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| | New rooms with works spanning the years 1962 to 1982 on view at the Reina Sofia Museum
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A woman observes the work of art 'Green-Blue', by German artist Gehrard Richter, at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, central Spain, 28 November 2011. This work is one of the 300 works which have been presented by the Reina Sofia Museum's curator Manuel Borja-Villel as part of a new permanent collection of exhibits representatives of 60's and 70's poetry and political art on 28 November. EPA/JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO.
MADRID.- Opening to the public at the Museo Reina Sofía on Wednesday 30 November are the rooms devoted to the third section of the Museum’s Collection, which covers the period from 1962 to 1982. The Museum’s Collection is articulated around four areas corresponding to the key moments in the history of art, both Spanish and international, in the 20th and 21st centuries. Two of them have already been opened to the public. The first, exhibited on the second floor of the Sabatini Building, takes in the twenties and thirties, when the avant-gardes moved in the direction of greater commitment and antagonism. The second, presented a year ago under the title Is the War Over? Art in a Divided World (1945-1968), surveys the forties, fifties and sixties, ... More |
| Exceptional work of art by Paul Cézanne at Christie's impressionist and modern art sale in Paris | | British Museum announces major aquisition of complete set of Picasso's Vollard Suite | | Quai Branly Museum in Paris exhibition displays the disturbing history of human zoos | 
Detail of the painting "Etude de baigneuses" (around 1902-1906) by painter Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is displayed at Christie's auction house in Paris. REUTERS/Charles Platiau.
PARIS.- Christie’s announces the auction of an exceptional work of art by Paul Cézanne at its Impressionist and Modern Art sale on December 1st, 2011. This oil on canvas study was realized between 1902 and 1906 when the artist was at the peak of his career. This study, one of the few known to this date, is estimated between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 Euros. Thomas Seydoux, International director of the Impressionist and Modern Art department: ”The Bathers of Paul Cézanne figure among the most famous compositions in Art History. Discovering and unveiling this oil on canvas study was a very exhilarating moment, because it is the first time in decades that we discover such a piece of art.” The famous series of paintings The Bathers, executed between 1894 and 1906, are today recognized to be emblematic works of art by Paul Cézanne. They are, according to Philip Conisbee, former curator of the Washington National Gal ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Rembrandt and two women; plate 35 of the Vollard Suite. 31 January 1934. Etching, scraper and plate-tone. Presented by the Hamish Parker Charitable Trust in memory of Major Horace Parker.
LONDON.- The British Museum announces the major acquisition of a complete set of Picasso’s Vollard Suite, which will go on display at the Museum in the summer of 2012. The suite comprises 100 etchings produced by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 and is the most important cycle of etchings produced by arguably the 20th century’s most important artist. This will be the only complete Vollard Suite held by a public museum in the UK and only a handful of museums in the world are fortunate to hold a set. It is believed that this will be the first time a complete Vollard Suite has been shown in Britain in the past 50 years. This landmark acquisition for the British Museum is made possible through the extraordinary generosity of the Hamish Parker Charitable Trust in memory of the donor’s father, Major Horace Parker. This outstanding acquisition will be exhibited from 3 May until 2 September 2012 in Room 90. The etch ... More | | 
A member of the media looks at busts of men on the eve of the opening of a a new exhibition at the Quai Branly museum in Paris. AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere.
By: Angela Charlton, Associated Press
PARIS (AP).- It's a queasy experience, viewing chained tribal dancers do a white man's bidding, or African women stripped and photographed to feed European curiosity. Until just a few generations ago, this is how most white people learned about those with skin of a different shade. A new Paris exhibit examines how for centuries, colonizers plucked villagers from Africa, the Americas or the South Pacific and put them on display half a world away. The demeaning tradition shaped racist attitudes that linger today. Curator Lilian Thuram, a former soccer star and now anti-racism advocate, hopes the exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris makes people question deep-held beliefs about the "other." "You have to have the courage to say that each of us has prejudices, and these prejudices have a history," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. Thuram is an ideal public face for this unusual exhibit. A pensive black ... More |
| Marlene Dietrich & Andy Warhol's Rolls-Royces among highlights of Bonhams new automotive sale | | A major landscape by Ferdinand Hodler sells for CHF 7,138,500 at Sotheby's Zurich | | Two day auction of rare books at Ketterer Kunst nets more than €1.6 million | 
Marlene Dietrich’s former 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Transformable Convertible Sedan that is estimated to sell for $300,000 – 400,000. Photo: Bonhams.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- Bonhams announce the Scottsdale Sale of Exceptional Motorcars on January 19th, 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. For its first-ever automotive sale during the famous Scottsdale Car Week, Bonhams has teamed up with the exclusive AAA Four Diamond Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in the heart of Scottsdale, near Phoenix. Highlights of the sale include Marlene Dietrich’s former 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Transformable Convertible Sedan that is estimated to sell for $300,000 – 400,000. The screen goddess’ personal car was a gift to her by director Josef von Sternberg of Paramount Studios in likely tribute to her role as ‘femme fatale’ Lola Lola in the classic German/English film Der Blaue Engel. Von Sternberg also collaborated with Dietrich in the movie Morocco, in which this very car is featured. A 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow owned by pop culture icon Andy Warhol is estimated to sell for $40, ... More | | 
Detail of Ferdinand Hodler's Lake Geneva from Chexbres which sold for CHF 7,138,500. Photo: Sotheby's.
