A Tiffany & Co. 18K Yellow Gold and Chrysoprase Link Bracelet (Estimate: $2,200-3,500).
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- In collaboration with Lark Mason Associates, Fallon Art Advisory will present a treasure trove of Gold and Precious Gemstone Jewelry from a Private Midwest Collection, which opens for bidding on iGavelAuctions.com starting October 26th to November 16th. Accumulated over three decades, the fresh-to-the-market sale of 180 lots– dating from 1920 to 2021–includes watches, necklaces, rings, brooches, and bracelets from international jewelry purveyors such as Cartier, Tiffany, Pucci, Bueche Girod, David Yurman, Philippe Charriol, Movado, Baume & Mercier, and TANE of Mexico. “With their accessible estimates, this is sale is paradise for anyone who loves jewelry,” says Debbie Fallon. “The quality of these beautiful pieces is spectacular and with the holidays soon upon us, the sale couldn’t come at a better time.” Among the highlights are: a Diamond and 18K Yellow Gold Necklace and Earrings Set ( ... More
Sotheby's auctioneer Oliver Barker speaks with guests before the Sotheby's "Picasso: Masterworks From The MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection" auction at Bellagio Resort & Casino on October 23, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images/AFP.
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Yesterday, in the heart of the world famous Las Vegas Strip, Sotheby’s and MGM Resorts International the world-renowned entertainment company, hosted a special, white-glove auction live from Bellagio, where 11 masterworks by Pablo Picasso, showcasing the artist’s entire career and the many media he explored across more than six decades of creative genius, sold for $109 million--exceeding the sale’s high estimate with 100% of the works sold. The auction was standing room only in a packed Bellagio ballroom, where a frisson of energy in the room drove enthusiastic bidding that extended to nearly all lots on offer. Yesterday’s sale, Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection, was highlighted by: • Picasso’s Femme au béret rouge- ... More
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LONDON.- The exhibition Still Masters at the gallery expands the presentation at Frieze Masters not only historically. It illustrates the development David Connearn, Minjung Kim and Susan Schwalb have made to the present day, and, as stated in the editorial of this publication, reinforces the title-giving idea as to why these artists have become or rather remained Still Masters. David Connearn is, to a certain extent, the artist that stayed most faithful to the core of his practice since the 1980s. Line drawing invariably forms the essence of his creation, even if he is constantly pushing the boundaries conceptually, as well as in form and content. Contextualising the two presentations, it makes much sense, that a recent, if smaller version than at Frieze Masters of Connearn’s series Five Drawings is on display at the gallery. Yet another series entitled 1000 Signata exemplifies the intellectual rigour and bandwidth Connearn subjec ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-The Morgan Library & Museum is presenting Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden, running through January 23, 2022. Building on the Morgan’s tradition of bringing to the American public distinguished works from outstanding institutions abroad, this exhibition focuses on the exceptional graphic collections of the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden. One of the world’s oldest museums dedicated to works on paper, the Kupferstich-Kabinett was established in 1720 by Augustus II the Strong (r. 1694–1733), Elector of Saxony. Since then, the institution has expanded, weathered the vicissitudes of war, and flourished, ultimately emerging as one of the world’s preeminent repositories of drawings, prints, and photographs. The Morgan serves ... More
The Thora Whitehead Collection has more than 200,000 specimens and is one of the best private shell collections in Australia.
BRISBANE.- A donation of an extensive and scientifically important shell collection to Queensland Museum has led to the discovery of a new species of mollusc by a museum curator. Amoria thorae, a new species of the carnivorous volute family of marine snails, was named in honour of long-time Brisbane resident Mrs Thora Whitehead, whose collection was recently donated to the museum. The new species is so rare, scientists have yet to see a live specimen. Presently it is known from only a handful of specimens, all just empty shells, trawled in the 1970’s within a narrow distribution area from northern News South Wales to south east Queensland. Queensland Museum Curator Marine Environments (Molluscs) Dr John Healy said he long knew of a possible new species of carnivorous marine snail from the mid-eastern coast of Australia. “I’d seen a shell of this marine snail illustrated in a book, but not officially described, so you can imagi ... More
Director of Antiquities of Dohuk Governorate Bekas Brefkany speaks during a press conference at the Dohuk National Museum on October 24, 2021, announcing the results of archaeological excavations in the northern Iraqi area of Nineveh. Ismael ADNAN / AFP.
