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Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (L), in Scotland the Earl of Strathearn, walks with museum chair Lesley Knox (R) as he visits to officially open Dundee's V&A (Victoria and Albert) museum in Dundee, eastern Scotland on January 29, 2019. Jane Barlow / POOL / AFP.
DUNDEE.- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge officially opened V&A Dundee today (Tuesday 29 January). Their Royal Highnesses visited the new international design museum and met with its architect Kengo Kuma, key members of the team who created Scotland?s first design museum, and local designers, schoolchildren and young people who have worked with V&A Dundee. The Duke and Duchess also met with members of V&A Dundee?s Young People?s Collective, a group of 16 to 25-year-olds from diverse backgrounds across Dundee who have created events within the museum and also played a central role in V&A Dundee?s opening event, the 3D Festival, a key event in Scotland?s Year of Young People. The Duke and Duchess toured the museum?s p ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this picture taken on January 22, 2019, a visitor takes a picture of a display with images of former Indian movie actors at the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC), the country's first museum showcasing the history of its film industry, in Mumbai. From silent black-and-white films to colourful blockbusters bursting with song and dance, a new museum tracing the evolution of Indian cinema has opened in the home of Bollywood. Costing 1.4 billion rupees (19.6 million USD), India's first national film museum is spread across a stylish 19th-century bungalow and a modern five-storey glass structure in south Mumbai. PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP
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 | | Sotheby's Hong Kong to offer Zao Wou-Ki's Untitled from the Collection of The Guggenheim Museum | | Christie's New York to offer the David Gilmour Guitar Collection | | Hood Museum of Art reopens following major renovation and expansion | 
Zao Wou-Ki, Untitled, 1958 (detail), oil on canvas, 118.1 x 166.4 cm. Estimate: HK$60,000,000 80,000,000 / Approx. US$7,700,000 10,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys announced today that a seminal 1958 work, Untitled, by Zao Wou-Ki will highlight its Modern Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong on 31 March 2019. Coming directly from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the work will make its auction debut more than six decades after its creation, carrying an estimate at HK$6080 million (approximately US$7.7 10 million) and with the proceeds to benefit the museums art fund. Vinci Chang, Sothebys Head of Modern Asian Art, commented: Sothebys is the undisputed leader of the Zao Wou-Ki market, currently holding four of the top ten prices for the artist at auction, including his new benchmark set last fall. This spring, we are privileged to be entrusted with this remarkable painting from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. With its distinguished provenance and impeccable quality from the artists critical Oracle Bone period, ... More | | 
Leading the Collection is David Gilmours 1969 Black Fender Stratocaster, purchased in 1970 at Mannys on West 48th Street in New York (estimate: $100,000-150,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies brings to auction highlights from the personal guitar collection of rocknroll legend, David Gilmour, guitarist, singer and songwriter of Pink Floyd, on 20 June 2019 in New York. Comprising more than 120 guitars, Gilmour's collection focuses on a selection of his preferred Fender models including Broadcasters, Esquires, Telecasters and Stratocasters, led by a guitar as iconic and recognizable as the historic performances for which it was used - the 1969 Black Stratocaster (estimate: $100,000-150,000). Detailing the musical history of one of the world's most influential guitarists, the sale will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of guitars to be offered at auction. All sale proceeds will benefit charitable causes. Estimates range from $300 to $150,000, appealing to a wide spectrum of guitar aficionados, fans and collectors alike. A global tour of the collection will launch in London at Chris ... More | | 
An installation of postwar collection highlights in the Hoods new Northeast Gallery. Photograph © Michael Moran. Courtesy of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth.
