| College of New Rochelle gets a rare collection of 75 signed Ansel Adams photographs | | Christie's Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art to feature nine works by Pablo Picasso | | Artistry of Turkmen silversmiths is celebrated in exhibition of tribal jewelry at Metropolitan Museum | 
Judith Huntington, president of The College of New Rochelle, poses with an Ansel Adams photograph. AP Photo/College of New Rochelle.
By: Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press
NEW ROCHELLE (AP).- A small New York college has been given a rare collection of 75 signed Ansel Adams photographs, chosen and printed by the artist himself. The College of New Rochelle said Tuesday its new acquisition includes the famous "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" as well as several well-known scenes of Yosemite National Park and photographs of artist Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz. No more than 10 such sets, including one held by each of Adams' two children, exist, according to Richard Gadd, director of the Weston Gallery in Carmel, Calif., which helped Adams show and market the images. The gift, worth $2.5 million, is from Caryl Horwitz, former director of the college's graduate art department. Her late husband acquired the collection in the 1980s. The photographs make up what is known as Adams' Museum Set Edition of Fine ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Coq. Bronze with brown patina, 25 ½ in. high. Conceived in 1932 and cast in the 1950s. Estimate: $10-15 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York announced its upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 7 will feature an impressive group of nine works by Pablo Picasso. This extraordinary selection from various private collections features the rare Picasso bronze sculpture Coq, making its first appearance at auction, along with a diverse range of portraits of the artist’s female muses, reflecting the remarkably strong market performance of these iconic paintings in recent years. The sale of the eight works is expected to realize a combined total in excess of $34 million. The star lot, Coq (estimate: $10-15 million), was first modeled in 1932 and cast in the 1950s. It dates from the years Picasso spent at his chateau at Boisgeloup in Normandy, producing some of the most important paintings and sculptures of his long and prolific career. The secluded estate was a haven for the artist and his young mis ... More | | 
Teapot-shaped ornament. Late 19th-early 20th century. Silver, fire-gilded with stamped beading, silver shot, applied decoration, decorative wire, cabochon carnelians, and turquoise beads, 4-1/2 x 5–1/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, 2005© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Using a limited set of materials—silver accented by gold, carnelian, turquoise, and colored glass—and relatively simple metalworking techniques, skilled Turkmen silversmiths from Central Asia have attained dazzling effects for centuries. A selection of 43 outstanding examples of 19th- and 20th-century Turkmen jewelry and decorative objects—including crowns, earrings, and pectoral ornaments that are part of the traditional attire of Turkmen women—are being shown in the exhibition Turkmen Jewelry from the Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection, opened October 9 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The installation celebrates the collectors’ recent gift and promised gift of more than 250 of these works to the Museum. The display—which focuses primarily on ... More |
| First exhibition devoted to John Sell Cotman's significant Normandy works opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery | | Tate exhibition examines the relationship between the work of William Klein and Daido Moriyama | | Sotheby's Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Autumn Sale series totals $79 million | 
John Sell Cotman, A Ruined House, c. 1808, watercolour over graphite, on paper, 32.7 x 26.1 cm© Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery announced Cotman in Normandy,10 October – 13 January. The exhibition takes a fresh look at the central chapter of the career of John Sell Cotman (1782–1842), revered as the quintessential English watercolourist. Displaying 80 drawings, watercolours and prints by Cotman, along with 20 studies by other artists, including J. M. W. Turner, the exhibition will place Cotman’s visits to Normandy within the broader context of his lifelong engagement with buildings, particularly the architecture of the Middle Ages. His exploration of the undeniable French influence on some of Britain’s finest architecture provided a controversial commentary on Anglo-French cultural exchange in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. John Sell Cotman, long considered one of the greatest exponents in the field of watercolour, made three visits to Normandy, in 1817, ... More | | 
Daido Moriyama, ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK, 1971. Tokyo Polytechnic University © Daido Moriyama.
