| A rare greyhound mascot with royal provenance leads Christie's Lalique Auction | | Sotheby's to offer magnificent jewels from the Collections of Mrs. Estée Lauder & Mrs. Evelyn H. Lauder | | Cy Twombly's last paintings in new exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York | 
René Lalique, Levrier, A, designed in 1929 Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- The venerable French glass, Lalique, comes to auction on 13 November at Christie?s ? the only auction house with a sale dedicated to the renowned glassmaker. One-hundred-and-twenty lots feature with estimates ranging from £500 to £500,000, making this is an unmissable opportunity for collectors of these extraordinarily designed vases, bowls, tableware, perfume bottles, mascots and lighting. All items on offer will be on view at Christie?s South Kensington, London, 10-13 November. The sale is led by a rare Levrier, A mascot of a racing greyhound (estimate: £300,000-500,000) illustrated above. Listed in contemporary publication, The Decorative Art Year Book of The Studio 1931, as designed for H.R.H. Prince George, later the Duke of Kent, in 1929 by the master glassmaker, René Lalique and is signed ?R. LALIQUE?. The model was never put into production and the current piece on offer is the only known example, sure to ar ... More | | 
A Fancy Intense Pink Diamond and Diamond Ring, Oscar Heyman & Brothers Weighing 6.54 carats, Internally Flawless. Estimate $4/5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announce that it will offer jewelry from the collections of Mrs. Estée Lauder and Mrs. Evelyn H. Lauder as part of our Magnificent Jewels auction in New York on 5 December 2012. Proceeds from the more than 35 pieces – together estimated in excess of $13 million – will benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation®, an organization founded and championed by Evelyn Lauder. Highlights from the collections will travel to Geneva, London and Los Angeles this fall, before returning to New York for exhibition beginning 1 December. Additional pieces from the collections will be offered in the New York auction of Important Jewels in February 2013, also sold to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Mr. Leonard A. Lauder, Chairman Emeritus, The Estée Lauder Companies and Acting Chairman of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation stated, ... More | | 
Cy Twombly, “Untitled (Camino Real), 2011. Acrylic on Plywood, 99 3/8 x 72 7/8 inches, 252.4 x 185.1 cm. © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- In tribute to the late Cy Twombly, Gagosian Gallery presents his last paintings, together with about 100 of his photographs. The eight untitled paintings are closely related to the Camino Real group that inaugurated Gagosian Paris in 2010. The inimitable, exuberant paintwork and bold, intense colors typify the freedom with which Twombly worked, never restricted to a single reference. Even in the face of his impending death, their elegiac power, vivid palette, and ardent gestures pulse with the energies of the new. The intimate photographs range from early studio images taken in the 1950s to a group of landscapes taken in St Barths in 2011. Since 2008, major exhibitions of the artist’s photographs have been held at FOAM Amsterdam; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; and the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; however this is the first time that this lesser known aspect of Twombly’s oeuvre has ... More |
| Tacoma Art Museum exhibition celebrates more than 100 works by Andy Warhol | | Museum of Fine Arts Houston announces landmark agreement and Islamic art initiative | | Consortium on Conserving works of art damaged by flooding to be held at MoMA | 
Andy Warhol, Flower, 1986. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 20 x 16 inches. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
TACOMA, WA.- In 1982, Tacoma almost had its very own Warhol painting…and it was going to be super-sized on the Tacoma Dome. This November, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Warhol’s proposal for Tacoma, the artist’s flowers and vision for the Dome are coming to Tacoma Art Museum in Andy Warhol’s Flowers for Tacoma from November 3, 2012 through February 10, 2013. Best known for his vibrant pop imagery and searing commentary on art and popular culture, Warhol’s flower imagery reveals a softer, more intimate side of the artist. These works capture Warhol’s explorations of fragility, vibrancy, femininity, sensuality, and beauty. The exhibition celebrates more than 100 works by Warhol, including early illustrations from the 1950s, photographs, paintings, photographs, and works related to the creation of his iconic Flowers. “Tacoma Art Museum is proud to bring this extensive body ... More | | 
Turban ornament, India, second half 17th century, Fabricated in gold with champlevé and over-painted enamels set with emeralds and diamonds; 6 13/16 x 2 1/16 x ½ in. (17.3 x 5.3 x 1.3 cm); The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait.
