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Mr. Hollein currently leads the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Max Hollein has been elected its next Director. Mr. Hollein currently leads the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. After beginning his career at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, he was Director and CEO of three of Germany's most prestigious art institutions, including the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. An accomplished curator and museum leader, Mr. Hollein has demonstrated exceptional skill at building collections, diversifying audiences, and broadening institutional development. He was elected at a meeting of the Board of Trustees today and will assume the directorship of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the summer of 2018. "The Board of Trustees is delighted to announce the appointment of Max Hollein as the tenth Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," said Daniel Brodsky, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. "He is an innovative and inspiring museum leader and has a proven reco ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Singapore-based conceptual artist, collector and gallerist Guillaume Levy-Lambert is one of 900 art world luminaries attending the spectacular black-and-white themed Amis du Centre Pompidou annual fund raising gala dinner, designed by Belgian designer Charles Kaisin, in Paris on April 10, 2018.
| Francis Bacon portrait highlights Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale | | Immersive exhibition illustrates the importance of queens in Egypt's New Kingdom period | | To secure museum's future: Berkshire Museum to offer 13 works at auction | 
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait, 1977, oil and dry transfer lettering on canvas
78 x 58⅛ in. (198.2 x 147.7 cm.). Estimate on Request. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Francis Bacons Study for Portrait (1977, estimate on request) will star in Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, which will take place on 17 May 2018. The powerful large-scale eulogy to his great muse and lover George Dyer was painted in Paris in 1977 and was last exhibited in London the same year at the Royal Academy of Arts in a group exhibition titled British Painting: 1952-77. A poignant celebration of his most important subject, Study for Portrait will be on view in London until 15 April, the first time it has been seen there since the show at the Royal Academy over 40 years ago. The work comes from the distinguished collection of Magnus Konow, who acquired it from Bacon through Marlborough Gallery shortly after its creation in 1977. This therefore represents the first time the work will be offered at auction. As a young man, based in Monaco, Konow built an impressive collection of wo ... More | | 
Figurine representing the deceaseds mummy Blue faience. Unknown provenance. New Kingdom, 19th dynasty, reign of Seti I (12901279 BCE) © Museo Egizio, Turin.
MONTREAL.- The Queens of Egypt exhibition, produced by Pointe-à -Callière in partnership with Turin's Museo Egizio, gives visitors a rare opportunity to fully comprehend the grandeur of Egyptian civilization and its women of power during the New Kingdom. The exhibition delves into the world of the Great Royal Wives, sisters, and daughters of the pharaohs, presenting a captivating picture of these queens and illustrating the diverse and important roles they played in Egyptian society. Their incredible lives unfold during an immersive tour that features over 350 rare, precious, and symbolic objects from this period. "Throughout history, women's stories have so often been obscured, but these Egyptian women of power played an important role in society. I hope that the tribute we pay to the queens of Egypt in this exhibition, and the exceptional quality of the objects presented, will remind visitors of how instrumental ... More | | 
William Bouguereau, Les deux soeurs (La Bourrique) signed W-BOUGUEREAU- and dated 1884 (lower right) oil on canvas 53 ¾ by 39 ⅞ inches (136.5 by 101.3 cm)
Est: $ 2,000,000-3,000,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
PITTSFIELD, MASS.- Thirteen of 39 works approved for sale will be offered at May auctions by Sothebys, the Berkshire Museum announced today. The sale of Norman Rockwells Shuffletons Barbershop will be completed with a nonprofit American museum which has agreed to place it on prominent display in its collection and loan the painting to the Norman Rockwell Museum for a period of up to two years. We are moving forward to secure the future of the Berkshire Museum. We had identified for deaccession and sale 40 works of the museums 40,000, protecting the vast majority of the museums collection, said Elizabeth McGraw, President of the Museums Board of Trustees. We now hope we can raise what the museum needs by offering for sale fewer than half of the works originally anticipated. Thats good for the museum and the community we serve. On ... More |
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| Artcurial to offer five intimate pieces signed by Paul Gauguin | | Sotheby's to launch auctions in India | | Exhibition at Victoria Miro celebrates women artists who have shaped and transformed abstract painting | 
Paul Gauguin (1848- 1903), Portrait de Claude Antoine Charles Favre,1877, Huile sur toile, 45,50 x 38cm ©Artcurial.
