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Athanasius. Illustrium Virorum Opuscula, Paris, 1500 (Estimate: $4,000-6,000).
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- iGavel Auctions has announced that its online sale of rare books and incunabula is now open for bidding through October 12th. We are delighted to present another important sale of rare books and incunabula, from extremely rare 15th century texts to 20thth century literature, says Lark Mason, Jr. There is a wide range of material for bibliophiles who cherish the history of the written word. The topics are varied and include religious and historic texts. Among them are: eight incunabula, or books printed prior to 1500 including Athanasius. Illustrium Virorum Opuscula, Paris, 1500 (Estimate: $4,000-6,000) and Scotus, Duns. Quaestiones in Quattuor Libros Sententiarum, 1476-1477 (Estimate: $2,000-4,000). These are some of the first books ever to be printed on a press that used moveable type. Prior to this, the block printing method was used. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its September Timed Marketplace Auction on Thu, Sep 30, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5. Join them for their September Timed Marketplace Auction featuring fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. Shop the Marketplace with Artemis Gallery nearly every month - you never know what you'll find next. In this image: Two 18th C. Spanish Colonial Polychrome Wood Cherubs. Estimate $6,000 - $9,000.
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| Ketterer Kunst to offer Vladimir Georgievitsch Bechteev's "Leda und der Schwan" | | Abstract Tony Rosenthal sculpture "Lovers" takes the lead at Roland Auctions sale | | Obama breaks ground on presidential library in Chicago | 
Vladimir Georgievitsch Bechteev, Leda und der Schwan. Oil on canvas, 1912 (detail), 165 x 136 cm / 64.9 x 53.5 inches. Estimate: 300,000-400,000 / US$360,00-480,000.
MUNICH.- Vladimir Georgievitsch Bechteevs Leda und der Schwan has not been shown in public since 1914. Now that the impressive painting surfaced in a German private collection, it will be shown in five German cities throughout November before it is going to be called up in the Ketterer Kunst auction in Munich between December 9 and 11. The whereabouts of large parts of Bechteevs oeuvre are unknown. In this light the rediscovery of this particularly rare early work with a top provenance is a lucky strike for both Bechteev research and the art market, says Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. Indeed, Vladimir Georgievitsch Bechteevs Leda und der Schwan is an especially rare largesize painting with a mythological motif that is characteristic of the artist. It is particularly captivating for its timeless beauty and sensuality. As common in those days, the subtly erotic ... More | | 
Lovers, Brushed Aluminum. Brushed aluminum relief sculpture with juxtaposed geometric forms, unsigned, date unknown. Sold for $62,500.
GLEN COVE, NY.- The highly anticipated Personal Collection of Tony Rosenthal auction at Roland Auctions NY on Saturday, September 25th scored big with collectors and dealers alike locally and around the globe. Prominent Manila based collectors, Kim Camacho and her husband Lito purchased 19 Tony Rosenthal pieces from the auction through online bidding, which seemed to be the preferred method of buying throughout the sale. The Filipino couple begun collecting art while living in New York in the late â70s. Kim & Lito Camacho have accumulated one of the most impressive private collections in the region. Southampton based iconic American abstract sculptor Tony Rosenthal (American, 1914-2009) curated and refined his own personal collection, both in the Rosenthal home and upon its Southampton, NY property, over the course of a half century. Now, for the first time ever, the collection was made available at Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY, in col ... More | | 
Former US President Barack Obama holds a shovel during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center at Jackson Park on September 28, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP.
CHICAGO, IL.- Barack Obama broke ground Tuesday on his presidential library and center, launching a project he said would produce the next generation of American leaders. In the ultra-modern architectural project, three buildings will rise up in Jackson Park on the shores of Lake Michigan, in a poor South Side neighborhood of Chicago where Obama got his start in politics as a community organizer and where his wife, Michelle, grew up. The Obama Presidential Center will feature a hexagonal shaped museum, an athletic center, a forum building, a public plaza, a play area and a branch of the Chicago Public Library. The museum's exhibits will tell the story of Obama's political career, from his arrival in Chicago to his two terms as the United States' 44th -- and first Black -- president, from 2009 to 2017. Ex-presidents overseeing the building of libraries bearing their names is a tradition in America. But the Obama Presidential Center ... More |
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| Unheard Lennon tape sells for nearly 50,000 euros at Danish auction | | New Museum announces a major award for sculpture by women artists | | Christie's surpasses $100 million in NFT sales | 
A cassette with the recording of four Danish schoolboys' interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the famous couple's winter stay in Thy, in Jutland, Denmark, in 1970, was auctioned at Bruun Rasmussen Auction House in Copenhagen on September 28, 2021. Philip Davali / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP.
