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n authentic Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton is displayed during a press preview of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural Historys newly reopened David H. Koch Hall of Fossils Deep Time exhibit June 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. More than 700 fossil specimens, including mammals, reptiles, plants and insects are on display in the hall, made possible by a $35 million gift from billionaire David Koch. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History will reopen its dinosaur and fossil hall Saturday, June 8. The 31,000-square-foot exhibition will feature an authentic Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton alongside more than 700 other fossil specimens, including mammals, reptiles, plants and insectssome never before displayed at the museum. The exhibition tells the story of 3.7 billion years of life on Earth, highlighting the connections among ecosystems, climate, geological forces and evolution and encouraging visitors to understand that the choices they make today will have an impact on the future. The David H. Koch Hall of FossilsDeep Time is named in recognition of a $35 million gift from David H. Koch. Visitors to the new hall will go on a voyage like no othera journey that begins in the past and ends in the future, said Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the National Museum of Natura ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a sale of antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine Art, much more on Thursday, Jun 6, 2019 9:00 AM CDT. In this image: Roman Lead Sarcophagus Panel - Sphinx & Minerva Faces. Estimate $3,000 - $4,500.
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 | | Getty Museum acquires Veit Stoss Corpus Christi, intends to acquire Wright of Derby painting | | Scholar's items & world famous paintings offered at Gianguan Auctions, June 17 | | Ancient vessel for hallucinogenic drugs tops Artemis Gallery's May 22-23 auction | 
Two Boys with a Bladder, about 1769-70, oil on canvas, by Joseph Wright of Derby (17341797).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today its intent to acquire Two Boys with a Bladder, about 1769-70, a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, which has not been on public view since the 18th century and was previously unknown to scholars. The Museum also announced the acquisition of Corpus Christi, about 1490-1500, a small-scale wooden sculpture depicting the crucified body of Christ by Veit Stoss. These two works of art offer exceptional opportunities to enrich our collections, said Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The striking depiction of the crucified Christ represents a rare opportunity to acquire a masterwork from the great era of early Renaissance German sculpture. It joins our growing collection of late-Medieval and early-Renaissance sculpture and decorative arts, complementing the manuscripts and paintings collections, ... More | | 
Magnificent cloisonné 5-piece scholars set.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beginning with Classical Chinese paintings and continuing through collections of bronzes, ceramics, stone seals, and teapots, Gianguan Auctions June 17th sale takes collectors deep into their favorite categories. Newcomers to the gallery will discover the quality, consistency, and accessibility Gianguan Auctions has stood for since 2002. Among the outstanding smalls is a set of scholars garniture in cloisonné. The five piecesan inkstone warmer with cover, brush holder; brush washer with ladle, and a weasel bristle penhave a vibrant sapphire-blue ground decorated with a yellow Wan character above and amid a front-facing dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl. Each piece bears the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong four-character mark and is of the period. Lot 154 is estimated at upwards of $40,000 USD. A rare, polychromed lacquer box with sixteen lobes is an outstanding example of the tianqi method of ... More | | 
Chavin (north coastal Peru) hallucinogenic drug vessel, circa 900-200 BCE, carro stone with cinnabar pigment to lower areas, 11.15in high. Sold for $49,800. Image courtesy of Artemis Gallery.
BOULDER, COLO.- The winning streak continued for Artemis Gallerys popular Exceptional Auction Series, with a May 22-23 sale of antiquities, Asian, ethnographic and tribal art that surpassed $1 million. The top lot of the sale was a Chavin (north coastal Peru) lemon carro stone vessel, circa 900-200 BCE, that was originally used as a container for hallucinogenic drugs. It sold for $49,800. All prices quoted in this report include a 24.5% buyers premium. An Ancient Egyptian bronze bust of Osiris from the Third Intermediate Period, circa 1070-712 BCE, came with provenance that included prior sale at Christies, and before that, ownership by a gallery in Munich, Germany. It finished within estimate at $46,688. Remarkably lifelike, a stone figure of a seated, cross- ... More |
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| | | Young Brueghel leads Old Master sale with elemental series | | Winterthur acquires rare painting by Robert S. Duncanson | | Eduardo Costantini: the billionaire who hunts down top LatAm art | 
Jan Brueghel the Younger, An Allegory of Earth (detail), oil on copper. Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An astonishing set of four oil on copper panels by Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678) leads the Old Master Paintings sale at Bonhams New Bond Street on Wednesday 3 July. The Four Elements: An Allegory of Earth; An Allegory of Water; An Allegory of Air; and An Allegory of Fire have been miraculously well preserved as a quartet for almost 400 years, and the set has an estimate of £800,000-1,200,000. The series is remarkable, primarily because its main subjects - the landscapes, figures, flowers and animals - have all been confirmed by art historian and Brueghel specialist, Dr. Klaus Ertz, to be by Brueghels own hand. This is a rarity, as it was common practice for him to collaborate with many of his fellow artists, including Rubens and Hendrick van Balen. Allegories of the Four Elements had become a well-established theme of Renaissance painting by the time Brueghel began this series, around 1625, yet he approached these with a ... More | | 
Robert S. Duncanson, Short Mountain, Hawkins County, Tennessee, ca. 1852 (detail). Courtesy of Winterthur.
