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In this file photo taken on November 8, 2012 Chanel's creative director Karl Lagerfeld poses before the opening of his photo exhibition entitled "Little Black Jacket" at the Grand Palais in Paris. German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85, it was announced on February 19, 2019. Patrick KOVARIK / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Superstar designer Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85, his fashion label Chanel confirmed on Tuesday. The announcement came just weeks after the man known as the "Kaiser" in the industry did not appear at shows during Paris Haute Couture week for Chanel, which he had led since 1983. Just last week, his own fashion line Karl Lagerfeld was still announcing new design collaborations. German-born Lagerfeld was artistic director of three separate brands, Italy's Fendi, France's Chanel -- the world's richest label -- and his eponymous line. With his powdered white pony tail, black sunglasses and starched high-collared white shirts, the great friend and rival of Yves Saint Laurent was as instantly recognisable as his celebrity clients. German designer Karl Lagerfeld, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, on Feb 21, 2019 at 9:00 AM CST. Egyptian New Kingdom Wooden Boat & Boatmen. Estimate $15,000 - $20,000.
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 | | Phillips announces highlights from the London Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art | | Sotheby's & Miss Porter's School unveil the full auction contents of their all-women-Artist benefit auction | | 88.22-Carat Oval Diamond to lead Sotheby's HK Sale of Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Girl in Mirror, 1964. Estimate: £4,500,000 6,500,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced highlights from the upcoming London Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. The Evening Sale, taking place on 7 March, will offer 29 lots of Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary Art. Works by Gerhard Richter, Martin Kippenberger, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jean-Michel Basquiat will lead the sale. The Day Sale on 8 March will be comprised of 135 lots, including works by Sean Scully, KAWS, Rudolf Stingel, and Anish Kapoor. Rosanna Widén, Senior Specialist and Head of Evening Sale, A year after Phillips most successful auction in company history, the March Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art bring together a strong and diverse group of artworks that encompass the very best of the artistic movements from the past seven decades. The auction is led by a strong German section and boasts an impressive showing of African American art, including a painting from the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Works by blue-c ... More | | 
Jenny Holzer, Selection from Survival: Men Don't Protect... Danby Imperial white marble, 17 by 23 by 15 3/4 in. 43.2 by 58.4 by 40 cm. Executed in 2006, this work is number 6 from an edition of 10, plus 2 artist's proofs. Estimate $50/70,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys and Miss Porters School unveiled the full sale contents of By Women, For Tomorrows Women the first-ever all-women artist benefit auction at a major auction house, which will precede the bi-annual Contemporary Curated sale on 1 March in New York. Over the course of several months, 40 pieces by 38 pioneering women artists have been donated to create this distinct offering of modern and contemporary works, with full proceeds to support financial aid that enables emerging female leaders to attend Miss Porters School and go on to shape a changing world. Presented alongside the live auction on 1 March, additional works from By Women, For Tomorrows Women will be offered as part of Sothebys Contemporary Art Online auction, open for bidding from 22 February 7 March. All 40 works will be on ... More | | 
The 88.22-carat, D Colour, Flawless, Type Ila, Oval Brilliant Diamond Est. HK$88-100 million / US$11.2-12.7 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Prized by kings and queens for centuries and across civilisations, coveted by tycoons and moguls of the 20th century, exceptional large diamonds have become the ultimate collectibles for modern day connoisseurs. This spring, a spectacular 88.22-carat, D Colour, Flawless, Type Ila, oval brilliant diamond, perfect according to every critical criterion, will lead Sothebys Hong Kong Sale of Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite on 2 April 2019 (est. HK$88 - 100 million / US$11.2 - 12.7 million). This is one of only three oval diamonds of over 50 carats to appear at auction in living memory, and the largest to be auctioned in over five years. Patti Wong, Chairman of Sothebys Asia, said: When you think that one ton of mined earth yields less than a carat of diamond, and that high quality diamonds over 10 carats are a rarity, the discovery of a 242-carat rough, of gem quality and exceptional size, is nothing ... More |
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| | | Mexico president to convert penal colony into cultural center | | Earliest skull ever mudlarked from the Thames goes on display at the Museum of London | | BOZAR exhibits works by one of the key figures in the Brussels artistic scene during the Renaissance | 
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shows a five dollar bill with his face during a joke with reporters at Mexico City's international airport T2 before boarding a commercial flight on February 15, 2019. Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Monday that an island penal colony housing 600 inmates will be converted into a cultural and scientific center. The four Islas Marias islands lie 120-kilometers (75 miles) off the northwest coast of Mexican state Nayarit. The largest of those, Isla Maria Madre, has housed a prison since 1905 in which inmates, some of whom live with their families, are free to roam, though not leave. "The island will be converted into a center for the arts, culture and the study of the environment, nature, flora and fauna," said Lopez Obrador, known by his initials AMLO, during a morning press conference. The Islas Marias inmates are not considered dangerous and 200 of them will ... More | | 
Frontal Bone of Neolithic Skull. © Museum of London.
