Mapplethorpe, who died at the age of 42, is known for his provocative works that challenged taboos.
LONDON.- A rare and striking self-portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89) comes for sale in London this month. Self-portrait, that was taken and printed in 1985, is expected to sell for £30,000 - £50,000 at Chiswick Auctions’ November 19 sale of Fine Photographs. Mapplethorpe, who died at the age of 42, is known for his provocative works that challenged taboos ... More
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- Items from the estate of George McGinnis (1950-2023) – an ABA and NBA Hall of Fame basketball player and one of Indiana’s most celebrated athletes – will come up for bid in an auction slated for Saturday, November 30th, starting at 3pm Eastern time, by Ripley Auctions, based in Indianapolis. The auction is live online, but the Ripley Auctions gallery will be open to in-person bidding. The gallery is located at 5451 North Rural Street in Indianapolis. "George McGinnis was not just a basketball player; he was a legend who embodied the spirit of Indiana basketball," said Dan Ripley, CEO of Ripley Auctions. "We are honored to present this collection that spans his remarkable career and life." The auction will offer basketball enthusiasts and collectors a rare opportunity to own pieces ... More
German 1930s lithographed tin delivery cart by Saalheimer & Strauss, in very good condition, marked “Made in Germany” on the body, “Dunlop Cord” on the wheels (CA$18,880).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- Two early 20th century toys by the elite German maker Gunthermann sold for a combined $39,530 and a 1930s toy delivery cart by the German maker Saalheimer & Strauss realized $18,880 in two days of online-only auctions held November 8th and 9th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. Together, the two auctions grossed a robust $468,961. All prices quoted in this report include an 18 percent buyer’s premium and are in Canadian dollars. The November 8th auction was dedicated entirely to toys. November 9th had Canadiana, toys, historic objects, clocks, canes, firearms, ammunition, and advertising. Both sales featured items ... More
Celebrate the 150th birthday of the Society at Burlington House and try your luck at creating an "Ode to the Antiquaries" with the help of creative writer Becky Balfourth and be inspired by verse from the beautiful Victorian library and archive collection.
LONDON.- Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House with a Victorian extravaganza during a late night opening on Friday, 29th November 2024. The Society will take you back to the 1870s with some top Victorian-themed entertainment that would have been enjoyed by the Fellows of the time, including an opportunity to experiment with the poetry the Victorians simply couldn't live without. Celebrate the 150th birthday of the Society at Burlington House and try your luck at creating an "Ode to the Antiquaries" with the help of creative writer Becky Balfourth ... More
DRESDEN.- The second exhibition in the newly designed Blockhaus, the Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona (ADA), which opens on 16 November 2024, is a comprehensive presentation of visionary architectural concepts, building utopias and dystopias of the 20th century. It was a time when architects were called upon to respond to numerous crisis situations and global events. Around 200 exhibits, including drawings, models, objects and publications, tell the story of the belief in progress as well as cautionary scepticism about life in the future. In view of today’s social challenges, these ideas seem more relevant than ever. In the centre of the exhibition area are ten stations, showing individual architects as well as collectives and loose groups. It begins with the early 20th-century visions of Paul Scheerbart (1863‑1915) and Bruno Taut (1880‑1938), who incorporated nature and the cosmos as facets ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of work by the celebrated photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York, on view from November 15 to December 21. This presentation, titled Robert Frank: Hope Makes Visions, marks the centenary of Frank’s birth and coincides with several other major exhibitions of his work around the world. Pace’s Frank exhibition—organized in collaboration with The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation—is accompanied by a new book from Pace Publishing, featuring an essay by Ocean Vuong. Robert Frank: Hope Makes Visions focuses on Frank’s later work from the 1970s onward: the decades he spent experimenting with various cameras, printing methods, and media. Curated by Shahrzad Kamel, Director of The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, the exhibition takes its title from a sketch Frank made of his work Fire Below—to the East America, Ma ... More
White glove for the entirety of the Royal and Noble Sale with all lots sold achieving more than twice its estimate. Courtesy Sotheby's.
