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Large Keith Haring Acrylic/Gold Paint Marker on Red Plexi, 31.5"h, 39.5"w; 33"h, 41"w frame. Estimate: $550,000 - $750,000. Image courtesy of Palm Beach Modern Auctions.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Think back to the mid-'80s: you or somebody you know probably had a shirt from the Pop Shop emblazoned with Keith Haring's "radiant baby" across the chest. Haring's instantly recognizable symbols made him an icon of art and social awareness. He was on everything from the subways of New York City to the Berlin Wall and featured in galleries around the world. One such gallery was the Galleria Lucio Amelio in Naples, Italy. Commemorating his 1983 exhibition, Haring produced the Lucio Amelio suite of lithographs. As a personal gift, Haring presented Amelio with three paintings, one of which will be auctioned this weekend. The cherry red sheet of shining plexi is festooned with essential Haring figures: dog, TV, robot, crucifix, atom bomb, and of course, the radiant baby, in black and gold acrylic and paint marker, "May 11-83-Napoli for Lucio" written on the reverse. The piece is well-traveled, having made its way into several private collections and New York galleries over the thirty-eight ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery's warehouse is in need of a Spring Cleaning! These lots are going, going, gone...plus they've added a nice selection of lots brand-new to auction! The auction will be held on Thursday, Apr 30, 2020 9:00 AM CDT. In this image: Published 5th C. Celtic La Tene Iron Spear Tips. Estimate: Est: $3,500 - $4,500.
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 | | British Museum revamps online collection of over 4 million objects | | Sotheby's launches a digital buy-now marketplace empowering preeminent gallery partners to make immediate online sales | | New research reveals more of the 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' | 
Hoa Hakananai'a.
LONDON.- The British Museum today launches a major revamp of its online collection database, allowing over 4 million objects to be seen by people anywhere in the world. This new version of the online database officially called the British Museum Collection Online - has been unveiled earlier than planned so that people who are currently under lockdown measures due to Covid-19 can enjoy the treasures from one of the worlds great collections from the comfort of their own home. Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum, said The British Museum Collection Online makes millions of objects accessible to the citizens of the world, wherever they might be. Whether you are a student, an artist, a scholar or are a lover of history and culture, this is an unparalleled resource to explore the richness, diversity and complexity of human history contained in the British Museums collection. It is also a platform where we can share the latest knowledge and research. We ... More | | 
Alex Katz, White Roses 7, 2012, $900,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's announced todays launch of Sothebys Gallery Network: an online, buy-now marketplace for a selection of trusted gallery partners on sothebys.com. Sothebys Gallery Network will help its partners to make immediate sales during these unprecedented times, by utilizing both the auction house's extensive digital reach and their full-service transactional platform. Sothebys Gallery Network will provide each of its partners with a bespoke online presence, featuring a digital viewing room of property available for immediate sale at publicly-listed prices. Purchases of works valued up to $150,000 can be completed with ease as point-of-sale transactions on Sothebys online platform. Users will have the option to enquire regarding the sale of works listed in excess of $150,000. All works listed by its partners through the Gallery Network are offered exclusively through Sothebys ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on february 26, 2018 hows Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring painting inside a XRF macro-scanner during a research at The Mauritshuis in The Hague. Bart MAAT / ANP / AFP.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Scientific investigation of Vermeer's world-famous painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" has revealed elements that make her more "personal", even if her identity remains a mystery. The Mauritshuis art museum, where the painting is housed, announced on Tuesday that an examination -- the first of its kind -- had revealed the presence of tiny eyelashes around the girl's eyes, invisible to the naked eye. Research also established the existence of a green curtain in the seemingly empty background of the painting dating from 1665, a sort of "folded fabric" that has faded to black over the centuries. Art lovers and researchers around the world have long been fascinated by the Dutch master's painting of the young woman with an enigmatic look, wearing ... More |
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| | Salisbury Cathedral celebrates 800 years with virtual art exhibition | | Art Deco Cartier bracelet achieves $1.34 million in Sotheby's dedicated online auction | | The vinyl? It's pricey. The sound? Otherworldly. | 
Stairway by Danny Lane. Photo by Ash Mills.
