One of the two statues of a Caryatid inside the Kasta Tumulus in ancient Amphipolis, northern Greece. The excavations at the ancient tomb of Amphipolis uncovered two Caryatids- half-bodied marble female statues. AFP PHOTO /GREEK MINISTRY OF CULTURE.
ATHENS(AFP).- Two stunning caryatid statues have been unearthed holding up the entrance to the biggest ancient tomb ever found in Greece, archaeologists said. The two female figures in long-sleeved tunics were found standing guard at the opening to the mysterious Alexander The Great-era tomb near Amphipolis in the Macedonia region of northern Greece. "The left arm of one and the right arm of the other are raised in a symbolic gesture to refuse entry to the tomb," a statement from the culture ministry said Saturday. Speculation is mounting that the tomb, which dates from Alexander's lifetime (356-323BC), may be untouched, with its treasures intact. Previous evacuations of Macedonian tombs have uncovered amazing ... More
Van Gogh’ is the first English language feature film biopic about Vincent Van Gogh since Kirk Douglas' 1956 movie ‘Lust for Life’.
NEW YORK, NY.- After an extensive search to find the right helmer for their biopic of legendary Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, Kalliope Films has chosen award winning Swedish director, Daniel Fridell, to direct the movie. Fridell, whom critics have compared to 'a young Milos Forman,' has directed acclaimed films in his native Sweden. His films ‘Say That You Love Me’ and ‘Beneath the Surface’ both won the prestigious 'Swedish Oscar,' (Guldbagge Award). Now that they have a director, the filmmakers are currently seeking an actor to play the iconic title role of Vincent Van Gogh. ‘Van Gogh’ is the first English language feature film biopic about Vincent Van Gogh since Kirk Douglas' 1956 movie ‘Lust for Life’. It is also the first Van Gogh biopic to portray Vincent's entire life, starting from his childhood in Zundert, The Netherlands. Previous film and TV portrayals of the painter, started the 'camer ... More
Lawrence Holofcener, Allies. Inscribed L Holofcener. Bronze, 123 by 183 by 93cm., 48⅜ by 72 by 36.in. Conceived in 1995 and cast in bronze in an edition of 7 by the Bronze Age Foundry in London.
LONDON.-Sotheby’s unveiled this year’s Beyond Limits selling exhibition, held in the historic grounds of Chatsworth, ancestral seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and one of Europe’s greatest private houses. The 22 sculptures selected for this year’s show include works by established modern masters such as Aristide Maillol, Eduardo Chillida, Germaine Richier and Giacomo Manzù in addition to leading contemporary artists such as Marc Quinn, Christopher Le Brun, Lawrence Holofcener and Michal Rovner, as well as China’s celebrated Xu Bing. Now in its ninth year, Beyond Limits has firmly established itself as one of the most prestigious platforms for the display and sale of modern and contemporary outdoor sculpture and a key event in the arts calendar. The exhibition opened to the public on 8th September and will run until 26th October 2014. Sotheby’s Simon Stock, curator ... More
The Senufo Female Statue (Deble). Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 11 November 2014 Sotheby’s New York will present In Pursuit of Beauty: The Myron Kunin Collection of African Art in a single owner sale of approximately 190 lots, estimated to fetch $20-30 million. Assembled by Myron Kunin, whose Regis
Corporation incorporates over 10,000 salons worldwide including brands from Supercuts to Vidal Sassoon and Jean-Louis David, the collection is considered to be among the finest private groups of non-western art in the world. The outstanding highlight of the sale will be The Senufo Female Statue (Deble), Ivory Coast, one of the most iconic and widely-published works of African Art (Estimate upon request). The pre-sale exhibition opens in New York on 8 November with highlights being shown in Paris from 9-22 September. Heinrich Schweizer, Head of Sotheby’s African and Oceanic Art Department, recalls: “Myron Kunin was one of the most passionate, knowledgeable, and uncompromising coll ... More
Photographer unknown, David Lynch painting Small Boy in His Room with Pete Goes to His Girlfriend’s House, 2009 Courtesy of the artist.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.-The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts presents David Lynch: The Unified Field, on view September 13, 2014 through January 11, 2015. The Unified Field will be the first major U.S. museum exhibition of internationally-renowned filmmaker and PAFA alumnus David Lynch (b. 1946), featuring works from all periods of Lynch’s career. The exhibition will feature approximately 90 paintings and drawings from 1965 to the present, many of which have rarely been seen in public. Included will be a section exploring his early work and its origins in Philadelphia (1965-70), which was a critical time in Lynch’s creative development. “PAFA’s tradition of teaching emerging artists the figurative tradition found one if its most outrageously exhilarating practitioners in David Lynch. We are delighted to showcase Lynch’s artwork in our Frank Furness building—the very place where his darkly human, body-centric artistic ... More
