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Sothebys Chairman and Auctioneer Oliver Barker fields bids during The Macklowe Collection. Courtesy Sotheby's.
Scott Reyburn and Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Blue-chip treasures from one of Manhattans most acrimonious billionaire divorces on Monday night helped Sothebys achieve what it called a record total sale for a private collection of art at auction, $922 million, with fees. Sothebys sold its second cache of trophy-name modern and contemporary works owned by real estate magnate Harry Macklowe and his former wife Linda, an honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for $246.1 million. The first installment of the sale, in November, raised $676.1 million from 35 lots, topped by works by Mark Rothko ($82.5 million) and Alberto Giacometti ($78.4 million). As is the nature of sequels, the second Macklowe sale, comprising 30 lots, wasnt quite in that league, but works by Rothko at $48 million, Gerhard Richter at $30.2 million and Andy Warhol at $18.7 million pushed the final total, which, Sothebys said, eclipsed the sale of the Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection in 2018 for $835.1 million, before in ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Antiquities | Ethnographica | Fine Art sale on May 19, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features a very special collection of Fine Art from the Hollywood Hills, including Picasso & Rookwood ceramics! Also included are many fine examples of classical antiquities, ancient, and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Olmec Volcanic Stone Tenon - Cuboid Form w/ Face. Estimate $28,000 - $42,000.
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| $100 million film studio to rise from rubble of ex-public housing site | | Tomás Saraceno's first permanent installation in southern Europe opens in Barcelona | | A long-hidden library of exceptional natural history reappears after 70 years | 
A rendering of Lionsgate Newark, which will include six large soundstages. HLW International LLP VUW Studios via The New York Times.
by Tracey Tully
NEW YORK, NY.- With a made-for-television flourish, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka climbed into an excavator earlier this year and punched the machines metal claw through a crumbling brick wall of the citys first public housing site. The long-abandoned apartment complex would be replaced, he promised, with something better. On Tuesday, officials announced a grand new vision for the 15-acre lot: The mounds of rubble at the center of a blighted neighborhood less than 2 miles from Newark Liberty International Airport will be replaced by a $100 million television and movie production hub featuring six large soundstages. There will be space for set building, postproduction editing, crew trucks and catering services when the facility opens in March 2024, officials said. The project has been held out primarily as an economic catalyst for Newark, a poor but growing city about 13 miles west of midtown ... More | | 
Installation views of Cloud Cities Barcelona, 2022. Courtesy Studio Tomás Saraceno and Mirador torre Glòries. Photography Studio Tomás Saraceno © Tomás Saraceno.
BARCELONA.- Cloud Cities Barcelona, by artist Tomás Saraceno, invites participants into a space of communal encounter, discourse, and critical speculation, suspended at a height of over 130 meters over the city of Barcelona. Opening on May 20th, 2022, and housed in the 360° observation deck of Mirador Torre Glòries, it will be Saracenos first permanent interactive sculpture in southern Europe. The artwork occupies an area of 130m³ and is composed of 113 cloud spaces, like droplets of water condensing along the strands of a three-dimensional spiders web, made of 5000 nodes connecting 6km of tensile cables. Moving through the air at a height between 4 and 10m relative to the floor, or becoming enveloped by the atmosphere of the cupolas apex, participants are offered a novel sensory experience, converting this observatory into a suspended realm from which to look inwards and outwards, to gather and dialogue, ... More | | 
Lot 152, Maria Sibylla Merian, Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium, Amsterdam, 1719, est £50,000-70,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Unseen for 70 years, the library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973) is considered one of the most celebrated collections of natural history not only containing stunning examples of the most famous volumes but also a host of rarities. Now, more than 500 books, including rare first editions rich with fine illustrations, will be offered across two auctions at Sothebys, commencing this month (the first auction on May 18, with the second following in November). A public exhibition will be open at Sothebys London from 14-17 May. David Goldthorpe, Head of Books and Manuscripts, Europe said: This is one of the great libraries of the last century. Such remarkable collections rarely come to the market, instead remaining myths in the book world. Most equivalents have been either lost or dispersed. Assembled over 30 years, this is the first time that the Broughton collection of zoology, ornithology and ... More |
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| Musea Brugge entrusted with the administration of a prestigious collection | | Bill Wyman's collection of Rolling Stones memorabilia & Sticky Fingers Restaurant heads to Julien's Auctions | | Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette appointed as Newfields' President & Chief Executive Officer | 
François Boucher (Paris 1703 1770)