PARIS.- During the prestigious Impressionist and Modern art auction organised on 4th June 2018 by Artcurial, five intimate pieces signed by Paul Gauguin, the precursor of modern art, will be held for auction. They are appearing for the very first time on the art market, all of them part of Favre-Tessier collection. The set will be presented beside the painting Raccommodeuses de filets dans les dunes (1882), by another master of Impressionism, Vincent Van Gogh. Created between 1876 and 1887, these five works have remained in the ownership of the same family since then, the Favre family and its descendants. A childhood friend, Claude Favre was Paul Gauguins confidant. The oils and sketches in the auction bear witness to this intimate and essential friendship in the artists life, the members of the Favre family playing the role of portrait models as well as offering advice and ... More | | 
Gaurav Bhatia, Managing Director, with Tyeb Mehta's Durga Mahisasura Mardini. © Sotheby's.
MUMBAI.- Leading international auction house Sothebys today announced plans to launch sales in India with Boundless: Mumbai scheduled for December 2018. The sale will be held at the landmark venue, The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai. Following the opening of the Mumbai office in September 2016, Sothebys affirms its commitment to South Asia by announcing sales and establishing Mumbai as a new selling location for Sothebys. Jan Prasens, Sothebys Managing Director for Europe, Middle East, Russia and India: In recent years, we have witnessed both the ever-growing presence of Indian collectors in Sothebys global auctions, and the development of an increasingly vibrant domestic Indian art market. Given these promising signs, and the projected economic growth for India in the future, it is the right time for Sothebys to further expand the services we offer our clients in the region, and to br ... More | | 
Rita Ackermann, non-dairy creamer, 2013. Oil on vellum, 136.5 x 91.4 cm. 53 3/4 x 36 in. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.
LONDON.- Taking place across Victoria Miros London galleries, this international, cross-generational exhibition is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting. More than 50 artists from North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia are represented. The earliest work, an ink on paper work by the Russian Constructivist Liubov Popova, was completed in 1918. The most recent, by contemporary artists including Adriana Varejão, Svenja Deininger and Elizabeth Neel, have been made especially for the exhibition. A number of the artists in the exhibition were born in the final decades of the nineteenth century, while the youngest, Beirut-based Dala Nasser, was born in 1990. Work from every decade between 1918 and 2018 is featured. Surface Work takes ... More |
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| On view at Sotheby's Switzerland this month, Ferdinand Hodler: Anniversary exhibition 1918-2018 | | Luhring Augustine opens an exhibition of sculptural works | | Pace Gallery opens a survey of Yto Barrada's practice | 
Ferdinand Hodler, Bildnis Gertrud Müller im Grünen, 1915/1916. CHF 800,000-1,200,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
ZURICH.- Today Sothebys Switzerland unveils an exhibition of selected works by Ferdinand Hodler, to mark the centenary of the artists death. To coincide with shows at numerous museums and institutions in honour of the painters work, Sothebys Swiss Art specialists have chosen to highlight his mastery in the field of figurative work and portraiture. This carefully curated group of works, which explores a very important aspect of this key Swiss artists oeuvre, is on view in Zurich on 11-12 April and in Geneva on 18-19 April. Speaking ahead of the exhibition, Stéphanie Schleining and Urs Lanter , co-heads of Sothebys Swiss Art Department, commented, We are thrilled to be able to invite collectors and art-lovers to our Zurich and Geneva galleries to discover 14 highly interesting works which bring together each of the most important elements of Hodlers style. The exhibition comprises selecte ... More | | 
