| Thieves that have an arty eye: Here's a look at some top art heists over the decades | | The White House years of Robert S. McNamara up for sale at Sotheby's New York | | Hollywood Unseen showcases an extraordinary collection of hidden photographic gems | 
"The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" by Rembrandt, one of more than a dozen works of art burglars stole during a 1990 heist in Boston. AP Photo/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
By: Thomas Adamson, Associated Press
PARIS (AP).- A Rotterdam museum art heist this week netted paintings by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and others — but it's not the first time that money-conscious thieves with an eye for beauty have targeted famous multimillion-dollar canvasses. Here's a look at some top art heists over the decades: In May 2010, in the small hours of the morning at Paris' Museum of Modern Art, a masked intruder made it look as easy as 1-2-3. Taking advantage of a broken alarm system, the thief clipped a padlock, smashed a window and stole a Picasso, a Matisse and three other masterpieces worth $123 million. Fifteen minutes later, the intruder slipped back into the night unnoticed, leaving behind nothing except empty frames. Though his movements ... More | | 
Kennedy, John F. and Robert S. McNamara. Color photograph of John F. Kennedy and Robert S. McNamara on the White House portico, inscribed by President Kennedy: For Bob McNamara │with highest esteem │John F. Kennedy. Est. $3/4,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 23 October 2012 Sotheby’s will present The White House Years Of Robert S. McNamara – the personal archive of one of the most significant cabinet members in American history. Robert Strange McNamara served as Secretary of Defense for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 – 1968, a position that placed him at the heart of US foreign policy during one of the most turbulent periods of the Cold War. The sale features a remarkable collection of private papers, letters, and personal memorabilia and takes place on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The pre-sale exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday 16 October 2012. On 8 December 1960 Robert McNamara was appointed President of the Ford Motor Company – the first to be selected ... More | | 
Four decades of publicity photographs are presented.
NEW YORK, NY.- The great Hollywood film studios (Columbia, Paramount, MGM, Universal, Warner Brothers, RKO and Twentieth Century Fox) presided over the 'Golden Age of Cinema', from the roaring twenties to the post war 1950s. To promote their motion pictures, the studios produced thousands of publicity images each year - portraits, scene stills, pin-ups and candids – to fill the pages of fan and other magazines, and newspapers worldwide. Gathered together for the first time, Hollywood Unseen presents photographs that seemingly show the 'ordinary lives' of tinseltown’s biggest stars, including Rita Hayworth, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. In reality, these “candid’ images were as carefully constructed and prepared as any classic portrait or scene-still. The actors and actresses were portrayed exactly as the studios wanted them to be seen, whether in swim suits or on the golf course, as golden youth or magic stars of Hollywood. Four decades o ... More |
| Abstract and Figurative works by Gerhard Richter to feature in Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale | | Frieze London 2012: Energetic atmosphere equals strong sales in the contemporary market | | Museo Reina Sofia opens exhibition by one of the great figures of the avant-garde | 
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Abstraktes Bild, signed, dated 1990 and numbered 712 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 102⅜ x 78¾ in. 260 x 200cm. In excess of $16 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the remarkable price of $32.2 million (£21.3 million) achieved for Abstraktes Bild (809-4) last Friday evening at Sotheby’s London, which established the world record for a work by Gerhard Richter, as well as a new benchmark for the work of any living artist at auction, Sotheby’s announced the sale of one of the most elegant and fully resolved abstractions by the artist ever to appear at auction. Abstraktes Bild (712) from 1990 was painted at a crucial moment in the artist’s career and epitomizes his mastery of the art of abstraction (est. in excess of $16 million*). The Abstraktes Bild paintings are conceived through an extensive, time-consuming and labor intensive process in which the introduction of “chance” produces a calculated and magnificent chaos of color and structure. Since 1960 Richter has ... More | | 
Frieze London 2012. Photo: Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze.