by Camille Bas-Wohlert
COPENHAGEN.- A 1970 tape of John Lennon singing a hitherto unheard song called "Radio Peace" and expressing frustration at his Beatles image to a group of Danish schoolboys sold for nearly 50,000 euros on Tuesday at an auction in Copenhagen. The 33-minute tape was recorded on January 5, 1970 when the former Beatle spent winter in a remote corner of Jutland in western Denmark with his wife Yoko Ono. The buyer, who remains unknown, made a telephone bid for 49,760 euros ($58,000) for the cassette as well as accompanying Polaroid photographs of the schoolboys with Lennon and ... More | | 
Outside the New Museum in New York, Aug. 21, 2020. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum announced today the inauguration of a biennial award for sculpture, made possible through a grant from the Hostetler/Wrigley Foundation. With this $2-million grant, the New Museum will provide a biennial award to fund the production of new sculptural works by women artists. There will be five recipients of the Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award, over a ten-year period. In addition to the Award, the works will be exhibited in the Museums forthcoming public plaza on the Bowery. The $2-million grant will underwrite the artists' honorarium, the costs of production, installation, and exhibition. The jury for the award will be announced by the Museum in early 2022. Artists will be nominated, with the finalist selected by the jury. The first commission will be announced at the end of 2022. Beau and I are thrilled to establish this award to recognize and honor contemporary women artists ... More | | 
FEWOCiOUS, Year 1, Age 14 - It Hurts To Hide. Single-channel video 00:00:32 seconds (1710 x 1294 pixels) Executed in 2021. Price Realized: USD $437,500 © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced that it has shattered the $100 million ceiling in NFT sales worldwide. Pushing Christies over this historic mark was the record-setting success of Christies first ever NFT auction in Asia, which closed online in Hong Kong on 28 September and achieved a total of HK$122 Million (USD $15.6M). This landmark moment, which Christies shares and celebrates with the NFT community and its artists, began less than a year ago with the first NFT sale at Christies in October 2020 and hit headlines worldwide when Beeples monumental Everydays: The First 5,000 Days sold for $69 million in March 2021, setting the record for the most expensive work sold online and the third highest price for a living artist at auction. After becoming the first international auction house to sell an NFT of a purely digital work of art, Christies ... More |
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| MacArthur Foundation announces 2021 'genius' grant winners | | Exhibition captures the work of Ansel Adams | | Exhibition explores the relationship between East and West from the perspective of art history | 
Jordan Casteel is a painter capturing moments of proximity with people and environments she has encountered on the streets of Harlem.
by Matt Stevens and Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK, NY.- Historian and social critic Ibram X. Kendi is used to getting hate mail. And sometimes the disdain for him and his work takes the form of a phone call. So when he does not recognize the number he does not often answer. Such was the case on a recent day when Kendi, who wrote the bestselling book, How to Be an Antiracist, ignored a call from Chicago. It would take a text-message exchange with the caller and a little online sleuthing, but he eventually discovered that the person calling was from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He was intrigued: Were they calling to talk about a potential research collaboration or was it something else? Kendi let them call again. And when he picked up, he would learn that the foundation was calling to convey happy news the something else he had allowed as a possibility: He had been awarded ... More | | 
Untitled (Skier Ascending Mountain with Ski Tracks), ca. 1930, Ansel Adams (American, 19021984), gelatin silver print. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Andrea Gray Stillman, 2018.597. Photograph by Ansel Adams © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced its newest exhibition, Ansel Adams: Compositions in Nature. The exhibition, which features an iconic collection of more than 70 works by American photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984), is on view at the Richmond museum from September 25, 2021, through January 2, 2022. Adams photography, as well as his lifelong interests in the environment and classical music, are explored, allowing visitors to gain a full appreciation of the artist through special areas of the exhibition that includes Adams own musical recordings. Through this exhibition, VMFA celebrates Ansel Adams photographs which so dramatically capture the sublimity of the American landscape, said Alex Nyerges, VMFA Director and CEO. In a career that spanned more than five decades, Adams became one of Americas most recognized and ... More | | 
Natalya Nesterova, Singers, 1969. Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm. VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020, Photo: Carl Brunn, courtesy: Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, donation Sammlung Ludwig.
