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French president François Hollande (L) visits the "History begins in Mesopotamia" exhibition on November 1, 2016 at the Louvre Lens museum in Lens, northern France during the inauguration of the exhibition. DENIS CHARLET / AFP.
LENS (AFP).- French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday said the Louvre could house threatened treasures from Iraq, Syria and other war-torn countries at a secure site in northern France. The precious items could be placed in safe keeping at a conservation facility due to open in 2019 in Lievin, 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of Paris, he said. "The prime mission of the Lievin site will be to house the Louvre Museum's stored collection," Hollande said at a ceremony to unveil a plaque marking the site. But, Hollande said, it will have "another role, sadly linked to the events, dramas and tragedies which may unfold in the world, wherever works of art are in danger because terrorists, because barbarians have decided to destroy them... (especially) in Syria and Iraq." Hollande said France will make the proposal at a December conference in Abu Dhabi on endangered heritage. Representatives from around 40 countries are expected to take part. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A French police officer holds a French flag and a placard reading "police is exhausted" during a demonstration next to the Louvre Pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris, on November 1, 2016. The protests have spread across France since October 17, following an attack on October 8, where a 28-year-old officer suffered serious burns when he was attacked with a petrol bomb on the outskirts of Paris. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP
| Jihadists storing loot at Swiss port? Geneva says no way | | Sotheby's announces "Alexander Hamilton: An Important Family Archive of Letters and Manuscripts" | | RIBA announces six buildings in running for new global prize for architecture | 
The Geneva Free Port (Ports Francs) warehouse complex in Geneva. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP.
GENEVA (AFP).- When a leading French politician said Switzerland's free ports were helping terrorists hide stolen assets, Swiss officials offered a blunt rebuke. In response to French finance minister Michel Sapin's charge, authorities in Geneva insisted they had cleaned up their act and suggested he come and check things out for himself. "Had (the comments) been made several years ago, we could have taken them seriously. Today, they are simply unacceptable," Pierre Maudet, economics chief in Geneva's cantonal government, told Switzerland's One FM. Maudet's chief of staff, Patrick Baud-Lavigne, added that "a letter has been sent to Mr. Sapin inviting him to come make an on-site inspection." Sapin's supposed insult was made at a G20 meeting earlier this month. He called free ports a "weak link" in countering terrorist financing as they helped ... More | | 
General Orders, appointing Alexander Hamilton aide-de-camp to General George Washington, to be respected and obeyed as such. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 18 January 2017, Sothebys New York will offer Alexander Hamilton: An Important Family Archive of Letters and Manuscripts. With a meteoric rise in recognition and popularity over the last fifteen years, Hamiltons story has captured the popular imagination to an extent almost unprecedented for an historical figure. The sale, the first of its kind, will tell the story of his brief but momentous life through hundreds of documents that have descended in the family for the last two centuries. Selby Kiffer, International Senior Specialist of Books & Manuscripts noted: Its highly unusual, but highly gratifying, when popular American culture is informed so directly by our historical past. Born in Saint Kitts and Nevis and raised in the West Indies, Alexander Hamilton arrived in the Americas as a student at ... More | | 
The Ring of Remembrance, International WWI Memorial of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. Photo: Aitor Ortiz.
LONDON.- The six finalists for the Royal Institute of British Architects International Prize 2016 have been announced today (Thursday 27 October). The buildings will now be visited by the Grand Jury of the prize before the winner is announced on Thursday 24 November 2016. The selection follows a rigorous judging process which saw the RIBA awards committee travel to 30 buildings across 5 continents before choosing six buildings which will be visited again in November. Setting a new global standard for architectural achievement, the prize will be judged by a grand jury of experts chaired by world-renowned architect, Lord Richard Rogers of Riverside. Projects demonstrate a range of innovative responses to the role of public architecture, providing major new additions to their contexts and communities. The refined restoration of an existing industrial ... More |
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| Christie's announces the highest valued Latin American Auction to date | | Exhibition explores "Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin: The Race of the Giants towards the Modern" | | Striking works by Escher star in Bonhams' Prints and Multiples Sale | 
Diego Rivera (18861957), Niña con vestido rosa. Painted in 1930. Estimate: $500,000-700,000. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the fall season of Latin American Art with the live auction taking place November 22-23 and an online sale running November 16 December 1. Combined, the sales include nearly 300 lots and is expected to realize in excess of $30 million, making it one of the highest valued Latin American auctions to-date at Christies. Featured are five notable private collections, including Property from the Lewin Family Collection; CUBA MODERNA: Masterworks from a Private Collection; Property from the Collection of Ruth and Jerome Siegel; Property from the Private Art Collection of Marta and Plácido Domingo; and Property from the Audain Collection, Vancouver. Works from the live auction will be on view November 18-22, with the online sale preview open through November 29. CUBA MODERNA: Masterworks from a Private Collection, is an ... More | | 
Edgar Degas, Tänzerin an einen Pfeiler lehnend, 1895-1898. Kohle, 69 x 53 cm. Museum Folkwang, Essen.
