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The Inverted Jenny Plate Block is on display during a press preview of the Three Treasures Collected by Stuart Weitzman at Sotheby's on June 04, 2021 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP .
by James Barron
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Inverted Jenny, the postage stamp famously misprinted with an airplane upside down, climbed to a new height on Tuesday when a block of four sold for $4.9 million, a record for a United States stamp at auction and $2 million more than its last reported sale price. But the quartet from one of the most famous mistakes in collecting history was the least expensive of three items sold in less than 10 minutes at Sothebys. A $20 U.S. gold piece that was minted in 1933 went for $18.9 million, a record for a coin. The One-Cent Magenta stamp from British Guiana (now Guyana), a 165-year-old stamp that is sometimes called the Mona Lisa of philately, went for $8.3 million. Stuart Weitzman, who made a fortune in shoes, parted with the three notable collectibles, though he did not attend the sale. He said several months ago that owning the three items had fulfilled a childhood dream that began as a rookie, collecting stamps and coins. In the last ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic sale on Thu, Jun 10, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale includes useum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Viking, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, so much more! In this image: South Arabian Alabaster Libation Table w/ Bull & Ibexes. Estimate $36,000 - $54,000.
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| Christie's New York Magnificent Jewels achieves $26,559,250 | | American Impressionist paintings on view at the Palmer Museum this summer | | Koller announces highlights included in the Modern, Contemporary & Swiss Art auctions | 
Also headlining the sale was The Dancing Sun, a fancy intense yellow diamond of 204.36 carats, VVS2 clarity, and the largest polished diamond mined in North America, which achieved $4,950,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York June 8 auction of Magnificent Jewels achieved a total of $26,559,250 118% hammer above low estimate, 94% sold by value, and 87% sold by lot. The preceding Jewels Online sale from May 20 to June 4 additionally achieved a total of $3,485,125 with 157% hammer above low estimate and 97% sold by lot. Combined the two sales realized $30,044,375. The top lot of the sale was The Chrysler Diamond, a magnificent pear-shaped diamond of 54.03 carats, D color, Internally Flawless that sold for $5,070,000. The story of this exceptional stone began in 1958, when Harry Winston purchased what was then known as the Louis XIV Diamond from the estate of Thelma Chrysler Foy, daughter of Walter Chrysler, railroad and automotive executive and namesake of New York Citys iconic Art Deco skyscraper. Also headlining the sale was ... More | | 
George Loftus Noyes (American, 1865-1954), Sunlit Road, c. 1910, oil on canvas, 27 x 22 inches. Collection of Thomas Clark.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- As the days grow longer and the weather warmer, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened Summer Light: American Impressionist Paintings from the Thomas Clark Collection. On view through August 29, this special exhibition features twenty-four paintings from the major forthcoming gift of collector Thomas Clark, whose private holdings contain some of the finest in the American impressionist genre. We are thrilled to present a selection of works from the expansive collection of Tom Clark to audiences this summer, said Palmer Museum Director Erin M. Coe. Impressionism is an enduring style that has spanned generations and geographic locales. It is a fitting tribute to our shared resilience as we emerge from the pandemic and bask in the light of these luminous landscape paintings after months of indoor isolation and limited travel. It is also a tribute to Tom, who has generously committed his collection to Penn ... More | | 
Ferdinand Hodler (Bern 1853-1918 Geneva), Portrait of Clara Pasche-Battié. 1914. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right: 1914 F. Hodler. 47.5 à 39.5 cm. Estimate: CHF 350 000 / 500 000 | ( 327 100 / 467 290).
ZURICH.- The auction of Impressionist & Modern Art on features an impressive array of works by modern masters including Auguste Rodin, Marc Chagall, Erich Heckel, Alfred Sisley, Paul Klee and Ossip Zadkine. A work from Erich Heckel's finest period, 'Frau am Tisch' (Woman at a table) to be offered on 2 July, completed a long and perilous journey before it was acquired by the present owners at Art Basel nearly 50 years ago. The 1914 painting, which depicts the artist's future wife, originally belonged to the important German collector and art patron Alfred Hess, who most likely purchased it directly form the artist. After Hess's death, his widow sent the painting to Switzerland, along with many other important works, to keep it safe from the Nazi regime. Ordered back to Germany, the painting was stored in a wooden crate in the basement of the Cologne Kunstverein ... More |
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| Rijksmuseum presents Ellsworth Kelly in the Rijksmuseum Gardens | | Stedelijk Museum opens the most comprehensive overview of Bruce Nauman's work in the Netherlands to date | | Kunsthaus Hamburg opens Carlos León Zambrano's first institutional solo exhibition | 
Ellsworth Kelly, White Curve (for Menil), 2015. Collection Ellsworth Kelly Studio.
