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The sale is divided into various categories that reflect Bourdains many interests including film, art, cooking, travel, writing and his endless observations of world culture.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bidding opens today for the Anthony Bourdain auction, a collection of belongings left behind by the iconic celebrity chef and television personality who touched people around the world. Property From the Collection of Anthony Bourdain, presented by Lark Mason Associates, features over 200 lots of personal keepsakes that Bourdain personally acquired during his life and it includes some of his most valued possessions: artwork, books, original manuscripts, home and decorative furnishings, knives, wristwatches, apparel and more. Pre-registration for this sale is at an all-time high, says Lark Mason. Weve kept the estimates low so that everyone who loved Tony has the opportunity to purchase something from this sale and know that part of the proceeds will be going to a good cause. Partial proceeds from the sale will benefit the Anthony ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Some of the 75 Nazi objects seized during an operation on June 2017 are displayed to the press in Buenos Aires, on October 4, 2019. The Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires will keep the collection in judicial custody until December 1, when it will exhibited. JUAN MABROMATA / AFP
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| | The Modernist 'outsiders' in Paris | | Japan reopens exhibit closed over Korean 'comfort woman' statue | | Lucian Freud's self portraits: But what do they mean? |
Marc Chagall, L'autoportrait aux sept doigts, 1912-1913. Collection Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. Long-term loan Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. c/o Pictoright Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When Marc Chagall received the prestigious commission to paint the ceiling of the Palais Garnier opera house in 1960, the anti-Semitic protests and threats against him were so vicious that he had to be accompanied to the Paris theater by a police escort, recalled Paul Versteeg, a Dutch artist who worked with him. Chagall, born Moishe Segal, was a Belarusian Jew who had fled Vitebsk for Paris a half-century earlier, at age 20. He was trying to leave behind Russias discrimination against Jews and the periodic violent pogroms, trading them for the center of the art world. It was as if I was discovering light, color, freedom, the sun, pleasure in life for the first time, he said of his early days in Paris. Even though Chagall immediately became one of the leading modernist painters, he continued to face difficulties in the French capital. When the Vichy government came to power ... More | |
Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung, "Statue of a Girl of Peace" (2011). Courtesy of the artists.
TOKYO (AFP).- A Japanese exhibition of censored art works reopens Tuesday two months after it was forced to close following threats over a controversial South Korean statue of a wartime sex slave. The Aichi Triennale 2019 show, featuring the statue of a girl in traditional Korean clothes sitting on a chair, was shut down in early August just three days after it opened. It reopens later Tuesday -- with the controversial figure on display -- after new safety measures were put in place, with guides and educational programmes also offered to visitors, organisers said. The exhibition was dedicated to showing works that were censored elsewhere and was originally scheduled to run for 75 days. But it sparked controversy with the inclusion of the statue, at a time when relations between Japan and South Korea have plunged to new lows over wartime issues. The central government has pulled subsidies for the exhibition, claiming Aichi prefecture failed to provide full information in advance. ... More | |
Man's Head (Self-portrait III), 1963. Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.1 cm. National Portrait Gallery, London © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In 1993, British painter Lucian Freud, who had just turned 70, took on one of the boldest projects of his career: producing a full-length portrait of himself in his birthday suit. He stood naked and painted in the top-floor London studio where he had spent so many of his waking hours. Painter Working, Reflection, is now considered by critics and art historians to be his greatest self-portrait. It shows him standing in unlaced boots, facing the viewer and brandishing his palette knife the way an aging warrior would a dagger. I felt very uneasy doing it, he told an interviewer just before the painting was unveiled. Seldom got so fed up with a model. But I thought, after putting so many other people through it, I ought to subject myself to the same treatment. The portrait was a highlight of the Freud exhibition that opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December of that year. And it is sure to be a highlight of Lucian Freud: The ... More |
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| | Romania gives green light for Holocaust museum | | The veterinarian will see your dinosaur now | | Michael Coe, Maya scholar and codebreaker, is dead at 90 |
(From L) King Philippe - Filip of Belgium, Queen Mathilde of Belgium and President of Romania Klaus Iohannis visit during the opening of the Festival Europalia Roumania 2019 in Brussels' Bozar Center for Fine Arts / Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, on October 1, 2019. ERIC LALMAND / BELGA / AFP.
