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Zwiesel Series Smoke Gray by Marvin Lipofsky. Mold blown glass, cut and acid polished, 1980. Width 12 inches, Height 11 inches, Length 13 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The attempt to forge thought into form - to introduce shapes that provoke, reveal and deceive us. Sculptures that address the limits and spacial wonderment of our three dimensional world. The 20th Century was generous with contemplative artists who, through experimental pushing and prodding, have physically personified the human experience - managing to mold "mood" into modern design. This month, Bidsquare will host two auctions offering artworks by renowned Ceramic and Glass artists such as Harry Bertoia, Karen Karnes, Dale Chihuly, Alex Bernstein, Marvin Lipofsky, Toshiko Takaezu and many others. Wexler Gallery's Contemporary Glass from 1979-2011 will run exclusively on Bidsquare in the Timed Auction format from April 9th - 24th and Cowan's Auction's Modern Ceramics & Modern Art + Design: Live Salesroom Auction will commence on April 21st. Wexler Gallery; Marvin Lipofksy (1938-2016) Lot. 29 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C), Monika Gruetters (L), Commissioner for Culture and the Media and exhibition curator Anne-Katrin Ziesak visit the "The Luther Effect Protestantism - 500 Years in the World" exhibition of the Deutsches Historisches Museum at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin on April 11, 2017. Bernd von Jutrczenka / POOL / AFP
| Exhibition at Musée de l'Armée aims to offer a new perspective on the Franco-German War of 1870-1871 | | Exhibition illustrates the global diversity and effective history of Protestantism | | Bellinzona and more...paintings and oil sketches by Johann Christian Ziegler on view at the Neue Pinakothek | 
Many traces have been left in the arts, literature or in the urban environment by the combatants or witnesses of the war.
PARIS.- Overshadowed as it is by the two World Wars, the war between France and Germany from 1870 to 1871 is a topic many French and German people are not familiar with, even though it represents a key moment in the relationship between these two countries, around which the future of Europe would be built. The année terrible, as it was described by Victor Hugo, ended in a civil war, the Paris Commune. This was no accident but rather the natural outcome of a pre-existing process that the social tension and wave of patriotism triggered by the French defeat had helped to create. The exhibition aims to offer a new perspective on the Franco-German War of 1870-1871, including points of view from both France and Germany, either from the time or in retrospect. The conflict is examined ... More | | 
Apotheosis of King Gustavus II Adolphus, around 1650 © Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Sweden.
BERLIN.- For the first time an exhibition will illustrate the global diversity and effective history of Protestantism, but also its potential for engendering conflict between different cultures. What traces of Protestantism can be found in other denominations, religions and concepts of life? How did it change itself through these encounters and not least of all, in what ways have people adopted and appropriated the Protestant doctrine, how have they shaped it and lived it? The exhibition The Luther Effect tells a global story of effect and counter-effect that begins around 1500 and continues on into the present present. It is depicted using the examples of Germany and Europe 14501600, Sweden 15001750, North America 16001900, Korea 18502000 and present-day Tanzania. The Deutsches Historisches Museum is presenting ... More | | 
Johann Christian Ziegler, Bellinzona, 1829 (detail), oil on paper glued to canvas, 31.3 x 39.4 cm, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek, Munich loan from the Museumsstiftung zur Förderung der Staatlichen Bayerischen Museen, Munich, since 2014.
MUNICH.- Johann Christian Ziegler (18031833) is one of the early realist landscape painters in Germany. From 12 April onwards the Neue Pinakothek is exhibiting paintings and oil sketches that it has received as a loan from the Museumsstiftung zur Förderung der staatlichen bayerischen Museen from the holdings of the artists descendants. Born in 1803 in Wunsiedel as the son of a cloth manufacturer, Ziegler moved to Munich in 1821 where he studied landscape painting at the academy of art. He frequently spent the summer months hiking in the countryside around Munich and in the Alpine foothills. From 1823 he was regularly represented ... More |
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| The Ryerson Image Centre receives extraordinary donation of photos from the New York Times archive | | Auction lot calls into question date of images in National Portrait Gallery archive | | Resethome welcomes Luc Tuymans with his solo exhibition 'The Swamp' | 
Federal Newsphotos of Canada, Untitled [Peace protesters at Easter Parade, Toronto, Ontario], March 29, 1959, gelatin silver print. The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection, Ryerson Image Centre.