AMSTERDAM.- This summer, two towering arches, each around three storeys tall, stand in the Rijksmuseum Gardens, forming a stark contrast with the familiar brick backdrop of the museum. These immense steel objects are part of the Ellsworth Kelly in the Rijksmuseum Gardens exhibition. Ellsworth Kelly is one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. The Rijksmuseum is able to present the nine sculptures in this exhibition thanks to a generous loan by the Ellsworth Kelly Studio and New York State Collection. None of the sculptures has ever been exhibited in the Netherlands before. Admission is free to this exhibition in the Rijksmuseum Gardens which runs from 5 June until 24 October 2021. Ellsworth Kelly (Newburgh 1923 2015 Spencertown) was inspired by the things he saw. He distilled his observations to their essence and transformed them into simple, clear-cut surfaces and forms. The exhibit ... More | | 
Installation view Bruce Nauman, 5 June 2021 until 24 October 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Peter Tijhuis.
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum presents a comprehensive overview of the American artist Bruce Nauman. For over fifty years, Nauman has continually tested and reinvented what an artwork can be. His use of an eclectic range of media and unbridled urge to experiment makes him a key figure within art today. Nauman is an important source of inspiration and a benchmark for younger generations of artists. His interest in ambiguity and shades of meaning relates to everyday human experience, where certainty is not always guaranteed. The exhibition reflects Naumans preoccupation with themes such as the body, language, control, and the artists studio. His art works are disruptive, penetrating, absurd, and playful, and often a physical as well as mental experience. Rein Wolfs, director of the Stedelijk Museum: Naumans work gets under your skin. It cries out for concentration and reflection. ... More | | 
Making Kin, Installationview, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2020, Detail: Madison Bycroft, Babuineries, 2019, Photo: Hayo Heye.
HAMBURG.- The Hamburg-based artist Carlos León Zambrano (*1986 Caracas, Venezuela) questions real and fictional narrative structures and addresses strategies of social survival with a sense of irony and alert sobriety. His conceptual installations generally consist of minimal interventions into the space, yet often exert a powerful impact through a specific gesture or magical moment. Most of his work is inspired by the informal language, its ciphers and codes from his home country Venezuela. In his first institutional solo-exhibition, Zambrano has developed a process-based, ephemeral installation for the Kunsthaus Hamburg. Suspended from the ceiling and distributed on the floor, he stages objects recalling rare natural history objects, scientific instruments and ethnological finds from remote worlds. Organic, amorphous and natural forms inhabit the entire exhibition hall, which, now ... More |
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| New consultancy firm established by two former art museum directors | | "Reflections" a show by Nazli Madkour | | Magnificent portrait of the King of Swaziland for sale in Paris | 
Terrie Sultan is recognized as a thoughtful, innovative museum professional with strong expertise in energetic leadership, fundraising, strategic planning, donor relations, staff and trustee mentorship.
NEW YORK, NY.- In a groundbreaking moveand reflecting the challenges that art museums face in the post-Covid world-two former art museum directors, Robin Nicholson and Terrie Sultan announce a new partnership with the renowned consultants Hudson Ferris to form a new entity Art Museum Strategies @ Hudson Ferris. The firm will officially launch on May 13, 2021. Art Museum Strategies (AMS) principals Nicholson and Sultan each bring expertise gained through more than 30 years in the field. Together they bring extensive experience of re-structuring, re-calibrating, re-branding, and re-thinking art museums, especially important in the current environment. Their association with Hudson Ferris offers essential services in non-profit fund-raising, growth, and development. AMS @ Hudson Ferris will offer a bespoke package ... More | | 
Acrylic on canvas, 2020. 120cm x120cm.
by Maie Yanni
CAIRO.- In the November 2001 issue of ARTnews, Barbara Pollack wrote How Can You Think About Making Art at a Time Like This ? How Can You Not ? That, of course , was written in the aftermath of the September 11th tragedy at the World Trade Centre. Twenty years on and we are living a global nightmare, that initially started unfolding insidiously but soon culminated into a catastrophic, uncontrollable cataclysm that swept the entire planet. At a point when the world feels like it is self-imploding and so many of us have incurred irreparable damage and inconsolable grief, how do we as artists, makers and creators move on when so many questions are still unanswered? A few days ago, Reflections, the current show by artist Nazli Madkour launched in Cairo ; a city in the grips of increasing Covid infections. The title itself is a dual connotation of partly holding a mirror to what is unfolding ... More | | 
Charcoal on paper the portrait is 253,5 x 111 cm in size and is estimated to sell for 45,000-65,000.
