An artnet Auctions employee looks at Yayoi Kusama's Infinity-Nets (OPARHJ), 2012. Japanese-born artist Yayoi Kusama has been painting Infinity-Nets since her arrival in New York in the late 1950s. Kusama's obsession with patterns and repetitious dots led her to paint this visually complex motif, now widely recognized as one of her most important series.
NEW YORK, NY.- Live for bidding now on artnet Auctions is Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity-Nets (OPARHJ) (2012). Japanese-born artist Yayoi Kusama has been painting Infinity Nets since her arrival in New York in the late 1950s. Kusama’s obsession with patterns and repetitious dots led her to paint this visually complex motif, now widely recognized as one of her most important series. For over 50 years, Kusama has continued to examine her Infinity Nets series, resulting in iconic paintings and installations. In this later example of Kusama’s Infinity Nets series, dated 2012, the artist’s signature psychedelic color palette is ever apparent. Sweeping circular strokes of pink layer ... More
Robert H. Ellsworth in Anhui Province, China, 1995.
NEW YORK, NY.-Christie’s announced it has been entrusted with the sale of the Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, the distinguished American scholar, dealer and collector of Asian Art who passed away in August 2014. Widely recognized throughout Asia and the Americas for his ground-breaking role in the study and appreciation of Asian Art, Mr. Ellsworth was a distinguished connoisseur who opened new arenas of collecting to Western audiences and built a successful business purveying the very finest works of art to his generation’s foremost collectors. His personal collection of over 2,000 items was assembled over a lifetime and widely recognized as the most important grouping of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian sculpture, paintings, furniture and works of art. To celebrate this exceptional collection and the generous and benevolent man behind it, Christie's is organizing free public exhibitions and a special f ... More
Beatles Related - Cavern Club Stage Used Microphone and Stand (Early 1960s).
DALLAS, TX.- Three Reslo microphones, along with their stands, that were used by The Beatles – along with a host of important early British rock n’ roll acts – at the famed Cavern Club in Liverpool will form the centerpiece of an exceptional grouping of Beatles and Beatles-related memorabilia in Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 6 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Auction. The microphones are estimated at $5,000+ each and will be offered individually. “If only these microphones could play back for us the music they helped create in those early days,” said Garry Shrum, Music Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions. “Talk about a piece of material culture that bore witness to greatness. The Beatles became The Beatles while singing into these mics.” The Beatles gave more live performances at the Cavern Club than at any other venue – 292 to be exact. It was at the underground club on Mathew Street ... More
File photo of Don Bacigalupi, who has accepted an appointment as the Founding President for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, to be built in Chicago. Photo: Toledo Museum of Art.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.-Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces that Don Bacigalupi, museum president and board member, will conclude his role as president on January 14, 2015, while retaining his role as a member of the board. Bacigalupi has accepted an appointment as the Founding President for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, to be built in Chicago. The museum’s conceptual design by MAD Architects was recently released, with a proposed opening date in 2018. Bacigalupi joined Crystal Bridges as executive director in 2009, and was instrumental in the planning, collection development, and opening of the museum, which has hosted more than 1.5 million visitors in its first three years of operation. “Don’s achievements at Crystal Bridges have been numerous, ... More
The sale will offer the Cartier Tiger Clip-Brooch. Est. HK$1.2 – 1.6 million / US$150,000 – 200,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Following last December’s success, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Jewels and Jadeite sale this year will take place on 27 November 2014 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery, featuring an array of coloured and colourless diamonds, gemstones, and beautiful signed jewels highlighted by the iconic Cartier “Tiger” brooch. The sale will also include a charity session featuring 11 lots of whimsical jewels and watches to benefit Operation Smile China Medical Mission#, a charity that provides free surgery to underprivileged children and young adults with cleft lips or palates in China. Including the charity session, the entire sale will offer a total of 180 lots with a total estimate in excess of HK$58 million / US$7.5 million*. QUEK Chin Yeow, Deputy Chairman, Asia and Chairman, International Jewellery, Asia, says, “Following the success of the inaugural Fine Jewels and Jadeite sale last year, this November Sotheby’ ... More