HANOVER, NH.- On January 26, 2019, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth opened the doors to its renovated and expanded facility. Designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects| Partners (TWBTA), the expanded museum ties together the Colleges academic and research priorities with an emphasis on the arts at Dartmouth. The Hood sits at the heart of Dartmouths campus on the historic Green. The museums central location signifies the importance art plays in the Dartmouth experience. The Hoods encyclopedic collection is one of the largest of its kind in the United States, comprising more than 65,000 works spanning a variety of media and historical periods. The renovation and expansion ensures that these works of art will be preserved, seen, and utilized by students, faculty, and visitors from around the globe. The building is a hybrid of newly constructed facilities and restored and updated ... More |
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| | | First edition of book that transformed medicine leads Bonhams sale | | First auction appearance of vintage color work by Vivian Maier at Swann Feb 21 | | Rago's first design auction of 2019 brings $4.8M | 
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), De humani corporis fabrica (Estimate: $300,000 - 500,000). Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- A first edition of one of the most influential books in Western medicine, De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body) by the Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius, is the highlight of Bonhams sale of the Medical and Scientific Library of W. Bruce Fye in New York on Monday, March 11. It is estimated at $300,000-500,000. Vesalius (1514-1564) was only 28, and a Professor at Padua University, when he published De humani corporis fabrica. It transformed the science of anatomy and the way it was taught, by applying the critical methods used by humanists. Specifically, Vesalius: provided a fuller and more detailed description of the human anatomy than any of his predecessors corrected errors in the traditional anatomy teaching of Galen (the 2nd century Greek physician regarded as the father of medicine, and a major influence on ... More | | 
Vivian Maier, a personal album of Maiers trip to Europe & Asia compiled and sequenced by the artist, 22 Kodacolor prints, 1949. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- An upcoming sale of Photographs: Art & Visual Culture, February 21 at Swann Galleries, celebrates photographs as objects. Daile Kaplan, the houses Director of Photographs & Photobooks, explains the theme in an introduction to the catalogue, Seeing photographs as physical objects, as works meant to be carefully held in ones hands, is key. The auction features an array of material typifying this appreciation for the tangible: archives and albums that record visual culture of bygone eras, photobooks and vernacular photography, all presented in dialogue with modern and contemporary market favorites. A standout selection of cartes-postales from prominent artists and collectives is led by six printed postcards of Italian Futurist Anton Giulio Bragaglias iconic photographs from 1911-13. The photographs are offered in a small archive alongside business cards, a 1932 ... More | | 
Gio Ponti; Singer & Sons, Dresser (No. 2129). Sold for: $23,750.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rago Auctions January 19 -20 Design Sales brought in a total of $4,826,775 over the weekend. The two-day, 1,164-lot auction series brought impressive results from a wide range of property across five segments: Early 20th Century Design, Mid-Mod, Modern Design, Modern Ceramics and Glass, plus the single-owner collection Lost City Arts: 36 Years of Collecting." Works of early 20th century ceramics led a strong showing across this 428-lot sale. The top lot of the segment was also the first, a large Martin Brothers bird tobacco jar, which sold for $50,000. Other notable lots include: lot 48, a fine, large, double-sided vessel by George Ohr, the self-proclaimed Mad Potter of Biloxi, which sold for more than 5 times the high estimate to achieve $48,875; lot 5, a monk bird tobacco jar, also by the Martin Brothers, which sold for $37,500; lot 339, a tall Phänomen vase by Franz Hofstotter for Loetz, which ... More |
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| | | 25 Blythe Road will now be operating their auctions under the new banner of Olympia Auctions | | Christie's to offer The Marc Litzler Collection | | First Indian film museum opens in home of Bollywood | 
25 Blythe Road | Londons Specialist Auctioneers will now be operating their auctions under the new banner of Olympia Auctions. The auction house remains at the same address.
LONDON.- Thomas Del Mar, founder of the saleroom at 25 Blythe Road in 2007 (Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria) and Matthew Barton (European and Asian Works of Art), together with all the specialists and staff announced that they can now present the existing businesses under a single banner. The new website is dedicated to delivering enhanced functionality and clarity, providing all clients with the highest possible level of service. The businesses operating at the auction collective of 25 Blythe Road have always had a clear mission: expertise, integrity and approachability. From the outset this has been demonstrated by a remarkable number of outstanding individual sales and entire collections that have come to auction there. Asian Works of Art last year included a collection of Edmund de Waals ... More | | 
Albrecht Dürer, LApocalypse, demi-vélin blanc à coins, à la Bradel, dos lisse (reliure ancienne) Estimate : 150.000-200.000 ©Christies Images Ltd, 2019.
