| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | BEVERLY HILLS.- Christopher Reeve Superman IV dress (R) and Warner Bros. painting of Batman (left) are displayed at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills, California on November 7, 2012. Juliens Auctions, the worlds premiere celebrity and memorabilia auction house, announces Hollywood Icons and Idols, an unprecedented Hollywood collection of over 800 items of screen worn wardrobe, props, original photographs, and celebrity (Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, JFK, Bruce Lee, Liz Taylor and ohers) owned items on November 9-10, 2012 at Juliens Auctions Beverly Hills Gallery. AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Rare well was discovered in Israel, one of the first revealed dating to the Stone Age | | Wassily Kandinsky's Studie für Improvisation 8 sets a world auction record for the artist | | Sotheby's Autumn Auction of American Art to be held on 29 November 2012 in New York | 
Israeli archaeologists working at the site of a well that was discovered. AFP PHOTO / YOTAM TEPPER / ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY.
JERUSALEM.- A rare well dating to the Neolithic period was uncovered in recent excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority carried out at ‘Enot Nisanit’, along the western fringes of the Jezreel Valley prior to enlarging Ha-Yogev Junction (Highway 66) by the National Roads Company. Archaeologists estimate the well was built approximately 8,500 years ago. During the excavations the skeletal remains of a woman approximately 19 years of age and a man older than her were uncovered deep inside the well. How did these come to be in the well? Was this an accident or perhaps murder? As of now the answer to this question remains a mystery. According to Yotam Tepper, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “What is clear is that after these unknown individuals fell into the well it was no longer used for the simple reason that the well water was contaminated and was no longer potable& ... More | | 
Wassily Kandinsky, Studie für Improvisation 8. Oil on card mounted on canvas, 38 5/8 x 27½ in. (98 x 70 cm.). Painted in 1909. Est: 20,000,000-30,000,000 U.S. dollars. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rare masterpieces by Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky and Constantin Brancusi led the November 7 Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art at Christie’s New York, realizing a grand total of $204,800,000 (£129,024,000/ €159,744,000). A diverse audience of clients from around the world participated in the sale, which achieved sell-through rates of 70% by lot and 80% by value. Of the 69 works offered, 5 lots sold for over $10 million, 10 for over $5 million and 31 for over $1 million. “Tonight we were all reminded of the enduring power and appeal of great works of art. In the context of profound world events such as the presidential election in the United States, a transition of leadership in China, the tumult of the stock markets globally, and even the shock of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the art market united in enthusiasm for Impressionist & ... More | | 
Georgia O'Keeffe, Autumn Leaf II (detail). Oil on canvas, 32 by 21 inches (81.3 by 53.3 cm). Painted in 1927. Est. $1.5/2.5 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s annual fall auction of American Art will be held on 29 November 2012 in New York. The sale offers an impressive selection of works by Georgia O’Keeffe and Norman Rockwell, as well as a previously-unknown painting by Thomas Hart Benton and notable pieces spanning from Impressionism to Western art and modern pictures – many of which have remained in private collections for decades. The auction will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 24 November. The November auction features an important group of modern paintings and watercolors by Georgia O’Keeffe, which have remained in the same Mid-Atlantic private collection since their acquisition between 1984 and ’92, and represent one of the most significant groups of works by the artist to appear on the market since Sotheby’s landmark auction in 1987 of ten O’Keeffe paintings from her ... More |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Bower Garden to be offered at Sotheby's London British and Irish Art Sale | | Bonhams auction of African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian art features rare discoveries unseen for decades | | Fritz Winter's paintings juxtaposed with László Moholy-Nagy's photograms in new exhibition | 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Bower Garden. Est. £120,000-180,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- The woman Dante Gabriel Rossetti married, and the extra-marital mistress, are the lady and the serving maid of The Bower Garden (est. £120,000-180,000), to be offered in Sotheby’s British and Irish Art sale on 13 November 2012. The watercolour, a highly charged and perhaps personally symbolic work, was painted by Rossetti in 1859. A lady – the Pre-Raphaelite muse and cutler’s daughter Elizabeth Siddal, who married the artist in 1860 – has been watering flowers within the walled garden of medieval romance; she stops to drink from a tall drinking vessel offered by a maid – Fanny Cornforth, a prostitute Rossetti probably met on the Strand in 1857. She remained Rossetti’s lover into his marriage with Siddal, and beyond the latter’s death from a laudanum overdose in 1862. The walled garden, medieval symbol of cloistered sensuality, is the stage for a highly ambiguous interaction – ... More | | 
Important and Rare Maya Codex Style Vase, Late Classic, ca. A.D. 650 - 950, height 5 5/16in (13.5cm); diameter 5 1/8in (13cm). Cream slip with dark-brown painted decoration. Est. US $40,000-$60,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- For the third consecutive year, Bonhams announces the upcoming African, Oceanic & Pre-Colombian Art auction for the autumn season. As the only international auction house offering two tribal arts sales per year in New York, Bonhams has the undisputed edge in the market by offering quality works of art at all price levels. The pieces on offer are sure to please both seasoned and emerging collectors, with their striking forms, diversity of origin and carefully established provenance. Buying from Bonhams gives enthusiasts at all stages the confidence they need when navigating this highly-specialized field. As Bonhams Specialist and Department Head of African, Oceanic & Pre-Colombian Art Fredric Backlar explains, “Collectors rely on Bonhams expertise and experience when looking for authen- ... More | | 
László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled (Photogram), 1925, Gelatin Silver Print, 23,7 x 17,8 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Fotografische Sammlung © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012.