ZURICH.- Sotheby's Zurich last evening sold a major landscape by the celebrated Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler - Genfersee von Chexbres aus (Lake Geneva from Chexbres) – for CHF 7,138,500 (€5,784,660). A new world auction record for a work by Albert Anker was also established when Strickendes Mädchen, Kleinkind in der Wiege hütend achieved CHF 6,130,500 (€4,967,830). Estimated in excess of CHF 11 million, tonight’s auction realised CHF 17,410,500 (€14,108,540), bringing the total of Swiss Art sold by Sotheby’s Zurich in 2011 to CHF 26,864,000 (€21,839,139). Commenting on the sale’s results, Urs Lanter, Head of Sotheby’s Swiss Art Department said: “Since the launch of the Swiss Art sale in 1979, Sotheby’s Zurich has sold some of Ferdinand Hodler’s most important landscapes to have come to auction*. Genfersee von Chexbres aus is a major work by the internationally accl ... More | | 
The only known copy of ”Legenda aurea...“ (lot 16) by Jacobus de Voragine went to a French private collector.
HAMBURG.- In the bidding race for George Catlin’s “North American Indian Portfolio” (lot 40), which could almost double its starting price of € 45.000 with a result of € 87.600*, several bidders from the USA were left empty handed. The unique contemporary document of highest rarity will remain in Germany after the heated bidding skirmish. With an overall result of more than € 1,6 million, the two day auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg made for excellent results and even outperformed the spring auction by more than € 100.000. The evening auction alone achieved the remarkable sales quota of 86 percent lots sold. The entire auction realized 98 percent of the volume of estimated prices. ”Works in the section of Expressionism were particularly sought after, in the end all but five lots were sold. This is also largely owed to the fact that more and more fine art buyers a ... More |
| Brazilian artists will be making their mark at the 10th annual Art Basel Miami Beach | | New York City filing: Montana copper mining heiress Huguette Clark signed two wills | | Two important loans from Germany make an impression at National Museum Cardiff | 
Art lovers tour Gary Nader’s gallery in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. AP Photo/J Pat Carter.
By: Laura Wides-Munoz, AP Hispanic Affairs Writer
MIAMI (AP).- Brazil has been a powerhouse in the art world for more than a decade, and now its booming economy is putting its artists and collectors on the global map. Both will be making their mark during the 10th annual Art Basel Miami Beach festival and its satellite events this week. The country, the fifth-largest in the world, is part of the growing Latin American presence at the art extravaganza. But it's not just about art. As Brazilians and other Latin Americans fly in for the fair, Miami-area real estate developers are enticing potential customers with special Basel packages. Meanwhile upscale Brazilian design and furnishing companies like Ornare and Artefacto are hosting parties and conferences on architecture and design. Regina de Almeida, one of the founders and directors of the Institute of Contemporary Culture in Sao Paulo, and a longtime collector of Brazilian works, ... More | | 
Mrs. Huguette Clark Gower, daughter of the late Sen. William A. Clark of Montana. AP Photo.
By: Jennifer Peltz and Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A newly publicized will by an heiress to a Montana copper mining fortune leaves most of her $400 million estate to her family, while a will signed just weeks later left nothing to relatives. The childless Huguette Clark died in May at age 104 — a last breath of New York's Gilded Age that produced the Rockefellers, Astors and Vanderbilts. Her relatives brought the new will to light on Monday: They filed court papers asking a Surrogate's Court judge to involve them in proceedings about how her money was spent — and by whom — while she was alive. Clark's relatives accuse her co-executors, attorney Wallace Bock and accountant Irving Kamsler, of plundering her fortune. The two were among the few who for years had access to the reclusive Clark in her Manhattan hospital room. Clark had left her 42-room Manhattan home — the largest ... More | | 
Edouard Manet, The Painter Monet in his Studio-boat (detail). © Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
CARDIFF.- The National Museum Wales often shares its collections with venues both home and abroad. And this autumn is no different as the French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist gallery at National Museum Cardiff feature two important loans from Germany, as part of an international exchange initiative. Edouard Manet’s depiction of The Painter Monet in his Studio-boat, lent by the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1874, will be at National Museum Cardiff until October 2012 and Claude Monet’s The Sea at Antibes, 1888, which is on loan from the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal will be on show until January 2012. Two Venetian Monets and Alfred Sisley’s Storr’s Rock have been loaned out from Amgueddfa Cymru in return. Both works on display in Cardiff add a new perspective to the works in the Museum’s collection. Edouard Manet’s depiction of The Painter Monet in his Studio-boat, was painted in 1874, ... More |
| New display celebrates the fifty year career of photographer Sandra Lousada | | Christie's International announces the launch of its newly upgraded mobile applications | | New $100 million Natural History Museum of Utah leaps beyond old-school dioramas | 
Celia Hammond, 1962 by Sandra Lousada. ©Sandra Lousada.
LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery celebrates the fifty year career of photographer Sandra Lousada. The twenty one portraits on display depict key figures in literature, film and fashion from the early 1960s and form the first display of work by Lousada at the Gallery. Sandra Lousada: Work and Performance runs in the Bookshop Gallery from 28 November 2011 until 20 May 2012. The Gallery has recently acquired forty portraits by Lousada and the display will show highlights taken between 1960 and 1964, many of which feature in her book Public Faces Private Places (2008). Lousada captured the leading figures in the arts including actors Sarah Miles, James Fox, Vanessa Redgrave and Hayley Mills, composer Arthur Bliss, writers Richard Hughes and Laurie Lee and sculptor Lynn Chadwick. The display will also include previously unseen portraits of models Jean Shrimpton and Celia Hammond taken on assignment for Queen m ... More | | 
All users of web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), will enjoy a series of additional features.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- In keeping with its ongoing expansion of its online and mobile access strategy, Christie’s International launches its newly upgraded mobile applications, enhancing the Christie’s digital experience for a global audience of mobile device users. Christie’s also announces that the newly upgraded app is now available for use on the Android. All users of web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), will enjoy a series of additional features, including the ability to submit online absentee bids, track lots, register to bid and more. These free applications will be made available to the one million plus unique visitors to Christies.com each month via www.christies.com, the company’s Facebook and Twitter audiences, and to visitors of the iTunes App Store and Android App Stores. Michael O’Neal, Director of Digital Media at Christie’s, comments: “These newly inte ... More | | 
The Collections Wall and topographical map at the Natural History Museum of Utah. AP Photo/Natural History Museum of Utah /Stuart Ruckman.
By: Paul Foy, Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP).- Museum-goers are taking in the sounds, smell and feel of ancient life and landscapes at a new $100 million building in Salt Lake City. The Natural History Museum of Utah engages the senses, allowing visitors to mingle inside exhibits, touch artifacts, get a whiff of desert plants or rotting flesh and hear the soft warbling of birds. People are even walking on top of exhibits, with glass-panel floors covering fossil dig sites. Over the years, they'll also be able to watch paleontologists separate fossils from rock in a glass-walled working laboratory. The museum, which opened Nov. 18, is located in the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. The center's copper and stone exterior is designed to blend into the high foothills of the Wasatch Range, and it's named for the mining company that ... More |
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 Bonhams achieves new auction highs for Chinese art sales in Hong Kong HONG KONG.- At a time of serious economic instability around the world, the art market is often vulnerable to the wider financial pressures. Bonhams’ auctions of Chinese art in Hong Kong sent a strong message that the market for top-quality Chinese objects and paintings remains stable, and fine-quality objects presented with attractive estimates can still generate a global enthusiasm from buyers. Bonhams’ four auctions today, variously comprising snuff bottles, ceramics, jades, works of art and paintings, achieved sold percentages by value respectively of 100%, 96%, 89% and 78%, with exceptional prices paid by buyers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe and America for the best objects in the four auctions. Overall, Bonhams’ Autumn Auctions in Hong Kong achieved a new record high sold total for the company of over HK$240 million, representing an increase of nearly 15% over the record sale in ... More Digital church records offer window into past YORK.- Fascinating records from the Church Courts of York are now available on-line at the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, allowing historians new insights into a huge variety of topics over many centuries. From arguments about church taxes on liquorice, roses and pigeon dung, to families disputing wills and inheritance, the records paint a vivid picture of the social, economic, political, religious and emotional world of people living in a period from the 14th to 19th centuries. Digitisation of the York Cause Papers, which record the proceedings of the ecclesiastical courts of York from 1300 to 1858, has been funded through a grant from JISC, the UK’s technology consortium for higher and further education. The development means the papers are set to become one of the most widely-used historical records in the UK. Borthwick Institute Keeper of Archives Chris Webb said: “Until 1858 ... More "Les Marques Aveugles" on view at Centre d'Art Contemporain Genéve GENEVA.