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Paola Rosa, left, and Emanuela Peiretti, restore a late-career Pietà by Michelangelo at the Opera del Duomo Museum in Florence, Italy. The restoration of a statue the artist created for his own tomb shines light on the psychology of the aging Renaissance master. Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore; Claudio Giovannini via The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
FLORENCE.- Michelangelo was an old man when he began working on a sculpture he envisioned for an altar for his own tomb: It was of a marble Pietà , depicting Jesus supported by the Virgin Mary, St. Mary Magdalene and the pharisee Nicodemus, whose face is a barely etched self-portrait of the aging artist. Michelangelo worked on the project between 1547 and 1555, while he was in his 70s, and it was a difficult project from the outset. His friend and biographer Giorgio Vasari wrote the marble block was flawed and full of impurities and that the chisel often struck sparks from it. Michelangelo grew frustrated, eventually abandoning the work, and Vasari wrote that Michelangelo tried to destroy it. But the sculpture survived, and last week the Pietà was publicly celebrated here after its first major restoration in almost 470 years. Monsignor Timothy Verdon, director of the Opera del Duomo Museum, which has been home to the statue for the past 40 years, said, This is Michelangelos ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People look at artworks during a press preview of the exhibition "Paris-Athènes. Naissance de la Grèce moderne 1675-1919" at the Louvre museum in Paris on September 24, 2021. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
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| Christie's to offer six portraits of Ottoman Sultans retracing 250 years of history | | Joan B Mirviss LTD. presents Hori Ichirō's first solo exhibition outside of Japan | | Hindman Auctions' Asian art sales surpass estimates & realize over $2.1 million | 
The set can be traced back to the collection of Count Gustav Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (18581938), and was kept in castle Berg in Bavaria, until 1935. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- The Art of the Islamic & Indian Worlds live auction on 28 October 2021 will offer a series of six portraits of Ottoman sultans, covering 250 years of history, from 1326, when Orhan became Sultan until Selim II, who passed away in 1574. The original series counted 14 portraits of which only one full set has survived and is today property of the Wittelsbach family and on exhibition in Würzburg. The series of six paintings to be auctioned is the second largest set in existence dating from circa 1600 and derives from the original set produced in Venice in 1579, at the instigation not, as one might presume, of a European patron, but of the Ottoman Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (1506-1579). On 28 June 1578 Sokollu Mehmed Pasha asked Venices resident ambassador in Istanbul, Niccolò Barbarigo, for portraits ... More | | 
Hori Ichirō (b. 1952), Ki-seto eared kinuta-shaped vase, 2019. Glazed stoneware, 10 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his first solo exhibition outside of Japan, Hori Ichirō has created enticing and highly original vessels exclusively for his New York debut at Joan B Mirviss LTD. On view during Asia Week New York this September, Classical Dignity, Contemporary Beauty is the culmination of the gallery's two-year long series showcasing the extraordinary range of ceramics produced in the historic Mino region of Japan. Mino is at the heart of both Japan's longstanding clay tradition and that tradition's most innovative interpretations. Hori exemplifies the best in Japanese ceramic artistry, as he is rooted in classical styles while bringing them forward with a strikingly contemporary flair. A self-described mountain man who lives in semi-seclusion, HORI Ichirō (b. 1952) resides at his kiln compound isolated from modern life. His exceptionally powerful works in a range of Mino styles, however, are by no means stuck in the past. ... More | | 
A Famille Verte Porcelain Figure of Guanyin. Price Realized: $200,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On September 23 to 25, Hindman Auctions Asian Art sales realized more than $2.1 across three auctions. The September 23rd Asian Works of Art sale achieved extraordinary prices across multiple sessions, ultimately realizing $1,656,188. The September 24th Japanese Works of Art auction and the September 25th Asian Works of Art Online auction also saw strong engagement and competitive bidding, realizing $164,188 and $280,375, respectively. Offerings ranged from Asian lacquer and pottery wares to late 19th through early 20th century precious stone carvings and paintings. Property from the Estate of Donna Wasserstrom, (Cleveland, Ohio), the Estate of Anthony D'Attilio (San Diego, California), the Estate of Robert Forest Coman (Scottsdale, Arizona) and a Private Chicago Collector saw remarkable results. Fantastic bidding engagement was seen in the September 23rd Asian Works ... More |
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| Exhibition brings together more than 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings made by George Condo | | Russian art trove and its tortured history comes to Paris | | New works enter the Wadsworth Atheneum Collection | 
George Condo, Little Henry, 2019. Acrylic, oil and pigment, 208.3 x 198.1 cm / 82 x 78 inches © George Condo. Private Collection. Photo: Martin Parsekian.