GENEVA.- After weeks of growing anticipation, Sotheby’s Royal and Noble’s top lot, a rare and highly important 18th century diamond necklace, formerly in the collection of the Marquess of Anglesey, has created a sensation by selling for 4,260,000 CHF / 4,837,060 USD against an estimate of 1,600,000 - 2,200,000 CHF, so more than twice its low estimate. In a packed auction room, seven would-be buyers entered a fierce bidding battle that lasted ... More
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting Reversal of Fortune, a solo exhibition of new paintings on linen and paper by Louise Bonnet, at Potsdamer Straße 77-87, in Berlin. Internationally renowned for her emotionally charged depictions of the human form in unusual, often exaggerated poses, Bonnet explores difficult feelings such as fragility, melancholy, loneliness and grief in her work. The title of the exhibition, Reversal of Fortune, insinuates a plot twist or turning point that leads to both tragedy and a moment of catharsis. The works all revolve around the notion of falling. In the paintings we see female figures slipping off beds, divans or couches, plummeting from unseen heights towards the ground, gliding or toppling headfirst, and lying on the floor, after a fall from beyond the picture frame. Exploring the feeling of downward descent as a recurring idea, the works come together to represent all the ... More
LONDON.- A celebration of the ultimate guitarist’s guitar hero, Christie’s will auction Jeff Beck: The Guitar Collection, on 22 January 2025, in London. Jeff Beck (1944-2023), who is missed globally to this day, was a trailblazing guitar icon and legend. A multi-Grammy award-winning artist – twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – his inimitable sound led to collaborations with countless internationally renowned musicians and friends including: Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart, Steven Tyler, Billy Gibbons, Jan Hammer, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, BB King, Buddy Guy, Nile Rodgers, Carlos Santana, Stevie Wonder, Imelda May and Johnny Depp, amongst others. Providing a remarkable opportunity for fans, guitarists and collectors, this unique sale comprises over 130 guitars, amps and ‘tools-of-the-trade’, which Jeff played through his almost six-decades-long career, ... More
Lena Marie Emrich, Some talk others listen, 2024, V Series, Recycled Hard Platic, Car paint, 38,5 × 23,5 × 10 cm.
BERLIN.- A lifetime’s worth of silver dust settles on the endless um’s and ah’s of Lena Marie Emrich’s exhibition BRACE BRACE, filling her images and sculptures with all the infinitesimal speculative dreaming found in departure. Her proneness to detachment is an enigmatic discovery of life’s limbos, unknown destinations, a love of uncertainty, and interstitial community stirrings that posture viewer-as-traveller. Travellers examine the environment and social conditions more closely than their usual inhabitants, who barely winch or flap at the particular whistles of their mise-en-scène, tragic or otherwise. Aching with last-minute curiosity, she transforms into a pilgrim herself, with long tears on overnight trains, an outlaw, a nomad, fleeing, exiled in soft cruelty, slightly bent on orange sunsets and the poetic clicks of foreign tongues. What are our chances of survival when fleeing just about everything? All we really want is tenderness. BRACE BRACE (2024), Emrich ye ... More
Xie Nanxing, Untitled (Slightly Slow), 2023. Oil on canvas, 200 × 200 cm. Courtesy The artist and Galerie Urs Meile.
