| French record for René Magritte with the sale of "La Grande Table" for $6.6 million | | Städel Museum acquires Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior. Strandgade 30 (1901) | | ICE returns stolen and looted archeological art and antiquities to Mexico | 
René Magritte, La Grande Table. Huile sur toile, 54,3x65,4 cm. Peint vers 1962-63. Estimate: 3-5 M€. Photo: Sotheby’s/ArtDigital Studio.
PARIS.- The sale of the Zaira & Marsel Mis Collection at Sotheby’s France attracted a packed saleroom, with 30 phone lines a-crackle with bids from around the world. Oliver Barker, Deputy Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and the renowned director of Sotheby’s contemporary art sales in London, was wielding the gavel in Paris for the first time. Thomas Bompard, Head of the Impressionist & Modern Art Department at Sotheby’s France, declared afterwards that ‘We are naturally delighted that Zaira and Marsel Mis were so handsomely rewarded for assembling such a strong and bold collection – and for their confidence in the ability of Sotheby’s France to make this sale the biggest event of the Paris Autumn season. We are also indebted to Stefano Moreni and Monique Brehier for bringing to Paris a sale that will long remain in people’s hearts and memories.’ To Stefano Moreni, Head of Contemp ... More | | 
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior. Strandgade 30, 1901. Oil on canvas, 66 × 55 cm. Acquired in 2012. Property of Städelscher Museums-Vereins e. V. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum has received an essential addition to its collection of modern art: the Städelscher Museums-Verein was able to purchase the painting Interior. Strandgade 30 (1901) by Vilhelm Hammershøi (Copenhagen 1864–1916 Copenhagen) from an English private collector for the museum. Hammershøi’s pictures of interiors from those years have never ceased to be regarded as trademark works of the Danish painter. Already one of the most celebrated artists of Europe in his time, Hammershøi continues to be seen as an outstanding artist of his era today, as various recent exhibitions – such as those in the Musée d’Orsay (Paris), the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Royal Academy (London), or, the last in the series, the Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich) – evidence. ... More | | 
The items were recovered in 11 separate investigations by special agents of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations.
EL PASO, TX.- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement returned more than 4,000 pieces of stolen and looted cultural artifacts to the government of Mexico at a repatriation ceremony today at the Consulate of Mexico in El Paso, Texas. The items were recovered in 11 separate investigations by special agents of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Douglas, Ariz.; San Diego, Calif.; Chicago; Kalispell, Mont.; Alpine, Del Rio and Laredo, Texas; and one in Mexico City, in coordination with Mexican law enforcement agencies. Among the archeological pieces returned to the people of Mexico are the following: five pre-Columbian statues, more than 4,000 pre-Columbian artifacts and 26 pieces of pre-Columbian pottery that date back more than 1,500 years. The return of this cultural property is the culmination of HSI undercover and sting operations with assistance ... More |
| Exquisite Symbolist painting leads 19th Century European Art Auction at Christie's | | Soundtrack to history: 1878 Edison audio unveiled at the Museum of Innovation and Science | | Germany opens long-awaited memorial to the Gypsies who were killed by the Nazis | 
Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), Helene Glorifiée. Watercolour and gouache on paper, 30.5 × 23.2 cm. Estimate: ￡300,000–500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- Christie’s announced the sale of 19th Century European Art on 21 November 2012. The auction is led by two contemporaneous yet utterly different strands of European symbolism. Vilhelm Hammershøi’s celebrated interiors of his home in Copenhagen, such as the portrait of his wife Ida (estimate: £500,000-700,000), have their roots in 17th century Dutch painting, but are profoundly modern paintings. Gustave Moreau’s Hélène Glorifiée, by contrast, draws on a subject from Greek mythology to conflate into a single ravishing image the artist’s eclectic ideas on womanhood and the feminine ideal (estimate:£300,000-500,000). The sale is further highlighted by works from the Orientalist, Barbizon and Belle Époque movements. The entire sale is expected to realize in excess of £5 million. ... More | | 
Thomas Edison's 1878 tinfoil phonograph. AP Photo/Mike Groll.
