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Günther Förg (b.1952 - 2013) OHNE TITEL, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 76 3/4 x 90 1/2 in (195 x 230 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- As equity markets remain overvalued and people look for sustainable investments, fractionalized sales have become a burgeoning segment in the partial ownership of artworks. ARTBnk, the FinTech SaaS platform that is a leading source of valuation, financial performance, and liquidity data on the global art market, is entering into the fractionalization of art, to provide investors with opportunities to own and invest in fine art pieces. ARTBnk is set to launch its first fractionalization product. Historically, investment opportunities and ownership in the $1.7 trillion global art market have been limited to the very wealthy. Blue-chip artwork has substantially outperformed the S&P 500, making it an interesting choice for people who want to diversify their investment portfolios. ARTBnk intends to make works of art affordable and accessible for clients who may take advantage of the potential of art as a financial asset. Art is an inflatio ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages sale on Jun 02, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian Art, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African/Tribal / Oceanic, Fine / Visual art, and much more! Egyptian Faience Ring w/ Aegis, ex-Royal Athena. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
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| Hauser & Wirth Southampton opens 'Ed Clark & Stanley Whitney. On the Path' | | Ideal and Reality - Nordic Nature opens at Nationalmuseum Jamtli | | Man throws pastry at Mona Lisa, smearing cream on glass case | 
Ed Clark, Untitled, 2013 (detail). Pastel on paper 95.3 x 121.3 cm / 37 1/2 x 47 3/4 in © The Estate of Ed Clark. Courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Hauser & Wirthopened its summer season in Southampton on 28 May with an exhibition of luminous watercolors and dry pigment works on paper by the celebrated American painters and dear friends Ed Clark and Stanley Whitney. Occupying the entire Southampton gallery space, this exhibition explores the two artists shared interest in drawing and watercolor as distinct, critical components of their respective practices. This first-ever pairing of their works on paper provides visitors insight into their sustained experimentations with color, form, and the seductive materiality of paint. Throughout his pioneering seven-decade career, Ed Clark used color, form and materiality to extend the visual language of abstraction that had already been established by the abstract expressionist movement when he began painting. Clarks works in this exhibition, spanning five decades from the 1970s to the 2010s, typify his effor ... More | | 
Elias Martin, Aspa Bruk, 1790s (detail). Oil on canvas. Photo: Erik Cornelius / Nationalmuseum.
ÃSTERSUND.- This summer, Nationalmuseum Jamtli presents Ideal and Reality Nordic Nature, an exhibition showing how nature has been depicted in art and applied art through the ages. The exhibition features some 130 works, paintings, drawings, photographs and applied art, all drawn from Nationalmuseums collections. The artists represented include Anna Boberg, Otto Hesselbom, Pehr Hilleström, Elias Martin, Bruno Liljefors and Helmer Osslund, alongside more recent names such as Frida Fjellman, Kerstin Hörnlund, Ingalena Klenell, Märta Mattsson and Per B Sundberg. Ideal and Reality Nordic Nature features artistic depictions of Nordic nature from the 17th century onward. The artworks represents changing views of nature over time, not only as a source of beauty, but also as an economic resource, an object of scientific study and a symbol of identity. The earliest depictions of Nordic nature are all the work of foreign artists, ... More | | 
The painting was not harmed and the man, who officials said was in a wheelchair and had faked a disability to get close to it, was taken into custody.