WUPPERTAL.- They knew and respected each other. They envied and admired each other. Their works embodied gracefulness and movement, body, space and time. They were fascinated by horses, women, and photography. They were outsiders and rebels and they were geniuses. In a race to the Modern Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin abandoned rules and norms and forged groundbreaking paths. At first they were mocked, but in the end they were venerated. They passed away in the same year (1917) within a couple of months of one another. The Modern would be unthinkable without them. Never before have the works of Degas and Rodin been juxtaposed so comprehensively, in such confrontation with one another, and discussed so extensively as here. After Renoir, Monet, Sisley, and Pissarro the Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal now presents ... More | | 
Escher, Ascending and Descending. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Four striking Maurits Cornelis Escher prints (estimated at between £12,000-18,000 and £10,000-15,000 each) will be auctioned alongside a star-studded line up that includes Twombly, Lichtenstein, Warhol and Hockney at Bonhams next Prints and Multiples sale at London New Bond Street on 16 November. M.C. Escher (1898-1927) is widely celebrated as a master of graphic art. Born in the Netherlands, he drew inspiration from the towns and landscapes he encountered in travels across Europe. Drawing on an extensive knowledge of architecture and mathematics, he created lithographs and woodcuts that amaze viewers with mathematical distortions of space and perspective. Celebrated as works of art as well as icons of popular culture, Eschers work has been exhibited at museums and galleries across the world, and featured on stamps and album covers. The four prints for auction at Bonhams forthcoming Prints and Multiples ... More |
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| Phillips announces highlights from the November Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art | | Kristen Shepherd named new Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg | | Exhibition at FreedmanArt features gifts from their makers to their friends | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Nudes in Mirror. Signed and dated "rf Lichtenstein '94" on the reverse. Oil and Magna on canvas, 100 x 84 in. (254 x 213.4 cm.). Painted in 1994. Estimate On Request. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the upcoming auctions of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. The Evening Sale will take place on Wednesday, 16 November, at 5pm and the Day Sale will follow on 17 November at 11am. Comprised of 37 lots, the Evening Sale is expected to realize in excess of $100 million and will be led by Gerhard Richters Dϋsenjäger, Roy Lichtensteins Nudes in Mirror, and Clyfford Stills Untitled. Important works by masters such as David Hockney, Alexander Calder, and Carmen Herrera will also be featured, along with five works from the personal collection of Tommy Hilfiger. The Day Sale will offer 147 lots by some of the most acclaimed artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Robert Rauschenberg, George Condo, and Kara Walker, presenting collectors with a wonderful opportunity to grow their collections at all levels. Robert Manley and Jean-Paul Engelen, Phillips ... More | | 
Innovative leader has blended fine arts and business expertise to build community engagement at museums in Los Angeles and New York.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Kristen Shepherd, an innovative leader in the art world who has expanded community engagement at museums in Los Angeles and New York, has been named the new Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. She was unanimously approved by the Museums Board of Trustees after a national search. She will join the Museum December 15, succeeding former Director Dr. Kent Lydecker, who retired in March. She is the sixth director in the MFAs history and its first female director. Ms. Shepherd brings to her new role the perspective of an art historian combined with strong business acumen. She has served as Associate Vice President, Audience Strategy & Services, for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2013. She led her staff and volunteers to create engagement opportunities for the diverse local audience, increasing revenue from visitor attendance and membership by 19 percent during ... More | | 
Conrad Marca-Relli (1913-2000), Villa Horizon (X-S-1-59), 1959, collage, linen on linen, oil with varnish medium; French newsprint (on verso); 21 x 23 inches. Gift from the artist to a private collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- FreedmanArt is presenting Personalized, including artworks by: Walter Darby Bannard, Norman Bluhm, Lee Bontecou, Jack Bush, Anthony Caro, Richard Diebenkorn, Piero Dorazio, Friedel Dzubas, Herbert Ferber, Caio Fonseca, Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Graves, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Knox Martin, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Frank OCain, Jules Olitski, Ray Parker, Larry Poons, Susan Roth, and John Walker. Personal collections are portraits. Not only do they show us the aesthetic values of the individuals who made the selections, but they can also tell us something about the times they lived in, the circles they frequented, and their friendships. Perhaps the most revealing works, in terms of telling us about relationships, are those not purchased, but rather, given by the artist to the collector or exchanged with a colleague. There are many reasons for such gifts - friendship, celebration, o ... More |
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| The evolution of clocks and timekeeping featured in exhibition at the Grolier Club | | The Glasgow School of Art announces £500,000 donation to the Mackintosh Campus Appeal | | Swann Galleries offers exceptional collection of Camille Pissarro prints on November 3 | 
A sundial for sounding the hours. From Athanasius Kircher. Ars magna lucis et umbrae. Rome, 1646. Collection: Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology.