By: Chris Carola, Associated Press
SHENECTADY (AP).- It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance, thanks to digital advances that allowed the sound to be transferred from flimsy tinfoil to computer. The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878. At a time when music lovers can carry thousands of digital songs on a player the size of a pack of gum, Edison's tinfoil playback seems prehistoric. But that dinosaur opens a key window into the development of recorded sound. "In the history of recorded sound that's still playable, this is about as far back as we can go," said John Schneiter, a trustee at the Museum of Innovation and Science ... More | | 
People attend the inauguration ceremony at the memorial to the murdered European Sinti and Roma who were persecuted as 'Gypsies' in Berlin. AP Photo/Markus Schreiber.
By: Geir Moulson, Associated Press
BERLIN.- Germany opened a long-awaited memorial Wednesday to the hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, or Roma, who were killed by the Nazis in what one survivor called "the forgotten Holocaust" — and pledged to fight the discrimination the minority still faces in Europe today. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck inaugurated the memorial at an official ceremony in Berlin's Tiergarten park. Designed by Israeli artist Dani Karavan, it features a water-filled basin with a retractable, triangle-shaped column at its center that will be topped by a fresh flower every day. Panels detailing the Nazis' persecution of the minority surround the memorial, which is located across the road from the Reichstag, Germany's ... More |
| New body of work by British artist Bruce French opens at Scream in London | | New Museum opens major exhibition devoted to German artist Rosemarie Trockel | | German artist Max Neumann's first solo exhibition in New York opens at Bruce Silverstein | 
Bruce French, Still, 2012. Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 133.5 cm (64.4 x 52.6").
LONDON.- Scream presents the fourth solo exhibition at the gallery by British artist Bruce French. In this new body of work French’s painting has evolved and is imbued with a sense of emotional tension and ambiguity. French’s compositions have a static, enveloping quality that is contrasted with the fluid lines of the figures and their physicality. By stripping away distinguishing features, Bruce creates elemental, linear images that have a universal resonance and emotive appeal. Drawn from life, French’s observations manifest into faceless, figurative forms, emotionally charged, androgynous and anonymous. The graphic aesthetic is reminiscent of Gary Hume’s minimalist works from the 1990s. French’s paintings are a pictorial record of the human condition. French states, “The images are not necessarily about a particular person but are about enabling an emotive empathy – an instinctive hum ... More | | 
Rosemarie Trockel, Shutter 1 (a), 2006. Glazed ceramic, 32 3/4 x 24 3/8 x 2 3/4 in. Courtesy Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London, and Gladstone Gallery, New York/Brussels. © Rosemarie Trockel / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum presents “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos.” Organized by Rosemarie Trockel and Lynne Cooke for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, this exhibition—encompassing all three main gallery floors of the Museum—presents a world shaped by Trockel’s ideas and affinities. The exhibition conjures an imaginary universe in which Trockel’s own artwork shares space with objects and artifacts, spanning different eras and cultures, that map her artistic interests. “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” is on view at the New Museum from October 24, 2012–January 20, 2013. The Museum’s presentation of the exhibition has been curated by Lynne Cooke, former Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in collaboration with Rosemarie Trockel. ... More | | 
Max Neumann, Untitled, October 18, 2011. Oil on photograph, 8 3/16 x 6 5/16 (21.6 x 17.6 cm). Photo: Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein presents the gallery’s first show of the German artist Max Neumann. Neumann (b.1949) has exhibited extensively abroad over the past thirty years, but this marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. Featuring new large-scale paintings as well as a selection of over-painted found photographs, this show presents a rare opportunity to see an extensive group of works by an artist who has been the subject of over 150 solo exhibitions since the mid 1970s. Neumann, a painter, has constructed a visual vocabulary borne from varied and innumerable sources, including picture magazines, newspapers, and other media. His work draws from memory—dreamlike fragmented recollections reduced to the outline, shape and shadow of the original. While he concentrates primarily on the subject / form of the human figure, his paintings of heads and ... More |
| Auschwitz prisoner and photographer Wilhelm Brasse dies at 95 in southern Poland | | Dan Perjovschi's wit and sociopolitical critique in new exhibition at Lombard Freid | | "1934: A New Deal for Artists" exhibition opens at the New York State Museum in Albany | 
In this Jan. 31, 2006 photo Wilhelm Brasse speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Zywiec, Poland. AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski.