The first 1832 journal from Mormon Church founder, Joseph Smith is displayed at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Church History Library. George Frey/Getty Images/AFP.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- An exhibit featuring some of the early documents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is on public display at the Church History Library on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Foundations of Faith includes 26 books, manuscripts and other historical documents that date back to the 19th century and the beginnings of Mormonism. The Church was organized in 1830 by the faith’s first prophet, Joseph Smith, who Latter-day Saints believe translated the Book of Mormon from an ancient record he was led to by God. Items of note in the exhibit include: a portion of the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon; first editions of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price; a copy of the Book of Commandments, considered one of the rarest books in the collection; Joseph Smith’s journal from 1832 to 1834; the minute book from the Female Relief Society ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Beginning today, Hauser & Wirth presents a selection of early works by Vienna Actionists Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. ‘RITE OF PASSAGE: The Early Years of Vienna Actionism, 1960 – 1966’ is the first major New York City exhibition to explore, through rare paintings, collages, and photographs, the emergence of a critical 20th-century avant-garde movement. Curated by Hubert Klocker, the exhibition will be on view through 25 October at Hauser & Wirth’s uptown location. As early as 1966, Vienna Actionism received critical international recognition. At the core, the movement was shaped by the need to free itself from the traditions of painting. While each Actionist found his own independent form of expression, the group’s actions became a continuation of pictorial thinking manifested in real time and space. Use of the body ... More
Georg Baselitz, Fingermalerei – Akt (Finger Painting – Nude). Oil on canvas 78¾ x 63¾in. (200 x 162cm.) Painted in 1972. Est: £800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2014.
LONDON.-Christie’s announced the sale of 44 major Post-War works from The Essl Collection which will be sold in a landmark, stand-alone evening auction in London on Monday, 13 October 2014. The sale will comprise of masterpieces by the giants of German Post-War and Contemporary Art including Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, Martin Kippenberger, Sigmar Polke and Neo Rauch, as well as major works by international artists such as Cindy Sherman, Frank Stella, Louise Bourgeois and Morris Louis. The selection for sale has been carefully made from the Museum’s holding of 7,000 works and will reflect the quality and breadth of the Museum’s collection, which has been put together with great care by Agnes and Karlheinz Essl over a period of 50 years. Included in the sale will also be two ... More
'The Vortex Jar', est. $2.5/3 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 16 September 2014 at 10am Sotheby’s New York Asian Art series of auctions will be led by the prestigious single-owner sale of Chinese Art through the Eye of Sakamoto Gorō: Song Ceramics. Regarded as the highest form of ceramic art in the world, this group of eight Song pieces was assembled by the legendary collector Sakamoto Gorō and has remained unseen in his collection for many years. Song Ceramics have been revered for centuries in Japan and the pieces in the sale represent the pinnacle of these quietly sophisticated forms. Henry Howard-Sneyd, Vice Chairman of the Americas, Asian Art commented: “With their rarity and storied provenances these eight Song pieces exemplify the elegant subtlety of these Chinese ceramics, as well as their historic importance. Having literally passed through the hands of some of the field’s most famed collectors they now come from the collection of Sakamoto Goro ... More
Dorothy Cross, Paper Mountain, 2014. Cast paper (9 elements), wooden table, 105 x 92 x 62 cm., 41.3 x 36.2 x 24.4 in. All images courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
DUBLIN.-Kerlin Gallery announces View, an exhibition of new work by Dorothy Cross. View includes a series of new sculptures and photographs. The works are exemplary of the artist’s complex exploration of the connection between humans and the natural world, playing with material, relationship and time. The exhibition captures the artist’s ongoing compulsion to agitate possibilities for new perspectives and points of view. Working with the flood of natural light from a normally hidden window in the west wall of the Kerlin Gallery space, a line of sculptures runs the length of the gallery. Photographs that refer to the exquisite views of the landscape of her surroundings in Connemara hang with more desolate images of past phases of life. Within the spine of sculptures, Cross continues her ... More
