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| | Sotheby's to offer Old Master paintings from the estate of wife of magnate Charles Forte
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Pieter de Hooch, Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot. Est. $1.5/2 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture on 26 January 2012 will feature three paintings from the estate of Lady Forte, whose husband Charles Forte founded the global hotel and restaurant group Trusthouse Forte. The group comprises: Venice, A View of the Churches of the Redentore and San Giacomo… by iconic Venetian view painter Canaletto, which has not been seen on the market since 1986 (est. $5/7 million*); Jan van Huysum’s Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Peonies and Other Flowers in a Sculpted Stone Vase…, which is one of the artist’s most accomplished pieces painted on copper (est. $4/6 million); and Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot, a charming and Vermeer-like work by Pieter de Hooch (est. $1.5/2 million). The works will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 22 January, alongside the full sale. Born in England, Lady ... More |
| London's Natural History Museum finds that oldest predator Anomalocaris had super sight | | Exhibition of bronze sculptures by the late artist Stephen De Staebler at Dolby Chadwick Gallery | | Städel Museum to open enchanted landscapes exhibition in February 2012 | 
Illustration of Anomalocaris, the ancient top sea predator in Cambrian times over 500 million years ago. Its compound eyes had at least 16,000 lenses each, making its sight rival many arthropods living today. © Katrina Kenny.
LONDON.- Excellent eyesight is essential if you are a top predator, like the prehistoric sea creature Anomalocaris, an early arthropod relative that patrolled the oceans over 500 million years ago. However, finding proof that a long-extinct animal had super vision has been difficult, until now. Illustration of Anomalocaris, the ancient top sea predator in Cambrian times over 500 million years ago. Its compound eyes had at least 16,000 lenses each, making its sight rival many arthropods living today. © Katrina Kenny A team of scientists led by University of New England, Australia, and including those at the Natural History Museum, have uncovered the first direct evidence that Anomalocaris had compound eyes, each with more than 16,000 lenses. ... More | | 
Winged Figure Ascending (2011) edition of 4, bronze, 108" x 32" x 33". Photo: Courtesy Dolby Chadwick Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces an exhibition of bronze sculptures by the late artist Stephen De Staebler (March 1933 – May 2011). Made during the last two years of De Staebler’s life, the sculptures featured in this exhibition are indicative of the aesthetic themes and concerns that run throughout this accomplished artist's oeuvre. Having worked primarily in clay for the first part of his career, De Staebler began experimenting with bronze during the late 1970s. Rather than viewing the two mediums as mutually exclusive, clay's organic and malleable qualities exerted an undeniable influence upon De Staebler’s innovative approach to casting. The first step in his process was to cast into bronze hundreds of fragments of arms, legs, wings, and “earth forms” originally made from clay and wax. From this library of bronze fragments he was then, by means of assemblage, fre ... More | | 
Claude Lorrain (about 1600–1682), Landscape with Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen ('Noli me tangere'), 1681. Oil on canvas, 84.9 x 141,1 cm. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.