PARIS.- On February 20, Christies will present the Marc Litzler Collection, in collaboration with Bertrand Meaudre of Librairie Lardanchet. Composed of 248 lots, the Collection is notable for the quality and rarity of its illustrated editions and art books which comprise the majority of the sale. On public view and to be auctioned prior to the traditional book fairs in Spring, this sale will mark the opening of the bibliophilic season. The Marc Litzler Collection features what is considered to be the first Painters book, LApocalypse, executed by the artist Albercht Dürer, the result of two years of work and published in 1498. This publication includes a series of 15 xylographies, while the dual text columns were written and printed in Kobergers workshop. Dürer breaks with the traditional medieval representations of the 15th century with a new and personal vision influenced ... More | | 
In this picture taken on January 22, 2019, students visit the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC), the country's first museum showcasing the history of its film industry, in Mumbai. PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP.
MUMBAI (AFP).- From silent black-and-white films to colourful blockbusters bursting with song and dance, the evolution of Indian cinema is traced by a new museum in the home of Bollywood. Costing 1.4 billion rupees ($19.6 million), India's first national film museum is spread across a stylish 19th-century bungalow and a modern five-storey glass structure in south Mumbai. "It showcases to the world outside what Indian cinema has achieved in its entirety over more than 100 years," Amrit Gangar, a consulting curator on the project, told AFP. Movie-mad India today produces around 1,500 films a year, dwarfing even Hollywood's output. The government-funded National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) boasts stacks of memorabilia, recordings and film-making tools as well as interactive touch screens where visitors can watch ... More |
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| | | Christie's announces Meteorites Auction featuring 'The Heart of Space' | | Michael Werner Gallery opens exhibition of works by Markus Lüpertz | | Pace opens its first exhibition of Michal Rovner's work in Geneva | 
Sikhote Alin Meteorite 'The Heart of Space' Iron, coarse octahedrite IIAB. Maritime Territory, Siberia, Russia. Estimate: $300,000 - 500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces its fifth annual online auction of meteorites which will be open for bidding from 6-14 February with estimates ranging from $500 to $500,000. Just in time for Valentines Day is an iconic iron meteorite in the shape of a heart. The Heart of Space, is one of the finest meteorites in private hands. It originates from the biggest meteorite shower of the last several thousand years which occurred in Siberia on February 12, 1947. The shockwaves from the explosion collapsed chimneys, shattered windows and uprooted trees; sonic booms were heard nearly 200 miles away and eyewitnesses thought the world was ending. Among the meteorites to land on Earth that day was a natural sculptural form from outer space in the shape of a heart. Its the result of unlikely yet fortuitous cleavage along its crystalline planes as ... More | | 
Uranos III (Uranus III), 2017. Plaster, wax, 29 x 13 3/4 x 8 inches, 74 x 35 x 20 cm. Photo: Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery, London is presenting Markus Lüpertz: Dans lAtelier, opening 30 January. The exhibition travels to London from Musée de la vie Romantique in Paris and is curated by the museums director Jérôme Farigoule. Comprising over two dozen plaster and wax sculptures completed between 2016 and 2018 as well as paintings and works on paper, Dans lAtelier presents viewers with an intimate look at Lüpertzs conceptual process. Throughout his career, Lüpertz has sought balance in his art a space between painting and sculpture, abstraction and figuration and these new sculptures provide a striking new counterpoint to the artists forty years of work in bronze. These primordial sculptures manifest a lightness and fragility seldom seen in Lüpertzs oeuvre and possess a delicate materiality and form that is entirely new. They continue to develop ... More | | 
Michal Rovner, Cypher 1 (Mechanism), 2018 (detail). © Michal Rovner. Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
GENEVA.- Pace presents the gallerys first exhibition of Michal Rovners work in Geneva, at Quai des Bergues, from 30 January to 18 April 2019. The exhibition features recent works and follow its 2018 presentation at Pace NY. The exhibition reflects on the theme of evolution in the representations of text. Since first showcasing her video work at her Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective in 2002, Rovner has pioneered the use of the moving image as a non-narrative, non-cinematic medium for the creation of painterly images and installations which, like painting and sculpture, conjure the timeless realities in a way the narrative arts cannot. Since her landmark exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2003, Rovner has expanded her innovations in many directions, backward, into the historical realm defined by the ancient stones she used as both medium and context; and forward into technological systems that allow ... More |