PARIS.- Luke Sundberg and three of his friends were in line inside the Louvre in Paris on Sunday, waiting to pose for a photo in front of the Mona Lisa, when they heard gasps. A man dressed as a woman had sprung from a wheelchair and ducked under a rope barrier separating the painting from the crowd of about 100 people. The visitors watched in disbelief as he began pounding on the glass that shields the painting. Then, Sundberg said, the man smeared what appeared to be cake all over the glass protecting what is one of the worlds most recognizable pieces of art. I was in awe, said Sundberg, 20, a first-year student at Colby Community College in Kansas. Its something so historic that seems untouchable. The protester, whom officials have not named, faked a disability to get close to the Mona Lisa, according to the Louvre. The painting was not damaged, museum officials said. Sundberg said he and his friends posed with the ... More |
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| Christie's presents The Miottel Museum: Highlights from the S.S. Normandie | | Christie's New York announces Jewels Online | | Europe's first Samurai Museum opens in Berlin | 
Jean-Maurice Rothschild (1902-1998) and Emile Gaudissard (1872-1956), Low Chair from the Grand Salon of the S.S. Normandie, circa 1934. Carved wood, gold leaf, brass, Aubusson upholstery, 32¾ x 27½ x 25 in. Estimate: $5,000-7,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present works from The Miottel Museum: Highlights from the S.S. Normandie, to be offered in the Design sale taking place live at Rockefeller Center, 7 June 2022 at 11am. The group of important works come from the celebrated ocean liner, the S.S. Normandie, which entered service in 1935, and was known as the fastest passenger ship of its era. In its prime, the vessel was a floating masterpiece of French Art Deco design, a feat of innovation, modernization and supreme luxury. Its exquisite interior and novel design has led many to collect memorabilia, but none more successfully than John Miottel of Berkeley, California. John Miottel was one of the first pilots in the US Navy to fly the F8U-1 Crusader, a revolutionary ... More | | 
Cartier Enamel, Emerald and Gold Giraffe Brooch. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Jewels Online, open for bidding online from 31 May to 10 June. The sale features a curated assemblage of fine jewels ranging from antique to contemporary pieces to colorless diamonds and colored stones. The sale showcases signed jewels by renowned makers including Angela Cummings, Buccellati, Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb, Graff, Hermès, Ilias Lalaounis, JAR, Marcus & Co., René Boivin, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels. Over half of the sale is offered without reserve and will be exhibited as part of Christies Luxury Week at Rockefeller Center galleries between 3-7 June. Leading the sale is a Fancy Light Orangy Pink diamond ring of 2.02 carats ($120,000-180,000). The sale also offers a range of colorless and colored diamonds, including a Fancy Intense Pink diamond ring of 0.84 carat ($50,000-75,000) and an F color diamond ring of 3.61 carats ($30,000-50,000). Also featured ... More | | 
An interactive experience of the culture and history of the Samurai. Samurai Museum Berlin. Photo: Norbert Artner.
BERLIN.- Berlin's museum landscape has a new attraction: The Samurai Museum Berlin Europes first museum exclusively dedicated to the culture and history of the samurai opened on May 8. In over 1,500m2, the legendary history of Japans warrior caste is showcased through a variety of multimedia installations. For more than 1,000 years, the samurai shaped Japans art and way of life from the late Kofun period dating back to the 6th century until the early Meiji period in the 19th century. This world was not only defined by arms and armour, but also by art and culture. More than 1,000 objects in the permanent exhibition convey the extraordinary artistry and wide range of traditional Japanese craftsmanship. The exhibits, ranging from suits of armour to meticulously crafted sword fittings, woodblock prints, and ceramics, as well as an expansive Noh theatre, provide insights into the culture and ... More |
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| Freeman's appoints Lisa De Simone as Head of Modern & Contemporary Art department | | Martha Jungwirth's solo exhibition of new works opens at Thaddaeus Ropac | | Philanthropist Joan Brock gifts $34 million to Chrysler Museum of Art | 
Lisa joined Freemans in 2022, following years in the secondary and primary Post-War and Contemporary art markets in London and New York.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans has appointed Lisa De Simone as head of its Modern and Contemporary Art department, effective immediately. Freemans is uniquely positioned as both Americas oldest auction house and a premier destination for important modern and cutting-edge contemporary art, says Fraser Niven, Freemans Chief Executive Officer. We are thrilled to have Lisa on board as our new Head of Department, signaling an ongoing investment in talent in service of our international client base, who turn to Freemans for a fresh-to-market modern and contemporary selection. The announcement comes on the heels of strong Modern and Contemporary successes in Freemans 2021 and 2022 seasons. Modern and Contemporary Art commanded $1.8M across 54 lots in May 2021, nearly $5M across 80 lots in November 2021, and featured the $428,400 sale of an important Henry Moore sculpture in May 2022. The departm ... More | | 
Martha Jungwirth, Ohne Titel, aus der Serie 'Hexenflug', 2022. Oil on paper on canvas, 238 x 146.5 x 2.6 cm. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi. © Martha Jungwirth / DACS, London 2022.
