| | James Bond's Aston Martin DB5, A Cultural Icon, Comes to the Market for the First Time
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The 'James Bond' 1964 Aston Martin DB5, is viewed by the media, in London, Tuesday, Oct., 26, 2010. The car which was the road car in the Bond movie 'Goldfinger and the effects car in ' Thunderball ' both staring Sean Connery is expected to sell for around $5.5 million (euro3.9 million), at auction in London, Thursday, Oct. 27. AP Photo/Alastair Grant.
LONDON.- RM Auctions will consign of one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century – the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 James Bond movie car – to its annual ‘Automobiles of London’ event at the Battersea Evolution in London on 27th October, where it is available for sale for the first time in history and expected to achieve in excess of £3.5 million (over $5 million US). The car is being offered by RM in association with Sotheby’s, with whom RM has worked in the past. Well-known around the world by its original UK registration number, FMP 7B, this Aston Martin is one of only two, and the sole remaining, of the original ‘007’ DB5s as featured on screen with Sean Connery behind the wheel in the enormously popular Goldfinger and Thunderball movies. With its 'rather interesting modifications' originally conceived by Oscar-award-winning special effects expert, John Stears, this authen ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | LISBON.- A picture made available on 26 October 2010 shows Portuguese police presenting counterfeit paintings at the Police facilities in Lisbon, Portugal, 25 October 2010. Portuguese police have seized nearly 130 paintings apparently falsely attributed to artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Vassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Vieira da Silva, among others. EPA/MIGUEL A. LOPES. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Sotheby's Auction of 19th Century European Art to Include Important Works by Giovanni Boldini
Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of the artist Lawrence Alexander (“Peter”) Harrison. Signed Boldini and dated 1902. Oil on canvas, 126 x 101 cm. Est.: $ 1.000.000/1.500.000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 4 November auction of 19th Century European Art in New York will feature three works by the prominent Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. This offering comes just after the close of the important exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, which opened at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 2009 and traveled to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts in early 2010. This exhibition represented the first major show of the artist’s work outside of Europe, and an exciting opportunity for Americans to discover Boldini’s impressive and varied oeuvre. Boldini’s Portrait of Giovinetta Errazuriz was included in this major exhibition, traveling both to Ferrara and Williamstown (est. $1/1.5 million*). Boldini’s compelling portrait of the ten-year-old Giovinetta demonstrates the artist’s masterful ability to capture his sitters’ dist ... More | | Sixty Works from the DMA Collection and Important Local Collectors Presented in a Dynamic New Context
Richard Tuttle, Maroon Blue Egg, 1986. Aluminum, Homasote, plastic board, aluminum tubing, paper, wire, hot glue, acrylic, powdered pigments, silver spray enamels. Overall: 24 x 15 x 5 in. (60.96 x 38.1 x 12.7 cm.) Dallas Museum of Art, anonymous gift.
DALLAS, TX.- This exhibition marks a return to celebrating the rich holdings that form the acclaimed collection of modern and contemporary art at the The Dallas Museum of Art. Re-seeing the Contemporary, which also includes important loans from local collections, features surprising works, such as Steve Wolfe’s Untitled (Piano Music for Erik Satie), alongside more familiar icons such as Jackson Pollock’s Cathedral. Others on view include John Chamberlain’s Dancing Duke and Alan Saret’s Deep Forest Green Dispersion, two dramatic works of metal and paint installed side by side. This exhibition of sixty paintings, sculpture and works on paper is on view through April 3, 2011. “Re-seeing the Contemporary presents an imaginative powerful, and beautiful new way for visitors to look at our internationally ... More | | A Record Year for Christie's Dubai Sales of Contemporary Middle Eastern Art in 2010
A visitor looks at an artwork entitled 'The Girl in the Pink Dress' by Egyptian artist Mahmoud Said. EPA/ALI HAIDER.
DUBAI.- Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, announced that tonight’s sale of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai made $14,043,000 / AED 51,565,896, more than doubling the pre-sale estimate of $6.7 million and confirming Christie’s market leadership in the region. The auction was 94% sold by value and 84% sold by lot. The buyer breakdown by lot was 60% from the Middle East, 28% from Europe, 10% from the Americas and 2% from Asia. The sale concludes a record year for Christie’s in contemporary Middle Eastern art, with an increase of 117 percent over 2009. Jussi Pylkkänen, President of Christie’s Middle East and Europe, said: “A packed saleroom, a team of 20 Christie’s staff manning the telephones and internet bidding from around the world, helped to make tonight’s auction both successful and hugely memorable. The sale achieved $7.3 million over our pre-sale ... More |
 | Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale in NY Expected to Exceed $240 Million
Conor Jordan (L), Senior Vice President, Head of Impressionist and Modern Art of Christie's Americas introduces a painting by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein entitled 'Ohhh...Alright...' EPA/YM YIK.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present one of the greatest rosters of master works in a single auction. The Post-War and Contemporary Evening sale, which will take place in New York on November 10, 2010, comprises seminal works by the foremost artists of the period including acclaimed masterpieces by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons and Rothko, as well as one of the finest examples from Gerhard Richter’s revered Candle Paintings Series. In addition to such masterpieces, Christie’s has been chosen to sell all of the three major estates on offer this season —the collections of computing pioneer Max Palevsky, actor Dennis Hopper, gallerist and taste-maker Robert Shapazian and philanthropic art collector Nancy Epstein. This auction ... More | | Tate Archive Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary with Display and Over Forty Pledged Gifts to the Collection
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Metal paint-box. Assorted paint pigment and metal.
