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| | Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh opens following £17.6 million transformation
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A woman looks at the artwork on display in the Ramsay Room, during a special viewing of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland November 28, 2011. The gallery is to open to the public on Thursday after a two and a half year year 17.6 million pounds ($27.4 million) restoration project, which has increased its overall space by sixty percent. REUTERS/David Moir.
EDINBURGH.- The Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG) will open on 1 December, following an ambitious £17.6m restoration project and with an entirely new presentation of its world-famous collection. The project – the first major refurbishment in the Gallery’s 120-year history – has restored much of the architect’s original vision, opening up previously inaccessible parts of the building and increasing the public space by more than 60 percent. It has also added a range of new facilities that will utterly transform visitors’ experience of the Gallery. Entry to the new Portrait Gallery will be completely free. ... More |
| The complete collection of Elizabeth Taylor opens December 3 at Christie's in New York | | Sotheby's New York announces the sale of the contract that founded Apple Computer Company | | Sotheby's important Russian art evening auction brings £5.6/$8.7 million | 
La Peregrina, a pearl, diamond, ruby and cultured pearl necklace by Cartier, given to Elizabeth Taylor by her fifth husband Richard Burton is displayed at Christie's. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Over Thanksgiving weekend, a team of practiced installers convened at Christie’s flagship headquarters in Rockefeller Center to begin construction and installation of one of the most anticipated exhibitions in U.S. auction history: the complete Collection of Elizabeth Taylor. This stunning display of nearly 2,000 individual items from the personal collection of America’s last great film star and fashion icon will open to the public on Saturday, December 3 for an unprecedented ten-day exhibition that runs through December 12. Christie’s has devoted all 300,000 square feet of its facility to this museum-quality exhibition of Elizabeth Taylor’s collections of jewelry, fashion, accessories, fine art, film memorabilia, costumes and decorative items. The auctions will take place December 13-16 and are ... More | | 
Apple Partnership Agreement Amendment, dissolving Wayne's share. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On 13 December 2011 Sotheby’s New York is to offer the founding partnership agreement of the Apple Computer Company – the firm that revolutionized technology, business, personal computing and the world. The 1976 document, which once belonged to Ronald G. Wayne, one of Apple’s founders along with Steven P. Jobs and Stephen G. Wozniak, is the first chapter in the story of one of America’s most important companies. The contract, along with the agreement documenting Ron Wayne’s withdrawal from the company for $800, will be offered as a single lot in the Fine Books and Manuscripts sale and is estimated to fetch $100/150,000.* In 1974 Steve Jobs left Reed College and was given a job at Atari by Al Alcorn, the company’s chief engineer. It was whilst working on the night shift that he met Ron Wayne, a 41 year old who had started a business that later failed. Jobs would tell his biographe ... More | | 
Top price achieved tonight was for Petr Konchalovsky’s exceptionally rare, pre-revolutionary painting Tatar Still Life (detail) which commanded the above-estimate sum of £914,850/$1,415,181. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This evening, Sotheby’s Important Russian Art auction which was exceptionally well-attended brought £5,597,000/$8,657,999 (est. £5,755,000-8,415,000). The sale achieved sellthrough rates of 66.7% by lot and 74.6% by value, and established two new artist records for Alexander Golovin and Pavel Kovalevsky. The top-selling lot of this evening’s auction was Petr Konchalovsky’s exceptionally rare, pre-revolutionary painting Tatar Still Life, dated 1916. The painting saw competition from 5 bidders and realised the above-estimate sum of £914,850/$1,415,181 (est. £500,000-700,000). The painting first belonged to influential Polish art critic Waldemar George who presented the painting as a wedding gift to Louis Gautier-Chaumet, editor-in-chief of “La Presse" newspaper, where George served ... More |
| British Library puts 19th century newspapers online, plans to digitize 40 million pages | | Ferrari, Glenn Kaino, Ellsowrth Kelly, and Michael Dweck-Just some of the events at Art Basel Miami | | Rodin's Head of Pierre de Wissant fetched HK$ 64,900,000 at Tiancheng International Auctioneer Ltd. | 
Digitization and Scanning Operator Madhuri Joshi scans pages of a newspaper at the British Library's British Newspapers archive facility. AP Photo/Matt Dunham.
