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Attracting a pre-sale estimate of £1,200,000 – 1,800,000 and entitled 1984, this monumental piece comprises 192 intricate pencil drawings of magazine covers which were published in 1984. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams new Contemporary Art Department announced the sale of a highly important work by one of the most influential Italian artists of the 20th century, Alighiero E Boetti (1940-1994), in the Department’s inaugural sale on 13 October 2011. Attracting a pre-sale estimate of £1,200,000 – 1,800,000 and entitled 1984, this monumental piece comprises 192 intricate pencil drawings of magazine covers which were published in 1984. Composed of 12 panels, one documenting each month of the year, it is the first time that this work has appeared at auction. Boetti was a key member of the Arte Povera group of young Italian artists in the late 1960s which worked in radically new ways using simple and everyday materials, granting them a new lease of life through their clean and organic aesthetic. While Boetti is most famous for his series of large embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, he is also renowned for his pop ... More |
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| Keenly Awaited Book on the Rich Story of Fragonard's Masterpiece, Progress of Love | | Long Missing Hitler Family Portraits to Go Up for Auction at Craig Gottlieb Military Antiques | | BMW Guggenheim Lab Launches Its Worldwide Tour Today at the Guggenheim in New York | 
The book explores the history of the work from its conception in France to its rediscovery by two great American collectors.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Progress of Love is one of the great painted ensembles of French eighteenthcentury art and is considered to be the artist’s masterpiece. For more than seventy-five years, the panels have been a highlight of The Frick Collection. Colin B. Bailey’s keenly awaited and beautifully illustrated book published in September by the museum in association with D. Giles Limited provides an invaluable and engaging resource on the sequence and meaning of the panels in the series. It explores the history of the work from its conception in France to its rediscovery by two great American collectors more than one hundred years later and tells the fascinating story of how the group of canvases found a permanent home in the New York City mansion of Henry Clay Frick, where the museum’s visitors enjoy them today. The tale, however, has resonance and appeal beyond the walls of the instituti ... More | | 
The portraits, which only recently have been made public, are currently owned by a French family that now lives in Orange, Calif.
SOLANA BEACH, CA.- Two long missing portraits of Alois and Klara Hitler will soon be put up for auction in Solana Beach, Calif. These original portraits of German Dictator Adolf Hilter’s parents had hung in a former Hitler-owned residence in Bavaria, Germany and have been lost since the end of the Second World War. The portraits, which only recently have been made public, are currently owned by a French family that now lives in Orange, Calif. "These portraits are not rare - they are one of kind. They're the only two that exist," said Craig Gottlieb of Craig Gottlieb Military Antiques. “I got a phone call from the family who has owned them since the 1980's.” Period photographs from the Berghof, one of the Nazi leader’s more well-known residences, show the two portraits hanging in one of Hitler’s rooms. Gottlieb notes that black and white photographs taken of the portraits during the time show gr ... More | | 
BMW Guggenheim Lab. New York City. Design architect: Atelier Bow-Wow. Evening exterior view from Houston Street. Photo: Paul Warchol © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- The BMW Guggenheim Lab launches its worldwide tour today with the opening of its first mobile structure in Manhattan's East Village. This public space—part urban think tank, part gathering space, part community center—offers free programs and events for visitors to explore the challenges and opportunities of today's cities. The BMW Guggenheim Lab addresses issues of contemporary urban life through programs designed to spark curiosity and interaction, encouraging visitors to participate in the Lab's research by generating questions, answers, ideas, and dialogue. Over the next six years, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will go through three successive cycles, each with its own theme and specially designed mobile structure. The first cycle includes New York, Berlin, and a city in Asia, and will culminate in a special ... More |
| El Museo del Barrio Appoints Christie's Specialist Margarita Aguilar as New Director | | Property from the Estate of Award-Winning Actor John Forsythe on Offer at Bonhams & Butterfields | | Retrospective of Marc Riboud 's Photographic Work at Young Gallery in Brussels | 
Margarita Aguilar, 2006. Courtesy of El Museo del Barrio.
NEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio announced that it has appointed Margarita Aguilar to be its next director, beginning September 12, 2011. Aguilar, who served in the curatorial department at El Museo from 1998 to 2006, is currently Vice President and Senior Specialist in Latin American art at Christie’s. Through her work at El Museo and Christie’s, Aguilar has wide knowledge of historical and contemporary Latino and Latin American art and is a leading voice in the field. Aguilar was selected following an international search, and replaces Julian Zugazagoitia, who is now Director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Georgina M. Nichols, Director of Finance and Administration, has been serving as Interim Director of El Museo. Aguilar has worked extensively on colonial, modern and contemporary art of the Americas, specializing in photography by American, Latin American and Latino ... More | | 
A Steinway model M mahogany grand piano, circa 1929, width 56in; depth 67in. Est. $6,000-8,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields announced its September 25, 2011 Sunset Estate Auction featuring select property from the Estate of award-winning stage, television and film actor John Forsythe. Forsythe was best known for his roles in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father, as single playboy father Bentley Gregg; as Charles “Charlie” Townsend, the unseen millionaire on the 1970s crime drama Charlie’s Angels and as Blake Carrington, patriarch on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty. Forsythe was born the eldest of three children in Penns Grove, N.J., to Blanche Materson and Samuel Jeremiah Freund. He was primarily raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., where his father worked on Wall Street during ... More | | 
Marc Riboud, Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1953. Silver gelatin print, 20-24 inches. Photo: Courtesy Young Gallery.
BRUSSELS.- Young Gallery presents, for the first time in Belgium, a retrospective of the Marc Riboud ‘s photographic work. Born in Lyon, France, Marc Riboud went to high school there and made his first picture in 1937 using his father's Vest Pocket Kodak camera. He was active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945, then studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale from 1945 to 1948. Until 1951 Riboud worked as an engineer in Lyon factories, but took a week-long picture-taking vacation, inspiring him to become a photographer. He moved to Paris where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour, the founders of Magnum Photos. By 1953 he was a member of the organization. His ability to capture fleeting moments in life through powerful compositions was already apparent ... More |
| Works from 5000 Years of African Art and Culture on View in Enhanced Galleries for African Art | | Heckscher Museum of Art Commemorates the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 with Exhibition | | Lost Alfred Hitchcock Feature, The White Shadow, Recovered in New Zealand | 
Sokari Douglas Camp. Accessories Worn in the Delta (detail), 2006. Steel, wood, and gold leaf. Museum purchase made possible by the Phyllis Wattis Program Fund, 2010.80
STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents "Expanding Views of Africa," opening August 3, 2011. This enlarged and enhanced reinstallation, which includes 200 works from the collection and key loans, broadens conventional views of African art, from ancient cultures before the dynasties of the Egyptian Pharaohs to contemporary artists. Admission to the Cantor Arts Center and to the exhibition is free. "The art of Africa dates from the beginning of humanity to the present, and African art expresses ideas about humanity that are held in common with peoples all over the world and throughout time," said Barbara Thompson, Ph.D., Phyllis Wattis Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas. "I am excited about this opportunity to introduce our visitors to a new way of considering African art ... More | | 
George Constant, East River, 1929 (detail). Heckscher Museum of Art; Gift of David and Georgette Preston.
HUNTINGTON, NY.- To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, The Heckscher Museum of Art presents New York, New York. This exceptional exhibition, on view from July 30 through October 16, pays tribute to the fortitude of New York City and the courage of her people. New York's multi-faceted allure is revealed in images of architectural landmarks and daily life in her many neighborhoods. The vitality of the city is celebrated in a wide selection of works, ranging from prints and photographs that record the transformation New York experienced during major construction projects in the 1930s to images that capture common experiences of New York’s inhabitants. Works by Berenice Abbott, Gordon Grant, N. Jay Jaffee, Edward Moran, John Sloan, Abraham Walkowitz, Guy Wiggins, Garry Winogrand, and others have been included. Also on view is Earth Matters, an environmental art exhibition featuring the works of selected Long Island ... More | | 
Director Alfred Hitchcock is shown wearing a bowler hat while on location in London for "Frenzy," in this July 1972 photo. Listed among the world's greatest filmmakers, no director so dominates a genre as Hitchcock does the thriller. AP Photo.