BERLIN.- The Cool and the Cold. Painting in the USA and the USSR 19601990. Ludwig Collection, exhibited at the Gropius Bau in collaboration with the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, is a substantial group exhibition bringing together art from the Cold Wars two duelling global powers, exploring the relationship between East and West from the perspective of art history. Peter and Irene Ludwig were among the first collectors in the world to collect art from the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time. Their extensive collection offers a critical juxtaposition of paintings from the two opposing sides of the East-West conflict. This show presents about 125 works by 80 artists from the Ludwig Collection held in six museums of international calibre. Among them are Jo Baer, Erik Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Ilya Kabakov, Lee Lozano, Natalia Nesterova, Viktor ... More |
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| Jim Jarmusch's collages are ready for their close-up | | Exhibition of recent works by Liên Trương on view at Davidson College Art Galleries | | Exhibition to offer juxtapositions between works by New York artists and Frick paintings | 
The filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in New York, Aug. 27, 2021. Josefina Santos/The New York Times.
by Max Lakin
NEW YORK, NY.- Jim Jarmusch likes removing the heads. He likes to swap the heads of world leaders with Picassos or Basquiats, or simply excise them entirely, leaving a head-shaped void. A man with a coyotes head rides in the back of a car, rather dejected. Andy Warhols head is a favorite motif: twin Andys in sunglasses standing stoically in a tunnel; Warhols head grafted onto a state official striding a tarmac; a man slouched in a chair, one of the artists Brillo boxes fixed where his head should be. Jarmusch is best known for writing and directing pleasingly downbeat films such as Night on Earth and Down by Law, in which laconic protagonists meander through the weirder corners of the world, encountering fellow travelers, or simply the uncanny. For the past 20 years hes also been quietly producing collages like these, notecard-size pieces of delicately layered newsprint on ... More | | 
Liên Trương, Blessed is the Black Silk on Your Dark Little Head, 2021. Oil, silk, acrylic on canvas. Diptych, 84 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
DAVIDSON, NC.- Liên Trương: From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings presents recent works by Trương that examine, illuminate, and interrogate notions of heritage and the influences that form belief systems. Exploring these artworks in the current momenta year and a half marked by illness, death, anxiety, isolation, division, and increasing racial injustices, including recent attacks on Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islandersadds another dimension to an already physically and conceptually layered artistic practice tied up in social, cultural, and political histories. The exhibition presents works from several different series and demonstrates Trươngs ability to expertly weave together various references. The Sky is Not Sacred is a two-part collaboration between Hồng-An Trương and Liên Trương. In the large-scale oil triptych on Arches paper, the red-hued sky, storm clouds, and choppy sea may bring ... More | | 
Doron Langberg (b. Yokneam Moshava, Israel, 1985), Lover, 2021. Oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro © Doron Langberg.
