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Tiffany Studios Drop-Head Dragonfly lamp. Estimate: $40,000-60,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions announced its grand opening and inaugural sale: Design for the Home and Garden on 15 September in their Downtown Los Angeles gallery. Andrew Jones Auctions is a new venue that unites a team of specialists with decades of international auction experience with a view to delivering fresh to the market property at all price ranges to new and seasoned collectors in Southern California as well as to global buyers. This is the opportunity for the nascent buyer to reverse the trend of the throw away world by acquiring antique and vintage furnishings and starting a collection while getting an education and developing their own style. Established collectors will find Andrew Jones Auctions the place to obtain the perfect complement to a meticulously curated collection, as well as a decorative statement piece to enhance a room. Andrew Jones, President & CEO commented ?It is with immense pleasure that we can ann ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The gold mask of the Lord of Sican, from the Sican culture that inhabited the north coast of Peru between the eighth and 14th centuries, is displayed at the Government Palace in Lima on September 10, 2018 after it was handed over by Germany on September 6. Germany has returned a priceless pre-Columbian gold funerary mask to Peru after the Munich regional court ordered the mask be returned in December 2016 following a 20-year legal and diplomatic battle. Peru had reported the eighth century Sican mask's disappearance in 1999, after which it was confiscated by Interpol from the German city of Wiesbaden. Cris BOURONCLE / AFP
| Christie's to auction five artworks to launch new Bennington College initiative to fund scholarships | | Jeanne Bucher Jaeger Gallery honors the Russian artists that it showed on its walls between 1925 and 1955 | | 'Hunger stones' tell Elbe's centuries-old tale of drought | 
Diego Rivera, Communards (Comuna de Paris), signed 'Diego Rivera, 28' (lower right), signed and dated again 'Rivera, 28 (lower left) gouache on paper, 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. Executed in 1928. Estimate: $100,000-150,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bennington College announced a new initiative, Art for Access, which provides a dynamic model for supporting scholarships by inviting new donations of art to the College, an institution with a long and celebrated reputation in the arts. Through this initiative, Bennington will seek gifts of works of art to be sold to benefit one of the Colleges highest priorities: providing scholarships for talented students who otherwise would not be able to afford a Bennington education. Art for Access celebrates the Colleges pioneering legacy in the visual arts while advancing its commitment to equity, diversity, and access. Since the Colleges founding, alumni, faculty, and friends have contributed artworks to Bennington for multiple purposes, including for the financial benefit of the College. ... More | | 
Nicolas de Stael, Eau de Vie, 1948. Oil on canvas, 39.8 x 32 in. Photo: Georges Poncet.
PARIS.- This Fall, in conjunction with the exhibition dedicated to the Russian avant-garde in Vitebsk at the Centre Pompidou, and on the occasion of the September 2018 Parcours des Mondes, the Jeanne Bucher Jaeger Gallery honors the Russian artists that it showed on its walls between 1925 and 1955. 1925 was the year that the gallery Jeanne Bucher was created, and 1955 was the year of Nicolas de Staëls death. This exhibition is in dialogue, in the same neighborhood and at the same moment, with the exhibition dedicated to Serge Charchoune by the Le Minotaure and Alain Le Gaillard galleries. The majority of these artists left their country after the Revolution of 1917, going through Germany or Belgium, before settling in Paris, a city dreamed of by numerous Russian painters of the time who saw in it a place of liberty and ease of living. For Paris was indeed the Capital of the Arts, the nexus ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on August 29, 2018 the so-called "Hunger Stone" is pictured in Decin, Czech Republic on August 29, 2018, by the low water level of the Elbe river. Michal CIZEK / AFP.
DECÃN (AFP).- Once an ominous harbinger of hard times and even famine due to critically low water levels, a massive "hunger stone" embedded deep in the Elbe River has reappeared in the Czech Republic after Europe's long, dry summer. The boulder in the town of Decin, north of the capital, Prague, is roughly the size of a van and bears the foreboding inscription, "If you can see me, then weep". Boatman and riverside innkeeper Franz Mayer etched the words in German -- "Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine" -- during a period of low water in 1904 in the days when the country was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. "Over the centuries, many people earned their living on the Elbe as rafters, and when there wasn't enough water to float their rafts, they lost their livelihoods," Vlastimil Pazourek, head of the museum ... More |
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| Yasufumi Nakamori appointed Tate Modern's Senior Curator of International Art (Photography) | | Phillips Auctioneers announces its inaugural Day Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art and Design in Hong Kong | | Steve McQueen's heist movie 'Widows' premieres in Toronto | 
Yasufumi Nakamori. Photograph by Dan Dennehy, Minneapolis Institute of Art.