By: Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
WARSAW (AP).- The images are haunting: naked and emaciated children at Auschwitz standing shoulder-to-shoulder, adult prisoners in striped garb posing for police-style mug shots. One of several photographers to capture such images, Wilhelm Brasse, has died at the age of 95. A Polish photographer who was arrested and sent to Auschwitz early in World War II, he was put to work documenting his fellow prisoners, an emotionally devastating task that tormented him long after his liberation. Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum, said that Brasse died on Tuesday in Zywiec, a town in southern Poland. Brasse, who was born in 1917 and was not Jewish, was sent to Auschwitz at 22 as a political prisoner for trying to sneak out of German ... More | | 
Dan Perjovschi, detail of War Collages, 2003. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lombard Freid Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lombard Freid presents Exit Strategy, Dan Perjovschi’s third solo show with the gallery. Perjovschi is known internationally for his unique blend of wit and sociopolitical critique, and for this exhibition, Perjovschi targets the upcoming American presidential election. Having collected months worth of newspapers, Perjovschi’s interest in American and world politics has informed his recent work, a series of interventions directly on the papers. Perjovschi has simultaneously used these pages as intellectual sources for his drawings and as the physical ground on which they were created, investigating the relationship between the media, the public, and the artist himself. As he is known to do, Perjovschi has created many of the drawings on site, responding directly to his immediate physical and social environment. The show illuminates the artist’s continued critical engagement with world politi ... More | | 
Lily Furedi, Subway, 1934 (detail). Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
ALBANY, NY.- A new exhibition -- 1934: A New Deal for Artists -- opened at the New York State Museum on October 19 showcasing paintings created against the backdrop of the Great Depression with the support of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first federal government program to support the arts nationally. Open until Jan. 20, 2013 in West Gallery, 1934: A New Deal for Artists is organized and circulated by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with support from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowment Fund and the Smithsonian Council for American Art. The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the Museum's traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go. During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised a "new deal for the American people," initiating government programs to foster economic recovery. ... More |
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 Third solo exhibition with Joseph Smolinski opens at Mixed Greens NEW YORK, NY.- Mixed Greens is presenting their third solo exhibition with Joseph Smolinski. Night for Day uses drawing and sculpture to explore subtle shifts of light, time, space, and climate in an effort to pose questions regarding the natural order. Smolinski’s drawings are markedly larger, his subject more expansive, and his craftsmanship exquisitely honed. When researching for this exhibition, Smolinski was inspired by Albrect Dürer’s engraving, Melencolia I, from 1514. The finely detailed image presents a composition cluttered with the tools of technology—a compass, magic square, scale, and hourglass—while atmospheric and celestial phenomena illuminate the background. It is theorized that the title alludes to a belief in an artist’s imagination dominating over mind and reason. In Smolinski’s work, technology is also composed in juxtaposition to atmospheric and celestial ... More Property from the Estate of San Francisco socialite John Traina on offer at Bonhams SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Period Art & Design auction at Bonhams, November 18, will present Property from the Estate of John A. Traina Jr. Mr. Traina was a well-known businessman, entrepreneur, collector and bon vivant who was renowned for his impeccable style and limitless charm. As a serious collector of fine art, antiques, designer decor, natural curiosities and objet d'art, he curated a collection that was the epitome of worldly elegance and San Francisco chic. Special highlights from the Estate will include a pair of fourth-quarter 20th century Neoclassical style gilt-bronze-mounted rock crystal obelisks (est. $1,800-2,500); two faux narwhal tusks on stands, attributed to Tony Duquette (est. $1,600-2,500); a 20th century contemporary Baroque style giltwood and parcel ebonized side table (est. $1,000-1,500); and a pair of giltwood masks of Kannon (est. $1,000-1,500). Property ... More Swann Galleries' Rare & Important Travel Posters Sale announced NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, November 8 Swann Galleries will conduct their annual auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters, which offers some of the finest examples of travel images from around the world. A dazzling assortment of French Art Deco posters features a run of works by A.M. Cassandre, among them the iconic Nord Express, 1927, his graphic glorification of the machine age ($15,000 to $20,000); L.M.S. Best Way, 1928, made for the British railway, but likely not used commercially, as only 50 copies were printed ($70,000 to $100,000); and his masterful Côte d’Azur, 1931, the last image from his “chimney series” of ocean liner posters focusing on individual design components of the ship—in this case the funnel—before he began depicting ships as a whole ($15,000 to $20,000). There’s also Jean Carlu’s Grandes Fêtes de Paris, 1934, a horizontal-format image with a softer ... More Ricardo O'Nascimento & Ebru Kurbak present "Feather Tales II" at LABoral GIJON.- Feather Tales II is a responsive environment that arose from an imaginary scenario in which a secretive dialogue between electromagnetic waves and their material surroundings become vaguely visible, thus captivating. The columns in the exhibition space that are covered with feathers become hypersensitive to waves emitted by mobile communication devices. Whenever electronic signals haunt the space the surfaces start to show involuntary reactions. These reactions are presented in the form of horripilation, the involuntary erection of feathers also known as ‘goose bumps’. Goose bumps are physiological phenomena that can occur in animals in a variety of emotional states, such as irritation, fear, admiration, and sexual desire. Thus, in Feather Tales the existence of a secret dialogue becomes visible to the visitors, whereas the causing emotions remain unknown. The ... More The Andy Warhol Museum announces the appointment of Kilolo Luckett as Director of Development PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum has appointed Kilolo Luckett as the museum’s new Director of Development. Luckett comes to The Warhol from her most recent post at Designate, a project management and fundraising consulting services company for artists and nonprofits, where she served as president. Luckett will begin her new position at The Warhol on October 15, 2012. Luckett has worked with The Warhol as project consultant for the museum’s Homewood Artist Residency program at Westinghouse High School. Her past clients include The Kingsley Association, East End Partnership, and the Pittsburgh Micro-Loan Fund. As a project consultant for The Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation in 2001-2002, Luckett researched and assessed Pittsburgh’s artists and small- to mid-sized arts organizations. She is an advocate for social and education ... More Scottish archive and library of legendary big game hunter makes £652,088 at Bonhams LONDON.- The archive and library of the legendary Scottish big game hunter, Richard Cuninghame, was sold on 24th October 2012 by Bonhams in Edinburgh as part of the contents of Hensol, an historic Category A listed mansion nestling in the beautiful surroundings of Mossdale, Castle Douglas. Miranda Grant, Managing Director of Bonhams said, “Hensol was a treasure trove. It had wonderful objects reflecting the different tastes and interests of its occupants and giving a real sense of how life was lived in a large country house over the past 200 years. It was an honour to have been entrusted with this sale.” Top lot in the sale was a very rare Roman banded alabaster trapezophoros terminal dating from the Third Century A.D. This was found in the cellar as Hensol by a Bonhams valuer. The owners of Hensol had thought it was a piece of broken garden statuary but Grant Macdougall ... More The Whitney announces $1 million grant from the Keith Haring Foundation NEW YORK, NY.- Adam D. Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced today that the Whitney has received a $1 million endowment grant from the Keith Haring Foundation specifically intended to support exhibitions in the Museum’s downtown building, opening in 2015. Designed by Renzo Piano, the building is currently under construction in the Meatpacking District. The building will enable the Whitney to increase the size and scope of its exhibitions and programming and to showcase, to a far greater extent than previously possible, the Museum’s noted collection. “This wonderfully generous grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the first we have received from an artist’s foundation to support exhibitions in our new building, helps to propel us forward as we prepare for our future,” said Mr. Weinberg. “Keith Haring was an ... More |
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