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Exhibition at Pompidou Metz considers works of art made from an elevated perspective
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A journalist looks at the painting "Tour Eiffel et Jardins du Champ-de-Mars" dated 1922 by Robert Delaunay during the presentation of the exhibition "Vues d'en haut" at the Centre Pompidou in Metz, eastern France, on May 14, 2013. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN.
METZ.- Views from above considers how an elevated perspective, from the first aerial photographs of the nineteenth century to the satellite images of Google Earth, has transformed artists' perception of the world. Covering more than 2,000 square metres, the exhibition gives us the power of Icarus and in over 400 works (paintings, photographs, drawings, films, architecture models, installations, books, reviews…) offers a singular and spectacular view of modern and contemporary art. There has been a considerable regain in interest in the aerial view over recent years. From the success of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth From Above to the popularity of Google Earth, we are fascinated by this bird's-eye view as much for the beauty ... More |
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Death mask of Napoleon to be auctioned at Bonhams' Book, Map and Manuscript sale
Napoleon death mask. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An extraordinary cast of the death mask of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, made shortly after his death on the island of St Helena on 5 May 1821, is to be sold at Bonhams Book, Map and Manuscript sale on June 19th in Knightsbridge, London. It is estimated at £40,000-60,000. The cast – known as the ‘Boys cast’ - was made for the Rev Richard Boys, Senior Chaplain of St Helena and is one of only a tiny handful with a provenance linking it directly to the island. It is the most significant example remaining in private hands and bears an autograph note of authentication written by Boys. All but one of the other examples are in national collections, either in France or in Corsica. It is being sold by Andrew Boys, a direct descendent of the original owner’s brother. After Napoleon’s death, there was a protracted wrangle over whether his physician, Francesco Antommarchi, or the British doctor, Francis ... More |
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Bonhams New York sees highest price for a Polynesian piece at auction during Tribal Arts Week
Rare Canoe Prow, Marquesas Islands 'au'au or pihao. Wood, length 15 7/8in (39.5cm). Sold for US$ 70,900. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- A rare canoe prow from the Maquesas Islands soared past its pre-sale estimate of $8,000-12,000 to sell for $70,900 dollars at Bonhams May 15 African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom. It was the highest price realized for any Polynesian work of art at auction during Tribal Arts Week in New York. Decorated with a classic Marquesan tiki figure, the wooden prow – or ‘au ‘au – would have been attached to the bow of a canoe. Marquesan ‘au ‘au show carved tiki figures seated and pushed backwards, as if by acceleration, and were primarily intended to be seen in profile as canoes sped through the water. “This particular Marquesas prow is covered in linear tattooing and has especially naturalistic proportions, including fully articulated legs, which is very rare, ... More |
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Relive the eighties-in high resolution... Introducing Art Intelligence: Keith Haring
Art Intelligence: Keith Haring, available exclusively for iPad on the App Store, lets you relive the era
NEW YORK, NY.- Scrawling graffiti in the subways of New York. Dancing with Madonna till dawn in the downtown clubs. Touring like a rock star, painting for the public, and raising awareness about AIDS, apartheid, and nuclear threats. Artist and activist Keith Haring made his mark in the “We Are the World” Eighties by acting up, getting arrested, and making a difference. Art Intelligence: Keith Haring, available exclusively for iPad on the App Store, lets you relive the era—and revel in Haring’s joyful hands-in-the-air approach to life, art, politics, and dancing. Like a visual wikipedia on steroids, Art Intelligence’s groundbreaking, first-ofits- kind navigation system lets you fully immerse yourself in Haring’s world. The app not only brings you Haring’s art—straight-up gorgeous, zoomable, and high-res—it also puts Haring’s life and times at yo ... More |
Property from the late Mrs. Nat King Cole to be sold at Matheson's Auctions in Florida
Oil on canvas portrait of Eleanor Slater by American artist Robert (Henry Cozad) Henri, dated 1911 (est. $35,000-$45,000).