LONDON.- Tate Modern announced today that it has appointed Dr Yasufumi Nakamori as its new Senior Curator, International Art (Photography). Nakamori will lead on the development of Tates collection of photography and on the programme of photography exhibitions and displays. He will take up the post in October 2018. For the past two years, Nakamori headed the department of photography and new media at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, developing new displays of photography and time-based media within the context of a global encyclopaedic art museum, including staging exhibitions with Leslie Hewitt, The Propeller Group, Omer Fast, Naoya Hatakeyama and most recently Amar Kanwar. He was also responsible for numerous key acquisitions which transformed and diversified the museums photography collection. He previously served as curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 2008 to 2016, creating ground-breaking exhibiti ... More | | 
Paavo Tynell (1890-1973), Table lamp, model no. 5061, circa 1940s. Estimate: HK$50,000 - 80,000. Hand J. Wegner (1914-2007), Large 'Architect's desk', model no. JH57, designed 1954. Estimate: HK$200,000 - 300,000. Early swivel chair, model no. JH502, circa 1955.Estimate: HK$150,000 250,000.
HONG KONG.- Phillips, the auction house dedicated to modern and contemporary art, announced the inaugural Day Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art and Design in Hong Kong as part of its autumn auction season. The Day Sale will take place on 26 November 2018 at the Mandarin Oriental, featuring approximately 100 items comprised of editions, photography, and Danish and Italian design pieces. The Hong Kong Day Sale was added to our calendar following the strong results achieved from our Spring 2018 sales, which grossed Phillips highest ever total in Asia. The Day Sale will support the vibrant art market in Asia, where record prices continue to be achieved for exceptional artworks, as well as appeal to the growing number of younger Asian buyers that are starting to build ... More | | 
Steve McQueen attends the "Widows" press conference during 2018 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 9, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP.
TORONTO (AFP).- Director Steve McQueen returned to the limelight at the Toronto film festival Sunday with the kick-ass feminist heist movie "Widows," at a time when calls are multiplying for heftier roles for women. It's been five years since the British director released his last movie "12 Years A Slave," which won an Academy Award for best picture, and other accolades. His newest film, starring Viola Davis -- the first black woman to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for "Fences" last year -- was adapted from Lynda La Plante's 1983-85 British television series, which McQueen says "just spoke to me as a 13-year-old black boy in London." "On screen, these four women were being judged by their appearance rather than their character," McQueen told a press conference in Toronto for the film's world premiere. "And at that point I was too." In the film, Viola Davis ... More |
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| First comprehensive retrospective in the U.S. devoted to the work of Siah Armajani opens in Minneapolis | | Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of art to benefit Rugby School | | Almine Rech Gallery announces representation of Estate of Vivian Springford | 
Siah Armajani, Fallujah, 2004-2005. Glass, wood, paint, copper, steel, rug, chair, table, light fixture, fabric. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Gift of Lannan Foundation, 2011.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Siah Armajani: Follow This Line is the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States devoted to the work of Minneapolis-based artist Siah Armajani. Born in Tehran in 1939, Armajani moved to Minnesota in 1960 to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, where he immersed himself in the study of philosophy. He has lived and worked in the Twin Cities ever since, while exhibiting nationally and internationally. Armajani is best known today for his works of public artbridges, gazebos, reading rooms, and other gathering spacessited across the United States and Europe. Near the Walker, the artist's landmark 375-foot Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge (1988) connects Loring Park to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The groundbreaking exhibition Follow This Line spans six decades ... More | | 
Attic Black-Figured Neck-Amphora, circa 520-510 B.C. Estimate: £40,000-60,000.
