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In this file photo taken on May 22, 2018 a rare Imperial Qianlong porcelain vase (18th century) is displayed at Sotheby's auction company in Paris. An 18th-century Chinese vase forgotten for decades in a shoe box in a French attic has been sold for 16.2 million euros ($19 million) at Sotheby's in Paris on June 12, 2018 -- more than 30 times the estimate. Thomas SAMSON / AFP.
by Antoine Froidefond / Fiachra Gibbons
PARIS (AFP).- An 18th-century Chinese vase forgotten for decades in a shoe box in a French attic sold for 16.2 million euros ($19 million) at Sotheby's in Paris on Tuesday -- more than 30 times the estimate. Experts at the auction house said the exquisite porcelain vessel was made for the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong and had set a guide price of a much more modest 500,000 euros. "This is a major work of art, it is as if we had just discovered a Caravaggio," Olivier Valmier, the Asian arts expert at the auction house, told reporters before the sale. The vase, which was in perfect condition, "is the only known example in the world bearing such detail," he added. Rare porcelain from the Qian period has been going for astronomical prices recently. A bowl made for Qianlong's grandfather sold last April by Sotheby's in Hong Kong went for $30.4 million dollars. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day North Carolina Museum of Art's conservator Corey Riley and curator Caroline Rocheleau take samples of marble from the statue of Bacchus. They drilled to get marble powder from various fragments of the sculpture. These little vials of powder will be sent for analysis to figure out from which quarry the marble used to carve the fragments came from.
| Art UK is having a GIF party - and you're all invited | | Retrospective of celebrated modernist Wifredo Lam opens at Galerie Gmurzynska | | National Gallery opens exhibition of works by Thomas Cole | 
Audrey Wimble by unknown artist © Lewes Town Hall.
LONDON.- Art UK is launching its own GIF and meme collection with the aim of getting more people to engage with paintings by giving them a thoroughly modern makeover. Art UK has a large collection of Creative Commons (CC) licence images from UK art collections. These licences offer varying levels of image use permissions that allows anyone to reuse and sometimes remix images when using the correct attributions. To have fun with these images, they are starting a collection of GIFs and memes and inviting people to join in by sharing and creating their own art GIFs. Theyve kicked off the collection with five animations created by New York based GIF artist Matthias Brown using works from Cusworth Hall Museum and Park (William Wrightson by Joseph Highmore, mid-18th-century and Frances Wansford by unknown artist, 1608), Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery ('Rover', the Duke of ... More | | 
Wifredo Lam, Mère et enfant, V [Canaima], 1947.
ZURICH.- Galerie Gmurzynska is presenting a retrospective of the six-decade career of the groundbreaking modernist painter Wifredo Lam (1902-1982). Presented in collaboration with the estate of the artist, the show includes an important group of major paintings ranging from rarely seen masterpieces from the1930s and 40s to signature works from the 1960s. Lam is internationally recognized today as one of the pioneers of modernism in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Born in Cuba, he was an artist of mixed Chinese, Spanish and African heritage who drew upon the myriad influences of his multi-cultural upbringing to develop a unique and hybrid style ofpainting that was not only admired and collected by fellow artists and writers Pablo Picasso and André Breton, but resonated with the tumultuous political, social and cultural context of the 20th century and an emerging post-colonial world. His achievements were recently celebrated with a re ... More | | 
Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849. Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 91.4 cm. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas © Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art / Photography by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
LONDON.- This summer at the National Gallery, see the American wilderness through the eyes of British-born Thomas Cole (18011848). Known for epic vistas, dramatic natural settings, and imaginative landscapes, Thomas Coles work depicts nature at its most powerful and vulnerable. His paintings glory in the unique terrain of the American Northeast largely still unspoiled in his time - while serving as a cautionary tale about the use of natural resources in an increasingly industrial age. The exhibition includes 58 works, the majority on loan from North American collections. It includes Coles iconic painting cycle, 'The Course of Empire' (18346, New-York Historical Society) and the masterpiece that secured his career and reputation and which ... More |
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| Still Believe in Miracles: Exhibition of works from Selvaag Art Collection on view at Astrup Fearnley Museet | | Big gift from Sean Scully to De Pont Museum | | EYE Filmmuseum has a new employee. And it's a robot! | 
Diane Arbus, A Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, NY, 1968 - 1971. Vintage gelatin silver print 51 x 41 cm. Selvaag Art Collection.
