Some pieces of 19th-century women’s clothing on display in the exhibition “Epic Iran” at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, May 28, 2021. The organizers of the exhibit wanted to put politics aside and showcase the country’s rich 5,000-year-old culture — but politics kept getting in the way. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
by Farah Nayeri
LONDON(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The board game is roughly 4,500 years old. Shaped like a bird of prey, it has holes running down its wings and chest, where the pieces were once positioned. It’s one of a few dozen ancient objects that were set to travel from the National Museum of Iran for a spectacular exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum here. But they never came. Other artifacts that were set to be shown — as detailed and illustrated and in the catalog for that exhibition “Epic Iran” — included a gold mask, a long-handled silver pan and a carved stone goblet. To secure the loans, the museum was in long-standing talks with the National Museum of Iran until early 2020, said Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, also known as the V&A. “At a certain point, silence began to descend, and I don’t think that was internal to them,” he said in an interview. “There were outside political forces.” ... More
Lovis Corinth, Flowers, 1913. Oil on Canvas, 81 x 66. Photo: İ Photo d'Art Speltdoorn & Fils.
BRUSSELS(AFP).- Belgium will return a painting to the family of a German Jewish couple from whom it was stolen after they fled Germany during World War II, the government research department said Wednesday. "Blumenstilleben" or "Still life with Flowers" was painted by 1913 by Lovis Corinth and has been kept in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, alongside around 30 other works thought to have been stolen during World War II. After decades of analysis and research, experts have concluded that the painting was looted from a warehouse by officials of the German occupation, from goods owned by German Jewish refugees. Gustav and Emma Mayer were forced to part with some of their belongings as they made their way to England, and a crate containing the painting was stolen from storage at the beginning of the war. In a letter sent on May 26 to the German lawyers of the couple's grandchildren, Belgian secretary of state Thomas Dermine officially confirmed the Belgian state's agreem ... More
The wedding dress of Diana, Princess of Wales is seen on display at an exhibition entitled 'Royal Style in the Making' at Kensington Palace in London on June 2, 2021. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP.
LONDON(AFP).- Princess Diana's wedding dress for her 1981 marriage to Prince Charles was one of the best-kept secrets in fashion history. The gown sparked such intense interest that young designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel locked the ivory silk dress, which had a 25-foot (7.6-metre) long train, in a safe at night. Plucked from obscurity for the commission of a lifetime, the pair even took to putting dummy bits of fabric in the studio's bins to throw anyone rummaging through them off the scent, according to an exhibition of royal fashion, including Diana’s iconic dress, that opens on Thursday. The exhibition -- Royal Style in the Making -– at the Orangery at Kensington Palace, Diana's home until her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997, focuses on the work of designers who dressed not just Diana but also Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother. Trimmed with vintage lace, pearls and thousands ... More
Leading the 200-lot picture section was a painting by Roger ‘Syd’ Barrett of Pink Floyd fame, which sold for £28,270 to a collector from Italy, almost six times over its upper estimate of £5,000.
CAMBRIDGE.- Works by some of the biggest names in 20th century art, furniture-making and sculpture went under the hammer at the Cheffins Art & Design Auction on 27th May, with the sale grossing over £465,840 in total. Leading the 200-lot picture section was a painting by Roger ‘Syd’ Barrett of Pink Floyd fame, which sold for £28,270 to a collector from Italy, almost six times over its upper estimate of £5,000. Also amongst the pictures was an original sketch by Laurence Stephen Lowry, from a private UK-based collection which sold for £12,293. From another stalwart of 20th century art was a self-portrait by John Northcote Nash, circa 1945, which sold for £5,693 whilst another lot which drew much attention was a triptych of divers by German artist Adam Marian Pete which sold for £18,116. Lithographs and prints also appeared to be continually in demand, with a picture titled ‘Horse Dealers’ dating from 1919 ... More
Johann Eusebius Alphen, Portrait of a Lady in Blue Dress, 1767. Watercolour and gouache on ivory. NMB 2786. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.-Nationalmuseum has acquired two portraits of women created by the Austrian court miniaturist Johann Eusebius Alphen in 1767. The portrayals of the models are unusually vivid, and the artist has even been carefully rendering the setting. The two portraits are unique because few signed works by Alphen have survived, as the artist was just 31 years old when he died. In the mid-18th century, if a young artist wanted to further educate himself in miniature painting, Paris was one of the most interesting places to be. The city’s leading name was Jean-Baptiste Massé, a member of the academy and royal court painter. He revitalised miniature painting with his loose and unconventional brush technique. By this time Massé was no longer active as an artist, because he had started to have problems with his eyesight around 1740 and therefore declined to take on any more royal commissions. Although Massé had essentially ceased painting, h ... More
A man looks at the exhibits of the new Athens Olympic Museum on May 25, 2021. Aris MESSINIS / AFP.