LONDON.- A fragment of a Neolithic skull, discovered by a Mudlarker along the south bank of the Thames foreshore will go on display for the first time from Wednesday 20 February at the Museum of London. Dating from 3600BC this skull belongs to one of the earliest people discovered in the Thames. Only a small part of the skull has been recovered, just the frontal bone, but that has allowed us to determine that they were male, and over the age of 18. The find was initially handed in to the Metropolitan Police who commissioned radiocarbon dating of the bone, which has revealed that they died around 5600 years ago. The skull fragment will go on display in the London before London gallery at the Museum of London and will sit amongst other Neolithic finds that have been discovered along the Thames foreshore. Dr Rebecca Redfern, Curator of Human Osteology at the Museum of London, said: This is an incredibly ... More | | 
Bernard van Orley, Portrait of Georges de Zelle, 1519. © Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
BRUSSELS.- This spring, as part of the Pieter Bruegel the Elder commemorative year, BOZAR celebrates artistic creation in the hustle and bustle of the sixteenth century. BOZAR presents the doublebill The Age of Bruegel, two major exhibitions on the Renaissance in the Low Countries: Bernard van Orley and Prints in the Age of Bruegel. BOZAR kick-starts the Bruegel Year with one of his forerunners: Bernard van Orley (1488 1541), who was one of the key figures in the Brussels artistic scene during the Renaissance. While still a young man he headed up one of the most prominent art studios of his time. His innovative style captured the imagination of the elite of the day, including the courts of Margaret of Austria, Maria of Hungary and Emperor Charles. He was given prestigious commissions for opulent wall hangings, paintings and stained glass windows. For the first time ever ... More |
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| | | Marianne Boesky Gallery appoints New Director and Communications Coordinator | | First major exhibition devoted to Tudor and Jacobean portrait miniatures for over 35 years opens in London | | Dallas Museum of Art's Nicole R. Myers named Senior Curator of European Art | 
Sara Putterman began her career at Sothebys New York in the European Furniture department and most recently served as Digital Marketing Manager (2017-2018).
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery announced today that it has appointed Stephanie Gabriel as Director and Sara Putterman as Marketing and Communications Coordinator. Gabriel worked at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, where she most recently served as a Partner. She will take her new position at Marianne Boesky on February 26, 2019. Sara Putterman joins from Sothebys New York, where she most recently held the position of Digital Marketing Manager. She will start at the gallery on February 21, 2019. Stephanie brings with her an incredible record of gallery leadership and wide range of long-standing relationships with artists and curators that will prove invaluable to our growing operations. And with the digital realm becoming increasingly important to reaching artists, collectors, and influential leaders ... More | | 
Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh) by Nicholas Hilliard c. 1585 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery, London is to stage the first major exhibition devoted to Tudor and Jacobean portrait miniatures for over 35 years. The exhibition will bring together key works from the National Portrait Gallery and major loans from public and private collections, including miniatures that havent been seen in public in the UK since the early 1980s, to showcase the careers of the most skilled artists of the period, Nicholas Hilliard (1547? 1619) and French born Isaac Oliver (c.1565 1617). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, miniature painting was regarded as an art form at which the English excelled above all others, and Hilliard and Oliver gained international fame and admiration. The exhibition will explore what these exquisite images reveal about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Termed limnings at the time, with their roots in manuscript i ... More | | 
Myers has curated several noteworthy exhibitions. Image courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art.
