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Georg Baselitz, Mit Roter Fahne (With Red Flag), 1965 (Estimated £6.5m-8.5m). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A rare masterpiece by the German painter Georg Baselitz (estimated £6.5m-8.5m) is set to break the record for the artist at auction when offered at Sothebys Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London on 8 March 2017. Mit Roter Fahne (With Red Flag), 1965, from the artists ground-breaking Heroes series, is a painting that cemented the artists reputation as one of the most provocative and compelling voices of the post-war era. Baselitzs striking canvas is one of an outstanding group of 17 works by German artists to feature in Sothebys flagship contemporary auction in London, representing around a quarter of lots on offer. Further highlights include Gerhard Richters desolately beautiful Eisberg (estimate: £8-12m; dedicated release available here), Anselm Kiefers monumental Athanor (estimate: £1.5-2.5m), Sigmar Polkes Pop-inspired Die Schmiede (estimate: £1-1.5 million), a majo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A photo taken on February 14, 2017 shows a poster for the exhibit "Good Hope: South-Africa and The Netherlands from 1600" at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The exhibit covers the 400-year relationship between South Africa and the Netherlands. Remko de Waal / ANP / AFP
| Exhibition concentrating on Wolfgang Tillmans' production across different media opens at Tate Modern | | Rijksmuseum unveils 18th-century South Africa through comprehensive digital portrait | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens first major exhibition in the United States devoted to Hercules Segers | 
Wolfgang Tillmans, Collum 2011 (detail). © Wolfgang Tillmans.
LONDON.- Wolfgang Tillmans has earned recognition as one of the most exciting and innovative artists working today. Tate Modern presents an exhibition concentrating on his production across different media since 2003. First rising to prominence in the 1990s for his photographs of everyday life and contemporary culture, Tillmans has gone on to work in an ever greater variety of media and has taken an increasingly innovative approach to staging exhibitions. Tate Modern brings this variety to the fore, offering a new focus on his photographs, video, digital slide projections, publications, curatorial projects and recorded music. Social and political themes form a rich vein throughout Tillmanss work. The destabilization of the world has arisen as a recurring concern for the artist since 2003, an important year when he felt the world changed with the invasion of Iraq and anti-war demonstrations. In 2017, at a ... More | | 
Robert Jacob Gordon, Een giraffe met een Khoi, 1779.
AMSTERDAM.- Today the Rijksmuseum launched www.robertjacobgordon.nl through which all of Robert Jacob Gordons drawings, diaries and letters are made accessible to all for the first time. The 18th-century Dutch explorer documented South Africas inhabitants, flora and fauna in more than 450 detailed drawings. He meticulously noted down in his diaries and letters everything he experienced during his expeditions. The drawings, which include unique 8-metre-long panoramas, form part of the collection at the Rijksmuseum. The diaries and letters are kept in the Brendhurst Library in Johannesburg. On the occasion of the exhibition Good Hope. South Africa and The Netherlands from 1600, all of Gordons diaries and drawings are reunited for the first time and thus present a comprehensive view of 18th-century South Africa. Through www.robertjacobgordon.nl, visitors are given a complete portrait of what Gordon encountered, and wher ... More | | 
Hercules Segers, (Dutch, ca. 1590ca. 1638), Houses near Steep Cliffs Painting ca. 1619-23. Oil on canvas, 27 9/16 Ã 34 1/8 in. (70 Ã 86.6 cm). Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Inv. no. 2525 Cat. P 3.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hercules Segers (ca. 1589ca. 1638), the great Dutch experimental printmaker, created otherworldly landscapes of astonishing originality by using an extraordinary array of techniques that still puzzle scholars today. The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 13 through May 21, is the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to the artist, who possessed one of the most fertile creative minds of his time. Although his name is not well known today, Segerss works were highly prized during his lifetime, and Rembrandt (1606-1669) owned eight of his paintings and a printing plate. Segerss surviving works are extremely rare: only 10 impressions of his prints are in museums in the United States (one in The Met collection), and only 15 paintings ... More |
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| Astrup Fearnley Museeet opens Takashi Murakami's first solo exhibition in Scandinavia | | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Alfonso Garcia Robles to highlight Christie's April auction | | The Blanton's reinstalled collection galleries now open | 
