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Exhibition view "Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud. Faces" Photo: Städel Museum.
FRANKFURT.- Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) and Lucian Freud (1922?2011) are among the most prominent exponents of post-war English figurative art. From 16 May to 12 August 2018, the Städel Museum?s Department of Prints and Drawings unites major works by the two artists in a single exhibition for the first time. ?Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud: Faces? presents altogether forty drawings and prints, in particular portraits that are among the most uncompromising and most innovative in contemporary art. The two artists were close friends for nearly four decades, until Lucian Freud?s death. It was not only mutual appreciation for each other?s work that bonded them; they also shared the fate of having been born as sons of Jewish families in Berlin. Already as children, they were compelled to emigrate/flee from Nazi Germany to England. Their works are expressions of very personal vision and experience. And however different their formal approaches, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Totals $415,852,500. In this image: Auctioneer Adrien Meyer selling Kazmir Malevich's Suprematist Composition for $85.8 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2018.
| New Rembrandt found after being bought at London auction | | Researchers uncover Anne Frank's 'dirty jokes'in her diary | | Three diamonds dazzle at Sotheby's Geneva | 
Dating from about 1634, "Portrait of a Young Gentlemen" is the first unknown painting by the Dutch master to turn up in more than four decades and is likely worth millions.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- A Dutch art expert revealed Tuesday that he has discovered a previously unknown portrait by Rembrandt, which he bought 18 months ago at a London auction for around £130,000 (148,00 euros). Dating from about 1634, "Portrait of a Young Gentlemen" is the first unknown painting by the Dutch master to turn up in more than four decades and is likely worth millions. It was bought in late 2016 by Dutch art dealer and expert Jan Six at a Christie's auction in London. "He knew instantly when he looked at it that it was a Rembrandt," his spokeswoman Ronit Palache told AFP. "He has a huge knowledge about Rembrandt, and has spent years and years researching him. So he was unbelievably excited and also afraid that everyone would see how excited he was." The painting has now been authenticated by other art historians, including another leading Dutch ... More | | 
Researchers speak in front of a screen displaying a picture of Anne Frank as the Anne Frank House publishes unknown text of the young Jew who hid from the Nazis with her family in the Dutch capital, on May 15, 2018 in Amsterdam. Two pages from her world-famous diary have been made visible with digital photo-editing techniques. ANP / AFP.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Researchers have published for the first time writing on two pages of Anne Frank's diary which she covered over with brown paper, discovering dirty jokes and a teenager's interest in sex. "Anne Frank writes about sexuality in a disarming way. Like every adolescent she is curious about this subject," said Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House, on Tuesday. Brown paper had been used to cover the two pages in Anne's first diary, but digital and image processing technology was used to decipher their contents. "I'll use this spoiled page to write down 'dirty' jokes", Anne wrote on 28 September 1942, according to the Anne Frank House. The young Jew, then aged 13, and her family had only been in hiding from ... More | | 
Caroline Lang, Chairman of Switzerland auctioneering the Farnese Blue. Courtesy Sotheby's.
GENEVA.- Tonight, three world-class diamonds, discovered 300 years apart, dazzled in Sothebys Geneva jewellery sale. One of the foremost historic diamonds known to man, The Farnese Blue, soared to CHF 6,719,750 ($6,713,837), well above estimate (lot 377, est. CHF 3.5 5 million / $3.6 5.2 million). Given to Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, as a wedding present in 1715 and subsequently passed down through four of the most important royal families in Europe, the mesmerising 6.16-carat pear-shaped blue diamond was appearing on the market for the first time this evening, after three centuries in the same family. Alongside it were two highly impressive white diamonds, a 51.71-carat round diamond and a 50.39-carat oval diamond which both sold above the high estimate for CHF 9,260,000 ($9,251,851) (lot 350, est. CHF 7 7.7 million / $ 7.3 8 million) and CHF 8,131,000 / $ 8,123,845 (lot ... More |
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| Tom Wolfe, author of 'The Right Stuff', dies at 88 | | More than 70 'killed negatives' printed especially for exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery | | Gagosian opens Katharina Grosse's first major gallery exhibition in London | 
In this file photo taken on November 30, 2012 author Tom Wolfe attends the 2012 Trophee Des Arts Gala at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Fernando LEON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Author Tom Wolfe, the acerbic chronicler of American society known for best-selling books "The Right Stuff" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities," has died at the age of 88. Wolfe's agent Lynn Nesbit said the writer died Monday in a Manhattan hospital, where he was being treated for an infection. "We are incredibly saddened to hear about the passing of Tom Wolfe," his publisher Picador said. "He was one of the greats and his words will live on forever." During a prolific career, Wolfe turned his flamboyant pen and keen eye to pop culture, the hippie movement, the art world, race relations and Wall Street. But he is perhaps best known for his non-fiction bestseller "The Right Stuff" about the US space program and the original Mercury astronauts. The 1979 book was made into a Hollywood hit starring Sam Shepard and Ed Harris and made swashbuckling test pilot Chuck ... More | | 
Walker Evans, Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lily Rogers Fields and children. Hale County, Alabama Summer, 1936. Digital print from scanned 35mm b&w negative. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [reproduction number, LC-DIG-fsa-8a44631.