LONDON.- William Klein + Daido Moriyama is the first exhibition to examine the relationship between the work of William Klein (b.1928), one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers and film-makers, and that of Daido Moriyama (b.1938), the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement. Taking as its central theme the cities of New York and Tokyo, William Klein + Daido Moriyama explores both artists’ celebrated depictions of modern urban life. The exhibition is formed of two retrospectives side by side, bringing together over 300 works, including vintage prints, contact sheets, film stills, photographic installations and archival material. The influence of Klein’s seminal 1956 publication Life is Good & Good for You in New York, Trance Witness Revels, as well as his later books Tokyo 1964 and Rome: The City and Its People 1959, is traced through Moriyama’s radical depictions of post- ... More | | 
Sotheby's Nicolas Chow and top lot. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Autumn Sale Series 2012 - comprising single-owner sales of Exquisite Qing Porcelain From The Collection of Dr. Alice Cheng, Qing Imperial Monochromes From The J.M. Hu Collection, The Meiyintang Collection, Part IV – An Important Selection of Imperial Chinese Porcelains, and a various-owner sale - concludes with a combined total of HK$618 million / US$79 million (Est. in excess of HK$500 million / US$64 million). At the Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works Of Art Various-Owner Sale this afternoon, intense bidding for a Pair Of Yellow Ground Famille-Rose Double-Gourd Vases Seal Marks And Period Of Qianlong saw it sell for an astounding HK$107 million / US$13.7 million, almost doubling pre-sale high estimate (Est. HK$40 – 60 million / US$5.1 – 7.7 million). Vigorous bidding started at HK$24 million with three contestants for the lot. Several bi ... More |
| China art auctioneers face off with foreign rivals; Battle for the Asian art market steps up | | Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts takes on cosmetics with Francois Nars | | Special exhibition of new work by Billy Childish opens at Hoxton Arches in London | 
Chinese collectors gather for the autumn sale of China Guardian Auctions Co. AP Photo/Vincent Yu.
By: Kelvin Chan, AP Business Writer
HONG KONG (AP).- Chinese and international auction houses are encroaching on each other's territory in Hong Kong and Beijing for the first time as they step up the battle for the Asian art market. China Guardian Auctions Co., the country's second biggest auction house, held a small sale of Chinese ink paintings, calligraphy and furniture last weekend in Hong Kong, its first outside mainland China. The firm, founded less than two decades ago, went head-to-head with 268-year-old global giant Sotheby's fall sales in the former British colony. China's other big player, Beijing Poly International Auction Co., also plans its first sale in Hong Kong next month. The two firms are little known outside of China, but their forays into Hong Kong, now a semiautonomous Chinese territory, are aimed at changing that. Sotheby's, meanwhile, has big plans to expand into mainland China after setting up a joint venture allowing it ... More | | 
eye shadow from the Andy Warhol collection. AP Photo/Nars Cosmetics.
By: Leanne Italie, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Francois Nars had Andy Warhol coffee table books in his living room and Yves Saint Laurent in his closet growing up in the '70s in the south of France. "I always feel so terrible for the people who got born after that era because there was something really in the air that was unexplainable," the makeup legend said, lounging in the lobby of a Midtown hotel for a recent interview. "There was something very, very free. Today, everything is so much more controlled and so much more prepared," he said. Fear not, post-Baby Boomers. In this, the 25th anniversary year of Warhol's death, Nars' namesake company has taken on the pop icon's silvery Factory, silkscreened superstars and avant-garde films in a limited-edition cosmetic collection, exclusive to Sephora stores until Nov. 1. It's the first time the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has collaborated on cosmetics, and the 29-piece Nars line coincides with "Regarding Warhol: 60 Artists, 50 ... More | | 
Billy Childish, Girl in Snow with Tree (Scout) (Version X), 2012. Oil and charcoal on linen, 96.06 x 72.05 in. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.
