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'Magna Carta' of football to go on display as National Football Museum plans 27 May reopening
MANCHESTER.- An ancient manuscript which details the very birth of football will go on display at the National Football Museum, with a planned reopening of 27 May 2021. The handwritten Laws of The Game from 1863 contain the very first laws of football the origins of the global sport played and watched by millions of fans today. It is the most significant book related to football. In a sense, the Magna Carta of the beautiful game. As the museum marks 20 years since it first opened, a bumper summer is planned with new exhibitions and marquee signings unveiled to the world in the opening weeks. The museum will have been shut for 11 months during three national lockdowns by the time it reopens in time for the May half-term break. A star-studded line-up of new objects and exhibitions includes: Without this book, the world would be without its most popular sport. The 1863 Minute Book ... More

Anne Geddes was the original baby-picture influencer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Photographer Anne Geddes has had a long and prolific career, but she is perhaps best known for Down in the Garden, a 1996 coffee-table book featuring tiny babies adorably (or tweely, depending on your perspective) tucked into unlikely horticultural scenarios, as if theyre hiding by chance in someones flower bed. Perhaps youve seen these images online, or on a mug or greeting card or calendar: the sleeping newborns snuggling into tiny pea pods, as if they are so many peas themselves; the babies wearing mouse outfits and dozing in old boots; the babies-as-butterflies, hedgehogs, cabbages, gnomes, worms, bumblebees, flowers. There was a time when a new book by Geddes, 64, who has been called the worlds most famous baby photographer, could sell many millions of copies; at the height of her fame, she was interviewed ... More

Moulin Rouge counting the days until cancan returns
NEW YORK (AFP).- The feathers may be gathering dust, but a year into its longest shutdown in more than a century, at least the windmill is still turning atop the Moulin Rouge. "It would be too sad otherwise," said Jean-Victor Clerico, whose family runs the Parisian landmark. The sails are moving, but everything else has been frozen since the last cancan was performed on March 12, 2020 -- the longest break since the theatre was destroyed by fire in 1915. Clerico recalls the following day, phoning round 1,600 ticket-holders to tell them the show was cancelled: "It was unprecedented and painful, and we never could have imagined that the closure would last this long." He thought it would end in the autumn, then the spring. Now, with non-essential businesses ... More

Euphoric recall, new works by Marisa Takal, now open at Night Gallery in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Night Gallery is presenting Euphoric Recall, an exhibition of new works by Marisa Takalthe artists third exhibition at the gallery. Takals paintings and sculptures concern our idiosyncratic yet routine systems of organization, exploring how each of us make sense of our chaotic worlds, both internal and external. Using vivid colors overlaid with graphic flourishes and bold handmade stenciled texts, her paintings assemble varied motifs into collapsing patterns that brightly echo the repetition, exhaustion, and small triumphs of everyday life. Euphoric recall is a psychological term that describes our tendency to remember past experiences in a purely positive light, while omitting all negative associations. Takals Euphoric Recall is an investigation of the way we connect to ourselves, each other, and the systems we live in. Throughout the paintings, vignettes of Takals ... More

Racy secrets revealed in Brits' lockdown postcards
LONDON (AFP).- Luxuriant body hair, stashes of sex toys and taboo desires: hundreds in Britain have revealed their deepest lockdown secrets on postcards sent to a London stationery shop. During the latest UK lockdown, reimposed in January, Eleanor Tattersfield started giving out stamped blank postcards marked "Lockdown Secret" to customers of her family's shop in central London. She saw it as a way to fill a lull in business, but also a means for people to unburden themselves. "I thought, 'God, wouldn't that be brilliant in lockdown to have an outlet for this strange year'," she said. Hundreds of cards began flowing in and now cover a table in the small letterpress design shop, Marby & Elm, while more are carefully filed in boxes. Tattersfield added she "could not have anticipated that it would have taken off in this way" and is astonished at the efforts that have gone into the cards. ... More

