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Tradition & Innovation will be presented in the morning prior to Toomey & Co. Auctioneers Art & Design auction, which boasts a selection of nearly 700 prominent fine and decorative artworks including furniture, paintings, pottery, sculpture and lighting.
OAK PARK, IL.- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will present Tradition & Innovation, its inaugural auction of important works from the 19th century through today on December 2 at 10 a.m. CST. This sale offers items across a variety of artistic movements and media by painters, furniture makers, designers, ceramicists, silversmiths, sculptors and architects who have helped define the world of art and design for more than a century. Fine art includes four works by Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was most recently featured in a retrospective exhibit at New Yorks Karma Gallery, and Gladys Nilsson, a member of Chicago Imagist group, Hairy Who, currently featured in an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Other artists include Chicagoans Ed Paschke, Ed Flood and Richard Howard Hunt, as well as a Sol LeWitt sculpture estimated at $100,000-200,000, a 1955 painting by Charles Green Shaw, Edgar Paynes Twin Peaks, estimated at $ ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day What to give this holiday season? Think silver, gold, bronze, shiny, glittery, wearable, festive. You'll find hundreds of unique finds in Artemis Gallery's Holiday Glitz - Ancient / Ethnographic Art sale on Thursday, Nov 29, 2018 9:00 AM CST. In this image: Chinese Song Dynasty Gilded Stone Head of a Lohan. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000.
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 | | J. Paul Getty Museum acquires recently discovered 16th century painting by Antwerp master Quentin Metsys | | Senegal wants restitution of 'all' its artwork: minister | | French museum chief hits back at call to return African art | 
Christ as the Man of Sorrows, 1520-30, oil on panel, 19 ½ x 14 ½ inches, Quentin Metsys (Netherlandish, 1465 or 1466 1530) [pre-conservation].
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, painted between 1520-30 by the great Netherlandish master Quentin Metsys (1465 or 1466 1530; variously spelled Massys, Matsys, Metsijs; Quinten). The painting has been in a private collection for centuries and was previously unknown to art historians. Its discovery and attribution expands the oeuvre of one of the leading painters in early sixteenth-century Antwerp. Christ as the Man of Sorrows is a powerful and deeply moving painting that exemplifies the sophisticated devotional imagery that made Metsys famous, and played a major role in Antwerps renown as a leading center of painting in the early 16th century, said Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. This discovery adds a major masterwork both to the artists oeuvre and to the Getty Museums paintings collection. It ranks among our most im ... More | | 
The Museum of Black Civilisations (MCN) is presented to the press on November 27, 2018 in Dakar ahead of its opening set for December 6, 2018. SEYLLOU / AFP.
DAKAR (AFP).- Senegal's culture minister called on Tuesday for the restitution by France of all Senegalese artwork following a French report urging the return of African art treasures. The recommendations in the report by French and African experts, commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron and released last week, could potentially affect tens of thousands of works acquired during French colonisation of Sub-Saharan Africa. The culture minister of former French colony Senegal said his country was ready to work with France to find a solution, but they are looking for complete restitution. "If you have 10,000 pieces (of art identified from Senegal), we want to have the 10,000," Abdou Latif Coulibaly told journalists. Coulibaly made his comments on Senegalese art at a presentation about Dakar's new "cultural jewel," the Museum of Black Civilisations (MCN), which will be inaugurated on December 6. The museum "has everything you want," added its director ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on April 08, 2013 Quai Branly Museum president Stephane Martin is pictured during the inauguration of the exhibition "Philippines, archipelago of exchange" at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. Thomas SAMSON / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The head of France's greatest collection of African art hit back Tuesday at a report urging the return of thousands of artworks to the countries from which they were taken. Stephane Martin, of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum in Paris, which holds more than two-thirds of the 90,000 African treasures in French public collections, told AFP the report had tainted "everything that was collected and bought during the colonial period with the impurity of the colonial crime." His comments come days after a report by French and African specialists commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron urged the return of thousands of artworks in a radical shift of policy. But Martin said changing the law to enable treasures to be returned, as the report recommended, "opened the door to complete maximalist restitution". The director said he would prefer that great African ... More |
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| | | Hillenburg, SpongeBob SquarePants creator, dies at 57 | | San Antonio Museum of Art receives gift of more than 850 photographs | | The original Plaza Hotel portrait of Eloise offered at Bonhams New York | 
In this file photo taken on January 31, 2015 Executive Producer Stephen Hillenburg attends "The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water" world premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater in New York City. Brad Barket / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Stephen Hillenburg, the biology teacher turned creative genius behind the wildly successful "SpongeBob SquarePants" children's animation series has died, Nickelodeon announced Tuesday. He was 57. Hillenburg passed away on Monday from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, associates said. He created the hit Nickelodeon series, launched in 1999, which recounted the adventures of a yellow sponge and his friends in the make-believe city of Bikini Bottom in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Instantly appealing to young children, their families and college students, it turned into a global licensing and merchandising phenomenon, winning awards and being aired in more than 60 languages, including Azerbaijani. "He was a beloved friend and longtime creative partner to everyone at Nickelodeon, and ... More | | 