LONDON.- Tate Archive will celebrate its 40th anniversary this week with a fascinating new display, 40 Degrees of Separation, featuring forty items from the Tate Archive Collection, all of them interconnected in sequence. From Kenneth Clark’s notebook when he was making the epic Civilisation for the BBC to Keith Vaughan’s suicide note, and from Jake Chapman’s schoolboy essay on his favourite painters to a loving letter from Constable to his wife, this rich diversity of material reveals undiscovered gems which provide intriguing insights into the workings of British artists and institutions over the last three centuries. Tate Archive has also significantly enriched the Collection in its fortieth year with over forty archives pledged as gifts, thanks to the generosity of artists, individuals and institutions, Highlights of these include: 30,000 photographs taken by Gemma Le ... More | | Colour and Modernism by Vida Lahey at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane
Vida Haley, Calendulas c.1936-37. Watercolour and gouache over pencil, 48 x 45.8cm. Gift of Miss Maria Therese Treweeke 1937. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery.
BRISBANE.- Vibrant floral watercolours and depictions of Brisbane in the first half of the 20th Century are the focus of an exhibition of work by Vida Lahey (1882-1968) showing at the The Queensland Art Gallery from October 16 to February 13, 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said ‘Vida Lahey: Colour and Modernism’ featured 44 works painted between 1912 to 1965 by one of Queensland’s best loved artists. ‘Lahey made a major contribution to art in Australia with her deft handling of brilliant colour, particularly in her watercolours of floral still lifes,’ he said. ‘Her early affinity with colour was first inspired by European Impressionism, before the vital hues of Post-Impressionism began to influence her work. ‘Her use of radiant colour was ... More |
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The New York Public Library Explores Three of the World's Largest Religions in Exhibition
The Christian Bible, Gospels (Harkness Gospels), in Latin, Landévennec, Brittany, before 917, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
NEW YORK, NY.- Three of the world’s most followed religions each started from Abraham’s covenant with a single, unseeable God and are now the lived experience of half of the world’s population. Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, The New York Public Library’s leading fall 2010 exhibition, explores these three religions through the texts they have produced. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam live side by side around the world and in New York City and continue to be part of the local dialogue, fueling discourse and debate. Three Faiths informs the discussion with four millennia of spiritual history as seen through 200 of the Library’s most inspiring sacred texts. Three Faiths is on view from October 22, 2010 through February 27, 2011 at the Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street in Manhattan. Showcasing materials drawn entirely ... More | | The Birth of an International Pastime: Sotheby's to Sell the Rules that Invented The Game of Basketball
James Naismith’s Founding Rules of Basketball. Estimate: More than $2 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- In December 1891, a two-page typed document comprising a set of 13 rules to a new game was tacked up in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gym – and “Basket Ball” was born. The game was the invention of a 30-year old physical educator teacher named James Naismith, created to entertain a restless class of students during the winter months. His “Basket Ball” was an instant success among the YMCA students, and they quickly carried the game across the country and around the world – to China by 1895, the Olympics in 1936, the formation of the NBA in 1949, the first FIBA World Championship in 1950, the arrival of the WNBA in 1997 and with more than an estimated 450 million playing today. The two-page typescript that started it all will be offered by Sotheby’s on 10 December 2010 in New York and is expected to bring more than $2 million. This remarkable ... More | | Bonhams to Sell Paintings by Coronation Artist of Ford Cars Made in Dagenham
Terence Cuneo (1907-1996), 'Ford Thames Foundry' (detail). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Two oil on canvas paintings by the official artist of the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Terence Cuneo (1907-1996), commissioned by the Ford Motor Company in 1947, are to be sold at Bonhams’ sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine Automobilia on 6 December. This year the annual end of year sale will take place at a new venue - Mercedes-Benz World at Brooklands in Surrey. The paintings are part of a series of six, which were commissioned to depict Ford’s car, truck, van and tractor production at the company’s Dagenham plant. Entitled Vehicle Inspection (February 1947) and Ford Thames Foundry (April 1947), they have attracted pre-sale estimates of £7,000 – 9,000 and £4,500 – 5,500 respectively. During the war, the plant was a major production facility for military vehicles and Rolls-Royce aero engines, and was subsequently damaged by German bombing raids. After the war, it became the major European c ... More |
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Creator of TV Cartoon Rocky and Bullwinkle, Alexander Anderson Jr., Dies at Age 90
Rocky and Bullwinkle soared over Broadway at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. AP Photo/Adam Nadel.