By: Jill Lawless, Associated Press
LONDON.- The newspaper coverage was troubling: London's huge international showcase was beset by planning problems, local opposition and labor woes — and the transport was a mess. It sounds like the 2012 Olympics, but this was the Great Exhibition of 1851 generating stories of late trains, unscrupulous landlords and dangerous overcrowding. Coverage of the event is found in 4 million pages of newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries being made available online Tuesday by the British Library, in what head of newspapers Ed King calls "a digital Aladdin's Cave" for researchers. The online archive is a partnership between the library and digital publishing firm Brightsolid, which has been scanning 8,000 pages a day from the library's vast periodical archive for the past year and plans to digitize 40 million pages over the ... More | | 
Photographer Michael Dweck will sign copies of his book Habana Libre at Base.
MIAMI BEACH, FL.- Art Basel Miami's tenth edition will hold several not to be missed events. Visitors to the art fair will have many options where to view art and party. Here are some of them: American photographer Michael Dweck's personal exploration of Cuba, reflected in his most recent release, Habana Libre, will be presented at Base, 939 Lincoln Road in South Beach. Michael Dweck will be present signing books and then will head to Haven Lounge for an after party where photographs from Habana Libre will be experienced through sight and sound with music by Mark Leventhal. Ferrari, Peter M. Brant and Sotheby’s Tobias Meyer will hold a private party in honor of Ferrari’s Chairman, Luca di Montezemolo, on Tuesday, November 29th. The party will be held at 3 Indian Creek Island Road in Miami Beach, Florida, beginning at 8:30 PM. The evening, hosted by Interview, will include the unveiling of the new Ferrari 458 Spider; a premiere screening of RPM, the new 3D ... More | | 
A sculpture titled 'Monumental Head of Pierre de Wissant' by Auguste Rodin is seen at the Tiancheng auction house. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu.
HONG KONG.- Tiancheng International Auctioneer Limited held its inaugural auction in Hong Kong. The star lot of the sale, Monumental Head of Pierre de Wissant by Auguste Rodin, fetched HK$ 64,900,000 (US$8,327,254). The bronze head sculpture in colossal form was sold to an Asian private collector over the phone after intense bidding, the sold price is over three times of the pre-sale low estimate of 20 million Hong Kong dollars. “We are happy with the sale result today,” said Ingrid Lam, CEO of Tiancheng International. “It is our honour to present this museum quality Western work of art to Asian collectors at our inaugural auction. Quality art works with such historical significance, provenance and condition are highly sought-after by collectors. This large head of Pierre de Wissant is an outstanding example of Rodin’s work which captures the fear, pathos and courage of Pierre de Wissant in an expr ... More |
| UNESCO acknowledges Mariachi music, a symbol of Mexico, as world heritage | | A unique Disney film thought lost has been re-discovered in Herefordshrine and is to sell at Bonhams | | Bonhams in Hong Kong sells world record Chinese snuff bottle for US$3,328,400 | 
Mariachi, strings music, song and trumpets was one of the 17 candidatures recommended for inscription analyzed by the Committee. Photo: Hector Moñtano/INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- Mariachi is the Mexican musical expression that has a great vitality within Mexico and abroad, and has been declared by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Humanity, during the sixth reunion of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage, when it got the unanimous vote of the 24 countries that participate. With this declaratory, Mexico has seven cultural manifestations inscribed on the list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), achieved by the Mexican Government through the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) during this federal administration. Mariachi, strings music, song and trumpets was one of the 17 candidatures recommended for inscription analyzed by the Committee; ... More | | 
