| Sotheby's New York to offer Property from The Estate of Giancarlo Baroni early next year | | Christie's announces Sale of Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana | | Treasure from Spanish shipwreck that sank off Portugal's Atlantic coast shown for the first time | 
El Greco, The Entombment of Christ, est. $1/1.5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of Property from the Estate of Giancarlo Baroni, renowned Old Master connoisseur, collector and dealer, in a series of auctions to be held early next year in New York beginning with a dedicated evening and day sale on 29 and 30 January, respectively. The collection is being consigned by his children. Highlights of the prominent collection range from 15th century gold ground paintings to works by artists including El Greco, Gian Paolo Panini, Giambattista Tiepolo, Bernardo Bellotto, Edgar Degas, Eva Gonzalès and Giovanni Boldini, among others. The series of auctions will comprise Old Master paintings and drawings, Impressionist & Modern art, antique frames and decorative arts. Select works will be exhibited in London from 1 – 6 December 2012 and in Paris from 10 – 12 December 2012, and the entire offering will be on view in New York beginning 25 January 2013. Christoph ... More | | 
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Estimate: $120,000–180,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 7, Christie's New York will present two sales offering The Derrydale Press Books from the Le Vivier Library and Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana, which includes over 200 works including two important Revolutionary War maps, an important letter by George Washington, an original draft of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, printed books from the 15th century, an important maritime atlas, and first editions of the most celebrated 20th century novels, among many others. The collection of The Derrydale Press Books from the Le Vivier Library includes over 150 rare, original manuscripts and drawings, books, printing plates and scarce ephemera of the highest quality. The Derrydale Press was founded by Eugene V. Connett, III, after his family’s beaver hat-making company was liquidated in 1925. He soon became ... More | | 
A worker of the ministry holds up for photographers a silver coin from the shipwreck of a 1804 galleon. AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza.
By: Alan Clendenning, Associated Press
MADRID (AP).- Spanish cultural officials allowed a first peek Friday at some of the 16 tons (14.5 metric tons) of shipwreck treasure worth an estimated $500 million that a U.S. salvage company gave up this year after a five-year ownership dispute. Only a tiny portion of the haul from the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a galleon that sank off Portugal's Atlantic coast near the straits of Gibraltar in 1804, was shown to the media: 12 individual silver coins, a block of encrusted silver coins stuck together after centuries underwater, two gold tobacco boxes and a bronze pulley. Authorities who have been inventorying the treasure since it was flown from Florida to Spain in February said it will be transferred later this year from Madrid to the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology ... More |
| China media slams Elton John for dedicating his Beijing show to dissident artist Ai Weiwei | | At nearly 80, Yoko Ono tries something new: Unveils her first ready-to-wear fashion collection | | New technology resurrects ancient Chinese cave at Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery | 
This handout photo received by AFP from Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei on November 26, 2012 shows pop-rock balladeer Elton John (L) and Ai Weiwei posing for a joint photo of themselves at John's concert in Wukesong Stadium in Beijing. AFP PHOTO/ AI WEIWEI.
BEIJING (AFP).- A top Chinese daily on Wednesday condemned pop star Elton John for dedicating his Beijing show to dissident artist Ai Weiwei, saying it was disrespectful and could lead to bans on other Western performers. The Sunday night dedication was reminiscent of Icelandic singer Bjork chanting "Tibet, Tibet" at a 2008 concert in Shanghai, which resulted in China's cultural minders refusing performance permits for some Western acts. "John's unexpected action was disrespectful to the audience and the contract that he signed with the Chinese side," the Global Times said in an editorial. "He forcibly added political content to the concert, which should have been nothing more than an entertaining performance." Ai, 55, is a world-renowned conceptual artist and outspoken critic of China's communist government. He disappeared into police ... More | | 
A padded mesh Cutout Trouser ($250) from Yoko Ono's new menswear collection. AP Photo/Courtesy Opening Ceremony.