FRANKFURT.- “In Claude Lorrain, nature declares itself eternal,” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted enthusiastically on the French Baroque artist’s landscape paintings in 1818. According to Germany’s prince among poets and most famous “Grand Tourist,” Lorrain’s idealized, timeless landscapes possess “the highest truth, but no trace of reality.” As of February 2012, the Städel Museum will show one hundred and thirty works created at different points in Claude Lorrain’s (c. 1600 or 1604/05–1682) career, among them thirteen paintings and numerous drawings and prints. Prepared in partnership with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, “Claude Lorrain. The Enchanted Landscape” will present the work of the most important landscape painter of the ... More |
| German born artist Esther Kläs opens first exhibition "Nobody Home" at Peter Blum Gallery | | Arkell Museum provides a fascinating glimpse of American Paintings from the 1920s & 1930s | | Arms & armor auction at Bonhams a success with highlights of early American militaria | 
Esther Kläs, Hero, Heat, Halo, 2010. Aquaresin, pigments, wood, 60 x 33 x 50 in (152.4 x 83.8 x 127cm). Photo: Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Peter Blum announces the exhibition Esther Kläs: Nobody Home which opened on November 17th at Peter Blum Chelsea, 526 West 29th Street, New York. This is Esther Kläs’ first exhibition with the gallery. For her first solo show in New York, the German born artist exhibits a group of work that specify the strength and independence of sculpture. The title of the exhibition, Nobody Home, evokes the notion of autonomy - a place for an indefinable species with a humanistic spirit and presence. Combining traditional art materials such as clay, plaster and ceramics with more industrial elements such as resin and concrete, her freestanding sculptures confront the viewer and assert themselves into the space. Despite the idea of stillness often associated with sculpture, Kläs' works contain the energy of movement while integrating joint body parts in ... More | | 
George Bellows (1882 - 1925) "Anne", ca. 1922, Oil on canvas.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The exhibition American Paintings from the 1920s & 1930s in the Arkell Collections provides a fascinating glimpse at two decades of collecting by an American Industrialist, and a look at some of the artists working in the 1920s and 1930s who were promoted by Macbeth Gallery —the first New York City gallery to sell only American art. Most of the paintings in this exhibition were purchased by Bartlett Arkell, the founder and first president of the Beech-Nut Packing Company. Arkell began to collect paintings for the museum in the mid-1920s. This was a time when many American painters continued to work in styles influenced by the French Impressionists, while others were encouraged by Robert Henri and The Eight (also known as the Ashcan School) to explore greater realism. During the 1930s, American artists became more interested in organic or geometric abstraction, but abstract art had a limited appeal w ... More | | 
An historic Confederate uniform grouping of Lt. Col. Richard Snowden Andrews, founder of the Maryland Light Artillery. Sold for $64,350; Est. $40,000-60,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announced a sales total of $1.36 million at its December 6 Antique Arms, Armor & Modern Sporting Guns auction in San Francisco. Highlighting the auction was a historic, Paris-made Confederate artillery officer's frock coat of Lt. Col. Richard Snowden Andrews that sold for $64,350 (est. $40,000-60,000), along with a number of uniform ensembles from the early Federal Period and Civil War. In addition to uniforms, the sale featured a single-owner collection of more than 400 lots of American militaria, including military headgear, edged weapons, firearms and accoutrements, illustrating all facets of military life, from the Federal Period through the Civil War. Firearms present in the auction included a nearly complete sample of U.S. military, from surcharged Revolutionary War muskets to Civil War-era rifle muskets and carbines, as well has a selection of early single shot martial ... More |
| Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the work of Brooklyn-based artist KAWS | | One of the nation's most famous Old West outlaws, Billy the Kid, PBS film explores Hispanic link | | New Arts of Japan Gallery to culminate five-year initiative to expand presentation of Asian art | 
KAWS, Almost Over, 2008 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 68 x 68 inches. Courtesy of Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of KAWS STUDIO.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The FOCUS series is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Curator Andrea Karnes for the Museum’s Director’s Council, a group that supports acquisitions at the Museum. Each FOCUS exhibition presents work by an emerging contemporary artist. FOCUS exhibitions are open to the public and are included in general Museum admission: $10 for adults; $4 for seniors (60+) and students with identification; free for children 12 and under; free for Modern members. The work of Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, who makes his art under the moniker “KAWS,” is the subject of the first Focus exhibition for the 2011–2012 season. KAWS began his career as a graffiti writer in his hometown of Jersey City. By the time he entered the School of Visual Arts in New York to study illustration he had already developed an underground following. His painted-on interventions to ads in and around Manha ... More | | 
This undated file ferrotype picture provided by the Lincoln County, N.M., Heritage Trust Archive is believed to depict William Bonney, also known as Billy the Kid. AP Photo/Lincoln County Heritage Trust Archive.
