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Works from the Bührle collection, on display in the Kunsthaus, Switzerland. About 170 pieces are on display in the new extension. Franca Candrian, via Kunsthaus Zürich via The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
ZURICH.- With the opening of an imposing extension on Saturday, the Zurich Kunsthaus became Switzerlands largest art museum. The vast new cube designed by the British architect David Chipperfield, opposite the original building on a central square, more than doubles the museums exhibition space. An airy atrium leads to a newly installed garden, and marble staircases take visitors to spacious galleries bathed in filtered daylight. On the second floor, they can admire masterpieces by Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and Degas. These works once belonged to Emil Georg Bührle, a Swiss industrialist who died in 1956 but whose dark legacy haunted the opening of the new $220-million extension. Although it has long been known that Bührle made his fortune by selling arms to Nazi Germany, and that he bought art that was looted by the regime, new revelations keep emerging. In August, a Swiss magazine, Beobachter, reported that Bührle employed hundreds of girls and young women from troubled bac ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its CLEARANCE | Ancient & Ethnographic Art Auction on Thu, Oct 14, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. Kick off fall with their clearance sale featuring discounted pricing and many new items! Asian art, Classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Near East...plus Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons & Enamelware, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, Fossils, more! In this image: Rare / Published Greek Geometric Bronze Bull. Estimate $7,000 - $10,500.
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| Philadelphia Museum of Art opens first major exhibition dedicated to the photographs of Richard Benson | | Pace Gallery presents a multi-media installation by Torkwase Dyson | | Fine photographs at Swann October 21 | 
"Wildwood, New Jersey," date unknown, by Richard Benson (American, 19432017). Offset lithograph, image: 16 3/8 à 13 1/16 inches.; sheet: 24 15/16 à 19 1/16 inches. © Estate of Richard M. A. Benson. Promised gift of William M. and Elizabeth Ann Kahane. Image courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2021.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the late Richard Benson, who is most often celebrated as a virtuoso printer and gifted teacher and is perhaps best known for helping produce some of the most significant photography books of the past fifty years. The World Is Smarter Than You Are is the first in-depth survey of Bensons own photography. This exhibition includes around 100 works that convey his pathfinding exploration of photographic processes, his embrace of technologies old and new, and his deep empathy for his human subjects and the objects and environments they have built. It celebrates an important promised gift of Bensons art, assembled by the artist and offered to the museum by his close friends, collectors William H. and Elizabeth Ann Kahane. It is accompanied by ... More | | 
Torkwase Dyson: Liquid a Place, installed at Pace Gallery, 5 Hanover Square, London, October 8 November 6, 2021. © Torkwase Dyson, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo: Damian Griffiths, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery inaugurates its new gallery at 5 Hanover Square with Liquid a Place, a collaborative performance and multi-media installation by Torkwase Dyson commissioned and presented by Pace Live. On view October 8 November 6, Dyson transforms one of the new gallery spaces with a series of sculptures, activated by a site-specific sound piece. Dyson describes her practice through the lens of painting while working across a breadth of mediums, including performance, sculpture, film, and drawing among others. Dysons work facilitates conversations around the relationship between Black and Brown bodies and the surrounding environment. Using her incisive and original vision, she explores the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture across time and space. Black Compositional Thoughta working philosophy Dyson uses to consider how bodies of water, geographies and other physical and non-physical spa ... More | | 
MartÃn Chambi, Peru, 1947. Congreso Panamericano de Arquitectos, presentation album with 104 photographs, 22 by Chambi, 1947. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Thursday, October 21 sale of Fine Photographs at Swann Galleries will offer exceptional examples from the mediums brightest practitioners. Works will include those made in the nineteenth century through the modern era. The sale opens with images from the earliest years of the medium including travel photography from the Middle East and South Asia, as well as images made in the American West. Highlights feature Peru, 1947. Congreso Panamericano de Arquitectos, a 1947 presentation album with 104 original photographs, 22 being by Peruvian photographer MartÃn Chambi ($20,000-30,000); and a set of 14 photographs from 1863 of Big River mills and sweeping scenes of Mendocino, California by Carleton E. Watkins ($30,000-45,000). American modernism features photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, with The George Washington Bridge, silver print, ... More |
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| Amy Winehouse belongings expected to reach $2 mn at auction | | Seattle Art Museum announces inaugural acquisitions from new fund for contemporary global art | | Bastian opens an exhibition of works by Jeff Koons & Cy Twombly | 
