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A Christie's employee hangs Mike Mitchell's photograph of The Beatles where his collection is being exhibited at a hotel in London, Friday, June 10, 2011. The previously unseen photographs by US photographer Mike Mitchell were taken during the1964 visit to America. The collection of 50 pictures entitled 'Beatles Illuminated' is expected to realise 100,000 US Dollars (61,500 pounds) when they are auctioned in New York on July 20. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- They have been gathering dust in a basement for more than 40 years, but now U.S. photographer Mike Mitchell has decided to auction a group of pictures which capture the moment the Beatles became a worldwide phenomenon. Mitchell, now in his mid-60s, was given a press pass to the Fab Four's first U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum in 1964, just two days after their breakthrough television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. He was back later that year to cover their concert in Baltimore, by which time their fame had grown considerably. "I heard the music and I had to be there," said Mitchell, surrounded by a selection of the black-and-white images which had a spontaneity that many later photographs lacked. He is selling the collection through Christie's auctioneers in New York on July 20, and is exhibiting them in London first to raise awa ... More |
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Czech Republic Racing to Reclaim Valuable Artworks It Loaned for Fear of Seizure
Former Diag Human owner Josef Stava is photographed at the Bechyne Chateau. AP Photo/CTK - Jan Rasch.
PRAGUE (AP).- The Czech Republic is racing to reclaim valuable artworks it loaned to museums across Europe before they can be seized in a battle over a $500 million judgment to a businessman who says the government slandered him. The government has refused to abide by a 2008 Czech arbitration court ruling that it owed Josef Stava 8.3 billion koruna ($500 million) as compensation for claiming in 1992 that his blood plasma company was suspected of illegal activities, resulting in the company not getting a government contract. Stava's lawyers turned to the courts in several EU countries and the U.S. to seize the country's assets. Courts in Vienna and Paris recognized the company's claim in May. Authorities in Austria seized from Vienna's Belvedere Gallery two paintings, "The Dancer" by Vincenc Benes and "Two Women," by Emil Filla, to ... More | | New York State to Display Civil War Flags in New Exhibition at Military Museum
Sarah Stevens, a textile conservator for New York state, stitches a 40th New York Infantry national flag. AP Photo/Mike Groll.
By: Chris Carola, Associated Press
WATERFORD, NY (AP).- A Confederate flag with links to President Abraham Lincoln and the first Union officer killed in the Civil War will be the centerpiece of an exhibit featuring New York's large collection of banners from the conflict, state officials said Thursday. The 14-foot-by-24-foot flag Col. Elmer Ellsworth was carrying after removing it from the roof of the Marshall House in Alexandria, Va. on May 24, 1861, will be part of an eight-flag exhibit opening July 12 in the "War Room" on the second floor of the state Capitol. It's believed to be the first time the banner will be on public display since the war, according to Christopher Morton, assistant curator at the New York State Military Museum. Ellsworth, the 24-year-old ... More | | Sotheby's to Offer a Newly Discovered Work By Sir Anthony Van Dyck at London Sale
Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Portrait of a Carmelite Monk, Head and Shoulders, c.1617-20, oil on oak panel, 62.3cm x 48cm. Estimate: £600,000-800,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s today announces that it will sell a newly discovered portrait by the great 17th Century Flemish painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck in its 6th July 2011 sale of Old Master and British Paintings in London. The intense and psychologically penetrating portrait of a young Carmelite monk is a hitherto unknown work, which Sotheby’s has discovered to have been painted by the youthful Van Dyck during the years he worked in Rubens’ studio. The painting is estimated to sell for £600,000-800,000. Early last year Sotheby’s Paris office did a routine valuation to appraise artwork, and noticed a painting of extraordinary quality which the family had owned for at least two centuries and which has always been known as the “Confesseur de Rubens”. Sotheby’s George Gordon, ... More |
19th Century Paintings Sale at Sotheby's Amsterdam Totals 1.6 Million Euro
Cornelis Springer, figures at the fish market in Delft, oil on canvas. Estimate: €150,000 - 200,000. Sold for: €162,750 / $237,198. Photo: Sotheby's.