DOHUK.- Archaeologists in Iraq revealed Sunday their discovery of a large-scale wine factory from the rule of the Assyrian kings 2,700 years ago, along with stunning monumental rock-carved royal reliefs. The stone bas-reliefs, showing kings praying to the gods, were cut into the walls of a nearly nine-kilometre-long (5.5-mile) irrigation canal at Faida in northern Iraq, the joint team of archaeologists from the Department of Antiquities in Dohuk and colleagues from Italy said. The carvings -- 12 panels measuring five metres (16 feet) wide and two metres tall showing gods, kings and sacred animals -- date from the reigns of Sargon II (721-705 BC) and his son Sennacherib. "There are other places with rock reliefs in Iraq, especially in Kurdistan, but none are so huge and monumental as this one," said ... More
PARIS.- A few years ago, Emily Mae Smith selected an unexpected yet inexhaustible muse: a simple straw broom, dually anthropomorphic and gendered (the artist applies the pronoun “she”). In the exhibition Harvesters, we find “her” without the round glasses the artist frequently accessorized her in, and is seen either disguised as a scholar-candle and burning down while reading a book of spells (The Alchemist), resting languidly in a wheat field (Harvester), feasting (or rather attempting to) in a Flemish interior (The Wooden Spoon), standing in a damp cave with a paintbrush in hand (The Grotto), carrying a message in the street (The Messenger) or hidden behind a wall of ginkgo biloba leaves (Blush). She is proud or overwhelmed, weeping or focused on a task—even crucified. This omnipresent figure shouldn’t be viewed as a character switching between costumes or settings, returning from one season to the next to parade before our eyes. Emily ... More
LONDON.-Almine Rech London, in collaboration with the John Giorno Foundation, opened a solo exhibition by John Giorno, marking the artist’s first posthumous solo show in the UK. The exhibition runs through November 13, 2021. John Giorno (1936-2019) is recognised as one of the most innovative poets and artists of the twentieth century. His kaleidoscopic work fused and furthered poetry, visual art and activism, pushing text off the printed page and into the social realm. Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of the Drawing Center, New York, writes in the publication for the Giorno retrospective at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, “What if concrete poetry and Pop Art merged, like perfect lovers? They would produce John Giorno, muse of the greatest single-word movie (Sleep, 1963) and author of found object word poetry...Giorno’s friendships with Warhol, then Burroughs, and subsequently, his close liaisons with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper ... More
Installation view of Jeffrey Gibson: INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, October 15, 2021 – March 12, 2022. Courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson. Photo: Julia Featheringill.
LINCOLN, MASS.-deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces the exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE, on view through March 12, 2022. This exhibition concerns the intersections of four powerful words—INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE. The two outer terms suggest boundless spaces and generative, tender relationships. The two interior terms convey markers of identity that Jeffrey Gibson disassembles and reconstructs through his artistic practice as a queer Choctaw-Cherokee man. Altogether this title offers a bold, declarative framework for this exhibition which debuts a series of collages, an immersive display featuring three hanging fringe sculptures, and recent videos created with collaborators, musicians, and performers. Shown together, these dazzling artistic expressions suggest that identity ... More
An exhibit commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the death of former President John F. Kennedy at the Newseum displays a United Press International bulletin alerting news media the the former president had been shot, in Washington, Aug. 20, 2013. Christopher Gregory/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The pandemic has created backlogs for multiple federal agencies, resulting in pileups of visa applications, unprocessed Social Security benefits and backlogs in Food and Drug Administration inspections. On Friday, the White House announced another administrative casualty: a delay in the release of a trove of records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. The White House statement, signed by President Joe Biden, did not make clear exactly how the coronavirus had delayed the release of the records, which must be released to comply with a 1992 congressional act, but said that the national archivist had reported that the pandemic had had a “significant impact on the agencies” that need to be consulted on redactions. The archivist of the United States directs the ... More
PARIS.- From October 21st, 2021 to February 20th, 2022, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris presents ‘Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity’, co-organized by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and the Dallas Museum of Art, with the exceptional collaboration of the Musée du Louvre and the support of Cartier. This exhibition shows the influence of Islamic Art on the high jewellery Maison Cartier in its design of jewellery and precious objects from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. More than 500 pieces including jewellery and objects from the Cartier Collection, private and public loans, masterpieces of Islamic art, drawings, books, photographs and archival documents, trace the origins of the jeweller’s interest in Oriental motifs. The exhibition explores the origins of this influence through the Parisian cultural context and the figure of Louis and Jacques Cartier, ... More
Manuel Neri with painted bronze sculptures, 1982.Manuel Neri with painted bronze sculptures, 1982. Photograph by M. Lee Fatherree.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- Manuel Neri, widely regarded as the foremost American figurative sculptor of the latter twentieth century, died peacefully at his home in Sacramento, California, on October 18, 2021, of natural causes. His death was announced by the co-Trustees of The Manuel Neri Trust, and by the artist's galleries, Hackett-Mill in San Francisco, CA, and Yares Gallery, New York. Neri’s highly evocative, lyrical work with the female form, chiefly in plaster, bronze, and marble, represents a vivid link between modernist sculpture and the fullness of the Western figural tradition. Manuel John Neri was born April 12, 1930, in Sanger, California, the son of immigrants from Mexico. As a boy, he moved to Oakland with his mother and two sisters, following the death of his father, and he came of age in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1950s and 1960s, a time of radical innovation on the West Coast, ... More
Beatriz González, Papel de colgadura desplazados (Displaced Wallpaper), 2017. Collectie De Pont museum, Tilburg.
