OAKLAND, CA.- Over the past several weeks, I have been writing about the fascinating background of antique Caucasian rugs woven during the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving (ca. 1800 to ca. 1910). In the articles, I described the harsh conditions that the tribes encountered and how they expressed their view of life and the cosmos through the rugs. In this, the third and final installment, I will be looking more closely at specific symbols that they, primarily women, wove into the rugs and the meaning of each. Wheel of Life Appearing throughout time in numerous cultures, this ancient mandala shows life's ever-changing yet cyclical nature. The tribal people believed life’s events were not haphazard. Instead, they were gifts that, if embraced, could support one to grow. The mandala’s latch hooks encircling the wheel are associated with the dragon symbol. Small stars were often placed within the wheel, perhaps to demonstrate the potential fruit of facing life’s events with bala ... More
Portrait of Renoir, 1867. Frédéric Bazille (French, 1841–1870). Oil on canvas; 40.5 x 33 cm.
CLEVELAND, OH.-The Cleveland Museum of Art continues to actively engage with the global art market despite travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The museum has recently made important acquisitions that it looks forward to sharing with its visitors in the months ahead. Recent acquisitions include three objects in stone and ceramic that enhance the museum’s collection of Pre-Columbian art; a pair of folding screens by Watanabe Shikō, a pioneer of scientific realism in 18th-century Kyoto; a pastel portrait by Simon Vouet who took inspiration from Guido Reni and Caravaggio; a rare portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir by Impressionist Frédéric Bazille; and five photographs by Shawn Walker and Chester Archer Higgins Jr. that build upon the CMA’s broad commitment to diversifying its collections. The Reclining Dog Vessel is a major addition to the CMA’s collection of Chimú and ... More
A 10th century sculpture depicting the Hindu deity Lord Shiva. Three years after returning two stone sculptures, the museum has decided to give back another artwork to Nepal, this one thought to have been stolen from a temple in the Kathmandu Valley. Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday that it will return a religious sculpture from the 10th century to Nepal after researchers found gaps in its provenance record. Experts of the region’s cultural history said that the icon was likely stolen from a temple shrine in the Kathmandu Valley nearly 50 years ago. The sculpture depicts Lord Shiva, a revered Hindu deity, with two disciples in an abode atop Mount Kailash in the Himalayas. Clouds burst from the background of the haloed god, who holds a flask filled with amrita, an ambrosia from the churning of the ocean that represents the origins of life. Acting Consul General Bishnu Prasad Gautam of Nepal said ... More
Martin Wong, Persuit (El Que Gane Pierde - He Who Wins Looses), 1984 (detail). Price Realized: $1,100,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On September 28, Hindman Auctions set a new world auction record for Martin Wong’s Persuit (El Que Gane Pierde - He Who Wins Looses), 1984, which sold for $1.1 million in its Post War & Contemporary Art Auction. Offered with an estimate of $500,000 to $700,000, the work saw competitive bidding and received strong interest from museums and private collectors, with a U.S. institution ultimately emerging as the winning bidder. The painting is from Rumsey Hall School, a coeducational boarding and day school in Washington, Connecticut. Persuit (El Que Gane Pierde - He Who Wins Looses) was the top lot in the Post War & Contemporary Art auction and was among seven auction records set in the sale. The work is acrylic on canvas and measures 48 by 72 inches. Rumsey Hall School was founded in 1900 by Lillias Rumsey Sanford of Seneca Falls, New York and ... More
The Vinland Map was unveiled in 1965 by a Yale team that believed it was made in 1440. A new team found a titanium compound used in inks first produced in the 1920s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doubts crept in around Greenland, which looked so good it was frankly suspicious, and questions soon spread all over the map: about the wormholes, the handwriting and, most important, the weirdly crumbling ink. For over half a century, scholars have fought over the authenticity of the Vinland Map, which Yale University unveiled to the world in 1965; at the time, calling it evidence of Viking explorations in the western Atlantic, the first European depiction of North America and a precious medieval treasure. Yale now says someone duped a lot of people. “The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, the curator of early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, said in a statement this month. “There is no reasonable doubt here. This new analysis should put the matter to rest.” ... More