AMSTERDAM.- Today’s sale of 19th Century European Painting at Sotheby’s Amsterdam brought €1,586,925 ($2,312,848), within pre-sale expectations (est. €1.5 – 2 million). The auction achieved sell- through rates of 46.9% by lot and 69.2% by value, and set three new artist records. The highest price achieved was for Winter in the Streets of a Dutch Town painted by Willem Koekkoek (1839-1895), one of the most distinguished painters of townscapes, which realised €228,750 ($333,389) against a pre- sale estimate of €100,000 – 150,000. Koekkoek’s works were greatly admired all over Europe for their nostalgic mood and uniquely refined and detailed style of painting. This painting is an impressive example, not only because of its size, but also because of its ability to capture Holland's Age of Romanticism. Speaking after the sale, Mrs. Eveline van Oirschot, Chairman ... More | | Louvre Presents 'The Art of Paper', an Exhibition of Seventy Works on Paper by Some Fifty Artists
Edgar Degas, Danseuse, vue de dos, les mains sur les hanches, vers 1873. Pinceau, huile et essence, rehauts de blanc sur carte industrielle couchée et pigmentée d’une laque rose sur les deux faces. H. 39,4 cm ; L. 27,8 cm. Paris, musée d’Orsay, legs Isaac de Camondo, 1911 (conservé au département des Arts graphiques du musée du Louvre), RF 4038© C2RMF / Elsa Lambert.
PARIS.- For this exhibition, seventy works on paper by some fifty artists active between the fifteenth century and the present day have been selected from the print and drawing collections of three museums in Paris—the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Centre Pompidou—as well as from a number of other French collections. The artists represented use a variety of techniques and tools on all kinds of paper: white or colored, transparent or not, and either found, reused or carefully chosen. Paper may be marked, stamped, overlaid, assembled or cut out, pasted, stapled or even stuck with pins. Drawings may be executed on fine art papers selected according to very precise ... More | | Kunsthalle Detroit, International Center for Contemporary Art to Open in Rough Section of Detroit
Administrative Assistant, Tim White is shown at the Kunsthalle Detroit, International Center for Contemporary Art in Detroit. AP Photo/Paul Sancya.
By Mike Householder, Associated Press
DETROIT, IL (AP).- A nonprofit group is trying to restore Detroit's status in the art world by drawing artists to an unlikely place: a century-old former bank in a neighborhood so infested with crime that some of the building's pipes were stolen and its windows riddled with bullets. If the museum takes root, organizers hope galleries and other businesses follow, potentially transforming the downtrodden area in the same way art houses famously changed the Chelsea and SoHo neighborhoods of New York City. Tate Osten, a Russian-born art consultant, and a group of volunteers have spent months rehabbing the old Detroit Savings Bank branch and are days away from opening their first exhibition. Their group, called Kunsthalle Detroit (pronounced KOONST-hah-leh, or ... More |
Jet from Miracle Splashdown on the Hudson River Arrives at North Carolina Museum
The fuselage of the US Airways plane that made a safe emergency landing in the Hudson River in 2009. AP Photo/The Daily Mail, Robert M. Wojcieszak.
By: Mitch Weiss, Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP).- It finally arrived. Two years after a US Airways jet left New York for Charlotte and made a miraculous landing on the Hudson River, it reached its intended destination and future home in a museum. "My flight has finally come home," said Eileen Shleffar, who was sitting in seat 13D when the plane splashed in the river. US Airways Flight 1549 had just taken off from LaGuardia airport when a flock of geese disabled the engines on Jan. 15, 2009. Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III safely glided into a water landing. All 155 passengers and crew members were rescued. Thousands of people in several states have lined up along the road to glimpse the 120-foot-long fuselage on its 600-mile journey on a flatbed truck ... More | | Bonhams & Butterfields to Auction Rare Pieces Connected to Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark Fertility Idol. 8 7/8 x 5 1/2in. Est. $20,000-30,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields‘ Entertainment Memorabilia auction on June 26, 2011 in Los Angeles will feature a wide variety of items related to Hollywood, Rock ‘n Roll and Animation Art. Highlights will include pieces connected to Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Nightmare Before Christmas and the grand dames of old Hollywood: Barbara Stanwyck, Ethel Merman and Norma Shearer. Highlights from the Estate of actress Norma Shearer and Academy Award®-winning producer Irving Thalberg will be prominently featured within the auction. Thalberg is known as “The Boy Wonder” for his extraordinary ability to make very profitable films by choosing the right scripts and selecting the right actors. He married Shearer in 1927. Shearer went on to become one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s ... More | | The 2011 London Antique Map Fair at the Royal Geographical Society Opens Tomorrow
Johann Homann Baptist, A beautiful 18th Century set of the world & continents (detail). £9,000.00.