MUNICH.- This exhibition of the painted »light pictures« (Licht-Bilder) by Fritz Winter (1905–1976) in the Pinakothek der Moderne is devoted to the artist’s early work which has seldom been shown up until now. For the first time ever, his paintings are being presented in juxtaposition with the pioneering photograms of the Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy and a selection of the earliest abstract photographs from international collections. More than 60 loans turn the dialogue between abstract painting and photography into a tangible experience. László Moholy-Nagy advocated a »New Vision« at the Bauhaus in the 1920s that was to apply to painting, photography and film to an equal degree. This methodical approach to aesthetics spanning all media was also adopted by the ... More |
| Israel president Shimon Peres opens new Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow | | Parisian, identified as Sofiane B., probed for selling fakes of 'Indian Picasso' | | Turkish-Italian archaeological team explores site in the city of Karkemish on Syria-Turkey border | 
(L-R) Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar , Israeli President Shimon Peres and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visit Jewish Museum in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Israeli President Shimon Peres on Thursday opened one of the world's biggest Jewish museums housed in a converted Moscow bus garage which tells the story of Russian Jews from Tsarist times through the horror of the Holocaust. Peres and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov opened the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre which is based at Moscow's Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, designed in 1926 by constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov. "There is no museum like this," Peres said at the opening ceremony attended by leading members of the Russian Jewish community including Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich and tycoon Viktor Vekselberg. "This is great historical evidence of the greatness of man but also his weaknesses," said Peres, 89, who was born in what is now Belarus before his family settled in Palestine in the 1930s. Peres recalled that both his parents had been born in the Russian Empire and everyone at home ... More | | 
File picture of Indian artist Maqbool Fida (M.F.) Hussain stands against one of his paintings titled 'Last Supper'. AFP PHOTO/Sebastian D'SOUZA.
PARIS (AFP).- A Parisian has been charged with flooding the market with forged paintings of India's most famous and controversial modern artist, M.F. Husain, a newspaper reported Thursday. The 32-year-old man, identified as Sofiane B., was arrested last month following a complaint from a city art dealer, Paris daily Le Parisien said. The suspected forger was charged with a number of offences including importing forged art works and placed under judicial supervision on bail of 80,000 euros. Based in the working-class northern quarter of Saint-Ouen, where the city's most famous flea market is located, Sofiane B. reportedly sold two paintings he claimed were works of Husain for 130,000 euros ($165,000) to an art dealer. Maqbool Fida Husain, dubbed the "Indian Picasso", was a former Bollywood poster artist whose career took off after Indian independence in 1947. He was forced to flee his country in 2006 after death threats from Hindu extremists and died in London in June last year a ... More | | 
experts working on protecting through ethyl-silicate decayed mudbrick walls in King's Gate area. AP Photo/Joint Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition, File.