LONDON.- Thousands of negatives by American photographers were systematically damaged in the 1930s; these irreparable images were known as killed negatives. This exhibition puts this little-known act of suppression on display for the first time in a UK institution; more than 70 killed negatives have been printed especially for this show. Transformed into conceptual, beautiful pictures, these images are shown alongside original archival material and contemporary artworks. Killed Negatives: Unseen Images of 1930s America extends understanding of the historic photographic initiative undertaken by the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) between 1935 and 1944. It revisits how Roy E. Stryker, who ran the project, commissioned photographers ... More | | 
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2018 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 94 1/2 x 63 3/8 inches, 240 x 161 cm © 2018 Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Jens Ziehe. Courtesy of the artist and Gagsosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian presents Prototypes of Imagination, Katharina Grosses first major gallery exhibition in London, following her acclaimed installation This Drove My Mother Up the Wall at South London Gallery last autumn. Widely known for her spectacular large-scale paintings, in which explosive color is rendered directly onto architecture, interiors, and landscapes, Grosse embraces the events and incidents that arise as she works, opening up surfaces and spaces to the countless possibilities of the medium. Approaching painting as an immersive experience, she uses a spray gun, distancing the artistic act from the hand. At the center of the exhibition are two paintings of oceanic scale on loose cloth, conceived in direct response to the Britannia Street gallery. Installed in the central space, they hang out from the upper edge of facing walls and spill toward each other ... More |
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| Smithsonian Museums received works from the Corcoran Gallery of Art trustees | | Lawsuit challenges location of Obama presidential center | | Ruby City announces major acquisitions, including recent works by Do-Ho Suh, Isaac Julien and Tala Madani | 
The National Portrait Gallery will receive a collection of 81 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and prints that includes many 19th-century portraits of American Presidents, including nine paintings by George Peter Alexander Healy. Photo courtesy of Timothy Hursley.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Nine Smithsonian museums were among the art institutions in Washington to receive the collection that became available following the closure of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2014. The distribution of more than 10,000 works was announced May 14 by the Corcoran board of trustees. Nearly all of the art will stay in Washington museums. More than 8,000 artworks had previously been accessioned by the National Gallery of Art. Below is a list of the Smithsonian museums and the number of works for each: · The Anacostia Community Museum will receive a collection of 100 photographs, paintings, drawings and sculptures, including a painting by Gene Davis. · The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will receive nine photographs and a 19th-century Persian rug. · The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian ... More | | 
The lawsuit by a local park preservation group objects to the transfer of a historic public park for use by Barack Obama's foundation to build a complex in the Midwestern city. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM.
