| Mummified dog, found in 1953, undergoing analysis by Mexican archaeologists | | Legendary Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II's feather head-dress restored in Vienna | | An unprecedented eight Caravaggio paintings on view together for the first time in California | 
Specialists from INAH analyzed the only mummified dog ever found in Mexico. The dog died approximately 1,000 years ago. Photo: DMC. INAH. M MARAT.
MEXICO CITY.- A mummified dog, about a thousand years old, found in the Cueva de la Candelaria, in Coahuila – the only one that has been found in Mexico in this condition – will be subject to several studies, such as radiography and DNA tests after the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH – Conaculta) recovered it and restored it to the archaeological wealth it holds after having been in the hands of particulars. According to INAH specialists, this is one of the few specimens of mummified canines in the world; the other known cases are exclusive to Egypt and Peru. This specimen was reintegrated to the cultural national heritage along with 2,500 archaeological materials found in 1953. “Said finding –detailed archaeologist Alejandro Bautista Valdespino– generates big expectations about archaeology in the north of Mexico. It reinforces the idea that dogs were placed as companions in t ... More | | 
Feather head-dress, Mexico, Aztec, early 16th century. Quetzal, Cotinga, roseate spoonbill, Piaya feathers; wood, fibres, Amate paper, cotton, gold, gilded brass © KHM mit MVK und ÖTM.
VIENNA.- The early Mexican feather head-dress is one of the most fragile objects in the Museum of Ethnology, posing myriad problems for conservators. 2010-2012 an Austrian-Mexican commission of experts studied and analyzed its historical importance and present condition as part of a project organized by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Mexico and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. The results of this internationally noted and innovative bilateral research and conservation project will be presented in a comprehensive publication. The project focused on anthropological, historical, iconographic and conservation questions. Materials, technique and older restorations of the feather head-dress were analyzed. Its present flat appearance dates back to the restoration carried out in 1878 that had erroneously identified the feather ... More | | 
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, 1596-1597. Oil on canvas, 47 5/8 x 37 3/8 in. Private Collection, Florence.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy, an exhibition devoted to the legacy of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 – 1610), one of the most influential painters in European history. The exhibition was co-organized by LACMA, the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, under the auspices of FRAME (French Regional American Museum Exchange), an international consortium to which all four museums belong. Caravaggio’s striking realism, violent contrasts of light and darkness, and ability to express powerful emotions were as surprising to his contemporaries as they are to us today. In this exhibition many of the innovations introduced by Caravaggio were adopted by painters from different countries, backgrounds, and influences. In this exhibition an unprecedented eight paintings ... More |
| Secrets of a Hans Holbein portrait revealed after 400 years at the Royal Collection | | Scientists in the Czech Republic rule out mercury poisoning of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe | | Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain bracelet fetches $3.4 mn at Sotheby's Geneva auction | 
Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans of Antwerp, 1532 (after conservation). Photo: Royal Collection Trust/ © 2012, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
LONDON.- Its history in the Royal Collection dates back to the reign of Charles I. But when Holbein’s portrait Hans of Antwerp came into royal possession in the 17th century, repairs to the painting already obscured the identity of the sitter. After two years of conservation and research, staff at Royal Collection Trust can reveal details that had been lost for 400 years and clues as to who Hans of Antwerp really was. Hans Holbein the Younger was best known as ‘King’s Painter’ to Henry VIII. Arguably one of the greatest portraitists of all time, he portrayed many of the key personalities at Henry’s court and produced the most enduring image of the King in the famous Whitehall Mural, destroyed by fire in 1698. The newly conserved portrait Hans of Antwerp is one of 27 works by Holbein on display in the exhibition The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein, on view at The Queen’s Galle ... More | | 
File photo of archeologists as they lift a tomb stone of a grave of famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File.