BUCHAREST (AFP).- Romania's President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday gave his green light to the creation of a Holocaust museum in Bucharest aimed at shedding light on the country's controversial role during WWII. The capital's city council had initially rejected the plan in March, drawing accusations of anti-Semitism. "The history of Jewish Romanians, their contribution to the country's development and the tragedy experienced during the war... represent a legacy which was hidden from us for decades," Iohannis said Tuesday at a ceremony attended by Shoa survivors. "This museum will not so much bring answers as raise more questions," he added. The country had long denied in any responsibility in the Nazi atrocities, but in 2003 accepted to put in a place a panel of experts to investigate its role in the Holocaust. The panel, headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, found that 280,000 Romanian Jews and 380,000 Ukrainian Jews died in Romania and territories under its control during the war, ... More | |
In a photo from Mick Ellison/American Museum of Natural History, an oviraptor that died squatting over her nest. When she died, likely from a landslide or other accident, she was on nest rest, incubating a clutch of eggs, and her fracture was mostly healed. (Mick Ellison/American Museum of Natural History via The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Dinosaurs loom large in the human imagination, towering above the treetops, bringing down prey and reigning over the ancient land, sea and sky. In real life, though, things werent always so spectacular. A paper published last week in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B by Les Hearn, a retired science teacher, and Amanda Williams, a psychologist seeking evidence of chronic pain in other species, collects the wince-inducing tales of hundreds of dinosaur injuries. Paleontologists are able to deduce whether dinosaurs suffered wounds during their lifetimes by analyzing fossilized bones and other evidence, and have found a tyrannosaur with its rivals tooth embedded in its jaw, unusually spaced tracks left by an ornithopod with a toe injury and many more prehistoric owies. En masse, the injury reports help to demystify the lives of these ancient creatures, which were fraught with danger and, sometimes, slapstick silliness. They ... More | |
Michael Coe at the Grolier Club when the so-called Grolier Codex was exhibited in Manhattan, 1971. Coe, a Yale anthropologist who devoted his career to proving that the ancient Maya incubated an elaborate written language that had previously been undervalued by many scholars, died on Sept. 25, 2019, in a hospital in New Haven. He was 90. (Paul Hosefros/The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Michael D. Coe, a Yale anthropologist who devoted his career to proving that the ancient Maya incubated an elaborate written language that had previously been undervalued by many scholars, died on Sept 25 in a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. He was 90. The cause was a stroke, his son Andrew said. Coe was instrumental in deciphering the Maya script and in translating and validating the authenticity of what became known as the Grolier Codex a document found in a Mexican cave that was believed to have been written around the 13th century on fig bark. It is now considered the earliest existing manuscript in the Americas. First exhibited at the Grolier Club in Manhattan in 1971, it is one of only four written Maya works known to have survived marauding Spanish conquistadors and purges by Roman Catholic priests. Coe defied contemporary critics who believed that the Maya hieroglyphics had been randomly inscribed ... More |
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| | Modern art sales total US$88.8 million at Sotheby's Hong Kong | | Hidden Russian roots of France's Resistance anthem revealed | | Eskenazi Museum of Art announces gift in support of new Commons in the Center for Education |
Sanyus Nu soared to a record-breaking HK$197,974,000 / US$25,231,790. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Vinci Chang, Sothebys Head of Modern Asian Art, commented: Sanyus final masterpiece Nu dazzled collectors from around the world in the lead up to this weeks auction, and we were thrilled to see it achieve a new benchmark price for the artist. The paintings stellar performance, alongside two further works by the artist in the sale, is a true testament to Sanyus international importance and appeal. Throughout the Evening and Day sales we saw strong competition for iconic works by modern masters from Zao Wou-Ki, Lin Fengmian and Guan Liang to Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, which is a further vindication of the markets support and recognition for this category. Sanyus Nu soared to a record-breaking HK$197,974,000 / US$25,231,790 o Sanyus final masterpiece and one of his largest nude ... More | |
In this undated file photo Russian singer Anna Marly, composer of the music of the "Chant des Partisans", poses with her guitar. The myth was that "the song of the partisans" was born in the maquis. AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- It is a song close to French hearts, the building power of its defiant march swelling chests and bringing a tear to the eye. But the "Song of the Partisans" -- the hymn of the French Resistance which moves most French people more than their bellicose national anthem "La Marseillaise" -- was in fact written over a pot of tea in London by a group of Russians. For years the authorities were content to quietly perpetuate the myth that the song had sprung from the brave hearts of fighters who had taken to the "maquis" and the mountains to resist the German occupiers during World War II. Indeed the Free French forces of General Charles de Gaulle ordered that the names of its true authors be hushed up, a new exhibition on the song in Paris shows. "If people realised that ... More | |
Patrick and Jane Martin.