CHICAGO (AFP).- A federal lawsuit is seeking to block the construction of the Obama presidential center on Chicago parkland, posing a challenge for the future library and museum dedicated to the nation's first African-American president. The lawsuit by a local park preservation group objects to the transfer of a historic public park for use by Barack Obama's foundation to build a complex in the Midwestern city -- one of a network of presidential libraries throughout the country. Chicago has a system of public parks that are protected by law from private use and development. A similar legal challenge doomed a planned museum on another parcel of publicly-owned land in Chicago by Star Wars creator George Lucas. The local group Protect Our Parks filed the federal lawsuit Monday, seeking to prevent the transfer of Jackson Park -- created for the 1893 World's Fair -- to the foundation preparing to build The Obama Presidential ... More | | 
Do Ho Suh (b. 1962) is best known for his fabric architecture sculptures, which consider questions of memory, migration and home.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Today Ruby City announced the acquisition of seven recent works by acclaimed international artists Isaac Julien, Tala Madani, Wangechi Mutu, Do Ho Suh and Ana Fernandez, which join the Linda Pace Foundation collection. Guided by its mission to foster creative expression and understanding through contemporary art, acquisitions echo the themes and character of Paces own collecting, favoring works that engage the social, political and environmental issues, which we as a society face. The Linda Pace Foundation collection currently comprises more than 800 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs and video installations, with many pieces acquired in the year in which they were created. Since 2007 more than 200 works have been loaned to institutions around the globe. Together, these artworks continue the foundations longstanding commitment to experimental and new media works, as well as to work ... More |
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| Yeats' homage to roaring boy hero leads Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art Sale | | Ketterer Kunst announces highlights from its Contemporary Art auction | | Freeman's to offer Pennsylvania Design Masterworks from local collections | 
Detail of Donnellys Hollow by Jack Yeats. Estimate: £300,000-500,000 (340,000-570,000). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Donnellys Hollow by the Irish artist Jack B. Yeats leads Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London on Wednesday 13 June. It is estimated at £300,000-500,000 (340,000-570,000). The large work (36x24 inches) depicts the natural amphitheatre at the Curragh in County Kildare where, in 1815, the Irish boxer Dan Donnelly defeated the English champion, George Cooper. The victory assumed lasting political significance in Ireland as a symbol of resistance to the British occupation, and a commemorative monument was erected at the site of the bout. Donnelly was famous for the extent of his reach he had unusually long arms - and for the ferocity of his punch which was delivered with bare knuckles (boxing gloves only became compulsory in 1867). He was, however, as wild out of the ring as in it. His prodigal lifestyle finally caught up with him, and he died penniless in 1820 at the age of 32. For many years, his right ... More | | 
Tony Cragg, Point of View. Bronze with black-brown patina, 2002, 265 x 145 s 230 cm / 104.3 x 57 x 90.5 inches. Estimate: 300,000-400,000.
MUNICH.- They are simply breathtaking - and that is on two accounts - as the around 40 artworks by acclaimed artists such as Tony Cragg, Robert Rauschenberg and Victor Vasarely are striking for both their quality and their size. With dimensions of up to 3.5 by nearly 5 meters (137.7 x 195 inches), the colossal masterpieces will be called up at Ketterer Kunst in Munich as part of the auction from 7-9 June with estimates ranging between 3,000 and 400,0000. The array is led by Tony Craggs giant bronze Point of View with the most remarkable dimensions, making it the artists biggest sculpture ever offered at auction in the German language region***. The massive sculpture from the artists late period of creation wavers between abstraction and biomorphism in unique manner. It explores the boundaries of abstraction and materiality, as well as the realms of free design and figurative associations. The spaciou ... More | | 
Wharton Esherick (American, 1887-1970), Captains Chair Paoli, Pennsylvania, 1960.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Monday, June 4, Freemans will host Design: Featuring the Collection of Perry & June Ottenberg. The 108 lot sale showcases a rich selection of American studio modern design, specifically, the large and rich selection of works by George and Mira Nakashima alongside Wharton Esherick, Phillip Lloyd Powell, and Paul Evans. Also of note are rare offerings of furniture and woodwork by the self-taught artisan James Camp and jewelry by one of the most celebrated modernist jewelers of the mid-20th century, Olaf Skoogfors. Freemans will present to auction for the first time one of the largest and best collections of porcelain vessels by Rudolf Staffel from the Collection of Perry & June Ottenberg. The Metropolitan Museum and Philadelphia Museum have Staffel pieces that were gifted from the Ottenbergs during their life. Over the course of their sixty-five year marriage, Dr. Bernard Perry Ottenberg and his wife June Fuller ... More |
