| Getty Research Institute acquires archive of the historic Knoedler & Company Gallery | | Howard Hughes' around-the-world flight archive on the block at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers | | Arte Primitivo annouces sale of Fine Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art, Classical and Asian Antiquities | 
Portrait of Madame Brunet, about 1860–1863, reworked by 1867. Édouard Manet. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced today the acquisition of the archive of the historic Knoedler & Company Gallery, the premier American art gallery from the mid-19th century through the 20th century. Dating from circa 1850 to 1971, the comprehensive archive is a vast trove of diverse original research materials including letters, telegrams, albums, sales books, stock and consignment books, card files on clients and art works, rare photographs, reference photo archives, and rare books. “This tremendous archive represents a vital chapter in both American and European art history and is an invaluable American cultural resource,” said Thomas Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute. “We look forward to the exceptional research, publications and exhibitions that will no doubt arise from the Getty Research Institute’s ability to make this material available to our own sch ... More | | 
The flight coupled as an extensive marketing campaign for the New York World’s Fair and the progress of aviation science in the US.
CHICAGO, IL.- An important collection of Howard Hughes artifacts will be sold at auction November 7 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, documenting Hughes’ record-setting Around-the-World flight. The collection was compiled by Hughes’ flight operations manager, Al Lodwick, who was responsible for mapping the route, making contact with government officials and airport managers to ensure that Hughes would be allowed to land, and arranging for refueling and repairs as necessary. Following a renewed interest in the early aviation exploits of the notoriously eccentric millionaire, the unprecedented archive is expected to achieve well over $15,000 at auction. Stops were made in Paris, Moscow, Takutsk (Siberia) and Fairbanks, before the return to an homecoming parade in New York. A number of important official documents are included in the collection that were carried by Hughes in-flight, including US Department of Commerce autho- ... More | | 
A fine Red Chinesco Type C proto-Classic figure 250 BCE.
NEW YORK, NY.- Arte Primitivo, a gallery specializing in Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art, Classical, Egyptian and Asian Antiquities in New York City, NY, announced its latest online absentee auction, October 24th-26th, featuring - Fine Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art, Classical and Asian Antiquities - with more than 500 lots of authentic examples from around the world. Arte Primitivo's on-line bidding format allows bidders to register and then place bids at their own pace right up until each auction's unique closing time. All auction lots are authentic, quality, provenanced items, legally acquired and legal to sell. All auction lots can be viewed online at www.arteprimitivo.com or by visiting the gallery now through the sale date. The auction includes many fine classical period ceramics from Mexico, ex. Collection of Emmanuel Kramer, acquired in the 1960s, and exhibited at The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and ... More |
| Sotheby's sale features a selective array of major photographs from vintage to contemporary | | Exhibition of William N. Copley's Patriotic works opens at Paul Kasmin Gallery | | German Expressionism from the Detroit Institute of Arts opens at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 
Diane Arbus, Woman with a Briefcase and Pocketbook, N.Y.C., 1962. Estimation: 40,000 – 50,000 EUR. Photo: Sotheby’s/ArtDigital Studio.
