| | Sotheby's Presents Highlights from Its Autumn Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art
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A man takes a closer look at "Danseuse dans le fauteuil, sol en damier" by Matisse during a preview of Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art auction in New York. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s autumn Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 2 November 2010 will present a superb offering of works across the period. From an early painting by Eugène Boudin from 1868 to a Pablo Picasso canvas from the 1970s, the sale features classic Impressionist paintings, key Modern works, tremendous sculpture and powerful German Expressionist canvases. Highlights will include important works by Modigliani, Matisse, Monet, Rodin and Picasso, among many others. Prior to the auction, works from both the Evening and Day Sales will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning 29 October. Highlights will also be exhibited at Sotheby’s London from 11 –15 October. The cover lot of the Evening Sale catalogue is Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine), the finest painting by Amedeo Modigliani to appear on the market in years (est. in excess of $40 million)*. The work be ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | A Johnny Cash stage used Martin guitar (Estimate $20,000 - $30,000) used on stage by Cash in the 1980s. Cash gifted the guitar to his friend, Bill Miller, in 1989. The instrument can be seen in Cashs hands for the cover photo of The Survivors, a live album recorded in Germany that featured a reunion of Johnny, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. Adding to the already incredible desirability of this instrument, Miller notes in his book, Cash An American Man, I took the guitar to a concert in Laughlin, Nevada, and asked Johnny if he would write the first four lines of I Walk The Line on it. Without hesitation, he said, Id be happy to. The Johnny Cash memorabilia will go under the hammer from 03 December to 05 December 2010 at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, USA. EPA/Shaan Kokin/Juliens Auctions. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York Delves into Life and Legend of Houdini
Escape artist Harry Houdini is seen in this handout of a 1913 lithograph. REUTERS/Billy Rose Theatre Collection.
By: Patricia Reaney
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Handcuffs, shackles, a torture chamber and straitjacket used by renowned escape artist Harry Houdini will be part of a major exhibit that delves into the life and legend of the world famous magician. "Houdini: Art and Magic," which opens on Friday at The Jewish Museum, will feature a recreation of the Chinese Water Torture Cell, which Houdini used to enthrall huge audiences with his daring, death-defying escapes. "The show is an interdisciplinary exhibition. We integrate historic posters, broadsides, photographs, film and Houdini's magic apparatus with contemporary pieces," said Brooke Kamin Rapaport, the curator of the exhibit at the Manhattan museum. Harry Houdini, who was born Ehrich Weiss in Budapest in 1874, immigrated with his family to rural Appleton, Wisconsin when he was a child. After a stint as a circus performer in the 1890s he become a magician and changed his name as a tribute to the ... More | | Martin Scorsese Foundation Helps Restore Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"
Director Martin Scorsese attends a photocall to present the restored version of Italian director Federico Fellini's movie "La Dolce Vita". AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia.
By: Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press
ROME (AP).- Martin Scorsese hailed "La Dolce Vita" as changing world cinema forever as he presented the restored version Saturday of Federico Fellini's back-and-white classic. Scorsese, who was 18 when "La Dolce Vita" first came out in 1960, spoke of the impact the movie had on him and of the importance of preserving films for future generations. His institute for the preservation of film treasures, the Film Foundation, helped restore it. "We have an obligation to the future, we have an obligation to our children to at least let them know this is here, this is what it was like," Scorsese told a press conference at the Rome Film Festival. "This is grand opera from Italy in the late 19th century." Scorsese described "La Dolce Vita" as a landmark work both in world cinema and in Fellini's own production. The movie broke narrative rules in that "there's no story, there's no plot, and the film is an epic length — three hours," Scorsese said. It said it had "a moral ... More | | Exhibition of Photographs by William Eggleston at Edward Cella Art + Architecture
William Eggleston, (b. 1939), Untitled (Yellow Negligee), 1967 (Printed 1967). Chromogenic coupler print, 4 1/2 x 3 in. (11.43 x 7.62 cm). Reverse signed "Wm Eggleston", in black pen.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents an exhibition of photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston. Entitled William Eggleston: American Photographer, the exhibition presents a rich offering of unique and historic prints dating from 1965 through 1985 including several of Eggleston’s most iconic images. Designed to present insights into the photographer’s working methods and philosophy, the exhibition is especially timely as it runs concurrently with William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and with William Eggleston: On the Road presented by dnj Gallery. Eggleston is widely recognized as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century owing to his innovative and unconventional approach to composition and early adoption and mastery of color photography. Over a more than thirty-year career, the a ... More |
 | Drift 10: London's Biennial Art Exhibition to Transform the River Thames
Canary Wharf by Julius Popp.