Hermes porosus crocodile Birkin 35 handbag with silvertone hardware. Sold for £18,500 ($25,350) by Fellows, Birmingham, UK, through thesaleroom.com, September 6, 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.-LiveAuctioneers, one of North America’s favorite destinations for fine and decorative arts, antiques and luxury goods, announced its acquisition by Auction Technology Group plc (LON:ATG). Following the receipt of final approvals required in order to proceed, ATG expects to complete the acquisition shortly. LiveAuctioneers is currently owned by Cove Hill Partners, a Boston-based, long-term oriented private equity firm that invests in consumer internet and technology businesses. ATG’s mission is to be a trusted partner to the auction industry as it continues its structural shift to online, driving the appeal of secondhand items and accelerating the growth of the circular economy. The acquisition of LiveAuctioneers demonstrates ATG’s commitment to helping auctioneers build their businesses and compete with ... More
Emil Nolde, Buchsbaumgarten. Oil on canvas, 1909 (detail). 63 x 78 cm / 24.8 x 30.7 inches. Estimate: € 1,200,000-1,800,000 / US$ 1,440,000-2,160,000.
MUNICH.- “Emil Nolde‘s ‘Buchsbaumgarten‘ is one of the most significant works offered on the German auction market in the last decades“, says Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. Estimated at € 1,200,000- 1,800,0000 it will be called up in the auction at Ketterer Kunst in Munich from December 9 to 11. “The consignors‘ decision to put their trust in a German house – despite strong international competition – means both pleasure and duty to us,“ adds company owner Ketterer. “Our motivation to present this almost legendary masterpiece in due light could not be any higher. The fact that this big restitution case ended with an amicable agreement between all parties is a great stroke of luck for the art market“. Indeed, this inimitable flower piece, which Emil Nolde executed in glowing colors and an impasto brushstroke in 1909, is not only a prime example of t ... More
Dmitriy Nalbandyan, Lenin, 1980-82. Oil on canvas, 204 x 150 cm. VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020, Photo: mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, courtesy: mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, loan of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation.
by Kimberly Bradley
BERLIN.- For nearly 30 years, from the 1960s to the early 1990s, the grand front entrance of the Gropius Bau museum faced the concrete and barbed wire of the Berlin Wall. Visitors came and went through a back door. You now enter through the front, again, but the Gropius Bau’s position on the edge of the East-West divide — now just marked with a double row of cobblestones on the street, tracing the wall’s route — is apt for “The Cool and the Cold: Painting in the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. 1960–1990.” Running through Jan. 9, 2022, this exhibition of 125 paintings from the private Ludwig Collection explores the contrasts, but also the sometimes surprising confluences, of the Cold War’s superpowers, as seen through the work of more than 80 artists. The exhibition opens with an obvious juxtaposition: ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Christie’s announces Classic Week, a marquee series of five live and three online auctions from 1-19 October including Antiquities, Books and Manuscripts, 19th century European Art, Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, The Exceptional Sale, as well as a dedicated single-owner sale of Always in Style: Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Herbert Kasper. New to the Classic Week series, the online sale of The Collector features European and English furniture, works of art, silver, ceramics and Chinese works of art that span the 17th to 20th centuries. The exhibition at Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries will be open by appointment only starting 9 October. Highlights across the sales include Annibale Carracci’s The Annunciation, Les Paul’s personal “Number One” 1952 Gibson Goldtop guitar, a Roman silver and niello inlaid bronze table, a princely Elephant-form automaton clock restituted ... More
Believed to be the largest scale artwork to have been commissioned by children, the sculptures are a culmination of Pioneering Places, an ambitious multi-year project happening across East Kent. Photo: John Sainsbury.