PARIS.- Sotheby’s Photography sale on November 16 will again be held during the Paris Photo fair, and feature a selective array of major photographs from vintage to contemporary. Highlight will be a portfolio of 65 Nudes by 65 different photographers from the famous Magnum Photos agency, which this year celebrates its 65th anniversary, to be sold in aid of the Magnum Heritage Foundation. The sale will also include a number of prestige, vintage silver prints, including portraits by August Sander and Diane Arbus, along with a surrealist composition by Man Ray. Celebrated images by such masters of fashion photography as Peter Lindbergh and Irving Penn will add a touch of elegance and glamour, while the contemporary section comprises works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Izima Kaoru, Candida Höfer and Massimo Vitali. The auction starts with a very rare full-plaque daguerreotype from the 1840s, entitled Pierrefonds (est. €30 ... More | | 
William N. Copley, July 5th, 1982. Acrylic on linen, 77 x 60 1/8 inches, 195.6 x 152.7 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents William N. Copley, The Patriotism of CPLY and All That, on view 18 October - 21 November, 2012 at 293 Tenth Avenue, New York. Referencing the historic exhibition by the same title at Iolas Gallery in 1976, this exhibition of Copley’s Patriotic works is emblematic of the social satire and political humor found throughout the artist’s oeuvre. In the paintings on view, which span over a quarter century of CPLY’s career, the artist marshals the visual language of American patriotism to create riotous works full of wit and colorful pomp. A field of stars and stripes vignette a comely reclining nude, the Washington Monument becomes a bathroom stall tableau for CPLY’s own symbolic scrawls, firecrackers and unlit matches embrace in a kiss. As a painter, writer, gallerist, and publisher, the artist blazed a singular path through numerous territories of ... More | | 
Wassily Kandinsky. Study for Painting with White Form, 1913. Oil on canvas, 39 1/4 x 34 3/4 in.Gift of Mrs. Ferdinand Moeller, Detroit Institute of Arts, 57.234. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
NASHVILLE, TN.- Opening October 19, 2012, German Expressionism from the Detroit Institute of Arts will be on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ Upper-Level Galleries through February 10, 2013. Featuring paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the Detroit Institute of Arts’ distinguished collection of German Expressionist art, the exhibition explores the full breadth of this artistic movement from 1905 to 1950 and includes works by Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Franz Marc and other major masters. One of the major movements in modern art, German Expressionism is known for two groups of painters: Die Brücke (The Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). Die Brücke was founded in Dresden by four young architecture students who ... More |
| Global persuasion: Original mid-century modern posters at International Poster Gallery | | Hand welded stainless steel sculptures by Liao Yibai on view at Mike Weiss Gallery | | Internationally renowned American painter Edward Eugene Boccia dies in Saint Louis | 
David Klein, Hollywood – Fly TWA (Jet), 1960 ca.
BOSTON, MASS.- International Poster Gallery is presenting Global Persuasion: Original Mid-Century Modern Posters, a show and sale of original vintage posters from 1945 – 1965. The Mid-Century poster genre, which has seen a meteoric rise in popularity in recent years, encompasses a broad spectrum of motifs and styles that responded to the technological and cultural developments of the post-World War II world. Included in the exhibition are works by such pioneers of Mid-Century design as Armin Hofmann, Herbert Leupin, Erik Nitsche and David Klein. Global Persuasion runs through November 21, 2012 at International Poster Gallery, 205 Newbury Street in Boston. The end of WWII ushered in a long era of peace and prosperity throughout much of the world despite the rising tensions of the Cold War. Populations exploded across the globe, especially in the U.S., Europe and Australia, and increasingly global corpora ... More | | 
Liao Yibai, Dragon Vase Earth, 2011, Stainless Steel, 38x 23.5 x 23.5. Photo: Courtesy of Mike Weiss Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents MADE IN CHINA, Chinese artist Liao Yibai’s third solo show at the gallery. Inspired by China’s lucrative fake antique industry, twenty plus hand welded stainless steel sculptures displayed on “antiqued” pedestals tell the artist’s version of China’s rich history through three unique series: Fake Antiques, Fake Evidence, and Legends. The title MADE IN CHINA is not only a reference to the origin of the works and the traditional Chinese objets d’art that inspired them, but also to the ubiquitous “MADE IN CHINA” tag which adorns a majority of goods imported into the United States. By producing innovative fakes, Yibai exposes the value of truth. Yibai replicates treasures from the Ming, Qing, Yuan, and other dynasties as he marries ancient forms with pressing contemporary issues in his Fake Antiques. Embellished with playful ... More | | 
Edward Boccia, Photo Portrait
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The internationally renowned American painter Edward Eugene Boccia, died on September 3, 2012, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 91. Boccia, a longtime Professor and Professor Emeritus of Washington University, St. Louis, was a favorite of the well-known American art collector, Morton D. “Buster” May. While Boccia’s early works were Abstract Expressionism, his mature style was “figurative expressionism” depicting Christian and mythical imagery. Boccia is best known for his triptychs —many of which were thematically related to Catholic mysticism. Boccia’s work is found in over six hundred private collections as well as the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis University, University of Missouri St. Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum of Washington University in St. Louis, the Denver Art Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale and the National Gallery ... More |
| Discover the smelliest object in the National Museum of Scotland with new app | | "Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men" exhibition opens at the Museum of London | | Canadian Museum of Civilization changes its name to Canadian Museum of History | 
Clues in the game range from ‘First used in 1564, this grisly device has claimed over 150 lives,’ to ‘Watch out! Its arms may be short, but once it catches you this fearsome beast could crush you whole in its powerful jaws.’