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BRUGES.- Musea Brugge welcomes the addition of 1,930 drawing masterpieces and 25 sketch books to its collection. The Jean van Caloen Foundation of the castle estate at Loppem has entrusted the further care and administration of the collection to the Bruges Print Room, with effect from 17 May. The drawings date from the late 16th century to the 20th century and were collected primarily by Baron Jean van Caloen (1884-1972). Amongst other works, the collection contains the drawing of The Priests Blessing by Jacques Jordaens and a fine depiction of a young woman by the French master François Boucher. The absolute highlight of the collection is the magnificent Stoning of St. Stephen by Michelangelo Buonarotti. It is the only drawing of the celebrated Italian Renaissance artist currently held in Belgium. It is a remarkable piece, not least because it is a composition study: a drawing in which Michelangelo set do ... More | | 
A 1965 Framus Star Bass guitar in black rose sunburst finish, used during Rolling Stones concerts and recordings in 1965 and 1966. Estimate: $30,000-$50,000.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions announced today The Collection of Bill Wyman and Sticky Fingers Restaurant will join the world-record breaking auction house to the stars marquee music event of the year MUSIC ICONS , taking place Friday, May 20th, Saturday, May 21st, and Sunday, May 22nd 2022 live at Hard Rock Cafe® New York and online at juliensauctions.com Nearly 150 lots from the renowned and vast archive of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer, founding member and legendary bassist of the Rolling Stones, will be presented including guitars, awards, memorabilia, photographs and artifacts that were prominently displayed for 32 years at Wymans famous and beloved London restaurant Sticky Fingers. With his unprecedented collection of important instruments and thousands of artifacts amassed during his illustrious ... More | | 
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Burnettes remarkable career spans engineering, information technology, public service, and more than two decades in education.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Newfields, Indianapolis' premier destination for dynamic arts, culture, and nature, announced its Board of Trustees has confirmed Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette as the institution's new President & Chief Executive Officer. The new CEO's role will officially begin on August 1, 2022. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Burnettes remarkable career spans engineering, information technology, public service, and more than two decades in education. Her track record is one of moving organizations forward in big, bold and lasting ways. Today she is a dynamic leader in the world of higher education as President of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. During her tenure as President of the historically Black college, Dr. Burnette achieved significant growth in the university's endowment, the launch of pioneering new academic programs, and innovative new partnerships with companies ranging from Apple, Indeed, ... More |
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| Wichita Art Museum Board of Trustees names Anne Kraybill as Director/Chief Executive Officer | | Howard University acquires major Gordon Parks collection | | Colour Rush! An installation by Sabine Marcelis at the Vitra Design Museum | 
Kraybill currently serves as The Richard M. Scaife Director/CEO at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art.
WICHITA, KS.- The Board of Trustees of the Wichita Art Museum announced the selection of Anne Kraybill as the museums Director/Chief Executive Officer. Kraybill currently serves as The Richard M. Scaife Director/CEO at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She starts at WAM on August 15, 2022. During her four-year tenure, Kraybill diversified the The Westmorelands collections and temporary exhibition program, developed strong partnerships and increased programming by 80% to reach new audiences, and eliminated the suggested donation fee to ensure equitable access for all. Under her leadership, she implemented a new strategic plan that centers on Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion and sets the vision for the future of The Westmoreland. Kraybill established innovative initiatives at the museum, including The Just Arts Billboard Project in partnership with The Westmoreland Diversity ... More | | 
Gordon Parks, Untitled (Paul Robeson), Washington, DC., 1942.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Howard University and The Gordon Parks Foundation today announced a historic acquisition of 252 photographs representing the arc of Gordon Parkss career over five decades. The breadth of the collection--which spans Parkss earliest photographs in the 1940s through the 1990s--makes it one of the most comprehensive resources for the study of Parkss life and work anywhere in the world. The Gordon Parks Legacy Collection, a combined gift and purchase, will be housed in the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Organized thematically by subject into 15 study sets, the photographs serve as a rich repository for the development of exhibitions and multidisciplinary curricula that advances scholarship on Parkss contributions as an artist and humanitarian. Howard Universitys acquisition is part of The Gordon Parks Foundations commitment to supporting initiatives that provide access to and deepen understanding of ... More | | 
Sabine Marcelis in the exhibition »Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis«, Vitra Schaudepot © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Mark Niedermann.
