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David Bailey, Richard Hamilton, 2007. Silver gelatin print, 24.1 x 23.5cm. Photo: David Bailey.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- It is with tremendous sadness that Gagosian Gallery announces the death of Richard Hamilton, which occurred early this morning. Considered the Father of Pop, the art world has lost one of its leading figures - a hugely innovative talent and a great intellect, whose work crossed many fields: from painting to print making, sculpture to typography and collage. He was a pioneering artist of unparalleled skill, invention and lasting authority. Hamilton's fascination with the authenticity of the image in contemporary society, and the implication this has in political and moral terms has held him at the vanguard of modern art. His influence on subsequent generations of artists continues to be immeasurable. Despite his ongoing fame, Hamilton never lost the sense of humour, energy, sparkle and modesty that was his innate character. He was actively working on a major museum retrospective ... More |
| Sotheby's in New York announces sale of part III of The Collection of Allan Stone | | Lost British street artist Banksy mural "Every Picture tells a lie" uncovered on Berlin galley wall | | A host of dragons, buffalo, lions and horses, lead caravan of Chinese art at Bonhams | 
Willem De Kooning, Woman as Landscape, 1965-1966. Est. $800,000/1.2 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On 23 September 2011 Sotheby’s New York will present The Collection of Allan Stone Volume III. The sale of property from the renowned New York dealer follows two exceptionally successful auctions in May 2011. Just as in those sales, this offering is made up of outstanding examples by the key artists represented and collected by Mr. Stone; highlights include works by Willem de Kooning, John Chamberlain, Franz Kline, Joseph Cornell and, perhaps most importantly, Wayne Thiebaud. Trained as a lawyer, but passionate about art, Mr. Stone opened his own gallery in 1960. He joined the ranks of influential New York dealers such as Leo Castelli and Sidney Janis, while blazing his own path with a unique selection of artists. Stone’s most significant partnership was with Wayne Thiebaud. In 1961, he launched the California painter’s career with his first show in New York and their bi-coastal friendsh ... More | | 
View of an artwork by British street artist Banksy in Berlin. AP Photo/Michael Sohn.
BERLIN (REUTERS).- British street artist Banksy's mural "Every Picture tells a lie" was rediscovered in Berlin this weekend after a gallery layered it in paint eight years ago to create space for new works. Banksy, whose identity is unknown to the public, is a world-renowned graffiti artist. His newly recovered mural was spray-painted in 2003 for an exhibit at a contemporary art gallery in Germany's capital. The mural was excavated as part of an art project by Brad Downey, a Berlin-based American artist, whose exhibition is titled "What Lies Beneath" and focuses on layers of paint. "The unearthing is Downey's project -- he wanted to play with it," said Stephane Bauer, head of the Kunstraum Bethanien gallery, where the Banksy work is being displayed. Downey, who also took part in the 2003 exhibit, remembered Banksy's work and wanted to uncover it for his 2011 project. ... More | | 
An Imperial enamelled and blue 'nine-dragon' vase bearing the Qianlong seal mark. Estimate: £300,000-400,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Dragon entwined Imperial ceramics, jade animals and a spectacular lamp made of buffalo horn, offer much to excite buyers at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art Sale on November 10th at New Bond Street, London. An object that speaks loudly of Chinese craftsmanship features numerous dragons. An Imperial enamelled and blue 'nine-dragon' vase bearing the Qianlong seal mark, has a slender shape with high shoulders and is enamelled in vivid iron-red with nine three and five-clawed dragons in various vibrant postures, all amidst swirling crested waves above rocky islands. It is estimated to sell for £300,000-400,000. The Chinese dragon, which is traditionally associated with the Emperor, is powerful and is seen in a very positive light in contrast to European dragons, which are considered evil. There are more dragons writhing on an Imperial ... More |
| National Gallery of Art launches second edition of the Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné | | Sanford Biggers: Cosmic Voodoo Circus exhibit on view at SculptureCenter | | In Living Color vivid post impressionist works highlight Bonhams' October prints auction | 
Jonathan Borofsky, Human Structure #1, 2006, 152.4 x 129.5 cm (60 x 51 in.), 42-color screenprint © 2005 Jonathan Borofsky and Gemini G.E.L. LLC.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- A newly expanded version of the Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) Online Catalogue Raisonné introduces 333 works produced by the acclaimed Los Angeles print and sculpture workshop between early 1997 and late 2005. The online catalogue now represents 2,069 editions, recording Gemini's creative activity from its 1966 inception through 2005. Since 1981, the National Gallery of Art has been home to the Gemini G.E.L. Archive, which represents an example of virtually every print and edition sculpture produced by this important workshop. The Gallery's holdings of Gemini works are a cornerstone of its contemporary graphic art collection. The Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné was originally launched on the National Gallery's server in 2001, in order to present an ongoing record of Gemini's collaborations with important contemporary artists. Gemini continues to produce limited-edition fine art prints a ... More | | 
