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This file photo taken on January 22, 2017 shows the director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas P. Campbell speaking at the in New York City. Campbell, an expert on tapestries who has been director and chief executive officer of the Met since the beginning of 2009, said he would step down at the end of June 2017. The Met, one of the world's largest museums with collections spanning the globe from antiquity onward, opened a modern art annex, the Met Breuer, last year and says overall attendance has shot up to seven million a year, 40 percent more than when Campbell took charge. Mike Coppola / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art resigned Tuesday as the New York institution struggles to tame a budget deficit despite pulling in record crowds. Thomas P. Campbell, a British expert on tapestries who has been director and chief executive officer of the Met since the beginning of 2009, said he would step down at the end of June. The Met, one of the world's largest museums with collections spanning the globe from antiquity onward, opened a modern art annex, the Met Breuer, last year and says overall attendance has shot up to seven million a year, 40 percent more than when Campbell took charge. But the museum last year said it was cutting costs, including curbing hiring, as its operating deficit has been projected to reach $23 million for 2016. "At a moment when art and culture have an especially profound role to play in fostering mutual understanding, I am especially proud that our visitor base is the largest and most diverse in the museum's history," Campbell said in a state ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French President Francois Hollande (2R) looks on as he visits the Freemasonry museum (Musee de la Franc-maçonnerie) in Paris on February 27, 2017. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / POOL / AFP
| Paris auction of Moroccan 'Nessie' makes waves | | American prints of urban life celebrated at the National Gallery of Art, Washington | | Christie's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale and the Art of the Surreal total $169,998,251 | 
The skeleton is set for auction on March 7 at the Drouot auction house in Paris.
RABAT (AFP).- Geologists in Morocco on Tuesday denounced the planned auction of a 66-million-year-old marine dinosaur skeleton in Paris and demanded that the remains be repatriated. The nearly nine-metre-long plesiosaur, a marine reptile with a long neck and turtle-like flippers, was discovered in a phosphate basin near the Moroccan city of Khouribga. The skeleton is set for auction on March 7 at the Drouot auction house in Paris. "The plesiosaurs were among the most emblematic 'giant primitive beasts' which have intrigued scientists and amateurs for centuries," Drouot said in its auction catalogue, adding that the creatures had probably inspired the legend of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. But the Association for the Protection of the Geological Heritage of Morocco (APPGM) on Tuesday criticised the planned auction, saying the skeleton was a "unique patrimonial treasure". It said it had asked Morocco's chief geologist to find out if it had been ... More | | 
Howard Cook, Looking up Broadway, 1937. Lithograph, 33.02 x 24.13 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams.
WASHINGTON, DC.- American artists of the early 20th century sought to interpret the beauty, power, and anxiety of the modern age in diverse ways. Through depictions of bustling city crowds and breathtaking metropolitan vistas, 25 black-and-white prints on view in The Urban Scene: 19201950 explores the spectacle of urban modernity. Prints by recognized artists such as Louis Lozowick (18921973) and Reginald Marsh (18981954), as well as lesser-known artists including Mabel Dwight (18751955), Gerald Geerlings (18971998), Victoria Hutson Huntley (19001971), Martin Lewis (18811962), and Stow Wengenroth (19061978), are included in this exhibition. The Urban Scene is on view in the West Building from February 26 through August 6, 2017. "During the past decade the Gallery has acquired extraordinary groups of ... More | | 