MELBOURNE, FL.- “Unforgettable, that’s what you are…” is a line from a classic song by Nat King Cole, and unforgettable is what Matheson’s Auctions’ upcoming two-day sale of property from the late Mrs. Nat King Cole is shaping up to be. The event will be held the weekend of May 18-19 in Matheson’s gallery, at 600 East New Haven Avenue in Melbourne. Lloyd and Jan Matheson have been working closely with Casey and Timolin, the twin daughters of Nat King Cole and Maria Cole, after being introduced to them by Maria’s friend, Ron Bourgeault of Northeast Auctions. The cataloging and transportation of Mrs. Cole’s vast collections to Matheson’s Auctions’ facilities in Melbourne were just recently completed. “This promises to be an amazing and eclectic two-day sale,” said Lloyd Matheson of Matheson’s Auctions. “The range of antiques and art to be offered is truly grand. ... More |
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Sotheby's London Sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art brings $20,134,466
Pair of Blue and White 'Bajixiang' Moonflasks. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art today brought a total of £13,237,650 / $20,134,466, in excess of the pre-sale estimate of £7,732,500 - 11,386,500 ($11,761,133 - 17,318,867). Headlining the auction was A Rare Pair of Blue and White ‘Bajixiang’ Moonflasks, Qianlong Seal Marks and Period. These two impressive moon flasks, the cover lot of the sale, sold for £2,378,500 ($3,617,698), eclipsing their pre-sale estimate of £1 – 1.5 million. Robert Bradlow, Director, Head of Sotheby’s London Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Department, said: “We are extremely pleased with the results of today’s auction, which brought a total of £13.2 million. We had carefully curated this sale to offer some of the finest examples of Chinese ceramics and works of art currently available to the market. The collection included marvellous rarities, including a jade sceptre, a ‘Phoenix& ... More |
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Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction sells nearly half billion dollars
Christie’s auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen, hammers down Jackson Pollock’s Number 19, 1948, which achieved the highest price for the artist at $58.3 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2013.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A blockbuster auction of Contemporary art in New York, including a record $58.4 million for a Jackson Pollock drip painting, fetched nearly half a billion dollars on Wednesday -- the biggest haul ever at an art auction. Christie's said its sale raised a "staggering" total of $495,021,500, with 94 percent of lots finding buyers. Nine of the works sold went for more than $10 million and 23 for more than $5 million. It wasn't just the most successful auction of Contemporary art at Christie's, but the biggest haul from an art auction anywhere at all, the auction house said. It was "the highest total in auction history," Brett Gorvy, head of post-war and Contemporary art, said. "The remarkable bidding and record prices set reflect a new era in the art market, wherein seasoned collectors and new bidders compete at the highest level within a global market." Leading the frenzied charge ... More |
Bijoux parisiens brings to Memphis rare jewel collection from the Petit Palais, Paris
Edouard Halouze, Advertisement for Van Cleef & Arpels, 1920. Gazette du bon ton Color lithograph on paper. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Inv.: LDUT 01255, Achat sur les arrérages du legs Dutuit, 2003.