Sanford Biggers, A Jóia Do Orixá, 2011. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view, SculptureCenter. Photo: Jason Mandella.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- SculptureCenter presents Cosmic Voodoo Circus, an exhibition of new work by Sanford Biggers commissioned through SculptureCenter's Artist in Residence program. Merging modern and post-modern strategies with vernacular forms, Biggers studies and posits historical and contemporary subjectivity as a fluid and multivalent concept. Cosmic Voodoo Circus is curated by Mary Ceruti, SculptureCenter's Executive Director and Chief Curator, and will be on view through November 28, 2011. In Cosmic Voodoo Circus, Biggers exploits the carnival aesthetic to address profound issues of identity, the power of objects, as well as spiritual and cultural transmigration. At the center of Biggers' installation is a new video titled Shake, the second part in an odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Shot in Brazil with a Creative Time travel grant, Shake follows Ricardo Castillo, a Brazilian-born, Germa ... More | | 
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant, 1892. Lithograph in colors on two sheets of wove paper backed with wove support, printed by Edward Ancourt, Paris, with narrow margins, framed. Sheet 53 3/8 x 35 7/8in. Est. $30,000-40,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announces its sale of Fine Prints, October 25, 2011 in San Francisco, and simulcast to Los Angeles, will feature a wide range of lithographs, woodcuts, etchings and screenprints spanning myriad centuries. The sale is led by a brightly-colored lithograph of “Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant,” 1892, by French Post Impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (est. $30,000-40,000). The piece depicts Parisian singer and restaurateur Aristide Bruant, and demonstrates the unique style that Toulouse-Lautrec introduced to the art world at the time. Also of the same period is a poster of Fernand Toussaint’s "Cafe Jacqmotte," 1894 (est. $20,000-40,000). Not far prior to the creation of these works, James Abbott McNeill Whistler created “Little Venice, from ... More |
| Freeman's sells $3.5 million Qing Dynasty Jade Seal, Asian Art auction realizes $8.1 million | | New Orleans Museum of Art names Russell Lord new Curator of Photographs | | Christie's in New York to offer rare Inglenook from Francis Ford Coppola's cellar | 
The Qing Dynasty seal was sold to a bidder in the room by auctioneer and head of Asian Arts department Robert Waterhouse.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Saturday afternoon, with a full and energetic saleroom, Freeman’s achieved yet another extraordinary success when a ‘double dragon’ white jade seal realized over $3.5 million, making it the highest selling lot in the biannual Fine & Decorative Asian Arts auction. The Qing Dynasty seal was sold to a bidder in the room by auctioneer and head of Asian Arts department Robert Waterhouse. Its realized price of $3.5 million was more than doubled over the course of the evening, with a final sale result of $8.1 million. “The jade seal had good evidence for an imperial attribution, though it was only the final selling price that could have confirmed it. Of course we are overjoyed with the result, and it once again demonstrates that Freeman’s ability to source good private property and offer it with attractive estimates is a formula for success,” said Asian Arts Associate Sp ... More | | 
Russell Lord recently completed a two-year fellowship, from 2009 through 2011, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Eileen Travell.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Susan Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announces the appointment of Russell Lord as the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs. Lord, a historian, curator, and educator who recently completed a Jane and Morgan Whitney fellowship in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will assume his new position on October 17, 2011. NOMA's photography collection was first established in the 1970s at a time when many art museums were not yet collecting photography. Today NOMA's extensive collection of over 8,500 works represents a sampling of some of the rarest examples and greatest achievements in photography from the 1840s to the present. Among the many artists represented are Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Ilse Bing, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen. In his new role, Lord will be responsible for ... More | | 
The legendary 1941 Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon, Inglenook, Cabernet Sauvignon--Vintage 1941. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Earlier this year, California wine expert James Laube wrote that “Inglenook is to Napa what Margaux is to Bordeaux – one of wine’s crown jewels.” On September 24th, Christie’s New York will offer wine collectors a rare opportunity to bid for some of these “crown jewels,” as the auction house presents a special selection of legendary bottles direct from the private cellar of Inglenook owner Francis Ford Coppola, including two bottles of the legendary 1941 vintage. This autumn’s auction coincides with a particularly exciting period for Inglenook, marked by Francis Ford Coppola’s recent reacquisition of the historic name and the appointment of a new Estate Manager and Winemaker, Philippe Bascaules. Inglenook is an important cornerstone of the Napa Valley. Ever since its inception in 1879, Inglenook founder Gustave Niebaum promised to make wines that would “be so ... More |
| Valencian Institute for Modern Art exhibition opens with the work of José Manuel Ciria: The Last Decade | | Exhibition of new works by artist Gordon Cheung opens at Alan Cristea Gallery | | Pavel Schmidt presents Kafka cycle at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts | 
Over the last decade, the paintings of Jose Manuel Ciria have moved between abstraction and figuration, their markings ranging from animated gesture to the precise rigor of the grid.