BLOOMINGTON, IND.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art has announced a generous gift from Patrick and Jane Martin in support of the new Commons in the Center for Education, which facilitates learning and engagement with original works of art across the lifespan. With seating for approximately 90 people, the Commons will host mission-based artist talks, workshops, discussions, performances, conferences, school field trip lunches, and other large group gatherings. In honor of the Martins generosity, this important new gathering space will be named the Patrick and Jane Martin Commons. Indiana University alums, the Martins met on the Bloomington campus and were married at IUs Beck Chapel. Patrick, who received a bachelors degree in business, had a long career as a marketing executive. Jane, who also completed a business degree, went on to a successful career as a venture capitalist in ... More |
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| | Voorlinden opens a six-decade survey exhibition featuring forty pivotal works by Louise Bourgeois | | Los Angeles Modern Auctions announces launch of its inaugural online-only auction | | Looted art? MKG returns 12th-century marble panel to Afghanistan |
Untitled, 1947-1949. Painted wood, 163 x 30 x 30 cm. Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland © The Easton Foundation/VAGA New York c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2019, Photo: Ron Amstutz.
WASSENAAR.- Voorlinden presents Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment, a six-decade survey exhibition featuring forty pivotal works from the Glenstone Collection, The Easton Foundation and Voorlinden. It has been almost thirty years since the art of Louise Bourgeois has been shown on such a broad scale in the Netherlands. It is astonishing how during a period of decades Bourgeois kept re-inventing herself in her art and created works of such variety, which when shown together reveal a surprising coherence and a unique individual signature, says director Suzanne Swarts. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was a radical figure who pursued her own course with wit, intelligence, and daring at times out of step with prevailing taste and ideas. Today she is recognized as an icon of late 20th century art, who combined personal narrative ... More | |
Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog, (Lot 27, Est: $7,000-10,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Following the successful launch of Los Angeles Modern Auctions proprietary bidding application in 2017, LAMA will be offering 53 lots in its inaugural online-only section of the October 20, 2019 Modern Art & Design auction. The selection of property being offered in this online-only auction includes fine art works by Henri Matisse, Robert Graham, John Altoon, Sam Francis, Jonas Wood, Joe Goode, and Jeff Koons, with modern design items by Paul McCobb, George Nelson, and Frank Lloyd Wright. As commerce increasingly moves online, LAMA hopes to encourage the next generation of collectors who wish to participate in the auction process by using new technologies that didnt exist until very recently. For comparison, those who grew up bidding for items on eBay are familiar with the timed auction process. All items in the online-only portion of the auction are featured in the printed auction catalogue, ... More | |
Marble panel from the Royal Palace of Masud III in Ghazni, view 1, photo: © MKG/Joachim Hiltmann.
