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Seth Kaller, a historical documents expert, holds an early copy of the U.S. Constitution against the light in White Plains, N.Y., on Sept. 17, 2024. Experts believe that an antiques appraiser in North Carolina stumbled upon a rare original copy of the Constitution, and its sellers predict that it will be sold for millions at an auction later this week. (Hank Sanders/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ken Farmer, an antiques appraiser, opened a folder that had been stored for decades in a dusty file cabinet in an old mansion in North Carolina and pulled out a creased, worn sheet of paper. He could tell almost immediately that he was looking at a print dating back to the 18th or 19th century. On that day in 2022, his excitement grew and the hairs on his arms stood up as he recognized the words at the top of the page. WE the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, it read. But it wasnt until he looked at the bottom of the document and saw the signature of Charles Thomson, the secretary of Congress at the time of the Constitutional Convention, that Farmer realized how momentous this finding could be. He believed he was holding one of the first copies made of the Con ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Luhring Augustine is presenting The Brutality of Fact, an exhibition of works by Steve Wolfe presented alongside materials from the artistâ's archive. Marking Wolfe'âs fifth solo presentation with Luhring Augustine, and the first in the Tribeca location, the show will be on view through October 19.
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| Old World Auctions will celebrate its 200th auction with sale consisting of just five rare, important lots | | Zio Ziegler's second solo exhibition with Almine Rech on view in Brussels | | Miller & Miller announces back-to-back online auctions, Oct. 12th & 13th |
Lot # 4 is Purchas His Pilgrims, published 1625-1626 and an important five-volume collection of voyages with 88 maps, created by Samuel Purchas, an English cleric. To illustrate his work, Purchas got the rights to use Hondius' copperplates from Atlas Minor (est. $55,000-$70,000).
RICHMOND, VA.- To celebrate its 200th auction, Old World Auctions is offering five of the most coveted maps of the last 500 years. Auction #200: Cartographic Treasures is an Internet-only auction that will be available for live bidding on Thursday, October 10th, at 12 oclock noon Eastern time. The brief but important catalog includes ... More | |
Zio Ziegler Composition with figure emerging into light, 2024. Oil on linen, 243.8 x 182.8 cm - 96 x 72 in (unframed).
BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Brussels is presenting Reverse Paintings, Zio Zieglers second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 12 to October 31, 2024. When thinking of time, we often think of a timeline and focus either on planning the future or reflecting on the past, rarely considering the present. Similarly, when contemplating our lifetime, our viewpoint considers the endless fractals of decades, days, and seconds without understanding the fixed point, ... More | |
Enamel on canvas by Joe Norris (Nova Scotia, 1924-1996), titled Sunset with Three Yawls, signed lower left, 24 inches by 30 inches (less frame) (est. CA$9,000-$12,000).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- Original oil paintings by acclaimed Nova Scotia artists Maud Lewis (1901-1970) and Joe Norris (1924-1996); an 1860s F. P. Goold (Branford, Ontario) two-gallon horse crock; and many other wonderful examples of Canadiana and Canadian folk art will come up for bid in online auctions hosted by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., October 12-13. The Goold horse crock and Cortes oil painting will headline the Saturday, ... More |
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| Gagosian to present giant triple mushroom sculpture by Carsten Höller at Place Vendôme, Paris | | A moment in time, preserved in polyester | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art announces loan from the Republic of Yemen |
Carsten Höller, Giant Triple Mushroom, 2024. Fly agaric / Long Net Stinkhorn / Dove-coloured Tricholoma. Aluminum, stainless steel, and paint, 118 1/8 x 116 1/8 x 94 1/2 inches (300 x 295 x 240 cm) © Carsten Höller. Photo: Minko Minev. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian announced the installation of a new sculpture by Carsten Höller at Place Vendôme in Paris, titled Giant Triple Mushroom (2024). Höllers sculpture is presented as part of Art Basel Pariss public programming and will be on view from October 15 through ... More | |
Vintage soccer jerseys have become a streetwear staple and a target of major investors. (Jack Roe/The New York Times)
MANCHESTER.- The temperature drops perceptibly as Doug Bierton discreetly sweeps the bracelet on his left wrist over a wall-mounted sensor and enters the vault. Like access to this locked room, the climate inside it is strictly controlled. To the uninitiated, this might seem excessive. Its contents are not jewels, or watches, or the treasures of some lost civilization. They are, instead, ... More | |
File photo of Andrzej Poskrobko atop a scissor lift at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the loan of 14 ancient sculptures from the Republic of Yemen. The works, dating from the first century B.C.E. through the third century C.E., were voluntarily repatriated to the Republic of Yemen from the Hague family collection located in New Zealand. The Republic of Yemen then reached out to The Met to request that the ... More |
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| Birmingham Museum of Art announces Hayward Oubre retrospective | | 'Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints' showcases the Ackland's collection of art on paper | | Turner Contemporary will open the largest survey exhibition to date of British artist Anya Gallaccio |
Hayward L. Oubre, Jr. (American, 19162006), Equilibrium, 1969, acrylic and acrylic resin on canvas, 30 x 24 in., Collection of Carla and Cleophus Thomas, Jr., image credit: Erin Croxton.