TORONTO.- In conjunction with Canadas sesquicentennial celebration, the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) announces a promised gift of nearly 25,000 press photographs of Canadian news events and personalities from the 20th century, drawn from The New York Times Photo Archive. These extraordinary Canadian images have been promised to the RIC by Toronto-area real estate entrepreneur Chris Bratty as a generous act of cultural repatriation. Chris Bratty, President of Land Development and Investments for The Remington Group, said: This collection captures thousands of Canadian stories over the course of the 20th Century. It gives me great pleasure to bring it home to Canada, where it can tell those stories to Canadians. This important donation will be known as the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection, ... More | | 
The photograph of the artist Augustus John and his family taken by his friend Charles Slade. Although inscribed 1909, it may date from several years before. Sworders will sell it as part of a larger lot at their Books and Maps auction on April 24 with an estimate of £200-400.
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- This striking photograph of the artist Augustus John and his family is from a celebrated archive of images taken by his friend Charles Slade, who sat for John on a number of occasions. A contemporary print, it was presented by Slade to John decades later in 1953. It is captioned 1909, but possibly dates to several years before when the artist took to the road in this gypsy caravan with his wife Ida, mistress Dorelia and his children by both of them. On April 24 it comes to auction at Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet along with Chiaroscuro: Fragments of Autobiography, a 1952 First Edition of the artists life story. The photo shows John standing to the right, leaning against the caravan with his pipe ... More | | 
The Swamp, consists of 3 art works, each made in very different media. Photo: Joke Timmermans.
BORGLOON.- Resethome is a sculpture, an artist residency and an exhibition venue combined. Conceived and built by the Belgian artist Gert Robijns in the footprint of his grandmothers former home, as a free space for art, RESETHOME is dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together in the village of Borgloon, Limburg. On 9 April 2017, Resethome welcomed its first illustrious guest, the artist Luc Tuymans, with his solo exhibition The Swamp. Luc Tuymans is one of the few artists who, from the 90ies onwards, continually questioned and redefined painting, thereby recalibrating the mediums potential on a global scale. The Swamp, consists of 3 art works, each made in very different media. Setting the conceptual tone, Shadows has been made by tracing the shadows cast on the floor by the sun shining through the windows with chalk. The inner shell of Resethome thus becomes a three-dimensional drawin ... More |
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| American artist Anoka Faruqee's abstract paintings on view at Vienna's Secession | | Works from the Estate of Margrit Mondavi on offer at Bonhams | | Julien's Auctions to offer the One Direction telephone booth from 'Take Me Home' album cover | 
Anoka Faruqee, 2016P-12 (Circle), 2016 (detail), acrylic on linen on panel, 85,72 x 85,72.
VIENNA.- The American artist Anoka Faruqees abstract paintings are characterized by pulsating optical and chromatic effects. Patterns and motifs recur in her pictures as she adjusts and permutates them in apparently infinite variations in order to plumb the laws of painting. One of her central aims is to create a tension between atmospheric impressions of light and illusion and the material nature of color and paint. In her exhibition at the Secessionher first institutional solo show in EuropeFaruqee presents selections from the Moiré Paintings, Circle Paintings, and Wave Paintings series, on which she has worked since 2012. In these works, the artist explores the optical pattern that appears where wave formations or magnetic fields interfere with each other; it can often be observed on computer screens. Critical to her methodical engagement with the phenomenon is that she conceives of pattern not as ... More | | 
Summer Angel by Helen Frankenthaler, estimated at $700,000-900,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two works from the celebrated art collection of the late California wine makers, Robert and Margrit Mondavi, will be offered at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Sale in New York, 16 May 2017. The collection was formerly displayed in the Mondavi family home and then at the Robert Mondavi Winery. Summer Angel, 1984, an evocative mid-career work by Helen Frankenthaler, is a fine example of her soak stain technique; a method which set her apart from her contemporaries and put her firmly at the heart of Color Field painting. Camellia Cake, 1995, by Wayne Thiebaud is characteristic of the artists colorful depictions of nostalgia-inducing American imagery. The Mondavis winery, which housed their extensive art collection, is set in the surroundings of Californias Napa Valley. After joining the Robert Mondavi Winery in 1967, a year after its founding, Margrit Mondavi began ... More | | 
Fans can see the phone booth during exclusive exhibit. Thursday, April 14, 2017 -- Saturday, May 20, 2017. Photo: Julien's Auctions.