RAMSGATE.- As part of Pioneering Places East Kent - the largest of the national Great Place Schemes, supported by Arts Council England and National Lottery Heritage Fund - Conrad Shawcross debuted Beacons, a new artwork formed of sculptures commissioned by local primary school children in Ramsgate on the 30th September. Believed to be the largest scale artwork to have been commissioned by children, the sculptures are a culmination of Pioneering Places, an ambitious multi-year project happening across East Kent, led by Creative Folkestone, to encourage people to get involved with cultural organisations and shape the place where they live. The sculptures have now been installed as part of Turner Contemporary’s 10th anniversary programme. Since 2018, over 70 local children from Ramsgate Arts Primary School and St Laurence-inThanet Church of England Junior Academy have led this project ... More
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Minnesota Street Project and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation are pleased to announce the appointment of Madison Cario as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), a new position created to augment the contributions of the founders. Cario, a nationally recognized leader and catalyst for change in the creative, non-profit, and education sectors, will join the MSP team in December. As CEO, Cario will explore new opportunities for collaboration and idea-sharing across disciplines and sectors, while continuing to develop MSP’s existing offerings and resources. Cario will work alongside Deborah and Andy Rappaport, the MSP and MSP Foundation founders, and both organizations’ staffs to strategically grow both the non-profit and for-profit arms of the Project in support of the tenant and visiting galleries, artists, programs, and initiatives. Cario’s appointment is the second major announceme ... More
Rare INGAP tin windup Topolino race car with mouse driver, Italian. Spring arms, rubber tail, appealing graphics on car body and wheels. Estimate $3,000-$4,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- Collectors of rare antique and vintage toys – whether manufactured in Europe, Japan or the USA – are in for a treat on Saturday, October 2nd. That’s when Milestone Auctions of suburban Cleveland, Ohio, will present its Fall Antique Toy Spectacular starring one of the most diverse collections of fine toys ever amassed. With the exception of a few select additions from other consignors, the 704-lot auction is devoted exclusively to the marquee collection, whose superlative holdings are a testament to decades of searching and networking within the toy hobby. All forms of remote bidding will be available for those who cannot attend the auction in person, including live via the Internet through Milestone Live. “A month before the sale date, our phones were already ringing. The word had gotten out and ... More
Phoenix Art Museum. Photo: Bill Timmerman.
PHOENIX, AZ.-Phoenix Art Museum has been named one of 71 nonprofits throughout Maricopa County to receive funding from Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust’s “Now is the Moment” Grants Commemoration, a single-day investment of $123 million in Maricopa County’s nonprofit community. On September 13, 2021, the Museum received an unanticipated $4 million grant from Piper Trust, which represents the largest grant the Museum has ever received from the Trust and one of the largest single grants the Museum has received in its 60-year history from any philanthropic organization or grantmaking body. The funding, which was presented as a surprise award, will be used to support the Museum’s general operations as the institution continues to rebuild following an unprecedented seven-month closure necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic impact. “We are deeply grateful for the outstanding generosity of Virgini ... More
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Thought-provoking installation unveiled at City Hall, Jersey City NEW YORK, NY.- Ms. Rudin’s Age of Empathy exhibit seeks to shed light on the hardships we have faced in the past year, as well as the compassion that we have shown for one another. As we steer towards a path of inclusion and equality, Age of Empathy has created a lively local event with the following organizations, engendering a more profound sense of community and empathy through the artwork of Ms. Rudin. The following New Jersey charities were in attendance, offering information and opportunities to engage those in attendance: York Street, Hudson Pride, Women’s Rights Center, and Woman Rising. Each organization had a spokesperson present to promote discussion and support people with the goal of increasing civic engagement in the community. Ms. Rudin finds it crucial to move people towards action with her art. “Our recent struggles ... More