HAMBURG.- On the 8th of October, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg officially returns a marble dado panel to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Mr. Abdul Jabar Ariyaee, Chargé dAffaires at the Afghan Embassy in Berlin, came to Hamburg to receive the panel from the museum. MKG is one of the first German museums to return a work of art to Afghanistan. Beyond investigating Nazi art looting and the issue of colonial collections, the museum has been increasingly turning its attention to more recent acquisitions as well. The restitution of the panel is the result of research carried out on its provenance and represents yet a further example of the responsibility borne by museums and the international art trade for how objects from illicit excavations are handled. The marble dado panel once belonged to a 78-part frieze dating to the twelfth century that adorned the inner courtyard of the Royal Palace ... More |
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Kiasma presents Ragnar Kjartansson's major work 'The Visitors'
HELSINKI.- Kiasma presents the major work of acclaimed Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (1976 Reykjavik). His installation The Visitors is a celebration of creativity, community and friendship. The work transforms the gallery into a poignant and total musical experience. The Visitors (2012) is a nine-channel video installation featuring the artist and his friends singing and playing music in an old American mansion. The score was composed by Kjartansson in collaboration with DavÃð Ãór Jónsson. The lyrics of the song Feminine Ways are from a poem by Icelandic artist ÃsdÃs Sif Gunnarsdóttir. The hour-long musical performance was shot in one take. Each performer was filmed in a different roomthe library, study, music room, bedroom, bathroom, and so onsimultaneously, but separately. The performers could hear each other via headsets. In ... More
Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires Verner Åkerman's sculpture of Pierre Louis Alexandre
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has recently acquired a sculpture in terracotta by Verner à kerman depicting Pierre Louis Alexandre. Pierre Louis Alexandre is primarily known as a model at the Academy of Fine Arts in the latter part of the 1800s and there are many surviving studies of him. However, the acquired sculpture is the only one of its kind known today. Pierre Louis Alexandre (1844-1905) was born in French Guiana and came to Stockholm in 1863, probably as a stowaway on an American ship with a cargo of pork. Here he made his living as a dock labourer, but has primarily become known as a model at the Academy of Fine Arts. In the archive sources he appears with the Swedish surnames of Pettersson and Alexandersson. It was at the academy that the sculptor Verner à kerman (1854 1903) met Pierre Louis Alexandre. He made his ... More
Affordable fine paintings auction at Doyle on October 15
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle's auction of Fine Paintings on Tuesday, October 15 at 10am will continue the success of this new auction category of affordable works of art. Showcased will be a wide range of traditional, academic and early Modern paintings, providing exciting opportunities for seasoned buyers and new collectors alike. In his later years, French artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1881-1949) became a favorite portraitist for the international elite, among them William K. Vanderbilt, Benda Frasier and Millicent Rogers. In his depiction of an Allee of Trees, near Nemours, where he spent part of his youth, we can observe his early use of rectilinear themes that would flavor his Art Deco illustrations (est. $7,000-9,000). Born on Staten Island, Edward Martin Taber (1863-1896) studied briefly under Abbott Thayer and exhibited at the Society of American ... More
VMFA selects Dr. Sylvain Cordier as Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art
RICHMOND, VA.- Following an extensive, international search, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the appointment of Dr. Sylvain Cordier to the position of Paul Mellon Curator and the Head of the Department of European Art. Cordier will begin his position on Nov. 4. He comes to VMFA from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where he served as the Curator of Early Decorative Arts and the Napoleonic Collection since 2013. During his time at the MMFA, Cordier curated two critically acclaimed exhibitions that traveled internationally, including presentations at VMFA: Napoleon: Power and Splendor (2018) and Rodin: Evolution of a Genius (2015). Napoleon Power and Splendor was widely praised for its profound contribution to 19th-century scholarship and the thematic presentation of Napoleons Imperial household. Sylvain Cordier is an outstanding curator ... More
Van Gogh and company arrive at the Columbia Museum of Art
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art presents the major exhibition Van Gogh and His Inspirations, on view Friday, October 4, 2019, through Sunday, January 12, 2020. Organized by the CMA and presented by the Blanchard Family, Van Gogh and His Inspirations is an original, exclusive exhibition that brings the work of one of the most beloved artists in the world to Columbia, South Carolina, alongside a variety of handpicked paintings and drawings that shaped his vision. With the support of Premier Programming Sponsor First Citizens Bank, the CMA is able to provide numerous ways for visitors to engage with Van Gogh and His Inspirations, including free field trip admission for schools and a robust programming schedule that includes a Getting to Know Van Gogh lecture series, art classes, a selfie station, and more. From the fun to the formal, ... More
Fondation d'entreprise Hermès opens an exhibition of works by Patrick Neu
