| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | LONDON.- A sculpture ?Piggies? by US artist Paul McCarthy is seen on display at the auction house in London, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. The sculpture is to be auctioned in Post-war and Contemporary Art sale on Oct. 11 and 12 wand is expected to realise 600,000 to 800,000 pounds (US$971,034 to 1,294,712 or euro746,376 to 995,167). AP Photo/Sang Tan. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Sotheby's to offer Property from the Estate of Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos | | Archaeologists find queen tomb in Guatemala; could redefine the understanding of women's roles | | Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Sale to be led by a masterpiece from Pablo Picasso's greatest series | 
Francis Bacon, Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne. Titled and dated 1967 on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 14 x 12 in (35.5 x 30.5 cm). Est. $9/12 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of eleven works from the estate of Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos in a series of auctions to be held from November 2012 through March 2013 in both New York and London. Highlights on offer from the legendary collection will include: Francis Bacon’s Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne, to be sold in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 13 November 2012 in New York; Portrait of Mariano Goya by Francisco de Goya, which will lead the New York auction of Important Old Master Paintings on 31 January 2013; and a group of seven paintings, sculpture and works on paper by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore and others that will highlight the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 5 November 2012 in New York. Works will be exhibited in Hong Kong, London and Doha this month, before returning to New York in November, ... More | | 
An archeologist shows an artifact found in a burial chamber at the El Peru-Waka archaeological site. AP Photo/El Peru-Waka' Archaeological Project.
By: Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY (AP).- The discovery of a tomb that experts believe might be that of a great Maya queen could redefine the understanding of women's political roles during the Classic Maya period, experts said Thursday. A team of U.S. and Guatemalan experts led by anthropologist David Freidel found a stone jar at a burial chamber in northern Guatemala that led them to believe it is the burial site of Lady K'abel, considered the military governor of an ancient Maya city during the 7th century. "Lady K'abel was buried 11 meters down from the surface in a temple near a stairway," Freidel said. "K'abel was not a regular person. To put her in that location means that it was important; it means that people continued to worship her after the fall of the dynasty." The team working in the royal Maya city of El Peru-Waka ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Nature morte aux tulipes. Painted in March 1932. Estimate: $35/50 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 5 November 2012 in New York will be led by an exceptional example of Pablo Picasso’s seminal images of Marie-Thérèse Walter. Painted in March 1932, the year that is recognized as the pinnacle of Picasso’s near-century long production, Nature morte aux tulipes is one of the artist’s most powerful representations of his iconic muse. The work is a synthesis of the two main media – painting and sculpture – that Picasso utilized in depicting his young lover, in which he transforms her image into a divine object of adoration. Nature morte aux tulipes carries a pre-sale estimate of $35/50 million*, and is on view in Hong Kong from 4 – 7 October and in London from 10 – 16 October before returning to New York for exhibition beginning 1 November. “We are honored to be entrusted this stunning image of Marie-Thérèse, one of th ... More |
| Cologne-based auction house Lempertz charged in sale of false Campendonk painting | | Christie's New York to offer one of Andy Warhol's most famous paintings in 3-D | | Sotheby's to offer the only surviving original artwork from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 
In 2006 the important auction house Lempertz sold a painting titled “Rotes Bild mit Pferden” attributed to Heinrich Campendonk for a record price of 2.88 million Euros.