German Cross inscribed "Gott. Ehre. Vaterland". Anonymous (German). Cast aluminum. Jane A. Kimball, Trench Art Collection.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- World War I was both a war of unprecedented mechanized slaughter and a conflict over the cultural dominance and direction of Europe. It was also the first war to be fought and represented by modern artists. On view at the Getty Research Institute (GRI) at the Getty Center from November 18, 2014 through April 19, 2015, World War I: War of Images, Images of War examines the art and visual culture of the First World War. Drawn principally from the GRI’s Special Collections, and including key loans, the exhibition demonstrates the distinctive ways in which combatant nations utilized visual propaganda against their enemies and explores how individual artists developed their own visual language to convey and cope with the gruesome horrors they witnessed. Featuring the artists Umberto Boccioni, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fernand Léger, Filippo Tommaso ... More
Ravenal is currently the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
LINCOLN, MASS.-DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces that after a thorough search, the Board has unanimously selected John B. Ravenal to serve as the institution’s next Executive Director, effective January 2015. Ravenal is currently the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). He brings to deCordova extensive administrative and curatorial experience, having served as President of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), and having held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and at the Wadsworth Atheneum, where he worked on the museum’s first showing of the Sol LeWitt collection. The search committee, comprised of deCordova Trustees working in tandem with Phillips Oppenheim, notes: “We are confident that John will be an inspiring leader with the talent and prestige to bring deCordova ... More
A Fancy Light Pink Golconda Diamond of 21.30-carats. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2014.
NEW YORK, NY.- Heading into the holiday season, Christie’s New York will offer over 300 lots in their Magnificent Jewels auction on December 10 at its flagship Rockefeller Center saleroom. From rare and important colored and colorless diamonds, superb gemstones, natural pearls, signed and period jewels, the auction features elegant creations from famed jewelry houses such as Boivin, Boucheron, BVLGARI, Cartier, Fouquet, Graff, JAR, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels, and Harry Winston to name a few. The two-session auction includes prices ranging from $1,000 to $10,000,000 and is expected to realize in excess of $55 million. Rahul Kadakia, International Head of Christie’s Jewelry, noted: “Christie’s has seen record results for jewelry sales in 2014 reflecting the continuing demand for the finest and most rare jewels in the world. Just recently in Geneva, we established a new world auction record for a sapphire at US$17.3 milli ... More
Dexter Dalwood, The Thames below Waterloo, 2014. Oil on canvas, 200 x 250 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London & Hong Kong.
LONDON.-Simon Lee Gallery presents London Paintings, Dexter Dalwood's first exhibition since joining the gallery, running 18 November 2014 – 24 January 2015. London, as a setting and subject matter, has recurred throughout Dalwood's career. However, this recent series of works focusing on the capital presents us with an entirely new and unexpected narrative through which to view a seemingly familiar city. Specific London locations or sites are reconstructed from a collage of memory, cultural and political history and subjective association, and informed by a consideration of the painted history of the city over many years. London is the inspiration and starting point for an exercise in representation – a means to an end and a nominal reference; these are in the end paintings in themselves. The London Paintings signal an exciting shift in Dalwood’s formal approach towards ... More
The Getty Foundation began the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) in 2009 in partnership with the J. Paul Getty Museum and eight other museums.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- How does the high-quality, glossy museum collections catalogue, traditionally made for print, fit into today’s world of apps, e-books, and iPhones? Going digital with scholarly publications requires museums to completely rethink the ways content about their collections can be created and shared. The Getty Foundation, together with eight major museums, is leading the way in digital publishing for museums, including the recent launch of an interactive, multimedia catalogue by the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the final publication from the group. The Getty Foundation began the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) in 2009 in partnership with the J. Paul Getty Museum and eight other museums: the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the ... More
Wang will oversee the museum’'s esteemed Asian collection.