WEIL AM RHEIN.- The annual presentation at the Vitra Schaudepot reveals the collection of the Vitra Design Museum in a fresh light every year. The new focus topic, which will be on display from May 2022 to May 2023, is wholly devoted to colour. Following an invitation from the Vitra Design Museum, Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has transformed the Schaudepot in one simple, sweeping gesture by sorting its roughly four hundred exhibits by colour. The installation shows the collection from new perspectives and produces fascinating cross-references between periods and styles, at the same time providing visitors with an overwhelming immersive experience. The presentation is complemented by historical and contemporary objects and documents from the museum archives that illustrate how designers from different eras approached the subject. Our world is full of colour. Its various shades unleash emotions, assist ... More |
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| Public Art Fund opens group exhibition along Brooklyn Park's waterfront | | Christie's New York presents record-breaking auction of exceptional watches | | Galerie Mourlot presents a solo exhibition of new work by Judith Seligson | 
Kiyan Williams Ruins of Empire 2022. Courtesy of the artist.Photo: Nicholas Knight Courtesy of Public Art Fund NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Public Art Fund debuts a powerful group exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park co-curated by artist Hugh Hayden and Public Art Fund Adjunct Curator Daniel S. Palmer. This is the first time in his career that Hayden will take on the dual role of artist and co-curator. Titled Black Atlantic, the exhibition brings together new site-responsive artworks by Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams. Their commissions, wide-ranging both materially and conceptually, create an exchange of ideas among artists of a similar generation that proposes an open, multifaceted, and heterogeneous idea of identity in the United States today. The exhibition is on view from May 17 through November 27, 2022 throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park. Theres magic and agency involved ... More | | 
A Patek Philippe Ref. 5531R-012 World Time Minute Repeater in 18k rose gold with a cloisonné enamel dial depicting the Lavaux vineyards by Lake Geneva from The Kairos Collection. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Important Watches of Exceptional Provenance, presented across two evening sessions on June 8 and 9, will be offering a total of 137 lots, among which are some of the finest horological masterpieces to appear at auction. Estimated in excess of US$14 million, this sale marks a historic high for Christies New York. The first evening, on 8 June, will present Lots 1-68 of The Kairos Collection Part III - the finest collection of Patek Philippe contemporary timepieces to be offered. Following Part I in Geneva and Part II in Hong Kong, the grand finale in New York offers marvels of Grandes Complications such as the Ref. 5531R-012, an exceptional 18k rose gold minute repeating world time wristwatch with miniature cloisonné enamel dial, the Ref. 5950/1A-010 (one ... More | | 
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Mourlot is presenting The More You Look The More You See, a solo exhibition of new work from the last two years, featuring paintings, a 3D sculpture painting, flower pigment prints, and recycling collages by Judith Seligson. The artists second solo exhibition at the gallery opened on May 4 and remains on view through June 26, 2022. The More You Look The More You See features Seligsons hard-edged, geometric abstract paintings, in which she explores her interest in the interactions of colors, patterns, and space that all push the boundaries of the pictorial plane and create a sense of spatial tensiona style The Washington Post called reminiscent of Stella and Albers. Her paintings are influenced by music and are known for their rhythm and movement, for Seligson sees shapes as notes in a composition. With these new works, Seligson continues to make ... More |
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 Impressive results for Moore, Chagall, and Nakashima in back-to-back Freeman's auctionsPHILADELPHIA, PA.- In three back-to-back sales, Freemans confirms its strength in bringing fresh-to-market modern and contemporary art and design works to auction, including single-owner collections. The auctions were marked by competitive bidding between international buyers, resulting in sales of Henry Moores Architectural Project for $428,400, Marc Chagalls Devant la Fenêtre à Sils for $453,600, and a Conoid bench by George Nakashima for $94,500. Modern and Contemporary Art on May 11 was led by Henry Moores Architectural Project, an important bronze from the artists later years that achieved $428,400 (estimate: $200,000-300,000). Two playful sheep sculptures by François-Xavier Lalanne, Mouton de Pierre, both more than doubled their presale high estimates to achieve $378,000 and $365,400, respectively ... More  Comics featuring debuts of Batman, Spiderman, X-Men & Wonder Woman hit the market in single saleRUNNEMEDE, NJ.