Sculpture, installation views, Luhring Augustine, New York, March 23 April 14, 2018. Courtesy of the artists and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photos: Farzad Owrang.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting an exhibition of sculptural works that celebrates a selection of highlights from the gallerys history, while introducing perspectives by artists new to the program. Displayed across the gallerys Chelsea and Bushwick locations, the exhibition includes works by Janine Antoni, Tom Friedman, Roger Hiorns, Phillip King, Martin Kippenberger, Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, Jeremy Moon, Reinhard Mucha, Cady Noland, Pipilotti Rist, Oscar Tuazon, Tunga, Rachel Whiteread, Steve Wolfe, Christopher Wool, and Zarina. Presented together, the works generate dialogues amongst the objects as well as between the individual artists, expanding upon the vocabulary and legacy of contemporary sculpture. Sculptures longstanding ties with the figurative are reflected through the works of Janine Antoni and Simone Leigh, both of whose ... More | | 
Installation view of Yto Barrada: How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY April 5 May 5, 2018 Photography by Tom Barratt, courtesy Pace Gallery © Yto Barrada, courtesy Pace Gallery; Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Beirut; and Galerie Polaris, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting the first gallery exhibition in New York dedicated to the work of Yto Barrada. A survey of the artists practice, How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself spans three floors of 32 East 57 Street, including the galleries of Pace, Pace/MacGill and Pace African and Oceanic Art. The exhibit is on view from April 6 through May 5, 2018. For her first solo show with Pace in New York, Barrada situates her multi-disciplinary workphotography, video, installation, sculptures, books, and textile-based worksagainst the formal separation of these three branches of Pace. Marc Glimcher, Pace Gallery President and CEO, describes Barrada as "a disruptor, eschewing traditional boundaries of medium and form, forcing us to question our understanding of ... More |
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| Design Museum welcomes one millionth visitor | | Art Gallery of South Australia farewells Director Nick Mitzevich | | Galleria d'Arte Moderna Milano exhibits contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa | 
The Design Museum. Photo: Gareth Gardner.
LONDON.- On 5 April 2018 the Design Museum welcomed its one millionth visitor since opening on Kensington High Street. The visitor was applauded into the building by museum staff and greeted by museum director Alice Black. This milestone comes quickly off-the-back of a record breaking opening year for the museum as it surpassed its target of 650,000 to attract 780,000 visitors from November 2016 to November 2017. Current exhibition, Ferrari: Under the Skin has proved a resounding success with visitors as it becomes the museums highest attended exhibition. To date, the exhibition has attracted over 90,000 attendees. With over £140m-worth of classic Ferraris on display, the exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of the brand and the man behind it, Enzo Ferrari. It explores the integration of design, manufacturing and racing prowess, which are the foundation ... More | | 
Nick Mitzevich. Photo: Sven Kovac.
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia today announced the resignation of Director Nick Mitzevich, following almost eight years at the helm of the Art Gallery of South Australia. The Art Gallery of South Australia has flourished under his leadership and his accomplishments leave a lasting legacy and a transformed public institution. His achievements include the renewal of private giving, growth in attendances to almost 800,000 per year and a dynamic acquisitions strategy that has seen more than 4,200 works of art enter the States collection. Furthermore, the Gallerys current strengths include the exhibition of Impressionist masterpieces from the renowned Musée dOrsay resplendently displayed in the Elder Wing and flagship exhibitions like the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, that reaffirm the institutions position as a leader in the realisation and presentation of ... More | | 
Hassan Khan, Bank Bannister (Banque Bannister), 2010. Brass, 209 x 206 x 22 cm, edition 1/3. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Guggenheim UBS MAP. Purchase Fund 2015.94 © Hassan Khan.