Henri Matisse, Jeune fille aux anémones sur fond violet, 1944. Estimate: £5,000,000-7,000,000. Price realised GBP 8,453,000 / USD 10,507,079 © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale and Art of the Surreal launched 20th Century at Christies, achieving a combined total of £136,874,598 / $169,998,251 / 160,143,280. The evening saw an electric start with lively bidding for Portrait de Lluis Alemany, a work dating from the very beginning of Picassos career (£773,000 / $960,066 / 904,410), and continued with Berthe Morisots Femme en noir or Avant le théâtre, which achieved £2,045,000 / $2,539,890 / 2,392,650 against a pre-sale estimate of £600,000-800,000 / $760,000-1,000,000 / 710,000-940,000 and Femme et enfant au balcon also by Morisot, which more than doubled its high estimate to realise £4,085,000 / $5,073,570 / 4,779,450. The nine further works from the Personal Collection of Barbara Lambrecht, including paintings by Kees van Dongen, ... More |
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| Carved jades and historic paintings are star lots at Gianguan Auctions March 11th Asia Week Sale | | With new exhibitors, ambitious presentations and a redesigned floor plan, The Armory Show opens | | Alfstad& Contemporary unveils exhibition of works by Christophe von Hohenberg | 
Detail of Gathering Beneath the Sycamore Tree, by Qiu Ying (1495-1552), Ming court painter. Lot 72. $1.3M
NEW YORK, NY.- Gianguan Auctions is giving international buyers an early opportunity to shop Asia Week by holding their sale on Saturday, March 11 at the gallery, 39 W. 56 Street, New York City. Previews run Friday, March 3 through Friday, March 10. Carved jades and historic scroll paintings take the podium in a display of exceptional properties that include Chinese ceramics and jewelry. Once prized more than gold, silver or bronze, jade has not lost its appeal. Lapidary techniques mastered by Neolithic craftsmen deliver some of the most desirable carved jades in the sale. For example, Lot 123 is a Warring States ritual vessel of polished dark brown jade with variegated hues. Modeled after a bronze pan, the exterior of this shallow water dish is incised with dragon patterns. Its rarity warrants a starting bid of $12,000. Meanwhile, Lot 124 is a flanged jade disc of the Dawenkou culture once used as a symbol ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Teddy Wolff. Courtesy of The Armory Show.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show will feature 210 leading international galleries, showcasing significant historical and contemporary artworks in Midtown Manhattan. The exhibiting galleries compose the fairs strongest list in years, with a premier selection of new exhibitors and two curated sections. A more spacious floor plan, designed by architectural firm Bade Stageberg Cox, features wider aisles, larger booths and expanded public lounges. In an outstanding display of quality and curatorial precision, over 70 galleries will present solo-artist and dual-artist projects. The fairs redesigned floor plan hosts five distinct exhibitor sections, which integrate modern and contemporary artworks across both piers. The Presents section, devoted to young galleries, has increased from 22 exhibitors in 2016 to 31 in 2017. New for 2017, a $10,000 prize, supported by Athena Art Finance, will be awarded to a ... More | | 
Singer Deborah Harry (Blondie), 2017. Digital Print on Archival Hahnemühle 308gm Photo Rag.
SARASOTA, FLA.- Remembering Warhol: Thirty Years Ago exhibits a collection of historic photographs of Pop artist Andy Warhols 1987 Memorial service at St. Patricks Cathedral, captured by photographer Christophe von Hohenberg on assignment for Vanity Fair. The Opening Night Reception is March 3 at Alfstad& Contemporary in Sarasota, Florida. On April 1, 1987, two thousand invited guests arrived on foot, taxi and limousine at Fifth Avenue and 50th Street to walk through a throng of curious onlookers held back by NYPD blue, wooden barriers. Stationed in front of the cathedral, von Hohenberg took over 600 photos of what Grace Glueck of the New York Times called the "most droppable names in the world of Hollywood, fashion, music, international society and art. He captured a veritable time capsule of the epochal era that Warhol helped shape. The archival photographs and silver gelatin prints are exhibited with corresponding ... More |
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| Group exhibition focuses on the wide-ranging and sometimes contradictory investigations of colour | | Olga Korbut sells Munich medal collection | | Lincoln Center heads urge Trump to keep funding arts | 
Hélio Oiticica, V6 Spatial Relief, Red (V6 Relevo espacial, vermêlho), 1959 (constructed 1991). Painted wood, 383∕4 à 303∕4 x 4 in / 98.4 à 78.1 x 10.2 cm.