WELLINGTON.- After a world-wide search, a large part of The White Shadow (1923), thought to be the earliest surviving feature by Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990), the celebrated master of suspense has been found in New Zealand - just in time for the filmmaker’s 112th birthday. A wild, atmospheric melodrama starring Betty Compson in a dual role as twin sisters, one angelic and the other “without a soul,” the lost film turned up among the cache of unidentified American nitrate prints safeguarded for the last 23 years by the New Zealand Film Archive. So far, only the first three reels of the six-reel feature have been found; no other copy is known to exist. The White Shadow was among the many silent-era movies salvaged by New Zealand projectionist and collector Jack Murtagh. After ... More |
| Critique of Richard Nixon's Television Image Up for Sale at RR Auction in New Hampshire | | Property from the Xu Hanqing Collection to Be Offered at Christie's Asian Art Week | | Edmund Capon AM OBE to Retire as Director of Art Gallery of NSW After 33 Years | 
In this Oct. 13, 1960 file photo, Vice President Richard Nixon dabs at his chin and lip.
By: Holly Ramer, Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP).- Some advice for presidential candidates, culled from a 1967 critique of then-candidate Richard Nixon: Avoid greasy hair products. Don't clench your fists. And for goodness sake, drop the zombie routine. "Loose fingers, hanging downward from bent wrists moving toward the camera in a swimming motion are confusing, and have grotesque connotations," a media consultant wrote to Nixon, who was still striving to improve his television image seven years after sweating his way through the nation's first televised presidential debate. That consultant's 10-page report — featuring dozens of passages underlined by Nixon — was saved by the former president's longtime joke writer, Paul Keyes, and is up for auction in New Hampshire. Keyes was an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and producer for some of TV's classic shows, including ... More | | 
A superbly carved and important large oval bamboo brush pot, early 17th century, 7 ¼ in. high. Estimate: $300,000-500,000. Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the single-owner sale of A Connoisseur’s Vision: Property from the Xu Hanqing Collection, which will be offered on September 15, 2011 during Christie's Asian Art Week. This elite group of 150 objects includes rare and important examples of ancient Chinese paintings, rare calligraphy, lustrous jades, an assortment of luxurious seals and other sophisticated scholar’s objects and is expected to realize in the region of $7 million. Xu Fubing (artistic name Hanqing and studio name Chunzhai) was born in 1883, in Yancheng, Jiangsu province and died in the 1950s. In his early career, he was a chief official with the Chinese Qing-dynasty government and later, in the early Republican period, a co-founder and President of Continental Bank. While a banker by profession, Xu was also an accomplished calligrapher with a passion for the traditional arts. Formed over the course of his lifeti ... More | | 
Mr Capon’s service to the Gallery and the cultural life of Australia had been extraordinary.
SYDNEY.- Edmund Capon AM OBE will retire as director of the Art Gallery of NSW at the end of this year after 33 years in the role. The President of the Board of Trustees of the Gallery, Mr Steven Lowy AM, made the announcement today at a media conference with the Premier, Mr O’Farrell, and Mr Capon. Mr Lowy said Mr Capon’s service to the Gallery and the cultural life of Australia had been extraordinary. “Rarely, if ever, has a single person so embodied the spirit and ambition of an institution as has Edmund with the Art Gallery of NSW,” he said. “Edmund’s achievements are many, but his single most significant achievement has been to make good on the goal he set for the Gallery soon after he was appointed in 1978. “Back then, Edmund made it clear he wanted the Gallery to pursue quality and not, to use his words at the time, ‘a broad expansion of all areas at a mediocre level. ... More |
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 Y Gallery Presents Anonymous Presence, A Group Exhibition Curated by Yoab Vera NEW YORK, NY.- Y Gallery New York presents Anonymous Presence, a group exhibition curated by Yoab Vera, including works by Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Omar Barquet, Alberto Borea, Monika Bravo, Aldo Chaparro, Juanli Carrión, Adam Henry & Emily Mae Smith, Natalia Ibañez-Lario, Nicóla López, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Alan Ruiz, Wolfgang Staehle, and Johanna Unzueta. How do we comprehend what we see, and how do we communicate our own empirical knowledge? Anonymous Presence gathers thirteen sources of contemporary aesthetics that explore and reflect on the experiential understanding of perception. There is an intention to make noticeable the unacknowledged, the presumed, the daily ignored, the unintentionally concealed. There is an evident immersion of the self in specific times and places. These artists observe and ponder upon the components that inhabit explicit arenas. By analyzing their ... More Times Square Alliance and Hidemi Takagi Present "Blender" at Times Square NEW YORK, NY.