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Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City designed by Pedro Ramirez Vazquez. Photo: Hector Montano/INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- The National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) awarded architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, creator of the National School of Medicine, UNAM, the Estadio Azteca, the Basilica of Guadalupe, the Museum of Anthropology and History, the Museum of Modern Art and the Legislative Palace of San Lázaro, the Fine Arts Medal. "It is an honor to have work designed by architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez," such as the International Business Center and Convention Chetumal", which" stands as a symbol of the development of Quintana Roo," said the Governor of Yucatan, Roberto Borge Angulo. ... More |
| Alberto Giacometti, a retrospective exhibition opens at the Museo Picasso in Malaga | | Renoir's Le Bouquet expected to bring $500,000 in Heritage Auctions' American & European Fine Art event | | Museum unconvinced by new Van Gogh death theory by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith | 
Alberto Giacometti, Caroline llorando, 1962. Óleo sobre lienzo, 100 x 73 cm. Collection Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris © Fondation Giacometti, Paris / Succession Giacometti, VEGAP / ADAGP Paris, 2011.
MALAGA.- The Museo Picasso Málaga presents Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective, an exhibition that precisely reflects the different stages in the career of one of the outstanding artists of the last century. Giacometti’s work is crucial to understanding the development of the avant-gardes and the subsequent evolution of contemporary art, while as an artist he nevertheless defies classification. This project challenges the conventional reductionist view of Giacometti’s oeuvre. This is the first Alberto Giacometti retrospective to be held in Spain in more than 20 years, and it will bring together 198 artworks in the Palacio de Buenavista. The 20 photographs and 166 of the other works are from the collections of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, in Paris, created by the artist's widow. The show is completed ... More | | 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Bouquet, 1910. Oil on canvas, 17 x 12-1/2 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Pierre Auguste Renoir's exuberant oil painting, Le Bouquet, 1910, is expected to bring $500,000+ as the top lot in Heritage Auctions' American & European Art Signature® Art Auction, being held Nov. 8 at the company's Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. Le Bouquet, 1910, comes to auction from the family of famed Texas artist Lucien Abrams, who acquired it in September 1933 from Renoir's dealer, Durand-Ruel, in New York, who obtained it directly from the artist's family. The still life has been in continuous family ownership to this day and is in an outstanding state of preservation. "This auction represents one of the most select groups of American & European art that we've ever featured," said Ed Beardsley, Managing Director of Fine Arts at Heritage. "Led by the beautiful Renoir, this auction is drawn from many private collections throughout the United States and from several abroad as well. The range ... More | | 
A self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh dated 1887. AP Photo/Van Gogh Museum.
By: Arthur Max, Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP).- Two American authors believe Vincent van Gogh was fatally shot by two teenagers and did not die from self-inflicted wounds, but the new theory won a skeptical reception Monday from experts at the museum dedicated to the 19th century Dutch master. A book by Pulitzer prize-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, "Van Gogh, The Life," concludes that Van Gogh, who suffered chronic depression, claimed on his deathbed to have shot himself to protect the boys. "Covering up his own murder," said Naifeh in an interview broadcast Sunday on the U.S. network CBS's "60 Minutes." Leo Jansen, curator of the Van Gogh Museum and editor of the artist's letters, said the biography is a "great book," but experts have doubts about the authors' theory of his death in 1890. "We ... More |
| Sotheby's in London to offer exceptional fine Chinese ceramics and works of art | | Christie's in London announces sale of early Paul McCartney letter offering drummer tryout | | Restored citadel, dating back to the days of Alexander the Great, is symbol of hope in Afghanistan | 
An extraordinary large Doucai ‘Lotus and Bats’ jar and cover of Qianlong mark and period. Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London will present for sale an exceptional range of Imperial porcelain, monochrome ceramics, bronzes and jades in its biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on Wednesday, 9th November 2011. The auction will comprise 560 lots, estimated to realise in the region of £12 million. Highlights include a superb gilt-bronze and cloisonné enamel tiger waterpot of Qianlong mark and period from the collection of Sir Peter Moores at Parbold Hall in Lancashire and a magnificent group of Qing dynasty monochrome porcelains from the renowned collection of Richard Fairfax William Cartwright at Aynhoe Park near Banbury. Stephen Loakes, Sotheby‟s Senior Specialist in Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art said: “This promises to be one of our most exciting London sales - offering objects of the highest quality and rarity. This season we are honoured to present works from two of Britain’s greatest c ... More | | 
A Christie's employee displays a letter inviting an unknown drummer to audition for The Beatles. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth.