The film features Oswald The Lucky Rabbit and Peg Leg Pete and is estimated to sell for $30,000-40,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The only known copy of the Disney film “Hungry Hobos”, which was previously recorded as lost, has been found in a social history film archive in Herefordshire, UK and is to feature in the Entertainment Memorabilia auction on 14th December 2011 at Bonhams in Los Angeles, USA. The film features Oswald The Lucky Rabbit and Peg Leg Pete and is estimated to sell for $30,000-40,000. The character of Oswald was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for a series of cartoons introduced in 1927. After the "Alice Comedies" were finished, Disney signed a contract with Universal Studios to produce a new series for George Winkler and Charles Mintz. The first production featuring Oswald, "Poor Papa," was rejected by Universal as the production and look of Oswald was deemed unsatisfactory. The second, "Trolley Troubles," with a younger-looking Oswald, effectively began the series and it became a great success ... More | | 
This tiny snuff bottle sold for HK$25.3 million (US$3,328,400; GBP2,108,333. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- Bonhams Hong Kong set a new outright world record for a Chinese snuff bottle today, 28 November 2011, at the auction of the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part IV at the Island Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong. The tiny, yet exquisite, ‘famille-rose’ enamelled glass ‘European-subject’ snuff bottle made in the Imperial Palace workshops in Beijing during the Emperor Qianlong period (1736-1795) measures only 8.07cm high. It carried a pre-sale estimate of HK$4,900,000 - 9,000,000. International bidders in the packed auction room and on the telephone battled the bidding up to a final figure of HK$25.3 million (US$3,328,400; GBP2,108,333), over five times its pre-sale estimate and set a new world record for any Chinese snuff bottle, beating Bonhams own record, established only eighteen months ago*. This unique survivor of Imperial craftsmanship sold to an Asian collector who bid on the tele ... More |
| 7th consecutive installment of Aqua set to open at the Aqua Hotel in Miami Beach | | Beyond planet Earth: The future of space exploration on view at the American Museum of Natural History | | The New Art Dealers Alliance returns to Miami Beach for the 9th edition of NADA Miami Beach | 
Rene Garcia, Jr., "Candy Girl", 2011. Glitter paint on 3 panel, 72 x 120". Photo: Courtesy Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, San Francisco.
MIAMI BEACH, FL.- Aqua Art Miami announces its 7th consecutive installment during Art Basel Week in Miami this December. After last year’s successful return to its original location in South Beach and this year’s surge of interest in art fairs around the country, the fair’s organizers are looking forward to an even stronger event in 2011. With expanded arts programming and the collective exchange of ideas by 45 exhibiting galleries, Aqua 2011 will surely live up to what many in the arts community refer to as “the best hotel art fair in the world.” Based in Seattle, Aqua Art Miami has a distinctly West Coast character, set off by the balmy indoor/outdoor atmosphere of its abode at the Aqua Hotel. Over the years, producing partners Jaq Chartier and Dirk Park have continued seeking out vibrant and noteworthy programs in their region, as well as in the greater USA and abroad, with a particular interest i ... More | | 
The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed to be upgraded while in space, has features like handrails that make it possible for astronauts to perform maintenance.© AMNH\R. Mickens.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration, a new exhibition on view at the American Museum of Natural History from November 19, 2011, through August 12, 2012, offers a vision of the future of space travel as it boldly explores our next steps in our solar system and beyond. The exhibition takes visitors on humanity’s journey to explore the next frontier, either ourselves or via robotic proxies, which have already traveled to every planet in our solar system. Future missions highlighted in Beyond Planet Earth, once limited to the realm of science fiction but today discussed by leading scientists and engineers, include building a space elevator on the surface of the Moon, deflecting a hazardous near-Earth asteroid, and traveling to Mars—perhaps even establishing colonies there. “This year, as we mark the 50th anniversary of human space flight, is a particularly timely moment to celebrate t ... More | | 
Javier M. Rodríguez, Going round and round in a line. Variable. Mixed media (measuring tape). Courtesy of Curro & Poncho.