By: Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP).- Few archaeological sites seem as entwined with conflict, ancient and modern, as the city of Karkemish. The scene of a battle mentioned in the Bible, it lies smack on the border between Turkey and Syria, where civil war rages today. Twenty-first century Turkish sentries occupy an acropolis dating back more than 5,000 years, and the ruins were recently demined. Visible from crumbling, earthen ramparts, a Syrian rebel flag flies in a town that regime forces fled just months ago. A Turkish-Italian team is conducting the most extensive excavations there in nearly a century, building on the work of British Museum teams that included T.E. Lawrence, the adventurer known as Lawrence of Arabia. The plan is to open the site along the Euphrates river to tourists in late 2014. The strategic city, its importance long known to scholars because of references in ancient texts, was ... More |
| Meet Xenoceratops: Journal of Earth Sciences announces Canada's newest plant-eating horned dinosaur | | Century of press photos from the International Herald Tribune newspaper goes up for auction | | David Zwirner re-opens Chelsea gallery space with exhibition by artist Diana Thater | 
Xenoceratops (Xeno + ceratops) means “alien horned-face,” referring to the strange pattern of horns on its head and the scarcity of horned dinosaur fossils from this part of the fossil record.
TORONTO.- Scientists have named a new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) from Alberta, Canada. Xenoceratops foremostensis (Zee-NO-Sare-ah-tops) was identified from fossils originally collected in 1958. Approximately 20 feet long and weighing more than 2 tons, the newly identified plant-eating dinosaur represents the oldest known large-bodied horned dinosaur from Canada. Research describing the new species is published in the October 2012 issue of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. “Starting 80 million years ago, the large-bodied horned dinosaurs in North America underwent an evolutionary explosion,” said lead author Dr. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. “Xenoceratops shows us that even the geologically oldest ceratopsids had massive spikes on their head shields ... More | | 
Salvador Dali.
PARIS (AFP).- From snaps of Cary Grant or John Lennon, to Leonid Brezhnev whispering in Richard Nixon's ear, the International Herald Tribune newspaper puts a century of photo archives up for auction in Paris this month. Around 2,500 shots by the paper, grouped into 300 lots, will go under the hammer on November 19 at the Drouot auction house, telling the story of the 20th century in pictures, the auctioneers said in a statement on Thursday. Jean Cocteau, Jean Seberg, Igor Stravinsky and General de Gaulle are among the figures immortalised in the paper's archives, with estimates ranging from a few hundred to several thousand dollars per lot. Together, Drouot said, the pictures retrace the history of political, diplomatic and cultural ties between Europe and the United States, as captured by the newspaper which turned 125 this year. The entire collection is valued at around 320,000 euros ($408,000). Many still bear crop marks, as well as technical data and print date on the back. ... More | | 
Photo of a music classroom in Chernobyl taken by Diana Thater in 2010. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner announced the re-opening of his gallery on Friday, November 9, with an exhibition by Diana Thater entitled Chernobyl, on view at 519 West 19th Street. Framed around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the 2011 video installation spotlights the consequences of man-made catastrophes on the natural world. The urgency of its subject matter resonates in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and the damage it wrought within the Chelsea art district, and beyond. Diana Thater is one of the most important video artists working today. Since the early 1990s, she has created a wide range of film, video, and installation-based works whose sculptural forms engage spatial perception in physical, as well as conceptual, terms. Her pioneering oeuvre was among the first to push the boundaries of how new media art is displayed, helping to cement ... More |
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 Cash-strapped UK officials sell Henry Moore statue LONDON (AP).- A cash-strapped authority in east London says it's selling a valuable Henry Moore statue over the objections of leading British arts figures including director Danny Boyle. London's Tower Hamlets Council said late Wednesday that "Draped Seated Woman," which stood for years on a public housing complex in the city's East End, would be sold "due to the massive government cuts we are facing." Moore, who died in 1986, was one of Britain's best-known 20th-century artists; he sold the sculpture to the council's predecessor in 1960 for a token price in order to enrich the lives of the area's poorer residents. The statue's estimated value ranges from 5 million pounds to 20 million pounds ($8 million to $32 million). The Mayor of London is calling on the Mayor of Tower Hamlets to reconsider the sale of the Henry Moore statue, Draped Seated Woman. ... More Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announces acquisitions made during September RICHMOND, VA.