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Artist Francis Bacon's oil on canvas "Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud" is seen at Sotheby's before its preview exhibition of highlights from its upcoming London sale of Impressionist Modern and Contemporary art in New York January 10, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton.
NEW YORK, NY.- This February, Sotheby’s presents at auction a remarkable collection of Modern and Contemporary European Art. Incorporating masterful works by Dalí, Modigliani, Chagall, Klee, Giacometti, Calder, Bacon, Freud and Chillida, sixty paintings and sculptures recount a grand narrative of artistic innovation during the Twentieth Century. Carefully selected over a period of 30 years of tireless dedication, the individual pieces embody their collectors’ singular passion and curatorial intelligence unified by outstanding quality, together they are a monument to impeccable connoisseurship. ... More |
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Sotheby's London Wine Season To Open with A Magnificent Private Collection of Chateau Lafite
Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1945 (lots 1 and 2). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On Wednesday, 26 January, 2011, Sotheby’s London will offer a Magnificent Private Collection of Château Lafite, Château Mouton Rothschild 1959, Château Latour 1959 and Château Haut Brion 1961. The 51 lots will open the sale of Finest and Rarest Wines & Vintage Port, and all come with impeccable provenance. Described by Serena Sutcliffe MW, Worldwide Head of Wine at Sotheby’s, as “A stunning array of the most iconic wines ever made that sets the bar for this first sale of the year in London”, this collection is expected to bring in the region of £500,000. The 538‐lot sale has an overall estimate of £1.19 – 1.49 million. In the wake of Sotheby’s record price for a single standard sized bottle at auction, achieved when a bottle of Château Lafite 1869 sold for $232,692 in Hong Kong in October 2010, the demand for Château Lafite – particularly among Asian buyers – continues ... More | | Skeletons and Architectural Vestiges Reveal an Occupation that Dates from 1,500 BC
This date surpasses the chronologies known until now which record vestiges of a settlement of Xochimilca affiliation dated between 1200 and 1500 of the Common Era. Photo: Giselle Canto/INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- Prehispanic ceramics, human skeletons and vestiges of dwelling and ceremonial areas are part of findings registered by archaeologists throughout a decade of explorations at Tepoztlan, Morelos; this discovering reveals that the site had an earlier occupation than the one registered until now, which goes back to 1,500 BC. This date surpasses the chronologies known until now which record vestiges of a settlement of Xochimilca affiliation dated between 1200 and 1500 of the Common Era. This was announced by archaeologist Giselle Canto from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), who has conducted several excavations in 20 plots of the locality, of extensions that go from of 800 to 70,000 square meters. At those ... More | | Lizzie Borden Museum in Massachusetts Shuts Doors Due to Steep Rent and High Costs
Passers-by walk past a store and museum called The True Story of Lizzie Borden in Salem, Mass. AP Photo/Lisa Poole.
SALEM, MASS (AP).- A museum in Massachusetts devoted to the macabre legacy of Lizzie Borden has closed after about 2 1/2 years in business. In that time the museum sparked a lawsuit and questions over its location. Owner Leonard Pickel tells The Salem News that his 40 Whacks Museum faced steep rent and high utility costs at a time of year when tourist traffic slows. His museum opened in 2008 and was originally called The True Story of Lizzie Borden. But he was sued by the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast in Fall River, where Borden, a former Sunday school teacher, was accused of using an ax to murder her father and stepmother in 1892. The museum eventually changed its name. Others questioned why a museum about something that happened in Fall River was even located in Salem, a city about 70 miles ... More |
 | John Lennon's Car: A Ferrari 330 GT to Sell at Bonhams' Paris Sale of Motor Cars
John Lennon's 1965 Ferrari 330 GT. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A 1965 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 Coupe, which was the first car that John Lennon bought on passing his driving test in 1965, is to be sold at Bonhams’ Paris sale of Motor Cars at the Grand Palais on 5 February 2011. It has attracted a pre-sale estimate of €120,000 – 170,000. Philip Norman recounts in his biography John Lennon – A Life: 'In February 1965, John passed his driving test, an event that made headline news across the nation. Within hours, every luxury car dealership in the Weybridge area, hoping for business, jammed the road outside Kenwood's security gates with Maseratis, Aston Martins, and Jaguar XK-E. John strolled out to inspect this gleaming smorgasbord, eventually selecting a £2,000 light blue Ferrari.' Better known is Lennon’s Rolls-Royce Phantom V Limousine, which he had delivered two months later and, subsequently, had painted in psychedelic colours. In the same garage, he also kep ... More | | Kodachrome Film Processing by Southeast Kansas Business to Stop Soon
Old Kodachrome slides are seen. AP Photo/David Duprey.