SALISBURY.- Salisbury Cathedral opens a virtual version of Celebrating 800 years of Spirit and Endeavour, its largest contemporary art exhibition for nearly two decades. The virtual exhibition launches eight centuries to the day after the first foundation stones of this magnificent building were laid and just over a month after the real-life launch was halted by the COVID-19 lockdown. In the nick of time, Patrick Price from Heads Above The Cloud was called in to scan the entire exhibition, inside and out, before the Cathedral closed. Since then curator Jacquiline Creswell has been working with the Cathedral team to launch an interactive virtual tour of the exhibition. The catalogue is also available online. Three years in the planning, Celebrating 800 years of Spirit and Endeavour brings together work from some of the most important and influential contemporary artists of the 20th and 21st century, including Antony ... More | | 
Created circa 1930, 'Tutti Frutti' Bracelet by Cartier, sold for $1,340,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- This morning, Sothebys sold a magnificent 'Tutti Frutti' Bracelet by Cartier for $1,340,000. Created circa 1930, the sensational jewel had never before appeared at auction, having been passed down through descendants of an American family for more than 30 years. Pursued by 5 bidders, the Art Deco masterpiece far-surpassed its estimate of $600/800,000, becoming: the highest price for any jewel sold in an online sale as well as the highest price for any jewel sold at auction in 2020, at any house. Only one other work has achieved a higher price in an online sale at Sothebys (Friedrich von Hayeks Nobel Prize in Economics from 1974, sold in 2019 for $1.5 million). Catharine Becket, Head of Sothebys Magnificent Jewels Auctions in New York, commented: The result achieved for this bracelet is testament to the fact that, even under the most challenging ... More | | 
Mozart à Paris, a near-perfect simulacrum of a deluxe 1956 box set, in London on Feb. 26, 2020, which required extreme attention to the packaging details. The Electric Recording Co. in London cuts albums the way they were made in the 1950s and 60s. Tom Jamieson/ The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Tucked in a trendy coworking complex in West London, just past the food court and the payment processing startup, is perhaps the most technologically backward-looking record company in the world. The Electric Recording Co., which has been releasing music since 2012, specializes in meticulous re-creations of classical and jazz albums from the 1950s and 60s. Its catalog includes reissues of landmark recordings by Wilhelm Furtwängler, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk, as well as lesser-known artists favored by collectors, like violinist Johanna Martzy. But what ... More |
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| | "Probably the most beautiful thing at Chatsworth" goes online | | Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things come to Bonhams | | Free content during pandemic threatens cultural industries: UN | 
Woman in a White Shirt, 1958-60. (The Duchess of Devonshire) by Lucian Freud.
BAKEWELL.- Described by the current Duke of Devonshire as probably the most beautiful thing at Chatsworth, Lucian Freuds painting of the Dukes mother Duchess Deborah, Woman in a White Shirt is the first in a series of short films featuring some of the Derbyshire estates most treasured artworks. Filmed in the magnificent setting of Chatsworths library and posted on the website (Woman in a White Shirt), the Duke charts his familys close friendship with Freud and how a painting that left many people shocked and pretty upset when it was first unveiled in the late 1950s came to be commissioned and painted at the artists scruffy and horrible flat in Paddington. Exploring the diverse works of art in the Devonshire Collections with insight into their history and significance, each ... More | | 
Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980), Mademoiselle Lantelme (unframed). Estimate: £600-800. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A selection of 22 illustrations by Cecil Beaton for The Book of Beauty are amongst the highlights of Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art behind-closed-doors sale at 1pm on 12 May in Knightsbridge. Sold as individual lots, the works range in estimate from £300-500 to £1,200-1,800. One of the most important and revered photographers of the 20th century, Cecil Beaton became associated with the glamour of the young members of high society in the 1920s, his images capturing a sense of youthful abandon and conscious self-fashioning in the aftermath of the First World War. His work would go on to define the era of the Bright Young Things the name given to the crowd of young, intelligent and beautiful people Beaton called friends, which ... More | | 
New Orleans based musician Leyla McCalla live streams a short concert, at a time when she'd normally be playing at Festival International, from the front steps of her house in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 23, 2020. Claire BANGSER / AFP.