WINTERTHUR, DE.- Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library is pleased to announce that it has acquired the painting Short Mountain by Robert S. Duncanson, the foremost African American landscape painter of the 19th century. A special study day, Discovering Duncanson, will be held on December 6, 2019, featuring prominent scholars Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Ph.D., of the National Portrait Gallery, and Dr. Martha Jones, Ph.D., of John Hopkins University. If you want to study Duncanson as a painter, Associate Curator of Fine Art Stéphanie Delamaire, Ph.D., said, you want to see this picture. Registration for the Duncanson study day will begin online September 6, 2019. Robert S. Duncanson was an African American artist who was widely acclaimed by antebellum critics as the best landscape painter in the West. Short Mountain, an outstanding composition in pristine condition for its age, equals or surpasses many exampl ... More | | 
Argentinian billionaire and art collector Eduardo Costantini answers questions during an interview with AFP on May 30, 2019 at the Four Seasons hotel in New York. Don Emmert / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eduardo Costantini picked up the telephone and, without hesitating, offered to pay $3.13 million for a major work by Spanish-born Mexican artist Remedios Varo -- the jewel of Christie's most recent auction of Latin American art. Costantini -- a 72-year-old businessman and collector, and one of the richest men in Argentina with an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion, according to Forbes -- is used to shelling out big bucks for his passion. He founded the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA) in 2001, smack in the middle of Argentina's devastating financial crisis. Costantini initially donated all 300 works he owned. Two years later, he resumed collecting and has since placed that private collection at the museum's disposal. Today, MALBA has about 800 works, and its primary patron says it has "the largest collection of Latin American art on display, without a doubt" -- on par with New York's Museum ... More |
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| | | Perrotin & Nahmad Contemporary now represent the Estate of Georges Mathieu worldwide | | Paleontologists discover a giant reptile in Antarctica | | Success for the Collection of Anne Tronche with €2.2 million and 100% of lots sold | 
Georges Mathieu, Hommage a Goya, 1976. Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm. 63 3/4 x 51 3/16 in. © Georges Mathieu ADAGP, Paris & ARS, New York, 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following their successful collaboration with Hans Hartung, Perrotin & Nahmad Contemporary announced that they now exclusively represent the estate of French artist Georges Mathieu worldwide. We are honored to work with the Estate of Georges Mathieu, who has entrusted us with the legacy of this visionary artist. Bold and experimental, Mathieu was the founder of Lyrical Abstraction and a pioneer of Action Painting and performative art, with work present in a multitude of museums and prestigious collections around the world. Our decision today to collaborate is an exciting challenge and will reinvigorate Mathieus legacy internationally, declared Emmanuel Perrotin and Joe Nahmad. On the occasion of Art Basel 2019, the galleries will show unseen works coming from the family, including ... More | | 
The remains of this giant reptile are in the Museum of La Plata. Part of his spine has been found, part of his anterior and posterior fins and some elements of the scapular waist. Photo: Agencia CTyS-UNLaM.