PARIS.- A highlight of Aspire and Artcurials upcoming auction in Paris of Modern & Contemporary Art is Dumile Fenis magnificent large-scale drawing which captures the dignity and power of King Sobhuza II of Swaziland. Charcoal on paper the portrait is 253,5 x 111 cm in size and is estimated to sell for 45,000-65,000. The late King Sobhuzas grandson, Prince Misuzuluwhose name means "strengthening the Zulus"has been chosen as successor to the Zulu throne. As king, he will exercise extensive influence over more than 11 million Zulus, nearly a fifth of South Africa's population. Artist Dumile Feni is widely regarded as one of the great visionaries of South African art. A prodigious talent, and a hero for aspiring artists today, he has been likened to a rock star who lived fast and died young. From his very first exhibition, his name and reputation spread rapidly in the Johannesburg art world and his ... More |
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| Delaware Art Museum's new board slate epitomizes its vision for the future | | Kunstnernes Hus opens one of Ida Ekblad's largest exhibitions in Scandinavia to date | | New musical about 19th-century New York plans Broadway run | 
Fatimah Conley, Interim Chief Diversity Officer, University of Delaware
WILMINGTON, DE.- On May 13, Delaware Art Museum members voted in a slate of new trustees that reflects the exciting future envisioned for the 109-year-old art institution. Aligning with the values that will carry the Museum into its next chapter, the new board members bring expertise in community development, creative entrepreneurship, and art collections. Under the leadership of the young, dynamic Executive Director Molly Giordano, the Museum is poised to solidify its standing as an anchor institution in its community. This extraordinary new slate of DelArt trustees reflects the institutional values we share and the strategic vision for the Museums future, said Delaware Art Museum Board President David Pollack. The seven trustees joining the Delaware Art Museum board this spring are: Fatimah Conley, Interim Chief Diversity Officer, University of Delaware Jeanana Lloyd, Director of Talent Optimization and Planning, Christi ... More | | 
Ida Ekblad, THE REAL FLESH-EATER, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Peder Lund © Ida Ekblad / BONO 21. Photo: Uli Holz © Peder Lund.
OSLO.- Ida Ekblad is one of the most recognized Norwegian artists working today and GIRL FIRES UP STOVE is one of Ekblads largest exhibitions in Scandinavia to date. Her artistic practice comprises a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture, performance, video, record production, and poetry. For Kunstnernes Hus she has conceived a show that includes highlights from her recent production. The exhibition presents a comprehensive installation of new paintings including many institutional loans, as well as a substantial series of sculptural works produced for the occasion. A monumental painted bronze sculpture, which is the first of its kind by the artist, premieres outdoors, placed on Kunstnernes Hus lawn, and will be a polychromatic landmark in the urban landscape of Oslo until the end of the year. The title of the exhibition, GIRL FIRES UP STOVE, refers to Edvard Munchs painting ... More | | 
In a photo provifded by Alessandra Mello, Paradise Square at Berkeley Repertory Theater in 2019, with a cast featuring, in the front row from left, Hailee Kaleem Wright, Karen Burthwright and Sidney DuPont. Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Paradise Square, a new musical that explores race relations in 19th-century New York, plans to open on Broadway next winter, making it the first previously unscheduled musical to step forward since the pandemic began. The show, which has been reworked and in development for a decade, is about a long-gone slum in Lower Manhattan, Five Points, where, during the runup to the Civil War, free Black residents and Irish immigrants coexisted until the draft riots of 1863. Not only about the history of New York City, the musical is also about the history of music and dance. It features songs by Stephen Foster, a prominent 19th-century U.S. songwriter who spent time toward the end of his life in Five Points, and it credits the Five Points community with ... More |
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 She-Bam Pow Pop Wizz! The Amazons of Pop celebrates MAMAC's 30th anniversaryNICE.- Powerful and sensual paper heroines leave boxes to explore a forbidden world. They are called: Barbarella, Jodelle, Pravda la Survireuse
They are free, powerful and sensual like Amazons. Born in Europe from a teen-age culture, their out of the ordinary adventures spread out in magazines, comics, Hollywood movies, Pop songs and music videos.