By: Russell Contreras, Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE (AP).- His mythical exploits and jail escapes made this son of Irish immigrants one of the nation's most famous Old West outlaws. Yet fewer know that the man widely known as Billy the Kid was a central figure in a violent, Irish-English land war in New Mexico, and was beloved by Mexican-American ranchers who felt discriminated against by racist white bankers and land thieves. And the Kid's end came only after he refused to abandon his Mexican-American teen girlfriend. Despite hundreds of stories and books, movies, songs and even poems covering the notorious Billy the Kid, the PBS series American Experience is joining in exploring his life and myth with a new documentary set to air in January. ... More | | 
Seated Dainichi Nyorai, Important Cultural Property, Heian period, 11th century. Lacquered wood. Tokyo National Museum.
HOUSTON, TX.- The new, permanent Arts of Japan Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will open to the public on Sunday, February 19. The Japan gallery will be the final installation in a suite of permanent Arts of Asia galleries surrounding Cullinan Hall in the Caroline Wiess Law Building, culminating an effort begun in 2007 to expand the presentation of Asian art at the museum. The Arts of Japan Gallery will open with a special inaugural exhibition, Elegant Perfection: Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum, showcasing important objects from the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, including National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties that will stay in Houston for only eight weeks. In April 2012, the MFAH permanent collection of Japanese art will be installed with 16th-and 17th-century ceramics, 12th-century ... More |
| Wide range of Donald Baechler's artwork in two and three dimensions at Fisher Landau Center for Art | | Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima appointed curators of The Istanbul Design Biennial | | Minneapolis based firm VJAA receives 2012 American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award | 
Donald Baechler, Priceless, Wordless, Loveless, 1987-88, acrylic, oil & collage on linen, 111 x 111 inches. Tree, 1988, cast bronze, 80 x 26-1⁄2 inches. Photo: Light Blue Studio.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Fisher Landau Center for Art announces an exhibition exploring a wide range of Donald Baechler's artwork in two and three dimensions, created over the last 25 years. In the mid 1980's, the subject matter of his large-scale paintings began quite literally to jump off the walls, transforming into monumental bronze sculptures. Installed on two floors of the Center, the exhibition is made up of work from Fisher Landau Center for Art, supplemented by work from Donald Baecher's personal collection, highlighting the interplay of recurring motifs as they transform from the painted surface to objects in space. Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956, Baechler's artistic training took place in New York, Baltimore, and Germany. In the early 80s, Baechler came into prominence ... More | | 
Joseph Grima.
ISTANBUL.- Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima have been appointed as the curators of the first Istanbul Design Biennial, which will be realized between 13 October–12 December 2012 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. The curators will independently interpret the theme "Imperfection", adopted at the suggestion of Deyan Sudjic, Director of The Design Museum in London, and a member of the biennial's advisory board. Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima will present two different approaches within the framework of the biennial theme. The framework of their curatorial studies will be announced at the beginning of 2012. Emre Arolat studied architecture at Mimar Sinan University, and co-founded Emre Arolat Architects (EAA) with Gonca Paşolar in 2004. Arolat, who has held the presidential membership in ISMD, is a member of TMMOB Chamber of Architects. He has had teaching experiences at architectural design studios and as a proj ... More | | 
Dayton House.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The American Institute of Architects Board of Directors voted for VJAA to receive the 2012 AIA Architecture Firm Award. The Minneapolis based firm, noted for its consistently rigorous approach to research-driven form-making, will be honored at the 2012 AIA National Convention in Washington, D.C. The AIA Architecture Firm Award, given annually, is the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture firm and recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years. “We are honored to be recognized by the AIA with this important award,” said Vincent James, FAIA, principal at VJAA. “This recognition is due to talented and committed employees, ambitious clients and the strong support we receive from our local design community. With this encouragement, we will continue to build a practice that strives to innovate while ... More |
