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Jamie, a Sotheby's employee, looks at a painting by the Dutch artist Jan Havicksz Steen entitled 'An Elegant Company in an Interior with Figure Playing Cards at a Table' at Sotheby's auction house in London. The painting which is to be sold on Dec. 7, is expected to sell for some 4.5-6 million pounds (US$ 7.1-9.4 million, euro 5.2-6.9 million). AP Photo/Alastair Grant.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London Old Master and British Paintings Evening and Day Sales on 7th and 8th December 2011 will offer a selection of important works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades, including the masterpiece by Jan Steen Card Players in an Interior (est. £4.5-6 million). The sales, which comprise 237 lots, are estimated to fetch a combined total in excess of £21 million. Jan Steen's Card Players in an Interior is a superb example of Steen's art, and a masterpiece of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. It is generally dated circa 1660, perhaps while Steen was living at Warmond, just outside Leiden, or in Haarlem, where Steen and his family moved by the summer of that year. The figure of the standing man filling his pipe is reminiscent of the work of the Haarlem painter Adriaen van Ostade, which may point to the slightly later dating. ... More |
| Important portrait by Ernest Biéler from a private Swiss collection for sale at Hôtel des Ventes Winter sales | | Homage to the 18th Century Adriano Ribolzi - Antiquaire: Sale brings a strong total of almost $6.5 million | | MAXXI in Rome devotes major exhibition to the architecture of the third millennium | 
The main feature of the December 14th auction: The discovery of an important portrait by Ernest Biéler.
GENEVA.- The Winter Sale at Geneva ’s Hôtel des Ventes will take place on Monday 12th until Thursday 15th December 2011 with a global estimate of 2,000,000 Swiss francs. This year’s December auction promises an array of surprises for collectors and connoisseurs starting on Monday evening with the Russian sale. This session boasts a prestigious collection of over 300 photographs, often signed, of the Imperial family from the Ferdinand Thormeyer collection with a total estimate of around 30,000 Swiss francs and a rare gold bracelet by Fabergé (est. 50,000-80,000 Swiss francs). The highlight of the paintings sale will be an important portrait by Swiss painter Ernest Biéler (1863-1948) in 1911. This work has never before appeared on the market, having remained with the same family since it’s creation (est. 80,000-120,000). Another star lot featured in this Winter sale is one of Michael Jackson’s trademark ... More | | 
An important pair of carved and giltwood armchairs, Louis XVI, circa 1780. Height 38 1/3 in; width 26 in; depth 27 1/2 in. Sold: 336,750 € ($447,197). Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- With a total of nearly €5 million ($6,5m) (€4,914,500 / $6,526,358) and 78% of lots sold by value, the sale of the collection of antiques dealer Adriano Ribolzi enjoyed tremendous success at Sotheby’s Paris. The auction was preceded by a special five-day viewing full of 18th century spirit, orchestrated by Patrick Hourcade at the Galerie Charpentier, and inspired by the interiors of the Hôtel de Guînes – a listed monument dating from 1782. Brice Foisil, Head of the Furniture & Objets d’Art Department at Sotheby’s France who conducted the auction for the first time, said : "I’m delighted with the results we obtained tonight. Connoisseurs appreciated the quality of this homogenous ensemble – with sustained bidding throughout the auction, and 13 lots selling for over €100,000 ($133,600)." The exquisite collection ... More | | 
Live/Work Spaces. Architecten Anversa, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
ROME.- The practice of recycling as "one of the greatest generators of creative innovation". This is RE-CYCLE. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet, the major exhibition that MAXXI Architettura is devoting to the architecture of the third millennium and its most innovative practitioners. On show at MAXXI (in the external piazza, on the ground floor and in the first floor galleries) are over 80 works including drawings, models and architectural, planning and landscape design projects placed in continual dialogue with the works of artists, designers and videomakers, with broad contaminations with musical and TV productions. The exhibition expands outside the museum with two site-specific installations: Maloca by the Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana (a large-scale installation in wood and synthetic raffia, a contemporary reinterpretation of the huts of the Indios, which welcome ... More |
| An example of 18th century English glass shatters world record at Bonhams this week | | Artist named for $1M sculpture commission at GOMA 5th birthday party | | Modernist outsider Borys Kosarev's exhibition opens at The Ukrainian Museum | 
The goblet is signed by William Beilby of the Beilby workshop in Newcastle. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams have set a new record for an example of 18th century English glass, and a world record for an example of 18th century Beilby glass with the Prince William V of Orange goblet which sold this week for £117,000, as part of the AC Hubbard Collection of Fine English and Dutch Glass. The previous record for an example of 18th century Beilby glass was £67,000, set by Sotheby’s in 1997. Simon Cottle, Head of Bonhams Glass Department, comments, “The world record price for the important Prince William V goblet significantly underlines the steady growth in the value of English 18th century glass and emphasises Bonhams continued pre-eminence in this highly specialised market.” The goblet is signed by William Beilby of the Beilby workshop in Newcastle, which was renowned for ... More | | 
Michael Parekowhai. Photo: Derek Henderson.
