| "White Gold: Revealing the World's Earliest Coins" exhibition on view at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem | | Napoleon's coded Kremlin letter sold for $243,500 at Fontainebleau Auction House | | $9,000 artwork by Alexander Calder bought for 12 dollars at Milwaukee Goodwill store | 
The exhibition provides an intimate glimpse into the dawn of coinage.
JERUSALEM.- White Gold: Revealing the World's Earliest Coins is the first public display of an outstanding group of five hundred miniature masterpieces from two important collections of electrum coins. The exhibition provides an intimate glimpse into the dawn of coinage, shedding light on the story of one of the most important innovations in human history. Electrum coins are not only historically significant, but also astonishingly beautiful. Reflecting a rich diversity of subjects, they trace the evolution of Greek art from the seventh through the fourth century BCE and draw us magnetically into a vibrant and fascinating iconographic world.
The temporary exhibition which runs through March 2013 at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The formal opening of the exhibition, was held on June 26, included a lecture on “Greek White Gold Coins: An Enigmatic Start That Shaped the World,” by Professor François de Callataÿ of the ... More | | 
A letter dictated and signed by Napoleon in secret code that declares his intentions "to blow up the Kremlin" during his ill-fated Russian campaign is displayed in Fontainebleau. AP Photo/Christophe Ena.
FONTAINEBLEAU (AP).- A secret code letter sent by French emperor Napoleon boasting that his multinational forces would blow up Moscow's Kremlin has sold at auction Sunday for €187,500 ($243,500) — 10 times its estimated presale price. A Paris museum, the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts, was finalizing its purchase of the Oct. 20, 1812, document with elegantly calligraphic ciphers. The sale price, which includes fees, far outstripped the pre-sale estimate of €15,000 ($19,500), according to Fontainebleau Auction House south of Paris. Experts say the letter is unique, written in a numeric code that Napoleon often used to throw off would-be interceptors — notably when he was conveying battle plans. The letter's content also revealed the strains on Napoleon of his calamitous Russian invasion. "At three o'clock in the morning, on the 22nd I am going to blow up the Kremlin," the letter said, laying out ... More | | 
Karen Mallet stands in front of her Alexander Calder print in her Shorewood, Wis., home. AP Photo/Morry Gash.
By: Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press
MILWAUKEE, WIS (AP).- "Red Nose" just meant a reindeer named Rudolph to Karen Mallet until she bought a print by that name for $12.34 at a Goodwill store in Milwaukee. It turned out to be a lithograph by American artist Alexander Calder worth $9,000. Mallet's good fortune is at least the fourth time in six months that valuable art has turned up at Goodwill, where bargain-hunters search for hidden treasure among the coffee cups, jewelry, lamps and other household cast-offs. Last month, a Salvador Dali sketch found at a Goodwill shop in Tacoma, Wash., sold for $21,000. Last summer, a North Carolina woman pocketed more than $27,000 for a painting she bought for $9.99 at Goodwill. And last spring, a dusty jug donated in Buffalo, N.Y., was discovered to be a thousands-of-years-old American Indian artifact — it was returned to its tribe ... More |
| The Andy Warhol Museum announces photography exhibition, "Jeremy Kost: Friends with Benefits" | | Mana Contemporary presents Keith Haring, and unprecedented exhibition of oversized objects | | Private collection of movie posters depicting monsters with maidens in their clutches for sale | 
Jeremy Kost, Untitled 13 (detail), 2012, Courtesy Jeremy Kost Studio.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces a photography exhibition, Jeremy Kost: Friends with Benefits, opened December 2, 2012. Jeremy Kost is a tireless chronicler of gender, sexuality, and nightlife. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, he now lives and works in New York City, though he regularly travels the world to capture images, whether they’re of male models in the Californian desert or drag queens strutting through Pittsburgh. Strongly influenced by Warhol, both in his choice of subjects and technique, Kost extends the creative potential of one of Warhol’s favorite tools – the Polaroid camera. In Kost’s work, Polaroid images not only form the basis of silkscreen paintings but are massed together in elaborate, multilayered photo-collages. In May 2012 The Warhol partnered with Hugo Boss to present a solo exhibition, Of an Instance, featuring Kost’s work in New York City. Friends with Bene ... More | | 
Keith Haring, Dog, 1986, painted plywood with silkscreen, 49 1/2 x 37 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.