Anthony Cudahy joins Hales
LONDON.- Hales announced representation of American artist Anthony Cudahy. The gallery will present a solo exhibition of Cudahys work in New York City in September 2021. Cudahys tender paintings reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gesture. Personal and poetic, Cudahys figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments in fluid brushstrokes. For Cudahy, the archive becomes a site for imagining in the process of painting, scenes become less specific to time and place but hint more at the mythical or potential reality. References from art history ranging from Pompeii tiles, the Bayeux tapestry, Bruegel and Bosch find their way into his lexicon and visual shorthand. Cudahy intuitively combines motifs with personal imagery to create a complex compositional puzzle. ... More

Wines from the cellar of Joseph Lau Part II opens Sotheby's wine spring sale series in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Wine will open the Hong Kong Spring 2021 Sales with Wines from the Cellar of Joseph Lau Part II on 16 April 2021. Following the 100%-sold white-glove success of Part I last season, the sale will present a second offering of the finest French wines from the remarkable collection of the famed entrepreneur and art collector. With a combined estimate of HK$24-34.5 million / US$3-4.5 million, the sale is the first in a three-day series of wine and spirits auctions series, totaling HK$65-95 Million / US$8.5-12Million. Patti Wong, Chairman of Sothebys Asia, said: We are honoured to share a further insight into the incredible cellar of Joseph Lau, a pioneering collector across the fields of art and luxury. With his enduring passion and discerning taste, Mr Lau has curated a monumental collection of the very finest producers and vintages. The sale is a great opportunity to look ... More

Picasso plate tops Bonhams Picassomania sale in London
LONDON.- Visage de faune, a 22-carat gold repoussÃ© plate by Pablo Picasso, was the top lot at Bonhams new Picassomania sale in London today (23 March), achieving an impressive Â£312,750. The 100-lot sale, which celebrated Picassos expansive oeuvre and brought together works by the master himself, as well as photographs and ephemera, made a total of Â£1,292,523 with 75% sold by lot and 78% sold by value. Head of Sale, Lucia Tro Santafe, commented: We are delighted that Picassomania lived up to its name attracting such competitive bidding across all the categories on offer. The standout lot was undeniably Visage de Faune. A prototype for Picassos creations in gold produced in collaboration with FranÃ§ois and Pierre Hugo, this piece was simply exceptional. In 1946 Pablo Picasso made his first visit to Vallauris in the South of France. It was there that he started to ... More

Norman Rockwell Museum opens new political cartoon exhibition
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Norman Rockwell Museum announces a new special collection gallery featuring the inclusive political cartoons of Pat Oliphant, now on view through May 31, 2021. A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, Oliphant was described in 1990 by the New York Times as the most influential editorial cartoonist of his time. Now 85 years of age, his career spans over 60 years. His finely-tuned drawings have cast a clear eye on global politics, culture, the economy, and scandals, and his caricatures of American presidents and other powerful leaders are world renowned. The Oliphant collection features more than three hundred artworks and an extensive archive focusing on four prominent aspects of the artists work humorous but hard-hitting editorial drawings from the Nixon and Clinton years as well as personal drawings, paintings, and large-scale sculptures inspired ... More

Hindman's Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection auction exceeds $435,000
CHICAGO, IL.- On March 19, Hindman Auctions saw outstanding results in its Literature From a Private New Orleans Collection sale. The auction realized over $435,000, more than double its presale estimate, and included competitive bidding throughout. The sale presented several of the most significant literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries, with strong offerings of both American and English literature. Works by Bram Stoker, John Steinbeck, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, and Aldous Huxley all achieved outstanding prices. 99 percent of the lots offered were sold, and over 75 percent of items sold for prices within or exceeding their presale estimate range. We were delighted with the very strong results for this carefully-formed collection including fine copies of the high spots of modern literature, said Hindmans Director and Senior Specialist of Books & Manuscripts Gretchen ... More