by Alexandros Kottis
ATHENS(AFP).- It's been a long time coming -- around 3,000 years by some reckoning. But Athens finally has a museum to celebrate that most famous of Greek sporting achievements. The Olympic Games trace their origins to Greek athletic contests so ancient their history is lost in myth. The country has been at the heart of their revival too: Athens hosted the first games of the modern era in 1896, and held them again in 2004. Visitors to the newly opened Olympic museum in the Greek capital -- housed in the renovated TV centre for the 2004 event -- can take in the mix of myth and modern magic. Opened in time for the pandemic-blighted Tokyo Games, the museum blends displays from the ancient world with more modern memorabilia -- with many items donated by the nation's leading sportspeople, along with historical pieces charting the movement's modern foundation. Part of the Olympic museum network ... More
Edward S. Curtis, The Piki Maker, 1910, Orotone, signed in the image; caption label affixed on the original Curtis Studio frame backing. 14 x 11in (35.5 x 28cm); original Curtis Studio frame, Estimate: $5,000-7,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On June 30, Bonhams will sell what is believed to be the largest single-owner collection of photography from premier American photographer Edward S. Curtis (1869-1952). Curtis was a skilled photographer and documentarian of the American West and at the height of his career a nationally celebrated figure, counting President Theodore Roosevelt among his admirers. This never-before-seen collection comes to Bonhams Los Angeles from Dr. Billy Utley, distinguished Southern California collector, and Curtis family friend. All lots on offer are fresh to market, acquired by Utley in large part directly via Curtis’s daughter Elizabeth “Beth” Curtis and her husband, Manford “Mag” Magnuson. Among the many sale highlights is the largest known orotone print of Canon de Chelley. This photograph, considered to be a seminal ... More
The new French edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf", "Historicising Evil, A Critical Edition of Mein Kampf." Thomas SAMSON / AFP.
by Aurelien Breeden
PARIS(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A new, heavily annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was published in France on Wednesday, aiming to break down his hate-filled, anti-Semitic ideology with expert analysis and a new translation that better conveys the original text’s muddled prose. Published by Fayard, a French publishing house, the book — “Historicizing Evil: A Critical Edition of Mein Kampf” — runs to nearly 1,000 pages, with twice as much commentary as text. Scholars, researchers and teachers are the main target audience. “Mein Kampf,” or “My Struggle,” the Nazi leader’s manifesto and memoir, first appeared as two volumes in 1925 and 1927 and was banned in Germany by the Allies in 1945. It was not officially published again there until 2016, when a team of scholars and historians released a nearly ... More
The Milky Way beside the Man, 2019. Photo by Vanessa Franking.