LONDON.- L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, in collaboration with neugerriemschneider, Berlin and Lehmann Maupin, New York, announce a special exhibition of new work by Billy Childish - the first significant show of his paintings in London since his major survey exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in 2010. Frozen Estuary and Other Paintings of the Divine Ordinary, Part II will be on view during London’s Frieze Art Fair, opening to the public on Tuesday, 9 October and running through Sunday, 21 October at Hoxton Arches, Arch 402 Cremer Street, London E2 8HD. The exhibition will be open to the public every day from 11 AM – 7PM. The exhibition features seventeen new works, including large-scale oil paintings and smaller watercolors, all created over the past year while Childish was an artist-in-residence at the Historic Dockyard in his hometown of Chatham. The majority of these works were exhibited at the ... More |
| Major exhibition of work by Walter Gay opens at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh | | Prominenet Kansas City patron of the arts' estate to be sold by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers | | Bonhams appoint Dr. Jacqueline Nowikovsky as its representative in Austria | 
Walter Gay (American, 1856–1937), La Commode, after 1906. Oil on canvas, 29 ½ x 25 ½ in. (74.93 x 64.77 cm). Private collection, Brooklyn.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Frick Art & Historical Center presents a major exhibition of work by American artist Walter Gay (1856–1937) from October 6, 2012 through January 6, 2013. This exhibition, which has been in development for four years, examines the life and work of an artist who specialized in painting the sumptuous interiors of wealthy collectors and society figures in late-19th and early-20th-century America and Europe. Following its debut at The Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh, Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings by Walter Gay will travel to the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida, where it will be on view from January 29–April 23, 2013. The exhibition is composed of 69 paintings and works on paper by Walter Gay, as well as a selection of ancillary historical material from 40 public and private collections, and is accompanied by a 222-page ... More | | 
Joan Miró, "Tir à l’arc". Color aquatint with carborundum, edition HC, signed Miró (lower right), 33 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches. Ref: Dupin, 554. Estimate: $7,000-9,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, announced a single-owner auction of property from the Estate of David A. Stickelber. The auction imparts all the style of one of Kansas City’s leading performing and visual arts advocates, as well as of an accomplished businessman and a gracious host. Mr. Stickelber is perhaps remembered best by the enthusiasm with which he entertained, whether informally or in grand fashion at his Southmoreland, Kansas City home. David Stickelber was born in 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Merlin A. and Marion Cronin Stickelber. After attending Georgetown University, Mr. Stickelber took over his father’s business, M.A. Stickelber and Sons, which manufactured equipment used by the baking industry. Throughout his life he ... More | | 
Her working career started at the gallery Jan Krugier Cie where she gained insight into the world of Fine Arts.
LONDON.- Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Dr Jacqueline Nowikovsky as the company’s representative in Vienna, Austria. Speaking German, French and English she was educated at Lycée Français de Vienne followed by Studies of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Her working career started at the gallery Jan Krugier Cie where she gained insight into the world of Fine Arts. Dr Nowikovsky comments: “Jan Krugier was not only one of the big art dealers of the 20th century, but together with his wife Marie-Anne Poniatowski also built one of the most marvellous private collections with masterpieces ranging from Raffael to Tintoretto, from Rembrandt to Goya, from Cézanne to Giacometti, from Rothko and Bacon, and not to forget the eminent role of Picasso’s work. By putting his elegant intuition on display with every arrangement ... More |
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 Allegra LaViola Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works on paper and sculpture by Casey Jex Smith NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Fiend In The Void, a solo exhibition of works on paper and sculpture by Casey Jex Smith. For his third solo show at the gallery, Smith has decided to pursue two of the most controversial subjects of our time: religion and politics. As a practicing Mormon, Smith’s interest in religion, and inclusion of it as a subject matter in his work, has been ongoing. This election cycle of 2012 has brought Mormonism to the front of the world stage as Mitt Romney runs for election as President of the United States of America. Smith, instead of retreating into a safe corner and remaining silent about his relationship with his church and the increasing interest surrounding it, has come out with all guns blazing. The opening night of the exhibition will contain a live action performance by Smith and gallery visitors. Two volunteers will take up the roles of Barack Obama ... More Pondering the mysteries of Easter Island By: Karen Schwartz, for The Associated Press