CARMEL, CA (AP).- Pioneering TV cartoon artist Alexander Anderson Jr. — who created Rocky the flying squirrel, Bullwinkle the moose and Dudley Do-Right the Canadian mountie — has died at age 90. Anderson's wife, Patricia, told The Associated Press that her husband, a longtime resident of Pebble Beach, Calif., died Friday at an assisted living facility in Carmel. He was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. With the goggle-wearing Rocky leading his somewhat slow but good-natured friend, Bullwinkle, the duo battled villains Boris and Natasha, agents of the nation of Pottsylvania, in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minn. The show spawned movies and memorable phrases, such as Rocky's "Holey Smokes" and Bullwinkle's "Hey Rocky, want to see me pull a rabbit out of the hat?" The inspiration for Bullwinkle came from a dream Anderson had in which he was playing poker with friends and a moose doing "silly card things" was sitting next to him, Patricia Anderson said. The cha ... More | | New York Public Library Getting Maya Angelou's Papers, Including Letters from Malcolm X
Steven Fullwood, a research librarian, handles important papers acquired from Maya Angelou. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- More than 300 boxes of Maya Angelou's personal papers, including letters from Malcolm X and James Baldwin and several scribbled revisions of the poem she wrote to celebrate President Bill Clinton's inauguration, will be made public at a New York library, the author said. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture plans to announce the papers' acquisition this week. Angelou, 82, said she sought out the Harlem institution — a research unit of the New York Public Library — as a home for works that include notes for her acclaimed autobiography "I know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and the 1993 inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning." Angelou said Tuesday that she revised the poem about 10 times before getting it right. "I had to continue to go back for the melody of the ... More | | Kunsthaus Zürich to Stage 15 Exhibitions in 2011 Season, Nahmad Family Collection is a Highlight
Kunsthaus Zürich, Contemporary art. Photo © www.jpg.factory.com
ZURICH.- The 2011 programme at the Kunsthaus Zürich is the most exciting yet. News of one highlight has already leaked out: the prestigious private collection of the Nahmad family is to receive its world premiere in Zurich. There will be a retrospective of the work of Franz Gertsch, one of the most important contemporary Swiss artists. Full of fascinating insights, ‘The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture’ transfers to the Kunsthaus Zürich from the Museum of Modern Art New York. There is a revival for the ecological and political work of Joseph Beuys. ‘Beastly Good Show’ will be of particular interest to families. Exhibitions featuring the most recent work of Roman Ondák and international rising star Haris Epaminonda will be of particular interest to experimental art enthusiasts. A critical assessment of the aesthetic and theoretical intersections of photography and sculpture. Some three hundred outsta ... More |
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Culture War Brews in Indian City of Mumbai
By: Erika Kinetz, Associated Press
MUMBAI (AP).- A battle for the cultural soul of Mumbai is brewing between Hindu radicals and the cosmopolitan urbanites who are the global face of this Indian city. The radicals appear to be winning. In the last few weeks, the Shiv Sena group has blocked the broadcast of a hit reality show — after its mob tried to storm the filming set — and convinced the prestigious University of Mumbai to ban from its curriculum an acclaimed novel, saying it offends the local Marathi-speaking people. The conflicts are a reminder of the power of divisive politics in the world's largest democracy and the fragile balance of diversity in India's most globalized city. Shiv Sena emerged during the 1960s and bills itself as the defender of the Marathi speakers in Mumbai — the capital of India's financial and entertainment industries, which has attracted generations of migrants, resulting in an ethnically and culturally diverse population of some 18 ... More
Bellevue Arts Museum Features First Museum Solo Exhibition of Seattle Artist April Surgent
BELLEVUE, WA.- What might appear like a photographic imprint onto glass is instead a masterfully hand-carved “mural.” Created by on-the-rise Seattle artist April Surgent, Into the Surface illustrates a fractured urban landscape filled with people and places the artist has photographed and interacted with over the past months. Video and audio add to a rich multi-sensory experience. Spanning 14 feet in width and comprised of more than one hundred 6 x 12 inch glass panels, Into the Surface is Surgent’s largest installation to date. It also marks the artist’s first museum solo exhibition and will be featured at Bellevue Arts Museum from October 26, 2010 through April 3, 2011. One of the Museum’s core commitments is the support of artists living and working in the Northwest. Over the past five years, 16 solo exhibitions have been dedicated solely to regional artists. For many, including Surgent, Belle ... More