MILAN.- From April 11 through June 17, 2018, Galleria dArte Moderna (GAM), Milan; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and UBS present But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (Una Tempesta dal Paradiso: Arte Contemporanea del Medio Oriente e Nord Africa) in Milan. The exhibition marks the final presentation of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, a historic collaboration between the Guggenheim and UBS representing the largest international research, collection-building, and presentation initiative the museum has undertaken to date. MAPs distinctive, artist-driven program, which began in 2012, underscores a mutual commitment by the Guggenheim and UBS to support ... More |
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 Handwritten manuscript for famous Sherlock Holmes mystery may bring $500,000 DALLAS, TX.- A hand-written manuscript by one of the most popular and successful mystery writers of all time will be up for sale in Heritage Auctions' Manuscripts Auction April 18 in Dallas, Texas. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle penned The Adventure of the Dancing Men in 1903 for publication in The Strand Magazine. Doyle's first two novellas featuring Sherlock Holmes were published more than a decade earlier to positive reviews, but it was not until the appearance of his short stories in The Strand Magazine that Doyle's popularity and fame surged. According to Randall Stock, a member of The Baker Street Irregulars, Doyle got the idea for the dancing men cipher in May 1903. Stock says, "While staying at the Hill House Hotel in Norfolk (England), Doyle signed a young woman's autograph book. The book also contained drawings on another page by ... More Toledo Museum of Art announces three executive team appointmentsTOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has promoted two staff members and has named a new member to its senior management team. Kristina Crystal has been hired to fill a new position at the Museum chief revenue officer; Adam Levine has been tapped to be TMAs deputy director; and Lynn Miller has been named associate director of the Museum. "These three proven leaders are key to ushering the Toledo Museum of Art into its next exciting phase of growth and development," said Brian Kennedy, the Museum's Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director. "We are fortunate to have them share their broad strategic talents and contributions as part of our senior management team." Crystal joins TMA from Deluxe Entertainment Services, a $1 billion media entertainment business based in Burbank, California, where she served as chief ... More Monumental gilt-bronze ritual butter lamp: A rare vestige of imperial Ming China offered at BonhamsLONDON.- Bonhams will offer a monumental Imperial exceptionally rare cast gilt-bronze ritual butter lamp, early Ming dynasty, circa first half 15th century. The vessel is cast with the Imperial reign mark of the Jingtai Emperor (r.1449-1457). It weighs 335 kg, measuring an impressive 102.6cm high x 102cm diameter. The estimate is available on request. The important ritual vessel will be sold at Bonhams New Bond St, London on 17 May 2018. It is a unique example and no other similar vessel of such proportions and bearing the Imperial Jingtai reign mark would appear to have survived. Butter lamps, also known as 'The Dharma Light', are an essential element in the offering practices of Tibetan Buddhism, and represents the offering of light to enlightened beings. The lamp would have been prominently displayed beside a temple altar, and kept burning as a perpetual ... More Anyone want to buy a dinosaur? Two on sale in ParisPARIS (AFP).- The skeletons of an allosaurus and a diplodocus are up for auction in Paris this week, marketed as hip interior design objects -- for those with big enough living rooms. "The fossil market is no longer just for scientists," said Iacopo Briano of Binoche et Giquello, the auction house that is putting the two dinosaurs under the hammer on Wednesday. "Dinosaurs have become cool, trendy -- real objects of decoration, like paintings," the Italian expert told AFP, citing Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage as fans of such outsize prehistoric ornaments. Cage, however, did hand back the rare skull of a tyrannosaurus bataar, a close cousin of T. rex, that he bought in 2007 after it was found to have been stolen and illegally taken out of Mongolia. Dinosaur bones are increasingly gracing collectors' cabinets, with another huge ... More Ellen Stofan, former Chief Scientist at NASA, named to head National Air and Space MuseumWASHINGTON, DC.- Ellen Stofan, currently consulting senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum, effective April 30. Stofan comes to the position with more than 25 years experience in space-related organizations and a deep research background in planetary geology. She is the first woman to hold this position. Stofan was chief scientist at NASA (20132016), serving as the principal advisor to former Administrator Charles Bolden on NASAs strategic planning and programs. She helped guide the development of a long-range plan to get humans to Mars, and worked on strategies for NASA to support commercial activity in low Earth orbit as it transitions from the International Space Station (ISS) to sending humans to the ... More Works attributed to Andy Warhol and Patrick Nagel will headline Woodshed's May 3rd auctionFRANKLIN, MASS.