LONDON.- Juliens Auctions, the world record breaking auction house to the stars and Hard Rock London have announced an extraordinary event for fans of the award-winning pop band ONE DIRECTION. Beginning Thursday, April 14, 2017, fans can step inside the same phone booth featured on the bands Take Me Home album cover. All five original band members are seen climbing on top of or, in Niall Horans case, trapped inside a classic London red telephone booth including Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Horan. Original member Zayn Malik departed the band in March of 2015. In 2010, the five boys beat hundreds of others to gain a coveted spot in the seventh season of the hit television show The X Factor. Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry, and Louis didnt even know each other but fate had them grouped together for the performance by judge Nicole ... More |
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| Artemis Gallery to auction superior-quality ancient, Asian & ethnographic art | | A Colourist shaft of sunlight at Bonhams annual Scottish Art Sale in Edinburgh | | Daylight Books publishes Portsmouth: Collected Saturdays by Ken D. Ashton | 
Veracruz (Mexico) ceramic priestess figure with elaborate beaded necklace, circa 400-700 CE, est. $8,000-$12,000.
BOULDER, CO.- With a timeline that starts in Ancient Egypt and progresses to the Pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, Artemis Gallerys April 12 auction is a fascinating retrospective on how the world evolved to what it is today. Each of Artemis Gallerys auctions reflects a deep respect for ancient civilizations of all geographic regions. Thats why the template for all of the companys sales is so intentionally multicultural. The 215 lots selected for the upcoming auction include Classical Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, as well as Anatolian, Asian and Central American art. A bonus category consists of ancient through European Renaissance coins. All auction items, without exception, are guaranteed to be as described and legal to buy and resell under the United States statute covering cultural patrimony (Code 1600, Chapter 14). Artemis Gallery is known internati ... More | | 
Detail of The Terrace, Cassis by Samuel Peploe. Estimated at £50,000-80,000. Photo: Bonhams.
EDINBURGH.- The Terrace, Cassis, a work by the Scottish Colourist painter Samuel Peploe, is to be offered at Bonhams Scottish Art sale in Edinburgh on Wednesday 26 April. It is estimated at £60,000-80,000. The Terrace, Cassis was painted in 1913 during a working holiday in Cassis, a resort in the South of France, 20 kilometres to the east of Marseille. Peploe and his family had joined fellow Colourist J.D Fergusson, the first of the group to discover the village which was also popular with French artists such as Francis Picabia. The work shows a sun-drenched terrace behind which houses sprawl out against the hills above the port. Peploe executed many views of Cassis during this visit, and they are now much sought after by collectors. Cassis (Rooftops), for example, sold at Bonhams in April 2016 for £92,500, while a depiction of the harbour at Cassis crowded with yachts and working boats sold for £79,300 in October 2016. Bonhams Head of Scottish ... More | | 
Through his watchful and restrained lens, Ashton captures a city that has transformed over time into a desolate, hollowed out ghost town.
NEW YORK, NY.- Portsmouth, Ohio, located at the union of the Scioto and Ohio rivers at the edge of America's Rust Belt, was once a booming industrial center celebrated for its production of shoes and bricks. In the 1990s, when the global forces of deindustrialization shut down factories throughout the region, the population of Portsmouth plummeted and today the city is best known for its thriving trade in opioid pain medications and an epidemic of prescription drug addiction. For the last 26 years, Ken D. Ashton, a Washington, D.C. based photographer whose work focuses on America's changing urban landscape, has participated in a bike tour every Mother's Day weekend from Columbus to Portsmouth and back. In 2009, he started photographing the neighborhoods of Portsmouth during those weekends to investigate the social and financial impact of deindustrialization on America through the acute scope of this ... More |