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OSLO.- Astrup Fearnley Museeet is the first museum in Scandinavia to present a solo exhibition focusing on the world-famous Japanese artist Takashi Murakami (b. 1962, Tokyo). Murakami has been extremely visible on the international art scene during the past twenty years, but he has also taken an active role within the Japanese art world, redefining the position of the artist through his involvement in different arenas of society. The exhibition Murakami by Murakami features not only his artworks, but also aspects of his activities as a filmmaker, collector, gallerist and cultural entrepreneur. The exhibition presents the visual artist through selections from two of his outstanding bodies of work. One comprises his early works, marked by references to popular culture, capitalism and the cultural flattening of Japanese culture, represented by his creation of the figure DOB and the concept of Superflat. The other offers a ... More | | 
The Nobel Peace Prize Medal awarded in 1982 to Alfonso Garcia Robles (1911-1991), driving force behind the Treaty of Tlatelolco that made Latin America and the Caribbean a nuclear-free zone. 18 carat gold, 2.5 inches (66 mm.) diameter Estimate: $400,000 to $600,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced that the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Alfonso Garcia Robles in 1982 for his pioneering work in nuclear disarmament will be offered for auction. Garcia Robles was the driving force behind the Treaty of Tlatelolco, opened for signing 50 years ago on February 14, 1967, and significant for keeping Latin America and the Caribbean nuclear-free to this day. The Nobel Peace Prize medal is 18 carat gold and 2.5 inches diameter, estimated at $400,000 $600,000, and will be included in The Exceptional Sale on April 28 in New York. We are thrilled and honored to be offering this tangible symbol of mankinds struggle for peace, remarks Becky MacGuire, ... More | | 
Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, ca. 1626. Oil on canvas, 52 13/16 x 38 11/16 in. The Suida-Manning Collection, 601.1999.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin announces the opening of its comprehensively reinstalled permanent collection galleries. The presentation offers visitors a fresh experience with the museums holdings and features nearly twice as many works of art as were previously on view, innovative interpretive materials, renovated galleries, and spotlights on new areas of focus, including art of the Ancient and Spanish Americas, and Native American art. The reinstallation also launches three rotating galleries: the Paper Vault, Film & Video, and the Contemporary Project. A free community celebration, the Blanton Block Party, celebrating the reinstallation, will take place on March 25, 2017. The reinstallation of the museum was my first priority when I became director six years ago, said Blanton ... More |
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| First solo show of new paintings by Sandro Chia in New York in almost a decade opens at Marc Straus | | Philippines' Imelda Marcos loses bid to reclaim jewels | | Exhibition of early work by Jonathan Leder on view at Castor Gallery | 
Sandro Chia, The Wayfarer With Ducks, 2017. Oil on Canvas, 60.24 x 48 inches, 153 x 122cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus presents the first solo show of new paintings by Sandro Chia in New York in almost a decade. Sandro Chia was among the foremost painters to emerge in the early 80s. Represented by both Leo Castelli and Sperone in New York, he was a part of the Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and figurative representation. His bold and lush paintings were featured in almost every major museum exhibition benchmarking that era including Zeitgeist (Berlin) in 1982. In an illustrious career spanning almost five decades, some of his milestones include the Biennale of Paris, San Paolo and three iterations of the Venice Biennale. For Sandro it is a privilege to spend his life as a painter. His lyrical and vivid works have captured the colorful facets of his life: a romance with the Tuscan landscape, his bond with the history and culture of the Italian Renaissance, his time spent in ... More | | 
An official from the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) shows a diamond-studded piece of jewellery seized by the Philippine government from former first lady Imelda Marcos. AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS.
MANILA (AFP).- Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos has lost a long fight to reclaim jewels confiscated when her dictator husband was ousted, with the Supreme Court ruling she acquired them illegally. The items worth $150,000 are now the property of the state, the court ruled, paving the way for the possible sale of a much larger collection of Marcos jewellery that could net the government millions. "Petitioners failed to satisfactorily show that the properties were lawfully acquired," said the January 18 court ruling, which the court made public only this week. The law provides that property acquired by a government official at a cost "manifestly out of proportion to his salary" or other lawful income was sufficient "presumption that they were unlawfully acquired", it added. The jewellery ... More | | 
Never produced for commercial use, his subjects perform with confidence and a sense of self awareness, revealing the comfortability and intimacy Leder employs within his practice.
