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| | Famous self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci on display for the first time at exhibition in Turin
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A woman looks at a Leonardo da Vinci self-portrait during the preview of the exhibition 'Leonardo. The Genius. The Myth' in the Palace of Venaria in Turin, Italy. The show about the genius of Leonardo da Vinci runs from 17 November 2011 to 29 January 2012. EPA/DI MARCO.
TURIN.- The exhibition, conceived and organized on the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage is aimed to offer a journey into Leonardo’s works: about 30 original drawings from some important Italian and foreign institutions and some writings about the Autoritratto from the Biblioteca Reale of Turin. The path includes also a series of works from the 15th to the 20th century, telling us the importance and the strengthening of the physiognomy of Genius in ancient and modern arts, as well as the influence of Leonardo on ... More |
| Sotheby's Latin American Art evening sale in New York totals $17 million, breaks records | | Abu Dhabi Art 2011: 50 prestigious and innovative galleries participate in this year's edition | | Gesamtkunstwerk: New art from Germany on show at the Saatchi Gallery in London | 
Artist Francisco Corzas' oil on canvas of a nude young woman "Desnudo (Fleur du Mal") in seen in this handout released November 18, 2011. The piece set records for Corzas at Sotheby's auction, selling for $218,500. REUTERS/Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sale of Latin American Art at Sotheby’s in New York brought a total of $16,975,750, meeting pre-sale expectations (est. $15.2/20.7 million).* The highlight of the evening was Watermelon Slices by Rufino Tamayo, which exceeded the high estimate to fetch $2,210,500; the work was sold by The Museum of Modern Art, New York to benefit the Acquisitions Fund (est. $1.5/2 million). Watermelon Slices was just one of a number of excellent prices for the Mexican painter, with a particular resurgence in early works. Other Tamayo highlights included: Frutero y dominó from 1928 which was sought by four bidders before almost doubling the estimate to sell for $530,500 (est. $275/375,000), and La Tenista from 1932 which fetched $398,500 ... More | | 
A visitor takes a photograph near an artwork during the Abu Dhabi Art Fair at Manarat al Saadiyat in Saadiyat Islands, Abu Dhabi. REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh.
DUBAI.- The third edition of Abu Dhabi Art, the leading platform for international modern and contemporary art, has today launched its diverse 2011 programme on Saadiyat Island. Abu Dhabi Art 2011 will be housed in the new UAE Pavilion which was designed by Foster + Partners as well as Manarat Al Saadiyat, the Saadiyat Cultural District’s exhibition center, opened since 2009. The huge UAE Pavilion, originally designed for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 has been relocated in more than 24,000 individual parts and was inspired by the golden sand dunes of the Emirates. Organised by Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) and the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage (ADACH,) this year’s expanded international programme includes a boutique art fair made up of around 50 prestigious and innovative galleries as well as exhibitions, film screenings ... More | | 
Andre Butzer, 'Ahnenbild' (detail).
LONDON.- On 18 November, the Saatchi Gallery will open Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, the gallery’s first survey of German art. The exhibition, which presents artists from or based in Germany (including Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Bremen and Cologne), confirms Germany’s position as a powerhouse of European contemporary art. Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany showcases 24 artists, most of whom have been little seen in the UK, but are rapidly establishing themselves in Germany and internationally. Their work, including sculpture, painting, drawing and installation, ranges from the grotesque and macabre to the lyrical and surreal, reflecting the diversity of German art now. Perhaps best known for its Wagnerian associations, the word ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ can be translated as a total, ideal or universal work of art, or as a synthesis of different art forms into one all-embracing ... More |
| Israelis mapping Mount of Olives necropolis using 21st-century technology | | Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei makes 2.4 million tax battle a 'social performance' | | Previously unknown large-scale porcelain farnese expected to make £500,000 at Bonhams | 
A member of the mapping team Moti Shamis surveys ancient graves at the Mt. of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Ariel Schalit.