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 Its treasures ruined by IS, Mosul museum hosts modern artMOSUL (AFP).- Mosul's celebrated museum has not recovered since Islamic State group jihadists ravaged its ancient treasures several years ago, but part of the complex reopened Tuesday to showcase more contemporary art. For the first time since IS overran the Iraqi city in 2014, visitors on Tuesday could wander the grandiose royal reception hall, which forms part of the museum. The building is considered the oldest government complex in Mosul and was recently renovated to host the 29-artist exhibit, titled "Return to Mosul," a member of the organising Al-Ghad Radio station told AFP. The northern Iraqi city served as IS's brutal seat of power for three years, before Iraqi troops recaptured it in 2017. Much of Mosul's east has made a modest recovery, but the west -- home to the Old City and the museum -- remains in ruins. The exhibit was "proof that war ... More 24th annual LA ART SHOW draws over 70k patrons to the most diverse survey of art in the worldLOS ANGELES, CA.- From January 23 - 27, 2019, fair-goers packed the LA Convention Centers West Hall to attend the 24th annual LA Art Show, the citys longest-running art fair and the largest and most comprehensive showcase on the west coast. 120+ galleries from 18 countries packed the halls 200,000 square feet of exhibition space, featuring modern and contemporary works, blue chip art, historical pieces and a stunning breadth of new contemporary and lowbrow work from around the world. Returning for the third year in a row, DIVERSEartLAs donated exhibition space showcased installations and performances from non-profits, museums and institutions from around the world, including for the first time ever CCK - Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Art Share LA. The LA Art Show once again cemented its position as the most diversely programmed ... More Vintage comics auctions hit world record $58.5 million in annual sales at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Sales of vintage comic books and comic art soared to a world record $58,544,323 in 2018 at Heritage Auctions. The auctioneers Comics & Comic Art Department recorded the highest sales totals in the 17-year history of the department, representing the non-stop trend of high demand for original comic book artwork, rare comic books and animation art. Numerous records fell in 2018, further strengthening Heritage Auctions grip on the title of the top comics and comic art auctioneer in the world. Last years sales represent a 32 percent increase over the departments previous record, which was set in 2017. Sell-through rates exceeded 99% by value and by number of lots. Our results in 2018 exceeded our loftiest expectations, Heritage Auctions Co-Founder Jim Halperin said. Part of the gratification when reflecting on 2018 is the variety ... More Philadelphia gets a new art fair PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Philadelphia Fine Art Fair announced it will debut its inaugural edition, open to the public April 4-7, 2019 at the famed 23rd Street City Troop Armory. PFAFs tightly curated show, with 35 respected galleries, representing 300 important artists, is dedicated to presenting significant modern and contemporary art, while celebrating the rich, cultural history of Philadelphia. Rick Friedman, Executive Director of PFAF says, Philadelphia is a longtime culturally driven city in the creation, exploration and patronage of the visual arts. With its 6 million area residents, there is a sizable, fast growing collector base. Coupled with a considerable number of serious art patrons and major collectors make for a ripe and untapped art fair marketplace. PFAF will offer Philadelphia a unique opportunity for local audiences to experience high quality ... More Des Moines Art Center features work of British artist Susan Collis DES MOINES, IA.- On Saturday, January 26, 2019 the Des Moines Art Center opened Susan Collis: Without you the world goes on. The exhibition will be on view through May 12, 2019 in the Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Blank Two Gallery, and Richard Meier Atrium. Susan Collis: Without you the world goes on features approximately 40 works by Collis. This is Collis first museum exhibition in the United States. The artist also created two site-specific works for the Des Moines Art Center presentation. When entering into an exhibition featuring Susan Collis artwork, one might think they arrived on the wrong day there appears to be no art and it looks like the installation crew has stepped out for a break. A rickety old stepladder accompanied by a drop cloth, both spattered with drips of paint, sits nearby. Visitors with an eye for detail, however, will pause. Upon closer ... More Aspen Art Museum announces new Senior CuratorASPEN, COLO.- Today, the Aspen Art Museum announced the appointment of Max Weintraub as the institutions new Senior Curator. Weintraub joins the staff of the AAM directly from his post as Director and Chief Curator of the Art Galleries at Indiana Universitys Herron School of Art + Design; a position he has been instrumental in defining since 2016, and for which he curated thirty exhibitions and increased gallery attendance each year. Prior to his roles at the AAM and Herron School of Art + Design, Weintraubs career included tenures in the curatorial and educational departments of the Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has also served as a professor at Hunter College in New York City (200816), where he taught the history of modern and contemporary ... More LiveAuctioneers' 2018 Annual Report reveals another record-setting yearNEW YORK, NY.