BUENOS AIRES (AGENCIA CTYS-UNLAM).- It is the largest elasmosaurid in the world, similar in appearance to the Loch Ness monster. With a body mass that exceeded 12 tons, it doubles in size the majority of reptiles of his family known until now. According to the researchers, they would have developed a form of feeding similar to that of whales. The paleontologist José O'Gorman of the Museum of La Plata (MLP) and CONICET assured the CTyS-UNLaM Agency that "a very important specimen was extracted in the Marambio Island; It is the largest elasmosaurid in the world. " "Due to the large size of this specimen, its rescue was carried out during successive campaigns of the Argentine Antarctic Institute and its rescue culminated in 2017", explained the main author of this study published ... More | | 
Victor Brauner (1903-1966), Géométrie d'une tête, 1959. Sold for: 75,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- The Top lot of the sale was George Valmiers Figure which sold for 394,000 against a presale estimate of 200,000-300,000. Christie's sold the 58 lots of the collection for 2,209,000, more than twice its globale estimate. International bidders from 13 countries paid a beautiful tribute to Anne Tronche recognizing her strong eye and unique voice. The artists who mattered the most for her realised strong prices such as Hervé Télémaque which Entre les Etendards sold for 65,000, Bernard Rancillacs Un Tour de clé which sold for 37,500, Aurélie Nemours which N+H 918 sold for 25,000 and Tetsumi Kudis Your portrait which realised 62,500 against a presale estimate of 15,000-25,000. The great names of the 20th century were also represented in this collection with George Valmiers Figure which sold 394,000, Lucio Fontanas Concetto spaziale ... More |
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| | | London Map fair organiser Tim Bryars' top tips for collecting antique maps from expert | | Victoria Miro opens Howardena Pindell's first solo exhibition in the UK | | Joslyn Art Museum adds to European Collection with stunning Van Oosterwyck still life | 
Tim Bryars of Bryars & Bryars shares his expertise on where to begin.
LONDON.- With the London Map Fair running this coming weekend, June 8 and 9, organiser and dealer Tim Bryars of Bryars & Bryars shares his expertise on where to begin Antique maps have been an absorbing interest for most of my working life. More likely to be rooted in trade, war, politics and propaganda than wayfinding, they are frequently strikingly designed or beautifully printed even when made for the most functional purposes, they are always evocative of a time or place, and I find them endlessly fascinating. Too much emphasis can be put on theming a collection. Acquiring antique maps is supposed to be fun, so theres no need to bind yourself up too tightly in a self-imposed straitjacket which stops you buying nice things when you see them. Having said that, an accumulation of maps is much more satisfying when there is an underlying narrative or structure, ... More | | 
Howardena Pindell © Nathan Keay. 2018.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of recent works and large-scale paintings from the 1970s by Howardena Pindell, the gallerys first presentation since announcing representation of the US artist, and Pindells first solo exhibition in the UK. Howardena Pindell is recognised as a leading contributor to contemporary dialogues around the social and political urgency of process-driven art. The works in this exhibition are abstract paintings and collages drawn from two distinct periods in the artists career: large-scale spray paintings from the early 1970s; and smaller wall-mounted three-dimensional works completed since 2007. A focus on Pindells pursuit of abstraction gives rise to thematic symmetries within and between the works, which, despite having been completed decades apart, reveal the extent of her ongoing formal analysis and material innovation. In addition, the exhibitions focus underlines ... More | | 
Maria van Oosterwyck (Dutch, 16301693), Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase, ca. 1685, oil on canvas, 31 ¾ x 26 ¼ inches, Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE), Museum purchase with funds from the Ethel S. Abbott Art Endowment Fund and the General Art Endowment Fund, 2019.4. Courtesy of Ben Elwes Fine Art, London. Photo: Matthew Hollow.