TILBURG.-De Pont Museum announced the acquisition of an ensemble of paintings, drawings and prints by the Colombian artist Beatriz González (Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1932). González is a seminal figure in Colombian art and is considered one of Latin America's most important artists. She has inspired many with her work, also via her capacities as a teacher, curator and writer. Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, De Pont's director: 'Since I first visited Beatriz González at her studio in Bogotá in 2016, her work has continued to captivate me. In her paintings, drawings, prints and furniture, she comments on the political and social issues in her country and keeps alive memories of events that remain concealed in the official record of history. González's images become etched in one's memory. I find it exceptional that the museum has been able to acquire this group of works during a nearly two- ... More
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Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art event features hidden, historic cache of Comics Code documents DALLAS, TX.- How do you follow an auction featuring The World's Most Expensive Comic Book? Easy — by holding one featuring The World's Most Important Comic Book. From Nov. 18-21, Heritage Auctions will hold its latest Comics & Comic Art Signature ® Auction, which features among its myriad highlights a copy of 1938's Action Comics No. 1, which marked the debut appearance of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman. Copies of the landmark scarcity seldom surface at auction: Heritage has offered only three complete copies of Action Comics No. 1 over the last five years, which makes the appearance of this restored CGC Apparent Fine+ 6.5 copy all the more notable. There exist but 72 copies of comicdom's most coveted and collected story in CGC's Census Report, in any condition; and when one does surface at auction, it tends to disappear ... More
Black Cat Comics collection heads to Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- The Comics Code Authority, formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America, allowed comic publishers to self-regulate the content of comic books in the United States. The code was voluntary, but widely recognized as the unofficial standard of comic content decency. Harvey was a prolific publisher of comics and one of the few publishers to survive the 1950s near destruction of the industry. A selection of the elusive Black Cat Collection will come to auction for the first time Nov. 4 in Heritage Auctions' Black Cat Collection and Pre-Code Horror Showcase Auction. Painstakingly curated by Gabriel Vaughn, it consists of some of the highest-graded books of the era, a time during which the comic industry almost met its destruction. Vaughn's fascination with Black Cat Comics #50 started an obsession that lasted for years. Due ... More
Modern Art opens an exhibition of works by Karlo Kacharava LONDON.-Modern Art opened its first exhibition of Karlo Kacharava’s work, curated by Sanya Kantarovsky and Scott Portnoy. Karlo Kacharava’s (1964−1994) short-lived yet oceanic body of work took shape in Tbilisi, Georgia against the backdrop of the loosening cultural boundaries afforded by the Glasnost-era Soviet Union of the 1980’s and the subsequent financial and political groundlessness of the post-Soviet 1990’s. His prolific output of drawing, painting, poetry and art criticism galvanized an orbit of young Georgian artists and thinkers, and continues to exert notable influence on emerging Georgian art in the present day. His inventive visual world frequently reflects an almost adolescent angst, punctuated by a fandom of a broad gamut of western culture ranging from the likes of Nick Cave and Susan Sontag to comic books and cinema. ... More
Chilean musician and scriptwriter Ignacio Correa Marfull to release "La contienda", his new play TOULOUSE.- The Chilean musician and scriptwriter Ignacio Correa Marfull will soon release “La contienda”, his new play, which will be presented in collaboration with different emerging itinerant theater companies in various cultural scenarios in France, Spain and Mexico. About the genesis of La contienda, its a Project that started in France, Toulouse specifically, where Correa has resided for the last two years, living far away -but at the same time very closely- the Chilean social outbreak, which invites him to reflect about how many times the same thing has happened, over and over again. In the words of the author "the play was born as a multiscenic theatre play, very marked by those distances that seem to take shape as projective ghosts in the play". In certain aspect and in the first instance, it reminds us the dramaturgy and staging of the German ... More
As Broadway returns, shows rethink and restage depictions of race NEW YORK, NY.- “Hamilton” has restaged “What’d I Miss?,” the second act opener that introduces Thomas Jefferson, so that the dancer playing Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who bore him multiple children, can pointedly turn her back on him. In “The Lion King,” a pair of long-standing references to the shamanic Rafiki as a monkey — taxonomically correct, since the character is a mandrill — have been excised because of potential racial overtones, given that the role is played by a Black woman. “The Book of Mormon,” a musical comedy from the creators of “South Park” that gleefully teeters between outrageous and offensive, has gone even further. The show, about two wide-eyed white missionaries trying to save souls in a Ugandan village contending with AIDS and a warlord, faced calls from Black members of its own cast to take a fresh look, and ... More