Dr. Pisano’s announcement follows the successful completion of a decade-long initiative that remade virtually every aspect of the museum. Photo: Christina Gandolfo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sarah Meeker Jensen, President of the Board of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Chairman, today announced that Dr. Jane G. Pisano has informed the Board of her intention to retire as President and Director of the institution she has led since 2001. Dr. Pisano is credited with having transformed NHM—inside and out—into a premier cultural destination and nature experience in Los Angeles, and a national leader in uniting scientific research with public education. To ensure a seamless transition into the future, Dr. Pisano will continue to lead the NHM Family of Museums—NHM in Exposition Park, the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits and the William S. Hart Park and Museum—until a new Director has been selected. Sarah Meeker Jensen, Paul Haaga and fellow Board member Richard Volpert are forming a Trustee committee to begin an extensive international ... More
Zhang Daqian’s Portrait Of Avalokitesvara From Dunhuang Buddhist Cave, est. $2.6/3.2 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 18 September 2014 Sotheby’s New York will present the bi annual various-owner Fine Classical Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy sale immediately followed by a single owner auction from the Collection of General and Mrs. Zhu. The sales include a range of calligraphy by masters such as Wang Shouren, Xie Jin, Wen Zhengming, and Ni Yuanlu, and Classical paintings by Zheng Xie, Tang Yin, and Chen Hongshou among others. The full offering goes on view on Friday 12 September. The various owner sale is led by Chen Hongshou’s Figures from 1650 (est. $800,000/1.2 million). The painting beautifully represents the artist’s skill at capturing the human form and comes from an important Singapore collection. Zheng Xie was one of the ‘Eight Eccentrics’ – a group of Qing Dynasty artists who pioneered a new bold and experimental approach to painting. Bamboo and Rock is a well preserved large-scale example from this per ... More
Willem van Genk, Untitled (New York Proclamed . . . N. Petrov) The Hague, Netherlands, c. 1973. Mixed media on assembled millboards. Framed: 26 ½ x 64 ¼ x 1 in. Collection Foundation Willem van Genk, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, 210302100. Photo: Guido Suykens, Ghent.
NEW YORK, NY.- The first US monographic exhibition of works of the internationally-acclaimed Dutch artist Willem van Genk (1927-2005) will be on view from September 10 through November 30, 2014 at the American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square in New York City. Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic will include 43 works: 17 large-scale paintings; collages; drawings; sketches and personal notes; and a selection of the artist’s sculptures of trolleys. Additionally, an installation of twenty raincoats owned by the artist, among many others he collected throughout his lifetime, will be on view. The exhibition is organized by Dr. Valérie Rousseau, American Folk Art Museum Curator of Art of the Self-Taught and Art Brut, and by Patrick Allegaert and Yoon Hee Lamot, both Curators at the Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium. “We take great pride in ... More
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The Jewish Museum and Russ & Daughters announce new partnership NEW YORK, NY.-The Jewish Museum is partnering with Russ & Daughters, famed 100 year old New York City appetizing shop and restaurant purveyors of the highest quality smoked fish, caviar, and specialty foods, to launch an additional dining and retail location in the Museum, set to open in early 2015. Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum will be a 75-seat, sit-down kosher café and take-out retail counter in the Museum's lower level. The space is currently undergoing a renovation led by Solomonoff Architecture Studio, blending the design of the iconic Russ & Daughters shop with the Museum's historic building. The museum's café is closed for renovation through the opening in early 2015. "One of our priorities has been to enhance the visitor experience," said Claudia Gould, the Museum's Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director. "Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum will ... More