- Two of Andy Warhols most iconic and instantly recognizable artworks Chairman Mao and Volkswagen Beetle and an acrylic on canvas painting attributed to Patrick Nagel, titled Mirage, are expected top performers in Woodshed Art Auctions International Art Collections & Estate Sale on Thursday, May 3rd. Live bidding will start at 5:30 pm Eastern time. The auction is expected to generate keen bidder interest. Several of our consignors approached us with extensive collections of illustrations and drawings, said Bruce Wood of Woodshed Art Auctions. Its exciting to see what they have decided to sell, and to see new collectors adding these pieces to their portfolios. All the works in the sale are attributions, Mr. Wood pointed out. Warhols Chairman Mao, an unframed crayon sketch on thin tan paper signed and dated 75 under the ... More $100K Man Ray leads Swann Galleries auction celebrating graphic designNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will offer an auction of Graphic Design on Thursday, May 3, celebrating innovation in the field, with an array of vintage posters, along with a coterie of fine graphically-oriented objets dart including original maquettes, an Hermès scarf and playing cards. Leading the selection is an extremely rare panel from Man Rays iconic campaign for the London Underground, - Keeps London Going, evoking the artists signature Rayographic style. The indelible image equates the solar system with the functionality of the London subway system; it was the worlds most expensive travel poster from June of 2007, when it sold for $100,906 at Christies, until 2012, when a poster by A.M. Cassandre sold at Swann Galleries for $159,900. In this auction, it carries an estimate of $80,000 to $120,000. Another masterwork of urban transportation design ... More Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art appoints new Curator of 19th-Century American Art UTICA, NY.- Miranda Hofelt has been named Curator of 19th-Century American Art for Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art. She previously held the position of Associate Curator at the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tenn. A native of Huntingdon, PA, Hofelt received her masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh and her bachelors degree from Marietta College, Ohio. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. Upon competition of her masters degree, Hofelt began working at the Art Institute of Chicago where she was a contributor to the exhibition and catalogue, Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, which were praised by the New York Times when the exhibition premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While guest curator at the Henisch Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, ... More Major literary find on show at Paris Book Fair at the Grand Palais April 13-15PARIS.- In a document presented at the most important annual rare book sale in Paris this week, April 13-15 we discover a fifteen-year-old Marcel Proust, in love with a 13-year-old Russian girl, torn between feelings, dreams and intelligence. The teen-aged Proust condemns narrow-mindedness and wants to understand everything and read everything. He did not omit any answer when filling in a personality game questionnaire popular at the time. For many of the questions asked Proust finds the space provided too limited and his writing, already Proustian, overflows into the margin. The questionnaire was an English designed personality game that became very popular in Britain and France. According to Prousts biographer, Jean-Yves Tadié, the future writer was nearly 16 when he answered this questionnaire and he was in love with a young girl, aged 13 whom he used ... More Sotheby's Photographs totals $5.1 million in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Emily Bierman, Head of Sothebys Photographs Department in New York, commented: We are delighted with the results of todays sales the first Photographs auction of the new year. There was robust demand across the sales with our top lots spanning from early photography setting a new record for William Henry Fox Talbot to experimental 1920s and 1930s works including Man Rays Minotaur for $175,000 to classic mid-century images such as Alfred Stieglitzs exceptional Equivalent 227, which more than tripled its presale estimate at $150,000. It was a privilege to present A Beautiful Life: Photographs from the Collection of Leland Hirsch and share the beauty pioneers vision with the world. The overwhelmingly enthusiastic response from collectors reflects the quality and importance of the collection he assembled. We once again saw many ... More DiverseWorks announces appointment of Ashley DeHoyos as Assistant CuratorHOUSTON, TX.- DiverseWorks announced the appointment of independent curator Ashley DeHoyos as our new Assistant Curator. She will begin her new position on May 14, 2018. She comes to DiverseWorks from Baltimore, MD, where over the last year she worked as the Assistant Director of Community Art and Service at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), providing support for emerging artists and developing year-long community-driven projects across the city. Ashley DeHoyos is an amazing addition to our team, said DiverseWorks Executive Director & Chief Curator, Xandra Eden. Her expertise in multidisciplinary art, combined with her fearlessness in addressing important social issues and crossing cultural divides will strengthen our ability to engage with new artists, audiences, and ideas. With a passion for creating cultural platforms for new and existing ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Chris Burden was born April 11, 1946. Christopher Lee "Chris" Burden (April 11, 1946 - May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art. In this image: Operator Alison Walker watches miniature cars move along the roads in Chris Burden's latest kinetic sculpture, "Metropolis II," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles.
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