EASTER ISLAND (AP).- From its famed giant stone statues to finding a good, affordable hotel, Easter Island is full of mysteries. There are ancient questions, like how the statues were transported, and why the island lost its trees. And there are modern puzzles, like what $1,600 a night will get you in a hotel and why roads aren't better marked for visitors touring the island. Perhaps it's fitting that riddles still exist on the most remote inhabited island on earth: a Chilean territory in the South Pacific, 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) to the west of the South American continent. Yet I hoped for answers. After flying nearly 20 hours from New York, and having one of our group shaken down for a bribe by a customs' agent, I wanted to not only see the sites, but understand ... More UK police charge 26-year-old over Rothko vandalism LONDON (AP).- British police on Tuesday charged a 26-year-old Polish national with vandalizing a priceless Mark Rothko work at the Tate Modern museum, an act that caused a minor stir in the U.K. art world. Scotland Yard said in a statement that Wlodzimierz Umaniec would appear at south London Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court in south London court on Wednesday charged with one count of "criminal damage in excess of 5,000 pounds (about $8,000)." Umaniec, who also went by the name Vladimir Umanets, was arrested after patrons discovered a scrawl across the bottom of a Rothko mural on Sunday. The Russian-born Rothko was a leading figure in American abstract painting, renowned for large-scale works featuring bold blocks of color, and the vandalism angered many. The artist's children, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, said in a statement that they were ... More Solo exhibition of work by the acclaimed Bay Area legend Roy De Forest at Brian Gross Fine Art SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art is presenting A Figure of Our Times, a solo exhibition of work by the acclaimed Bay Area legend Roy De Forest (1930–2007). The works in the show include selected paintings, drawings, and wall constructions. Roy De Forest was a long-time UC Davis professor, and a contemporary of artists such as Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, William T. Wiley and Peter Saul. Known for his vividly colored works imbued with myth and lyricism, Roy De Forest is considered one of the most original and influential artists of his generation. The work of Roy De Forest is highly personal and autobiographical yet set in a world of fantasy. Influenced by the stories of 19th century explorers, Roy De Forest took a storytelling approach in his work. Each composition is a brilliantly colored voyage into an imagined environment infused with dogs, horses, and human figures ... More Integrated mixed-use, open-air retail & cultural park provides major catalyst for neighborhood LOS ANGELES, CA.- Mecenatpolis, a nearly 300,000 square-meter mixed-use, transit-oriented project in the evolving Hapjeong neighborhood in downtown Seoul, is the latest Jerde Place to open in Asia. Jerde, a Los Angeles-based international architecture design and urban planning firm, is known for its innovative design that integrates local culture and organic public spaces to create popular destinations that attract millions of visitors annually. The firm’s latest mixed-use district sits adjacent to the Hapjeong train station and provides a dynamic, cohesive gathering place for the resurging neighborhood’s diverse community of business professionals, residents, university students, and tourists. Developed by GS Engineering & Construction Corp, Sejin, the 295,615 square-meter Mecenatpolis features three high-rise luxury residential towers and one high-rise class-A office tower ... More French photographer Luc Delahaye wins 100,000 Swiss Francs Prix Pictet LONDON.- The French photographer Luc Delahaye was this evening [Tuesday 9 October] announced as winner of the fourth Prix Pictet photography prize, selected from a shortlist of twelve. The winner was chosen for his 10-image submission responding to the theme of Power, drawn from an outstanding body of work produced over the past decade. The prize, with a value of 100,000 Swiss Francs (100,000 dollars, £65,000, €80,000), is sponsored by the Swiss private bank, Pictet & Cie. Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM, guest of honour, announced the prize at a reception for the opening of Power, an exhibition of the work of the twelve shortlisted photographers at the Saatchi Gallery in London, which opens to the public on Wednesday 10 October. The Shortlist of twelve photographers comprised Robert Adams (United States), Daniel Beltrá (Spain/United States), Mohamed Bourouissa ... More Man finds suit he believes belonged to Paul Newman By: John Christoffersen, Associated Press
NEW HAVEN (AP).- A man renting an apartment in a Victorian house in Connecticut was poking around the basement when he was surprised to find some fine clothes stuffed in a trash bag. A tailor's tag listing the client's name on one of the suits startled him even more. "Paul Newman. January 1986." Peter Gamlen, a 23-year-old British illustrator, said he believes the suit belonged to the late actor, director, entrepreneur and racing driver. The suit was by the tailor Henry Stewart. So, Gamlen researched Stewart and found an obituary in the New York Times from 1993 that listed Newman among the tailor's clients. Gamlen said he began to holler and run around when he made the discovery. "Guess where my legs are!," he said to a friend. "They're in Paul Newman's trousers!" ... More |
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