They embody a new ideal that will spur an unprecedented moral revolution in the late 1960s. Next to these papers representations, these fantasized figures, other real heroines take part in the invention of a new artistic language: the Pop. Their comic-book-like works are full of rainbow colors, sensual and vibrant which free themselves from the limits of the line. It is thus an odyssey of the senses to sound the death knell of a post World War II period in Europe, a black and white one - still traumatized by its losses and the horrors of the ... More  Stunning arms & armour to be offered by Thomas Del MarLONDON.- From rare pistols to firearms presented by a Dutch King to gem-set swords and intricate panels, through to highly important helmets and a Collection of Archery and associated items, Thomas Del Mars rich and varied auction of Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria will be held on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at Olympia Auctions, 25 Blythe Road, London W14. An extremely rare .31 calibre Colt Paterson pocket revolver, dating from 1837-40 will be among the highlights of the David Jeffcoat Collection and is estimated to fetch £40,000-60,000. David Jeffcoat (1945-2020) whose lifelong passion as a collector started early and by the age of six he was acquiring bayonets and cap badges. He joined the Arms and Armour department at Sothebys Bond Street in the early 1960s where he was to remain for over 20 years working on some of the most significant auctions of the ... More  Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces an online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique auction CRANSTON, RI.- An online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique auction packed with over 300 quality lots, mostly pulled from prominent estates throughout New England, is planned for Thursday, June 17th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, which has been hosting successful Internet sales since the start of the pandemic but is looking forward to resuming live, in-gallery events. This will be yet another great auction with an eclectic mix of antiques, fine art, furniture, jewelry, and more, said Kevin Bruneau, the president and owner of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, adding, Hopefully this will be our last time with an online-only sale. We would love to get our crowd back into the gallery. Bruneau said telephone and absentee bids would also be accepted. An immaculate, hand-carved Alaskan Inuit walrus ivory chess set, the pieces modeled after native fauna with exquisite calcification, carries ... More  Matadero Madrid presents the project Contra la Raza [Against Race] MADRID.- Guest Curator Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of The Showroom, London, proposes the project Contra la Raza [Against Race] at Matadero Madrid within the framework of PHotoESPAÃA21. This multidisciplinary initiative incorporates a video-based installation and live programme focusing on futuristic imaginaries expressed through poetics of the black experience that generate forms of global and egalitarian humanism. Mataderos dark, soaring Nave 0 hosts a multimedia installation of Relic Traveller by Larry Achiampong, alongside a group screening of audiovisual works by artists including Ramone Anderson, Rubén H. Bermúdez, Sally Fenaux, Amartey Golding, Jérôme Havre, Julianknxx, Katia Kameli, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Grada Kilomba, Mónica de Miranda, Nástio Mosquito, Paulo Nazareth, Heidi RamÃrez, Sara Sadik, Berni Searle, Cauleen Smith, Camille Turner and Belinda ... More  Tel Aviv Museum of Art receives $15M supporting comprehensive upgrade of main buildingTEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced today it has received a $15-million gift from the Paulson Family Foundation in celebration of the Museums 90th anniversary. The landmark donation from the US-based foundation will support an extensive upgrade of the museums main building to enhance visitor experience, expand programming, and install new, state-of-the-art, environmentally efficient systems. It also provides an endowment that will enable the Museum to continue to upgrade and care for the building as new exhibition and operational technologies are created. The iconic, soft-Brutalist building, designed by Dan Eytan and Yitzhak Yashar, has become a beacon for creativity in the cultural heart of Tel Aviv, alongside its neighbors the Israeli Opera, Cameri Theater, and Beit Ariela Municipal Library. The building is being named The Paulson Family Foundation Building in ... More  Fabio Torre's second solo show in the United States opens at ClampArtNEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt is presenting Fabio Torre: Camera Workthe painters second solo show in the United States and his second solo show at the gallery. The exhibition is organized in conjunction with a corresponding show at Galleria Studio G7 in Bologna, Italy in late 2021/early 2022. Both shows are accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Marco Antonio Bazzocchi and Fabio Casadei Turroni. "Camera Work" is comprised of the artist's highly detailed, black-and-white, oil painting "portraits" of classic, analogue cameras. The show's centerpiece is a triptych on canvas depicting three views of a twin lens Rolleiflex camera. Then, four oil paintings on paper depict the same (but possibly different?) Mamiya RB67 camera bodies in profile. Lastly, Torre has painted twelve head-on views of a single Hasselblad medium format camera with background shades of bright to very dark ambient ... More  Almine Rech now represents American artist Haley JosephsBRUSSELS.