LONDON.- A new series of oil paintings by Austrian artist Martha Jungwirth are being exhibited in her most extensive presentation in the UK to date. Poised between abstraction and figuration, her paintings are inspired by what she calls conceptual pretexts impressions from her travels, Greek mythology, the appearances of friends and companions, as well as contemporary political events capturing fleeting, internal impulses that are recorded in watercolour and paint. Grounded in closely observed perceptions of her environment, this new body of work draws on elements of the natural world depicted in the form of flowers, popular culture expressed through a portrait of Lady Gaga and static objects such as a colouring book. Taking its name from the publication All Will Fall, which Jungwirth has in her studio, the exhibition references Francisco Goyas aquatint etching from Los Caprichos (179799) ... More | | 
William MacGregor Paxton (American, 18691941), The Album, ca. 1913. Oil on canvas. Promised Gift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection to the Chrysler Museum of Art.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art just announced Hampton Roads Philanthropist Joan Brock has made a $34 million gift to the museum, including 40 works of art from the Macon and Joan Brock Collection and two position endowments, including the Director of the Museum. This gift will also support the expansion of the Perry Glass Studio. The Brock Collection is one of the most significant private collections of American art assembled in the twenty-first century. Major paintings and works on paper by the most important artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries chart a broad history of American art of the period and will allow the Chrysler to tell new and more compelling stories of our nations artistic history, notes Corey Piper, Brock Curator of American Art. The gift includes 29 paintings by artists such as John Singer Sargent, John La Farge, Thomas Wilmer ... More |
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| Bob Dylan unveils large sculpture and exhibition in Provence | | Immersive exhibition gives visitors an unprecedented view inside the human brain | | Michael Janssen Berlin presents an exhibition of works by Monique van Genderen | 
Bob Dylan, Man on a Bridge, 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 51 cm.
PROVENCE.- Bob Dylan has unveiled his largest sculpture to date at Château La Coste in Provence, France. Rail Car, the new site-specific ironwork sculpture, has been created for permanent installation in the Châteaus outdoor art estate, to be displayed alongside works by leading contemporary artists and architects such as Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei, Tracy Emin and Tadao Ando. Rail Car - an immersive, ironwork freight car installation set on train tracks engages prominent motifs in Dylans art, as well as relating to aspects of his past. As Dylan describes in his Chronicles: Volume One, 'Id seen and heard trains from my earliest childhood days and the sight and sound of them always made me feel secure. The big boxcars, the iron ore cars, freight cars, passenger trains, Pullman cars. There was no place you could go in my hometown without at least some part of the day having to stop at intersections and wait for the long trains to pass.' ... More | | 
Visitors walk into artistic renditions of a brain at the cellular level encountering a larger-than-life neuron, the thinking cells of the brain.
NEW YORK, NY.- ARTECHOUSE, a pioneer in the field of innovative, technology-driven, and experiential art, announces the opening of Life of a Neuron at its New York City location in Chelsea Market. This boundary-pushing, immersive exhibition created by ARTECHOUSE Studio, in collaboration with Society for Neuroscience (SfN), examines the far-reaching potential at the intersection of art and science. The exhibition invites visitors to witness the beauty and complexities of one of sciences greatest mysteries the human brain while following the life of a neuron from pre-birth to death. A culmination of three years of research, study and development, the exhibitions foundation is the dialogue of discovery between neuroscientists and multidisciplinary artists. The worlds leading neuroscientists and experts came together with ARTECHOUSE to reconstruct a human neuron from the prefrontal ... More | | 
Monique van Genderen, Untitled, 2022, Oil on linen, 122 x 92 cm.