JERSEY CITY, NJ.- At a time when street art was in its infancy, Keith Haring made the gritty surfaces of 1980s New York his canvas, and an icon was born. Mana Contemporary presents Keith Haring, from December 2, 2012 -February 15, 2013. The exhibition showcases an unprecedented ensemble of works from a private collection, including oversized metal panels originally spray-painted on the FDR Drive in 1984. Measuring more than 17 feet in width, these out of scale diptychs have not been shown in the United States for more than 15 years. Also included in the exhibition of the beloved downtown artist are a rare painting on leather, a selection of his famous subway drawings and several other pieces rarely seen. The exhibition is organized by 99 Cents Fine Art, New York. The exhibition takes place in a 5,000-square-foot gallery on Mana Contemporary’s first floor. The gallery is especially designed to showcase ... More | | 
Swann Galleries will offer an eye-grabbing single-owner auction devoted to Monsters & Maidens.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, December 18 Swann Galleries will offer an eye-grabbing single-owner auction devoted to Monsters & Maidens: A Film Poster Collection, which focuses on images of monsters with helpless girls in their grasp. “The theme of a beautiful woman slung over the art of some villain is campy iconography sure to capture imaginations for a number of reasons,” said Nicholas D. Lowry, Swann President and Director of the Poster Department, “from the psychological to the primal.” While not all of the posters depict monsters—there are robots and even some heroes, too—most people will recognize Destroy This Mad Brute / Enlist, the circa 1917 recruitment poster employing a fierce gorilla to represent an impending German invasion, holding a helpless maiden in one arm and a wooden bat marked “kulture” in the other ($12,000 to $18,000); which closely resembles the beast in a Fr ... More |
| Sotheby's New York Auction of Important Watches & Clocks to be held on 4 December 2012 | | Bechtler Museum of Modern Art updates Alberto Giacometti exhibition with additional drawings | | Art's perfect theft: the 'Ghent Altarpiece', Gothic masterpiece hasn't been seen since 1934 | 
Patek Philippe. A Fine and Extremely Rare Massive 18K Yellow Gold Center Seconds Wristwatch, 1955 Ref 2512/1 Mvt 704539 Case 690545, diameter 46 mm. Estimate: $100/150,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s annual December auction of Important Watches & Clocks will be held next Tuesday, 4 December 2012 in New York. The sale will be led by The Duc d’Orléans Breguet Sympathique, a distinguished example of the exceptionally rare Sympathique clocks that helped cement the fame and renown of French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. In addition, the auction is highlighted by a stunning collection of jeweled timepieces, watches by Patek Philippe that demonstrate the influence of early-20th century watchmaking genius Louis Cottier, important pocket watches from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and more. No other horological invention has been as consistently associated with the palaces and grand houses of the European royalty and aristocracy as the Breguet Sympathiques. The present example, named The Duc d’Orléans after its patron and dated to 1835, has the most complex Sympathique mechanism of all ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti, Annette from Life, 1954, bronze, 54.1 x 14.3 x 20.1 cm © Alberto Giacometti Estate/Licensed by VAGA and ARS, New York, NY.
CHARLOTTE, NC.- With slightly more than two months left in the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art exhibition Giacometti: Memory and Presence, the museum has changed out 17 of the drawings that were on view at the start of the exhibition with 15 different drawings. Giacometti: Memory and Presence features more than 80 works in various media from all periods of Alberto Giacometti’s life. The 15 additional drawings were created by the Swiss sculptor and painter between 1917 and 1964. The exhibition includes sculptures, paintings, prints, drawings and decorative objects by Giacometti, revealing the aesthetic evolution, emotional power and existential qualities of his work. Pieces are from the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art collection as well as the Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung in Zürich and the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in Paris, which loaned more than 60 works, including rarely seen plasters. A new video released by th ... More | | 
A restorer inspects one of the 24 framed panels of the Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. AP Photo/Yves Logghe.