Dmitri Baltermants (Russian, 1912-1990), Bayonet Attack, November 1941, printed 2003. Gelatin silver print, h. 20 in. (50.8 cm); w. 16 in. (40.6 cm) San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Ernest Pomerantz and Marie Brenner, 2012.23.1
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art has been given more than 850 photographs by collectors Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz. The works, which begin in the 1920s and run into the 1990s, track transformative events such as The Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement, as well as scenes of urban and rural life, such as the marqueed chaos of Times Square or the gnarled trees of the Sierra Mountains. To celebrate this gift, the Museumwhich has been steadily growing its photography collection over the last three yearswill present the exhibition Capturing the Moment: Photographs from the Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz Collection, opening February 22 and running through May 12, 2019. Among the artists whose work is included in the gift and the exhibition are ... More | | 
Hilary Knight's original Plaza Hotel portrait of Eloise. Tempera on board. Estimate: $100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 5, Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts sale includes The World of Hilary Knight featuring his original Plaza Hotel portrait of Eloise, (estimate: $100,000-150,000), a portrait that captures the irrepressible spirit of one of the most influential children's book characters in history. Toting a history as lively as its inspiration, this portrait was painted as a birthday gift by Hilary Knight for Eloise co-creator Kay Thompson in 1956, on the eve of Kay's appearance on Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person on CBS, where she proudly displayed the painting to guest host Jerry Lewis. Shortly thereafter, she loaned the work to the Plaza Hotel where it hung ceremoniously in the lobby as an homage to their most famous (imaginary) resident. However, on the night of a Junior League Ball at the Plaza, November 1960, it disappeared. As Mr. Knight tells the story, "Kay called me, 'Drunken debutantes did it!' ... More |
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| | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris opens exhibition of works by Sylvie Fleury | | Hauser & Wirth announces institute devoted to art historical scholarship | | Phillips announces highlights from the December Design Auctions | 
Sylvie Fleury, Road Movie, 2018. Acrylic on canvas on wood, 12 kgs 120 x 120 x 11 cm (47,24 x 47,24 x 4,33 in). Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg. Photos: Charles Duprat © Sylvie Fleury.
PARIS.- Delving into the tradition of the ready-made and borrowing visual elements from Pop and Minimal art, in this new series Sylvie Fleury further explores the codes of femininity and masculinity and those of art and fashion in the light of contemporary consumerism. With her monumental makeup palettes, Fleury questions the structures of desire and power attached to cosmetic objects and investigates the grey areas of a pictorial genre often considered as a hybrid between painting and sculpture: the shaped canvas. A self-proclaimed feminist, her new paintings are intended as a feminist counterpoint to the paradigm defined in the exhibition organised by Lawrence Alloway at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1964. Entitled The Shaped Canvas, the exhibition featured works by the advocates all male of this new trend: Paul Feeley, Sven ... More | | 
Jennifer Gross, Executive Director, Hauser & Wirth Institute. Photo: Axel Dupeux.
NEW YORK, NY.- Iwan Wirth, President and Manuela Wirth, Co-Founders of Hauser & Wirth, and Marc Payot, Partner and Vice President, today announced the establishment of Hauser & Wirth Institute, an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) private operating foundation dedicated to supporting art historical scholarship and to preserving and advancing the legacies of modern and contemporary artists through enabling greater public access to their archives for research. To pursue its mission, the Institute will create a study center for the preservation, expedient cataloguing, and digitization of primary research materials for direct study and free online public access to these resources. It will seek to nurture innovation and substance in art historical research through the funding of fellowships in partnership with artists estates, foundations, and educational institutions. Another core activity of the Institute will be the production of online catal ... More | | 
Jean Royere, Rare wingback armchair. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the December Evening and Day Sales of Design. Taking place on 13 December in New York, the Evening Sale will immediately follow the Day session. With the Evening Sale offering 29 lots and the Day Sale offering 114 lots, the auctions will feature works by Jean-Michel Frank, Wendell Castle, Alberto Giacometti, Carlo Mollino, Donald Judd, Gio Ponti and Jean Royère, among others. Our December Evening and Day Sales of Design bring together a breadth of material of the highest quality, spanning the late nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, said Cordelia Lembo, Phillips Head of Design, New York. The market for design across collecting categories has proven strong in recent seasons and, with examples of French Art Deco, American Modernism, French and Italian post-war design, contemporary design, ceramics, and more, these auctions provide incredible opportunities for collecto ... More |
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| | | 'Kahlil Gibran: The Garden of the Prophet' opens at Immigration Museum in Melbourne | | Legendary vehicles on view at the Taubman Museum of Art | | Recording console built by Elvis Costello and used to record Stairway to Heaven stars at Bonhams sale | 
Kahlil Gibran, The Sad Mona Lisa Sultana Gibran, 1910. Oil on canvas © Gibran Museum.