- The Times Square Alliance presents a month-long public art installation which showcases 95 photographs by Hidemi Takagi chronicling packaged food imports from 47 countries found in shops in immigrant neighborhoods across New York City. “Blender” is the first public art project to be projected on the seven video monitors at the entrance to the Times Square Visitor Center. The images are accompanied by descriptions of the neighborhoods and locations of the shops offering tourists a different way to experience New York City. The Visitor Center installation with its color-saturated images of candy wrappers, canned food or cookie boxes -- produced around the world and sold in 35 immigrant neighborhoods throughout New York City -- includes a unique vendor cart stacked with sample foods, the book “Blender”, and free postcards of five photographs with the locations of the shops. Outside, all ... More The Walters Art Museum and the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Sign Memorandum of Cooperation BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum announced a signed memorandum of cooperation with the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany. An official delegation from Hildesheim, one of the oldest and most popular cities in Northern Germany, visited Baltimore to participate in a series of meetings at the Walters July 29 through Aug. 1. The talks culminated in the Mayor and Director of the City of Hildesheim Kurt Machens and Walters Director Gary Vikan signing an agreement that includes: exhibition exchanges; professional development opportunities for museum employees, including staff exchanges; the long-term loans of art; and discussions of museum best practices. “The Walters is pleased to participate in this cultural exchange with the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum,” said Vikan. “I believe that there is much to be learned from our museum colleagues around the world. This agreement will benefit ... More Storm Damages Ohio Oak from 'Shawshank Redemption' MANSFIELD, OH (AP).- A large oak tree that played a key role near the end of "The Shawshank Redemption" was heavily damaged during a storm last week. The 1994 movie was filmed in and around the former Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield in north-central Ohio. The tree is where Morgan Freeman's character finds money and a note left by Tim Robbins' character. The tree was hit Friday by straight-line winds that split it down its rotted middle and took out one side, Malabar Farm State Park manager Louis Andres told the News Journal of Mansfield. The tree near the state park is popular with tourists and is part of the local convention and visitors bureau's "Shawshank Trail" that also includes the former reformatory that closed in 1990 and is now a museum. The trail leads travelers to 12 sites where the movie was filmed. Lee Tasseff, president of the Mansfield-Richland County Convention and Visitors Bureau, called the damage to ... More AIA Announces the Winner of the AIA Architect Barbie Dream House Design Competition WASHINGTON, D.C.- The design submitted by Ting Li, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP and Maja Paklar, Assoc. AIA, received the most public votes, out of the 8,470 votes registered, in the AIA Architect Barbie® Dream House™ competition that was orchestrated by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The design competition hosted by the AIA was created as a fun way for the design community to engage with Mattel’s newest Barbie® doll -I Can Be…™ Architect Barbie®. The winning house design features entertaining space and chef’s open kitchen on the first floor, along with an office / library / meeting space. There is also a terrace on the second floor. The third and fourth floors are Barbie® doll’s private enclave, her bedroom and her inspiration room respectively. The roof has a green house and a landscaped garden for her domestic pets. The design elements include solar panels, landscaped rooftop and irrigation sy ... MoreThe Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 Announce New Sensations Prize 2011LONDON.- The Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 are delighted to announce this year?s New Sensations Prize for art students graduating from BA and MA courses in the UK and Republic of Ireland in 2011. The 20 shortlisted students will present their work in an exhibition at Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1, from 11-17 October 2011. New Sensations, supported this year by specialist insurer Hiscox, was launched in 2007 by the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 to find the most imaginative and talented artists graduating in the UK and to support students leaving art college. Since it was started five years ago the Prize has given young graduates many opportunities - they have sold their work, been taken on by galleries, invited to be in exhibitions both in the UK and internationally and shortlisted for other prizes as a result of their work being seen in the New Sensations exhibition. This year's judges are: artists ... More |
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