OSLO.- The exhibition, whose title is borrowed from Douglas Gordons work Letter Unsent #7 (I Still Believe in Miracles), shows selected works from Selvaags collection of internationally recognised visual artists and photographers. In addition to several spectacular abstract and neo-modernist works by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Irwin, Richard Serra and Olafur Eliasson, the exhibition features Selvaags outstanding collection of pioneers within American and Japanese figurative photography, including the Americans Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston, and the Japanese Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki. The museum building itself, with its surrounding sculpture park, whose construction was initiated by Selvaag Gruppen and Aspelin Ramm, is being included as one of the artworks during the exhibition period. The ... More | | 
Sean Scully, Landline Pink, 2016. Collection De Pont Museum, Tilburg. Photo: Peter Cox.
TILBURG.- The Irish/American painter Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945) has a considerable international reputation, but his work had not yet been shown in the Netherlands. With his exhibition at De Pont, on view through 26 August, Scully is making his debut in the Netherlands. In Great Britain, the United States and Germany, however, he has already been represented in major museum collections - such as that of MoMA in New York and Tate Modern in London - for many years. The artist is so pleased with his exhibition at De Pont that he has decided to donate, in addition to the acquisition made by the museum itself, more than twenty works. This means that the collection includes, all at once, a choice selection of work by Scully, who is regarded as one of today's leading abstract artists. Along with the purchased painting Landline River from 2017, the museum will receive two other paintings (Landline Pink and Doric Sienna), eighteen graphic works and three ... More | | 
20180313.008-stephen-hawking.mp4 is the title that Jan Bot gave to this video.
AMSTERDAM.- A computer program that works day and night creating experimental films that match early twentieth century footage with current trending events. This is Jan Bot, EYE Filmmuseum's first robot employee. How can you breathe new life into an old film collection? Film archives devote endless amounts of time and energy to the preservation of old films. But this work has little significance if these treasures remain hidden from the audience. Seeking a plausible solution to this problem, Eye Filmmuseum collaborated with filmmakers Bram Loogman and Pablo Núñez Palma to envision the future of film preservation. The result: Jan Bot. Jan Bot is a computer program designed to generate short experimental films based on two ingredients: Eyes archival film footage, and todays trending topics. On its website, www.jan.bot, Jan Bot streams an average of ten 30 seconds films per day, which amounts to a total of more than seven thousand pieces to date. Each ... More |
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| Kennedy Center to open US arts campus in 2019 | | Heritage sites receive $1M from American Express | | First in-depth study of Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro opens at the Philbrook Museum of Art | 
A view of the construction site for The REACH, a performance and rehearsal space set to open in September 2019 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Olivia HAMPTON / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Between a parkway and a busy freeway, Washington's Kennedy Center will open a massive campus next year where the public can view up close how art is made. Natural light floods the two-level sloping design dotted by three white board-form concrete pavilions that play host to 11 intimate rehearsal/classroom/performance spaces. It's almost the antithesis of the center's original 1971 building, a column-filled cavernous structure dressed in Italian Carrara marble. The REACH in contrast is all soaring ceilings, huge windows and swooping curves, which architect Steven Holl said were inspired by glissando, a continuous slide of notes. There are no columns. "Even on the inside, the structure is the form and the shape," Holl, 70, explained in an interview. Holl's team developed "crinkle concrete" to soften sound in ways he says are superior to acoustic tiles. ... More | | 
The hill town of Amatrice, Italy, suffered a series of devastating earthquakes in 2016, destroying the majority of the town and causing 299 deaths and approximately 400 injuries.