LONDON.- The 2011 London Map Fair, taking place in the historic surroundings of the Royal Geographical Society, is the most established and largest antiquarian map fair in Europe: over forty of the leading national and international specialist map dealers will be exhibiting in June. Visitors to the fair will discover a vast selection of original antique maps covering the whole world and printed between the 15th and 19th centuries. Highlights include a map of the universe by seventeenth-century Venetian cartographer Coronelli, revealing the Nine Circles of Hell as described in Dante’s Divine Comedy, as well as a 19th century curiosity map of Europe depicting each country in the form of a caricature: the United Kingdom figures as an old crone. Other fine maps offered this year will include: an example of Ogilby’s innovative and incredibly detailed, 17th century road map, mar ... More |
Art Institute Acquires Robert Rauschenberg's Important Early Work "Short Circuit"
Robert Rauschenberg, Short Circuit (Combine Painting), 1955 (detail). Oil, fabric, and paper on wood supports and cabinet with two hinged doors containing a painting by Susan Weil (American, born 1930) and a reproduction of a Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) Flag painting by Sturtevant (American, 1930). 41-1/2 x 38-1/4 x 4-1/2 in. Grant J. Pick Purchase Fund.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announces a major acquisition by the museum's Department of Contemporary Art: Robert Rauschenberg's Combine of 1955, Short Circuit. This visually arresting and autobiographically rich work is the first major Rauschenberg Combine to enter the permanent collection of the Art Institute, thus enabling the museum to more fully represent the key turning points in 20th-century American art. Short Circuit encapsulates themes that Rauschenberg would pursue for decades and that mark him as one of the most important artists of our time. Short Circuit was acquired from the artist's estate through the Gagosian Gallery. "When we opened the Modern Wing, we were finally able to show our contemporary art collection as never ... More | | New York's Museum of Modern Art Acquires Two Major Collections of Conceptual Art
Lawrence Weiner, Yellow Wheel with Orange Border. 1963. Oil on board, 6 5/8 x 6" (16.8 x 15.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Seth Siegelaub Collection. Gift of James Thrall Soby (by exchange). © 2011 Lawrence Wiener / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the acquisition of the Daled Collection, one of the key collections of American and European Conceptual art from the 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes 223 works across all mediums, assembled between 1966 and 1978 by the Brussels-based collectors Herman J. Daled and Nicole Daled-Verstraeten. The collection is particularly distinguished by unparalleled groupings of works by Marcel Broodthaers—a unique ensemble of some 60 works—as well as by Vito Acconci, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Dan Graham, and Niele Toroni, among many others. As a counterpart to this tremendous collection, the Museum will also acquire the collectors’ archives, containing photographs, letters, notes, and additional materials relating to ... More | | 'Most Beautiful Racing Car Of All Time', A Bugatti Type 35B, To Sell At Bonhams Goodwood Sale
1925 Bugatti Type 35B Grand Prix two-seater. Estimate: £400,000 – 500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An exceptionally well-known, competition-winning 1925 Bugatti Type 35B Grand Prix two-seater, which was owned by former director of the Bugatti Owners’ Club and past editor of Bugantics magazine, Jack Perkins, is to be sold by Bonhams, as part of its annual sale of Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia at Goodwood Festival of Speed on 1 July 2011. It has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £400,000 – 500,000. Bugatti aficionado, Jack Perkins, who died in August 1992, discovered this car in 1950 at an aerodrome in Nottinghamshire, where it was being driven around for fun by the ground staff. Having snapped it up for £60, he set about building the fastest possible Type 35B. The result, which featured a methanol burning engine and a streamlined single-seater body, made its debut at Prescott, the home of the Bugatti’s Club, on 19 May 1954, setting a best time of 52.15 seconds. Perkins continued to campaign this car until his last meeting in 1988 when, aged ... More |
