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Through diverse scenes of the painting, the short film synthesizes the development of Mexico from the Prehispanic age to 20th century. Photo: DMC INAH/H. Montano.
MEXICO CITY.- To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the mural painting created by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, the short film 200 Segundos. Una Vision de la Historia de Mexico (200 Seconds: a vision of Mexican history) was projected at the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA). Through diverse scenes of the painting, the short film synthesizes the development of Mexico from the Prehispanic age to 20th century. The film produced by Martin Garcia-Urtiaga was premiered at MNA with the presence of Consuelo Saizar, president of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (Conaculta), who mentioned that the decision of supporting this work was based in the fact that it fulfills the objectives of the cultural project of the organism she presides. "This audiovisual work accounts for the talent and creativity of several artists, allowing the private sector to participate; besides, it uses video, a technological format, to divulgate culture, serving the society by showing one of the gre ... More |
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Earliest Known Work by Top International Female Artist, Marlene Dumas, to Sell at Bonhams
Marlene Dumas painted this charming picture of a girl for a student friend. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- The earliest known work by an artist acknowledged as one of today’s leading international female painters, Marlene Dumas, whose pictures sells for millions, will be auctioned by Bonhams on March 23rd in a sale of South African Art. Dumas painted this charming picture of a girl for a student friend, Alida Louw, on the occasion of Alida’s 16th birthday in 1971. At the time they were both pupils at Bloemhof, an exclusive High School for Girls in the beautiful village of Stellenbosch in the Cape Winelands. The work would be of no great significance were it not for the fact that the then budding schoolgirl artist, Marlene Dumas, now has an international reputation. The picture is estimated to sell for £7,000 to £10,000. The birthday painting was created four decades before Dumas’ international reputation assured her work of six figure ... More | | Rare, Newly Re-Discovered Masterpiece of African Art to Be Sold at Sotheby's London in February 2011
Ivory pendant mask, Edo people, Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria. Estimate: £3,500,000-4,500,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 17th February 2011, Sotheby’s will sell a rare, newly re-discovered, 16th century ivory pendant mask depicting the head of the Queen mother from the Edo peoples, Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria along with five other rare works from Benin collected at the same time. Only four other historical ivory pendant masks with related iconography of this age and quality are known – all of which are housed in major museums around the world1. All of the ivory masks are widely recognized for the quality of their craftsmanship, for the enormous scale of Benin’s artistic achievement and for their importance in the field of African art. Produced for the Oba (or King) of Benin, these ivory pendant masks are testament to the Kingdom of Benin’s golden age when the kingdom ... More | | Spanish Police Recover Works by Picasso and Botero which Were Stolen in Getafe
David Fernandez Braso, owner of the Juan Gris Gallery, shows a catalogue with artworks that have been stolen in a robbery in Getafe. EPA/KOTE RODRIGO.
MADRID (AP).- Spanish police say they have recovered artworks including pieces by Picasso, Colombian artist Fernando Botero and Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida that were stolen from a Madrid warehouse. Specialized Crimes unit chief Dionisio Martin said Monday the art was found in a stolen truck in an industrial area on Madrid's southern outskirts. The pieces, recovered Saturday, had a total value of some euro5 million ($6.5 million), Martin said. He said 35 pieces were stolen and one remains missing. No arrests have been made so far. Martin said the thieves had tried to sell one of Chillida's metal sculptures to a scrap dealer. The works were stolen on Nov. 27 by thieves who broke into the warehouse and stole a vehicle containing them. ... More |
 | Rival Collectors Historic Cabinets from Natural History Museum for Sale at Bonhams
Early 20th Century oak and stained beech collectors cabinet. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Historic cabinets from the Natural History Museum and, until very recently, home to some of the world’s greatest butterfly collections, are to be sold at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 19 January 2011. For 80 years the cabinets, mainly of Honduras mahogany, housed the collections of three extraordinary figures whose rivalry and pioneering spirit provided the Natural History Museum with the largest and finest collection of butterflies ever assembled. The collection has now been moved to state-of-the-art, pest proof, climate controlled metal cabinets in the Museum’s new Darwin Centre which will protect and preserve it for future generations. The three men - Birmingham industrialist John Levick, Surrey businessman James Joicey, and Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild - were all born in the Victorian era. They were fanatical natural history ... More | | Archaeo-zoology Studies Say Canidae Were Bred in Teotihuacan with Ritual Purposes
Jawbone of wolfhound found at the Quetzalcoatl pyramid. Photo: Raúl Valadez/UNAM.