BRISBANE.- Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has kicked off 5th birthday celebrations for the Gallery of Modern Art by announcing the winner of a $1 million sculpture commission and unveiling a model of the new art work. The Premier also marked the occasion by opening the children’s exhibition ‘we miss you magic land,’ by Perth artists Pip and Pop. “It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since GoMA opened its doors here in Brisbane,” Ms Bligh said. “Since then more than 3.8 million people have come to the gallery to see works by some of the world’s most influential artists, like Andy Warhol, Valentino and Picasso, as well as Australian and Queensland artists. “GoMA really has helped to transform the cultural landscape of Queensland and set a new standard for contemporary art museums in Australia.” The Premier said she was pleased to announce internationally recog ... More | | 
Borys Kosarev's name will forever be associated with the city of Kharkiv—the place of his birth, death, and a long life devoted to the visual arts.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The first comprehensive exhibition of avant-garde artist Borys Kosarev was presented in New York City at The Ukrainian Museum which opened December 4 and is on display through May 2, 2012. Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931 includes 82 works on paper by Kosarev, an outsider of the Eastern European Modernist movement and a survivor of Stalin’s intellectual purges in 1930s Ukraine. Borys Kosarev (1897-1994), also known as Boris Kosariev, was a contemporary of prominent Kharkiv, Ukraine artists David Burliuk (1882-1967), Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953), and Ilya Repin (1844-1930), as well as other celebrated Ukrainian artists such as Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) and Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964). A master graphic artist, ... More |
| Indianapolis Museum of Art presents "Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection" | | Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012 shortlist announced by The Photographer's Gallery | | With a robust roster of new and returning exhibitors, Metro Show leaps onto the art fair circuit | 
Nimi’ipuu (Nez Perce) or Cayuse, Idaho, Oregon, or eastern Washington, Horse Mask, 1875–1900, trade cloth, glass beads, brass buttons, horsehair, mirrors, red-shafted flicker feathers, silk ribbons, cotton, hide, ermine. Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0097. Photo: John Bigelow Taylor.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. The major traveling exhibition developed by the Fenimore Art Museum explores Native North American art from the Eastern Woodlands to the Northwest through more than 100 masterpieces spanning 2,000 years. The exhibition provides visitors with a broad understanding and appreciation of the aesthetic accomplishments and cultural heritage of North America’s first inhabitants. Art of the American Indians will be on view in the Allen Whitehill Clowes Gallery through February 12, 2012. The objects in the exhibition are drawn from The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of Native North American Art, which was assembled over the past two decades by Eugene V. Thaw, one of the art world’s most distinguished connoisseurs and collectors of art. The ... More | | 
Pieter Hugo, Yakubu Al Hasan, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana, 2009© Pieter Hugo. Courtesy of Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town and Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
LONDON.- The four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012 are Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams. This year’s selection showcases a diversity of subject matter and photographic approaches, ranging from documentary photography and the everyday to the recontextualisation of found images and the conceptual. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012 is presented by The Photographers’ Gallery, London. The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, for a specific body of work in an exhibition or publication format, which has significantly contributed to photography in Europe between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2011. The four shortlisted artists have been nominated for the following projects: Pieter Hugo (b.1976, South Africa) is nominated for his publication Permanent Error, published by Prestel (Germany, 2011). Rinko Kawauchi ... More | | 
Incised Royal Mask, Calima Culture - W. Colombia, 200 BC - 600 AD. Ceramic, 10 x 19 x 5. William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe NM.