by Agnès Pedrero
GENEVA (AFP).- Books, films, concerts: free content has been spreading almost as fast as the coronavirus, making life easier for those sheltering from the pandemic, but also threatening already fragile cultural industries, the UN warned Tuesday. As countries around the world have imposed strict physical distancing measures to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus -- cancelling events, banning public gatherings, and asking billions of people to stay home -- access to free cultural content online has become omnipresent. While some content creators have themselves ... More |
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| | Ronnie Wood announced as Guest Artist for The Other Art Fair 'Online Studios' | | Rare Charles I Civil War coins minted in Hereford and the Welsh Marches will be offered at Dix Noonan Webb | | Oscars suspend movie theater rule due to coronavirus | 
Ronnie Wood, Voodoo.
LONDON.- Critically acclaimed artist, producer, song writer, and esteemed Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood will be the special Guest Artist for The Other Art Fairs Online Studios launched on April 28. Online Studios will feature a series of previously unseen numbered limited-edition prints signed by Ronnie and two exclusive set list lithographs all available for purchase. These works are vibrant re-workings of his beautiful collages and etchings of The Rolling Stones and featuring the bands setlists from concerts in Pasadena, CA and Glastonbury, UK. An established artist with a rapidly expanding fan base, Ronnie Woods work is widely collected throughout the world. The Other Art Fair is very excited to have Ronnie as the latest guest artist and will be announcing additional plans to collaborate with him further later this year. As his musical career progressed, Ronnie continued his passion for painting and drawing; his subjects ranging from band members and ... More | | 
A rare Charles I Civil War coin.
LONDON.- Two very rare Charles I Civil War coins minted in Hereford and the Welsh Marches will be offered in an online/ live auction at Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists in their sale of Coins on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 11am on their website www.DNW.co.uk. They are expected to fetch £6,000-8,000 and £4,000-5,000 respectively. Dating from 1645, the unique silver Halfcrown from the Hereford Mint, depicts King Charles I on horseback, while the reverse is unique among the silver coins of Charles I, showing an oval shield within a garter, supported by a lion and unicorn - a design normally reserved for use only on the gold coinage. Around two-dozen specimens are known to exist in private and public collections. The extremely rare example of the so-called Welsh Marches Halfcrown, struck at an uncertain mint on the English-Welsh border, dates from 1644 - a year earlier that the Hereford example. It ... More | | 
Movies that skip the big screen will be allowed to contend for Oscars this year, the Academy said on April 28, 2020 in a significant rule change forced by the coronavirus pandemic. Mark RALSTON / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Movies that skip the big screen will be allowed to contend for Oscars this year, the Academy said Tuesday in a significant rule change forced by the coronavirus pandemic. Traditionally the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences requires at least a seven-day run in Los Angeles theaters for movies to be eligible for Hollywood's biggest prize. But picture houses in America's second city have been closed since mid-March, with no date set for them to reopen. "Until further notice, and for the 93rd Awards year only, films that had a previously planned theatrical release but are initially made available on a commercial streaming... platform may qualify," the Academy said in a statement. Debate has raged in recent years over Oscar contenders produced by streaming giants such as Netflix, including last year's "The Irishman" and 2018's "Roma." Until now, ... More |
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James Doyle on the Exhibition Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean
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 LiveAuctioneers' campaign to benefit COVID-19 relief on track to generate substantial donationsNEW YORK, NY.