VALENCIA.- The director of the IVAM, Mrs. Consuelo Ciscar; the artist, José Manuel Ciria, and the curator of the exhibition, Kara Van der Weg, inaugurated the exhibition 'Ciria. States of opposition (2001-20011) which will run until on 8 January. The exhibition, sponsored by Telefónica, gathers 28 paintings and 82 drawings series between abstraction and figuration, with features ranging from the spontaneous gesture to the precise rigor of the grid. The artist works between Madrid and New York in the decade from 2001 to 2011. Over the last decade, the paintings of Jose Manuel Ciria have moved between abstraction and figuration, their markings ranging from animated gesture to the precise rigor of the grid. Concurrent with substantial changes in both style and subject has been the geographical shift of the ... More | | 
Gordon Cheung, The Harbinger, 2011. Taxidermy Snowy Owl (endangered species pre-1947), modified antique display case, 2-way mirror, gold mirror, lights and truncated pyramid structure.
LONDON.- The Alan Cristea Gallery will stage an exhibition of new works, Gordon Cheung: The Light that Burns Twice as Bright, from 14 September to 5 October 2011. Cheung's multi-media artistic vision is fuelled by an anxious reflection on the current state of affairs in capitalist societies. He invokes prophetic visions of the impending end of our civilization: epic, sublime but terrifying revelations of post-apocalyptic landscapes, set against the backdrop of stock listings collage. He cross-references the cultural, mythological, political, religious and artistic to capture the ‘desert of the real': a hyper-real cyberscape of toxic undertones and noxious glows, complete with rampaging fauna, paranoiac hallucinations of collapsing architecture and techno-psychedelic biblical apparitions. His oeuvre can be ... More | | 
Pavel Schmidt, Puah Menczel-Ben-Tovim. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Departments of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University present Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka—Verschrieben & Verzeichnet, on view in the Sert Gallery from September 13 through October 16, 2011. An opening panel discussion and reception will take place on Thursday, September 29, at 6 pm. The Kafka cycle presented here consists of forty-nine sketches created over the past four years by Pavel Schmidt, Swiss painter, illustrator, and installation artist. The title of each drawing is the name of a character from one of Kafka’s narratives or someone the author personally knew. Schmidt juxtaposes each drawing with a fragment from Kafka’s previously unpublished writings, which are here presented in the German with English translations. The texts are not meant to explain the images, nor the images the texts. There is neverthele ... More |
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 One of Britain's best-loved illustrators John Burningham at The Fleming Collection LONDON.- A celebration of the rich and varied career of John Burningham, one of Britain’s most distinguished and best-loved illustrators, opened at The Fleming Collection from 13 September to 22 December 2011. The retrospective exhibition, entitled John Burningham: An Illustrated Journey, includes illustrations, working drawings and previously unseen archive material. The artistic achievements of Burningham, who marked his 75th birthday earlier this year, have been extraordinary. He is both the author and illustrator of many children’s books, did the illustrations for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming, and produced a series of superb travel posters which are on show in a simultaneous exhibition at The London Transport Museum. The Fleming Collection, which has become an embassy for Scottish art in London, also shows sketches from Burningham’s time working on slum clearance schemes in Glas ... More Jewellery belonging to Thomas Jefferson's great, great grandmother offered at Bonhams LONDON.- A stunning art deco diamond wristwatch by Cartier circa 1935 that belonged to Eleonora Sears, the great, great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, will be offered in the Fine Jewellery sale, taking place at Bonhams London on the 21st September. The strap consists of baguette and brilliant cut diamonds and is estimated to sell for £15,000 – 20,000. As well has her famous great, great Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Deceleration of Independence and the third President of America, Sears was a pioneer of American women's sport. Popular among the upper class circles of New York and Boston, Seers frequently topped New York's '10 best dressed' list. After meeting her in 1924 Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, said she was his favourite dance, squash and tennis partner. Also included in the Bonhams sale are pieces of jewellery by Black Starr & Frost, America’s oldest jeweller. Throughout the ... More Rice University's Rice Building Workshop designs café for the Menil Collection HOUSTON, TX.