NEW YORK, NY.- Burning Man Project, the nonprofit that produces the Burning Man event in Black Rock City, and Sotheby’s announced their collaboration on a Fall 2021 charitable online auction, public exhibition and event series. Boundless Space… The Possibilities of Burning Man will introduce fresh audiences to the remarkable creativity that has emerged from Burning Man culture, opening up new opportunities for cross pollination and collaboration between two global communities of artists, art lovers, and patrons. The sale will offer eclectic, genre-defying artworks and experiences from artists and collectors within and adjacent to the global Burning Man community, with bidding on some lots starting at no minimum to ensure that the broadest possible audience can participate. An accompanying public exhibition hosted at Sotheby’s New York will immerse visitors in the world of Burning Man and participating artists through installations, ... More
David Diop, the author of “At Night All Blood Is Black,” at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, May 17, 2021. Elliott Verdier/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- “At Night All Blood Is Black,” a short novel about a Senegalese soldier’s descent into madness while fighting for France in World War I, was named Wednesday as the winner of the International Booker Prize, the prestigious award for fiction translated into English. David Diop, the book’s author, shares the prize of 50,000 pounds, about $71,000, with Anna Moschovakis, who translated the work from its original French. Diop’s main character kills German soldiers, then cuts off their hands, partly to avenge a friend’s death, and Lucy Hughes-Hallett, chair of the judging panel, said in an online news conference that the novel was both “frightening” and “appalling” in its violence. But she said that bloodiness didn’t lessen the novel’s importance. “The whole of tragedy depends on the ... More
A cat walks across a new path for disabled people in front of the Parthenon temple at the Acropolis Archaeological site. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / POOL / AFP
ATHENS(AFP).- Greece's culture ministry on Wednesday said it would improve disability access to the Acropolis, the country's top archaeological monument, as a row over a recent makeover rages on. In collaboration with Greek associations for people with disabilities, the ministry said signs in Braille and bold would be installed for visitors with visual impairments, in addition to scaled models of the monuments. Handrails and slope warning signs will also be introduced, the ministry said in a statement. The planned works will make the Acropolis "fully accessible", the ministry said. The move comes after months of controversy over a new concrete walkway installed at the Acropolis late last year, part of an ongoing restoration project. A retired member of the Acropolis restoration team, Tassos Tanoulas, wrote in an open letter in November that the new concrete installation was "foreign" and "stifling" to the ... More
Hashim Sarkis, the curator the 17th International Architecture Biennale. “The pandemic will hopefully go away,” said Sarkis. “But unless we address these causes, we will not be able to move forward.” Jacopo Salvi, via La Biennale di Venezia via The New York Times.
VENICE(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was perhaps inevitable that many of the questions asked of Hashim Sarkis, curator of the 17th International Architecture Biennale, during the event’s media preview, were about the pandemic. After all, the exhibition, which opened in May and runs through Nov. 21, got bumped by a year, and various restrictions remain in place, limiting travel to Venice. And after a bizarre 15 months that blurred the boundaries between the office and home, and challenged the very theme of the Biennale’s main exhibition — “How Will We Live Together?” — it was only natural for journalists to ask, “in a persistent and anxious way,” as Sarkis put it at the news conference, “how the pandemic changed architecture and ... More
Huang Yuxing, Pine by the pink sea, 2021. Acrylic on Canvas, 70 x 90 cm. 27 1/2 x 35 3/8 in.
BRUSSELS.-Almine Rech Brussels is presenting Heaps of Brocade and Ash 锦灰堆, the first exhibition by Chinese artist Huang Yuxing with the gallery. Comprising 23 works dating from 2015 until 2021, the exhibition explores the mainstays of Huang’s visual language that pervade his artistic practice. Centered around humans’ relationship with the natural world, works on display present landscapes imagined, abstracted or otherwise in an electric palette that is all about individualistic, personal expression. Best known for his often large-scale and vibrant paintings, Huang graduated from the mural painting department of Beijing’s Central Academy for Fine Arts in 2000. Shortly after, a formative trip to Lhasa inspired a lifelong interest in both Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, which would go on to lend his work a spiritual quality grounded in humanity. Since then, he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibiti ... More