CHICAGO, IL.-The Art Institute of Chicago announces the appointment of internationally recognized Chinese art scholar Tao Wang as the Pritzker Chair, Department of Asian Art, and Curator of Chinese Art. Wang will lead the department as it aggressively seeks to expand the reach and raise the profile of the museum’s Asian collections and programs. Wang, a naturalized British citizen who was born in China and educated in Kunming, Beijing, and London, will assume his new responsibilities in April 2015. An expert in classical Chinese art, in particular early ritual bronzes, jades, and inscriptions, he also has a deep interest in contemporary art. Wang is currently Senior Vice President and Head of Chinese Works of Art at Sotheby’s New York, where he will remain until the end of March. Before joining ... More
The dinner service bears the arms of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, New York City (1726-1783).
LONDON.- Scotland’s oldest auction house Lyon & Turnbull are to sell a very important part dinner service dated circa 1775 belonging to the renowned William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. The service will be a highlight lot in their upcoming sale for Fine Asian Works of Art taking place close to London as part of the prestigious inaugural Asian Art in London. Bearing the coat-of-arms of Alexander quartering MacDonald, the motto "Per Mare Per Terras" is surmounted by a semi-nude man holding a club on one side of the shield and a mermaid on the other. The set for sale comprises 6 side plates, 10 soup plates and 13 dinner plates, totalling 29 pieces in all. The grouped lot is modestly estimated at £5000-8000, however, as single plates from the service have previously achieved prices into ... More
Christian Jankowski, Photo: Jörg Reichardt.
ZURICH.- Berlin based Christian Jankowski has been appointed Chief Curator of Manifesta 11, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will be hosted in Zurich, Switzerland in 2016. Christian Jankowski will start working in November 2014 towards conceptualizing the 11th edition of Manifesta. "As Chair of the M11 Curatorial Selection Committee*, it gives me great pleasure to announce that German artist Christian Jankowski has been selected as the Manifesta 11 Chief Curator. For the first time in Manifesta’s history, an individual artist will take the position of Chief Curator and will work on a project for an entire urban environment. Jankowski will investigate the whole array of art’s authorship, its production and its reflection on Zurich’s professional landscape. In doing so, Manifesta 11’s Chief Curator approaches the complex identities of the city in a ... More
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Detectorists add to archaeological knowledge as exquisite finds go on display SALISBURY.-Salisbury Museum announced a new temporary exhibition in the Wessex Gallery of Archaeology. From 18th November to the end of February, a special case will display some exceptional objects discovered by members of the public in the Salisbury area. A husband and wife team, detecting in the Deverill valley near Warminster, have discovered many of the treasured pieces. The state-of-the-art Wessex Gallery opened in summer 2014 following renovations costing £2.4 million, including a grant of almost £1.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. A resource of international importance, the Wessex Gallery tells the story of the area from prehistoric times to the Norman Conquest, and shows why Salisbury has a unique place in the nation’s history. The metal-detectorists found these pieces over a period of almost 20 years in the Deverill valley, and have been working closely ... More
VTEN: Vastari Travelling Exhibition Network- An eventful first month LONDON.-Vastari’s launch of VTEN: Vastari Travelling Exhibition Network has received an overwhelming amount of support. Over 100 museums have now signed up and registered more than 40 exhibitions ranging from fine art to design to antiquities. VTEN allows museum directors, curators and registrars to pose exhibitions for sale to other institutions worldwide. Using VTEN, institutions will be able to search for second venues for their exhibitions as well as find new exhibitions to fit into their exhibition calendar. Registered users will be able to access an organised menu of exhibitions available for sale as well as upload an unlimited amount of exhibitions that they are interested in promoting. Institutions interested in an exhibition will be able to contact the organiser directly using the Vastari messaging system. ‘VTEN is an international online market space for renting and offering exhibitions between ... More