Accessories including earrings, heart-shaped sunglasses and purse are displayed during the New York press and public exhibition of the "Property From The Life And Career Of Amy Winehouse" by Julien's Auctions in New York, October 11, 2021. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hundreds of items that belonged to late Grammy-winning artist Amy Winehouse, including the dress she wore during her final concert, are going up for auction in the United States. Auction house Julien's will put the more than 800 personal effects -- which include shoes, shorts, bras, books and records -- under the hammer in Beverly Hills, California on November 6 and 7. They went on display in New York on Monday and are expected to fetch up to $2 million total. The British soul diva died of alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011, when she was just 27. "It's very difficult when you have to do an auction when you're working with the parents of their deceased child," said Julien's executive director Martin Nolan. "It took them a long time to actually come to terms and ... More | | 
Kali (I'm a Mess), 2020, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, 6mm 12v silicone LED neon, galvanized weld mesh, 12v switch mode transformers, IP67 plastic box, 137 13/16 x 70 7/8 à 1 3/16 in. Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Acquisition Fund for Global and Contemporary Art, T2021.31 © Artist or Artists Estate.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum has made the inaugural acquisition selections from its Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Acquisition Fund for Global Contemporary Art. The six works of contemporary art from around the world, by artists of color and women, join the museums collection and will go on view in the coming years. The works of art are by Dr. Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Dawn Cerny, Dana Claxton, Woody De Othello, Senga Nengudi, and Naama Tsabar. The selections align with SAMs broader acquisitions strategy, bringing more works by Black, Indigenous, and artists of color as well as women into its global collection. The Friday Foundation celebrates the legacy of Seattle philanthropists and collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis. In October 2020, the foundation ... More | | 
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LONDON.- Jeff Koons & Cy Twombly: Primal Gestures brings together a highly unusual pairing of two giants of post-war art. Highlighting two seemingly opposing practices, the exhibition exposes Twomblys rich visual lexicon of mark-making and gestural abstraction and pairs it against the reductive machine-made forms of Koons while teasing out underlying elements that suggest a commonality that is perhaps not all it appears to be. The title of the exhibition takes its inspiration from Koons painting Primal Swish. Executed between 2008-11 it showcases a multi-layered explosion of energetic swirls whose energy is jarred against the serenity and three-dimensional lure of a rose. There is an unsettling precision in the way the Koons has applied his expressionistic linear brushstrokes with the viewer lured into a Twombly-esque vigor of densely layered gestures. Lacking any emotive character and natural fluidity, the swirls and scripts have in fact been enlarged, edited and layered using Phot ... More |
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| Newfields acquires a rare painting by Juan de Pareja | | Christie's announces Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs and Carpets sale | | Return of 'talking drum' to Ivory Coast a 'historic move': traditional leader | 
Juan de Pareja (Spanish, 1606 1670), Dog with a Candle and Lilies, about 1660s (detail), oil on canvas, 18-1/2 Ã 22-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, 2021.175. Image Courtesy of Robilant+Voena.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields recently acquired Dog with a Candle and Lilies (early 1660s), by Spanish painter Juan de Pareja (Antequera, c. 1606Madrid, 1670). This new painting will be placed on view in an exhibition entitled Juan de Pareja: A Painters Story, which will open on October 29 inside The Davis Lab, on the second floor of the IMA Galleries. Pareja was a mixed-race enslaved assistant to the eminent Spanish painter Diego Velázquez (15991660), who was the leading artist at the court of King Phillip IV from about 1630 until his death. Pareja was a talented painter in his own right, but because he was enslaved, his work has been difficult to trace and is just now beginning to be studied by scholars and institutions worldwide. With only approximately 30 paintings attributed to Pareja, 19 of which are now lost, this is an extremely rare acquisition. Pareja was emancipated from Velázquez in 1650 ... More | | 
A Silk Heriz Prayer Rug North West Persia, Third Quarter 19th Century. Estimate £10,000-15,000 | US$14,000-21,000 | 12,000-18,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Christies forthcoming auction, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Oriental Rugs and Carpets on 28 October displays a rich selection of rare objects, paintings, manuscripts and carpets from across the Middle East, India and Europe. The sale draws upon a fascinating Classical Ottoman narrative that illustrates the artistic repertoire at its most exuberant. This is led by six remarkably preserved Venetian portraits of Ottoman Sultans from a previously unknown series LINK, and two paintings from the circle of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour of Ottoman subjects. This same narrative continues in The Deeg Collection of Oriental carpets, which was formed over four decades from the 1960's and is being offered for the first time at auction. Inspired by his travels through the Middle East and Turkey, Paul Deegs love of colour, form and design, of Anatolian rugs and fragments in particular, runs as a thread through the collection ... More | | 
Traditional chief of the Ebrie ethnic group Clavaire Aguego Mobio talks to media about the return by France of the Djidji Ayokwe, the 'talking drum', in Abidjan on October 11, 2021. The return by France of the Djidji Ayokwe, the talking drum of the Ebrie people is "a highly historic gesture", the traditional chieftaincy said. Issouf SANOGO / AFP.