NEW YORK, NY.- From sundials to atomic clocks, the exhibition On Time: The Quest for Precision explores the history of precise timekeeping through rare books that taught readers techniques of timekeeping, announced new inventions, and provided instructions on the construction and use of timekeeping instruments. The exhibition, which is on public view at the Grolier Club, New York City through November 19, 2016, is drawn from the comprehensive collections of the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, Kansas City, Missouri. Curator Bruce Bradley tells a timely story with 86 illustrated books dating from the 15th century to the present that graphically and artistically depict the sweep of timekeeping. These books are fascinating and ornate, as well as informative about the innovations that have led to increasingly precise timekeeping devices, notes Mr. Bradley. As a complement to the ... More | | 
3D visualisation - section through the Mackintosh Building courtesy of SimVis, The Glasgow School of Art.
GLASGOW.- The Glasgow School of Art announced today, 1 November 2016, that the Garfield Weston Foundation has made a donation of £500,000 towards The Mackintosh Campus Appeal. The announcement came as the Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell MP, hosted an event for the Mackintosh Campus Project at Dover House in London. Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell, said: It is a real pleasure to host tonights fundraising event for the Mackintosh Campus, and to support the rebuilding of an iconic British institution which has produced so many leading architects, designers and artists. The UK Government was among the very first to support Glasgow School of Arts restoration appeal with a £5m donation, and has given a further £5m to support the Mackintosh Campus development. I am delighted to hear that that the Garfield Weston Foundation is the latest organisation to support the Mackintosh Campus Appeal, and ... More | | 
Camille Pissarro, Les Baigneuses gardeuses d'oies. One of five colour drypoints, c.1895-96 offered together. Estimate $30,000 to $50,000. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries will present an exceptional private collection of prints by the Impressionist master Camille Pissarro at their November 3 Old Master Through Modern Prints auction. Occupying the centre of the three-part sale, the 67-lot collection focuses on Pissarros (1830-1903) development of printing techniques, from early etchings in the 1860s, through his lithographs of the 1870s to his friendship with Degas and the extraordinarily productive period of the late 1870s, with aquatints and drypoints. Subjects range from everyday rural life and landscapes to the bustle of market towns and the streets, docks and waterways of Rouen, as well as intimate portraits and character studies. Composition and technique shows the influence of earlier masters like Constable and Turner. Known as the Father of Impressionism, Pissarro helped write the manifesto in 1873, along with Degas ... More |
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 Countdown to election day, auctions get presidential on BidsquareNEW YORK, NY.- As the days count down until the election, America's next president is on everyone's mind. Potus, Flotus and Americana memorabilia come to Bidsquare just in time to remind Americans of their presidential history and traditions. Starting in the White House kitchen, Cowan's Auctions brings White House China to auction. The "Solferino" or "Royal Purple" service, as it became known, was ordered by the First Lady, Mary Todd Lincoln, from Messrs. E. V. Haughwout & Co. in May of 1861 during a shopping visit to New York City to purchase furnishings for the White House, as well as a formal dinner service. "Solferino", a rich puce color, had been made fashionable by the French in about 1859, and Mrs. Lincoln perpetuated the vogue by employing it liberally in the interior decoration of the executive mansion. The service was delivered to the White House ... More From Edward III to Richard III: Spink announces Lord Stewartby's fourth sale LONDON.- As the winter of our discontent approaches and the weather turns colder, Spink has an auction in store sure to heat things up in the numismatic world. The fourth part of the epic collection of Lord Stewartby will be hitting Spinks auction room on 29th November and will focus on coins from the reigns of Edward III to Richard III. A lot of history will be covered in this auction, particularly for collectors of the rare and the highly interesting from this period, and Lord Stewartbys collection will prove a mine of treasures. There are some really fascinating pieces in the sale, particularly lot 1220, a Henry IV (1399-1413), Groat. A stand-alone item that is highly pleasing to the eye, it has been described in our catalogue as nearly very fine, and extremely rare. Lot 1220, estimated: £3,000-4,000 For collectors of oddities and special mint anomalies, lot 1292 will be an exciting ... More Middelheim Museum hosts Roman Signer with two actions and new work ANTWERP.