DALLAS, TX.- Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, announced today that Dr. Nicole R. Myers has been named The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art. Myers steps into her new role after serving for nearly three years as The Lillian and James H. Clark Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the DMA. As The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art, Myers will assume official leadership of the department, continuing her work thus far in overseeing the acquisitions, exhibitions, research, and publications related to the DMAs expansive collection of European art, composed of thousands of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper dating from the 15th century to 1945. In her time at the DMA, Nicole has already demonstrated incredible leadership through her significant contributions to scholarship, visionary acquisitions, ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz presents works by Heinz Frank | | Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz donate artworks to The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum | | Beijing's Forbidden City in historic light show | 
Portrait Heinz Frank, Kunsthalle Wien 2019, Photo: David Avazzadeh.
VIENNA.- My practice resides in the in-between space between the void inside and the inner outside: so says Heinz Frank, who, after studying architecture with Ernst A. Plischke in the 1960s, has worked as a sculptor, draftsman, painter, creator of linguistic and object art, and, occasionally, designer of interiors and furniture. Accomplished in mobilizing multiple media, he interlaces, freely mixes and matches various materials such as: wood, stone, plaster, paint, clay, glass, metal, and found fabrics, wires, boxes, trestles, mirrors, or parts of old household appliances. Combining, assembling, and transforming these and other objects and devices, Frank probes the tensions between polar opposites such as hard and soft, hot and cold, inside and outside, heavy and light, beginning and end, pinpointing in forever novel creations howas well as proposing thatthese terms are all interconnected. To use a paradoxical formula in which the artist once summed ... More | | 
Elizabeth Murray, born 1940 in Chicago, Rosy Glow, (1993), pastel, charcoal, and ink on folded and collaged paper.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University announces the gift of artworks from the Collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz by ten leading contemporary women artists, in honor of the museum buildings recent tenth anniversary. The artists are: Squeak Carnwath, Petah Coyne, Madeline Denaro, Marina Font, Joanne Greenbaum, Quisqueya Henriquez, Sharon Horvath, Elizabeth Murray, Lorna Simpson and Wendy Wischer. We are thrilled to honor the Frost Art Museum FIU and bring the work of pioneering contemporary female artists to the forefront, making these works available to FIUs student community, faculty and visitors to the museum, said Francie Bishop Good. With this donation, we are recognizing the museums rich history and powerful future, said David Horvitz. We encourage other patrons to also support the important mission of the Frost ... More | | 
A paramilitary police officer stands guard during a light show inside the Forbidden City during a cultural event celebrating the Lantern Festival, the end to the Lunar New Year festivities, in Beijing on February 19, 2019. NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP.