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 Shamim M. Momin joins Henry Art Gallery as Senior CuratorSEATTLE, WA.- Sylvia Wolf, John S. Behnke Director of the Henry Art Gallery announced today that Shamim M. Momin has been appointed to the position of Senior Curator, concluding a comprehensive international search. Momin is currently Director and Curator of LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), a nonprofit public art organization committed to curating site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects, in Los Angeles and beyond, which she co-founded in 2009. Previously, Momin served for more than ten years at the Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curating the 2004 and 2008 Whitney Biennials and overseeing the Contemporary Projects Series. In her role as Branch Director at Altria, the Whitneys midtown space, she commissioned more than 50 contemporary projects. At LAND, some exhibitions of note include Jose Davila: Sense ... More Swedish soprano Nina Stemme wins Birgit Nilsson PrizeSTOCKHOLM (AFP).- Swedish opera singer Nina Stemme has won the one-million dollar prize awarded in memory of the Nordic nation's legendary soprano Birgit Nilsson, the jury said on Tuesday. The prize, one of the largest in the world of classical music, is given every three or four years to recognise the achievements of an active artiste in the field. Stemme was honoured "for her interpretations of the dramatic soprano repertoire with her respect for the composer's intentions, her tireless dedication to the dramatic soprano repertoire, and for being a great Wagnerian soprano of today," the jury said in a statement. The Birgit Nilsson Prize was founded by the singer herself before she died in 2005 aged 87 with hopes of inspiring young artistes to reach their full potential. One of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos of the twentieth century, Nilsson, the daughter ... More British artists dominate Sworders' sale of Modern & Contemporary printsSTANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- British artists dominated Sworders sale of Modern & Contemporary prints on May 9. Works by Banksy, Patrick Hughes, Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Grayson Perry topped the sale sheets as close to 500 lots went under the hammer. Leading the way was Banksys (b.1974) Love is in the Air screenprint in colours from 2003. This image of a protester, his face is covered with a bandana, about to throw a bouquet of flowers, is among the irreverent street artists best-known work. Published by Pictures on Walls in an edition of 500 (this one numbered 332), it was accompanied by a certificate from authentication body Pest Control. A UK-based private buyer pushed the hammer to £11,800. Consigned from a local private source was the Bridget Riley (b.1931) screenprint, To Midsummer (Schubert 34), printed by Graham ... More Wunderkammern opens a new show by Italian artist 2501MILAN.- 2501, (Jacopo Ceccarelli, Milan, 1981) is among the most important Italian artists of the current Urban Art scene. His exhibitions, both personal and collective, were hosted by important museums such as MACRO in Rome, La Triennale di Milano, Museo Pecci in Prato, La Reggia di Caserta and the Foundation Edward De Valle in Santo Domingo. In 2017 he won a residency at the Gallery Libertad Queretaro in Mexico and exhibited during Miami Art Basel with an installation of the project LA MACCHINA. In 2015 he participated to "Urban Art Renaissance", a group exhibition presented at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan and in 2013 he exhibited at the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale with an official satellite event: Back 2 Back. Jacopo Ceccarelli has matured his style by coming in contact with the South American school of Street Art. After this experience he ... More Maddox Gallery opens the largest UK exhibition to date of work by The Connor BrothersLONDON.- Maddox Gallery presents Call Me Anything But Ordinary, the largest UK exhibition to date from The Connor Brothers and the first time the British art duo have shown oil paintings alongside original sketches. The pair have teamed up with Professor Green and mental health charity CALM who will co-host the exhibition opening night which will include an auction to raise funds and awareness about the UKs epidemic of male depression and suicide. The title of the show refers to the social-media obsessed and post-truth world we live in, where fiction frequently masquerades as fact. It was Andy Warhol who predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes, but even he could not have foreseen that people would one day have their very own media channels though which to promote their personal brands twenty-four hours a day. Renowned ... More Carbon 12 opens exhibition of works by Monika GrabuschniggDUBAI.- Combining large-scale clay reliefs & drawings Monika Grabuschniggs first solo exhibition, What satisfaction could you possibly have, explores the dislocated intimacies & disembodied desires of humans living in highly digitized societies.