Review: A choreographer stakes an independent claim NEW YORK, NY.- As you take your seat for Alejandro Cerrudo’s “It Starts Now,” the stage is already set, half covered with a partially unrolled mat. The show, which had its debut at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, commences with the mat unrolling to reveal a hidden dancer. It finishes, about an hour later, with that dancer rolled up again, as if we were back at the beginning and the performers were ready for another crowd to file in. The intervening time is chopped up into many small sections, accompanied by a miscellany of electronic, ambient and film-score tracks, including the sound of a purring cat and the final speech from Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator.” There are many blackouts, many dim episodes with hand-held lights, many hats, many dancers being dragged by other dancers, many times when a dancer’s clothing gives ... More
Review: Bill T. Jones' oceanic vision NEW YORK, NY.- As audience members filed into the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday night, Bill T. Jones was already there, a lone figure on a vast dance floor. Elevated seating, on all four sides of the Drill Hall, overlooked the maw of the stage, where Jones paced and gestured resolutely, as if deep in the thought of movement. Originally scheduled to open in April 2020, his “Deep Blue Sea” — a nearly two-hour, intermissionless work for himself, the 10 members of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, five vocalists and nearly 90 New York City community participants — was making its debut. Anticipation ran high, intensified by the hall’s breathtaking scale, outfitted for this occasion by architect Liz Diller; her firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro; and theater projection designer Peter Nigrini, who are jointly credited with “visual environment.” A colossal undertaking, in both ... More
Positive coronavirus cases halt 'Aladdin' a day after it reopened NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, “Aladdin” held its first performance since Broadway closed for the pandemic. On Wednesday, the show was canceled because of several positive coronavirus tests. Disney Theatrical Productions announced the cancellation just a half-hour before curtain, saying “through our rigorous testing protocols, breakthrough COVID-19 cases have been detected within the company of ‘Aladdin’ at the New Amsterdam Theater.” Disney said it was refunding purchased tickets, and did not yet know whether or how future performances might be affected. “We will continue to provide support to the affected ‘Aladdin’ company members as they recover,” the company said in a statement. The cancellation is the first missed performance of a Broadway show for COVID-related reasons since theaters started reopening in late June. But ... More
Lonnie Smith, soulful jazz organist, is dead at 79 NEW YORK, NY.- Lonnie Smith, a master of the Hammond B3 organ and a leading exponent of the infectiously rhythmic genre known as soul jazz, died Tuesday at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 79. His manager and partner, Holly Case, said the cause was pulmonary fibrosis. Smith, who began billing himself as Dr. Lonnie Smith in the mid-1970s, could draw an audience’s attention with his appearance alone: He had a long white beard and always wore a colorful turban. (The turbans apparently had no specific religious significance, he did not have an advanced degree in anything and he never explained why he had adopted the honorific “Dr.”) His playing was every bit as striking. He began his career at a time when organists like Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff were blending the sophistication of jazz with the earthy appeal of rhythm and blues. Smith ... More
After a choreographer's suicide, ballet confronts tough questions MUNICH.- Choreographer Liam Scarlett’s “With a Chance of Rain,” a lush, expansive ballet set to a melodic Rachmaninoff piano score, would hardly seem a risky piece of programming. But it was still notable when the Bayerisches Staatsballett performed it last weekend at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich. The company is one of the few to continue to present work by Scarlett, who was a precociously successful choreographer when he took his own life in April, at 35, after several prominent institutions cut ties with him in the wake of accusations of misconduct. His death shocked and divided the dance world, even though many details remain unknown. The Royal Ballet in London, which suspended him and began an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct involving students at its school, said last year that it had found “no matters ... More