EDINBURGH.- Visitors to the National Museum of Scotland are being challenged to track down its ugliest, fiercest, smelliest and oldest objects in Museum Explorer, a new app launched on iTunes today. The new app encourages visitors to choose a category on their phone and then follow the clues to find the relevant object in the Museum, which could be anywhere across its 36 galleries. The object categories are: Fiercest; Oldest; Smelliest; Ugliest; Fairest; Strongest; Tallest and Bloodiest. Once they have tracked down an object, users will find a unique code to ‘unlock’ a special badge. They will have the chance to share a photo of their discovery on social networks, choosing from a unique set of picture frames. There are eight challenges to solve, with a ninth object unlocked when all the others are found. Hugh Wallace, Head ... More | | 
Wax anatomical head, front view. ® Science Museum, Science and Society Picture Library.
LONDON.- Surgery is a dangerous practice, requiring detailed knowledge of human anatomy. The best tool for learning has always been a real body. But finding enough ‘subjects’ for dissection has never been easy. In the early 19th century, a huge demand for fresh bodies fuelled the gruesome practice of body snatching. Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men explores the murky world of the resurrection men and the ambitious surgeon-anatomist they supplied with fresh corpses. At the heart of the exhibition is an excavation undertaken in 2006 by Museum of London Archaeology which uncovered a forgotten burial ground, in use between 1825¬ and 1841, at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. What they found was both extraordinary and unexpected. The excavation revealed some 262 burials, some containing just one person, but many containing a confusing mix of bones with extensive evidence of dissection, autopsy, a ... More | | 
Canadian Museum of Civilization. Photo: Marie-Louise Deruaz.
GATINEAU.- As announced on October 16 by the Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable James Moore, the Canadian Museum of Civilization will become the Canadian Museum of History. This new Canadian Museum of History will present the national history of Canada and its people. This transition will take place gradually over the next several years to be ready for Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017. The storyline for the Canadian Museum of History will be developed by the Museum’s historians and researchers, in collaboration with renowned historians from across the country. In addition, the Museum will seek input from Canadians across the country on the stories, themes and events that have shaped our country. This allows this museum to sharpen its focus and explore the major themes and seminal events and people that have shaped who we are today. Preserving and presenting our nation’s history is vitally import ... More |
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 Temporary Structures Gorky Park: From Konstantin Melnikov to Shigeru Ban opens at Garage in Moscow MOSCOW.- Garage Center for Contemporary Culture will present a new exhibition entitled Temporary Structures Gorky Park: From Konstantin Melnikov to Shigeru Ban from 19 October to 9 December 2012 in the newly created Shigeru Ban temporary pavilion in Moscow. Showing rare archival drawings - many of which have never been seen before – the exhibition will begin by revealing the profound history of structures created in the park since the site was first developed to hold the All Russian Agricultural and Handicraft Exhibition in 1923; then move through the Russian avant-garde period to finish with some of the most interesting contemporary unrealized designs created by Russian architects today. By their nature, temporary structures have always encouraged indulgent experimentation, which has sometimes resulted in ground-breaking progressive design. This ... More The first sale at Sotheby's France devoted entirely to music totals $4.3 million PARIS.- This exceptional collection, running to nearly 500 lots, brought a total of €3,327,655($4.335.570) to establish the most important sale of printed music for over a century. These remarkable results constitute a vibrant homage to collector André Meyer, who devoted his entire life to music. In the words of Stephen Roe, International Director of Sotheby’s Books & Manuscripts Department: ‘We are very delighted with the results of the sale, which included a number of rarities never seen on the market for 70 years, many of which are not likely to come on the market again.’ Printed manuscripts and scores prompted the highest bidding during the two-day sale. A first edition of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Partitas for Keyboard (1731) opened the first session. Collectors from around the world were swift to pay tribute to one of Bach’s rarest and finest printed scores, of which ... More South African art breaks world record prices at Bonhams in London again LONDON.