PARSONS (AP).- A southeast Kansas business that is the last place in the world to process Kodachrome has been inundated with the elaborately crafted color-reversal film as it prepares to stop handling it. Grant Steinle primarily runs Dwayne's Photo, the business in the small town of Parsons that his father founded in 1956. He said the company received "a tsunami of film" after announcing it would stop processing Kodachrome at the end of 2010. The Kansas City Star reported that the stop date for processing the film has been postponed to Monday or Tuesday at the earliest. Business has been so hectic that for a time, processing went on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Dec. 30 was the deadline for submitting film, which has arrived from as far away as China, Japan and Australia. "Normally we get 20 to 30 packages a day from FedEx and three or four bags of mail from the post office," Steinle said. "One day last week, we got 500 packages from FedEx, 250 from UPS and probably ... More | | The End of Professional Photographic Darkrooms at Riflemaker in London
Clare Mitten, Aztech Backup, 2010. Paper, Glue and Blackboard Paint, 70 x 36 x 27 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Riflemaker.
LONDON.- The impact of digital technology on print photography and music production is the subject of ANALOG at Riflemaker, Soho from 10 January 2011. The exhibition invites us inside the last of London’s photographic darkrooms as well as taking a visit to a working reel-to-reel music studio, courtesy of an installation by Lewis Durham of the band Kitty, Daisy & Lewis. In 2006, when Richard Nicholson began photographing London’s professional darkrooms there were some 214 still in existence; when he completed the project four years later only 5 remained. In these labs many of the iconic images of 20th-century culture were processed, from the high-contrast b/w prints of the cast of Trainspotting to lith portrait album covers for U2. Analogue aficionado Lewis Durham’s reel-to-reel recording studio to be installed at Riflemaker includes equipment from the legendary ... More |
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First Pairing of Collages & Sculpture by Abstract Expressionist Esteban Vicente
Esteban Vicente, Kalani Hawaii, 1969.
NEW YORK, NY.- The lyrical collages and polychrome sculptures by noted Abstract Expressionist painter Esteban Vicente are paired for the first time in a major American museum exhibition, opening January 11, 2011, at New York University’s The Grey Art Gallery. Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente reexamines the career of this “artist’s artist” on the tenth anniversary of his death in 2001. Concrete Improvisations features some 60 works on paper and 20 small-scale sculptures drawn from public and private collections in Spain and the United States. Following its debut in New York, the exhibition will travel to the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and will conclude its tour at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente in Segovia, Spain. Esteban Vicente was an integral member—and the only Spanish-born painter—of the first generation of New ... More | | 100 Troy Ounce Gold Nugget from California's Mother Lode Goes to the Auction Block
A 100-ounce gold nugget found by a man last year. AP Photo/Holabird-Kagin Americana.
RENO, NEVADA.- The largest California gold rush nugget left in existence, the 100 troy ounce gold nugget discovered last year in Nevada County, California, will be sold at public auction by Holabird-Kagin Americana this March in Sacramento. Named the “Washington Nugget” because the nugget was discovered near the famous northern Mother lode Gold Rush mining camp of Washington, California, this nearly 100 ounce monster gold nugget (and several others) were found in an unmined section of the Omega-Malakoff Tertiary Channel in February 2010, by a lucky area land-owner. Authenticated by geologist Fred Holabird and valued at $250,000-$400,000, the nugget is the largest, original California Gold Rush region natural nugget still in existence. This nugget will sell to the highest bidder on March 15th in Sacramento, California in Session C of the Golden West Auction. A special sneak preview of the nugget is availab ... More | | Debate in Turkey Over Armenia Monument: Modern Art or a Blight on the Landscape?
The monument that features a divided human figure, with one half extending a hand to the other half. AP Photo/Mehmet Aksoy.
By: Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP).- Modern art or a blight on the landscape? A giant monument to friendship between historic enemies Turkey and Armenia has become a symbol of controversy rather than healing. Turkey's prime minister said the monument near the Armenian border is a "freak" that overshadows a nearby Islamic shrine, underscoring complex tensions in predominantly Muslim Turkey over religious piety and free expression in a society torn between the modern and the traditional. The monument features a divided human figure, with one half extending a hand to the other half. It is meant to symbolize the pain of division and the hope of reconciliation, and was sculpted from stone by Mehmet Aksoy, a prominent Turkish artist. "We would not show any sign of disrespect ... More |
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Best of Irma Stern at Next Bonhams South African Art Auction to Be Held in March
Irma Stern,`Portrait of a Malay child’, oil estimate, £700,000-1,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Irma Stern’s pre-eminent place in South African Art will be clearer than ever at Bonhams next sale in London on March 23, at which pictures estimated to sell for millions of pounds are on offer. Giles Peppiatt, Director of South African Art, comments: “You could say that the world record beating sale last year which achieved a price of R26.6m for Stern’s `Bahora Girl’, is having its effect. We are now seeing some of the very best work by this artist, coming in for sale. For Stern collectors this sale also offers works from the full breadth of her career which makes the sale more than usually interesting.” Among the Stern paintings being offered at Bonhams are: * Irma Stern (1894-1966), 'Arab Priest', signed and dated 'Irma Stern / 1945', oil on canvas. Like the recent world record picture `Bahora Girl’, this image is also in its original Zanzibar frame. Estimate, £1,500,000-2,000,000. * ... More | | Ransom Center at University of Texas Receives Grant to Catalog Spanish Comedias Sueltas