NEW YORK, NY.- With a robust roster of new and returning exhibitors, the inaugural Metro Show leaps onto the art fair circuit with a group of highly acclaimed fine and decorative arts specialists. The show opens on Wednesday, January 18 and runs through Sunday, January 22, 2012 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, in New York's Chelsea arts district. Among the fair's newcomers in the field of 20th-century fine art and/or design are the New York galleries Barry Friedman Ltd., Cavin-Morris Gallery, Galerie St. Etienne, and Schillay Fine Art; Syracuse-based Dalton's American Decorative Arts offering American Arts and Crafts; Santa Fe's ethnographic specialist William Siegal Gallery; Chicago-based Worthington Gallery, which features European naïves, Der Blaue Reiter, and Bauhaus paintings, drawings and sculpture; the San Francisco-based tribal specialist B.C. Dentan; Joel Cooner Gallery, from Dallas, speciali ... More |
| Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents Roundabout: Face to Face | | 1953 Austin-Healey "100" special test car sells for world record £843,000 at Bonhams | | Corcoran Gallery of Art presents Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro: Are we there yet? | 
Gonkar Gyatso, Seated Buddha, 2011. 122 cm high.
TEL AVIV.- Roundabout is an international collection of contemporary art that includes artists from Asia, Australia and New Zealand , as well as from the United States , Israel , Russia and Britain . The exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art features 60 works by 50 artists, whose art reflects a wide range of cultural, ideological, religious, and political conflicts. The presentation of these works one alongside another constitutes an attempt to foster dialogue between these different artists, and between the v ari ous cultural and ideological worldviews underlying their works. David Teplitzky – collector and curator of Roundabout collection – likens the diversity of the artworks to a necklace of Buddhist prayer beads – metaphorically tied together by means of their artistic language. Like a carousel or a roundabout in which vehicles follow one upon the other with out colliding the artworks in this collectio ... More | | 
The Austin-Healey racing car of the Le Mans disaster in Weybridge, Britain. EPA/BONHAMS.
LONDON.- An unrestored works racing team 1953 Austin-Healey '100' Special Test Car, which was campaigned in period by racing drivers Lance Macklin, Gordon Wilkins and Marcel Becquart, sold for a world record £843,000 on 1 December at Bonhams’ December Sale. The car, which was offered in ‘barn find’ condition for the first time in 42 years, was bought by a private buyer within the room at Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge, Surrey. While much interest has been shown in the car’s Le Mans history (it is a veteran of both the 1953 and 1955 Le Mans 24-Hour races), for enthusiasts its appeal is much broader. It is the car that finished third in the Sebring 12-hour race, one of the most prestigious achievements of the entire Austin-Healey marque, which put the ‘S’ in its 100S model name. In addition, it took part ... More | | 
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Are We There Yet? (detail) 2011. Gallery installation at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Courtesy of the artists, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, and Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, San Francisco. Photo: Tony Brown.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This winter, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design presents Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro: Are We There Yet? the first exhibition in the United States of the Australian artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro. Commissioned by and created especially for the Corcoran, the exhibition is the third in the NOW at the Corcoran series, a program dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The exhibition’s highlight, a gallery-transforming installation on the Gallery’s second floor, draws from American history, literature, pop culture, current affairs, and the architecture of the Corcoran to explore the symbolism of space exploration ... More |