By: Raf Casert, Associated Press
GHENT (AP).- The main suspect in the legendary art heist is said to have whispered with his dying breath: "Only I know where the 'Adoration' is..." More than seven decades later, the whereabouts of a panel belonging to one of Western art's defining works, the "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the "Ghent Altarpiece," remains a mystery. If the stunning heist of Picasso, Monet and Matisse paintings in Rotterdam, Netherlands, last month focused attention on the murky world of art theft, the gothic Saint Bavo cathedral in Ghent has been at the center of a crime that has bedeviled the art world for decades. "The Just Judges" panel of the Van Eyck brothers' multi-panel Gothic masterpiece hasn't been seen since 1934, when chief suspect Arsene Goedertier suffered a stroke at a political rally and died after murmuring those fateful words to a confidant. The theft ... More |
| L. M. Montgomery first editions and documents are centerpiece of Bonhams Fine Books Auction | | Son of Pop: A 40-year career retrospective of artist Floyd D. Tunson on view in Colorado | | Largest survey to date of Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's work opens at MoMA PS1 | 
Lucy Maud Montgomery. Photograph Signed ("L.M. Montgomery"), silver gelatin print, approximately 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, [late 1930s]. Depicts the beloved author looking straight at the camera with a stylish hat cocked smartly over her right eye. Est. $1,500-2,500.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will offer a selection of rare items of the Canadian author L.M. Montgomery at its December 4 Fine Books sale in New York. Montgomery is best known for her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables introducing Anne Shirley, an orphan sent to live on Prince Edward Island with a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. The novel, drawn from some of Montgomery’s own experiences as a girl on Prince Edward Island, became a huge success, spawning numerous sequels and eventually selling more than 50 million copies. The first edition of Anne of Green Gables was printed in such limited numbers that very few copies survive today. The copy offered by Bonhams bears an estimate of $10,000 ... More | | 
Untitled Sculpture with Soup Cans, 2002.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center presents Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop, a career retrospective one of the most highly regarded and influential artists and art teachers in the Rocky Mountain region over the past four decades. The exhibition runs through Jan. 20. Tunson was born in 1947 in Denver; he lives and works in Manitou Springs. He taught art at Palmer High School from 1971-2000, instructing and influencing over 5,000 students during his tenure. This is Tunson’s first major survey of his life’s work to-date addressing concepts such as cultural identity, American social history, pop culture, art history, and the beauty of pure abstraction. The exhibition centers upon the bold installations Hearts and Minds, Delta Queen, Haitian Dream Boats, and Pop-up Rodeo and is organized to reflect the confluence of Tunson’s themes and media over four decades. “Tunson is a master ... More | | 
Installation view of Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Tender Love Among the Junk, 2012. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the largest survey to date of Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (American, b. 1948), comprising 85 works dating from 1967 to 2005, including two of the artist’s seminal installation environments, which the artist re-created onsite at MoMA PS1. Organized by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Tender Love Among the Junk is on view on the 2nd floor of MoMA PS1 through April 1, 2013. Lanigan-Schmidt’s mixed-media constructions, collages, and installations are marked by a trashy opulence concocted from household items, street-scavenged detritus, and dollar stores. Creating Byzantine decorations and medieval icons from plastic wrap, cellophane, aluminum foil, nail polish, tinsel, and glitter, Lanigan-Schmidt pioneered a maximalist aesthetic that comingled ... More |
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 Henrietta Girshman albums star at Bonhams Russian Literature Auction NEW YORK, NY.- Henrietta Leon Girshman’s carnets de salon reveal the storied life of an early 20th-century doyenne of society and culture. Her two-volume set of autograph albums abound with more than 100 inscriptions, sketches, musical passages, literary quotations and autographs penned by the celebrated guests who gathered at her “Red Gates” mansion in Moscow. The Girshman salons drew creative and cultural luminaries who staged performances and shared ideas, and her guest books capture the spirit of the events and period. These historically rich and fascinating books are among the star lots at Bonhams December 5 New York auction of Russian Literature and Works on Paper (est. $200,000-$300,000). Henrietta Girshman and her husband, industrialist, art collector and patron, Vladimir Girshman, fostered cultural exchanges and initiatives by organizing art-oriented programs ... More Holburne Museum offers visitors a seasonal treat in the back garden BATH.