LONDON.- Waddington Custot presents Colour is, a group exhibition which focuses on the wide-ranging and sometimes contradictory investigations of colour by artists from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The exhibition draws together painting and sculpture from an international group of artists who consider colour central to their practice: Etel Adnan, Josef Albers, David Annesley, David Batchelor, Anthony
Caro, Ian Davenport, Paul Feeley, Sam Gilliam, Peter Halley, John Hoyland, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Jeremy Moon, Kenneth Noland, Hélio Oiticica, Yuko Shiraishi, Frank Stella, Joe Tilson and William Tucker. The discourse around the significance of colour in the twentieth century was almost exclusively developed by artists who grappled with the inherent fluidity of its definition. ... More | | 
1972 Munich Olympics USSR Women's Gymnastics Team Gold Medal from The Olga Korbut Collection.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Legendary gymnast Olga Korbut has sold her collection of medals won at the 1972 Munich Olympic games among a sale of memorabilia at an auction in the United States, auctioneers said Monday. Korbut, 61, captured the imagination of the sporting world with her spellbinding displays in Munich before competing at the Montreal Games four years later. The Arizona-based former Soviet gymnast sold her medals through Heritage Auctions after falling on hard times, according to reports in Russia. The sale of seven lots -- which included two golds and a silver from Munich -- raised around $230,000 (217,000 euros), the auction house said. Her team gold raised $66,000. The other gold sold was her individual floor exercise medal. Korbut's other individual gold medal, for the balance beam in Munich, was not part of the sale because it was stolen previously. ... More | | 
US President Donald Trump points to the audience after addressing a joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2017. JIM LO SCALZO / EPA POOL / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Executives at New York's Lincoln Center made a joint appeal Tuesday for the United States to preserve arts funding, warning that steep cuts mulled by President Donald Trump would have devastating effects. Leaders of the prestigious complex's institutions -- including the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic and New York City Ballet -- said arts funding benefited people from children to veterans and also "anchors communities." "In American cities and towns, arts institutions and districts are breathing life into neighborhoods -- attracting investment, spurring development, fueling innovation and creating jobs," they wrote in a statement. Unlike in Europe, cultural funding in the United States is largely private. But the Lincoln Center executives said it was vital to ... More |
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| A rare album of Kirchner sketches for sale in Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Auction | | Garvey/Simon opens solo exhibition of photographs by Linda Lindroth | | Blum & Poe opens solo exhibition of works by Japanese artist Kishio Suga | 
A collection of sketches compiled by the artist for his doctor and patron Dr. Frédéric Bauer. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A bound collection of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner sketches, compiled by the artist for his
doctor, comes to the market for the first time since 1954 in Bonhams Impressionist and
Modern Art sale on Thursday 2 March at London New Bond Street. The collection of 40 watercolours and drawings is estimated at £150,000-200,000. Kirchner (1880-1938) assembled the album as a gift for his doctor, friend and patron Dr. Frédéric Bauer. The artist has inscribed the album, Drawings from my sketchbooks dating from 1902 to 1933. E. L. Kirchner. Despite the artists precise dating of the sketches, the earliest work in the volume actually dates from around 1906. Kirchner notoriously backdated his work in order to claim artistic precedence, an unnecessary habit considering his trail blazing development of German Expressionism. Notational sketching lay at the heart of Kirchners ... More | | 
Linda Lindroth, Roy, 2013, archival pigment print, 24 x 36.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon presents a solo exhibition of photographs by Linda Lindroth titled, Trickster in Flatland. The show will feature spatially transformative photographic work examining vivid ephemera produced during the height of domestic manufacturing in the United States. Although not dominant, the work intentionally possesses subtle environmental and political undertones. As the artist states:
they hang as testimonies to a subservient industry, one now diminished as production moves to global markets only to return to us shrink-wrapped and encapsulated in plastic. Linda Lindroth began using found objects in her work in 1982. In Trickster in Flatland, simple cardboard containers are stripped of their original identity, enlarged to a vertigo-inducing scale, and portrayed shamelessly in various states of decay and disintegration. Saturated, ... More | | 
Kishio Suga, Untitled, 1975. Magic marker and metal on acetate, 23 3/8 x 17 5/8 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe opened a solo exhibition of Kishio Suga. One of the most influential artists in Japan, Suga has been central to the history of site-specific installation since the late 1960s. This is his third solo exhibition with the gallery. Suga gained early recognition for arranging natural and manmade materials in unprecedented installations such as Parallel Strata (1969), a totemic enclosure made of paraffin wax, and Soft Concrete (1970), four vertical steel plates arranged into a square and shored up with a mound of oil-infused concrete. These works situated him as part of a short-lived movement that came to be known as Mono-ha, whose artists took natural and industrial materials and arranged them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. Almost none of the original site-specific installations exist; typically they ... More |