- A work titled ‘Red Jacket’, an image by Vladimir Griegorovich Tretchikoff (1913-2006) of his muse and one-time lover in Java, made a world record price of £337,250 (R4.7m) at Bonhams, the international auction house, in London yesterday (17.10.12). Before the sale, the painting had been estimated to sell for £50,000 to £80,000. Top price in the sale was a majestic landscape by Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (1886-1957), titled ‘Kransberg, Rustenberg, Transvaal’, which sold for £361,250 (R5m). A pair of sunlit mountain and farm images, titled ‘Cape Farmlands’, made a new world record for a Pierneef work on paper (smashing the previous record, also set at Bonhams in 2008, five times over). The pair, estimated to sell for £70,000 to £100,000, was knocked down for £289,250 (4m). The third world record in this sale was for a work titled ‘The Garden of Eden’ by Stanley F. Pinker ... More Priceless porcelain used as Russian shooting targets comes to Bonhams from brink of destruction LONDON.- An extremely rare Meissen chocolate cup and saucer is one of the key highlights in Bonhams exquisite single owner ceramics sale on 5th December. It is estimated at £25,000 – 35,000 and originally formed part of the stunning Swan service, which was largely smashed to pieces in post-war rampages by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. The service was originally ordered in 1736 by Heinrich Graf von Brühl, the most powerful man in Dresden during the mid 18th Century, and comprised over 2,200 pieces. The exceptional service stayed in the family for over two centuries until it fell to violent destruction at the end of the war. A staggering 50 percent of the service was destroyed or stolen and it is thought that many pieces were shattered by the Red Army, who threw the priceless plates and saucers high into the air to be used as clay pigeon ... More Getty Research Institute announces gift of rare 18th and 19th century prints LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced the acquisition of European prints from the 18th and 19th centuries, including works by James Ensor (Belgian 1860-1949) and Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (French, 1736-1810). These prints are a gift from an anonymous collector. “Prints are a significant collecting priority for us and we are grateful for this exciting gift, which strengthens our holdings of Ensor prints and adds a robust representation of works by Boissieu,” said Marcia Reed, chief curator of special collections at the Getty Research Institute. Three hand-colored etchings by James Ensor are exceptional examples of his work from the 1890s, when his creativity reached its apex. Two of the three prints take inspiration from stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Each print contains the eerie imagery for which Ensor is known—skeletons, masks and throngs of swelling crowds. These ... More Seamus Moran exhibition opens at the Royal Cornwall Museum TRURO.- When sculptor Seamus Moran goes into his local wood he is not looking for traditional sources of inspiration amongst the flora and fauna. Instead he is on the hunt for knots from dead trees from which he makes moulds – casting them in a mix of resin and iron and joining them together to create compelling works of art. Seamus’s highly imaginative sculptures are on show in a new exhibition that has just opened at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. With names like ‘If swallowed seek medical attention’, ‘Ship of Bones 2012’ and ‘Untempted by Heaven’, they demand attention and are, at times, quite unsettling. One, entitled ‘The Death of Me’, is the image of a skull which Seamus says is a self-portrait, representing what his head feels like as he prepares for an exhibition – so full of ideas that it feels as if they’re bursting out of his brain. Se ... More Contemporary Indonesian Art: Jompet Kuswidananto & Eko Nugroho at the National Gallery of Victoria MELBOURNE.- This October, the National Gallery of Victoria has been transformed by two contemporary artists from Yogyakarta’s vibrant art scene, Jompet Kuswidananto and Eko Nugroho. RALLY: Contemporary Indonesian Art – Jompet Kuswidananto & Eko Nugroho presents two perspectives on modern Indonesia through the works of Kuswidananto; a sound, installation, and video artist, and Nugroho; whose colourful murals, paintings and embroideries spill across the floor, walls and ceilings of the NGV. Tony Ellwood, NGV Director, said contemporary Southeast Asian artists have come to international prominence over the past decade. “This is a unique opportunity to discover contemporary Indonesian art in Melbourne through the works of Kuswidananto and Nugroho, two acclaimed members of Indonesia’s new generation of artists.” Both artists exhibit in the contemporary art space on ... More |
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