LONDON.- At the close of the tenth edition of Frieze London, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, galleries report strong sales and high levels of energy in the contemporary market. The successful addition of Frieze Masters, the organisation’s first fair for historical art, which coincided with Frieze London’s tenth edition, has made London in October an international meeting point for the widest of art audiences. Reports of a robust market were made by both established galleries and younger participants. 175 galleries from 35 territories made the tenth edition the most international event produced by the organisation to date. In the region of 55,000 visitors were welcomed to the fair during the five-day event, a number that ensured both visitors and galleries had the best possible experience. Fair directors Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp were very pleased with the success of the fair: ‘It has been a great year ... More | | 
Maria Blanchard, Juguetes-Caballo, tambor y trompeta. Bodegon con juguetes, 1920. Oleo sobre lienzo, 92 x 60 c. Coleccion Alberto Cortina, Madrid.
MADRID.- María Blanchard (Santander, 1881 - Paris, 1932) belongs to the group of artists of very diverse origins who were responsible for the rupture in artistic languages in the Paris of the early decades of the 20th century. Thanks to new studies, the figure of Blanchard now emerges as an artist of key importance whose career was both coherent and in tune with the times, and as one of the pioneers of a generation of woman artists linked with the avant-garde. Despite the episodes of hostility and exclusion which she had to endure in a context dominated by male artists, and even though born with a physical deformity, she managed to make a place for herself in the effervescent atmosphere of Montparnasse, and won recognition for her commitment to the languages of modernity. This exhibition looks at her career in the various contexts of its development, from regenerationist ... More |
| Jitish Kallat's first solo exhibition in an Australian museum opens at the Ian Potter Museum of Art | | Bonhams unveils key Banksy works at first-ever Urban Art Auction in Los Angeles | | Royal Portraits by Mario Testino on display together for first time at National Portrait Gallery | 
Kallat’s works are set in playful and poetic conversation with the Ian Potter Museum of Art’s atypical architecture.
MELBOURNE.- Jitish Kallat: Circa is Kallat’s first solo exhibition in an Australian museum. Following the reflective nature of his recent projects, this exhibition is conceived as an evolving narrative; an experiment of multiple interventions across several spaces within the Ian Potter Museum of Art. During the course of six months from October 2012 to April 2013, some works will appear for a few days, while others remain on display until the end of the exhibition. Still others await conception when the departure of interventions makes space for them as part of an evolving entry and exit of ideas. Chance, contingency and contagion each play a key role in the development of this shape-shifting project. One utterance infects another so that procreating possibilities give rise to a tentative, evolving, dispersed and inconclusive oration in several parts of the museum. Kallat’s works are set in ... More | | 
Banksy, Gangsta Rat. Estimate: US$100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams is set to take L.A. by storm with an outstanding selection of street art at the inaugural US Urban Art sale on 29th October. Highlights of the sale include key works by the celebrated British street artist Banksy, Shepard Fairey, KAWS and the “Godfather” of East Los Angeles "cholo" style graffiti, Chaz Bojórquez. The LA Urban Art sale is the first auction of its type to be held in the US and will bring together powerful works by the world’s most pioneering graffiti artists. Banksy highlights, recently unveiled in London include ‘Gangsta Rat’, estimated at US$100,000-150,000 and ‘Paparazzi Rat’, estimated at US$100,000-150,000. Both are works on canvas and include Banksy’s signature rats, which appear in so many of his works. In 2005 the artist commented: “They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation am ... More | | 
HRH Prince William. London 2003 by Mario Testino © AMAAZING LTD.
LONDON.- Photographs of the Royal Family, taken by Mario Testino between 2003 and 2010 are being shown together for the first time at the National Portrait Gallery. The eight portraits on display include the official engagement portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge taken in London in 2010. The earliest image on display is of HRH The Prince of Wales, from 2003 which was commissioned as an official portrait and another of HRH Prince William, taken in the same year to mark his 21st birthday. Other early photographs on display include HRH The Prince of Wales, HRH Prince William and HRH Prince Henry, commissioned for their official Christmas card in 2004. The official commission to mark HRH Prince Henry’s 21st birthday is on display as well as a portrait of HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, commissioned by British Vogue in 2006 and another photograph of this royal couple in their car, taken in 2010, ... More |
| Exhibition at Jeu de Paume surveys Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas' prolific career | | Sotheby's announces Auction of the George Daniels Horological Collection November 2012 | | New Orleans Museum of Art appoints Brooke Minto as Deputy Director for Development and External Affairs | 
This Is Not an Advertisement Times Square, New York, 1985. Photo: Pamela Duffy.© Muntadas / ADAGP, Paris, 2012.