SHANGHAI.- Long Museum presents the largest solo exhibition by George Condo in Asia, The Picture Gallery. This ambitious presentation brings together more than 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings made throughout the artists career. Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and designed in collaboration with world-renowned architect Annabelle Selldorf, the exhibition focuses on some of the most important cycles and bodies of works that have defined Condos art since the late 1970s, when the artist was among the first to herald a critical return to painting after decades of conceptual art practices. The Picture Gallery opens with a new cycle of paintings specifically realized for the Long Museum, which combine free gestural interventions with drawn figurative notations. Grouped under the title Blues Paintings, this new body of work plays with musical references ranging from blues music to ... More | | 
Auguste Renoir, Portrait de Jeanne Samary ou La Rêverie, Paris, 1877. Huile sur toile, 56 à 47 cm. Musée des Beaux Arts Pouchkine, Moscou.
PARIS.- The line-up at the Louis Vuitton Foundation's new exhibition in Paris reads like a who's who of artistic giants from the Belle Epoque: Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Cezanne... What is most surprising is that they all come from one collection -- a pair of Russian brothers from the late 19th century who just happened to have an absurdly good eye for who would become the geniuses of their generation. Mikhail and Ivan Morozov, born into a textile dynasty in the 1870s, went to Paris and came back with treasures -- Manet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin -- that were barely recognised as such at the time. Indeed, Mikhail was the first to bring Van Gogh and Gauguin paintings to Russia. Some 200 of their portraits, sculptures and photographs are on show at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, on loan from Russian museums. They had a torturous route through the 20th century -- surviving revolution and years hidden away after World ... More | | 
Lee Krasner, Self-Portrait, 1931-1933. Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. 2021.12.1 © 2021 The Pollock/Krasner Foundation / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has recently acquired thirteen new works to add to its exceptional collections. These new additions diversify the Wadsworths holdings across departments and provide opportunities to tell more impactful and integrated stories of art and artists across time. They include unique examples of early American silver, a pair of mid-eighteenth-century English armchairs, a German Expressionist painting, a leading modernist self-portrait, and seven contemporary works, including an abstract sculptural painting, an assemblage of photographs, a feminist aquatint etching, and a large-scale watercolor drawing by an artist collective. The Wadsworth Atheneums latest acquisitions extend the scope and diversity of the collections while building on its historic strengths, ... More |
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| Johnny Ramone's Mosrite guitar sold for $937,500 at auction | | Dallas Museum of Art opens "Point, Line, Plane" honoring gift of works on paper | | Freeman's to offer extensive collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings | 
It was played at every Ramones performance until his retirement: from November 1977 through August 1996, for approximately 1,985 shows.