BERLIN.- In her third solo-show at Michael Janssen Berlin, California-based artist Monique van Genderen continues exploring the spectacle, the cinematic, and the humanistic in their relationship to abstract art by shifting formats and scales. This time she utilizes the specificity of the architecture to develop her theories through installation painting. The title alludes to the artist's exhibition Afterimages shown in 2021 at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery. Her afterimages are produced through the repetition of artistic references: by copying representational elements from her previous paintings, van Genderen challenges the stability of identity with her recent works. Replicated images remain in the viewers periphery, becoming memory shapes. In After Images van Genderen reevaluates the disciplinary concept of panopticism, employing the spatial significance of the architecture. A symbolic adjustment in the exhibition title ... More |
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 A new commission by artist Sara Ludy, Tumbleweeds, launches on whitney.orgNEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art launches Tumbleweeds (2022), a new hybrid project by artist Sara Ludy (b. 1980), on whitney.org. The work combines physical elements of performance and craft with browser-based visuals to examine concepts of space and time across the natural and online worlds. This commission is the latest in the Museums Sunrise/Sunset series, a project that captures the core of artistic practice on the Internet with art interventions on the Museums website. Tumbleweeds unfolds across whitney.org for thirty seconds each day to mark sunset and sunrise in New York City. The Sunrise/Sunset series is organized by Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney. Tumbleweeds is the first Sunrise/Sunset project to combine digital and physical interventions by exploring ... More  "Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life" on view at The Grolier ClubNEW YORK, NY.- During the nineteenth century, railroads profoundly transformed the United States geographically, economically, socially, culturally and in diverse other ways, directly and indirectly. The St. Louis Mercantile Librarys exhibition, Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life, is one of the largest events marking the 200th anniversary of railroadings first decade in America. Celebrating the history of railroading in North America and Europe, it showcases more than 150 items covering this storied industry from its early days in Great Britain to todays modern railroads, still a vital piece of our infrastructure and culture. Drawing from the Mercantile Librarys Barriger Railroad Collection, the Librarys own deep transportation history collections, and select railroad historical organizations, ... More  Exhibition presents over 30 works in Liz Larner's largest survey since 2001MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- For the past three decades, Los Angelesbased artist Liz Larner (US, b. 1960) has explored the material and social possibilities of sculpture in innovative and surprising ways. Today, she is one of the most influential artists of her generation engaged with the medium. Larners use of materials ranges from the traditionalbronze, porcelain, glass, and steelto the unexpected: bacterial cultures, surgical gauze, sand, and leather. All are chosen for their physical properties, the historical associations they hold, or the emotional responses they invite. Taking direction from these materials, she creates works that can be delicate or aggressive, meticulously crafted or unruly and formless. Liz Larner: Dont put it back like it was, co-organized by the Walker and SculptureCenter, New York, is the artists largest ... More  National Gallery unveils Jubilee plansLONDON.- On 6th February 2022, Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. To celebrate her unprecedented anniversary, the National Gallery has created a special programme of events and activities. An innovative virtual exhibition for everyone, anywhere to enjoy online, free. The wonders of digital will bring together a display of 28 National Gallery masterpieces - from Hans Holbein the Younger to Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Gossaert to Anthony van Dyck - curated by Susanna Avery-Quash. The display will explore images of female rulers from different epochs and countries as well as images that relate to some of the attributes most frequently associated with queenship in the past ... More  National Portrait Gallery announces a digital display to celebrate the Platinum JubileeLONDON.- To celebrate and mark Her Majesty The Queens Platinum Jubilee, the National Portrait Gallery presents a new digital display, a competition for families, as well as an exclusively designed range of products to commemorate the Queens 70-year reign. The Gallerys Collection includes over a thousand portraits of the Queen, and a new digital display will allow online visitors to explore a selection of those works, as well as an animated timeline of her reign. It will also feature an illustration of Dorothy Wildings portrait, Queen Elizabeth II (1952), taken just 20 days after she ascended to the throne, using a photomontage of 207 individual portraits. From the earliest of images depicting the Princess Elizabeths Merry Smile, to the official photographs taken throughout her reign by the likes of Dorothy Wilding, ... More  Miller & Miller announces online-only watches & Jewels auctionNEW HAMBURG.