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 Virtually 100% sell-through in $9.8 million Dallas auction demonstrates resurgent US coin marketDALLAS, TX.- Over $9.8 million in rare U.S. coins crossed the auction block in Heritage Auctions' offerings of April 4-6, held at its Dallas headquarters. In total, over 4,100 lots found new homes during this auction. The auction had a 100 percent sell-through rate; prices realized include a Buyer's Premium of 17.5%. A 100 percent sell-through rate is a good indicator that the coin market is experiencing a resurgence, said Jim Halperin, Co-founder of Heritage Auctions. All but 12 coins met their reserve in the Live auction, and most of those 12 have already received close offers in the Post-Auction period. We were extremely pleased to see collectors' bidding intensify during this auction we think it bodes well for the rest of the year. Two lots tied for top honors with sale prices of $76,375. A 1892-S Morgan dollar, graded MS63 by NGC, reached this amount when bidding ... More Hermès sets standard again at $1.3 million Spring Luxury Accessory AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Easily exceeding its pre-auction estimate, the Hermès Limited Edition 35cm Matte So Black Alligator Birkin Bag with PVD Hardware realized $118,750, as multiple bidders vied for this exceptional handbag. The top 10 highest selling items were almost exclusively Hermès handbags as the luxury brand paced the Spring Luxury Accessories Auction to $1.3+ million for Heritage Auctions on April 4. "When I hear from collectors throughout the world, I know we have curated an exceptional sale," Heritage Auctions Luxury Accessories Director Diane DAmato said. "This certainly was the case leading up to our auction with the bidding on the many rare and remarkable lots a testimony to the ongoing and growing allure of Hermès." Collectors also were quick to acquire the stunning Hermès 30cm Shiny Blue Abysse Nilo Crocodile Birkin Bag with Gold Hardware for $57,500 ... More Claire Lambe's most ambitious project to date opens at the Australian Centre for Contemporary ArtMELBOURNE.- In this major exhibition of newly commissioned work, the artists most ambitious project to date, Claire Lambe employs sculpture, photography, biography and theatrical mise-en-scène to create intimate and intense psychological spaces in an ambitious attempt to describe the human condition in its cruel reality and horrifying glory. Known for her strange and often abject sculptural forms, Claire Lambes work explores psychological narratives of gender, sexuality, identity and class, leading to anxious objects full of revelatory and emancipatory potential. In a deeply subjective and sometimes transgressive practice of psychodrama and catharsis, Melbourne-based and English-born Lambe draws upon a rich bank of personal history and reference material as a starting point for her investigation into the ambiguity between memory and experience, reality and ... More Anna Schwartz Gallery presents solo exhibition by Australian artist Emily FloydMELBOURNE.- Anna Schwartz Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new works entitled Icelandic Puffins by Emily Floyd from 8 until 29 April 2017. The exhibition marks the artists tenth solo show with the gallery. With Icelandic Puffins Floyd creates a landscape populated by hand-carved bird sculptures, each unique, and crafted in the artists distinct sculptural vernacular. Icelandic text is paired alongside each of the puffins, listing corporate protagonists prosecuted by the State of Iceland following the collapse of all three of the country's major banks: Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing. Icelandic Puffins creates a dialogue between the seductive power of design, here in typical Scandinavian style, with the dark veneer of global financial and political crisis. Emily Floyd (b. 1972, Melbourne) works in sculpture, printmaking and public installation. Curator and poet Ranjit Hoskote ... More Taggers' delight: Vietnam city turns into graffiti canvasHO CHI MINH CITY (AFP).- Shrouded by fumes and surrounded by spray cans, Vietnamese graffiti artist Kong conjures his latest masterpiece, a monkey clutching an aerosol, a colour-splashed act of rebellion in a communist country where the youth are expected to follow strict social mores. "Young people want to break the rules," said the 21-year-old, his fingers speckled with paint. "We want to see more interesting things on the street or on the wall, so we do graffiti to express ourselves." Kong belongs to the growing ranks of graffiti artists in Ho Chi Minh City, where subcultures -- BMX biking, skateboarding and breakdancing -- jostle for space on the hipster scene. For many the spray can is a tool of rebellion -- illicit spray-painting is a way of defying restrictions in an authoritarian country where artists must have their work approved before exhibitions, shows are routinely ... More Seventh Socle du Monde Biennale set to open in HerningHERNING.- HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art announces the seventh Socle du Monde Biennale in spring 2017. As in previous years, the Biennale is a tribute to the Italian artist Piero Manzoni (1933-63), the provocateur whose epoch-making work Socle du Monde (Base of the World) from 1961 lends its name to the Biennale. HEART owns the largest public collection of Manzoni works in the world, thanks to the initiative of Danish shirt manufacturer Aage Damgaard (1917-1991), who invited Danish and foreign artists to work on location. With a growing international collection, Damgaard decided to donate the collection to a new museum Herning Art Museum which opened in 1977. The 2017 version of Socle du Monde Biennale is subtitled: To challenge the Earth, the Moon, the Sun & the Stars . Not only a tribute to Manzoni, it pays homage to all great artists, ... More De Pont Museum opens Doorenweerd & Doorenweerd exhibiionTILBURG.