MEMPHIS, TN.- Bijoux parisiens: French Jewelry from the Petit Palais, Paris opened at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens bringing to Memphis iconic and inimitable jewels from the famous French houses of Fannière, Boucheron, Crouzet, Cartier, and others. The exhibition traces the fascinating story of French jewelry design as it evolves from the royal and religious patronage of the seventeenth century to modern day luxury of the mid-twentieth century. The objects in Bijoux parisiens are from the collections of the Petit Palais, Paris, and private lenders in London, Paris, and Memphis. Bijoux parisiens features seventy unique works of jewelry and over 200 gouache drawings, oil paintings, fashion prints, and photographs. The exhibition examines the work of such brilliant and inventive designers as Ernest Vever, Eugène Fontenay, ... More |
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Rare Vincent Van Gogh sketchbook copies up for unprecedented sale at museum store and online
A copy of one of Vincent Van Gogh's sketchbooks. AFP PHOTO/VAN GOGH MUSEUM.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum is selling a limited number of copies of the Dutch master's sketchbooks for the first time, providing rare insight into his life and the origin of some of his most famous portraits, the museum said on Thursday. Only four of Van Gogh's many sketchbooks survive today, three of which form part of a new "Van Gogh at work" exhibition and contain "perhaps some of his most intimate creations," the museum said on its website. The publication marks the first ever facsimile edition of all four sketchbooks, the museum said. "They contain fleeting impressions of the world in which he lived, allowing us to continually look over his shoulder and gain a genuine insight into his artistry," it added. Most entries in the small sketchbooks are in pencil and black charcoal, but Van Gogh also used ink and various types of chalk. Entries include illegible scribblings, hastily-drawn notes, some more elaborate drawings and a few well-considered studies ... More |
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Rembrandt Peale Portrait of George Washington achieves $662,500 at Heritage Auctions
Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860), George Washington, circa 1856. Oil on canvas, 36-1/2 x 29 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Rembrandt Peale's iconic portrait of U.S. President George Washington — created in the artist's lifelong quest to paint the most recognizable image of the "Father of the United States" — realized a new world record for a porthole portrait by the artist when it sold for $662,500 to lead Heritage Auctions' two-day, $4.5+ million American art events in Dallas. The May 10-11 events spanned American Indian art, Texas, Western and California Art and masterpieces of Fine American art. The auction sold 88 percent by lot and 93 percent by value and pushed three artists' records past $500,000. Peale's portrait of Washington was presented with his equally iconic portrait of Martha Washington, which reached $158,500. It followed other important offerings including John McCrady's Steamboat ‘Round the Bend, a mammoth tribute — both figuratively and literally — to Southern regional art. At 14-feet wide, the 1946 commission for ... More |
German artist Nasan Tur’s first solo exhibition with Blain/Southern opens in Berlin
Nasan Tur, Variationen von Kapital, 2013, indian ink and Tibetan paper, framed 42.2 x 62.2 cm each. © the artist. Image Courtesy of the Artist and Blain|Southern.
BERLIN.- Blain|Southern present Nasan Tur’s first solo exhibition with Blain|Southern Berlin, At your own____. The exhibition brings together works that explore the relationships between production and value, deception and truth, and the man-made systems that can manipulate and shape our perception of these areas. The artist considers the current socio-economic structures that exist within our globalised world, and the constructed modes of communication that mould our thoughts and responses to our contemporary environments. Tur’s multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, video, photography, drawing, performance and installation to investigate our social conditions and the individual’s mode of functioning within urban landscapes. Tur’s works often parody the politicised messages conveyed through protest, graffiti, newspaper images and the architectural fabric ... More |
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New watercolors and charcoal drawings by Peri Schwartz on view at Garvey Simon Art Access, Inc.