By: Matti Friedman, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP).- A Jewish group in Jerusalem is using 21st-century technology to map every tombstone in the ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a sprawling, politically sensitive necropolis of 150,000 graves stretching back three millennia. The goal is to photograph every grave, map it digitally, record every name, and make the information available online. That is supposed to allow visitors to find their way in the cemetery, long a bewildering jumble of crumbling gravestones and rubble surrounded by Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Beset for many years by neglect, it is among the oldest cemeteries in continuous use in the world. Around 40,000 graves have been mapped so far by the team, which began work in 2008. They expect to finish recording all of the intact gravestones — an estimated 100,000 ... More | | 
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei shows his tax guarantee slips. AP Photo/Andy Wong.
By: Gillian Wong, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- Dissident artist Ai Weiwei's latest provocative piece was handed to him by the Chinese government: a $2.4 million tax bill that he says is a trumped-up effort to silence him. Though jarred after spending nearly three months in police detention this year, he turned the demand into performance art — posting official documents online, tallying loans from supporters and making a video of himself singing an anti-censorship song. It opened a window on an opaque system, and showed that many in China share his desire for government accountability. Supporters donated more than $1.3 million (8.5 million yuan) to him in just two weeks, some of it folded into paper airplanes or wrapped around fruit and thrown over his gate. To Ai, who has created installations around the world but had been able to show little of his work domestically, it is all art — right down ... More | | 
Figure of Hercules. Estimated to sell for £300,000-500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A very rare and important 82cm high porcelain figure of Hercules created at the Doccia factory in Tuscany in 1753-55 is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London in the Fine European Ceramics sale on 7th December 2011. This is the first time that a Doccia figure of this size has come to auction and the piece is estimated to sell for £300,000-500,000. Nette Megens, Bonhams European Ceramics Specialist, comments, “It is an unprecedented event that a Doccia figure of this size and importance comes to the market by public sale. It is truly a once in a lifetime chance for an auctioneer to handle an object of this beauty and museum quality.” The Doccia factory was founded in the middle of the 18th century by Carlo Ginori, and is still operating in Sesto Fiorentino, just outside of Florence. The factory started making large-scale porcelain figures, a hugely ambitions task, in the late 1740s. The stunning work ... More |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts acquires ocean without a shore video installation by Bill Viola | | Bronze artifact believed to be about 1,000 years old found on Alaska's Seward Peninsula | | Bonhams breaks world records in 20th century British and Irish sale held yesterday | 
Bill Viola, Ocean Without a Shore, 2007. Video and sound installation. Courtesy of PAFA.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announces the presentation of Ocean Without a Shore (2007), a major video installation by internationally acclaimed artist Bill Viola and a significant new addition to the museum’s collection. Exhibited in the United States for the first time, this profound and moving work of art can be experienced at PAFA from November 19 onward. “Bill Viola is one of the most significant American artists working today, “says Harry Philbrick, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum. ““His work Ocean Without a Shore brings a new depth to our permanent collection, and will allow us to more fully understand the progression of video and installation art as it relates to both the 20th century and today.” Ocean Without a Shore is a complete sensory environment that combines a reverence for the traditions of figuration and realism in Western art with cutting ed ... More | | 
A prehistoric bronze artifact is shown at the University Of California, Davis. AP Photo/University Of Colorado.
