Fine Art and Antiques including Eastern textiles, furniture and model boats and planes from the Eastington Hall collection will go under the hammer at Chorley’s auction at their Prinknash salerooms, Gloucestershire, on Tuesday 21 May 2019.
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TEFAF New York Spring 2019 ran from May 3rd to 7th, with a Preview Day on Thursday the 2nd of May, dazzling visitors with an unparalleled collection of contemporary and modern art and design from 93 blue- chip, specialist dealers. The Spring Fair, which has developed a distinguished reputation among collectors in three short years, enjoyed record crowds from around the world and impressive multi-million sales throughout its run.
An amalgamation of style, artistry, and culture, American art has evolved over time; as a consequence, so too has what constitutes a ‘masterpiece.’ These topics are at the center of “Myth, Mystique, Masterpiece” Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 24th annual American Art conference, which will take place from the evening of Thursday, May 16th through Saturday May 18th, 2019.
(Santa Fe, New Mexico) - In May 2019 the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will present the traveling exhibition Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe, an exhibition organized by Vitra Design Museum. One of the most influential interior and textile designers of the 20th century, Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe is the first major retrospective on Girard’s work. The exhibition opens May 5 and runs through October 27, 2019.
New York – On May 2, a powerful sketch by Nelson Mandela, The Cell Door, Robben Island, sold for $112,575 at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary African Art sale. The wax pastel crayon work, which Mandela created in 2002, was the only work that the statesman kept for his personal collection. It had an estimate of $60,000-90,000.
This May, Carlito Dalceggio will present a month-long multimedia experience, Mythologia Libre. Taking place on Canal Street, the public installation will introduce to Manhattan a portal leading to a realm free of contemporary reference – a space where painting, sculpture, poetry, music, film installation and performance exist solely to usher visitors through to the unknown beauty and mystery of the universe – where art exists as a primal scream.
Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani.
On May 15, Christie’s New York Post-War and Contemporary evening sale will commence with the auction of Jonas Wood’s Japanese Garden 3, a large-scale painting to benefit Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC).
A transformational new initiative of Art Bridges and the Terra Foundation for American Art has awarded more than $700,000 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place, on view April 26 – July 28, 2019. The exhibition explores photography’s complicated relationship to the places it represents, the places in which it is created, and the places in which we experience it.