NEW YORK, NY.- The installation at Frick Madison has prompted new ways of looking at the Fricks paintings, sculpture, and decorative artsworks predominantly made in Europe from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries. Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters is the latest addition in a broader program in the past decade that has celebrated a range of voices and perspectives through digital productions, installations, publications, and collaborations. At various times during the next year, four New Yorkbased artists will engage with Old Master paintings in the permanent collection, each presenting a single new work on the second floor, where paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Holbein are displayed. These pop-up presentations, each running for a limited number of months, will initiate fresh conversations with the institutions traditional figurative holdings, with particular emphasis on issues of gender and ... More |
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 "Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright" opens at Wrightwood 659CHICAGO, IL.- Wrightwood 659 presents Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright, a dual exhibition exploring two of these architects long-demolished masterpieces: Louis H. Sullivans innovative Garrick Theater, in Chicago, which stood for only sixty-nine years, and Frank Lloyd Wrights unprecedented Larkin Building, in Buffalo, NY, which stood for just forty-four. The exhibition comprises two distinct presentationsReconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivans Lost Masterpiece and Reimagining the Larkin: Frank Lloyd Wrights Modern Iconbringing the essence of these two titans of modern American architecture to life. Comprising 3D models and digital re-creations of the original edifices; salvaged architectural ornaments and artifacts; original furniture; historical documentation of the design, construction, and demise ... More  'Treasures from the Museum & Gallery at Bob Jones University: Five Centuries of Old Master Painting' opens in OrlandoORLANDO, FLA.- The Orlando Museum of Art opened the exhibition Treasures from the Museum & Gallery at Bob Jones University: Five Centuries of Old Master Painting. The European Old Master Painting Collection at the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in the United States. This exhibition of more than 60 works of art from the 14th through the 19th centuries reflects the dramatic course of religious, artistic, and cultural history in Western Europe during these formative centuries. While the collections greatest strength is Italian Baroque painting, major artists working in Holland, Flanders, France, and Germany are represented by large-scale ... More  Philippe Cognée unveils a series of fifteen canvases flirting with abstraction at Galerie TemplonBRUSSELS.- Galerie Templon kicked off the new season in Brussels with the return of Philippe Cognée. In Eye of the Storm, the French painter, famous for his inimitable blurred wax technique, unveils a series of fifteen canvases flirting with abstraction. Created over the last year during the pandemic and keeping pace with the successive waves of lockdown, these new series alternate indoor and outdoor scenes. Views of a deserted but strangely serene studio contrast with a number of large impetuous landscapes, drenched in a nature bubbling over with life. Philippe Cognée has long used his painting to explore the shifting contemporary perception of the most ordinary features of our environment, from motorways and supermarkets to anonymous hotel rooms and dreary suburbs. Drawing inspiration from photographs, videos or images garnered ... More  'I Feel an Abundance': A composer dips into the dance worldNEW YORK, NY.- Arrghh, the pressure! exclaimed composer Lido Pimienta, after being told that she and choreographer Andrea Miller were the first all-female team to be commissioned to create a piece for New York City Ballet. When that dance, sky to hold, with costumes by Esteban Cortázar, debuts at the companys fall fashion gala Thursday night, both women will be breaking new ground. For Miller, a contemporary choreographer who danced with the Batsheva Ensemble in Israel before founding her New York company, Gallim Dance, it will be the first time she has created a piece on pointe. And for Pimienta, a Canadian-Columbian singer-songwriter whose music incorporates Indigenous, Afro Colombian and electronic elements, sky to hold is her first theatrical score. And more ground broken: Pimienta, who has incorporated her voice ... More  Review: 'Fire' brings a Black composer to the Met, finallyNEW YORK, NY.- On Monday, for the first time in its 138-year history and as it returned from an 18-month closure, the Metropolitan Opera presented a work by a Black composer: Terence Blanchards Fire Shut Up in My Bones. By opening the season with this work, the Met filled a gaping hole in its repertory at a time when the performing arts are rightfully being challenged to become more diverse. Enthusiastic ovations at the end greeted Blanchard, a jazz trumpeter best known for his scores for Spike Lee films, and Kasi Lemmons, the writer, director and actress who with Fire becomes the first Black librettist of a work performed by the Met in its history. It was exhilarating to see them cheered on by an almost entirely Black cast, chorus and dance troupe, as well as by an audience with notably more people of color than usual at a Met ... More  The Amon Carter Museum of American Art organizes first comprehensive survey of Texas artists Scott and Stuart GentlingFORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened Imagined Realism: Scott and Stuart Gentling, the first