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 Steven Holl Architects presents new publication: Horizontal Skyscraper NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Holl Architects and William Stout Architectural Books are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Horizontal Skyscraper. Richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and watercolors, the book documents the design and construction of the Horizontal Skyscraper – Vanke Center, which opened in Shenzhen, China in 2009. Horizontal Skyscraper includes texts by Steven Holl, Lebbeus Woods, Yehuda Safran, and Li Hu. William Stout Books will host a book signing event for Steven Holl on December 20th from 5pm to 7pm at 804 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. The Horizontal Skyscraper is an innovative example of a large-scale, hybrid use building, which combines living working, cultural and commercial programs while also creating a large public tropical garden. The building hovers above the landscape, freeing it for public use and for a unique scheme of ecosystem restoration. With ... More For the first time in Austria, Lecia Dole-Recio presents a selection of her latest works at the Secession VIENNA.- At the center of Lecia Dole-Recio's paintings stands the materiality of the support medium, on which she works and which she manipulates. Instead of using prefabricated canvases, Dole-Recio usually creates her own surfaces: she collages paper, various kinds of cardboard, and fabric to produce a substratum on which she paints, only to deconstruct the result by carving into it. The saturation and composition of the colors contribute as much to the quality of her work as the depth of the positive and negative spaces she uncovers with the stencil knife. Lecia Dole-Recio lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches at the renowned Art Center in Pasadena and CalArts in Valencia, CA. In this Secession exhibition the artist presents a selection of her latest works. The conditions of painting as a medium as well as the history of abstraction are important points of reference for Lecia Dole-Recio’s artistic practice. Her visual ... More The Craft and Folk Art Museum launches the online finding aid for the first 32 years of the CAFAM archives LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Craft and Folk Art Museum has played an important historical role in the development of the Los Angeles art scene and has launched the careers of well-known artists who are currently highlighted in the exhibition Golden State of Craft: California 1960-1985, a part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative. The documents of this important historic period are now available in the CAFAM Records, 1965 – 1997, housed in UCLA Library Special Collections, and an index is available online. Former CAFAM librarian Joan Benedetti, working with the Special Collections staff, has completed the 14-year task of creating a keyword-searchable online finding aid now accessible to scholars worldwide in fields including art history, contemporary crafts, folk art, product design, world arts and cultures, folklore, museum studies, library and information studies, women’s studies, and studies of Los Angeles, ... More Florida Atlantic University exhibition features selections from the John Morrissey Collection BOCA RATON, FL.- The University Galleries in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University present “Figured Spaces: Selections from the John Morrissey Collection,” through Saturday, February 11, 2012, in the Schmidt Center Gallery on FAU’s Boca Raton Campus, 777 Glades Road. The exhibition features works by 12 artists selected from the collection of West Palm Beach attorney John Morrissey. All of the artists present the human figure in spaces or environments that convey a wide range of psychological states and evoke strong emotional responses. Co-curators Karen J. Leader, assistant professor of art history, and W. Rod Faulds, director of the University Galleries, selected the works. An illustrated catalogue with an essay by Leader is available. The exhibition and associated events are free and open to the public. The 40 works in the exhibition include paintings, drawing ... More Miami International Art Fair unveils highlights MIAMI, FL.- The 3rd edition of Miami International Art Fair (MIA), one of America's most exciting mid-winter contemporary art fairs, will return January 12-16, 2012 with a dynamic ensemble of 28 international galleries representing artist from Europe, Latin America, United States and Asia. The Fair will feature paintings, sculpture, photography, design, fine art glass, video and installations from a bevy of established museum collected artists as well as some of today's most promising emerging artists. The Fair will relocate aboard SeaFair – the 228-foot megayacht venue – docked at 100 Chopin Plaza in Miami’s premiere downtown entertainment district and will include a waterside installation and sculpture exhibition in Bayfront Park. Focusing on projects that reflect on universal subject matters, Hardcore Contemporary Art Space (Miami) will present work of local and international artists who use innovative a ... More |
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