By: Prune Perromat
NEW YORK (AFP).- Yoko Ono has nearly done it all -- contemporary art, music, activism. But as she nears her 80th birthday, the widow of Beatle John Lennon is dabbling in something new: the fashion world. This week in New York, Ono unveiled her first ready-to-wear collection -- an edgy unisex line called "Fashions for Men," based on sketches Ono first started in 1969 and gave to her husband as a wedding present that year. The capsule collection includes apparel, footwear and accessories. One of the most provocative pieces is the "hand" wool suit, featuring a white handprint over the crotch of a pair of black trousers. Bare shoulders peek out of paper-thin tight-fitting knit tops in pink or black. Tank tops and shirts are also provocative, with peekaboo holes. "I was inspired to create 'Fashions for Men', amazed at how my man was looking so great. I felt it was a pity if we could not make clothes emphasizing his very sexy bod," Ono said in a statement. "So, I made ... More | | 
The Buddhist cave temples that make up the famous Dunhuang complex in northeast China, a UNESCO World Heritage site, are closed to ensure their preservation.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Visitors to the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will be able step into a heated tent in the adjacent Moongate Garden and be transported to a Chinese Buddhist cave, where murals will come alive with musicians, dancers and flying Bodhisattvas. “Pure Land: Inside the Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang,” on view Dec. 1–Dec. 9, is an immersive 3-D experience of one of the world’s ancient art treasures and a technological application never before seen in the United States. The Buddhist cave temples that make up the famous Dunhuang complex in northeast China, a UNESCO World Heritage site, are closed to ensure their preservation. Filled with frescoes and sculpture, the caves are like nothing else in the Buddhist world. “Pure Land,” a project of the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center of the City University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with the ALIVE project and Dunhuang Academy, all ... More |
| The Whitney Museum of American Art announces curators for 2014 Whitney Biennial | | Mayas barred by authorities from performing rituals at their ancestral temples in the Maya region | | Milwaukee Art Museum announces Lisa J. Sutcliffe as new Curator of Photography | 
Michelle Grabner is Professor and Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that the 2014 Whitney Biennial will take a bold new form with three curators from outside the Museum offering their unique perspectives on the state of contemporary art in the United States. While past Biennials have been organized collectively by multiple curators, for this edition each curator will oversee one floor of the exhibition. The Museum has selected Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner to represent a range of geographic vantages and curatorial methodologies. Whitney curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders, who were responsible for the widely praised 2012 Biennial, will act as advisors on the project. The exhibition has come to be regarded as the Museum’s signature survey of contemporary American art; the next Biennial goes on view at the beginning of March 2014. It will be the seventy-seventh in the Museum’s ongoing series of ... More | | 
A Mayan shaman performs a ritual. AFP PHOTO/Johan ORDONEZ.
By: Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP).- Mayan priests started off ceremonies aimed at marking the end of the current era in the Mayan long-count calendar Thursday, with dancing, incense and rituals designed to thank the gods. The Mayas performed the "New Fire" ceremony at a park in Mexico City, but complained they have been barred by authorities from performing rituals at their ancestral temples in the Maya region. The Mayas measure time in 394-year periods known as Baktuns. The 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, and 13 is considered a sacred number for the Maya. The estimated 800,000 surviving Mayas in Mexico are hoping for a better new Baktun than the one now ending, which began around 1618. It included the painful aftermath of the Spanish conquest in which Mayas and other indigenous groups saw their temples and sacred writings systematically destroyed and their population ... More | | 
Sutcliffe will join the Museum in January 2013 from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum announced the appointment of Lisa J. Sutcliffe as the new Curator of Photography. Sutcliffe will join the Museum in January 2013 from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she has served as assistant curator in the Department of Photography since 2007. Lisa Sutcliffe has a wide-ranging curatorial record from her time at SFMoMA. Most recently, she organized the SFMOMA presentation of Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories in association with the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. In 2009, she organized The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography, the first survey of SFMOMA’s internationally renowned collection of Japanese photography, and Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea. Additionally, she served as assistant curator for Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective co-organized with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2012); and Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1 ... More |
| Mexican artist Teresa Margolles wins the £40,000 Artes Mundi 5 International Art Prize | | World's first "Spidernaut" lands at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History | | Hammer Museum presents Game Room: Visitors invited to engage with analog, multi-player games | 
Teresa Margolles, winner of Artes Mundi 5 Prize, 2012.