Portland Art Museum is first U.S. museum to present Richard Mosse's The Enclave PORTLAND, ORE.-The Portland Art Museum is the first U.S. museum to present Richard Mosse’s powerful video installation The Enclave (2013). The work, which premiered at the 2013 Venice Biennale in the Irish Pavilion, will run through February 8, 2015. Several of his monumental photographs from the Democratic Republic of Congo are also on display. The Enclave was produced using a recently discontinued military film technology originally designed in World War II to reveal camouflaged installations hidden in the landscape. This film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink. On the threshold of the medium’s extinction, Mosse employed this film to document an ongoing conflict situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This humanitarian disaster—in which 5.4 million people have died ... More
Hidden gems inside Somerset House transform into a fashion winter wonderland LONDON.- As the UK’s most stylish skating scene sets up in the neoclassical courtyard of Somerset House, the hidden gems inside Somerset House also transform into a fashion winter wonderland. Nine displays, each curated by a fashion expert, popped up around the historic site to tell the story of trends in cold climates from the past century. Each display covers a different theme on winter fashion and leisure pursuits and include items such as illustrated postcards of chic Parisians in their winter wares from the Belle Époque era, a 1920s Burberry ski suit, a pair of 1936/37 ice skates, and videos of fairytale Narnia-inspired catwalk shows from Alexander McQueen’s A/W 1999 to John Galliano’s A/W 2009 collection. Each fashion curator takes a different space across Somerset House from the sweeping Stamp Stair (so called as all newspapers were stamped for tax in this part of the ... More
New series of abstract paintings by artist Jeff Muhs on view at Lyons Wier Gallery NEW YORK, NY.-Lyons Wier Gallery presents Slipstream, a new series of abstract paintings by artist Jeff Muhs. Slipstreaming is synonymous with drafting, whereby two moving objects are caused to align in a close group reducing the overall effect of drag due to exploiting the lead object’s slipstream. In the case of Jeff Muhs, a slipstream is created visually by the foreground elements that seemingly leave a swirling area of atmospheric turbulence in its wake. This effect is heightened by the artist’s cognitive choices of color and how the paint is applied. Like many of the Action and Gesture painters before him, Muhs uses a variety of painting techniques including, but not limited to, dripping, smearing and pouring of paint. The backgrounds are typically black paint that is moved around resembling the whiting out of windows during times of construction or closure. This technique is then ... More
Paris pop-up store immortalises shoppers with 3D printed figurine PARIS(AFP).- A new pop-up shop in the hip Marais district of Paris is giving people the opportunity to immortalise themselves with a tiny printed 3D figurine for the not so tiny price of 230 euros ($286). The studio, called "Le Moimee Store", hails itself as the world's first specialising in 3D portraits. It allows customers to print a figurine 1/12th their size, in whatever pose they like, wearing their favourite clothes and accessories. "We think of it as giving new life to the portrait," said Sylvie Roche, the project director. But it's a portrait with a different perspective. "You know what you look like in a picture, but the day you see your 'Moimee' you go 'Wow, I look like that'?" said Roche. The Moimee studio has just opened to the public, and is a venture of The Vibrant Project, a company specialising in digital and interactive art installations. Before its official opening, the company held a contest called ... More
New body of work by British artist Angela Palmer on view at The Fine Art Society LONDON.-The Fine Art Society announces ‘Adrenalin’, a new body of work by British artist, Angela Palmer. Palmer was given unprecedented access to the world of Formula 1 engineering. In collaboration with Renault Formula 1, which currently designs engines for Red Bull, Lotus, Toro Rosso, and Caterham, the artist deconstructed the iconic V8 engine with the help of its pioneering engineers at their F1 laboratories in Paris; Renault’s V8 first powered Fernando Alonso to become world champion, followed by Sebastian Vettel who last year amassed four championship titles in succession. Palmer upscaled dramatically individual components of the V8 using a variety of materials, from walnut to Portland stone and bronze. For the project, she was supplied with the engineers’ CAD drawings as well as unique engine parts from the V8, material normally guarded with the strictest secrecy to ... More
