Archive for September, 2016
By: Arts Journal on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 11:49 pm
“There’s no happy ending in sight for any of these situations. One can only hope that everyone has learned from the bitterness of other recent disputes to try to minimize the collateral damage and work hard for a swift resolution. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are two of the country’s leading orchestras, and while they are out, there is a lot of great music not being made.”
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By: Arts Journal on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 11:44 pm
“Friday night, a crowd of about 1,000 sat in Verizon Hall waiting for the orchestra to appear for the scheduled start of the Opening Night Gala. But no Philadelphia Orchestra appeared on stage. Unbeknownst to most in the audience, the 96 musicians and two librarians belonging to American Federation of Musicians Local 77 had decided to go out on strike about an hour before curtain... | Read More
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By: Art Forum on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 11:00 pm
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By: ArtDaily.org on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
A corner of North East England is set to become an international centre for research and excellence into Spanish and Latin American art and culture under a new agreement announced today (Thursday 29 September 2016). Durham University and Auckland Castle Trust have entered into a new partnership to create The Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art in Bishop Auckland, County Durham.... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China, 3rd – 6th Centuries, the inaugural exhibition at China Institute Gallery’s new space at 100 Washington Street in lower Manhattan, is on view from September 30, 2016, through March 19, 2017. The exhibition is the first major survey to examine Chinese culture and its international influences during the Six Dynasties period,... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
Christie’s will present Willem de Kooning’s 1977 masterpiece, Untitled XXV, in its November 15 Evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York. Estimated in the region of $40 million, Untitled XXV comes to the auction market for the first time since setting the world auction record for any example of Post-War Art in the very same saleroom exactly ten-years ago to the date. ... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) is famous for his playful, boldly kinetic machines and explosive performances. Everything had to be different, everything had to move. Precisely twenty-five years after his death, on October 1st, the Stedelijk opens a Tinguely retrospective: the largest-ever exhibition of the artist to be mounted in a Dutch museum. With over a hundred machine... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild from the Collection of Eric Clapton will highlight Christie’s November 15, Evening Auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York (Estimate in the range of $20million). Dating from the artist’s most celebrated period of abstraction and one of the highlights of the fall season, Abstraktes Bild was acquired by the rock legend Eric Clapton at... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
Two Van Gogh masterpieces stolen in Amsterdam 14 years ago have been recoved from the home of a notorious Italian drug boss near Naples, Italian and museum officials announced on Friday. The 1882 "Seascape at Scheveningen" and 1884/85 "Congregation leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen" were "recovered during a massive, continuing investigation... conducted by a specialised Italian prosecutions... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Friday, September 30th, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Bloomberg has a lengthy summary on the charges leveled against dealer Guy Wildenstein and his family this week, exploring Wildenstein’s various offshore holdings. The article notes that about $875 million in work is held around the globe, and were used to maintain a flow of cash to the family. “There were sales in order to generate the money for […]... |
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