GENEVA.- After four years of a bitter duel, the Cologne-based auction house Lempertz has been officially convicted of breach of duty and care by the prosecutor of Cologne. Lempertz will then have to give back to the purchaser of the false Campendonk not only the entire sale price of the sale, but also all the costs incurred by the lengthy court proceedings. In 2006 the important auction house Lempertz sold a painting titled “Rotes Bild mit Pferden” attributed to Heinrich Campendonk for a record price of 2.88 million Euros (2.4 million grant price). The Lempertz, aware of the commercial potential of the work, widely promoted the sale of the object specifying in its advertisement catalog the usual references used in case of a guaranted authenticity. After the sale, the company Trasteco Ltd. based in Malta (the buyer), mandated the Artvera's Gallery for ... More | | 
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Statue of Liberty. Silkscreen inks, spray enamel and graphite on canvas, 77 3/4 x 81 in. (197.5 x 205.7 cm.). Painted in 1962. Estimate on request. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 14, Christie’s in New York will offer Andy Warhol’s iconic Statue of Liberty, a seminal work from Warhol's greatest and most powerful Pop Art series of the 1960s and one of the most important pictures by the artist ever to come to auction. Appropriating a timeless icon of America and democratic freedom as his own, the painting is a love letter from the fame-struck son of an immigrant family to his beloved New York. Always pushing the boundaries of art, moreover, Andy Warhol’s Statue Liberty is a pioneering example of 3-D painting, the first of its kind. This museum quality work, estimated in excess of $35 million, is the only example of the 1962 series in which Warhol experimented with 3-D techniques, still in private hands. The two other works in this group are in museums: Optical Car Crash is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland and a smaller version of Statue ... More | | 
Sir Peter Blake RA, Sgt. Pepper Insert Collage, 1967. Estimate: £50,000-80,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 13th November 2012, Sotheby's London will offer an image familiar to millions of music fans around the world - Sir Peter Blake's original 1967 collage for the insert for The Beatles' legendary Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - one of the best-selling albums of all time, and a landmark in musical history (one which the critic Kenneth Tynan called “a decisive moment in Western Civilisation”). This rare and highly influential artwork is the centrepiece of 18 works from the Collection of the late architect Colin St John “Sandy” Wilson (1922-2007) which will be offered for sale in Sotheby's Modern & Post-War British Art Evening Sale. Appearing on the market for the first time, the collage is estimated to realise £50,000-80,000. James Rawlin, Sotheby’s Senior Specialist, Modern British Paintings, commented: “Sir Peter Blake’s collage is a tangible slice of rock history. Sgt Pepper ... More |
| Archaeologists say that Mayas built watchtower-style structures atop ball court to observe sky | | The Whitney Museum of American Art opens Wade Guyton OS, artist's first mid-career survey | | Caroline Kennedy unveils Pablo Picasso painting at John F. Kennedy Library | 
A section of a ceremonial ball court at the temples of Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula. AP Photo/INAH.
By: Cristina Perez-Ayala
YUCATAN.- After almost two years’ restoration and integral conservation work, the Great Ball Game of Chichen Itza, the biggest in Mesoamerica, gradually recovered its original form with the reestablishment of a small staircase in the rear part of the ball court and the five passages the Mayan had built over the principal structures, these were also used to observe the path of the sun during the equinoxes and the solstices. The restoration of these five structures, which archaeologists have defined as passages because they were used to observe the path of the celestial bodies, has enabled archaeologists to reassert the hypothesis stating that the Great Ball Game of that archaeological site in Yucatan had an astronomic function. The previous information was reported by archaeologist Jose Huchim Herrera, coordinator of the Integral Conservation Project of Chichen Itza, who participated in the opening session of ... More | | 
Untitled, 2002. Epson DURABrite inkjet on book page, 10 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (26.4 x 18.7 cm). Collection of the artist. Photograph by Ron Amstutz.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Wade Guyton OS, the first mid-career survey of the influential New York–based artist. Opened October 4, the exhibition features highlights of Guyton’s career from 1999 to the present, showcasing the breadth of his work in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Guyton also premiered two new paintings, one of which spans fifty feet in length and is the artist’s largest single canvas to date. The exhibition is organized by Whitney curator Scott Rothkopf, in close collaboration with the artist, and occupies the third-floor Peter Norton Family Galleries through January 13, 2013. This is Guyton’s first prominent solo museum exhibition in the United States, and the accompanying catalogue is his first comprehensive monograph. Comprising more than eighty works, the show features a dramatic, non chronological layout in which s ... More | | 
Caroline Kennedy, president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, unveils Pablo Picasso's painting "Rape of the Sabine Women" at the JFK Library. AP Photo/Stephan Savoia.