LONDON.- A stretch of the Thames in central London and Canary Wharf is set to be transformed this winter by a series of contemporary art works placed directly in the water and along its banks. Now in its second year, the groundbreaking art show, DRIFT, gets fully underway on Thursday, 4 November, and continues into early January next year. Staged by leading London arts company, ILLUMINATE PRODUCTIONS, the installations include breathtaking waterfalls at two locations on the river. The work, bit.fall, will feature words from live news feeds falling through a curtain of water. The amazing technology used to create bit.fall allows words to be displayed in mid-air in the droplets. bit.fall will be located on the Bankside walkway near Tate Modern, as well as beneath the DLR bridge at Chancellor Passage, Canary Wharf. Also set to charm visitors is an origami paper boat that will be assembled with the help of the public on t ... More | | Iconic Cycladic Marble Reclining Female Figure to Be Offered for the First Time Ever at Auction
A Cycladic marble reclining female figure. Name-piece of the Schuster Master, Early Cycladic II, circa 2400 B.C. 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm) high. Estimate: $3-5 million. Photo: Christie´s Images Ltd 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of a Cycladic marble reclining female figure, the most important Cycladic idol ever to come to auction on December 9. Estimated at $3-5 million, the folded-arm female figure is one of the most iconic sculptural types to have survived from antiquity. To date, there are only twelve known sculptures that have been recognized as the work of a single artist today known as the Schuster Master, named after the previous owner of the present work, Marion Schuster. Most of Schuster Master’s works represent the female in a pregnant state. Like the sculptures by his contemporaries, the position of the feet pointing down indicates that the figures are meant to be perceived as reclining. The Schuster Master, who was active circa 2400 B.C., combines characteristics of ... More | | Antik A.S. Auction in Istanbul Features Masterpieces from Modern Turkish Art
Auctioneer of the sale Olgac Artam, looking at the signature on the backside of a Mubin Orhon painting.
ISTANBUL.- On 7 November, The leading Turkish auction house, Antik A.S. will offer masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art. The sale consisting of selected 180 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. galleries during the dates 27 October – 7 November. Olgac Artam, auctioneer of the sale, said “the sale is giving art lovers an opportunity to own extraordinary masterpieces that were hitherto only found in museums.” By displaying the art works together, Artam predicts that these works will make a great impact on the market. He invites all those who appreciate quality art to view the display before the sale. One of the highlights being offered is a 352x112 cm painting by one of the most important Turkish abstract artists, Mübin Orhon, who lived in Paris. The painting is dated 1962 and being presented at auct ... More |
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Adam Helms Explores Masking and Identity in New Show at Marianne Boesky Gallery
Earthworks/The Ecstatic Experience, 2010. Transparencies mounted on plexiglass, plywood, electrical and lighting materials, 250.2 x 185.4 x 61 cm. Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Adam Helms. This is the artist’s second New York solo show at the gallery. In this exhibition, Helms continues his exploration of masking and identity, an idea he uses as a framework in his portraits of militia, subversive political groups and irregular combatants. This body of work deals with representations of archetypical figures and symbols that are in some sense recognizable, yet undefined by a unified viewpoint or definitive individuality. Helms’ new work presents the viewer with images, through both drawing and photographic material, that function as signifiers pointing to issues of representation, psychology, politics, and militarism, but which manage to evade a specific identification or singular definition and are ultimately, without name. In the main gallery, Helms presents a series of forty eight charcoal portraits ... More | | The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb Opens at The Toledo Museum of Art
Ancient Egyptian. Shabti (servant figure) of Henut-wedjebu. Wood with Egyptian blue inlays and black pigment, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1350 BCE. Toledo Museum of Art. Gift of The Apollo Society.