How we search for & connect with others, how we long for, flirt & fantasize together is changing dramatically. The apps & websites we turn to seem to offer direct portals to other lives immediate & intimate interactions that can lead to in-the-flesh satisfactions. But there is no unmediated exchange: we are subject to, and encouraged to enact, self-censorship, self-exploitation. Our loves and loneliness mined for profit. Each of us put to work as blister-thumbed miner. Both the reliefs & drawings in the show reference the ever-present screens through which this happens. We see fractured & repaired bodies morphing into one ... More Huxley-Parlour Gallery showcases over 30 early works by Martin ParrLONDON.- A new exhibition, showcasing over 30 early works by Martin Parr, opened at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, in association with Rocket Gallery. The works on display are drawn from Parrs early series, The Non-Conformists, Bad Weather, Beauty Spots, A Fair Day and his first colour series The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton, including rare and vintage prints. In a career spanning over four decades, renowned photographer Martin Parr is best known for his striking use of highly saturated colour, and a focus on themes of class, consumer culture and leisure. This exhibition explores the roots of this artistic output, by displaying works from the first fifteen years of Parrs career, predominantly lesser-known works produced in black and white. The bodies of work featured in the exhibition were made by Parr between 1972 and 1986, and collectively illustrate the phot ... More Duddel's London opens its inaugural group art exhibitionLONDON.- An exhibition of newly commissioned and existing work by internationally renowned artists has gone on show at the acclaimed and recently opened Duddells in London as part of a new art programme of curated exhibitions and special art events. Having achieved critical acclaim from respected food critics in its opening months, Duddells London has now launched its art programme which is supported by Perrier-Jouët as Principal Art Patron. Much like its Hong Kong counterpart, the Co-founders of Duddells would like the first UK outpost to become a cultural and social destination as well as a meeting point for those passionate about food and the arts. Curated by independent curator Ying Kwok, the first exhibition, Doubting Thomas, launched on Wednesday 25th April and includes works by Jonathan Baldock, Suki Chan, Gordon Cheung, Aoife Collins, ... More Denver Botanic Gardens breaks ground on Freyer - Newman CenterDENVER, COLO.- Denver Botanic Gardens broke ground yesterday on the Freyer - Newman Center, the final part of a four-phase Master Development Plan that began in 2007. The LEED GOLD building, designed by Denvers Davis Partnership Architects, will provide more accessible and enriching public engagement with an auditorium, four art galleries, a new library, six classrooms, a coffee shop and 144 more parking spots. Important plant science research and conservation efforts will grow with more advanced laboratories and larger herbaria for vascular plants, mushrooms and slime molds. A childrens zone will be created in the Boettcher Memorial Centers Mitchell Hall. The $42 million project $37.5 million for the Freyer - Newman Center and $4.5 million for the renovation of the Boettcher Memorial Center is slated for completion in late ... More Apollo program memorabilia helps Heritage Auctions' Space Exploration Sale soar above $1 millionDALLAS, TX.- An oversized flag flown on Apollo 11 soared past pre-auction expectations, selling for $187,500, boosting the total return in Heritage Auctions May 11 Space Exploration Auction to $1,150,796.50. The Apollo 11-Flown Large Size American Flag on a Crew-Signed Presentation Certificate, Framed, which carried a pre-auction estimate of $50,000-75,000, was the target of spirited bidding. Not only is it mounted on a certificate bearing the signatures of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, it also is unusual in size. Most mission-flown flags measure 4 inches by 6 inches; this one measures 8 by 12 inches. The flag is an extraordinary lot, and our collectors knew it, Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Director Michael Riley said. We believe it is the first time such a flag ever has come to auction, and the collectors who bid on it knew they ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Polish-American painterTamara de Lempicka was born May 16, 1898. Tamara Lempicka (born Maria Górska; 16 May 1898 - 18 March 1980), also known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter active in the 1920s and 1930s, who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art-Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes. In this image: A man stands beside the painting "M. Tadeusz Lempicki" during the exhibition of works of art made by Tamara de Lempicka which opened at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.
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