After a Met Opera Milestone, 'Boris' brings another NEW YORK, NY.- You may have heard about the widely publicized landmark with which the Metropolitan Opera opened its season Monday: Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” its first work by a Black composer. Flying under the radar is the less momentous but still significant milestone that followed Tuesday, when the company finally performed the original 1869 version of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov.” Opera is littered with competing editions and unclear authorial intentions. Does the Giulietta act go before or after the Antonia act in “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”? Do you sing Verdi’s masterpiece in Italian as “Don Carlo,” or — as the Met will do for the first time in its history late this winter — in the original French, as “Don Carlos”? But probably no major work is as vexed as “Boris Godunov.” Mussorgsky had never written an opera when ... More
In Paris, it's literary scandal season again PARIS.- The sidewalks of Paris were already strewn with fallen chestnuts by the time the literary season’s first scandal finally broke. Most Septembers, as French publishers release their most promising books and start jockeying for prizes, the world of letters is engulfed in the Left Bank’s version of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. This season had been unfolding smoothly — unnaturally, impossibly so, some literary observers quipped — until trouble hit the one big French literary prize known for its probity: the Goncourt, the 118-year-old standard-bearer of the French novel, whose laureates include Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras. Things started when the Goncourt’s 10 jurors gathered this month, over a lunch of roast duckling with cherries and bottles of Château Maucaillou 2015, to come up with their long list ... More
Laumeier Sculpture Park explores remembrance, connection, and strength of community in new exhibition ST. LOUIS, MO.-Laumeier Sculpture Park explores themes of collective remembrance, community resilience and healing through its exhibition Aida Šehović: ŠTO TE NEMA, on view September 25 - December 19, 2021 in the Aronson Fine Arts Center’s Whitaker Foundation Gallery. The exhibition is an archive of Bosnian-born artist Aida Šehović’s nomadic monument titled ŠTO TE NEMA (“where have you been” in Bosnian) that honors the victims of the Srebrenica genocide, during which more than 8,372 Muslim men and boys were systematically executed. The exhibition at Laumeier features a collection of more than 8,372 fildžani (small porcelain coffee cups) donated by Bosnian families from the diaspora, posters from the project, and a photo installation of the related body of work titled Family Album, 2018. “The total number of fildžani roughly corresponds ... More
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opens in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.- A museum in Amsterdam is contemptuously known as the Bathtub because it resembles one. Berliners refer to their city’s architecturally adventurous arts center as the Pregnant Oyster. Unfortunate nicknames for a prominent museum in France include the Smurf House. And now Los Angeles has … the Death Star? The long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will finally open Friday on Wilshire Boulevard. It’s a seven-story, $484 million temple to cinema that mixes cerebral (a lavish Hayao Miyazaki retrospective) with showbiz (a high-tech simulation of what it feels like to accept an Oscar). Adult tickets cost $25. The Oscars Experience is $15 extra. Entry-time reservations are required. If nothing else, Angelenos now have somewhere to take Hollywood-fascinated visitors that does not involve the dreaded Hollywood & Highland ... More
Christie's eyes $2 mln for Wallis Simpson bangle at auction NEW YORK, NY.- A bejeweled Cartier bangle that the Duke of Windsor gave his wife Wallis Simpson on their first wedding anniversary in 1938 has gone on display in New York. The ruby and diamond bracelet is expected to sell for between $1 million and around $2 million when Christie's puts it up for auction in Geneva on November 9. Edward VIII famously abdicated the British throne in December 1936, just months into his reign, so he could marry Simpson, a twice-divorced American. He became the Duke of Windsor and wed Simpson in France on June 3, 1937, gifting her the bangle exactly a year later. "For our first anniversary of June third," reads an inscription engraved inside the jewels. In a press release, Christie's described the Duchess of Windsor's bangle as "a sleek and sophisticated reinterpretation of the Art Deco style." It will appear ... More
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On a day like today, American photographer Richard Avedon died
February 01, 2004. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century." IN this image: Amon Carter Museum Senior Curator of Photographs John Rohrbach points to a Richard Avedon photograph of Boyd Fortin, Friday, Sept. 9, 2005, in Fort Worth, Texas. The photo is part of the "In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon" exhibit.
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