Exclusive U.S. Debut of Groundbreaking French Furniture Artist Jacques Jarrige at Valerie Goodman Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Opening October 26th, 2010, acclaimed French Furniture and Lighting artist Jacques Jarrige will exhibit for the first time in the U.S. at Valerie Goodman Gallery, a European 20th Century and Contemporary Decorative Arts gallery located at 315 East 91st Street in New York City. The exhibit will be made up of tables, stools, chandeliers and lighting fixtures which capture the whimsical fantasy of Jarrige’s finest work. Jarrige calls himself an artist-artisan and with skills evocative of Alexandre Noll or Jean Royere, he creates unexpected, unconventional, spirited organic forms with both new and traditional materials such as bronze, aluminum, wood or glass. For this exhibition, Ms. Goodman will recreate Jarrige’s atelier in Paris where bends, curves, shapes and then finishes his distinctive pieces with bright colors, lacquers, inlays, gold leaf or patinas. Jacques Jarrige's search for balan ... More
Eighteen Artists and Architects Elected to National Academy
NEW YORK, NY.- The National Academy Museum and School honored eighteen American artists and architects who were elected in 2010 as members of the 185-year old institution. Academicians are elected by peer artists and architects who are members of the Academy. The newly elected Academicians, as Academy members are known, work in a broad range of styles and media. They are: Janine Antoni, Adam Anuszkiewicz, Willard Boepple, Donna Dennis, Carroll Dunham, Garth Evans, Nancy Friese, Ann Gale, Ann Hamilton, Glenn Ligon, Melissa Meyer, Dana Schutz, Shahzia Sikander, Amy Sillman, Lee Tribe, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, and Don Voisine. Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art, was Honorary Master of Ceremonies of the induction ceremony, which was held on October 13, 2010. 2010 National Academy Inductees ... More
Allentown Art Museum Acquires Paintings by Marion Ewald, Fletcher Martin and Mary Tobias Putman
ALLENTOWN, PA.- The Allentown Art Museum recently added 12 works of art to its collections, thanks to the generosity of several donors. Gifts included paintings, prints, textiles and costume. Two of the paintings, “Urchin’s Game” by Fletcher Martin and “Connecticut Backyards” by Marion Ewald were gifted by Mike Slosberg and Janet Cohn-Slosberg and have added significantly to the museum’s holdings of early mid 20th-century American art. A third painting, “Self-Portrait at 65” by Mary Tobias Putman, was a special gift from the American Academy of the Arts under a special program intended to help selected museums expand their holdings of works by contemporary artists. To date, the Allentown Art Museum has received three outstanding works under this program. “Urchin’s Game,” by California artist Fletcher Martin (1904–1979), is a gritty portrayal of young boys ... More
Bonhams CEO's 1903 Peerless Driven Back to Its Roots in the Rockies
LONDON.- When Malcolm Barber, CEO of Bonhams first caught site of what was to be his 1903 Peerless, Model F, 16HP, twin cylinder, rear entrance tonneau just over twenty years ago, he thought he had found something unusual. He found the car in Hawaii in a collection and discovered it had previously been part of the Denver Colorado Transport Museum collection, but as to who had originally owned the car and the story of its past remained a mystery. Nearly twenty years later Malcolm received a call out of the blue from the Silver Times newspaper in Lake City, Colorado in collaboration with the Horseless Carriage Club of America who told him that his 1903 Peerless had been the Hinsdale county’s first motorcar and invited him to attend a summer tour organised by the Club. The aim being to reunite the Peerless with the family who bought it originally. The car was shipped from London to New Jersey by container, couriered from New Jersey to Denver and then driven by Malcolm from G ... More
Auctioneer Gets 5 Years for His Part in Art Scam
LOS ANGELES (AP).- An auctioneer who helped sell fake art to thousands of TV viewers has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. James Mobley was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles, the last of three defendants sentenced in the scam that involved fake Picasso and Chagall pieces. He had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and willful failure to file a tax return. The 63-year-old Mobley was the on-air auctioneer for Fine Art Treasures Gallery, which prosecutors say sold $20 million in fake art to more than 10,000 U.S. customers. The art auction show ran twice a week on DirecTV and The Dish Network from 2002 to 2006. Gallery owner Kristine Eubanks was sentenced to seven years in prison, while her husband, Gerald Sullivan, another owner, was sentenced to four years. ... More
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