OMAHA, NEB.- Joslyn Art Museum today announced the purchase of a seventeenth-century canvas, Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase (about 1685), by Dutch artist Maria van Oosterwyck (16301693). One of the few female painters active in Holland in the 1600s, Van Oosterwyck was a master of the floral still life. She enjoyed great success in her lifetime and counted King Louis XIV of France and King William III of England among her patrons. Her elegant floral arrangements set against dark backgrounds were especially admired for their diversity of flora, a characteristic exemplified in Joslyns painting. Taylor J. Acosta, Ph.D., Joslyns associate curator of ... More |
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MetCollects -- Episode 5 / 2019: Denise Allen on Max Klinger's Galatea
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 Whitechapel Gallery exhibits Michael Rakowitz's most important projects from two decadesLONDON.- Enthralling environments tell gripping tales that haunt buildings and objects, revealing the utopian aspirations and the disasters of modern times, in this debut survey of internationally renowned Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz (b.1973). Premiering Rakowitzs most important projects from two decades, eight multifaceted installations draw on architecture, cultural artefacts, cuisine and geopolitics from 750BC to today. Whitechapel Gallerys headline exhibition for summer 2019 coincides with the display in London of the artists Lamassu sculpture for the Fourth Plinth, part of his epic and ongoing attempt to recreate every cultural artefact lost or destroyed during the Iraq war. Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery and co-curator of the exhibition, says: From the Assyrian winged bull he placed in Trafalgar Square to the stone books ... More Thomas Dane Gallery opens Xie Nanxing's first solo exhibition in LondonLONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery presents A Gift Like Kung Pao Chicken, Xie Nanxings first solo exhibition in London. The shows satirical title, taken from a signature Chinese dish, is typical of an artist fascinated by codes and conventions while simultaneously shifting and upending their meaning. Drawing from his Chinese academic education and the Western artistic lexicon, Nanxing approaches painting with both an analytical and synthetical mind posing riddles, yet solving them at the same time. In other words: the recipe, as much as the dish itself, matters equally to him. This inquiry extends through both bodies of recent work on show in the two spaces: Spices (2016-2017), and a new series of portraits. In fact, these seemingly disparate series function similarly in how they expose and depict the process of acculturation as well as the acculturation ... More Robert Reason appointed Director of the David Roche FoundationADELAIDE.- The Board of The David Roche Foundation today announced the appointment of Robert Reason as the Foundations second Museum Director with responsibility for the David Roche Collection. Robert was educated in New Zealand attaining First Class honours in history of art at the University of Auckland before completing a post graduate diploma of art curatorship and Museum management at the University of Melbourne. This was followed by curatorial roles at Shepparton Art Museum before he was appointed Curator of European and Australian Decorative Arts at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2002. Whilst at the Art Gallery he co-curated the acclaimed Empires and Splendour: The David Roche Collection exhibition in 2008 through which he came to know David Roche well. In 2015 in the lead up to the opening ... More Exhibition presents paintings by renowned Native Peruvian-Amazonian artistsLONDON.- Gallery 46 is presenting The Invisible Forest, an exhibition of paintings by renowned Native Peruvian-Amazonian artists realised by London-based author and curator Patsy Craig, as part of her Flourishing Diversity Series. Launched in 2018, the Flourishing Diversity Series was created by Craig in collaboration with the Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability at the University College London, and the UK-registered conservation charity Synchronicity Earth. The project aims at developing cultural platforms to help amplify Indigenous world-views and establish improved models of environmental leadership. At this point in time when our civilisation is faced with the devastating effects of human caused climate crisis, I believe that the leadership of Indigenous peoples, as stewards, caretakers and protectors of the earth, is crucial to achieving a stable ... More Spring Exhibition features works by 117 artists that occupy Tallinn Art Hall TALLINN.- The Spring Exhibition 2019 surveys the work of Estonian artists across all generations. Comprised of painting, sculpture, installation and video, on display are works by known artists from Estonian art history such as Tiit Pääsuke, Enn Põldroos, Lembit Sarapuu, Toomas Vint, Evi Tihemets-Viires, Naima Neidre and Leonhard Lapin. Featured alongside them, work by strong emerging artists currently making waves in the Estonian and international contemporary art scene; Mihkel Ilus, Dénes Farkas, Jevgeni Zolotko, Anna Mari Liivrand, Laivi, Kadri Toom, Kris Lemsalu, Kristi Kongi and Mirjam Hinn. Also presenting works are established Estonian artists such as Laurentsius, Kaido Ole, Marko Mäetamm, Alice Kask, Liina Siib, Terje and Jüri Ojaver, Jaan Elken, Sirja-Liisa Eelma, Herkki-Erich Merila and Peeter Laurits. As well as artists, galleries ... More Marc Jancou Contemporary opens an exhibition of new works by American artist Louise LawlerROSSINIÃRE.