MELBOURNE.- The Immigration Museum is set to fulfill one of the worlds most beloved literary figures dearest dreams when it opens the doors to its latest exhibition, Kahlil Gibran: The Garden of the Prophet. Exclusively commissioned by Immigration Museum, with support from the Council for Australian-Arab Relations of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kahlil Gibran: The Garden of the Prophet is an exhibition that tells a powerful migrant story. Widely considered to be the third most popular poet of all time after Shakespeare and Lao-tzu, Kahlil Gibran was a much loved and respected Lebanese-born poet and artist. He migrated to America as a young man in the 1890's and rose to prominence in both the East and West through his art and writings. His words have inspired some of the most influential figures of our times, from John F. Kennedy and Indira Gandhi, to Elvis Presley, John Lennon and David Bowie. ... More | | 
1936 Stout Scarab, Collection of Larry Smith, Image © Peter Harholdt.
ROANOKE, VA.- Some call them rolling sculptures, others the shape of speed. Ever since the first Model T rolled off Henry Fords production line, Americans have had an undeniable love affair with all things automotive. They are far more than forms of transportation; they are transformative works of art. Few can imagine Steve McQueen without his fast cars and motorcycles, after all. Beginning this fall, guests can fall in love again with the cars and motorcycles that defined the first half of the 20th century with the opening of DRIVE! Iconic American Cars and Motorcycles, presented by Advance Auto Parts and on view at the Taubman Museum of Art through Feb. 3, 2019. The nearly two-dozen vehicles featured in the exhibition span over a half-century from 1912-1965 and include one-of-a-kind concept cars and celebrity-owned roadsters and motorcycles. Organized by well-known guest curator Ken Gross, former ... More | | 
The HeliosCentric Helios Console. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- On 11 December, Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia Sale will take place and offer an incredible array of important Rock, Pop and Film memorabilia. One of the highlights is the unique HeliosCentric Helios Console which is an amalgamation of two recording consoles used by some of the best-loved artists of the last 50 years. The super console was constructed by Elvis Costello and Chris Difford (from the band Squeeze) in 1996 after consultation with Dick Swettenham, a former employee of Abbey Road and Olympic Studios. They used part of the Island Records Basing Street Studio 2 Helios Console (1970-1974) and part of Alvin Lee's Helios console from Space Studios (1973-1979). The two consoles were combined in 1996 after Difford and Costello acquired both from storage in order to set up their own studio HeliosCentric Studios which would be for everyone to use a chapel of music in a quiet spot. They sought advice ... More |
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 Artists for Studio Voltaire: A selling exhibition to benefit the redevelopment of Studio Voltaire LONDON.- Leading international artists including Cory Arcangel, Phyllida Barlow, Anne Collier, Jeremy Deller, Nicole Eisenman, Antony Gormley, Anthea Hamilton, Camille Henrot, Carsten Holler, Jenny Holzer, Sanya Kantarovsky, Anish Kapoor, Ella Kruglyanskaya and Laure Prouvost have generously donated unique artworks for Artists for Studio Voltaire, a commercial exhibition on view in Londons Cork Street Galleries starting on 27 November 2018 to support the fundraising campaign for The Studio Voltaire Capital Project. The notforprofit arts organisation, Studio Voltaire, is embarking on a major £2.3million capital project to expand and redevelop its current home in Clapham, South London. This timely and transformative redevelopment is the most ambitious transition in the organisations 23year history. Artists for Studio Voltaire includes ... 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More Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Director Adam Lerner to step down in 2019DENVER, CO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver announced today that Adam Lerner, the Museums Mark G. Falcone Director and Chief Animator since 2009, will leave the position next year, after 10 years as director. Lerner has overseen unprecedented audience growth and expanded public engagement with the Museum, while also spearheading some of the most ambitious and innovative programming in the country, redefining the role of a contemporary art institution. I took very seriously my decision not to renew my contract. For the past ten years, I have greatly enjoyed fostering the growth of a museum that now pulses with energy and captures the imagination of wide audiences, said Lerner. I am grateful to my board for entrusting me to reimagine what an art museum can be, but now I want to try my hand developing creative ventures ... 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More Getty Research Institute acquires rare gastronomy collection, announces related research grantsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced the acquisition of a collection of hundreds of rare books, prints, and manuscripts related to the culinary arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries assembled by culinary authority Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky the Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky Gastronomy Collection. Additionally, a donation from Willan will support ongoing research grants known as the Cherniavsky Library Research Grants. Mark had a talent for finding great examples of rare prints and early cookbooks and books about food and has built an exceptional collection, said Getty Research Institute Chief Curator Marcia Reed. Over the years Mark and Anne have been wonderful contributors and friends to the GRI, donating important rare books, lending works to our exhibitions, and hosting educational programs. ... 