One of the earliest identified sueltas in the Harry Ransom Center's collection. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received $137,015 from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives for "Revealing Texas Collections of Comedias Sueltas." The Ransom Center holds more than 14,000 "comedias sueltas," a generic term for plays published in small pamphlet formats in Spain from the late 17th through the 19th century. Purchased in pieces, generally in collections of bound volumes, the materials have been described as one of the major collections of Spanish dramatic literature in suelta form in North America. While portions of the collection are minimally cataloged, the grant will allow for the creation of individual database records for each suelta, making more extensive information about the collection available on the Ransom Center's Web site. The grant will also suppo ... More | | Asian Art Dealers to Present Thirty-Two Exhibitions in Celebrations of Asia Week 2011
Skeleton Carpet , China, 1800- 1899, Wool, cotton, vegetable dyes, Dimensions: 62.5 x 23.5 inches, 159 x 60 cm. Courtesy of Arnold H. Lieberman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asian art aficionados from both here and abroad will experience a unique wealth of beauty, diversity and scholarship when they are in New York from March 18-26 as 32 member dealers of Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) offer simultaneous exhibitions open to the public throughout Manhattan as part of Asia Week New York 2011. With members coming to exhibit from England, France, Japan and Italy to join those dealers based in Manhattan, a truly global treasure chest will be on view. Asia Week New York 2011, an unprecedented collaboration between these top Asian art specialists, five auction houses plus cultural institutions and museums throughout Manhattan, will also produce a comprehensive guide for visitors, which will feature in-depth listings of all participants, an events calendar, detailed maps and more. Offering a broad array of mediums that wi ... More |
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Boston Cyberarts Partners with Boston Properties to Present Innovative New Media Art at Atlantic Wharf
BOSTON, MA.- Boston Cyberarts, Inc. announces it has been awarded a year's contract to program new media, electronic music, dance and performance art in Boston Properties' newest development, Atlantic Wharf. The Boston Cyberarts Gallery at Atlantic Wharf will open on April 22, kicking off the Boston Cyberarts 2011 Festival. Located on Boston's Fort Point Channel with frontage on both the Rose Kennedy Greenway and historic Boston Harbor, Atlantic Wharf is a mixed-use development that includes a 31-story office tower, over 30,000 square feet of retail and public spaces, 86 residential units and a public waterfront plaza. Atlantic Wharf, located at 530 Atlantic Avenue, will become CyberartCentral for the 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival (April 22 - May 8), the first and largest celebration of artists working in new technologies in all media in North America, encompassing visual arts, dance, music, electronic literature, ... More
Annual Barrett-Jackson Auction to Sell Historic Ambulance that Transported JFK
SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company, “The World’s Greatest Collector Car AuctionsTM”, will sell one of the most historically significant vehicles in U.S. history at its 40th Annual Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction, Jan. 17-23, at WestWorld of Scottsdale. The 1963 Pontiac Bonneville ambulance (Lot #1277), which will sell at No Reserve, carried John F. Kennedy’s casket from Air Force One, after his assassination in Dallas. “Not only did the ambulance transport JFK following his untimely death, it’s one of the finest examples of an un-restored ambulance from that time period,” stated Steve Davis, president of Barrett-Jackson. “It’s also, without a doubt, one of the most significant and historical vehicles ever offered for sale.”The ambulance met Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington D.C. following the 35th president’s assassination. ... More
Exhibition of Etchings and litographs 1961-1969 by David Hockney at Studio Marconi '65
MILAN.- Studio Marconi ’65 presents the exhibition David Hockney: Etchings and litographs 1961 -1969. David Hockney is one of Britain’s most distinguished living artists, with fifty years of activity since his first works at the Royal College of Art, London where he gratuated in 1962. On show there are nine litographs, three of which are from the file Illustration for fourteen poems by greek poet C. P. Cavafi, started in London in 1967 after a travel to Beirut. Literature has always been a very important source of inspiration for Hockney: he painted a lot of pictures from the poems of Whitman, Blake and in 1969 he realized some etchings from the Six Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. In the etchings from Cavafi’s poem, The Beginning, A Remain and The Shop Window of a Tobacco Store, there are no colour. Hockney said that he didn’t like too many coloured etchings. A recurrent feature in his work, above a ... More
Record Collection of Jazz Icon Dick Buckley to Sell at Auction at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
CHICAGO, IL.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announces the sale of the Jazz collection of beloved Chicago radio-host Dick Buckley on Thursday, February 17, 2011. Buckley, who passed away on July 22, 2010 at 85, was a radio deejay in Chicago for over 50 years, spreading his passion for Jazz to thousands of eager listeners. He is best remembered as the host of a weekend radio show on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ). He was known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, his soft voice, and his relaxed speaking style, with his signature phrase, “the good old good ones.” His last show aired July 27, 2008, after 31 years on-air. The sale will consist of over 8,000 Jazz LPs, 45s, 78s, EPs, mixed tapes and CDs, including many home-made compilations, comprising Buckley’s personal archive. Also included in the sale are books and original reel-to-reel broadcasts of his radio programs. The extensive collection will be ... More
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