MEXICO CITY.- Archaeo-zoology studies applied to skeletons of canidae found in burials at the Moon Pyramid and the Quetzalcoatl Temple revealed they practiced hybridization between dogs and wolves. Parting from archaeo-zoology studies applied to canidae skeletons in burials at the Moon Pyramid and Quetzalcoatl Temple, in Teotihuacan, specialists determined that this ancient culture practiced hybridization between wolves and dogs, which was used in rituals and was associated with the Teotihuacan militia. “Wolves and dogs share 99.8 per cent of genetic information, so the cross between them practiced by Teotihuacan people is feasible. The dog-wolf carried the divine blood of the wild canine in an easily-led body”. This was announced by archaeo-zoologist Raul Valadez Azua, from the team of specialists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in charge of analyzing the skeletons found at Burial ... More | | De Hallen Haarlem Presents 13 Works from the Period 1989-1995 by American Artist Cady Noland
Cady Noland. Not Yet Titled (Bald Manson Girls Sit-In Demonstration), 1993-94. Silkscreen on aluminum. Courtesy Sammlung Goetz.
HAARLEM.- De Hallen Haarlem presents an exhibition of the work of the American artist Cady Noland. Particularly in the 1980s she attracted considerable interest with her social-critical work. The focus exhibition in De Hallen shows 13 works from the period 1989–1995, acquainting visitors with a number of important points of reference in Noland’s oeuvre. The exhibition can be seen from 18 December, 2010, through 13 March, 2011, in De Hallen Haarlem. Cady Noland (Washington D.C., 1956) has a totally independent position in American art. In her short career she left an indisputable mark on contemporary art and developed an incomparable oeuvre in which she turned her sharp eye to the task of scrutinizing and critiquing a runaway consumer society and hypocritical political conduct. Out of dissatisfaction with the opportunistic ... More |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Returns 14th Century Embroidery to the Museo Diocesano Tridentin
Embroidered panel. Probably Italian, 14th century. Linen plain weave, embroidered with silk and metal wrapped thread. Otis Norcross Fund. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced that it has returned to the Museo Diocesano Tridentino (Diocesan Museum of Trent, Italy) an embroidered panel, the Entombment of Saint Vigilius, from around 1390-–1391. Commissioned by George of Liechtenstein on the occasion of his appointment as bishop prince of Trent in 1390, the embroidery depicts the entombment of Saint Vigilius (b. about 353-–d. 405), the third bishop and patron saint of Trent, and the delivery of the news of his martyrdom to the pope and Emperor Theodosius. The process of returning the panel to the Museo Diocesano began when the MFA learned that the work was part of the Saint Vigilius series of embroidered panels owned by the Museo Diocesano Tridentino. In celebration of its return, the Museo Diocesano will ... More | | Lisson Gallery Announces it is Now Representing Renowned Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei
Renowned Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei holding up a handful of his porcelain sunflower seeds at the Tate Modern. EPA/ANDY RAIN.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announces that it is now representing artist Ai Weiwei. Widely considered to be one of the most significant cultural figures of his generation in China and internationally, Ai Weiwei successfully occupies multiple roles as a conceptual artist, architect, curator, designator, film-maker, publisher and activist. "We have had a growing appreciation of Ai Weiwei's work and achievement over the last few years and are very pleased that this most significant world of artists has agreed to work with us. The idea-based and sculptural nature of his work adds significantly to Lisson Gallery's evolving history." Using a variety of formal languages with both traditional and innovative methods of production, Ai links the past with the present and explores the geopolitical, economic and cultural realities affecting the world with humour and compassion. Ai Weiwei's Unilever series commission 'Sunflower Seeds' is ... More | | Two Masterpieces by Hendrick ter Brugghen to Be Together for First Time at the National Gallery of Art