NEW YORK, NY.- Castor Gallery Downtown announces an exhibition of early work by renowned photographer Jonathan Leder, featuring 120 intimate portraits shot on Polaroid film. The exhibition runs from February 9 through February 26, 2017. The photographs on view in this exhibition were taken by Leder over a five year period, and are rarely exhibited to the public. These images, which pre-date the fame of their celebrity subjects, such as models Emily Ratajkowski and Allie Leggett, capture Leders process as photographer and evoke a sense of nostalgia. Never produced for commercial use, his subjects perform with confidence and a sense of self awareness, revealing the comfortability and intimacy Leder employs within his practice. Familiarly contemporary yet seemingly from another time, the photographs ... More |
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| The ICA/Boston presents U.S. debut of Steve McQueen's powerful video installation, Ashes | | Heather Saunders appointed Director of Ingalls Library at the Cleveland Museum of Art | | Tampa Museum of Art presents "Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present" | 
Steve McQueen, Ashes, 2002-15. Two-channel video transferred from 8mm and 16mm film (color, sound; 20:31 minutes), two-sided screen, and posters, dimensions variable. Gift of Tristin and Martin Mannion. © 2002-16 Steve McQueen.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents the U.S. debut of Ashes, a momentous video installation by award-winning British artist Steve McQueen. This powerful, immersive work tells the story of Ashes, a charismatic young fisherman from Grenada, and his unexpected fate. On view from February 15, 2017 through February 25, 2018, Ashes was a standout at the 2015 Venice Biennale and was acquired by the ICA earlier this year. Steve McQueen: Ashes is organized by Dan Byers, Mannion Family Senior Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Curatorial Associate. The ICA introduced McQueen to Boston audiences with a film presentation in 1995. Steve McQueen is one of Britains most influential artists, known for his film and video installations, as well as feature films such as Hunger and Twelve Years a ... More | | 
Saunders brings a decade of library experience to the Ingalls Library. Since 2012, she has served in leadership roles at the Harris Learning Library.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Heather Saunders as Director of the Ingalls Library, the third largest art research library in the United States. With a collection of more than 500,000 volumes, subscriptions to 1,100 print and electronic periodicals, and 155 electronic resources, the Ingalls Library supports the research needs of the museums visitors and staff, students and collectors, and the Cleveland Museum of Arts and Case Western Reserves joint program in Art History and Museum Studies. Heather Saunderss appointment follows an international search. She will assume her responsibilities at the CMA in May. Heathers experience working closely with the Executive Director of the Harris Learning Library for Nipissing University managing public services and myriad aspects of technical servicescombined with her deep commitment to the history of art ... More | | 
John Dominis, American track and field athletes Tommie Smith (C) and John Carlos (R), first and third place winners in the 200 meter race, protest with the Black Power salute as they stand on the winner's podium at the Summer Olympic games, Mexico City, Mexico, October 19, 1968. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman stands by, 1968; printed 2016. Inkjet print, 14 x 9¼ in. (35.6 x 23.3 cm). Courtesy of John Dominis/Getty Images.
TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art is presenting Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present, the most comprehensive survey of the art of sports photography ever produced, highlighting the aesthetic, cultural, and historical significance of these images and artists in the history of sports. The exhibition includes approximately 217 photographs by more than 154 photographers ranging from daguerreotypes and salted paper prints to more than 220 digital images showcasing a variety of different sports from nations around the globe. Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present, is organized by the ... More |
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 Spink announces fifth sale of the Lord Stewartby collectionLONDON.- Spink announced that it will be seeing spring in with a host of coin auctions in March in London and New York. There will be two auctions in Spink USA and two in Spink London, one of which is the fifth and much awaited part of the Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby. This portion will focus on his assorted Tudor and Stuart coins. There are many superb and intriguing pieces bound to attract furious bidding on the 28th March 2017. One of these choice pieces is lot 1712, an Edward VI (1547-53), Shilling from 1549 minted in Canterbury. It is from an m.m. G die. Dies m.m. G were prepared for use at York under George Gale, but not used. They are encountered overmarked for use at other mints, in this case Canterbury under William Tyllsworth. For collectors with an interest in mint oddities, this will prove a very popular item for its rarity and attractiveness. ... More Palais de Tokyo exhibits work by Mel OCallaghanPARIS.- Mel OCallaghan whose work could be discovered during the Nuit Blanche 2016 (under the artistic direction of Palais de Tokyo) and at Palais de Tokyo during DO DISTURB 2, in April 2016, is here continuing her reflections about ritual as a form of expression of the human condition, and the processes of selftransformation which emerge from the tireless repetition of the same actions. For her solo show at Palais de Tokyo, Mel OCallaghan went to North East Borneo so as to attend the traditional harvesting of birds nests, a particularly dangerous ritual, performed twice a year by the Orang Sungai people, at a height of over 120 meters going up to the summit of Simud Putih, or the white cave of Gomantong. Combining sculpture, performance and video, Dangerous on-the-way focuses more specifically on the ekstasis this ritual induces, that physical and mental state ... More Richard Mosse creates an immersive multi-channel video installation at the Barbican Art GalleryLONDON.- Barbican Art Gallery has invited conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse to create an immersive multi-channel video installation in the Curve. In collaboration with composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, Mosse has been working with a new, powerful telephoto military camera that can detect the human body from a distance of more than 30km and accurately identify an individual from 6.3km, day or night. He has used this technology to create an artwork about the migration crisis unfolding across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Narratives of the journeys made by refugees and illegal migrants are captured by this thermal camera which records the biological trace of human life. Projected across three 8 metre-wide screens, the video installation is accompanied by a ... More Thirteen Stolen artworks from the Gardner Museum and video on view at the Mead Art MuseumAMHERST, MASS.- The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College presents "Rotherwas Project 2: Kota Ezawa, Gardner Museum Revisited." This exhibit presents thirteen stolen artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the Mead's historic Rotherwas Room. Over twenty-five years ago, on March 18, 1990, two thieves posing as Boston police officers stole these works in the middle of the night. In his "Gardner Museum Revisited," Kota Ezawa has given the disappeared Gardner artworks new life in the form of dynamic and colorful drawings set in glowing light boxes. Included are Ezawa's unique cartoon-like versions of paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt and Manet, drawings and sketches by Degas, and a single antique Chinese vase. These stunning 21st century reimaginings are displayed to scale in the 17th century, wood-paneled Rotherwas Room, along ... More Arthurina Fears joins the Davis Museum as Manager of Museum Education and ProgramsWELLESLEY, MASS.- Dr. Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro 37 Director of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, has appointed Arthurina Fears as the Manager of Museum Education and Programs. In this position, Fears will develop and plan a wide range of programs that enrich and expand the educational mission of the institution. These programs include events, artist talks and scholarly lectures, panel discussions, screenings, symposia, and Family Days. Fears assumed the role on February 1, 2017. With Arthurinas arrival, we are excited to develop new ways to engage our audiences, on-campus and beyond, through innovative programming, said Lisa Fischman. Her experience combined with the upcoming exhibitions at the Davis will make for some incredible experiences for audiences of ... More"Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes" exhibition opens at Heather Gaudio Fine ArtNEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art announces its exhibition Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes, featuring a group of evocative and awe-inspiring paintings. This is Telfairs second solo exhibition at the gallery which runs from February 11th to March 25th. The public is invited to attend an opening reception for the artist on Wednesday, February 15th, from 5-7pm. As a child, Telfair travelled extensively with her parents, experiencing dramatic changes in environments and contrasting climates within short time frames. These globe-trotting years were to have a profound effect on Telfair and her artistic development. Telfair paints fantastical landscapes conjured from memories and emotions she experienced in her journeys these images are not actual places that exist nor locations she visited. Her use of photo-realism is purely technical and heightens the notions ... More Installation by Laure Prouvost transforms the ground floor of Witte de WithROTTERDAM.