HOUSTON, TX.- Today Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, director of the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (DAI), Kuwait, and co-owner with Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah of The al-Sabah Collection, jointly announced the signing of an extraordinary agreement of cooperation between their two institutions. The privately held al-Sabah Collection, one of the greatest collections of Islamic art in the world, will place some 60 objects, ranging from carpets, ceilings and architectural fragments to exquisite ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, scientific instruments and manuscripts, on long-term loan in a dedicated gallery at the MFAH. The Museum will reciprocate with staff exchanges and training and, at a future date, exchange of works of art and exhibitions. The initial term of the renewable agreement is five years, ... More | | 
The Empire State Building towers in the background of an apartment buliding in Chelsea, New York City, with the facade broken off. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY.
NEW YORK, NY.- A free public presentation on recovering wet art and cultural materials will be held Sunday, November 4 from noon until 2 p.m. at The Museum of Modern Art. Speakers from the American Institute for Conservation Collections Emergency Response Team (AIC-CERT), along with conservators from MoMA, will provide suggestions and answer questions on how to safely handle and dry wet materials such as paintings, drawings, books, sculpture, and other artistic and cultural works. The consortium will take place in MoMA's Celeste Bartos Theater, in the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, 4 West 54 Street, New York. The presentation is designed to be of special help to the many artists and galleries whose works were affected by Hurricane Sandy. MoMA has also issued Immediate Response for Collections, a document that offers guidelines for dealing with art damaged by flooding. It offers step by step measures that can be taken to conserve ... More |
| Document about Titanic safety fears up for sale at Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers | | Donald and Beth Sobey donate Michel de Broin sculpture to National Gallery of Canada | | National Museum of the American Indian to launch website on the Maya calendar system and the year 2012 | 
Notes made by Capt. Maurice Clarke, a British Board of Trade safety inspector. AP Photo/Henry Aldridge and Son.
LONDON (AP).- A British safety official who inspected Titanic before its maiden voyage thought it should have more lifeboats, according to his private notes, which are being offered for sale this month. However, Capt. Maurice Clarke, a Board of Trade safety and emigration officer, didn't express that belief when he testified at the official British inquiry into the ship's sinking. He also was not asked then whether he thought Titanic carried an adequate number of lifeboats. There is no record of Clarke ever expressing his view publicly, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said Friday. The U.S. Senate's inquiry concluded that 2,223 people were aboard the Titanic but there was room for fewer than 1,200 in its lifeboats. The ship had plenty of lifebelts for everyone but it sank in frigid water on the night of April 14-15, 1912, and only 706 people aboard survived. Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers are offering 70 pages ... More | | 
Michel de Broin, Majestic 2011. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Gift from Donald R. and Beth Sobey, 2012. Photo © NGC.
OTTAWA.- Visitors to the National Gallery of Canada have no doubt recently noticed a monumental new sculpture at Nepean Point, behind the Gallery. The work, by the internationally known Canadian artist Michel de Broin, is entitled Majestic. Built from lampposts uprooted by Hurricane Katrina, the sculpture was donated by philanthropists Donald and Beth Sobey, well-known for their longstanding involvement with and support of the NGC and the Canadian visual arts community. Majestic is the first outdoor public sculpture by de Broin in the Nation’s capital and the third work by the artist to enter into the permanent collection. “We are very grateful to former trustee and board chair Donald Sobey and his wife Beth for their generous donation of Michel de Broin’s spectacular sculpture,” said NGC director Marc Mayer. “This acquisition demonstrates our ongoing commitment to acquiring the most outstanding achieve ... More | | 
This replica of a Mayan Calendar Round represents September 21, 2004, the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall. Photo: Molly Stephey, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will launch Living Maya Time – Viviendo el tiempo maya—a bilingual website dedicated to highlighting Maya culture and dispelling doomsday myths about the end of the Maya calendar in 2012. The website will launch Nov. 1, the first day of Native American Heritage Month and 50 days before the completion of the Maya Long Count Calendar Dec. 21. The ancient Maya, an advanced millenary civilization in Mesoamerica, are renowned for their knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, timekeeping and the cycles of celestial objects, as well as hieroglyphic writing, architecture and agriculture. The Maya Calendar System is a tangible expression of this scientific and cultural legacy. The Maya used their ... More |
| Fernando Botero designs voluptuous and somewhat asymmetrical rum bottle as museum fundraiser | | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art debuts first major retrospective of Jay DeFeo | | The Art of Golf tees off season at Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Florida | 
Picture of one of the 100,000 bottles designed by renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero for the Liquor Company of Antioquia "FLA" in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia. AFP PHOTO / Raul ARBOLEDA.