Hendrick ter Bruggen’s Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (1625). Oil on Canvas. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio. R. T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1953.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art welcomes the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College's Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (1625) by Hendrick ter Brugghen. The painting will be the focal point of Larger Than Life: Ter Brugghen's Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene, a focus installation celebrating two of Ter Brugghen's most luminous and lyrical compositions, on view from January 21 through May 15, 2011. It comes to the Gallery after being on view at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, from September 11, 2010 to January 16, 2011. Hailed as Ter Brugghen's masterwork, Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene will grace the walls of the West Building's Dutch and Flemish galleries (Main Floor, Gallery 44), along with the Gallery's magnificent Bagpipe Player (1624), also by Ter Brugghen. Although these paintings belong to different genres, they reveal the sure fluidity of brush, exquisite color harmonies, and sophisticated co ... More |
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The Art Show Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to Benefit Henry Street Settlement
Truman Capote photographed by Irving Penn in New York, 1948 © The Irving Penn Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 2, 2011, the country's longest running national art fair, The Art Show, will open its doors at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Now in its 23rd year, The Art Show assembles the nation's most influential and prominent art dealers to present museum quality exhibitions of art ranging from cutting-edge, 21st century works, to museum-quality pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, the fair's commitment to curatorial expertise and diversity is ever-present in the show's conception, presentation, and execution. The 2011 Art Show will include outstanding solo and two-person exhibitions, including new work from Rachel Whiteread at Luhring Augustine and Jessica Stockholder at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Ameringer|McEnery|Yohe will bring a collection of impressive works by Robert Motherwell, and Marian Goodman Gal ... More | | Official Commemorative Range of China Launched by the Royal Collection for Royal Wedding
Commemorative tankard, part of the official Royal Wedding china range by the Royal Collection. Photo: The Royal Collection. © 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
LONDON.- HRH Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton have approved the Royal Collection’s range of china commissioned to commemorate their forthcoming marriage on 29 April 2011. The official Royal Wedding range includes a tankard (£35), eight-inch plate (£40) and pill box (£25) in English fine bone china. Each piece bears the couple’s entwined initials in gold and silver surmounted by the coronet of Prince William and the wedding date. The range is decorated with a pattern of doves, white ribbons and hearts in silver, gold and grey, set against a pale-grey striped background. Inside the tankard are rows of tiny hearts and two silver doves holding a gold wedding ring. The Royal Wedding china is handmade exclusively for the Royal Collection in Stoke-on-Trent using methods that have remained unchanged for 250 years. Each item is individually ... More | | Winter Antiques Show Celebrates Its 57th Year with Three New Exhibitors and a Loan Exhibition
Thomas Sully, Mrs. Robert Gilmor, Jr. (Sarah Reeve Ladson), 1823, Oil on canvas, 91.6 x 71.8 cm (36 1/8 x 28 1/4 in.). PRNewsFoto/Winter Antiques Show.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Antiques Show celebrates its 57th year as America's most prestigious antiques show, providing museums, established collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers with opportunities to see and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by 74 exhibitors. This year, specialists in 17th to 19th century American furniture and decorative arts, old master drawings and European sculpture, and Southeast Asian art join this fully vetted show, which runs from January 21-30, 2011. From an Egyptian relief depicting Akhenaten through mid–century furniture by Gerald Summers and Gio Ponti, every object exhibited at the Winter Antiques Show is vetted for quality and authenticity. All net proceeds from sponsors, special events, and ticket sales support East Side House Settlement, a non-profit in the South Bronx providing social services to ... More |
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Las Vegas' Neon Boneyard Highlights Glitzy Past
By: Cristina Silva, Associated Press