By: Dan Joling, Associated Press
ANCHORAGE (AP).- A research team is attempting to discover the origin of a cast bronze artifact excavated from an Inupiat Eskimo home site believed to be about 1,000 years old. The artifact resembles a small buckle, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder said in an announcement. How it got to Alaska remains a mystery. "The object appears to be older than the house we were excavating by at least a few hundred years," research assistant John Hoffecker said in the release. Hoffecker led excavating at Cape Espenberg on Alaska's Seward Peninsula. The object has a rectangular bar connected to a broken circular ring. It's about 2 inches long and 1 inch wide. It was found in August at a home site dug into a beach ridge. The excavations are part of a project paid for by the National Science Foundation ... More | | 
Henry Moore's Shelter Drawing: Seated Mother and Child sold for £634,850. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A new world auction record for a work on paper by Henry Moore was set by Bonhams yesterday (16th November) in the 20th Century British and Irish Art sale. Entitled Shelter Drawing: Seated Mother and Child, the work sold for £634,850, after much enthusiastic bidding. Executed in 1941, the work had only appeared a couple of times in public, including the Tate Gallery’s major retrospective of Henry Moore last year. The sale total was £4,150,000. Another world record for a work on paper by Lowry was also set during the sale. A pencil drawing entitled Swinbury Station, executed in 1939 sold for £121,250, exceeding its presale estimate of £50,000 – 80,000. Swinbury Station was a testament to Lowry's skill as a draughtsman and had never been seen at auction before, having been gifted by the artist to the present owner's parents as an engagement present. The picture had been on ... More |
| Miami Art Museum presents rare opportunity to see works by Marcel Duchamp | | Only known Mickey Mouse double-figure Slate Dancer toy at Morphy Auctions | | Remembering a lost museum: The first Jewish museum and modern art collection of the world | 
Air de Paris (50 cc. of Paris Air), December 1919, 1964 edition. Glass, 5 1/4 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. Photo: Courtesy of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art © 2011 Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/ Estate of Marcel Duchamp.
MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum presents Focus: Marcel Duchamp, a rare opportunity for Miami audiences to experience the seminal French artist’s work firsthand. The display presents Miami Art Museum’s edition of Duchamp’s Box in a Suitcase, from 1961, alongside a small trove of works hailing from the collection of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. The exhibition will be on view at Miami Art Museum from Thursday, November 17, 2011 through Sunday, March 18, 2012. “Marcel Duchamp reoriented the way we understand the source of a given artwork’s meaning and value,” said MAM Associate Curator René Morales. “He questioned the barriers that separate art from everyday life, expanding our conceptions of what an artwork can be.” Box in a Suitcase was one of the first artworks purchased by MAM for its ... More | | 
Allens Red Tame Cherry die-cut tin sign, framed size 40 x 27¾ inches, est. $10,000-$15,000. Morphy Auctions image.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions has a holiday treat in store for toy and advertising collectors: a 3-day sale so big they’re turning back the clock to an earlier-than-usual 9 a.m. start time. The Dec. 8-10 auction contains 2,620 lots, and nearly all of the merchandise comes from collections and is fresh to the market. The Thursday session will be ushered in by 150 lots of occupational shaving mugs. Among the rarest mugs are examples depicting boxers, a veterinarian treating an ailing horse, and a sea captain’s ship, but the entry that may attract the most interest is a pair of mugs that belonged to the Duesenberg brothers, who produced automobiles but actually began as bicycle manufacturers. “Each of the mugs has a picture of one of the Duesenberg brothers on a bike. The mugs will be sold as a single lot together with a letter of authenticity and other documentation. It’s a great archive,” said Mo ... More | | 
Jewish Museum, entrance hall, c. 1933. © New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum.
By: Dr. Kai Artinger
BERLIN.- Perhaps only a few people in Berlin and elsewhere know that there was a Jewish museum in the German capital from 1933 to 1938. Astonishingly enough, the first Jewish museum worldwide was opened one month before the seizure of power by the National Socialists. It was situated next to the new sinagogue in Oranienburger Strasse, in the centre of Berlin. The collections contained not only art works and historical artifacts of the past but also modern art. In its five years of existence the Jewish Museum was able to build up a unique collection of modern Jewish art and it did it under circumstances, we can call today only hostile in every respect. Finally the museum was closed down on the 10 November 1938 and its collection seized. The idea of a museum of Jewish culture and art was born in the early twenties. But it took almost another ten ... More |