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Sarah Clunis named curator of African collections at Harvard's Peabody Museum CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University is pleased to announce that Dr. Sarah Clunis has accepted the position of Director of Academic Partnerships and Curator of African Collections to start on August 30, 2021. "The Peabody’s collection offered me a mirror when I was studying in Boston as a teenager and later as a college student. As both an immigrant and a woman of color, the collection gave me important insight into how the material culture of underrepresented communities can be a key factor in promoting more diverse and inclusive perspectives." —Dr. Sarah Clunis Dr. Clunis is originally from Kingston, Jamaica and received her PhD in art history in 2006 from the University of Iowa. She joins the Peabody Museum from Louisiana's Xavier University where she is director of the Xavier University Art Gallery, supervisor of ... More
Morphy's adds collectible sneakers, baseball cards to June 16-17 Toy & General Collectibles Auction lineup DENVER, PA.- Whether they’re European antiques, American tin vehicles or postwar favorites from Japan’s golden era of robot production, toys are on a roll. Seasoned collectors are doubling down on their acquisitions while also being joined by a whole new group of international collectors who’ve caught the toy bug. With Internet live bidding available to virtually everyone, Morphy’s toy auctions have become the vibrant epicenter for the global toy hobby. Their June 16-17 auction includes not only a fantastic selection of toys and trains, but also holiday antiques, baseball cards and approximately 100 pairs of collectible sneakers. The two-day event, which incorporates general collectibles, opens with Lehmann and other early German toys, followed by two dozen European and American board games, and everyone’s favorite: vintage Halloween items. The colorful 30-lot grouping ... More
2 rare bottles of wine from famous Tokaj region to be offered at auction LONDON.- Two bottles of incredibly rare 1889 Tokaji Essencia, Zimmerman Lipot from Hungary’s most renowned wine region Tokaj and from the most famous family to produce it, will be offered in Dreweatts Fine and Rare Wine and Spirits sale on July 8, 2021. The Tokaji Blend is a term used to describe the varietal composition of the revered wines of Tokaj, Hungary and the area and vineyard, which have an impassioned history, centred around the first winemakers of the region, the Jewish Zimmerman family. The Zimmermann family were wealthy Jewish landowners, creating the region's legendary sweet wine from first-growth vineyards from the 19th century until World War II. They had numerous vineyards across Tokaj and approximately 60 cellars and lived in an elegant townhouse in Mád, as well as having a second residence in Abaújszántó. Highly successful, their wines were prized, ... More
Digital be damned! Welcome to shows you can touch and feel. NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Striding across the plaza at Lincoln Center on a Saturday afternoon, past the bronze Henry Moore figure reclining in the reflecting pool, a man and a woman debated the sheep on the hill. Up ahead, off to their left, a small woolly flock had gathered. He was sure that they were actual animals, these five grown sheep and one darling lamb, each with its own shepherd in head-to-toe black. She argued the opposite, and was correct: These were life-size puppets, their shepherds puppeteers, and this was a pop-up performance. Under one of those broad-brimmed hats, maneuvering a long-lashed, tan-faced sheep named the Shredder, was puppeteer Basil Twist. Yet with theater beginning its cautious tiptoe back from the sterility of the screen to the vitality (or so we hope) of in-person performance, these puppet sheep had a kind of realness that I’ve craved. ... More
Dan Frank, adventurous book editor, dies at 67 NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Dan Frank, who as editorial director of Pantheon Books discerned in journalism and comics the potential for enduring books and introduced authors like Joseph Mitchell to tens of thousands of readers, died on May 24 in Manhattan. He was 67. His death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was caused by cancer, his wife, Patricia Lowy, said. Running Pantheon from 1996 until last year, Frank edited books that earned critical praise, awards and rankings on bestseller lists. He edited Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road” (2006), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and published a translation of Marjane Satrapi’s illustrated memoir, “Persepolis” (2003), which became an acclaimed movie. He helped shape some of the historian Jill Lepore’s most popular books, among them “The Secret History of Wonder Woman” (2014), along with multiple books by ... More
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' onstage. A nightmare off it. LONDON(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At the Globe theater in London one recent Thursday was a sight Shakespeare could have related to: 11 actors larking about onstage rehearsing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” while beneath them stood director Sean Holmes, looking furious. “Listen please, everyone,” Holmes said. “Can we do the scene again, even if it’s a bit of a car crash?” Everyone stopped joking and got into place. Then Peter Bourke, playing fairy king Oberon, started singing: “Now until the break of day, through this house each fairy stray.” Soon, the rest of the cast took over, and everyone crept offstage through two huge doors, getting quieter and quieter, as if trying to lull onlookers to sleep with their song. The performance was perfect. But Holmes didn’t look happy. That day’s rehearsal, he said, wasn’t about the onstage action, but ensuring the 11 actors could get off, change ... More