By: Lindsey Anderson, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP).- A Picasso painting the famous artist created in denouncing war has come to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. Caroline Kennedy unveiled the "Rape of the Sabine Women" on Thursday, on loan through Jan. 6 from the Museum of Fine Arts. She said it shows the fear and uncertainty of the time. "The Cuban missile crisis was really the most dangerous time in my father's presidency, and there really was a risk that the United States and the Soviet Union might go to war," she said. "I think there's a lot that current leaders can learn from (it)." She called the 1962 crisis over Soviet missiles in Cuba and subsequent ease of tensions her father's "greatest challenge." The painting, a 6-foot-by-4-foot vertical oil on canvas, depicts in bold colors two ... More |
| Significant Winslow Homer exhibition celebrates the opening of his studio at the Portland Museum of Art | | Pierre Dorion and Janet Biggs exhibit at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal | | 'The New Kunsthaus: Great Art and Architecture', an exhibition on the expansion of the Kunsthaus Zürich | 
Winslow Homer, On a Lee Shore, 1900. Oil on canvas, 39 x 39 inches. Jesse Metcalf Fund 01.003, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
PORTLAND, ME.- To commemorate the opening of the newly restored Winslow Homer Studio, the Portland Museum of Art is presenting the exhibition Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine. On view September 22 through December 30, 2012, this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition features 38 major oils, watercolors, and etchings created during Homer’s tenure in the Studio (1883–1910). The works come from museums and private collectors throughout the country, including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Many of these works have not been on exhibition in Maine for a more than a generation and, due to their extraordinary rarity and importance to their institutional owners, will likely not be seen together again for decades to come. Weatherbeaten explores the range and complexity of Homer’s mature artistic vision which came to fruition at his ... More | | 
Pierre Dorion, Gate (The Piers), 2012 (detail). Oil on linen. Collection of theartist, courtesy galerie René Blouin, Montréal.
MONTREAL.- This fall, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is presenting a major exhibition on Québec painter Pierre Dorion. The show covers the last twenty or so years in the career of this leading figure in painting here and across Canada, and is the latest in the MAC’s series of monographic exhibitions devoted to artists of Dorion’s generation. At the same time, the museum is also showcasing work by Brooklyn-based video artist Janet Biggs as part of Montréal / Brooklyn, a contemporary art event initiated by Centre CLARK with the aim of establishing a cultural exchange between 2 cities, 16 institutions and 40 artists. The presentation at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is Biggs’s first in Canada. Pierre Dorion and Janet Biggs is on at the Musée from October 4, 2012 to January 6, 2013. Comprising more than seventy pieces produced since 1994, Pierre Dorion offers a critical overview of the pa ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Yellow Brushstroke, 1965. Oil and magna on canvas, 173 x 142 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich© 2012 ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- From 5 October 2012 to 6 January 2013, the Kunsthaus Zürich is staging a new exhibition revealing what will be on offer to visitors from 2017 in the new extension designed by David Chipperfield Architects. Covering more than 1,300 m2, the presentation of 78 objects will include highlights and new acquisitions from the Kunsthaus collection as well as major works on loan, from Henri Matisse to Willem de Kooning. On 25 November, voters in the City of Zurich will have their say on the investment contribution for the Kunsthaus extension. To accompany the vote, the Kunsthaus is mounting a large-scale exhibition giving visitors a chance to experience what is in store from 2017 onwards – in terms of great art and architecture. The exhibition begins with a presentation of the extension itself, created in association with David Chipperfield Architects, in which visitors can examine a series of detailed model elements ... More |