Rarities spanning more than 2,000 years highlight Heritage Auctions' World & Ancient Coin event DALLAS, TX.- Continuing a precedent started last year, Heritage Auctions is again holding a fall World & Ancient Coins Platinum Night and Signature® Auction on Oct. 28-29. There's another break with tradition, too. Leading this event is not one of the typical lots that normally graces the "highlights" list. Rather than a rarity from the ancient world or masterpiece of the 18th or 19th century, the top lot is actually a modern marvel from Great Britain, an Elizabeth II "Three Graces" 1000 Pounds graded PR70 Ultra Cameo by NGC. Weighing in at a full kilo of pure gold, this piece from the highly popular "Great Engravers" series captures the design of one of the most popular British patterns of the 19th century, the "Three Graces" pattern crown designed by William Wyon. As of this writing, it is the only piece from the tiny mintage of 20 coins that has been certified ... More
The Mosaic Rooms opens 'Stateless Heritage' by artist and architect collective DAAR LONDON.- Stateless Heritage sets out to challenge the mainstream narratives of refugee experience, of humanitarian crises, victim-hood and suffering. In their first UK solo exhibition artist and architect collective DAAR (Decolonize Architecture Art Research)- Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti - refuse the dominant Western notion of heritage and propose to reorient heritage towards nonhegemonic forms of collective memory. This exhibition presents DAAR’s proposal to nominate a refugee camp in Palestine as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. By misusing and redirecting UNESCO World Heritage guidelines and criteria, DAAR ask how architecture can be mobilised as an agent for political transformation. Dheisheh refugee camp is in Palestine, near Bethlehem, and is one of the world’s oldest refugee camps. The camp traces its history ... More
A brief about the music of ancient Iran TEHRAN.- Music has long been present as an essential element in human life and has been used in various fields of human societies since ancient times. In celebrations and dances, in sorrows and wars and battles, music in various forms has been an important and inseparable part of the life and behavior of societies. There is no exact and reliable consensus among researchers about the origin of the first musical sound or the first societies that used music, but considering that wind and percussion instruments were among the first man-made instruments, it can be imagined. In the vicinity of the reeds and when the wind passed through the meadows and between the reeds, melodies were produced that made the early humans notice a pleasant sound and today it has led people to think that with these reeds they can produce sound. This idea ... More
Mississippi Museum of Art announces release of two publications in service to the museum sector JACKSON, MS.- The Center for Art & Public Exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Art today announced the release of two publications in service to the art museum sector thanks to generous support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Established in 2018, CAPE’s mission is to use original artworks, exhibitions, programs, and engagements with artists to foster mutual understanding and inspire new narratives about contemporary Mississippi. The publications, CAPE Toolkit and Compassion, Art, People, and Equity: The Story of the Center for Art and Public Exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Art, are intended to serve as road maps for other art museums grappling not only with how to enact pledges to demonstrate diversity, equity, access, and inclusion during national awakenings regarding antiracism and social justice but ... More
Morgan Lehman Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Laurie Reid NEW YORK, NY.- Over the course of the past 25 years, Laurie Reid has honed a range of abstract visual languages on both paper and canvas, often mining the delicate relationship between control and chance. Her voice is subtle and searching, yet specific in its openness, finding surprising power in the interplay of simple formal elements. The paper works and oil paintings on display in SPAN represent two distinct threads of Reid’s practice: Collectively called Hewn, the works on paper are chiefly an investigation of the painted mark as a building block of form. Reid likens these marks to letters in an alphabet or syllables in words, reflecting her longstanding interest in literature and the organization of language. In each artwork, we encounter structures of varying degrees of complexity, guiding our eyes in different directions. Rather than abiding ... More
Matisse Alive: The Art Gallery of New South Wales opens a vibrant gallery-wide festival of Matisse The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Matisse Alive, a free gallery-wide festival of Matisse featuring vital new work, participatory projects, dazzling textiles, and vibrant displays of art from the collection. Matisse Alive offers visitors a unique chance to explore the life, art and influence of one of the world’s most celebrated artists, Henri Matisse, in the lead-up to and alongside the major, ticketed exhibition Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, which opens on 20 November 2021. Flooding the Art Gallery with colour and energy, this program of art, music, performance and community celebrates Matisse’s art as an inspiration, point of orientation and focus of dialogue for artists today. At the heart of Matisse Alive are four new artist projects by leading artists Nina Chanel Abney (US), Sally Smart (Australia), Angela Tiatia (Sāmoa/Australia) and Robin White (NZ) th ... More
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On a day like today, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was born
September 25, 1881. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In this image: Pablo Picasso watches the filming of his life story in Nice, France, on July 26, 1955. Henri Georges Clouzot, seated, is producing the picture. Picasso's daughter Maya is at left.
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