By: Karel Janicek, Associated Press
PRAGUE (AP).- Ever since Tycho Brahe died suddenly more than 400 years ago, there has been mystery about whether the Dane whose celestial observations laid the groundwork for modern astronomy fell victim to natural causes or was murdered. On Thursday, scientists who had exhumed his body said one thing is clear: if he was murdered, it wasn't with mercury, as many rumors had claimed. "We measured the concentration of mercury using three different quantitative chemical methods in our labs" in the Czech Republic and Denmark, said Kaare Lund Rasmussen, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Southern Denmark. "All tests revealed the same result: that mercury concentrations were not sufficiently high to have caused his death. In fact, chemical analyses of the bones indicate that Tycho Brahe was not exposed ... More | | 
A detail of a conch pearl, enamel and diamond bracelet made in the 1920's by Cartier. AFP PHOTO / SOTHEBY'S.
GENEVA (AFP).- A conch pearl and diamond bracelet that once belonged to Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain fetched 3.2 million Swiss francs (2.7 million euros, $3.4 million) at auction in Geneva on Wednesday, more than doubling reserve estimates. Spectators in a packed auction room at Sotheby's looked on as bids for the baby-pink and diamond-encrusted Cartier piece surpassed expectations, which had put the final sale price at 750,000 to 1.5 million Swiss francs. The bracelet, described by Sotheby's as the property of "a lady of title", was offered by an unnamed member of the Spanish royal family. It was the star lot in a huge jewellery sale of nearly 600 items. Described by Sotheby's as a "unique and highly important" item of jewellery, the bracelet was made in the 1920s and is 186 millimetres (just over seven inches) long. It resembles an articulated band of vines bursting with conch pearl "fruits". The band is set with diamonds of various shapes, all of ... More |
| Phillips de Pury & Company announces highlights from its November Latin America Auction | | Collection of 300 Vodou artifacts in new exhibition at Canadian Museum of Civilization | | Royal Academician Gillian Ayres exhibition opening today at Alan Cristea Gallery | 
Joaquin Torres Garcia, Río Negro (Arte Constructivo), 1943 (detail). Oil on board, 19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in. Estimate: $350,000 - 550,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company presents highlights from its Latin America Contemporary Art auction with a combined low estimate of $3,834,000 and high estimate of $5,819,000. “Our November 2012 auction is a focused sale containing many of the most influential voices in Latin American contemporary art, spanning the last 60 years. The curatorial approach taken in the development of this sale showcases the depth of sophistication of the region’s artistic production, featuring historically significant artists who have been traditionally underrepresented in the auction market.”” Henry Allsopp, Worldwide Director, Latin America JOAQUÍN TORRES GARCÍA, Río Negro (Arte Constructivo), 1943, $350,000 - 550,000. Joaquín Torres García’s sophisticated approach to compo- ... More | | 
Two Bizango fighter lwa. Padded cloth, glass, bone, horn, wood, mirrors, metal© MEG, Johnathan Watts.
GATINEAU.- A powerful new exhibition opening at the Canadian Museum of Civilization brings to Canada, for the first time, over 300 objects from one of the world’s most important collections of Vodou artifacts. Vodou opens on November 15, 2012, and runs until February 23, 2014. This stunning exhibition looks beyond the myths and manufactured Hollywood images that are commonly associated with Vodou, to reveal a vital spiritual and social force that remains, for many, an important part of daily life in Haiti. Vodou is both a religion and a profound expression of the Haitian national experience, with rituals that remember the horrors of slavery and honour the spirit of resistance that has sustained Haiti through centuries of hardship. “Through this exhibition, visitors are given a rare opportunity to learn about a complex spiritual tradition, its beliefs and rituals, from the viewpoint of the people who practice it, ... More | | 
Gillian Ayres, Tivoli, 2011 (detail). Woodcut on Unryu-shi Japanese paper. Paper 93.0 x 107.2 cm / Image 75.8 x 91.0 cm. Edition of 30. ©Alan Cristea Gallery.