World's first oil well still bubbling up black gold in Poland BOBRKA(AFP).- The smell of money hangs thick in the air as black crude oil bubbles up from what is billed as the world's oldest oil well, but this is not Texas or Saudi Arabia. The sleepy village of Bobrka in southern Poland lays claim to the planet's first oil well and rig, one that is still pumping up enough black gold to be profitable. It was dug and built by hand in 1860 under the watchful gaze of Polish pharmacist and inventor Ignacy Lukasiewicz, a humble man who pioneered the now ubiquitous use of petroleum by creating the kerosene lamp. Thanks to him, "Bobrka became the birthplace of the world's oil industry", says Barbara Olejarz, who runs a local museum devoted to the origins of the sector and whose last name by coincidence means "oilman" in Polish. "It all began there," she tells AFP while pointing a finger at an obelisk built by Lukasiewicz and his circle to mark the launch of the oil field in 1854 ... More
Hermitage Museum receives major gift from American Hermitage Foundation NEW YORK, NY.- Under the aegis of the Hermitage Museum Foundation (USA), the noted American educator and curator Helen W. Drutt English has organized a stellar collection of contemporary applied art to be donated to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary. Reflecting Drutt English’s life-long passion, the 74 works not only provide the Hermitage with a broad and varied foundation of 20th- and 21st--century applied art, but resonate with its vast historical collections. Assembled through the generosity of artists and private collectors throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe, the collection will be unveiled on December 2, 2014 in the exhibition entitled Gifts from America, on view at the Hermitage through March 8, 2015. Inventiveness, exquisite workmanship and skill characterize the wide array of objects, which range from a ... More
Noted authors, artists annotate classic works for auction to benefit PEN American Center NEW YORK, NY.- Sixty-one of America’s greatest writers and fourteen world-renowned artists have annotated their own classic works for an auction to benefit PEN American Center, the largest branch of PEN International, the world’s only writers’ association dedicated to protecting free expression. First Editions/Second Thoughts (FEST), an auction of one-of-a-kind books and works of art to be held December 2 at Christie’s New York, is expected to raise substantial funds to support PEN's mission to defend freedom of expression and to celebrate the literature that such freedom makes possible. The full collection of annotated works will be on public view at Christie’s starting November 17. The Auction will provide bidders with the opportunity to engage in an intimate and private conversation with some of their favorite authors and artists. Through annotations including notes, essays, drawings, ... More
Peter Sis is winner of the 10th Mazza Medallion FINDLAY, OH.-The Mazza Museum of International Art from Children’s Books, located on the campus of The University of Findlay (Ohio), is the first and largest teaching museum in the world specializing in the art from children’s books. The biennial award it presents, the Mazza Medallion, is quite a unique award given in the field of Children’s Books. This award looks at the full body of work of an artist, and evaluates his/her strengths in the area of diversity of art style and technique according to the book for which the art is intended. The Mazza Medalion was first given in 1996 to Marcia Brown and has been awarded every other year since, with 2014 being the 10th award given to an artist for this special quality of children’s picture books. On November 7th, Peter Sis was awarded this Mazza Medallion for the incredible diversity of art in his picture book art. Prior to this award Peter Sis’ dozens of ... More
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On a day like today, French photographer Louis-Jacques Daguerre was born
September 18, 1787. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 -10 July 1851) was a French artist and physicist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. Though he is most famous for his contributions to photography, he was also an accomplished painter and a developer of the diorama theatre. In this image: "Boulevard du Temple", taken by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris, includes the earliest known photograph of a person. The image shows a street, but because of the over ten minute exposure time the moving traffic does not appear. At the lower left, however, a man apparently having his boots polished, and the bootblack polishing them, were motionless enough for their images to be captured.
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