- Almine Rech announced the representation of Haley Josephs in Europe, the United Kingdom, and China. Almine Rech will host the artist's inaugural solo exhibition featuring new paintings in Almine Rech Brussels from September 9 to October 9, 2021. Recently, Haley Josephs was featured in a group presentation at Almine Rech New York, Salon de Peinture, and in the group show Different Strokes, curated by artist Marcus Jahmal which took place at Almine Rech London. Her paintings were also presented in several group shows organized by the gallery in 2020, notably I Want to Eat the Sunset. We're Talking About the Cosmos, Even. And Love, I Guess at Almine Rech New York. Drawing inspiration from notions of transformation, mortality, and femininity, Haley Josephs (American, b. 1987) paints solitary figures in fantastical yet foreboding environments that ... More  Marianne Boesky Gallery now representing Danielle MckinneyNEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen, and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, are thrilled to announce co-representation of Danielle Mckinney. Mckinneys exhibition Smoke and Mirrors is currently on view at Night Gallery through June 19th, 2021. Marianne Boesky Gallery will present a forthcoming exhibition of new works by the artist, which will be on view June 24th through July 25th, 2021, in Aspen, CO. Danielle Mckinney is a New Jersey-based painter known for evocative portraits of imagined figures that stand in as the artists self-reflections. Drawing from a background in fine arts photography, Mckinneys portraits contain rich plays of light and dark values against somber backgrounds of spare yet richly expressive brushstrokes. Emerging from this darkness, Mckinneys singular images reach the viewer with a stunning clarity, creating iconographic vignettes of human ... More  Rare Posters Auction #84 presents 500 rare and iconic worksNEW YORK, NY.- The 84th Rare Posters Auction from Poster Auctions International on Tuesday, July 20th features masterpieces and rarities from a century of poster design. The collection includes Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern, and Contemporary works suited to a variety of interests and styles. All 500 lots will be on view to the public July 5th-19th. The auction will be held live in PAIs gallery at 26 West 17th Street in New York City, as well as online at posterauctions.com, beginning promptly at 11am Eastern time. Jack Rennert, president of Poster Auctions International, Inc., said, This auction features some of our strongest collections by the masters of the poster: Broders, Cappiello, Cassandre, Loupot, Mucha, Schnackenberg, and Toulouse-Lautrec. These include beloved posters as well as extremely rare prints and original works. Leonetto Cappiello is widely considered to be the ... More  Martin Creed neon sculpture installed on Parrish Art Museum's facadeWATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum is presenting Work No. 2210: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT (2015) by artist Martin Creed (b. 1968, Wakefield, UK) from May 28 through November 30, 2021.The 70-foot-long neon sculpture stretches across the Museums south-facing façade, displaying a single line of unpunctuated, rainbow hued text that reads EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT. One of Creeds most iconic works, EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT is an expression of his desire to communicate, connect, and provoke. For Creed, his art is 50% about what I make and 50% about what other people make of it. Both playful and minimalist, EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT is visually spectacular in its neon audacity, yet it also encourages a more contemplative response. While the phrase is at first familiar and reassuring, it gently suggests that ... More  Art Rotterdam 2021: A European first. First international art fair to take place againROTTERDAM.- Very soon, from 1 July to 4 July, Art Rotterdam will be presenting its twenty-second edition at the iconic Van Nelle Fabriek, for the first time during the summer. Outdoors, as well as indoors across a surface area of over 10,000 m2, more than 100 galleries will be exhibiting the work of up-and-coming and established talents alike. Art Rotterdam 2021 is the first international art fair in Europe to open its doors once more and to guarantee a safe and responsible event for all visitors. Collectors and art lovers are very much looking forward to the event and this unique summer edition, says Fons Hof, Director of Art Rotterdam. For those interested in a sneak preview, the Art Rotterdam catalogue will be available online at GalleryViewer.com on 24 June. It goes without saying that Art Rotterdam 2021 complies with the most recent measures and guidelines issued by the National Institute ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jacob Lawrence died June 09, 2000. Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. As well as a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he was an educator. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. In this image: Jacob Lawrence, âForward Together,â silkscreen on paper, 25.5â x 40.125â, 1997. © 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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