- A dazzling 9.22-carat platinum emerald cut diamond ring boasting VS2 clarity, a Swiss Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore special edition wristwatch, and a circa 1991 Rolex Submariner watch with a solid 18kt yellow gold case and bracelet are a few of the baubles that bidders will be treated to in an online-only Watches & Jewels auction slated for Saturday, June 11th, by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., starting at 9 am Eastern time. Wristwatches will include rare and desirable models from Rolex, Omega, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Breguet, Piaget, IWC and Blancpain, among others. The catalog also features a world class collection of 14kt gold Accutron watches. The wonderful selection of jewelry includes rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings. American railroad pocket watches will be from Waltham, ... More  rodolphe janssen opens an exhibition of works by Patrizio di MassimoBRUSSELS.- In his latest body of work, painter Patrizio di Massimo delves into the rich complexities found at the thematic core of his practiceportraiture. Expanding on his formal play and compositional whimsy, the artist pulls focus onto one of the most intimate, yet universal of human acts. Sleep spans realms of the conscious and subconscious mind, depicted here as a bridge to both the worlds of daydreams and nightmares. Surreal acts are lived out in internalized realms of the psyche, for di Massimo, these spaces are occupied by a menagerie of fantastic beasts, whether real, imaginary, or a foreboding combination of the two. As Snug as a Bug in a Rug expresses the relationships between the interior and exterior arenas of sleep as a physical, while equally psychological, theatre. In a series of new paintings, the domestic s ... More  Ultra-rare Pokémon 'Pikachu' illustrator card expected to reach seven figures at Heritage Auctions June 11-12DALLAS, TX.- An exceptionally rare Pokémon card appears destined to be the first ever to top $1 million when it is sold in Heritage Auctions Trading Card Games Signature® Auction June 11-12. The Pokémon Pikachu Illustrator Unnumbered Promo CoroCoro Comics PSA Trading Card Game 9 (The Pokémon Company, 1998) (estimate: $2.5 million+) is a spectacular card and exceedingly scarce. It initially was available only through a CoroCoro Comics illustration contest, an event that was held just three times, all in 1998. Twenty-three copies of the card were distributed in the first contest, and just eight in each of the two subsequent events. This is an incredible card its absolutely the Holy ... More  Design Museum starts the project "An inclusive Design Experience"MUNICH.- The project "An inclusive Design Experience which started in February 2022 aims to convey a part of the collection via videos with translation into sign language and subtitles, via audio descriptions as well as via text at different language levels to read or listen to. These new services are offered particularly to people with hearing and visual impairments, language comprehension difficulties or cognitive impairments, but they are of course freely available to all visitors. In this way, objects can be experienced in a self-determined way via the various mediation modes according to individual needs. The content will be provided digitally and can be accessed on site at the exhibited objects. In addition, the information will also be provided in English. Therefore, the project is aimed at a broad international audience ... More  Solo exhibition of paintings by British artist Tim Stoner opens at VardaxoglouLONDON.- Vardaxoglou is presenting The Woven Field, a solo exhibition of paintings by British artist Tim Stoner, inaugurating the new gallery space at 7 Royalty Mews, Soho, London. For the first time the gallery is presenting several of Stoners new large-scale canvases, the first exhibition of these works in over two years. Tim Stoner has recently returned to the United Kingdom after a period of 20 years in Ronda, AndalucÃa to finish a number of these paintings having been unable to complete them in Spain due to Brexit. His life in Ronda has been the real propellor to his painting, rousing the heat-drenched images which are singed into the canvas. Stoner is known for large-scale masterful paintings which are charged with the landscape and energy of time and process. His paintings sometimes take years to complete ... More  London Original Print Fair announces exciting sales and increased visitor numbers for 37th edition at Somerset HouseLONDON.- The 37th edition of London Original Print Fair has drawn to a close at its new venue, Somerset House, with visitor numbers increasing by 16% from the last in-person edition. The Fair has reported exciting sales, including works by modern and contemporary artists including Andy Warhol, David Shrigley, and Baroque engraver Wenceslas Hollar. Peter Harrington Gallery had a stellar week, selling a print of Andy Warhols Shoes (1980) for £150,000. This is one of five prints from Warhols Shoes portfolio, which were Warhols largest-sized and among his most iconic and significant commercial print series. The gallery has also sold works by Tracey Emin including I Loved My Innocence (2019) for £6,000 ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator and animator Gerald Scarfe was born June 01, 1936. Gerald Anthony Scarfe CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. In this image: Gerald Scarfe, Famous old bag, 336 by 353mm, pen, ink and watercolour drawing. Estimate: £2,000-3,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
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