- Marc Jancou Contemporary is presenting Is Anybody Home, an exhibition of new works by American artist Louise Lawler, as part of its OFFSITE: CHALET series. The exhibition, on view from June 3 through August 4, 2019, by appointment in Rossinière, Switzerland, previews fifteen works from Lawlers Three Sizes in Twelve Colors (1994/2019) series, alongside Fixed Intervals (1988-92), a collaborative work by Lawler and Allan McCollum. Since the 1970s, Louise Lawler has been making photographs that depict artworks in their everyday environments, removing the emphasis from the art object itself and focusing on the vantage points, framing devices, and sites of display that affect the reception of an artwork. The photograph in Is Anybody Home is derived from Lawlers 1994 work It Could Be Elvis. Lawler has returned to this ... More Rare Iroquois war club, tribal art lead Heritage Auctions' Ethnographic Art auctionDALLAS, TX.- A rare Iroquois weapon from more than 200 years ago is among the items in highest demand at Heritage Auctions Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Auction June 25 in Dallas, Texas. The top lots in this sale of American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal art all come from private collections. An Iroquois Ball Head War Club ($60,000-80,000), circa 1800, is a beautiful hand-carved hardwood piece with fine brown patina, measuring 28 inches long. Tracing back to the Iroquois tribe that lived mostly in what is now western and northern New York, it is a solid weapon, not just a ceremonial item. This is a beautiful weapon, and weapons are enormously popular with collectors, many of whom see them as the ultimate symbol of masculinity, Heritage Auctions Senior Ethnographic Art Specialist Delia Sullivan said. ... More Public Art Fund honors 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising with billboard by Felix Gonzalez-Torres NEW YORK, NY.- For the month of June, Public Art Fund is presenting the seminal billboard Untitled, 1989 by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (American, b. Cuba, 1957-1996) to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and WorldPride in New York City. Public Art Fund organized the project in 1989 when Gonzalez-Torres first installed this work on the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Untitled the first of Gonzalez-Torress billboard works was originally described in 1989 as site and date specific. Thirty years later, the work is installed in its original location: Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, above Village Cigars and across from the historic Stonewall Inn bar. Gonzalez-Torress iconic billboard work, Untitled, 1989, is on view June 4 30 and is presented in collaboration with The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation with lead support by Google. This billboa ... More Harvard Art Museums appoint Joachim Homann as new Curator of DrawingsCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums announced the appointment of Joachim Homann as the new Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings, effective August 19, 2019. Homann is currently curator of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, the repository of one of the oldest collections of historic European drawings in this country. During his tenure, European and American drawings and works on paper have been a particular focus of collecting and exhibitions. Homanns work on Bowdoins collection of drawings culminated in 2017 with the publication of the first catalogue that featured highlights of this unique resource. Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors introduced works from the studios of Raphael and Peter Paul Rubens to drawings by Eva Hesse and Titus Kaphar. Significant purchases of drawings by Hyacinthe ... More Barenboim to stay at Berlin opera despite bullying claimsBERLIN (AFP).- World-renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim has had his contract with Berlin's State Opera extended until 2027, the city said Tuesday, despite several musicians complaining about his bullying. Berlin's chief culture official Klaus Lederer told a news conference that Barenboim, 76, would be staying on as general musical director of the capital's flagship opera house, the Staatsoper. Lederer said he had taken the decision after a three-month investigation of the accusations against the Israeli-Argentinian conductor, and that the opera's Staatskapelle orchestra backed his conclusions. However he said the contract extension included a pledge to improve the working atmosphere within the 450-year-old orchestra. "First of all, none of the legally relevant accusations could be proved," Lederer told reporters, explaining his decision. ... More Phillips names Hartley Waltman as General Counsel, AmericasNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the appointment of Hartley Waltman as General Counsel, Americas. He will be based in New York and start in his new role in July. Mr. Waltman will oversee the legal functions in North America and assume responsibility for Phillips legal and compliance functions throughout the Americas. He will also play an active role in Phillips top client business development and deal-making activities. Mr. Waltman will report to Martin Wilson, Chief Legal Counsel, who is based in London. Mr. Waltman joins Phillips following a 20-year career at Christies, where he was most recently Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel, who over the course of his tenure served as the primary legal counsel and business partner for each of the companys 25 specialist departments. Among his many activities at Christies, he was the lead counsel ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American-Italian painter Conrad Marca-Relli was born June 05, 2019. Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 Boston - August 29, 2000 Parma) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic. In this image: Conrad Marca-Relli, "San Miguel" S-P-13-78, 1978. Collage and mixed media on canvas, 28 x 34 1/4 inches, 71.3 x 87 cm.
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