ABIDJAN.- France's upcoming restitution to Ivory Coast of the Djidji Ayokwe, the beloved "talking drum" of the Ebrie people, is "a highly historic move", their chief said Monday. "We no longer expected the return of this drum, which was our loudspeaker, our Facebook," Clavaire Aguego Mobio, leader of the Ebrie, told AFP. On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced artworks and other prized artefacts long sought by Ivory Coast would soon be returned. They include the Djidji Ayokwe, which is currently in Paris's Quai Branly museum. The restitution of looted artworks to Africa is one of the highlights of the "new relationship" that Macron wants to establish with the continent. The drum, used as a communication tool to transmit messages between different areas, was taken by the French in 1916 when Ivory Coast ... More |
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| Christie's announces an auction to benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial | | Work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo rediscovered in attic | | Almine Rech now represents Gerasimos Floratos | 
Nicolas Party, Landscape, signed and dated 'Nicolas Party 2021' (on the reverse) pastel on linen, 43 x 36 in. Executed in 2021. Estimate: $300,000 500,000. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Unquestioning Love: An Auction to Benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial. This auction will present a select group of 19 artworks by leading contemporary artists that will be sold across two live sales taking place at Christie's New York this November. Sixteen lots will be included in Christies New York Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on November 12 and two works will be featured in the 21st Century Art Evening Sale on November 9 Dana Schutzs Smokers, 2021 (estimate: $400,000 600,000) and Nicolas Partys Landscape, 2021 (estimate: $300,000 500,000). Both works being sold in the 21st Century Art Evening Sale are dedicated pieces, created specifically by Schutz and Party to support the New York City AIDS Memorial and the organizations mission. The selection of 16 artworks in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale represents an exciting ... More | | 
The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were one of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte, an early form of professional theatre, which began in Italy in the 16th century and became popular across Europe.
LONDON.- An important Old Master Drawing by one of the greatest decorative painters of the eighteenth century, the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), has been discovered in a country house in England. The work was found by the famous literary family, the Sitwells while clearing out the family seat of more than 300 years, Weston HThe work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were one of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte, an early form of professional theatre, which began in Italy in the 16th century and became popular across Europe.all in Northamptonshire. Speaking about the find, Henrietta Sitwell, one of the current generations of the Sitwells, said: The drawing was purchased by my great uncle Osbert Sitwell in the great Henry ... More | | 
Portrait of Gerasimos Floratos in his studio, 2020. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Dan Bradica.