Pérez Art Museum Miami examines evolution of printmaking in US MIAMI, FL.- On September 10, Pérez Art Museum Miami will open an exhibition exploring the evolution of fine printmaking in the United States in the period following 1960. The exhibition will feature several important prints and multiples gifted to PAMM from Holding Capital Group Inc., including works by Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist. These works will be augmented by additional prints and objects loaned from the Holding Capital Group collection, which has been carefully assembled over the last thirty years and illuminates the significance of printmaking within the contemporary art context. On view through March 1, 2015, Beyond the Limited Life of Painting: Prints and Multiples from the Holding Capital Group will include works by Ellsworth Kelly, Jane Hammond, Sol LeWitt, Elizabeth Murray, Isamu Noguchi, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol, among ... More
'Over Here: World War I Posters from Around the World' opens at the Boston Athenæum BOSTON, MASS.- “Over Here: World War I Posters from Around the World,” on view at the Boston Athenæum September 10, 2014 through January 31, 2015, is timed to coincide with centennial observances of World War I in Europe and the United States. The exhibition features 44 framed posters from Great Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Canada, Ireland, and other nations as well as cases with leaflets, maps, magazines, postcards, and a recently acquired, printed French handkerchief given to American soldiers serving in France. The selection presents striking but rarely seen images from one of the most critical moments in world history. The works are drawn from several important World War I collections now in the Athenæum, started during the war by Boston collectors who were as young as ten. Catharina Slautterback, the Boston Athenæum’s curator of prints and photographs, ... More
The Cosmos of Denis Brihat opens at Nailya Alexander Gallery NEW YORK, NY.-Nailya Alexander Gallery presents The Cosmos of Denis Brihat, opening on September 10th from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition will run through November 8th at the Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, Suite 704 (corner of Madison Avenue). Gallery hours are 11am-6pm, Tuesday through Saturday, and by appointment. Denis Brihat (b. 1928, Paris) first made his photographs in 1943. In 1948, he attended the Rue de Vaugirard photography school, and in 1955 encouraged by Robert Doisneau, he started working for the RAPHO agency. Brihat spent a year (1955-1956) photographing in India, where he produced work that won him the Prix Niepce in 1956 and an exhibition at the Société Française de Photographie. In 1958, he moved to Provence, where he settled at Bonnieux to concentrate on his personal research and the themes of nature. Living in seclusion on the then deserted ... More
Brooklyn Museum launches initiative to provide visitors access to experts via mobile technology BROOKLYN, NY.-The Brooklyn Museum will launch a three-year program enabling visitors to utilize their mobile devices to interact in real time with Museum experts. The initiative is designed to greatly enhance the visitor experience and allow the Museum to spot trends in visitor interest throughout its collections as part of the Bloomberg Connects program, which increases access to cultural institutions through technology. This marks the first phase in an initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies that will enable the Museum to better serve all visitors. Testing of the mobile app will begin in the fall of 2014, with public engagement in the spring of 2015. In subsequent years, the initiative will integrate the mobile experience with wayfinding throughout the building using digital signage, the creation of conversational spaces, and rethinking the visitor’s entry experience at the Museum. In the ... More
Inaugural exhibition at Parafin presents new paintings by the young Czech artist Hynek Martinec LONDON.-Parafin presents the inaugural exhibition at its gallery at 18 Woodstock Street, Mayfair, showing new paintings by the young Czech artist Hynek Martinec (b. 1980). Martinec’s works are ambitious statements about time, spirituality and the nature of reality. Martinec’s extraordinary hyperrealist paintings combine a deep commitment to art history with contemporary subject matter. Known primarily for an ongoing series of photorealist portraits depicting his partner Zuzana, which have been exhibited internationally, Martinec’s new project is a series of large-scale monochrome paintings, collectively entitled ‘Every Minute You Are Closer to Death’. These technically astonishing works depict carefully contrived compositions that play with the archetypes of the devotional picture and the vanitas. Traditional signifiers of mortality such as dead animals, skulls, candles and empty bottles are mixed with ... More