- "La Jetée" ("The Jetty", 1962) opens with a still image of Orly airport, followed by this sentence, almost as seminal as Chris Marker's film itself: "This is the story of a man, marked by an image from his childhood". LES MARQUES AVEUGLES takes Chris Marker's film as a point of departure, and researches the notion of time and memory, and more specifically the relationship between image and mark, traces, traumatism. If these elements are clearly discernible in the story the film tells, they are equally so in the film's aesthetics – violent contrasts, fragmented images, an impossible return to the past. The seventeen works of LES MARQUES AVEUGLES use various strategies to illustrate these issues, which make use, moreover, of formats as different as projection, slide show, play between still and moving images, performance and installation. If the image's mark necessarily relates to memory and ... More Newly discovered George Harrison amp to be sold at Bonham's LONDON.- A rare Vox UL730 amplifier and cabinet used for the Beatles ‘Revolver’ and ‘Sgt. Pepper’ recording sessions will be one of the highlights of the Entertainment Memorabilia auction on Thursday 15th December 2011 at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London. The amp, which has only recently been discovered to have been used by the Beatles, is estimated to sell for £50,000-70,000. Peter Hook of Joy Division and New Order borrowed the amp from the current vendor in February 2011, as his guitarist needed a vintage amp for a recording session at Blueprint Studios in Salford. It developed a fault at the end of the session and was taken to a specialist engineer to be fixed. When the amp chassis was removed from its case, the engineer noticed the name of 'George Harrison' scratched on the chassis. After further inspection he found a label on the inside of the speaker cabinet. Subsequent research led to ... More Evarist Navarro's "The Construction of Memory" at the Valencian Institute for Modern Art VALENCIA.- The exhibition entitled La construcción de la memoria (The Construction of Memory), which presents the work of Evarist Navarro at the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, comprises a selection of his research in the field of sculpture and installations, in which clay, both raw and in its fired or ceramic version, is the predominant material. Several small-format series arranged according to motifs and emblematic forms are placed around three site-specific monumental installations. The series are called Arquitecturas del cuerpo (Architectures of the Body), Arqueologías (Archaeologies) or De tripas corazón (Making the Best of Things), and in them he explores the links between past and present and their representation as solid objects. These works are accompanied by 25 drawings on acetate and 30 watercolours, in which he portrays the sculptural and spatial essays and reflections of his sculpture in two dimensions. ... More Grogan to offer fine collection of classic Chinese furniture DEDHAM, MA.- Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers announces their December Auction will be held on Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at 12:00 noon. The 400 lot auction will be comprised of a Fine Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Chinese Decorative Works of Art and Textiles; American and European Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture; and Oriental Rugs and Carpets. The auction will begin with more than 200 lots of Chinese Furniture, Works of Art, Textiles and Scroll Paintings. Highlights of this varied collection of Chinese works of art include an important collection of classic Chinese furniture consigned by J. Malcolm Swenson of Hanover New Hampshire. Mr. Swenson developed a keen interest in Chinese culture and design in the 1970’s while serving as an advisor to the Chinese government on China’s construction and development. Following his work in supplying and installing ... More Asia's premier contemporary art fair, Art Stage Singapore, announces its 2nd edition SINGAPORE.- Art Stage Singapore 2012 will present a lineup of world-class exhibitors and incomparable special projects. Held at Marina Bay Sands from 12 to 15 January 2012, the fair’s second edition presents the best and most exciting of Asia’s artistic creativity – the most important, interesting and stunning artists and galleries. The fair aims to showcase art in an artistic context by supporting special projects and presentations: Asian galleries are juxtaposed against a limited amount of carefully selected Western top galleries. The 120 exhibitors from 18 countries add unparalleled value to the fair by creating over 50 special projects and presentations. Japan-based Gallerist Tomio Koyama described Art Stage Singapore as a “contemporary art fair which shows the new direction of the Asian art market. The context of an Asian, instead of Wesrn, aesthetic point of view is what makes Art Stage Sing ... More Winehouse dress fetches over $67,100 at auction LONDON (AP).- The dress worn by Amy Winehouse on the cover of the late singer's Grammy-winning "Back to Black" album has sold for over 43,000 pounds ($67,120) at auction. Kerry Taylor Auctions says the polka-dot chiffon dress, designed in 2006, was purchased by Musea de la Moda — a fashion museum in Santiago, Chile — for 43,200 pounds. It said the dress's designer, Disaya, agreed to donate proceeds from the sale to a foundation set up in Winehouse's name. Winehouse's father, Mitch, attended the auction and called the donation a "wonderful start to the foundation," which was set up to help vulnerable youth following Winehouse's death in July. A British coroner ruled the singer, known for her beehive hairdos, drank herself to death. ... More |
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