LONDON.- On 4 December Christies will present Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art to Benefit Rugby School, a stand-alone sale comprising approximately 200 lots from the collection of Rugby School. Carefully selected to ensure that nothing which is intrinsic to the history of Rugby School will be sold, the works to be offered span Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours, Books and Manuscripts, Antiquities, 19th Century Paintings, Sculpture and Chinese Ceramics. Rugby Schools Governing Body will use the proceeds from the sale to benefit the Schools current and future students, including a newly designated museum space on the School site for the remaining works including the important collection of memorabilia which relate to the invention of Rugby Football. The auction is led by one of Lucas van Leydens very rare surviving drawings, A young man standing (estimate: in the region of £1.5 ... More | | 
Vivian Springford, Untitled (Tanzania Series), 1971. Acrylic on canvas, 69 1/2 x 68 1/8 inches 176,5 x 173 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech Gallery announces its representation of the estate of Vivian Springford as well as its inaugural exhibition of the artist's work. The presentation will feature an extensive collection of paintings accompanied by Springford's first-ever monographic catalog published by Almine Rech Gallery Editions. The American abstract painter Vivian Springford (1913-2003) provides a fascinating case study of a mid-century American woman artist. Working first in an Abstract Expressionist and then in a Color Field vocabulary, she was active in multiple facets of the New York art world from the 1950s to 1970s, during which time she had solo and group exhibitions at the Great Jones Gallery, the Preston Gallery, Women in the Arts, and the Visual Arts Coalition. With an emphasis on gesture, dripping, and splattering, Springfords works of the 1950s bore a clear ... More |
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| Exhibition features artworks portraying relationship between U.S. & Australia from WWI to present | | Freeman's Books, Maps & Manuscripts Auction debuts new department head | | Newly discovered masterpiece by Foujita offered at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale | 
Notes on Aerial Warfare over Port Darwin, 4th April 1942 by Frank Norton.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Australian and American troops fought side-by-side for the first time in July 1918 during World War I. Since then, the Diggers (Australians) and Doughboys (Americans) supported each other in every major military conflict, including World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Opening Tuesday, Sept. 11 at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, Diggers and Doughboys: The Art of Allies 100 Years On features incredible artwork from the Australian War Memorial Collection illustrating the unique comradeship between the two countries. The relationship between the militaries of Australia and the U.S. stands as one of the most consistent and supportive alliances in the histories of both nations, said National WWI Museum and Memorial Senior Curator Doran Cart. This diverse collection portrays a century of military collaboration between these two nations through deeply engaging and ... More | | 
A presentation copy of Theodore Roosevelts Rough Riders (Lot 396, estimate: $3,000-5,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans autumn Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction will be held Thursday, September 27 at our Philadelphia headquarters. With close to 500 lots of rare and important books, historical documents, prints, maps, and related ephemera, this auction offers buyers a range of collecting areas and price points, and aims to attract both seasoned collectors as well as those just starting out. One highlight of the sale is a three-volume set by John James Audubon, The Quadrupeds of North America, from 1856 (Lot 264, estimate: $8,000-12,000). The present lot is the third edition and the last to be produced by the Audubon family, by sons Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse Audubon, who decided to issue this octavo edition of the enormous folio Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-1848), with the same text by John Bachman, during the last years of their fathers life. This octavo edition, so ... More | | 
Detail of La fête danniversaire by Léonard Foujita. Estimate: £900,000-1,300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- La fête danniversaire, a highly important masterpiece by the Japanese-French artist Léonard Foujita leads Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale in London on Wednesday 11 October. Unseen in public since 1950, and never before offered at auction, it is estimated at £900,000-1,300,000. The work was painted in New York in 1949. Foujita, who travelled extensively, had been living in Japan since the early 1930s working as an official war artist. He longed, however, to return to Paris where he had lived in the 1920s and where he had spent his formative years as an artist. While waiting for the issue of his French visa, he moved to New York, famously and symbolically throwing all his possessions into the Hudson river on his arrival. La fête danniversaire is one in a series of works Foujita painted there in homage to the French 17th century writer, Jean de la Fontaine. His best known work Fables ... More |