BOSTON, MASS.- Johnny Ramone's Mosrite guitar sold for $937,500, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The 1965 Mosrite Ventures II electric guitar used by John Cummings, better known as Johnny Ramone, for nearly two decades as the guitarist for punk rock legends the Ramones. It was played at every Ramones performance until his retirement: from November 1977 through August 1996, for approximately 1,985 shows. The instrument was used on all 15 Ramones albums and can be heard on any live Ramones bootleg from late 1977-1999. It was later displayed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH. According to guitar historian Chris Lamy, Cummings originally purchased the guitar in 1977 to replace his original blue Ventures II slab body, which was stolen from the Sire Records van with the rest of the band's gear after a show at the Aragon ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled, 2001, single-color lithograph, Dallas Museum of Art, bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, 2019.72.31, © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art opened a new exhibition honoring a remarkable gift from the estate of distinguished scholar William B. Jordan and his husband, Robert Dean Brownlee. Celebrating the establishment of the Museums Works on Paper Department, Point, Line, Plane: The William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee Bequest is composed of approximately 50 works donated to the DMA by Jordan and Brownlee. The exhibition includes drawings, watercolors, prints, photography, sculpture, and decorative arts by some of the most important European and American artists of the past three centuries. Point, Line, Plane is curated by Sue Canterbury, The Pauline Gill Sullivan Curator of American Art and Interim Allen and Kelli Questrom Curator of Works on Paper. The exhibition is on view through January 9, 2022, and is included ... More | | 
Fern Coppedge, Snowy Country Side (Lambertville in Winter). Estimate: $60,000-100,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans will present the esteemed Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltzfeaturing a group of paintings by leading Pennsylvania Impressionistsin its December 5 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. Virginia and Stuart Peltz, collectors with longtime roots in Pennsylvanias Bucks County, began amassing their impressive collection of works by Pennsylvania Impressionists in the 1980s. Well before the current market demand for such works, the Peltzes were buying paintings by Pennsylvania-based artists from Morgan Colt and Fern Coppedge to Edward Redfield and Daniel Garber. Sixteen of these worksnever before sold at auction, and representing many of the famed New Hope Schoolwill be on offer at Freemans this winter. Says Freemans Chairman Alasdair Nichol, We are proud and honored to have been asked to present Virginia and Stuarts collection ... More |
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| I want it all! Rock group Queen open London store | | Lawrie Shabibi announces representation of Mehdi Moutashar | | International Center of Photography opens an exhibition by Diana Markosian | 
A shop assistant poses with official merchandise of legendary British rock group Queen on sale at their newly opened store in central London on September 27, 2021. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
LONDON.- British rock legends Queen open a pop-up store on London's historic Carnaby Street this week to mark five decades of performances, despite the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1991. "Queen The Greatest" opens its doors on Tuesday and takes visitors back to the early days of the band, which was formed in 1971. The rockers went on to have worldwide hits with songs such as "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are The Champions" and "Don't Stop Me Now". Through several themed rooms on two levels, the shop retraces Queen's career up to the 2010s, including their legendary concerts and tours of the 1980s. The store will be open for three months on the famous Carnaby Street, the heart of Swinging Sixties London, a few steps from the shop of another cult British band, the Rolling Stones. A variety of memorabilia is on sale, including a Rubik's cube ... More | | 
Mehdi Moutashar, Quatre plis à 20° et 120° et deux angles à 60° (Four 20 ° and 120 ° folds and two 60 ° angles), 2014, Lacquered Steel, 251 x 185 cm. Courtesy the Artist.
DUBAI.- Lawrie Shabibi announced the representation of French-Iraqi artist Mehdi Moutashar (b. 1943, Iraq), whose art lies at the confluence of two artistic traditions - the western heritage of geometric abstraction and the Islamic aesthetic tradition of geometrical order and lines. His art is a radical, geometrical abstraction with figures that are never enclosed inside the limits of a contour but open, fragmentary and constantly shifting. Moutashar's first solo at Lawrie Shabibi opens on 5 October 2021. Born in the city of Hilla in central Iraq, close to the ancient city of Babylon, Mehdi Moutashar graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad, Iraq in 1966 and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France in 1970. He is a former professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1974-2008. Moutashar has held numerous ... More | | 