- During the month of April, LiveAuctioneers, industry-leading provider of Internet live-bidding and marketing services to more than 6,000 auction houses worldwide, has implemented its greatest charitable initiative to date. To assist both its auction-house partners and major nonprofit organizations directly responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, LiveAuctioneers is finding new bidders and encouraging them to shop online from home for art and collectibles from local auction businesses. There are more than 290,000 objects available for bidding on LiveAuctioneers.com right now. All first purchases made from mid-March through the end of April by bidders who are new to LiveAuctioneers automatically generate a donation to support the Meals on Wheels COVID-19 Response Fund as well as global COVID-19 response initiatives. This ... More MCA Chicago extends Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago ExhibitionCHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces the extension of the popular Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago exhibition until September making it part of the re-opening of the museum following its temporary closure from the COVID-19 crisis. Drawn from the public and private art collections of Chicago and anchored by Chicago's supportive network of artists, collectors, and cultural organizations, Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago provides an opportunity for audiences to connect with the art and community of Chicago. This exhibition offers visitors a sense of healing through the ability to contemplate and reflect on world-class works of art from our community, as well as inspiring us to reconnect with our creativity. As MCA Director Madeleine Grynsztejn put it in her letter online, "Creativity is not cancelled." The MCA is launching the new Duro ... More Frist Art Museum presents its first online exhibition "We Count: First-Time Voters" NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents We Count: First-Time Voters, an online exhibition featuring the work of five local artists inspired by the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Originally scheduled to be on view in the Conte Community Arts Gallery, the exhibition will go live at FristArtMuseum.org/WeCount on May 1, 2020, as the Museum is temporarily closed due to COVID-19. It will highlight the history and challenges of voting in the United States and the first voting experiences of a diverse group of Nashvillians. The artistsBeizar Aradini, M Kelley, Jerry Bedor Phillips, Thaxton Waters II, and Donna Woodleyconnected with individuals and community groups across Nashville to learn about their voting experiences. The artists then created visual representations of those stories, through drawing, painting, ... More FotoFocus grants $800,000 to Ohio and Kentucky's art communitiesCINCINNATI, OH.- FotoFocus, the non-profit arts organization behind Americas largest photography biennial, announces that in lieu of presenting the fifth FotoFocus Biennial, originally slated for October 2020, it will pledge its Biennial budget to financially support the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio art communities during the Coronavirus pandemic. FotoFocus will grant an immediate and unrestricted $800,000 to over 100 Participating Venues and Partners that were selected to present as part of the 2020 FotoFocus Biennial. These collaborators work every other year towards making the FotoFocus Biennial a success, including 8 of the regions most prestigious arts venues: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Art Museum, Taft Museum of Art, Wave Pool, and Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH); Columbus Museum ... More Harold Reid, bedrock voice of the Statler Brothers, dies at 80NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Harold Reid, whose resonant bass, comic touch and business acumen helped make the Statler Brothers a top-grossing touring act and a steady presence on the country music charts for decades, died Friday at his home in Staunton, Virginia. He was 80. His nephew Langdon Reid said the cause was kidney failure. Reid, a founding member of the group, was the Statler Brothers de facto leader as they placed 58 singles in the country Top 40 from 1965-89 32 of them in the Top 10. Four of them, including Do You Know You Are My Sunshine, a song written by Reid and his younger brother, Don, who sang lead vocals, reached No. 1. The Statlers lineup also included Lew DeWitt on tenor vocals and Philip Balsley singing baritone. DeWitt, who died in 1990, left the quartet in 1983 because of chronic health problems ... More Vincent Michéa at Galerie Cécile Fakhoury Dakar extended until SeptemberDAKAR.- Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is presenting Toi Seulement, a solo show by Vincent Michéa. Dedicated to his practice of photomontage, Toi seulement is a visual wander through the artistic study that has marked the artists career over the last decade. Known for his colourful, pop paintings that borrow their themes from popular film and music culture as well as from the daily life of West African cities, Vincent Michéa has developed a continuous approach that has become increasingly personal but just as ambitious, which this exhibition aims to bring viewers in to discover again and again. The chronological display takes us from Paris to Dakar via Abidjan, three cities that occupy an important place in the artists life, three geographies but also three cultural influences that respond and echo each other from work to work. At the beginning is a ... More Pandemic brings life back to Florida drive-in theaterOCALA, FLA (AFP).