- In an exciting collaboration, the Menil Collection and Rice University’s Rice Building Workshop (RBW) have joined forces to design and construct a café across Sul Ross Street from the museum’s main entrance. The project began earlier this year, when Menil Director Josef Helfenstein, inspired by RBW’s Solar Decathlon ZeRow House, approached Rice University architecture professors Nonya Grenader and Danny Samuels with the idea of working with Rice architecture students to design a museum café. Helfenstein has long seen the need for such a gathering place, in keeping with the wishes of John and Dominique de Menil, who also envisioned a café to complement the museum, which opened in 1987. Said Helfenstein: “Designed to be in harmony with our green, residential surroundings, the Menil café will enhance the neighborhood as well as the visitor’s experience, being a place of welcome, reflection a ... More Credit, Faith, Trust, an exhibition of new and recent works from James Casebere at Lisson Gallery LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents Credit, Faith, Trust, an exhibition of new and recent works from James Casebere’s Landscape with Houses series. Working at the forefront of constructed photography since the late seventies, Casebere is associated with The Pictures Generation, a group of artists who combined a Pop obsession with media culture with the critical framework of Conceptual Art to redefine photography as a Postmodern medium in the 70s and 80s. Based upon his understanding of architectural, anthropological, art historical and cinematic sources, Casebere’s detailed photographs address contemporary and historical social concerns. His work challenges the boundaries between reality and imagination, whether dealing with alienation in sixties America; addressing slavery and colonialism through black and white visions of cotton mills and covered wagons peppered with native American arrows; or questioning inca ... More Lesley Heller Workspace opens group show of young female artists and solo exhibition by Loren Munk NEW YORK, NY.- Lesley Heller Workspace presents the work of Loren Munk, whose paintings exist at the intersection of art and information, and DON’T FENCE ME IN... OR OUT, a group show of young female artists, curated by Lisa Corinne Davis and featuring the work of Katherine Behar, Rachel Budde, Dawn Frasch, Jaeeun Lee, Suko Presseau, Satomi Shirai, Sarah Young and Amanda Valdez. Gallery 1:The cubistic compositions of Loren Munk recall the information-imaging techniques of Edward Tufte, not only in their bright colors and clean lines, but also in the amount of information Munk conveys in each piece. Adding research and documentation to his artistic toolbox gives Munk an edge in dissecting the complex interplay between personality, creativity, ambition and real estate that constitutes the New York art scene. Munk‟s critical intelligence comes into play in his alternate role as a critic and writer. ... MoreDeborah Solon and Alissa Ford join Heritage Auctions' Fine Arts departmentBEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Heritage Auctions has greatly bolstered its expertise in American and California Art by adding two well respected authorities in the field, Deborah Solon and Alissa Ford. Solon will be Heritage's West Coast Director of American Art, while Ford will act as the company's Director of California Art. "With these two significant staff additions Heritage has confirmed its dedication to becoming a major entity in the art business," said Ed Beardsley, Heritage's Vice President of Fine Arts. "Deborah and Alissa are both tops in their respective fields of expertise and encyclopedic in their knowledge." Solon will be working out of Heritage's Beverly Hills offices, while Ford will be stationed in the company's recently opened San Francisco offices. Deborah Solon is a renowned scholar, curator and educator, with an impressive pedigree in American Art and a career that has included positions with leading Art Museums, auctio ... More Leslie Hindman Auctioneers fine art auction realizes 2.7 millionCHICAGO, IL.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneer’s fall auction of Contemporary, Modern, American and European art achieved exceptional prices, realizing over $2.7 million. The highlight of the sale was Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition No. 26 from the estate of John and Valere Butterwick, which sold for $454,000 (est. $300-500,000). Russian buyers competed aggressively for works sold to benefit the acquisition fund of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, with Natalya Nesterova’s The Dragon Flies selling for $23,180 (est. $800-1200). Other contemporary highlights include Victor Vasarely ‘s Photon B which achieved $24,400 (est. $ 8-12,000) and Ibram Lassaw’s Apsaras which achieved $29,280 (est. $12-18,000). The American auction session was headlined by Reginald Marsh’s Spooks, from the collection of Majorie and Charles Benton, which realized $85,400. Bidders fought over two Hudson River School ... More |
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