BEIJING.- Galerie Urs Meile Beijing is presenting Xie Nanxing’s solo exhibition You Can’t See Me. The exhibition highlights his most recent works, Untitled (Slightly Faster) (2023) and Untitled (Slightly Slow) (2023). The representational nature of Xie Nanxing’s paintings lies in his consistent depiction of what he perceives with the utmost vividness. These situations include visual phenomena glimpsed in an instant, as well as their origins and evolutionary paths. The meticulous exploration and layering of realistic elements render the subjects in his painting nearly unrecognizable. This “vividness” is retained in a hollowed-out manner—generally speaking, “hollowing out” refers to a detachment from the real world; in architectural terms, it alludes to the structural foundation underlying a building. His paintings hold a captivating allure for the audience. The occasional elusiveness or outright absence of the painting’s subject opens ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting an exhibition of large-scale paintings and assemblages by late American master Thornton Dial (1928 – 2016). The exhibition features major works from each period of Dial’s extraordinary career and draws upon a history of critical literature shaped by insights from such preeminent writers as Toni Morrison and Amiri Baraka. As its title implies, this presentation highlights Dial’s accomplishments as a maker of powerfully physical works (‘the visible’), while illuminating the often obscured patterns of systemic trauma and exclusion (‘the invisible’) that drove his life and his prodigious artistic project. The exhibition begins with two early important examples from the body of ... More
BERLIN.- Schlüterstrasse 45 in Berlin-Charlottenburg: A century ago, the legendary Berlin photographer Yva established her spacious photo studio here, where Helmut Newton apprenticed from 1936 to 1938. Decades later, this address became Hotel Bogota, where its last manager, Joachim Rissmann, preserved Yva’s studio as a tribute to her legacy and the art of photography. Rissmann later acquired numerous vintage prints by Yva, some of which are on loan for the exhibition Berlin, Berlin on the first floor of the Helmut Newton Foundation, running parallel to this show in the foundation’s project room. Many of these early 1930s fashion images were taken in Yva’s studio at Schlüterstrasse, which later became the Hotel Bogota. Two self-portraits of Helmut Newton, taken in 1936, are also on display in Berlin, Berlin. In one, Newton appears in a lab coat; in the other, he dons a hat and coat, ... More
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New Northern Lights exhibition opens at The Polar Museum, Cambridge CAMBRIDGE.- Recent sightings of the Northern Lights in southern Britain have flooded our timelines in recent weeks as people try to capture its wonderful colours on their smartphones. Now The Polar Museum is inviting visitors to see stunning early attempts to capture the natural phenomenon in a new free exhibition, showcasing the work of Danish-born school teacher and self-taught scientist, Sophus Peter Tromholt (1851–1896). In 1875 Tromholt moved from Denmark to Norway. There he taught at a school, lectured in astronomy, wrote many articles and several schoolbooks, and even composed two pieces of music. However, the northern lights were always his main interest. He wanted to capture them using photography and determine their height in the atmosphere. In 1885 he published his results in the book, Under the Rays ... More
Marian Goodman Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by Bernard Frize LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marian Goodman Gallery opened the inaugural solo exhibition for Bernard Frize in the Los Angeles space. Bernard Frize was born in 1949 in Saint-Mandé, France. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. For the past 45 years Frize has developed a singular practice that has continuously questioned the role of the artist and the act of painting itself. By working serially, and according to restrictive measures and protocols, Frize has released himself from subjectivity and allowed a self-generative framework to take shape and evolve over time, from one series to the next. For Frize, the basic elements of painting (paint, brush, canvas), alongside its sensual and intellectual pursuits, are sublimated according to a pre-determined methodology, and are ultimately concealed by the process of its making, or as Frize concedes, ... More
Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art adds seven new members to its advisory board WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art announces the appointment of seven new members to the museum’s national board. Based in the United States and Africa, these new members are global leaders in sectors such as entrepreneurship, philanthropy, financial services and higher education: • Olugbenga (GB) Agboola, founder and CEO of Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company • Emmanuel Akyeampong, the Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and minister for worship and formation at Harvard University Memorial Church • Dr. Anita Blanchard, associate dean for graduate medical education at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine • Pulane Tshabalala Kingston, f ... More