CARDIFF.- The winner of the Artes Mundi 5 prize was announced in an evening ceremony at National Museum Cardiff. From a shortlist of 7, Teresa Margolles has been chosen as the winner of the prize by a panel of international curators and directors. With a first prize of £40,000, Artes Mundi is the largest cash prize awarded for the arts in the UK and one of the most significant in the world. The exhibition, which opened in October has already had 30,000 visitors . The Panel of judges, chaired by curator and broadcaster Tim Marlow, commended the work of all seven nominated artists, but were particularly struck by “the visceral power and urgency as well as the sophistication of her work in confronting an on-going human tragedy”. Teresa Margolles’ work focuses on Northern Mexican social experience where drug related crime has resulted in widespread violence and murder. Since graduating with a diploma in forensic ... More | | 
Nefertiti, the red-backed jumping spider hunting for flies inside her space flight habitat on board the International Space Station. Photo: Courtesy of NASA.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The new Sant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, had only been on the job for 26 days when he got an urgent message about a special mission: retrieve the world’s first “Spidernaut.” A jumping spider of the species Phidippus johnsoni recently returned from a 100-day stay in space en route to and as a resident aboard the International Space Station. She is the first jumping spider to return from space and successfully readjust to life on Earth. The spider was the focus of a student-initiated experiment and needed to land somewhere so it could be displayed for audiences to see and enjoy. The National Museum of Natural History’s popular Insect Zoo was a natural choice for the world’s first-ever Spidernaut. Johnson was able to personally escort the Spidernaut from Colorado ... More | | 
Alexis Smith Playing Cards, Made in U.S.A. Photos by Marianne Williams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum’s lobby gallery will be transformed into Game Room from December 1, 2012 through February 17, 2013.The structure and aesthetics of games have long captured the imaginations of artists, inspiring works by Yoko Ono, Gabriel Orozco, Maurizio Cattelan, and countless others in the last half century alone. Human interaction, so central to game play, is a vital component of these artworks, which include an all-white chess set, an oval-shaped billiards table, and foosball for twenty. The advent of digital games has not only cracked open a new visual vernacular but has also created a shift in the dynamic of engagement: though players may be separated by continents, they are connected by the Internet. Or they may simply play alone. The look, the feel, and even the solitude of these electronic games have inevitably played out in ... More |
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 Exhibition at The Fine Art Society tells the story of Carving in Britain from 1910 to the present day LONDON.- The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition that tells the story of Carving in Britain from 1910 to the present day. In the early years of the Twentieth Century sculpture in this country shifted in a dramatic new direction with the rediscovery of what Henry Moore later termed ‘direct carving’. Around this time Eric Gill had started to carve figures directly, and the more adventurous of his contemporaries also began to sculpt wood and stone in a freehand manner. In part this was a return to the practice of ecclesiastical masons and carvers in England in the 13th and 14th centuries, who were admired throughout Europe. This was a radical change from the practice of Victorian sculptors who farmed out their modelled works and statues to workshops which would produce carved using pointing machines. Beginning in the 1920s, a younger generation that included Moore and Barbara Hepworth ... More Grayson Perry tapestries gifted to the Arts Council Collection and British Council LONDON.