NEW YORK, NY.- American Express and World Monuments Fund today announced $1 million in funding to support preservation efforts at eight endangered cultural heritage sites included on the 2018 World Monuments Watch. The funded sites face threats from the effects of natural disaster, climate change, urbanization, and neglect, and date from prehistory to the twentieth century. They were included on the biennial Watch to identify opportunities for collaboration and positive impact. Now, grants from American Express will make projects possible at the following places: Potager du Roi in Versailles, France; Grand Theater of Prince Kungs Mansion in Beijing, China; the town of Amatrice, Italy; Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium in Takamatsu, Japan; Tebaida Leonesa in León, Spain; Blackpool Piers in Blackpool, England; Matobo Hills Cultural Landscape in Matobo ... More | | 
Mary Cassatt, Woman Bathing (La Toilette), c. 189091. Drypoint and aquatint on laid paper, iv/iv. Sheet: 17 1/16 x 11 7/8 in. (43.3 x 30.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 39.107.
TULSA, OKLA.- This summer, Philbrook presents an original exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking work of three legendary Impressionist artists: Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro. Featuring more than 90 prints and key paintings on loan from institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art. Innovative Impressions is the first in-depth study to focus on the prints of these three artists together. It explores their remarkable graphic work and the techniques they developed through collaboration and experimentation. The artists of the Impressionist group are known for their innovative painting methods approaches that redefined the formal qualities as well as the subjects that were acceptable in art. Three of these innovators, Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro, similarly expanded the ... More |
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| Exhibit explores great scientific mystery through art | | Exhibition at Galerie Alexis Pentcheff marks the 20th anniversary of César's death | | Women break big records at Los Angeles Modern Auctions Spring Auction | 
A metal preliminary model for Atmospheric Memory, sculpted by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in collaboration with NYU Tandon School of Engineering researcher Enrico Fonda and Georgia Techs Devesh Ranjan.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scientists are still grasping to fully understand the dynamics of turbulence which occurs when fluids move in a manner dictated by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity. In the 1970s, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman described it as the most important unsolved problem of classical physics, and it is now widely considered to be the fields last unsolved problem. From June 9 to 16, the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation is showcasing Creative Turbulence, an exhibit that brings together art and science through a collaborative creative process based on the underlying nature of experimentation shared by those working in both disciplines. The organizers aim to challenge traditional notions of scientific perception and to engage viewers even those with no scientific background ... More | | 
César Baldaccini, Le Centaure, Hommage à Picasso, 1983-1987. Bronze, Bocquel, numbered 5/8. 101 x 105 x 48,5 cm.
MARSEILLE.- After the institutional retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris led by Bernard Blistène, the Alexis Pentcheff gallery is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the artist in Marseille, his home city. This event pays tribute to one of the greatest sculptors of his time on the 20th anniversary of his death. This event gathers more than fifty original works of art, including some of his finest sculptures and combustions on paper, but also drawings, sketches and historical documents. Therefore, the aim of the show is to offer a whole overview of Césars creative process and artistic career. All of the works come from private collections and are on sale at the gallery, some of them presented for the first time to the public. César is an artist of his time, highly attentive to his social, political and technological environment. His work is also greatly inspired by Picasso, Gonzalez, Duchamp and Giacometti. Hence, ... More | | 
Ruth Asawas Untitled (S.809), c. 1965, realized $312,500 (Estimate $100,000 - $150,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Female artists dominated in the Los Angeles Modern Auctions Spring 2018 Auction held on Sunday, June 10, 2018. The premier auction house on the West Coast for Modern and Contemporary Art & Design reports their top-selling lots were from female artists Mary Corse and Ruth Asawa, among others, indicating a trend toward rising prices of female artists work at a time when womens empowerment is at the forefront of todays issues. The Spring auction represented a snapshot of the current collecting trends of Modern and Contemporary fine art and design. The auction company features a carefully curated selection of works by noted artists and designers from around the world. However, especially timely were several works by traditionally underrepresented female names like the aforementioned artists and others like Claire Falkenstein and Helen Pashgian, who have had a tremendous impact on the art world over the last 60 years. ... More |