Diana Markosian, Svetlana's Wardrobe, 2019. © Diana Markosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the International Center of Photography presents an exhibition by Diana Markosian that contrasts the idealized expectation of the American Dream with the often dark and startling reality of the immigrant experience. On view from September 24, 2021 through January 10, 2022, Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara features staged and documentary images, film footage, and family photographs that reimagine the photographers autobiographical narrative following her mothers path from Russia to America with her two children in search of a better life in the 1990s. Exploring themes of family and memory, Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara is curated by Sara Ickow, ICPs Manager of Exhibitions and Collections, and David Campany, ICPs Managing Director of Programs. Presented in the museums new building at 79 Essex Street in New York, which opened in January 2020, the fall/winter season at ICP also features the exhibitions ... More |
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 James Bond helicopter used in the filming of 'You Only Live Twice' sold for £25,300LONDON.- A model of a Bell 47G Helicopter used in the filming of the James Bond classic You Only Live Twice is for sale with H&H Classics in a timed auction that ended on Sunday September 26th. estimated to sell for an estimate of £18,000 to £22,000 was knocked down for £25,300. There were some 304 lots of highly collectable automobilia in the sale. The buyer is a London based collector and the underbidder was from California the USA. There was very keen bidding throughout the sale. Adam Sykes, Head of Automobilia at H&H Classics says: This was a very important piece of British Film history so we were not surprised by the level of interest from around the world. He added: This is a unique opportunity to purchase an important piece of James Bond Memorabilia with impeccable provenance, coinciding perfectly with the release of the eagerly-awaited ... More  'Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature, 1650-1700' opens at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art CenterPOUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- Vassar Colleges Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will present the exhibition Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature, 16501700, on view September 28 through December 19, 2021 in the Loebs Focus Gallery. The exhibition, curated by Dr. Elizabeth Nogrady, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs at the Loeb, and Dr. Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Curator of The Leiden Collection, brings together approximately twenty paintings, drawings, prints, specimens, and illustrated books to explore the rich and varied concept of metamorphosis in the late seventeenth-century Netherlands. With links to art, myth, science, and the exchange of knowledge, ... More  Richard Saltoun opens an exhibition of works by Renate Bertlmann, Annette Messager, and Pamela Rosenkranz LONDON.- Modern art
will probably remain the greatest achievement of our age. writes Hannah Arendt in her essay The Crisis in Culture. In this essay, Arendt considers the social and political implications of what she understands as a crisis in culture. She maintains that artworkswhether painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, literature, drama, or filmplay a vital role in our society, with a unique power to make our world meaningful. For Arendt creative expression, independent of all utilitarian and functional reference, allows us to comprehend the world we have constructed, connecting us in ways that encourage thinking, engagement, and action. The crisis Arendt believes we are facing is that art has become ... More  Maxine Petry named Executive Director of Pioneer WorksNEW YORK, NY.- The Pioneer Works Board of Directors announced the appointment of Maxine Petry as Executive Director. Petry assumes the role after four years at Pioneer Works, most recently serving as Managing Director. Since joining in 2017, Petry has made significant contributions to the interdisciplinary cultural centers development. While building an engaged and philanthropic Board of Directors and donor base, she has diversified and stabilized the nonprofits revenue streams, significantly improving its overall financial health. "Maxine has exhibited strong leadership skills, exceptional discipline, and an equal balance of IQ and EQ that is needed to confidently steer Pioneer Works into our next phase of tremendous growth, said Austin Hearst, Chair of Pioneer Works Board of Directors. Her new responsibilities will only amplify ... More  Exhibition at Kunsthaus Pasquart presents Vanessa Billy's work and its development over a period of fifteen yearsBIEL/BIENNE.- For several years Vanessa Billy (b. 1978, Geneva; lives and works in Zurich) has been a prominent Swiss artist, with a presence on the national and international exhibitions scene. She is concerned with the intrinsic and transformative properties of materials, with the materialisation of processes of constant exchange within our environment and between humans and other living beings. The artist uses a wide range of organic and synthetic materials and waste products, including bronze, silicone, bio-based resin, water, metals, waste oil, glass and plastics; as well as industrial objects such as electrical cables, car engines and light bulbs. Thematically, Billys sculptural practice explores ecological issues, energy ... More  Exhibition presents works by Raden Saleh, Osman Hamdi Bey, and Hakob HovnatanyanVIENNA.