- Between 29 October 2016 and 2 April 2017 you will get the chance to acquaint yourself with the idiosyncratic work of the Swiss artist Roman Signer, the sculptor who combines poetry, science and action in his work in his own unique manner. Projet pour un jardin links together past and contemporary creations that Roman Signer has worked on in collaboration with the Middelheim Museum. In the past these collaborations were part of a group event, this time hes exhibiting alone. The artist is putting on two actions in and around the Braem Pavilion. In addition, he creates a new permanent work specially for the Middelheim Museum. In the Middelheim Museum time and surroundings play a more intense role than they would in a classical museum. Changing light, the passing of the seasons, the dialogue with later works, the relationship of the landscape ... More The Elgiz Museum exhibits works by influential sculptor and academician Rahmi AksungurISTANBUL.- Rahmi Aksungur is a highly influential sculptor and academician whose body of work has made a significant contribution to contemporary sculpture in Turkey. The Elgiz Museum presents Rahmi Aksungurs latest exhibition EU 48/6/N on display in the temporary exhibition space from Tuesday November 1st to Saturday February 4th, 2017. The exhibition features two previously unseen works and 14 on loan from various private collections including the Elgiz, Yıldız Holding, Mustafa Balcı, Cağla Cabaoğlu, Haydar Halit Cenkeri, Kemal Servi and Cengiz Akıncı. Rahmi Aksungur often draws inspiration for his artworks from the objects of daily life. Thus, In EU 48/6/N, we find the organic; some peppers, an apple, a leaf and a very large fish juxtaposed among Aksungurs abstract and figurative sculptures. In an recent interview with writer Jonathan Bastable, Aksungur ... More "Sacred Words: The Saint John's Bible and the Art of Illumination" on view at OKCMOA OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- The first illuminated, handwritten Bible of monumental size to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in the modern era is on view at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art this fall. "Sacred Words: The Saint John's Bible and the Art of Illumination" opened Oct. 15 at OKCMOA and includes seventy selected folios from "The Saint John's Bible" as well as other historical illuminated manuscripts, such as a Book of Hours, Quran pages and Torah scrolls. "Illuminated manuscripts are one of the great artistic traditions of the Middle Ages," said E. Michael Whittington, OKCMOA President and CEO. "This magnificent bible commissioned by Saint John's Abbey and University was crafted in exactly the same manner as its medieval predecessors. Its illuminations, however, are breathtakingly contemporary interpretations of the Old and New Testaments. ... More "Journey Around the World" opens at Elisa Contemporary Art's Riverdale gallery RIVERDALE, NY.- Elisa Contemporary Art's new exhibit Journey Around the World travels to all corners of the globe...in a journey to see the new and explore the diverse, mysterious and intriguing. The exhibit opened on October 27. In Burkina Faso, Africa with photographer Cheryl Koralik, we discover the tribal masques and raffia dress and adornments worn in Animist ceremonies. Animism believes that not only humans but all natural phenomena, natural objects, and the universe, embody a soul or spirit. Animists propagate the doctrine that the soul is the main driving force of life. She has captured the other-worldly essence of these rituals. According to photographer Cheryl Koralik, One day, while driving through Bobo she saw men adorned in raffia (a strawlike fiber) running through the streets with whips. I followed the men and discovered a whole new world ... More Piguet et Capt à Genève Gold & Enamel Snuff Box crowns $1.3+ million Heritage auction NEW YORK, NY.