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 Norton Museum of Art Receives $1.5 Million Grant for a Series of Exhibitions by Women ArtistsWEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art announced a $1.5 million grant from The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund/MLDauray Arts Initiative for a six-year project called RAW (Recognition of Art by Women). RAW’s mission is to discover, highlight, showcase, and promote living women artists, a group the grantors believe has been substantially underrepresented, and that the Museum wishes to champion. With this grant, the Museum will organize six special exhibitions, one in each of the next six years (2011-2016). The inaugural exhibition will premier this fall and feature the rarely-exhibited paintings and drawings of British artist Jenny Saville. It is being organized by the Norton’s Curator of Contemporary Art, Cheryl Brutvan. The grant encompasses exhibition, publication, research, and education programming, and includes the funding of the first Sophie Davis Curatorial Fellow, which the museum is now ... More Smithsonian Recounts Balloon Flights of Civil War By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The National Air and Space Museum will re-create a key moment in the nation's first attempt at an air force during the Civil War 150 years ago — decades before the first airplane flight. In June 1861, Thaddeus Lowe flew 500 feet above the National Mall in a gas-filled balloon to show President Abraham Lincoln how balloons could be used to spy on the Confederates. Lowe's balloon, the Enterprise, remained tethered to the ground, and Lowe sent Lincoln the first telegram ever transmitted from the air. "The flight was designed to draw Abraham Lincoln into the business," said Smithsonian flight historian Tom Crouch. "Lincoln was fascinated by technology." Lowe's handlers then pulled the balloon close to the ground and guided it to the White House. The "aeronaut" ... More Agnews Presents an Exhibition of Previously Unseen Works by Painter Matthew RadfordLONDON.- The 2011 contemporary programme at Agnew’s takes a turn towards illusory abstraction in June with an exhibition of previously unseen works by painter Matthew Radford. The exhibition is on view from June 8th through June 29th, 2011. This remarkable body of work develops Radford’s signature themes of people, crowds and the spectator. To live in a metropolis is to move among the crowds - walking side by side countless unfamiliar faces or travelling on an underground teeming with strangers - rarely does anyone stop to acknowledge and understand the quality of a contemporary city experience. These works by Matthew Radford explore, in an introspective way, the experience of urban living. The artist opens up a dialogue between the mass of a crowd and the individuality of a single figure by delineating the space around them, thus abstracting the landscape in which they appear. Peter Ackroyd, ... More Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Excellent Results from the Modern & Contemporary Editions Sale NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s Modern & Contemporary Editions sale at 450 Park Avenue, comprising 251 lots, sold 91% by value and 84% by lot achieving $1,981,688 (including premium). Today’s Editions sale closed the New York spring auction season with vibrant results. The full saleroom, active in person, phone and online bidding illustrated the dynamic auction atmosphere culminating in much competitive bidding. The sale exhibited the strength of the modern and contemporary editions market and demonstrated Phillips de Pury & Company’s prominent role in the Editions field. “The crowd pleasing variety of images and price levels proved ever popular and complemented our highly successful Evening Editions sale this past April. We saw great enthusiasm from private collector ... More Contemporary Art on Sale in the Scottish Summer Exhibition at The Fleming CollectionLONDON.- Works by some of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists will go on sale in The Scottish Summer Exhibition to be held at The Fleming Collection from 10 June to 3 September 2011. Following on from last year’s successful inaugural selling exhibition, a select group of artists has submitted works many of which have been specially created for the show. A percentage of all sales will go towards supporting The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, the charity that runs The Fleming Collection, now regarded as an embassy for Scottish art in London. “Supporting Scottish contemporary art is a very important part of what we do,”says Selina Skipwith, Keeper of Art at The Fleming Collection. “Not only do we buy works for our own holdings but we also aim to promote the wealth of talent that exists in Scotland.”The title of the show echoes that of the Summer Exhibition held at the nearby Royal Acade ... More Blackbeard Artifacts Exhibit Opens at North Carolina MuseumBEAUFORT, NC (AP).- The largest exhibit ever of artifacts from what's believed to be the remains of Blackbeard's flagship is opening at the North Carolina Maritime Museum, with bells, cannon, lead shot and part of the hull among the items on display. There won't, however, be any pirate treasure, says David Moore, the museum's nautical archaeologist. That's because the Queen Anne's Revenge didn't wreck, but ran aground, giving the crew time to remove most of the valuables. "We weren't expecting to find a chest filled with silver, gold and jewelry," Moore said in a phone interview with The Associated Press as he readied for the exhibit, which opens Saturday at the museum in Beaufort. Instead, the treasures are weaponry and whatever high-dollar equipment the pirates couldn't take with them. About 300 items from shipwreck in about 20 feet of water off North Carolina's coast will be displayed at the U-shaped exhibit, wh ... More |
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