SAINT-LOUIS-LÃS-BITCHE.- Following three seasons of exhibitions co-organised respectively with the Centre Pompidou-Metz, 49 Nord 6 Est Frac Lorraine, Metz (Lorraine regional fund for contemporary art) and La Synagogue de Delme Centre for Contemporary Art, the Fondation dentreprise Hermès presents a solo exhibition by artist Patrick Neu entitled Manège (Carousel), devised in association with the Cristallerie Saint-Louis and La Grande Place. Fairs, which are abundant in our collective memory, are wonderful reservoirs of images and powerful emotions that collide at the slightest prompt [ ] Fairground objects [ ] are repositories of the fairs imaginary world [ ] they bring to mind long-lost memories, recalling moments from childhood [ ]. Fabienne and François Marchal, LArt forain, les animaux de manège, Les Ãditions ... More
Joan Mitchell Foundation appoints new Director for center in New Orleans
NEW YORK, NY.- The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced today the appointment of Toccarra A. H. Thomas as Director of its Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. Thomas has previously served as the inaugural general manager of Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY, and inaugural managing director of SPACE, a contemporary multidisciplinary art organization in Portland, ME. In her new role, she will oversee the Centers expansive artist residency program, develop public programming and special projects to support community engagement with the Centers artist residents, and manage the day-to-day operations of the Center. She will also work closely with leadership at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York to further develop artist-centered resources and programming. Thomas will begin her position on October 14, 2019, taking the helm ... More
Detroit Institute of Arts names Judith F. Dolkart as Deputy Director
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts has named Judith F. Dolkart as Deputy Director, overseeing the Curatorial and Learning and Audience Engagement divisions. She will join the DIA on January 6, 2020. As the director of an art museum located on an educational campus, Judith brings an ideal skillset to this new position, said Salvador Salort-Pons, DIA Director. Being able to view and align our work through an art-based and education-focused lens will allow us to better serve our visitors with meaningful experiences that connect our collection, programs and learning experiences. Dolkart is the Mary Stripp & R. Crosby Kemper Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. The Addison presents 912 exhibitions per year over three seasons, along with accompanying programming and publications. Prior ... More
Over 330 oil paintings, drawings and prints from 17th - 20th century on view at Olympia Auctions
LONDON.- Over 330 oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints from 17th 20th century, with estimates from £100 - £7,000, are now on view online under British and Continental Pictures at www.olympiaauctions.com, as well as in a published catalogue. Among the Modern European works in the sale, highlights include Pommiers en fleurs à Saint Chéron a sketch by Hugues Claude Pissarro (born 1935), estimated at £2,0000-£3,000. A sketch of a nude by Félix Vallotton (1865 1925), the French artist whose works, legacy and reputation is currently explored at the Royal Academy in London until 29th September, is estimated at £800-£1,200. Nu et Nature Mort by Jean Jansem (1920-2013) one of the best-known Armenian artists of the 20th Century, whose early work is often characterized by his depictions of desolate women ... More
Commotion in Higienópolis: Lafayette Anticipations opens an exhibition of works by Katinka Bock
PARIS.- Katinka Bock's sculptures, performances and installations result from her investigation of the physical and material conditions of a given place, and an exploration of its historical, social and political charge. As such, they are all connected to her experience of that place. Her interest in place and dimension is reflected in the hypotheses she formulates prior to the sculpting process, and by her questioning of our preconception of a place, its persistence in time or how it becomes altered through use. Her work has been shown worldwide but surprisingly, considering this has been her home for many years never in Paris. Restoration of a building in Hanover has provided an unexpected opportunity to develop, with the artist, an original and spectacular project with elements in every part of Lafayette Anticipations. The building in question, the Anzeiger- ... More
Enda Bowe announced as winner of Zurich Portrait Prize 2019
DUBLIN.- A photograph portraying the emotional connection between a new parent and her baby has been revealed as the winner of the National Gallery of Irelands Zurich Portrait Prize. Cybil McCaddy with Daughter Lulu by Enda Bowe was announced as the winning portrait this evening at the Gallery. As well as a cash prize of 15,000, the artist will receive a commission worth 5,000 to produce a new work for the National Portrait Collection. Joe Dunne and Salvatore of Lucan received highly commended prizes to the sum of 1,500 for their respective portraits, And Their World of Far and Near Things and Lucy with 3 Hands and Me Holding onto her Leg. Enda Bowes work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Red Hook Gallery, New York. His ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English photographer and journalist Don McCullin was born October 09, 1935. Sir Donald McCullin, CBE, Hon FRPS (born 9 October 1935), is a British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished. In this image: British photographer Sir Don McCullin's first gallery exhibition in the U.S. on view at Hauser & Wirth.
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