PARIS.- Almine Rech announced the representation of contemporary American artist Gerasimos Floratos in France, Belgium and China. Almine Rech hosted the artist's inaugural solo exhibition at Almine Rech Paris in November 2020. His second solo exhibition will take place at Almine Rech Brussels, Belgium in September 2022, as well as a solo presentation at Château de Boisgeloup, Gisors, France, in October 2022. Gerasimos Floratos (b. 1986) lives and works in New York City. Floratos grew up enmeshed in the overwhelming sensorial experience that is Times Square, the pounding commercial and touristic heart of the city, a place the artist refers to as the center of the center. To this day, his studio is stationed there, where he continues to work and live. Surrounded by the restlessness of midtown Manhattan, Floratos uses the hyper-charged atmosphere of his neighborhood as a springboard for a deeper exploration of the urban matrix an ... More |
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 Milestone Auctions records its highest-grossing antique toy sale to dateWILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- Antique toy enthusiasts love nothing more than to discover the earliest iterations of whatever specialty they collect, and on October 2nd at Milestone Auctions in suburban Cleveland it was both Marx and motorcycle fans who hit the jackpot. The 704-lot auction, which was almost exclusively devoted to a single-owner collection, featured 138 super-clean bikes, including two American Marx prototypes that tied for top-lot honors at $22,800 apiece. Each had been estimated at $6,000-$8,000. A throng of determined bidders competed from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, pushing the sale total to $768,000. It was the highest-grossing toy auction in Milestones history. There was huge interest in many categories, but most especially the motorcycles, which represented scores of manufacturers from Germany, Spain, ... More  Hayward Gallery unveils glistening waterfall and sculptures from Berlin-based artist Klaus WeberLONDON.- A glistening waterfall and sculpture installation from German contemporary artist Klaus Weber is being presented outside the landmark Hayward Gallery. The commission, titled Thinking Fountains (2021), continues the Southbank Centres growing programme of free outdoor installations offering visitors and passersby an unexpected opportunity to engage with art. Animating the Brutalist architecture of the Hayward Gallery, Thinking Fountains features two larger-than-life bronze figures spouting water and a waterfall that cascades down from an elevated walkway. With forms derived from contemporary mannequins, both sculptures are also inspired by historical traditions of portal sculptures that adorned the facades of Gothic cathedrals. Peacock, one of the two bronze sculptures, is a hybrid human whose hips emit an exuberant jet ... More  Longtime division leader Chris Strand named Director of WinterthurWINTERTHUR, DE.- Chris Strand, the longtime director of garden and estate at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, has been named its Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO. Strand has served as interim director and CEO at Winterthur since May. Chris is so skilled in so many areasfundraising, morale raising, communication, said Kathy P. Booth, chair of the Winterthur Board of Trustees. The Board is thrilled to have someone who knows Winterthur so well. As interim director, Strand was responsible for all aspects of museum, library, and garden operations, including management of Winterthurs academic programs through the University of Delaware, fundraising, Board relations, long-range planning, budget oversight, and daily coordination of the senior management team in service of Winterthurs mission. He continues that ... More  JK Rowling releases Christmas book inspired by son's toy pigsLONDON.- Harry Potter author JK Rowling on Tuesday released her first children's Christmas book, inspired by lockdown and her son David's beloved cuddly toy pigs. "The Christmas Pig" is a story about "being lost and being found, about loving and being loved, about what stays with us and what falls away," the author told the Sunday Times. "It's also about hope and endurance," she added. The idea came from a cuddly toy pig that has been a favourite of her son since he was a baby, but which he kept hiding and losing. The 56-year-old author bought an identical toy in case the original got lost for good, but her son soon found it and declared the pair to be brothers. "The original pig is now extremely worn and battered," she wrote in the newspaper on Sunday. "However, the second pig still looks more or less as he did when bought. He was never loved the same way, never inv ... More  French film festival back with a bang in HollywoodLOS ANGELES, CA.- Hollywood's French film festival unveiled its line-up Monday, with organizers hoping to capitalize on a pandemic-sparked shift towards non-English language programming in the United States. The 25th edition of COLCOA -- the world's largest festival dedicated to French film -- will open with "Between Two Worlds," in which Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche goes undercover to expose the insecurity of the gig economy. The film, which has a largely non-professional cast, leads a field of 55 movies and series, as well as 19 shorts designed to showcase the best in Gallic cinema. "Contrary to what could have been expected after all these months of lockdown, this very eclectic and high-profile program reflects the amazing number of films actually produced in France during the last two years," Francois Truffart, the festival's ... More  Michaan's announces sale featuring fine art, furniture, decorative arts, Asian art and jewelryALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans auction calendar is jam-packed with events in October, poised