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 Art Wynwood closes sixth edition with strong salesMIAMI, FLA.- Art Wynwood, the premier winter contemporary art fair presented by Art Miami, celebrated its sixth edition over Presidents Day Weekend. The fair highlighted more than 60 international galleries, representing nearly 500 artists from two-dozen countries and 38 cities. Art Wynwood reported significant sales of noteworthy works from 20th and 21st century artists, and welcomed prestigious art collectors, connoisseurs, advisors and notable museum professionals. The fair kicked off on the evening of Thursday, February 16th with an exclusive VIP Preview that benefited Miami City Ballet and was sponsored by Christies International Real Estate and continued successfully through Monday, February 20th. This year, Art Wynwood offered attendees cutting-edge interactive experiences, thanks to a performance art piece by Alian Martinez Rivas, in which ... More White Cube opens exhibition of works made between 2008 and 2017 by Josiah McElhenyLONDON.- White Cube presents The Crystal Land, an exhibition by Josiah McElheny, which narrates a decade of the artists efforts to visualise alternative histories of Modernism. Presenting works made between 2008 and 2017 in various media, including sculpture, painting, film, installation, photograms and posters, the exhibition asserts McElhenys view that reconstructing history can be a creative process itself and that aesthetics are always political. The exhibition is divided into three distinct sections, each of which is inspired by an individual: the artist Robert Smithson, the writer Paul Scheerbart and the physicist Andrei Linde. In the first part of the exhibition, McElheny draws on some of Robert Smithsons lesser-known works and writing from 1964─66, including his essay The Crystal Land which was published in Harpers Bazaar in 1966 and from which the exhibition ... More VOLTA NY opens its tenth edition at PIER 90NEW YORK, NY.- VOLTA NY celebrates ten years of solo focus in its decade edition in New York City, returning to PIER 90 from March 1 5, 2017, concurrent with Armory Arts Week. VOLTA's mission as a truly globally conscious art fair continues, with 96 galleries and artist-run spaces across fve continents and 47 cities gathering at PIER 90, presenting a dynamic and timely survey of innovative contemporary positions by artists from 39 nations. The strictly invitational fair opened its application this year specifc to its ten-year anniversary, in VOLTA's commitment to identifying and receiving the boldest and most salient proposals from galleries all over the world. Combined with newly invited galleries over the course of the VOLTA team's travels last year, VOLTA NY welcomes 36 frst-time exhibitors to the 2017 fair. These galleries join an international array of returning exhibitors, ... More World's most celebrated street artists showcase their work at Dubai Canvas 3D Art Festival 2017DUBAI.- Some of the worlds most celebrated street artists will showcase their work at the Dubai Canvas 3D Art Festival to be held in City Walk from 1 to 7 March 2017. The event features the works of 25 international artists shortlisted for the Dubai Canvas 3D Art Award. Dubai Canvas 2017 is organised by Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Government of Dubai Media Office (GDMO), in partnership with Meraas, one of Dubais leading holding companies. Project Manager of Dubai Canvas 2017 Ayesha bin Kalli said: The artists that will showcase their work at the Dubai Canvas 3D Art Festival include some of the worlds most celebrated 3D street artists. These artists have played influential roles in the development of this nascent art form both in their own countries and globally. The Festival has been designed to create a high level of interaction between the artists and the ... More Kristen Lorello opens a two-person exhibition of works by Halsey Hathaway and Julia KuninNEW YORK, NY.- The gallery announces a two-person exhibition of Brooklyn-based artists Halsey Hathaway and Julia Kunin. New acrylic on canvas paintings by Hathaway will be paired with Kunin's iridescent ceramic sculptures. Intricate and contemplative surfaces, a pliable sense of geometry, and an intense play between color and light characterize the paintings and sculptures included in the exhibition. Kunin's ceramic sculptures feature complex reliefs of repeated rectangles, inspired by bismuth, a naturally occurring crystal that grows three-dimensionally in layers. She creates each work by joining separate slivers of clay, firing the overall sculpture in a kiln, and adding sparkling glazes to the surface. From a swirling pattern, occasional signals of the human face - an eye, mouth, or nose - appear, disguised in a Cubist idiom. Hathaway's paintings include large ... More PIASA announces 20th century, works on paper salePARIS.