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 Michael Jackson fans leave tribute at auction site BEVERLY HILLS (AP).- Karen Jackson and Kiki Stafford were moved to tears as they walked among the items that surrounded Michael Jackson in his final days: The Victorian baby grand piano, the wooden armoire where Jackson had written a note to himself on the mirror, the kitchen chalkboard where his children inscribed the message, "I love daddy." Jackson, 57, and Stafford, 47, were among dozens of Michael Jackson fans who got an early look at items that will be sold at auction from the singer's final home — and left behind tributes to the King of Pop. Julien's Auctions announced last month that it would sell the contents of the sprawling home where the singer died in 2009. On Sunday, the company invited Jackson fans to preview its exhibit of the home's art and furnishings before it opens to the public Monday. Fans were also invited to leave pictures, cards, flowers, notes and other handmade trinkets that will be ... More Susi Kenna and Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Andrea Mary Marshall: "Toxic Women" NEW YORK, N.Y.- Susi Kenna and Allegra LaViola Gallery presents the inaugural solo exhibition of Andrea Mary Marshall entitled, Toxic Women. Through a series of provocative self-portraits rendered as paintings, photographs, and film, Marshall examines the intersection of identity, female sexuality, and consumer culture in the context of the "ideal woman." “A Woman is a beast. She is as lovely as she is repulsive. She is one part demon and one part goddess...one part slave, one part muse...one part child and one part mother...these contradictions are what make a woman so intoxicating.” - Andrea Mary Marshall. Toxic Women is a narrative collection of work that looks at the implications of trying to live up to the cultural figment of the “ideal woman”. Through identity play that borders on performance, Marshall reinvents herself as highly developed characters meticulously crafted through the art of fashion ... More Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices, selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection MIAMI, FL.- Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection includes over 60 pieces by 41 artists from different generations and latitudes, who share a common experience of promoting and transforming conceptualist practices, which have resulted in becoming an ever-present and driving force in contemporary art today. The exhibition overlaps geographically and chronologically, highlighting the artist's journey as historian both through an institutional critique (Frames) and through their capacity to question the ways in which we relate to memory (Documents). Because it is a selection of notable works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, rather than following the historical canons that have dominated the study of conceptualist practices or focusing on a particular origin or time of production, the diverse set of works in this exhibition offer a route to ... More Welsh quilt exhibition showcased at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea SWANSEA.- A spectacular new exhibition opened at the National Waterfront Museum this weekend. The artistic talent of John Uzzell Edwards is on display with a fabulous series of abstract paintings from his world famous Welsh quilts collection. John, originally from the Rhymney Valley , but who has lived in the Upper Swansea Valley for the past 33 years, has been a keen painter since 1960. His work has always been inspired by Wales and its associated social and industrial history as well as his love for Welsh quilts and blankets. John uses the different patterns, textures, material and rhythms of the quilts to produce his own interpretative paintings. Some of the quilts which have inspired John’s work, and also on display as part of the exhibition, include a Swansea Crazy Quilt, made from scraps of velvet from a pre-war milliners shop in the town, a Llanelli Quilt, made entirely from miner’s shirts in the late 19 ... More Naples' premier Fine Art Fair returns in February NAPLES, FL.- The second annual Naples International Art & Antique Fair will return February 23-28 to the Naples International Pavilion at Immokalee and Livingston Roads. Inaugurated in 2011, NIAAF introduced international fine art galleries to the flourishing art scene of Florida’s Gulf Coast for the first time. With solid sales and an attendance of over 16,000 in its premiere year, NIAAF confirmed Naples has a qualified market for fine art and furthered its recognition as a cultural destination on the international art circuit. The 2012 Fair will again showcase an array of international galleries exhibiting works for sale including American and European 19th and 20th Century painting, antique objet d'art, modern and mid-century Murano glass, sculpture, haute and period jewelry and original design. The Preview evening, February 23, will honor the Patty and Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art and Naples Philharmonic. The evenin ... More |
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