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 Final exhibition of the Making Things Happen cycle opens at The Merchant HouseAMSTERDAM.- Remix (Photography), the final exhibition of the Making Things Happen cycle, shows the work of six young French artists. It traces the weight of photography across other mediums of the young artist cyclepainting (Elsa Tomkowiak, Zhu Hong), sculpture (Boris Chouvellon, Mengzhi Zheng, Sylvie Bonnot), drawing (Zhu Hong, Zheng, Bonnot), performative action (Mary Sue, Chouvellon), architecture and structures (Zheng, Chouvellon, Tomkowiak), as well as art photography and moving image proper (Bonnot, Mary Sue, Chouvellon). All six artists start by interrogating spaces and collecting visual field notes on contemporary society. And in all cases the camera enters their creative process, but at different stages and for different forms of exposure. Fully proficient in photographic art and technique, the young practitioners of Remix opt to engage with the ... More Compton Verney Director leaves for overseas roleCOMPTON VERNEY.- Professor Steven Parissien is stepping down from his role as Director of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, after almost a decade at the helm, for a new role as the Executive Director of a museum in Toronto, Canada. Having avoided dereliction in 1993 thanks to the dedication of the late Sir Peter Moores, Compton Verney was fully opened to the public in 2004. The 120-acre site is now a nationally-accredited art gallery and major visitor attraction. During Parissiens tenure, visitor numbers have more than doubled, elements of the historic Lancelot Capability Brown landscape have been restored, and a number of critically-acclaimed and hugely popular exhibitions have been staged. As part of the gallerys celebrated artistic programme which aims to attract a diverse range of audiences, Parissien himself has curated a string of exhibitions ... More Exhibition at Aperture Foundation spotlights work of midcareer photographers NEW YORK, NY.- WeTransfer today announced Refocus, an exhibition at Aperture Foundation spotlighting three midcareer photographers who were provided grants by WeTransfer, which is on display this September at Aperture in New York. Selected by a panel of judges convened by WeTransfer, including Alessia Glaviano, senior photo editor at Vogue Italia; Michael Famighetti, editor of Aperture magazine; and Yumi Goto, independent photography curator, the three photographersSiân Davey, Janet Delaney, and Joe Nishizawareceived $10,000 grants to produce new work, all of which explores physical and psychological landscapes. New work by Siân Davey and Joe Nishizawa debuts at the exhibition, and a series from the 1980s by Janet Delaney is being exhibited for the first time in New York. With a ... More Powerful artist's compelling works confront important societal issuesCHESTNUT HILL, MASS.- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College debuted Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement, a groundbreaking exhibition that examines the American artists diverse and innovative career through both celebrated and rarely exhibited projects. The exhibition is on display in the Daley Family and Monan Galleries of the McMullen Museum from September 10 to December 13, 2018. Weems has produced a unique body of aesthetically and politically powerful work during the last 30 years. She has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power through art, employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. To mount a large number of installation pieces produced over decades by Carrie Mae Weems, one of the most ... More Rare Tiffany Studios floor and table lamps will headline Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers saleCRANSTON, RI.- A selection of three rare Tiffany Studios floor and table lamps from a private collection out of Houston, Texas, plus the contents of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island Preservation Society Joseph Spaulding House are just a taste of whats in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers upcoming Estate Antiques & Fine Art Auction on Saturday, September 22nd. The auction will be held online and in Bruneau & Co.s gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, beginning promptly at 10 am Eastern time. More than 450 lots will come up for bid, with online bidding via bidLIVE.Bruneauandco.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com, or by downloading the mobile app Bruneau & Co. on iTunes or GooglePlay. You name it, this sale has it, said Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. specialist and auctioneer. From Chinese and Egyptian antiquities ... More Magnum Print Room opens exhibition of works by Carolyn Drake, Bieke Depoorter and Susan MeiselasLONDON.