, Jonathan Conner (LANK), Leon Rainbow, Maliq Griffin, and Will Kasso Condry. The show will be on view through March 15, 2020. ... More Josh McNorton appointed as new Cultural Director of Wembley Park ArtsLONDON.- Wembley Park, North West London's cultural neighbourhood, announced the appointment of Josh McNorton in the new role of Cultural Director. McNorton will lead the establishment of Wembley Park Arts, a new cultural programme for Wembley Park that ensures leadership across commissioning, co-production, cultural infrastructure support and developing local, national and international partnerships. McNortons appointment is timed to support the lead partner role of Wembley Park in Brents year as London Borough of Culture 2020. Josh McNorton has a varied background in producing, curation and programming. Most recently, he was Head of Arts & Culture Programmes at multi-disciplinary East London arts centre Rich Mix. Prior to this, he worked on arts and cultural festivals. Between 2014 and 2016, he was the Producer at Nestas flagship ... More Perrotin New York presents a solo exhibition by NY based artist Leslie HewittNEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York presents Reading Room, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Leslie Hewitt, opened September 11 and on view through October 26, 2019. For this exhibition, Hewitt introduces new bodies of work, including a series of photo-sculptures, wall interventions and steel objects, as well as a conceptual reframing of the gallerys adjacent bookstore. The exhibitions title Reading Room is a nod to one of the central theses of Hewitts practice, which works to disrupt and complicate entrenched readings of images and art objects as fixed or static, exposing a web or at times a knot of overlapping interpretations. For more than fifteen years, Hewitt has explored the relationship between image, text and object, but also the influence of repetition, meter and perspective as an extension of photographys aesthetic power. Hewitt composes ... More Allen Memorial Art Museum appoints two new curatorsOBERLIN, OH.- Hannah Wirta Kinney and Alexandra O. Letvin have been appointed as assistant curators at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Both begin their posts this fall. Hannah Wirta Kinney will oversee the museums Office of Academic Programs, which was endowed through a challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and matching gifts. Kinney will work closely with Oberlin College faculty to plan class visits and facilitate robust use of the museums collections to enhance learning in a variety of disciplines. She joins the staff on September 23 as assistant curator of academic programs at the Allen. Kinney has six years of experience working with academic, school, and teacher programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she held positions focused on interpreting museum collections for audiences ranging from ... More Two Nashville nonprofits help make art ownership possible for those in needNASHVILLE, TENN.- Poverty and the Arts is partnering with Urban Housing Solutions to launch, the Shared Walls Art Program (SWAP). SWAP will offer income, resources, and confidence to POVA artists who are impacted by homelessness. Through a sponsorship platform with companies and individuals, works by POVA artists will also be given to low income individuals or families moving into affordable housing provided by Urban Housing Solutions. Owning and hanging art creates a sense of warmth and belonging in any space, and we believe that it should be available to everyone, says Nicole Minyard, Founder and Executive Director of Poverty and the Arts. How the program works: A $500 sponsorship allows a company or individual to purchase an original art piece by a POVA artist (valued at $250) for their office or space. In turn, their ... More France's 'Little Brown Bear' author dies aged 90PARIS (AFP).- Claude Lebrun, creator of "Little Brown Bear", one of France's best-loved children's characters, has died at the age of 90, her son said on Sunday. Lebrun died in the northwestern French city of Rennes on Saturday. A literature teacher, Lebrun invented Little Brown Bear in the 1970s and wrote dozens of stories about his adventures. "I do not really remember that well but what she used to say was that she was tired of telling already-known stories, classic tales for the umpteenth time, and so she set about imagining her own character," her son, Pierre-Francois Lebrun, said. The stories, illustrated by Daniele Bour, were initially published by the children's magazine Pomme d'Api with around 40 appearing between 1975 and the start of the 1980s. Her funeral is due to take pace on Wednesday. ... More Nicole Kidman, Ansel Elgort and the cast of The Goldfinch join Sotheby's Old Master paintings specialistsLONDON.- Would you save an artwork by Pablo Picasso or Gustav Klimt, or would you save the Mona Lisa? To celebrate the release of the feature film The Goldfinch, Warner Bros. Pictures and Sothebys have asked the cast of the film which artwork they would save from destruction, if they could choose just one. The film, which features an ensemble cast led by Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman, is an adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, and is directed by the celebrated, BAFTA Award-winning director John Crowley. The question is inspired by the films premise, in which a young Theo Decker flees catastrophe at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, with Carel Fabritius 17th-century masterpiece The Goldfinch hidden in his possession. Following the death of his mother, Theo seeks to preserve the painting on his turbulent journey ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Linda McCartney was born September 24, 1941. Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; formerly See; September 24, 1941 - April 17, 1998) was an American musician, photographer, and animal rights activist. She was married to Paul McCartney of the Beatles. McCartney was a professional photographer of celebrities and contemporary musicians. Her photos were also published in the book Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era in 1992. In this image: Linda McCartney (1941-1998), Paul, Stella and James in Scotland, Platinum photograph, 1982. Courtesy James Hyman Gallery.
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