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- The Birmingham Museum of Art will present the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of American modernist, Hayward L. Oubre, Jr. (19162006). Through 52 sculptures, paintings, and prints, Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity reveals how the artist shaped American art while working in the South, and underscores the crucial role of Black artists and art departments ... More | |
Théodore Géricault, 1791-1824, The Boxers (Boxeurs), 1818, crayon and brush lithograph on paper, 14 5/16 x 16 7/16 in. (36.3 x 41.7 cm). The William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund, 2018.40.2.
CHAPEL HILL. NC.- The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announces the new exhibition Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints, on view Sept. 27, 2024-Jan. 5, 2025. Dürer to Matisse, curated from the Ackland's collection, offers an exceptional opportunity to view nearly 100 prints by some of the most recognized artists active from the late fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, ... More | |
Anya Gallaccio, Time is our choice of how to love and why (russet), 2004. Direct-cast bronze apple tree and porcelain. © Anya Gallaccio. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery.
MARGATE.- Turner Contemporary announces preserve, the largest survey exhibition to date of British artist Anya Gallaccio. Opening in Autumn 2024, it will span three decades of Gallaccio's radical practice, restaging several iconic works in addition to a new site-specific commission. The exhibition will reveal her consistent rethinking of the relationship between art and the environment by presenting works that ... More |
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| Philbrook presents icons of American art | | Turner Prize 2024 opens at Tate Britain | | Luhring Augustine presents an exhibition of works by Steve Wolfe |
Installation view. Photo: Courtesy of Philbrook Museum of Art.
TULSA, OK.- Its no secret that 2024 is a pivotal year for America: a presidential election, the summer Olympics, and even a Beyoncé country album. This fall at Philbrook, guests will experience iconic American masterpieces including powerful portraits, sweeping landscapes, and exquisite still lifes by Mary Cassatt, Barkley L. Hendricks, Edward Hopper, Anna Klumpke, Alice Neel, Isamu ... More | |
Portrait of Delaine La Bas. Photo © Tara Darby.
LONDON.- Tate Britain today unveils an exhibition of work by the four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024: Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas. The exhibition will run from 25 September 2024 to 16 February 2025. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony at Tate Britain on 3 December 2024. This marks the prizes 40th anniversary, as well as its return to Tate Britain for the first time ... More | |
Streetcar Named Desire, 1996.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting The Brutality of Fact, an exhibition of works by Steve Wolfe presented alongside materials from the artists archive. Marking Wolfes fifth solo presentation with Luhring Augustine, and the first in the Tribeca location, the show will be on view through October 19. The installation highlights a cohesive selection of Wolfes meticulously crafted replicas of timeworn books, well-used ... More |
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A devastated drone pilot opens the Met Opera's seasonNEW YORK, NY.- On a fall evening in 1883, the Metropolitan Opera opened its doors for the first time with a performance of âFaust,â the classic tale of a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles to gain power and pleasure. On Monday, 141 years later, another Met season began with Jeanine Tesori and George Brantâs âGrounded,â a bloodless new opera on that same old theme of making an ill-advised deal with the devil. The same old theme, but with 21st-century trappings â a plot about advanced weapons technology; a libretto loaded with words unprintable in this newspaper â that are still unusual in the tradition-bound opera world, particularly on the Metâs most important night of the year. There is an assumption that operas on charged contemporary themes must be risky and important. âGrounded,â which doesnât risk much, politically or musically, shows this isnât so. ... More Photorealist, pop & pin-up masterpieces shape Heritage's Louis and Susan Meisel Collection auctionDALLAS, TX.- Many art dealers follow trends in art; thats where the fast and loose collector money comes from, where gatekeeping is a favorite posture, and where conversations between the gallerist and the collector about the actual pleasure and beauty in an artwork are demolished under the weight of speculative conversation about investment in the next hot thing. The now-legendary SoHo gallerist, writer and collector Louis Meisel is not and was never that kind of art dealer. His profound commitment to his true loves, Photorealism, Pop, and Pin-Up Art, required a slow-burn, anti-trend business model that rewarded his collectors deeper commitment and, ultimately, Meisels. My gallery and situation evolved to be somewhat different from just about all the other dealers, says Meisel. I had discovered and chosen to represent ... More Zarina Bhimji receives the Roswitha Haftmann Prize 2024ZURICH.