University of Sunderland unveils state-of-the-art cinema SUNDERLAND.- The University of Sunderland has rolled out the red carpet to mark the official relaunch of its newly refurbished cinema. The venue on St. Peter’s Campus was damaged beyond use due to Storm Arwen in 2021, but now a £1.3m investment means it is back in action once again. To mark the occasion, Sir David Bell, the University’s Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, was joined by Sunderland Central MP Lewis Atkinson, alongside guests from across the region and the creative sector. The cinema, which has been completely refurbished and upgraded, boasts 120 seats, is fitted with a top of the range laser projector and a Dolby Atmos sound system. Lewis Atkinson, MP for Sunderland Central, said: “The screen industry in the region ... More
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg presents Bernhard Schobinger's exhibition B.S. Kosmos' FRIBOURG.- From his connections with Concrete art in Zurich to punk rebellion, from postmodern eclecticism to the smallest of zen-influenced touches, Schobinger’s work testifies to constant formal experimentation. Schobinger is an independent artist who fashions always-unique pieces of jewelry from scratch, upholding a vision in which there is no separation between art and life. Sonja, the artist’s daughter, serves as a model in the series of images that make up the artist’s book Devon Carbon Perm (Schobinger + Štrba, 1988). She is photographed by her mother, the artist Annelies Štrba. Developed in a kitchen, these shots have an intimacy and togetherness impossible to recreate in the professional, commercial world of fashion. In the work Nasses Schaf II (2002), a chessboard is transformed into a jewelry box. Inside, a child’s figurine representing a sheep is encr ... More
Palazzo Mazzetti in Asti hosts a major exhibition dedicated to Escher ASTI.- From 16 November 2024 to 11 May 2025, the exhibition rooms in Palazzo Mazzetti in Asti will display the works of Escher, the artistic genius and visionary, and a favourite with the general public around the planet. Iconic among art lovers but also among mathematicians, designers, and graphic artists, his unique creations combine art with the universe of numbers, science with nature, and reality with imagination, generating fanciful inventions and paradoxes both magical and marked by strong scientific rigour Born in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands in 1898, Maurits Cornelis Escher developed his own unique and unmistakable style thanks to his extraordinary ability to transport visitors into imaginary and seemingly impossible worlds. In his creations, the great Dutch master, who lived and travelled in Italy between the two World Wars, brings together countless themes and ... More
Ketterer Kunst crowns anniversary year with a spectacular auction in December MUNICH.- In its anniversary year, Ketterer Kunst – Germanys leading art auction house - concludes the second and final auction phase with a grand sale on December 6 and 7, presenting a range of artworks unrivaled on the German market, especially in higher six-figure price realms, and with a variety of works by sought-after international artists. We would like to draw your attention to a small selection of top lots from our Evening Sale on December 6 for inclusion in your coverage. One of the last paintings Max Beckmann worked on until the end of November 1950 – he died on December 27, 1950, on a walk in New York's Central Park – “Large Clown with Women and Small Clown”. It can be seen as his legacy. “I am a silly old clown and nothing else [...],” he wrote in a diary entry from 1946. Self-reflection was probably his most important artistic ... More
Exhibition focuses on Frederic Leighton's production of small en plein air landscape sketches LONDON.- This first major exhibition of Frederic Leighton’s work, following the reopening of the museum in October 2022, will focus on the artist’s production of small en plein air landscape sketches, created between 1850 up until his death in 1896. Many of these delicate artworks will be returning to the artist’s house-museum for the first time over 120 years, placing them back in the context of where they were originally displayed. Leighton’s landscape paintings are some of his most visually appealing works and unlike his meticulously conceived and executed exhibition pictures, these sketches display a much freer way of painting, and capture the colours, light and atmosphere of a particular moment. Generally, Leighton chose to avoid famous landmarks, instead seeking out a particular backstreet, hill, rock, or tree that caught his attention, ... More
Damascus Room at LACMA, Part II
Flashback
On a day like today, The Hoxne Hoard was discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes
November 16, 1992. November 16, 1992.- The Hoxne Hoard is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth century found anywhere within the Roman Empire. Found by a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England, on 16 November 1992, the hoard consists of 14,865 Roman gold, silver and bronze coins from the late fourth and early fifth centuries, and approximately 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewellery.