Peri Schwartz, "Studio #15" 2013. Charcoal and ink on Mylar, 40 x 36 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon presents an exhibition of new watercolors and charcoal drawings by Peri Schwartz. This is her third solo show in New York and her first with Garvey Simon Art Access, Inc. This is also Ms. Schwartz’s first solo exhibition devoted entirely to watercolor painting and charcoal drawings on Mylar. Peri Schwartz can well be described as a formal composer of refracted and reflected light, space and form. A disciplined artist, she uses the humble subjects of her New Rochelle studio as her sole vehicle; a decades-long
exercise to continuously evolve her skillful ability to translate the geometry and ethereal light that surrounds us onto a two-dimensional surface. Her art is an exquisite marriage of abstraction and representation. Although some describe her work as “studio still life,” Ms. Schwartz is not exactly a still life painter. She builds abstractions out of real forms. The objects do not ... More |
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Artist connects Modernist Abstraction and African American Avant-Garde music in exhibition
Jennie C. Jones, Bold, Double, Barline (variation #1), 2013. Photo: Cathy Carver.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Jennie C. Jones (American, b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1968; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) explores the confluences between abstract visual art and African American avant-garde music in an exhibition of new work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. On view from May 16 through Oct. 27, the site-specific installation melds paintings and sculptures with a sound piece that manipulates elements of works by experimental composers and performers. The combination testifies to Jones’ conception of abstraction as a language that can encompass cultural, political and historical ideas and can work toward spanning the critical gulf between African American and dominant modernisms. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition, “Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance” is installed on the Hirshhorn’s third level, directly between single-artist galleries devoted to the abstraction of ... More |
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 Believed burned in the blitz, marine painting surfaces at Bonhams New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Thought to have been lost forever in the blitz of Liverpool, a remarkable composition by British maritime painter Thomas Jacques Somerscales will be offered on June 5 in Bonhams Fine Maritime Paintings & Decorative Arts (est. $12,000-18,000). The 1916 painting depicts the S.S. Ortega entering the straits of the Nelson with the S.M.S Dresden in pursuit. It was recorded in Alex A. Hurst’s 1988 book Thomas Somerscales – Marine Artist as having been destroyed when the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s Liverpool offices were bombed, but the painting has resurfaced in the home of a private American collector. “The Somerscales painting shows the S.S. Ortega bravely outmaneuvering the larger and faster S.M.S. Dresden, narrowly escaping cannon fire,” explained Bonhams Maritime Consultant, Gregg Dietrich. “In a sense, the subject of the painting is a ... More Dr. Lisa Freiman named inaugural Director of VCU's new Institute for Contemporary ArtRICHMOND, VA.- Virginia Commonwealth University announced today that it has appointed Dr. Lisa Freiman as the inaugural director of the university’s new Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA). Freiman is currently a senior curator and chair of the contemporary art department at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). In addition to her role as Director of the ICA, Freiman will also be a professor in VCU’s acclaimed School of the Arts (VCUarts). Freiman will assume her role at VCU on July 1, 2013. The ICA will be a combination exhibition and performance space, laboratory and incubator featuring a series of flexible programming spaces for the presentation of visual art, theater, music, dance, and film by nationally and internationally recognized artists in a building designed by Steven Holl Architects. Anticipated to open in 2015, the ICA will be a non-collecting institution designed to ... More Video, sculpture, light and sound in Haroon Mirza's new exhibition at Lisson GalleryLONDON.- The recipient of the Silver Lion Award at the 54th Venice Biennale and the 2012 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, Haroon Mirza is fascinated by the perceptual distinctions between noise, sound and music, and the possibility of the visual and acoustic as one singular aesthetic form. He employs video, sculpture, light and sound to create new visual and sonic landscapes which distort and transform our experience of architectural space. For his second exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, Mirza will show: A reverberation chamber: Mirza has collaborated with his architect brother Omar Mirza to build a room in the gallery which maximises echoes, creating a disorientating and immersive space. This new piece serves as a kind of antithesis to previous projects like the National Apavilion of Then and Now at the 54th Venice Biennale and New Museum, in which he used ... More La Madona Rosa, the largest rose quartz known outside of The Smithsonian, anchors Heritage Auctions saleDALLAS, TX.