The Olympic Museum celebrates 30th anniversary of the Games in Los Angeles with exhibition LAUSANNE.- To mark the 30th anniversary of the Games of the Olympiad in Los Angeles, The Olympic Museum is taking a look back at the colourful world of 1984 with the exhibition “Los Angeles 1984 - Colorful L.A.”. This exhibition is divided into two sections: as from 24 July, a selection of 38 photos has been on display on the Quais d'Ouchy, on the shore of Lake Geneva in front of The Museum. From 25 August until 23 November, 15 art posters, which were created specially for the Games, are on show in the Art Lounge inside The Museum, entitled The Los Angeles Olympic Suite. The 1980s were marked by non-conformism, eccentricity, audacity and joie de vivre. All of these elements are clearly expressed in the stylistic vocabulary chosen by the organisers of the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, with its fun approach and acid colours. In this context, the Organising Committee approached ... More
Second solo exhibition by American artist Mary Reid Kelley with Pilar Corrias opens in London LONDON.-Pilar Corrias presents Swinburne’s Pasiphae, the second solo exhibition by American artist Mary Reid Kelley with the gallery, featuring a new film alongside props, drawings, and photographic portraits. Swinburne’s Pasiphae (2014) follows Priapus Agonistes (2013) in an ongoing trilogy that explores the mythological Minotaur’s tragic family tree. For the first time Reid Kelley adapts an existing text, using Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne’s dramatic fragment Pasiphae to tell the unlikely story of the Minotaur’s conception. Unpublished during Swinburne’s lifetime, probably due to its shocking sexual theme, the poem stages an interaction between master artisan Daedalus and the Minotaur’s mother, the bewitched Minoan Queen Pasiphae, who is cursed with an insatiable wish to mate with a beautiful bull. Symbolising, respectively, reckless creative power and the torment ... More
Rare handwritten war poem by A.E. Housman-The Tommies favourite writer- for sale at Bonhams LONDON.- A handwritten draft of a war poem by A. E. Housman, whose Shropshire Lad cycle of poems was among soldiers’ favourite reading in the trenches in the First World War, is to be sold at Bonhams First World War Centenary Sale in London on 1 October. It is estimated at £10,000-15,000. The poem, Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries, was Houseman’s retort to German insults at the beginning of the war that the British army – which was a professional force - was fighting for money and not patriotism. The much larger French, Russian and German armies were mainly made up of conscripts. Housman uses the concept of mercenary ironically to honour the British soldiers who fought and died at the Battle of Ypres in October 1914. These ‘Old Contemptibles’ as they called themselves, saved the nation and paid with their lives. “Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, ... More
Deweer Gallery inaugurates new series of exhibitions presenting surprising, young contemporary artists OTEGEM.- Occasionally, the gallery discovers a young artist that they would like to present to their audience right away out of pure enthusiasm. This is why Deweer Gallery initiates Breeze: a series of recurring exhibitions in which they will present surprising, young contemporary artists they have come into contact with in the international circuit. This first edition of Breeze features works by Gabriele Beveridge, Buck Ellison and Michael Seidner. With realistic yet enigmatic works, Buck Ellison pushes the limits of photography as a form of representation. Experimenting with stereotypical approaches taken from all kinds of photographic genres, he creates fascinating, new images which do not reveal all their meaning and critical potential at once. Buck Ellison was born in San Francisco, US, in 1987, and now lives in Frankfurt am Main and San Francisco. He studied at the Columbia University, ... More
Tokyo Chuo Auction 2014 September Tokyo Sales achieve record-breaking results TOKYO.-Tokyo Chuo Auction concluded its autumn sales held on 4-6 September 2014 at Tokyo Dome Hotel with fantastic results. Bidding was frenzied throughout the three-day sale, driving the prices of many lots well above their pre-sale estimates. Works of high quality, rarity and exceptional provenance were highly sought-after by collectors. The top selling lot was a superb painting, Figures under the Pine Tree, by the Ming Dynasty master Qiu Ying (c. 1482-1559) which realized a record price of JPY801,780,000/ US$7,616,910 after spirited bidding, multiple times the pre-sale estimate of JPY400,000-500,000. It also became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in Japan. A spectacular painting Landscape in Snow by Yuan Ying of the Qing Dynasty achieved JPY278,880,000/ US$2,649,360, far exceeding its estimate of JPY800,000-1,000,000. A scroll featuring calligraphy ... More
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September 10, 1933. Karl Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 - 19 February 2019) was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. In this image: German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause at the end of the presentation of the Fendi women's Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Silvia Venturini Fendi, Italian fashion designer and head of accessories of the Fendi fashion house at right.
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