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 Julia Marget Cameron's intimate of Virginia Woolf's mother sells for £57,650 at Bonhams LONDON.- An intimate portrait of Julia Jackson by British photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), one of the highlights of Bonhams Photographs Sale, realised an impressive £57,250 today (17 November) at the auction house’s New Bond Street saleroom. One of around fifty known portraits by Cameron of her niece, the earliest dating from 1864, it had attracted a pre-sale estimate of £25,000 – 35,000. It dates from the spring of 1867 when Cameron visited the Jackson family in Kent and took a series of studies of the beautiful twenty-one year old Julia, who was later to marry Victorian intellectual and author, Sir Leslie Stephens. Jackson had four children with Stephens, including Vanessa (Bell) and Virginia (Woolf), who immortalised her mother as Mrs Ramsay in her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. Cameron’s portraits are currently subject to special focus in the Victoria and Albert’s Museum’s ne ... More Barbara Kruger at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich MUNICH.- The American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger is designing the 2011 EDITION 46 issue of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin which, in the 46th week of each year, is in the hands of an international contemporary artist. The magazine is to be published on Friday 18 November as a supplement in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The magazine project has given rise to a temporary work that the artist has designed especially for the floor of the rotunda in the Pinakothek der Moderne and which visitors can walk around. Barbara Kruger has transformed the rotunda with its 25-metre diameter in the Pinakothek der Moderne into an arena: huge white letters on concentric bands of red and white surround the viewer and spell out concepts and statements. With the simplest of means, the work visibly demonstrates the influence that a restricted palette, signs and elementary slogans have on how we perceive things, how aggr ... More Harvard Presents first solo Boston-Area exhibition of Laurel Nakadate's videos CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts present Laurel Nakadate: Say You Love Me, an exhibition of eight videos by the artist, filmmaker, and photographer Laurel Nakadate, whose work pushes the boundaries of voyeurism, exhibitionism, and vulnerability. This solo exhibition—the artist’s first in the Boston area—will be held at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery November 17 through December 22, 2011. There will also be a screening of her film The Wolf Knife (2010) at the Harvard Film Archive on November 18. Please note: The Sert Gallery will be closed for a private event on Saturday, November 19 and Sunday, November 20. In her videos, Nakadate performs a Lolita-like role in a series of sometimes humorous, but frequently unsettling fictional vignettes with socially awkward, middle-aged men she meets through chance encounters. Her work references video ar ... More Pakpoom Silaphan "Remastering the Masters" at Scream London LONDON.- Pakpoom Silaphan opens his second solo exhibition at Scream featuring new work on iconic artists including Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Frida Kahlo, Gilbert and George, Jackson Pollock, Rembrandt van Rijn, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. Pakpoom’s first solo show at Scream last autumn was described by Emma Love in The Independent as “a sign of the times”. Pop art has a distinctive visual language which Pakpoom Silaphan has ‘remastered’ using his own particular aesthetic. Deploying tin and enamel signs or historic found objects such as old calendars as his sculptural canvas, he weaves an ingenious dialogue between portraits of artists, drink brands, collage and painting. Old advertising signs have their own history, not just in the products they are promoting and the distribution reach of global brands, but also in the very physical reminder ... More Sotheby's to offer previously unknown manuscript notebook of poems and songs by Rabindranath Tagore NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s announces the sale of an Unknown Manuscript Notebook by celebrated Bengali poet and artist, Rabindranath Tagore on 13 December 2011 in New York. Dating to the fall of 1928, the notebook contains twelve poems and lyrics for twelve songs in Bengali, some being heavily amended drafts of subsequently published works. Tagore presented this extraordinary work to a family friend and early patron in the mid-1930s, and through whose family it has descended. The notebook is estimated to fetch $150/250,000.* Born in Calcutta in 1861, Rabindranath Tagore is widely recognized as one of the world’s most profound writers. An astonishingly prolific author who produced a strikingly diverse output that spanned numerous literary genres, Tagore is seen as one of the great literary giants of his time. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, becoming the first Asian ... More Prehistoric whales exposed in Chilean fossil bed SANTIAGO (AP).- Scientists from Chile and the Smithsonian Institution have been working to protect a huge collection of whale fossils found in the Atacama desert. Those involved in the project say about 80 whales have been preserved in sedimentary rock, and that many of the fossils are completely preserved, including a family group that appears to be a mother, father and baby whale. The area outside the town of Bahia Inglesa has long been called "Whale Hill" by locals, and was about to be paved over in a coastal highway expansion until paleontologist Mario Suarez persuaded his government to recover the bones first. The government now plans to build a new museum to house what appears to be an amazing collection. ... More |
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