Beijing's famed Forbidden City was illuminated at night Tuesday for the first time since it was opened as a museum to celebrate the end of Chinese New Year. The sprawling former imperial palace, which marks its 600th birthday next year, was bathed in a colourful array of lights and lasers in front of 3,000 spectators. Free tickets for the unprecedented light show had been snapped up online within minutes, crashing the Palace Museum's website as Beijingers and tourists rushed to witness the spectacular display. Tickets were soon being sold on for up to 5,000 yuan ($740) on the internet. Hundreds of red lanterns were hung along the vast ramparts that enclose the ancient seat of Chinese imperial power in the heart of the capital. The Palace Museum will repeat the temporary show Wednesday night as it celebrates the Lantern ... More |
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 Exhibition presents Cold-War era social documentary photography of Milton and Anne RogovinWELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College presents Bread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anne Rogovin, an exhibition of 37 black-and-white photographs that portray underserved communities and laborers from around the world. Milton Rogovin, together with his wife Anne, expanded the potential of social documentary photography in the United States to reach and affect audiences, as well as the subjects in their pictures. The exhibition, on view in the Robert and Claire Freedman Lober Viewing Alcove, runs from February 7 through June 19, 2019. Milton Rogovin created his own version of the social documentary genre, particularly with regard to his sitters, who had a deep appreciation for his work. Many families recall how Milton and Anne would spend time getting to know them and return to re-photograph ... More Ancient Resource Auctions to offer over 500 lots in antiquities saleMONTROSE, CA.- A spectacular selection of authentic, well-provenanced ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Islamic, Byzantine and Pre-Columbian antiquities, plus many other unique ethnographic items, will be sold in an online-only Exceptional Antiquities Sale planned for Saturday, March 2nd at 9 am Pacific time by Ancient Resource Auctions, based in Montrose. All lots may be viewed and bid on now, via Ancient Resource Auctions dedicated bidding platform, bid.AncientResourceAuctions.com, and on its bidding apps for both Android and Apple devices. Bidding will also be available on LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. We are quite proud of this auction. Its one of our biggest sales in years, and were featuring an incredible selection of antiquities ... More Phillips to offer over 50 photographs from The Susie Tompkins Buell CollectionNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection, an auction taking place alongside the companys seasonal April Photographs sale. Comprised of over 50 lots, the auction will include masterworks by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange and Consuelo Kanaga, among others. Vanessa Hallett, Deputy Chairman, Americas, and Worldwide Head of Photographs, said, Susie Tompkins Buell has assembled one of the finest and most select collections in private hands. It is an honor for Phillips to have been entrusted with this sale, which is composed of iconic images by photographers who helped to define the visual culture of the 20th century. While primarily known for co-founding Esprit and The North Face, as well as for her political activism and philanthropy, Susie Tompkins ... More Federalist papers, Penzler collection & Where the Wild Things Are statuette lead auction in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- A rare copy of The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution and an extraordinary collection of more than 230 mystery fiction books from the owner of the worlds oldest and largest premiere mystery specialist bookstore, headline Heritage Auctions Rare Books Auction March 6 in New York. Popularly referred to as The Federalist Papers, the two-volume set is considered by American historians as the cornerstone of the new nations theory of government. The essays are attributed to founding fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. The Federalist Papers were written as part of an effort to get the New York delegation to ratify the Constitution it made the case for Federalism and sought to convince the citizens of the states, Heritage Auctions Rare Books Director James Gannon said. ... More Ronni Baer named Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and LecturerPRINCETON, NJ.- James Steward, director of the Princeton University Art Museum, today announced the appointment of Ronni Baer, Ph.D., to be the next Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer. A scholar of Dutch, Flemish and Spanish art and of the history of collecting, Baer has served since 2000 as the senior curator of European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She will begin her new position at Princeton May 1, 2019. The Adler Distinguished Curatorship is designed to enhance the Museums established leadership in European art from the medieval to modern periods as well as further enrich the tradition of object-based teaching at Princeton, including preparing undergraduates and graduates for careers in museums and the academy. Accomplished and active international scholars and museum professionals, ... More Exhibition at Museum for Architectural Drawing Berlin provides an intimate view into Ãlvaro Siza's workBERLIN.