LONDON.- The Alan Cristea Gallery presents a solo show by Gillian Ayres, Royal Academician and recent recipient of a CBE, across both of their gallery spaces in Cork Street, from 16 November until 22 December 2012. One of Britain’s most respected and best-loved painters, Gillian Ayres is celebrated as one of the pioneering English abstract artists and, as well as the vibrant, heavily worked canvases for which she is best known, she is also a dedicated printmaker. The forthcoming exhibition will include over 20 new oil paintings, on which she has been working for over 3 years, together with a group of new works on paper, including acrylics and her first series of woodcut prints. Whilst Ayres’s paintings have never been representational, the forms in these new works seem reminiscent of leaf and flower shapes clearly seen ... More |
| French-Moroccan artist Latifa Echakhch opens exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich | | Exhibition of new and recent works by Jannis Kounellis opens at Blain/Southern in Berlin | | Marc Asnin chronicles the life of his uncle Charlie in new exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery | 
Latifa Echakhch, Untitled (Circus tent), 2012. Untitled (One figure and a Ball), 2012. Exhibition view «Latifa Echakhch. Goodbye Horses», Kunsthaus Zürich, November 2012. Photo: Lena Huber, Kunsthaus Zürich© Latifa Echakhch.
ZURICH.- From 16 November 2012 to 24 February 2013, the Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘Goodbye Horses,’ an exhibition by the French-Moroccan artist Latifa Echakhch. Echakhch’s works explore issues of cultural transfer and the shifts of identity that they entail. She is creating new works for the Kunsthaus that will be shown exclusively in Zurich. Their leitmotif is the circus. When Latifa Echakhch (born 1974) made her first museum appearance in the group exhibition ‘Shifting Identities’ (2008), her name was still unknown. Nevertheless, the work she displayed – a group of bare flagpoles painted black and criss-crossing in space entitled ‘Fantasia’ – attracted considerable attention. Since then Echakhch, who was born in Morocco and now lives in Martigny, Switzerland, has been a parti- ... More | | 
Jannis Kounellis, Installation shot. Photo: Manolis Baboussis.
BERLIN.- Blain|Southern presents an exhibition of new and recent works by Jannis Kounellis. Renowned for his pivotal role in the development of the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s, over the last 50 years Kounellis has continued to redefine artistic practice through his original use of materials. His works, which might be seen as a combination of painting, collage, installation, ‘environments’, performance and theatre, are made using everyday materials such as soil, coal, stones, hessian sacks, fire, live animals, bed frames and doorways, as well as objets trouvés. These are imbued with dramatic power, stimulating memory and a sense of history, as well as the reality of our present day experience, to express the underlying tensions within contemporary society, and the multiplicity and fragmentation of its language. During the twenty first century, Kounellis has developed an increasingly architectural vocabular ... More | | 
“There are few portraits in recent American photography more intimate or remarkable than Marc Asnin’s Uncle Charlie series.” Michael Kimmelman The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery presents Marc Asnin: Uncle Charlie, an unprecedented long-term documentary project that details the life of the artist’s uncle and godfather, Charles Henschke. It portrays Charlie’s struggle with mental illness, isolation, poverty and familial relationships. Asnin chose to use photography as the means to reconnect with Uncle Charlie. The result is a journey that became an obsession to confront, examine, and understand disturbing truths about his uncle and family. The exhibition features over 25 black and white photographs and launched the book Uncle Charlie by Marc Asnin (Contrasto, 2012). “There are few portraits in recent American photography more intimate or remarkable than Marc Asnin’s Uncle Charlie series.” Michael Kimmelman The New York Times Marc Asnin has been photo- ... More |
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 Contemporary art market roars in New York NEW YORK (AFP).- Christie and Sotheby's racked up close to a billion dollars this week in just two New York sales of contemporary art, making one small corner of the world appear as if the global financial crisis had never happened. Late Wednesday, Christie's blew away the records for auction splurges with what it said was the highest-grossing contemporary auction ever, raising $412.24 million dollars. "This evening's sale set a new record total for any Post-War and Contemporary Art sale. Over the past six years, Christie's has led this market first over the $200 million, then over the $300 million, and now over the $400 million barrier," said Brett Gorvy, head of contemporary art. Leading the way was a canvas of violent black brushstrokes by abstract expressionist Franz Kline that sold for $40.4 million, four times as much as his previous auction record price. Christie's had estimated the painting ... More Fabric of Identity: Works from the IMMA Collection at the Roscommon Arts Centre ROSCOMMON.