- The light installation Circuit: A Light Labyrinth is a completely new artwork by Martin Richman and Charlie Kerr. It is uniquely displayed at the Holburne Museum this winter. Visitors are able to walk through delicate strands of different coloured light in a web-like maze of light and sound. Circuit: A Light Labyrinth is a seasonal treat in the back garden of the Holburne Museum , Bath following the success of Bruce Munro’s Field of Light installation last year. It is created by award-winning artist Martin Richman, whose previous work includes Bristol Bridge and London 2012. Alexander Sturgis, Director of the Holburne said, “We are delighted to be able to bring lights back to our garden this Christmas and offer our visitors this beautiful artwork following on from last year’s Field of Light. This year there is the added enticement of being able to lose yourself amidst the glowing threads and ... More Brooklyn Museum selects five artists featured in a community-curated exhibition BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has selected five Brooklyn artists whose work is being featured in GO: a community-curated open studio project. The exhibition opened on December 1, 2012, at the Museum’s Target First Saturday evening of free art and entertainment, and will be on view through February 24, 2013. The artists selected are Adrian Coleman, Oliver Jeffers, Naomi Safran-Hon, Gabrielle Watson, and Yeon Ji Yoo. The five Brooklyn artists were selected following studio visits by Brooklyn Museum curators Sharon Matt Atkins, Managing Curator of Exhibitions, and Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art, from a short list of ten artists. These ten artists were nominated following a Brooklyn Museum–sponsored September open studio weekend during which, despite torrential rains and two tornados on the first day, some 18,000 ... More Who knows Dodo? MUNICH.- Very soon the question will be: Who doesn't know Dodo? She's from Berlin, she lived in London and her œuvre has to be mentioned in one breath with works by Otto Dix, Tamara de Lempicka, Jeanne Mammen and Christian Schad. So far she hasn't appeared on the art market, but that's going to change on 8 December: “We are very proud of celebrating a world premiere with “Wedding auf dem Dachgarten“ and to offer a work by such an exciting artist in our 400th auction“, said Robert Ketterer. Dodo's verist pictorial language is all in line with New Objectivity. A student of Georg Tappert, she did not only make illustrations for renowned magazines such as Vogue, she also made social-critical contributions on the covers of the satirical magazine “ULK“. Even though her works can be well considered emblems of the spirit of her time, she is far more than just a chronicler. She ... More Major exhibition of international contemporary and modern art opens in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.- LOST (in LA), the premiere exhibition presented by FLAX (France Los Angeles Exchange) in partnership with the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), feature a major installation of works by contemporary artists from both Los Angeles and France. The exhibition, curated by former director of Palais de Tokyo Marc-Olivier Wahler, presents visitors with a visual and experiential narrative loosely inspired by the hit television series “LOST.”“ LOST “ – one of the influential TV series of this decade – is considered by many artists as a source of inspiration as well as disappointment, as it struggles to deliver a true formal link that would connect the different layers of time and space. The exhibition LOST (in LA) comes from the desire expressed by many artists to create this formal link. LOST (in LA) weaves 40 artworks and an ... More It's no Joker: Batman's car is for sale LOS ANGELES (AFP).- It's no Joker: Batman's car is for sale. The original 1966 Batmobile is expected to go under the hammer on January 19, the Barrett-Jackson auto auction house said Thursday. The iconic vehicle, which was featured in the Batman TV series as well as the movie adaptation starring Adam West, is capable of a quick 180-degree "bat-turn" thanks to two rear-mounted parachutes, the auctioneers said. "The 1966 Batmobile by George Barris is one of the most famous Hollywood cars in history and it has become a true icon that has been carried from generation to generation of Batmobiles to follow," Craig Jackson, chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson, said in a statement. "This vehicle not only marks the significant Bat logo that sits on the middle of its door, but a time in television history where they defied the odds of making a car the real star of the show." The Batmobile, a ... More Rook & Raven Gallery opens Erik Sommer's first UK solo show LONDON.- AdamWaymouthArt, in association with Rook & Raven Gallery, present Erik Sommerʼs first UK Solo Show, “Pray To Fallen Skies.” “It seems that painting is always dead, or dying” - a sentiment Erik Sommer has chosen frankly not to believe. He finds the actual situation of painting rather refreshing at the moment, as there are numerous artists helping to move painting into its next transition, its next step. Sommer believes that there is a lot that has yet to be done, or discovered, in painting, and thinks it will never truly ʻend,ʼ as no one has painted the perfect painting yet, but artists will always keep trying. In “Pray To Fallen Skies” Sommer is showing a new body of larger work that is being displayed in two separate viewing rooms constructed within the gallery by architect/designer Tom Finch. Access to these spaces is limited so that viewers may have their own one-on-one ... More |
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