- On 28 March 2017 PIASA will hold the first of three auctions devoted to modern and contemporary art entitled Pop, Artists' Ceramics & 20th Century Works on Paper. To coincide with Paris Drawings Week,' with its Salon du Dessin and the fair Drawing Now, PIASA's sale of works on paper will include nearly 200 drawings, led by two bewitching works by Henri Matisse and Gustav Klimt. The young Nadia Sednaoui was presented to Henri Matisse in 1948 by his son-in-law Georges Duthuit, who had spotted her in the street. She was born in Egypt and physically inspiring, with a perfect oval face and bright eyes that lit up her copper complexion. A special affection developed between the artist and his model over the course of their weekly encounters during Matisse's final years. His portraits of Nadia count among his most famous graphic works, with several ... More The New Art Dealers Alliance opens sixth edition of NADA New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- The New Art Dealers Alliance, the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art, announces the opening of NADA New York. The sixth edition of NADA New York, March 2 - 5, 2017, will take take place at Skylight Clarkson North, located at 572 Washington Street. NADA New York continues to showcase the best of emerging contemporary art, with a total of 100 exhibitors representing 37 cities from 14 different countries, 30 first time exhibitors, and 36 project spaces. NADA and Exhibitionary announced GalerÃa Agustina Ferreyra, based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the recipient of the NADA x Exhibitionary International Gallery Prize. The recipient of the prize is invited to exhibit at NADA New York, for the first time in a sponsored booth provided by Exhibitionary and NADA. "I ... More Sarah Guernsey named the new Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Art Institute of ChicagoCHICAGO, IL.- President and Eloise W. Martin Director James Rondeau announced today that after an extensive, international search, Sarah Guernsey has been appointed to the new position of Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Art Institute of Chicago. Guernsey, who most recently served with distinction as the museums Vice President for Publishing and Design, now oversees the Art Institutes initiatives within Academic Engagement, Conservation, Design, Digital Experience, Exhibitions and Registration, Publishing, and the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries. In this newly redefined leadership role, Guernsey will work closely with Rondeau to realize the museums long-range ambitions and expand the Art Institutes powerful legacy and potential as an interdisciplinary environment committed to fostering inquiry, research, experimentation, and the free ... More Exhibition of works by Young Il Ahn on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Unexpected Light: Works by Young Il Ahn, the first solo exhibition of a Korean American artist at LACMA. Young Il Ahn has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1966, and the citys landscape has profoundly affected his work. Curated by Virginia Moon, assistant curator of Korean art at LACMA, the exhibition features 10 large oil paintings from his Water series, including five new artworks. The Water series (1983 ongoing) takes inspiration from his experience of being lost on the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Santa Monica. In 1983, Ahn was aboard a small fishing boat when he was caught in a fog so dense that he could not see his hands in front of his face; suddenly, the fog cleared, revealing sunlight on the water all around him. This vision and experience would shape his practice ... More Karin Kidder appointed Executive Director of Bellevue Arts MuseumBELLEVUE, WA.- The BAM Board of Trustees has appointed Karin Kidder as the Museums Executive Director. Kidder has served as BAMs Interim Executive Director since November. Before taking on the Interim Executive Director role, Kidder was BAMs Director of Marketing and Communications. Her appointment comes as the Museum celebrates over 70 years of its nationally recognized BAM ARTSfair and numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions. It recently received two significant gifts from the Kemper Development Companythe first a $1M challenge match, and the second a $1M donation for capital projects, which will be dedicated exterior work on the building. Exterior work will begin in March and is anticipated to be complete by July in advance of the Museums major fundraising gala, Artful Evening, on July 15 and BAM ARTSfair which will be held ... More Addams, Gorey, Schulz & Seuss: Masters of illustration headline March 21 auctionNEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, March 21, Swann Galleries will hold an auction of Illustration Art, featuring original works of art intended for publication. A run of original illustrations for the popular Babar series includes the top lot of the salethe ink and watercolor design for the cover for the third book, Le Roi Babar, 1933, by Jean de Brunhoff, is estimated to sell between $20,000 and $30,000. Further beloved childrens characters include an illustration for Ludwig Bemelmanss 1956 Madeline and the Bad Hat, titled He said Lets play a game of tag and let a cat out of the bag, valued at $7,000 to $10,000. The sale will also offer works by Maurice Sendak, as well as several storyboard illustrations from Walt Disney Studios, including Ben Ali Gator and Hyacinth Hippo waltzing the Dance of the Hours for the 1940 classic Fantasia, estimated at $800 to $1,200. Also available are several origi ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter and poet Oskar Kokoschka was born March 01, 1886. Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 - 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this image: Ex-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer presents his latest portrait to the German Parliament (Bundestag) on May 17, 1966 in Bonn, Germany. From left are: the artist Oskar Kokoschka, Eugen Gerstenmaier, President of the Bundestag and Konrad Adenauer.
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