MIAMI BEACH, FL.- The New Art Dealers Alliance announces the 9th annual NADA Miami Beach on December 1st through December 4th at the Deauville Beach Resort (6701 Collins Ave) in its expansive Napoleon, Richelieu, and Le Jardin Ballrooms. NADA Miami Beach is recognized as the preeminent fair featuring the world's most significant emerging art galleries from over 30 cities worldwide. The fair is prominently recognized for celebrating new and innovative contemporary art from rising talents around the globe. In an effort to accommodate the tremendous response from the 2010 fair, NADA has expanded to the Deauville's third ballroom, called Le Jardin. This year the fair offers three booth sizes, giving NADA exhibitors a variety of options in designing their presentations. NADA Miami Beach will again present a new roster of NADA Projects - an invitational developed to showcase new, innovative and idiosyncratic programs. The Swing ... More |
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 Camera Work presents: Jean-Baptiste Huynh "Monochrome" Paolo Roversi "Nudi" BERLIN.- Camera Work presents a double exhibition with photographs by Paolo Roversi and Jean-Baptiste Huynh. The exhibition opened on November 26 and will show new photographs from the series »Nudi« by Paolo Roversi for the first time as well as the photo series »Monochrome« by Jean-Baptiste Huynh, which has never been shown before. Even though the series differ in their motives, they are even more connected with the subtle use of impressive illumination, a stylistic device, which is characteristic for both artists. The photographs of the series »Monochrome«, created by Jean-Baptiste Huynh in 2010/11, are characterized by the strict and uncompromising reduction to the colour black. A spare but elaborate lighting supports this feature, so that the black objects and portraits appear in their deepest shades. The dominant black impressively embraces the colour meaning of sublime elegance and ... More Soledad Sevilla: Written in the celestial bodies at the Museo Reina Sofia MADRID.- Since she began her career at the end of the 1960s, when she participated in the Seminar on Automatic Generation of Plastic Forms held at the Computing Centre of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Soledad Sevilla (Valencia, 1944) has explored the relationship between light, matter and space, combining analytical rigor and geometric order with a search for a sensorial and organic experience. Her works possess an internal poetic logic that makes them singular. Playing an important role in them are the evocation of the intangible, reflection on time and language, the presence of the paradoxical and investigation into the perceptive conditions of the senses. Over time Soledad Sevilla moved from a style of painting that was serial and geometric (although always impregnated by small gestures and imprecisions that personalized and humanized it), to a more lyrical abstraction that seeks complicity between ... More McNay Art Museum acquires Kiki Smith's Woman and Sheep SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Woman and Sheep (2009), a bronze sculpture by New York-based Kiki Smith, recently joined works by Tony Cragg, Philip Grausman, Alexander Liberman, George Rickey, and Joel Shapiro, as part of the McNay's collection of outdoor sculpture formed with the support of the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts. Sited along the Jane Cheever Powell Sculpture Promenade in front of the Stieren Center for Exhibitions, Woman and Sheep is an important addition to the museum's growing collection of works by modern and contemporary artists. "This acquisition enriches our outdoor sculpture collection and provides a poetic counterpoint to nearby works by Joel Shapiro and Tony Cragg." Said McNay director, Bill Chiego. The sculpture also provides an excellent second example of Smith's unique approach to figuration, joining the intimate porcelain Woman with Arm Raised (2005), already in the McNay's ... More Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed to unveil restaurant at Sketch LONDON.- Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed will transform the Gallery restaurant at London’s iconic Sketch, in the first of a new long-term programme of artist-conceived restaurants at the venue. The project seeks to blur the boundaries between art, food, design and functionality. Martin Creed at Sketch will launch on 1 March 2012, coinciding with Sketch’s 10th anniversary and a pivotal year for London as a cultural centre. Through a series of new works both functional and decorative, Creed will create an environment that is at once as an exhibition, an artwork, a restaurant and an Events space. Exemplary of the logical and welcoming systems that recur throughout his work, the floor, walls and furniture will take the form of new artworks inspired by the boundaries of art and functionality. Work No. 1347 will consist of 96 different types of marble, in a formation of zigzagging lines acros ... More Swann Galleries' auction of important photobooks & photographs announced for December 13 NEW YORK, N.Y.- Swann Galleries’ auction of Important Photobooks & Photographs on Thursday, December 13 features beautiful and poignant images and books ranging from the earliest photographs to works by artists living and working today. The sale opens with a fine assortment of cased images and prints from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which includes Andrew J. Russell’s magnificent United States Military Rail Road Photographic Album, with 107 albumen prints depicting the railroads, battlefields and landscapes of the Civil War, 1863-64 (estimate: $50,000 to $75,000); a group of 10 plates of birds from Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion, collotypes, 1887 ($5,000 to $7,500 for the set); and a first edition of Edwin Hale Lincoln’s lavishly illustrated Wild Flowers of New England Photographed from Nature, a complete set with 400 platinum prints, and one of about 50 copies of the self-publish ... More |
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