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More Netflix to adapt Roald Dahl classics to small screenNEW YORK (AFP).- The BFG, Matilda and Willy Wonka are some of the best loved characters in children's literature and Netflix is bringing them to life on the small screen across the world. The streaming giant and The Roald Dahl Story Company -- the family firm which owns the British author's copyright -- announced Tuesday that production would begin on the first animated series in 2019. Sixteen Dahl books are covered by the agreement to get the television make-over treatment, including some of his best known -- "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Matilda," "The BFG" and "The Twits." Novels written by Dahl, who died in 1990 aged 74, have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide, been turned into a series of blockbuster films and spawned at least two musicals. He invented hundreds of words and terms, such as whizzpopping, Oompa-Loompas, gobblefunk, ... More Momentary announces new hires in lead-up to 2020 openingBENTONVILLE, ARK.- The Momentary, a new contemporary arts venue set to open in early 2020, today announces new hires including: Pia Kishore Agrawal, curator, performing arts; Cynthia Post Hunt, programmer, theater/dance; Kaitlin Maestas, assistant curator, visual arts; and Stuart Rogers, programmer, festivals/music; all under the leadership of director, Lieven Bertels. The group will join the core Momentary team, which includes director, Lieven Bertels, appointed in September 2017; Mallory Taylor, executive assistant, hired in January 2018; Lauren Haynes, who serves a dual role as curator, contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and curator, visual art at the Momentary; and Catherine Hryniewicz, who was recently promoted from project manager, exhibitions at Crystal Bridges to operations manager at the Momentary. Its exciting see this ... More Collection of automobilia, Americana and bronzes will be offered by Miller & Miller AuctionsNEW HAMBURG, ON.- A patinated bronze sculpture by Emile Louis Picault (French, 1860-1915), used as the mascot for the Ten-Mile Corinthian Automobile Championship of 1906 in Florida, is an expected headliner at the sale of the Aarssen collection of automobilia, bronzes and Americana planned for Saturday, December 8th, by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The auction will be held online and in the Miller & Miller auction gallery at 59 Webster Street in New Hamburg, Ontario. Online bidding is open now, on LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, iCollector.com and the Miller & Miller website, at www.millerandmillerauctions.com. The bronze trophy by Picault is monumental at 48 inches tall, and is an important American artifact, both historically and decoratively. It was commissioned by George W. Young in 1906 and is incised (E. Picault) and engraved, ... More Hood Museum of Art appoints Jessica Hong as Associate Curator of Contemporary Art HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art has appointed Jessica Hong as its new associate curator of global contemporary art. Hong will join the Hood team in January 2019. Most recently, Hong was assistant curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, where she organized exhibitions including Arthur Jafa: Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death (2018) and the ICAs presentation of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 196585 (2018). Prior to the ICA, she was part of the inaugural team of the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art that launched the renovated Harvard Art Museums by architect Renzo Piano. Hong was previously based in New York and held curatorial positions at Independent Curators International (ICI), SculptureCenter, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has written editorial pieces for BOMB ... More C'est Fou! Christie's France to offer an eclectic collection of around 1000 lotsPARIS.- For its last sale of the year, Christies will present Cest fou!, an important private collection characterised by its eclecticism and its exuberance amongst around 1000 lots. They will be scattered through different sales the 12, 13 and 14 December 2018 in Paris. In total, more 725 artworks divided in seventeen sections will be offered with a global estimation of 9 million euros. This collection is interesting for its variety. The collector, erudite and passionate, has gathered from year to year unique pieces from all eras and from all domains making this collection a truly treasure. Cest fou! is that mysterious and surprising collection which will be presented to the public next December and which will attract connoisseurs and collectors from all horizons. Lionel Gosset, Collections Director: Insatiable collector, this sale is only a stage in the life of this connoisseur ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English poet and painter William Blake was born November 28, 1757. William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".
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