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 Modern prints by Picasso and Miro, plus a Birger Sandzen landscape, will be in Bruneau & Co.'s auctionCRANSTON, RI.- A pair of outstanding Rhode Island collections one of gorgeous Tiffany pieces pulled from a home in Providence and the other the modern prints collection of Lucille Comes out of Warwick, all purchased from Multiple Impressions in New York will be just part of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers next big sale, planned for Saturday, June 23rd, at 10 am Eastern. The auction will be held online as well as in Bruneaus gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Internet bidding will be available via Invaluable.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, ePaiLIVE (in Asia), Bidsquare.com, Bidlive.Bruneauandco.com, the Bruneau app, Auctionzip.com and eBay. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Doors will open at 8 am on auction day. This sale will not disappoint, Kevin Bruneau announced proudly. ... More First annual Latin American Art Fair comes to San Diego this October 13-14SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Latin American Art Fair, an inaugural fine arts exhibition for Latin American artists in the U.S. and South America, will bring artists and art lovers together for a two-day showcase on Saturday, October 13 and Sunday, October 14. Formerly known as the Latin American Art Festival, this event will be held at its new venue, Bread & Salt in San Diegos Barrio Logan where the public can enjoy authentic Latin American artistry from over 50 local and international artists. We are thrilled to announce to the community that Latin American Art Festival has transitioned from an outdoor art festival to an indoor/outdoor art event, which is why our new name is the Latin American Art Fair. This change will provide a space for both established and emerging artists from Latin America to display their work and connect with our community, said ... More The Met features works of art in a variety of media created by 123 public school studentsNEW YORK, NY.- Returning to The Met for the 11th consecutive year, the exhibition P.S. Art: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of NYC Kids features works of art in a variety of media created by public school students in New York City. The exhibition is on view and open to the public at The Met Fifth Avenue from June 12 through October 21, 2018. P.S. Art highlights the talent and creativity of young artists and champions art making as a way to appreciate the cultures, life experiences, and traditions across the city. The 121 works in this years exhibition represent 123 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in public schools throughout the five boroughs. The works were chosen from over 1,200 submissions, and the final decisions were made by a jury comprised of distinguished members of the art community, including members of The Met staff. The Met ... More Hermitage Museum cat to predict World Cup gamesSAINT PETERSBURG (AFP).- A deaf, white cat named Achilles is soon to begin his work as Russia's official soothsayer for the World Cup, following in the tentacle-prints of Paul the Octopus who became a star in 2010. Paul predicted winners for that years' World Cup by choosing one out of two boxes containing food, while Achilles will be presented with bowls marked with teams' flags. "We went for Achilles because he is beautiful, first of all, but also because -- like all white cats with blue eyes -- he is deaf, so he has a great deal of intuition, he sees with his heart," said Anna Kasatkina, a vet who oversees guard-cats at Saint Petersburg's Hermitage museum. For the World Cup, Achilles will move out of his lifelong home of the basements of the Hermitage, where he works with a team of dozens of other cats to keep the world-famous museum free of rodents. ... More Burrell receives unprecedented support from Scottish businessman and collectorGLASGOW.- Plans to raise the profile of the Burrell Collection as a world-class display of Sir William Burrells magnificent and ambitious Collection continue to garner international recognition and very strong funding support. The Burrell Collection has announced that it will benefit from funding of £1 million from Chair of the Burrell Renaissance, Sir Angus Grossart, which will help the museum achieve an ambitious refurbishment and redisplay of some 9,000 objects in its Collection. The gift, announced today, will help the museum enhance its already unparalleled Collection as, for the first time, the public will enjoy three floors dedicated to galleries, visible stores and special exhibitions. More than 75 years of Sir Williams life were devoted to amassing one of the worlds greatest, single personal collections. The Burrell Collection is recognised as being of world-class ... More The Baltimore Museum of Art revisits history with '1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA'BALTIMORE, MD.- In 1939, The Baltimore Museum of Art presented one of the first major exhibitions in the U.S. to feature African American artists. Contemporary Negro Art served as a declaration of principles as to what art should be in a democracy and as a gauge of how far in this particular province we have gone and may need to go, wrote renowned philosopher and art critic Alain Locke in the exhibition brochure. Nearly 80 years later, the museum pays tribute to this exhibition with 1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA. On view June 13October 28, 2018, it features 14 prints and drawings by artists who were included in the 1939 show along with archival materials. This exhibition centers on a decisive moment in the BMAs history and highlights the value of the museum responding deliberately to community needs and desires with groundbreaking art exhibitions, ... More Dundee Contemporary Arts opens first major European exhibition of American artist Eve Fowler's workDUNDEE.