- Ãlvaro Siza was born in 1933, on the same year that the Bauhaus closed its doors. He is perhaps the last living modernist or, at the very least, the most significant voice to carry out the unfinished modernist project all the way into the 21st century. Siza: Unseen and Unknown showcases this continuity through 100 sketches, as well as its unavoidable contradictions. These drawings are from his most personal archive, in addition to small collections of close friends and family. Hence, they focus not only on the professional legacy but also on the familial one, where Maria Antónia Siza (1940-1973) takes centre stage. His wife will draw him, he will draw her and the loving embrace of the human body will be transversal to architecture, art, life. Quite fittingly, Juhani Pallasmaa told Ãlvaro Siza last year that architecture is such an impure and ... More A major exhibition explores the role of drawing in contemporary architectural practiceLONDON.- Drawing is a fundamental component of Sir John Soanes Museum, reflecting its importance to Soanes conception and practice of architecture. Following Soanes example, this exhibition by leading contemporary practitioner Eric Parry will reveal the enduring centrality that drawing has to architectural practice and culture. It offers a never seen before insight into the extraordinary range of drawings Parry has created over the last four decades, focusing on the three sections: Observing, Designing and Building. For Eric Parry (b. 1952) drawing is integral to his practice as an architect: not just as a design tool, but as a way of conceiving, reflecting on and analysing buildings and the places they occupy. Across projects as diverse in typology, scale and context as the new buildings at Pembroke College, Cambridge, the Holburne Museum in Bath, the renewal ... More Lafayette Anticipations opens exhibition by fashion label Atelier E.B PARIS.- A common interest in the history of motifs and retail display inspired designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie to form the Atelier E.B fashion label. Their first exhibition in France combines contemporary creation, the history of fashion and museum design. It opens with a bespoke showroom for their new collection, Jasperwear, and continues with historical research into the figure of the mannequin, from ancient sculpture to department store windows. It ends with a series of commissions by contemporary artists. The title of the exhibition, Passer-by, acknowledges consumers of fashion not just as individuals who buy garments, but everyone who glances at shop window displays and enjoys fashion through books, magazines, exhibitions, and other means. The exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations follows the first staging at the Serpentine ... More Edmund de Waal to present new work inspired by poet Paul Celan at Ivorypress in MadridMADRID.- Edmund de Waal will present breath, an exhibition of new work inspired by the craft of bookmaking, at Ivorypress in Madrid from 20 February 11 May 2019. At the heart of the project is a unique artists book created by de Waal for Ivorypress over a number of years. Made from paper, porcelain and fragments of manuscript, the work explores the materiality of books and the traditional processes of binding, papermaking and printing. Taking its inspiration from the work of one of the most important German-language poets of the post war period, the Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan, the book contains pages brushed with porcelain slip featuring handwritten poems inscribed by de Waal, with new texts about the poet. Six volumes of the artists book will be displayed alongside a series of 17 new artworks created specifically for the exhibition, ... More Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein devotes the first comprehensive museum exhibition to Nora TuratoVADUZ.- Nora Turato (* 1991 in Zagreb, Croatia) scripts powerful narratives from text fragments gleaned from advertising, social media and everyday life. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is devoting the first comprehensive museum exhibition to the Amsterdam-based artist. Turato defines language as the foundation of her work, from which she creates artworks in a variety of media. Her spoken-word performances garnered notice at the Venice Biennale in 2015, eliciting invitations from prominent museums. Turatos performances confront the audience with a transformed reality, as the language she uses is the language of our everyday lives. The artist uses her smartphone to explore the text hysteria that is circulating online. Fast-paced nonstop breaking news in adverts, in the press, literature, film, music and the social media. Honing in on specific content, ... More Major retrospective dedicated to Martine Franck opens at Musée de l'ElyséeLAUSANNE.- Wishing to showcase the pioneering work of female photographers in the 20th century, the Musée de lElysée is presenting a major retrospective dedicated to Martine Franck (1938-2012). Conceived by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and co-produced with the Musée de lElysée, this exhibition, exceptional in its scope, gathers almost 140 photographs, some of which have never been shown before and many of them chosen by the photographer herself. In addition to the photographers unique perspective of her entire body of work, this exhibition and publication project is based on an in-depth study of the Martine Franck archives, distinguishing it from previous retrospectives. Martine Franck was a key figure of 20th century photographic art, a member of Agence VU in 1970, the co-founder of Agence Viva in 1972 and a member of the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Jan de Baen was born February 20, 1633. Jan de Baen (20 February 1633 - 1702) was a Dutch portrait painter who lived during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a pupil of the painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer in Amsterdam from 1645 to 1648. He worked for Charles II of England in his Dutch exile, and from 1660 until his death he lived and worked in The Hague. His portraits were popular in his day, and he painted the most distinguished people of his time. In this image: Members of the magistrate of The Hague, 1682.
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