PARIS.- Jeu de Paume organizes a major exhibition by the internationally recognized artist Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942), one of the early practitioners of conceptual and media art. Muntadas studied industrial engineering in Barcelona and entered the art world through painting. Nevertheless, in the early seventies he developed an interest for multimedia art and moved to New York, where he currently lives and works. He maintains an intense teaching activity and his work is present in some of the most important collections in the world: the Museum of Modern Art – MoMA (New York), the Centre Georges Pompidou (París), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA (Barcelona) or Museo de Arte Contemporânea (São Paulo). Furthermore, he has appeared in some of the most prominent international art festivals: Documenta VI (1977) and X (1997), the Venice Biennale (1976 and ... More | | 
A small silver-mounted ebony roman striking table clock, London, dated 1677. ESTIMATE £600,000–900,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- An exceptional collection of watches and clocks belonging to the great British watchmaker and inventor George Daniels (1926 –2011) will be sold at Sotheby’s in London on 6th November. George Daniels’s life story is an extraordinary ‘rags to riches’ tale that begins in poverty and neglect, and ends under the world’s spotlight. He became the greatest British horologist of the 20th century, an important collector and innovator, who was welcomed into the families of the celebrated European watchmaking dynasties. Sotheby’s sale of his personal collection – comprising timepieces he made himself as well as fine examples of antiques watches and clocks- is a major auction event. With estimates ranging from £200 to £900,000, the majority of the 137 lots have never before been offered on the open market. Indeed, George Daniels only ever sold his watches to those people he liked – fo ... More | | 
Minto previously served as Director of Development at Miami Art Museum.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art, announced today the appointment of Brooke A. Minto as Deputy Director for Development and External Affairs. Minto, who previously served as Director of Development at Miami Art Museum and has more than 10 years of experience in the museum field, will oversee the membership and development, communications and marketing, and publication departments. Minto will take her position at NOMA on October 22, 2012. With the appointment of Minto, NOMA establishes its new Development and External Affairs division. The division’s creation represents an expansion of leadership roles and responsibilities at the museum to ensure its continued growth and success into its second century of public service. As part of her position Minto will also serve on the senior management team, which is responsible for advancing NOMA’s mission, v ... More |
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 Wyeth, Waugh seascapes and Tiffany lamps lead Bonhams fall auction in New Hampshire PORTSMOUTH, NH.- Paintings with a local flavor led the way Monday at the Bonhams 92 percent-sold, single-owner sale of “Furniture & Decorative Arts, Paintings and Maritime Works of Art from an Important New England Collection,” held at the Frank Jones Center in Portsmouth, NH. The top lot of the sale, which brought $48,750, was “Seascape” by Newell Convers Wyeth. Before the auction, there was much discussion as to whether the rocky coast depicted in the piece was from Maine or the Isle of Shoals. In keeping with the same theme, a small coastal scene by William Formby Halsall was the subject of a protracted bidding war, which hammered down at $6,500, against a presale estimate of $1,000-1,500. Again, speculation as to the location of the view was a topic of the day. Other paintings of note included “Along the Coast,” a large ... More Over 80 abstract and figurative watercolors featured in selling exhibition at Phillips de Pury & Co. NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company is presenting Watercolors, a curated selling exhibition featuring a diverse group of contemporary works by artists who have moved beyond using watercolor paint as an auxiliary mode of expression to embracing it as their primary medium. The exhibition showcases over 80 abstract and figurative works that challenge the romantic ideologies associated with historical watercolor. Presently, many artists regard watercolor as an secondary tool reserved for simple sketches and impromptu figurative gestures too fickle and challenging to render complete works of art. However, a new generation of artists, utilizing contemporary aesthetic innovation and expertise, is turning to watercolor to establish a unique movement that explores the consequences of individual choice and social anonymity. Watercolors will not only focus on current uses of the ... More Celebrating 200 years of Charles Dickens' relationship with Northern Ireland BELFAST.