- In 1993 Jeroen Doorenweerd (Terneuzen, 1962) was the first artist to be asked by De Pont to give shape to the museum's garden with a work. His son Mischa (Tilburg, 1988), then five years old, played on the duckboards, flights of steps and look-out posts that he had placed in the garden. Now father and son are exhibiting jointly, as artists of equal standing, in the podium space. After his installation in De Pont's garden, Jeroen produced a great deal of work for the public domain. This has frequently had an architectonic character. But for several years now he has been painting again. In that work, he is concerned with his intense presence in the moment, with being overwhelmed by the energy contained in the act of painting. For the project Zinging Tangerine (2014) he and Koen Delaere turned Middelburg's Vleeshal into one big studio that visitors could explore. ... More V-A-C Foundation implements curatorial initiative at the Moscow Museum of Modern ArtMOSCOW.- V-A-C Foundation presents Hosting the Inhuman at the Moscow Museum of Modern Arts (MMOMA) space on Gogolevsky Boulevard. The multidisciplinary project marks the beginning of MMOMAs new programme Carte Blanche, which invites art institutions to implement their own curatorial initiatives at MMOMA sites. Bringing together artists, musicians, theorists, scientists and philosophers, Hosting the Inhuman investigates the relationship between material objects, non-human forms of life and the environment. It includes an exhibition, film screenings, a series of talks and an extensive programme of live performances. Dramatic innovations in biology, medicine, engineering and computer science have redefined the way we see ourselves. Modern technology is increasingly reliant upon, and pervaded by, natural imagery and elemental metaphors, from cloud ... More New museum reveals power of poo in ItalyCASTELBOSCO (AFP).- It may pong, but Italy's "Shit Museum" has the whiff of success about it: here in Castelbosco, farmers are transforming sloppy cowpats into plates you can eat off. Once upon a time there was a large farm about a hundred kilometres (62 miles) south of Milan. The farmer had not only hundreds of cows, but veritable mountains of excrement -- stinking slops he thought he could do something with. "The idea came from the need to take advantage of animal dung in an ecological way. We managed to transform it into something useful," farmer Gianantonio Locatelli, 61, told AFP. Over his various farms, 3,500 cattle produce 550 quintals (55 tonnes) of milk a day to make Grana Padano, a hard cheese comparable to Parmigiano Reggiano. They also generate 1,500 quintals of waste. Rather than wallow in it, Locatelli came up with an ingenious way ... More New Armenian temple is beacon of hope for YazidisAKNALICH (AFP).- A gleaming white structure topped with seven domes, set to be the world's biggest Yazidi temple, is being built in a tiny village in Armenia. Long persecuted, most recently by Islamic jihadists in Iraq, the Kurdish-speaking, religious minority hopes the new temple will prove a symbol of strength as it tries to preserve its unique blend of faiths. Yazidis, adherents of an ancient religion rooted in Zoroastrianism, number around 35,000 in Armenia today but currently have just one tiny temple in the Caucasus country. The new edifice, called Quba Mere Diwane, is being constructed in Aknalich, a village 35 kilometres (22 miles) from the capital, Yerevan, thanks to funding by a wealthy Moscow-based Yazidi businessman Mirza Sloyan, who was born nearby. Aknalich is home to 150 Yazidis, as well as the existing temple, built in 2012 which only holds up to 30 people. ... More Spring Fine Jewelry Auction finishes at over $3 millionDALLAS, TX.- Two unique and beautiful rings, along with a perfect 3.00-carat diamond, led all sale items at Heritage Auctions' Spring Fine Jewelry Signature Auction April 3. A total sale price of $3,173,738 was realized from over 400 bidders. A marvelous Kashmir Sapphire, Diamond, Pink Gold Ring with a unique setting sold for $175,000. "We were very pleased with our spring sale results. There was participation across the board with some exciting bidding wars. We saw active competition from bidders in the gallery, over the phone and internet," said Jill Burgum, Heritage Auctions' Senior Director of Fine Jewelry. A perfect 3.00-carat diamond ready to be mounted sold for $87,500. A Cartier Diamond, Gold Ring, that featured an exceptional diamond mounted in an elegant cathedral setting, sold for $77,500. A Piaget Lady's Diamond, Coral, Black Onyx, Gold Watch ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English architect William Kent died April 12, 1748. William Kent (c. 1685 - 12 April 1748), born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He is better remembered as the central architect of the revived Palladian style in England. In this image: Stowe House, interiors and garden buildings (c.1730 to 1748).
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