By: Gregory Katz, Associated Press
LONDON.- Somewhere, an aging drummer (identity unknown) is probably still kicking himself. A newly discovered letter found folded in a book at a Liverpool yard sale has shed new light on the Beatles' early days, revealing that Paul McCartney offered an audition to a mystery drummer in 1960, just a few days before the band left for a formative two-month gig in Hamburg, Germany. The letter, to be auctioned next month by Christie's, has surprised Beatles scholars. It was written two years before the band bounced drummer Pete Best in favor of Ringo Starr, who arrived just in time to help the Beatles' conquer first England and then the world, earning untold millions along the way. The Aug. 12, 1960 letter handwritten by McCartney offers an audition to someone who had advertised their availability in the ... More | | 
The Qala Iktyaruddin Citadel is seen in Herat, Afghanistan. AP Photo/Houshang Hashimi.
By: Deb Riechmann, Associated Press
HERAT (AP).- In the 1970s, tourists traveled to western Afghanistan to climb on the ruins of an ancient citadel, a fortress resembling a sandcastle that has stood overlooking the city of Herat for thousands of years. The citadel was crumbling then, but today the newly restored structure, dating back to the days of Alexander the Great, is a hopeful sign of progress in a country beset by war. Hundreds of Afghan craftsmen worked to restore the ruins' past glory with help from the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and about $2.4 million from the U.S. and German governments. The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, was among the tourists drawn to Herat decades ago, and on Sunday he celebrated the citadel's restoration and the opening of a new museum of Afghan artifacts at the site. "Until 35 years ago, tourists from around the world came here to ... More |
| The most important pair of Russian vases to appear on the market this Autumn | | New York City High Line inspires Philadelphia to redevelop Reading Viaduct | | Antik A.S. to offer an exceptional auction of modern and contemporary Turkish art | 
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas I, 1835 and 1836 54 in. (137.2 cm.) high, including plinth £1,700,000-2,200,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- A magnificent and important pair of porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain Factory will highlight this autumn’s Russian Art Week in London (estimate: £1,700,000-2,200,000). In their 28 November Russian Art Sale, Christie's will offer perhaps the finest and grandest pair of Russian porcelain vases to appear at auction in recent memory. Over the years, Christie's have been entrusted with the sale of numerous important pairs of Russian vases and have achieved the highest price ever paid at auction for a pair of Russian porcelain vases in 2006. These magnificent vases were presented by Emperor Nicholas I to Karl Ludwig Graf von Ficquelmont (1777-1857), who served as the Austrian Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Russian court from 1829-1839. Graf von Ficquelmont was one of Chancellor ... More | | 
People tour a Reading Railroad Viaduct no longer in use in Philadelphia. AP Photo/Alex Brandon.
By: Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- In a post-industrial neighborhood that inspired one of the strangest movies put to celluloid, a plan is afoot to transform its gloomiest ruin into a walkable elevated oasis. City officials and neighborhood supporters are preparing designs and raising money to clean and green a three-block branch of the mile-long Reading Viaduct, an abandoned railway that moved commuters and goods from 1893 to 1984, in an area nicknamed "the eraserhood." The tongue-in-cheek compliment is a reference to the 1977 film "Eraserhead," whose creator, David Lynch, lived within the grim patchwork of crumbling factories and vacant warehouses as an art student in the 1960s and called it his muse for the movie's bleak and bizarre urban wasteland. Over the ensuing decades, empty buildings have been ... More | | 
An Antik A.S.'s employee poses with Fahrel Nissa Zeid’s “The Pianist”.
ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S., the leading auction house in Turkey, will offer exceptional paintings by the most important Modern & Contemporary Turkish Artists. The auction will take place on October 22, 2011 at the Swissotel the Bosphorus and will present selected 175 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. galleries until 22nd of October. One of the highlights being offered in the sale is titled “The Pianist”, a large spectacular canvas by Fahrel Nissa Zeid (1901-1991) one of the most important Turkish artists whose 3 paintings had fetched over 1,000,000 USD in Antik A.S. auction and Sotheby’s auctions. The artist’s museum quality canvas in upcoming auction has a 300,000 USD auction starting price. Also an untitled abstract by Zeid fomr 1949, one of the rarest and most important work by the artist ever to appear at au ... More |
| An old carousel's by the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the happiest little spots in New York City | | Sotheby's to sell the first-ever work to come to auction by the greatest artist who never lived: Nat Tate | | Art historian Philipp Demandt becomes new head of the Old National Gallery in Berlin | 
Jane's Carousel is shown in Brooklyn, N.Y. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan.
By: Meghan Barr, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- In the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, strains of old-fashioned music from an organ float over the river, mingling with the sound of children's laughter. It's coming from one of the happiest little spots in New York City: Jane's Carousel, a twinkling antique jewel that spins in a see-through pavilion on the banks of the East River. One afternoon in early autumn, just about everybody seemed enthralled by the rise and fall of the 48 hand-carved wooden horses as they rode in circles over and over in Brooklyn Bridge Park. It was mostly young children emerging from naptime with their mothers, but even some hipsters in skinny jeans and Ray-Ban Wayfarers decided to stop and take a ride, hanging their heads back and grinning as they went. "I think the lights, the music, the horses, it just brings out ... More | | 
Nat Tate’s (1928-1960), Bridge No.114 (detail). Estimate: £3,000-5,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's, announces the sale of the first work by abstract expressionist post-war artist Nat Tate ever to appear at auction as part of the forthcoming Modern & Post-War British Art Sale, on Wednesday 16th November 2011. The drawing, estimated at £3,000-5,000*, is one of only 18 works by the artist remaining in existence. The drawing will be publicly exhibited for the first time prior to the auction, and proceeds from the sale will benefit the Artist’s Benevolent Institution. Memorably, in 1998 it was revealed that the art of a good hoax might very well be the hoax of good art, and that Nat Tate was in fact a fictitious figure created by bestselling British author William Boyd in his biography Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960. Grounded in vintage photographs of the unknown (picked up at various junk shops and car boot sales), fake New York galleries with real addresses and a group ... More | | 
Philipp Demandt was chosen for the job due to the combination of his proven expertise in 19th century art and his extensive practical experience in modern cultural management. © Photo: Oliver Mark.
BERLIN.- The art historian Philipp Demandt will be taking charge of the Old National Gallery at the beginning of next year. Born in 1971, Philipp Demandt studied art history, classical archaeology and media studies, gaining his doctorate in 2001 at the Freie Universität's Institute of Historical and Cultural Sciences, here in Berlin, with a thesis on the portraits of the Prussian Queen Luise by Johann Gottfried Schadow and Christian Daniel Rauch. His thesis examined the history of their making and subsequent impact, and the mythology of the Prussian state as reflected in the cult of Queen Luise. After serving as an exhibition assistant in the Bröhan Museum in 2002, in 2004 Demandt was made departmental head at the Kulturstiftung der Länder, a foundation of the arts, financed by the various states in Germany. One ... More |
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 "The Mayor" an everyday office photographed by Dana Lixenberg at the Rijksmuseum AMSTERDAM.- For this year’s Document Nederland, the photo-documentary produced annually by the Rijksmuseum and the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, Dana Lixenberg travelled for a year across the Netherlands to create a portrait of the office of mayor. She met and portrayed male and female mayors in 22 different municipalities in all of the Dutch provinces – going from Amsterdam to Zeewolde, and from Ferwerderadeel to Kerkrade. There are 418 mayors in the Netherlands. We see them wearing their chain of office on the Queen’s Birthday or talking to the press when disaster strikes. But what does the mayor’s job look like on an average working day? Using a large format camera, Lixenberg highlights the unspectacular and sets the everyday of the civil service against a characteristic Dutch backdrop. Featuring a selection of 55 photographs, the exhibition presents a crosssection of ... More South African 'Struggle Art' on display alongside works for auction by leading SA artists LONDON.