- To celebrate Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday the Ulster Museum will host an exhibition marking the author’s special relationship with Northern Ireland as part of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s this month. Entitled “Celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens and his Unique Relationship with Ulster”, the exhibition will run from 19 October to 3 November. It will chronicle the novelist and social critic’s three Belfast Reading Tours in 1858, 1867 and 1869, when Dickens wooed the Northern Ireland audiences with his stories mixing humour, sharp societal satire and tragedy. The most prolific author of his time, Dickens’ defining novels, such as David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol, are still regularly adapted for the stage, radio or cinema, as they remain socially relevant to this day. A champion for the marginalised, Dickens fought oppression and inequalities ... More Ivory & silver highlight Matthew Barton's November sale LONDON.- Three fascinating collections of intricate ivory objects, originating from Japan, China and India will be among the highlights of Matthew Barton Ltd’s seventh auction of Silver, Ceramics, Jewellery, Works of Art and Objects of Vertu. The sale will take place on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 in London at 25 Blythe Road, W14 and viewing will start on the Sunday (November 20th). For those who cannot attend the auction, Matthew Barton Ltd will be offering an online bidding facility via the saleroom.com Among the ivory are figures of all sizes, letter openers, an extremely desirable letter rack and a variety of fans. The auction will include more than 100 pieces of ivory dating from the 17th to the early 20th century, with estimates ranging from £100 to
£10,000. Interesting pieces include a “John Company” part chess set dating from the 1830s. One side represents the ... More One million leaves for sale this autumn! Whyte's to auction famous Irish book dealer's stock DUBLIN.- Comprising over four thousand volumes and over two million printed pages, the late James O’D Fenning’s stock of antiquarian books will attract bibliophiles from around the globe to Molesworth Street in Dublin next week. James O’Donoghue Fenning, or “Jim” Fenning as he was known to book collectors and dealers, was the third and last of a generation of Dublin booksellers. His grandfather established the business at 3 Wood Quay in the 1890s – the premises sadly demolished by Dublin City Council to make way for their new offices in the 1970s. Jim, who died in September, aged in his mid 70s, started work in the antiquarian book trade in 1958 in England, returning to Dublin in the 1970s to trade on his own account. He recently received his Fifty Years Membership Badge from the Antiquarian Booksellers Association. Jim Fenning was renowned in the book ... More Nicolaus Schafhausen appointed Curator for Bucharest Biennale 6 BUCHAREST.- Bucharest Biennale 6 - Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art - is set for May 23 - July 20, 2014, under the curatorship of Nicolaus Schafhausen, director of Kunsthalle Wien. The appointment also will mark a the first cooperation of Bucharest Biennale and Kunsthalle Wien which will develop a new type of dialogue between Wien and Bucharest. Bucharest Biennale promotes awareness and dissemination of the culture, particularly in the fields of the arts, by means of exchanges and cultural cooperation within Europe and beyond and is looking for strategies that would develop mutual understanding and offer insights from different perspectives. BB shows interest in the link between creative practice and social development, in the links between the local, European and global contexts. Bucharest Biennale aims to operate in a way that demonstrates ... More New Nigeria museum fetes late Afrobeat singer Fela By: Jon Gambrell, Associated Press
LAGOS (AP).- "FELA LIVES," reads the Gothic-lettered tattoo on the back of one of the sons of the legendary Afrobeat singer from Nigeria. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died 15 years ago but his name seems to be mentioned more now than ever. Radio stations across Africa's most populous nation continue to play his trumpet-and-saxophone-infused songs, the girlish cries of his female backup singers ringing out of tinny speakers in crowded buses. Leaders he linked in songs to corruption remain close to the levers of power in this oil-rich but poverty-stricken country. He's a legend among unemployed gang members and academics alike and was the subject of a smash Broadway musical produced by some of the biggest celebrities in the U.S. Now, the family house ... More |
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