comprehensive overview of the work of two Fort Worth-based artists, brothers whose prolific and collaborative careers were celebrated within Texas but whose creative impact has, until now, been little studied. Exploring a wide range of themes and subjects from romantic landscapes to formal portraiture to still lifes of 18th-century clothing, the exhibition features more than 160 works including sketches, etchings, watercolors, and oil paintings. In addition to presenting the artists first retrospective, the Carter established the Gentling Study Center which is home to the largest institutional holdings ... More  Freeman's appoints two new fine art specialistsPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the addition of two new specialists to its Fine Art department, effective immediately. The appointment of Adam VeilVice President of Business Development and Specialist in Fine Artand Lauren ColavitaAssociate Specialist in Fine Artat the onset of a robust fall/winter auction season marks Freemans ongoing commitment to growing its in-house expertise. Freemans Fine Art department is continually building on its own successes; in February 2021, Freemans best-ever Fine Art auction realized a remarkable $6.4M in a mere 64 lots, and its upcoming fall/winter 2021 auctions have already garnered significant pre-sale interest from international buyers. Freemans team of specialists have deep knowledge of both historical trends and current market directions, leading to consistently excellent ... More  First major solo exhibition in the UK by artist Lucy Stein opens at Spike IslandBRISTOL.- Spike Island presents Wet Room, the first major solo exhibition in the UK by Cornwall-based artist Lucy Stein (b. 1979). Working primarily with painting and drawing, Steins show is inspired by the fougou: narrow Neolithic underground passages unique to West Cornwall that lead to womb-like chambers and have become sacred sites of worship. Echoing the ritual rebirthing ceremonies that are believed to have taken place within these uterine caverns, the exhibition centres around an installation comprising a bathtub and sink with running taps, surrounded by tiled walls that have been hand-painted with scenes relating to the artists study of western esoteric traditions. Surrounding the central installation is a series of new paintings and drawings. Made during Steins second pregnancy and throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, these ... More  Football images by one of Britain's most iconic photographers on display at the National Football MuseumMANCHESTER.- The exhibition of 30 images highlights a bygone era - a long-ball world of Bovril, packed terraces and northern rain. With supporters watching fantastic footballers with equally fabulous haircuts. The photographs present the game in a world away from the bling and ka-ching of the modern top-flight game. When Football Was Football features a combination of portrait shots of legendary players and managers including George Best, Joe Mercer, Matt Busby, Brian Clough, Denis Law and Bill Shankly alongside stills of football grounds, fans and ball games on Manchester streets. Photographs in the exhibition include: George Best outside his menswear boutique in 1968. Sir Matt Busby overseeing club business sat at his desk in 1969. Bill Shankly in 1978 just three years before his death. Action shots from Maine Road and Old ... More  Art flourishes on the walls of MoroccoRABAT.- Artist Omar Lhamzi donned a bright yellow vest and paint-splattered shoes, selected a brush and set to work on his latest canvas -- the wall of a house in Morocco's seaside capital Rabat. Lhamzi is one of a new generation of artists whose murals are changing the face of Morocco's cities. A wander through Rabat's avenues and alleyways reveals an array of freshly painted works, in which larger-than-life fantasy creatures co-inhabit with realistic portraits and scenes of daily life. Their creators flocked from across the North African kingdom and beyond to Rabat last week for Jidar -- Arabic for "wall" -- a festival dedicated to street art. Lhamzi used the side of a house in the working-class district of Yaacoub Al Mansour for his latest work, a man with six ears and green and pink skin floating in darkness, with clouds that echo Vincent van Gogh's ... More  Exhibition presents Gillian Laub's picture of an American family sagaNEW YORK, NY.- A new exhibition this fall at the International Center of Photography offers renowned New York-based photographer Gillian Laubs picture of an American family saga that feels both anguished and hopeful. On view September 24, 2021 through January 10, 2022, Gillian Laub: Family Matters balances empathy with critical perspective, humor with horror, the closeness of family with the distance of the artist. The exhibition is curated by David Campany, ICPs Managing Director of Programs, and coincides with the publication of a companion book by Aperture. Presented in the museums new building at 79 Essex Street in New York, which opened in January 2020, the fall/winter season at ICP also features the exhibitions Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara and INWARD: Reflections on Interiority. For the last ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Tintoretto was born September 29, 1518. Tintoretto (September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594), real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light typical of the Venetian School. In this image: A man looks at 'The Coronation of the Virgin, The Paradise' , a painting by 16th century Venetian artist Tintoretto, on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Wednesday, June 7, 2006.
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