- what a slight. what a sound. what a universal shudder. is the first major European exhibition of American artist Eve Fowlers work, reflecting and further expanding on the artists intense feminist engagement with the words of Gertrude Stein over the past eight years. Since 2010, Fowler has created a beautiful body of work centred on Steins expansive writing practice, taking the form of posters, prints, billboards, paintings, and installations employing materials such as vinyl, neon, collage, print, painting and film. Fowler, one of the most significant artists of her generation, uses the combined power of art and language to unsettle some of the dominant power structures that control much of the world around us. As well as filling both galleries, this exhibition also reaches beyond the boundaries of DCA to inhabit public spaces throughout Dundee. Several works ... More Dix Noonan Webb announces highlights from its auction of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of VertuLONDON.- A stunning series of historic pieces ranging from a bracelet made from the mane of Copenhagen the Duke of Wellingtons charger at the Battle of Waterloo to a desk seal used by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor during their exile following the 1936 abdication crisis will be offered for sale in the auction of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu to be held by international experts Dix Noonan Webb in Mayfair on 26 June 2018. Jewellery highlights in the auction will include a private collection of pieces by the talented contemporary British goldsmith Mark Byles, a diamond necklace and accompanying ear pendants with a total diamond weight of 22.6 carats, a pearl collar necklace with a diamond clasp that belonged to the family of a Viceroy of India, and a 19th century golden topaz and diamond necklace. Watches to be auctioned ... More Phillips names Martin Wilson as Chief General CounselLONDON.- Phillips announced the appointment of Martin Wilson as Chief General Counsel. Based in London, Mr. Wilson will assume responsibility for Phillips global legal and compliance functions and will also play an active role in Phillips top client business development and deal-making activities. Jonathan Illari, General Counsel, Americas, will retain his responsibilities overseeing the legal functions in North America, reporting to Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson joins Phillips following a 20-year career at Christies, where he was most recently global managing director and general counsel to the Presidents office. Prior to this, he was co-head of the legal and compliance department, leading Christies global team of art lawyers. I have worked with Martin for many years and I am delighted hes joining us at Phillips, said Edward Dolman, Chief Executive Officer. ... More Remi Rough unveils new artwork 'Flight' to herald arrival of 'Summer of Play'LONDON.- Wembley Park unveiled Flight a major new commission by London-based street artist Remi Rough to celebrate the commencement of its summer cultural programme, Summer of Play. Known for his dramatic and colourful abstract compositions that have transformed buildings and locations around the world, Rough was inspired by the Wembley Park sites flow of people in devising the concept for Flight. With the iconic arch of Wembley Stadium in the background, the design is viewed as distinct elements until the viewer stands directly in front, at which point the image dramatically locks into place. Flights arrival officially kicks off Summer of Play a curated season of cultural activities that invite visitors and residents to enjoy the transformed Wembley Park over the summer months. The programme adds to the headline music and sporting events for ... More Hudson's Bay Flintlock Trade Musket owned by Sitting Bull leads Heritage Auctions saleDALLAS, TX.- A Flintlock musket that once belonged to Sitting Bull and Sioux arrows from the Battle of Little Bighorn led Heritage Auctions' George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indian Wars Featuring the Glenwood J. Swanson Collection Legends of the West Auction June 9 in Dallas, Texas. The final total from the event was $1,604,392.50, which exceeded pre-auction expectations by more than 30 percent. Originally made as a model 1863 full-length smooth-bore flintlock trade musket, Sitting Bull's Identified Hudson's Bay Flintlock Musket, which includes Sitting Bull's name scratched in the stock, sparked a spirited bidding war, racing far beyond its pre-auction estimate of $50,000+ before realizing $162,500. Three Sioux Arrows from the Battle of the Little Bighorn enjoyed similarly eager bidding, breezing past their pre-auction estimate of $10,000+ ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, 'Monet at his Impressionist best' June 13, 1935. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day, June 13, 1935; Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958 when Christo painted a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. They then fell in love through creating art work together. In this image: Workers build 'The Mastaba', an outdoor work made up of over 7000 stacked barrels by Bulgarian artist Christo on the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park in London on June 11, 2018. Niklas HALLEN / AFP
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