- Some of the most illustrious and sought-after comics of all time featuring the first appearances of the most iconic superheroes ever have just hit the market in a single sale. The debuts of Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men and Wonder Woman. DC Detective Comics #27, Marvel Amazing Fantasy #15, Superman #1, Marvel X-Men #1 and Batman #1, among other ultra-rare comic books, are among the headliners of the May Elite sale at Goldin. The rare comic book items up for sale include: 1939 DC Detective Comics #27 - CGC 6.5 1962 Marvel Amazing Fantasy #15 - CGC 8.0 1939 DC Superman #1 - CGC 2.0 1960 Original Cover Art for DC Showcase #24 by Gil Kane - Third Appearance of Green Lantern 1940 DC Batman #1 - CGC 4.0 1963 Marvel X-Men #1 - CGC 8.5 ... More  Galleria Continua announces its collaboration with Adel AbdessemedROME.- Born in Constantine, Algeria in 1971, he lives and works in Paris, France. Adel Abdessemed embraces a wide variety of media, including drawing, sculpture, performance, video and installation. His work often deals with the themes of war, violence and religion and is characterised by brutal imagery that attempts to depict the inherent violence of the contemporary world. Memory, trauma, conflagration, intoxication, and lucidity: French artist of Berber origin, Adel Abdessemed has been building a committed and incandescent body of work for more than thirty years, which has quickly found an echo on the international scene. He fled Algeria after the beginning of the 1992 civil war, taking with him the memory of the war and the range of atrocities. Ive experienced very directly the violence that I talk about. Even today, the wounds ... More  Sparkling results to celebrate Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers' 10th anniversaryWARLINGHAM.- A stunning diamond necklace comprising 51 diamonds that had been discovered at a valuation day sold for a hammer price of £47,000 three times its estimate - in Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers 10th Anniversary Sale on Tuesday & Wednesday, May 10 & 11, 2022 at Farleigh Court Golf Club, Warlingham in Surrey. The impressive early/mid Victorian diamond graduated rivière necklace had been brought into a valuation day at the Farleigh Golf Club, where the sale took place and sold to a Private Collector after fierce bidding between nine telephones! According to the vendor, the necklace was purchased from Garrard and Co, Regent Street, London in May 1948 [lot 288]. As Catherine Southon explained: Day one of our 10th anniversary auction achieved some incredible house records. Our jewellery ... More  Nobody makes films like Alex Garland. But he might stop making them.NEW YORK, NY.- Alex Garland knows that calling his new film Men is a provocative act. Its quite interesting that such a short, simple word can be so freighted with massive and entirely subjective meanings, he said. As a writer and filmmaker, Garland is drawn to subjects that demand discussion: In the twisty robot parable Ex Machina (2015) and the Natalie Portman sci-fi drama Annihilation (2018), he favored a bold, stark setup that sat at the intersection of a cultural flash point. The tricky Men operates in a similar vein, casting Jessie Buckley as Harper, a woman coming to terms with her husbands death and the blame he leveled at her in his final moments. Harper rents a British country house to work through her trauma, but the men of the local village (all of whom are played by actor Rory Kinnear) insinuate, belittle ... More  Breathing, dancing art at the Met MuseumNEW YORK, NY.- One of the most ravishing dance events of recent years was the appearance by the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015. The majesty of the Temple of Dendur met its match in the moving sculpture of dancers Bijayini Satpathy and Surupa Sen. Now Satpathy is back, this time on her own as the MetLiveArts artist-in-residence, with performances last weekend and next in galleries around the museum. Ravishment has returned. In the series, called Sima, or Thresholds, Satpathy extends her solo explorations of classical Odissi style, pushing at its borders in response to the art around her, and she does so in collaboration with composer Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy. On Saturday and Sunday, Satpathy offered two short pieces (each less than 15 minutes long) ... More  Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles opens 'Don't Give Me Flowers'LOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles, is presenting Dont Give Me