TOLEDO, OH.- Discover an ancient civilization’s fascinating approach to life and the afterlife at The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, a new exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art. The installation of more than 150 objects spanning 3,000 years of history are on temporary view in a specially designed Lower Level Egyptian Gallery in the Main Museum. TMA’s popular mummies return to public view for this exploration of ancient Egyptian beliefs about life and the afterlife. Believing that if they lived good lives they would live again in a better world after death, Egyptians spent great effort to ensure the preservation of both body and spirit. Tombs were built as “houses of eternity,” places for living after death with the aid of ritual prayers, food and drink, and all the good things of life. The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb introduces visitors to the conversations between the living and the ... More | | From Panini to Zandomeneghi in the Milan Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Sales
Federico Zandomeneghi, L’ombrellino a pois. Olio su tela, 46 x 38 cm. Firmato in basso a sinistra F.Zandomeneghi. Est: 220.000-280.000 euro. Photo: Sotheby´s.
MILAN.- 82 lots devoted to Old Master works on sale at Sotheby’s Milan on 16th November 2010. The selection shows among first lots a big oil on canvas of the Florentine painter Matteo Rosselli which figures the Sacrificio di Isacco. Rosselli during his youth was the right hand of the Tuscan Gregorio Pagani, of the Mannerism School; the painting is estimated 80/120.000 euro. Cristo davanti a Pilato is the subject of the work by Leonello Spada, the artist from Bologna had spent sometime in Rome where he was strongly influenced by Caravaggio’s style. Leonello possibly knew him in Naples just before the death of Merisi. Having returned to Emilia Romagna, Leonello became one of the favourite painter of Alessandro d’Este and Ranuccio I Farnese. He was also protected by Maffeo Barberini, future Pope Urbano VIII. The canvas is estimated in the catalogue 80/120.000 euro. The painting Paesaggio con casolare, cascata d ... More |
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Major Exhibition of Video-Animation, Painting, and Sculpture by Federico Solmi at Conner Contemporary
Federico Solmi, You Are Dick Richman (from Douche Bag City), 2010, video-animation. Photo: Courtesy Conner Contemporary.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art presents “Douche Bag City”, a major exhibition of video-animation, painting, and sculpture by Federico Solmi. Solmi shocked Europe last year by exhibiting “The Evil Empire” (2008), the video portrait of a future Pope whose violent sex addiction leads to widespread ruin. Because of the work’s controversial content, the video was censored in France and Spain. Solmi, who lives in New York, was put on trial in his native Italy for obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion. Later that year, the Guggenheim Foundation honored Solmi by awarding him with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, in the category of video and audio, and commissioned work from him. This year, curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco selected Solmi’s latest video, “Douche Bag City” (2010) for exhibition in the SITE Santa Fe Eighth International ... More | | Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery Exhibit at Borusan Müzik Evi
Jennifer Steinkamp, Orbit, 2010 (detail). Video installation, dimensions variable, Edition of 3. Photo: Courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
ISTANBUL.- Lehmann Maupin present Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, on view at Borusan Müzik Evi in Istanbul, Turkey, 27 October – 20 November 2010. Five in Istanbul, Lehmann Maupin’s debut exhibition in Turkey, curated by Isabella Icoz, features works by a selection of Lehmann Maupin's internationally acclaimed artists including Hernan Bas, Teresita Fernández, Tracey Emin, Tony Oursler, and Jennifer Steinkamp. The Miami-based artist Hernan Bas explores the codes of dandyism and its subculture as a means to define sexual attraction. His paintings are tinged with nihilist romanticism, born of literary intrigue and a passion for historical painting. Small, frail and sensuously delightful, Bas's paintings personify epic romance embracing both the decadence and nastiness of pleasure. He is ... More | | SFMOMA to Present Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and The Camera Since 1870
Georges Dudognon, Greta Garbo in the Club St. Germain ca. 1950s. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Members of Foto Forum, 2005.200 © Estate of Georges Dudognon.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From October 30, 2010, through April 17, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the U.S. debut of a major survey that examines photography's role in invasive looking. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 is co-organized by SFMOMA and Tate Modern, and gathers more than 200 pictures that together form a timely inquiry into the ways in which artists and everyday people alike have probed the camera's powerful voyeuristic capacity. Works by major artists, including Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Nan Goldin, Lee Miller, Thomas Ruff, Paul Strand, and Weegee will be presented alongside photographs made by amateurs, professional journalists, and governmental agencies, exploring the larger cultural significance of ... More |
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The National Portrait Gallery Presents "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture"
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents the first major museum exhibition showing how questions of gender and sexual identity have dramatically shaped the creation of modern American portraiture. “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” will be on view at the museum Oct. 30 through Feb. 13, 2011. Long before the advent of today’s gay and lesbian movement there were many examples of art—paintings, sculptures, water colors, prints and photographs—that acknowledged a variety of sexual identities. This exhibition features artists and sitters with a range of identities, from exclusively same-sex to exclusively heterosexual.
“Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” will consider such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern Americans, how artists have explored the definition of sexuality and gender, how major the ... More
Sotheby's Hong Long Sale of the Bordeaux Collection from SK Networks Achieves US$ 10 Million in 1.5 Hours
HONG KONG.- Following the phenomenal success of last night’s historical sale of Lafite Ex Cellars spanning 140 years of wine excellence (sales total: HK$65.5 million / US$8.4 million; pre-sale high estimate: HK$20 million / US$2.5 million), today’s sale of The Bordeaux Collection from SK Networks is a sheer statistical triumph, marked by the huge quantity available in parcels for stellar young vintages from exceptional châteaux. The large parcel format of our offering proved extremely effective. Buyers responded enthusiastically with aggressive parcel bidding, achieving a stunning HK$79 million / US$10 million for 624 lots in 1.5 hours, HK$53 million / US$6.7 million per hour and 83 bottles per minute. The extraordinary success of two remarkable sales of contrasting styles is a testament to Sotheby’s Asia’s breadth and depth of clients, reaching out to both experienced collectors competing for the ultimate ... More
Thomas Eller Opens First Show in Berlin After Receiving the Kathe-Kollwitz-Price of the Academy of Arts in 2006
BERLIN.- On October 30, the Autocenter, the highly regarded non-for-profit exhibition space, opens the first solo show by artist Thomas Eller in Berlin after receiving the Käthe-Kollwitz-Price of the Academy of Arts in 2006. 'THE ego show - a group exhibition' features works - photography, sculptographs, anamorphic images, drawings and lithographs etc., solely by the artist Thomas Eller and is presented in the form of a collective show. Not just since German financial institutions have sponsored advertisement campaigns fostering healthy egotism ("My house, my boat, my car", or: "bottom line is only about me"), questions about the core of human experience and how one relates to the world present themselves again. Seemingly having forgotten about post-structuralist theories, that challenged the notion of the unity of our selves, it is suggested to us that we create images that cast a fixed ego position in order to be succe ... More
Awards Announced at Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2010 Opening Night Party
BONDI.- Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi announced the award winners for the exhibition on Friday 29 October at the opening party held at the Swiss Grand, Bondi Beach. The Sydney Water and Environment Prize of $10,000 was awarded to Japanese artist Kaoru Matsumoto for his sculpture 'cycle90°' "a premonition of wind" III. Matsumoto first exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi in 2007, and his work is represented at a number of public collections including The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and the Osaka Contemporary Art Centre. The Waverley Council Mayor's prize of $5,000 was awarded to Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi first timer Steve Croquett for his exhibit 'jolly giants'. The Jindabyne resident has been the recipient of many awards at the Light Sculpture exhibition held in Jindabyne, including the Major Award in 2007, 2008 and 2010. The Icebergs Dining Room & Bar Signature Prize of $5,000 was awarded to Koichi Ish ... More
Human Bones Dating to 1800s Found in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- Human remains dating back to the mid-1800s have been discovered near a historic building in San Francisco's Fort Mason area. U.S. Park Service officials say the bones appear to be from several different people and were just a couple of feet underground. They were in a pile and not neatly arranged. Crews removing soil contaminated with lead near the building site made the discovery Monday. U.S. Park Service spokeswoman Alexandra Picavet says buttons and bottle pieces found along with the bones allowed officials to date them to somewhere between the 1850s and 1870s. Researchers are now trying to determine why they were there and to whom they belong. An archaeologist monitoring the soil removal work is helping to catalog and document the discovery. ... More
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