- Since the United States closed its movie theaters in March to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, a small drive-in cinema in Florida has enjoyed a revival that recalls life in the 1950s. The old cliche that 'the show must go on' is not a cliche. Its a way of life to us, said John Watzke, owner of the Ocala Drive-In in the Florida town of Ocala. He said that his is one of only 11 still operating across the nation during the lockdowns. The rusting sign surrounded by stars revives memories of the heyday of the drive-ins, when movie-goers would park their cars in front of a huge screen and order drinks and popcorn from servers who would come to their car window. We are a rarity right now, said cashier Jeff Mellott. Were helping people. Everybody is cooped up. So this is a chance for some people to get out. The viewers, many of them wearing face ... More Nationalmuseum Stockholm publishes a new edition of its Art BulletinSTOCKHOLM.- A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. This time, it is a special double issue with scientific articles and information about the museums acquisitions over the course of 2017 and 2018. The publication is published in digital format, and is made available free of charge both to read online and for downloading. The contents of the new double issue of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm reflects primarily the extensive acquisition activities at the museum during the years 2017 and 2018. The first part contains a number of in-depth reports on the most significant acquisitions, in the form of scholarly articles. The subjects provide a clear picture of where the emphasis has been on the acquisitions: old masters of the 17th century, realism and other nineteenth century art, and contemporary design. Even though the articles ... More Bruce Myers, actor with voice of a 'Stradivarius,' dies at 78NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was actor Bruce Myers voice, above all, that people tended to remember. His deep lions voice will resonate no more, was how the French newspaper Le Monde opened its tribute to Myers, who died of the new coronavirus in Paris on April 15 at 78. A favorite of the great international director Peter Brook, with whom he worked for nearly 50 years, Myers, with his elegant diction and reverberant tones, inspired comparisons to the famously mellifluous John Gielgud. Writing about Myers performance in an evening of short works directed by Brook in 2011, Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times called him a human Stradivarius, with his lush caress of vowels and precise choreography of consonants. Bruce Myers was born on April 12, 1942, in Radcliffe, a town north of Manchester, England, to Maurice and Mitzi ... More Broadway adjourns, but the 'Sing Street' band plays onNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Explode the computer with energy, you beautiful people, director Rebecca Taichman said. It was an afternoon in mid-April and Taichman, scarf-swathed and sitting in what looked like her New York bedroom, was rehearsing the cast of Sing Street, the Broadway musical that would have opened on April 19. Adapted from John Carneys 2016 movie about 80s Dublin youths who form a New Romantics band, it celebrates pop music as therapeutic and liberating. Now, in pandemic times, the Sing Street band plays on, virtually. Sing Street like most of Broadways spring slate is a show in suspension, its original cast album, released last Tuesday, an artifact of a run that never began. But Thursday, the cast will offer Sing Street: Grounded At Home With the Broadway Cast on the shows Facebook ... More Peru's queen of Quechua rap fuses the transgressive and traditionalNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The music video begins with the sweeping views of the snow-capped Andes Mountains and the whistle of the regions traditional wind instruments. Then you see Renata Flores. Standing defiantly in the baggy pants, slick ponytail and hoop earrings that have become the uniform of hip-hop artists around the world, she begins to rap in Quechua, the language of the Incas, whose empire was rooted in these heights. This blend of traditional and transgressive, rural and urban, local and global, has thrust Flores, 19, and her music into an intensifying debate over identity in the region, and made her a leader among a new generation of artists producing contemporary music in Quechua, which remains the most widely spoken indigenous language in Latin America. In the past few decades, internal migration has transformed ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English landscape painter David Cox was born April 29, 1783. David Cox (29 April 1783 - 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. In this image: A Train on a Viaduct by David Cox.
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