LAS VEGAS, NV (AP).- The stack of giant neon letters just beyond the gates of the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas are unlit. Flecks of turquoise, ruby and jade paint chips dot the gravel field. There are rusted metal beams, twisted tubes, cracked light bulbs and 40-feet-tall skeletons plucked from the rubble of imploded casinos. Miles from the blinking marquees of the Las Vegas Strip, this is where neon signs go to die. In a city that hums of impulse and overstimulation, where investors flock to what's hot and new and visitors empty their wallets at the promise of instant entertainment, the three-acre lot that displays relics from classic Las Vegas buildings offers a rare opportunity for retrospection. Now, after years as a hidden memorial open only to a few, the 15-year-old collection has announced plans to open a fully operating museum in 2011 and an adjacent public park later this month. ... More
Colorado Monument Offers 'Pocket-Size Grand Canyon'
By: Judith Kohler, Associated Press
COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT, CO (AP).- Just off Interstate 70 in western Colorado is a 32-square-mile collection of towering red-stone monoliths, deep canyons and a road that cuts through nearly 2 billion years of geology. Colorado National Monument might not get the attention of its better-known neighbors in Utah's canyon lands. But it's increasingly popular with cyclists, runners, rock climbers and cross-country skiers, and there's growing interest in getting Congress to declare the monument a national park as it approaches its 100th anniversary. It was proclaimed a national monument May 24, 1911. The centennial-year celebration kicks off New Year's Eve in the park with fireworks, and U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., has begun soliciting public comment on the national park idea. "Our name has been a challenge," says Michelle Wheatley, chief of interpretation and visitor services. "Because i ... More
Sotheby's 2010 Wine Sales Bring $88.2 Million and Achieves Highest Worldwide Wine Total Ever
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Wine auctions in 2010 brought an overall global total of US$88,270,602; this is more than double last year’s figure and the highest in the company’s forty years of wine auctions. The year once again saw extraordinary demand from Asian collectors with every bottle offered in the eight Hong Kong auctions finding a buyer and major Asian participation in London and Hong Kong sales. Serena Sutcliffe MW, Worldwide Head of Wine at Sotheby’s said: “This has been a landmark year for Sotheby’s Wine. We achieved our largest ever total and now hold the record for a standard sized bottle, a bottle in any format and for a wine lot sold at auction. The phenomenal worldwide sell through rate was led by Hong Kong where every bottle in every sale has found a buyer. January 2011 marks my 20 year anniversary as Head of the Wine Department and I am thrilled to be celebrating it in Hong Kong ... More
Peacock on Menu in Century Old Persian Recipe for Sale at Bonhams Indian and Islamic Sale in London
LONDON.- Bonhams next sale of Indian and Islamic Art on January 19th 2011 in New Bond Street, features a 19th century recipe manuscript that offers a fascinating insight into the preparation of various dishes in Qajar Persia, more than a century ago. Commissioned by Muhammad Quli Khan-e Qajar Quyunlu, Majd al-Sultaneh (d. 1905), this Persian manuscript is a slim volume of 37 folios, written in a wonderfully elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, with the names of recipes written in larger script. It is estimated to sell at a very modest £400-600. Alice Bailey, Head of the Indian and Islamic Department at Bonhams, comments: “For anyone who is interested in the food of other cultures, this collection of Persian recipes compiled in the 19th century from Iranian as well as European sources, offers a wonderful window into a culture famed for its culinary sophistication. Every aspect of Persian arts and crafts is imbued with c ... More
Two Paintings Seized in NY Stolen by Nazis in Poland
NEW YORK (AP).- U.S. authorities say they've seized two paintings in New York that were stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, by the Nazis during World War II. The paintings by 19th-century Polish artist Julian Falat were seized last Wednesday. Federal prosecutors also filed court papers aimed at recovering the paintings, "Off to the Hunt" and "The Hunt." Prosecutors say the paintings remained missing after World War II. Polish authorities alerted U.S. authorities in 2006 that both were about to be sold at auction in New York. In a lawsuit, the U.S. government says the paintings can be seized because they constituted stolen property imported into the United States illegally. ... More
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