- The Arts Council Collection and British Council, today, 30 November, announced the joint acquisition of Grayson Perry’s The Vanity of Small Differences, a series of six tapestries Perry created this year alongside the Channel 4 series ‘All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry’, his exploration of British taste. This major work, gifted to the Arts Council Collection and the British Council by the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London, was supported by Channel 4 Television, the Art Fund, and Sfumato Foundation. The gift is a significant act of philanthropy on behalf of the artist and partners involved, and recognises the unique domestic and international reach of these two great national Collections. The Arts Council Collection and the British Council Collection work to maximise opportunities for British artists and arts institutions in the UK and overseas, and this collaborat ... More New sculptures of transformation and drawings by Rebecca Horn on view at Studio Trisorio NAPLES.- A decade after the Spiriti di madreperla installation in Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, the fascination with 'capuzzelle', skulls representing the souls of purgatory, is still so vivid in the imaginary of the German artist that she decided to dedicate another exhibit to this theme. On 25 September, 2002, Rebecca Horn was in Naples and was welcomed by a very elderly couple into their home to hear their account of the age-old religious cult of the souls of Purgatory. These were the nameless, abandoned souls who died in the various outbreaks of the plague or under other violent circumstances and hadn't had the time to repent of their sins thereby gaining access to eternal beatitude. Their skulls and bones were massed in common ossuaries like the Cemetary of the Fontanelle or in the crypts of several Neapolitan churches. According to popular belief, these souls appear in the dreams ... More Clars to offer collection of important arts & crafts pottery and contemporary studio pottery OAKLAND, CA.- Coming to the block on Sunday, December 9, 2012, from two private California collections, will be over fifty (50) examples of rare and exceptional pottery spanning Arts & Crafts through to Contemporary Studio works. The collection will be offered as part of Clars Decorative Arts and Furnishings Sale and incorporates a very creative range of potters and examples,” said Deric Torres, VP and Director of Decorative Arts & Furnishings. From the Arts & Crafts period, will be a Teco Art Pottery vase designed by Fritz Albert estimated to sell for $1,500 to $2,500. A mottled blue to violet drip glaze vase by Frederick Rhead (Santa Barbara) carries the same estimate. Exceptional works by Overbeck Pottery will be offered as well. Turning to the highlights of Contemporary Studio examples to be offered is a very early and rare work from Gertrude and Otto Natzler is an ... More John Paul's artifacts, memorabilia to come to US LUBBOCK (AP).- Promoters of a traveling exhibit of artifacts and memorabilia belonging to Pope John Paul II unveiled two items from the pontiff's life Thursday that will be on display when the show opens in Texas next year. The exhibit will include the coat of arms of John Paul — made up of 21 different types of wood — and a portrait of him in later years waving his right hand. The show, called "I Have Come to You Again," opens March 15 in Lubbock in West Texas before going on to St. Louis and Washington, D.C., later in 2013. Dates for the stops after Lubbock are not yet set. The pope's influence on the world is "undeniable," even years after his death in 2005, said the Rev. Malcolm Neyland, a longtime Lubbock-area priest and executive director of the Lubbock-based nonprofit putting on the exhibit. "This is indeed a first," he said. "Never has the Roman Catholic Church, in hundreds ... More Bonhams to auction rare Patek Philippe wristwatch in bi-coastal December auction NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams presents the firm’s biannual Fine Watches, Wristwatches & Clocks auction to be held on December 13 at 3pm ET. The sale will be viewed in the Bonhams Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York galleries and the auction will be conducted simultaneously in all three salesrooms. The auction features a wide variety of beautiful and rare timepieces, including: vintage pocket watches and wristwatches by Cartier, Vacheron Constantin, and Patek Philippe, fine handmade complicated wristwatches by Beat Haldimann and Kari Voutilainen, a wonderful selection of vintage and modern Rolex chronographs, several hand painted enamel wristwatches by Roger Dubuis and Patek Philippe, several beautiful and rare clocks and many fine vintage European and American pocket watches. With such diversity and fine craftsmanship, the December auction is sure to ... More |
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