- The Roswitha Haftmann Foundation announced that the artist Zarina Bhimji, born in Uganda and living in London, is awarded with Europes best-endowed art awardthe Roswitha Haftmann Prize. The prize, installed according to the will of the late Swiss gallerist Roswitha Haftmann (19241998) honours the lifetime achievements of exceptional artists. Zarina Bhimji is its 22nd recipient. The Prize will be handed over to her during an award ceremony on November 29, 2024 at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Previous winners have included Walter De Maria, Maria Lassnig, Robert Ryman, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Sigmar Polke, Pierre Huyghe, Trisha Brown, Lawrence Weiner, Gülsün Karamustafa, VALIE EXPORT and Cildo Meireles. The Prize is unique in that it imposes no additional conditions and allows its recipients to freely ... More The author of 'Impossible Creatures' tucks big ideas in tales of wonderNEW YORK, NY.- In 2008, at the age of 21, Katherine Rundell aced perhaps the most fiendish test in all of British academia: the entrance exam for All Souls College at Oxford University. For the final portion, a three-hour essay on a single word, novelty, Rundell managed to weave in references to both Derridean deconstructionism and Christmas crackers. Dazzling the examiners with her erudition, Rundell was made All Souls youngest woman scholar ever, and given seven years to pursue a doctorate on John Donnes poetry and the genealogy of style, tracing its impact on other poets. And so it was a cause of some befuddlement in the ancient halls of the college when Rundell announced to her adviser, Colin Burrow, that she also wanted to write childrens books. I knew that writing fiction for children is a serious and good thing to do, recalled ... More PinchukArtCentre announces 20 nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025KYIV.- PinchukArtCentre announces the artists shortlisted for the 8th edition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize in contemporary art for young Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger. The shortlist has been formed by the selection committee based on the results of the selection from more than 900 applications submitted by Ukrainian artists. The shortlist of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 includes: Mykhailo Alekseenko (34, Kyiv), Kateryna Aliinyk (25, Kyiv), Yuriy Bolsa (27, Chervonohrad), Vasyl Dmytryk (32, Ivano-Frankivsk/Odesa), Maksym Khodak (23, Vienna/Kyiv/Bila Tserkva), Yevhen Korshunov (35, Brovary/Kyiv), Kateryna Lysovenko (34, Kyiv/Vienna), Krystyna Melnyk (30, Kyiv/Melitopol), Daria Molokoiedova (22, Kramatorsk/Kyiv), Vlad Plisetskiy (25, Kyiv), Andrii Rachynskyi (34, Kharkiv), Anton Saenko (34, Sumy/Kyiv), ... More Dutch designer makes three-metre-tall lamb sculpture out of hundreds of kilograms of discarded European woolMELBOURNE.- A giant lamb by Netherlands-based designer and innovator Christien Meindertsma, made using a pioneering new fabrication technology, is the focus of this years MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission opening on 3 October at NGV International. Meindertsmas work First there was a mountain 2024 repurposes hundreds of kilograms of wool, from a flock of more than two thousand sheep based in Rotterdam, that would have otherwise been discarded as waste. Meindertsma has worked with Netherlands-based machine developer Tools for Technology to pioneer a groundbreaking robotic tool known as the Wobot to produce the Commission. Bringing attention to the growing issue of waste ... More Ukrainian poet and rock star fights near front and performs behind itKHARKIV.- When the Ukrainian army hit a crisis of recruitment this year amid rising losses on the battlefield, one of the most popular cultural personalities in the country stepped up and enlisted. At some point it became uncomfortable not to join up, said Serhiy Zhadan, in an interview at a military base in July. A beloved poet, novelist, lyricist and rock star in Ukraine, Zhadan, 50, joined a local National Guard brigade in his home city of Kharkiv in May and started a two-month stint in boot camp. By summer he was serving in an engineering unit on the second line of defense. Many of his friends were already fighting, he said of his decision to enlist. This feeling that someone is fighting for you, instead of you, while you are also able to join, was also important. Although he said he ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Latvian-born American painter Mark Rothko was born September 25, 1903. Mark Rothko (September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970), was a Russian-American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter". In this image: A visitor passes three paintings by US-painter Mark Rothko which are on exhibition at the Foundation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, on February 15, 2001.
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