- What are the asserted "highlights" of a collection? How is it that specific works get exhibited ... and others not? One look at the history of such curatorial choices illustrates the Eurocentric bias often behind these decisions. With this in mind, the Belvedere now presents three remarkable works from its collection rarely shown before, painted by artists considered pioneers of modern painting in their native countries: Raden Saleh, Osman Hamdi Bey, and Hakob Hovnatanyan. CEO Stella Rollig explains: There is a good reason why diversity and plurality are playing an increasingly important role in museums today. With this exhibition, the Belvedere seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the many perspectives of historical works from artists at the crossroads of different cultures. With Saleh, Hamdi Bey, and Hovnatanyan, we find high-caliber ... More  Conceptual artist Constantina Zavitsanos appointed as 2021-22 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard CollegeANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY.- The Center for Curatorial Studies and Bard Colleges Human Rights Project have named artist Constantina Zavitsanos as the 2021-22 recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible by the Keith Haring Foundation, the Haring Fellowship is an annual award that brings a prominent scholar, activist, or practicing artist to teach and conduct research on Bards campus. Initially launched in 2014, the fellowship embodies the shared commitment of the College and the Foundation to imaginatively explore the complex connections between sociopolitical engagement and artistic practice. Working in sculpture, performance, text, and sound, Zavitsanos deals in the material ... More  'Moulin Rouge!' and 'Inheritance' take top honors at Tony AwardsNEW YORK, NY.- It was the first Tony Awards in 27 months. It followed the longest Broadway closing in history. It arrived during a pandemic that has already killed 687,000 Americans, and as the theater industry, like many other sectors of society, is wrestling with intensifying demands for racial equity. The Tony Awards ceremony Sunday night was unlike any that came before still a mix of prizes and performances, but now with a mission to lure audiences back as the imperiled industry and the enduring art form seek to rebound. The ceremonys biggest prize, for best musical, went to Moulin Rouge! The Musical, a sumptuously eye-popping stage adaptation of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film about a love triangle in fin-de-siècle Paris. The musical, jam-packed with present-day pop songs, swept the musical categories, picking up 10 prizes. I feel that every show ... More  Mark Morris Dance Group debuts 'Water' in its elementNEW YORK, NY.- To make a dance to some of Handels Water Music and title it simply Water is just the kind of joke you would expect from Mark Morris. So is staging that work in Brooklyn Bridge Park with New York Harbor as the backdrop, putting Water right up against the water. The title helps set the tone: a little impudent in its unfussy plain-spokenness. And despite the downsides of the location a concrete promenade for a stage, which forced the dancers to protect their usually bare feet with sneakers, and recorded music (a rare concession for this troupe) that tone is part of what made the work particularly suited for a free, outdoor show. For 45 minutes Saturday, the neighborly Mark Morris Dance Group presented high-class choreography on a lovely day to people who sat on the sloping grass, passed by with strollers and pets or simply soaked ... More  John Wilkes Booth broadside, Lincoln White House china set records at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- It was a rarity made for what has been called the most important manhunt in American history
and the savviest of collectors knew it. A $100,000 Reward Broadside issued by the U.S. War Department, April 20, 1865, created after John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, sold for a record $275,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Sept. 25-26 Americana & Political Auction, including the Brook Mahoney Collection of George Washington Inaugural Buttons, to $2,170,799 in total sales. The price broke the previous auction record for a Booth broadside of $214,200 set earlier this year at Sothebys. This broadside called for the publics help after what has to be considered the most important murder in American history, Heritage Auctions Americana & Political Director Curtis Lindner said. Lincoln was one of the most popular and ... More  Kabul's carpet and antique dealers struggle after foreigners fleeKABUL.- Traders of carpets, antiques and souvenirs on Kabul's famed Chicken Street said Sunday business has completely dried up since the vast majority of foreigners left the Afghan capital as the Taliban took over. The once-bustling hotspot, where aid workers and adventurous tourists would shop for vintage tribal rugs, pottery and metalware, is almost empty of visitors looking for a bargain. "Business has drastically changed because we don't have a lot of foreigners going here and there in Kabul," carpet seller Abdul Wahab told AFP outside his empty showroom. "So that has affected our business, like carpets, jewellery and the tribal things of Afghanistan." Wahab said most of his customers had been expats, such as NGO staff and diplomats, but almost all of them evacuated by the end of August, after the Taliban stormed to power in the weeks before. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Geoffrey Beene died September 28, 2004. Geoffrey Beene (born Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr., August 30, 1924 - September 28, 2004) was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear. Beene's clients included Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Faye Dunaway and Glenn Close. In this image: Three Geoffrey Beene Dresses, Spring 1992. The Geoffrey Beene Archive.
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