- IFA LETHU Foundation, the non-profit organisation set up to repatriate South African apartheid era `Struggle Art’, has joined with Bonhams to showcase some of the most poignant art produced by anti-apartheid activist artists. From October 22-27 some 15 selected works from the Ifa Lethu Foundation ‘Coming Home’ exhibition in London will move to Bonhams to coincide with the auction house’s South African Art sale on October 25th and 26th. ‘Coming Home’ will be a non- selling exhibition. Bonhams is the world’s leading auctioneer of South African Art and hold the world record for South African art, set with a picture by Irma Stern, ’Arab Priest’ which sold in March this year for £3m. The Bonhams sale on October 25 and 26 will once again offer a stunning array of the very best South African art including a number of masterworks, each expected to make figures in excess of £1m. Th ... More Tiancheng International presents a special theme sale on modern and contemporary Asian art HONG KONG.-Tiancheng International presents ‘Contemporary Literati’, a special theme sale on modern and contemporary Asian art, on 28th November at Tiancheng International’s inaugural auction. Auction will be held at Tiancheng International’s office at 30/F of Bank of China Tower, Central, Hong Kong. Prior to the auction, highlights of the sale will be exhibited in Shanghai, Beijing, Xiamen and Taipei and Hong Kong. ‘Literati’ refers to ancient Oriental scholars and intellectuals who saw various forms of creative expressions as a way of life. The current theme sale of ‘Contemporary Literati’ comprises of works by contemporary artists who express the spirit and value of the ancient literati by modern mediums such as photography, sculpture, video, oil or mixed media, as well as artists who express contemporary subject matters by traditional too ... More Important Silver and Objects of Vertu to be sold at Christie's October 21 NEW YORK.- On October 21, Christie’s Important Silver and Objects of Vertu sale will present 218 precious works in silver and gold by well-known craftsmen such as Paul Storr, Mario Buccellati and many others. Highlighting the sale is an extraordinary Swiss gold, enamel and pearl-set singing-bird box with a rare double watch movement, Geneva, circa 1813 (estimate: $100,000 – 150,000). A gorgeous union between Frères Rochat, Swiss watch maker, and the exquiste craftsmanship by George Rémond, gold box maker, and Piguet & Capt, retailer, this singing bird box epitomizes the creativity of watch makers in Europe to satisfy the ever-growing demands by European, Middle Eastern, and Asian clientele in the early 19th century. The box cover and watch dials are delicately set with pearl laden borders and illustrates a scene of a mother and child with the father looking on. In addition, the bird sings four musical ... More 'The Study of Kabakov' exhibition opens at Edelman Arts NEW YORK, N.Y.- Ilya Kabakov is recognized as the most important Russian artist to have emerged in the late 20th century. His work speaks as much about conditions in post-Stalinist Russia as they do about the human condition universally. Edelman Arts announces The Study of Kabakov, a survey of works on paper from 1960 –1985 by Ilya Kabakov, renowned for his large-scale public installations with his partner Emilia Kabakov. The exhibition marks the first time that these foundational works have been exhibited in the United States and provides insight into both the artist’s sense of humor, profundity and purpose. Three albums from the 10 Characters series and a comprehensive reference library will allow for an in-depth study of Kabakov’s complex conceptual world. The exhibition opens Tuesday, October 18th and runs through December 23rd. “Drawings are the entryway into the Kabakov world. They lay the foun ... More Oklahoma Capitol crumbles with no repair money OKLAHOMA CITY (AP).- The state Capitol has been a symbol of Oklahoma's history and aspirations since it opened in 1917. The halls of the limestone and granite edifice were lined with the portraits of famous residents, including humorist Will Rogers, Olympic champion Jim Thorpe and Soquoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary. The building sat on an oilfield with dozens of working rigs that represented the state's hopes for prosperity. But 94 years later, the building reflects Oklahoma's problems, especially its fiscal hardship. The stately structure is beginning to crumble. Yellow barriers have been erected to prevent visitors from climbing the steps of the Capitol's south portico because mortar and pieces of limestone are falling from slabs overhead. An engineering analysis found mortar between the massive limestone panels was disintegrating, and the metal clips holding the panels have apparently corroded. Repairs ... More |
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