- One of the 19th century's coveted and most collectible timepieces, A Rare Piguet & Capt Three Compartment Gold & Enamel Snuff Box With Concealed Automaton & Timepiece, circa 1800, brought $62,500 in Heritage Auctions' fall Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction October 27 in New York. The unparalleled gold and enamel timepiece depicts a young boy fishing accompanied by two young women dichotomized by applied multicolor gold floral baskets and leaves on the corners. The piece makes an excellent addition to one's collection. The $1.3 million auction was comprised of all different makes, including Piguet & Capt, Rolex, and Cartier timepieces. "Fine timepieces are always stylish and collectors do not face any hesitation to zero in on rare models when they come up for auction," said Jim Wolf, director of fine timepieces at Heritage Auctions. "I was ... More Rizzoli book launch:: Palm Springs > The Good Life Goes On by Nancy BaronNEW YORK, NY.- In Palm Springs > The Good Life Goes On (Kehrer, Fall 2016), fine art photographer Nancy Baron guides us through this storied American resort town and its mid century modern lifestyle from the vantage point of a long-time resident. Picking up where she left off in her critically acclaimed monograph The Good Life > Palm Springs (Kehrer, 2014), Baron documents her ongoing and endless discoveries of her beloved second home and its community of mid century modern enthusiasts. The book includes essays by Alexa Dilworth and Matthew Weiner. This large and tight-knit group of self-proclaimed modernists are committed to the mid century modern lifestyle and the preservation of its architecture. Many of these modernists weren't born yet in the 1950's and 1960's, but they find comfort in this reenactment of gentler times that glows warmly in their vintage ... More Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens announces reinstallation of the permanent collection JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Arts & Gardens invites visitors to enjoy the reinstallation of its Permanent Collection within its newly-renovated south wing. The Permanent Collection is the cornerstone of the Museum, and the reinstallation includes both recent acquisitions and hidden gems. Two new works have been acquired thanks to the generosity of Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobson: Copper Bowl, White Vase, Cloth, and Onions (c. 1890) by Soren Emil Carlson and Man and Machinery #36 (1934) by Paul Kelpe. Carlsen (1853-1932) was born in Copenhagen and studied architecture before emigrating to the United States in 1872. He became most famous for his painted depictions fish, game, bottles, and related kitchen still life scenes. Carlsens work is known for its subdued color palette and realist manner, which lend a modernist quality ... More Nohra Haime Gallery exhibits works by Sophia VariNEW YORK, NY.- Sophia Vari: Forms and Colors is on view at Nohra Haime Gallery until November 19th and will include sculpture, collages, bas-reliefs and paintings. Forms and Colors, a new publication on the artist with text by Carter Ratcliff, is available during the exhibition. Varis work in bronze and in marble is stark and it is involuted; it is massive and it is delicate; it is imposing and it is elusive. Reconciling these opposites with sure-handed inspiration, she charges each of her works with the aura of aesthetic purity that abstract art is uniquely able to generate. Though theories of aesthetic purity try to prevent it, we inevitably associate abstract forms with emotional qualities. If we say that a lake is serene, that a mountain is majestic, we can hardly avoid attributing comparable feeling to Varis worksespecially when there is reason to believe that she invites ... More Rare Kleitsch painting of Laguna Beach c. 1925 now on display at the Irvine MuseumIRVINE, CA.- A rare and historically-significant painting from 1925 by important California impressionist painter Joseph Kleitsch is on public display for the first time at The Irvine Museum. The painting can be seen in the museum's current exhibition, Masterpieces of California Art, through January 19, 2017. "This is the most important painting by Kleitsch to have come to light, because of the subject (Laguna Beach in 1925), the size (a large 40 x 40 inches), and its unrivaled beauty," said Executive Director of The Irvine Museum, Jean Stern. The painting, entitled The Drug Store, depicts Coast Road (PCH) unpaved, at the corner of Forest and Park in Laguna Beach, where the Rankin Drugstore once was. The painting hung in a New York apartment for over 50 years. It was purchased by the then owner's mother directly from Kleitsch's widow in the late 1930s for $100. Current ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin was born November 02, 1699. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (2 November 1699 - 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work. In this image: La Raie. Oil on canvas, 114 à 146 cm
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