- LiveAuctioneers, the worlds leading online marketplace for exceptional fine art, antiques and vintage collectibles, has released its 2018 Annual Report indicating not only another year of record results that outperformed competitors, but also a continued year-over-year pattern of growth that remains unrivaled in the industry. Every year, LiveAuctioneers empowers auction-house partners to sell the most items possible to qualified art and collectibles bidders online. In 2018, over 630,000 items were won through LiveAuctioneers.com -- thats 135,000 more than our closest competitor, said LiveAuctioneers CEO Phil Michaelson. Our team continues to find new ways to use incredible technology including machine learning, streaming video, mobile apps, and auto-scaling cloud servers to get the right bidders to the right auctions at the right time. ... More Annabelle Selldorf to design an Interpretation Center at Forbidden City's Qianlong Garden NEW YORK, NY.- World Monuments Fund today announced celebrated architect Annabelle Selldorf will design an Interpretation Center at the Qianlong Garden within the iconic Forbidden City in Beijing, China, making her one of only a few American architects to lead architectural projects at the site. For the first time ever, the public will have access to the Qianlong Garden through the new Visitors Center, which is part of a comprehensive restoration in partnership with the Palace Museum that will be completed in 2020. The interpretation center will be located in an existing, restored structure within the second courtyard of the Qianlong Garden. Selldorf and her NYC-based firm, Selldorf Architects, designed the center in three distinct halls surrounding an open pavilion, each of which will provide visitors with a unique perspective on the past and present of the remarkable ... More Original Coca-Cola memorabilia headlines Michaan's February Collectibles and Ephemera Memorabilia Sale ALAMEDA, CA.- Its possible that a sale of collectibles and ephemera is the most fun you can have at an auction! Though prices often rival those for fine art, the auction items have broad appeal, delighting the curious onlooker as well as the serious collector. Many exude the warm glow of nostalgia. An array of fascinating and coveted items brings light and life to midwinter at Michaans Ephemera and Collectibles Auction, a special event on Monday, February 11 at 10 am PST. Culled from fine estates and curated by Michaans specialists, the sales highlights include rare original Coca-Cola tin trays, antique arcade and carnival games, vintage postcards and a Regina upright music box. Introduced in the late 1890s, the Coca-Cola serving tray is a vibrant reminder that advertising is one of Americas favorite art forms. Lithographers developed a special technique ... More Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel's first solo exhibition in Switzerland opens at Kunsthalle BaselBASEL.- Wading boots, toilets, soap dispensers, sinks, bidets, or even gigantically oversize sweaters: all containers enclosing a negative space, corporeal receptacles of a sort. Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquels early sculptures evoked the human bodies that might fill or complete their forms, but never actually represented any bodies at all. It wouldnt be until 2012, after more than a decade of working together, that the duo turned to the human figure directly. There was a prudishness, they admit, to their hesitation to portray that most enduring and central of art historys subjects. Naked, in pieces, and now overwhelmingly present in their most recent works, the previously elusive human body appears with spectacular aplomb. This exhibition manifests its central subject the human, a mammal among mammalsin wood. As is their habit, the British- ... More Emmanuelle Chan joins Christie's France as Asian Contemporary Art specialistPARIS.- Christies announced that Emmanuelle Chan has joined Christies as Associate Specialist for the Asian 20th century and Contemporary Art department in Paris. Emmanuelle was born and raised in Hong Kong, and graduated from the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne with a double degree in Law and Art History, an MA in Art Market and a research MA in Art History, choosing to write her thesis on Chinese-born French artist Zao Wou-Ki. She also holds a BA in Chinese language and civilization from INALCO. Having worked five years in the Asian Works of Art department of an international auction house, she brings extensive experience in research and cataloguing. This cross-departmental move will suffuse new knowledge and experience in the Asian 20th century and Contemporary Art team. Together with Specialist Fiona Braslau, her focus ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Patrick Heron was born January 30, 1920. Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 - 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Throughout his career, Heron worked in a variety of media, from the silk scarves he designed for his father's company Cresta from the age of 14, to a stained-glass window for Tate St Ives, but he was foremost a painter working in oils and gouache. In this image: Susanna Heron poses with Patrick Heron?s Nude in Wicker Chair, 1951.
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