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 First London exhibition of the late Romanian-born American artist Serge Spitzer at Faggionato Fine Art LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Art presents the first London exhibition of the late Romanian-born American artist Serge Spitzer. Long regarded as one of the most significant artists of his generation the last exhibition in the UK was a survey, Serge Spitzer / Index 1972-1992, at the Henry Moore institute in Leeds in 1994. A Forty Year Perspective is a selection of works in Spitzer’s career that reflected his development as an important pioneer of post-Minimalist and site-specific art, and convey his enduring concerns with the complexity of meaning, the implications of ambiguity and stereotype for social, historical and metaphysical understanding. In 1991 Harald Szeemann described Spitzer as “a master at installing this new sculptural quality that makes us so uneasy, that so shocks our perceptual habits ...Everything has his own particular signature of commingling – sophistication in the guise ... More The lure of Chinese paintings and calligraphy: Fall Asian Decorative Arts auction takes in $1.8 million SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- As the hammer hit down for the last lot in the gallery on October 2nd, Bonhams Fall Asian Decorative Arts auction in San Francisco marked another successful sale, fetching a total of $1,858,337. Chinese works of art continued to attract the most competitive bidding interest from a roomful of enthusiastic buyers, as well as buyers participating in the sale online and by telephone. Chinese paintings and calligraphy was one of the strongest areas of the sale. A group of seven Chinese Imperial Edicts and Edict fragments from the Qing dynasty sold for $98,500, soaring past its pre-sale estimate of $15,000-20,000. A hanging scroll attributed to Gao Qifeng (1889-1933), depicting birds and banana leaves, was added to the collection of a new owner at the price of $43,750, easily beating a pre-sale estimate of $1,200-1,800. Another traditionally themed Chinese painting by a group ... More Key works by the Cologne-based artist Matti Braun on view at Arnolfini BRISTOL.- Matti Braun’s solo exhibition at Arnolfini will present a selection of key works by the Cologne-based artist from the last fifteen years, along with new works. Braun is interested in the way in which meaning shifts between different contexts. Braun’s practice explores cultural misunderstandings and their impact on forms and ideas, elucidating social and aesthetic developments that may have been overlooked or buried. His work is often based on concrete histories and stories of specific people and notions, but abstracts away from these into his own formal and conceptual explorations. Following his own research interests, Braun develops an eclectic and elaborate mesh of concepts that challenge conventional interpretations of Modernity. Central to the presentation at Arnolfini is Braun’s work R.T.(since 2003), a project which takes inspiration from an unrealized film by ... More Man fired for doubting 9/11 memorial safety By: Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A former manager at the Sept. 11 memorial was fired for raising health and security concerns at one of the most security-conscious places in the world, he said in a lawsuit filed Friday. As facilities director, Thomas Cancelliere alerted his bosses that the water in the memorial's signature fountains carried illness-causing bacteria, the exit gates were too narrow and could hinder an evacuation, and there were no security checks at a public parking garage directly below the off-site room where the memorial's millions of visitors are screened, the lawsuit said. "Unfortunately, Mr. Cancelliere's concern for the safety of visitors was not shared by his supervisors," who told him the issues weren't his responsibility or were being addressed, even though they weren't, ... More Antietam battlefield restages 1862 photo exhibit KEEDYSVILLE, MD (AP).- The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is recreating Mathew Brady's famous 1862 photographic exhibition documenting the Civil War's Battle of Antietam. The display of 21 original photographs and reproductions opens Friday at the Pry House Field Hospital Museum on the battlefield near Keedysville. It will be open daily through October and weekends through Dec. 1. The battle on Sept. 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day of combat on U.S. soil. More than 23,000 were reported killed, wounded or missing. Two days later, Brady sent photographer Alexander Gardner and assistant James Gibson to photograph the carnage. Brady displayed the pictures of dead soldiers at his New York gallery a few weeks later. The exhibition helped drive home the terrible cost of the war in human lives. ... More |
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