- The following artworks were acquired in September 2012 by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. VMFA is a state agency and a model public/private partnership. All works of art are purchased with private funds from dedicated endowments. After the VMFA Board of Trustees approves proposed acquisitions on a quarterly basis, the art becomes the property of the Commonwealth of Virginia to protect, preserve, and interpret. • Raymond Duchamp-Villon (French, 1876-1918), Maggy, conceived in plaster 1912; cast ca. 1960. Bronze with black patina, 28 ⅜ x 13 3/16 x 14 15/16 inches (Number 8 from an edition of 8, all cast between ca. 1931 and ca. 1960; signed, with the Georges Rudier foundry mark and incised Louis Carre Editeur) The Eric and Jeanette Lipman Fund • Tie Bao (Chinese, 1752-1824), Calligraphy on Mount Wuyi in Running Script, Qing dynasty, ... More Exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Sean Landers opens at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen BRUSSELS.- Galerie Rodolphe Janssen presents an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Sean Landers (b. 1962, USA). This is the first exhibition of Landers’s work at the gallery. Throughout his twenty-six year career, Landers has used diverse styles and media as vehicles for revealing the process of artistic creation. He is known for using personal experience as public subject matter in order to present a portrait of the artist’s own consciousness. Often considered to be self-portraiture, his oeuvre presents an up-close view into the artist, while commenting on the universality of human thought, creation and existence. This exhibition weaves together themes, imagery and techniques that have been integral to Landers’s practice throughout his career. Since the early 1990’s, Landers has been using writing as a visual medium to draw the viewer in. Performative by ... More Contents of the Scottish home of the Premier Baron of England for sale at Bonhams EDINBURGH.- The contents of Marcus, in Angus, the Scottish shooting lodge and country home of the 27th Lord Mowbray and 21st Lord Stourton, are to be sold at Bonhams Edinburgh on 29 November. The family title was created in the late 13th century and is the third oldest barony in the Peerage of England. Lord Mowbray and Stourton can trace his ancestry from Geoffrey de Mowbray, an adviser to William the Conqueror. Another ancestor was one of the barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. The Mowbray Barons become Premier Baron of England when the only older title, that of the Barony of de Ros (created by writ in 1264) is held by a woman. The contents of Marcus are being sold on behalf of Lord Mowbray and Stourton and the Hon James Stourton. Miranda Grant, Bonhams Managing Director in Scotland comments: ‘This wonderfully eclectic ... More Contents of Killochan Castle, Ayrshire, sell at Bonhams for £364,000 EDINBURGH.- The contents of Scotland’s Killochan Castle, built in 1324 and bought by the present owner Princess Viola von Hohenzollern 15 years ago, was sold by Bonhams yesterday, November 7th, in Edinburgh for £364,000. A relative of Kaiser Wilhelm II by marriage, the princess was offering a wide variety of pictures, furniture and works of art including a set of 12 silver-mounted beakers made for Edward Prince of Wales, later Edward VII which sold for £8,125. An arresting Queen Anne giltwood table, in the manner of James Moore sold for £11,250. Top lot in the sale was a truly charming Victorian sporting picture by Richard Ansdell which sold for £55,250. Richard Ansdell, RA (British, 1815-1885) Winter Shooting, Hares and Ptarmigan, signed and dated 'R Ansdell/1869', an oil on canvas. It was exhibited in Royal Academy in 1869. This is an excellent example of Ansdell's ... More The Hayward Gallery presents major exhibition of Chinese installation and performance art LONDON.- Art of Change: New Directions from China (7 September – 9 December 2012) presents some of the most interesting art to come out of mainland China over the past three decades. The first major exhibition in the UK to focus on contemporary installation and performance art from China, it brings together works by nine of the country‟s most innovative artists and artist groups from the 1980s to today – Chen Zhen, Yingmei Duan, Gu Dexin, MadeIn Company, Liang Shaoji, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Wang Jianwei and Xu Zhen. Comprising 40 works, the exhibition shows significant early examples of the artists‟ work, alongside recent pieces and new commissions. In China, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, installation and performance art emerged as defiantly new, controversial and subversive art forms in China. Until around 2000 installations were largely ... More Archaeologists discover Thracian golden jewelry SOFIA (AP).- Archaeologists say they have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria. The unique treasure was found on Thursday near the village of Sveshtari, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Sofia, team leader Diana Gergova said. She said that among the artifacts, dating back to the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century B.C., were gold jewelry and applications for horse trappings, a tiara with reliefs of lions and fantasy animals, as well as four bracelets and a ring. The Thracians lived in what is now Bulgaria, and parts of modern Greece, Romania, Macedonia, and Turkey between 4,000 B.C. and the 7th century A.D., when they were assimilated by the invading Slavs. ... More |
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