to meet the high demand for fine art and Asian art, estate furnishings and decorations, and fine jewelry. In addition to Michaans regularly scheduled monthly Gallery and Annex auctions, a special event will be held on October 15 --- Theme and Variations: 200 Years of Decorative Arts featuring Property from a Distinguished Alameda Estate. Using the Michaans app, bidders may begin vying for this fine property on October 1, ahead of the live event on the 15th. The sale includes fine furniture and decorative arts from 1820 to today, in styles as diverse as Georgian, Art Deco and Art Nouveau. Once upon a time in Menlo Park -- in the mid- to late 19th century, long before there were tech innovators and venture capitalists -- there was a handful of vast country retreats, ... More  Missoula Art Museum showcases site-specific installation, photorealistic drawings by Jodi LightnerMISSOULA, MONT.- The Missoula Art Museum presents a new exhibition of large-scale, architecturally inspired drawings in Jodi Lightner: Gathered Coherence. Lightner is an ambitious and versatile artist. Weve been interested in working with her for many years, said John Calsbeek, associate curator at the Missoula Art Museum. When we approached her about creating an exhibit for the museum, she insisted on creating a site-specific installation for the space. What resulted is Manifest [Equilibrium], a 60-foot-long drawing hung from the ceiling of atrium and stretching over three floors, filling the interior of the museum. An accompanying installation of Lightners photorealistic drawings on Mylar are in the lobby. Both sets of artwork feature ropes and nets, a common motif for the artist. In her artwork, Lightner reflects on architecture and physical ... More  Exhibition at Binghamton University Art Museum centers on Andrew Krivine's collection of punk ephemeraBINGHAMTON, NY.- Before it became commodified into a mishmash of safety pins and mohawks, punk was embodied by a democratic, do-it-yourself attitude and a loathing of commercial slickness. Its fashion made tangible the concept of alienation. Its graphic design expressed a wide range of influences from Dada, to the Situationists, to Constructivism, using pastiche and appropriation to reflect the punk mode of anti-aesthetics. Its music used gutter-snipe rhetoric, a three-chord lack of technique and spontaneous performance to puncture and undercut the intellectual posturing, poetry, complexity and big-studio production of rock. That punk caught on during a ballooning economic crisis in the West is no coincidence. The recession, poverty and political turmoil of the 1970s led this working-class youth subculture to reject hippie optimism ... More  Billionaire's watch collection goes to auctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kruse GWS Auctions has announced an extraordinary collection of investment quality and masterfully significant timepieces. The timepieces are from a billionaires private collection and were housed in his personal vault. The auction will take place online Saturday, October 16, 2021 beginning at 10:00 a.m. PST. The auction of over 125 pieces will be part of one of the finest chapters in the history of Haute Horology. The sale includes watches with impeccable aesthetics, the finest luxury craftsmanship, imaginative designs and limited editions. In some cases, some are so scarce that there are only two to be known available in the world, or even ever produced. The collectors passion made him a true connoisseur of some of the worlds most prestigious and luxurious watchmakers. Highlights of the sale include; Limited ... More  Two singers reveal the core of art song, on stages big and smallNEW YORK, NY.- Two recitals over the weekend in New York might have seemed, at first, to inhabit very different realms of art song. On Saturday evening at Carnegie Hall, Jonas Kaufmann, one of the worlds leading tenors, presented a program of songs in German. Then on Sunday afternoon at the Park Avenue Armory, the rising baritone Will Liverman, currently at the Metropolitan Opera in the lead role of Terence Blanchards Fire Shut Up in My Bones, gave a varied recital that included works by four Black composers he champions. The Armorys recital space the roughly 100-seat Board of Officers Room is close to the salons and living rooms where Schubert and other composers of his time essentially created the lieder concert. Carnegie Hall, which sold out nearly all of its 2,800 seats for Kaufmanns engagement, is massively bigger ... More  Exhibition of works by Thomas Eggerer opens at Maureen Paley's Studio M locationLONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the third solo exhibition by Thomas Eggerer at the gallery and his first in the Studio M location. My ongoing interest in the fragmented body informs the two paintings in Stranded. Depicted in each work are groups of three figures who appear to be involved in a protest, waving flags, and holding up signs. As in previous works, these gestures are rather ambivalently directed towards an imagined audience and the flags and signs shelter the figures from the inquisitive eyes of the viewer or some other threat. Blowing in the wind, the sail-like flags indicate arbitrary energy and unlimited movement, contrasting with the restricted passivity of bent bodies and dangling extremities underneath them. Hands and legs appear to be attached to torsos as if they could be removed or repositioned. This generates ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova died October 13, 1822. Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture. In this image: An assistant shows a handmade book portraying works by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, with a dedication to former US President Barack Obama in the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", in Rome, on Thursday, July 2, 2009.
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