MEDELLIN (AFP).- Renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero has turned his talents to liquor, designing a bottle and label for an aged rum, with 80 percent of the proceeds pledged to Medellin's museums. Fabrica de Licores de Atioquia is making 100,000 bottles of the Botero Rum special reserve, each priced at between 80,000 and 90,000 pesos (or between $45 and $50). The bottle is voluptuous and somewhat asymmetrical -- like the figures Botero has become famous depicting. The label reproduces a 2011 Botero painting called "Men Drinking;" a work that is part of the artist's private collection and has never been displayed. The rum will not come in a box, the manufacturer said. "This is, more or less, a Botero work of art, so we did not want to cover it," said Mauricio Ortiz, an executive at Fabrica de Licores de Antioquia. The company will donate 40 percent of the profits to the Museum of Antioquia and another 40 percent to the Institute of Heritage and Culture. It estimates the enti ... More | | 
Jay DeFeo, Blue One, 1989; oil on linen; 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm); The Jay DeFeo Trust, Berkeley; © 2012 The Jay DeFeo Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo: Ben Blackwell.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From November 3, 2012 through February 3, 2013, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will present Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo (1929–1989). Although best known for her landmark painting The Rose (1958–66)—a near two-thousand-pound masterpiece—DeFeo created an astoundingly diverse range of work. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the retrospective places The Rose in the context of her larger body of work, tracing DeFeo's visual concerns and motifs across more than four decades of art making. Following its premiere at SFMOMA, the exhibition will be shown at the Whitney from February 28 through June 2, 2013. Comprising more than 130 works, Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective brings together the artist's paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, small sculptures, and jewelry designs—most of which ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Jack Nicklaus, 1977. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 40 x 40 in. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection. ©2011 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- The Art of Golf is the first major museum exhibition in America devoted to this popular game, so rich in history and tradition. Organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the National Galleries of Scotland, this show features approximately 90 works by Rembrandt, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Norman Rockwell, and Andy Warhol, among others. Some of these works have never before been on public display. They all point to golf’s ability to inspire extraordinary works of art. The exhibition is on view from November 3, 2012-February 17, 2013. The centerpiece is Charles Lees’ The Golfers (1847), the world’s greatest painting in this genre. Reproductions of the work hang in golf clubhouses around the world, but this masterpiece has never before traveled to the United States. It depicts a match played on the Old Course at St. Andrews, with a wealth of fashionable observers gathered around the athletes. Preparatory sketches ... More |
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 Georgia Museum of Art celebrates illustrator Jack Davis with fall exhibition ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Beyond the Bulldog: Jack Davis” from Nov. 3, 2012, to Jan. 6, 2013. Organized by guest curator Patrick Dean, a cartoonist himself, who sits on the board of the Jack Davis Foundation, the exhibition goes deeper into Davis’ career than the sports and caricature work for which he is best known, focusing on his black-and-white drawings in particular. This exhibition is also part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts festival, to be held Nov. 3–11. Perhaps best known in Georgia for his depictions of Southeastern Conference mascots tussling, Jack Burton Davis Jr. (b. 1924) has had a lengthy career in illustration and cartooning, with an immediately recognizable style and an influence that extends far beyond his home state. Having published his first cartoon at the age of 12, Davis studied with the artist Lamar ... More Art13 London gallery list announced; Charles Saumarez Smith joins advisory board LONDON.