Flowers a group exhibition of works by Delia Brown, Shana Lutker, Sarah Miska, Mattea Perrotta, Fay Ray, Fawn Rogers and Amanda Ross-Ho. The exhibition, curated by Nancy Meyer, examines the artists perspectives on status and female identity through symbols of beauty, value and privilege. Brought together in dialogue about the constructs in which we live, the exhibition postulates the tendencies towards objectification, social motives, and the balance between intrapersonal and interpersonal perceptions. Simultaneously personal and universal, Dont Give Me Flowers relishes in the ambiguity and evolution of the human condition. Inspired by 17th century vanitas still life paintings, Delia Brown is both artist and model in her recent series ... More  Debut solo exhibition of Paris based artist, DJ, producer and performer Christelle Oyiri opens in Glasgow GLAASGOW.- Gentle Battle is the debut solo exhibition of Paris based artist, DJ, producer and performer Christelle Oyiri (b.France, 1992). Weaving together forgotten mythologies and the political nature of dance music, Oyiris work looks for alternative ways to understand and un-braid the complex knot of history, identity and experience. Gentle Battle charts a path through these often clouded waters, a guided journey conceived as a series of time-spaces in which we are invited to dwell and reflect. Through symbolic elements as diverse as a mirror, an elephant tusk, a four-poster bed, and a karaoke booth, Oyiri generates doors, capsules and portals to other realities in which stories slip into histories - modern mythologies that mix and remix personal and collective experiences. From Ivorian and Guadeloupean descent, ... More  Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim's third solo show at Lawrie Shabibi opens in DubaiDUBAI.- Lawrie Shabibi presents Embryonic Coat, the third solo by Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim at the gallery. Ibrahims intensely experimental and prolific art practice conveys his deep fascination with memory, imagery and ways of seeing and experiencing the environment, coming from both his personal experiences and the kind of innate memory found in our DNA, which he describes as a primitive urge. Embryonic Coat explores the conception or manifestation of the known, experienced, or imagined as contained within rudimentary forms, referencing the protective sheath around a seed or the membrane around an embryo. The exhibition presents My Garden's Details, a new series of paintings that fixate on motifs of flowers and trees - endlessly repeated, reconfigured and recoloured, much as the abstract notations and marks recurring ... More  Shirt worn by Sergio Agüero when he secured the title for Manchester City in 2012 to be offered at auctionLONDON.- The shirt worn by Argentinian player and the Premier League's highest-scoring overseas player Sergio Agüero, to secure the title for Manchester City in 2012 will be included in Graham Budd Auctions sale on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The historic blue Manchester City No.16 jersey was worn by Sergio Agüero when scoring the winning goal v Queen's Park Rangers in the 4th minute of extra-time at the Etihad Stadium, 13th May 2012, to secure the Premiership title for Manchester City. It is estimated to fetch £20,000-30,000. The shirt even bears dry champagne spray marks from the dressing celebrations on the front and reverse! It will be offered with two signed letters of provenance - one from the seller ... More  New Director announced for HM Queen Sonja Art FoundationOSLO.- Aurora Aspen has been appointed the new Director of the HM Queen Sonja Art Foundation - Queen Sonja Print Award, the worlds leading prize for graphic art, the Board has announced. She has been Director of the leading Oslo gallery, OSL contemporary since 2016 and she previously held roles at Norways Office for Contemporary Art (OCA) and the Haunch of Venison Gallery in London. This year, the winner of The Queen Sonja Print Award will be announced in Oslo on 2 June 2022 in the run up to the opening of Norways new National Museum, which together with the recently opened MUNCH museum makes the Norwegian capital one of the worlds leading centres for art. The Queen Sonja Print Award is presented every other year to a leading artist who has excelled in the field of print making, alongside ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American architect Walter Gropius was born May 18, 1883. Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 - 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. In this image: Walter/Ise Gropius, 1928. Blick auf Lower Manhattan von der Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Bildnachweis: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/ © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2008
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