Auction features strong selection of meteorites, fossils, gemstones and lapidary arts DALLAS, TX.- A wide array of Natural History collectibles will find new homes in Heritage Auctions’ curated Nature & Science Signature Auction June 17. “This auction has an incredible array of quality treasures across all categories of Natural History, specifically Fine Minerals, Fossils, Meteorites, Gemstones and Lapidary Arts,” Heritage Auctions Nature & Science Director Craig Kissick said. “From ‘one-of-a-kind’ and singular specimens to multiple examples of popular groups like Petrified Wood and Opals. Size, quality, uniqueness, rarity and locality were among the criteria we used to put together such an impressive assortment of finer specimens. From the beginning novice to most seasoned collector, there is something for everyone with an interest in the natural world including Outer Space.” A Sweet Home Rhodochrisite (estimate: $60,000-80,000) comes from the Colorado mine that ... More
Fine European art offered at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- A strong selection of coveted 19th- and 20th-century paintings headlines the European Art Auction June 4 at Heritage Auctions. A particular highlight of the auction is the selection of important paintings by Franz Richard Unterberger, Félix Ziem, Antonio Maria de Reyna Manescau and Montague Dawson from the Estate of Kenneth Alan Hill, Sr. of Fort Worth, Texas. Born to a third-generation ranching family in 1941, Hill was educated as a pharmacist and presciently realized in the early 1970s that all pharmacies would eventually be controlled by computer systems. He thus embarked on a lucrative 35-year career of overseeing software and services for the retail pharmacy industry, founding several companies along the way. With his fortune he built palatial homes on Possum Kingdom Lake, on the Venetian Islands in Miami and in Fort Worth, where he displayed his ... More
Manuscript penned by Sir Isaac Newton soars to $118,750 in University Archives auction WILTON, CONN.- A manuscript penned by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), with mathematical notes and calculations relating to Book III of his iconic scientific work Principia, changed hands for $118,750 in University Archives’ online-only auction of rare autographs, manuscripts, artwork and comic art held on May 26th. It was the top-selling item of the 409 lots in the sale. “We’re still experiencing strong prices and keen new interests in many areas,” said University Archives president and owner John Reznikoff. “We’ve sold over three million dollars of items at auction so far this year, and we are not even at the halfway mark. This is another banner year.” The rare and important two-page (front and back) manuscript, written by Newton circa 1715-1725, was believed to relate to Newton’s De Mundi Systemate (or Book III of the Principia). It was a set of mathematical notes containing several ... More
Contemporary art at auction June 10: Alice Neel, Elaine de Kooning, Kara Walker & more NEW YORK, NY.-Swann Galleries’ sale of Contemporary Art on Thursday, June 10 will feature impressive works from blue-chip artists working across the different schools of the last several decades. The sale is led by Photorealist pioneer John Salt with the 1969 Riviera 2—a hyper-realistic oil-on-canvas work of a car interior, a common motif in his works ($30,000-50,000). During Salt’s time teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art his style evolved into the photorealist manner seen in Riviera 2 through discovering the work of photographers such as Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. Artists also practicing in photorealism include Vija Celmins with Comet, linoleum cut, 1992 ($12,00-18,000); Richard Estes with Qualicraft Shoes, color screenprint, 1974 ($3,000-5,000); and Howard Kanocitz with André Champagne, color screenprint, 1972, and Street Scene, color screenprint, ... More
Fine autographs and artifacts featuring art and literature up for auction BOSTON, MASS.-RR Auction's June Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale brings almost 900 lots to the auction block, featuring robust art and literature sections with online bidding through June 16. Highlights include an F. Scott Fitzgerald signed book: The Beautiful and Damned. First edition, second printing, first state: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hardcover bound in dark bluish green cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with dust jacket, 449 pages. Signed and inscribed on a free end page in fountain pen, "For George W. Stair, from F. Scott Fitzgerald, New York City.” George W. Stair was a noted bookman who originally owned and operated a rare bookstore near Rockefeller Center. Despite disappointing reviews, rare book dealers like George Stair recognized Scott Fitzgerald’s potential and considered acquiring his signature on a first edition a significant association. Jack Kerouac hand ... More
On a day like today, French painter Raoul Dufy was born
January 03, 1877. Raoul Dufy (3 June 1877 - 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces. In this image: A woman looks at artworks by late French painter Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) exhibited at the Beaux-Arts museum of Nice, on June 18, 2015, as part of the cultural event "Nice 2015. Promenade(s) des Anglais".
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