- Art13 London, the city’s new global art fair, is the first modern and contemporary art fair to showcase galleries from all over the world, with a major presence from Asia, the Middle East, Africa as well as western Europe and the Americas. Featuring over 100 galleries from more than 30 countries, Art13 London is delighted to announce the galleries selected for London First – a curated section featuring young galleries from around the world who will be participating at a London fair for the first time. Furthermore, Charles Saumarez Smith CBE, Secretary and Chief Executive of London’s Royal Academy of Arts joins the Global Advisory Board of Art13 London, which already features strong international representation. Art13 London will take place at Olympia Grand Hall, London from 1-3 March 2013 (VIP Preview: 28 February 2013). Art13 London announced the gallery ... More Public vote awards U.K. artist Jo Longhurst $50,000 Grange Prize 2012 for contemporary photography TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario and Aeroplan, an Aimia company, are pleased to announce that the public has chosen British photographer Jo Longhurst as the winner of The Grange Prize 2012. Longhurst was selected over fellow contenders Emmanuelle Léonard (Montreal), Annie MacDonell (Toronto) and Jason Evans (U.K.). Voting began 10 weeks ago online at www.thegrangeprize.com. Members of the public have also had the opportunity to vote in person at Canada House in the U.K. and at the AGO, where exhibitions of the nominees’ work are on display until Jan. 6, 2013. The Grange Prize is Canada’s largest photography prize and the only major Canadian art prize determined by public vote. Born in Essex, U.K., Longhurst has gained international recognition for her photographic work, having exhibited in London, Paris and Berlin, as well as at this ... More Epic Albert Bierstadt 1872 landscape headlines Heritage Auctions' fall Western & California Art Event DALLAS, TX.- Albert Bierstadt’s stunning 1872 masterpiece Mount Brewer from King's River Canyon, California is expected to bring $700,000+ as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions Nov. 10 Western & California Art Signature® Auction, an event that is expected to bring in more than $10 million at the company’s Fine Arts Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. “This sale represents a remarkable moment for collectors of Western art, for Heritage Auctions and for the art market in general,” said Ed Beardsley, Vice President of Fine & Decorative Arts at Heritage. “The quality of the art is without question and the market is primed for work of this level to become available.” Bierstadt, a celebrated member of The Hudson River School of Painting, is equally renowned for his sweeping depictions of the American west and his epic landscape of Mount Brewer shows the unrivaled talent of ... More Seattle: Living Computer Museum not just for geeks By: Donna Gordon Blankinship, Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP).- For tourists with an interest in Seattle's role as a high-tech hub, there hasn't been much here to see, other than driving over to Microsoft headquarters in suburban Redmond to take pictures of a bunch of boring buildings. But Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has just opened the Living Computer Museum, with displays of old machines — all in working order — along with a geeky wish list of items he'd like to add, just in case anybody out there has an old tape drive or super-computer sitting around. Visitors who stop by the nondescript building in an industrial section of Seattle south of the baseball stadium are likely to see technicians in white lab coats working on the machines. But this place is not just for nerds and techies. Since the ... More Exhibition of new work by Sunita Kumar on view at Mallett in London LONDON.- Sunita Kumar has an instinctive feel for her India – its warmth and diversity, the extraordinary way in which vibrancy and serenity exist side by side and its colours that live long in the memories of all who have been there. Sunita Kumar’s India, an exhibition of new work by one of the sub-continent’s most respected artists, is being held at Mallett, Ely House, 37 Dover St, London W1 from 1 – 10 November 2012. This new body of paintings explores some familiar themes, not least the inspiration of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a close friend with whom Kumar worked for many years, as well as new ones and mixes a traditional figurative style with an altogether freer hand. “Painting to me is total peace,” says Kumar. “That’s the way I feel when I’m working, I’m enjoying it, I’m happy.” Her landscapes shimmer in blues, oranges and pinks while the exhibition a ... More |
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