- The famed Rose Quartz La Madona Rosa specimen — a spectacular, wildly artistic piece of natural history, discovered by Brazilian miners in the 1950s and so named for its resemblance to traditional depictions of the Virgin Mary — is expected to bring $200,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions' landmark presentation of The Hoppel Collection, the finest and most comprehensive mineral collection to come to auction in modern times. La Madonna Rosa is a specimen comparable to — and thought to be better by many — than the other major example of rose quartz currently known to exist: the "Van Allen Belt" specimen presently residing in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. La Madona Rosa practically towers, at 15-1/2 inches tall, over the 9-inch tall Smithsonian example. The collection debuts June 2 in Dallas as part of Heritage's Nature & ... More Australia Council welcomes new CEO, Tony GrybowskiSYDNEY.- Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, Rupert Myer AM today welcomed the announcement by Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Tony Burke MP that Tony Grybowski has been named as the Australia Council’s new CEO. “The members of the Council, our staff and members of artistic communities across Australia join me in expressing our delight that Tony has been appointed CEO, effective immediately,” said Mr Myer. “Tony has been Executive Director, Arts Organisations at the Australia Council for the past five years and is well known to artists and arts organisations for his passion and commitment to creativity. “He knows the arts landscape very well and from all perspectives – as a musician, an arts administrator and a member of state and federal funding organisations. He has worked extensively with youth and community arts and will bring a unique blend of experience to the role ... More Inaugural UK solo exhibition by the Chilean artist Francisco de Corcuera opens at rosenfeld porciniLONDON.- rosenfeld porcini presents The Impossible Existence of a Mathematician, the inaugural UK solo exhibition by the Chilean artist Francisco de Corcuera. The exhibition shows large scale works on canvas across both floors of the gallery space. It presents both a series of Corcuera’s black paintings alongside a series of lighter, more colour intense works. The materials used are a combination of oil-based mediums, acrylic and graphite on canvas. Born in Chile in 1944, Francisco de Corcuera has lived for many years outside his native land. Immersed in the arts since childhood, he has always considered himself first and foremost a painter. Throughout the various decades, his works have retained a constant philosophical preoccupation – he is, by his own declaration, a conceptual artist yet equally importantly a painter. Raised in a strong Catholic background, he has been haunted ... More Splendid 350 year-old manuscript published for the first timeCOPENHAGEN.- In collaboration with Statens Museum for Kunst the German publishing house Prestel have just published a luxurious facsimile edition of The Green Florilegium. Dating back to the mid-17th century the book was originally an extensive, high-prestige collection of painstakingly hand-painted depictions of flowers – both familiar and rare and exotic. The new publication offers a faithful, one-to-one reproduction of the detailed and sumptuous original images while also shedding light on a genre that is largely unknown today: the florilegium. Flower paintings may have been reviled and marginalised by art historians as arbiters of good taste, but it has been highly prized and loved by artists, art collectors, and garden enthusiasts through the ages. In the 17th century a new genre within flower painting saw the light of day. Amongst the most affluent garden owners the florilegium became ... More Rien Faire et Laisser Rire: Group exhibition opens at Galerie Rodolphe JanssenBRUSSELS.- The title of the show is borrowed from that of a late allegorical work by the Belgian painter James Ensor, an artist whose visual and textual clues may at times suggest various interpretations. In this particular instance Ensor appears to be mocking the position of an aloof critic. Painted in 1939, the composition features an ear and writing implements hovering above an inkwell and a book bearing the title, all of which are being effusively spat upon, fountain-like, by a host of fantastical figures, as well as a parrot and a pig. Ensor, whose picture-making here can be characterized as a form of self-reflexive play, is perhaps both composer and audience, delighted by his staging and the mischievous performance. Ensor's position cannot be seen as neutral, for he has chosen a side, most likely his own. Appearances, we readily admit, tend to be misleading, and our interpretation may ... More Moscow metro auctions off vintage carriagesMOSCOW (AFP).- Moscow metro is set to auction off more than a hundred of its iconic blue carriages after updating its rolling stock, a spokesman told AFP on Thursday. The 120 carriages will be sold in lots of three and the state-owned system hopes to raise a total of almost 8 million rubles ($255,221), said metro spokesman Alexei Manakov. The blue carriages with a white stripe along the side could be ripped apart and used for scrap metal or be turned into temporary accommodation for construction workers, wrote Izvestia daily, citing a metro official. More exotically, some could become museum exhibits or be used for spare parts for other metro systems in ex-Soviet countries that use the same type of carriages. Moscow metro celebrated its 78th birthday this week. ... More |
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