- the wet wet wanderer is a new work by Laure Prouvost developed from a sequence selected from the seven part feature-length film The Wanderer (2012). The latter mis-translates fellow artist Rory Macbeths mistranslation of a Kafka novella from German with no knowledge of the language or a dictionary. In the wet sequence section of the film we follow the progress of Gregor, a tortured writer daubing paper with squid ink; a novel in the making, a mind unraveling, time stalled, distended, and looping. Prouvosts installation transforms the ground floor of Witte de With into a sodden sub-aqueous bar, laced with squid ink and dotted with vodka fountains. Plays of projected light cast over objects intensify intoxicatedly as day moves to night. Combining sculpture, video and sound, the form of a mundane high street commercial space is defamiliarized and ... More Exhibition of new paintings by Carl Ostendarp on view at Elizabeth DeeNEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth Dee is presenting the fifth solo show of new paintings by Carl Ostendarp at the new gallery space in Harlem. Over the past two decades, Ostendarp has mined sources as varied as Pollocks drips, Newmans zips, American color fields, Pop Art, and Surrealism to forge his own unique and influential brand of abstract painting. In an ongoing study of the formative period of painting between the mid sixties and mid seventies, Ostendarp continues to explore contexts ranging from the emotional, historical and conceptual. He often responds directly to the physical gallery space through the spatial embodiment of his paintings. In this new exhibition, Ostendarp looks more specifically at artists he has studied for decades, particularly Ad Reinhardt's late black paintings at the Jewish Museum exhibition of 1966, Lee Lozanos wave paintings at the Whitney ... More Catherine II steals show at Israeli diamond fairRAMAT GAN.- A replica of Russian Queen Catherine the Great's imperial crown stole the show at this week's Israeli diamond market in Ramat Gan, as the industry eyes a recovery. Set with 11,352 diamonds, Catherine II's crown took pride of place at the entrance to an enormous hall on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, as hundreds of dealers from 30 countries struck deals at Israel's sixth International Diamond Week. Israel is one of the world's largest trading centres for rough and cut diamonds, rivalling Antwerp in Belgium and Mumbai in India. The sparkling crown made of pearls and diamonds of more than 1,900 carats was on sale for the "modest sum" of $20 million, said Dmitry Moiseev of the Russian diamond group Kristall Smolensk which owns it. "Contacts with buyers have been established and we are hopeful," he said. Hundreds of traders discussed deals and ... More ARGOS centre for art & media opens exhibition of works by Alexis DestoopBRUSSELS.- Four Directions of Heaven presents a temporary record of a spontaneous and subjective research Alexis Destoop (b. 1971, Kortijk) embarked on since the second half of 2012. With photographs, videos, texts, objects and documents the exhibition seeks to question our contemporary concepts of archetypal typologies of landscapes. Central in Destoops multilayered oeuvre is the perception of time, memory and the related processes of recognition. In the mid-2000s the artists focus shifts from performance to a fasci nation with landscape that is rooted in painting, literature and cinema. In photographs, texts and videos he blends fictitious elements with documentary facts in order to question the compositional elements of storytelling. According to the French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour, this is the first time humans are living in an era where they themselves shape ... More Exhibition at Jeu de Paume retraces Peter Campus' careerPARIS.- American artist Peter Campus (born in 1937 in New York) is one of the most influential pioneers of video art, along with artists like Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas, Vito Acconci and Bill Viola. The latter helped Campus install his first major exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (NY) in 1974. Throughout his career, Peter Campus has produced videos, installations, and a large body of photographic work. In his recent video work, he makes use of digital techniques to work on the image, pixel by pixel, rather like a painter. Using an extremely high-definition digital camera, Peter Campus pursues his current work. A large number of his works are featured in some of the worlds greatest contemporary art museums. The exhibition "video ergo sum"the artists first solo exhibition in France retraces the artists career, starting with the experimental ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American cartoonist Art Spiegelman was born February 15, 1948. Art Spiegelman (born Itzhak Avraham ben Zev on 15 February 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a New-York-based American cartoonist, editor and comics advocate, best known for his graphic novel Maus (1986, 1991). His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker starting in 1992, where he made several high-profile and sometimes controversial covers. He is married to artist, designer and editor Françoise Mouly. In this image: Bob, left, and Tina Denison view comic strips by Art Spiegelman Thursday, Dec. 15, 2005, during the "Masters of American Comics", exhibit at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
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