- Collaborative Portraiture brings together work by Magnum photographers Carolyn Drake, Bieke Depoorter and Susan Meiselas to present different creative strategies to portray female subjects. In each series on display, the sitters have been invited to present themselves on their own terms, to perform, play and control their representation in front of the lens. Portraiture has always played an important role within Magnums documentary photography and its members have continually investigated and rethought the process of photographic storytelling. One component within this being to democratise the act of photographing, shifting the emphasis from taking photographs of their subject, to a collaborative exchange that incorporates multiple points of view. At a time when female representation has become increasingly politicised, this exhibition ... More Gabrielle Wyrick appointed as Deputy Director for Learning and Engagement at New Orleans Museum of ArtNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), has announced the appointment of Gabrielle Wyrick as the Deputy Director for Learning and Engagement, a member of the museums senior management team. Wyrick, who was named a 2018 Museum Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association (NAEA), will begin her work at NOMA October 1, 2018 and will lead NOMAs Department of Learning and Engagement. NOMA is a leader in new trends in museum education, including innovative initiatives in programming for early childhood education, teens, community connections, and the performing arts, said Susan Taylor. Drawing upon her exceptional experience, Gabrielle will be instrumental in continuing to enhance the museums vision for Learning and Engagement. We ... More Intricate pieces from the 1700s on display at Walker Art GalleryLIVERPOOL.- A stunning collection of 18th century fashion items is on display at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, from 4 August 2018 to spring 2020. Showcasing 13 male and female costumes as well as accessories, Dressed to Impress: Fashion in the Eighteenth Century highlights changing attitudes towards body shapes as well as documenting the social climate of the time. Pauline Rushton, Senior Curator at National Museums Liverpool, said: Were incredibly fortunate to be presenting these exquisite items from our collections together for the first time in this display. Visitors to the Walker Art Gallery will enjoy not only the variety and detail seen in 18th century ways of dressing, but also learn about some of the social issues at play throughout the century. These beautiful pieces demonstrate how fashion can be an important vehicle for exploring ... More Clark Art Institute names Larry Smallwood as Deputy DirectorWILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Larry Smallwood, a veteran arts executive, will join the Clark Art Institutes staff as Deputy Director on October 29, 2018. Smallwood succeeds Tony King, who is retiring from the Clark after a twenty-year tenure. Larry Smallwood brings unique skills and boundless energy to his work and is a dynamic and creative team-centered leader. He joins our staff at a moment of great opportunity and will play a critical role in helping us to achieve many of the exciting projects we are planning for the future, said Olivier Meslay, the Hardymon Director of the Clark. We have deep respect and admiration for the important role Larry has played in shaping MASS MoCA and know that our region will be further enriched by the contributions he will make to the Clark in the years ahead. Smallwood is the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Massachusetts ... More Christie's announces new initiative with Global Wildlife ConservationNEW YORK, NY.- On September 27, Christies New York Post-War to Present Auction will commence with a selection of approximately 20 works to benefit Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC). Each work has been generously donated by either artists or collectors, including Agnus Gund, who contributed Ed Ruschas So from her collection. Proceeds from the sale will be utilized to purchase and preserve a large-scale forest in the Americas to form a new national park. The Sheth Sangreal Foundation, led by Brian Sheth, Chair of the Board, Global Wildlife Conservation, have joined in providing matching funds on the benefit. Brian Sheth, Chair of the Board, Global Wildlife Conservation, commented: The relationship between nature and art has existed in ways large and small since our shared journey on this planet began. The proceeds and matching funds ... More Tai Kwun Contemporary stages: Cao Fei's first institutional solo exhibition in AsiaHONG KONG.- Tai Kwun Contemporary is staging a solo exhibition that captures some of the most remarkable aspects of the Chinese visual artist Cao Fei, an exhibition entitle A hollow in a world too full. The exhibition, presented by UCCA, Beijing, runs from 8 September to 9 December 2018 at the art galleries in Tai Kwun. Cao Fei is one of the most renowned contemporary Chinese artists of her generation. Born in 1978 in Guangdong, China, she is widely known for her multimedia installations and artworks which explore the realities of young Chinese in a fast-changing society. The artist mixes social commentary, pop aesthetics, references to surrealism and documentary conventions in her films and installations. A hollow in a world too full at Tai Kwun Contemporary is Cao Feis first large-scale exhibition in Asia. It follows the unprecedented success and international ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian-French painter Konstantin Korovin died September 11, 1939. Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1861 - 11 September 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Konstantin was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as "peasants of Vladimir Gubernia". In this image: Gurzuf. 1916.
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