- Fabric of Identity, an exhibition from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, opens to the public at the Roscommon Arts Centre on Friday 16 November 2012 at 6.00pm. Dress is an instant and effective display of identity and an important component of our daily lives. By means of clothing, individuals establish their sense of self as well as their place in society. Fabric of Identity explores the presentation of individual and collective identities, private and public personas through a selection of work from the IMMA Collection by artists Marina Abramović, James Hanley, Les Levine, Jackie Nickerson and Janet Mullarney. The third collaboration between Roscommon Arts Centre and the Irish Museum of Modern Art the exhibition is especially curated for the Arts Centre as part of the IMMA National Programme. The majority of works in the exhibition present ... More One bidder buys all to keep Muhlenberg family treasures together and in the process sets auction record PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Thanks to one great history lover who snapped up every single lot in this evening's sale, the treasured legacy of one of Pennsylvania's great families, the Muhlenberg's remains intact. Samuel M. 'Beau' Freeman II, Freeman's Chairman was the auctioneer at tonight's historic sale.One paddle rose again and again, without fail. All 27 lots will now enhance an important private collection of Revolutionary War materials. The Muhlenberg Family history's new steward couldn't be more pleased with the outcome "Shocked and delighted!" were their exact words. The auction entitled Historic Muhlenberg Property from a Private Collection including The Grand Division of Color of the 8th Virginia included not only that very rare flag, which achieved a stunning $422,500, but other great treasures as well. This collection, from a Muhlenberg descendant, includes an extensive ... More Sculpture of Churchill and Roosevelt top London Sales of Modern British Art this week at Bonhams LONDON.- A copy of the well-loved bronze sculpture titled ‘The Allies’ of Sir Winston Churchill and Roosevelt on their bench sited between Old and New Bond Streets sold at Bonhams for £409,250, double its estimate, to an American buyer yesterday 14th November 2012. This makes the sculpture the top Modern British work of art to sell in London this week. The Bonhams sale of 20th Century British and Irish Art featured 123 lots and achieved a total of £3.2m. Among other top lots was a Peter Doig painting Road House which sold for £265,250; a Walter Sickert, Woman in Profile with downcast eyes for £229,250; a Graham Sutherland, Head on a Balcony for £217,250; and Sir Alfred Munnings, The haymakers went for £109,250. ‘The Allies’ sculpture by Lawrence Holofcener (born 1926) was unveiled in 1995 by H.R.H. The Princess Margaret. Now a major London landmark, it was ... More Valencian Institute for Modern Art opens retrospective of Antoni Miró VALENCIA.- The work of Antoni Miró (Alcoy, 1944) coincides in time with the generation of painters who, tired with the over-exploitation of informalismo by the grand masters of abstraction, propelled a recovery of figuration focused on chronicling and protesting against social reality from a profound political commitment. From his early artistic activity with Grup Alcoiart or his social critique with Gruppo Denunzia, one could soon realise that Antoni Miró's confrontational and oppositional practice was removed from formalist discourses. In fact, Antoni Miró's brand of critical realism shares points in common with Equipo Crónica and Equipo Realidad inasmuch as their engagement in social issues and the deployment of a heavily critical visual underpinning. Antoni Miró's work finds a place of its own within a certain tradition in contemporary art which Vicente Aguilera Cerni defined as ... More Extremely rare World War II German Enigma machine sells at Bonhams for over £80,000 LONDON.- This German Enigma enciphering machine sold yesterday at Bonhams in Knightsbridge for £85,250, above its initial pre-sale estimate of £40,000-£60,000. Built by Heimsoeth and Rinke in 1941, this is the three rotor version, used by Germany between 1938 and 1944 and was patented by H. A. Koch. Whilst this particular device was intended for commercial purposes, by 1939 the majority of enigma machines had been appropriated for German military use. The secret operations at Bletchley Park helped to decode the information communicated by this machine to gain an eventual winning advantage over the Germans. Laurence Fisher, Specialist Head of Mechanical Music, Technical Apparatus & Scientific Instruments commented: “Enigma machines come up very rarely at auction. This particular example is in working order, completely untouched and un-restored. ... More |
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